AN:ok, I got a good amount reviews. I was very happy about that. ^-^ I'm hoping for a larger number because this chapter is where it gets interesting. I know for a fact that some words are spelled wrong, and I'm still looking for a beta, if anyone is interested....

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'inner thoughts' (this only happens like...once)

Chapter 7

"Ah! Mister Potter, it is a delight to see you again. Would you like a room for the night, or will you be staying with us longer?" Asked Tom. Harry and Shikiru had arrived at the Leaky Cauldron a few minutes ago. Shikiru had hidden in Harry's bag so they wouldn't cause any suspicion.

"I'll be staying a few days Tom, enough to gather some school supplies and then be on my way." replied Harry, paying Tom for three days.

"Alright then, I'll bring you to your room." Tom led Harry up the stairs to the furthest bedroom from the others. "I thought you would like your privacy."

"Thanks Tom, that's great. Oh, I would appreciate it a lot if you didn't mention I was here to anyone." said Harry, leaning into Tom to emphasis his point

"Of course sir." Tom turned away from Harry and left down the corridor

Harry entered the room and put his took his coat off. Shikiru, a mouse at the time, scurried out of the pocket and changed back into her normal form.

"Well, where were you planning on going today?" asked Shikiru, sitting on the bed and looking out the window at the morning crowds.

"I need to go shopping. I have no clothes that fit me or my style. I particularly like the muggle style of goth. I think it would suite me well." replied Harry

"Muggle London?"

"Muggle London." Confirmed Harry "I think I'm going to take a short nap. I haven't gotten a decent night's sleep in ages." said Harry, striping down to his boxers and crawling into the bed.

"Alrighty, I'm gong to go out, gather some potion ingredients. You can't get too much around here, but there are some essentials that I need to stalk up on. Need anything?" asked Shikiru, as she turned into an average looking witch. Still very long, blond hair but now she was only 5'2. She had on elegant robes that were obviously made from the finest material. She still had her golden eyes, but they weren't so vivid now. She looked like anyone you would pass on the street.

"Well, I'm off. Have a nice nap." Shikiru walked out the door as Harry fell asleep.

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Draco's POV

'Goddess, this is boring.' thought Draco, as he followed his father down an ally way in Knockturn Ally.

Draco and his father were currently on their way to buy some rare potion ingredients for Severus, who was currently occupied with making potions for Voldemort.

"Keep up Draco, I don't want to around these filth much longer." said Lucius, as he passed by a group of poorer people then themselves.

"Yes father." replied Draco, trying harder to keep up with his father's long strides.

Finally, they reached the potions store.

"Stay in front. This wont take long." instructed Lucius, walking up to the counter. He and the owner whispered a few words before disappearing into the back room.

DRACO'S POV

Draco started to walk around the store, inspecting all the ingredients on the shelves.

'I don't understand why I had to come with him. Its not like I have any reason to be here...' thought Draco

"Fate?" said a silky voice behind Draco

Draco spun around and came face to face with a girl. The first thing he noticed were her eyes. They seemed to be made out of gold, with just the right amount of black specks to make them shimmer. The second thing he noticed was her hair. It was almost the same color as his, but whiter, like snow.

"What do you mean? I didn't say anything." Draco tentatively replied, hand drawing close to his wand

"No? I could have sworn I hear you as why you were here...I'm terribly sorry, where are my ma

ners, my name is Anastasia." Shikiru put her hand out for Draco to shake. After a few moments of contemplating his next move, Draco decided that it wouldn't hurt to shake this girls hand.

"Nice to meet you, Anastasia. But please, do not get off the subject at hand. I certainly did not say anything, but I do remember wondering that very question not too long ago. That can only mean that you were in my mind. But the more important question is why?" deduced Draco, looking straight into Shikiru's eyes

"Was that in your mind? I'm terribly sorry. You see, I'm very good in Ocumplamancy ( i know for a FACT that i completely butchered that, but i think you get what i mean), a little too good I'm afraid. Sometimes I can't keep my mind from just wondering about and sneaking into other's heads. I'm sorry if I intruded on a private thought." Said Shikiru, with a sheepish look on her face

"Well please try not to do it again. But, um, I have another question."

"Yes?"

"Why did you say it was fate I was going to be here?" asked Draco

"Oh, right. Well, um...I'm not really sure I should be telling you this...um, you are Draco Malfoy, correct?" Said Shikiru

"Yes..."

"And you know a certain Harry Potter?"

"Of course, everyone knows that smug git." replied Draco

'You know, he didn't seem to be that smug in that dream you had last night. If I do recall he seemed more flushed...'

'SHUT UP' cried Draco to himself

"Oh my..." Shikiru blushed and looked away

"What did you hear." said an angry Draco

"Nothing...." teased Shikiru

"Oh Lord" Draco looked away, never having been more embarrassed.

"No! Its my fault, I shouldn't have heard that."

There was a long pause before Shikiru finally spoke up

"Well, um, this should be easier to say."

