Shaking in Armor

Faith by George Micheal

"Oh no. There is no way you're blaming me for that. It's not like it's my fault." Ron gave him a look that said more than he could've. "It's not!"

"This isn't but that was." Hermione said motioning to the stairs the Slytherin traitors had walked up. Well really they can't be traitors if they were never on his side to begin with. Who knew what they'd try now that they had him locked up in this stupid house? They'd already taken away Siris' house. Surprisingly losing his god father's estate wasn't the thing upsetting him most but the feelings he had felt on the ride over. While Malfoy had been asleep

"So what I got in Malfoy's face. Big fucking deal."

"Yes it is Harry. I swear sometimes you can be so blind." She said shaking her head. He had never seen hermione so angry about something irrational before. it was one of those situations where if looks could kill he'd have been dead. His best friend gave him one last angry look and headed up the stairs.

"God what's her problem?" He looked around at the rest of his friends who stared back with faces marred by disbelief. He looked around at his friends, one by one he took in their faces. Luna's full of disgust. Fred and George of disbelief. Ron looked worst of all of them. His brows were furrowed and he kept shaking his head as if to deny something.

"You are her problem." Luna small voice was unexpected and rather strong. "You need to get a grip Harry and realize that it wasn't any of our faults. It was done by a mother who didn't trust her son enough to let him have a better life. Though I don't know how much better it is with you making him feel like shit the moment you get the chance."

"He doesn't have feeling Luna!"

"Of course he does! Maybe you didn't see him at the table but I did. He was crying for Christ's sake." Luna threw up her hands. "I sit with all of you everyday and listen to you gripe about what a horrible person Malfoy. Well you know what he's not. You saw just as plainly as I did how scared Malfoy was when we rescued him. You saw that he truly didn't want to get out. He was just trying to make his parents happy. Something you wouldn't understand." She stood strong against the storm she knew was coming but no fear shown in her eyes when Harry rose and banged his fists against the table.

"What did you say?" Harry's face was red and his pupils dilated with rage but Luna showed no weakness. She wasn't Ron, Harry thought. She didn't yell for no reason. She didn't say things with out thinking. She was..right. He sat down at the realization and covered his face. He had over reacted, to say the least.

"Shit." He heard Luna let go a sigh of relief. He felt a hand on his back. He looked up where Ron smiling down at him.

"Look mate no one is blaming you. You just had a me moment." Fred and George chuckled and Luna smiled a bit. "But if I don't get laid because of this I'm gonna rip your penis off and feed it to Fang." Harry grimaced but everyone seemed to be in a better mood.

"I'm sorry guys. I just-"

"Have to apologize to Draco?" Luna stuck in with an insistent smile. Harry smiled and nodded. He practically ran up the stairs apologies racing through his mind all the feelings from the ride coincidences washing back over him. He stopped at the top of the stairs hearing voices.

"What?" Hermione. "You're in love with my best friend" WHAT? Harry's mind shrieked. He barely heard Hermione compliment the person. It had to be male or Hermione wouldn't think they were nice to look at. But that meant it was Zabini or ... Malfoy. Suddenly everything on that confusing flight made sense. None of those slight movements were coincidences they were deliberate lures. And the fire was back burning in Harry's stomach. He almost missed Hermione's foot steps but he broke out of the mist of his mind long enough to hear her heels as she rounded the corner.

"AH. Harry! You shouldn't jump out at people like that." Harry opened his mouth to say he didn't jump but Hermione covered it before he could get it out.

"Look I know what I'm going to say isn't what you want to hear but you need to hear it." Is she going to tell me? Wait why does she know? It's not like they would tell her so easily. There's something going on here. "It's about Malfoy." She braced herself for the out rage that was sure to follow but Harry just cocked his eye brow. Then he did the only thing he could think of, he let his tongue slip out and licked her hand. Hermione squealed. She shot him a nasty look.

"That was disgusting." Harry wiped his face of his spit.

"Look, Luna already yelled at me and don't need it again." Hermione started to speak but Harry was determined not to let her get in a word until he fully explained what his plan was. What was it anyway? How was he gonna get the truth out of everyone? And then it clicked. "I want to celebrate the success of the mission."

"What do you mean?" Hermione said, she gave him a suspicious look.

"I say we show the Slytherins how we Gryffindors party."

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"This has to be the most boring thing I've ever done." Pansy sighed from Draco's lap. Harry had convinced everyone to take part in a little party but his exciting plan had fast taken the train to dulls ville. Everyone sat slightly buzzed around a several bottles alcohol George had found hidden behind the sink in the kitchen.

"Well do you propose we do?" Luna said from the couch. She hung upside down her white hair flooding over Fred's shoulders. Blaise and Pansy exchanged look and Pansy nodded.

