Whoof! New chapter is finally out. I'm planning on keeping Draco in leather. Thank you to all the lovely people who reviewed the last chapter. Keep reading. Not too much romance in this chapter but there will be in chapter 3. I've had exams this week so its taken a while (grumble). I'm in love with Draco and Harry at the mo (sad eh?), have a fun reading.
Byeee
ALMUS VIVICUS: Chapter 2: New Partnerships
Harry Potter was about to fall asleep when Draco came through his window on his firebolt at top speed and landed on top of him .
"AAARGH!! What are you doing here?"
"Well what a welcome! Do you scream at everyone like that when they come into room"
"When they come in through the window at top speed, then yeah, I tend to" Harry looked around him and realised Draco Malfoy was lying on top of him "Get off!!!" Draco got off "What do you want anyway?"
"Say please"
"What?!"
"Say please or I won't tell you"
"MALFOY!!!"
"SAY PLEASE!!!"
"Bugger off"
"Do you want to know why I'm here or not?"
"Malfoy I am getting seriously annoyed with you right now"
"For christ's sake Potter it's not that hard!!!"
"Allright then : please tell me why you're here you little…"
"No need to name call" interrupted Draco, deciding to stop annoying Harry "I'm here because I hate my father and feel like winding him up"
"Well wind him up some other way I'm busy"
"Busy writing love letters eh?" said Draco, noticing a piece of parchment with ' I love Hermione' written all over it"
"Malfoy do you wish to live to the age of 17 or do you wish to DIE YOUNG!!!"
"Well what the heck. Any way I was saying that I hate my father right, so I'm here cos I feel like winding him up okay, but theres more to it than that: tonight, after 16 years of hell my lovely daddy oh decides to tell me that I'm the heir of Slytherin" He looked at Harry's face, he obviously didn't believe him " okay then, do a truth spell on me if you don't believe me, go on"
Harry performed the spell and asked him "Are you the heir of Slytherin?"
"Yes"
"Do you fancy Millicent Bullstrode?"
"Eurgh! No! Enough questions!"
Harry took the spell of him and asked him "Why come to me to wind your dad up?"
"Well my father is not a nice person okay, so when he told me I was the Heir of Slytherin and it turns out that mr High and Bigheaded Voldemort knows this too and he wants me to open some box with Slytherin's soul in it so that he can use it."
It took Harry a while to let it all in. Why was Draco telling him all of this?"why exactly are you telling me all of this?"
"Potter don't you get it???If Voldemort gets hold of Slytherins soul he'll get all of his powers, and that will make him just like Slytherin: invincible" said Draco as calmly as possible "And I'm telling you Harry , in a one on one against Slytherin, you're about as invincible as a loaf of bread"
"Yeah but what I don't get is that until now we've been worst enemies and now youre trying to save my life. Why?"
Draco new this would happen, Harry had no reason to believe him, Draco himself didn't even know why he was telling him everything, he just new it was rightand he was sick of being the evil one, Harry could just be a do gooder without trying. He didn't want to suddenly change his bad boy reputation, he liked that the thing was that cheating and tricking was not cool. "Potter I would not bother getting a sore bum after flying for two hours on a broomstick"
Harry raised his eyebrow
"okay, I might but not this time"
"The thing is Malfoy theres no proof against the fact that youre telling me all of this to get me to Voldemort.I wouldn't put it past you to do something like that"
"I hate my father and I don't want to do anything to please him ever again" Draco paused "And believe me Potter if he gave me to Voldemort that would make him the top Death Eater and that would deffinetly please him"
"I still think youre being a rebel without a cause but I'm gonna choose to believe you" why shouldn't he?" but if you do anything untrustworthy then you'll be dead sooner than you can say "oh no Harry's got a knife and I think hes about to use it on me" agreed"
Draco nodded " Harry just cos I'm doing all this it doesn't mean I'm gonna stop annoying Weasley by flirting with his sister"
"Oh yeah when did you discover a taste for her?"
"I didn't. I just know it would annoy Weasley"
"Whatever"
Draco thought for a minute" Well seeing as I've disowned my family and my home, I guess the only place for me to stay is here.
Harry realised that Draco had nowhere else to go "Well I don't really know where to put you okay"
"That's all right you can sleep on the floor" said Draco coolly "Have you got some parchment? I've got to write to my mother"
Harry handed him some parchment from his desk "I thought you'd disowned your family"
"Not my mother, I'm telling her to leave my dad. "
Harry didn't ask why , he grabbed some parchment and started writing letters to Sirius, Ron and Hermione to tell them that Draco Malfoy had turned up in the night and asking Ron to pick him up in the morning before The Dursleys found out about Draco,while Draco wrote to his mother.
