Chapter 6.5 - The Altercation (Draco's Perspective)

A/N: I realised that because i'm writing this story in Harry's perspective, there aren't as many feelings as there needs to be for a romance. It can't really be helped much because in this story Harry doesn't have existing feelings for Draco. So I thought it might be nice to do this chapter in Draco's perspective as well to give you an idea of what he is feeling too. Let me know what you think in a review, if you all like it then I might do more extra chapters from his perspective. Enjoy :)

Draco whipped around, his arm extended with his wand pointing towards the noise, but there was nothing there. Confusion swept over him, he stood there a moment longer waiting for something or someone to jump out at him, but nothing did, so slowly he turned around and looked back at his notes. Just then he heard it. A faint exhale of breath. Then, he remembered Potters annoying habit of following people (especially him) with his invisibility cloak (he had got to get one of those) turning around again, he cast a silent 'Expeliarmus' towards the noise. Draco was rewarded with a wand flying through the air; he caught it, and looked up as Potter's cloak was thrown off of him. Draco was furious. How dare Potter follow him? However, as much as Draco was angry with Harry, he could feel his heart beating faster just from looking at him, with his messy black hair, and deep green eyes which at that point in time, made him look a bit like a deer caught in headlights…

'NO!'

Draco cursed himself for thinking those things, and decided to take it out on Potter, forgetting his two wands, he launched at Potter, punching him straight on the nose, hearing several bones break, he guessed that not only was Potter's nose smashed but a couple of his fingers as well. Brushing aside the pain, Draco grabbed him and tripped him up, pulling both of them to the floor. Draco successfully managed to pin Potter to the ground. Looking at his face, Draco could tell Potter was distracted, he could see all of the stray thoughts running through his head. However, this ended abruptly, when Draco was thrown off and it was Harry on top. Once again, Draco's heart began to beat faster, so much so, he was worried Potter would be able to hear it. Draco did not like being in this position, for a number of reasons, so remembering Potter's broken nose he lashed out with his forehead, crunching it against Potter's nose. This was the right thing to do, as Potter stumbled back allowing Draco enough time to get to his feet. Draco attempted another punch, but as he got closer, Potter side stepped and punched him in the jaw. Pain exploded across Draco's face, although gladly nothing was broken, glancing at Potter, Draco could see that Harry wasn't expecting another attack so soon after that hit, so taking full advantage of Potter's lapse in concentration Draco wrapped his leg around Potters and yanked him to the floor. Draco pinned Harry down again, expecting to say something menacing and threatening, but looking down, he saw Harry's face; covered in sweat, and panting heavily, his beautiful green eyes open wide. His eyebrows were knitted together in what should have been a scared expression, but in reality was more like apprehension. Harry wasn't scared, he was confused.

At once, Draco realised all of his mistakes. He should have hexed Harry rather than fight him like a muggle, it would have cause way more damage, especially since Harry was unarmed; also there was all of this floor time, rather than actually trying to hurt Harry. Of course he was going to be confused, as Draco had been acting weirdly all day. Those stupid notes! Why the hell did Harry have to get involved.

He looked back down at Harry's face. Bad idea. Immediately, he felt all the blood in his body rush downwards towards his groin. Panic stricken, Draco froze, Harry was inches away from discovering Draco's true feelings. The ones that made him hate himself. The ones that made him think he shouldn't have come back in the first place. Harry moved slightly, and that was enough, Draco leaped off of the floor, looked at Harry once more and ran away, hoping that the darkness in the room would hide his body enough.

It was only when he closed the door that he realised two things. One, during the fight he had dropped all of the notes, which Potter was bound to find now, and two, Draco still had Harry's wand. Draco didn't dare go back inside after that mortifying incident so he left the corridor, knowing that sooner or later he had to face Potter, not just to give him back his wand. He knew that Potter would want to talk about those notes. He healed his hand then headed down to the great hall to try and stomach some food; sitting down in between Blaise and Pansy, he put some food on his plate then proceeded to pick at it for the next 20 minutes. He could tell that Pansy was getting annoyed because he kept ignoring her attempt at a conversation. He slowly looked at everyone around him, watched everyone sitting down, how they talked and laughed so easily. His eyes wandered over to the Gryffindor table. How easy must their life be, known to everyone as the hero's of the school. No one hated them. Moving his eyes further down the table he spotted Granger and Weasly, which wasn't hard, Weasly looked like his head was on fire, and Granger had a birds nest for hair. They seemed worried as they talked to the person in front of them, the person with shockingly messy hair, and bright green eyes. The person with blood pouring down their face; the person staring right at Draco.

Draco looked away hurriedly. He could feel his cheeks growing noticeably pink and really hoped that Potter's eyesight was as bad as everyone said.

"Draco, whats wrong, you've hardly eaten anything?" Pansy purred at him. Draco definitely wasn't in the mood.

He wolfed down everything on his plate then, leaped off of the bench and practically ran out of the hall. Once again, Draco was mortified, he just hoped he could control his feelings in the next days potions class, where there really would be no escaping.

A/N: Aww Draco! Don't you just love his deepest darkest secret. Reviews welcome.