"Truth or Dare." Draco rolled his eyes. Harry couldn't but wonder if he rolled them the same way when he came.

"Pans, thats no fun unless you have-" He stopped as Blaise pulled a small vial from his pocket. Harry looked at the bottle but before he could ask what it was Hermione announced it.

"Vertissum? Where did you get that?"

"I took it from Snape before we left, to show the Order I was being truthful. What were you doing in my bag Blaise?" Draco said looking hard at his best friend. Blaise seemed unconcerned and took a small swig of the potion. The act of bringing Vertissum surprised Harry. In a way he felt worse than before for accusing the teen of unspeakable things.

"Rummaging." He answered before passing the bottle up to Ron on the couch who in turn took a drink and passed the bottle to Luna.

"How exciting!" Luna said taking her drink and passing to Draco and Pansy. Draco looked at the bottle. What is he thinking? Harry said staring at the young blonde. Before he could shift his gaze Draco looked up into his eyes. They stayed that way, neither moving, each trying to decide why the other was looking. Harry hadn't actually apologized to Draco just nodded to him when he finally came down the stairs. Harry was ashamed at his reaction to Draco's outfit but he couldn't stay in the room with boy for very long. The sweater brought out his gray eyes far too well and the jeans were far to tight to be considered even slightly decent. The hot bubbly feeling had surfaced and threatened to burst if he didn't leave the room. He felt now as if Draco had thought that he was still angry with him but there was nothing he could have done. Really. He might have attacked the teen with a lust fueled leap. Draco broke the stillness first by taking a drink from the bottle while never breaking eye contact with Harry. A show, Harry wasn't stupid. He knew that drink had meant something. Draco had been trying to prove his intentions were pure.

Pansy drank next then Fred, then george, then came Harry's turn. Once again he and Draco connected eyes. Maybe it was the alcohol or maybe it was the need to return the gift Draco had given him but with a challenging smile he took a drink and passed it on to Hermione. She hesitated but sighed and drank. She tossed the bottle to Draco. He fumbled to catch it but only succeeded in elbowing Pansy in the head.

"Ow. Draco! You, pounce, can't you catch?"Draco blushed the prettiest shade of pink Harry had ever seen and tucked the bottle into his jeans pocket. Seriously how does he fit anything in there? Harry wondered as the bottle slipped into the impossibly tight pants.

"All right so we all know the game." Blaise was met by confused looks from the wizarding crowd. "Spin the bottle who ever it lands on gets asked truth or dare and the spinner gets to ask the question or make up the dare. Get it."

"Got it!" Ron said reaching for the bottle.

"Good. I guess your starting 'eh Ron?" Ron had already spun the bottle. It landed on Luna and she wiggled in excitement.

"Truth or Dare?" Ron said it in the most over dramatic voice he could muster. Laughing musically Luna stroked her chin in mock thoughtfulness.

"Truth!" She said looking at Ron intensely. Ron smiled and bent over Blaise's shoulder to whisper into hermione's ear. She nodded and Ron smiled.

"How far have you and Neville gone?" Luna turned bright red as the and blurted out her answer before anything could be done about it.

"We've had sex." She clamped her hands over her mouth her blue eyes wide with shock.

"I - I um I" She stumbled over words something very uncommon for the quick witted Ravenclaw. Draco spoke up first.

"I think for the sake of trust nothing said should leave the room." He smiled and winked at a still blushing Luna. Everyone nodded in agreement and Luna bent down to spin the bottle. The bottle landed on Fred who grinned devilishly.

"Dare me Luna baby." Luna grinned like the loon she was and gnawed on her lip. She lit up when she decided on her dare.

"I dare you to kiss Hermione." Her eyes glowed with knowledge that know one knew she had and from the look on Fred's face he wasn't to happy about the dare. Hermione sat watching Fred curiously as he tried to find words.

"Uh don't we get like chickens or something?"Ron said recalling something his father had said about the game and Pansy groaned loudly.

"Seriously Fred are you going to chicken out?" She sat up and looked at him. "Seriously?" She paused keeping her stare steady. "Seriously?" Fred looked at Hermione with apologetic eyes and then back up at Luna.

"Sorry Lu. I gotta chicken." Pansy groaned again flopping back into Draco's lap. Luna also sank into the couch and pouted as Fred reached for the bottle. George placed his hand over his twin's on the bottle.

"I have an idea." Pansy seemed to perk up. "The vertissum will only help with truth so we need something to help with the dares so..." He waved his wand and poured everyone a drink. "Your glasses will refill until the spell deems you drunk. Until then it will administer small harmless shocks to your hand." Pansy looked like she was about to cream herself. She got out of Draco's lap and crawled into the waiting lap of George.

"You my dear, should have been in slytherin." She smirked as she took up her new residence on George's lap.

