Chapter 3

Draco was sat on the sofa in the common room, thinking over everything that happened, when Pansy and Blaise burst through the door. They were laughing but stopped when they saw him and looked at him worryingly.

"Draco, we need to talk to you." Blaise started, speaking slowly as though Draco had turned dumb.

"We've been worried about you lately, you haven't been yourself." Said Pansy

"Yeah" Blaise agreed, sitting down next to Draco on the sofa. "What's wrong?"

Draco looked at them both, wondering if he should tell them or not. He decided on not, since he knew they wouldn't understand and he didn't even know himself if he and Harry were together or just fooling about. Interesting

"Nothing's wrong." He said firmly.

"Look, we know something is troubling you and we just want to help" Pansy said sounding very concerned.

"Since when do you care about anyone but yourself Pansy?" Draco said harshly.

Pansy looked taken aback but then quickly changed her face into a scowl. "Fine, but don't expect me to be there to clean up your mess again."

"I don't' want you to be!" he said, trying not to shout, "I don't have time for this, I'm going for a walk."

He stormed out the Slytherin common room door to the sounds of protests coming from his former best friends. He didn't know where he was going, but he didn't care. His head felt fogged up suddenly and he was sure he couldn't see straight. He didn't know why he was this annoyed, Pansy and Blaise hadn't really done anything wrong.

Just as he rounded the corner he bumped into someone walking the opposite way. "Sorry" he mumbled, not even bothering to look up to see who it was, and started to walk again.

"Malfoy…?" said a familiar voice, Draco looked up quickly and was immediately looking into emerald eyes. "What are you doing up so late?"

"I could ask you the same thing" Draco replied shortly.

"You were miles away." Harry said; a big grin on his face. "What were you thinking about?"

"Nothing that concerns you." Draco said firmly.

"Oh really?" Harry said still grinning, "You didn't answer my first question, by the way."

"What question?" Draco said, slightly irritated.

"Merlin, you must be tired. I'm usually the one that's slow."

"Shut up Potter, I was just too busy to notice you." He said harshly, Harry flinched when he said this and Draco immediately regretted saying it.

"Sorry I…" Draco began

Just then Draco heard footsteps coming from behind them and panicked.

"Quick!" he whispered to Harry, who had a confused look on his face.

"What..?"

"In here" Draco said, pointing at the store cupboard that was across the hall and before he gave Harry a chance to protest, he opened the door in one quick motion and dragged the other boy in after him. He managed to shut the door just as he heard Filch, the caretaker, talking to his Cat, Mrs Norris.

"Come on, my sweet. Looks like there aren't any students down here."

They listened in silence as Filch shuffled away down the hallway.

Draco, who had been stood facing the door, turned around and saw that Harry had been stood right behind him, of course now Harry was right in front of him, their faces nearly touching. Neither of them turned away nor did Harry step back.

"Another close one" Harry said. "Of course, for a different reason this time"

"You know what Potter?" Draco replied

"What?"

"Don't talk"

And with that, Draco launched himself onto Harry, their lips pushing against each other. He felt Harry push him against the door, and felt the familiar hands running through his hair. Draco flipped them around so that Harry now had his back against the door. Harry moaned as Draco's tongue swept the inside top of his mouth. Harry removed his mouth suddenly from Draco's and began nipping and sucking his neck, pulling soft moans from Draco, causing Harry to smile at him sweetly. Draco was sure he would have red and purple marks there tomorrow. Then Harry trailed back up, lightly planting kisses on his jaw on his way and began kissing Draco once more.

After, what felt like hours of brutal kissing, Harry pulled away.

"We should get to bed" Harry said sleepily.

"Umm… Bed with you?" Draco said, lazily licking Harry's lips.

"Ha." Harry replied, "But I'm serious, Draco. I've got Quidditch practise tomorrow."

Draco froze and looked at Harry strangely, even though in his head Harry had turned to 'Harry' it seemed strange saying his name out loud. But Harry had just said his and hadn't even seemed to notice.

"You… You just called me Draco." Draco said. Harry's face dropped.

"Oh… Sorry. I just… I guess you became Draco to me ever since we started seeing each other more…"

"No, no… it's okay. I want you to call me Draco, and I will call you Harry." Draco said.

Harry beamed up at him, making Draco smile back. He hadn't noticed how childlike Harry could seem sometimes.

"Right, well… Best get back then."

They walked slowly and finally arrived back at the entrance of the Gryffindor common room.

"You didn't have to walk me back…" said Harry

"I wanted to make sure you got back alright."

"Merlin, you sound like Mrs Weasley…"

"Mrs Weasley! How dare you compare me to a blood tra…" he started to say but stopped at the sight of Harry's face. "Sorry" he said quickly.

Harry's face was suddenly unreadable and it confused Draco. Had he just ruined it by being an idiot by insulting people he knew Harry liked? Or did Harry still want to be with him?

"W…will you come watch me at Quidditch practise tomorrow?" Harry blurted out, blushing and looking down at his feet.

Relief swept over him and he smiled at how bashful Harry was being. He pushed Harry's chin back up so he was looking into his eyes. Since when did the Gryffindor 'Golden Boy' get embarrassed around people? He never seemed to care about what Draco thought of him before…

"Of course" he replied softly, placing a quick kiss upon Harry's lips. "Goodnight Harry."

He turned and walked back down the stairs towards the dungeons, well aware of Harry's eyes staring at his back as he walked away.

He turned the corner so that he was no longer in Harry's view and leant against the nearest wall. He sighed, he didn't want to go back to the common room yet, he knew it wasn't late enough for Blaise and Pansy to be in bed. He decided to go for a walk outside to clear his head. He had a lot to think about. What was actually going on? He and Harry were together now? He didn't have a clue. He shook his head and sighed. Did he want to be with Harry? Of course he did. But what would people think? They couldn't stay hidden forever. Merlin, it had only been two days since he and Harry had started… well… whatever they were doing and now he was getting all serious. Since when do Malfoy's fall so quickly?

He walked outside and sat down on the grass, the cold wind brushing his hair across his face and looked out across the grounds of Hogwarts. The sun had long gone and the only light was from the moon which made everything look so different than in the daytime. Draco wasn't sure how long he sat there but when he realised he was starting to drift off to sleep, he forced himself up to his feet and found his way back to the Slytherin common room.

He was ridged from the cold from sitting outside for so long and he was so grateful when he sank down on the soft mattress, pulling the warm sheets over his head and fell right off to sleep.