Three weeks later, Harry found two large brown barn owls perching on the table of their balcony, waiting for them. Harry opened the sliding door and took the letters and then the owls flew away back to where they came from. Harry walked back into the flat and towards the living room where he dropped himself onto the couch. Draco looked at him from his other side and said "What are those?", "Our School lists" he said in distractedly "Two school owls just dropped them off from the balcony" Draco looked at Harry and then took his own letter from Harry's hand, "Ya" he said "I had forgotten about those". "Me too" Harry said. Draco turned to look at Harry and said "How are we going to get these without being seen???". Harry sat in silence for a moment, apparently trying to figure out a plan. Finally he looked up and said "Well first of all, only one of us can go" he then added "And they have to be disguised and in heavy cloaks"
"I'll go" Harry said, "I'll only take a little while" Draco eyed him apprehensively and then sighed "Okay Potter, but be careful, I'll bet there are death eaters and spies out there on the look out for you" "Oh I didn't know you cared" Harry said in a mock flattered voice, a grin on his face, "I don't" Draco said with a smile playing on his lips as well, "But if they find You, they'll find me to, so you better not screw up Potter", "Oh don't worry about me dear I'll be fine" Harry said with a smirk. "Right then, I think I should go now seeing as its still early and all" He said rising from the couch. Draco sighed and said "Okay".
Harry , with Draco's help, made his hair long and brown, turned his eyes hazel, made his nose twice as long, made his scar disappear, and made him a foot shorter this time. When they were done Draco looked at him with distaste, "Well... you're definitely unrecognizable as you" he said. Harry grinned and said "Yep, that was the point" With that he threw on pair of dark robes and a heavy black cloak and headed towards the door with Draco following him. He opened the door and said "Well, bye, I'll see you soon" As he left Draco called out to him, "Oi Potter!" Harry turned around and looked into Draco's face and thought he looked worried, but he could have been mistaken. "Don't get yourself killed okay?" the blonde finished. "Don't worry dear , I wouldn't leave you like that" Harry said and grinned, then he was gone and into the elevator with Draco grinning back at him.
Draco shut the door and headed towards the couch. Instantly the worries began to pour into him. What if Harry got caught by death eaters, or killed for that matter. What if they spotted him and found me. ' No , that's not going to happen' Draco thought to himself, 'we are both going to go to Hogwarts at the end of this week and we will be back and safe in no time' But why was Hogwarts safe? As much as he himself hated to admit it, Dumbledore was what made the place safe. Perhaps the old man was not as senile and off his rocker as everyone said. But then again everyone included his father and his friends.
But when they got to Hogwarts... what would happen? 'I don't think I want to continue our old rivalry, I can't. He's just... He's become... More of a...friend really.' Draco thought to himself. Oh gods I'm FRIENDS with Harry Potter, the golden boy, and I LIKE it! I WANT it! Well that's a surprise.... Or was it really? But what would Harry want??
Draco launched himself out of those thoughts, he really didn't feel like listening to the truth, he would much rather stay in this little universe they had built around themselves. But the one truth that could not be ignored or maybe he didn't want to ignore, was that he, Draco Malfoy, had gained some sort of friendship like bond with Harry Potter. He wanted to do something for his new.....friend...., to make him happy or something, to surprise him, like Harry had done when he bought the T.V and the DVDs. That was all for Draco, all a plan for him to be made happy, as well as the dinner out. He would have to repay Potter. But how did friends make each other happy?? What kind of surprises did they plan for each other?? He was completely in the dark about this sort of thing.
First he decided to go with what he did best, cooking to start with. He would cook Harry the best meal he had ever tasted, but what could he make for the boy? He didn't know what the boy's favorite food was... So he decided to make him his favorite food, Roasted flobberworm basted in garlic sauce with a side of mashed potato's, rice, and corn. His all time favorite meal. This was a bit difficult to prepare but the cook had taught him to make it a ages ago.
First he went to stand in the kitchen and conjured all the ingredients they didn't have that he would need. On the counter appeared a large flobberworm, a packet of corn, a packet of flobberworm seasoning, and a jar of ground golden garlic, most of these being magical items. Next he recited, one after the other "Accio pans!", "Accio Rice!", "Accio potatoes!", "Accio Milk!", "Accio butter!", and "Accio knife, spoon, measuring spoons, etc". Once everything he needed stood around him sitting on the counters, he began to work.
