You

Story: You

Chapter: Five, You Love Me

Rating: M+ or higher in previous chapters

Author: gorgeousbowneyes

Disclaimer: I don’t own Harry Potter in any way, shape or form, I’m just using JK Rowling’s characters for my own entertainment and no copyright was intended.

Summary: It’s their seventh year at Hogwarts. Harry’s been avoiding Draco, and Draco wants his attention back. He does something Harry never expected. Meanwhile Ron’s busily planning a party, it’s destined to be the best Hogwarts has seen since the Marauders walked its halls. All the seventh years are in invited. Will Draco ever get what he wants?

AN: At the end.

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Chapter Five: You Love Me

Sunday morning came in a spectacular sunrise, but none of the seventh years were awake to see it. The only ones to witness its beauty were probably Hagrid, Dumbledore and the sporadic early riser, the rest of the castle being tucked firmly into bed. Harry and Draco were no exception, sleeping in as long as possible, before finally rising at about ten in the morning, deciding they had better make an appearance at breakfast.

“Shit!” Harry exclaimed, scanning the room, still naked.

“What?” Draco said looking over at him from where he was searching his cupboard for something fresh to wear.

“I still can’t find my bloody boxers!”

“Ah. Ahem. Yes, about those, I’m afraid I had to burn them at some stage last night, while you were still sleeping.” Draco grinned devilishly at him.

“WHAT? You burnt my boxers?” Harry said incredulously.

“They were a horrible Gryffindor red, Harry! I couldn’t let you continue to wear them, not to mention the fact they were ruining the Slytherin decor of my room.”

Harry gaped at him, mouth hanging open.

Draco laughed. “Do you know how adorable you look standing there in the nude with that look on your face, hair all mussed?”

Harry blushed and suddenly became self conscious, making an effort to cover his bits. Seeing this, Draco laughed at him, and advanced towards him.

“You’re even cuter when you blushing. Relax, you haven’t got anything I haven’t seen...or sucked...before,” Draco grinned, a predatory glint in his eyes.

Harry watched him walking towards him warily. “Draco...”

“Shhhh,” he replied, taking the final steps between them and kissing him soundly.

After a few moments of heated ministrations of the tongue, Harry broke away suddenly.

“Well, we can’t stand around here kissing all day, as much as I’d like to,” Harry said in response to the pout Draco had given him for breaking off the kiss. “I’m going to have to borrow some of your boxers then.”

“Why? Can’t you just go without?”

Harry rolled his eyes. “To breakfast? In the Great Hall? In the scratchy jeans and tee shirt I was wearing last night, that everyone saw me in last night?” He paused and thought for a moment. “Actually I might need to borrow a whole outfit. After all if I turn up to breakfast in the same clothes I was wearing yesterday the whole school will know I didn’t go back to the dorms last night.”

“Yeah, but if you turn up wearing my clothes wont that be a dead giveaway as well?”

“I dunno. How will they know they are your clothes anyway?”

Draco looked at him as if to say something along the lines of ‘Are you serious?????’

“Because, everyone knows I have the best, most expensive clothing, and that you have daggy hand-me-downs. Besides, nearly all my clothes are green, silver, grey, or black. No Gryffindor colours there.”

“Fuck. I just thought of something else,” Harry exclaimed.

“What?”

“We were making out in the middle of a party with all the other seventh years there.”

“So?”

“So???? So now everyone knows! Oh no! I also yelled out to Ron in the middle of the room that I was gay! Oh no, what the fuck have I done???” Harry fell back onto the bed, and stared at the floor.

“Well, so the whole school knows. So what? And since they know you’re with me you can wear my clothes. You are...with me...aren’t you?”
Harry blinked at him. “What do you mean?”

“Well...are we going out now?” Draco queried, suddenly insecure.

Harry laughed, this being the first sign of weakness he’d seen Draco openly display. He grinned at his lover. “You’ve got nothing to worry about. Yes we are together, as long as that’s what you want.”

“I do. If you do that is.”

“Well I do. Fuck Draco we’re going around in circles. I love you alright? I love you.” Harry saw the blonde’s eyes light up at his word, then all of a sudden found he had an armful of Draco, as he had thrown himself on Harry, arms wrapping around his neck in a fierce embrace.

