Title: Concerning Chess and Kitchen Raids

Summary: Professor Trelawney is in charge of Valentine's Day this year. What happens when she bewitches roses to lead you to your soul mate? (Slash)

Genre(s): Fluff, Slash, Romance

Books Referenced: None in particular

Warning(s): Contains slash.

Disclaimer: Not mine. *points to JKR* Hers.

A/N: Thanks yet again to my reviewers! Special, special, special thanks goes out to tsukasa, tealish and leia3000 for their ideas on what to do with the fic. Silly me, I never thought of making Blaise the bad guy! ^_^;;



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"Check," said Harry.

"Tsk, tsk. Checking with a pawn; have I taught you nothing?" wondered Ron, easily taking the pawn out with a bishop. "Check."

"You really should be studying," scolded Hermione. "NEWTs are coming up soon, and at the rate you two are going, you'll fail them!"

"Ah, come off it, Hermione! NEWTs aren't until May, it's only February! Besides, you're not studying," said Ron, eyeing Hermione, her copy of 'Art in the Wizarding World' in hand.

"At least I'M doing something productive," Hermione said, smoothly shutting the book.

"What, you're saying chess isn't productive?" Ron looked offended. "Chess teaches you cunning and slyness, it teaches you ruthlessness and humility, it teaches you - "

"All right, all right!" said Hermione, holding her hands up. "You talk like it was an army corps or something!"

"What, it's not?" Ron blinked owlishly at Hermione. "Harry, I'm hungry. What's say we go to the kitchens to get something to eat!"

"You're always hungry," said Harry. "But then, so'm I, so I can't talk."

"It's only ten o clock!" Hermione prostested. "You can wait two hours till lunch, can't you?"

"But I'm hungry now," Ron said. "Not hungry two hours from now. Let's go, Harry. You coming, Hermione?" Hermione shook her head, and the two boys stood up and left the common room.



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An hour and a kitchen raid later, Ron, Seamus, Dean, and Harry were sitting in the Gryffindor Common Room building castles from their Exploding Snap cards and trying to ignore Hermione's naggings about schoolwork. A sudden loud noise from the Entrance Portrait startled everyone. Indeed, the noise startled Ron so badly that he jumped, knocked over the castle, and was rewarded with loud blasts sounding directly in his ear.

From the short entrace tunnel emerged a figure. If the blond hair wasn't enough to tell you who the person was, they were also wearing a large silver and green scarf.

"Malfoy," said Ron, trying to put the sparks in his hair out, "how'd you get in here?"

"Wouldn't you love to know," Draco sneered back. "I came to talk to Potter." He held up a wad of parchments, a charcoal sketch on top. Seamus gave a curious glance toward Harry; Hermione sucked her breath in sharply and glanced at Ron. He looked nonplussed, Hermione noted with relief. Harry stood up.

"First of all, before I do anything with you, you're going to be civil to my friends," he said forcefully. Draco shrugged amusedly.

"You know where I stay then, if you want to hear what I have to say." With that, Draco grinned coyly at Harry, then turned and disappeared back down the entrance tunnel. Harry hesitated for half a second, glanced at Ron and the others, then hurried down the hole after him.

"Draco!" Harry burst out of the portrait hole and slammed directly into the blond Slytherin.

"Yes?" Draco asked.

"You said you had something to tell me," Harry said, stepping down from the slight ledge outside of the Fat Lady's portrait. "And I'm here, so tell me." Draco held the parchments up and selected the drawing of the dragon.

"Notice anything about it?" Harry looked carefully at it, then noticed the scar on the parchment. He ran a finger down the length of the scar.

"What happened to it?" Harry asked quietly. Draco related the story of Blaise stealing Harry's Potion notes, and how Blaise connected the week parchments with Harry, and that Blaise was growing suspicious. When Draco finished and stopped talking, Harry sighed and slid down the wall to sit down on the ledge.

"Also, I searched Blaise's area in our dorm and found this," Draco said, holding up the Invisibility Cloak Blaise had earlier. "It was on his bed. He obviously was trying to hide it when I came in the room." He started to say more, but just then Seamus stuck his head out of the portrait hole.

"Oi! Harry! If you're going to play Exploding Snap with us again, you'd better come back double quick!" Harry nodded at Seamus.

"Keep an eye on him, will you? I don't know what he's up to, but if he does anything, owl me or something, okay?" Draco smiled at Harry.

"Sure thing, Harry." He watched as the two Gryffindors disappeared into the portrait hole, then turned and walked down the hall.

Inside the portrait tunnel, Seamus stopped suddenly and eyed Harry thoughtfully.

"What?" asked Harry, turning.

"You two would make a cute couple," Seamus said. Harry smacked him on the arm.



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TBC



Bad ending, yes, but I really need to do other things cos I've spent all evening working on the story. More coming later! ^_^