Something new

A/N: Hahaha finally got a new chapter out! But anyways need to clear some things up. one: books 5 & 6 did happen but Sirius and Dumbledore didn't die and so Draco and Serverus didn't try to kill dumbledore.

ok now we got that out of the way...Thanks to my lovely beta Draca Malfoy it would be horrible without you.

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thrnbrooke: Don’t worry I won’t kill ron

Draco_Harry_lover: I’m glad you like the story and sorry but I am just not a fan of Dom. Harry. But don’t give up on me Harry will top Draco a few times.

Night The Storyteller: I love that you ask questions it makes me think of my reasoning for doing something in the story. Honestly if you hadn’t ask the questions you did I probably never would have thought to answer them in the story. Yeah Ron and Harry’s lovey- dovey relationship is going to have to be toned down, but it was fun while it lasted.

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Ok now on with the story...

“talking”
‘thinking’
/animals/


“Shit Ron hold on to me!”

Ron clung to Harry while Harry managed to use his own body weight to roll out of Draco’s path and maneuvered them to the door. Draco was up and right behind the duo as Harry practically drug Ron down the stair to the kitchen where everyone else was. Harry managed to push Ron into the kitchen before Draco caught the collar of his shirt and snatched him back. Draco spun the shorter boy around against a wall and used his body weight to keep Harry from moving.

“Why did you run darling? I only wanted the redhead but since you worked so hard to save him, you obviously care more for him than you do for me. Is that true?”

Harry felt Draco’s magic swirling around his body and reacted on pure instinct. Concentration as best he could he called to the fire in the fireplace, while trying to distract his enraged mate.

“Draco you know nothing is going on between Ron and I, I simply couldn’t allow you to harm my best friend.”

Draco only snarled and wrapped a large hand around Harry’s slender neck.

“I think it is time that you learned your place and act as the submissive that you are!”

When the other occupants of the house finally entered the room, they were met with the sight of fire wrapping around Draco and snatching him away from a black-eyed Harry, who was baring his fangs at the blond. Malachite let out an amused chuckle.

“Nothing to worry about take a seat this should be some show.”

Malachite conjured some chairs and erected a shield over the area. Everyone slowly took his or her seats except for Ron.

“What do you mean this should be a good show the ferret is trying to kill my best friend get off your ass and do something!”

Malachite snapped his dark blue eyes over to Ron and was about to speak when Snape cut him off.

“Weasley sit down Harry is not some little puppy that has to be taken care of and you know it. This is the boy-who-lived, the boy who is destined to destroy Voldermort I for one think he should be able to handle a disgruntle mate, do you not agree?”

Ron nodded weakly and sat quietly next to a nervous yet excited Hermione. His attention immediately snapped over to the still fighting couple when he heard Harry yell “Strike!”

The lightening that flashed through the window would have hit Draco full in the chest if the blonde had not melted into the shadows and disappeared. Harry only smirked and released his wings so that in case Draco tried a sneak attack he could have some kind of protection. Harry stilled as he listen to Draco’s deep hypnotic voice float out of the shadows he had disappeared into.

“Come now babe, you should not fight me on this. Just lie back and take your punishment like a good mate and all will be forgiven.”

“I told you Malfoy I’m not your slave, and you would do well to remember that.”

Harry spun around and caught the clawed hand that once again had when to grab his neck, and pulled Draco from the shadows he was using as a shield. Harry kicked Draco behind his knees and the blond collapsed onto the floor. The smaller boy quickly moved around the blond haired boy and had him pinned onto the floor.

“The sooner you recognize me as your equal the quicker I will take his courtship seriously. I do not want nor need a mate to control me, I need a mate that will protect me and stand by me when I need him to do so. Can you do that Draco?”

Harry had not even realized he was crying until he saw the tear land on Draco face. Draco’s eyes had finally returned to metallic grey color they normally were and he slowly reached up the cup the green-eyed boys face. Harry slowly released Draco from his pinned position on the floor and moved back so that he was across Draco’s waist when the other sat up.

“Can you? I don’t need more people trying to control me like some animal, what I need is for you to know that I am still the same person you use to fight in the halls and has a short temper.”

“It is not fair that you are so intimate with Weasley and yet you seem to be blocking me from you. When I awakened, your beautiful green eyes should have been the first things that I saw but what I was meet with was a charmed pillow that smelled like you. Therefore, I went in search of my mate and what should I find but him in my rivals bed and the other man actually on top of my mate. How you have reacted if you had walked in on me in such a position, it is a known fact that you and Weasley dated so there could still be some feelings floating around between the two of you. You stood in-between him and me and defended him, you fought me to protect him that is not how a mate should react but I understand the need to protect your friend. I can be everything you need but you have to remember that I am a terrible spoiled person, I do not share and I have been known to be jealous, just take that into account please. Can you deal with that?”

