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Chapter five: Find out

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Draco sighed as he rubbed his left eye. "I noticed this last night. It is the same mark that my father drew on the night of the 'preparing'" he told the Potion Master that was looking at the many bottles on the shelves.

Harry had quietly taken a seat beside the blond, careful not to touch him. 'There is that word again! What do they mean with 'preparing'?' he wondered as Snape came back to the table on which the Malfoy heir was sitting upon.

Snape sighed and opened the jar he held in his hand. "Tell me what happened last night that might have caused this. I need to know if I'm to find a cure for this" he said and dipped a spoon into the lime green and mixed it around. He didn't want to tell the boy, but he had found out something about the spell. Something bad. He just hoped that Lucius hadn't prepared his son in the way Snape feared.

''Cure it'? Is Draco ill? Is the 'preparing' a poison?' Harry frowned.

The young Malfoy placed his hands in his lap and looked at them. He wasn't really comfortable telling the Potions Master about his encounter with the boy-who-lived. "After I left you I wanted to go out to get some fresh air to clear my mind" he started.

Snape nodded and crushed a small leaf in his hand before mixing it into the goo in the jar.

"That is understandable"

Draco smiled before closing his eyes. "I heard someone following me so I hid to see who it was. Turns out that Potter had listened to us when we talked and he wanted to know what we meant but I shoved him away and said that I wanted to be alone. As usual, Potter never listens to anyone and followed me. I ran to the lake for I thought that he wouldn't follow but he found me a few minutes later… I still don't know how he figured out where I was" Draco said and crossed his feet.

'I told ya, I use to go there when I needed to think' Harry placed his chin in his hand as he listened. 'Besides there was a small voice that told me… now when I think of it, who was it that told me where Draco was? Ack! Too many questions and school has barely started! Not only must I find out what 'preparing' is but I need to find out who's voice I heard!' he groaned inside his mind. 'One thing at the time'

Draco watched as the black haired man placed the jar over a light to warm it up a bit. "He started to ask me questions I didn't want to answer and the said that he knew about us talking. I got angry and was going to punch him"

Snape smirked. "Well, your family is known for their short temper" he chuckled. "Continue"

Draco smiled. He liked Snape as if he was his own uncle. "Well, as I said, I was going to punch him but he tripped me and held me down to the ground. He started to tell me that he didn't want me to be hurt by the dark lord and stuff like that"

Harry wrinkled his nose. 'That's true'

"Then he did something that I think activated this" he said and pointed to his eye. "He covered my eyes and said that he liked how they looked" he said remembering the moment as he spoke. 'His hands felt so soft against… DON'T GO THERE!' he yelled at himself.

Snape nodded and took the warm jar into his and. He dipped a finger in the goo and lifted Draco's face with his other hand. He started to smear the lime green potion over the black skin surrounding Draco's eye. "That is not good" he muttered as he frowned.

Draco sat still as the Potion Master fiddled with his eye. "But I thought you have to say 'your sight is mine' to activate it and that it had to be the man you were prepared for" he said as Snape pulled away.

"This potion will hide the symbol from view, but your eye will remain blue until I find a way to cover it" The black haired Potion teacher sighed and sat back down in his chair. "Well, your father never mentioned HIS name, correct?" he asked and got a nod in response. "When your father prepared you, he thought of the dark lord and the spell might have gone wrong if another person let's say… Weasly would have been the one who touched you last night…"

"But shouldn't it have gone wrong, I mean it was Potter who did this and not the dark lord! Besides he never said the words needed!" Draco cut his Potion Master off.

Snape rubbed his chin. "Well it should have… I guess since Potter has some of the dark lord's powers within him, the spell thought that it was Potter your father prepared you for" he sighed. "In which book did you read about the spell?"

Draco looked to the side as he thought. "'Dark Magic and Forbidden Spells' why?"

