Beta Reader: April (MalfoysQueen)
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Yours Truly
Chapter four: What's wrong with them?
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Harry mumbled as he turned over to his other side to avoid the sunlight that hit him in the eyes. He sighed and tried to go back to sleep.
Ron yawned and sat up on his bed, rubbing the back of his head. He stretched and looked over to see if Harry was awake. When he saw the snoring teen, he sighed. Slipping on his slippers he padded over to the black haired boy and shook his shoulder. "Yo, 'arry, it's time to get up"
Harry swatted at the hand on his shoulder and mumbled a 'go away' before pulling the sheets over his head.
Ron raised an eyebrow and then grinned. He jumped up on the bed and straddled the sleeping teen. He yanked the covers from Harry's grip and attacked his sides with his fingers. He laughed as Harry started to struggle under him and soon had his friend in a fit of laughter. "Are you going to wake up and get ready or do I have to tickle you until first class starts?" he asked and paused for a few seconds to get an answer.
Harry laughed and nodded. "I'm up, I'm up! I hate you!" he giggled and sat up as Ron removed himself of him.
"Yeah, and I like you to!" Ron smirked. He went back to his bed and opened his trunk. "We got to hurry if we want breakfast and I m starving" he said and pulled out a fresh robe.
Harry fetched his glasses that rested on his nightstand. Placing them on his nose he yawned.
"What do we have first? Class I mean" he asked as he started to remove his pajamas.
Ron scratched his chin. "If I'm not wrong we have Potion with the Slytherins and then Charms… we can ask Hermione when we meet her in the common room" he said and tied his shoes.
Harry's heart skipped a beat at the though of seeing the blond Malfoy heir. He had done a lot of thinking last night when they had gone to the library. He had mostly wondered about the spell Draco had talked to Snape about. What it was and how did the spell work? How was Draco 'prepared?'
Ron noticed his friend's blank stare at his shoes. "Harry? What's on your mind this morning?" he asked, waking the emerald-eyed teen.
Harry looked up at Ron and smiled. "I'm ok, I just let my mind wander a bit" he said and finished dressing. He opened a drawer in his nightstand and drew out a brush. Even though he knew that it wouldn't help his wild hair he ran the brush through it before placing the brush back into the drawer. He turned to Ron and smiled. "I m just going to make my bed before heading down so I'll be joining you in the common room" he said and moved to his bed. He hoped that the red haired teen would agree and leave. He had something to do.
Ron frowned. "You said the exact same thing yesterday and then you never showed up" he said and moved over to his friend's side. He looked over Harry's shoulder and to the bed. "Besides, don't the house elves usually do the beds?" he asked. He knew that Harry had something up his sleeve.
Harry stopped his hands. 'This is not good. I don't need Ron to be suspicious! What to say!' he panicked. Smiling he turned to Ron. "Yeah I know, but yesterday I got hindered like I said. And I have listened to Hermione about her project for the elves rights and I just want to be nice to them and do my bed for once. There is nothing to worry about"
Ron gave him a look that said 'yeah right' before turning to leave the room. "What ever, Harry. When you feel like talking, come to me" he said before leaving the room to meet up with Hermione.
Harry looked after him. 'He sounded like me when I talked to Draco yesterday. Well, got to get myself ready' he thought and quickly moved to his trunk. He dug into it and found his invisible cloak. He shrunk it and placed it in his robe pocket. Making sure that he got everything he needed for the day, he headed for the common room.
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Hermione looked up when she heard the door open and Ron stepped out. "Isn't Harry up yet?" she asked when she noticed that the black haired teen hadn't followed him.
Ron sat down beside his friend on the couch. "He's up, but he wanted to make his own bed for some reason. Hey, Hermione, have you noticed something odd about Harry lately?" he asked the brown haired girl.
Hermione thought for a minute before nodding. "When you mention it, yes I have. It's odd that both Malfoy and Harry were gone during the sorting yesterday…"
"And the fact that Malfoy hasn't been his old self… there is something going on here and Harry isn't telling us what. We got to keep an eye on him, Mione, what if Malfoy has cast a spell on Harry and is going to deliver him to the dark lord?" he started to speculate.
Hermione sighed. "Stop talking nonsense, Ron. If it had to do with the-one-who's-name-shall-not-be-named, Harry would tell us. Besides, everyone has to have a secret"
"What are you two talking about?"
Ron squeaked and threw his arms around Hermione. He looked up and saw that it was Harry who had spoken. "It's only you, 'Arry" he sighed.
Harry looked between the two and smiled slyly. "Am I… hmm… interrupting something?"
Ron and Hermione looked at each other before jumping apart. "No! You just startled us that's all, right, Mione?" Ron laughed and looked at the girl. He blushed inside at the thought of hugging Hermione.
Hermione cleared her throat before standing up. "Now when you are finished making your bed, shall we head down and have breakfast?"
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Blaise knocked of the bathroom door. "Hey, Draco, are you done yet? I want to head down and have breakfast but I can't go unless you come or Pansy will hex my butt" he called. He had been surprised when he had awoken and Draco had already been out from the bed. The bed was already done so it almost looked like the blond hadn't sleep in the bed at all. He hadn't seen the blond ever since he had gotten of the train and had been worried when he hadn't shown up at the sorting.
Draco sat on the floor in the bathroom. His bottom hurt from sitting on the hard floor the entire night. His left hand was covering his left eye and he let out a sigh. 'Blaise is serious. I can't stay here and hide. I need to talk to Snape, but I don't want anyone to see this cursed eye until then…' he thought and stood up with a groan of discomfort. He looked into the mirror and saw that the eye was still blue and the skin surrounding it was black as the night.
