Tender Apathy

It was another normal day, or as normal as a day could be at Hogwarts. After all, Hogways was not a normal school, and its students were far from normal by many standards.

As normal three students, all close friends, could be seen walking to their first class of the day. Ronald Weasley, aka Ron. Hermione Granger, aka know it all. And Harry Potter, aka the boy who lived. Most would say there was never a stronger bond between friends then theirs, but wrong they would be. You see each friend had a secret from the other that would change their friendship forever.

Ron was inlove with Hermione, he wanted nothing more then to tell her but he only fumbled over his words when even the thought of confessing his love came to mind.
Hermione hated muggles. She was ashamed of her family and wanted nothing to do with them. Her mother and father both feared her powers since she was born and led her on to believe she was possesed by something evil. She was so engrossed with never being so ignorant that she swore she was know all there is to know.

Between walked Harry. He had many dark secrets but the deepest darkest secret he had, he did not know he had. Until today...

----Potions Class: 1st period.

"Class, lets begin with assigning partners."

Miss Tea spoke entering the class with her arms full of books. Her already busy amrs managed to elbow the door closed behind her. The book dropped over her desk in dull flutter of wood hitting stone. Pushing up her glasses, over her bright pink eyes, she wiggles her tiny nose to keep them there.

"You and Ron can be partners, Hermione."

Harry smiled saldy, he knew that he would just get in the way if he paried with her, she liked to do all the work and Ronw a just more acustomed to taking orders from her well enough to keep up.

Looking around the room he noticed he was alone. No one was lift for him to pair up with.

"Story of my life." He sighed as the class room door swung open and a bright ray of light shone in, in walked an ironic figure.
Draco Malfoy, known as the devil himself, was alluminated like an angel sent from the heavens to end all suffering.

"Ah, Mr. Malfoy, you're late." Miss Tea grinned and tutted the blonde.

"You will have to work alone, everyone has a- Mr. Potter, you have no partner?" She said, her grin growing wider as Harry sullenly shook his head.

"The you to wont have to work alone on this project, how spendid!" She clasped her hands over Draco's shoulders and shoved him towards Harry's desk.

"Dont be shy boys...Now class-" she twirled around, her long pink hair tangling over her face, she fought free and giggled. "-Your potion today will be a very different potion then you wuold normally work on. It called the Twin Kiss. No one will kissing any twins, but you will be making a termpory mirror image of yourself. Like a twin, turn to page 613 in your books and begin. I will be walking around offering my help to anyone who requires it."

Her fingers drummed along her chair back as she watched her students work. All but two boys bickering over who did what. She sighed to herself and let them fight it out, sometimes its best to let things be.

"Fine, you can get the stupid ingredients, and i'll mix them. Just go!" Harry said, not wanting to argue over such stupid things.
Draco made his way over to collect the ingredients without more conflict. He noticed that all there was no more cat eye lift. Spotting cow eyes he desided it was all the same, an eye for an eye, right?

"You're mixing it too slow, here, let me do it!" Draco said childishly takign the spoon and mixing it himself.

Harry did not care. He just wanted to make the spell and get this class over with.

"Potter, hand me that eye."

Harry was off in his own little world and di not hear him.

"Potter! Eye, now!"

The rest of the class jumped as Harry groaned and lazily handed him the jar.

"Here, just shut up already."

Draco turned red and tossed the jar into the potion.

"Why dont you try to be better than your stupid mother and learn how to make a potion that may just save your life one day!"

Miss Tea was walking around when she heard- "Confringo!" she made her way to the middle of the class room, puhing others to a side to see what had happend. In a puddle of bright blue potion were four boys, but only two of each. Harry was untop of Draco trying to stranggle him.

"Dont you ever talk about my mother again!"

Miss Tae pulled them apart. Draco gasped for air and was helped up by himself. He did a double take and jumped back.

"What the-?!"

Harry heard a laugh and looked to see a double of himself was the one laughing.

"How the-!?"

