A Friend in Need

Ok guys chapter 4!! YEAH!!

I absolutely love all the reviews from here your all amazing!! I’m glad you are all loving the story and pairing so much and I can only hope that you will keep telling me what you think.

Ok so I quick note just in case any of you are picking up on it;
Derrick Portlan is English
Antonio Lugano is Italian
Chad and Zack Forester are American
And Obviously Viktor is Bulgarian

But they all speak English and they speak it very well because of the upbringing and international social parties and such (plus all rich kids tend to speak a different language fluently) So yeah…that and I have no idea how to write accents into speech and it actually sound any good lol.

Ok Have fun reading!

Harry sighed contentedly as he watched Chad run round in circles trying to get away from one of the dog. Derrick and Antonio were sat close by talking about the up-and-coming school year. Zack had climbed one of the trees and was now laughing at his brother while throwing sticks at him. He couldn’t believe he had been here a whole week! Sometimes it felt as though only yesterday he had been brought here from the Dursleys and sometimes it felt like he’d already spent a life time here.

The rest of the guys had been here all week making sure he was ok and felt welcome and they were going home after dinner today to spend the last two weeks of summer with their families. He wanted to watch everything going on so that he could remember it all…But he was feeling distracted, he couldn’t focus on anything…well actually he could.

Viktor was next to Harry, well actually he lay next to Harry and that was what was slightly distracting. Viktor had lifted his arms up so he could rest his head on them, but on doing that it had lifted his brown shirt up just past his belly button. Harry could see the ever so slightly tanned abdomen and a trail of black hair that got thinker as it reached the waistline of his pants.

He swallowed and looked away as he caught himself staring again.

‘I can’t believe this! I can’t be falling for Viktor. That would mean I’m gay! Wouldn’t it? Getting flustered and shy around someone kinda does sound like I have a crush. Maybe I’m just getting it mixed up with feelings of gratitude for saving me or because we’re becoming close friends. Ah, I can’t deal with this! I need someone to talk to.’

“Harry? You still with us?” Viktor asked as Harry still didn’t seem to here him. He chuckled as Harry came out of his thoughts and turned to him.

“Are you ok? I mean we haven’t really brought up the night we took you from your relatives…and you haven’t asked about them.” Harry took a long suffering sigh and pulled his knees up, wrapping his arms around them.

“I guess, I just don’t want to know. If you did anything to them I don’t think I could muster up the anger to do anything about it. Those people drained me of anything and everything. I just…don’t want to remember being that weak in front of people…you guys.”

Viktor sat up and put his hand on Harry’s shoulder, gripping slightly to show his reassurance.

“I won’t lie to you and tell you, you weren’t weak because when we found you I could lift you with so much ease and you were barely coherent. But that doesn’t mean you a weak person. You survived that and carried on. It’s been like…what? A day! I can barely see the different from the guy I met at the beginning of the school year to you now. You’re strong willed and you’re strong minded.”

“What I don’t get is how I’m back up to strength. I mean…alright I wasn’t starved completely but I didn’t have the energy to fight back against Vernon and here I am being tackled by dog and you guys.”

Viktor blushed slightly and looked down in his lap, but didn’t remove his hand.

“Mother warned us about being careful and not getting you to do too much. Between her worry and healing skills and Snape’s package of potions he left. You were well on the road to recovery within half an hour of being here. I’m guessing since she didn’t bring up or give you anything else that you must be fixed up. But…In your letter I got the feeling that the food and living issues weren’t the things bothering you.” Viktor looked him in the eyes, blush fading forgotten and seriousness took over his face.

“…I would dream about that third task…About seeing you with such a look on your face that I was actually afraid to speak to you. Then I would be in the graveyard with Cedric and Voldemort and all I kept thinking about was what had happened to you…Then I would see Cedric dead, lying there so still…” Harry stopped talking. The tears threatening to fall and did as Viktor pulled the boy into his arms and positioning him in his lap.

“It’s all I ever thought about all summer; that I had just stood there and watched Voldemort kill him. With the Dursleys calling me a murderer everyday and my friend saying that they believed the papers…I just couldn’t take it. I needed to get out before…” Harry clung to Viktor’s front as he tried to stop the tears. He couldn’t believe that this was the second time he had broken down in Viktor’s arms.

“Shhh Little Light. There was nothing you could do. You’re not a murderer. You were there, you know he did it. Your friends should have believed you and then damn old fool should have never sent you back to those people.” Harry looked out of his fringe at the garden and saw the overflowing flowerbeds and the rich green grass. He looked up further and in the background just past the large garden walls, he could see the rest of the mountain range. He smiled slightly when he remembered that Viktor had once told him although Durmstrang was also a castle like Hogwarts, that’s were the similarities ended.

