Author: Yeah! I'm finally updating. I haven't been able to in the past two weeks because of hurricane Wilma. How insane that was! Anyways, I have been told that the whole stick figure thing was very weird. This was by my friend Panda who I've been trying to get to read my fan-fiction. Alas, I have my other admirers for this story. Oh right… I have another HP fic out. Only one chapter out but I'm going all out on that because it's the biggest challenge for me yet. Anyways, I will no longer delay you from reading the latest installment of the Behind the Curtain story. Enjoy!
"It all began with you. Everything." Draco whispered, as he couldn't bear to look at Harry.
The green-eyed seventeen-year-old stood six feet from the object of his guilt, silent without a word to offer a vampire in pain. Instead the Gryffindor struggled with his own resentful thoughts, waiting for Draco to continue on.
"I wasn't always a vampire. I'm still not really a true vampire." The blonde-haired wizard continued on. "That's the only thing that keeps me here. If my dad was a vampire I would never have been able to come here. I would never have met you."
Harry's hurt and angry feelings were calming as the Slytherin boy spoke softly in the ancient hallway. The raven-haired young man relaxed with every moment he looked at Draco; his breath that rippled the air quietly, his weakened tear-stained eyes, and the cloak on his shoulders that concealed his form. He was the sedative and the dark seduction that captured all of Harry's insides.
'This is real. He really does care about me.' The Gryffindor's eyes widened with remorse, his breathing becoming shallow.
"You made me what I am and now ifit isn't finished, I will never be a real vampire. I can't go back to where I was. You turned me." Draco spoke, trying to conceal any anger towards his potential mate.
"I… turned you?" Harry finally spoke.
The vampire's eyes slowly raised and fixed themselves on Harry's emerald eyes.
"Yes. First year. It happened when we were in the dark forest together for detention. When that cloaked figure appeared with the dead unicorn and I ran, something happened to my insides. I was on the ground screaming as I felt my heart being crushed inside my chest. My lungs were burning inside of me as the blood inside of them turned cold." Draco said before averting his eyes to the cold stone beneath himself. "Then I felt you inside of my head and I hated myself more than I'd even hated anyone. I'd just left you there in danger. I felt your fear and the burning of your scar. All of it was magnified as I lied there with my eyes open wide, staring at the blue mist in the forest. I knew somehow that I had become just like all of the other beasts and monsters in that cursed place. From then on I was different and my father tried to hide the fact that his son was no longer the perfect heir to the Malfoy family. He did everything he could to stop it. The summers were always filled with a dozen new treatments for the 'disease' his son suffered from."
The world had come down around, forgetting the concerns of everyone else. They were alone. The young wizard had walked step by step closer as Draco had spoken and he now fell to his knees beside the vampire, staring right past him. The Slytherin had just notice their proximity and he turned his widened eyes to his left to see the saddened profile of the boy he could never cease to love.
"I'm sorry." Harry's voice shook as he whispered painfully. "I'm so sorry."
The young wizard with the Gryffindor crest wrapped his arms quickly around Draco, shaking with guilt and sorrow. The silver-haired boy's eyes lit up bright as he slowly put his arms around the boy, lightly crying on his shoulder.
"It's okay." The vampiric wizard consoled as he glimpsed the snow falling gently outside the window.
Author: And I'm spent! Wow, that was harder to write than it looks. It was really sweet though. For once one of my chapters doesn't end in some sort of pure angst or horrible suspense. I'd enjoy that security while it lasts… muhahaha. I just though that I should leave you off with the horrible-ness that shall be in next chapter. Oh I am so cruel sometimes. Well anyways, please read and review. I put more background info in. For all of the confused, you can as in the reviews too. Later.