After about two hours he let himself fall onto the couch in exhaustion. There where four pans sitting on the stove cooling off, and a flobberworm finishing off in the oven. Now what else could he do for Potter? Let's see.... Suddenly he found himself wondering when Potter's birthday was, he knew that he had heard it somewhere before, probably from Granger or Weasel. His birthday was on the 30th of June....he was sure Potter's birthday was around there somewhere...... Then he finally remembered. Somewhere around July, like the 28th or the 29th. That meant it had past almost two months ago, but that was still very close. Maybe he should get him a gift?
He had no time to make a decision however, because just then the door was kicked open and Harry walked in struggling with a large and heavy looking bag. He staggered in the rest of the way and dropped the bag on the counter as Draco rushed up to him feeling extremely relived. About a few inches away from him he stopped and stood there awkwardly, not knowing what exactly he had planned to do or what to do. His first instinct was to run up to him and maybe, hug him perhaps since he was so relived, but that was not going to happen. After a few seconds Draco turned and closed the door which Harry had left ajar and then turned to Harry a safe distance away and asked "So how did it go??"
Harry turned and smiled at him while he began removing all the charms that were still on him. "I didn't run into any trouble and I didn't see any death eaters that I know of" he said "And I have all our stuff too". Draco smiled up at him but before he had a chance to say anything Harry said "Mmm what is that smell??" He looked hungry to, which was good, "I made us something special for dinner today" the blonde said "It's my favorite dish; it's a wizarding food though". "Smells great, is it ready? Can we eat?" Draco gave a wide grin and said "Of course" and with a flick of his wand everything was in dishes and on the table ready to be eaten.
They made their way to the dinning table and Draco motioned for Harry to take his seat. He lifted the silver top of the tray and said "Flobberworm". Harry looked at it oddly and said "You can eat those??" Draco smiled and said "Of course you can, never tried any Potter?" Harry shook his head and Draco plied off a piece of flobberworm with a fork, pushing the fork to Harry's mouth. "Come now, try it, it's quite good, a delicacy even". Harry reluctantly opened his mouth and Draco placed the piece of Flobberworm into his mouth and withdrew the fork, watching Harry expectantly. Harry began to chew with a grimace on his face which soon turned into a grin, "Ya your right, it's really good" Draco smiled and said "Well then let's eat!" He sat down in his chair next to Harry and began to pile food on both their plates. "Now you better eat a lot of this because you have no idea how hard it is to make or how long it took and your too skinny you better eat at least half of everything I made" Draco fussed. Harry grinned and made no protest as he began shoveling food into his mouth. Draco ate more sparingly and watched Harry eating as if he had gone for days without food, he was rather pleased with himself.
After a few moments Harry slowed down his eating and curiously asked "Why did you do all this?" Draco smirked and said "I've gotten used to you Potter, and since you did something nice for me I decided to repay the favor" Harry thought about this for a second, he was thinking just today that him and Draco had become sort of friends since being stuck together in this flat for two months. He guessed this is the closest the blonde boy got to admitting that this was true and so he decided not to argue. "When is your birthday?" he asked instead. Draco was slightly taken aback by this question and answered "June 30th, why?" Harry just gave him a blank look and said "Just wondering".
After they had eaten pretty much everything Draco made, they both headed to the couch and collapsed on it. Harry smiled warmly at Draco and said "Thanks for the dinner Malfoy, it was really good, that was really nice of you". Draco found himself staring down at the coffee table suppressing a blush, why he was blushing he had no clue. He mumbled a "Your welcome" but much to his relief Harry said "Oh!" and shot up from his seat heading to the kitchen. When he came back he was carrying a bowl, a spoon, and two small square plastic boxes. He stood in front of Draco and held out the boxes to him, "Look" he said excitedly "I got us two more DVDs, this one is called 'The Craft', it's about four witches, I thought you would like to see what muggles think of magic, and the other is more of a thoughtful film, it's called 'Quills' and it's about this priest and this girl and they fall in love but there's this guy and he writes these books and she ends up getting her tongue getting cut off by this maniac...... well you'll see" Harry looked down at Draco who was wearing the oddest expression on his face, it was an amused look, but also...affectionate? Or maybe a fond look? "Well pick one and let's watch it" Draco said with a warm smiled that actually looked genuine.
