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Harry and Neville froze at the voice, both turning around slowly to face the speaker. Draco Malfoy was standing with his elegant eyebrow arched in curiosity and a small smirk playing on his pink lips. "It seems that you are not the only ones out at such an odd hour. Not 15 minutes ago Theo and Blaise came into the common room. Funny thing is I had been looking for them all night and they were not in this castle. Would you happen to know where they were?" Draco asked his signature smirk still in place.
"It is none of your business what we or anyone else is doing. And even if we did know where they were up to we wouldn't be telling you. Why don't you just leave others alone, must you always but into everyone's life? Merlin you are worst then a girl sometimes." Neville said with a sneer.
"Potter leave us, I have something to discuss with Neville alone." Draco said dismissing Harry with a wave of his hand.
"Don't you dare leave Harry; you aren't one of his little lackeys out to do his bidding. He can stay here if he wants, whatever you have to say to me can be said in front of him." Neville said crossing his arms over his chest.
Draco Malfoy saw red, as his anger began to build up. "How dare you dismiss my authority? I have built Slytherin to what is it today, and you are trying to tear it down. Never in all my life would I have thought I would see such udder disrespect for tradition." Draco said with an odd tone of controlled anger to his voice, like he was yelling without having to actually yell.
Neville snorted and said, "What tradition? Slytherin is full of conniving, backstabbing, liars, and believe me it is not an honor to call myself one. I loathe you and everything you stand for. You are nothing but dirt on my shoe."
The boy's words seemed to fuel Draco's anger further. The blonde boy quickly had Neville pinned against the wall, the blonde's body pressed tightly against Neville's.
"Do not use those words so casually. I am the ice prince, the ruler, the one and only Slytherin god. I get everything that I want, and no one stops me from getting what I want. And if you haven't figured it out yet, what I want is you. And I will have you Neville; mark my words you will be mine." Draco ran his fingers down the captive boy's cheek. Silver eyes locked with chocolate brown and Neville shuddered, looking away first.
"Do not think that I will let you do whatever you please. I am not some toy you can play with and break only to let it go in the end. I am not your property. And if for some god-awful reason you happen to get me into your bed, it will be one sided. Do not think that I will give my heart to you willingly. I would rather die by Voldermort hands then touch you." Neville said hate and disgust filling his words.
Draco sighed and cupped Neville's cheek gently bringing the boys gaze back to his. "Who has hurt you so much that you reject even the slightest bit of comfort and caring? Who put those shadows in your eyes? You have no bloody idea how utterly gorgeous you are. You have so much passion and strength and I would kill to have even an ounce directed at me in a loving fashion. Why won't you let me in?" Draco's tone was almost begging.
"I don't trust you, I never have. Since the moment we came to this school you have done nothing more than ridicule and belittle me. And you expect me to fall at your feet and give myself to you? You are a fool Draco Malfoy, a fool I want nothing to do with." With that said, Neville shakily pushed the boy off of him.
"Come on Neville, I'll walk you back to the dorms." Harry said coming to stand in front of the still shaking boy. Neville nodded and moved away from Draco.
The two didn't talk as they walked away from the bathroom, and were still silent when they entered the Slytherin Common room. Harry directed Neville to a couch and sat the boy down, just as Theo came over to them. "What happened? We saw Draco leaving the common room and we were praying that you were on your way back to the common room and not still near the chamber. He's gone and said something to Neville again hasn't he?" Theo asked looking at the shaking boy in concern.
"Yea they had words with each other and Draco asked who had hurt Neville, Nev's been quiet since he told Draco he was a fool. I'm worried about him." Harry said looking once again at Neville who was still sitting quietly and staring off into space.
"I'm sure it's nothing Harry, he's probably still mad at Draco. Come on how about a game of exploding snaps?" Theo asked motioning to nearby table. Harry nodded his agreement and the boys moved to an empty corner of the common room. Hours later as the boy's got up to go to bed; Draco appeared in the common room. He walked past them without a word, though e kept his eyes on Neville as he walked.
For the next few days' things were quite strained between the 6th year Slytherin boys. Draco had pestered everyone about what was wrong with Neville, without actually asking the boy himself. When the blonde had tried to approach Neville, the usually peaceful boy had spouted words of hate towards him and trashed the common room; Draco wasn't too keen on trying to talk to him again. The rest of the 6th year Slytherin boys were fed up with the constant questions from Draco and the unnerving quiet from Neville.
Harry was constantly on edge because Neville was so out of sorts. Harry didn't know what to do about Neville. Harry had barely been able to calm him down the one time Draco had approached him. And Draco was getting on Harry's nerves. The blonde boy was asking him every ten minutes what was wrong with Neville, what should he do about Neville, why wasn't Harry helping him with Neville? Harry was fed up. And just that very morning Theo and Blaise barely stopped a duel between Harry and Draco, thank god they had been outside the potions class room on their way to breakfast and Professor Snape had come out of his office, or someone would have been seriously injured.
In the great hall during breakfast the rest of Hogwarts seemed to sense the tension in the Slytherin house. The large room was unnaturally silent, as Neville and Harry made their way to the table and sat down. Just as they were loading their plates, Draco walked in and sat across from them.
"Good morning Harry, Neville." The blonde began to load his plate with food, as did the other two. "You shouldn't eat that Neville, it's bad for you." Draco said as Neville went to grab a hot cross bun.
"You are not my mother Draco; I can eat whatever I please." Neville said his tone on edge.
Draco snorted. "Someone's got to mother you, after all your mother went and got herself sent to St. Mungos." Neville stood up his face becoming red with rage.
"You have no right to say anything about my mother. Look at yours, she spends more money than your father can keep in your vaults and she doesn't love you at all. Who are you to talk about mothers when you barely have one yourself?" Neville yelled at the other boy.
"How dare you bring my mother into this. I don't know where you suddenly got this attitude problem but it's really getting on my nerves. Ever since you and Harry started sneaking off and doing god knows what, you've changed. You and Harry aren't the only ones who sneak off either; I've seen Blaise and Theo come to the common room late at night as well. I want to know what's really going on." Draco said his tone still calm.
"Why can't you keep your big nose out of everyone's business? You have no right to know where we go, you aren't our keeper. Stop worrying about what everyone else is doing and focus on what you are supposed to be doing. Merlin, you can't let people keep their secrets can you?" Neville said dropping his fork onto his plate.
"Not when the secrets affect someone I care about. Why won't you tell me what is going on around here?" Draco asked standing up as Neville had done earlier.
"Because everything is not your business to know that is why you don't need to know. Just let this go." Neville said with a sight.
Draco slammed his fist down onto the table, "I can't just let this go, why don't you understand that?"
"Then we have nothing left to say to each other, I will go my way, and you will go yours. May our paths never cross again in this lifetime." Neville said as he stormed away.
Draco slammed his fist down again, before he to left the great hall. Harry watched both boys leave worry settling deep in his gut. Draco was on to them and it would only be a matter of time before he managed to find out what they were doing. Harry would have to either alert the other members or announce his position in the war and both were likely to hurt someone in the end. Either option was going to happen much too soon.
With a great sigh Harry stood up and made his way down the Slytherin Common rooms, it was time the resistance was made public. Though he would be careful about it, they would know what the resistance was but not who was in it. It's always best to keep secrets, the less people that know the better. With that thought in mind Harry sat down and began to write a letter.