"All right everyone get drinking." The drinks flew into everyones hand and everyone started drinking. For 10 minutes they sat in silence everyone drinking as much as they could as fast as they could. A harmless shock was a severe understatement but everyone had expected it to be one. Once significantly pissed the drinks floated softly to the floor. Harry watched as Draco drank the soft lines of his throat moving up and down with the liquid. Then draco met his eyes and suddenly it was a competition. They stayed locked as they downed drink after drink until both cups were floating to the floor. Harry's landed first followed by Draco's. To anyone else it would have looked like a tie but to them it looked as it always had. Harry had beat Draco at yet another thing.

"Woo! Alright lets do this!" Fred said reaching for the bottle and the game resumed and so it went. The bottle landed on Pansy who with slytherin cockiness took a dare to give George a strip tease. The tease quickly escalated and the couple retreated to the kitchen.

"Great now where are we going to cook. "Draco said crossing his arms.

"Amen." Blaise agreed but Ron eyed Draco suspiciously.

"Jealous Malfoy?"

"Not even in the slightest." Draco said making a gagging noise. he scrunched his nose and jerked his head towards the kitchen. " Do you know where she's been?" He looked truly worried and Harry couldn't help but laugh.

"What's so funny?" Draco said his eyes widening more but Harry was laughing to hard to answer. "All right so obviously he's gone loony. So shall we continue?"

"Uh Draco Pansy has to spin."

"Shit." Draco sucked his bottom lip into his mouth and looked around. "Well I guess I'll take over." He spun the bottle before anyone could protest. It landed on Hermione who picked truth.

" What's your most embarrassing moment?" Hermione grimaced as she struggled to keep it in.

"In second year-"

"Second year! Nothing could be even remotely embarrassing from then now." Blaise said obviously disappointed. Harry and Rn grinned at the shared secret they had.

"Oh trust me it's good." Harry said biting back a chuckle. Draco raised his eye brow and made a motion for Hermione to continue.

"In second year, Harry was under suspicion of being the heir to Slytherin and Draco, you were getting all upset because everyone thought it was Harry. We thought you might be upset because you was actually the heir." Draco balked but Hermione went on. " So we decided to make a polyjuice potion to sneak into the Slytherin house and talk to Draco."

"In second year?" Pansy said taking her original seat by Draco.

"That was fast." Blaise said eyeing her. Pansy smiled as George reclaimed his space as well.

"Whatever, Pansy's a slut. Continue." Draco said waving his hand dismissively in Pansy's direction. Pansy stuck out her tongue but Draco ignored it in favor of Hermione's tale.

"Well everything went well. Harry and Ron drugged Crabb and Goyle and stuffed them in a broom closet." Harry and Ron high fived loudly above Hermiones head and Pansy tilted her head to the side.

"They fit?" She asked truly curious.

"Barely." Harry and Ron said laughing remembering their small frames hauling the two much larger boy's into the closet.

"Anyway, Ron and Harry got their hairs and changed successfully. I on the other hand had pulled a hair Millicent's robe earlier."

"This isn't embarrassing! This is just testament to your superior intelligence, Granger." Draco said leaning back and pouting. Pansy and Blaise nodded

"I grabbed a cat hair." Silence. Every one had had enough potions classes to know that polyjuice was meant for humans and only humans. " I spent a week in the hospital wing turning back to normal."

The room broke into laughter and Hermione glared at Draco with fierceness unbecoming of such a young witch. And so the night went on, they discussed everything from the war to favorite classes interrupted by the occasional dare. Then it was Harry's turn. He knelt to spin the bottle and watched as it pointed to the person he had wanted it to all night. Draco squirmed in his seat as Harry asked him the obligatory question of the game.

"Truth." Draco said looking a little nervous. Harry smiled this was what he had been waiting for. He could find out if it was him Hermione was talking about. He pondered over the best way to ask. Subtly would be best he decided.

"Why are you here, Draco? Why did you want to get rescued?" Draco turned bright red and sucked his bottom lip into his mouth, a nervous gesture Harry had noticed.

"Love." Draco said simply. A cop out, a way to answer the question truthfully but not give away what you didn't want to, but Harry had planned for this.

"Elaborate." Draco looked at Hermione with large worried gray eyes. He really was spectacularly beautiful.

"The person I'm in love with would hate me if I had taken the dark mark or didn't at least do something to try to get away." Draco explained and Harry smiled. He was satisfied. draco Malfoy was in love with him, it felt good some how. It almost felt ... right. Draco looked suspiciously at Harry before spinning the bottle and continuing the game.

Several hours later they were all sufficiently trashed and Pansy and George had retreated to the bedroom. Blaise and Ron, on the other hand, lay rutting into each other in plain view.

