Chapter 2

Draco had always been able to tell how people were feeling. He was decently well at reading people's emotions and understanding if something was wrong with them and what it was. This talent of his had only managed to get stronger as the years progressed. He had brushed it off until he woke up one day to see hazes of colour surrounding people's forms.

Draco and Luna had met years ago, which is why he never tormented her during school. They talked, they were friends, and they got along well. He had immediately notified her of the sudden change.

She showed up at his house at a quarter after twelve, hair in a neat braid and wearing a cute floral skirt. She had been welcomed in and escorted to Draco's room. Draco quickly found that her aura was a calming shade of pale blue. She had told him something that stuck in his mind. He, of course, couldn't remember the exact words that she had said. It had been so long ago, a bit after the war had ended.

Luna had told him that the changes would only continue on. That there would be more changes in store for him. Sh had also told him to letter her every day so that she could tell what was going on.. It had been too early for them to figure out what he was exactly at the time. This factor did not stop them from scouring through books of every kind that had the slightest bit of information about something similar to what Draco was experiencing.

The wings came a few weeks later. He had woken up with the two limbs attached to his back. He decided that he had handled it quite well, he stood and sent a letter to Luna straight away. She had shown up moments after. That's when they realized that he was a Veela.

Luna had helped him to control everything; hiding his wings, controlling the strange urge that he caused in other people when he was near them.. It was fine. It had all been fine.

They quickly learned of the mate situation. Draco had collapsed into a heap on the ground when he heard of this.

The dreams came first. Draco had envisioned a male before him, with Draco holding the male secruely and wrapping his midnight and pearly wings around the male's figure. He would always wake groggily, confused and in an awkward haze of confusion. The dreams were nearly silent, the only sound would be a somehow familiar voice in the end of his dreams whispering the word soon.

Harry's laugh shook Draco from his thoughts. He glanced up to see Harry in his robes, Draco had already changed so that he could make sure that his wings stayed flattened to his back. Whenever Draco flattened his wings to his back, they would merge with the pale flesh and look to be a tattoo of a silver and midnight black wings in their place. (One wing was silver, the other black).

Draco shook his head and ran a hand through his hair. Luna sent him a smug expression and he narrowed his eyes at her. Harry's aura was a green a few shades darker than his eyes, and brightened when he smiled. Draco was fascinated with this shade, for it was so close to the Slytherin colour.

"Welcome back Harry, what took you so long to get changed?" Draco figured that the two would at least be close enough to joke with each other then. They had talked the entire trip. He had sat next to Draco for Merlin's sake. They had ended up with an inch or so between them as the trip progressed but neither said anything about it.

Harry flushed in embarrassment before mumbling, "Shove off Draco."

Luna raised an eyebrow and leaned forward, a sly expression on her face. "Oh, so you're on first name basis now?"

Harry's darkened even further while Draco laughed. "Calm down Luna, you act like we've just gotten married."

As soon as Draco said the word "married" a jolt ran up his spine that caused Luna to stare quizzically at him. He shook his head slightly and mouthed the words "not right now".

"Yeah what took you so long Harry? I can get dressed faster than you and Draco insists that I take ages to change." Pansy asked as she leaned forward, resting her arms on the table. Harry slid into the seat beside Draco once again, only a few inches of distance between the two.

"I'm sorry but beauty takes time Pansy." He bat his eyelashes at her, causing everyone to burst into laughter. "I'm only joking Pansy." he paused for a minute. "I'm naturally this beautiful."

Draco felt his cheeks warm as the sound of Harry's laughter once again enveloped him in a strange, blissful feeling He smiled warmly and leaned back on the seat, allowing himself to laugh along as he took in the brightness of everyones auras.

The way the war had been portrayed was a bit different from how everything had actually happened. There had been multiple interviewers that had tried to get the entire story of everything that had happened to Harry out of the boy, and none had succeeded. In the end, the interviewers got people who knew Harry to give their own intel and combined this information together.

Everyone at Hogwarts knew that Harry had not taken too kindly to the way some people had been written in his story. Luna had been with Draco when Draco learned of how upset Harry was when Draco had been portrayed as the villain in the stories, and how the other Malfoy's had been shown as well. Draco's face had flushed bright red and he had jumped around his room like a lunatic. Luna had sat on his bed, legs crossed, watching him with curious eyes as her lips quirked up into a smile.

