CHAPTER 6
It was too early for there to be knocking at Draco's door but it was so insistent where Draco knew that if he wanted anymore sleep, the knocking would need to be stopped by himself and that meant getting out of bed.
Draco opened the door and the insistent knocking stopped which was the only relief to this event as the one knocking the door happened to be Blaise Zabini. With alarm bells going off in Draco's head, he clumsily mumbled a greeting as he quickly excused himself and went up stairs. Careful not to enter the guest bedroom to give Harry's position away, he went into his own room as quickly as he could.
Draco quickly took a pen and a piece of parchment to write a message to Harry and sent his owl off.
"Craig, I need you to get dressed and wait in my room until the man from the other room comes in here."
Sighing quickly he ran into the shower and took the quickest three minute shower, got dressed and ran downstairs to meet with Blaise.
Harry woke up to the consistent knocking and opened his eyes to see Draco's owl at his window. He opened the window before the man in his bed woke up.
Wake up that guy in your bed and sneak him over to my room when he's dressed. Blaise is here. Was all it said and Harry got to work waking up the man and told him to quickly get dressed as the note instructed.
Harry quickly woke up the man in the bed and got him dressed despite all the questioning protests.
"Go to the room across the hall and make sure you're not seen."
"Alright, will I ever see you again?"
Harry gave him a peck on the lips and heard Draco's voice downstairs, "Blaise, come with me to the kitchen, I don't know what you want to drink this morning. I myself could do with some coffee."
After Harry heard noises in the kitchen he quickly pushed the man out his door, "Make sure you're not seen when you're going there." he whispered after the man.
The man was obedient and Harry saw him carefully make his way to the other side of the hall. Harry slowly closed his door so there was a crack left ajar for him to see through. A moment later the two men from last night both walked towards his room as they made for the stairs that just so happened to be next to his guest bedroom.
Blaise poked his head from the kitchen, "Draco, who are these people?"
"Oh," replied Draco nonchalantly, "They were with me last night."
"Both of them?"
"Two is better than one."
"Oh," responded Blaise, quite shocked at the response, he never saw Draco as the kinky type though he didn't know the other man was a homosexual until their second year at Hogwarts, "Well, if that's what you're into."
Draco opened the door for the two of them and they left as Harry watched the whole exchange from his room.
When Draco closed the door Blaise looked a bit nervous with what was on his mind. Harry was definitely on his toes as he watched this happen, what in the world was going on?
"Draco, I was wondering if I could perhaps take up one of your guest rooms. It just doesn't feel as proper sleeping in the bed without Harry with me."
If Harry was in the position to say anything, he would have been struck speechless. This was not what he was expecting from the way Blaise was acting. He wondered if he truly knew Blaise as well as he thought. They were together for four years, but after the incident, everything seemed rather foreign to him. Sure he remembered everything the two did together, he remembered the anniversaries, the remembered the vacations, the road trips. But did he know Blaise? Know the man inside and out, knew the way the man walked, the way the man spoke, the words he spoke with an accent or the words he spoke with a different tone than the others? Did he know the man's smiles?
"Sure." Harry heard Draco agree and Blaise gave the blonde a hug before smiling and making an excuse to leave and pack some of his belongings.
When the door shut Harry came out of the room, "Draco, you just said yes to him living here."
"Yes, I know. I just did that."
"Why? You remember that I'm living here right now too right?"
"Yes, but what excuse could I say that would make sense for him not to live here. You just have to be more discrete and no more going out clubbing." stated Draco firmly, though he knew that keeping Blaise at such close proximity was just asking for disaster, there was an upside and Draco couldn't help but revel in it.
"But, what if he finds out I'm here?"
"Just be very careful, you snuck around at school all the time, I'm sure you can do it now."
"But this is so dangerous."
"Yes, and? If you could do it at Hogwarts then use what you learned in real life. You can do it, just make sure you don't get caught."
Before anymore protests from Harry, Draco pushed the man back upstairs to tidy himself up and get ready for the arrival of their new guest.
Harry quickly took a shower and put all of Draco's clothes which he wore into Draco's laundry basket and put on his own washed clothes which he arrived with. He made the bed and cleaned up the mess from the night before. When he stood at the door he could not tell anyone lived there for the past week.
"Wow, you are actually good for something." said a voice behind him and he nearly jumped at the unexpected sound.
"Draco, you scared me, don't sneak up on me like that."