Draco leaned back out to look Harry in the eyes, keeping his arms wrapped around the brunet’s neck.

“You don’t know how happy you’ve made me by saying that. I love you too.” With that, Draco leaned forward and claimed his lovers lips to himself.

“So...what kinds of boxers have you got for me?” Harry said, when the kiss finally ended, and they were just basking in each other’s gaze. “And I want to wear your clothes. Who cares what anyone thinks.”

Draco flashed a brilliant smile at him and bounded over to his wardrobe, digging around in its contents.

“What about a Slytherin green and silver thong?” Draco cheekily suggested from the wardrobe. He had to hold himself up on the wall to avoid falling from laughing so much at Harry’s expression.

-

Ron groaned and opened his eyes. It was morning, and he had a pounding headache. He damned hangovers to hell as he sat up and looked around the dorm room. Harry’s bed was still unslept in, so he didn’t end up coming back last night.

There was a groan from Seamus’ bed however, and then another noise from a slightly more feminine voice.

“Seamus have you got a chick in there?” Ron called out, intending to rib him for fucking a girl with other people so close by to his bed.

“Fuck off, Ron.”

“Oh so it is a girl then? When did you guys stumble in last night, you weren’t here when I crashed.”

“Dunno, does it really matter?” Seamus said, sticking his head out from the curtains around his four poster bed. He picked something off the ground that looked like female clothing and threw it to the other occupant.

“So who’d you bang this time?”

“Pansy.”

“WHAT? What is it with everyone and getting with Slytherin’s lately. First Harry and Malfoy and now you and Pansy ...”

“Wait ... did you just say Harry and Malfoy?” Seamus said, looking almost gleeful at getting this knowledge, but a little upset he was only just finding out now.

“You didn’t see them dancing and making out last night?”

“No!! Damn, that would have been hot to see those two together. I’m sorry I missed it. What happened?”

“Not much, Harry and I had an argument about it, I kinda ripped him off of Malfoy. Then he got really really angry at me and screamed at me the he was gay and then left with the prick.”

“Whoa whoa whoa, did you say Potter’s a faggot?” Pansy said, stepping out from Seamus’ bed in nothing but her underwear.

“What’s it to you, snake?” Ron bit back.

“No need to get nasty,” Pansy commented. “I was merely checking if I heard right. So Potter’s with Draco, is he? Well this is new. Wonder why Draco didn’t tell me anything about this?”

“Well you’re not the only one, Harry didn’t mention a word about it to us either.” Ron commented. “Although he did have some weird behaviour going on for a while there, and it seemed to be about Malfoy. Remember that huge fight they had, but no one would tell us what it was about?”

“Yeah,” Seamus agreed. “Maybe it was a lover’s quarrel and they’ve been dating for a while?”

“Not likely, I would have noticed if Harry hadn’t been around as much. It’s only the past week or so that he’s been distant and distracted and not around as much.”

“Well, as much fun as it is to stand around chatting with you Gryffindorks, I must be getting off,” Pansy said, by now fully clothed. “I had fun Seamus, maybe we should do it again sometime.”

“Maybe. But maybe not. See, I’ve done you now, don’t really need to again.”

“Whatever, but if you’re looking for fun, come find me. See ya boys.” With that Pansy left their room and shut the door behind her.

Ron turned back to Seamus. “Do you tell all the women you fuck that?”

“No, just the ones I know won’t care. You don’t ruin a good thing if you can help it.”

Ron laughed. He did understand Seamus’ thinking, but he preferred to be monogamous and in a relationship. Especially a relationship with Hermione.

“Well, should we get to breakfast then?” Seamus suggested.

“Yeah, sure. I wonder if Harry will be there.”

-

Harry gulped. He was wearing a casual pair of dark denim jeans and a fitted tee, and it was all very expensive and designer outfitted, but he had no idea who it was by. All he knew was that it was Draco’s, and he was wearing it. Oh, and Draco didn’t end up getting him into that thong, he was wearing nice normal boxers thank you very much, even if they were black with green. But he was nervous. Taking that final step into the Entrance Hall, and then into the Great Hall would mean that he was comfortable with showing he was with Draco. He was wearing the blonde’s clothes, walking up with him, and even holding his hand, but he was still uncertain about declaring it for everyone to see. It was a big step to take, but he knew it had to be done.

