Defiant Destiny

Chapter two

It was as Harry was making his way to bed as Dumbledore had instructed him to do that he came across one Draco Malfoy, he was lurking in a corridor, his head was sticking out of the window and therefore didn't see Harry coming.

"What are you doing here Malfoy?" He snapped and at once Draco brought his head in, Harry observed that he was smoking, "Those will kill you, you know."

"Yes, I am very aware of the risk of smoking Potter, what do you want?"

"How long have you been here?" Harry asked, he was wondering whether or not he had seen the portal, if he had then Harry was going to remove his memory of it, he wouldn't allow Malfoy to run around telling everyone about it.

"A while" He replied vaguely, he took a long drag from his cigarette and then threw it out of the window, he blew the smoke from his nose and mouth in what Harry deemed a seductive way. "How come you're wandering round the castle this late?"

"Clearing my head, doesn't really work if you're clouding it up with smoke again." Harry snapped irritably but made no move to go anywhere. "And I suppose you come to do the same but with a cancer stick as company."

"You know me far better than I thought Potter; maybe you've been watching me a little too closely." Draco retorted, Harry snorted at this, he hadn't been watching Malfoy at all even though he did find him attractive, he didn't really have time to study him.

"Why on earth would I want to watch you at all, let alone closely?"

"Well I've been watching you." Draco practically purred leaning close to Harry and speaking into his ear, Harry felt the blonde's breath tickle his ear and it sent a shiver down his spine.

"How closely?"

"Close enough to know that despite what everyone thinks, you're not as strong as they are led to believe you are, deep inside all you are is a scared little boy who wants to be loved."

Harry stepped back from him glaring, he had, in Harry's mind, gone one step too far, he mirrored his emotions, such things that he wasn't ready to share, especially not with the enemy that was now coming on to him.

"I'm not ready for that and I'm not ready for you." Harry said still coldly while still glaring at the blonde, his eyes had frozen over; they had little to no emotion in them.

Draco stood very still staring, he knew he had gone one step to far in saying that, if he could have taken it back he would have done but what was said was said and there was nothing he could do to change that now.

"Will you go out with me next Hogsmead weekend then, to give me a chance to make it up to you?" Draco asked, he was almost desperate now, he'd made his feelings clear and he refused to walk away from them.

"One weekend isn't going to make up for six years of never ending taunts and jeers Malfoy."

"How about we start with my name is Draco." He said offering his hand to Harry who looked from hid face down to his hand while debating whether or not to shake it or not. He knew that if he didn't then this may be his last chance but was it really worth it, then again if it wasn't then it was almost certain that the gorgeous Slytherin standing before him was going to die young at the hands of his master, Voldermort. He wasn't about to let an innocent person die because of his stubbornness, even if that person was Malfoy.

Harry sighed as if what he was about to was being done against his better judgement; he took Draco's hand in his own and shook it. "My name is Harry."

Dumbledore and Emerald meanwhile were just finishing off their conversation in the headmasters study. They had talked for ages about the future, Emerald never allowing events to slip out that may change the course of destiny, not even who her other father was.

"The portal and spell combined was supposed to send me to the night that it all started, when they …" she thought of a way to put it so that Dumbledore wouldn't figure it out "well, my dad asked my papa out on their first date."

"So Tom's son …"

"Jarrod"

"SoJarrod will try to stop this from going on"

"I assumed that is the reason his father sent him back."

"Right, so judging by your phrasing I'm guessing that you, my dear, are not telling me everything that I need to know to solve this problem and in that sense you are very much like Harry, please tell me."

"Jarrod, he's … I like him."

"Does he feel the same?"

"I'm not sure about that but I can be positive that he wouldn't want to stop me from being conceived but then there is my sister" She clapped her hands to her mouth, "you can't say anything, promise me."

"I promise, so are you suggesting that rather than doing the job he was supposed to do he's going to stop your sister from being conceived."

"It would make a lot of sense, if he kills my other father then papa would be heart broken, he told me so once, that without my dad he couldn't have got through my pregnancy."

"Then we have a very big problem."

Hope you enjoyed this chapter, as always five chapters gets the next chapter up, Escape is on it's way. xxx