He looked a little to the right of the mirror and spotted a med cabinet. He opened it and looked for anything that could hide his eye from view. 'Pain killers, bandages… AH! This could work!' he thought and pulled out a small white bandage that usually was used to stop bleedings with. He noted that it was large enough to cover his eye. He pulled out some surgical tape from the cabinet and carefully placed the bandage over his eye and used the tape to make it stay there. He put the tape back and closed the cabinet before looking at his handiwork. 'It isn't pretty but it has to work for now'
Using a spell to fix his dirty hair and smoothen out the wrinkles in his robes, he opened the bathroom door.
Blaise looked up and saw the blond. "There you are… what the heck happened to you?" he suddenly asked when he spotted the bandage covering his best friend's eye. He captured Draco's face in his hands and had a closer look. "You got yourself hurt the first day at school?" he asked.
Draco swatted the hand from his face and walked past him. "I ran into a stupid first year and wasn't prepared for him to be so strong" he lied.
Blaise laughed loudly. "You got hurt by a FIRST YEAR! You, Draco Lucius Malfoy was over powered by someone who is younger and smaller then you!" he laughed and whipped a tear from his eye. "Are you going to see the madam Pomfrey after breakfast?" he asked when he had calmed down.
Draco nodded. "I m going to see her, but I just wanted to have something in my stomach. I'll probably leave earlier so I don't miss Potion even though it is with the Gryffindorks" he said and entered the open door to the Great Hall. 'The last thing I need to see is Potter. If it weren't for him I would still 'own' my own sight…' he muttered inside his head.
The Great Hall was filled with laughter and talking boys and girls. The breakfast that was on the tables smelled wonderful and everybody was smiling.
Draco looked over to the Gryffindor table and immediately spotted the-boy-who-lived. Frowning he walked over to his seat and sat down. He wasn't surprised when Pansy started to fuss over him and his 'wounded' eye. "Please, Pansy, I m trying to eat" he growled. He wasn't in the mood right now.
"But, Draco-sweetie, what happened? You didn't have that last night" she said and brushed her fingers over the white bandage.
Draco grabbed her hand and drew it away from his face. "I didn't know that I had hurt myself until I went to wash up. The 'dirt' you saw last night is the result of my little 'chat' with that first year," he muttered.
Ron swallowed his mouthful of toast before lowering his head. "Have you seen Malfoy today? He has a bandage in the face" he whispered to the two beside him.
Harry washed down his cereal with some pumpkin juice before looking over to the Slytherin table. He spotted his crush and saw that Ron was right. 'What happened to him? Has he been attacked? I hope he isn't seriously hurt… I would hate it if he lost his eye…' he thought.
Draco was about to sink his teeth into his toast when his left eye started to sting. He placed the toast on his plate and placed his hand over his eye as the sting grew into a burning sensation. 'What is going on? Why does it start to hurt now?' he wondered. He looked up and his silver eye caught the emerald ones of his rival. 'It must be because of him! He is probably worried about my eye and the spell is reacting to his worry! I got to go to Snape!' he told himself and stood up.
Blaise stopped chatting with another Slytherin when Draco started to leave the table. "Where are you going, Drake?" he asked. He caught Draco's wrist as he passed him. 'My, I didn't know that Draco's skin was this soft. I wonder if his hair is as soft as it looks…' he thought and rubbed a thump over the flesh in his hand.
Draco winced as the pain grew a little worse. "I'm going to the med now, Blaise. My eye started to hurt…" he said and yanked his wrist free. "I'll see you at potion" he said and left the Great Hall.
Harry watched as Draco left the Great Hall. He finished his cereal and stood up. "I forgot to bring my Advanced Potions book. I'll get it and see you two later at class, ok?" he said and didn't wait for an answer as he quickly made his way after the blond.
Ron sipped some juice and looked at Hermione. "Now, why would Harry follow Malfoy…" he wondered.
Hermione looked down into the cup of tea she was holding. 'Because he has a huge crush on him… but I can't tell Ron that or he'll flip' "Just because they leave at the same time doesn't mean that Harry is following him, Ron. Drop it ok? Harry has a hard time dealing with the dark lord's return and we need to support him" she said and finished her tea. 'I hope that Harry tells him soon… if anyone deserves to be happy, it's Harry'
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Harry stopped for a minute to pull out his invisibility cloak and put it on before following the blond. He had thought that Draco would head for the med but was surprised when the blond took a left turn and headed for the dungeons. 'Where is he go… Snape' he figured out. He stopped every time the blond turned around to see if anyone was following him. He watched as the blond stopped before the door that lead to the Potion classroom and knocked on the old wood.
The door opened and Snape poked his head out and spotted Draco. "Mr Malfoy, what brings you here? Aren't you having breakfast as everyone else? And what is it with the bandage?" he asked.
Draco looked up at his teacher. "Can we talk inside? It is about you-know-what" he said and looked around. "I don't want to risk anyone seeing us… or hear us for that matter"
Snape nodded and left the blond walk into the room.
Harry quickly slinked past the Potion Master and into the classroom before the door shut behind him. He made sure that the cloak hadn't gotten snagged in the door before walking as close as he dared to the two by Snape's desk.
Snape sat down in his chair and looked at the young Malfoy heir. He was worried that the young one was hurt as he looked at the bandage. "What is wrong?" he asked.
Draco sighed and lifted his hands and removed the bandage. He opened his eyes and had to blink a few times so that his left eye would adjust to the light. He noticed that the pain he had felt was gone. "This is what's wrong" he said and showed the black haired man his eye.
Harry had to place his hands over his mouth to hold back the gasp that threatened to leave him. He stared at the blonde's left eye and noticed that it was now blue instead of the silver color he had gotten to love. The black skin around it made Draco look like a raccoon. 'What happened? He didn't have that yesterday!'
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I just love to cut chapter of when they get good!