“I can. I know how that must have looked but you have to trust me when I say that I am just an affectionate person with my close friends and family. So is all forgiven?”

Harry put on his cutest puppy dog eyed pout and Draco melted.

“Of course so let’s get some breakfast.”

The new couple stood and did not make it two feet before the others in the room rushed them.

“What was the cause of that little show if you don’t mind sharing?” Was Hermione’s immediate question.

“Why don’t we go into the kitchen so we can what and we will explain the whole thing?”

Harry had made it through two stacks of pancakes by the time Draco had finished telling his side of the story and with a content sigh put down his syrup-coated fork. He looked over at Draco and let a smile slid onto his face as he came up with the perfect pet name for his mate. He leaned over, kissed the taller boy on the cheek, and said, “So Coco what do we have planed for today?”

Draco and Lucius both spit the tea they were drinking out as they gapped at the petite boy beside them, while Sirius roared with laughter with the rest of the table and Servers flashed an amused smirk and the black haired boy.

“WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?! Don’t slaughter my name like that, that’s even worse than being called Drake.”

Harry put on that same big-eyed innocent face that seemed to make everyone melt and let his eyes water up a little for effect.

“B-but Draco you call me ‘darling’, ‘baby’ and ‘babe’ but I never complained about it because the little pet names are signs that you honestly care for me so why can’t I call you Coco? It just means that I care for you enough to actually make up a name for you. I Call Remus ‘Remi’ or ‘Moony’ even Severus lets me call him ‘Sevi-pooh’ if we are not in class so what is the big deal? Come on for me?”

Draco looked around at the others at the table who were watching them in clear amusement and then he made the mistake of looking at Harry. Those big green eyes and adorable pout he could not refuse him anything at that moment and so he caved… again.

“Fine.”

“Thank You Coco.”

Draco cringed at the nickname when something else clicked into place in his mind.

“What a minute why are you and Sev so close, everyone knows he hates your guts.”

Harry grinned and looked over at the still smirking potion master.

“When you get as many detentions with him as I do you have no choice but to get to know each other. It also helps that I could not stand the fact that he only saw my father whenever he saw me so one night I screamed, ranted, and raved until he fully understood that even though I looked like my father at the time I was not him. Once I finished Sevi cleared his throat and said that I was right and that I was more my mothers child than anything and so we buried the hatchet over time but he still had to act like he hated me so that no one but Ron and Hermione knew what was really going on.”

Severus’ deep chuckle drew everyone’s attention to him.

“Enough imp I think that Narcissa would like you and Draco to go and see the photographer so you can take the picture that will be published in the papers with the mating announcement. Before hand, however, we have set up some ‘family’ time where you will sit and speak with Narcissa and Lucius and Draco with the mutt, the wolf and the Weasley clan.”

“Wait a minute! It is too dangerous to post that Draco is my mate, Voldermort would instantly target him to get to me.”

Lucius spoke for the first time that morning.

“It would seem that Voldermort already knows of Draco being your mate, you see I was the one that told him. Before you lose, that legendary temper of yours Mr. Potter let me explain. Voldermort wanted to use Draco’s abilities as a siren to lure you to him. When he saw my hesitation to the idea he used Legemins before I was able to erect my barriers and found out that I was a traitor and that you were Draco’s mate. He seemed more enraged at the idea of you being someone’s mate that of my treachery so I was able to escape and I put our manor under Fidelius since no person that I do not personally trust knows the location of the manor we are safe for the time being.”

Harry looked stunned for a moment then finally snapped out of it and smiled.

“Ok then so lets get to the family time.”

Harry stood and moved into the sitting room with Lucius and Narcissa while Draco stayed in the kitchen with the others. Harry sat nervously in the chair across from the couch and pulled his hair over one of his shoulder. The two elder Malfoys sat regally and waited for Harry to collect his thoughts before they began to talk.

“So Mr. Potter tell us are you able to look past your rivalry with our son and actually make this bonding work?”

“I have not taken the rivalry between Draco and I seriously since about third year when Hermione hit him. He just ran away, I expected him to snap out another of his ‘stupid mudblood’ comments but he actually just ran away. After that, I could not take any of his comments seriously. So yes I can look past that and make this work.”

Narcissa actually smiled at the memory and the atmosphere seemed suddenly less tense.
‘I do not think this will be too bad, I wonder how Draco is holding up.”

Back in the kitchen, things were anything but relaxed. Draco had been grilled about everything he had ever done. Questions about everything form his true feelings on Voldermort to why he chose Harry as his mate. Finally, when the third degree was over he got to ask a question that had been bugging him for a long time.

“What is the story on Harry’s muggle relatives? They never seemed to write or anything and he normally spends his Christmas vacation at Hogwarts or with you.”

The entire table seemed to tense and Draco wondered if he had crossed the line with the simple question. Ron was the one who cleared his throat and answered the question.

