The Deal

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Chapter Eleven

Draco had received Harry's note and found himself grateful that he wouldn't be around for a little while. He needed time to focus on what he wanted to make for dinner. He really wanted to impress Harry so he was going all out for this evening.

He had decided to start with soup, something like and simple with homemade bread. He decided that since he didn't know what Harry really liked to eat he was going to keep it simple with truffled potato and mushroom soup.

He was going to have chilli king prawns for an appetiser, served with mango salsa and lime dressing. Then for the main course he had chosen fillet of beef with wild mushrooms, artichokes, glazed onions, shallot and pepper jus with baked potato and a parmesan salad on the side.

For desert Draco was making his favourite, banana tarte tatin with homemade caramel ice cream and rum veloute.

Draco had always loved cooking, it had been a passion of his. Lucius hadn't wanted him to nurture that talent but he had found ways of doing it anyway. Narcissa had always loved Draco's cooking and had encouraged her son to follow his heart and do what he loved.

Putting everything together was tricky but Draco thrived on the complications and the difficulty that he went through to achieve the beautiful meal. Besides he knew that Harry was worth it. He wanted to show Harry how thankful he was for everything, he wanted to show Harry how he felt and the only way he really knew how to show his emotions was through his cooking.

Draco wasn't very good at expressing his emotions verbally, in that way he was very much like his father. This was his outlet for the pent up emotion. He spent all day getting it absolutely perfect and he did it the muggle way, almost.

He had to almost recreate the kitchen at Malfoy Manor in one of the roomier classrooms. In the adjacent room he created the most wondrous and luxurious dining room, made especially for two. He decorated it with candles, flowers and fairy lights.

He set the table with precision, ensuring that everything was immaculate, even the cutlery was spaced in equal distance to one another. The napkins made up into beautiful swans, which swam around the plate in graceful circles like the real thing.

Once it was ready and perfect Draco placed warming charms over all the food and went to find Harry who was just arriving back at Hogwarts. Draco caught him as he entered though the front doors and came into the entrance hall.

"Hey Harry." Draco said greeting him with a sweet kiss.

"Wow, I'm going to go away more often if that's what I get when I come back." Harry said smiling and capturing another kiss from his boyfriend.

"I have a surprise for you." Draco said, "Come with me."

"Now I'm intrigued." Harry said as Draco took his hand and led him willingly up the marble staircase.

They walked to where Draco had spent the entire day, his heartbeat thumping away at a faster pace than normal as he asked the Gryffindor to close his eyes and trust him. Immediately Harry did just that.

Draco led Harry into the room that he had prepared for them to eat in. He made sure that Harry was in the middle of the room before he told him that he could open his eyes.

"Wow, this is absolutely stunning." Harry said looking around at the room that looked as if it were part of an enchanted forest that had been bewitched by fairies.

"You really mean that?"

"Yes, it's beyond amazing, I can't believe you did this for me!"

"Not only this, I've actually made the food we're about to eat myself." Draco said a little shyly.

"You cook?" Harry asked a little stunned at this revelation.

"Yep, my mum loves my cooking but she's biased so I hope I haven't let you down with this, I hope it's at least edible." Draco said, he really doubted himself now and he had wished he'd picked a simpler menu.

"Wow, see I asked the house elves to do it for me." Harry said and he really was impressed. "I can't wait to try this."

"Okay" Draco said still very much dreading this.

The two of them sat down, their chairs close rather than opposite so that they could hold hands. Draco was a bundle of nerves and Harry was picking up on it. He thought it was cute that after the Slytherin had gone through so much effort and now he was worried it wouldn't be good enough.

"Dray, relax will you, honestly, I'm sure that it will be more than perfect." Harry said reassuringly as the soup arrived. Taking one sip and Harry was in heaven. "Oh my goodness, this is beautiful!" He said gasping.

"You really mean that?" Draco asked, he hadn't dared eat his yet.

"I really mean it, wow, you really can cook." Harry said taking a bigger mouthful and also taking a slice of bread that Draco had also made from scratch.

"I'm really glad you like it." Draco said smiling, his confidence lifting dramatically.

The rest of the meal went something along the same lines. Harry making sex noises at each of the new courses that appeared before him while Draco blushed and enjoyed the fact that Harry was enjoying himself.

"I'm never eating food made by house elves again!" Harry said with a groan as he finished the last mouthful of desert. He felt full to the point of exploding. The food had been so amazing he hadn't been able to stop himself from eating to the point that he couldn't possibly eat another bite.

"You really enjoyed it that much?" Draco asked as the last of the plates vanished. He loved the fact that Harry was in such a state after eating his cooking. It showed him that his mum had been right and he did have a talent for it. He was more than happy that he had decided to cook this meal, just seeing Harry in such ecstasy because of something he had done made him feel practically giddy.

