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Game Over
Chapter 10
Harry lay awake in his bed; staring at the ceiling, but not seeing the ceiling. Instead he saw Draco's face. Harry rolled over and smiled to himself. He couldn't get the kiss off his mind. It had been so passionate and complete. There were no unsure moments or resistance. Just pure want, or need? Harry's eyebrows furrowed at this question.
Did he need Draco?
'What do you think? Did you feel so complete with Cho?'
Harry groaned and rolled over. "Why is my conscience so bothersome?"
'Because you think bothersome thoughts.' It responded, thoroughly pleased with itself.
"Fine. I admit, I never felt so complete with Cho. I admit it, I need Draco Malfoy. Are you happy now?" Harry muffled his whispers into the pillow he had shoved over his face.
'Immensely.'
Harry smacked himself with the pillow, and closed his eyes to drift off into sleep.
Meanwhile his said need was not having as great of a time as Harry Potter was.
Draco Malfoy paced around the dorm and wrung his hands behind his back. He had kicked everybody out of the dorm to go sleep in the common room. He did not need them to get up in his love life.
"You love him. You want him. You need him." Draco repeated to himself. He felt the beating of his lovesick heart in his chest and he looked down at it; growling. "But Pansy...how could you just move on, especially to Harry. You are such a fuckhead!" Draco flopped onto his bed. "You do realise you're not even worried about getting caught by your father. Just torn between feeling badly and feeling like you could prance through fields of gold singing 'The Candyman song'."
"Draco, can we come back in yet?" A call from the opposite side of the door reached the lovesick boy.
A crash was heard and Blaise hurried back down the stairs to huddle under a blanket.
Draco had thrown Blaise's Care of Magical Creatures book at the door and he was pretty sure it had scared him off. Now all he had to do was sort out his emotions. He concentrated hard on Harry's face, but Pansy's kept pushing her way into the picture.
"I loved you, Pansy..." Draco whispered to himself. He remembered the pain of the night she had died. The pain that he had been enduring since the very moment he saw the Dark Lord raise his wand. Saw the green light shoot out its hands and jerk her life from her chest. But when Harry had kissed him he had felt happy for the first time since that very moment.
Sure, Draco had been depressed for quite some time, and taken it out on people he was brought up to hate. But he was happy when he came to Hogwarts. Now he was just plain depressed. But now Harry was there. A small smile snuck its way onto Draco's lips.
"Do I love him?"
'Yes.' Draco's smile spread further across his face. His conscience kicked ass.
Draco stood and opened the door; sauntering down the stone steps to the common room.
"You can come back up now."
Ron was a very heavy sleeper. He lay sprawled on his bed with a unfinished game of chess laying next to his bed. He had fallen asleep playing against Seamus and probably still won. He snored lightly, exhausted from homework, and Hermione's either constant chatter, or work work behavior. He rolled over in his sleep, and suddenly jerked awake.
Harry had let out a horrified scream and shot up in bed. He was drenched in sweat, and was looking wildly around the room; searching for something. Ron groggily sat up and looked concernedly at Harry, before scratching his messed hair and crawling out of bed. Luckily, Dean, Seamus, and Neville had all agreed to sneak out to Hogsmeade that night, so the two had the dorm to themselves.
"Harry?" Ron asked. He felt very uncertain about approaching Harry after the nightmare. It seemed to have shaken him quite badly. Harry turned his wildly wide eyes to Ron and muttered one word.
"Draco." Harry flung himself out of bed and dressed himself in casual clothes quickly. He bolted from the room and down the staircase and to the portrait hole, Ron hurrying after him.
"Harry!" Ron hissed as he grabbed hold of his best friend's shirt sleeve. Harry whirled to look at him.
"What?" Harry asked impatiently. Ron let go of his friend and smiled softly.
"Sorry, I was just concerned. What's the matter? And what about Draco?" Ron asked looking at Harry spectically. Harry gave Ron a reassuring smile, but Ron could still see the glistening sweat on Harry's brow from the chill of the nightmare.
"Can I come with?" Ron suddenly blurted. Harry shook his head. "Alright then." Ron sighed. "Just don't get a detention without me." Ron made his way back up the stairs to the dorms.
Harry watched him go and slipped the invisibility cloak on. He had to get to Dumbledore, because that was not just a nightmare. Harry slipped out of the portrait hole and snuck down the hallway. He had done it so many times that by now he wasn't even nervous. He made his way surly to the gargoyle standing in front of Dumbledore's office and simply stated the word; gummy bear.
The gargoyle moved aside obediantly and Harry silently thanked Godric that Dumbledore hadn't changed the password. Harry moved his way up the moving staircase leading to the Headmaster's office and chambers. He slipped the cloak off and knocked once on the door. There was a muffled response and he pushed it open all the way and entered the room; closing it behind him.
The old teacher was nowhere to be seen until his voice was heard. Harry looked up and saw Dumbledore shuffling out of his bedroom chambers and down some stairs and finally he sat himself at his desk.
He smiled warmly at Harry. "Despite the time of which I have been woken I'm extremely glad to see you, Harry."
"Sorry 'bout this, Professor. I had a dream though, and I couldn't let it pass as nothing until I told you about it." Harry sat down in one of the chairs in front of Dumbledore's desk. The wise man leaned forward in interest and took out some muggle candies.
