Thirsting Needs Answered | By : Hikaru_Hitachiin Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 10669 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
Disclaimer: Disclaimer= I do NOT own Harry Potter or any of the characters. I just take them out for a spin now and again. I make no money from this story. Slash (eventually), story first. :P Sorry Lemon seekers. Cannon until the Battle of Hogwarts. |
Harry came home looking rough and as if he had fought…well a dragon. His hair was slightly scortched, and smoking as he fell onto the couch in his living area. Breaths came out in ragged sharp intakes as he leaned against his door falling down against it, wiping the sweat off of his brow. Long lashes laid on flushed cheeks as he tried to take calming breaths, his door locked automatically when he entered the flat. There was a faint humming that he wasn’t used to when he finally paid attention to the surroundings he was laying on. The couch was cleaner, his laundry was no longer hanging off of the handles, and there was a faint humming coming from the bathroom. Frowning visibly he stood slowly wand at the ready, as he entered the bathroom. His wand instantly fell to his side when he saw the woman in the room showering, a flush came across his cheeks before he realized what he was seeing.
“Hermione??” his hand instantly came over his eyes, the brunette in the bathroom gasped turning around out of habit. “Hermione, you really need to make sure to put some sort of ward so that I know it is you. “ She gave him a look of ‘like what’, his own expression was screwed up as he tried to think knowing she was naked beyond the palm he was staring at.
“I don’t know, Hermione, find something that will whisper in the rooms ‘Hermione is here Don’t kill her on accident.’” He slowly turned away from the blushing woman walking out of the bathroom quickly to grab a drink, he found himself in the kitchen of his small flat looking at the alcohol cabinet. He thought about just getting something mild, but he had just seen his best friend naked, he definitely needed something stronger.
Hermione entered the kitchen lightly padding the floor with her bare footed feet, water dripping from her hair leaving small droplets on the floor. Her hand was on a towel trying to dry her now loose curling hair, and a towel wrapped around her to keep her covered, though it didn’t really help her legs were completely bare and gave a very fine view of the woman she had become in these past years. “Firewhiskey before dinner, Harry?” She had a perfectly arched brown brow up nearly to her hair line at what he was drinking, with the question he tipped back the glass and finished his drink.
“Yes, well not everyone sees their best friend naked and are able not to be drinking afterwards.” He muttered softly under his breath sighing gently. Harry’s vivid green eyes slowly turned to catch Hermione’s chocolate brown ones, “I was thinking of heading to Diagon Alley, again, I was never able to get what I needed to a few weeks ago. Would you care to join me?” Though he had asked it he wasn’t half done when she was already shaking her head no.
“Alright, well you are welcome to stay here as long as you wish.” Hermione had been living with him for the past few weeks, and he was quite enjoying the company of a human companion without thinking of sex every time he looked at them. Smiling contently almost to himself, he walked over and kissed the woman on her cheek before apparating out of the house and to Diagon Alley. This time the jump went smoothly, he was instantly able to get up and walk to the stores he needed to go.
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Silver eyes followed the brunette while he walked through the different stores, Draco had been glad that he had made it safely back at home, but it still disturbed him that he was practically drunk when he tried to apparate to London the last time. The blonde haired male had put a close friend to watch the other to make sure he didn’t do anything stupid, which he did. Playing with dragons, absolutely insane. Draco scoffed to himself, he was staying in the shadow’s watching from afar. The man he had fallen in love with from hating him so much, there was such a thin line between love and hate. Draco fought every ounce of pleasure he got when he did get Harry Potters attention. There was so many times that he just wanted to grab the brunette behind the head fingers tight in his hair, and pull him into a kiss to shut him up, but never did he, not at the risk of Granger or Weasley hexing him.