Snape stood up and placed his hands on Draco's shoulders. "That book is old. Forget everything you have read and I'll tell you what the spell is really about" he said. "This spell your father has put on you is an old and dangerous spell. Dark wizards that wanted powerful followers and wanted to make sure that they were indeed loyal to them created it. The problem back then was that there weren't many who wanted to be with a dark wizard since they could be killed for it was not legal to be a dark wizard. The wizards went together and created the spell you are under now: Nepthrun. The spell couldn't be cast like other spells, the victims needed to be prepared for it. As your father did, they prepared the victims. They drew symbols on the chosen one's body, and then activated them. There were many different symbols that could be used, one to bind your mind to the wizard, another to bind your heart and so on. They worried that the symbols would be visible but it turned out that they could be covered up with a charm. Now there is a special potion that is used to draw the symbols with, a potion that disappears after the symbols are activated. I the potion is found at your home you are sent to Azkeban. Anyhow the Nepthrun spell couldn't be discovered and there was no known cure for it. When a victim was prepared they couldn't get rid of it, but a few managed to avoid finishing the spell for there was one thing wrong with the spell. After the symbols were activated, the dark wizards thought that everything was done, but it turned out that the wizards had to take… how to say this? Hmmm… The wizards had to WANT the mind of the prepared one for the symbol to take affect" he finished. "You were prepared for HIM but Potter has now activated one of the symbols"

Draco listened and nodded. He couldn't say that he wasn't confused but he now understood a little more. "But he never said that he WANTED my sight, he only said that he LIKED my eyes"

Snape looked at him with his black eyes. "Potter must feel more for you otherwise the symbol would never appear. He said that he liked your eyes, but he truly wants you, isn't it so, Potter?" he asked.

Harry tensed when Snape said his name. 'He knows I'm here!' he asked himself, but he didn't say anything or move an inch.

Draco looked at Snape with wide eyes. "What are you…?"

Snape walked over to Draco's other side and reached out into the empty space beside the blond. He smirked when he felt something under his hand and gripped the material in his fist and yanked it away from the person that was under it. He smirked at the startled boy. "No point in hiding when this concerns you as well" he said and threw the cloak across the bench.

Harry gaped at the Potion Master. "How did you know that I was here?" he asked. Did Snape have x-ray vision?

The young Malfoy turned in his seat and almost fell of the table. "Potter! He's here!" he gasped.

Snape nodded and looked at Harry with pricing black eyes. "He's been here all along. I noticed him when you entered the door. I must admit that my floors aren't cleaned very often and I noticed two sets of footprints in the dust, to small to be my own. Also, when you removed the bandage I heard a small noise and after many years from patrolling the hall here at Hogwarts I head it and recognized it" he said and looked at the two. "I didn't say anything earlier because I needed to know a few things and it were best if Potter heard the history of the Nepthrun spell" he said and went back to his seat. "I'll take twenty points from your house for pulling that little stunt and you also get detention with Mr Filch tonight"

Draco looked at Potter with wide eyes. His hands shook as they fisted into his school robes. "Didn't you listen to me when I said to leave me alone?" he growled at the blushing teen.

Harry didn't look Draco in the eyes. "I couldn't help it. There was a voice in my head that wanted me to follow you and so I did" he said and rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry"

Snape looked at Potter and placed his hands on Draco's shoulders to hold him back for the young Malfoy looked like he was about to blow. "Calm down, Mr Malfoy. Potter might be of great help and it wouldn't be wise to send him to the med now"

Draco got to his feet and turned around to face the man. "What do you mean? How can Potter be of help?" he asked.

Harry didn't move from his seat but listened to the two. His emerald eyes followed every movement they made.

The Potion Master motioned for the young blond to sit. "You don't want Him to have you, right?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Even if Potter has activated one of the 'prepare' symbols, Voldemort can activate the rest. If you don't want to give yourself to the dark lord, you have to give yourself to Potter"

Harry and Draco gaped at the Potion Master. "Y-you m-mean that I-I have to give myself to POTTER!" Draco asked.

Snape nodded. "That is what I said. I looked through every book about this spell and as I said, there is no cure for it. You have to bind yourself to Potter to avoid the dark lord" he told the blond. He looked up and was surprised when he saw tears in the young boy's eyes. "What's wrong?"

Draco could feel his heart sink. He looked up and a tear slipped down his cheek. "I haven't told you what my father prepared me for," he said. His life was over staring from now.

Harry could feel a small tug at his heart. Whatever Draco meant it couldn't be good.

Draco looked up. "Father drew a few symbols. One to bind my sight, one to bind my breath, one to bind my mind, one to bind my life, one to bind my pleasure and finally… the most horrible one…" he said and started to sob.