He took a deep breath and they moved forward into the Entrance Hall, coming out of the stairwell that led from the Dungeons and the Slytherin common room. They walked across the hall and into the Great Hall, and paused slightly in the doorway.

Just about every Hogwarts student was there this morning, and all faces were glued on them the moment they walked in. Harry glanced and Gryffindor table and saw Ron, Hermione, Seamus and Dean all looking his way, as were a lot of other people he knew.

Draco noticed how uneasy Harry was, and tugged on his hand. Harry looked back to Draco.

“Go have breakfast with your fellow Gryffindorks. I’ll meet up with you after, yeah?”

“Yeah.”

Harry let go of his hand and made to move towards his table, but Draco grabbed him back and firmly planted and big, chaste, kiss on his lips.

“Now the gossip mongrels know for certain,” Draco whispered in his ear. They parted then, both heading to their respective tables.

Harry glanced at his friends’ expressions, and it looked like they were fairly cheerful. He sat down next to Hermione and across from Seamus, still unsure of where he stood with Ron after their argument.

“Morning guys,” Harry stated. There were a few grumbled replies of ‘morning’ or ‘hey’ or ‘urgh, don’t talk so loud!’ about the table. “Everyone have fun at the party?”

“Yeah, it was alright,” Dean said from next to Seamus.

“Seamus got with Pansy last night,” Ron commented from the other side of Hermione.

“No way!” Dean exclaimed. “How come I didn’t know this?”

“’Coz you were too busy with Padma to notice!” Seamus teased.

“Oh, right,” Dean grinned sheepishly.

“But enough about us, I’m sure Harry has even more exciting news!” Seamus exclaimed, turning his cheeky gaze Harry’s way. Harry went pink. “What’s with you and Malfoy, huh? We noticed you walk in, hand in hand, kiss on the lips before you parted. What’s going on there?”

“Seamus!” Hermione exclaimed. “Harry will tell us when he wants to.”

“No, it’s fine Hermione. There’s been a lot of stuff going on with us this past week actually. You wanna hear the full story?”

“Yeah, totally!” Dean said, leaning forward.

“OK. Well, basically, Draco told me he loved me the night we decided to have a party. You remember, Ron, the night where you knew something was up with me, but I managed to cover it with the stress excuse?” Ron nodded. “Yeah, well, he told me he loved me and basically he picks fights with me for the attention. The whole, any attention is good attention thing? And basically I was fighting with myself the whole week over why I crave his attention as well. I put it down to everyone has a schoolyard nemesis, keeps things interesting, but it wasn’t right. The more and more I thought about it, the more it made sense. I didn’t realise it, but I was falling in love with him. You know, fine line between love and hate and all.

“But I rejected him the first few times he tried to convince me he wasn’t insane and he really did love me. We had that massive fight in the Entrance Hall over it because we were both bitter about it at the time. But the alcohol at the party kinda took away the prejudice we’ve come to associate with each other and yeah. I left with him last night, stayed with him, you can figure the rest out yourselves,” Harry finished.

“There’s just one more thing I want to know,” Seamus stated.

“What’s that?” Harry looked confused.

“Who bottomed?”

Harry went bright red, but stayed silent, which basically gave Seamus his answer.

“Oh bloody Merlin, it was you, wasn’t it?” Seamus exclaimed. Harry still remained silent, but pursed his lips and looked to each side with his eyes in a kind of ‘who me?’ look. He then nodded.

“I KNEW it!” Seamus was practically bouncing.

“OK, I really didn’t need to know that,” Ron exclaimed. “Harry, can I talk to you for a sec?”

“Yeah, sure, let’s go for a walk around to the lake or something,” Harry suggested.

“OK.” Ron got up, bringing a piece of toast with him, and Harry followed him out of the Great Hall. Before he left, however, he shot Draco a look that said something like ‘I’ll be back, wait for me.’

They waited to start talking until they thought no one else was around, and indeed the grounds were deserted this morning, as everyone was either sleeping or eating at this time, even though it was getting late. A lazy Sunday indeed.

“Harry, I’m sorry for how I reacted last night. I was wrong, and I was rude, and I apologise. I didn’t mean to interrupt, I was only trying to look out for you.”

