Hee he, back again I am! Sorry, having a little Yoda moment you know? Maybe you don't, but just go with me on this. Saying things half backwards like Yoda is fun! Anyway, I hope you like this new addition to my story.

Okay… this will regretfully be my last chapter of this particular story of mine. All of you are awesome for reading and reviewing this and my other chapters on this story – I thank you for it most graciously! You all rock SO much!

Enough depressing stuff! Time to tell the winners of the contest! The winners of the character kisses are as follows:

fifespice wins a kiss from Cedric because she's the only one who's ever brought him up in a review!

LAUREN-THE-FAiRYxx and unforgivable curse caster get kisses from Draco... LUCKY!

everfire gets a kiss from Harry... AND me! You're awesome darling! Lol

No other Ron/Ginny/or Hemione kisses because no one else gave a good, decent, seriously-told-me-what-they-thought review so there you go!

On with the show!... for the last time! (sobs)

Chapter 5

(Harry POV)

"Harry I have to ask you something and I want a truthful answer from you." Kate had said jumping right to the point. "Are you in love with that boy I saw you kissing or not?"

"Kate." I started, unsure of what to say. No matter what I said to her, someone would end up getting hurt. If I was truthful one of them would be hurt emotionally, and if I fibbed the other experienced the pain.

"Just answer me Harry! I need to know how you feel! Which one do you love Harry, me or that pale boy?" Kate asked stiffly, her eyes loosing their characteristic glimmer of hope and happiness that I had always seen glinting there. It looked like that part of Kate had died and I couldn't help but feel like I had killed that happiness and hope with what I had done in the Hospital Wing. "I just want to know who has control over your heart Harry. Is it too much to ask for it to be me; is it unreasonable to hope that it's me that's in your heart?"

I stared deeply into her eyes making up my mind in an instant. I had to put her out of her pain and answer…

"Kate listen, I…" I began but the hand that suddenly gripped my shoulder threw me off course. Turning I came face to face with Ginny, who was panting. "Ginny, what is it? Is something wrong?"

"It's Malfoy, something's wrong with him." Ginny said through bursts of deep breaths. She must have run all the way from the Hospital Wing through the entire castle looking everywhere for me to tell me that Draco needed me. "Madam Pomfrey doesn't know what to do for him, she's never seen anything like this before or so she said."

"Oh God, I need to go to him! He needs me to be there!" I said anxiously as I scrambled up from where I had been sitting on the grass, running pell-mell toward the open castle doors with Ginny. I heard Kate running after me but didn't turn to look. Either she wanted to make sure Draco was alright or she really wanted an answer right at this very moment. Kate didn't matter right then, all that mattered was that I got to Draco in time.

"Oh! Potter, Weasley, Adair! Please don't come any closer that you have to it might be dangerous!" Madam Pomfrey called as the three of us rushed into the hospital room. What I saw nearly made me swoon, and I am so not the swooning type. I mean, I am a boy after all but never mind that. Ginny grabbed my arm protectively, steadying me so that I didn't fall to the floor in my horror. Kate grabbed my other arm to hold me back as I went to run to him, to help him.

Draco was lying in the same bed as when I had left him earlier that morning in a heavy sweat – sorta of. It depends on if it is considered lying down if a person's body is twitching and twisting and writhing around on the bed, his back arching painfully high as he screamed in his sleep. How anyone could sleep through that was amazing to me. Draco was in intense pain from the look flitting across his handsome face as I watched him from where Ginny and Kate stood holding me back so I didn't run to his side.

(End POV)

"Stop struggling Harry! There's nothing you can do that Madam Pomfrey can't – if there's any hope she'll find it and help him!" Kate said sternly. If anyone had been paying attention to her face, they might have noticed the imminent smirk resting on her face. If anyone had seen it they might have become suspicious of whether or not Kate and her recently discovered wand had anything to do with this. But no one saw her face, Ginny and Harry were both too busy watching Madam Pomfrey struggle with Draco in terror and dismay. "Ginny, we gotta get Harry out of here."

"You're right whoever-you-are. We should all get out of here." Ginny said grateful for a reason to leave as they combined their strength to pull Harry out of the Hospital Wing with some difficulty.

