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Chapter 10
So Far Away
By: Gwen
Rating: NC17 overall
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Warning: AU/Slash/Drama/Angst/Romance
Betas: Tracy & Dorothy
Disclaimer: The \"boys\" belong to JKR. I just borrow them on occasion. No money is being made from this little adventure.
Summary: Interesting things can happen when you\'re away from everyone and everything you know.
Chapter 10 - Tryouts and Study Sessions
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The week of tryouts found the boys in different corners of the school once classes had ended each day. Everyone had conditioning training during their Phys Ed classes, but after the final bell rang, they moved on to their chosen sport. Harry and Draco were on the Quidditch Pitch flying sprints, Chad was at the gymnasium working on basketball drills, and Allen was at the boathouse rowing on the stationary training machine, each in preparation for the round of tryouts that were to be held on Friday.
Each evening after their practices, they would meet for dinner and then head to either their rooms or the lounge for studying. This particular night they had decided to meet in the lounge. Draco was sitting on the couch studying for his Potions exam the following day when Harry and the others came in and joined him.
\"Hey,\" Harry said as he practically fell onto the couch, sending Draco’s notes everywhere. Chad and Allen sat together on the opposite couch, talking quietly.
you you mind?\" he asked as he gathered up the stray pieces of parchment.
\"No,\" he said as he picked up one that was near him and tossed it to Draco before pulling out his Advanced DADA notes.
\"Uncivilized,\" was all Draco said, although he was smiling.
They sat together studying quietly, their shoulders barely touching, their arms brushing against the other if they moved to turn a page of the texts they were reading. Harry looked up to ask Allen a question since they were in the same class, but stopped himself. Instead he leaned a bit to the right, closer to Dr
\"Think something is in the works with those two?\" he whispered.
Draco froze momentarily as he felt the warm breath caress his neck and then struggled to focus on what Harry was saying.
\"Yes,\" he said as he looked across to the others. \"Well, at least Allen is hoping for it.\"
\"Really? The other day when we werekingking about the tryouts and all, Chad was going on about Allen and his rowing, about how fit he was, things like that,\" Harry admitted.
Draco nodd\"I t\"I think they look rather nice together. But Allen was worried about the roommate thing that I mentioned before.\"
\"About how it screws things up?\"
\"Yes.\"
\"So who was it?\" Harry asked.
Draco turned and looked at Harry. \"Do you honestly think that I’d share something like that with you?\"
Harry shrugged. \"Probably not, but I thought I’d ask. It’s okay, though. I think I’ve figured it out.\"
\"Would you care to share your conclusion?\"
\"I remember that early last year you and Blaise had some sort of argument or something because you two did not speak for over a week.\"
Draco narrowed is eyes at Harry. \"So just because I did not speak to one of my housemates for a week is proof that we were sleeping together?\" he asked.
Harry nodded. \"That is my guess.\"
\"Harry, I hate to burst your bubble, but at some point in my school career, each one of my housemates has had that happen to them. Hell, there were times that I never spoke to anyone for the plain and simple fact that I did not want to. So when that happened, was it because I was sleeping with them?\" he asked.
\"No, but this was different. Not only were you not speaking to each other, but anytime that you were in the same room, he couldn’t take his eyes off of you. It was like he was hurt or something.\"
\"You’ve been watching me?\" Draco asked.
\"Draco, we have watched each other for six years whether we want to admit it or not.\"
\"So with all of your watching, you concluded that he was hurt about something, and that something was because we had stopped sleeping together,\" Draco hedged.
\"I don’t know Draco. Were you sleeping?\" Harry joked, which earned him a punch in the arm. He reached up and rubbed his bicep. \"Watch it. We’ve got tryouts tomorrow and I need to be in top form. Oh wait, maybe you’re just trying to take out the competition,\" he said as he shoved Draco’s leg with his own.
Before they realized it, they were in the middle of a shoving match that ended with Draco on the floor between the couch and the coffee table looking up at Harry, who was now stretched out on the couch, his head propped up on his hand. Both were laughing about what they had just done.
