Beautiful Soul

Beautiful Soul ~ Chapter 9
Title: Beautiful Soul
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Summary: Harry falls in love
Warnings: SLASH
A/N: This is for xingou who absolutely refuses to read anything Lucius related, but we still love her. Wonderful thanks to my lovely betas butterflymist and burningchaosand also to the wondermous ravenpan[Hey, wondermous isn't a word! *laughs and giggles*] who twisted my arm to get a sneak peak and had a few extra comments to throw in. Thank you all for the lovely job you do! I couldn’t survive without you!

HUGE DISCLAIMER: JESSE McCARTNEY is a real person. [ACKS!!! real people fic! RUNAWAY!!!! *laughs*] Anything written in this story is ENTIRELY fictitious. I have stolen his image just for the use of the story and I make no claims on him really and truly acting this way. TOTALLY FICTION PEOPLE!! [Not half, not even mostly, TOTALLY, I mean, it's in capslock and everything!] Oh and of course I have kidnapped Draco and Harry and I won’t give them back until JK promises to make them end up together!![YAY!!!!!] a/n: extra special thanx to burningchaos this chapter. She really helped me make it flow so much smoother. *hugs* i love you sweets

A/N: Thank you everyone who has reviewed. You guys are awesome. This chapter has a bit of non-con, as a warning. PLEASE make sure you read above disclaimer. This is in no way saying that anyone real or fiction would actually do what is happening. This is making no claims whatsoever. It is purely from my imagination and needed to move the story on...which it is nearly finished.

Beautiful Soul, Chapter 9

Harry watched as Draco walked away, his words were like a blow to the stomach. Harry had never thought that Draco would really be interested in him, now all those comments tonight finally made sense. He chanced a look at Jesse to see how he was reacting.

Jesse smiled at him and put his arm around Harry’s shoulder. “Come on. Let’s go find a nice little corner in the garden. We can ignore my entire family out here,” he said smoothly.

“But your party?” Harry questioned.

“Ah, it’s nothing. It is mainly close friends of the family. After all, you really don’t want to run into the rest of the Malfoy clan, do you?” Jesse said with a grin.

As the two walked outside into the gardens, Harry saw Ron and Hermione against the walls, wrapped around each other. They wouldn’t notice Harry if he jumped in front of them naked, by the way they were going. Harry had to look a bit harder to find Dean and Ginny, but he found them. They were sitting under the apple trees just as oblivious as Ron and Hermione. Jesse pulled Harry towards a little shelter of climbing roses. Once underneath the canopy they sat down on the stone bench there, Harry sighed as the fragrant air surrounded them. Jesse held onto his hand, lightly stroking it, the small, slow strokes made Harry shiver.

Harry looked into Jesse’s eyes, “So, um…Jesse. Tell me more about yourself. What do you like to do?”

Jesse grinned, “I could do that but I would rather show you then tell you what I like.” He leaned in to kiss Harry.

Harry backed away slightly, just slightly. “I’m serious, Jesse.”

“I am, too,” he said. He moved to where his lips were barely touching Harry’s ear and quietly said, “Let’s not talk right now. Live in the moment, Harry.” His breath brushed across Harry’s ear as he began to nibble on it.

Harry shivered again at the contact, but everything was still so fresh in his mind. The conversations with Draco, the long looks from Jesse. Harry needed more to go by.

“Oh, but I do want to talk,” he stated firmly. “You are gorgeous, but no matter how sexy you are, I’m not falling into bed with a stranger.”

Jesse sighed as he realized he had his work cut out for him. Getting down on his knees, he clasped both of Harry’s hands in his own. He kissed them both before looking into Harry’s face, “I’m all yours, Harry. You can do as you please with me.”

Harry was starting to melt, but Draco’s words kept repeating in his ears, ”I suggest you use this time to get to know him, find out if he is as beautiful on the inside as the out. Either that, or maybe you were placing affections upon him that you really have for someone else” Harry’s resolve strengthened, he needed to know if what Draco said was true.

“Oh, look, Harry. The roses are blooming while we are here. Isn’t this amazing? That orange bloom is absolutely stunning and these blue ones are magnificent. I thought blue ones were never found in nature.” Jesse said. Although, his family was magical, there was never any magic around Jesse while he was growing up. Anything that happened suddenly like this always intrigued him.

Harry was surprised at the bushes blooming as well. He had never seen this happen before. They must be in a magical part of the garden. They were both so absorbed in the flowers around them they never noticed when the roses on the edge of the alcove began to turn yellow, red, white, and even some yellow with red tips.

Jesse picked one of the orange blossoms for Harry and got a thorn caught in his finger. He quickly put it in his mouth to stop the bleeding, as Harry took the bloom and smelled it. It has a sweet fragrance, heady and cloying it was almost too sweet.

Jesse looked up at Harry again and said, “You know, I still don’t see how you could have defeated the Dark Lord. You are so innocent and unassuming. How did you do it?”
Harry was taken by surprise at this question, so much so that he almost answered. “I really don’t want to talk about Voldemort right now, Jesse. I want to get to know you.”

“Please, Harry. I would love to hear how you defeated him. I have read all the stories and heard all the tales. I want to hear it from you. Please,” he said trying to look like a begging puppy. His pleading grated on Harry’s nerves it made him think about what Draco had said again. It brought more doubt to his mind, it seemed that was all anyone wanted to know, not about Harry the person, no they wanted to know Harry the Hero

Harry leaned down and put his hand on Jesse’s face, “Another time, Jesse. I will tell you all about it. Right now I want to know more about you, and how you….”