The double smiled weakly and waved. Draco's double moved his foot around in the blue potion that had blown up.

"I know i'm not cleaning this up." He shook his head.

---Dumbledore's chambers.

"I cant get them back inside the other, i've tried everything." Miss Tea worried, as Dumbledore watched the four boys watch themselves.

"I guess we can wait it out, most spells go away in time." He paundered, stroking his beard. He walked towards the boys.

"And who is who?"

"I'm me, I'm Harry." Harry said, feeling like he was about to be replaced.

"But I'm you." The double of Harry frowned.

"I dont care who is who! Get rid of these doubles!" Draco fumed.

"Draco, you really shouldnt speak to others like that, you know its not fair to place all the blame on Harry." The Draco double whispered.

"Not really, Harry was the one that cast the blasting curse." Harry's double spoke up.

All four began to becker when Dumbledore cleared his thoart.

"I think we need to name the doubles for now. Just so it's clear on who is who until who ever is who is fixed. I will name the double of Harry, Harris, which means son of Harry. And Draco's double... should be close to Draco's name, so Drake. There, Harry, Harris, Draco, Dru."

"I like it." Harris smiled brodly, Dru also looked pleased.

"Where are they going to stay?" Miss Tea asked, she knew keeping them in such small beds would be cruel. "Their beds can not hold two boys at once."

"Yes, we must move you all temporaliy to a larger area of the school, with more beds." Dumbledore turned and began thinking of where to start.

Draco shook his head and placed his head in hands. This was going to be a long day.

---In their new rooms.

Two rooms were given to the boys. Harry and Harris in one, Draco and Dru in the other.
Harry sat on his bed thinking to himself. He felt a pair of familar eyes watching him. He glanced over his shoulder at Harris, who sat on the other side of the bed,

"Are you just going to stare at me?"

"I didnt want to interupt your thoughts, i know we hate that."

"What's this we buisness? I'm not you, and you're not me. You're just...i dunno what you are, but you're not me."

Harris smirked. "I'm more you than you are, just call me family."

"I don't want another target for Voldemort-" Harry paniced.

"Oh, no, no, no! Harry-" He inturupted. "-I'm not here for you worry about, just take some time to listen to me once in awhile with the choices you are making. You're not thinking clearly now a days. Your headds all fucked up."

Harry relaxed and after a moment chuckled to himself.

"Hm?" Harris raised a brow.

"I wonder if Malfoy and Dru are getting along." He muttered bitterly.

Suddenly there was a frantic knock.

"Harry!" Hermione called. "Are you in there?"

"Yes, come in." Harry sighed. Harris moved back to his side of the bed.

Hermione entered, followed by Ron. They both looked strangly at Harris, then back at Harry. "Who is-"

"I'm the original." Harry smiled, raising a hand.

"So they couldnt fix it?" She asked, glancing at the carbon copy wizard next to Harry.

"Im not an it!" Harris snapped.

"What are you then?" Ron pipped.

"I'll be kicking your ginger haired ass if you keep treating me like a freak, Ron!"

"How did it know my name?" Ron asked, studying the double.

"That's it!" Harris growled and pulled out his wand,

Ron paled, if he could be paler that is. "It has your wand, Harry!"

"Ron, shut-up. His name is Harris, he's like..."

"A twin..." Hermione finished his sentence and stared at the boys. "You look like twins, i can not tell one from the other." She gushed in amazement.

"Yeah..." Harry watched as Harris and Ron glared at eachother out of the corner of their eyes before Harris made his way to the door. "Are you leaving?"

"I'm sick of that idiot and I'm also hungry. I'll be back soon, i promise."

"Wait, Harris!" Harry called as his double paused in the door.

"I know- I know, I'm not you." He rolled his eyes and closed the door behind him.

"Ron, you are such a prick!" Hermione yelled, frustrated with the red head.

"I can't help it! I just have a bad feelign about that thing..." The Weasley whined.

Harry sat on his bed, thinking of what to do with his double, and what did he mean by listening more to him.