“I think is more of Harry’s story to tell but he probably never will so here goes, Harry’s ‘relatives’ were the worst sort, they hated everything and anything to do with magic. They told Harry as a child that his parents got drunk and were killed in a car accident and he got his scar form being thrown from the car. He was treated as a house elf, he cook, cleaned and was generally ignored from what he tells us. He was never physically abused except for the occasional slap to the back of the head and spankings. He slept in a cupboard under the stair until the time that he got his Hogwarts letter. Even then, he had no idea what magic was and he almost did not get his letter, Dumbledore had to send Hegrid to go and get Harry from were he and his relative had hidden so that he would be able to attend. At one point and time, they even put bars on the windows to keep the owls out. That time Fred, George and I went and rescued him. His aunt and uncle would pretty much starve him giving left over from a meal was a treat for him; he would cook the meal but never got to eat them. He was not even allowed at the table to eat, they would slide the food into his room through a cat flap. You see that is why he is so affectionate and protective of those close to him. We are all he has in the world and with him being denied basic human contact as a child, he thrives on it now. What you saw earlier is normal for him he never was big for public displays of affection but he makes up for it in private.”

Once Ron finished talking Draco jumped up form his chair and barged into the living room were his parents and Harry looked to be getting along fine. Draco rushed to Harry’s chair, pulled the boy into a bone-crushing hug, and burred his face into the juncture of Harry’s neck and shoulders.

“Draco what is going on? What’s wrong?”

Lucius and Narcissa looked just as shocked, they had never seen this kind of reaction out of Draco.

“Never again. Never again do you hear me, you are never to return to those filthy muggle relatives of yours again. If I could I would kill them for what they did to you.”

Harry snapped an accusing glare toward the guilty looking Ron who just mouth ‘sorry’.

“Draco relax I am of age now there is no reason for me to return there anymore. I’m fine you don’t need to seek revenge for me what’s in the past is the past. Let it go.”

Draco nodded into Harry’s shoulder. Harry smiled and looked over at the elder Malfoys.

“So let’s go take those pictures.”

Half an hour later Narcissa, Harry, Draco, Tristan and of course Shadow were in Diagon alley making their way to a little shop that Harry was sure he had never seen before.

Once inside the shop they were greeted by a tall tanned man who looked to be in his early to mid twenties with burgundy colored hair. When he set eyes on Harry he got a predatory look in his eyes.

“Hello Mrs. Malfoy, Draco and who do we have here? I do not think I have ever had the pleasure of seeing you before. My name is Marius simply Marius.”

Harry recognized the man’s light accent as French and was he had to admit that the accent and violet eyes were a nice mix. Draco seemed to sense the lust rolling of Marius because the quickly grabbed Harry’s hand and pulled him close to his side. Harry smiled and offered his hand.

“Hello Marius. My name is Harry, Harry Potter.”

Marius seemed dumbstruck for a moment then he grinned widely and looked over to Narcissa.

“So this is little Draco’s mate. He is a pretty one, a pity, I could have had some fun with him. Well can’t win them all, so if you would follow me to the back and we will get this show on the road.”

For about four hours, Harry and Draco when through pose after pose until finally, they had finished and all they had to do was wait for Narcissa to pick the one that she liked. Then she would order six enlarged copies, one to Harry and Draco, one for herself and Lucius, one for the Weasleys, another for Remus and Sirius another for the papers and another for some unknown reason she refused to tell them about. She refused to show the exhausted couple the shot she picked out until they returned home so they could be surprised with the others.

Once they finally got home, the new couple flopped tiredly into chairs in the kitchen and Harry called the others into the room so that they could see the pictures. When Narcissa finally set out the picture Harry and Draco along with the others were left breathless.

It was a black and white picture with Harry sitting on some unknown object that blended with the background. Draco was shirtless as was Harry and was standing in-between Harry’s long slender legs and he had Harry’s had clutched softly in his own .

The two mating marks were clearly shown and their fingers intertwine. Harry had his other had on Draco’s broad back with a replica of Draco's own Malfoy family ring of his ring finger clearly shown and the only visible part of Harry’s face was the shocking green eyes that were the only thing in color. Draco would move in, kiss the inside of Harry’s wrist, and then look over his shoulder and smirk that patent “Malfoy smirk.” Harry would have his forehead resting on Draco shoulder at the start so his face was covered by Draco's shoulder, then slowly he would raise his head and you would see the unmistakable green eyes staring strait at the observer. It was a breath-taking picture.

Hermione and Ginny let out twin squeals of excitement and told the duo how incredible the picture was and the others in the room had to agree. Narcissa smiled sweetly and said

“It was actually the first picture they took but I wanted Marius to keep going to be sure that was the best one. We could have been done in about half and hour.”

Harry, Draco and even shadow looked up in shock.

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN HALF AND HOUR!”

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