Harry took 'Quills' out of it's case and slid it into the DVD player, turned on the TV, and turned off the lights. He picked up the controller and walked back to the couch where Draco was sitting and watching him contentedly. As the movie began to play Harry picked up the bowl and the spoon and sat it on his lap. Draco glanced curiously at the bowl and asked "What is that?" Harry scooped up a spoonful of the bowls contents and held it in front of Draco, the blonde boy opened his mouth and Harry slid the spoon in then slowly withdrew it as the boy savored the taste "Mmmm chocolate mousse, good thinking Potter, give me some more!" Draco said enthusiastically. Harry fed him some more of the light brown pudding and then took some himself.
An hour and a half later the bowl was almost finished and Draco and Harry were watching the movie as it came to an end; both huddled close together on the black leather couch, eyes glued to the TV screen. Draco clapped his hand over his mouth and said "He didn't!!" the dark haired boy nodded sadly and said "Ya he did" Draco gasped and stared in horror at the screen. "This movie made me cry the first time I was watching it" Harry admitted, then quickly added "I was only 11 though" as he thought in horror that he had just told Draco Malfoy that he cried while watching a movie. "Well I can see why" Draco sniffed "She just died! The only person he'll ever love killed by a horny crazy person and thrown in that big tub of water" "Ya" Harry sighed. The emotions the movie brought up where struggling in him and pushing against his chest, but of course he wasn't going to cry for this movie, he had stopped ever since the third or fourth time. Draco took hold of the pudding bowl and began scraping up the pudding and shoveling it into his mouth still not taking his eyes off the screen. Harry was watching the blonde and laughing quietly so that the blonde turned to him and said "What's so funny??" "You" Harry said, still laughing. Draco scowled at him and said "What??"
Harry really had no reason for laughing at the boy, for some reason it just struck him as funny, Draco Malfoy sitting there eating a bowl of pudding , eyes glued to a TV and watching a muggle movie which he agreed was worth crying over. It was just funny. But Harry wasn't about to admit it so he began grabbing at straws and said sarcastically "Your eye's are watery Malfoy, are you gonna cry?" At this he scowled deeper said a firm "NO" He then dropped the pudding bowl onto the coffee table, leaving him free to cross his arms. "Relax Malfoy I was just playing" Harry said, a goofy smile on his face. When the blonde continued to scowl at him Harry said "You know if you make that face all the time one day it's going to get stuck that way" when the blonde just sat and glared at him Harry said "You know what, your to serious, I know what will loosen you up a bit". With that the raven haired boy reached out his hands to the other boy's stomach and began tickling him furiously.
The blonde boy shot up from his seat and began withering and half laughing half screaming as Harry continued to tickle him determinedly. Finally the he yelled "Okay I give, I give!!! Stop!!!" Harry pulled his hands back toward him and collapsed in laughter as Draco stared at him with a wry grin on his face, still trying to catch his breath. He launched himself at the raven haired boy and furiously began to tickle him back. At this Harry's back arched up from the couch and he began to laugh too. When tears began to trickle from his eyes he finally said "Okay okay stop!!! You win Draco you win!!!!" Both boys feel back laughing and attempting to catch their breath. When Harry looked back at the TV screen the movie credits were already rolling and so he said "Okay time for bed". With this he got up to turn off the TV and then put the pudding bowl in the sink.
When he got to the bedroom Draco was already lying under the covers, arms and legs stretched out over the bed, "Sorry, no room for you here" he chimed. "Malfoy, you better move before I make room" The blonde raised an eyebrow and drawled "Is that a threat Potter". Harry smirked and jumped onto the bed nearly colliding with the other boy who moved over hastily to dodge him. He then turned to him and pushed him to the side, with and"Epp!" and a loud thump Draco fell to the floor beside the bed, at this Harry burst out laughing as the blonde slowly raised himself off the floor glaring at him. "Hey it was your own fault Malfoy" Harry said still laughing as Malfoy climbed back into bed mumbling to himself. He turned his back to the dark haired boy and sniffed haughtily. "Ohh don't be like that Draco or I might have to start tickling you again". At this the blonde turned back to face Harry and said "You know you've been calling me Malfoy and then Draco and then Malfoy again, just pick one and stick with it, now goodnight Potter" and with that he turned back around and feel asleep. Harry was a bit taken aback by this, he hadn't even realized he had been using Malfoy's first name off and on, well there was no way in taking it back now, "Goodnight Draco" he whispered to the blonde's back.