---The Great Hall

"Harris!" Dru called shyly from across the great hall as the Harry-Double entered, stomach growling. He made his way to the other double with a grin.

"Hello fellow double." He chuckled. He was very down to earth and energetic, he never let things get him down, and he spoke his mind, so it was no problem for Harris to feel drawn to the shy and timid Malfoy double.

Dru moved his food around in his plate. "People are staring at me, it makes me nervous."

"Don't let them get to you, just think we're alone."

Dru blushed and nodded, nibbling at this food as Harris ranted on about how Ron was being a prick about the whole double thing.

"If he calls me an IT one more time-" he warned, shaking a fist.

Dru almost choked on his food trying to hold down a laugh, Harris pat him on the back but lift his arm there a little too long.

---Near the Great Hall.

Harry felt weak with hunger as he made his way to the Great Hall, near the entrance he met up with Draco, they shared a nod and continued on without a word. As they entered they saw amost tramatizing sight, their doubles we're setting with eachother, and to the unknowing eye it looked like Harry had his arm around Draco.

"Oh, hell no!" Draco yelled causing most the students in the room to jump. He sure freaked people out when he was mad.

The boys stalked voer to their doubles and began yelling about how wrong it was to act like that around eachother. Dru began to cry and Harris fumed.

"I don't like eating alone." Dru bawled into Harris's shoulder.

"Now look what you've done! You two need to fuck off and find someone else to take your hormones out on!" Harris yelled petting Dru's head. "There-there."

"Stop that!" Draco growled and slapped Harris's hadn away from Dru. "Don't pet me!"

"Pet you? I'm petting him!"

"But i am him..." Dru frowned, sniffing into his robe sleeve.

"You arent even close to him!" Harris said pulling Dru behind him. "All you do is listen to your ego, you havent listend to your heart since you were born!"

"How dare you talk to me like that! All you are is hopped up Harry Potter!" Draco spat back trying to get at Dru.

"You guys. Why are you fighting over Dru?" Harry had to ask.

Draco frowned and glared at Harry thru his messy bleached hair. "Those stupid things are the inner us! And i dont want myself out flirting with every dirty mut he sees!"

"I wasnt flirting." Dru whispered and pouted his cute thin lips.

"I was." Harris grinned, Dru blushed and turned his grey clouded eyes to the floor.

"What?" Harry was floored. "You were flirting with Malfoy?"

"Dont you dare touch another hair on our heads again!" Draco snapped, pulling Dru from behind Harris finally. He stormed off, dragging Dru along. Dru looked back and waved cutely like a kid.

Harris waved back and laughed. "Did you see Malfoy's face when i told him i was flirting! Ha!" He looked over at a very confussed Harry setting on the table next to him.

"Am i gay?" He asked, not making eye contract with his double.

"Harry, guess what?" Harris smiled as Harry slowly looked his way.

"What?" The green eyes wonder replied in a worried tone.

"You're gay." Harris whispered.

"Oh no..." Harry groaned and hung his head.

---In Draco and Dru's room.

"Do you have any idea how worried i was about you!" Draco said slamming the door behind them. He flopped onto the bed and yelled into his pillow, he chewed on it a while than spat out some feathers.

"I'm sorry, i was very hungry, and you looked so happy in your sleep. I just couldnt wake you." Dru whispered into his pillow. His soft eyes gazing into Draco's mirrored face. If they hadnt shared the same body they would be strangers.

"Dru, you can never leave me! I own you!" Draco ordered as Dru's face fell saddend by Draco's cold words.

"I know i am a part of you, but why cant you listen to how i feel?"

"Cause you are just a worthless part of me i wish i had gotten rid of years ago!"

Dru began to sob into his hands as Draco got into his bed and turned off the lights. There Dru cried hismelf to sleep, like he had done inside of Draco every night.

---Harry and Harris's room.

Harris drummed his fingers over his abs. Harry was trying to do his homework from herbology but he just couldnt look away from Harris. He couldnt believe he looked like that, so hot and half naked, wearing only tighty whities.

