Chapter 1- The First Meeting
Harry stepped off the shuttle that had brought him and his belongings to the Osirus Station, and immediately felt slightly light headed, the oxygen was lighter up here, he'd have to get used to that. He put his glasses up on his head as he rubbed his eyes, and yawned, but he stopped mid yawn as he heard a deep chuckle.
"It's a tiring trip isn't it?"
Harry quickly pushed his glasses back down onto the bridge of his nose and looked up at the voice that had spoken to him. He had to stop himself from drooling. The man standing in front of him stood at least a head taller than him with some of the most striking grey eyes and beautiful hair, so blonde it seemed white. "It is, yes." He spoke softly, not able to look away from the beautiful man in front of him.
Draco smiled at the smaller man before him. He had been passing the unloading bay when he realized that people were coming on, when he had seen the black haired green eyed beauty yawning. "I remember when I first came up here. I swore I could have slept for an age."
Harry smiled shyly not really knowing what to say. "I've heard its worse than a time zone change."
"It is… wait you've heard? You had never been on a plane before this?" Draco looked at the man incredulously.
Harry shook his head. "I never had the chance before now."
Draco scratched the back of his head, "Wow, that's impressive. In any case…" He was cut off.
"Dr. Malfoy, Christian Dee is looking for you." A woman said from behind him. She looked at who ever had captured her supervisor's attention, "Oh! You must be Mr. Potter; the Capitan is waiting for you in his office."
Draco and Harry gave each other one last smile and a nod. "Well it's never good to keep the Capitan waiting. Perhaps I'll see you around sometime Mr. Potter?"
Harry smiled and bowed his head, "Yes, I hope so." And he watched Draco follow the woman away, and was slightly startled when one of the officers touched his shoulder.
"Mr. Potter? Please follow me; one of the crew men will take your bags to your quarters. But you're to see the Capitan first."
Harry nodded once more, before following the officer down the opposite direction than where Dr. Malfoy had gone. Harry gave it one last look down other way where the striking man had gone catching a glimpse of the white-blonde hair turning a corner, and out of his sight.
When Harry reached the Capitan's suite, he took a deep breath and went in, thanking the officer who had brought him.
"Ah Mr. Potter I presume?" The Capitan was a portly man, with a balding spot on the back of his head.
"Yes, it's a pleasure to be here Capitan." Harry held out his hand, and the Capitan took it and they shook.
"Thank you for accepting our offer." The Capitan motioned to the chair behind Harry, "Please sit." Harry sat. "We've heard only good things about you since we started looking for a new teacher, our last, couldn't work in this foe-atmosphere we have on the Station. We were happy to know that you'd be joining our little community here."
"I never thought that I would be able to have the opportunity to live on the station, as I don't have a scientific background." Harry crossed his legs as he made himself comfortable, in the not so comfortable chair.
The Capitan smiled, "Well we have a fantastic group of teachers here, many of whom didn't think they'd be able to live here either. Now you understand that you'll be teaching middle and high school English right?"
"Of course. I was told that when I was asked. I did study secondary English Education, as my major."
The Capitan gave him a greasy smile, "Yes I was aware of that. I'm sure you're tired, so I'll take you to your suite now. Your boxes should be there now. The school sessions don't start for another two weeks, we try to give the children here a realistic school year, as they do on Earth, we base it off of the American school year naturally, so most of them are on a 'vacation' of sorts." He stood up and motioned towards the door as he spoke.
Harry moved along with him, and listened as he talked about the station, and the many different aspects of it. When they arrived at the door that opened to Harry's suite, the Capitan showed him how to open it; he would be able to set it to open to a specific number key that Harry could change at any time.
As the door opened and Harry stepped in the Capitan grabbed Harry's arm and pulled him back, and with the other hand stroked Harry's cheek, "You know we could become good friends. I read your file. We could be very good friends." He leaned down farther seemingly to kiss him, and Harry couldn't do anything but stand there, he was petrified.
"Capitan! I was looking for you. We were trying to figure out if we could move some of the chemicals to the zero gravity room, so we could try something… oh. I'm sorry. Am I interrupting something?" Draco blinked, sounding slightly startled.
The Capitan clenched his hand that was on Harry's upper arm, making Harry wince, "No, Dr. Malfoy, Mr. Potter and I were only talking." He let go of Harry's arm, and moved away. "I'll have to talk to some of the others about your request Dr. but I'm sure it will be no problem." He nodded and began to walk away muttering angrily to himself.
Harry slid down the door frame and sighed in relief when he knew for sure that the Capitan was out of sight.
"That was stupid you know, you could have said no and pushed him away."
Harry looked up, "I know, but I froze."
Draco clucked his tongue. "Here," he held out his hand to help Harry up.
Looking up and seeing t he hand Harry took it, and reveled in how strong and soft it was, at the same time, and allowed the other man to help him off the floor. "Thank you, we were never formally introduced, I'm Harry Potter, I'll be teaching secondary English here."
"It's a pleasure to meet you Harry. I'm Draco Malfoy, and I'm a scientist here on the ship, I'm doing independent research on a cure for several types of cancer."
They shook hands and just gazed into each others eyes for a good several minutes, not speaking, not letting go of the others hand. When they realized that they were just standing there, they laughed.
"Well I haven't really moved in yet. But would you like to come in and preview the suite with me?" Harry asked shyly.
"I'd love too, but I've got a pot of coffee in my own suite that's just about ready. Perhaps you'd like a cup?" Draco smiled and tilted his head, to the side.
"A cup of coffee sounds wonderful. Where is your suite?"
Draco pointed to the door right next to his own. "Right here." He gave a big goofy grin and keyed in the password. As the door whooshed open he gestured to Harry to go down before him. "Please, after you." He said and gave a silly little bow.
Harry chuckled softly and went down into the suite. "Wow, Draco this is incredible. You did a really great job with this." He covered a yawn, as he looked around the front room, which served as a living room. It was a blue motif, the walls being an almost icy blue, and the chairs dark midnight blue leather. Harry turned to look at Draco, "Let me guess, blue is your favorite color?"
"How ever did you guess? Yeah, it's my fav, and I'm glad you like it. Now you sit and I'll get the coffee. Cream, sugar? Anything?" Draco smiled at his guest, the newest teacher, and by far the cutest.
"Just sugar thanks." Harry said, as he sat down in o of the extremely comfy chairs. "Does everyone get chairs like this or only special people?"
Draco came back into the room carrying two cups of coffee and handed one to Harry who took it and breathed in the aroma appreciatively, "Everyone, there's a special pad that you have on the wall," he pointed to a small key pad on the wall, "that allows you to change the color of everything, when ever you want. It's pretty cool."
They sat talking like that for a good two hours, until Draco could tell that Harry was getting really tired, "Here why don't I get you into bed, and you can set up everything tomorrow."
Harry couldn't do anything but allow the other man to help him back into his own suite and get him into the bed that was at the back. Yawning once more, as Draco put down the shades and turned off the lights, he quietly said, "Thank you 'Co."
Draco was startled at the use of a nickname, and looked back at Harry who was already sound asleep on the bed, "You're welcome Harry." He then turned around and left the suite.