A/N: Hey all, this is Dark, with another installment of ILW. As you all may or may not have noticed from the note that I had put up, I just started a new job and it's been keeping me busy as hell, but I finally got around to putting the reviews on here, and then posting this. So here you are! Thanks for being patient.
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Sezmarelda: Sorry this took so long, but you know, I just finally got a life. Brand spanking new from wal-mart. lol. Anyway, This is not the end. It should be around 20 chapters or so. But thank you for the review and enjoy!
randomness: YAY for randomness! In both the story and you! I know it didn't really tell you much about anything but their relationship, but that is the focus of that fic yes? Alright, well thank you sooo much for the review, and I hope you like this next chapter.
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Chapter 16
Change
Draco
"Ugh...I feel like I could throw up, you know?"
"Draco...I don't want to hear about it. You were the one who ate all that cotton candy. But you're right, I might need a trip to the loo as well."
"No, cancel that, I don't feel like I could throw up, I'm going to!" I said as I rushed to the restroom. I shut and locked the door to the bathroom, and immediately bent over the porcelain throne. It was so cold to touch as I gripped the sides and emptied the contents of my stomach into the bowl. A shiver crawled through my body as the last of last nights food came up.
I grimaced and stood up, looking away as I pushed the handle down. I went to the mirror and smoothed down my hair, which fell perfectly into place as if I just came out of a salon. I washed my face and rinsed my mouth and went back to the bedroom.
"Ok," Harry said "When I said I was going to throw up, I knew I probably wouldn't, but are you ok?"
"Well yeah I guess. I just feel a little nauseous. That must have been some bad Carnival food." I replied, sticking out my tongue.
"What, never felt sick after your trips with your mother?" Harry asked, carding his hands through my hair.
"Not really, at least never this bad..."
"What now?" Harry asked as I stopped.
"I have to use the restroom again."
I walked quickly to the restroom and actually used the loo the way it was supposed to be used. I really never have bladder problems, but I haven't been able to hold it lately. I sigh and finish up, washing my hands afterwards, again returning to bed.
"You know Harry," I start to sit down "We probably have the rest of the week off to do whatever we want."
"Yeah, but Draco, I don't want you using all your vacation time on me...you might want to save it for some other time. What do you think?"
"Honestly? I couldn't think of a better way to spend my vacation time if I tried. But you go ahead and go to work if you need to."
"Well..."
"What?" I asked, sitting up straight, out of reach of his fingers.
"Don't get mad but...I kind of want to start closing the deal on Star Shine. Draco, I'll give you all the time in the world to think about where you want to end up in this situation, but from a business perspective this deal has taken way too long. My manager Gwen is not happy that she has had to call back to HQ four times to postpone our return."
I sat up facing more away from him now. My posture was tense, wether this was from childhood propriety or tense feeling, I do not know.
"So...after all this is said and done, you're just...going to take off?" I asked, starting to tear up, and I felt foolish.
"No, no! Draco, of course not! I was going to close this deal, go to London and...well move some of my stuff back here...Draco I was going to see if you wanted to move in with me."
I gasped and to Harry it must have sounded like I might have started crying because he came to my side immediately.
"It's ok Draco, don't cry. I didn't mean to upset-"
He was cut off by my lips smashing into his fiercely. I hardly let us up for air as I continued to snog him senseless. I didn't know if I should be happy that he had thought about me or terrified of what this might mean. But right now I wasn't sure I cared.
"Whoa buddy. Slow down there."
Harry laughed into the kiss, and I could feel his smile which made me smile.
"You mean it Harry? You want to live together?"
"I've never been less sure of anything, but all I know is that I love you. I'm not about to let that go."
"We'll have to look for another appartment...a space that we can call ours and that we can make new memories in."
"As you wish sweetheart."
"Come on," I was kissing him again "Let's...get...ready...for...work."
"If you keep doing that, we're going to be late."
"You'd like that wouldn't you?" I asked, and then leant down very near his ear and licked and bit him. "boss."
Harry groaned from beneath me and attempted to flip me over, but before he could I slid out from under him and ran into the bathroom.
"DRACO!" He yelled groaning.
"Work, love. Work."
I giggled as I heard him flop backwards on the bed with another moan, and started showering.
Harry
Draco and I walked into the offices of Star Shine magazine, and looked longingly at each other before we headed our separate ways. I Harry James Potter, was thoroughly smitten, whipped, and in love with one Draco Lucius Malfoy. I was putty in his hands...and everytime I was with him, deep inside I felt like a little giggling hogwarts school girl.
But Draco gave me more than that. He gave us a deep and refreshing, mutually mature relationship, despite the giggling girl in me factor. I would be more than happy to share a flat with Draco here in New York, waking up every morning with flowers and kisses in bed. Ending each workday and weekend with a content satisfaction of being with him. Just being near him was practically invigorating to my senses.
"Ms. Norbury, how are you this fine morning?" I asked, ending my inner musings as I stepped into her office.
"Fine Mr. Potter, how about yourself?"
"I'm doing wonderful...positively wonderful." I beamed.
"What brings you to the office on this find day?"
"Well Ms. Norbury, as you know, proceedings for the selling and buying of Star Shine magazine has been going particularly...well slow. If I may be so blunt. So I've come here, adhereing to my manager's request and own personal feeling, to end this business transaction and finish the buying of Star Shine by International Magazine."
Ms. Norbury paled a little. Clearly she wasn't expecting this.
"I see...I..um"
"Ms. Norbury, may I be blunt with you?"