On the other side of the bed Draco lay with his back turned to Harry, his eyes where wide and grey. As he let Harry's words sink in he felt a stab at his heart and tears welled up in his wide mercury eyes. He forgot all he had been taught by his father and whispered "Goodnight Harry" so quietly that he was sure the raven haired boy had not even heard it. He closed his eyes and a hot tear flowed down his cheek as he fell into a deep sleep. He knew that when they went back to Hogwarts things wouldn't be this way, or the same as they used to be. And Harry was the only real friend he had ever had, or let himself have, and he knew he would have to give him up in 5 days time.
The next day Draco woke up to the sounds of Harry scurrying about the room. When he sat up sleepily in bed he was greeted by Harry's cheery voice "Good morning Draco". The blonde boy caught his breath as he felt that familiar stab at his heart, he didn't know why it had such an effect on him when Harry said his name, it just did. "I'm going to go out this morning, it will only take a few hours, I'll be home soon". "Where are you going?" Draco asked as the sleep fell from him and he began to waken. "I'm just going out to return 'Quills' because that was rented, we can watch 'The Craft ' later on tonight because I bought that one, and then I'm going to give our notice that we will be out of here by Sunday", "Alright" Draco sighed, "Have you at least had breakfast yet?" "No but hey, I'm going to take you out to eat for lunch when I come back, it's no where fancy but it's great! You'll love it, just dress in normal muggle cloths and we can change our appearance before we go", at this Draco brightened up and smiled. "Okay I'm going now, I'll be back soon, see ya' Draco" and with that he exited the room and was gone. Draco sat up in bed and rubbed the remaining sleep out of his eyes, then threw back the covers and climbed out of bed to go eat breakfast.
Harry walked out of the building where he had rented the flat and sighed. He was going to miss that flat, he was going to actually miss living there with Draco and waking up next to him every morning, he would miss Draco's cooking, he was actually going to miss Draco's company and badly, so badly. He had never seen this coming, but it did. As he walked towards the blockbuster to drop of his movie he heard a small "woof!" he turned his face to the side, then looked down, there was a large cardboard box sitting in the corner of the sidewalk. He approached the box and peered inside, there was a lone white puppy sitting in the box. As he saw Harry's face he began to bark and whimper feebly. Harry reached his hand down to pet the puppy and it began to lick his hand. "Aww you must be the only one left, did all your brothers and sisters get taken and you were left? Huh" he said to the puppy. The puppy whimpered sadly in reply. He picked up the puppy and examined it; it was all white with red eyes. It was an albino puppy, by the looks of it a German Shepard. It reminded him of someone, and as the puppy gave a shrill little bark he realized it reminded him of Draco.
"I know what" he whispered to the puppy "I'll give you to Draco, how would you like that little guy?" the little puppy barked excitedly and began to lick Harry's face. It seemed to understand what he was saying, that was strange. "Well alright then, but first lets get you checked by the vet". Harry took the puppy in his arms and walked towards the nearest Vet's office, which was conveniently next to a pet shop.
Back at the Flat Draco was getting restless waiting for Harry when an idea struck him. He would go out and get him that gift he was thinking of earlier, a surprise. Harry will definitely be pleased, Draco thought to himself as he began to put spells all over his body. He was now a shorter man with brown hair and green eyes, he made his nose flat and upturned and then put a black cloak in his bag. He headed out the door and toward Diagon Alley.
