Title: Harry Potter and a Slytherin Love

Author: Yih

Author's Note: This is a SLASH HP/SS story with a very good friendship story for HP/DM. That's your warning, if you don't like slash then go read my other stories! I happen to be a very open minded individual and can see the beauty of both types of relationships. Isn't that fun?! I think it is ^_^;;. R+R for more! Reviewer thanks below!

Disclaimer: Everything belongs to J.K. Rowling ^-~ I wished I owned something, but I don't more the pity.

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CHAPTER NOTE: There is a NC-17 version, leave a review with an email to have it emailed to you. Dedicated to BELOVEDbyWAR (read the reply to the review and you'll see why!)

6: Dueling Club and A Slashy Interlude (June 3, 2003 to June 4, 2003)

He had read through the immense parchment Draco had drafted and while he agreed with all the points; he was sure that none of the students were willing to read all this to join the Dueling Club. So after an intense all night session following detention and tutoring, they'd finally drafted a short working version. It got the point across without putting the reaer to sleep.

Dueling Club Rules

Follow Dueling etiquette. Never attack anyone from behind their back. Never use anything other than magic as offense or defense. Once a duel is over help the opponent. A duel is over when the duelist is disarmed. If the duel is a standstill, the judges will decided who the victor is. A duel may not be halted except by a judge. The judges are the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors. The judges reserve the right to remove any students from the club with or without reason. All participants must meet the qualifications stated below. Be a fifth year student at least. Pass a written examination testing knowledge. Pass a practical examination testing ability. All participants must sign the statement agreeing to the rules.

Both of them had decided that 15 students in the Dueling Club would be plenty enough. Those students would have to keep competing to stay in the club with only the top 10 getting secured positions for a time period. They weren't really sure if the club was even going to work the way they wanted until they put up a sign up sheet.

To their blatant surprise, nearly all the students in 5th, 6th, and 7th year were interested with the new club. Names covered every inch of the parchment they'd placed outside of the dining hall. When Draco and Harry had come to collect it, they had found some students waiting around to let them know they were interested in joining since the sheet was full. After taking down their names, Draco and Harry had gone to their office to discuss what they were going to do.

"We could raise the numbers up to 25," Harry remarked as soon as they were alone. "But that's not even half of the number of students that are interested. But if the club gets to be too large, then just dueling will take up all our free time."

"No kidding," Draco muttered. "At this rate, I'm never going to get a one night stand." He growled his frustration and ran his hand through his platinum blond hair. "I say we up the students in Club to 25 and only keep the top 20 positions locked for a month. After that, they had to duel to keep their positions and the last 5 places have to duel to keep in the club. But how are we going to decide who deserves to be in the club?"

Harry glanced down at the names scrawled on the list. "I suppose we can put all the names into a hat and draw the names out. That would be the fairest since I cannot really tell by looking at the list who actually signed up first, all the names are scribbled everywhere there was space. How does that sound?"

"Sounds like a plan," Draco responded. "I'll inform the students because I know that a very impatient Severus Snape is waiting for you in his rooms." He smirked knowingly. "I wouldn't want the man to get all hot and bothered like I've been. I'm sure he's about ready to murder me for keeping you late last night working on the Dueling Club, and of course your tutoring sessions aren't helping either with his pent up frustrations."

Harry grinned and winked. "It isn't." He glanced at Draco and at the long list of names. "Are you sure you don't want me to stay?"

"Go shag him before he becomes an insufferable git. Don't worry about getting away scotch free, I'll remember that you owe me one. And you know that I'll make sure that you pay me back," Draco retorted. "Now go!"

"Thanks."

With that, Harry ran out of their office and straight down to the dungeons where Severus was undoubted pacing up and down the length of his bed chambers waiting for his lover. Draco shook his head and stared down at all the things that he needed to do. "Don't mention it," he mumbled. "Don't mention it, Harry."

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Harry had the silliest grin on his face when he slipped into Severus's room without drawing his lover's attention. He snuck up slowly and silently until he wrapped his arms around Severus's waist and pressed an insistent kiss on the soft skin of his neck. "I've missed you," he whispered huskily. "Do you know how much I want you, you sexy snarky bastard?"

