The Sleepwalker

by crimson nightmare

Ch.4 FINALLY HERE!! Draco needed a drink in the middle of the night, and finds Harry-bloody-Potter *scowls* in the Malfoy Manor's kitchen. SLASH m/m Don't read if you don't like slash!

5. Chapter 4: The Sleepwalker Theory!

The Sleepwalker By Crimson Nightmare
Declaimer: Harry and Draco and the rest of their gangs aren't mine; no suing please~
Warning: m/m SLASH! Scared? Run, go! Quick!


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The Sleepwalker by Crimson Nightmare

Chapter 4: The Sleepwalker! What the hell is that?

Mud.

Mud on his shoes.

Mud!

Mud on his DAMN EXPENSIVE DRAGONHIDE SHOES!

Draco gritted his teeth.

You! Potter, it¡¦s all your fault~~~~~~####

He stepped harder and splashed mud onto the other boy¡¦s shoes, and, in reply, the boy gave him a look that said: I¡¦ll soak you in mud myself. I don¡¦t mind.

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So why did he agree to help Malfoy? Oh yeah, he had to because Malfoy would¡¦ve thrown him to the elder Malfoy if he didn¡¦t agree to help. Humph. Malfoys. Well, that just makes it all okay. He was sure that jumping off a cliff believing that Malfoy said he wouldn¡¦t die was okay too.

¡§Potter.¡¨

Tiredly he looked up from his fascinatingly muddy shoes, ¡§Huh.¡¨

¡§We have to jump.¡¨

He jumped up and down tiredly. ¡§Now what?¡¨

¡§No you idiot!¡¨ Draco was torn between frustration and amusement, also very tired, he said, ¡§We have to jump off this cliff here!¡¨

¡§.¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡¨ Why does this sound so familiar?

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//Earlier//

¡§This is how you got in here.¡¨ Draco gestured to Harry¡¦s head. ¡§Sleepwalk is a powerful thing in magic world (as I¡¦m sure the Boy Who Lived would already know). You can actually ¡¥walk¡¦ your way into any place you dreamt during the walk ¡V ¡¨

¡§Hold, hold on.¡¨ Harry stopped him, eyebrows raised, ¡§Remind me why we¡¦re talking about sleepwalk again?¡¨

¡§That¡¦s how you got here. The questions I asked you earlier were about what were the last things you remembered before you appeared in my kitchen. Your thoughts, feelings, body temperature¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K.Honestly, were you not listening to me at all?¡¨

¡§Well it¡¦s a little hard to concentrate when YOU are SITTING ON me!!!¡¨ Harry snapped.

Amused, Draco maintained his kneeling position even more steadily just to annoy Harry ¡V legs on either side of the boy¡¦s waist. ¡§Well it¡¦s not my fault.¡¨ He drawled, ¡§It¡¦s just more comfortable to inspect your eyelids this way.¡¨

¡§I don¡¦t know too much about medical wizards, but I know Madame Pomfrey never SITS on me!¡¨

Draco just grinned at him in a ¡¥So?¡¦ way.

¡§So, as I was saying before you rudely interrupted me, ¡¨ Draco continued, ¡§Sleepwalk is a powerful thing in magic world. You ¡¥walk¡¦ your way into any place you dreamt during the walk by a magical corridor opened by your mind. But there is that you always have to be an exceptionally powerful wizard or witch in order to be able to do that. Hmm. I guess you are somewhat powerful after all.¡¨

Harry glared at the boy.

¡§So? Aren¡¦t we supposed to be trying to get out of here? What are we doing here examining my eyelids and all that?¡¨

Draco sighed and got up from the previous awkward position, ¡§I had to check if the way is safe. Apparently there are no aftermaths or lost limbs on you ¡V ¡¨ (Harry raised an eyebrow) ¡§So I guess my plan will work safely after all.¡¨

Harry got up and saw the dark clock on the black wall (in the black room in the black house¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K.) ¡§Great, we¡¦ve only got two and a half hour left now. You say you have a plan? Spill it out or I¡¦ll do a Veritas on you.¡¨ (A/N: Veritas = Truth Spell)

Draco threw up his hands, ¡§Yeah, yeah,¡¨ Then he turned serious (There you go again! Harry thought, he changes attitudes all the time!) ¡§Alright. I¡¦ve read about Sleepwalk before in our (restricted) library. There are two spells you can ¡¥force¡¦ a mind corridor to open. I wrote them down in my notes from Dark Art studies. Don¡¦t ask.¡¨ He turned and grabbed his wand.

¡§Wait a minute. Are we doing this now?¡¨

¡§No, Potter, we¡¦re going to sit here and have tea and wait for my dear old father to come and sacrifice you. I¡¦m all fine with it, you know.¡¨

Harry rolled his eyes.

//flashback end//

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¡§We have to jump.¡¨

¡§Yes Potter, we have to jump.¡¨

¡§Remind me again why you called this trip ¡¥safe¡¦ in the first place.¡¨

Draco stuck out his tong like a five-year-old.

