Just a Kiss in the Moonlight
Disclaimer: Starving artist here, I don't own anything especially not Harry Potter.
Warnings: SLASH, flamers to the left, reviews bring updates people. :D they make me happy. Happiness breeds inspiration, you know.
CHAPTER FIVE
Harry tilted his head to the side, listening closely. There were two voices, soft and quiet that he could make out above the murmurs and whispers of a few first years.
"Draco Malfoy? And Zabini? Are you sure it was them?"
"I'm bloody positive you fool! We need to leave, *now*! They've left the infirmary and they'll be figuring us out."
"We'll have to kill them you know, to escape. They know the dark lord's plans."
"Then so be it! We may not escape but we will die honorably in service of our lord."
Harry morphed back, grabbing Blaise and stopping him from opening the door.
"What the hell Potter?"
"Harry's right. Neville, go get the headmaster. Be quick!" Remus hissed, trying to peer through the glass of the door, "we need a plan." Neville growled in response, still in his animagus form as he rushed away.
"I could hear them, they're bent on killing Malfoy *and* Zabini, we have to stop them." Harry replied, looking around, "there are first years in there too, I recognized one of their voices."
"They're first then." Draco said, nodding.
"Remus, get them out. You're the professor, they'll do whatever you say without problem. Malfoy, Zabini, and myself will keep an eye on them till you get back with the Headmaster." Harry said thoughtfully, peering through the window. "I can see the kids from here. But not them, so we should be able to slip by and sneak up on them easily."
"That's very Slytherin of you Potter." Draco sneered, looking over Harry's head into the library.
"No need for insults Malfoy." Harry snapped, not liking the closeness of his arch rival.
"I think it was supposed to be a compliment, Harry." Remus said. Draco grunted in confirmation and Blaise scoffed.
"It was an insult to *me*!"
"Enough! Let's do this." Remus said, reaching out and turning the handle, "behave yourselves, do not attempt to engage them." He cast a weary glance over the three students before nodding, mostly to himself and opening the door. He strode in, looking about as if he were looking for a student.
"Mr. Abbot! There you are, I've been looking all over for you!" he said, drawing the attention of the room to himself as Draco, Blaise, and Harry slinked into an aisle of books, unnoticed. The first years, a mixture of Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors began greeting the professor as he approached, talking about some assignment or another they were supposed to be completing over their break.
Blaise seemed to have taken the lead, slinking toward the back and through the restricted section, sniffing occasionally.
"At least they're not wolves."
"Death Eaters then." Draco replied in a hushed whisper, mocking Neville from earlier.
"Hush." Harry scolded, peering around a stack of books, "there they are!" Draco and Blaise peered around, giving a slight shiver at the sight of themselves, sitting at a table in the back. "what are they saying? Can you hear them?" Harry asked, peering up from his now kneeling position in the floor. Draco glanced down at him and nodded,
"this close to the moon I can, they're discussing how to get out." he peered back around the books, jerking back and crossing to sit against the other bookshelf. "we have a problem."
"What?!" Harry peered back around to see Luna Lovegood approaching the table with the two Slytherins and he growled. He could hear her clearly, as she wasn't whispering.
"Malfoy! I thought you'd left, but I'm glad to see you here," her voice was whispy, clear of any fear or doubt. She really thought she was talking to Draco Malfoy. She still seemed a bit nervous, fiddling with her robes.
"What do you want, Loony?!" fake Draco barked, obviously startled. Luna seemed to falter, taking a step back.
"I was- just needing to know how long our Potions assignment was supposed to be? I- I assumed you had it completed?" she peered down at him, obviously upset for having to speak to someone she didn't like.
"Fourteen inches Loony, leave me alone!" fake Draco snarled, dismissing her with a wave of his hand. She turned on her heel, looking over her shoulder for a brief moment,
"How rude!" Luna huffed, storming off. And straight in their direction. Harry shot back, barely avoiding being seen.
"she's coming over here." he hissed and Draco looked around,
"we're in the damned potions section." and then, just for good measure, "fuck."
They could hear Luna's footsteps approaching, muttering about rude Slytherin bastards. At least they'd believed her, and Harry was grateful for that, or she could have been attacked. As Luna walked around the corner, she gasped, seeing Draco and Blaise sitting there. Harry grabbed her, motioning with a finger over his lips to be quiet. Luna nodded, turning to grab a book and walk further down the aisle to block herself from view.