Snape moved over so that he could warp one arm around the teen. "Tell me" he whispered. This far it looked ok.

Draco looked up and sobbed out the last symbol. "… one to bind m-y… future heir…"

Harry gasped and stood. "You mean that your father wanted you to have a child with Voldemort! Then he is really nuts! You are a boy, Draco and boys don't have children if the spell didn't turn you into a girl!"

Snape threw him a sharp glare. "If you bed Draco now, he'll become pregnant. That is how the spell works. The spell can make a male pregnant even if we aren't exactly built for it. Lucius is sick, I agree, but there is no way out from this" he said and lifted the sobbing teen face to meet his. "Listen to me, Draco. You have to do this before the dark lord gets you or anything else happens. I can't force you but it is ether Potter or HIM" he said and whipped away a tear with his thumb. "I'll be here for you, Draco and I believe that Potter will as well"

Harry sat down beside Draco. Everything was happening so fast! He just found out that he had to be bounded to his rival, aka secret crush, AND that he had to… sleep with the blond. Harry wished that he had Hermione's time clock right now but he remembered that she had given it back to the Headmaster after the little episode with Sirius. He smiled when Draco looked at him. 'I'll help him in everyway I can, but it is going to be hard when I know that he doesn't even like me'

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Blaise wandered down the hall with Pansy in tow. He was looking left and right, trying to spot his blond friend. 'Where are you, Draco? Class is about to start' he wondered as they opened the door to the dungeons. He stopped when he saw the blond exist form the Potion classroom. "Hey, Drake! There you are!" He called and jogged up to the blond. He frowned as he saw the person beside the young Malfoy.

'Potter? What's is Draco doing hanging out with Potter?' "Shouldn't you go back in, class is about to start? And why are you here, Potter?" he asked. He couldn't help but feel a bit jealous when Harry took Draco's hand.

"Draco is feeling ill so I'm taking him to the med" Harry told the Slytherin.

Blaise raised one eyebrow and looked at the blond. "Weren't you going to the med before class? About the eye, which by the way looks ok" he asked. "There is something you aren't telling me, Malfoy"

Draco didn't look up at his friend. His mind swirled with thoughts about the conversation and his future. Was he going to have Potter's child? Snape had told him that the black haired teen must feel something for him since he activated the spell, but was it love? Could he learn love Potter?

Harry noticed Draco's silence and the many eyes that now landed on them. 'I better get out from here! I really should have thanked Snape for letting us skip the first Potions class this year. He really must like Draco' he thought.

"Yo, Harry! Where did you go? You never came back" Ron called as he and Hermione came up to them.

Harry mentally sighed. 'Crap! I can't tell them about this! Think, Potter, think…' "Ehh, sorry, Ron, I guess my mind slipped" he said. 'Yeah right, I could have slapped a sign on my forehead that said 'liar''

Hermione frowned. "Well, your mind must have slipped a lot since you are standing in the dungeons holding Malfoy. What are you hiding from us?" she asked.

Blaise nodded. "I just asked the same thing" he said and looked at the blond. He growled low in his throat as he saw the arm around Draco's shoulder tighten slightly.

Harry gulped. 'This is not good, not good at all!'

"May I ask why you are standing here when you should be in my classroom?" the familiar voice of Snape was heard.

Hermione quickly turned to face the Potion Master with a smile. "I m sorry, professor Snape" she apologized. He grabbed Ron's sleeve and pulled him forwards the classroom. "Come on Harry, Ron"

Ron looked over his shoulder and saw that Harry wasn't moving an inch. "'arry are you coming?"

Blaise moved to Draco's side. "Shall we" he asked and took Draco's hand in his. He was surprised when Draco yanked it from his grip and clutched it against his chest. 'What is going on here?'

Snape watched as the three students hesitated. "Didn't I order you to take Mr Malfoy to the med, Potter or do I need to tell you again?" he asked. 'Hope those three idiots get the drift. Draco don't need anyone else to finding out'

Harry looked at Snape and smiled. "Sorry, professor. I'll go right now. Come on, Malfoy, lets get your butt to the med" he said and tried to sound like himself.

Blaise glared after the two. 'Something is up and I don' like it. Not at all'

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Sorry if I confuse you all, but when I sit in my room and write, I loose my concentration!