Not so sure I'll be yours but baby you can be mine
"Harry!"
His name could have been yelled or whispered and Harry wouldn't have been able to tell the difference, he was in a different state of mind where everything was a haze to him.
"Harry!"
There it was again... The persistent voice calling his name, yet he would not answer. Didn't anyone realize that Draco was nearly hurt because of some crazy person, a person who he had no idea was. The same crazy person who was obsessed with him. What if he hadn't stopped Draco from opening his parcel in time?
"Harry look at me!" A hand reached out and grabbed his face by the jaw forcing him to stare into worried gray eyes. Suddenly the world spun before him as the weight of what had happened came crashing down on him.
Draco supported Harry taking him off the slytherin table and placing him on his lap not caring if anyone was watching or talking. The school would talk either way so why should he try to compromise himself?
And the school was certainly talking as they were all rushed out of the great hall by the professors, all trying to get a look at the pair. Most of the students were pointing and making no show of hiding the fact that they were talking about Harry and Draco. Once the great hall was cleared out Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape went over to the slytherin table where Draco was still holding on to Harry. If they were surprised by their sitting position they didn't show it.
"Harry-" Draco said softly.
"You could have been hurt... And because of me." Harry said slowly.
"What are you talking about? How did you know about the parcel?"
"I don't know... Someone sent me another gift, I didn't open it but there was a letter. I- I thought it was from you at first but it couldn't have been, it was a horrible letter."
"What did it say?" Draco asked curiously.
Harry shook his head, he didn't want to repeat it. "The person told me to stay away from you." He said instead staring deeply into Draco's eyes.
"I'm fine Harry, you saved me." Draco said reaching out to cup Harry's cheek.
Draco forgot out about the others being there and Harry didn't even know of their presence so therefore both were equally startled when a silky voice spoke up. "Are you two involved?"
Both boys turned around to face Snape as well as the headmaster and McGonagall who were also watching the boys curiously. Of course the professors weren't blind to the budding friendship of the once rivals-turn-friends, but they had no idea how far that friendship went. Harry turned back to Draco who was all ready staring back at him with a questioning gaze. Harry knew what the slytherin wanted him to say but...
"No, we're not." Harry said turning back to the professors more composed or what Draco saw as cold, indifferent. Carefully Harry removed himself from Draco's lap much to his chagrin as the gryffindor settled next to him, making sure to leave space between them.
"Then why would your secret admirer try to hurt Mr. Malfoy?" Snape said with a sneer.
"I guess he saw the article in the newspaper, sir." Harry said avoiding everyone's gaze. He really wanted to retrieve to a quiet place where he could be alone but he knew he couldn't leave till he was dismissed.
"What else was sent to you?" Dumbledore finally spoke up.
"I'm not sure, I didn't have enough time to check."
"Of course you didn't, you were too busy being the heroic gryffindor that we all know you love to be." Snape added.
Harry glared at him, a blush covering his cheeks from either anger or humiliation or both Draco didn't know but it annoyed him that Snape would pick on Harry on a time like this.
"He was helping a fellow student, a slytherin Severus. It has nothing to do with being a hero." Dumbledore chided Snape who frowned looking away.
Wordlessly Dumbledore summoned the package from the gryffindor table. It was much lager from the last one. Harry wanted nothing to do with it but silently watched as Dumbledore muttered words under his breath and waved his wand over the parcel. Finally a few minutes later the headmaster straightened up.
"There seems to be no curses or hexes placed on the parcel so let's say we take a look." Dumbledore declared waving his wand again and it opened to reveal the most random thing ever. Clothes. And not just one but about four sets of new robes made from expensive looking fabric, two of the robes were black and the other two green. They were nice but it puzzled Harry. Last time he got a diamond ring with a finger... This time there was only clothes, who was this crazy person and what was, his or hers, obsession with him?
Harry was let go twenty minutes later after getting yet another lecture from Dumbledore, prohibited from going on any Hogsmeade trips unless a professor could take him, no leaving the castle after it got dark, the usual restrictions that left him upset but there was nothing he could do so why bother arguing? Harry was walking to the stairs with every intent on going back to gryffindor tower knowing Hermione and Ron were waiting for him there when Draco came out of the great hall.
"Harry hold up!"
The gryffindor turned around to see Draco running to catch up with him. Mentally sighing he knew there was no way he could just keep avoiding him so instead of running Harry stopped and watched as the blonde stopped before him.
"Were you just going to leave and not even talk to me?"
"What is there to talk about?"
"Let me think... Oh yeah that's right the fact that someone is stalking you and out to get me. Ring a bell?" Draco said bitingly.
"I hate it when you're sarcastic." Harry said folding his arms across his chest.
"And I hate it when you play dumb."
