Hybrid Destiny

Chapter 28

Hermione avoided Harry for two weeks after he passed his apparation test. She could barely look him in the eye without blushing. She was too embarrassed. It\'s not that she was really attracted to him, but knowing that he has sex and seeing the aftermath were two totally different things. Blaise wasn\'t helping much either. He just thought the whole situation was funny and felt she was blowing things out of proportion. After the third time Harry tried to talk to her and she brushed him off, seeing the heartbroken look on his face made her realize just how badly she was acting.

\"Harry? Can I talk to you?\" she asked hesitantly. She knew that Draco was really upset with her because of her treatment of his little elf. She really liked the fact that he was so protective of her friend, and she was glad that her friend had someone to lean on.

\"Hermione? Sure,\" he said quietly.

\"I just wanted to say I\'m sorry for avoiding you for the last two weeks. I just had a lot to think about,\" said Hermione, looking at her hands.

\"Hermione, if you don\'t want to be my friend anymore, don\'t force yourself to be nice to me. You can\'t even look at me anymore,\" said Harry almost inaudibly. Hermione hadn\'t looked at him once in over two weeks and it was ripping him apart. He thought that she had accepted his relationship with Draco, but apparently being faced with irrefutable proof of said relationship had changed her mind.

Hermione\'s head snapped up and she saw the shattered look on Harry\'s face. The big green eyes were swimming with tears and his head was lowered in dejection. She just couldn\'t stand knowing she had done this to her best friend. She quickly scooted over to Harry and pulled him in her arms crying with the elf.

\"I am so sorry. I really do want to be your friend; I\'ll always want to be your friend. Please forgive me making you believe that I no longer loved you like that,\" sobbed Hermione clutching desperately at his back.

Harry tentatively put his arms around Hermione, pulling her close. She responded by burying her face in his neck and crying even harder. \"Shh, Hermione. It\'s alright,\" said Harry soothingly. He looked up when the door opened and saw Harry and Blaise standing behind the couch. Blaise was looking at him questioningly and Draco hurried around the couch and sat beside his elf.

\"Harry, what\'s wrong? Why are you and Hermione crying?\" he asked worriedly. \"Who hurt you?\"

\"I did,\" said Hermione, pulling away from Harry. \"I acted like a total prat and caused him to think I didn\'t want to be his friend anymore.\"

\"Okay, I can see why Harry would be upset. Why are you crying?\" he asked, hugging his elf tightly.

\"He told me I shouldn\'t force myself to be nice to him if I didn\'t truly want to be his friend anymore. I knew then just how much I had hurt him with my thoughtless actions and I just ...,\" said Hermione, shrugging helplessly.

\"It\'s alright, Hermione. Everyone makes mistakes and you apologized, didn\'t you?\" said Blaise, picking up Hermione\'s hand and kissing it lovingly.

\"Well of course I apologized, and I meant every word of it. It just seems that Harry is always the one getting hurt, and that\'s what makes this so hard,\" she said fervently. \"He deserves to be happy.\"

\"Hermione, it\'s fine. You\'re forgiven, so let\'s just get past this,\" said Harry, cuddling into Draco for comfort. \"Where are you spending Christmas holidays, Hermione?\"

\"I\'m actually staying here at Hogwarts. Mum and dad have a conference they have to attend, and I offered to just stay here for Christmas and visit them over Easter holidays,\" said Hermione, cheering up slightly with the change of subject.

\"What about you, Blaise? he asked.

\"Same as Hermione. I just didn\'t want to go home, though,\" said Blaise, shrugging negligently.

\"Are you staying here, Harry? And what about you, Draco?\" asked Hermione.

\"I am,\" said Harry. \"I just don\'t think I can stand to spend Christmas at Order headquarters. For one, it has too many memories, and for another, I will be too crowded.\"

\"Father and I will be here. He won\'t last two days being parted from his lovers,\" said Draco wryly.

They all snickered at that comment. \"Draco, we need to go to Hogsmeade today. I still have a few more things I have to buy for Christmas,\" said Harry, looking up at Draco.

\"Who do need to buy for?\" he asked.

\"I need to get something for the Olden Trio,\" said Harry, hiding a smile at the snorts of laughter coming from Hermione and Blaise. \"I also want to get you something else.\"

\"The Olden Trio? I hope you haven\'t actually called them that to their face, Harry. They will kill you if you do,\" said Draco, grinning at the elf.

\"Why not? You always called Hermione, Ron, and me the Golden Trio. I think it\'s fitting,\" said Harry
judiciously.

\"Fitting it may be. Appreciated, definitely not,\" said Hermione dryly.

\"Anyway, can we go? Can we? Can we?\" asked Harry, bouncing in his seat like an exuberant five year old.

Hermione and Blaise just laughed boisterously. Draco rolled his eyes at Harry\'s antics and nodded. He needed to go anyway to get something else for his elf and his father.

\"Yes! Hey Draco? Do you know what I really want for Christmas? A pet snake, one that I can stroke and pet. One that loves to play with me as well,\" said Harry seductively, climbing on Draco\'s lap and wrapping his arms around his neck. \"I read about a venomous snake native to Japan called a habu. That\'s the one I want.\"

\"A venomous snake? Uh uh, no way,\" said Draco emphatically.

\"Can we at least look at the snakes?\" begged Harry prettily.

\"Fine, we\'ll look, but I\'m not promising anything,\" said Draco, caving in to his elf\'s pretty pleas. Harry just smiled and rewarded his lover with a slow, tongue-tangling kiss that left them both panting.

\"Okay, when are we leaving? I have some last minute shopping to do, too,\" said Hermione loudly.