"Get a 'oom you guys." Luna said giggling. She had slid down from the couch and in turn given up her cushy seat for a all to revealing show between the teens. She kept laughing and snorting until the half bottle of whiskey set in and she passed out.

"We should turn in guys." Fred said levitating Luna wandlessly so he could scoop up and equally drunk Hermione. He carried the girls to their bedrooms and was never seen again.

"Hermione must have made him stay." Harry said casually. "She gets clingy when she's pissed." Draco laughed with a different musicality than Luna but it was the most amazing tune Harry had ever heard.

"You laugh beautifully." Draco stopped immediately and looked at Harry his eyes wide with surprise. Harry stood up and offered his hand to Draco, who took it. Harry hoisted the boy up and in turn caught him when he stumbled back. He scooped Draco up with ease and looked down into the pale boys face and smiled.

"Everything about you is beautiful." He received the smallest of squeals, which made him all the more confident as he carried the smaller boy upstairs leaving a stunned Ron and Blaise on the couch.

They reached Draco's door and Harry propped him against it and stood sheepishly in front of the blonde teen.

"What do you want Harry?" The words were soft and spoken with care. Draco lifted his head meeting Harry's brilliant green eyes with sterling gray ones.

"Well I guess it would be nice," Harry said taking a step further. They were a breath apart and he could almost hear Draco's heart pounding. "If I could touch your body." He ran his hand down the side of Draco. The blonde whimpered and pressed himself harder into the door. " I know not every body has got a body like yours." He leaned in breathing on Draco's neck. Part of him wondered how drunk he must be to be this forward with someone who just a few hours ago he hated but he didn't care because Draco smelled of peppermint and was making delightful whimpers that went straight to his cock.

"Harry..." Draco moaned as Harry pressed his erection to Draco's groin. He slid his fingers beneath his shirt and caressed the smooth skin he found there. He kissed draco's neck softly letting his mouth travel down Draco's open collar. He tore his hands away from the delicious skin of Draco's back to unbutton the blondes shirt.

"What do you want, Dracoo?" He dragged the blondes name out into a moan as he rubbed the erections together. A loud whimper answered his question and he slid dow Draco's body until he was on his knees. He looked at the bulge in Draco's pants and slowly unbuttoned and unzipped the damn jeans that been taunting him all night.

"Do you know how fuckin' hot you are in these jeans?" He growled. Draco whimpered again and shook his head. "Drivin' me crazy you are. Can't stop thinking about you." He heard Draco's breath catch as he ghosted his mouth over the Draco's pulsating cock. "Crazy Malfoy." He tore down the rest of the offending jeans dragging down Draco's silk boxers with them.

Harry needed to use his hand to guide Draco’s erection into his mouth. With his eyes firmly closed, Harry coiled his tongue round and around the firm, curved end, sucking gently. He had no idea what he was doing. He tried to remember what Ginny had done but the thought made him grimace. Besides Draco's moans were very encouraging. All he could think about was the sound of quiet sighs above him, but most of all, the bitter, salty, completely addictive taste filling his mouth. His fingers curled around Draco’s silky shaft, wondering vaguely if every man was this soft or was it just his Draco. As time passed he grew braver, using the pad of his thumb to rub lazy patterns on the underside, trailing the wetness of his own saliva along the length. He followed the veins and indents with his tongue all the while listening to the moans and gasps of the boy above him. He grazed his teeth over the satin flesh and elicited a loud, excited yelp from above him.

The sound seemed shocked him and he pulled away to ask what's wrong only to look up and see Draco rubbing his flushed and sweaty face. He bent in to continue but Draco stopped him with a soft hand on his shoulder.

"Harry." His voice was shaking. The control lost and only raw, what was that? Sadness? It couldn't be. Not when Harry felt more alive than ever. "I like you very much." Harry cocked his head to the side.

"I like you too, Draco." The roughness of his voice was unfamiliar but something about it made him feel very dirty and wrong and sexy. Draco pulled Harry off his knees and rested his hands on both of the taller boy's shoulders.

"Harry you have to understand that I've got to think twice about doing anything with someone who just hours ago told me they hated me." Harry shook off Draco's hands and walked in circles listening to the smaller teen.

"I just need some time off from this... emotion. Time to get my head together." Harry ran his fingers through his hair nervously. "When these feelings come down with out devotion well it just doesn't last, and as much as I want you to hold me in every way imaginable, I'll wait for something more."

Draco stepped towards him only to turn around and open his bedroom door. He looked back at Harry who was looking at him in disbelief.

"It takes alot of strength for me to do this Harry, but I have to have faith that you'll keep feeling this way but for now I'm showing you the door." He nodded slightly and walked inside closing the door soundly in Harry's face.

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More to come. Soon. Next chapter shouldnt be so hard bu I wont tell you why fro risk of ruining the story. Anyway I love you all dearly. Hope you enjoyed yourself and review.