"I see that you take no prisoners in that, but sure why not."
"Ms. Norbury with all due respect, you knew this was coming. I wouldn't come to New York myself just to see the sights...no I came here for a purpose. A purpose we both knew sooner or later that would go through. In essence, what I'm trying to say is that, you look more shocked than you should be. I'm buying out Star Shine whether you like it or not."
"Mr. Potter may I be blunt with you now?"
"If you so wish."
"I do...Mr. Potter, I would not be so shocked if this sell would have gone through quickly, effeciently, as I would have expected. I thought your purpose here was business not pleasure. But when you started exhibiting lackadaisical behavior towards this business deal, I had assumed that things had changed. That you might no longer be interested. Mr. Potter in essence, what I'm trying to say is that, I'm shocked because you have carried yourself like a tourist not a businessman and it shocks me because you are only now choosing to act like a professional."
"Excuse me, madam?"
"You heard me." she replied quietly.
"What are you saying."
"You know full well what I am saying."
"You...what, did you think Dra--Mr. Malfoy was going to 'take my mind off things' and make me 'forget' about buying your ass out? Well guess what? You are in desperate need of a reality check, because in a week's time, I will have my name and yours on a contract and you will be the first 'business' change that I make around here. So get your stuff together Ms. Norbury, we're going a little trip."
I pause and walk to the door.
"Be ready by noon...and that is not a suggestions." with that, I walked out of her office and into Draco's.
I knocked softly, but didn't hear a response. I opened the door a little and smiled. There was my beautiful boyfriend...a hell...lover (I didn't care if it was kosher)...sitting there typing away and looking over his notes.
"Hey you." I said softly, leaning against the door frame.
"Hey!" He smiled at me, and my heart fluttered a little.
"Listen," I began to enter the room, "I'm going out of town for about four days. I'm closing out the deal and your boss is going with me."
"Where are you going?" He asked, and walked towards me, encircling my waist with his hands, leaning his forehead against mine.
"London. Of course. That's where IM Headquarters are."
"But...why will you be gone for so long?"
"Well unless there's something Ms. Norbury hasn't been telling us, we can't necessarily apparate." I chagrined playfully.
"I know...I just wanted some more time with you...when do you leave?"
"Today. Noon."
"Harry?"
"Yeah?"
"You'll hurry back right?"
"Yes, love."
"Promise?"
"I promise."
Draco
I had been working on my article a little while after Harry had left, but I didn't get much done. I was too focused on the upcoming week. I would be alone, without Harry, for the first time since he had arrived. I was so unused to that and it scared me a little deep down inside.
He had told me to meet him at a small private air strip he gave me an address to. I wanted to apparate so I could spend a little time with him before he left, but Ms. Norbury would be there, and so he told me I had to walk or take a taxi...and since the probability of getting a taxi at this time of day in New York was less likely than getting struck by lightning, then I decided to walk there.
It was kind of good, because it gave me a chance to think about things. Like Harry and I.
I smiled like a fool.
He wanted to move in with me, when he got back! That was like four day away and then we would go appartment shopping! Even though the idea of commitment scared me, even now, in the face of great love I just swallowed that...because more than anything I wanted to be with Harry. I knew that somehow we would be meant to be together.
I looked around and noticed I was only about a mile away from the take off strip and so I was about to hurry to get there, when all the sudden a voice I recognized slightly stopped me.
"Danger and Horror wait for one who's love is so brazen. A Love has been expressed in the physical, and the Father will be angry. He will strike thee thrice the times ye thought he would and bring pain upon ye. Abandoned hope will pulse through ye, and One's love cuts it close. Possible failure is probable. The Father likes not defeat. DANGER, you're in grave DANGER!" he kept yelling as he came toward me with a maniacle look about him, waving his cane.
I turned and saw that crazy guy that yelled at Harry and I on the street. He was spouting his drabble still, over and over. All I could do was stare in magnificent terror as he kept slowly approaching me and waving his cane, as if...frantically trying to get a message across to me.
"DRACO!" Harry bellowed and ran to me. His voice hadn't seemed far away, so he was close.
"You! You stay away from him. I'll have your head if you so much as touch him!"
The man looked up in suprise at us, and started backing away slowly, as if seeing us for the first time. His eyes...they were terribly white...like looking into a souless creature, one without pupils.
I threw up on the ground right next to me as the man turned and ran.
"Draco...are you alright?"
"I'm fine..." I reply standing up.
"Just scared me is all."
"That man is a right crazy bastard."
"He's just out of his wits, Harry. Don't be mean."
"I know, but I won't have him threatening you!"
"Come on, let's just go."
"Alright. Here's my jet." Harry said, and I looked up.
Awe crossed my features as I took it in. It was bigger than the president's Air Force One.
"That's amazing Harry!"
"Well, I guess there are certain perks to being a full time business man, not to mention a successful one."
"Yeah..." I was still in awe over the plan.
"Now listen Draco, I don't want you walking by that guy again, so just as soon as I leave here, I want you to go inside that hangar and apparate home, then ward it against anything and everything else, got it?"
"Protective much?"
"Only over things of great value." He replied, and leaned down to kiss me.
Just as we parted, a limo pulled up and Ms. Norbury got out. Harry and I reluctantly pulled away.
"Bye Draco." He whispered before turning to Ms. Norbury.
They started walking towards the plane with their luggage and then boarded. As the defeaning roar of the plane filled my ears, I squinted, and whispered into the air.
"Goodbye my love, stay safe, and return home to me soon."
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