Title: The real reasons
Summary: Draco Malfoy: Veela. Harry Potter: Mate of said Veela. Oh this is going to be fun!
Disclaimer: Not mine and it never will be!
A/N: The third chapter of my first chaptered fic! It makes me so proud! This one is a bit…weird towards the middle. I was kind of hyper then. My bad. This fic is 1230 words, and that's just the story part. It's a long chapter, for me anyway.
Harry swore as the lump of immaculate black clothes and white hair landed on his tired legs.
"What the hell, Malfoy?" Malfoy shifted, feeling all too uncomfortable about showing up in his naked mate's bath tub with raging hormones. Of course, Harry didn't know this, so he mistook Draco's silence as arrogance.
"Get off me, would you, Malfoy? You're not as light as you may think you git!"
Draco obliged his mate, still feeling his vela side wanting to jump Harry's naked form and using any excuse to get further away from him.
Harry was blushing, a fact that Draco's veela side noted and put away noticing that he looked very cute.
Harry blindly grabbed at a towel. "What do you want, Malfoy? Better yet, how the fuck did you apparate inside Hogwarts? That's just not done!"
Draco just stood there; staring at Harry's half naked form. His veela side was now up and very attentive, thanks to the water silently dripping down Harry's chest.
"I didn't apparate. I honestly have no idea how I got here, but I know someone who does."
And it was with that sentence that Harry found himself dragged out of his room, down the many stairs between his room and the dungeon and then sitting in Lucius Malfoy's quarters at 8:30 at night half dressed.
"Your veela side (1) decided that if you weren't going to move in on your mate, he was going to do it for you. Hmm, this hasn't happened in over 100 years! The only thing to be done is to move you into close quarters with each other. Then hopefully this won't happen again."
If this was an anime which, unfortunately it's not, (2) Harry's facial expression would be this- OO. It can only be described as a WTF??!! Look.
Lucius, noting Harry's "WTF??!!" look, asked the million dollar question "Oh, hasn't anyone told you that you're the mate of my son and you have to have sex with him before his next birthday which is in 7 months 5 days and 14 hours or he'll die and you'll have that on your conscience and then you'll be all sad and someone will write a fic about you with emo!Harry in it?" (3)
"…"
"…"
"Nope."
And then Dumbledore came swinging in with violet robes with pictures of green llamas (4) on them.
He looked cheerfully around and then said "Well, looks like Harry has been informed. My work here is done!"
"…"
The silence that followed was very uneasy and filled with awkward moments.
"So you'll be moving in together." Lucius broke the silence.
"…Yup." Harry thought he better make conversation otherwise Draco might just do something rash.
Draco was too busy fantasizing about Harry to even notice the awkward silence and the even more awkward conversation that followed. That lucky little bastard.
"So it's all figured then?" In true fanfic style the ten seconds that you spent reading the last sentence accumulated to about 1 hour in the story, this was done for a most profound reason. SIMPLY BECAUSE I CAN!
When Harry and Draco were moving into Harry's room later that day, it became apparent that there was only one bed.
"I'm having the bed. It's my room, my bed and you would only contaminate it."
"We can share it?"
"…"
"I promise I won't steal your pillow or blankets."
"…"
"Or touch you in any way."
"…"
"I'll give you a schmacko?" (5)
"…Okay."
So, that night when Harry had Draco draped around him like some sort of weird human fur coat, Harry cursed his love for schmackos.
In the morning when Harry had double potions he had no choice but to sit down next to his mate.
Harry had gotten up late because his alarm hadn't gone off and he couldn't help but think that Draco had done that so he could get to class and arrange so that Harry would have to sit next to him.
Harry, though had a plan.
"OH! My…elbow! RIGHT, my elbow. It hurts, ow ouch ooh. MY PRECIOUS ELBOW! Conveniently located on my potion stirring arm! I need to go to the hospital wing! Please Professor Snape before I die of Elbow…itis. What a PITY I won't be able to stay in potions today! Oh woe is me, fate what hath you befallen me…eth with…eth?"
A paper ball hit Harry in the head. On it was scrawled "You fiend! You ruined my evil plan! Damn you and your wondrous acting skills!"
"Right then, Mr. Potter. Off to the hospital wing. I wouldn't want you famous elbow to suffer anymore."
Harry skipped merrily off to the hospital wing to see Madam Pomfrey.
