Chapter four.

Rest however was not the only thing on Harry's mind though he knew Draco would need it for a while. So they settled down in an empty office on a sofa that looked as if it was on its legs.

For at least an hour they lay there just holding each other neither wanting to fall asleep in case there was an emergency, it seemed that their adrenaline was still pumping after the fight. Draco turned to face his lover after a while and just stared at him.

"What's going to happen now?" He asked, knowing full well that Harry wouldn't lie to him.

"We have to take out the bad guys, either arrest them or kill them, that's what we're trained to do Draco, I understand if you want no part in that, I found it hard to kill at first but you learn to suppress your guilt."

"No, I'm involved now and besides I could just sit and wait for you to come back, all the worrying that you were hurt of not coming back at all, I think I'd rather keep an eye on you myself."

"Ok, whatever my love wants he should get, no matter what the price is."

Harry then captured Draco's lips in a soft kiss that soon turned into a more passionate loving embrace; Harry's hands worked their way under Draco's top and stroking the warm skin beneath.

The blonde threw back his head as Harry began to kiss down his neck, occasionally biting and sucking, nipping at the skin leaving a purple and red love bite on his pale neck, before moving back up to kiss Draco on the lips.

Harry moved his weight so he now lay on top of Draco rather than next to him, pinning him to the sofa, not that the blonde minded this, in fact he buck his hips up so his arousal rubbed against Harry's.

"We can't...not here." Harry said between kisses however he didn't seem to be listening to his own advice let alone doing anything about it. "There are cameras in here." He reasoned but the kissing continued, Draco lifted Harry's shirt over his head and then ran his hands down his bare chest.

"Then why aren't you stopping?" Draco asked casually staring up into emerald orbs that were clouded with arousal.

"Because I don't want to." Came the reply. Draco moved so he had access to Harry's stomach, which he began kissing, his tongue delving into his belly button causing Harry to moan, that had always been one of his sensitive spots.

Harry soon made quick work of Draco's own upper clothing and began to stroke the skin that had been uncovered. The two of them lay back down and resumed kissing, Draco teasing the waistband of Harry's jeans. He swatted the blonde's hands away; he refused to be caught on camera doing any more than this.

Dumbledore was doing his usual patrol of the offices to keep up moral when he came across the surveillance room where at least fifteen shadows were gathered, Dumbledore had a hunch to why but had to confirm it for himself.

He cleared his throat to alert them that he was standing behind them. Some scattered immediately, but a few still hadn't noticed and kept watching the scene playing out below. However enough people had gone so Dumbledore got a look at what they were all watching.

The sight that met his eyes could have scared him for life. "Alright back to work, all of you, he's a fellow shadow and you know full well that he wouldn't like it, go on get out." Then he turned to the shadow that was actually meant to be watching what the cameras were picking up. "What room is that?"

"2D33, Sir." He said after checking the screen.

"Alright, no one comes through that door, not until I have stopped these two before they do something that they may regret tomorrow."

Unbeknown to Harry and Draco who were still engaging in activities not suitable for a younger audience Albus Dumbledore was on his way to the room they were currently situated in.

Urgent knocking on the door brought the two nineteen year olds back to reality, the both reached for their shirts as Dumbledore entered looking irritated and a little angered. Harry smiled at him in a sweet almost to innocent way.

"Erm...has anything happened?" Harry asked as he pulled on his T-shirt. He realised that Draco looked completely ravished and so must he at this point and there was no hiding the hickey on the blonde's neck.

"Nothing except you giving your colleges an almost X rated film to watch." Dumbledore snapped giving Harry a stern look.

"Oh...do you think sorry covers it?"

"Out of here at once, your going back to work, Draco as you are not a shadow I can not command you so you can either stay here or follow Harry around."

Harry took Draco's hand within his own so it was clear what he wanted to happen and the blonde stepped closer and rested his head on Harry's shoulder. Albus sighed and walked out to let the teens gather themselves and the rest of their clothes together.

Wen they finally emerged from the office it was clear that more ravishing had gone on but they had managed to keep it in control this time. When they came into contact with the other shadows there were a few cat calls and whistled but Harry had more respect than even he realised and they soon calmed down.

Draco followed after Harry wherever he went, they were constantly holding hands and cuddling if they were given the chance. It seemed to on lookers that the couple was every much in love and if they had thought that then they would have thought correctly.

Even Dumbledore himself had to admit that Harry was truly happy for perhaps the first time in his life since his seventeenth birthday when his parents had been discovered murdered, if he could of done he would have sent Harry and Draco away, somewhere he knew they would be safe.

However he knew it didn't work that way. Harry was not one to lie down and except defeat, he would want to fight, and besides he knew the happy couple would be safer under his watchful gaze, this being the main reason to keep them here in the office.

"We have a problem." One of the shadows said loudly into the bustling room that suddenly went silent at these words.

Dumbledore rushed forwards to see what he spoke of. The shadow pointed at the screen that showed the street outside the entrance to the order.

A group of people had gathered there, they looked like ordinary people just hanging out, that's what Dumbledore thought at first before Harry and Draco got a look, they recognised a few of them.

"They're deatheaters." Draco said confidently.

"How do you know?" Albus asked him.

"Harry and I were attacked, two of them I recognise."

"He's right, they're our guys, what shall we do?"

"Nothing, they are obviously there for a reason, whether or not they know where they are is another matter, if we all go running out there they will know that they have uncovered us, hold your positions for the time being."

"But Sir, Ron and Hermione are due back soon, what about them?"

