HELLO! ithink this is chapter 4 anyway, well if it isnt its the what ever number it should be :D. so this chapter is alot long then the previous ones so i hope you enjoy and pleeeeease review, i wonna know what you think!
Chapter 4
Harry had now fallen asleep, the T.V was still switched on and his purple blanket was firmly wrapped around his legs. About an hour or so later Harry began to stir. Mumbling he came around and rubbed the blurriness from his eyes. It was still sunny outside and that damn prickle was still niggling at the back of his neck.
/Bloody hell, why is it still there. Jesus Christ it was just a dream…. I swear it was, wasn't it/
Harry then sat there and tried to recall as much of the dream he could. He remembered the pain and agony, then the door being blown in and then him collapsing. Waking up chained to a table and Lucious saying something about soul being.
/What if that's real? What if I do have a soul being... ok that sounds dorky….. Soul mate… yea that's better./
Harry looked around his as if the answer could just pop out in front of him.
/But if it's real, then why is there no pain? And how in earth am I supposed to find this person! There are over 6 billion people in the world. Fuck that's a lot of people!... I wonder how long I have till the pain comes back, this cant last forever……………. What if the reason I can't feel anything is because they're dead/
After thinking this thought Harry became distressed he jumped to his feet, ran to his bedroom, changed into comfy jeans and sweat-shirt, packed a few things into a rucksack and made his way through the door. Just before he left he looked at the front door and heaved a great sigh.
"Bye home." He whispered. /Hopefully next time we see each other I'll have a friend./ Harry smiled at this thought. To have someone and spend the rest of their life together was one of Harry's favorite fantasies. But he was just too scared to walk through his door and go through heart ache till they were found.
Harry practically bounded down the stairs his eyes creased with a huge smile. Once he got through the main door he stopped and looked around.
/Bye home, Bye Street, bye neighborhood./ Walking down the steps he turned and headed to the end of the road, turning the corner he didn't look back as he walked out of sight.
"Isn't he beautiful?" Hally beamed.
And he was. Draco stood in awe as the little gold colt peered around his mothers hind legs at him. The little colt sneezed then pranced around the back of the stable only to hind behind his mother again.
Draco chuckled lightly. "That he is Hally." The colt's head appeared again, this time from under his mother's belly. "What are you going to call him?"
"I haven't thought yet. Do you have any ideas?" Hally asked as she took a head collar from the door.
"hmmmmm, not as such, let me think a sec"
Hally smiled at Draco and went into the stable. "Thata girl, hello there my dear, that's it, I'm not going to hurt you." Came Hally's soft tones in complete contrast to how she spoke normally.
/hmmmm names names, gosh im normally good at this……./
Hally lead the mare out of her stable and over to a tying post in the middle of the courtyard. The little golden colt trotting at her heals dutifully.
"Should't you tie him up too? Won't he wander off?"
"No, he shouldn't do. Foals at this age don't wander off at all." She answered. "So have you thought of a name?"
"No, I'm usually very good at this" Draco studied the colt even more. It had stopped walking up and down its mother's side and was now standing between his mothers back legs peering at Draco, his mother's tail falling over his head.
Draco laughed at the adorable site. Hally laughed to when the colt shook his head in defiance and disappeared from under the tail. Only to peer once again at Draco from round the front of his mum.
"He's fascinated with you!"
"He is isn't he?"
"So I was thinking Goldie"
"God woman, no! How common. How about Alfie or Sage"
"Ack, no!
"Hmmmm ok. How abooooooooout Zephyr, Amadeus, Majed, Lenity….?"
'Lenity, Yes he defiantly looks like a Lenity"
Draco spun round, startled. /That voice… oh my god/
"HARRY!" Hally squealed. "Oh my, you frightened me to death." Hally scuttled across the courtyard, practically bowling Harry over as she hugged him.
When Hally had released Harry she swiped him on the arm. "How long! How long have you denied me your presence! Huh? Well" She swiped him again.