\"Now\'s good,\" said Harry, jumping out of Draco\'s lap and grabbing his cloak off of the bed. \"Let\'s go.\"

Hogsmeade was especially crowded this weekend. All of the students going home for the holidays were doing last minute shopping. Harry and Draco went to the snake emporium to peruse the animals. Harry was immediately drawn to a cage in the back of the emporium where a light green-yellow snake was curled asleep. He immediately hissed a greeting and was delighted when the snake hissed back. He was completely oblivious to Draco\'s presence, who had walked up behind him, and continued to converse with the little snake.

Draco was having hard time trying not to pounce on his elf. The sibilant hissing was having a major effect on his nether regions, and he wanted nothing more than to take his elf back home and pound him into the mattress. He was both relieved and disappointed when the conversation with the snake came to its conclusion.

\"He\'s beautiful, Draco. Can we get him? He\'s lonely,\" said Harry excitedly.

\"What kind of snake is he?\" asked Draco.

\"A habu,\" muttered Harry quietly, staring at the floor.

\"A what?\" asked Draco for clarification.

\"He\'s a habu, but he won\'t hurt me. He promised to bond with me as my familiar if I chose him,\" said Harry earnestly. \"Please, can we get him?\"

\'Who can resist such an adorable face?\' he thought to himself. \"Only if he agrees to give some of his venom to Uncle Sev so we\'ll have an anti-venom on hand,\" said Draco firmly.

Harry immediately launched into another discussion with the snake causing Draco no small amount of discomfort. After a few moments, he laughed delightedly and picked the snake up out of the cage. The sales clerk happened to glance in their direction and saw the movement and rushed to stop him. He froze in astonishment when the snake curled around the boy\'s arm and allowed the boy to pet him.

\"He agreed, love. Are we ready to purchase my new familiar and leave?\" asked Harry, contentedly petting and stroking the snake\'s head.

They paid for the snake and walked to the clothing store. Draco insisted on buying Harry some leather trousers and more formal clothing; he was, after all, mated to a Malfoy. They spent over two hours in the shop. Next stop was a jewelry shop. They didn\'t buy anything, but each had found a piece they wanted to give the other.
They met Hermione and Blaise for lunch again and Harry saw his chance. Sneaking away from Draco, claiming to need the loo, Harry made his way back to the jewelry shop and bought a gorgeous silver gryffin pendant with ruby eyes. He tucked the bag in his pocket and stealthily made his way back to Draco. Draco used the same excuse to sneak back to the shop. He purchased a beautiful golden cobra pendant with emerald eyes.

Draco reached the table just in time to hear Hermione say, \"Harry, how could you buy such a venomous snake? It could kill you.\"

\"He won\'t Hermione. He promised to bond with me as my familiar. You, of all people, should know that familiars cannot in any way harm their masters. Besides, he\'s a really nice snake and he was lonely,\" said Harry defensively. \"Anyway, he also agreed to give Sev some venom to make an anti-toxin to keep on hand in case of any accidents. Any other objections?\"

\"I don\'t think it\'s your wisest decision, but I must say you have all of your bases covered,\" sighed Hermione.

\"What? All of his bases covered?\" asked Blaise.

\"Muggle term,\" said Harry and Hermione together, grinning at the confused look on both Blaise\'s and Draco\'s faces.

\"It\'s a baseball reference,\" said Hermione. \"I\'ll give you a book to explain the rules.\"

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Back in their room, Harry immediately prepared a place for his new pet to sleep and hissed, \"What isss youur name?\"

\"My name isss Ryoku, massster,\" the snake hissed.

\"Do youu like youur new home?\" asked Harry.

\"Yesss. There isss enouugh food here,\" hissed the snake.

\"Good. Jussst remember, no biting unlessss I\'m in danger,\" said Harry.

\"Yesss, massster,\" he hissed.

Harry let the snake roam curiously around the room and turned towards Draco. \"Draomph,\" was all he managed to say because Draco had claimed that flexible tongue for himself.

\"Merlin, elf, that is just too sexy. Say something else,\" said Draco between nibbling kisses.

\"Youu mean like thisss, love?\" hissed Harry.

\"Oh god. You\'ve only spoken parseltongue once during sex and I was already about to explode, but listening to you in the emporium, let\'s just say you are very lucky I didn\'t take you right then and there,\" groaned Draco, nibbling at the delicately pointed ear and making Harry shudder and gasp in delight.

\"We\'ll jussst have to tessst it then, won\'t we?\" hissed Harry, shivering with every kiss, lick, and nibble to his body.

Draco flipped him over, grabbed his wand and muttered a lubrication spell, and slowly thrust forward. Stopping every few inches to give him time to adjust because he hadn\'t prepared him at all, Draco buried himself fully within his hissing little elf. He kissed down the slender back, pulled his hips back, and thrust hard, grazing Harry\'s sweet spot and starting a new round of hissing pleas from the elf. Setting a fast, forceful pace, Draco pounded Harry into the mattress, hitting his prostate with every deep thrust.

\"Yesss, love. Right there. I love youu ssso much,\" hissed Harry, clenching his hands into the sheets below him and pushing back against every thrust.

\"Gods, elf, you\'re so tight. I\'m not gonna last long,\" cried Draco.

\"Come for me, love,\" hissed Harry.

Draco shouted and came, spilling his seed into the warm passage. Draco\'s seed bathing his passage combined with the last forceful thrust to his prostate was all Harry needed to go over the edge. He wailed with pleasure as his seed shot out in thick stringy ropes covering the sheets below him. He collapsed bonelessly with Draco still within him.

\"I love you, elf,\" said Draco, kissing the back of Harry\'s neck before pulling out and laying beside him.

\"I love you, too,\" said Harry cuddling in his favourite spot. \"Now cast a cleaning spell. I\'m not sleeping in the wet spot.\"