\"I can’t believe you pushed me off of the couch, you big bully,\" Draco teased as he reached up and cuffed the side of Harry’s head. \"I’m going to be covered in bruises tomorrow morning and everyone will think that I’ve been abused.\"
\"Just think of all the sympathy you’ll get,\" Harry said with a smile. \"I’m sure that there is a witless witch or wizard out there somewhere that would volunteer to nurse you back to proper health.\"
\"I would never!\" he lamented.
\"Oh please. I seem to remember an incident with a certain Hippogriff during our third year,\" Harry said with a smirk. \"It was just a scratch and yet you went around saying that the thing tried to kill you. You couldn’t carry your books for how long? And don’t get me started about having our Quidditch match postponed that year.\"
Draco peered up at Harry. \"Yes, well. One does what one must in order to get ahead in the game.\"
After a few minutes of silence, Harry looked down at Draco again. \"Are you worried about tomorrow?\"
Draco nodded. \"A bit. Some of the players are pretty good, but I don’t think that they’re any better than either of us, so that’s a good thing.\"
\"It’s been fun training together, though. I never thought that I’d say that, but it has been. It’s also been a lot tougher than what we are used to.\"
\"I’ve always enjoyed flying against you, Harry. You were the only competition I had at Hogwarts. The other two teams were like practice teams. We used them to get ready for our game,\" Draco said. \"And I agree with the training being tougher. I’m sore in places that I did not know existed,\" Draco admitted.
Harry nodded. \"Now do you understand why my showers at night are as long as they are?\"
Draco laughed. \"And here I was thinking that you were enjoying a nice long wank.\"
\"Well, there is that too,\" Harry said with a laugh.
Draco held his hands up and waved them in front of his face, as if erasing something from the air. \"NO!\" he said with a laugh. \"I really did not need to know that, Harry.\"
\"Oh come on Draco. You do it too, so don’t deny it. Neither one of us have been with anyone, either male or female, since we’ve been here. So don’t sit there and act like you are above wanking when the need arises,\" Harry snickered.
\"Wonderful. Sometimes I shower after you and now I’m going to be thinking of you doing that,\" he said with a scowl.
Harry lowered his left hand from where it sat on the couch and placed it on Draco’s chest. \"Why Draco, I didn’t realize you thought about me like that,\" he cooed as he gave Draco a sappy smile.
Draco closed his eyes and sighed, his chest rising and falling with Harry’s hand resting on him. \"Potter, one of these days I am going to have you committed. You really are insane,\" he said as he opened his eyes and looked down at the hand on his chest. \"You know, if anyone were to come in here right now they might get the wrong impression.\"
\"This is true, and Merlin knows you can’t have your reputation tarnished by one Harry Po,\" h,\" he said as he slowly lifted his hand and placed it back on the couch.
Draco scooted back a bit and then sat up. \"Although,\" he said as he ran one long finger down Harry’s arm. \"Your datability factor would skyrocket if we were to be seen together,\" he said with a sigh. \"But then again, you ARE the Boy Who Lived so people would assume that I was with you for that reason alone, which would mean that I was a shallow person, and Merlin knows that’s not the case,\" he teased.
Harry laughed and sat up on the couch. \"Just where in the hell do you get these ideas from? Do you sit up at night and think this stuff up?\" he asked as he gathered his books and papers, with Draco doing the same.
Once they had cleaned up their area, Draco leaned over to Harry and whispered, \"You got me. That’s exactly what I do right after I have a nice leisurely wank in the shower,\" he said and then strolled out of the lounge, his laughter following him down the hallway.
Harry smiled and shook his head as he looked over at Allen and Chad.
\"He has got to be the most irritating prat I have ever met,\" he said and then followed Draco down the hall to their rooms.
Allen and Chad looked at each other. \"How long do you give them?\" Allen asked.
\"I’m not sure, but at least we’ll have some entertainment in the upcoming months,\" Chad said before he focused on his notes again.
