Chapter 10

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Beta: notsofrilly

Harrison woke up staring at the white ceiling of the infirmary. He placed a hand of his forehead and tried to remember what happened yesterday. Dumbledore, stairs, kiss... His eyes widened and he sat up looking over at Tom who was still sleeping and then he looked around. He saw several crisp white beds in a row against the wall and sunlight that streamed through the large windows on their beds. So, it wasn't a dream. Suddenly the door opened. Harrison expected Madam Pomfrey, but instead of the nurse Dumbledore walked in. Harrison's eyes hardened.

"Ah! My boy, I k-" Dumbledore was interrupted by Harrison.

"I'm not your boy!" He hissed furiously. Dumbledore nodded, not wanting him to be more angry than he already was. He went to Harrison's bedside and sat down.

"Can't you go? I need my rest." Harrison pointed to his injuries.

"You only have to use your mouth to talk and Clarisse said it was okay." Harrison was confused, but he hid it very well. It was stupid to let your enemy see your lack of understanding, it gives them a weapon to use against you.

"You mean Madam Pomfrey?" Harrison bluffed. Dumbledore nodded. Harrison put his hand in his pocket, searching his wand but couldn't find it. He looked up and encountered Dumbledore's twinkling blue eyes.

"Where," Harrison asked through clenched teeth trying to control himself, "is my wand?"

"Broken." Harrison would have attacked him with wandless magic if Tom hadn't woken up at that moment. He gasped and looked around. When he saw Dumbledore and the furious look in Harrison's eyes, Tom looked suspiciously at Dumbledore.

"Why are you here?" He said in a dangerous tone.

"Why, I'm the deputy headmaster and I got permission. Also, I would appreciate it if you addressed me as sir or professor." Tom narrowed his eyes.

"Harrison, I'm really sorry about that incident in the park. Forgive me, please." He asked his eyes twinkled. Harrison thought deeply about it. He didn't want to forgive him, but forgiving him would get some benefits. In the end his chose to forgive him publicly, but he would still hold a grudge.

"I will forgive you, but you'll have to sign a magically binding contract stating that you'll never cast legitimacy on Tom or me." Dumbledore thought deeply about this and nodded.

"Tom, can I use your wand?" Tom looked at him confused.

"You do have your own wand. I hope the fall didn't injure your head."

"No, it didn't, but the fall broke my wand." Tom nodded his head and put his hand in his pocket, searching for his wand, but couldn't find it. He turned to Dumbledore furiously. Even if they could do wandless magic, they were still very fond of their wands. It was a sort of friendship bound to them as they were brother wands. " Don't tell me mine was broken too." Dumbledore only nodded. Before Tom lost his patience Harrison interfered. "Can't I use your wand?"

Dumbledore nodded and warily gave handed his wand over to him. Harrison conjured 5 pieces of paper and a quill with ink. He gave Dumbledore back his wand, who put it back in his pocket. Dumbledore raised a brow. "Are you sure you're bad at my subject? You could even use a 4th year spell." He looked at the stack of papers on Harrison's lap.

"I'm good at charms. But sign this. Here." Dumbledore took the feather and looked and examined the papers.

"Here, here, here... Oh, there and here." Harrison pointed at the lines and Dumbledore signed.

"So, you forgive me?" Harrison nodded and faked a smile.

"Well, I have to go, teaching. Goodbye, Mr. Collins, Mr. Riddle." Dumbledore walked out of the infirmary to his classroom which had been fixed.

"You forgave him?!" Tom asked disbelievingly when Dumbledore was gone.

"No, of course not. It was an act." Harrison rolled his eyes.

"But why did..." Tom trailed of when he saw Harrison using magic to let other words appear on the stack of papers. Harrison gave it to Tom who read it. When he finished, he gave Harrison a cruel smirk, obviously very pleased.

"You really are a Slytherin." Tom smirked.

"Of course. But is not so bad being a Gryffindor. There are some benefits for our plan." Tom nodded.

"So, you used an illusion charm to let him see some other words on the papers. But in reality, he signed to let us go to the forbidden section and Hogsmeade. That's bloody brilliant."

"Yes, my dear Tom, it is." The words came suddenly out of his mouth and they both blushed, thinking about the kiss.

"What did you feel when we kissed?" Tom asked. Harrison was surprised. He knew that Tom was always straight-forward with his questions, but this question was just awkward. Harrison felt uncomfortable and didn't know how to answer. He thought back. Tom's kiss was soft and he felt a tingling sensation in his stomach. He liked the other boy but didn't know if he really loved him. He decided to be fair, Tom was after all his best friend and he wouldn't lie to him.

"I… I… don't know... Your lips were s-s-soft." Harrison stuttered looking redder with each second. Tom blushed too.

"But, what did you feel?" He asked. Tom already knew he had some feelings for him, although he never dared to mention them, afraid that he will scare the other boy away.

"Your...lips were soft too." Tom blushed redder too.

"Well," Harrison laughed out of nowhere, "we act like some dating pair. I mean we're just friends right?''

When Tom heard that his mood dropped, but he hid it behind a smile.

"Yeah… friends." He heard his voice crack a bit.

Harrison climbed out of his bed and conjured new robes for Tom and himself, the old ones were covered in blood. Tom raised a brow.

"We're going to Hogsmeade." Harrison explained, while he pulled Tom out of his bed.

"But, we're still injured and we don't have a wand." Tom wasn't in the mood to go to Hogsmeade.

"Doesn't matter. The robes will cover them up and it doesn't hurt that much. Also, we can do wandless magic." Harrison rolled his eyes. "We can go to buy more books. Perhaps there are even books about fixing wands."

"But won't we get noticed?" Tom asked, still trying to change his mind.

"No, we have permission. Already forgot the papers Dumbledore signed?" Tom sighed, there was no chance in changing his mind, not when he looked so determined.

"But if something happens-"

"It wouldn't happen." Harrison said cheeky.

"Trouble king." Tom muttered.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing, my dear." Tom smirked at Harrison when he blushed. If Harrison didn't love him, he would make him love him. Slowly and painlessly. But if that didn't work, he would force him. He was partial to the first option. He didn't want to hurt the other boy.

Harrison grabbed Tom's hand and pulled him out of the infirmary. Tom had only one thought floating in his mind. Mine...

Author Note

I hope you like this chapter. It's a bit boring, but in the next chapter will be more action. Also, happy birthday Harry! Thanks, for those reviews! There were really many of it. There were 20 reviews!

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Next chapter: Hogsmeade

Ps: I will already tell you this now, I won't update 10 till 13 August, because I will go to Germany on holiday. Also, we're going 3 days to Barcelona in Spain. I don't know when. When I know I will tell/write, so don't expect I will write many chapters in August and all the months after August, because I school will start 1st of September. But I will try to write many chapters.

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