"Like anything you see?" Harris grinned, catching Harry drooling over him.

Harry blushed and sighed. "I'm just so fucked up..." he confessed and forgot his homework for now. "I always thought i was into girls, i even really like some. How can i be gay?"

"You're not gay for all guys, just one." Harris's cat like smirk began to grow.

"Who- wait! Don't answer that!"

"He's name is-"

Harris muttered as he heard something outside. He walked over to the door and opened it.

"Dru-" Harris smiled, then his smiled faded as he noticed how sad Dru looked. "What's wrong sweet face?"

"Draco tried to kill me..." He sobbed.

"What!?" Harry jumped to his feet and rushed over to hear more.

"I had just fallen asleep when he attacked me, i managed to grab my wand and cast a bedazzle hex." Dru sniffed as Harris held him close.

"Is Malfoy ok?" Harry asked, worried of what the blonde would do when he got free.

"Yes, but he cant see me. I think he'll kill me if he finds me." Dru said in a small voice. Harris and Harry shared a concerned look and Harry headed out to find the Slytherin boy.

---In Draco and Dru's room.

Harry slowly entered the room, the door was open, the lights were out, all he could hear was low soft sound in the shadows.

"Draco?"

"Go away, Potter!" The voice called back.

Once Harry knew he was there he didnt hold back, he stromed towards the boy and grabbed him by his shoulders, shaking him hard.

"What's your problem!? You're tyring to kill pepople now? Draco, you're a fucking prick!"

Draco kicked him off and leaped ontop of him, punching him once i the jaw. Harry was about to fight back when Draco began to shake, tears rolled down his to his trembling lips. His eyes clinched tight.

"I can't let him out like this, he shoudlnt even still be apart of me! I thought he died along time ago! I have no heart to listen to anymore, nothings lift!" He cried as Harry looked up into his grief stricken face.

"They just kept hurting, and taking, and pushing till there was nothing to love, nothing to care for! No one tried to saved me!"

Harry felt a wetness on his face, only then realzing it was his own tears.

"I wasnt killing Dru, I was killing myself."

Draco moved off of Harry and crawled towards his bed, Harry pulled him into his arms and held him.

---Harry and Harris's room.

Harris lay with Dru in his arms, lighty stroking the boys arm with his finger tips. A voice in his head told him everything would be alright.

"Harris?" Dru asked as he rolled over, his head on his arms and his arms crossed over Harris's chest. "Were you really flirting with me?"

Harris nodded and touched the side of Dru's face.

"How could i not, i've been wanting to touch you for so long. Everyday i saw you and i wanted to talk to you, to watch you eat, i wanted to be apart of you, but Harry ignored me for years. Now that i have the chance to be here with you like this, i'm not going to waste it." He pulled Dru towards him and kissing his soft lips as the blonde metled into the kiss.

When they parted Dru was flushed and near tears. "I wish i had known that before, i thought you hated me, and i've longed for your friendship for so long."

Green eyes studied the paler boy, he knew he couldnt do move than just embrace. It would be wrong to not let Harry feel this for himself.

"We need to convince them they need eachother. Cause i dont think i can go on without you. I would fade away if you didnt love me back."

"I know, Draco doesnt even think i'm still there, but i am, i've been there all along."

Both knew that even if they were ignored before that there would be no way that Harry and Draco would be able to deny them now.

"I think we should get some sleep, we'll need it in the morning."

"How come i feel like if i fall asleep you'll be gone in the morning?" Dru whispered.

"I wont be gone, i'll just be asleep." Harris reasured.

They closed their eyes and began to drift off. They knew something was happening to them, but there was no use fighting it.

---The next morning at Draco and Dru's room.

Harry groaned, his back hurt, it was stiff from sleeping on the hard floor all night. The added weight of some one on his arm brought a numb tingle to his finger tips. He blinked and remembered everything.

Draco lay in his arms, resting his head on top of Harry's arm. His eyes were still red from the tears, and his face looked strained. He opened his eyes and they met Harry's.