“I know Ron, and I should be thanking you for looking out for me. If I was actually really drunk and making out with someone I wouldn’t want to be, it would have been good having you there to pull me off so I don’t do something I regret. It’s a good thing knowing I have a good friend to watch my back, just like I’d look out for you in a similar situation. But I don’t regret anything that happened last night.”

“I understand. I’m sorry I reacted so badly though, I suppose I just wanted you in the family, officially that is. But even if you never marry into the Weasley’s, you’ll always be a part of our family, Harry. You’re not like a brother to me, you are my brother. Being my brother means I’ll support you in whoever and whatever you choose, if that so happens to be a Slytherin – Malfoy – then so be it.”

“Thank you, Ron. It means a lot to me that you would say that.” Harry suddenly engulfed Ron in a big hug, and Ron, who was caught off guard, was stiff and just kind of patted his back, until Harry let him go and grinned sheepishly at him.

“So, should we head back to the castle?” Ron asked.

“Sure. Besides, I said I’d meet Draco after breakfast and we’d do something for a first official ‘date’.”

“Just because I support you with Malfoy, doesn’t mean I have to like the git,” Ron mumbled. Harry just laughed.

“As if you two would ever get along! But you better get used to it brother because I think Draco and I will be together a very long time. I love him, very, very, much.”

“How do you know? You’ve only seen him as a romantic interest for about a week now!”

“Love at first sight.”

“You’ve hated him for nearly seven years!”

“I was blind, but now I see.”

“Oh Merlin, there’s no talking sense into you is there?”

“Love makes fools out of men.”

Ron groaned. They were just walking back up the steps that led from the grounds to the Entrance Hall, and Harry noticed Draco waiting near the stairs to the first floor.

“I’ll see you later Ron, I have a date.”

“Bye.”

-

Draco watched Harry walk back into the castle with Ron, having finished their ‘talk’ to fix things again. He saw the second Harry noticed his presence and sighed in contentment at the look of happiness he saw on his lover’s face. His raven haired love bounded over to him and wrapped his arms around him, pressing his lips to his own, all in one sudden move. They kept the kiss chaste, being in a very public space and all, and then Draco took Harry by the hand and led him up the stairs.

“Where are we going, Draco?”

“Hmm? Oh, well, I figured we’d go to your dormitory first so you can get your broom and some Quidditch clothes, and then we’d go flying. I already have mine shrunk in my pocket.”

“Yeah, that sounds like fun. As long as we’re not bashing each other up in desperation to catch the snitch first,” Harry joked.

Draco laughed with him, but then it died down and they walked in silence for a while.

“Did you mean what you said this morning?” Draco asked.

“Which part of what I said this morning?”

“When you said you loved me.”

“Of course! I wouldn’t lie to you about that!”

“But you have before, during this week,” Draco commented.

“I was confused then, I didn’t even fully know myself until last night, and everything just felt so right. The moment I knew I loved you was when you asked if I really wanted to have sex. You would have stopped everything and let me go out that door in an instant if I said no, and yet there was nothing I wanted more than to make love with you. I love you, Draco Malfoy.”

“And I love you, Harry.”

They smiled at each other, looked around the fifth floor corridor to see if anyone was about, and stole a passionate kiss after discerning they were alone. All of their love poured into that single kiss, and they stood there for a long while, content to express their love through this one kiss, which would precede many, many more to come.

Draco finally broke away. “You love me. I can hardly believe it, after all this time, you actually love me.”

“Yes,” Harry said, laughing a little at the amazement in his lover’s voice. “For always.”

Draco sighed in contentment. “You love me.”

-

AN: OK, first I'm going to say a big SORRY to everyone for the amount of time it took me to finish this. I had heaps of stuff going on and I literally had no time at all for writing, and when I did, I tended to feel more like writing something else. But I wanted to finish this, so here we are. It's all done people, there isn't any more of this story! I hope you enjoyed it and thank you very very much for reading. I'm going to also say a big thank you to bflatgirl who has encouraged me the whole way with all of my writing, and vice versa. I probably would have given up on fanfiction a while ago without our (for me) late night conversations, being that we live on the other side of the world. Lastly, I want to thank every single one of you who reviewed, I really really appreciate it. I'm going to ask you one more time leave a review and tell me what you think of this chapter. Also, this chapter is only fresh off my fingertips, so it's not proofed and it's not beta-ed, so sorry for any mistakes.

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