Once he was there he threw the cloak over himself and entered the crowded streets. He searched around the shops, not knowing what he was looking for, but being careful not to get noticed himself when he heard a familiar voice. He turned and saw Granger sitting on a bench in front of a cluster of shops accompanied by the young girl Weasley. He leaned closer to hear what they were whispering, "Where could he be?" the small Weasley asked, her voice trembling, "I don't know, but he's not dead Ginny and you know it, you heard what Bill said, if only we knew where he was and that he was still safe!" Granger squealed. Draco decided, out of pity, to do something nice for the girls. He bent low to Granger's ear while the other girl was busy looking the other way, he whispered "Granger, please don't turn around and I'll tell you what you want to know" The girl was startled but didn't turn around, much to Draco's surprise. He continued "Harry is fine, he will be on the train to Hogwarts and he may chose to tell you where he is, I swear to you, he's fine, maybe he is even happy if I dare to hope, do not worry" with that Draco felt the girl was about to turn her head so he dashed into the nearest store, out of the window he saw her look around bewildered, she then bent to the Weasley girl and told her everything he had said, she then pulled away and said "It sounded like....well like Malfoy" At that he turned around and glanced at the store he was in. It had all sorts of magical creatures inside. He turned his head and found himself staring face to face with a magnificent and elegant white snake. The snake was staring right into Draco's eyes; it had startlingly bright grey eyes. He read the caption beneath the snake's glass cage, it said: Rare White Vipera Aspis.
An asp. Draco was mesmerized by the snake, and he suddenly remembered that Harry was a parcel tongue. This was exactly what he had been looking for. He headed to the witch at the counter and asked "How much is that asp over there miss?" she gave him an ugly grin that showed broken and yellowed teeth. "That, my dear, is a very rare snake, a baby asp, used as a main ingredient in very complicated potions and it is exactly 20 galleons. Draco almost yelled at the woman for the absurdity of this but held his tongue as she said "but for you, my pretty dear, I can make it 15, now which part of the asp will you be wanting? The tongue, the tail, the fangs, the brain, the heart?" she finished as she headed towards the asp's cage and reached in to grasp the snake. "NO!" Draco called, "I want it whole, and alive" he said, the witch looked at him suspiciously and said "All right, that'll be 15 galleons young sir". Draco fished in his pocket for the galleons and pulled them out and handed them to the waiting witch. "All right, since you'll be having it live I'll put it in this container for ye' and you can take it" she said as she stuffed the snake into a black box with holes on the lid. She handed the box to Draco and said "Have a good day young sir, but be careful I warn ye', that snake is deadly poisonous" Draco smiled at the witch and said "Thank you and good day to you" with that he walked out of the store and headed quickly out of Diagon Alley and to the still empty flat where he sat with the snake and waited for Harry to return.
Harry came out of the pet shop with two silver dog dishes and a bag of dog treats as well as a silver dog brush. This was going to be a spoiled dog anyway if it was going to belong to Draco Malfoy, so he might as well start spoiling him now. The dog bounced happily ahead of Harry on his black leash, he was wearing a new satin emerald collar, only it didn't have his name on it. He would come back when Draco had named the puppy and get one made. The vet had reported the dog perfectly healthy and gave him his shots. They said it was a male dog and wanted to know if he wanted it neutered but he decided Draco would rather have a full dog, so he said no.
As he walked into the building and into the elevator with the bouncing puppy, he found himself hoping to god that Draco would actually like this gift, he was a bit nervous that he wouldn't. But then again why wouldn't he? Well he would soon find out, he thought as he turned the door knob to the flat and pushed the door open.
Draco was sitting on the couch as Harry and the puppy bounded in. He took the leash off the puppy and set down his bag as the puppy rushed up to Draco and began licking his face. Draco fell back trying to hold the struggling puppy and laughing, before he could say anything Harry called out "Surprise!'. The blonde looked up at Harry still laughing and said "What??" through the slobbery dog kisses. "He's yours Draco, I got him for you, he reminded me of you". It took a moment for this to sink in before Draco's smile widened so much it was a wonder it fit on his face, he picked up the puppy in his arms and walked over to Harry, He gave him a warm one-armed hug and said "Thank you Harry!". The puppy began taking turns licking Harry's face and Draco's face, obviously wanting to share in the excitement. They both laughed and looked into each other's eyes. Harry was beaming, looking at Draco and his new puppy, and Draco was beaming as well, mercury and sky blue eyes so full of happiness to the likes of which Harry had never seen in the blonde.