- Mum. I'm safe. Run away as fast as you can from Dad before he finds out I'm gone. Don't come looking for me. Go to someone you can trust and who you know hates dad. Love Draco
- Draco folded up the letter " Have you got an owl then?"
- "No that's just my inflatable white fluffball in that corner over there" Said Harry pointing to Hedwig and taking the letter Draco handed him. He walked over to Hedwig "Be quick" he unlocked the cage and she flew out of the window and into the night.
- Harry turned to tell Draco that Ron would pick them up the next day, but he was already asleep.
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- Narcissa Malfoy awoke the next morning to the sight of a snowy white owl dropping a letter on her bed and then flying out of the window again.
- She sat up and opened the letter. It was from Draco. Her stomach lurched and she went charging out of her room and down the corridor into her sons bedroom. He wasn't there. She kept on reading the letter.
- Run away? Gladly but what if Lucius found her? She started thinking about who to go to but everyone she new and was friends with worked at the Ministry and new Lucius aswell. She thought of everyone she new but it was useless, until it suddenly came to her. It was so simple. The only person she had ever truly loved never failed in saying that Lucius was a smarmy git in school, he hated him.
- They had been together in Hogwarts and only their closest friends new about it.
- She new she had his address somewhere, if only she new where. The last time she had seen him had been about 6 years ago meeting in Diagon Alley.
- Narcissa had never written to him because Lucius always read her letters. It was like prison there, she was constantly watched. The only reason she had married Lucius was for the sake of her parents , who were very poor and had no home, so basically she married Lucius for the money .
- Her parents had died two years after Draco had been born, but she couldn't leave because she had no money of her own, and Lucius always threatened her saying that if she left him, when he found her he would Kill Draco. But now Draco was gone too so it was safe.
- Narcissa started searching her drawers and cupboard frantically looking for the address. She pulled out various bits of paperwork that she hadn't seen for years, and then she found it. Written hurriedly on a crumpled piece of paper . She pocketed it and ran upstairs back to her bedroom. Careful not to wake Lucius, She threw some clothes on, packed some in an old suitcase, went to the broomshed and mounted her broom.
- She took off quickly and made her way to her destination.
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- Harry woke up flushed. He had just had a dream that Draco Malfoy had flown in through the window.
- I must be going mad he thought.
- He sat up in his bed and looked around, he was about to go back to sleep when he noticed the leather suitcase (A/N: Sorry but Leather and Draco go together ever since Cassandra Claire) and the broom leaning up against the window.
- Harry jumped out of bed when he remembered that he had not been dreaming. He stumbled down the stairs and burst into the kitchen, Draco Malfoy was there helping himself to some Rice Krispies.
- "Morning Potter" said Draco casually "Want some"
- Harry took the cereal packet and sat down cautiously. "How the hell am I going to explain this to my my uncle?"
- "Well, isn't the weasel ass coming to pick us up?" asked Draco
- "Ron, Draco, his name is Ron and don't be a bastard" said Harry "And yes he is coming to collect us but I don't exactly know when"
- "Well Potter. I unfortunately do have a father."
- They heard a door open upstairs, soon the three Dursleys opened the kitchen door and stared in horror at Harry Draco.
- Draco caught sight of Dudley and burst out the laughing
- "What the heck is that?" he yelled "The new England goalkeeper? He could block a hoop by just siitting on it"
- Harry noticed his uncles face get redder and redder. They still hadn't said anything and Draco was still laughing.He got up and said :
- "Uncle Vernon . My friends coming to pick us up later on. We'll be gone soon"
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- Remus Lupin sat in the living room he shared with Sirius Black and Sarah Moody (Mad Eye Moody's daughter) alone. Sirius was of celebrating the fact that it was Friday as an excuse to get pissed, with Sarah. They weren't officially 'together' yet but seeing as they spent just about every second of their time together they would be an item soon.
- Last time they had stumbled back into the house drunk on Fogglethrosh, an extremely strong drink that would leave a muggle unconscious for about two months.
- He sighed. Sirius was always telling him that he should get out more and was always trying to set him up with some bimbo who would probably run a mile if she found out he was a werewolf.
