Close Enough

Ch 32 Let’s talk

Draco set Harry down gently on his bed, smirking at how adorable his mate was as he slept. Kneeling down next to the bed, Draco gently removed Harry’s shoes and socks. When he stood Draco debated for a moment whether or not it was a good idea for Harry to sleep in his clothes, he didn’t want him to be uncomfortable, however Draco decided it was best to leave him dressed in the end. Draco proceeded to arrange Harry on the bed and pull the blankets up over him, before going to get himself ready for bed.
When Draco returned freshly showered and ready for bed he found Harry burrowed completely under his blankets. He laughed at the mound that Harry made, and quickly settled himself into his own bed, soon following Harry into sleep.

Draco was sitting in the common room alone reading a book when suddenly he felt arms slide themselves around his neck. “ There you are, I’ve been looking for you.” The soft voice of his mate purred into Draco’s ear. Draco turned his face slightly so that he could look at Harry, soft smirk playing in his lips.
“ you couldn’t have been looking very hard and I’ve been right here.” Draco joked.
Harry didn’t reply at first he merely nuzzled his nose behind Draco’s ear, before gently kissing his neck. “Okay, so I just started looking for you. But now that I’ve found you.” Harry paused giving Draco’s neck a soft lick, “Maybe you would accompany me to our room…” Harry left his statement there, giving Draco’s neck another soft lick just below his ear, before removing his arms from around the young mans neck and walking away.
When Draco entered their bedroom, he found Harry perched on the end of his bed, reclining backward on his elbows, smirking at him. “Took you long enough.” Harry laughed. At this statement Draco covered the distance between them in one step, leaning over Harry, assaulting his mouth with a forceful kiss. He could feel Harry smile against his lips, which disappeared when he moaned softly as Draco bit his bottom lip. A hand found it’s way into Harry’s hair, gripping it tightly as Draco pulled away.
“Don’t tease me, Harry.” Draco growled pulling the other boy’s head to the side exposing his neck. “I am not as strong willed as people like to think I am, don’t offer what you are not willing to give.” Draco ended his sentence nuzzling Harry’s neck, deeply breathing in his mate’s scent. Harry began to purr softly.
“What if I am willing?” the question was asked in a soft, breathy voice. So soft in fact that Draco almost didn’t catch it. He pulled back.
“Are you? Are you willing?” Draco asked, not releasing his hold on his mate’s hair. “Are you, the savior of the world, willing to submit to my needs the way that I need you to? Are you?” his voice dripped in curiosity and astonishment, while his eyes were hard is stone. Harry just looked at him for a long moment before he spoke.
“Yes, I am willing.” Harry said, lowering his gaze from Draco’s face. Draco smiled at this, this small act of submission was better than having Harry on his knees begging. Smile still in place, Draco lowered his mouth to Harry’s exposed neck. Harry closed his eyes as Draco proceeded to lick, kiss, and ultimately sink his fangs into his pulse point. His heart raced as Draco slowly lowered them both down to the bed as he drank, Harry couldn’t believe how arousing Draco feeding from him was. He could feel their magic flowing together, he could feel his own pulse, his blood leave him and enter Draco, the need, the desire, and most of all he could feel Draco’s own arousal.
Nothing had ever felt like this before, it was amazing. Draco slowed his feeding, wanting to make this last as long as possible. The gentle pressure and sucking on his neck, was causing Harry to writhe and moan occasionally pressing up into Draco’s body. Draco was fairly positive that Harry had no idea that he was doing this, however Draco took one of these opportunities to shift one of his legs between Harry’s, ultimately causing pressure and friction for both of them. Harry’s hands went to Draco’s back, clinging to him tightly as he began to furiously grind against him. They both purred and moaned, Harry shifted his hip’s movements becoming more erratic.
Draco knew that Harry was close, he took the opportunity to heal the bite with his tongue and push up slightly to look down at Harry’s face. His eyes were closed, head tipped back slightly, mouth parted, with a beautiful flush on his cheeks. Draco increased the pressure his thigh had on Harry, causing the other boy to moan loudly.
“Are you close?” Draco’s asked, voice deep and husky with arousal. Harry’s response was only to moan and push up against Draco again. “I can tell that you are.” Draco leaned closer to Harry’s neck again, careful to breath on the fresh bite mark on his neck as he spoke, “Do you want to cum, my Harry? Do you need it? Do you need me to make you cum?” Draco asked, licking the bite mark softly. “Tell me what you need, I will give you anything… all you have to do is tell me…” Draco stopped his own movements pressing his weight down on Harry, causing him to stop his. “Tell me.”
“I… I…” Harry tried desperately to move, but couldn’t, he moaned in frustration. “I need… I need…”
“What do you need? Tell me, my Harry. What do you need?” Draco encouraged, shifting slightly causing Harry to release a desperate moan.
“I need you… I need to cum… I need you to make me cum…” Draco had gotten what he wanted but still didn’t move, causing Harry to beg softly, “Please, please Draco. Please make me cum.” Draco pushed up again, looking down at Harry for a moment smiling, before crushing his lips down upon Harry’s in a possessive and hungry kiss. Harry responded to the kiss eagerly, moaning deep in his throat as Draco started rotating his hips against his. Draco could feel Harry start to stiffen beneath him and broke the kiss watching his face carefully.
“Cum for me my Harry. Cum now, I want to watch you.” A feral grin on his face. That was all it took, Harry arched himself off of the bed slightly, moaning Draco’s name as Draco continued to rub up against him. Hearing Harry moan his name as he came was all it took to push Draco over the edge with him. Draco watched as Harry’s face relaxed slightly before he collapsed, sated on top of him. Resting his face against Harry’s neck, Draco noticed that Harry smelled even better after he came.
“I think I may be falling for you Harry.” Draco whispered.
“I think I’m falling with you.” Harry whispered back, drifting off to sleep.

