-Rated R for- Drama, Language, Slash, Sexual Content

-Spoilers- All five books.

-Summery- This is a Harry/Draco fic that happens in the sixth year. Draco finds out that sometimes feelings are mixed up.

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Hidden Desires

Chapter 3

Somebody Else

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Cho Chang stared at him with cold eyes. "What do you mean we can't meet later?" Harry only blinked and stood silently before her. "There's somebody else, isn't it?"

"No! No way Cho, nothing like that," replied Harry quickly. Cho had a hint of a tear lingering around her eye. Her lips were already trembling.

"Harry! I've heard the rumors! I'm not stupid!" Harry made a skeptical face that she didn't seem to notice. "Remember when you told me we should totally be honest with each other? This is one of those times," said the Ravenclaw girl, flinging her hair. Harry never knew that his words that were supposed to be kind, would ever backfire on him like this.

"But Cho! I just have a lot of homework and there is someone I need to talk with," said Harry staring at her very hard.

"Harry, this is really upsetting. Who are you going to be talking to?" asked Cho looking very serious, as though she was doing business with him.

After a very long moment of staring at eachother, Harry finally said, "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"Why not?"

"Because it's stupid."

"You can tell me!" said Cho looking almost excited.

"Okay," Harry sighed, "I have to go talk to Draco Malfoy." Cho stared at him blankly for a few moments then raised her eyebrow. He knew she didn't believe him. He knew that she also knew that Draco was his enemy. Now all he had to do was wait for her to protest.

"It's about the train isn't it?" asked the girl slowly.

Harry stared at her even harder. How exactly would he respond to it without acting suspicious. "What do you mean?" he asked.

"The train, Harry, the train," she said quickly.

"What happened on the train?" he asked looking uncertain.

"Oh don't be a dimwit! Draco caught us kissing! You want to go set him straight for spying on us like that! Oh like, Harry you're such a gentleman!" said the girl wrapping her arms around him.

Harry felt as though she was trying to break his spine, but he did his best and hugged her back. She got on her tip-toes and kissed him sweetly on the lips. "Well, I've got to go to class. Defense Against Dark Arts," she said happily. After giving him one more kiss on the cheek, she ran off.

Harry stood there blankly. Everything was just getting more confusing for him.

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Dinner in the Great Hall was hurried. Draco ate so fast that his stomach started hurting, but he couldn't tell if it had been because of the food or because he was going to go talk to Harry. He had thought of what he was going to tell Harry, but none of it made much sense. Pushing his plate away, he stood glancing over in Harry's direction. Harry was finished and talking to Hermione about something.

He walked out of the Great Hall and lingered close to the doors. Secretly, he wondered why Harry agreed to even talk to him. It didn't seem like there was much to talk about. He had kissed Harry Potter. It wasn't a joke. It wasn't for laughs. It was just for the moment, when everything seemed crashed down in front of his eyes and his skin became so warm, yet it caused him to break into such a cold sweat. The thought of the tension made Draco relive those feelings again. It was just for the moment.

"Sometimes, you'll find love in those who you believe that you hate." Those words ran through Draco's head again. They meant something. They were part of this broken puzzle that added up to everything he was feeling. All of his emotions.

Just then Harry walked out of the Great Hall looking around curiously. He spotted Draco and walked over to him with a fixed expression upon his face. "Well?" said the boy, brushing a messy piece of black hair out of his glowing green eyes.

Draco quickly responded, "If we're going to talk, I say we head up to the abandoned corridor on the eighth floor. Nobody goes that way much."

Harry stared at him suspiciously but agreed. If Draco was going to pull some stunt, Harry had his wand and was ready.

They walked silently, not looking at eachother. Draco felt a chill go up his spine. He was walking with the boy he had always hated so much. Why would he ever do this?

Suddenly Harry stopped dead in his tracks and whispered, "Someone is coming."

Draco swung around looking for whoever it was, but didn't see anyone. He grabbed Harry by the arm and said, "Quick in here. We'll hide." Draco dragged Harry into an empty classroom.

They both knew it was probably Filch lurking around trying to catch students in acts of wreaking the school. Their guesses were confirmed when they heard Filch talking to Mrs. Norris. "You smelled 'em too. They have to be somewhere nearby, and we'll catch 'em, we will."

Harry looked at Draco who looked livid with fear. It didn't seem to have to do with Filch at all though. He looked more like he was scared of Harry. He was more pale than usual and he almost appeared to be glowing like fallen snow that shone most brightly in moonlight that was streaming through the nearby windows.

Finally Harry said, "I think he's gone. Let's get out of here." They both left the classroom and continued up to the eighth floor.

They stopped walking and Harry turned to look at Draco. "You know, you're really starting to scare me. Can't you just tell me what's up?"

Draco stared at Harry with his sparkling silver eyes that looked more than scared. They had a look that made Harry almost feel sympathy for the boy.

Draco weakly whispered, "I'm not sure what's going on," he took a long hard breath and continued, "All I know is that I- I kissed you on the train and I don't know why."

Harry raised his eyebrows and stared at Draco without changing his facial expression. These weren't the words of comfort that he wanted. In fact, they only made everything seem worse.

"You hate me! Remember?"

"Damn it Harry, I know this! I just don't know about anything else anymore," said Draco with quick gasping breaths.

"So, now what?" asked Harry looking confused and angry.

"Sometimes, you'll find love in those who you believe that you hate," said Draco slowly.

"What?" asked Harry with widened eyes.

"Sometimes, you'll find love in those who you believe that you hate.' It's something my mother told me. Before I came to school actually. I had gotten into a fight with Pansy and I swore that I hated her. That's what my mom told me."

