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Unity
Part Four-
Visitation
Harry waited for well over an hour. Perhaps waiting wasn't the right word. Harry did some very important pacing. Then he read the same paragraph in Grammatica's talisman making book several times and still was not entirely clear which of his books he was reading. Finally Hedwig returned. Harry met her on the balcony.
"Lumos!"
She gave him an envelope. Just an envelope. There was nothing in it and nothing on it.
"What the fuck is this?" he asked Hedwig. She shook out her feathers at him and flew into her new cage to pout.
Harry studied the envelope. He smelled it. Then he got an idea.
"Aparecium!" Harry tried it hoping for a message written in invisible ink. Nothing!
"Aperio!" It was a good general detection spell. Nothing!
"Peto lacunus!" Nothing! Okay, so that one was a little far fetched.
Perhaps the envelope symbolized something?
"Frustration thy name is Malfoy." Harry sighed and walked back in through the French doors only to find someone sitting in the chair by the fire.
"Draco!"
"I could have killed you about three thousand times over by now," said Draco standing and looking Harry up and down.
"Do you want to kill me?"
"Are you really this thick? Here I almost had convinced myself this was just a persona you adopted to trick others into dropping their guard around you."
"How did you find me?"
"Oh, how do you think I found you, Harry?"
"I don't know."
"I followed your owl. By the way, just one more stupid question and I'm leaving."
"Why-" Harry decided not to test Draco's resolve. "I'm glad you are here."
"Did you really expect to find magical runes on that envelope?"
"Well, no-"
"I'm staying."
"What?"
"Clearly, someone needs to look after for you. I wasn't even trying to be stealthy. Seriously, Harry, I could have been anyone."
"You were too trying to be stealthy!"
"I wasn't even trying to be quiet."
"Well, the envelope- it confused me."
"Hear ye, if you want kill Harry Potter send him some buttons and a ball of string first."
"Now you're pissing me off."
"Good, maybe you will be a bit more careful about whom you let in here to visit you."
"If you'd meant me harm I doubt you would have made it to that chair."
"Point is, someone who wanted to do you harm wouldn't be headed for that chair. Why are you here? I expected your owl to lead me straight to the heart of Mugglesville."
"Her name is Hedwig."
"So you told me."
"I changed residence this morning. I'm living here until the new term starts."
"It's- not bad."
Harry nearly laughed at the effort that concession seemed to cost Draco.
"Coming from you, I'll take that as a compliment."
"Coming from me, it is one. Tired, Harry?"
"No, not really."
"Why are you wearing pajamas?"
"I- I was reading a book in bed."
"Don't let me stop you."
"Why are you here?"
"Finally," Draco stepped in, grabbed Harry by the collar and dragged his tongue slowly over Harry's bottom lip. Then pulled away as Harry started to respond. He let go of the collar and ran his hands over Harry's neck. One hand slid through Harry's hair. One hand caressed his face.
"Are you terribly attached to those glasses?"
"Only when I want to see."
"Vision healing."
"I have been thinking about it."
"What's to think about?"
"Do they bother you?"
"They make you look- fragile. Anyway, I want you to be able to see without them."
"All right, I'll do it tomorrow. Why are you here, again?"
"You want me to leave?"
"No!"
"Oh. You want me to kiss you."
"Please."
Draco brushed Harry's mouth lightly with his lips and pulled back.
"You could kiss me, you know."
Harry started to take his glasses off.
"No, leave them. I want you to see me."
"I can see you in the dark. You are always in my thoughts. I could see you if you were a thousand miles away. I see you when I sleep, Draco Malfoy."
Draco smiled at him, that time stopping, perfect smile.
"Gods. Dim and soppy, no wonder I can't resist you."
"You can resist me."
"That rather was my point."
"You are -so- cruel."
"You like me anyway."
"Yes, I do."
"How much do you like me, Harry?
"I- don't know."
"What can I -do- to you?"
"What? What do you want to do to me?"
"What can I -not- do to you, then?"
"I don't know."
"Can I fuck you, Harry? Can I fuck you, hard as I please, right now, with you tied to that bed?"
Harry tried to wrap his mind around the concept. It was after all a four part question. Draco waited a good long while.
"Gods, Harry, if you have to think about it that long you must like me quite a bit."
Harry laughed nervously and turned many interesting shades of red. He covered his face with his hands, still grinning.
"Please stop looking at me like that."
Draco gently took Harry's hands away and held them rubbing his thumbs over sweaty palms.
"Harry," Draco whispered with lips touching his ear, "do you like me enough to get to know me better?"
"Yes."
"I like you that much, too."
He let go of Harry's hands, reached into his robe, then wrapped one arm around his waist. Draco brought the other hand up to cradle Harry's chin. He brushed his thumb over his weather and worry chapped lips and smiled when Harry closed his eyes, letting his head tilt back and his lips part. Then Draco moved his thumb and gently caught Harry's hot mouth with a slow and scorching kiss. Draco let Harry's tongue play with his then set about exploring his mouth. He licked the fronts and backs of teeth and the insides of lips and cheeks. His tongue tasted the underside of Harry's tongue and glided over the space underneath. Then his tongue introduced itself to the roof of Harry's mouth.
When Draco knew Harry's mouth, he asked Harry's tongue to dance. He twisted, swirled, licked, stroked, and sucked, ever so so softly. The he pulled back and sucked gently on Harry's lips. Finally, he pressed a sweet soft goodbye kiss and pulled away. Draco held him until Harry opened his eyes again. Draco stepped back and set the crystal he'd been holding down on Harry's bookcase.
"How did you-?"
"Memoria illumino plus a delaying charm."
"You'll have to show me that some time."
"I'm sure we can work it into our busy schedules."
"Are you really staying?"
"I'm not going to attack you, Harry."
"That's not what I meant. Won't you be missed."
"I left a note that I was going shopping."
"What, at night?"
"I didn't say where."
"So you are only staying the night?"
"I was thinking a few days."
"Shopping for a few days?"
"What is unusual about that?"
"Will you cuddle me?"
"I would if you didn't call it that."
"What else?"
"Make something up."
"Draco, enfold me in the darkness of your passion. Too dramatic?"
"I can work with it."
-to be continued