He woke suddenly, looking at the occupant of the other bed for a moment before looking down at his lap. Groan. ‘Well now that was probably the most interesting dream I’ve ever had. And that’s saying something.’ Sliding from his bed, he went to the bathroom, mumbling to himself about being sticky.
Draco woke hearing the door of his room closing with a loud click. Upon opening his eyes he saw that Harry was out of bed, quickly shifting his gaze toward the door wondering if his mate was alright. The bond was not sending any distress signals to him, however he was still slightly worried that something was wrong. Draco looked at the clock on the table by his bed, noting that it was only five in the morning. He relaxed back into his pillow, hoping to fall back asleep, when Harry reentered the room. When the door opened Draco quickly pretended to still be asleep hoping that Harry would just climb back into bed and get some more sleep. However instead of hearing the groan of bedsprings, Draco heard the soft creak of the door of Harry’s wardrobe.
Peaking an eye open Draco gasped softly at the sight in front of him. Harry clad only in a towel, with his back toward Draco flicking through the clothes in his wardrobe. Draco watched as Harry’s well muscled back moved as he made his selections, in doing so he noticed that Harry had tattoo’s on his back. Draco determined that there were three; one just at the base of his neck, a set of two just inside his shoulder blades, and a large one spanning his lower back. The two tattoo’s on his upper back were smaller, and Draco couldn’t make out exactly what they were. However the one on his lower back, was large, detailed and rather remarkable, it was a Phoenix. The coloration couldn’t be made out in the darkened room, but Draco could tell that it wasn’t the usual reds, oranges, and golds that it would have been normally. The colors appeared to be darker, more like blacks, blues, greens; Draco could make out the eyes a cool penetrating slate gray. Harry turned toward his bed tossing the clothes he had picked onto it before opening his trunk and pulling out a few other items, before adding them to the pile. Closing his trunk Harry looking up at Draco, who closed his eyes as soon as he saw Harry get ready to move, figuring it was better if he was ‘asleep’.
“Go back to sleep, it’s too early.” Harry said softly, picking up his pile of clothes and heading out of the room. “Find me sometime this morning, I want to talk.”
“We could talk now.” Draco said sitting up, however before the words left his mouth Harry was out of the room. Falling back heavily on his pillows, Draco sighed, and knowing Harry he needed to at least try to get some more sleep, so he closed his eyes trying not to focus on the fact that Harry wanted to talk.

