Passion in Bloom

“ Draco, look at me.” Harry said softly. After they fed, the pair had made their way across town to a small house that stood alone at the end of a small street. Silver eyes met Emerald, and Draco’s heart couldn’t help but flutter slightly.
“ What Harry? Draco asked. He was amazed at what had happened to him in the last twenty four hours, but it felt right, like this was who he was meant to be. He had even fed on a human being, and it didn’t even faze him.

“ Well this is where we live.” Harry said quietly. Draco could tell Harry was hiding something.
“Who’s “we”?” Draco asked. “ Your parents?”
“ Well, no.” Harry said,. he kept glancing back at the house, which really made Draco nervous. “ Uhmm, vampires live in groups called covens, it’s kinda like a family. The head of the coven is usually the sire of everyone else.” He explained.
“ What’s a sire?” Draco asked, he was eager to learn about vampire culture, it was all so new and amazing. He was fascinated by this mysterious world Harry had pulled him into.
“ Your sire is the vampire that turns you, If you are a turned vampire. It’s also the term for your father, if you are a haemoturge, a born vampire, like me.”
“Are you the head of the coven then? because you are my sire, right?” Draco asked. Harry hesitated a moment.
“No, I’m not the head of the coven. That would be Tom, Tom Riddle. Okay, we better go inside, be prepared for some problems.” Harry warned.
“Wait! What?” Draco began, but Harry simply grabbed his hand and led him into the house.


The first thing Draco noticed as he entered the dark foyer was the strange smells all around him. He was already used to the pleasant scent that Harry gave off, and had encountered the scent of his new food source. These new smells were good, but wrong, they didn’t have the warmth that Harry’s did. He was about to ask Harry about it, but Harry grabbed his hand, and led him through a hallway into a sitting room.
“Cedric, is Tom here?” Harry asked the person sitting on the couch reading a book. The boy, Cedric looked up, and Draco got a good look at him. Piercing blue eyes, perfect cheekbones, and a strong jaw, topped of by the softest looking dirty blond hair Draco had ever seen.
“You’re lucky he’s not.” Cedric replied as he stood, “Who’s that?” He asked, moving towards Draco.
“ He’s mine!” Harry asserted, stepping between them.
“That’s funny, cause he doesn’t smell like food.” Cedric snapped. Draco was scared now. Harry had obviously done something wrong, and Cedric was a lot bigger than both of them.


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Harry knew that Cedric wasn’t a threat. Actually the huge boy was really a big softie, but Tom had programmed everyone to protect the coven so well, that anything seen as a threat was taken care of by any means necessary.
“Cedric, please, he is one of us.” Harry said in a calm voice. Cedric replied with a quizzical look, and slowly moved around Harry until he was face to face with Draco. Harry could see his blonde begin to tremble.
“You turned him?” Cedric asked in a low voice.
“Yes” Harry replied quickly.
“Why?” Cedric asked, still staring at the quivering blonde in front of him. Harry caught Draco’s eye, and held it as he answered.
“ Because he was meant to be mine.” The words sent a tingle down Draco’s spine, and he watched as Cedric closed his eyes in understanding. slowly the large vampire returned to the couch, and plopped down on it.
“ Tom isn’t going to be pleased.” He said slowly.
“ I know.” Harry said, but he looked relieved too. He turned to Draco and held out a hand. “ It’ll be okay.” he whispered. Draco smiled a little. Harry led him to a an armchair, and sat him down. “Stay here for me.” Harry said. Draco simply nodded.
“ He’ll be here in a minute.” Cedric said without looking up from the book he was reading. Harry gave Draco an optimistic look, and walked back through the hallway they had come in together. It was silent, then a moment later there was a loud crash as a door slammed. “ I’m Cedric, and you are?” the large vampire said, looking up from his book.
“ Draco.” He answered, automatically reverting to his pompous Malfoy voice. Cedric gave him a slight smile.
“Because that is supposed to meant something to me?” He said. “ Whoever you were in that world,” he pointed out the window. “ is dead. You can’t go back. Did he tell you that?”
“No.” Draco said slowly, as he realized what he was getting into. He had died in his room that night, He wasn’t Draco Malfoy anymore. “ I have to get out of here.” Draco stood, he was starting to panic and didn’t want to be in this crazy house anymore.
“Sit!” Cedric commanded. Draco was getting a little annoyed with being ordered around all the time, but he sat down. “ Harry would kill me if his little prize vanished on my watch.” Cedric chuckled. “ He’ll be back, and you’ll feel better again.”
“I’m just sick of being in the dark with everything that is happening to me.” Draco snapped “ I have the right to know.”
“ Fine. What do you want to know?” Cedric said as he snapped his book closed. He had smile on his face, but Draco was a little unsure. “ Okay, if you have nothing to ask I’ll just return to my book.” Cedric said, his smile broadening slightly.
“ Can you explain the whole Coven thing? Harry said it was like a family, but he didn’t say much else.”
“ Simple enough. Vampires group themselves together for protection and companionship, just like humans, our families have a distinct structure, with the Sire at the head. In this coven there are six of us. Tom is our Sire, then there’s me and Claire, who I turned, and is my partner. Then there’s Blaise and his partner Peter, and of course Harry.”
“So I’m Harry’s partner?” Draco asked quietly.
“ It appears so. A more appropriate term would be mate, but very few of us can breed, and I don’t like sounding like an animal.” He laughed again.
“ Well if you turned your partner, why would Tom be mad at Harry for doing the same thing?”
“For two reasons,” Cedric answered. “ one, I had permission from Tom to turn her, and Harry did not, and two, Tom doesn’t like his playthings being taken from him.”
Draco wanted to ask what he meant by plaything, but was interrupted by someone clearing their throat. Draco looked up to see a tall thin figure in the doorway.
“Draco?” the figure hissed. The blonde stood slowly, this being cowardly and subordinate thing was getting ridiculous. “ I’m Tom Riddle. Welcome to the family.” He said quietly.
“Thank you.” Draco said boldly. Which was met by a sneer from Tom, and a sweeping exit. Suddenly Draco was enveloped in Harry’s arms. “ Is everything okay now?” the blond asked.
“Just leave everything to me.” Harry said softly.



A/N Hey everyone, I love knowing what you think, feedback is inspiration to me. I’m writing this as I’m posting, so you are getting things as soon as I’m done with them. I know my chapters are short, but I’m getting better at making them longer. Please review, leave Ideas or questions, tell me what works and what doesn’t. I need your help!!!!!!!!!!

yaoiObsessed - I’m not really going to give them abilities as much as having them having certain strengths, like Cedric being able to smell/ sense the other members of the coven.
One other thing I’d like to address, is my mixing cannon and original characters. As much as I love AU fics that use all the names and places, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I’m trying to keep all of my cannon as close to their original personalities, and A lot of the characters in this fic don’t have a cannon counterpart.