"What?" inquired Draco

"How I know who you are. You see, I met Harry this summer. I was staying at my aunts house when I met him in the park. We became fast friends. Anyway, one day I was in his room, don't give me that look, nothing happened. I saw a book lying open on the table. I didn't mean to snoop but I looked down onto the page and I saw your name." explained Shikiru

'Potter was writing about me?! No, it was probably just about how much of a git I am to him and his friends' thought Draco

"Oh no! Not at all." said Shikiru, interrupting Draco's thoughts.

"Please don't do that." sighed Draco

"Sorry. I just couldn't have you thinking that. You really don't know Harry, do you?" asked Shikiru

"Well, no. we've been enemies since we first met." replied Draco

"Do you want to be his enemy?" asked Shikiru

"No. I never did. I wanted to be his friend, and I tried. On the first day of school I offered him my hand and he refused it. It hurt my pride deeply. The only way I could think to react was with hostility, hence the rivalry." said Draco, looking away sadly

"Huh, I really think you need to to tell him that." Said Shikiru

"What reason does he have to listen to me?" asked Draco

"I can't really go into details, but Harry has...changed. Some things happened this summer and now we are staying in Diagon Ally. I think you should come with me." Shikiru started to pull the embarrassed Draco out the door when his father returned from the back.

"Ok Draco we can...Draco, who is this?" asked Lucius, looking sternly at his son.

"Pardon me Lord Malfoy. I am a friend of Draco's from school. I haven't seen him since the end of last year and I was going to bring him to lunch so we could catch up. I thought he was here alone so I started to pull him away. It was dreadfully rude of me to not ask him if he was alone. Would you wish to join us?" lied Shikiru smoothly.

"No, no. I must be returning to the Manor. Draco, I expect you home no later that 4 hours, is that clear?"

"Yes father, I shall return by then." replied Draco

"Alright son, I'll see you when you get home." with that, Lucius strolled out of the store and apaparated (sp? yea, that's wrong too. this is why i need a beta) back to the Manor.

"Ok, lets head to the Leacky Cauldron." said Shikiru, pulling Draco's arm into hers and dragged the protesting boy to their destination.

"Anastasia, please. Don't make me do this! Potter hates me! You must have read wrong, he'll just laugh in my face and go tell his mudblood and weasel friend about me!" cried Draco as there neared the inn.

"Whats there to tell?" asked Shikiru

"Well, for one thing that I'm a fag (FYI, I love my gays, so I don't want to have any flames about me using the word fag, just needed to put that out there.) , and for another that I'm crushing on Potter!" said Draco

"Calm down, I know what I'm doing." said Shikiru as they reached Harry's room. "Now wait here, I'm ganna talk to Harry."

"I really don't think..."

"Then don't. I'll be right back. Don't you DARE run away." said Shikiru threateningly

"Malfoy's don't run away from anything." said Draco with a stuck up look on his face

"What ever."

Shikiru entered the room, leaving Draco to nervously wait in to hall. Harry was currently still sleeping.

'I hate to wake him.' thought Shikiru 'Oh well'

"Hey! Harry!" Yelled Shikiru

"AWWWW!" yelled Harry as he was startled out of the wounder full dream he was having about a certain blond.

"Oh good, your up."

"Well yea I'm bloody up!" cried Harry, giving Shikiru an angry stare.

"I'm ganna wipe that pissed off look off your face when I tell you my news!" cried Shikiru

"What news?" asked Harry

"Ok. What if I told you that I found someone that I know a certain someone has a crush on." smiled Shikiru

"I would say what are you talking about..." said Harry, giving Shikiru an odd look

"Oh don't give me that! I know about your infatuation with Draco Malfoy."

"Wha...No!...I'm not...No! You got it all wrong...I." Stuttered Harry, trying to think up an excuse as he got a shirt and pants on.

"I had another dream about Draco last night. His hands were caressing my body as his tongue worked its way through my mouth. I needed him to touch me so bad I thought I..." Shikiru read from Harry's diary that she had accioed while Harry was stuttering.

"HEY! Thats mine!" yelled Harry, snatching up the book from Shikiru's hands.

"What? I've already read through most of these." said Shikiru, looking bored

"I don't care! These are my private thoughts and you have no right to read them!"

"Yea, ok. Anyway, as I was saying. I met someone very interesting today. Someone that was previously mentioned in said diary

"You didn't..."

"I did! I can see why you like him! He's hot!" said Shikiru, almost giggling

"What did you say?" Harry started to grow nervous

"Oh, not much. Just that you've changed. I thought I would leave that to you." said Shikiru, walking towards the door.

"What do you..." Harry stopped mid sentence when Shikiru opened the door to revel, Draco

An awkward silence filled the room.

"Malfoy."

"Potter."

"Well, I can see that this is ganna go somewhere fast. If you boys will excuse me, I'm going to go back for those ingredients. I completely forgot what I had been doing once I met Draco. Ta!" said Shikiru, pulling Draco into the room before leaving.

The tension was so thick in to the room that a knife couldn't cut it. (I couldn't think of anything else)

After a pause that felt like eternity to the boys, Harry finally spoke.

"Why are you here Malfoy?"