"Dray, I loved it, I could eat it all day every day." Harry said with a smile, he grabbed Draco's hand and pulled him closer so that the blonde was straddling him in the chair. "Let me show you how much I enjoyed it."

Harry wove one hand through soft blonde hair and pulled him down for a kiss, his other hand working its way underneath the Slytherin's shirt, stroking the skin beneath fondly.

The kiss seemed never ending, Harry was starting to feel the blood rush to his penis and Draco was having the same problem. Draco wasn't sure what he was going, his arms remained resting on Harry's shoulders, stroking the raven hair.

When Harry's hand went to undo Draco's trouser button the blonde pulled away out of the kiss, looking a little startled. Harry immediately looked abashed at what he had done.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that." He said ashamed of his actions.

"No, I'm sorry, I want to, it's just I've never ... and I'm not sure if I'm ready yet."

"I understand Dray, I do." Harry said, just thinking about his first time made him cringe. He didn't want Draco's first time to be like his. He wanted to make it special, he didn't want it to be on the cold stone floor of a classroom that was for sure.

"When I'm ready, I do want it to be with you though." Draco said with a half smile, trying to lighten the mood between them.

"I'll make it special for you, I promise." Harry said kissing his boyfriend again. He was glad that they hadn't done it, Draco deserved to much more than this and Harry was determined to give it to him whenever he was ready.

His first time had been with one of Dudley's friends over the summer before he had gone into battle with Voldemort. It had been while the Dursley family had been out. Devon had called round for Dudley and obviously he hadn't been there.

They had started talking and ended up kissing. They had moved it upstairs to Harry's room, fortunately Devon had been so wrapped up by what he was doing he hadn't really taken in all of the odd things around his room.

Harry had bottomed and it hadn't been the most comfortable experience to say the least. As soon as Devon had finished himself off he had looked shocked at what he had done, grabbed his clothes, dressed and ran off leaving Harry to shower and clean up.

He didn't look back on that fondly to say the least. He'd never seen Devon again and he was glad of it, it wouldn't have been a pleasant experience seeing him again.

They remained together, cuddling in front of the fire on a conjured sofa. It wasn't awkward at all, it was nice, they just enjoyed each other's company. Harry was dying to tell Draco how he felt but he couldn't get up the courage to get the words out. Draco too was battling to say something to Harry but he didn't want to embarrass himself.

In the end both teens decided to leave it. Neither wanted the embarrassment of being rejected because that meant the month would be over and that maybe they wouldn't get to be like this ever again.

Though tomorrow the hard work would start, they had already skived off one day of work and that meant they would have to make up for it first thing in the morning, after all they were being paid to fix the castle.

Neville was due back at Hogwarts in the morning to start training to become the new Herbology teacher as Professor Sprout was planning to retire. He was also planning to help with the refurbishments within the castle. With him he would be bringing girlfriend Hannah Abbott who was working in the Leaky Cauldron currently.

Harry was thrilled that some of his friends would be returning to help with rebuilding and improving the castle. The more people there were to help the easier and quicker the job would be. After all it wasn't exactly safe right now, not with chunks of wall missing and such.

"You know I'm thinking of going somewhere else to sleep instead of the classroom, with mum still in the hospital wing I don't like being there on my own, no one else is around at the moment." Draco said, admitting one of his weaknesses to Harry. He didn't like feeling alone, it scared him to some extent.

"Did you want to go back to the Slytherin dungeons?" Harry asked stroking Draco's blonde hair fondly. They were snuggled together on the sofa, Draco leaning into Harry and hugging him.

"Not particularly, I was hoping we could temporarily move closer to you if that's okay." Draco said, "Once mum is out of the hospital wing she can have the Defence Against the Dark Art's teachers rooms and I don't want to be on my own down in the dungeons either."

"I don't mind you being in Gryffindor tower with me, it's actually getting quite lonely up there, Neville and Hannah are going to be staying in the Hufflepuff rooms near the kitchens. It means we'll have the whole place to ourselves." Harry said and Draco smiled.

"That'll be nice, after all with all the work we have to get done during the day we'll get to spend all evening together. I think I'd miss spending time with you if we suddenly stopped now." Draco said and this was the first time he had admitted to Harry that he was fond of spending time with him, immediately Draco winced at the fact he had let it slip out.

He looked up at Harry and saw that he was smiling down at him, "I know exactly what you mean." He said and Draco breathed an inward sigh of relief that Harry hadn't laughed at him and what he had said.

They shared a brief kiss before going back to staring at the fire and enjoying each other's company.