Jesse interrupted him by kissing him. He pulled Harry down to his knees in front of him. “Ok, Harry,” he mumbled against Harry’s mouth, “less talk and more of this. I like how you think.” He deepened the kiss.

Harry tried to pull back, but Jesse was holding him tightly. Jesse started to unbutton Harry’s trousers and moved his hand inside.

“No, Jesse, I told you that already.” Harry stomach rolled as he tried to pull away again. It was useless though, he was trapped between the stone bench and Jesse’s body. He had no idea what Jesse was planning to do, but this was more than enough to make him see Draco was right.

Jesse leaned forward as Harry continued to struggle “Harry you know you want this, you have been begging for it all night.” He started to pull down Harry’s trousers when he was suddenly knocked to the ground. Harry looked up and saw an outraged Draco. “Are you alright, Harry? I thought he might try something like this.”

“Yes, I’m fine. Thank you,” he said shakily while looking into the face of the one boy he had never expected rescue from, or anything else for that matter.

Jesse moaned and sat up, rubbing his eye where Draco had punched him. He was just about to jump up and attack Draco, but Draco as always was one step ahead of his cousin and had his wand pointed directly at Jesse’s heart. “Dear, cousin, please give me a reason to hex you. Please give me a reason.”

Jesse looked into his cousin’s furious face and realized that he had indeed lost this battle and the entire war. That didn’t mean he was going to let Draco have Harry, either. “Oh please, Draco. What exactly are you planning on doing with Harry? I know you well enough to know that you will use him and throw him away like all of the others. It never fails, as soon as they bore you, you walk away.”

“Unlike you, Jesse,” Draco spat, “I have a bit more decorum. I do not find a new person to fuck while I’m still engaged to another. I thought I should warn you that your dear fiancée, Emily, is here. She wanted to surprise you. I told her that you were otherwise occupied with the Boy Wonder, here, and that maybe she should rethink her relationship with you. That is after all what you wanted, right?”

Jesse’s calm face quickly became red with anger. “How dare you tell her anything? You know how important she is to my future! How could you tell her something like that? I swear, Draco, I am going to kill you.” Jesse lunged at Draco, but was stopped by Harry.

Harry had a strange look on his face. “So, I was to be thrown away, I was a toy, a diversion? Is that it? Is that why you wouldn’t talk to me? You do realize that if you had talked to me a bit, you would have had a night to remember. Unfortunately I may “act” innocent, but I’m not. No one walks over the “Boy Who Lived” and survives.” Harry stated this quite calmly before he punched Jesse’s other eye.

Draco looked at Harry and said, “To think here I thought you needed to be rescued.”

Harry looked at him and smiled, it was the first real smile he had ever given Draco freely, “I was just going to let it go a bit further. I needed to see how truly dark he was.”

Jesse was starting to stand and he lunged for Draco. Draco stopped him with a Jelly-Legs Hex. “Don’t forget, Jesse, I’m not the squib of the family. Also I do know how to fight hand to hand, but why should I when I can use my wand? I think it is time for you to go find your parents, you have worn out your Welcome in England.”

Jesse looked between the two boys and knew it was over. There was nothing he could do, and agreed to leave them alone.

Draco restored Jesse’s legs to normal and kept a close watch on him as he left. Harry’s eyes narrowed as he noticed the changes in the ones following Jesse and the ones near he and Draco. A row of blue and black roses had followed Jesse out of the garden. Picking the closest to him, he held it up and looked toward his blonde rescuer “Draco, the roses were orange and blue, but now they aren’t. They have all changed colors.”

“Harry, don’t you know anything?” Draco started in his normal tone, “This is a magical rose garden. The roses tell you the feelings of the one with you. Jesse’s were orange because he desired you, but blue because it was impossible to have you.”

Draco also picked one of the closest to him. It was yellow with red tips and completely without thorns. He handed it to Harry with his heart in his eyes.

“What does this one mean, Draco?” Harry asked hesitantly unsure of what he wanted it to mean.

“Yellow indicates friendship and a promise of a new beginning. Red of this color represents courage, respect, and love.” Draco almost whispered the rest of it. It was hard enough to say the words out loud, let alone to the one person he had “hated” for so long. “This particular rose,” he started firmly again, having made a decision, “it means friendship and falling in love. The fact that it has no thorns indicates love at first sight.”

“Oh,” Harry replied. “So does it say the feelings for both people or just one of them?” Harry wanted to know the answer to this question.

Draco looked into his eyes and stated, “If the roses got mixed signals then they would show the emotions that are strongest.” He put his hand up to Harry’s neck and pulled him in for a kiss. A gentle kiss, one that held promises of more to come, yet didn’t push the other boy.

“Draco,” he said breathlessly, “can we possibly do this? What about the past?”

“Harry, let’s worry about the past tomorrow, please. Tonight has already been hard enough to get through without worrying about tomorrow.” Draco looked as if he would create a fight if he had to go through the ‘what if’s’ tonight.

Harry looked at the other boy and smiled. He smelled the soft fragrance of the new rose. It was simply the most satisfying smell in the world at that moment. He looked into Draco’s eyes, which were questioning Harry silently. Then Harry pulled Draco in close to him and began to kiss him.

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A/N: for the meanings of roses http://www.rkdn.org/roses/colors.asp