"I love him Harry! Thank you!" the blonde said, still beaming and holding the struggling puppy in his arms, "What are you going to name it?" Harry asked, Draco gave a good hard look at the puppy and said "Billy". At this Harry burst into laughter and he said "I thought you would name it something like Herashio or Damian Prince of Darkness". "Nope" said the blonde "He looks more like a Billy to me". Both boys laughed and headed towards the couch where Draco put Billy down and picked up a black box. "You stole my Idea you know" he said handing Harry the box. Harry looked a bit bewildered and lifted the lid of the box. He reached his hand in and when he brought it back out there was a small white snake wrapped around his arm. Harry smiled brightly at the snake and quickly dove into a conversation of hissing with the little snake. When he was finished he beamed up at Draco and said "Thank you! I love her! I've always wanted one but I never got a chance to get one....and she's an asp! She's lovely Draco, really thank you so much", now Harry was beaming just as much as Draco was. "Her name is complicated, it's in parcel tongue so she says for us to call her Viper, You know what she said about you Drake?" Harry asked amusedly, "She said that a beautiful brown haired young man saved her from an evil warted witch who wanted to chop her up, and then he brought her and transformed into an even more beautiful blonde boy" he finished laughing. "She obviously thinks highly of you, she likes you ". Draco beamed and reached over to lightly stroke the white snake who rose to meet his touch. "Yes well I like her too" he said smiling.
Harry watched Draco playing with his new puppy and felt extremely pleased. The fact that Draco had gotten him something too pleased him even more. Even though he knew Draco had gone out of the flat and to Diagon Alley to get Viper, he couldn't get mad at the blonde, they were both extremely happy and he wasn't about to spoil the mood. That was when he remembered taking Draco out to lunch. "Hey Draco! Are you ready to go to lunch?" Harry asked, at this Draco beamed and said "Ya, where are we going?" Harry grinned and said "McDonalds", Draco looked bewildered and said "Mc what?" "McDonalds" Harry repeated "It's a muggle fast food place, they have hamburgers and fries...it's really really good, I think you'll agree with me when you try the food", "Alright" Draco said "Can I take Billy??", Harry smiled and said "Ya sure, first we need to disguise ourselves though" Harry had found an interesting spell in his sixth year charms book that told you how to cast an appearance spell where you cast the spell on you and whoever you wanted to recognize you, then you placed the disguise on yourself and only that person or persons can see you. He did the spell on himself then Draco and then did an aging appearance charm so that to themselves they were themselves but to passer bys they where two old men.
They walked out of the building with Billy on the leash and Viper wrapped safely around Harry's sleeve. Harry led them to the first McDonalds he could find and said "This is it, here put these dark glasses on and wait here for a second". Harry went into the food place and hobbled up to the person at the counter, he said "Excuse me but my fellow there, you see him? He's a bit blind and that's his seeing eye dog Billy, would you mind if we brought him in too?", the woman behind the counter thought for a moment and then said "Go ahead sir but can I ask you to please keep him out there?" and she pointed to the tables outside beside the play place. "No problem, thank you miss" Harry said and went back out side to fetch Draco, "You can bring him in but we're sitting over there" he said pointing to the outside tables. "Okay" Draco said and followed Harry to a table. "Okay you like cheese burgers right?" Harry asked. "Ya I think so" the blonde replied. "Alright I'll be right back" Harry said and stalked off back into the restaurant.
When he came back he was carrying a large tray pilled with food in cardboard containers. He sat down at the table and began separating the food. "This" he said holding up a red box "Is your bigmac", "This is your coke", "And this is your fries" he held the boxes all up and then said "Go on now eat it, it's really good". Draco gingerly opened the box and removed a greasy sandwich with a meat patty and a piece of cheese on the inside. He grimaced and said "I don't see what's so great about these" and proceeded to take a bite, which was followed by a larger bite and soon he had finished the whole thing and Harry was sitting there looking at him smugly. "All right Potter you win they are really really good" he admitted as he fed Billy a French fry.