Before he spoke he heard a tiny whisper that came from deep down. It told him not to hate the boy who held him all night long, the boy who listened without judgement, the boy who's name is Harry Potter.

"Thank you." The blonde whispered, worried that those words werent enough.

Harry felt a bubble in his chest, he only now understood what Harris had said to him about listening to himself. He knew he felt for the blonde. He knew all along that he wanted to be closer, but he just couldnt allow himself to give in. He had a deep dark secret that he finally knew he had. Suddenly all the apathy he felt towards himself was gone. He knew he loved the boy named Draco Malfoy, dispite the flaws.

"Do you feel different?" He asked, his hands slowly making circles over Draco's back in a loving manor.

Draco blushed and nodded. "I feel like i'm not myself, i feel weak, and shy, like i don't know if i should feel the way i use to feel, or just start over."

"I think that's a great idea!" Harry beamed. He pulled apart form the blonde and held out his hand. "My name is Harry, nice to meet you."

Draco looked up at the boy kneeling above him and reached upward to shake his hand. "Nice to meet you, I'm Draco."

They smiled at eachother and everything seemed to go away, the past would stay there, and they would worry about the future later. He pulled Dru towards him and kissing his soft lips as the blonde metled into the kiss.

When the boys went to see their doubles they were gone. Dumbledore had said that the spell would wear off in time, but it had worn off just in time.

Harry and Draco never spoke about the other, or even fought in public, they would share a glance here and there and not speak bad or good about the other to others. They pretended that they didnt even know the other was there.

As normal three students, all close friends, could be seen walking to their first class of the day. Ronald Weasley, aka Ron. Hermione Granger, aka know it all. And Harry Potter, aka the boy who lived. Most would say there was never a stronger bond between friends then theirs, but wrong they would be. You see each friend had a secret from the other that would change their friendship forever.

Ron was inlove with Hermione, he wanted nothing more then to tell her but he only fumbled over his words when even the thought of confessing his love came to mind.
Hermione hated muggles. She was ashamed of her family and wanted nothing to do with them. Her mother and father both feared her powers since she was born and led her on to believe she was possesed by something evil. She was so engrossed with never being so ignorant that she swore she was know all there is to know.

Between walked Harry. He had many dark secrets.

"I forgot my wand!" He called as he ran back in the direction of his room. As soon as he was around the corner he used his cloak to make his way to the Slytherin's section of Hogwarts.

Draco smiled as warm hands pulled back the blankets and a cold body jumped into bed.
"Good morning." Draco said in barely a whisper.

Harry snorted and burried his head under the blankets.
"I'm still asleep." he mumbled, wamring up next to his lover.

Yes, Harry had a dark secret, but it was one he didnt mind keeping to himself.

---To be continued...

SONG:
"Goodbye Apathy"
(By: One Rupublic)

I can't sleep now, no, not like I used to
I can't breathe in and out like I need to
It's breaking ice.. now, to make any movement
What's your vice? you know that mine's the illusion
And all at once
(as i'm trying)
I can help you out
(just to keep things right)
I'll be what you need
(I kill myself to make everything perfect for ya)
Goodbye apathy, so long apathy

So don't sit still, don't you move away from here
So goodbye apathy
(as i'm trying),
so long fancy free
( just to keep things right)
Goodbye apathy,
(kill myself to make everything
perfect for ya)
I don't wanna be you

I don't walk right, not like I used to
There's a jump in my step as I rush to see you
I could be happy here as long as you're near to me
As long as you're close to me
Now that I'm alright
(as i'm trying)
I can help you out
( just to keep things right)
I'll be what you need
(I kill myself to make everything perfect for ya)
Goodbye apathy, goodbye apathy

So don't you stop pushing me, I can take so much
So goodbye apathy
(as i'm trying),
so long fancy free
( just to keep things right)
Goodbye apathy,
(kill myself to make everything
perfect for ya)
I don't wanna be... you...

Everybody is watching you, everybody is watching me too...