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Title: Aspettare

Author: BlackRavenrose

Warnings: Twisted views, OOCness, Gryffindor-bashing, Slash, Death, Abuse

Pairing: Eventual Draco/Harry

Summary: Draco saves Harry from Ron and his cronies one night when they attack him. Draco and the Slytherins teach Harry about how things really are, and not the fairy-tale world Dumbledore creates. SLASH DMHP

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He carried him, cradling the broken boy to his chest all the way down to the dungeons. The wall opened for him as he came near, which was a good thing as Draco was loosing his grip on the boy. Nodding to Blaise Zabini, who just stared in shock, as Draco brushed past, the poor boy had almost been knocked over…and was regretting his decision to find food to quell his hunger.

Once Blaise Zabini got a glimpse of the messy hair upon the comatose boy he shut the portrait and caught up with Draconis as they entered their shared dorm room. Draconis placed Harry on his bed and then shut and locked the door after Blaise with a wave of his wand.

"Blaise, I need your help. You know way more healing spells then I do…fix him!"

The boy couldn't argue with that logic, after all the injuries that he had to heal Draconis of after his fights with the weasel…it was no wonder he knew some spells. Blaise went to his trunk and opened up the lock, pulling out a small, sleek black case. He placed it on Draconis' bed and unfolded it to reveal hundreds of tiny vials, some no bigger then your thumb, all filled with potions and powders, many to be mixed with a special solution to dilute them.

"What attacked him?"

"Not what…who. Weasel, Thomas, Longbottom surprisingly, Boot and a bunch of others from the different houses."

"Ah, good thing those Gryffindors are to stupid to change up their attacks. I can give him the standard healing mix I give you and then fix any other problems that occurred."

"Thank the gods you know what you're doing Blaise…I know I'd be dead if it wasn't for you."

"Of course you would…you'd also be lost somewhere probably to, especially if it was a hall of mirrors…"

Draco didn't even notice the insult he was so wrapped up in making sure Harry was comfortable. He sat on the bed beside him and stroked his hair, holding his hand gently.

Harry groaned and shifted once the potions started to take effect.

He opened his eyes slowly and blinked.

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Ma l'attesa farà no buono, per la redenzione è a lontano andato

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"I'm sorry!" Draco blurted out, as soon as Harry regained full consciousness.

"What?" Harry asked, not understanding.

"I'm sorry…when we met on the train, in first year, I was a bastard…I ruined any chance we purebloods had of showing you why we are the way we are, I ruined your opinion of us."

"What? Malfoy…that was like, six years ago, it was my fault anyways. I should have listened to you, and not Ron."

"What?"

"Why are you all just saying what?" Blaise asked, trying to stop the very annoying echo that had appeared in the room. Draco and Harry just stared at him.

"Draco kiss Harry, Harry enjoy it. You both want it and maybe you will shut up!" They both blushed.

Blaise gave a yell of anger and pulled his wand back out.

"Draco kiss him now or I am gluing the two of you together at the lips."

Draco paled instantly, Blaise had done just that to Pansy and Theodore last week…it was not, pretty getting them unstuck. He placed a hand on Harry's cheek gently and turned the other boy's face towards his…moving closer, slowly pulling them together.

Draco's eyes fluttered shut once he realized Harry had closed his…

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A/N: If you wonderful reviewers hadn't reviewed so much, I would have stopped it there nodnod lucky for you, you reviewed!

Draco pulled Harry right to them at pressed their lips together, relaxing once he was finally near that beautiful boy. The kiss started as just a chaste press of lips, but continued on when Draco ran his tongue along Harry's lower lip begging entrance. Harry wrapped his arms tightly around Draco's neck and plunged his tongue deep into the other's waiting mouth, surprising Draco into opening his eyes. But he closed them again and kissed Harry with the same passion that the other boy was expressing to him.

All through this Blaise was staring in shock…he had just been bluffing and had no idea things would escalate this far…no idea at all.

"Okay…well I wasn't actually serious you know…" Blaise looked on with this confused horror, the one you get when you just can't look away. He turned bright red when Draco's hands began to wander…

SQUACK!

A screech and a thump was heard, then silence.

Enter Pansy Parkinson…

"Draco why are you on the floor?" Draco just slowly…turned…red.

"Potter is in the bed, why aren't you? You seemed quite friendly, don't let me interrupt! It was rather…enlightening that is for certain…" she got this dazed look on her face as she remembered what she had walked in on.

"Err…why are we all in my bedroom now?"

"Not everyone!" A voice just yelled from the hall, a few more people flooded into the room, shoving Pansy in further and causing Draco to scramble back in fear of being trampled. Harry was kind of dazed, he was still a bit out of it from the kiss, sure…he had shoved his tongue down Draco's throat first, but the reaction was not expected…pleasant, but unexpected.

"So…you wouldn't leave us out of the party now would you?" Theodore Nott had brought Crabbe and Goyle with him, and Millicent, Tracey and Daphne behind them.

"Well now it's just crowded, no longer a party but a bloody mob." Draco said with a roll of his eyes, picking himself up off the ground and standing in front of Harry in the bed, who had now woken up from his little trance and was looking rather terrified. Harry clung to the taller boy and breathed a sigh of relief.

"You lot are rather intimidating." Pansy observed as she noticed the trembling boy on the bed.

"Stop trying to scare him Nott!" Blaise said angrily, "You will aggravate his injuries! I may have given him the potions to heal them, but it will be a few more minuets before they are released into his blood stream."

"Sorry Healer Zabini…" Theo sarcastically replied.

"So I see we finally have Potter in our world…shall we show him what it's really about?" Tracey said…her voice laced with malice, but poor Harry didn't know she always talked this way…

A/N: Okey the chapter is really done now! smiles thank you all for reviewing, hopefully this will be a popular story…I don't know why as I'm just puttering my way along. So please…PLEASE offer any ideas you might have lurking in those far corners of your brain if you want more of this story, cause I really have no idea what is gunna happen next…

And that poem line means "But waiting will do no good, for redemption is to far gone"