Harry woke up the next morning in their large bed alone. He felt a bit strange. He had told Severus he would move into the guest room as this was Severus' room but his husband would have none of it. This was their marriage bed. He had told Harry he would not re-enter it until invited to share it with Harry. Therefore Harry would be the one to have their bedroom.
Harry found his way to the bathroom to take a shower and changed before he went into the sitting room. He found a flower and a note on the table.
"Morning. I had a meeting before breakfast. I hope you slept well. Severus' was all it read.
Harry smelled the flower and placed it back in the vase. "I could get used to that." He grabbed his book bag and headed up to the great hall.
As he took his seat at the Gryffindor table he turned to the head table but his husband had yet to come. Hermione smiled. "Feeling better?"
Harry nodded. "Much." He bit down into a piece of toast and took a drink of his juice.
He was eating another piece when his husband came into the hall. He passed Harry but as he did he said. "Sleep well Harry?"
Harry nodded and simply said. "Thank you." It was both a response and a thank you for the flower, which Severus knew and nodded briefly.
Ron was totally oblivious as usual. "He seems to be in a better mood."
Hermione was a little less oblivious. "Why did you thank him?"
Harry shrugged. "We just had a nice talk last night, nothing else."
They got up and headed for their first class of the day and Harry surprised his friend's by taking a seat with Draco at his table as well as Blaise. He had started spending more time with them but he usually stuck with his friends in class.
Severus noticed as he entered the class but just smirked. He wrote the directions on the board. "Get started."
As they were cutting up ingredients Blaise turned to Harry. "Things better now?"
Harry nodded. "Thanks Blaise."
"Just to let you know I threatened to hex Draco if he ever tried anything like that again." Blaise told him.
Draco heard and nodded. "He did, several times over. I swore to him I'd never be that stupid again."
Harry laughed. "You guys are great friends. Sorry I didn't get to know you better before last year."
Harry found himself sitting with them through other classes they had together that day. If the war had done anything it had made many of the students realize that the division between houses was stupid. For many houses were simply places they slept now, and the only real competition was on the quiditch field.
000000000000000000000000000000
The entire quiditch year had been squeezed into one term for it had been cancelled last term due to the attacks on Halloween. The school had voted to bring the game back in honour of those who had died and to try and resume a normal school year again. Harry had his team practicing extra hard to make up for missed practices while he was out, as they were playing Slytherin in a few days.
After practice Harry collapsed down on a bench exhausted. "We have to beat the snakes. I want the house cup this year."
Ginny smiled. "Harry, it's only the first game of the season. Take it easy on us or you might have a mutiny on your hands."
Harry laughed. "I just want to see the look on Sev's face when I beat his team."
Though he had won every game he had ever played against the snakes in the past five years, he had never been married to their head of house. For some reason it was more incentive to win. He couldn't wait to see the look on his husband's face.
They headed back into the castle and he started for the dungeons. "See you guys tomorrow in classes and practice after dinner."
The team groaned and he could hear Ronald whisper. "Perhaps we can lock him up some where."
Harry found his husband on the couch in the sitting room. "How was your practice?"
Harry smiled. "I'm going to pounce your snakes again."
Severus chuckled. "I'm not sure I am going to be able to enjoy this game as much as usual."
Harry raised his eyebrows at his husband. "And why not?"
"Because I'm not going to know who to cheer for, my husband or my house?"
Harry had to smile at the thought his husband might actually cheer for Gryffindor. "You can cheer for us both. Thought perhaps not openly for me or you might get hexed by hour house."
Severus nodded and shifted the blanket he was covered by to let Harry see he was only in his boxers. Harry smiled and grabbing a book which he propped up on the edge of the couch, slipped from his own clothes down to his boxers and took a place in his husband's lap, head back against his left shoulder. Harry felt his husband's arms around him as they both began to read and felt quite at ease their.
Severus smiled a few hours later when he noticed Harry had fallen asleep. "Too exhausted from practice."
He manoeuvred his husband so he could scoop the boy up and carried him into their bedroom where he placed Harry in the bed and covered him with blankets. He wished he could climb into bed with Harry but he fought the urge as he remembered the promise that he had made.
0000000000000000000000
On Saturday the first game of the quiditch season started and Harry faced off against Draco in the game. He and Draco might have become like brothers off the field but they were still furiously competitive when it came to being on the field, and neither would have had it any other way.
He and Draco spent most of the game playing cat and mouse until Harry saw the snitch flying just above the ground and went into a fantastic dive for it. Draco tried to follow but he was no match for Harry and had to pull up before Harry did.
Just as Harry pulled out and up from the dive with the snitch in his hand he heard Draco's scream of warning. "Harry, watch out."
