A/N: Chapter ten! You guys can all look forward to me updating this at least once every week, and possibly finishing it over March Break, which I believe starts March 13th for us. Yay! Well, thank you for all of your lovely reviews, I certainly enjoy reading them. :D Right now I'm listening to Rex Goudie's Run on a Thursday night at ten minutes to eight. Just did my History homework, lol. Well, enjoy! SOTM
Betrayals and Secrets
Chapter Ten
Dinner With Draco
Draco and Harry apparated to a Wizards restaurant in Diagon Alley. Harry had never been in here before, but it looked quite fancy. There were even a few white candles floating on the ceiling and the ceiling even looked like the night sky - almost like Hogwarts. Almost like home.
A waitress came over to them as they sat down. Draco eyed her warily. She had dirty blond hair and crystal clear sea blue eyes. She wore a white frilly dress and held a pen and paper in her hand. "Hello, my name is Claire Sitra, and I will be your waitress for tonight. Here are your menus, would you like anything to drink for starters?"
"I'll have a Butterbeer, please," Harry said. She turned to look at Harry, and to Draco it seemed she had to stop herself from drooling. He scowled at her - Harry didn't even know he was being ogled, or trying to be seduced. He was so naive. But that's what Draco loved most about him. Oh, and the fact that he was super sexy and looked adorable when sleeping.
"Of course, Mr. Potter," she batted her eyelashes at him, expecting some sort of reaction, but Harry failed to give her one. She hid her scowl and turned to Draco. "And for you, Mr. Malfoy?" she asked icily.
"Same as my date, miss," Draco glared at her, emphasizing the word 'date'.
Claire's eyes widened and darted right back at Harry, who only nodded and stared at her with a stern expression as she walked away in a huff.
"Harry, can't you see that Sitra's trying to - well, seduce you!" Draco almost yelled.
"What? Draco, you're being absolutely- wait… she did kind of pay more attention to me than you… AND she even GLARED at you..."
Draco nodded sternly. "See? That's where your naive ness gets you- in bed with someone you don't want."
Harry raised an eyebrow. "Oh, if you haven't noticed, Dray, I'm irressisitible. Just ask Sitra."
Draco only chuckled, but still kept a close watch on the waitress Claire, who seemed to like disappearing after a while. She came back with their Butterbeers, and placed them down on their table kind of roughly before walking away. They raised an eyebrow, having clearly known why she was in such a bad mood, but cared not to think about it anyway, and went back to looking at their menus, well, before someone came over to their table.
"Oh, look, it's the Weasel," Draco sneered. It was in fact Ron Weasley, who was staring at them in such shock and hatred that it even surprised Harry. "I didn't know you could afford to take your women to such exquisite places like this?"
Harry had to hide his smirk behind his hand to keep him from bursting into laughter. Ron glared at Draco and aimed to punch him in the face, but got the chin instead. Draco went falling to the floor and Harry instantly ran over.
"Draco, Draco, baby, are you all right?" Harry asked worriedly. He then turned to the sneering face of Ron Weasley. "How dare you, Ronald. He did nothing to you! You attacked an innocent bystander, when you're fight is clearly with me."
"That may be, Potter, but it's the fact that he exists, you know," Ron smirked. "Ah, are we getting a case of déja vu here, Harry? Was that not what your Dad said about Snape? It's the fact that he exists - that's why I hate him. And you-"
"RONALD BILUS WEASLEY!" a young girl's voice echoed throughout the entire restaurant. "Leave them alone, this instant! I will not have you hurting them, or I will get a petition to sign to throw you into Azkaban! Or I could just throw you in myself."
Ginny Weasley came into the restaurant, followed by surprisingly Cho Chang, then Hermione and Viktor shortly after. "Cho?" Harry asked in confusion, wrapping his arms around Draco, daring anyone to hurt them, or try. "What the…?"
