Save me

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AN: fixed chapter 4. thank you for letting me know i messed it up.

By the time the song was done Draco had fallen back to sleep. Harry soon followed. It was going to be a long day tomorrow. Hell it was going to be a long vacation.

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Harry was brought out of sleep again, but this time it was by the whacking his wand was giving him. Someone was trying to undo his locking charms. He listened and gave a heavy sigh as he heard Hermione telling Ron that something must be wrong because Harry would never lock his door on them. He almost laughed. Pulling Draco closer tilted his head to whisper in his ear.

“Malfoy…Come on Malfoy wake up I have to turn you into a cat.” Draco didn’t even ster. Harry felt that if he was that tired then he would just let him sleep. So he turned him into the cat and rolled out of bed, walked to the door and disabled the magical locks and threw open the door to find Ron guarding it from Hermione.

“Yeah he bloody well would! It’s 5:30 in the morning.” Harry’s voice was quite but his tone was piercing. “You damn well better have a good explanation for this Hermione!”

“Well,” started Hermione as she pushed past Ron into Harry’s room. “ I was up early and I remembered that you like to work out early in the morning, so I decided that I would come join you today. But when I knocked on your door I got no response.” She glared at Harry “so I tried the handle and found it locked. And thought now why would he lock the door, never has before, so I unlocked it and discovered that it was locked magically too. And I just knew something had to have been wrong because you have never would have locked the door magically because then how would we get in to help you if you were attacked.” She started looking around as if she really did expect to find some fiend hiding somewhere.

“….What the hell Hermione? Do you not know me at all? I have been locking my damned door since Cedric died! And if I’m on this damn vacation I’m not going to be getting up before…..noon. there are you happy now.” Harry raised his voice at the mention of Cedric. And was left pointing at the door.

Just as Hermione opened her mouth to reply there was a startled mew from the bed. Everyone turned to look just in time to see a little white tail disappear beneath the bed.

“Oh Harry was that the new kitten?” Asked Ron finally coming into the room as well. Hermione made her way over to the bed and reached underneath it.

“You startled it Harry.” She chastised. It was obvious when she had him in her hand. A series of “shshshshshsh. It’s ok it’s ok.” Were whispered as she pulled Draco up. She had him by the scruff of his neck and his paws and tail were drawn up in an attempt to make himself smaller. Hermione brought him close and rested her on her shoulder trying to calm him down but as soon as she let go he started scratching and clawing in an effort to get away. It was so obvious that Draco was in distress.

“ouch, would you calm down, stop moving, I’m not going to hurt you. Fine!” Hermione had had enough and just dropped him to the floor.

He landed on his side was a startled mew. Harry was by his side in seconds.

“Careful Hermione, you’ll hurt him?” Gently Harry picked him up and cradled him close to his neck. Draco dug his claws in and bit the side of Harry’s neck. Harry just grimaced and let him do as he pleased and whispered that it was alright, he was safe.

“Me! hurt him! That little demon tried to scratch my eyes out!” She was nursing a few scratches and glaring at Draco.

“your just upset because a cat didn’t like you Mione.” Ron piped up as he looked over some of the scratches. “Come on, we should get these cleaned up. You did say that you found him by a dumpster didn’t you Harry? Imagine what’s under those claws.” He took her arm and started to lead her out of the room before she could make really big deal out of this. “See you later ‘arry.” He closed the door as they left.

Harry let out a sigh and glanced down at Draco. Blood was slowly streaming from where Draco had bitten him. Draco was slowly calming down, but his heart and breath were still too fast and every minute or so a tremor would make its way through his body. Harry murmured the counter spell and almost like liquid Draco shifted from the kitten into the boy.

Draco’s face ended up on the crook of Harry’s neck and his hands clinched painfully tight on the front of his shirt. Harry’s arms were wrapped tightly around his waist and were most likely the only things keeping Draco on his feet.

Harry had to suppress a shiver of his own from raking its way down his spine as the quick and shaky pants from Malfoy hit his neck. He only tightened his hold on him and tried to calm him down.

“shshshshshshshs, Malfoy, it’s ok your safe now. Shshshshsh calm down, calm down. I’ve got you.” He didn’t know if that would help but it just kind of slipped out before he could stop himself.
Slowly Draco started to calm down listening to the steady tone in Harry’s voice. His breathing slowed to match that of Harry’s as well. and in a few minutes he was lulled almost to sleep by the steady beat of Harry’s heart. And he didn’t startle with Harry’s soft question broke through his haze.

“You ok Malfoy?” his voice was deep and soft.

“…What happened?” Draco’s voice was shaking just a little and he quickly realized that he was intimately close to Harry, moving away suddenly on unsteady feet nearly landed Draco on his back. But Harry stepped with him and caught him around the waist until he was steady again.
“…Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.” This time Draco moved slowly until only his fingers could touch him.

“….So what happened. One minute I’m sleeping and then the next there is yelling.”

“And you falling off the bed.”

“Yeah. Was I in cat form?”

“Yeah you were. And Hermione tried to come in my room. She thought I was being attacked.”

“Oh.” Draco bit his lip and looked very unsure of himself.

“Are you still tired? We could go back to bed?” Harry wondered if he was the only one who felt awkward.

“….yes I am, but…May I use the restroom first please.”

“Yeah of course.” Harry moved to the side of Draco and helped him to the rest room.

It took 15 minutes to get back to bed and comfortable. And it took Harry another 20 before he had had enough of Draco startling awake every time he started to drift.