"Perhaps I like to see you squirm."
"Evil."
"Brat."
"Spoiled."
"Ungifted."
Harry was about to continue their feud when there was a pop and he ran into the bathroom of the guestroom he was in.
"Draco, could you help me with my bags?"
"Sure." replied Draco as he quickly assisted his best friend and as he picked up the bag he realized that this was going to be a long and painful stay.
"I guess I'll take the bedroom at the top of the stairs." said Blaise and Draco got worried.
"Which one?"
Blaise shrugged, "Does it matter?"
"Oh, no of course, I just wanted to know which one you would be wanting."
"The one beside the room I don't like."
"Oh, alright."
"Why?"
"Nothing, I just wanted to know, this is my house and-"
"Sorry Draco, I just, I want to know where Harry is and this mystery and his hiding is just so unnerving that I hope he will jump out of a corner one day and just tell me he wants me back. So much for hopeless dreaming."
"No Blaise, dreaming is sometimes the only thing that keeps one going. It gives them something when there is nothing." whispered Draco which meant only for his ears.
The past two days were brutal for Draco and Harry. Whenever Harry moved, he moved around Blaise at all times, making sure the other man did not know of his presence. Then Draco was there to make sure Harry was seen and deal with having less time to spend with Harry, the latter being the worst of all unfortunate events. After spending so much time with Harry and having it all work out so well, the only word to describe the situation is evil at it all being taken away.
Things at Draco's house were pretty boring as nothing else was on his mind except making sure Harry wasn't caught that he held no time to think of anything for Blaise to do besides sit there and read a book or just lounge around complain about how Harry was gone.
All things were boring at Draco's place until one night when Blaise woke up to a sound from the next room which he was certain was home to no one. The man jumped out of bed immediately and ran into Draco's room, waking the other man up with a start.
"Blaise what in the world are you doing?" yelled Draco who was not the nicest of people when woken up from his rest so suddenly.
"Draco, there's someone in the house."
"What are you talking about Blaise?"
"In the room next to mine, I heard noises from there."
"That's insane Blaise, no one can get into the house. Maybe it was a bird or something."
"No, it was inside, I'm certain."
"Fine, we'll go check alright?"
"Alright, but bring your wand with you."
Draco rolled his eyes but in his mind he was trying to figure out how to get Harry out of sight when Blaise came to see the room.
When Draco and Blaise were walking down the hall, Draco proclaimed loudly, "Blaise, there is no one in the house, you are just being ridiculous."
"Shush, Draco, be quiet. They'll hear you."
"Blaise, it was probably the house falling asleep or something, the wood moves and all that. We were in Hogwarts for so long, you must be used to it all by now."
"But this isn't Hogwarts and you're house is newly built, why would it need to 'fall asleep'?"
When they both arrived at the room the two stood in front of it quietly for a moment. Both not wanting the door to open for their own reasons but Draco knew they would have to get this over with if they wanted to get any sleep tonight so he pushed open the door.
"What do you see Blaise?"
"Nothing yet, but we need to turn on the light. Maybe if there is light, we'll see something."
"No you will not turn on the light, my eyes cannot take it, we are both going back to bed and that will be that. Tomorrow I am going to throw you out the window for this foolishness."
They were about to turn when Blaise turned around and saw something that caught his eye in the room.
"Wait, Draco what is that?"
"What is what?"
"The stick on the table, is that a wand?"
"No."
"Yes it is, Lumos."
Blaise walked into the room and picked up the wand on the table beside the perfectly made bed, "Hey, this looks like Harry's wand."
"Don't be silly, that is not Harry's wand."
"Yes it is, I've lived with him for so many years, I'm sure it is his wand."
"Blaise, it's late and you miss the man. Wands also look very similar, now give it to me and go back to bed."
"But whose wand is it if you have your wand and I have my wand?"
"It's probably one of my extra one's. You think that I wouldn't have extra ones with the war raging on? I'm surprised you don't seeing as how you were dating the man all the death eaters were after."
Blaise blushed and admitted that, "I never thought I would need extra ones.'
"Well, good thing the war is over, now go back to bed and do not wake me up or else there will be a war even bigger than the one with Voldemort."
Blaise went back into his room and shut the door behind him as Draco tossed Harry's wand back on the bed and whispered for the man to be more careful or another scar will be on Harry's forehead to match the famous one.
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