Draco had managed to fall back asleep, for another couple hours at least. He woke, glancing at the clock, seven thirty, well that was something. He rose from bed, dressed, and exited toward the common room, wondering where Harry could be. Now that he was awake again, the fact that Harry wanted to talk to him was all that he could think about. Harry was not in the common room when Draco arrived, so judging from what time it was Draco decided the next most logical place to find him would be the great hall for breakfast. The grumble coming from his own stomach told him that going there for a bite wouldn’t be a bad idea in the first place.
Cord, Cloe, Blaise, and Pansy were all sitting at Harry’s usual table when Draco arrived in the great hall. He glanced up at the head table, noting his godfather’s absence, before setting himself down next to Blaise.
“Morning Draco.” Cord greeted him with a warm smile, while Cloe inclined her head toward him with a wink.
“Morning ladies, Blaise.” Draco smiled back at them. “Have any of you seen Harry yet this morning?”
“Nope.” Cloe said, shaking her head a little. “We all just got here.”
“Yea, he wasn’t in the common room when I left, sorry Draco.” Blaise offered before turning back to his plate.
“It’s not a problem.” Draco said, loading his own plate. “He left really early this morning. I just need to find him, he said he wanted to talk to me.” Draco ate a light breakfast, listening to the two couples chatter away about the show that they were all going to later. When Draco stood to leave Cord asked if he was definitely coming to the show. His reply was to grin widely and say, “Wouldn’t miss it for all the money in Gringotts.”

Harry walked into the Potions Master’s private chambers at seven o’clock. He knew that Severus would be up having tea by now, thus he made his way to the sitting room, and sat in his favorite spot on the floor by the fire. He didn’t need to wait long before Severus entered the room.
“Harry? What are you doing here? It has been a while since you have been up this early, everything okay?” Severus rattled off quickly as he sat down with his tea, concern evident in his voice.
“Sev, everything is fine. In fact, considering, everything is pretty good.” Harry shifted slightly so that he could face the other man directly. “Did you know that Draco was my mate before I did?” Severus merely nodded. “and you couldn’t tell me right?” another nod. “But you did want to, right?” a small nod. “Even with knowing that I was rooming with him, and that my… needs… would cause issues?” here Severus finally spoke.
“Harry, you must understand, there was and is nothing I can do about your living situation. I realize, and apologize for how hard this has to be for you. However, I know that you and Draco are very capable of working this out.”
“That is what Cloe said.” Harry murmured.
“Well she is a very smart girl. And she is right about this, you two will work it out. I am aware that you know of Draco’s Vampire inheritance, thus you know that he will have needs in the bond as well.” Taking a moment to sip his tea, Severus continued, “Have you spoken to him about this yet?” Harry shook his head, “Why ever not?”
“I am afraid that once he knows what I am he won’t want to bond with me anymore.” Harry silenced the retort he knew was coming with a hand, “Yes I know, he has as much choice as I do in this, thus I also know he can’t not bond with me. I am not an idiot Severus. I told him I need to talk to him later, and I will. I am just not so sure about it. You know what happened last time I had to tell someone really important to me something of a sensitive nature.”
“Yes, I do. I understand completely. Do not worry so much about what he will think. Just talk to him, it might be easier than you imagine.” Severus finished with a small smile. “Now I know that isn’t what you came here for, out with it.”
“Oh…” Harry laughed softly, “I need three student passes for tonight.”
“Whatever for?” Severus asked with a knowing smile.
“So that Draco, Blaise and Pansy can come to the show.” A nervous look settled onto Harry’s face, “Sev, are you coming to the show tonight?”
“Why of course Harry, I wouldn’t miss it for anything. Your little band is amazing, and it will give me a chance to spend time with my daughters bonded.” Harry nodded slightly and stood.
“Well, I’ll see you later then. I’ve got to go get my stuff together for tonight, and find Draco.” Harry gave Severus a squeeze on the shoulder as a goodbye and left.

Draco, having not seen Severus at breakfast, had a pretty good idea as to where Harry was decided to start his search there upon leaving the great hall. It wasn’t long before he saw Harry walking toward him up the corridor, head slightly bowed so that his hair fell slightly in his face. Draco smiled softly at what a contradiction Harry was, sometimes so confident, and yet others quite unsure. Right now he was a mixture of both, Draco thought, his stride and posture were confident but his head was bowed slightly. ‘Very interesting.’
“Hey Harry.” Draco called out when he felt as though they were close enough. “You said you wanted to talk.” He concluded as they finished crossing the distance between them.
“Yea, I do.” Harry said softly, nodding back up the way Draco came, “Let’s walk around the lake.” Draco nodded, and the boys silently set off towards the entrance hall.