"What's going on?" she whispered, dropping the book and crouching with them, eyes wide.
"You could have been killed," Draco scolded, tilting his head to listen. He looked warily at Harry, "and just might be. They're debating coming to check on her, to see if she's here."
"Shit! They've noticed the first years are gone!" Blaise hissed, looking around for a place to hide, there was none.
"Luna, listen, pay attention to their clothes- this is the real Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zabini, that is not. They're death eaters. If you get a chance, run." Harry said, grabbing his wand.
"No spells, the first years aren't quite out yet!" Draco hissed, head tilted in the other direction, "damn, we don't have a choice!"
"AHA! STUPEFY!" a voice cried and Blaise fell, out cold. Draco sprung, brandishing his wand and yelling a shield.
"LUNA! RUN!" Harry yelled, casting a curse that flung the fake Blaise into a nearby wall. Luna laughed happily,
"not a chance, Harry! PROTEGO!" and she blocked Draco from being struck. The Death Eaters fled, blocking themselves behind another row of books, flinging another curse at them. Harry blocked it easily this time.
"Ennervate!" Harry cried, bringing Blaise back to the real world. His eyes lit up with the wolf but only for a moment, before he regained control. It was enough though as Luna tumbled back with a gasp. Harry gave her a pleading look, "please, go."
"No. I'm not leaving you."
"Damnit Lovegood!" Draco snarled, spinning to fling a string of hexes, getting struck once and howling in pain. "Bastards! It's FOUR ON ONE! SURRENDER!"
"YOU KNOW BETTER!" Fake Draco called back, laughing.
"YOU DON'T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST US!" fake Blaise laughed and Draco groaned.
"Now what? They're right you know, they know a lot more curses than we do." he slid down, clutching his arm. Luna cast a charm, wrapping it in bandages. The blonde sent her a grateful look.
"Split up. Luna and I this way, Draco, Blaise- you go that way. Stay. Down." Harry hissed, grabbing Luna and hurrying along the row of books. Blaise and Draco nodded, diving behind the next row and trotting off as the area they'd just been in burst into flames.
"What's going on?" Luna asked, peering through a shelf as more books began to catch fire.
"Death Eaters, and polyjuice, it's too long to talk about now, come on." Harry replied, twisting through the restricted section.
"PROTEGO!" came Blaise's roar from somewhere to their left. Then a yip of pain, clearly a yip, signalling which Blaise it was.
"Shit." Harry growled, diving behind a row of tables with Luna close behind. They crawled beneath them carefully as smoke began to fill the library, giving them a bit of cover. "it just *would* have to be a room full of paper and wood."
"It's a *library* Harry." Luna snickered, shifting a chair to peer out. Looking through the smoke they could clearly see Blaise and Draco, the real ones, hiding behind a thick turned over table that was clearly on fire. Blood was everywhere and Blaise appeared unconcscious, laying still next to Draco who was shooting curses of the edges and corner of the table, dodging its flames. They'd had the same idea as Luna and Harry but had been caught. Suddenly, the flames roared up and Draco dove, grabbing Blaise and rolling his body away.
"CRUCIO!" fake Draco roared, bringing the real one to his knees. His back arched and his skin seemed to flux, the wolf's features fading in and out as a sound left his mouth something between a howl and a scream. It sent chills down Harry and Luna's spine. Draco fell, weak and wincing, whimpering pittifully as the fake Draco approached, wand pointed,
"AVADA-" the curse broke off in a scream as sharp jaws and fangs burrowed into his wrist and a flash of snarling black fur brought him down. Fake Blaise surged forward, casting a cutting hex at Harry which Luna skillfully blocked and Draco turned, a weak stupefy leaving his mouth as the fake Blaise fell. Luna dove away as a curse left fake Draco's mouth, swooshing past her but barely. Harry snarled, clenching his jaws tighter and clearly hearing the snapping of bone as the Death Eater cried out, falling. Harry unleashed his rage on him, tearing at the man and snapping his wand, huge black paws digging at him. Fake Draco cried out, shielding his face with his free hand. The room filled with shouts and Harry was jerked back into the arms of Remus Lupin. Harry shifted as he was pulled back and was released, spitting blood from his mouth and scrubbing at it with his robes.
"Gross!"
Laying next to him on the ground, Draco laughed.