Title: Already Gone

Author: Isidoria

Rating: R

Genre: Romance

Summary: A sweet romance between an innocent Harry and a loving Draco. What trials will the pair face? DMHP

Chapter 5

The next morning Draco picked Harry up as promised.

"Hey love, how are you today?" he asked the unusually quiet boy.

Harry just shrugged, saying nothing.

"What is it? Something is upsetting you."

"Ron was being an ass last night. He insulted both you and I…so I told him that if he had to resort to insulting people to make himself feel better then we didn't have to question who the loser was…"

"He didn't hurt you did he?" Draco asked worriedly, looking Harry over to see if he could find any obvious injuries.

"He just upset me. I'm fine." Harry gave Draco a small smile.

Draco smiled back warily. Once he was sure Harry was telling the truth. They both headed to the Slytherin table and grabbed a quick breakfast to take with them.

After classes that day Draco dropped his books off quickly and went to meet Harry on his way down.

"Harry? Where's your cloak?" he questioned.

"I thought we were going to the common room? To work on the spell for class tomorrow?"

Draco looked at him.

"Harry? Pet? You've forgotten already? Dumbledore has given the fourth through seventh years special permission to go to Hogsmeade to get robes for the ball." Draco turned a speechless Harry around and guided, or pushed him rather back up the stairs.

"We don't have to go in costume…do we?"

"Of course not." Draco scoffed. "The muggleborns tried to get it to be like their Halloween but thank Merlin the teachers said no. Muggle holiday my ass." He sneered. "But if I start on about that, I know I wont shut up. So lets stop it before it starts."

Harry laughed and allowed himself to be guided up to the Gryffindor dorms.

The fat lady smiled as they came near.

"Flobberworms."

"Eww." Draco said as the portrait swung open. "Those things were disgusting."

"I know, but that was the password they chose. Come on."

He entered his common room and looked back to Draco.

"Aren't you coming? I just have to go upstairs and get my cloak."

"Are you sure it's okay?"

"Yes."

Draco sighed and followed him closely.

He stopped in shock as they entered the actual common room.

"It's so…so…red."

"I know." Harry sneered.

Draco laughed lightly and continued to follow Harry to the stairs, still looking around.

Entering the Sixth-year boy's dorm, Harry headed straight to the far wardrobe.

"I still can't believe they put so many of you in one room." He shook his head in amazement.

Harry shrugged and concentrated on the lock on the wardrobe and smiled when it clicked open.

Draco smiled as well.

"It's hard isn't it?"

"Yeah, but so rewarding and doing it doesn't even make a difference in my magic levels anymore."

"It took me a long time to get it under control to do small spells, the big stuff is easy…the first time I tried to unlock a door, well I unlocked it that's for sure, but I had to blow it off the hinges to do that. And for the first wardrobe? Well…to put it simply there wasn't any wardrobe left after I tried."

Harry laughed as he put his bag on the hook and chose a cloak to wear.

He was just locking the wardrobe back up with the door opened and Seamus entered.

He looked at Harry and Draco, surprised.

He glanced back out into the corridor before shutting the door.

"Are you guys alone?"

"…Yeah. What is it Seamus?" Harry asked quietly.

"Good. Hi Harry, Malfoy." He nodded to the Slytherin. "This is the first time I've been able to catch you alone. Or at least relatively alone." He smiled at Draco slightly.

"I've wanted to apologize for the longest time. But Ron is always around. Hermione has already taken him to Hogsmeade. But I'm so sorry things have turned out like this…you know me eh? I'm not strong enough to go against them…I'm different then the rest of the house, like you, in so many ways."

Harry smiled at him slightly.

"It's okay Seamus, you never really took part in it. The only thing you'd have to apologize for is not doing anything."

Draco sneered.

"I thought you Gryffindors were supposed to be brave. You can't even stand up to each other."

"I know Malfoy, I feel the same way. But you don't understand, I'm in much of the same position as Harry. I'm Irish, a halfblood and gay. They don't even know about the last one…do you know how hard that is?"

Draco was silent.

Harry sighed and walked over to Seamus, he wrapped his arms around the big boy and gave him a small hug.

"I forgive you Seamus."

Draco crossed his arms and glared at Seamus. Harry glanced over at him and smiled. He walked over and gave Draco a kiss on the cheek. The Slytherin melted and smiled at Harry, slipping an arm around is waist.

They walked towards the door and Harry looked up at Draco. The blonde nodded slightly.

"Seamus? Have you got your dress robes yet?"

"No…I don't know if I'm even going." He shrugged. "I certainly don't want to go with a girl…and Ron keeps pressuring me to ask one."

"Oh Seamus! What other chance are you going to get to go? I mean really…how often do we have a dance?"

"Never…"

"Exactly! Now come shopping with us. I'm sure you can find a boy to go with if that's what you want."

Seamus laughed but grabbed his cloak and followed the pair out of the door.

The trio walked laughing to the entrance hall where they saw Blaise Zabini.

"Blaise! Are you coming shopping?"

"Shopping? With Gryffindors?" he sneered.

Seamus was taken aback. Harry and Draco laughed.

"With Gryffindors? How could I say no? Especially cute ones like you've seem to got there Dray." He looked Seamus up and down shamelessly, Seamus blushed lightly.

Draco smirked as Blaise skipped over to the trio.

"Blaise Zabini." He took Seamus' hand and bowed low over it, kissing it and looking up through his fringe with a roguish grin.

"Seamus Finnigan."

Blaise straightened up cheerfully and linked arms with Seamus. Then he began dragging the Irish boy out of the doors. He yelled back over his shoulder.

"Come on! There is shopping to be done!"