CHAPTER 15

Draco took the letter with him to his room and reached under the bed for the box he always kept anything to do with Harry in. As he bent down to reach for the box, something under his drawer caught his eye. It was a picture of Harry walking out of a door, smiling and waving at the person taking the picture. Blaise was in the corner grabbing their jackets and waving to them as well. Was Draco going to let Harry walk out of his life again? He couldn't.

There are some things that can be regretted for a moment and forgotten the next but there are some that will stay with a person forever. Letting Harry leave him was definitely one of the latter.

Ron opens the door and Draco is standing on the welcome mat looking incredibly uncomfortable.

"Hey Ron, I was wondering if Harry is here."

Ron looked at Draco for a bit longer before letting out a breath and answering, "You're too late."

"What do you mean?" questioned Draco but Hermione walked up from behind Ron and opened the door a bit wider to let the other man in.

"Draco, Harry left." said Hermione.

"What do you mean he left? Left for where? He left to go back to Blaise, he left to go on vacation, he left what?" asked Draco as he hid no length of how desperate he felt at the moment.

Hermione felt sorry for Draco and Harry. Their timing is just awful, "Draco, he left here. He said he leased a place but he refused to tell us or anyone else where it is. He didn't leave too long ago either."

"Did he leave a note, what did he say specifically? I need to know." pleaded Draco but after Hermione recited Harry's exact words four times, Draco still found nothing that could be a clue as to where Harry may be.

Draco thanked the two for their time and made to leave until Ron called him back.

Draco turned and looked at the red headed man he never knew would turn out to be one of the people he would ever need to rely on so much.

"You really love him don't you?"

Draco's eyes glazed over at the thought and even without answering, both Ron and Hermione knew.

"When did you first fall in love with him?" asked Ron.

Draco smiled at this, "Every time I see him or hear his voice or feel his touch, I fall in love for the first time all over again."

Draco walked down the dark streets of London. He had been looking for Harry for a few days now but always came up with nothing. This night, he decided to make it an early night and headed back to his apartment. His mind had been lost with memories replying in his head until he had been snapped back by the sound of footsteps gaining on him so he walked faster. It just had to be a rainy night as well which obstructed his view and made it more difficult to hear the footsteps. To make it worst, he had not brought an umbrella and currently felt soaked to the bone. His judgment on how near or far this person could be had been totally lost to him.

Draco made it to his townhouse and scrambled for his keys, cursing himself so hard that he dropped them and when he bent down to pick it up, it seemed to have stopped raining. He looked up to see an umbrella over his head and a smile from the mad he had been searching for all this time.

"Harry." Whispered Draco, almost afraid to speak too loudly and scaring the man away.

Harry smiled wider and offered his hand to help Draco up from the floor.

"What are you doing here?" asked Draco but Harry simply smiled and refused to address the question at hand.

"Draco, it would be better if we spoke inside where it's dry."

Draco nodded and quickly unlocked the door to let them both in.

After they both dried themselves off with towels and Draco prepared some hot cocoa, the two sat down on the couch like they had the first night Harry walked back into Draco's life.

Harry smiled at Draco and the blonde shyly smiled back. This happy mood Harry currently resided in simply terrified Draco to no extent as he thought a situation like this would be a tense one.

"Harry, you didn't answer me outside, what are you doing here?" asked Draco and he flinched at himself for having the question sound so unwelcoming.

Harry took note of the hostility in the words of the question and frowned slightly before he answered, "Well, I thought we could have this talk I hoped for. I have been here every night for the past week waiting for you and finally, I saw you walking home and so I followed you."

"You have been here? Waiting for me?"

Harry nodded in confirmation and Draco's eyes went wide, "But I've been out on the streets looking for you."

This surprised Harry and he almost dropped the mug of cocoa in his hand, "You were? Why?"

"Because I wanted to talk to you." replied Draco and neither said anything. Both of them felt foolish for having been so worried about the other when all they needed to do was stop to take a breath and everything would have worked out so much easier.

"Harry." said Draco but Harry raised his hand up to stop the other man from continuing.

Harry reached his hand into a bag that Draco failed to notice as they both entered the house and settled down. Harry pulled out the clothes he wore the night Harry and Blaise reunited after the ordeal and handed them back to Draco. Draco took the neatly pressed and clean clothes into his hands, "What is the meaning of this?" asked Draco confused at what the other man tried to say.

