Hey guys! I'm back! Sorry it's been so long! Wow. I'd give you guys a bajillion excuses but really the only reason that I've taken so long is I'm lazy and I've decided to reread the 4th, 5th and 6th books. So rather then writing I've been reading. So yes, sorry about the long wait. I'll try to be better about it; it's almost over anyway. So yes with no further ado, on with the show….

(Shout out to Rabidbutterfly, you boosted my review count by reviewing EVERY chapter. You have no idea how much I love you right now!)

Chapter 18 – Where IS Harry?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry lay tangled in the arms of one Draco Malfoy, half-asleep. He was fully woken by a hot breath on his neck, sending a shiver down his spine and making the blood rush to his groin all over again. He grunted and rolled over. He felt a feather-light kiss on his jaw, then another farther along. "Draco…don't." He muttered, preferring to go back to sleep.

"Rise and shine Mr. Potter." Draco said brightly. "We wouldn't want our dear Miss Weasley and Mr. Jordan to be worried now would we?" he said wryly.

Harry snorted. "Somehow I don't think they're much concerned." Harry said matter-of-factly.

"Yes, but what about the others?" Draco was suddenly serious. "I don't fancy explaining this to Blaise or Teddy, or even Vince and Greg. And I highly doubt we'd get an easy acceptance and a congrats from Weasley."

Harry nodded. He hadn't thought about anyone's reactions, let alone his own. He didn't fancy the long period of time that Ron would most likely take before talking to him again, he really couldn't bear another couple months of Ron giving him the cold shoulder. It would be horrible if Hermione also didn't approve.

"Good lord what will my father say?" Draco mused to himself, deep in thought.

"Well. I guess we had better go out there and tell them. It would be pointless to try and hide it." Harry said slowly.

"Alright then, glad you agree." Draco said. They got up and pulled their undergarments back on, rather wistfully. They crept up to the door and listened intently to hear who might be in the room on the other side.

"From the sound of it I would guess most, if not all of them are out there." Draco stated, his ear pressed up against the door. "We'll have to go out strong and confident rather then shy or bashful. If we act as though it's no big deal then they'll accept it more readily. Believe me, I would know." Draco added from the look on Harry's face.

"Either that or we can slur everything we say and giggle giddily at everyone and hope they think that we were just drunk." He added as an afterthought.

"But we were drunk."

Draco shrugged. "True, but we were sane enough to decide that we wanted to do it."

"Good point."

"So, we walk out, nonchalantly. At the count of three. One…. Two…."

One of the doors leading out of the room burst open. The group all spun around and stared at the couple in the doorway. The smaller figure strode forward confidently pulling the other close behind.

"So. What'd we miss?" Pansy Parkinson asked jovially as she sat down with Blaise at her side.

"A hell of a lot." Nott replied.

"Ah, too bad."

Hermione was looking around the circle, and then suddenly she let out a small gasp and stared around at everyone as if she was just trying to make sure of something.

"What is it 'mione?" Ron asked from his seat beside her.

"Oh…nothing. You'll see soon enough I suppose…" Ron had learned over the years to accept this as an answer, he figured whatever it may be, he'd most likely figure it out eventually. With luck it would be sooner rather then later.

"So? What were all you lame people up to, while we were off…having fun."

"Having as much bloody fun as you did!" Hermione said irritably. She had started to befriend the other Slytherins in the room, but she figured she would never be able to like Pansy let alone tolerate her. Even Draco seemed to dislike her. She sighed at the surprised and slightly disgusted look on Pansy's face.

"Look, just because you have overactive hormones, doesn't mean anyone else couldn't get some action." She said.

"Oh?" Blaise asked raising his eyebrows. "So, who are our couples?" Hermione cracked a grin.

"I'll do the honors." Lee said, a gleam in his eye.

"Our first lovely couple…. Pansy, Blaise, take your bow." The two Slytherins stood, bowed to applause and sat down again.

"Acacia, Theodore…." They followed suit. Lee grinned wickedly.

"Hermione and Ron." They too stood, bowed, cheeks flaming but smiling all the same.

"Seamus and…Morag!" Seamus grinned lopsidedly and hoisted Morag to her feet and they bowed pompously with no shame whatsoever.

"And of course Ginny and I…."

"LIAR!"

"We had a wonderful time, don't you pretend we didn't…."

"We SAT here! Playing Never Have I Ever…. alone!"

"All alone in the moonlight my dear."

"Ugh! Boys!" She said exasperated.

"So the last pair was…." Blaise said looking pensive and counting on his fingers. His eyes widened.

"No bloody way…" Both Pansy and Ron muttered looking horrorstruck.

"My best buddy?"

"My best mate?"

"What the Fuck?"

"Well I think its lovely." Hermione interjected.

"Oh yeah! Real lovely! Harry shagging that slimy…"

"-handsome!" Pansy interjected.

"-git." Ron finished.

"He was mine!" Pansy said indignantly.

"Well at least you have a suitable replacement, eh?" Blaise said looking hopeful.

"Of course…. but…. still…. Potter?"

"Malfoy?"

"Gay?"

"No way!"

"Yes way." Said a soft voice from the other side of the room. Harry, who had just spoken was standing in the doorway with Draco, he smiled at them and the pair walked over to complete the group.

"Surprised?" Draco said silkily as though he shagged his mortal enemy of the same sex every day.

"Just a tad." Ron said reproachfully.

"Eh, should've seen it coming." The blonde replied non-chalantly squeezing in between Harry and Blaise.

"But Drakey…." Pansy whined. "I thought you loved me!"

Draco stared at her. "What the bloody hell put that idea into your head?" she pouted, at a loss for words and looked to Harry uncannily like Aunt Petunia when she was especially disgruntled about something she couldn't do anything about.

"Its almost dawn." Harry said absent mindedly looking out the window to the pale sky that was slowly but surely beginning to fill with light. "I expect Dumbledore'll let us out soon enough."

"Not without playing one more game…." Ginny said grinning. "You all up for it?"

There were furtive looks, everyone searching each other's faces to see, who was ready to risk it? Apparently they all were. Sigh. Gutsy teens. There was a nod of assent around the room and Ginny grinned. "Well then. Let's begin."

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So! Do we like? I hope so, they finally come out…. of the door, the closet…whatever analogy you wish to use, they did it. By the way, has everyone seen the movie yet? I did! Twice! Must see it at least 4 times in theatres. I've decided that I'll have to see the film the number of times in the theatre as the number of the year it is. So, four this time five next time…. and so on. Harry is SO HOT! My god, the bathtub scene…ok. Enough about Daniel Radcliffe's surprisingly good body, (the kid is ripped!) and back to me! So I shall try to crank out the next chapter as soon as I can, and I'll see you all soon! Oh, by the way. I've seen it everywhere and I still haven't been able to figure it out. What the hell is AU? Its really been bugging me! So if anyone knows, please just let me know in a review. Thanks a bunch, se y'all next time!