"Are you here to insult me or talk to me?"
Draco bit his tongue not wanting to fight with Harry. He gave himself a second to collect his thoughts before speaking up again. "I don't want to argue you with Harry but you just can't pretend that this didn't happen."
"It'd be easier if we could." Harry sighed. "But isn't this enough prove for you? We aren't meant to be with each other."
"Hold up! You can't use the fact that some wacko out there is the reason we can't be together! You're the only reason we're not together!"
Harry stared back stubbornly and surprised Draco by turning around and walking away from him. But if he thought Draco was going to let him go that easily he was mistaken. With furious strides he made his way over to Harry, grabbed him by the arm and pushed him against the wall.
"Don't walk away from me." Draco said before crushing his lips against Harry's.
It was an intense kiss but a short-lived one as Harry soon reacted after getting over the shock. Before Draco knew it he was being roughly pushed away by Harry, stumbling a bit. He caught himself before he fell and looked back at the gryffindor a remark burning on his tongue but fizzled at the sight of the emotion clearly showing in the Harry's eyes. There was anger, but fear as well... Fear of what he didn't know?
"Don't touch me! Don't you ever touch me!" Harry yelled taking a step back as Draco took a step forward.
"I won't hurt you Harry, I swear." He said gently not wanting to scare him anymore. He dropped his gaze and noticed Harry's hands shaking. Why was he so scared?
"Harry-"
"Go away."
"I'm sorry."
"Its ok-- Just leave me alone Draco."
Seeing that he wasn't doing anything to appease the gryffindor he slowly walked away, turning back to see Harry slide down the wall, breathing deeply. He was tempted to turn back but remembered how Harry had reacted to him and decided it was better if he just gave him space.
Harry opened the portrait door not really caring that all the other gryffindors halted in their conversation to just stare at him as he slowly walked through the common room. He wouldn't have even stopped if it weren't for Ron and Hermione stopping in front of him, concern written all over their face.
"Are you okay?" They asked at once.
Everything was far from 'okay' but he wasn't to go say that. Instead he briefly nodded and before they could question him further he said, "Give me a second. I just want to be alone for a little bit."
Both nodded reluctantly and watched silently with their eyes as Harry made his way up the stairs and into the empty dormitory room. Once in the room Harry made his way over to his bed and closed the curtains around his bed and melted in the darkness. He sat with his knees drawn up to his chest, unwillingly remembering one of the many memories he tried to suppress but failed miserably.
An eight-year-old Harry was sitting in his cupboard, on the dirty mat that was called a bed with his eyes closed. He was pretending that his mum and dad weren't dead and they would be back really soon, that he really wasn't in a cupboard being ignored, pretending not to have all the bruises that graced his back.
"BOY!"
Harry's emerald eyes snapped opened and like water slipping through his fingers the pretending stopped and his real life settled in as he opened the cupboard door and quickly made his way to the living room where he knew Vernon would be waiting for him. Sure enough the man was there nursing a drink in one hand and the clicker in the other changing channels every few seconds. His aunt and Dudley were gone to London where they were spending the day shopping. Vernon had opted to stay home but now he was bored, and a bored Vernon was never a good one.
The man looked up as he heard the soft patter of Harry's feet on the wood floor enter the sitting room. Even across the room Harry could see the glint in Vernon's eyes as he dropped the clicker on the horribly, colored gray couch.
"Come here boy."
Slowly he made his way to the man who was suppose to be his uncle. Harry willed himself not to shake; he didn't want Vernon to see his fear.
Vernon grabbed Harry's small wrist into his own colossal, red hand and dragged Harry until he was sitting between his legs. He didn't move or speak but he couldn't keep from tensing as the older man pawed at his hair, neck and back, grimacing when Vernon pressed his hand into a tender bruise. He didn't want this, his mind scream but for the life of him he couldn't utter the words out loud. He shut his eyes when he felt Vernon's tongue licking the shell of ear, pretending it wasn't happening. It was a bad dream, a nightmare! But it wasn't happening. It couldn't be happening...
Harry hadn't realized he had spoken out loud until he heard Vernon chuckling in his ear. One arm curved around his shoulder bringing him closer to Vernon's chest. "You made me do this." He said.
Harry didn't make him do anything, he knew that but there was always that seed of doubt. Vernon didn't hurt his son, only him, so maybe there was something wrong with him. Maybe he was a freak.
But he wasn't! With a renewed sense of purpose Harry pushed his head back, knocking it into Vernon's and jumped off the couch running to the front door. He wouldn't have anything but the clothes on his back but anything was better then this. Harry could see the door, was practically touching it when a hand grabbed his arm and all but threw him into the door. The back of his head smacked against the door and the world turned into a haze of colors.
