"Potter..."
Harry snapped his head toward Draco, "what?" He asked irritably
"What's that called?"
Harry followed where Draco's finger was pointing.
"That's a T.V. Draco," Harry said in a somewhat patronizing tone.
"Muggles invented that?"
Harry sighed, "yes, they invented it."
"So it doesn't run on magic?"
"No. No magic"
Draco studied the television, "How does it work?"
"I'd explain it to you, but then it would raise whole new questions I'm not ready to deal with right now."
"Why are you being so... I dunno... You're being rather short tempered."
"If you don't like it, then I suggest you leave," Harry said through gritted teeth.
"What's wrong?" Draco asked, genuinely curious.
"I SAID -" Harry stopped mid-sentence, doubling over and clutching his stomach. "Oooh..." he moaned.
"Potter? Potter, what's wrong?" Draco was panicking, something was terribly wrong, vampires didn't get sick, they healed too quickly for anything to do enough damage to cause symptoms.
Harry looked up, and his and Draco's eyes met, Harry's were glowing a bright green, Draco gasped.
"H- Harry?"
"Leave!" Harry yelled, and Draco could tell he was in pain.
"What's wrong!" Draco shouted back.
"I'm hungry," Harry whispered.
"Get something from the kitchen then! God, for a moment I thought there was something seriously wrong wi –" Draco trailed off... "Oh... you mean... hungry... as in... for blood?"
Harry nodded... "You might not want to watch," he said, holding out a shaking hand. Draco did watch, though, with interest as a rat flew into Harry's outstretched hand, and Harry brought it quickly to his mouth. The rat didn't even squeak as Harry drained it of blood.
Harry called two more rats to him, "There, I should be better now..."
"Only three rats?" Draco asked.
"Of course... I'm only half vampire, if I was a full blood, then I'd need about ten rats, or something like that."
"Oh," was all Draco said.
"Well, I'm gonna leave... feel free to stay for a while if you – Oof!" Harry barked as his legs gave out from under him and he fell back onto the couch. "Wha - ?" was all Harry could say before he fell over, unconscious.
That was when Draco got the hint that something was very, very, wrong.
Draco picked up the unconscious vampire hybrid, and walked out of the room of requirements intent on getting Harry to the hospital wing.
Draco made it a few steps down the corridor before Harry stirred, and suddenly lunged, attaching his hands around Draco's neck, bringing his mouth down on the side of his jugular vein.
Draco gulped, genuinely frightened... this didn't seem like Harry at all.
Draco tried to remember everything from his Slayer training. First, he tilted his head towards Harry, forcing Harry's mouth away from his neck. The vampire-hybrid drew back with an angry squeak of protest, quickly followed by a low growl of anger.
That's when Draco swung his arm around, almost hitting Harry in the side of the head, but the vampire hybrid dodged the fist with ease, dropping to the ground, then quickly springing up to his feet.
Draco used the only wandless spell he knew, "Wingardium Leviosa!" he shouted.
Harry began to float, unable to propel himself forward, toward Draco.
Draco gasped as Harry's eyes began to glow brighter and brighter.
"Harry?" Draco thought using Harry's first name might get his attention better, "Harry? What's going on? What's wrong?" In all Draco's Slayer training – which Draco was learning hadn't been that extensive – he had never come across anything like this.
Harry stopped struggling for a second, and looked at Draco. The blonde noticed a flash of... what was that in Harry's eyes? Fear? Draco couldn't tell for sure.
That was when Harry spoke, and actually sounded like the Harry Potter Draco knew, except he sounded scared.
"Draco! What's happening?" Harry's voice sounded weak, and almost like it took a great effort to be able to speak at all.
"I..." Draco was about to tell Harry he had no clue what was going on, Harry was the fucking vampire, he should know, and that he should just kill Harry right now for trying to suck his precious blood, but one look at Harry's distraught face made him re-think the words that were on the tip of his tongue. "You... um... well... I'm not entirely sure... I was never taught on how to deal with a vampire hybrid... but I'll take you to the headmaster and see what he can do, okay?"
Harry looked surprised that Draco had said something kind, and nodded his head. Draco was about to say "finite incantum" but stopped when he heard Harry scream "NO!"
"Huh?" Draco mentally flinched; Malfoy's don't say "huh" it sounded too primitive, only commoners and people of lesser intellect said "huh".
"No, don't put me down... I might try to hurt somebody; I don't want to hurt anybody. I don't know where this blood lust has come from, and until I know, I don't want to be free where I can kill somebody."
Draco nodded; keeping Harry suspended he walked down the hall towards the headmaster's office.
I dunno where this blood lust came from Draco was walking towards Dumbledore's office when what Harry had said suddenly clicked.
"Potter, you said something about a 'blood lust' correct?" Draco inquired.
Harry looked down and nodded, he was still clutching his stomach, but his animosity had seemed to have passed.
"And you never had this 'blood lust' before?"
Harry mouthed, 'no' and shook his head.
"Only full fledge vampires have what you're calling a 'blood lust.' Well, psychopathic killers do too, but in a different sort of way, what you mean is that you have a strong want for blood, so strong that it has put you in pain, correct?" Draco asked.
Harry's breathing had become ragged, but he nodded, and curled into a tight ball, still holding his stomach.
"Are you positive that you're only a vampire hybrid or are you a vampire, pure and simple?"
"Hybrid," Harry choked out.
"Well, if you were a hybrid before, it seems you aren't any longer... do you think there's some sort of spell that could make your vampiric half take over your more wizard half?" Draco asked.
Harry tried to say something, but couldn't quite form the words, when his eyes went wide with surprise and he said, "I can feel my vampire half... I can tap into it... I can keep it at bay... I guess that's what I had done for a while, was keep it at bay... but... now..." Harry trailed off as his eyes began to glow again, and he stared at Draco with a hungry look in his eyes.
"Right," Draco said as he continued to walk, Harry floating in front of him.
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