Thanks to reviewers:-

DarkSunGoddess – don't you fairy-lady me! Lol – thanks, I too am a fan of AU stuff

Robin the bird – thanks – I already have draco confused over how he's feeling about harry but god knows what's going on

MustIBeAMalfoy – lol, wahey, I spose draco's kinda in character but kinda...I don't really know – I find it easier to right AU though, find it hard to right stories with magic in – all the magic confuses me – soon you will find if harry was affected and as for the nipple ring I thought it made harry kinda quirky and I was lookin at my mate lenny as I thought this up – blame him!

Oracale – thanks

Coty Wiley – hallejuah to you too – I'm writing as fast as I can

Itzmee – thank you and yes there's more

silverblueeyes – aw thank you u r lovely &grins manically& – school finishes in like five weeks but I've still got the rest of my killer exams first...argh!

Curlytop – hey thanks for your review with long words – you will find out more about draco and his 'deliquency' and his family yada yada in later chapters

HonEySky – evil little naked harry indeed – I hate harry being all naïve and pathetic and draco being all WAHEY so...you have my own little harry and draco – I keep them in a matchbox

Reese Craven – thank you very much indeedy – I know harry dropped the towel my mate lenny (wahey lenny – he gets a lotta cred – he is also oh so very gay) basically went into melt down wen I mentioned the idea – am reading new chapter of your story 'changes' while slowly writing this – I like it – lol shirley

Chaos – lol, still a little confused by thanks anyhoo and updates will keep on coming

I know chapters at the mo are a little short but I'm havig my end of year killer exams and my french GCSE so its like...yea. Momentarily recovering from english lit. (lord of the flies...there was a reason it was in this story) and latin (yup, I'm that cool!)

Also, have to do well at school or else my mum will take my tickets to Red Hot Chili Peppers and Reading Festival away from me...I don't wanna lose them.

everything in italics are thoughts

8. An Enigma called Harry Potter

Draco stormed in through the front door of Severus' house and slamed the door behind him. Hard. So hard the house practically shook.

"Good evening Draco," came Severus' soft voice from the kitchen.

"Whatever," muttered Draco as he went into the kitchen, pulling out his now almost empty packet of Camels as he did so.

"No, no, you will not smoke in my house."

"Oh for fuck's sake!"

"Go in the garden."

Draco sighed dramatically and glard at his uncle, before going out into the garden, his black DM's stomping hard on the floor as he did so.

He flopped on to his back on the somewhat crisp and browning grass and placed a cigarette between his lips, flicking his zippo and leaning the flame close to his face. Inhaling deeply a small smiled played over his lips. Smoking was a bad habit – one of his many.

Continuing to smoke, he replayed the events of earlier that day in his head. Harry mocking him at school, Harry grinning at him, his bright green eyes sparkling with an almost manic glee.

Arriving at Harry's house.

Harry in just a towel.

Harry smiling at him and leading him into his room.

Harry naked.

Harry in the low slung jeans displaying his pefect hips bones.

The small silver ring hanging so tantilisingly from Harry's nipple.

Harry biting his lip in concentration as he sat cross legged on the floor.

The heat from Harry's leg making Draco unfocused.

Harry leaning across him, pressing so close.

Even he had to admit it to himself. The one that stuck most in his mind was Harry naked. How could it not? The tanned, skin stretched over rippling muscles. The soft, smooth looking face and body. His hairless chest and the line of her from his bellybutton that must lead all the way down to...

Draco sat up suddenly, indwardly kicking himself hard in the balls.

'Don't even go there Malfoy,' he thought to himself. 'Don't even think about going there.'

He didn't know what was wrong with him. He, Draco Malfoy, was straight. Oh so very straight. It was his straightness that got him expelled. He liked sex with girls. He'd never ever been with a guy, not even had thoughts towards a guy...except...

Well, except that one guy he had been at school with for a term. William something or other, the last name escaped him. William something or other had been very very good looking-

'Not as good looking as Harry.'

Draco smacked the palm of his hand into his head in a futile attempt to rid these thoughts from his brain. It wasn't right...it definitely wasn't right. The Malfoy's all married people of the opposite sex from good families and had children that would be raised well and marry people of the opposite sex from good families and...well, the Malfoy's were not raving fags.

And yet...well Draco didn't fit in so far with every single other member of his family. Sure, some of them must have messed around, drunk, done drugs, and random one night stands. You could do whatever you wanted...as long as you didn't get caught. Draco had been doing well. For eighteen years he'd been messing up but then...then he'd gotten caught. Of course, his parents always knew he was different to the rest, but they'd kept it, and him, downtrodden and just hoped it was a phase he would grow out of.

He'd definitely felt something when he was alone in that room with Harry, emotions and feelings so strong he could barely breathe, let alone speak. But Harry, he didn't seem to be affected at all. How could he not be? It was insanity. Was Harry really absolutely clueless as to what he had done? Had he been completely unaffected? Or was he just able to feel the same things Draco was and somehow maintain his control? Or, the last horrible possibility, was Draco so bent and sex-deprived (from a man that was) that he practically orgasmed from just a simple touch?

He reached into the packet again, to find that, during his confused thoughts, he'd smoked every last one of his fags.

"Bollocks!"

Jumping to his feet, he stormed back through the house.

"Draco?"

"Getting fags. I'll be back soon."

"Fucking Harry Potter," he muttered to himself.

So there's some Draco musings. Harry musings up next.

Read and review...you know how it goes.