"Hi, Harry!" Cho greeted happily, resting an arm on Ginny's shoulder, trying unsuccessfully to calm her down. "Gin, hush, let's go and find a seat…"
"Not until Ronald here leaves!" Someone only called Ron (mostly Mrs. Weasley) by his full name (Ronald) when they were seriously (no pun, I just laugh everytime I see seriously in a story, not even HP) angry at him. Ron's eyes widened, finally realizing why both Cho and Ginny were there together.
"Lesbian! You're a lesbian, Virginia!" Ron yelled. "And now everyone knows about it!"
"Well, actually, since I was all ready disowned, I have nothing to fear- there are certainly not very many prejudices in the Wizarding world- or otherwise Harry and Draco's relationship would have had a numerous amount of complaints! Now, you were just leaving, weren't you, Ronald?" she asked, clearly losing her cool, calm exterior.
"Gin…" Cho tried again, but failed.
"Let's see where this leaves us all, then," Ron glared, and seized Harry roughly by the neck, holding it with one arm, pressing hard against it.
"NO!" Draco yelled. "LET HIM GO, WEASEL!"
"Can't…b-breathe…" Harry choked out. His knees were shaking violently, ready to collapse to the ground in a dead faint.
"DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE ME, HARRY POTTER!" Draco yelled furiously, tears threatening to fall. "I WILL NOT LOSE YOU BECAUSE OF WEASLEY'S STUPIDITY!"
"STUPEFY!" Cho yelled, and Ron fell to the ground, letting his hold on Harry go. Harry's knees finally gave way and began to collapse. But it seemed ghostly like hands caught him gently before he fell and he gently took the boy into his arms. Even though he was technically a ghost, he could still hold people if his will was strong enough.
Draco's eyes widened as they looked into the angry hazel eyes of the dead James Potter. His ghost gently ran a hand through his son's hair before turning to look at the one who dared hurt his son. He whispered something nobody else could hear, and Ron disappeared. James sighed and turned to look at Draco, Ginny and Cho. "Take care of him and my grandchild, or I will have all your heads!"
"Prongs!"
James turned his head to see the shocked faces of Sirius, Remus, the Headmaster (well, he wasn't that shocked, which scared the hell out of James), and…Lily.
"Take care of him, the lot of you, and my grandchild, or I WILL have your heads on a silver platter!" James said the last part jokingly, but he meant the part about protection very seriously; he'd kill anyone who severly hurt his son or wife. Or brothers.
He turned away from them, feeling it hard to even look at them, and crouched down to look at his son. Whom he loved and cherised more than life itself. It was not time for Harry to die, no, not for a long, long time. James gently brushed a few strands of hair away from Harry's face, causing Harry to stir and open his eyes slowly. If it could, James' breath would've stopped halfway out of his throat.
When Harry woke up, he stared at the ghostly figure of his dad tiredly. "D…Dad?"
"Yea, Prongslet," James grinned tears threatening to fall. "It's me. Just had to make a big entrance to save you from that good for nothing Weasel, didn't I?"
Harry laughed tiredly. "Best action I've seen in weeks."
"HEY! I take offense to that!" Draco exclaimed, causing everyone in the restaurant to chuckle.
"Oops, sorry, Draco, darling, I forgot you were there," he said innocently, giving Draco the puppy eyes.
James laughed. "Just like Lily," he whispered into Harry's ear, causing him to laugh. Harry's eyes widened when he saw James disappearing, and hurriedly said…
"Goodbye, Dad."
"Goodbye, Prongslet. And don't forget, I'll always be here, looking after you."
With that, James Potter literally flew inside Harry's body, causing a white glow to envelop around him. Everyone stared wide-eyed at what just transpired.
Then, Harry fell tiredly into Draco's awaiting arms, asleep for the night. With no nightmares. James was making sure of it.
TBC…
A/N: SO GOOD! I LOVED THIS CHAPTER! Yay! If I didn't skip any of his pregnancy, it would go on forever. ;-; I want it to end sometime, so I'm gonna skip at least three months next chapter. I was gonna do it today- but then I'd leave u all at a cliffie at what happens on Dray and Harry's dinner outing. Well, now you know:D
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