"Well, I met Anastasia in a shop not too long ago. She mentioned you and said that you had changed, I wanted to know what she meant." replied Draco

"Why would you care if I've changed or not? You've never cared about me in the past." replied Harry, taking a step closer to Draco

"On the contrary Potter, I've cared about you. I just had a different way of showing it." said Draco, also taking a step towards Harry.

'What are you doing?!' cried Draco's mind

'Shush! Just go with it!'

"You show that you cared by embarrassing me? That doesn't seem like caring to me." said Harry

"I was stupid. You rejected me in first year. My ego was shattered. I couldn't just let you get away with that. What would people have thought of me?" asked Draco

"I don't know. But you must have another reason for being here." said Harry, continuing to get closer to Draco

"Well, yes. Anastasia convinced me. She told me that you didn't hate me as much as I thought you did." said Draco

"What did she say exactly?"

"Not much. Mostly about how you've changed. How she found my name in a book of yours. I know that I'm important Potter, but I also know that my name is not in a book, yet. So that can only mean that you wrote it in a book. She also said that these were not hostile writings. Now, what were you writing about me Harry?" asked Draco, switching to Harry's first name, now that he was only a few feet away from the raven haired boy.

"You're right Draco. They weren't hostile at all. In fact, they were quite the opposite." replied Harry

"Now, thats what I suspected. When Shikiru mentioned the book, I assumed that you must have been thinking the same thoughts that I was." Draco decided that he had to put himself out there. What ever Harry said next would decide how the two boys regarded each other forever.

Harry was a little taken aback. He couldn't believe that the boy he had been lusting over actually returned his feelings. Nor could he believe that he was being so bold. Harry decided to just put it all out there.

"Well Draco, I'm glad you assumed that because you are right. I was having the same thoughts as you were." Harry and Draco were now only a foot away from each other.

"Well. That is most interesting Harry. What shall we do about it." Draco had a playful smirk on his face as he looked down at the slightly blushing Harry.

"Well, the decent thing to do would be for us to sit down and talk about this." replied Harry

"But...."

"But I can think of a much better thing to do with that tongue." Smiled Harry

"I was hoping that was where this was going." Draco cupped Harry's cheek and pulled their lips together.

This kiss was shy at first. Both boys just wanting to explore the others mouth, but it then turned to one for dominance. Neither boy wanted to give in to easily. Eventually, Harry was the first to succumb to Draco's invading tongue. Harry couldn't help but let out a little moan as Draco's tongue plunged into his mouth. Draco smirked into the kiss, happy to know that he was having this effect of Harry.

As they continued to kiss, Draco slowly brought his hand to Harry's waist. He was about to start unbuttoning Harry's pants when Harry pulled away.

"What's wrong?" asked Draco, giving the smaller boy a worried look.

"I'm sorry Draco. I just...don't want to go that far that fast. I mean, I just found out like, 20 min ago that we were having the same feelings for each other. I know I must sound like such a loser for saying this but I just really want to take it slow." said Harry, drawing his arms around himself and looking away.

"Harry, I completely agree. I've never really known you. I want this to be a lasting relationship, contrary to popular belief, I am not a man whore." said Draco, pulling Harry into his arms and giving him a small peck on the forehead.

"Thanks for understanding Draco."

"Of course love. Ha, I wounder what your friends will think when they hear about us." laughed Draco, a beautiful sound to Harry.

"I hope it gives both of them heart attacks and they die." replied Harry in an icy tone.

"Oh? What happened with them?" asked Draco, peering down at Harry

"They've been using me this entire time! They were just following Dumbledore's orders. Making sure I stayed on the path of the light. Making sure that I never talked to the "wrong" people. Keeping me in line. Making it so that I could never make any friends besides them. Doumbledore probably paid them well." Said Harry angrily,

"You can't mean that all this time, they were just...pretending?" asked Draco

"Yes! Everything in my life has been a lie!" cried Harry, starting to sob into Draco's shoulder.

"Shush love. Its ok." said Draco soothingly, running his hand down Harry's back

Harry continued to sob. He had never really thought about this. He had known for awhile that his friends were really not his friends, but he could never bring himself to believe that it was all a lie. He cried until he fell asleep in Draco's arms.

Draco felt all of Harry's weight shift onto him. He picked him up, noticing how light he was, and brought him over to the bed. He took his shoes off and slid into the bed with Harry.

"Good night love." he kissed Harry's cheek and fell asleep next to Harry

This was how Shikiru found them, an hour later.

"Ah, how adorable." said Shikiru

She was about to leave when she heard someone banging on the door.

"DRACO! I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU TOOK A GIRL TO AN INN! YOU HAD BETTER MAKE YOUR SELF DECENT BECAUSE I'M COMING IN!" yelled an angry Lucius Malfoy, who had heard from a fellow death eater that Draco and some girl had gone into the Leacky Cauldron.

'shit' thought Shikiru as Lucius burst through the door.

End of chapter 7

AN: cliffie, I know. Ok, so I got almost 20 reviews for my last chapter. I REALLY want that again. ^-^ soooo, press the sexy review button, and the more reviews I get, the sooner you get to see Lucius's reaction. Oh, BTW, Draco doesn't have MPD or anything, he was just arguing with himself.

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