Letters From No One | By : froste Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 6566 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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“Speech”
‘Thoughts’
= = =
Chapter 5: A Letter from No One
“Cedric I have no time for this,” said Harry as he started walking away from the other boy.
“Please Harry,” Cedric begged, holding onto Harry’s arm to stop him from leaving. “Give me another chance.”
“No. Now let go of me.”
“I won’t stop trying to get you back,” warned Cedric, unintentionally increasing his grip on Harry’s arm.
“You can try all you want but I will never be with you again,” said Harry firmly as he tugged at his arm to break free. “Now let go of my arm.”
“Is there a problem here?” Harry heard Draco ask and turned around to find not only Draco behind him but all of Draco’s friends as well.
“Malfoy,” growled Cedric.
“Diggory,” Draco said coolly.
“Go away and mind your own business.”
“Diggory, haven’t you learned by now that everything that goes on in this school is our business,” said Draco as he and his friends walked up to Cedric, his grey eyes burning with contempt.
“This doesn’t concern you, Malfoy. This is between me and Harry … my boyfriend,” said Cedric, pulling Harry closer to him.
“I am not your boyfriend,” Harry gritted his teeth as he tried to get away from Cedric. “Not anymore.”
“I suggest that you let him go Diggory,” warned Draco.
“You think you Slytherins scare me? Well you don’t. Now get lost.”
“If you think we’re going to take orders from a Hufflepuff I suggest you think again. Now I let go of Harry’s arm before I remove it for you.”
Draco and Cedric glared at each other for a while before the older teen spoke again. “Harry,” he said to Harry, though still glaring at Draco, “I’ll talk to you later.”
With that Cedric finally let Harry go and walked away. After a couple of seconds later, as Harry absently rubbed at his arm where Cedric had grabbed him, someone spoke.
“What was that all about?” Tom asked.
“Nothing,” shrugged Harry.
“Did you two date?” Blaise asked in disbelief.
“Yes, but only for a little while. Why? You guys don’t have a problem with me being gay, do you?” Harry, hoping they didn’t, but mostly hoping Draco didn’t.
“No, no. It’s not the fact that you’re gay.”
“Yeah, I mean Molly here still can’t decide which she prefers to sleep with,” Tom added.
“What are you talking about?” Molly asked, looking shocked. “I’ve only ever slept with guys.”
“That’s not what I heard from Millicent.”
Molly whipped around to look at a very frightened looking Millicent Bulstrode. “I can’t believe you told him!” Molly almost screamed.
“I swear I didn’t! I don’t know how he found out.”
“She’s right you know,” said Tom and smiled when Molly turned back at him. “For the most part, that is. You girls should really learn how to keep it down when you’re alone together.”
“You see Harry,” Blaise started, deciding to draw attention away from the three. “It’s not that you like guys…”
“It’s that you liked Diggory,” finished Tom.
“Oh…,” Harry sighed.
“And don’t worry,” Blaise continued. “We’ll keep your secret safe. We know what would happen if your families knew about your preferences because we know our parents would go ballistic if they found out about half of the things some of us do.”
“My parents already know about me being gay and they’re okay with it,” Harry told his friends. “It’s just my grandfather that doesn’t know. And yes, I think he would go ballistic if he ever found out,” he said before getting a curious expression on his face. “Would you guys mind if I ask you something?”
“Sure. Go right ahead.”
“What did Cedric mean when he called you guys Slythins?”
“Slytherins,” corrected Tom.
“Yeah that.”
“Well my dad owns this yacht club called Slytherin and all of us go there,” explained Draco.
“It’s our little club… Our home away from home,” continued Blaise. “There are basically four kinds of groups here. There’s the wealthy, which are all of us. Basically all of the smart kids call themselves Ravenclaws because of the debate club. The goody-two-shoes, or rather jocks, call themselves Gryffindors because our school’s mascot is a griffin. And the rejects, that’s where Diggory dwells, are called Hufflepuffs.”
“Oh,” said Harry, nodding his head in understanding. Then he turned to Draco and smiled. “Your dad owns a yacht club?”
“Yes he does,” Tom answered for his friend.
“And they have actual yachts?” Harry asked, his smile getting wider.
“No they have pincushion,” Tom joked. “Of course they have yachts.”
The smile on Harry’s face widened even more, if that were possible, and his eyes twinkled excitedly. “I’ve never been on a yacht before.”
“Are you serious? You’ve never been on a yacht before?” Pansy asked, looking extremely pleased.
“No … never,” Harry said a little disappointedly. “My grandfather owns one, but my mum won’t ever let me go anywhere near it.”
“Oh that’s too bad,” said Pansy, feigning disappointment.
“Why don’t I take you over to my dad’s yacht club then?” Draco suddenly asked. “That way you can finally have a go on one.”
As Harry’s eyes lit up with excitement Pansy’s eyes stood out, shocked, when she looked at Draco and then fumed with anger when she turned back to Harry.
= =
Geography and Music classes went by uneventfully and in Art the only change was that Harry and Draco sat next to each other while Crabbe and Goyle sat on either side, making Pansy fume even more and Hermione look at Harry worriedly.
“You’re very good at that,” said Draco as he leaned in and looked at Harry’s picture.
“Thanks,” smiled Harry. “You’re not so bad yourself,” he said as he saw Draco’s painting.
“I was thinking that I could take you over to my dad’s yacht club right after school,” whispered Draco. “Would you like that?”
“Are you kidding?” Harry whispered back. “I would love it.”
“Great. It’s a date.”
At those words, Harry froze. ‘It’s a date?’ Harry thought frantically. ‘…with Draco?’
Throughout the remainder of the class, Harry could hardly keep his brush steady as he thought about what Draco had said. He was relieved when the bell for the end of class rang and he packed up his things for his next class.