"Harry?" Draco froze and turned, the same moment as Harry did, to see Hermione, Ron, and Ginny standing in the doorway. Ginny quirked an eyebrow and narrowed her eyes at Draco, who glared back at her.

"Hullo Hermione, Ron, Ginny. What are you three doing over here?" Harry asked, sending them a polite smile. Hermione and Ron grinned at him, Hermione nodded to Draco in a polite greeting, which caused Draco to grin at the two.

"We came to see you, we're almost at Hogwarts you know, but you're already dressed so I suppose that you're fine." Hermione shrugged and ran a hand through her dark curls which she had managed to tame a bit more. Her dark skin was complemented by the cream coloured shirt that she wore, buttoned to her neck and tucked into her black pleated skirt that reached just past her knees. She sent Harry a warm look, that seemed somewhat motherly depending on how it was looked upon.

"Harry you should come back with us, I don't see why your sitting with," Ginny shriveled her nose with disgust as her gaze ran over Pansy and Draco. "Malfoy and Parkinson."

"Ginny!" Hermione hissed, as Ron sent his sister a surprised look. Harry flinched at the tone of her voice. Draco scowled at the female ginger.

"I'm sorry Weaskette but we were having an amazing conversation before you decided to grace us with your presence." Draco tilted his head to the side in a way that gave off an innocent demeanor. Harry angled himself away from Ginny subconsciously nuzzling into Draco's side. Luna watched with curious eyes as Draco relaxed a bit at the sudden contact.

"Ginny, if he wants to stay here he can." Ron told her, resting a hand on her shoulder. She shrugged it off in a swift motion, stepping closer to Harry so her hair brushed his cheeks. Harry paled which caused Draco to hold Harry to his own chest.

"Harry, would you rather stay with the two brats that gave us hell for the other years than sit with us? Your friends and your girlfriend?" Hermione flinched at the terminology and grabbed Ginny's arm, pulling the female back.

"Ex girlfriend Ginny. You two are no longer together." Hermione chided, eyes darting to Harry with an expression of concern. Draco slowly loosened his hold on Harry, who nuzzled into his side.

"He was just being dramatic when he came out as gay Hermione. You can't believe him. He's dating me." Harry stiffened and slowly shut his eyes, forcing himself to not bolt down the hallway.

"Why would he lie about being gay Ginny?" Ron demanded. His eyes blazing. "All of us have been nothing but accepting of him and you've been giving him hell." He pressed a finger to her chest, and she straightened her back focusing her glare on him.

"That's because he can't be gay if he's dating me Ron! Why are you taking his side instead of mine? Your friends side instead of your sisters?!" They were drawing attention to themselves, which made Harry shuffle up to stand.

"I don't know why you're being so rude Ginny." Ron turned to Harry. "You don't have to come with us. I'm sorry for Ginny." He pushed Ginny back, away from where the four were seated.

"No, don't worry Wea-ROn, Hermione. It's fine She is right about us having terrorized you for the past few years, and I'd like to apologise." Draco told him, as Harry eased back into the seat behind him. Luna nodded knowingly and turned to face Ginny, eyes narrowed.

"We were quite rude to you all. I am sorry for all of that." Pansy mumbled sheepishly, running her fingers through her hair. "We shouldn't have called you the names that we did, or done have of the things that we had done."

"But you did!" Ginny snarled, eyes blazing. "And if Harry would rather sit with you then he's a traitor."

Hermione snorted as Luna's expression contorted into one of confusion. "Traitor? Of whom?"

Ginny rolled her eyes and whirled around, striding down the hallway instead of answering. Luna blinked at Ginny's form before turning back to Ron and Hermione.

"Well that was quite strange, how have you two been?" Hermione turned to Luna with a kind smile.

"Hopefully better. My summer was fine, I stayed with the Weasley's and avoided Ginny for the majority of my time there. Ron and I just wanted to see if we could get a word in with Harry, but Ginny followed after us so I apologize for that." She fiddled with the ends of her hair before she turned to Harry who stood once again.

"That's fine, I will be back though." He aimed the last part of his sentence to Draco who nodded and turned back to Pansy and Luna, an unreadable expression on his pale face.