"No, Draco needs me!" Harry shouted trying to pull away from them. "He needs me to be there with them! I have to stay with him!"

"No Harry, its best if you don't stay in there." Hermione said suddenly from behind them. Apparently, Ron and Hermione had seen everyone rushing into the castle and decided to follow in case they were needed and just caught up as they were leaving. Both seemed to have caught a glimpse of Draco's writhing body through door as the other's opened it to drag Harry out. "It's not a good idea for you to say there. You'll only be doing yourself harm and be getting yourself depressed. It's distressing to have to stand aside and be apart form him when he needs you Harry, but it's the best thing you could do for him right now."

"He wouldn't want you to be upset over him mate." Ron said kindly, placing a hand on Harry's shoulder. They could all see tears in Harry's eyes as he looked up into all their faces in turn.

"Thanks guys, you're all right of course." Harry said softly. Ginny and Kate let Harry go and thankfully he didn't go rushing back into the Hospital Wing like they thought he would. "Let's go back to the common room then. I'm sure Madam Pomfrey will send word when he's well enough for us to see of if he gets any worse."

"And if she doesn't send for you I will." Ginny said determinedly. "I'll stay here and sit outside the door in case she comes out. Don't worry about me. I'm not as close to Draco as you all are so it doesn't upset me nearly as much to see him like this as it does for you. When Malfoy gets well enough for you all to see him I'll come get you."

"Thank you Ginny!" Harry smiled grimly down at her, hugging her against his chest before turning to walk with the others back to the common room. "Wait a second, Kate can't come with us."

"Well why can't I Harry?" Kate asked, her hands returning to her hips as she tapped her foot at the injustice of it all.

"You aren't in Gryffindor house so you can't come inside." Hermione said quickly so Harry didn't have to – Kate was glaring daggers at Harry. "I'm sorry but that's just how it is Kate."

"Oh come on you two, think about it reasonably! I'm sure if we cover her ears so she doesn't hear the password it will be fine." Ron said happily. Hermione glared at Ron and marched off with Harry right behind her leaving Ron to look sadly over at Kate. "Is it something I said?"

Two hours later found Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Kate sitting in the common room around the fire waiting for news of Draco's condition from Ginny who had yet to turn up. That meant Malfoy couldn't have gotten any worse, or so they thought anyways. Hermione sat asleep in Ron's lap as Ron stroked her hair softly, Kate sat on the floor at their feet teasing Crookshanks with a bit of string she had procured out of the end of her wand, while Harry sulked in the chair closest to the fire thinking about whether or not he should jump in. Harry had almost given up hope when Ginny reappeared in the common room through the portrait hole, exhausted from having run all the way from the Hospital Wing for the second time that day.

"What is it?" Kate asked once no one else did. Harry was too nervous to speak though he opened his mouth to try, but nothing came out while Ron was waking a drowsy Hermione up. "What news do you have for us?"

"Harry, I'm so sorry!" Ginny said bursting into tears and burying her face in her hands. Harry rose from the chair and went to her, confused as she placed a comforting hand on Harry's arm. "Draco's gone Harry."

"He'll pay for taking Harry from me!" Kate growled from the girl's bathroom near the Hospital Wing. She placed a picture of Draco Malfoy on the sink in front of her and concentrated hard on him with her minds eye as she raised her wand. "What shall I do to him? A curse to make him puke his guts out or one to make him go mentally insane or better yet the curse of intense pain? Better still, why not all three one after the other?"

Kate swirled her wand through the air speaking harsh spells and casting cruel curses as she did so on the poor unsuspecting boy still sleeping wrapped up in Harry's arms. Not that anyone would notice anything was wrong until noon tomorrow thanks to the special timer spell Kate had cast to not let the side effects of her spell be known until noon the next day.

"And for my final trick, something particularly nasty of my own design." Kate smiled wickedly as she cast the final songlike curse on the sleeping boy who still didn't know the pain he had unintentionally caused her by falling love with Harry. "Draco Malfoy will come to curse the day he ever laid eyes on my Harry. I already lost one person I loved, my poor brother Lark, and I'm not about to loose Harry too!"

Kate walked out of the bathroom, erasing all traces of her spell-casting with a lazy flick of her wand before returning to bed. No one would ever know what she had done to him, at least not until it was too late to help him anyways.

