i just wanted to say that i do apologize to anyone who thinks it's sick and twisted that i am waiting for reviews before posting more story, but i'm not going to stop. i'm not doing it to stoke my ego, or anything like that, i'm doing it because i need to know what you like and dislike in my stories so i can improve as a writer. that's what the free-viewing sites and reviews are for. thank you.
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Harry listened to his mate's explanation of Dreamwalkers with fascination, but it didn't explain why he didn't want to mate with him. He was being rejected for no reason, as far as he could see. Shakes started setting in, and he knew he wouldn't be able to control it very much longer. Draco noticed the look on his face.
"Something you don't understand?" he asked, concerned.
"Why does this keep you from mating with me? It feels like you're just using it as an excuse . . .." he died off at Draco's anger at his doubt.
"I was getting to that. Most Dreamwalkers, they lost their gift if they mated with someone without a bond."
"So you can't mate with me because you don't want to loose your gift?" Now Harry looked sad and resigned, but the fear lurking in his eyes made Draco wonder exactly what he'd resigned himself to.
"No, I can't mate with you without bonding with you."
"What did you think I was trying to do? It's how I would bond with you, is mating!" Harry curled in on himself, shakes from being rejected growing impossible to hide. He didn't think he had much longer to argue it, and he didn't want his mate to see him weak, see him dying. He stood and moved towards the fireplace where he had entered the manor.
"Where are you going?!" Draco asked sharply.
"Leaving."
"But I don't want you to go!"
"Should have thought of that before you rejected me. Did you think I'd stay after that?" He walked as quickly as he could towards the fireplace, and the ornamental vase of Floo powder, but staggered into a bookshelf halfway there. 'Damn, I shouldn't have stopped to argue,' he thought as Draco gasped and caught him, half-carrying him into his bedroom; Harry was too weak to protest.
As Harry was shivering violently now, Draco tucked him into bed, piling blankets on top of him, then called an elf, thinking to have it fetch his mother. The elf looked shocked when she saw Harry's condition, but understanding.
"What's wrong with him, elf?!" Draco demanded. She looked at him sadly.
"Hes is dying, Master Draco, sir." She answered simply.
"WHAT?! Why?"
"Broken bond, Master Draco, sir."
"WHAT broken bond?" he exclaimed impatiently.
"Tully must ask a question to helps Master Draco, sir." She quivered violently, as though expecting to be hit, but Draco had more important things on his mind at the moment.
"Fine, ask. Just hurry up."
"Did Master Draco pushes him away, makes him think yous don't wants him?" Draco nodded silently. "Do him still thinks that?" Draco nodded again. "Then you's breaks his connection to yous, Master Draco sir. Hims species is very delicate, before the bonding the connection breaks very easily, and theys is fading very fast once it's breaks. Yous rejecting him, Master Draco sir. He's dying without yous." The elf looked sad.
"Can I fix this?" Draco asked desperately, for the moment unaware of the inappropriateness of asking the elf for instructions. The elf nodded.
"Connections is easy broken, but theys is easy fixed, too. Yous just has to kiss him Master Draco sir. But its has to bes an intimate kiss, Master Draco sir." Draco nodded his understanding, and dismissed the elf. He might be willing to have the elf explain things to him, but he wasn't willing to have it there while he was kissing someone.
He slid onto the bed, where Harry had gone deathly pale, the slight rise and fall of his chest as he breathed the only sign that he still lived, and pressed a kiss onto his lips. Not receiving a response, he deepened the kiss slightly. 'Its has to bes an intimate kiss, Master Draco sir.' The elf's squeaky voice echoed in his mind.
'Well, here goes nothing.' He tilted his head slightly and forced his tongue past unresponsive lips, kissing Harry deeply, sliding his tongue over sensitive places, hoping to god this worked, because if Harry died, he'd be devastated. When Harry stirred, and started to respond, he pulled away, nearly crying with relief, and laid his head against Harry's chest. Harry's hand weakly came to rest on his hair, without even the energy to pet it as he had recently whenever he was touching Draco's hair, but his color was already better. It looked like he was recovering even faster than he'd deteriorated.
"Draco?" came the weak question after a couple of minutes.
"Shh, I'm here. Rest."
"Draco, why'd you bring me back?" Harry asked a short while later, his voice sounding almost normal again.
"Because I don't want you to die, you dolt. I didn't know you'd feel rejected when I said no, or that it'd effect you so much." Harry didn't answer. "Harry, I want you, I do. The gift isn't more important to me than you are. If I had to choose between you and it, I'd choose you. Just like that, I'd choose you." Draco hesitated for a moment, then slid back up from his position resting against Harry's chest, to kiss him again. This action caused a fire to explode within Harry, who crushed Draco to him, kissing him fiercely.
He rolled them over so he was on top of Draco, tearing his shirt open, scattering buttons everywhere. Draco let him, knowing he probably wouldn't be able to deal with the consequences of pushing him away again. Draco gasped as Harry bit a nipple before sucking on it, swirling his fingers around the other one. He harshly nipped his way up the sensitive skin on the side of Draco's neck, making Draco moan with the combination of pain and pleasure, then back down to his collarbone.
"Mine," he growled into Draco's collarbone, sucking strongly on the ridge it made, biting down when there was no response. "MINE," he repeated demandingly.
"Yours," Draco gasped, "yours." Harry smiled at him in approval, swirling his tongue over the now-red bite marks before moving to tenderly kiss the blond.
"Mine," he whispered lovingly. Draco nodded and pulled him down so he could curl up against his side, resting his head on Harry's chest.
"I'm sleepy . . .." he yawned. Harry immediately pulled him close, stroking his back and hair.
"Then go to sleep. I'll take care of you." Draco just smiled, knowing that it was an instinctive urge to protect his mate in a place he was not familiar with.
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author's note: i just wanted to point out that :
1) when they were arguing in the library, draco's retort was left unspoken, because before he could answer, harry collided with the shelf, and he was too worried to argue anymore
2) harry asked why draco brought him back because he took draco's reluctance to have sex with him as a personal rejection of him, and his feline instincts tell him that he doesn't deserve to live if his mate doesn't want him, and that his mate must know that being without said mate will kill him, therefore his mate must want him dead to deny him. twisted reasoning, and if it were consious thought, he'd see how ridiculous it is, but it's not. it's all subconsious where he doesn't even realize he's thinking it.
3) by the last bit, draco has realized how much of harry's responses are instenctual, rather than thought. and anyway, it's rather sweet that harry would immediately stop what he was doing to cuddle up with him, and promise to protect him, don't you think? anyone else would be upset at the interruption of their activities, but for harry, as long as there's a reasonable explination of why draco doesn't want to right now, everything's good. draco makes good use of this point in the future.
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and as shall now be usual, next part in 15 reviews. i think 15 is a good number for this story. -blows you all kisses- much love to my faithful reviewers. you have no idea how much it means to me to keep seeing the same names on reviews. because it tells me that you like my story enough to keep coming back and reading it.