Chapter 12- A Moment Among the Stars

After waking up, I had to wait a long time for my injures to heal before I was allowed out of the hospital wing. That had taken a week. Then I began helping with the reconstruction of Hogwarts, and that had taken another week. I had had enough. I walked around till I found the boy who had been plaguing my mind for weeks now. "Harry Potter."

"Draco!" He smiles like the sun is glued to his face. His eyes beam at seeing me, and my anger at him is almost lost once I smelled his wonderful sent. I continue trying to re-gather my lost anger. "We need to talk, sooner rather than later."

"Well I kinda h-have to go do-um-something, uh, now so, can it wait?"

"Harry, it has been two weeks and three days since I last spoke to you, and if I wait any longer without contact with my mate my body will deem it as a rejection and I will die. I am certain that if we do not have this conversation now then I will die before I can talk to you about anything."

"Fine."

"Good follow me." I start walking to the room of Requirement. I hear his footsteps behind me. Once we get there the room has people walking everywhere. I know that I cannot ask them to leave but I instead imagine a place where Harry and I can be alone. I opened my eyes to see a picnic setting with a clear night sky. "Oh, now your just being funny."

"Sorry, that was me I always wanted to go on a date with you, so I guess this was what the room decided I needed."

"Well, we must not let this food go to waste. Let's sit down and enjoy our meal together."

We eat in silence and once we are done his smile falters for a second. "Scared Potter?" I say jokingly at him. "Terrified, actually. I am terrified that what you are about to tell me is that you will have to leave me and go find your mate. I'd rather just sit here with you and watch the stars." I could feel his sadness in radiating waves of hurt and pain. I pull him in a way that he is sitting on my lap.

"Fine then we're going to stargaze and when I think we are done I will tell you the truth. This way you get to have a date with me before you know the truth all right?"

He snuggles into my lap and looks over his shoulder to look me in the eyes. "Thank you, Draco."

I started telling him every constellation that I knew and as I said them they appeared closer to us so to see them better. I had made it through almost all of them when he stops me. "What is that really bright star in that constellation?"

I freeze as I see which constellation he is pointing at. I chuckled at what he asked before grabbing one of his hands. "Are you sure you want to know? This is our last constellation, are you sure you're not wasting time?"

"I promise you I am actually curious now."

"Good." I point at the constellation with the hand that I am holding. "That star is called 'The Heart of the Dragon'," I hold the hand that I was using to point with to my chest, "Sirius. Draco's heart." He froze as he looks at me. "My mother named me Draco because she wanted to name me after her brother Sirius without getting grief from her mother. She always used to tell me about his loving heart. She said that she wanted me to have that loving heart so used his namesake and the constellation that the star was apart of to give me my name. She always believed in him when the rest of wizard kind wanted him in prison, she couldn't believe that he would betray the people he called family. I didn't believe it either."

I felt a warm spot forming on my shirt, I looked down to see him crying. "Why cry?" I whisper. "You tell me such a romantic story of your namesake, and include a connection to my Godfather who I lost because of that lunatic. You even put my hand to your heart. Why now? Why did you not start with holding my hand? Why wait till the end to put my hand on your heart? Why are you being cruel to me?"

"I did this because I needed your full attention, so that I knew you would believe me when I told you the truth. I was cruel because I needed to see your face when I told you who my mate is."

"I don't need this build up just tell me."

"I am only going to say this once Harry Potter. Are you focused?"

"Yes, I am listening."

"My mate is the craziest, loveliest, most courageous, beautiful person in the world, and the most wonderful thing of all is the face he makes when he is jealous."

"You have told me things like this before, get on with this because its pure torture!"

"Harry, you are my mate." He froze in my arms. I took the opportunity to feel his hand in mine over my heart, to breath in his sent, to feel him in my arms. I wanted to kiss him so badly. "You're not lying right? Cause that is cruel if you are. I mean if you are lying to me than you are the jerkiest arsehole in the whole of England, no in the entire world!"

"Harry." I say to through him out of his train of thought.

"What?"

"Shut up." I kissed him then. I finally got to kiss him, and hold him, and love him without him thinking he'd lose me. He broke the kiss. "So, I am really your mate?"

"Yes."

He turned around and sat face to face with me. "This was the best first date I ever had. Thank you, Draco."

"You're welcome."

"I love you."

"And I love you Harry… Still scared Potter?"

"You wish, Malfoy." And we kissed again. I felt that with that kiss we were finally getting to a place where we both understood each other. I could not wait to see where it took us next. Maybe we'll have more dates to come. But for now we enjoyed the feel of the stars around us as we held each other in our arms.

Fun fact! I combined information from a movie I loved to watch as a child plus a bit of knowledge of the stars to make up the story of the Dragons heart. It is not the name of the star in the constellation, but it's romantic. And to any constellations fan out there being mad that its not accurate, this is a fictional story so does not have to be. Anyway! Reviews, reviews, reviews, I would love some reviews!