"What do you mean gone?" Harry asked, shocked. Harry's whole little world was swiftly falling away from him as he sunk slowly into the quicksand of sadness inside the black hole that had swallowed his heart. "He can't be dead!"

"Not dead, Draco's still alive for now. That's not what I meant by gone at all." Ginny said quickly. "He's been taken to St. Mungo's. There was nothing more Madam Pomfrey could do for him. Professor McGonagall said she would take any of us up to visit him if we wanted to go and say goodbye. She said she'd wait down in the entrance hall for ten minutes before she leaves."

"Goodbye?" Harry squeaked. "Why would we say goodbye?"

"They don't think he'll make it." Ginny sobbed into his shoulder. "Madam Pomfrey said someone went and jinxed Malfoy somehow while he was still healing and she doesn't know the counter jinx or even what spell the cast over him. According to her, it seems like there are several curses on him and she can only undo a few of them. The main problem is the main curse."

"What is the main curse?" Hermione asked from where she sat in Ron's lap, her arms around his neck as tears fell slowly down her face.

"It's an unofficial curse, not Ministry approved so she doesn't know what to do. Professor McGonagall had a go too but could figure it out either. Apparently only the person who cast the spell can reverse it, but we don't know who cast the spells to begin with."

"I'm going." Harry said pulling away from Ginny to run to his dormitory and get his cloak. "Who else is going?"

"You should go alone." Ron said suddenly. "He needs you, not us."

"Not, if you want to come I'm sure he'd appreciate you being there." Harry said stopping at the door.

"No, go alone." Hermione said, getting up from Ron's lap to hug him and whisper her next words in his ear. "He loves you, not us. Don't you ever forget that he loves you."

"Thank you." Harry whispered back before rushing up to his dormitory. As Harry rummaged through his cloak to find his cloak he heard footsteps behind him but thought nothing of it until he felt a hand on his shoulder. Turning around he saw Kate standing there with tears in her eyes. "Kate, what are you doing in the boy's dormitories?"

"You can't go Harry." Kate said grimly, kneeling down in front of Harry to take the cloak from his hands. "I don't want you to go, I want you to stay here with me."

"I can't do that Kate, Draco needs me to be there for him. He needs me!" Harry said trying to take his cloak back but Kate refused to let it go. Kate had tears in her eyes again but this time Harry didn't comfort her, so vast was the hurt inside his own heart. "Let go Kate, I have to hurry or Professor McGonagall leaves without me! Let go of my cloak!"

"No!" Kate shouted back. "You have to stay with me! I need you Harry, not that pale little gay-wad! He's a worm, an unimportant little prick!"

"No one makes fun of Draco in front of me! He's not a prick you bitch, let go!" Harry yelled back, venom dripping from his every word as he jerked the cloak from her hands as he headed for the door as he pulled it on. "Shut the hell up Kate, you don't even know him! He needs me and you're just being selfish, you little American brat!"

"Is this my answer then Harry?" Kate asked calmly from the floor. "Is this the answer I get for giving you my heart?"

"I guess it is." Harry said roughly, unfeeling and uncaring of her feelings. "I love Draco, I always have and I always will. I kissed you before we got together, but even then I knew I loved him. I was just too afraid to tell him. I belong with Draco."

And then he was gone.

(Harry POV)

"Can I go in and see him?" I asked the healer outside Draco's room. She nodded sadly as I rushed inside the room and over to Draco's side. He looked terrible, like he'd been through hell and back. It nearly tore my heart apart to see him like this. Paler than usual, his eyes still shut, cold sweat covering his face and arms and his hands shaking made it seem as though Draco was just barely clinging on to life. I gingerly took his hand in mine, careful not to wake him with my sobs. Leaning forward I kissed him gently on the forehead, my tears falling down onto his face as I did.

"Harry." I looked down at Draco's face to see his eyes open and staring up at me.

"Oh Draco, did I wake you?" I asked. He shook his head, but even so I knew I had whether or not he was willing to admit it. In a way I was glad I had just so I could talk to him again, even if the healers thought it may be the last chance I ever got to do so…

"Is something bothering you?" Draco asked me suddenly in his raspy voice. Even when he was in St. Mungo's I can first to him over his own health.