TBC
By: Gwen
Rating: NC17 overall
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Warning: AU/Slash/Drama/Angst/Romance
Betas: Tracy & Dorothy
Disclaimer: The \"boys\" belong to JKR. I just borrow them on occasion. No money is being made from this little adventure.
Summary: Interesting things can happen when you\'re away from everyone and everything you know.
Chapter 10 - Tryouts and Study Sessions
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The week of tryouts found the boys in different corners of the school once classes had ended each day. Everyone had conditioning training during their Phys Ed classes, but after the final bell rang, they moved on to their chosen sport. Harry and Draco were on the Quidditch Pitch flying sprints, Chad was at the gymnasium working on basketball drills, and Allen was at the boathouse rowing on the stationary training machine, each in preparation for the round of tryouts that were to be held on Friday.
Each evening after their practices, they would meet for dinner and then head to either their rooms or the lounge for studying. This particular night they had decided to meet in the lounge. Draco was sitting on the couch studying for his Potions exam the following day when Harry and the others came in and joined him.
\"Hey,\" Harry said as he practically fell onto the couch, sending Draco’s notes everywhere. Chad and Allen sat together on the opposite couch, talking quietly.
you you mind?\" he asked as he gathered up the stray pieces of parchment.
\"No,\" he said as he picked up one that was near him and tossed it to Draco before pulling out his Advanced DADA notes.
\"Uncivilized,\" was all Draco said, although he was smiling.
They sat together studying quietly, their shoulders barely touching, their arms brushing against the other if they moved to turn a page of the texts they were reading. Harry looked up to ask Allen a question since they were in the same class, but stopped himself. Instead he leaned a bit to the right, closer to Dr
\"Think something is in the works with those two?\" he whispered.
Draco froze momentarily as he felt the warm breath caress his neck and then struggled to focus on what Harry was saying.
\"Yes,\" he said as he looked across to the others. \"Well, at least Allen is hoping for it.\"
\"Really? The other day when we werekingking about the tryouts and all, Chad was going on about Allen and his rowing, about how fit he was, things like that,\" Harry admitted.
Draco nodd\"I t\"I think they look rather nice together. But Allen was worried about the roommate thing that I mentioned before.\"
\"About how it screws things up?\"
\"Yes.\"
\"So who was it?\" Harry asked.
Draco turned and looked at Harry. \"Do you honestly think that I’d share something like that with you?\"
Harry shrugged. \"Probably not, but I thought I’d ask. It’s okay, though. I think I’ve figured it out.\"
\"Would you care to share your conclusion?\"
\"I remember that early last year you and Blaise had some sort of argument or something because you two did not speak for over a week.\"
Draco narrowed is eyes at Harry. \"So just because I did not speak to one of my housemates for a week is proof that we were sleeping together?\" he asked.
Harry nodded. \"That is my guess.\"
\"Harry, I hate to burst your bubble, but at some point in my school career, each one of my housemates has had that happen to them. Hell, there were times that I never spoke to anyone for the plain and simple fact that I did not want to. So when that happened, was it because I was sleeping with them?\" he asked.
\"No, but this was different. Not only were you not speaking to each other, but anytime that you were in the same room, he couldn’t take his eyes off of you. It was like he was hurt or something.\"
\"You’ve been watching me?\" Draco asked.
\"Draco, we have watched each other for six years whether we want to admit it or not.\"
\"So with all of your watching, you concluded that he was hurt about something, and that something was because we had stopped sleeping together,\" Draco hedged.
\"I don’t know Draco. Were you sleeping?\" Harry joked, which earned him a punch in the arm. He reached up and rubbed his bicep. \"Watch it. We’ve got tryouts tomorrow and I need to be in top form. Oh wait, maybe you’re just trying to take out the competition,\" he said as he shoved Draco’s leg with his own.
Before they realized it, they were in the middle of a shoving match that ended with Draco on the floor between the couch and the coffee table looking up at Harry, who was now stretched out on the couch, his head propped up on his hand. Both were laughing about what they had just done.