Even though the whistle had been blown to signal the end of the game a Slytherin beater had winged a bludger right at him intentionally. Harry did not hear the warning soon enough and was thrown from his broom by the impact of the bludger,
Draco had acted quickly though and was able to get under him and catch Harry before he fell too far. "Got you Harry."
Harry felt Draco's arm around him as they descended to the ground but the world was starting to go fuzzy all around him. "Thanks Draco."
The last thing he saw was his husband rushing to his side before he blacked out.
Severus looked at the beater. "What kind of stunt was that?"
The boy shrugged his shoulders. "I didn't hear the whistle blow."
Severus glared at him. "The whistle had gone and the game was stopped. You have detention for the next week and lose 20 points for Slytherin."
The boy looked pale and tried to argue. "You can't do that to me. It was an innocent mistake."
"I know an intentional attack on a student when I see it. Now out of my sight before I give you another week's detentions."
When the boy had scurried off Severus scooped his husband up into his arms as carefully as he could so he would not cause his husband any more physical pain then the bludger would have caused, and carried him up to the hospital wing to be checked on by Madam Pomfrey. He watched nervously as the woman fed his husband pain and healing potions, and set his shoulder.
"He should sleep until morning." Madam Pomfrey informed him.
Severus nodded. I'll stay with him."
She nodded and left the room. Severus remained most of the evening in the chair though he did spend about two hours bare chested with the boy in his arms in bed as to help the bond and not cause Harry any more discomfort.
00000000000000000000000
Harry woke up the next morning not knowing where he was and groaned when he realized he was in the hospital wing again. It was by no surprise his least favourite place to be. He wondered how he had got here and the memories of the quiditch game came flooding back to him.
He noticed Severus in a chair by the bed. "How long has he been there?"
He had not expected a response but got one. "All night."
Harry turned to see Draco who had come in. "Have I really been out for nearly 24 hours?"
Draco nodded. "Almost exactly, its 10 on Sunday morning. Pomfrey gave you some potions to sleep while your shoulder healed."
Harry looked down at his arm in a sling. "Hopefully it heals before the next game."
Harry heard his husband shifting in his chair and noticed that Severus had woken up and watched as his husband craned his neck and stretched to try and get a crink out of it from sleeping in the chair.
"Why did you sleep there all last night?" Harry asked when Severus was finally fully awake.
He smiled. "I wanted to make sure you were all right and to be here when you woke up."
"Why did you sleep in a chair?"
Severus shrugged. "I wanted to be closer then one of the other beds if you needed something and I swore to you I would not share your bed until you asked."
Harry felt a bit bad that Severus had slept in a chair because of him. "Thank you."
Madam Pomfrey came into the room and gave him an once over and declared that he would be okay to head back to his rooms but he was to take it easy for a week on the arm. That meant she told him in no uncertain terms, he was to have no quiditch practice.
Draco laughed. "Should make your team happy. I have heard a lot of talk of mutinies."
Harry smiled. "She said I couldn't play. Doesn't mean my team can't be practicing. I can coach from the sidelines just as well."
Severus shook his head at his husband and was just grateful it had been nothing more then his shoulder. They both knew they owed Draco for that and before Harry let Severus walked him back downstairs he turned to Draco.
"Thanks for saving me on the field. I'd probably have broken my neck otherwise." Harry said.
Draco nodded. "What are friends, brothers, for?"
Severus lead Harry down to their rooms where he got his husband situated comfortably on the couch so Harry, making sure to take it easy and not jostle his left arm, could work on his homework he had not finished yet. As Severus watched him part of him wanted to forbid Harry ever from playing quiditch again for he could not stand his husband in pain like this but he knew how well that would go over.
0000000000000000000000000
Harry decided he wanted to take a bath that evening and Severus put a repellent spell on his bandages to allow him to take a bath without worrying. He was able to get into the water but he found it nearly impossible to clean himself.
Severus came in to check he was okay and Harry turned. "Would you mind helping me get my back? I can't seem to."
Severus nodded and ended up in the water with Harry. He slowly soaped up a sponge and began to wash Harry's back for him. Harry relaxed under his touch and when they were finished Severus left him to get out.
As Harry sat on the edge of his bed in his bottoms Severus came in. "I have some salve that will help with your arm. Can I put some on you?"
Harry nodded. "That would be okay."
Severus poured some of the warm salve on to his palm and began rubbing it into the shoulder first and then into the rest of the arm.
Harry sighed. "That feels a lot better already.
Severus smiled. "I'm happy to hear that." And went to Harry's back giving him a slight massage, and his other arm, for the boy's muscles were tense from the injury.
It was enough contact to put them both at ease for the night so since Harry was too tired to do any reading they settled for it. Severus tucked his husband into bed and left the room. He had to admit it was a bit lonely when he resumed his reading on the couch. He had got used to having his husband read in his lap at night. Harry felt the same way as he drifted off. He had got used to their custom.