DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Harry Potter or any of its characters. I also do not make any money from this.
WARNINGS: Yaoi (male x male), Yuri (female x female) adult topics, swearing, sexual scenes and violence
PAIRINGS I know of so far: (pairings will be added as they are mentioned in chapters)
Ron x Hermoine, Blaise x Cho, Neville x Cho, Saito x Draco
This has not been Beta'd.
'text' is thought
"text" is talking
Hidden Element
Chapter 34: Part of a Soul
Elementals:
Ice and Void – Draco Malfoy
Fire – Pansy Parkinson
Earth – Blaise Zabini
Nature – Cho Chang
Light – Cherrie Everdeen (OC)
The Forgotten:
Electricity – Saito Blackstar (OC)
Animal – Carsly Hendricks (OC)
Shadow – Alakai Petrovski (OC)
Water - Yasmin DiAngelo
Wind - Miya Hendricks (OC)
Draco hadn't greeted anyone as he entered the house, he moved as if on automatic. He could feel it creeping up, could feel his vision starting to fade, darkness flashing around the edges. There was only one place he could think of to go.
He followed that ever present iciness at the back of his mind, through the kitchen door, through the backdoor and into the back garden. He had passed Luna and Cho on his way out, he had no idea where everyone else was, but there was one person he would now always be able to find.
Harry was sitting on the grass staring up at the sky, his bare feet rested on the soft grass, knees up and elbows resting gently atop of them. He seemed to be in his own little world.
Draco sat next to him slowly, so as not to scare the brunette, whom only looked at him with a curious expression. He took a deep breath as his lungs started to burn.
"Draco?" Harry asked worriedly.
Staring at the blonde more intently, he remembered seeing these symptoms once before. Without thinking, he grabbed the blondes shoulders and pulled him down as his legs straightened so that the blondes head lay on his lap. He enveloped him in a tight hug, hoping it would help prevent what he had seen before. He knew that Draco had been in pain when Void had last gripped him in its iron grasp.
"What are you doing?" Draco growled, trying to push the brunette off of him.
"No. This helped last time. Let me do this, OK?" Draco's arms dropped limply to the side, feeling the mixture of Harrys warmth and the ice he knew spread through his veins.
What had frayed at the edges, quickly cleared up. He frowned as he remembered what Saito had told him. It appeared he was right.
Slowly, his hands reached up to grip Harrys arm. He could feel the familiar icy touch, could feel it attempt to spread though his own body, but not quite finding what it was looking for. He made a whimpering noise and closed his eyes tightly, envisioning that the slowly tightening embrace of ice was really within his own body, making him feel complete once more.
Harry wasn't so sure what was happening, whether Draco was still in pain, or if he was merely hugging him. All he knew was that he never wanted it to stop. Memories raced through his mind. Laughter, smiles, those amazing kisses, he closed his own eyes as an afterthought.
It was horrible, he knew, to make himself feel this way if he didn't know what the blonde was thinking, whom he wanted to be with.
He tightened his arms at that thought, but loosened it slightly at the thought he might be hurting Draco. He was surprised, however, when Draco forcefully tugged them tighter once more. It made him lift his head slightly to stare at him wide eyed.
He didn't seem to be in any pain, well, a pain of the physical kind, but there was a forceful look of longing on the blondes face that made Harry hope. He breathed out softly, seeing white mist escape his lips, and with another stab to the heart realised what was happening.
He had been right about Void being present when the blonde had sat down beside him, and the frost that was once Dracos that now resided inside his own body did help remove its presence. Draco was probably missing said presence. After all, wasn't it part of his soul?
"Stop feeling angry." Draco whispered suddenly. "It doesn't feel right."
"What doesn't feel right?"
"You, Ice, both."
"Are you ok?" Draco squinted one of his eyes open.
"I am now, thank you." Harry smiled softly as Draco gave him a soft and gentle smile of his own.
"Do...do you feel it inside me? Or...how does it work?" Draco looked up hesitantly, both eyes fully open. When both were open like this, Harry suddenly seemed to be a lot closer than he first imagined.
"It's in you, but it comes to the surface when I touch you. When it comes in contact with me, rather, when you come in contact with me, it tries to come back, but is prevented by something, so your skin feels cool to the touch. It's...I'm sorry, very comforting."
"It's fine," He let the palm of his right hand wipe away strands of shaggy hair before resting it on the blondes forehead. He smiled at the sigh Draco released, closing his eyes briefly before opening them again.
"This mustn't be very comfortable for you..."
"I don't mind." Harry whispered, so softly that Draco almost hadn't heard it.
"I'm sorry." Harry pulled back slightly once more, gazing in confusion.
"Sorry for what?"
"For having bought you into this whole Ice mess." Harry frowned for a second before sighing and leaning back down to embrace Draco once more.
"Like I said, I don't mind."
"Harry, I'm not so sure you know what exactly has happened."
"I have a part of your power within me, right?" Draco gripped the brunettes bicep tighter.
"You are the other part of my soul now Harry."
"I...what?" Harry let go completely and sat up fully, looking down with wide eyes.
"Ice is inside you, has fused with some part of you, or it would come back to me. You have efficiently become, part of me too."
"Huh...?" Harry stated elegantly.
"I'm sorry."
"Stop saying that!" harry growled at him. "You're worse than Hermoine when it comes to throwing me in the deep end!"
Draco bit his lip to prevent himself from saying sorry once more.
"What does that mean?"
"Nothing. Or, a better way to describe it, is that I've become a part of you. Which ever way you look at it, part of me, has become part of you. There's no fancy special powers or telekinetics like soul mates if that is what you were wondering."
"I have inadvertently trapped a part of yourself inside me?" Harry asked with a shake of the head. The wizarding world never ceased to amaze him. "Are...are you ok? I...what exactly have I trapped?"
"Ice. Ice has become a prominent part of me. It changed my attitude, my appearance, my very being. You could say you have my catalyst trapped within you."
"Will you...change back to normal if I have it?"
"Back to normal?" Draco asked quizzically.
"To, you know, before it all started." Draco sat up now too, the breeze swiping some of his shaggy hair to the left.
"You'd want to change me?"
"I...no...I was just wondering." Draco narrowed his eyes as Harry stumbled over what words to say. It meant he was talking whilst changing the words in his mind at the same time.
"Draco...I...I need to know something." The change of topic had Draco instantly curious, though a drop of anger of his previous answer still lingered.
"What do you need to know?"
"Ice. Did it change the way you felt about people?" Dracos gaze softened almost instantly.
"No Harry. It didn't."
"Do you love Saito?" Draco was taken aback at that question. He had not been expecting something like that. Meanwhile, Harry was wondering whether he actually wanted to know the answer to that particular question.
"Why do you ask?"
"I..."he stopped there.
Draco cupped Harrys cheek and looked up searchingly. He frowned when he didn't find what he'd thought he'd find and stood up quickly, ready to go back inside.
"When the time comes where you can answer that question without hesitation, then I will answer yours."