“Tell me what Durmstrang is like, Viktor.” He didn’t move from were he was because he felt safe there and it just felt better like this. He felt Viktor smirk and shift his legs so that they were on either side of Harry rather than under him.

“Durmstrang Castle, is in Russia somewhere, we are never told exactly. The mountain range around the castle looks amazing in winter. The castle itself has only four floors on the surface. These are the class rooms and such. Under the castle it’s like a catacomb of caves. There are ten caves that are set up for the year groups.” Harry shifted and looked up at Viktor with a frown.

“Ten year groups? Hogwarts only goes up to seven.” The Bulgarian smiled.

“Yes, well. Seventh year for us is the finishing year and if one wants to, they can leave. But most stay on for the next three years. During that time we are taught how to used wards and create ward for our families. There is usually a separation in gender as well; the girls will start courses on hosting events, protecting their families, house hold spells and appearance charms. The men will have courses in battle techniques, politics, chivalry, family protection and traditions fitting to the first and second born. Lessons we share with the girls during those three years are Sexual Education classes.” Harry again gave him a look that clearly said you haven’t already had that class. Not that Hogwarts had really; they had had special courses set out in certain classes such as Charms, potions. Where they would go through the different types of Charms or potions one might wish to use during the sexual exploits.

“Yes well, he had certain classes in our second or third year but these classes tech you how to court properly, it’s a more in depth thing…like how one pleases there partner in either a submissive position or a dominant position and, if your doing it for a political reason or such, how to get the most out of it. Its difficult to explain.”

Harry laughed and put his head back on Viktor’s shoulder, he was comfy and hadn’t notice the intimate position as he listened to Viktor carry on talking about the school.

“Ok so, there are also the professor’s chambers down there, as well as the common room and certain training rooms. The kitchen is down there to but that’s because its closer to the dragon chamber. That’s were a phoenix Dragon resides.

He’s part protection, part heater. When the rooms in the castle are too cold he’ll blow fire through the tubes in his cave. If there is an attack on the castle, which there hasn’t been for at least a century, he will blow fire through the carved holes in the cave and the fire will move along the carved holes until it comes out on the outside of the castle burning who or what ever is there.

The Dragon was brought by the founder of the school as an egg and in the cave he put an eternal flame charm over the large fire he had built and left the egg there. When it hatched it is loyal to the first thing it sees which was the founder and so the dragon protects the castle. As long as the headmaster introduces the new headmaster each time then the Dragon will stay with the castle.” Viktor had noticed the boy in his arms become more lax and when he looked down at him, he could see he had fallen asleep. He smiled and let the boy rest; they would be having dinner soon anyway.


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Everyone was sat in the entertaining dining room but the atmosphere was a casual one. Harry suspected that these people often dined together. What with the guys being Viktor closest friends and Snape, apparently, being a close friend of the family.

He smiled as a Snape glared at him for re-telling what they had discussed in the study earlier that day. A faint blush came to his cheeks as Viktor put his arm around Harry and mockingly told Snape to not glare their guest to death because it was impolite.

Antonio was sitting directly opposite Harry though and had noticed the blush, his eyebrows rose in surprise and then he smirked at Harry, he nodded his head slightly toward Viktor and gave him a pointed look. Harry understood that he was asking if they were together and Harry shyly shook his head. Antonio then rose one eyebrow and nodded to Harry himself, said boy paused for a moment before shrugging his shoulder; he really didn’t know if he liked Viktor that way.

“So Harry, You seem to be enjoying your time here. I hope the boys weren’t too rough this afternoon. They do tend to get carried away.”

“I’m having a great time thank you. It’s nice to actually see friends during the summer; usually I only get to see them when I go back to school.”

“And you do know if you will be going back to Hogwarts this year?” Milena smiled encouragingly at him.

“I’ll have to, I suppose. I’m not looking forward to it though; everyone will be spreading rumours about what happened in the Tri-wizard Tournament. That and I don’t know if any of my friends are speaking to me.”

Viktor put his arm on the back of Harry’s chair and Harry noticed Antonio smirk at the gesture. Harry ducked his head slightly and blushed.

“You could always stay here. Many pure-bloods are tutored at home during their early childhood; it helps keep our magic balanced and easier to control when we get to school. Or you could come to Durmstrang. We would be there too and you would at least have friends.”

“Viktor, that’s a marvellous idea! He could transfer to Durmstrang! As long as he can pass a purity test then he will get in for sure.” Milena explained. Harry liked the idea of being with Viktor during school. He’d feel a whole lot safer and he would definitely have friends there, but he looked crest fallen at the last part of Lady Milena’s explanation.