"Don't ever walk away from me." Vernon backhanded him across the face, sending him crashing into the wall. Harry's breathing came in short gasps but that didn't stop the older man from pulling him up by his hair and dragging him back to the sitting room.
"Harry?" His curtains parted and candlelight flittered through the room. Ron poked his head in. "It's dinnertime and- What's wrong?" The red head asked immediately forgetting about food as he saw the state his best friend was in.
Harry looked up briefly before ducking his head back down, his hands swiping at the tears that clung to his face. "It's nothing I'm fine." It came out half-choked. "I'm fine." Harry repeated.
Ron sat on the bed circling his arms around Harry's shaking frame. "No you're not, if you were you wouldn't be crying." He said holding him gently, rocking back and forth.
Before another word could be said the door opened and Hermione entered, wanting to know what was taking so long for Ron to get Harry but stopped at what she saw. A second later she was also on the bed holding Harry. Both friends held on to him, as he silently cried, muttering 'I hate him' all the while. Neither asked questions they were just there for him, letting Harry know through their actions that no matter what they would stick around even if Harry wasn't forthcoming with his disturbing secret.
Draco was having an awful night, which basically went along perfectly with his awful day. It all started with the package Harry saved him from, then to the semi-fight they had after. He didn't see Harry at lunch or dinner and it worried him, and he'd never been a good worrier. Blaise and Pansy had tried talking to him but he totally blown them off, so for most of the day he'd been alone, worried and irritated.
Now it was way past curfew and he was making his way to the Astronomy tower hoping to find some peace. In the past he really hadn't been up there unless for classes but lately the tower always reminded him of Harry, probably because the gryffindor was always in there. Maybe that's why he was making his way up there instead of trying to sleep, maybe he was hoping to find Harry and see if he was okay, or at least doing better then this morning.
He reached the door placing his hand on the handle when he heard laughter coming from within the room. Draco frowned, it sounded like Harry laughing but why was he laughing when this morning it looked like he wanted to cry? Was there someone in there with him? Is that why Harry pushed him away because he was seeing someone else? Jealousy surged through him at the thought of Harry laughing with someone else but he blanked his face and pushed the door open. It wasn't the sight he that he accepted to see. Harry was in there with Weasley and Granger but they were just sitting on a blanket eating from food that was laid before them.
All three of the gryffindors were staring at him in surprise, they had heard the door opening and worried that Flinch or worst Snape might have caught them. But seeing that it was only Draco they relaxed, Hermione and Ron turning back around to each other.
"What are you doing here?" Harry and Draco asked simultaneously.
"I asked first." Draco said grinning.
Harry shrugged his shoulders and said. "Nothing just eating, your turn."
"Couldn't sleep so I took a walk." The blonde said staring at the food. He had been surprised to see the trio up here this late but relieved at the same time that it had been Harry's friends with him not someone else, so he was jealous he didn't care as long as Harry wasn't with anyone. Draco looked back up at Harry who was still grinning.
"Want some food?" He asked as he picked up his own sandwich.
"If you insist." The blonde said sitting down with Harry. "Um are you... I mean about this morning-"
"Forget about it Draco. We were both still edgy, no harm done." The gryffindor said though he didn't look into Draco's eyes.
"But-"
"Let's just forget about it okay?"
Draco mentally sighed knowing that Harry was not going to talk about what happened earlier that morning, so instead of fighting a pointless argument he backed down. The odd group of four ate in peace surprisingly and kept the topics of conversation light, like school and quidditch.
Hermione shivered as a gust of wind blew through. "Do you want me to start a fire?"
"But there's no wood 'Mione." Harry said as Ron snorted. Draco looked on confused as Hermione rolled her eyes and got her wand out.
"I was in first year and not to mention in a state of panic."
"Sure Hermione keep thinking that." Ron said.
The brunette hit Ron on the arm and glared at him. "Well I wouldn't have had to start a fire if you would've just listened to me and relaxed."
"What are you three talking about?" Draco said not following the conversation.
The gryffindors looked at each other in a silent agreement. "Inside joke." They said in unison. They had many of them too and sometimes for got that other people didn't know what they were talking about but they couldn't explain most them.
The blonde rolled his eyes. "No really you had to be there." Harry said but then stopped. "Or not, the situation wasn't the best to be in when you're 11 years old."
"Unless you're a gryffindor." Draco added.
"Jealous?" Ron asked.
"Hardly, I'm perfectly okay without jumping into things with my eyes covered." He smirked.
"Can I remind you that you're surrounded by three gryffindors." Harry staged whispered to him.
"Point taken...So how about that quidditch matching this Saturday?" Draco said and for the first time in the history of well, Draco and the golden trio, they all shared a laugh... And the world didn't end.
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