A/N: Hey guys, sorry this chapter is a long time coming. Ugh, I would give you the normal 'I was so busy' excuse, but part of me just felt like not writing, and so I didn't. Anyway, I'm slowly but surely getting back on track now. This story won't be posted on anymore, until after it is completed, so this chapter is just to satisfy you guys for a while. Don't worry, it's almost finished, so hopefully you won't have to wait too long. Also I wanted to thank EVERYONE who reviewed, because I just looked at all the reviews from chapter 14, and wow..there was a lot..BUT to a special reviewer who gave me the inspiration to keep going on this 'elisebanana' (I hope I spelled that right!)

So again, thanks, and without further ado the chapter!

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Chapter 14

'brave and crazy'

Draco

'Oh god'. This is it...I'm going to die.

"Please! Please don't do this!" tears of humilition and pain are streaming down my face as I look into his eyes full of hatred, his hand wrapped painfully around my arm. I try to concentrate hard enough to apparate out of here, but I can't. It hurts to much to do much of anything right now.

"You cheater! You fucking lying son of a bitch! I should have known you were going behind my back. I could smell his cologne on your clothes, and in your apartment. Oh and lest we forget that you were always busy at your office or away on call when I came by, or tried to get you on the phone. I knew it!"

Jesse raised his hand to back hand me again and I turned my face outwards to lessen the pain and squished up my face.

THUD!

The door to my apartment slams open, and...Harry...

I almost laugh in relief and I'm so happy to see him, so happy.

"Har-" I get slapped hard.

"So this is the little fucker huh? This is the asshole you've been fuc-"

Jesse gets cut off mid-sentence by a blow he wasn't expecting to his face. He had been looking at me and still painfully holding my forearm in his hand, me on my knees before him, until Harry had decked him.

"You little shit!" Jesse rages, rubbing the side of his face.

"Get the fuck out. NOW!" Harry uses a voice I've never heard before, and I'm glad right now that it's not directed at me.

"You'll pay. I swear to god you will pay."

Just as I'm getting up off the ground, Jesse runs out of my apartment. Harry helps me as I unsteadily try standing. The experience has not been a pleasant one, and has left my nerves in jumbles.

"Oh god Harry!"

"Tell me what happened. Who is that man? Where did he come from? Tell me everything."

"I just- I was talking to my friend on the tele, and I walked in, and oh god Harry, he heard everything. And he saw, harry, you should have seen the look in his eyes and I- I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't make him think that I- oh god...and he came toward me and..."

"Whoa, Draco, slow down. You are going to have to start from the beginning, or else I won't understand. Now, take a breath and tell me, what the FUCK happened?"

"That...was Jesse. You s-see it was v-v-valentines day and...Harry-"

"You've got to trust me Draco. If we have any chance in hell of surviving in a relationship, you've got to let yourself trust me."

"I do t-t-trust you, it-t-t's just that this morning-"

"I was an ass. I admit that yes. I'm sorry Draco...I never really meant to hurt you."

"But you did mean to say it! You wouldn't have even thought it if it hadn't have crossed your mind! Don't you see Harry, if how you think of me is just a dirty slut who sleeps around then how can we even begin to think we have a chance?"

"Because I love you."

I gasped. I couldn't believe it...he'd said he loved me...and in that moment that love washed over me and it didn't matter just then that I had been assaulted, or that my apartment had been broken into, all that mattered was him.

"I...I love you too."

"I know love, now tell me. Who is that guy?"

"It was valentines day...and it was the day that we met remember? You asked if we could get together for dinner, and I...acted affronted? Well I did have plans. You see the night before I'd met this guy...THAT guy, and his name is Jesse. He bought me a drink and we talked a little and I...ended up taking him home. Something in me told me he was different then the others somehow so I kept him around, but Harry when you and I were together, it was like nothing existed but the two us. When you and I are together it's like maybe I'm not such a fuck up anymore, and if I am it doesn't matter because you're there. And I feel like it's possible that I have a chance at happiness, this true chance that I never have had and-"

"Love" Harry laughed slightly, and kissed the tip of my nose, "I know how you feel. I know how you feel right now because, that's how I feel...but you were saying, about Jesse?"

"Right, well after a while, you and I started this...thing...and I still hadn't told Jesse that he just wasn't right for me. So..I..."

