Confusion in Green

A/N I am gonna go ahead and put this chapter up even though its not beta'd. when i get it back from my beta i'll put the updated version up. leave me some reviews if you think i should continue with the story. Also, send me some ideas on where its gonna go from here. I can see a huge fight coming on between two important characters, and Dumbledore may start meddeling again. send story ideas to lotzasugar13@yahoo.com. and happy Kisses!
~Proprieter_of_Honeydukes~

Chapter 10: Awakenings

Draco woke up early in the dawn hours. He felt warm, and content and he also felt the body next to him. He could feel the warmth coming from the sleeping form next to him. He could feel Harry’s magic flowing in sync with his. He could feel every beat of Harry’s heart and smell every sweet breath that he released. Draco knew that he should wake him, that this would be bad in the morning, but he was just too happy to disturb anything. He knew that Harry hadn’t wanted this, but here it was, right in front of him. Draco snuggled closer into Harry’s soft shoulder and neck and drifted back off to sleep.
A little while later Harry started waking up. He could feel the heat and for a moment didn’t remember what was happening. Why was he so warm? His body felt different, he felt stronger than he had in a long time, even after his summer of trials and tribulations. He opened his eyes and he now remembered why he was so warm. He was staring right into Draco’s delicate face that was only about an inch away from his own. Harry was panicking internally. How would he explain this to Draco? He had to get himself out of that bed somehow. If only there was some way to get Draco to let go, but he was holding on so tight! To Harry it seemed like Draco was desperate for the contact. Harry tried to slowly slip the blonde boy’s arm off of his chest, but this only caused Draco to snuggle in closer and hold on that much tighter. Harry held his breath waiting for the other boy to settle back into a deep sleep.
Suddenly Harry had a picture of a snake pop into his mind. It wasn’t the huge towering snake he had seen in his dream, it was a tiny green snake about three feet long. Harry, thought, if I really could turn into a snake, this would be the time to do it. He lay there hopelessly wishing he would transform into that tiny snake. In his mind he could picture his arms melding with his body, his legs blending seamlessly into one, his head growing smaller and becoming smoothly covered in shining green scales. He could see all of this so clearly in his mind. He pictured his body becoming first, thinner and then shortening. He could imagine tasting the air with his flickering forked tongue, and how wonderful and sweet the air around Draco would taste. He pictured his thin lithe body gliding easily out of the grasp of the delicate sleeping boy and down to the edge of the bed. He imagined what it would feel like to drop almost silently to the cool floor, and slither over to his own bedpost. He saw in his mind, a beautiful snake wind its way up the bedpost and wriggle under the sheets and blankets, resting it’s head on the pillow just like Harry would normally do. He saw all of this as if it was really happening. He thought that, perhaps, he had fallen back to sleep and was dreaming. Either that or his imagination was definitely over active.
Suddenly Harry realized he felt a chill, he was definitely cooler than he had been a few minutes before. He thought Draco had probably rolled over and he could get away. He opened his eyes, only a tiny slit, incase Draco had woken up, and sat straight up in his bed. HIS bed! How in the hell had he gotten over there? Had he really turned into a snake? Or had he dreamed it all? What the hell was going on! Draco was still asleep in his bed and he had his arms wrapped around something black, a blanket or some kind of clothing. Harry started to stand up to investigate what Draco was holding. He pulled back the covers on his bed and caught a glimpse of what was beneath them. Harry had nothing on! He wrapped the a sheet around himself and walked over to Draco’s bedside. Just as he thought, the thing wrapped in Draco’s arms was a pair of Harry’s silk sleep pants. And still inside them was a pair of boxers! Harry stood there in shock, he had turned into a snake! He had slithered right out of his clothes! And now Draco had them tangled in his hands. Harry shook himself from his thoughts and looked down, right into Draco’s wide open silver-grey eyes. Shit!

Draco propped himself up on his elbow and raised an eyebrow at Harry. He wasn’t accustomed to having people staring at him while he was asleep. He noticed that Harry was wrapped in a sheet, then he noticed that there was something laying beside him on the bed. He looked at the clothes, then he looked at Harry. “Ummmm, Harry? Draco asked with a smirk on his face. “Care to explain?”
Harry was flushed, he was angry and confused and scared. How the hell was he going to explain this without telling Draco about being able to transform. He was trying to figure out what to say when it dawned on him that he could turn this around. “Why do you purr in your sleep?, and what were you talking about with Snape? Your eyes go all funny, and cat-like in the night, did you know that? And your nails turn into claws! Are you an animagni? Are you registered with the ministry?” Harry blurted all this out in a desperate attempt to take the pressure off himself, but Draco was too smart for that.
Draco sighed and bowed his head as if he was contemplating the end of the world. He looked up into Harry’s eyes and said “you show me yours, and I’ll show you mine.” Harry was confused by this for a moment, then he understood. Draco would explain everything to him, only if Harry explained his side of the story first.
Harry shook his head. “can’t explain something I don’t understand. You were moaning or growling or something in your sleep and I tried to wake you up, then you grabbed me and looked at me with those crazy yellow-cat eyes and your nails were like claws and you pulled me down. I tried to get away but you held on to me and I fell asleep eventually. When I woke up this morning, I was in my own bed and my clothes were in your arms. That is all I know” Harry thought that with the events, his story was pretty much true. He still wasn’t sure what happened and there was no reason to tell Draco that he might be able to transform into a snake.
“You’re lying,” Draco sneered a little more meanly than he intended. “You came into my bed when I was asleep. I woke up in the middle of the night and saw you there!”
“Yeah, sneered Harry, Then why didn’t you freak out and kick me out of the bed Draco? Did you want me to stay? You sure seemed to need me in there last night! You were cuddling against my neck and purring! Who the hell purrs in their sleep? I heard you talking to Snape, I know you’re not telling me everything.” Harry grabbed his pants and pulled them on under his sheet while Draco glared at him.
“Why the hell would I want you in my bed scar-face. You’re just a Gryffindor glory hound. All you do is look for ways to manipulate people into looking up to you.”
“And you’re a slimy little daddy’s boy who would lick the boots of a monster in order to make daddy love you!”
Draco launched himself out of the bed and tackled Harry to the ground pinning him underneath him. Harry’s breath was knocked out of him in the fall, and Draco was holding his arms down before he could do anything about it. Draco’s face was twisted with anger and he was breathing harsh fast breaths. With clenched teeth, Draco spat, “I have no father to speak of, and the Dark Lord deserved a worse fate than he got.” Harry was shocked, he simply looked into Draco’s eyes to see if he was telling the truth or not. Draco sat there unflinching, and started right back. Slowly the expression on their faces changed, softened. They were no longer angry with one another. Draco leaned down slowly, never loosing eye contact. And Harry found himself raising his head to meet Draco halfway. As their lips met, both pairs of eyes, emerald and silver, fluttered closed. Soft lips pressed into each other and slowly the kiss grew more passionate.
Harry couldn’t breath, he couldn’t think, all he could do was feel. He felt the flow of magic between the two boys, Draco tasted so sweet and smelled so good. The weight sitting atop of him that had felt suffocating a moment before, now felt completely natural. Draco purred deep in his throat and Harry hissed in response. Both boys pulled back from each other at the same time, without opening their eyes. Draco rolled off of Harry and they lay next to each other breathing hard. Both wondering what in the hell was going on. A knock sounded at the door and both boys gasped. Professor Snape opened the door to see a gigantic green snake wrapped around the body of a golden lion. The two animals had a visible green and gold circle of magic swirling around them in the air.
“Well, this isn’t quite what I was expecting” smirked Professor Snape.