“Make up sex is the best, I’m told.” he whispered to his own shadow as he downcast his eyes as Harry was starting to walk towards him. It was careful precision when he stepped forwards in front of the man who was so distracted he didn’t notice a person in front of him. Harry ran straight into the blonde, like he had wanted, stumbling slightly to the side. His mouth almost instantly started to open to apologize only to have looked up to see Draco trying to straighten his robes that were now slightly wrinkled.
“Potter, you really should watch where you are going.” The blonde nearly sneered mainly at the fact he didn’t think this plan thoroughly. He couldn’t do anything he wanted with the other like he wanted, and not get his balls cursed or, worse, hexed off. Draco tried to find something to say before the other male had time to speak, Malfoy’s were always quick on their feet, but sometimes they get flustered. “I see you are still apparating while drinking. And here I had hoped you had learned your lesson.” Great, Draco, just great. Make him angry. He reprimanded himself shaking his head. “I’m sorry, it was a long day today. How about I start again.” Harry looked absolutely speechless. Draco Malfoy Apologized To The Boy Who Lived. Harry gaped at him nodding as he finally registered the words that Draco had been asking or more rambling. The brunette never knew that Malfoy’s ramble, this was so different than the boy he knew in Hogwarts.
The blonde had asked Harry to go for a cup of tea, and in his daze Harry had nodded yes. “I have some things I’d like to discuss with you. I have recently been thinking about selling some of my estates that were passed down from my father. And I have a small problem with snakes in my garden, they are keeping my plants from properly growing. You are still able to talk to them, I am told.“ This was all true, Harry somehow was still able to speak in parseltongue even after he had defeated Voldemort.
Harry’s eyes started to hurt as he felt the pounding start to return behind his eyes, Malfoy always could give him the worst headache. No matter what he could have said he still nodded to the blonde haired boy’s question. “I can.” It was baffling why he actually responded, maybe it was the fire whiskey talking. There was an acceleration of the pounding that seemed to cause Harry to become shaky on his legs, he wondered what was in his alcohol lately that caused him to be so weak.
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After apparating back to his flat he fell onto his bed, today had been excruciatingly long. It was now dark outside, and for where they were, it was so late that sleeping probably wasn’t the best idea. He would be awake in just a couple hours anyways. Closing his eyes, his dark lashes fell onto his cheeks as he remembered how the day had progressed.
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Harry had been shopping and although he had told Draco he could do it on his own, his faint stumbling the blonde boy had scoffed and helped Harry to all the destinations he had wanted to go. By the end of the day the blonde had asked he had wanted dinner and some coffee, which Harry had not refused. They apparated to the manor. Upon their arrival two house elves had appeared to take their cloaks, Malfoy had ordered them dinner in the study. The house was lavish, full of so many priceless heirlooms. Harry had been caught staring at the blonde more than he had at the artifacts that lined the walls. He paused for a moment to look down a dark hallway, it was dusty as if no one went it in, or hadn’t been in it for a few years.
Harry wanted to ask about it, but saw Malfoy’s look of contempt for the area, and the brunette had realized he shouldn’t ask questions that the other wasn’t willing to tell him on his own. For now, he turned away from the hallway, and followed the tall slender man. They had entered a room full of paperwork and books on a beautiful redwood desk.
“I hope you don’t mind sitting in here, the dinning room I haven’t touched since before I returned from Hogwarts.” Draco explained, he didn’t have to go into full detail that he didn’t enter the room cause of what had progressed with the dark lord in that room, or that no matter how many times he or the elves had scrubbed the floor it never seemed to get rid of the red stains that seemed to be etched into every groove of the stone and marble. The table they had gotten a new one, the furniture was new as well, so was all the silverware but nothing he did could stop him from entering that room and feel like he was entering the past and his muggle studies instructor was cast over the table suspended in the air. Harry had noticed the other boy’s eyes going dark gray and hazed over as he remembered so many awful memories, he walked towards him placing a hesitant hand on the others shoulder. Harry couldn’t tell for the life of him why he did it, but the other looked like he needed comfort and it was like a ghost entered his entire frame and caused him to act almost friendly to the boy who had tormented him through his Hogwarts schooling.