- Remus made himself another coffee and sat down again. He was reading a book on ancient curses some that were more powerful than Avada Kedavra even.
- He looked up at the clock above the fireplace. There were 3 handles on it, one for each person who lived in the house. His was pointing at home as usual and Sirius and Sarah's were pointed at … No…the clock was broken…Remus took it down and checked but it stayed the same: Sirius and Sarah's were pointed at Kidnapped.
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- Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger were both sitting at the Weasley kitchen table. Hedwig was pecking at some sunflower seeds with the family owl Errol.
- They had both received letters from Harry saying that Draco Malfoy had turned up in the middle of the night with some story that Harry would explain to them later.
- They were going to drive there in Ron's father's new car (He had restored an abandoned Ford Fiesta)
- "All set then?" Ron's father walked into the room.
- They all nodded, Ginny was coming too because she had talked Ron into letting her come. They always treated her like the baby of the family. They still hadn't realised she was 15 and did have a brain. The last time she had seen Harry had been the last day of school, and he had been glaring at Hermione hugging and kissing Viktor Krum. He didn't know it but just about everyone except Hermione knew that He fancied her. Ginny had gone off Harry after that, she had had a bad experience with a Ravenclaw boy the year before so she wasn't too keen on boys at the moment.
- They all walked over the lawn and up to the car and climbed in. They all fitted after the amount of spells that had been put on it to make it look bigger inside.
- Before they new it, they were on Privet drive, and walking up to the Dursley front door.
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- Remus walked up and down the room worriedly. Who would bother taking them? Why? He did know why but he didn't want to admit it, he knew Voldemort had probably taken them as bait for Harry to go and look for them.
- There was a tapping on the window. Remus looked up. Hedwig was there. He got up and opened it. Hedwig flew in and landed gracefully on the table next to the sofa. Remus untied the letter and opened it. He read through it quickly and almost fainted "WHAT? Draco Malfoy helping Harry?!?"
- He read through it again to make sure he wasn't hallucinating but he wasn't and then he started to think maybe that Harry was going mental.
- But it must be some kind of trick he thought, but he new Harry wasn't stupid, and he must have some reason to believe him. Remus hadn't seen Draco Malfoy for a while now but he still remembered him vividly: The same silvery platinum hair as his mother, the same grey expressionless eyes. You could never tell if he was sad or happy.
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Remus stopped thinking about it when he heard a knock on he door. He ran to the hallway hoping that it was Sirius and Sarah and that the clock really was broken. He opened the door and almost fainted, it wasn't anyone he expected, it was Narcissa Malfoy drenched from the storm that had started. He could Hardly believe it was her, but there was no miistaking that hair and those eyes he had been thinking about just then. -
"Remus" she said breaking the pregnant silence "I'm so glad you're here" -
"Narcissa! I can't believe it! What's wrong? What happened? I just got a letter from Harry saying that Draco had turned up out of the blue" - "Draco sent me this letter telling me to run away, so I came here! Oh Remus he almost killed me with worry! And now I know where he his at last."
- "Calm down, calm down. You know I never expected you to turn up at my doorstep" he said calmly, realising that they were still standing outside in the rain "Come in I'll make you some coffee. And I'll give you some dry clothes to put on"
- They both sat down and explained about everything, he told about Sirius being kidnapped " And when I got that letter from Harry , I realised That Voldemort must have kidnapped them as bait. I think he's already found out that Draco's gone to Harry's. I mean he's got spies all over the country. I've got to write to Harry to tell him…"
- But that was as far as he got because before he finished Narcissa had started kssing him, and before he new it he was in his bedroom.
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- Hermione knocked on the door. After a few seconds a red faced Vernon Dursley opened it "More of you lot? Well get in then. I hope you're going soon"
- They all went in and were met by a worried looking Harry "I've just got a letter from Remus" he said" He says Sirius and Sarah Moody have been kidnapped. Draco's mum just turned up at his house 'old acquaintances' he says. He wants to meet us tomorrow at Diagon Alley."
- "Well of course we'll go to Diagon Alley" said Ron " Ginny go and get that Malfoy prat!"
- Typical, she thought, every time something starts to get interesting they tell her to bugger off and do something else. She didn't know that things were going to start getting a lot more interesting. She opened the door at the end of the hall way and screamed. It was the bathroom and Draco Malfoy was in it. Stark naked.
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- Well that took a while to write. Next chapter: What happens in the bathroom? Is Remus happy after that little one on one? What happens in Diagon Alley?