"Harry you know full well that lives are lost in battle, nothing can prevent that."

Dumbledore turned to go back to his office, only to be stopped when Harry spoke, obviously to him and the tone he used wasn't one he would have used normally.

"I know that rule, if I had obeyed it then Draco wouldn't be with us right now." Harry snapped angrily, he didn't want to lose any one else especially those he was close to. Albus turned around at once, as much as he cared for Harry he didn't tolerate rudeness of any sort in his department, even more so when it was directed straight at him.

"Harry, I am starting to think hat you inherited to many of your mothers emotions, you may look like you father but you are your mother all over, you are to do as you are told no questions asked, if that is not clear then I don't need some one like you on my team."

"You may not realise it but emotions keep you grounded sometimes or they lift you up and give you the strength to go on, they can save lives but it seems to me that you've been a shadow for so long you've forgotten what feeling emotion is actually like." Harry said fuming at the fact that Dumbledore was just going to let his friends die. "My emotions saved Draco today, if I had lost him you would have lost me to, if you don't want me here any more so be it, I promised myself that my work and my personal should never mix yet here is the one person I love most in the world, who I possibly want to spend the rest of my life with standing in the middle of the office I have worked in for two years, to me that seems very mixed up."

"I am discharging you from service, you no longer work for me and can not hold the title of a shadow any more, you are like a son to me Harry, I will always look out for you but if that means you don't work here then so be it. I won't put your life at risk any longer. The two of you shall remain here until it is all over and then steps will be taken to restore you into normal society."

"I want your reassurance that Draco and I will be together through all of that." Harry said when Dumbledore had finished speaking. The elderly man looked at Harry in an approving way and every one present saw a twinkle in those brilliant blue eyes.

"I have obviously taught you well Harry, you have my word that you two will not be separated by my word."

"Or anyone else's."

"Or anyone else's, I swear that you won't be separated."

"Thank you, I never wanted this but a normal life has always been higher on my list of priorities than this job, not that I didn't love this job, I did, but I love Draco more, I've lost him once I won't do it again."

Harry and Draco were told to stay away from working shadows but were not permitted to wander through headquarters of go off on their own, however that possibly wasn't because they would go snooping around and more to do with the fact that they were most properly going to make out if they were left alone.

Harry and Draco sat in the corner cuddled together, the blonde was resting his head on the others shoulder, every part of their bodies that could touch were, no words were spoken between them as the others around them went about their business completely ignoring Harry and Draco.

"I love you Harry." Were the four words spoken softly almost unheard by the one person who was meant to hear them.

Harry placed a soft kiss on Draco's forehead and brings him if possible closer, not wanting to be separated from him for a moment longer than they had to be. Despite their location and everything going on around them it felt like heaven, to be so close to someone he loved so much and felt such a deep love from in return.

"I love you too."

"What's going to happen to us now?" He asked not really wanting anything to disrupt what could potentially be a normal happy life with Harry.

"I don't know, we'll be given jobs and a past to tell, basically all this will become something of a memory, I'll become a sleeper most likely."

"What's a sleeper?"

"Someone who's life is built by the shadows, basically I can be called upon at any time to aid them but I won't be a full time shadow, however cases that I have worked on that a rise again and I am needed to help with, things like that."

"So your life won't be free of this, only ceases for a while, Dumbledore properly thinks by the time something like this comes up we won't be together and you can come to being a shadow full time, he hates me I know he does."

"Yes but I love you, and nothing will change that, what does it matter if he thinks we won't last we know better and we can prove everyone wrong."

"But doesn't it bother you that your friends don't approve?"

"If your trying to discourage me from quitting my job and leaving this life behind for you, you've got a lot of work a head because nothing will make me change my mind, I want this, I have for a while now, you're my reason to quit this life once and for all even though I may need to come back and tie up loose ends, but you understand that right."

"I understand, anything to be with you but before we can be together properly we have to stop this, we have to stop my father and whoever this guy who himself Voldermort is."

"I agree, but to start off with we have to get out of here."

"You're the expert at this, I'll follow your lead."

"Alright, there are varied number of ways out to this place, however the most direct is the front entrance however with all those deatheaters at the front I don't advise that we use that particular exit. Follow me."

Harry got up and looked casually around watching those past him, it seemed that they were trying not to look at him, the shame of being dismissed from service was a great dishonour however Harry didn't care, he recognised them ignoring him more of a blessing right now rather than a curse.

He and Draco began to edge slowly down an empty corridor and then they speeded up there pace and into another room before anyone noticed that they were going anything wrong.

"There should be a secret passage...here." Harry kicked the wall in the right place and the wall opened up.

"I'm never going to get used to that." Draco said as he surveyed the opening with interest.

"We have to move quickly come on."

They moved along the passage which compared to the last tunnel they had been down was surprisingly short however what made it seem so much longer was the fact that it slopped upwards.

It was mid afternoon when the couple emerged from the passage, Draco not being use to shadow way of life needed rest and food to gather his strength even though he wouldn't have admitted it at any point, not even if he was near collapsing.

"Draco, I think we need to relax for a while, lay low in case they come looking for us." Harry suggested knowing full well that Draco would never agree if he knew the real reason.

"Alright but where?"

"I never said we had to keep a low profile, I just said we had to lay low." Harry pointed towards the town centre where many luxury hotels were situated. Draco gave him a heart-melting smile.

"Are you sure about this, I mean we don't have to go any where posh...I'd be happy with a mattress on the ground if it meant...being with you."

"I want the best for you Draco, my love."