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CHAPTER TWELVE: Sleepless Wishing
Draco's P.O.V.-
When I awoke the next morning, my eyes were greeted by deep green curtains. At first I thought nothing of it. I just smiled and rolled over burring my face in my pillow like I had done every morning since I came to Hogwarts, but then it dawned on me. I was in my own bed, not Harry's, and the hair falling into my eyes was blonde, not dark like Harry's.
Sitting up quickly, I frantically looked around me. My bed, my robes, my hands; everything was once again mine. The clock on the bedside table read 5:54 a.m.
Crabbe and Goyle were still asleep when I climbed out of bed and began looking for my shoes. I had fallen asleep in my school robes yet again, but after performing a simple de-wrinkling charm, they appeared good as new.
As I brushed my hair out and re-braided it, I could not stop thinking about Harry. I wanted to find him and throw my arms around him.
"I'm me again," I whispered for what seemed like the tenth time since I had woken up.
I washed my face, but did not bother showering. I could go with out it one morning. No one would notice.
I left the Slytherin common room and took the stairs to the Great Hall two at a time, but it was still early and there was not anyone in there. Sitting in my usual seat at the Slytherin table, I waited anxiously for someone else to come to breakfast.
Professor Lupin was the first one to do so. He nodded in my general direction before pouring himself a cup of coffee and picking up a bagel from the teachers' table.
Eagerly, I approached him, my hands holding onto the front of my robes to keep from seeming giddy.
"Remus, we switched back! I'm me again, Remus," I said, smiling widely.
He looked somewhat confused, his eyes narrowed and his lips pressed together forming a straight line.
"Mr. Malfoy, I must confess that I am unaware of what it is you speak of, but if it is something that I should be aware of, please inform me," he said slowly, as if thinking each word of carefully before speaking.
I was speechless. How could he pretend to know nothing about this? Had it not been him who had found me crying in Harry's bed only yesterday? Had he not been the one that had led me to the Marauders secret room and waited patiently while Sirius had explained everything to Harry and I?
Remus leaned in towards me, his hand on my shoulder.
"Mr. Malfoy, I am very much glad that you are, you. That's the very best thing you can be. If you want to talk to me sometime, feel free to do so, but in the meantime I suggest you eat some breakfast and calm down first," his words hit me like ice. He truthfully did not remember anything...
He pulled slightly at my collar before removing his hand from me.
"You will need to find your tie, as well. We do not need you getting into trouble for not having it," he said, winking at me before he turned back to the table, looking it over one last time before leaving the room.
I stood there in a state of shock and disbelief. How could this be? My hand went up to my throat, where my tie should have been. Did Pansy still have it? Had it all just been a dream?
Harry's P.O.V.-
I awoke with Ron shaking me gently.
"Get up you wanker," he said once I opened my eyes. "You're gonna be late again if you don't get your lazy arse out of bed."
I laughed and rubbed my eyes free of sleep before reaching for my glasses and slipping them on. Everyone else was already up and at least halfway dressed.
I pulled the covers around me as I sat up, startled to find myself in my boxers. Ron looked at me guiltily.
"You fell asleep in your clothes, so I undressed you. Hope you don't mind," he said blushing slightly.
"That's fine, mate," I replied, knowing that he had not been completely comfortable around me since we had discussed my sexuality a while back. "Thanks."
I gathered up my clothes and headed towards the bathroom. The water felt good running over my body and I closed my eyes, savoring the moment.
It was not until I was towel drying my hair before the mirror that I remembered and my eyes went wide.
"Shit!" I cursed a little too loud, drawing the attention of the other Gryffindors in the shower. "Draco!"
I ran out of the bathroom still buttoning my shirt. I did not miss the pained look on Lee's face as he watched me leave.
I slipped my shoes on, but did not take the time to tie them. Then I left Gryffindor pausing only briefly by the fat lady's portrait to ask her if I was truly me again, but she only laughed and remarked that I had never once looked any different to her.
Slightly confused I continued to the Great Hall. The room was full of students of all ages eating and talking loudly, but Draco was not there.
Disappointed I approached Dummbledore, but he simply told me that I must have dreamed the entire scenario up, and not to think anymore of it.
Had it really just been a dream?
I left the Great Hall and headed to my first class for the day, my mind swimming with what I had only moments ago believed to have been yesterdays events.
Across the hall I spotted Draco, and our eyes locked. I did not remember waking towards him, or him walking towards me, but the next thing I knew he was standing right before me.
"Harry..." he whispered and my arms went around him, pulling him into a hug.
Somewhere near by, a fourth year dropped her books in shock. Someone else gasped, but most were dead silent. Both of us were crying as we held each other, not caring what the world thought.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw Remus standing next to Dummbledore. He was holding onto Padfoot's lease with his other hand on his hip as he exchanged a knowing look with Dummbledore and for another split second I wondered if it had been a dream or a reality.
"Mr. Potter," Professor Snape's voice broke the moment and I reluctantly pulled away from Draco.
"Yes, Sir," I said softly, looking at my feet.
"I hope you have completed your potions homework and are ready to discuss it in class today," he smiled as he looked from myself to Draco. "I'm glad the two of you have sorted out your problems. The feuding between the two of you was becoming not only irritating, but distracting."
I nodded wondering if I had only imagined the stress in his voice when he mentioned the prior problem with Draco and I, but before I could think of something to say to him he was gone and everyone that had been in the hallway had been sent to their classes, leaving Draco and I alone in the hallway.
"Was it a dream?" I asked, unsure of myself.
He smiled, his grey eyes shining in the candle light.
"Some things, Harry, were meant to be. Even if it was just sleepless wishing. Some things are meant to be."
His words struck me as beautiful and as we stood facing each other in that deserted corridor I knew that he was right. He slipped his hand in mine and squeezed it quickly before he turned and walked away, leaving me watching his back as he disappeared.
I picked my books up off the floor where I had let them fall and walked the opposite direction from the one which Draco had gone. I felt at peace with everything for the first time in a while and as I headed to my first class of the day I repeated Draco's words to myself, ". . .some things are meant to be."
The End
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