“But…I’m not a pure-blood. My mother was muggle born.” Viktor clapped him on the shoulder.

“Harry a purity test, all though advertised as a test for pure-blood to discourage muggle born and such, is actually to test your magical ability. Some pure-bloods have even been turned away because they just didn’t have the magical reserves to pass. Now you, who defeated the Dark Lord, will definitely get in.”

“Right now that that is settled. I was thinking that we could take the brooms out tomorrow? Let Harry get used to his new broom and show him around the acres. What do you think?” Harry looked up from his meal.

“New broom? What happened to my old one?” Strangely it was Antonio that answered him.

“We didn’t have time to find all you things remember. We had about ten minute before Dumbledore or his Order showed up. If it wasn’t in your room it didn’t make it here. When Mrs Milena went to get you clothes, Mr Demitri said you would need a broom if you were to kept entertained. If there is anything else you will need Viktor and I will take you shopping for things.”

“Hey! Why do you get to go with him?! Why not us?” The twins said in unison. Antonio looked at their bright pink and green leopard print hair pointedly.

“You don’t even come to school with everything you need and you’ve been there seven years. What make you think I’m going to trust you to help get his supplies.” Viktor laughed at the twin pouts.

“Harry would come back with sweets, pranks and some dangerous creature.”

“Now boys. We will leave it until next week at least then you, Harry, can have some time to decide what you would like to do. Now about tomorrow, I am meeting with the girls in France for lunch but I want you boys back by six or you will miss dinner.”

Dinner continued as the Durmstrang boys began to regale them all with stories from the school and of summers past. Harry even told them of things that had happened at Hogwarts that hadn’t made the newspapers.

After dinner they retired to the lounge to let dinner settle before the guests left. Severus and Demitri had detoured to the study were they would discuss anything from the war to what they would be doing in the next few days.

Harry and Chad were playing wizarding chess but in the end Chad had charmed it to be a war game, were the rules of chess didn’t comply. Antonio and Viktor were talking in the armchairs in the corner and Zack and Derrick were going over Quidditch strategies for the next year and Mrs Milena was reading her future in Tarot.

That night Harry said good bye to his new friends as they used the floo to travel home. After that Snape had decided to head back to Dumbledore with an understanding from Harry that Dumbledore would not be told where he was. Harry had had a strange feeling from the professor since they had discussed his going back to school or staying here.

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Milena couldn’t wait to tell her friends of her son’s daring rescue and growing fondness. She had waited so long for Viktor to become interested in someone. Oh he had brought home girls before and even a boy or two, but they never made it through the summer, some hadn’t even made it to meeting his parents as Viktor got bored of the normalcy of it all. Well that’s what she thought, her son never talked to her about such deep things; it was the father that the son was supposed to talk to, but Demitri always told her the important stuff.

She checked her appearance one more time; she new she had to look her best today as not only were the they going to Lunch they were going to the French Fashion show for this winter's new look. They had been to the summer one in winter and she knew they would all be wearing what they had chosen out of that summer collection. Apparently this years summer fashion had been long flowing dresses with strapped tops made of cotton, or if you could afford it like they could, Egyptian cotton. Her dress was a block light blue with a pattern across the bust that faded as it reached the stomach. She smile when she saw not a hair out of place and walked over to the apparition room.

They were to meet at Madam Brittany’s Grand Coffee Shop where they would have a drink and catch up before taking the tram to the fashion show.

She loved the coffee shop; it wasn’t filled with small tables to increase capacity. It had larger tables so you could sit comfortably. Instead of being interrupted by waitresses or waiter there was a note book that would take your order and then take itself to the kitchen and then everything would arrive Hogwarts style once it was ready.

Milena smiled when she saw that her closest friend had already arrived. She walked over to the woman and watched as the woman came out of her thoughts and saw her walking up.

“Milena darling. Did I not tell you that dress would look fabulous on you?” She said with a smile. Milena hugged her friend and then sat down.

“That you did Narcissa. That you did.”

Right that’s it for now.

Oh and there where a few questions that I want to answer for people;

I didn’t actually name the designer after the hurricane but it is where I heard the name from, plus I think I also got it from a painter or designer. I don’t know if naming it after the hurricane would have been a bad or good thing and I don’t want to offend anybody so I hope that’s ok??

And will Draco make an appearance??...Well I can’t leave him out now can I? I love the Slytherin too much and you can’t have Slytherin with out their prince so yeah he’ll be in it…just not with Harry in this one. ^_^

Ok that is officially it I’m going now bye.