This time Harry ducked and chuckled at the mock stern glare that Hally was sending him. Though the little twinkle of hurt in the corner of her eye was defiantly real.
"I'm sorry Hally. Really I am. You know what its like for me and leaving my house. It was just easier to stay in there." Harry bowed his head. "I really am sorry.'
"Hmmmm, well don't do it again!" she beamed then turned back to Draco. "Harry, Draco. Draco, Harry." She beamed.
"Hi."
Draco just gulped and continued to stare.
"Draco honey?"
"Ummm errrr…. H..Hi" Draco took a deep breathe to calm his nerves. "Hally? Ca..can I speak to you a sec?"
"ummm ok. Back in a sec Harry dear, make yourself at home"
"Ok" Harry turned back to the house.
"What is it dear?" Hally asked softly.
"It's him!" Draco gestured wildly in the direction of Harry. "I feel it! It's a little damped because of the potion, but it's him!
"Are you sure? Oh my, that's great!" Hally beamed again and started to bounce on the spot. "That's brilliant! Harry's a wonderful kid. I raised him you know. His parents die when he was a child and got stationed with some bastard people who claimed to be his relatives, they were only too happy to let me take him… O this is wonderful!"
Hally was now practically skipping with excitement.
"He's gorgeous, is he a wizard too?"
"Oh my yes, that's how his parents died. Lord Voldemort killed them and in return Harry killed him about a year or so ago."
"You mean that's Harry Potter. As in the Harry Potter!"
"Yes!"
"Oh"
"This is wonderful. Harry always wanted someone to spend the rest of his life with, someone special. But he never wanted to step out of his home. He sank into himself after the war, wanted peace and quiet. Away from the world and media."
Draco smiled at Hally; her excitement was infectious and adorable.
"Why don't you go into the house and introduce yourself properly, explain everything to him. No doubt this is the reason he's here, to ask me about his pain. I'm an expert in these kinds of things." She beamed.
"Thanks Hally. You will be ok out here?"
"Of course you nut! I do this all the time on my own!" she rolled her eyes,
Draco chuckled and made his way back to the house.
/My search is over/
Draco walked up the path a huge smile splitting his face.
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Draco walked through the kitchen door to be greeted with silence. Harry was no where to be seen.
/Probably settling in./
Draco walked over to the kettle, filled it then clicked the 'on' button.
"Hello" Draco swung around to see Harry smiling at him from the hall way door.
/oh god/
"So how do you know Hally?" Harry prompted the gold fish-style Draco.
Draco shook his head in order to sort his scattered thoughts out. "Well, ummmm…. She errrrr."
"For someone who looks so aristocratic you aren't very articulate are you?"
Draco huffed in indignation at the insult, tilted his nose up and replied.
"She found me if you must know" Draco continued to glare at Harry.
"Whoa easy there, don't get to huffy your highness." Harry beamed, Draco's scowl melted right off.
"So what do you mean? She found you." Harry walked over to the kitchen table and took a seat. Draco followed suit only he had a mug of coffee.
"Well I've been in a slight life changing predicament and she found me at my worst and helped me get over it."
"Sounds like Hally alright. She seems to have a knack for finding people or animals at their worst and setting them right. Harry smiled fondly.
So, ummmm, your Harry Potter." Draco ventured.
"Yes." Draco could practically feel the walls going up.
"I am sorry you were not dealt a fairer beginning, but maybe the rest of your life shall be nothing but positive." /I intend to make it that way/
"My life would have to be nothing but positive from here on in to make up for the life I've had so far."
"Such morbid thoughts! I say live for the day not for the future."
/Hally never seems to be able to make a normal entrance./
"Right you are Hall!" Harry beamed, all previous sad thoughts forgotten.
"So to what do I owe the pleasure of your presence in my humble home Harry?" Hally mock glared.
"I said I was sorry." Harry pouted. "Please forgive me, don't be mad….. I love you!" Harry theatrically begged.