Harry stared at him long and hard. ¡§Why do you do that?¡¨

¡§Do what?¡¨

¡§You change. Like one of those multi-personality mental patients. You get all spoiled and whinny first ¡V ¡¨ (Draco protested indignantly at this) ¡§ ¡V and then you get very serious like an adult. Just now you were all about business, but then you turn into a baby like you are now.¡¨

¡§Have you been keeping track?¡¨ Draco raised an eyebrow.

¡§It¡¦s sort of hard to miss.¡¨ Harry snapped.

They walked on without answering each other¡¦s questions. A weird kind of silence. A kind of silence that falls upon strangers who just received a lot of information about each other, and ponder at their companions. When they came to the cliff, they jumped off and fell in slow motion onto another dimension ¡V closer and closer to reality.

The ¡¥world¡¦ that they walked on was the mental corridor that Draco forced open by using the mysterious spell he recorded down in his Dark Arts notes. The land of mental corridor was quite hard to describe ¡V as it changes from scenes to scenes one minute or the other. Somewhat like Draco¡¦s mood swings. Harry thought irritatingly.

The mental corridor was like stages of one¡¦s sleep. A full cycle of sleep is build up from shallow to deep levels of sleep. The corridor requires the users to jump from dimension to dimension to complete the full cycle of ¡¥sleepwalk¡¦. Harry and Draco only managed to cross four dimensions up until now. Each place to jump was different. Each opening to new dimensions was like a test of abilities, whether physical, intellectual, or emotional.

The cliff they jumped off, for example, was an emotional test ¡V a test of fear. Harry had always had a keen liking to heights, so he was fine with it. Yet Draco, despite his attempts at being a Seeker, did not really like heights all that much ¡V but he was too tired to be afraid. All right, that sounded weird, thought Harry, but nothing seems to be normal with Malfoy since he met him in the dark Malfoy kitchen.

Falling softly into another dimension, the boys both sighed in exhaustion. They settled their sore bodies down under a tree, panting and grieving at how many more dimensions they¡¦ll have to jump.

¡§Do you think they¡¦ll find our physical bodies before we get out of this corridor?¡¨ Harry grunted.

¡§Uh-uh.¡¨ Draco shook his head tiredly. ¡§I charmed our bodies into dictionaries so they won¡¦t know it¡¦s our bodies.¡¨

¡§¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K¡K.right.¡¨ Harry, too tired to ask why ¡¥dictionaries¡¦ of all things, stretched his tired limbs out on a rock.

They had two days and two nights to get through the corridor. It was a great advantage since the time in a corridor proceeds much slower than reality, so in two hours, about forty-eight hours have passed in a corridor. And if they were successful, they could end up at Hogwarts¡¦ front door when they were done with the corridor. Their physical bodies would automatically transfer through the corridor behind their mental forms as the corridor closes.

Harry examined their surroundings. It was quite an extraordinary scenery. Enormous dark red lava tubes were lying across them. A shimmering red substance was flowing in the form of a stream on the ground. The steam coming from the lava tubes were hot and humid. And some squiggly shaped yellow plants were sprawling from some of the darker caves.

The tree they were leaning on was totally different. It was lively green ¡V unlike all the rest of the red and dark hues in this dimension. He looked up at the sky and was slightly shocked to see such a big red sun. Oh well, nothing he had seen so far had been ordinary, so who was he to complain?

They rested for a little longer and then Harry got up and offered a hand to help Draco up.

Draco looked at the hand with a considering look.

Harry rolled his eyes, ¡§Oh get off it! Come on.¡¨ He went ahead and snatched Draco up. It was the first time Draco discovered how much stronger Harry actually was comparing to him. Yet the other half of his thought was this: a hand offered. Why is he offering me his hand? I thought he¡¦d never do something close to friendly when it concerns me.

Lost in thoughts, the blonde boy lost his balance as Harry pulled him up. He bumped straight into Harry¡¦s chest with a big muffled ¡¥whoa¡¦.

¡§Are you okay?¡¨ Harry asked, looking down at the boy whose face was buried in his chest.

¡§ ¡¦M fine.¡¨ Came the stifled reply.

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From a distance away, a man was watching the two boys journeying through the dimension. He smiled. So there¡¦s a blonde cutie, finally! After six thousand four hundred and seventeen years, there finally is something worth seeing. Too bad they might not be here long. Lets see how we can play with them~~~~

He chewed on a chicken bone (?), satisfied, and disappeared from view. Not that anyone was watching.

To be continued~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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A/N: Hello, those of you who are ready to stab me and those of you who had just found this fic for the first time, oh, and those of you who are watching in a distance coldly, waiting for me to be executed and so on, congratulations! You¡¦ve made it through the chapter!

Very confusing chapter, isn¡¦t it? *hides because CN doesn¡¦t quite understand it either~* Nah, of course I know what I¡¦m doing. But if you have any questions, drop by my email land and ask away! (If anyone cares to actually read this fic, actually.)

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