The controlled pace of Severus's breathing escalated when he felt Harry's arms slide up and down his chest to undo his robes. His heart tempo increased its pounding when he heard Harry tell him how much he wanted him. Not only was everything now sensitized to Harry, all the blood that had previously occupied his brain had drained downward to his cock. He felt an unbearable burning sensation when Harry's nimble fingers undid the fastenings of his pants.

It wasn't too long when he was wearing nothing more than his black silk boxers, having no idea how he'd gotten there. The things that he could think under Harry's seductive ministrations was that he'd taught the boy far too well how to seduce him and that Harry was wearing far too many clothes. Well, Harry at least should be more than half naked. He reached to unbutton Harry's leather pants, but was stopped when Harry fell down to his knees, pulling down Severus's boxers with him.

Now completely stripped of all his covering, Harry grinned as Severus's straining member rose up to the occasion. "I think that you've missed me very much, Sev darling," he commented, licking the tip delicately then blowing softly, which sent shivers down Severus's spine. "Very, very much."

"You bloody prat," Severus growled as he leaned back against the wall, feeling like his legs were going to turn into jelly if Harry kept on this teasing torture. "You know I want you, you know that damn well."

"I know," Harry responded. "I love you, Sev."

Severus drew his lover into his arms and half carried, half led him into their bedroom. When they both collapsed onto the bed, they cuddled together--- their limbs entwining in such a way that they didn't know where one ended and the other began. It was in the midst of this delightful embrace of pressing soft kisses against each other that Harry broke the moment, "Severus?"

"Yes?"

"I want to bond with you," Harry murmured, his lips pressed against Severus's neck where he was sucking gently. "And I don't want to hide around anymore. I want everyone to know that I'm with you be damned the consequences."

"Are you sure about this?" Severus questioned seriously. While outwardly he tried to appear like it didn't matter one wit what Harry was asking, inside was a different story. He was touched that Harry wanted to bond with him, it wasn't a small step--- in fact, it was a huge step for Harry to take. It was basically like a marriage proposal. The only difference was that instead of exchanging rings, they would exchange blood that would bind them together for the rest of their natural lives. And yet he couldn't let Harry do it for what bonding entailed. "You know that it can't be reversed."

"I know," Harry responded. "I want this, Severus. I want to be with you for the rest of my life."

"How can you be so sure?" Severus queried with obvious reservations. "You are too young to make a decision like this. You have years of your life still to live. And I am so much older than you, if you bond to me when I die first as you know I will, it will rip you apart. Those that bond can never be separated. We will live together and die together. I cannot let you do that. I will not shorten your life. I cannot."

"Don't stop me," Harry pleaded. "Don't deny me this. Severus, I love you."

"Then why did you leave me for two years?" Severus snapped. "Do you know how much I missed you? Not one word from you! Not one! Oh, you tell Draco where you are and let him live with you and I don't hear anything from you! And you expect that you can traipse back into my life after two bloody hellish years? What's even more foolish is that I let you! I bloody let you back into my life and you think that after two weeks of bliss that I'm going to bind myself to you for life?

"You say you love me, but you've taken me for granted these past two years!" Severus cried out his anger the past two years at Harry leaving and not sending him any word. "What's worse, we've started exactly where we left off. You still do the same thing. You do whatever you want and leave me here to wait for you. I'm tired of it, damn it. What am I? Someone that is on your beck and call, am I your slut Harry?"

Tears were trickling down Harry's vibrant green eyes at Severus's outrage. He had never known what Severus had gone through those two years. But if Severus thought those two years had been easy for him, he was sadly mistaken. Those two years had been utterly miserable for him and there had been times when he hadn't know if he could go on any longer. If it weren't for Draco being there for him, he didn't know what he'd have done. He definitely wouldn't have made it and wouldn't have been back.

If his love for Severus had been any less than what it was, he thought that he probably would have fallen for the soothing nurturing that Draco had provided. But in Harry's heart and his soul, he knew that the only one for him was a certain Potions Master, Severus Snape. There was no other. Couldn't Severus understand? This certainly wasn't what was suppose to happen when he'd thought up the idea on the spur of the moment to ask Severus to bond with him. Definitely not.