"Yeah, something is bothering me. Draco I need to tell you something." I said. And I told him everything – about how I had once kissed Kate before we went out, about how I had visited her every summer since I had kissed her, about how I had faked the fainting spell, everything. "I'm so sorry Draco, I just didn't want anyone to get hurt. I never loved her, it was only the one kiss that summer night I swear! I read love you Draco! Please forgive me!"

"You kissed her." Draco said slowly, more to himself than to me. I bit my lower lip mournfully, looking away from him across the room in my anguish at the way Draco was taking the news I was giving him. "And you faked the fainting spell that had everyone so worried."

"Yes, I did. I just wasn't thinking I guess." I sighed unhappily. "You've got to forgive me Draco. I love you so much more than anything or anyone else in the world. I couldn't bear it if you said you hated me! I'd rather die than have you say you don't love me anymore!"

"Quiet Harry, calm down would you?" Draco giggled. He actually giggled at my sadness! He giggled and laughed at me, his hands squeezing mine. "I understand it was tearing you up inside to keep this from me and that you're obviously sorry about it so no harm done again. We weren't technically together then anyways so it wasn't truly cheating. But I swear to you right here, if I ever find out you've been kissing anyone other than me now that we're together I swear I'll get out of this hospital bed and go bitch-slap them until they're senseless!"

"That's the Draco I know." I smiled halfheartedly kissing him of the cheek. "We gotta get you better so you can come back to Hogwarts."

"That's gonna be harder than it sounds Harry." Draco smiled weakly before going into a coughing fit into his pillow. "Apparently I've been poisoned."

"Poisoned!" I said feebly, all hope leaving me. How had someone poisoned him while he was IN THE HOSPITAL WING! "What kind of poison?"

"They aren't sure. Seems to be unique in the fact that one minute I'm fine and the next I'm leaning over the edge of the bed sick as a dog vomiting into a bucket or all over the floor depending on which side of the bed I lean over. It's messing with my brain too. It's giving me a killer headache and occasionally my brain just shuts down. The healers seem to think my body is rejecting the poison more than it should and that's why the symptoms are so bad – my body is fighting it too hard or something leading to a shutdown eventually I suppose. Harry, I'm scared, I don't want to die."

"You won't die Draco, don't worry." I said trying to hold back my tears from him as not to upset him more than he already was with these people all telling him he was going to die. Those morons! You don't just tell people they're going to die and then leave them alone to soak it all in, that's just wrong. "I'm here now, I'm gonna help you get better, okay?"

"What can we do though Harry?" Draco asked as he entered another coughing fit that wracked his whole weak body and left him panting in my arms as I held him against me.

"You can't do anything, only I can." Kate said stepping into the room and shutting the door behind her carefully. She walked over to us raising her wand as she went to point it at Draco and muttered something low and songlike under her breath. A pale yellow glow surrounded Draco's body and he gasped as it washed over him as Kate continued to mutter and sing alternately quietly. When she finally lowered her wand Draco's body shuddered once before he closed his eyes leaning back against the pillows falling dead asleep. "There, it's finished now."

"What did you do to him Kate?" I shouted at her, grabbing her by the color of her shirt with both hands to drag her face close to mine to look furiously into her eyes. "What did you do?"

"I cast the spells on him so I could have you for myself!" Kate shouted back pulling away from Harry. "But it's all over now that I know he holds your heart. I undid the curse I put on him that I made myself so stop worrying so much. He'll be fine come tomorrow morning, just let him sleep for the time being."

"You did this to him?" I asked slowly. "I had no idea you cared about me that much."

"Well I do, but it doesn't matter now. He won your heart already." Kate sighed heading for the door. "I'm going back to America where I belong. I confessed what I did to Dumbledore and he snapped my wand, so I have no reason to stay in London anymore. I'm going home. Goodbye Harry."

"Bye Kate, and thanks for lifting the spell. I really do love him." I said as she shut the door. Draco opened his eyes slowly and looked up at me. "Go back to sleep Draco."

"Will you stay here with me Harry?" Draco asked me as I took his hand in my own. "Please?"

"Of course I will Draco." I smiled down at him giving him a peck on the cheek as he closed his eyes. "I'll never leave you again, I promise."

()()()()()()The End()()()()()()

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