\"I can’t believe you pushed me off of the couch, you big bully,\" Draco teased as he reached up and cuffed the side of Harry’s head. \"I’m going to be covered in bruises tomorrow morning and everyone will think that I’ve been abused.\"
\"Just think of all the sympathy you’ll get,\" Harry said with a smile. \"I’m sure that there is a witless witch or wizard out there somewhere that would volunteer to nurse you back to proper health.\"
\"I would never!\" he lamented.
\"Oh please. I seem to remember an incident with a certain Hippogriff during our third year,\" Harry said with a smirk. \"It was just a scratch and yet you went around saying that the thing tried to kill you. You couldn’t carry your books for how long? And don’t get me started about having our Quidditch match postponed that year.\"
Draco peered up at Harry. \"Yes, well. One does what one must in order to get ahead in the game.\"
After a few minutes of silence, Harry looked down at Draco again. \"Are you worried about tomorrow?\"
Draco nodded. \"A bit. Some of the players are pretty good, but I don’t think that they’re any better than either of us, so that’s a good thing.\"
\"It’s been fun training together, though. I never thought that I’d say that, but it has been. It’s also been a lot tougher than what we are used to.\"
\"I’ve always enjoyed flying against you, Harry. You were the only competition I had at Hogwarts. The other two teams were like practice teams. We used them to get ready for our game,\" Draco said. \"And I agree with the training being tougher. I’m sore in places that I did not know existed,\" Draco admitted.
Harry nodded. \"Now do you understand why my showers at night are as long as they are?\"
Draco laughed. \"And here I was thinking that you were enjoying a nice long wank.\"
\"Well, there is that too,\" Harry said with a laugh.
Draco held his hands up and waved them in front of his face, as if erasing something from the air. \"NO!\" he said with a laugh. \"I really did not need to know that, Harry.\"
\"Oh come on Draco. You do it too, so don’t deny it. Neither one of us have been with anyone, either male or female, since we’ve been here. So don’t sit there and act like you are above wanking when the need arises,\" Harry snickered.
\"Wonderful. Sometimes I shower after you and now I’m going to be thinking of you doing that,\" he said with a scowl.
Harry lowered his left hand from where it sat on the couch and placed it on Draco’s chest. \"Why Draco, I didn’t realize you thought about me like that,\" he cooed as he gave Draco a sappy smile.
Draco closed his eyes and sighed, his chest rising and falling with Harry’s hand resting on him. \"Potter, one of these days I am going to have you committed. You really are insane,\" he said as he opened his eyes and looked down at the hand on his chest. \"You know, if anyone were to come in here right now they might get the wrong impression.\"
\"This is true, and Merlin knows you can’t have your reputation tarnished by one Harry Po,\" h,\" he said as he slowly lifted his hand and placed it back on the couch.
Draco scooted back a bit and then sat up. \"Although,\" he said as he ran one long finger down Harry’s arm. \"Your datability factor would skyrocket if we were to be seen together,\" he said with a sigh. \"But then again, you ARE the Boy Who Lived so people would assume that I was with you for that reason alone, which would mean that I was a shallow person, and Merlin knows that’s not the case,\" he teased.
Harry laughed and sat up on the couch. \"Just where in the hell do you get these ideas from? Do you sit up at night and think this stuff up?\" he asked as he gathered his books and papers, with Draco doing the same.
Once they had cleaned up their area, Draco leaned over to Harry and whispered, \"You got me. That’s exactly what I do right after I have a nice leisurely wank in the shower,\" he said and then strolled out of the lounge, his laughter following him down the hallway.
Harry smiled and shook his head as he looked over at Allen and Chad.
\"He has got to be the most irritating prat I have ever met,\" he said and then followed Draco down the hall to their rooms.
Allen and Chad looked at each other. \"How long do you give them?\" Allen asked.
\"I’m not sure, but at least we’ll have some entertainment in the upcoming months,\" Chad said before he focused on his notes again.
TBC