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Change of Heart	By : StarlightSoul Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 2265 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-Change of Heart
- 2-Forgetting to Hate
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Disclaimer- I don�t own them JKR does, I just borrow them to
play.

Change of Heart

Forgetting to hate

When Harry woke up, he was
disoriented. The room he was in was much too soft and much too big to be his
bed at the Dursleys. The warm body pressed against him was very welcome but he
couldn�t remember who it was and was almost afraid to turn over and look.

� Good
morning Harry,� said the voice of Poppy Pomfrey,� Just relax and stay still for
a while. Draco�s still asleep but he should wake soon. I know things are a
little foggy but that will clear as soon as the potion wears off.�

� Ah, I
see you�re awake. Good, as soon as Mr. Malfoy wakes we�ll get started. We all
have much to talk about. It seems that you and Mr. Malfoy have a very similar
secret that you�ve been keeping from those of us with the power to help you.�
Dumbledore�s expression grew sad, � Come along Poppy,
Remus and I would like to speak with you.�

Harry watched them go with
apprehension. Part of him longed for them to stay, to be able to lookthemthem
for protection and yet some part of him wished to hide. Still, he knew that he
couldn�t run and hide, it was no longer about just
him. As long as there was someone else to save he could focus on achieving the
impossible.

Harry was so lost in thought that
he didn�t see pale blue eyes watching him. Those eyes, both confused and
frightened, watched as each emotion passver ver his saviors face. Silently he
wondered if his face showed any of those emotions. After so many years of
hiding them, was it even possible for him to show them. Finding himself
suddenly uncomfortable with that thought, he tried shifting in the huge bed.
Pain shot through his body and he instantly stilled.

� Stay
still. Madam Pomfrey has already been here but I�m sure it will take one more
potion to heal all of your wounds.�

� Harry?�
croaked the blonde.

� Yeah,
it�s me. How do you feel?�

� Hurts.�
He choked out as tears began running from pale eyes that became round with
realization,� He� he was trying to kill me.�

Harry moved over and pulled the
blonde into his lap,� I know, but he didn�t. I stopped him,
I won�t let him hurt you.�

� Good,
you are both awake,� Said Dumbledore walking in followed by his staff, �Now,
who�s tale will be first and you both will tell. I have already been informed
of all of your injuries.�

Harreeineeing Draco�s fear, opted
to go first and tell his tale,� It�s all my fault really,� promised Harry,� I
wasn�t strong enough to carry the big casserole dish but he told me to take it
to the table. I didn�t mean to drop it. After it shattered, he juspt
pt
hitting me. Aunt Petunia tried to stop him so he hit her. When he finally
stopped, Auntuniaunia and I cleaned it up and she helped me to bed.�

� Has he
done it before?� asked Tonks looking positively murderous.

� Yes,� he
said head down.

� As
badly?�

� Worse. I
spent three weeks in hospital.� Mumbled Harry.

With a nod and a sigh, he turned to
Draco to respond,� Well Mr. Malfoy I will respond when you are finished with
your story.�

Draco looked more frightened than
Harry had ever seen him,� It started at the end of third year,
I refused to kill Harry and the beating started. It was to teach me my place at
first but even after a year of it I refused to become a death eater. It got
worse and worse and Voldemort hadn�t yet sent a direct order for me. I knew he
would eventually call. I had hope at the end of last year but trouble with my
house. There are very few who wouldn�t kill me if they knew about my true
feeling. I went home this summer fearing that I would not return to school. My
mother is always controlled by at least one death e. Sh. She hasn�t been
Narcissa Malfoy in over a year,� Draco choked on the sob he was fighting.
Finally with a force of will few posses, he forced out what he had to say,� I
was so angry because he didn�t want me to play Quidditch, because death eaters
don�t play sports and some such lie, that I broke. He began to smile in that
way he smiles when he knows he�s gonna hurt or kill and I drew my wand. He cast
Crucio so fast that I couldn�t stop it. I.. I couldn�t breath it hurt so much
and he took my wand and snapped it,� sobbed Draco,� I started yelling and
trying to get away from him but he just laughed and did it again. Dumbledore, I
don�t want to be a death eater. I don�t want to fight with Harry anymore. I
just want to go to school, pQuidQuidditch, make friends I can trust, and have
my mother back.�

� If you
are finished, I have some things to say.� His eyes lingered on the way Harry
held Draco,� The truth is that this would not have gotten so very out of
control if the two of you had trusted me enoug tal talk to me but that can�t be
helped now. Honestly, Mr. Malfoy, we have very few options.�

� I want
him to stay with me Professor,� Blurted Harry surprising himself.

� Well,
neither of you are going anywhere until you�ve completely healed. This stuff
should wait until then.�

� I�m
sorry Poppy, but it�s not possible,� answered Dumbledore,� Mr. Malfoy must
know, I can not keep this quiet long.�

� What
must I know?�

Dumbledore leveled a look that
shook both boys to the core,� Narcissa Malfoy is in St. Mungo�s with the Longbottoms. The damage was
done months ago, probably before you knew anything was wrong.�

Draco clung to Harry as his world
shattered for the second time that day. Without his mother, though she had only
been a puppet in the end, There was nothing preventing Lucious from forcing him
into hell.�

� Draco,
there is more. Your father is dead, he killed four Aurors trying to get to you.�

And through the tears and pain he
could see where the pieces fell and Harry held the key to putting them back
together.

� He�s
still welcome to live with me,� said Harry.

� I would
also be willing to become his temporary guan aan as I have with Harry,� Offered
Remus.

Draco was stunned by what he heard.
His once hated (well not really) adversary was offering to open his home to
him, Draco Malfoy. Draco was suddenly very tired, the
emotional exhaustion of the very short morning rivaled that of his first
meeting with Voldemort. In his exhausted state, he didn�t care about Malfoy
pride. For the first time in nearly six years he was allowed to be exactly what
he was, a frightened little boy.

Harry watched all
of those things pass across watery blue eyes before his tears began to
fall. Harry gathered the still broken Slytherin into his arms and rock him
until the heart shattering sobs ebbed and sleep began to claim him.

� If you
have anything left to give him, I suggest you do it now,� Said Harry softly to
Madam Pomfrey,� He�s nearly asleep and I don�t think we should disturb him too
much. I doubt that he�s slept much recently.�

� How do
you know that he hasn�t been sleeping well?� asked Madam Pomfrey.

� He hides
it well, a spell I think. He has had to keep up the illusion of the perfect
Malfoy family,� Harry sighed a nearly defeated sigh,� Most importantly,
I know what it�s like to be afraid to closur eur eyes. I�ve been in that place,
all my life, where you can�t let down your guard because the moment you do they
sneak in and find a new way to hurt you. Eleven years and six summers of never
being good enough, of living off scraps of food,� tears began to run slowly
down his cheeks and Draco stirred.� I do.�
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