A/N: I don't own any rights to Harry Potter. Little magic is used and homosexuality, violence, rape and language are used. Don't like it? Don't read it. You've been warned.
Harry did as he was told in the letter and waited till everyone was asleep, including Ron and Hermione. He didn't tell them about the letter even though Ron already knew but Harry didn't mention anything to Hermione because he knew she'd find it suspicious and ask to come with him. He had asked Ron not to say anything but all he said was, "You can always trust me but if this gets me in trouble with Hermione, I blame you."
Harry wasn't sure if he needed anything so he just grabbed his wand to be sure. If Snape wants to teach him new things, he knew he had to bring it. 'What could I possibly need work on and what could he be teaching me after everyone goes to sleep?' Harry asked himself. He suddenly began to get nervous wondering if anything would happen or if he was in trouble for whatever reason. He walked slowly up to the dungeons when someone pulled him aside in a black cape and hood over Harry's head saying, "Change of plans. Meet him on the roof of the school, tallest structure." He was not only startled but also confused. "The roof?" he asks.
"Yes, the roof. Now get going!" Harry recognized his voice but he couldn't place a finger as to who it might be. 'The roof?' he thought and only that word kept running through his head. 'The roof…why in the bloody hell would he want to meet me on the roof? That makes no sense at all.'
He began to feel more nervous with each step he took and he was mainly tense because he didn't know what was going to happen or what Snape had even wanted. Harry takes the stairs up to the highest structure of the building on the roof to meet Snape. He began feeling tired, ill and not knowing what was about to happen made him even more nervous. He thinks it's his nerves that were making him feel ill but he hasn't been this tired since his second year. Harry wished he could only get more sleep and take advantage of this situation and pass out right now but he couldn't. With each step he took, he could hear someone up there already, pacing back and forth. Harry gets to the door and he hesitates. His heart is pounding and his mind is racing and suddenly he didn't feel tired. Harry's body was out of the blue jumpy and jittery. His hands shook and he paused before opening it. He heard a sigh and then more pacing. Harry looked at his watch and it was five after midnight. He knew he was late but he feels scared and for once, Harry wished he had disobeyed Snape and told Hermione and Ron. 'This is why she'd want to come with me,' Harry thought, 'I wished I would have said something but it's too late now…fuck.'
Harry started pacing in the stairwell, panicking and uncertain as to whether or not he should open it. 'Open it? No. But it's Snape and I have to go. Open it? Uhh, not sure. I'd have to think on that one. Can I sleep on it? He's waiting for me! I have to open this door. What does he want? I won't know till I open it. Should I? Maybe it would be best but then again, I could be in trouble. I could ditch and say I passed out early by accident and didn't wake up to my alarm clock. Since I wasn't allowed to tell anyone, nobody knew to wake me up. What am I saying? I have to go in there, now!' At that exact moment, the door closed off his thoughts like a trap exit door when someone opened it immediately unknowing of Harry's presence in the stairwell. To his surprise, it wasn't Snape but Malfoy.
"Malfoy? Oh hell no! I'm out of here," he said as he began to walk back down the stairwell.
"No. I wanted to meet you here for a certain reason and now I have. Why do you think I asked you not to tell Weasley and Granger about this meeting? I knew you'd spread it around even more than you already have!"
"Spread what around?" Harry asked with an inquisitive look widening on his face.
"You know! You spread all those rumors about me, didn't you?"
"I haven't heard anything and even if I have, I'm sure they're true. I have no fucking clue what you're talking about or what road you decide to take but whatever you need resolved, do it on your own time. Goodnight, Malfoy."
"Wait," he says in a tone of voice Harry has never heard from him before, "just listen for two minutes, please?" He turns around wondering if he should or not and Draco has pretty much gotten the point that Harry will stay to listen.
"Two minutes and then after that, I'm out of here."
"You didn't hear any rumors about me?" Malfoy asked.
"No, not yet anyway. Why?"
"They must have died down then… There were some nasty rumors about me going around and I thought that if you and Ron and Hermione heard them, you'd rub it in my face for the rest of the year."
"What rumors?" Harry ask with a deceitful gaze and with his eyebrows raised as if he knew what they were when he really didn't.
"Like I'd ever tell you! I thought you knew and if anything, I thought you're the one who started them but I guess not."
"As I've asked before, what rumors?"
"Just…" Draco looks at Harry with a poignant yet apprehensive look on his face as if he were nearly on the verge of begging, "if you hear any rumors about me just please and I'm asking you not as your enemy but as a friend to stick up for me? Please? And don't believe it either because it's not true."
"You want me to stick up for you? Why?"
"Just please Potter… Harry," he says, "I can't deal with rumors like this and with the one that's going around now… My father would kick me out if he ever heard it, regardless if it's true or false."
"Tell me what the rumor is and I'll stick up for you in front of everybody."
"No, don't do that. Don't make it obvious."
"Why not?"
"Because if you do then… People will think we are together which will only add on to the rumor itself, please Harry, don't make it obvious to everyone."
"Oh my god! You're gay!" Harry said, his voice was getting rapidly louder and louder. Draco's eyes began to enlarge as he turned around and made sure they were the only two up there.
"No! Please shut up! I'm not! Just… Look, now you know, okay?"
"Are you? Just tell me and I'll keep my end of the bargain."
"How about that you asked what the rumor is and if I told you then you said you'd stick up for me. Well you know and now you can stick up for me."
"Malfoy, just tell me! I'm in Gryffindor, remember? Honesty, honor and loyal."
"I could care less if you were still a virgin, Potter. My private life is none of your business."
"Neither is my being a virgin," Harry replied in a rather cynical tone of voice.
"Are you a virgin??"
"Are you gay, Malfoy?" He looked at Harry as if he was humiliated in front of the entire school. He nodded his head but only for a second or two before turning around again and double-checking to make sure nobody was there and said, "Look, just… Please keep up your end of the bargain. I would have never written you that note had I known that you didn't start it let alone, that you yourself didn't even know about it. Please, I'm asking you as a friend to just… Let this go, please? If only you knew how my father would react…"
"How HE would react?" Harry exclaimed, "What about your friends, school faculty and students? Freshman are the worst for gossip, did you know that? Their first day here and they knew everything about me in 10 seconds or less… stupid assholes."
"I'm not worried about students. Well I am but only because I know that if it gets around school, it'll get around to my house. Do you understand, Potter? If Voldemort heard about this…"
"I understand."
"Pinky promise?"
"What?" asked Harry.
"Obey the pinky, damnit!"
Harry wrapped his pinky around Draco's and shakes it. (For some odd reason people thought that this made others feel bound to one another's secret and felt obliged to "obey the pinky". Harry found it purely ridiculous.)
Harry walked back down to his dorm and found the door to be locked. This was a bad thing because not only was his booze in there but also his stomach was killing him from the tension between him and Malfoy. 'I'll just sleep in the common room,' Harry thought to himself, 'so my friends think I'm a jerk and Malfoy is gay. Things will change around here if people find out. Let's just hope this doesn't spread as quickly as venom like most rumors do because it's something that will definitely interest people.'
Before he fell asleep, questions began running through his mind again about his life although they weren't even about his life this time. Instead, Harry found himself asking, 'Would I ever date Draco?'