“What can I do to help Malfoy?”

“….Help with what Potter?”

“You getting to sleep.”

“….I don’t…do you have a Dreamless Sleep Potion?”

“hehe. Always.” Getting up Harry hurried over to one of his trunks and got out a Dreamless Sleep Potion and gave it to Draco. Draco downed it then looked puzzled.

“What?” questioned Harry as he got back under the covers.

“That didn’t taste like a Dreamless Sleep. This has more of a sweet taste to it.”

“Oh that, well I got really tired of the black liquorish taste so I added a few things to sweeten it. Taste kind of like oranges’ now right?”

“…And when did you do this exactly?” Malfoys tone was a perfect mixture of curiosity and dread.

“When I was brewing it. I just put in a few drops of Orange extract. Citrus extracts are the only kind that doesn’t change any properties in the other ingredients.”

“Oh Merlin. You’re going to kill me.” Draco’s voice was filled with melodrama as he flopped back down onto his pillow.

“You know I have personally made every potion you have taken in the past 2 days and you haven’t died yet. Now stop your whining and go to sleep.”

Harry was met with only silence and when he looked over at Draco he found that he had already slipped off to sleep. God it was going to be a long vacation.

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When Draco woke up he knew something was wrong almost immediately. Something just felt off. He stayed quite to see if he could hear anything. But it was silent. After a few moments and still nothing Draco tried to sit up and found himself surrounded by the blankets. He tried to move and just found more blankets. Not being able to see still he started to try and pull the blankets off to no success. It was like they were too heavy or more likely he was too week. And after a few more moments of being trapped claustrophobia kicked in making him struggle even more. When the air seemed to be too hot to even breath he finally decided to call for Harry.

“Meow!” what the hell. Why was he a cat again? What had happened? Draco let out a few more meows each more distressing then the last before the sound of a door opening and closing and feet coming closer to the bed.

Suddenly the covers were pulled back and Draco just froze as the cool air hit him.

“Hey there little one. Did you get stuck under the covers huh? Well there there your fine now.” The voice of Ron Weasley came as a bit of a surprise to Draco. Just as the soft hands did when they picked him up. Draco tried to struggle, but Ron just keep a calm voice and gentle hold on him until he tired himself out. About 5 minutes.

“I’m sure you’re wondering where Harry is? Well he is with ‘Mione right now. She’s pretty mad at him for earlier this morning. You are causing quite a stir between the two of them. Very entertaining really. Watching Her try and tell Harry what to do as if she were his mother, and having Harry just calmly smile then go do whatever he decides is best for him to do regardless of what she says if just too much to pass up.” Ron was talking him somewhere, they had left the room and he could smell fish. All of a sudden he was starving and when Ron put him down on some hard surface right next to the fish he just followed his nose and began eating like he hadn’t if weeks…..oh wait he really haven’t.

“Wow, you must really be hungry. So what should I call you, Harry say’s he named you Draco, but I don’t really see why. I mean your fur is the same shade as his hair. But that’s about it. Don’t know whats gotten into him lately. He’s been withdrawn from everyone, and is always training or researching for something. Won’t even tell us what it is. Oh hi Remus, how are you today?”

“Good, you?” at Remus’s voice Draco stopped eating, stopped moving, and if he could have he would have stopped breathing. Instead his breathing and his heart rate went up.

“Good, Harry and Hermione are having a conversation out on the balcony.”

Remus sat down at the table and helped himself the some lunch. Draco still didn’t move.
“Oh, what set if off this time?”

“Hermione tried to break into Harry’s room at 5:30 this morning. Clamming that Harry would never lock his door and there for must be in danger.”

“huh. Nosy as ever I guess. This Harry’s new kitten?”

“Yeah, tho i…” Ron’s voice was cut off by the sound of Hermione stomping back in from outside and right into her room. Harry followed at a much slower pace.

“Hey guys.”

“What did you say to her Mate?” questioned Ron as he looked at the door.

“Told her that if she wanted me to take a damn vacation and relax then she should stop trying to plan every moment of my time here. That on a vacation I was going to do whatever I felt like doing. Even if that meant locking myself in my room to toss off the entire time.”

“Oh Harry, you didn’t. she was just trying to help.” Remus commented softly

“oh man, I wish I could do that. Hats off to you Mate.” Was Ron’s laughing remark. “ well I best go see how she is. Otherwise I’m in for it.” Ron left the table with one last pet to Draco who still hadn’t moved.

As soon as the door closed Remus got up and picked up Draco and his cup of coffee.

“Why don’t we go out said and have a little talk Harry.” Is wasn’t a question.

“Yeah alright, I don’t really feel like hearing those two go at it anyway.” Harry grabbed a cup of coffee and the fish Draco was eating and followed his old professor out onto the balcony.

When they had gotten comfortable and Draco was set in front of his fish, he started eating assuming that Professor Lupin must not know because he had handled him very softly and hadn’t make a remark.

They just seemed to enjoy the early afternoon sun in silence. And only when Draco had finished and meowed did the silence end.

“ok boy come here.” Said Harry as he picked Draco up and set him on his lap. He was just starting to get sleepy when the calm was shattered with a single question.

“So are you going to tell me why you have Draco Malfoy in your lap Harry?

AN: Sorry everyone for the major delay in updating. Life got a little hectic for awhile. It’s not quite settled yet but getting there. Thank you for all the reviews and hits.