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This story is pre-slash. Meaning before Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter become involved in a more-than-friends relationship.

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Don't Move

Chapter 4/4: Please

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"So how are we going to get back?" Harry asks dispassionately.

"We'll follow our footprints back." He says staring at the sky through the trees.

"Oh. Well, obviously." Harry says standing up. He looks at Draco expectantly. Draco doesn't move. "Well, come on then!" (1)

"What?"

"Let's go! Or I'll leave you here."

"Whatever." Draco says standing up, "Let's go."

"You realize we've been out here for hours?" Harry asks without asking.

"Yeah, so?"

"It's cold and I hate you."

"That's lovely. Have fun with that." Draco snaps back. He hates Harry for hating him.

Draco deserves to be Harry's friend. Not those pathetic cretins that Harry hung around. Draco did everything he could think of to prove his worth but Harry has never noticed.

He studied and studied but he'd only ever beaten the mudblood in Potions. He trained and trained but had never beaten Harry at Quidditch. He plotted and schemed but no prank was ever big enough to permanently demean the weasel.

He had revealed all the reasons they don't deserve Harry's friendship. He told him how poor Weasley is and how clumsy Longbottom is. Things from Granger's buckteeth and frizzy hair to Dumbledore's insanity. From Hagrid's lack of common sense to Sirius Black's homicidal tendencies.

He'd done everything he could imagine and Harry did nothing but hate him.

Draco stops abruptly. "Why do you hate me?" he asks.

"Because," he answers without hesitation, "you are a git." He comes to a stop next to Draco.

"That's it? You've spent years hating me because I'm a jerk?"

"Yes. Otherwise I quite like you. You're pretty talented." Harry begins walking again.

"Wait." Harry doesn't. "Stop. Please!" Draco says almost desperately.

"Why?" Harry pauses.

"Because I... would like to be friends." Draco is nervous but it doesn't show. He takes a step toward him.

"Don't move!" Harry has drawn his wand. "What's your catch." He is suspicious. He never trusts anything Draco Malfoy says.

"You can never give up on me. And you can never leave me."

Harry observes Draco warily. "I can do that." Draco never said he had to trust him.

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Owari (The End)


(1) - Did I watch the 3rd movie too many times or what? (What'cha doin' down there?)

Author's Note: Yes, this really is the end. No, there will not be a sequel. Please stop screaming.

This is our first fic. R&R is good. The scenery is evergreen... (Hyde)