Two more bigmacs later Harry and Draco began walking home, their stomachs fit to burst, "How is it that, those bigmacs, you can eat as many as three and still want more?" Draco asked. Harry laughed and said "Ya well we'll never know will we? It's the secret to McDonalds", "Well that was really good" Draco admitted for the hundredth time as they made their way up the elevator and into their flat. "Wanna watch the movie now?" Harry asked Draco. "Ya let's watch it now" he replied. They set up for another evening of movies and turned on the DVD player and TV and snuggled up on the couch with Billy as Viper laid herself around Harry's neck.
About an hour later Draco snorted and said "You need wands to do magic, stupid muggles, but they can make good movies and bigmacs, I'll give them that". "Speaking of bigmacs , I'm hungry, It's been like 3 hours since I last ate", "Oh wow big difference there" the blonde drawled. "Well I think I'll order a Pizza" He said and walked over to the phone. He dialed the number for the operator and asked for the nearest Dominos Pizza place, then dialed the number and ordered a large extra cheese pizza with garlic sauce and a two litter bottle of coke. He then headed back to the couch and watched the rest of the movie with Draco.
About half an hour later door bell rang and Harry brought in the pizza which Draco loved as much as the cheeseburger. Harry drenched his pizza with garlic sauce and stuffed it into his mouth while Draco ate daintily and Billy ate anything he could get. After they were done Draco threw away the empty pizza box and did the dishes (magically of course) while Harry went off to brush his teeth. When he came back Draco was sitting on the couch nervously tugging at the silver chain on his neck with the ring on it while Billy had curled up in front of the now lit fire.
When Harry sat down next to the blonde boy he almost jumped as he snapped back into attention and dropped the ring that had been in his hand. "Umm... Harry?" he asked nervously. "Ya Drake?" he asked smirking at the new nickname he had given him. The blonde boy cleared his throat and, sitting up a little straighter then before, said "Harry I want you to have this" before reaching toward the back of his neck and unclasping the silver chain. He plucked the ring from the thin chain and held up Harry's hand as he slid it onto the dark haired boy's finger "I really have gotten to like you Harry, and I want... I want to stay talking to you after this, I don't want things to go back to the way they were, I want them to be like they are now, maybe even progress from there" He said looking into Harry's sparkling emerald eyes. Harry looked down at the ring and Draco said "It's was my mothers, a family heirloom", "But then why are you giving it to me?" Harry asked looking pleadingly into Draco's mercury eyes, searching for an answer. "Because you're the only real friend I have, have ever had" Draco said honestly, looking down at Harry's hand still in his.
Harry smiled and pulled the blonde boy into a hug, closing the distance between them. He felt very close to the boy, and wanted it to stay that way too. Draco pulled away slightly so that he could look into the other boy's face. Draco had tears in his eyes and he had let one slide down his cheek. Harry hadn't even thought him capable of crying, but it just showed how human Draco really was. Harry gently brushed away the tears from Draco's pale face and then without thinking Draco leaned in and brought their lips together. For a moment they stayed that way and then Draco placed his hand on Harry's head and pulled him closer to him pressing him harder against his lips. at first Harry just sat there stunned, but after a while he responded to the kiss as his hand made its way to the boy's neck and he began to kiss the blonde back gently. Draco ran his tongue over the other boy's bottom lip , feeling him shudder. Draco shuddered too and pressed his tongue against Harry's lips, seeking entrance into his mouth. Harry parted his lips to let the other boy's warm tongue slid into his mouth. He began exploring the dark haired boy's warm mouth as Harry slid his hand into silky white gold strands of hair and pulled the blonde boy closer to deepen the kiss.
They began kissing desperately now as Draco leaned back and laid his head against the couch's arm as Harry laid on top of him. Harry broke the kiss and stared into Draco's bright gray eyes, his warm breath ghosting across Draco's cheek as the blondes hot Breath brushed against Harry's neck. Harry brought his lips down to capture the other boy's lips in a deeper, more passionate kiss as he ran his hand along the boy's soft cheek. He had no idea what came over him as he lay on top of the blonde boy gasping for air but unwilling to let go of Draco's mouth to breath, he had no idea where this desperation he was felling had come from. Draco broke the kiss and began to say "Harry I..." But he was interrupted by a loud bang by the door. Harry jumped off of Draco and stood gripping his wand tightly just as the door was forced open and a group of black hooded figures streamed in.