All throughout the day, Draco kept coming up with elaborate schemes to get closer to his mate. None of which worked as his mate was even more elaborate in his schemes to get away.
At the end of the day, it was a resigned Draco that made his way to their shared bedroom.
He was amazed to find inside though a snogging Harry and Cho.
"Grrr."
Harry and Cho politely removed themselves from each other, wiped the dribble off of their chins/shirts/shoes/hair and turned around to look at their growling interrupter.
Harry, upon seeing who it was, banged his head against a nearby table that nobody had noticed before.
"What. The. Hell. Are. You. Doing. To. MY. MATE?" The last two words were said with so much force, Cho actually recoiled into a corner.
Before Draco could do anything more, he was being dragged up to the bedroom.
"Harry! Let me go!...I'll give you a schmacko?"
"No."
"But why aren't you letting me claw her apart?"
"Because she's my girlfriend and a clawed apart girlfriend is absolutely no use to me."
Draco pulled out of Harry's grip. "She's your what??"
"My girlfriend. You never told me I couldn't have one. You never even asked if I did have one."
"But. But. You have me! What do you need HER for?" He spat her out like it was dog poo.
"I like her. I like her a lot. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some unfinished business."
Harry turned around, locked the door and put every ward he knew on the room and went downstairs.
He turned to Cho and found her appearance rather displeasing. That is, she was leaving.
"Hey, Cho! Where are you going?"
Cho turned around, with comically rounded eyes. "Where am I going? Harry, you're dating MALFOY, or at least he's living with you. How do you think I feel about that? You're GAY Harry, I get it. I just thought maybe if we were together you'd start liking girls again."
"I never stopped liking girls! I'm as straight as a ruler, Cho! Draco's only living here because he's a part veela and I'm his mate."
"All the more reason to stay away from you then! No wonder he wanted to claw me apart. Harry you can't honestly be so stupid as to think he won't tear apart anyone who touches you. He wants you and he will get you. You're not about to let him die. You're too noble for that."
"So, we're over then? Just like that?"
"Yes, Harry."
Harry stood dumbstruck as Cho walked out the door.
Maybe he better start getting used to this idea of veelas and Draco.
(1) Can anyone think of a good name to call Draco's veela side? I was thinking Mark, but that seems to plain.
(2) How cute would anime Harry and Draco be? Honestly.
(3) Sorry to anyone who likes emo! Or angst! Harry. I couldn't resist.
(4) Hehe, llamas.
(5) A schmacko is a type of dog treat, and here in Australia there are ads where dogs are doing outlandish things to get one. It's a little callout to my friend Reid, because I promised I'd include it in my story somewhere.
Answers to my reviewers: I have now decided that instead of messaging you individually, I will just mention you at the end of the story because messaging takes a long time when there are more than 1 or 2 reviews.
Animegurl088: Thankyou. I work long and hard on all of my fics and having people tell me that they like them is the icing on the cake.
Mwth06: He did! All will be revealed in chapter 3!
Potter's Wifey: You've reviewed both chapters so far! Snaps for you. I'm glad you like it, as I said I love having people tell me they like my stories. It gives me warm fuzzies inside.
Darkwhiterose: I will update soon, I am on school holidays for another two weeks, and it will probably be finished by then or soon after.
Hikari Riku: Overused and cliché sometimes go under the same category, and thank you for not throwing shoes at me. You have no idea how much that means. And I did have a look at your Harry/Draco fics, and all I can say is "OMFGILOVEYOURWORKMARRYMEANDHAVEMYCHILDREN".
COUGH
Fifespice: It will become important who Draco's other parent is, and it is ESSENTIAL that I do not give out the identity! All I can say is, it's not Snape. I really cannot see Lucius with Snape simply because I feel he is destined to be with…Hermione! Gross, I know.
Also, Lucius is pleased that Harry is Draco's mate because he plans on corrupting him! Bwahahahaha! Only for a little bit though, before some thing happen to make him good. Well as good as he can be anyway. And obviously, the whole bath thing was already explained so yeah.
And a final note; please please review! I have almost 1000 hits in total and only 8 reviews, that's something like .8 of readers that are reviewing. I hate to be a nag, but it's really for your own good because reviews tell me important things I need to know, what you guys want to see and also they spur me on to keep writing.