"Oh Harry give over." She rolled her eyes at Harry's pathetic puppy dog eyes. "Fine! You're forgiven." She chuckled.
"Yey!" Harry clapped his hands childishly. "Well I kinda made a discovery the other day and you're the expert on these things and I was hoping you could help."
"What kind of discovery?"
Harry then told Hally about his 'dream' and excruciating pain that didn't seem to belong to him. When he saw Draco's smile broaden he began to feel a little freaked out. Then when he saw Hally's face split in two he completely stopped.
"…Sensations of being watched… Ok what are you two smiling at?"
"Oh Harry love, you a magical creature!" Hally finally burst, she couldn't keep it in any longer. "You're a magical creature that only develops once a wizard has met a certain good deed quota should we say. I suppose ridding the world of Voldemort kinda over through the quota because of its significance."
"What!"
"It's kinda like a reward for your duty,"
"So what have you done?" Harry asked Draco.
"Well nothing actually." Both boys turned to a beaming Hally.
"Every creature has a soul mate silly." She stated as if it were obvious. "Someone to spend the rest of their life with."
Harry stood from the table and stumbled to the hall way. "I, ummmm, just need a moment." Then Harry scuttled off down the hall war to slam the door of what could only be his room.
Draco went to stand, to go after Harry. "No leave him be. He'll think everything over then come out when he's ready." Hally soothed.
Draco could only nod. A lump had filled his throat. He could feel confusion run through his body that wasn't his. He wanted to go and comfort Harry and explain everything to him. But he knew no more than Harry did.
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Harry paced the little space he had in his childhood bedroom. Most of the space was taken up by a huge wooden bed, matching wardrobe, chest of draws along with and eccentric rocking chair that was next to the window. As a child Harry was never capable of keeping this area clean, you only had to drop a piece of paper and the place looked a mess.
When Harry first came to Hally's he would panic if he made the slightest mess, especially when it came to his room. So one day Hally say him down and said that if he was ok with a messy bedroom then Hally was also ok with a messy bedroom either.
She used to tell him it was his domain and he could do what ever he wanted to do with it. She then showed him her own bedroom which by her declaration was an organized mess. In other words, it was and still is a bomb site.
The only place she said to keep tidy was the kitchen and anything to do with the horses.
The living room was barely used and the bathroom; she said just to pull the plug and sling his clothes in the basket.
It had taken a while for Harry to adjust to this philosophy. He was always expecting Hally to lash out at him over the mess in his room or when he wandered in from the horses covered in dirt.
But Hally would just chuckle and twirl, to indicate her own scruffy appearance. She would then lead him to her room to show off her 'organized mess'
Eventually Harry completely calmed down, he was still a slight neat freak but instead of panicking he would just tidy up and then let it build again.
Harry sat in his eccentric chair and rocked back and forth.
/Magical creature…. Mate… search…. Over/
Harry smiled and rocked more gently. "My search is over." Harry chuckled. "I came to Hally for help in finding my mate and she's hording him."
/Him, hmmm, I suppose I'm ok with that. I've never really thought about it./
Harry got up and walked to his door. Walking down the hall way he could hear the murmur of voices. One bordering on hrhysterics the other soothing yet full of amusement.
Stopping outside the kitchen door Harry listened in on the conversation.
"He's been gone hours! What if he doesn't like me?"
"One hour is barely hours Draco. He does like you, I can tell."
"How!"
"He insulted you."
"But that's what you do when you don't like someone!"
Not Harry. If he doesn't like you, you end up hexed and half way around the world before you can say hi."
/I'm not that drastic/
"Oh, so why's he taking so long!"
"Draco he's just found out his all time dream has come true and that it involves a guy. He's not straight no gay. I suspect he's never considered it. Give hum a chance dear. He'd be crazy not to like you."
"So what's your favorite colour?" Harry laughed out loud as Hally and Draco jumped a mile out of their chairs.
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