"Do you want some before you tell me of your story?"
"No, I'd rather just tell you." Harry shook his head, worry ebbing away at him. Dumbledore looked concentratedly at Harry and listened carefully.
"I was in a dungeon and I was shackled to the wall. The chains were about two feet long, so I could move around a bit. I was leaning against the wall, sitting, when Lucius Malfoy walked in." Harry took another breath and continued on with his dream. "He walked over to me and started to torture me. I could feel the pain when I woke, but that's not the important part." Dumbledore raised his eyebrows. "He was trying to get me to do something. I think he wanted me to join the Death Eaters."
Dumbledore continued to listen, not one for interrupting people when they were talking.
"He then whispered something in my ear about other persuasions. He opened a door connecting my cell to another one and I saw Draco Malfoy. He was chained from the walls and the ceiling. The chains were reaching from the sides and were locked around his torso and neck. Rope held his arms behind his back and handkerchief was tied around his mouth and taped in place. He was suspended in midair competely naked."
Dumbledore's eyes flashed with question at the description of the Malfoy's state, but said nothing.
"Lucius told me he'd hurt Draco if I didn't join him. I didn't know what to do. I knew Lucius was assanine enough to do something to his own son, but I didn't know if he'd do it to his only heir. But he did." Harry trailed off and bit his lip. "I let it happen, I was too shocked to do anything, but when Draco looked up at me, I woke up."
Dumbledore leaned back in his chair, a frown painted onto his face. Harry's eyes were locked to the floor, he held back tears while the Headmaster observed him over his halfmoon spectacles, something he did regularly to anybody that he saw.
Dumbledore stood and lay a hand on Harry's head, and then dismissed him. He made his way back to his chambers and sat on his bed, deep in thought.
Why would hurting Draco Malfoy get Harry to join them?
He knew all the other questions and answers that could've been broughten up by that story but that one. He grabbed a bag of lemondrops and popped one into his mouth.
Harry trudged into the Great Hall and flopped down in the seat next to Ron. Christmas holidays were starting the next day and he was looking forward to it immensely. Ron would be going home for the break which had disappointed Harry and Hermione to tears. They had been invited to the Weasley's, but declined because there would be more than just Ron's family, but also their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Harry and Hermione were not ready to memorise all of his family members' names yet.
Harry poked at the eggs on his plate and Hermione eyed him suspiciously while Ron carried on with normal Ron behaviour.
"Come on 'Arry!" Ron swallowed his eggs. "They're delicious today."
"They don't look delicious to me. They look more like a barf trip." Harry grumbled, nibbling on a bit of sausage.
"Whats the matter, Harry? You love eggs." Hermione asked. She would be staying for the holidays which Harry was glad for. He didn't think he could stand it to be in Gryffindor Tower alone with fear of a nightmare coming back.
"Not today, I don't." Harry stood and began to finish the sausage on his way out of the Great Hall. He had Care of Magical Creatures that morning, and was looking forward to it immensely.
Harry pushed open the Entrance Hall doors and wandered off through the snow covered grounds. The snow crunched under his shoes and the sun shone down softly onto the landscape making the snow glimmer and shine. It was bright and Harry squinted as he walked. Oh how he wished he had some sunglasses.
"'Arry!" Hagrid called out from the door of his hut. He was preparing the lesson and Harry smiled warmly at his friend. Harry breathed in a great breath of the cool air that smelled of snow, and stopped a couple of feet from Hagrid.
"Ain't it a beau'eful day?" Hagrid asked smiling warmly at Harry. "Today we're workin' wit some pegasi." Hagrid took Harry around back and gestured just behind where the pumpkin patch usually was.
The pegasi stood next to the house, wings folded at her sides, her head held high. Her glimmering white coat blended in with the white of the shining snow and her beautiful silver eyes shone with warmth to her young baby that lay at her feet.
"Hagrid..." Harry couldn't say anything. The beauty had awestruck him to the point of no tomorrow.
"Beau'eful, jus' like the day." Hagrid smiled warmly at the pegasi, and proudly at Harry. "Do yer think the class will like 'em?"
"Hagrid!" Harry smiled. "They'll love 'em." Harry turned to Hagrid who smiled wider, if possible.
Just then their conversation was interrupted with the arrival of the other students. Harry went to join Ron and Hermione. The whole class looked rather unhappy to be there. Harry smirked. Boy, were they in for a surprise.
Draco looked at Harry; trying to catch his eye. Harry felt his gaze and looked over to him. He smiled and Draco smiled back.
The lesson carried on a lot more eventfully than usual, and Harry would've learned a lot more if he wasn't staring at Draco most of the time. When the class was over they were assigned a roll of parchment on the pegasi and it had to have something about how mothers took care of their young.
Hermione was ecstatic after the lesson, and Ron was still in a stupor from the beauty of the creature. They had seen it fly and had watched the light glimmer off the wings, they has seen the foal learn how to walk, and they had seen the mother gallop around the grounds, and had watched its muscles ripple through its body. It had been extravagant.
"We should have that twice a day." Ron finally spoke. Hermione giggled, and Harry smiled widely at Draco who brushed his hand across Harry's as he passed. Harry's smile grew lopsided and he followed Hermione and Ron to Charms class.
A/N: Like I said before, I hope you guys liked this chapter. Please review, luv from Noename.