Harry shrugged slightly and looked away, "I guess I wanted to give them back to you. I don't want to seem ungrateful and Marco told me how you did not accept my appreciation for your help so I thought I would do something myself instead of just writing a letter.

"Harry, I didn't see the letter."

"Oh." said Harry feeling foolish and upset at being tricked at the same time.

Silence fell between the two again before Harry asked the question that had been running through his mind since he first saw Draco on the street, "Where is Marco?"

"He left." replied Draco casually and it never failed to amaze him how little the statement affected him.

"What do you mean? Will he be back soon?" asked Harry reaching up to touch his head that currently had band aids wrapped around a wound that still hadn't healed yet.

Draco noticed this and moved closer to the other man to check out the mark. He wrapped the band aid and checked the wound, touching it lightly. Harry flinched a little but let the ministration continue. If this was all the physical contact he could get from Draco then so be it.

Draco's tested the wound lightly, careful not to reopen the cut but something else caught his eye. The scar that Harry had been so famous for lay right there, only an inch or two away from the cut. Somehow, without speaking, Harry knew that Draco's attention shifted to the lightning bolt on his forehead and he touched Draco's shoulder lightly as a sign of permission to continue.

Draco did not smile nor did he look into Harry's eyes lovingly as he touched the scar lightly. Almost afraid at first but being afraid proved to Harry that Draco saw the bad. Unlike Blaise who refused to acknowledge the bad in Harry's life.

Accepting someone isn't enough if the good as well as the bad is not acknowledged. It means nothing to love someone if the negative is not seen but pushed aside into a dark corner, never to be looked at again. To truly love someone is to love both the good as well as the bad no matter how hard it may be.

Harry looked up at Draco's face as the other man gently ran a thumb over his scar and after being afraid, Harry saw the look of acceptance on the other man's face. From that moment Harry knew Draco gave him what Blaise could never find the courage to offer.

"Harry, we're going to be late. Ron and Hermione are there already and you haven't even gotten dressed." yelled Draco from the bottom of the stairs.

Harry quickly ran out of the room with his hands on his tie looking absolutely hopeless. When he reached the bottom, Draco stopped him and quickly redid his tie and immediately after that, they both Portkeyed to Toronto.

"Quickly now." ushered the usher.

Harry and Draco both ran down the middle of the isles and reached their seats at the front of the large room. The two had no time to sit as the moment they reached their destination, the music turned on and they both turned to watch as Marco walked down the isle and everyone's attention focused on him.

At the other end stood Blaise, smiling brightly as the man walked towards him.

THE END

AN: I fixed the breaks. I was so pissed that they didn't show up. I don't understand why it just wouldn't work. I gave it breaks when I wrote the fic. Oh well, I won't like computers if they refuse to like me.

FOR AN EXPLANATION ON BLAISE AND MARCO, SEE WHAT I WROTE TO REMO.

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remo, thanks. That was such a nice review. I don't know about the whole epilogue thing but read what I wrote to Pink Cherry Blossom. I have some stuff on hold but, not sure if I'll post those. Sorry about the whole Blaise and Marco thing. I wrote this a while ago. Haha, so let me explain it, maybe that will be a little bit better. I put the two together because now Blaise finally got his commitment. It was sort of a 'I can't have Harry so it's better to have something close than nothing at all.' sort of thing. And for Marco, it was basically the same thing. 'I can't have Draco so his best friend is better than nothing.'. And I made the wedding because it sort of showed that Blaise and Draco are still friends if Blaise let him attend the wedding and also it was to symbolize a conclusion as there was a wedding in the end. I'm sorry if it dissapointed you. But it really made more sense in my head that those two get together. I felt like they needed a bit of happiness after all that they lost. Throughout the whole fic I felt sorry for all the characters, Hermione and Ron included. And I focused on misunderstandings because there are so often times when everyone is just so misunderstood that things like this happen because of them. In the end, I just wanted Blaise and Marco to find something in the rubble and so, they found each other sort of thing. I really hope this was not upsetting or anything. By the way, Gryffindor huh? I've actually been sorted into so many different houses I don't know which one I'm actually in. But yeays! Go Canada!

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