"Yes?"

"So I just fucking didn't tell him. I just figured he'd pick up the hint...I was stupid I know, but that's what I get right?"

"For what?"

"For playing him, and deceiving you."

Harry was silent for a moment. Did he agree?

In that moment, if either of us had been paying attention, we'd have noticed my door still open, and a small almost inaudible pop.

"You may have played him, and you may have deceived me, but if there's one thing I've learned these past few years it's that everybody makes these mistakes. Everyone."

He and I sat slowly onto the couch.

"Even you?" I asked as I burried my face into his neck.

"Especially me."

I give a snort. "You're just saying that."

"Nope, I know plenty of people who do it and have done it plenty, including me."

"Like who?"

"Dumbledore."

I sat up quickly. "Harry!"

"What?" He laughed a little "I'm just being honest. He's tried loads of things human beings don't usually try on other human beings. He manipulated me as a kid. That was a mistake, but it made him human. Something even he took for granted sometimes I think. and I? Well I took it out on him when I realized the full extent of his manipulation. Impulse reaction? Yes. But it marked me as human too."

"And me not telling either of you about each other?"

"I don't like it..." Harry admitted, but leaned in close to me, and laid me down, back flat on the couch, and him on top of me. "but it makes you...human" he finished, the last word brushing his lips against my own, in a delicate kiss.

He was slowly tracing his fingers up the length of my torso, and we just stayed like that for a good long time. Just taking in the comfort of each other's companionship, each other's warmth and soaking each other up.

After what was not long enough, to my senses, he stopped and got up off of the couch. "I guess I'll go then, see you Draco."

He had his hand on the door knob, when he felt my hand on his shoulder.

"Harry..." I said softly, almost a whisper, but not quite.

"hmm?"

"Stay."

"Are you sure?"

"Not entirely." I admited honestly, "But don't blame k? I'm only human."

Harry laughed and closed the door and locked it, and then muttered a few protection spells, to make the both of us feel more safe.

"As you wish."

The air was charged with electricity and we just locked eyes for a few moments, and like clockwork and magnets our heads moved together at a steady pace.

"Do you wish?" I asked as I pushed him up against the wall and bit his ear.

"You try and make me leave." He replied, hungrily, as he used his upper body strength to switch our positions.

"You ready?" He asked.

I smirked, "Are you?"

Harry

It was intense, it was fantastic, it was amazing, it was...

sex.

I look over at Draco as he sleeps peacefully on his stomach. His hair is kind of long so it covers some of his eyes and I brush it off. I lean down and gently kiss his eyelids and then I just lay my body parallel to his and watch him, with my head propped up on my elbow.

He's so beautiful. I can't say that enough. I can't look at him enough.

I just can't get enough.

This morning, when I'd said what I did, and realized what I did say...I felt terrible, and then this afternoon when I went from unapologetic, to pissed, to worried, I felt that maybe there was something more than afternoon coffee and late night dinners...complete with his temper, and somehow, somewhere along the way...I had fallen in love.

I not only said 'I love you' to him for the first time ever today, but I also had made love to him.

It was the first time I think either of us had actually made love. So we were virgins in that aspect. If he were awake and I was sharing my thoughts with him, I'm sure he would shoot me.

It's amazing you know? To realize that...(knock wood) my lonely days are over. It's also amazing and amazingly scary to think about...our future.

He's still worried about what will happen if I become his boss, and I don't want to push him, but I don't want this to go on. I sigh and brush his hair again, combing it with my fingers.

Oh no...he's smiled in his sleep...I think I just melted.

I sigh and lay my head down next to his, and all I can do is watch him as I drift into nothingness.

A/N: Well...I know it's not very long, but I hope it was worth the wait. Also, I'm very excited for the developments I have coming up in the later chapters, but alas, you won't know until later, when it's finished and I've started posting the rest of the chapters. Now when I do load them you have one of two choices...

Me load them all at once,

or load the chapters once a week and let you savor them.

Just thought I'd give you an option. You know writing this story, and especially ending it will be painful...it will be like I've given birth. And like a child (It's early in the morning right now so I'm being crazy...feel free to ignore the rest of this message) it will grow and develop over time into something better, until I have revised it enough to where I'm proud of it.

there. Well gotta go.

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-Dark-