Draco leapt off the couch and raised his wand as well. The room filled with loud barking as the puppy woke up and began to growl viciously towards the intruders in black cloaks. Someone shouted "Expelearmus!" and Harry ducked quickly as the spell hit the wall. The death eaters where now circling them and a cold voice rang out "Thought you could hide from us Potter? And look, Draco has run into the arms of the boy who lived for protection, how romantic" and with that he shouted a spell towards the blonde boy. Harry grabbed hold of Draco and pulled him out of the way just in time as the spell hit the drapes and they caught fire.
There were shouts of curses and hexes from both sides of the room as different colored jets of light shot towards them all. Three death eaters fell to the ground but there were five more left standing and only two of them. Their only chance was to make a run for it, Harry shot a glance at teh door and then at Draco who nodded and Harry yelled "Now!". Both of them made a run for it over the couch and towards the door as Harry shouted curses toward the huddled mass bringing down two more death eaters, but Harry was sure more would come soon. They almost made it, were almost at the door, was reaching out to the door knob when a rough hand seized Harry's arm and pulled him back. The other two death eaters were upon him soon.
Draco wrenched open the door and then looked back towards Harry. He was now being held by two death eaters while one approached him quickly. A voice in his head yelled 'Run you idiot!!! Why are you just standing there!?!? Forget Potter and run!!' but he didn't move as another voice chimed in 'You can't leave him!! He is your friend Draco, he's more than your friend!! Help him they'll kill him!' and yet another voice joined them 'just leave him and save yourself you can't help him now!" followed by another voice which sounded suspiciously like his mother saying ' Draco you Love him you kno...' but it was cut short as Draco made his decision and ran head first towards the death eaters knocking them both over , catching them by surprise so that they let go of Harry. They recovered quickly and held on to Draco instead, just then there was a crack and about twenty more death eaters appeared in the living room and Draco's head shot around to see them.
He turned back to Harry and yelled over the barking and the yelling "Leave Harry! Leave now!!!", When Harry didn't move Draco called out again, panic clear in his voice "Run Goddamnit run!!!! Don'tbestupidyoucanthelpmeRUN!!!!!!!!" With a last glance of Draco's pleading and panicked expression Harry turned and ran out the open door. He ran into the open elevator and slammed into the metal back in his haste, then turned and began pounding on the ground floor button. As the door slammed shut and the elevator began to descend Harry heard a piercing scream. The door opened and he ran. He ran out of the door of the building not even stopping to look at the dead door man lying rigid on the floor or the stunned death eaters heading up the stairs towards the 5th floor.
He raced down the road and continued until he couldn't recognize where he was anymore and dropped down into a cold damp alley way where he slumped against the wall and buried his head in his arms to muffle his strangled sobs. His head was swimming with voices and questions but he could do nothing but draw up a blank. He shook with anger and the force of his gasping sobs. He raised his head from his lap, teeth clenched in anger and tears streaming down his cheek. Just then he felt a soft wetness press against his arm. When he turned his head he was face to face with a small white puppy. He threw his arms around him and patted the dog continually. The dog nuzzled his shoulder and began pushing against him. When Harry finally looked back at the dog he saw that his lower jaw and front paws where gone. The dog then dropped something from his mouth and all his missing body parts where visible again. It was Harry's invisibility cloak! "Good dog" Harry cried as he picked up the cloak. He hadn't even noticed Billy come after him, but the intelligent little puppy had come and brought him his invisibility cloak as well.
There was a small voice coming from Harry's wrist, when he looked down he saw it was Viper once again curled up there. "I jumped to you when I heard the noisesss" she hissed, her forked tongue lashing out. "What happened?" Harry began to explain what happened to the snake. Billy appeared to be listening too, though Harry could not be sure that the dog actually understood. When he was done he got to work setting appearance charms on himself to make him look like an old man again. He then did the same to Billy, making him look like a large brown dog instead. Harry was feeling numb inside. Everything had happened so fast that he didn't even know what happened, couldn't even begin to sort it out. With images in his head of all that had happened he threw the cloak over himself and Billy and went to sleep.
The next day he called a cab and went out to the station where the Hogwarts express would be in three days time.