Draco involuntarily twitched away from the touch, almost as if Harry had hit him, looking startled for only the briefest of moments. But Harry saw it; the hurt and the fear that had entered those liquid silver eyes and had vanished within an instant of realizing who was before him. The wall went up behind eyes that were so familiar eyes, that had tormented him for years, the wall he knew, behind the mockery and the fighting there was always a wall between his true emotions. He saw past them only once before now, during the fight, he was starting to get lost in his own thoughts when Malfoy started to speak and was suddenly not paying attention and Draco snapped his fingers in front of Harry’s face before placing his hands on his hips in the most defiant manner that Harry had ever seen.
Frowning Potter realized that the pounding in his head suddenly started to ache even more than he thought was possibly. Grinding his teeth together, Harry turned to Draco putting on a false smile.
“I apologize, Malfoy, I missed what you just said.” He said in the most calm tone he could.
“As I was saying,” he waved his hand in the air to push Harry’s distraction out of the way, he gave the genuine Malfoy toothy smile, a charming smile that could probably swoon most woman. Yet, Harry was the one who seemed to take a step back bracing himself mentally as he remembered who was in front of him and not to get distracted with his primal instincts. It was a smile that he had never seen Draco give without menace and sarcastic comments that quickly followed. “I have ordered some steak, the house elf behind you will take how you like it. Then we shall discuss business.”
“Slinkee would love to take your order, Master Potter.” The house elf bowed, though she or he wasn’t wearing rags instead he wore a tunic, clean and perfect in every way. A true way a Malfoy would cloth human servants, Harry was practically speechless he couldn’t for the life of him remember what he had told the elf before they had vanished with a low bow. His brows were furrowed when they turned back to Draco, though the man was turned away from him reaching a book taking it down and placing it on the disk, it was hand written Harry could see.
“You cloth your elves?” Harry said finally finding his voice and being able to work his mouth into the question. There was a softness that appeared on Malfoy’s lips as they curved into a smile.
“I don’t beat them either. If that would be your next question. That was always Fathers way of dealing with those beneath him. I find that if they aren’t cowering or hurting themselves then they work in a more efficient manner.” He said nearly waving off the question that Harry had asked as if it wasn’t all that strange to hear about. Looking up again seeing that the famous Harry Potter seemed to be stunned into speechlessness. Reaching into a bottom drawer long pale almost artistic fingers grabbed out a box that he placed on his desk. “You may take this with you when you leave. It will explain everything. But for now. Business.”
Harry nodded absently looking at the box like it was Pandora’s box, to open it would be to curse the world with truth but not even be able to leave hope. Licking his lips he looked up at Draco dragging his eyes from the box. “You said something about snakes.”
“Ah, yes, so you were listening. This is true, Potter, there is a few places that the Dar…that Voldemort used as hiding places that belong to my family. I wish to break those ties from those places. Including the one we are standing in. I wish to take it, and demolish it completely so that not even one block has been stepped on by that thing.” He nearly spat the last few words before standing up straighter, smiling quickly to reassure the man in front of him. “There are a few nests of snake that I would like to keep but I don’t want them killed in the demolishing of these buildings or selling of buildings. It wouldn’t take too long for apparating to each location. I would like it if you would talk to them and tell them to leave only until the house is rebuilt and then they may return if they wish.” Malfoy finished holding out the book for Harry to take, reaching out gingerly Harry took the book and opened it to look at the scrawling letters that were over each page. “It is the book of reality. Of all the Malfoy property that I own at this moment. I have highlighted each page of property that I’d like you to go to, for those are the houses I wish to keep, but destroy and rebuild.”
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I apologize for the long delay in updating guys, I’ve been super busy. With easter and work, and not sleeping at all. -.- life is hard, lol. Anyways hope you enjoy this chapter.
<3 I hope you’re still with me.
Hikaru
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