"Do you think that has anything to do with your strange behavior?" asked Harry looking skeptical. He definitely was thinking that Malfoy was going insane.

"Maybe," said Draco thoughtfully, "I mean, mothers always seem to have power over their children."

"You're not a child anymore, although you act like it sometimes," whispered Harry, "And you mum didn't make you kiss me."

"You know what Harry? Shut up. I'm trying to say something that is going to make me feel a little bit better about this. Don't ruin it for me. I feel like shit as it is. I don't need you to act like a smart ass and get all witty with me!"

"Well someone has to," responded Harry harshly. He couldn't help to notice that Draco had called him Harry, instead of "Potter."

Draco bit his lower lip and brushed his hands through his hair. His hair shined delicately as his slender hand began to twist a strand of it.

The silence seemed to be ringing and became quite deafening between them.

"Well is our talk over?" asked Harry looking thoroughly annoyed.

Draco hated how Harry was looking at him right now. He nodded slowly and said, "Yes.. Yes it is."

Before Harry could to turn to leave, Draco put his hands on Harry's face and leaned over, gently planting a kiss on Harry with trembling lips. He moved closer to Harry pressing his body closer to his.

Harry jerked away looking disgusting, "Oh my God, Malfoy! This talk was supposed to explain things and you just went and ruined it all, all over again. You're disgusting!"

Draco looked as if he was going to be sick. He was shaking violently and his eyes were watery and empty. Staring at Harry with desperation and hopelessness he said, "I'm sorry! I really didn't mean to!"

Harry looked at him with a look of pity and said softly, "Right. You just lie anyway. I don't know what to believe."

Turning, Draco ran off so quickly, Harry didn't have time to question him.

He stumbled down the stairs and headed straight for the Slytherin Common Room. What had he been thinking? He had kissed Harry Potter again! He was losing it all together. He was becoming so desperate that he could feel burning pains inside himself. Harry was so sensitive and so kind to him even though he was being a jerk. But it wasn't his fault, it was Harry's fault for being so enticing. Stupid Harry Potter ruins everything.

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Harry entered the Gryffindor Common Room glancing around. Ron walked over to with a large grin on his face and said, "Looks like someone made Harry a man tonight." He winked.

Harry gave him a horrified look and said, "Never say that again or I'm going to hurt you!"

Ron laughed thinking Harry was joking and strode off to go talk to Hermione next to the fire. Harry watched them closely and almost smiled as Ron leaned over and kissed Hermione on the forehead. She looked very surprised as he said goodnight and went off to the boy's dorm.

Harry sat down next to her, by the fire and said, "Looks like someone has a new boyfriend."

She blushed and said, "Ha, that was just a friendly sort of thing you know."

He laughed and said, "Sure it was, Hermione. Sure it was."

"You know it was! Ron and I aren't like that."

"Right Hermione, I believe you."

"Oh shut up, Harry!"

They both laughed and Harry got up and gave his friend a kiss on the cheek and said, "For the record, that was friendly. Ron's was a whole different story."

At this he walked up to the boy's dorm proud of how well he disguised his anger and confusion. Nobody would expect that he had been kissed by Draco Malfoy twice. He hoped they wouldn't.

He changed into his pajamas and laid down in bed falling asleep almost immediately. Suddenly he heard Draco's voice say, "'Sometimes, you'll find love in those who you believe that you hate.' Then he saw a strange man yelling at Draco and hitting him.

Just then there was person falling in front of his eyes. It looked a lot like himself. Someone yelled his name and was crying.

He was running. Running faster than ever. He felt like snow was falling all around him. He slipped on ice and was trembling on the ground with fear. He knew was going to die.

He woke up in a cold sweat.

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"So Harry, did you tell him off?" asked Cho in a hopeful voice.

"Yeah, and he told me a lot too," mumbled Harry.

"Really?" asked Cho, "I bet he was a real jerk. He wasn't expecting you to do anything like that."

Harry shrugged.

"Wait till I tell the girls!" she giggled and put an arm around Harry.

He stayed silent.

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"How come you never kiss me anymore?" asked Pansy with her arms crossed.

"Because," responded Draco glaring at her.

"Because of what, Draco Malfoy?"

"Because I don't like you and I think you're the most ghastly person I've ever seen," he responded shortly with an evil grin spread across his face.

"How dare you! I'll have you know that lots of other boys are interested in me!"

"Hopefully for their sake, they're blind and deaf," he said with a wave and a hand.

"Really Draco, I knew you were cruel before and I liked it. Now you're just being a bitch," said the girl turning up her nose more than what it already was.

"Just deal with it," he said while opening a package from home. Mother always sent him things to eat.

She stalked off angrily mumbling things to herself about him.

"You're just not my type anymore," he whispered to himself.

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Today they would have their first Defense Against Dark Arts class. Professor Lupin had returned, to Harry's sheer delight, to teach again. All the Gryffindors were thrilled, especially the new ones who hadn't been there three years ago when he taught the first time at the school. It was comforting to have him around. Especially while Harry was still trying to get over Sirius's death, which seemed to be impossible. There had to be someone around besides Ron and Hermione that he could talk to. He never really counted Cho as someone to talk to because she was too emotional and always jumped to conclusions. Harry wondered why he still went back to her.

"Yes, yes, yes!" said Ron excitedly, "Lupin is BACK!"

Hermione laughed and Harry smiled. This would be a nice change from the corrupt teachers they usually had.

They walked into the Defense Against Dark Arts classroom and found their seats.

Lupin entered with smirk upon his face and quickly met with Harry's eyes as he said, "Hello class."

End of the Chapter 3

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