"I... I never took you for granted Severus," Harry murmured in a barely whispered voice. "Everyday, all I thought about for two years has been you. If Draco and Albus hadn't coerced me to come back, I never would have returned. I don't know if you know but you tore my heart into two. What I said two weeks ago still stands. It was good for us to be apart. I've learned a lot about myself, and that I don't need to depend on you anymore. That doesn't mean I don't want to be with you. I want to be with you; I don't need to be with you. I want to be with you not because you make life bearable, but because I love you. Do you understand?"

Severus closed his eyes, not wanting to even think about what Harry was asking him to listen to. Yet, he couldn't help but hear Harry's words. He was, if anything, logical. It made sense that Harry wanted him and did not need him anymore. It was nice be wanted and to be loved, but then did that mean that Harry needed Draco now? "So... do you need Draco now?"

Harry shook his head immediately. "No," he answered, "I don't." He sighed heavily and ran his fingers through Severus's long black locks. "I don't need anyone to stand up to the challenges that try to press and push me down. Not anymore. I'm stronger, perhaps even stronger than I was when I stood up against Lord Voldemort, and it's all because of you. I think my decision to ask you to bond with me was hasty, but I don't regret asking you. The offer still stands and will continue to stand until you agree to it."

Withdrawing his hand away from Severus, he got off the bed and grabbed his robe. "There's nothing more that I want to do than to lie down in your arms," Harry whispered huskily, "but right now I think that you need to think things over alone and make up your mind. I know you want to protect me from all that the world wants to throw at me, and now I know that you're angry about the past two years--- but I don't need you to protect me anymore and all I can say is that I'm sorry for leaving you for two years. It wasn't easy for me either. I'll see you tomorrow."

~

"What the bloody hell are you doing here?" Draco questioned instantly when Harry walked back into the office with a rather disheveled look on his face. It definitely looked like Harry had been shagging Severus for a few hours, and he probably had as it was close to midnight. "Shouldn't you be snogging Severus or getting ready for another shag session?"

Harry collapsed onto the chair next to Draco and rested his head down against the desk like he didn't have an ounce of energy left. "We had an argument after we had sex," Harry explained. "I also asked him to bond with me."

Draco blinked and then blinked again. "Do you want to talk about it?"

"I thought I just did."

"You gave the general happenings, but you can definitely go into more explicit details. You know I'm always ready to listen to you rant. At the very least, I get to stare at your beautiful face and hear your sexy voice."

"Draco!"

"Okay! Okay!" Draco exclaimed, raising his hands in a conciliatory manner. "No need to get all upset with me." He smirked. "You don't need two Slytherins angry at you now." His arrogant grin lightened and he tilted his head slightly. "I really am serious, Harry. If you want me to listen to your problems, I will and I will try to give you the best advice that I can. After all, I can't lose you as a friend; you're the only one I've got."

"He was angry with me for leaving him hanging for two years," Harry divulged. "And I'm not mad at him for being mad at me for going when he basically ended things between us, instead I'm sad that I didn't realize that everything wasn't going as well as I thought. These past two weeks have been so good, and yet they haven't been. He's brought a lot of things to my attention. I have been taking him for granted, Draco.

"I assumed that he'd still be waiting after two years and now after two weeks, I've fallen back into the old pattern that he'll be waiting for me in his rooms whenever I'm ready to go back. I feel like such a bloody git!" Harry exclaimed. "How could I do that to him? I love him so much and he tells me that how can he believe me? It's true, I treat him like I don't appreciate him."

"Mmm hmm," Draco mumbled in agreement. "But I don't think you intentionally intended to do that. Severus being Severus when he calms down will be able to think of the situation more rationally. Just wait. He'll come around and until then," he stated firmly, letting his eyes bear down on Harry, "you'll bloody well make sure he feels appreciated and special and all that lovey-dovey goodness!" ~

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Thanks to: BekaJWP, Sela, Blackrose, Kat, and Kate!

Xikum: Draco's so fun to write. I think I write him pretty darn well. I like him being a teasing friend, which I'm gonna show in 'Mirror' as well. I'm also thinking of doing a HP/DM version of Mirror. Hmmm... HP/DM is my 2nd favorite pairing.

Lina Inverse the Dramata: You and Kat have the same idea about 3somes. Hmmm, I don't think Sev is the sharing type though ^-~.

BELOVEDbyWAR: Thanks! I try, I try! I can't let it be too much fun though, there's a bit of angst in this chapter suggested by you of course! How do you like Harry taking Sev for granted? Inspired by you!