For Gym, the two teachers decided to combine their two classed and do some track and field. Unlike most of the students, Harry was relieved by this news. This way he could think more about Draco’s words and what they really meant while he ran around the block.
‘Does he really mean a date? Does this mean he likes me? He must or he wouldn’t have said, “date”. I mean, he knows I’m gay so why would he say “date” if he didn’t like me like that. He could have just ended with “Great” but no, he said, “It’s a date” which must mean he likes me.’
Harry’s train of thought continued in that fashion until he bumped into someone. Looking up to see the person he had bumped into, Harry groaned.
“What do you want Cedric?” Harry asked as he started running again.
“We didn’t get a chance to finish our conversation earlier,” smiled Cedric, following Harry.
“Don’t you have class right know?”
“No … actually I don’t. This year I have a few spare classes, which is proving to be a good thing since we can talk for as long as we want,” said Cedric, looking Harry up and down. “You look good Harry.”
“Cedric go away,” said Harry as he stopped running.
“No,” Cedric said firmly as he stopped in front of the shorter boy. “Not until you hear me out.”
“Fine… Talk…,” Harry said as he put his hands on his hips.
“Okay. Now I know it was a bad idea to try and force myself on you before I moved away… But Harry, you have to realize what you do to me. Ever since I saw you, I was in love with you and that feeling only grew when we got together. Can I help it if I wanted to be with you once before I left? I was just hoping that, if we slept together, we’d be closer and nothing could tear us apart.”
“I guess you never figured that if you forced me you would lose me.”
“I swear, when you told me that you didn’t want to, I stopped,” Cedric said as he held on to Harry’s arms.
“You only reason you stopped was because I punched you in the face,” Harry said as he pulled his arms out of Cedric’s grasp.
“No… I mean even if you didn’t punch me, I wouldn’t have continued to force you.”
“Continued to force me? Cedric, you shouldn’t have even started. I’m sorry. I just don’t it’s possible for us to get back together,” said Harry as he shook his head and started walking away.
“Then let me prove to you that I’ve changed. Give me another chance Harry. Please I’m begging you. At least think about it.”
Harry stopped as he sighed and closed his eyes. He didn’t even want to be thinking about this, but he knew Cedric wouldn’t stop bothering him until he agreed. Opening his eyes again, Harry was about to speak when someone called out to him.
“There you are Harry,” Draco said and Harry turned to him to see that the blonde wasn’t even looking at him, but at Cedric. When Draco finally looked at Harry, they were beside each other. “I was wandering where you went. Class is almost over. We should be getting back to school now,” he said to Harry before turning to Cedric. “And shouldn’t you be cleaning floors somewhere Cedric?”
“Malfoy, for the last time, mind your own business,” growled Cedric.
Once again the two teens stared at each other. But before another word was said, Ron and Hermione ran up to them, with the red-head glaring as he spotted Draco.
“What’s going on here?” Ron asked.
“I was having a conversation with Harry when Malfoy here decided to stick his nose in where it doesn’t belong,” said Cedric.
“A conversation with someone who seems to want nothing to do with you, Diggory,” corrected Draco coolly.
“Cedric,” said Ron, looking rather confused. “How can you be having a conversation with Harry when he’s not here?”
At those words, Cedric suddenly started looking frantically around the place for any sign of Harry, but the raven-haired boy was nowhere in sight.
“Are you feeling all right?” Ron asked.
Ignoring the red-head’s question, Cedric turned back at Draco, looking even more hateful than before. “Malfoy I am warning you,” he said through gritted teeth. “Stay out of this and stay the hell away from Harry.”
“I will when Harry tells me to,” said Draco smoothly with a little smirk on his face, not phased by Cedric tone one bit. “And Weasel,” he added as he turned to Ron. “I think you’ve lost someone as well.”
Looking around for a while, Ron finally realized that Hermione had disappeared from his side.
= =
“Harry, what’s going on between you and Cedric?” Hermione - who was dressed in her school clothes - asked Harry when he came out of the change room also dressed in his normal clothes.
“It’s nothing,” shrugged Harry as he leaned against the wall.
“Don’t lie to me Harry. I saw the look on your face when Ron and I ran up to you three. What happened?”
“Well…,” Harry started hesitantly. “Remember when I told you that I had a boyfriend back at my hometown?”
“Yes,” Hermione nodded.
“And remember when I said that we broke up because he was being a jerk?”
“Yes,” she nodded again.
“Well that jerk’s name is Cedric.”
“What? Are you serious? But he always seems so nice.”
“Well he is nice whenever he’s around anyone but me. But once I’m around he turns into someone completely different.”
“Let me guess… He wants to get back together with you, right?”
“It would seem so,” Harry sighed.
“Are you going to take him back?”
“No,” Harry said before a little blush covered his cheeks. “I kind of have feelings for someone else.”
“Draco,” Hermione guessed, smiling knowingly.
“Yeah… and I think he likes me too, though I’m not entirely sure.”
“Have you told him how you feel?”
“Told who?” Harry asked in confusion.
“Draco,” Hermione rolled her eyes.
“No,” said Harry, looking shocked. “And don’t you dare tell him either.”
“Okay I won’t,” she said in surprised as she held up her hands in surrender.
“The thing is… I’m going with Draco to a yacht club today,” Harry said excitedly.
“I see.”
“Would you mind stopping at my house and telling my sister where I am?”
“Sure thing, Harry,” Hermione smiled.
Just as Hermione and Harry were finished talking, Draco - who had now changed into his normal clothes as well - walked up to them.
“Are you ready to go?” The blonde asked.
“Sure,” smiled Harry. “Bye Hermione.”
“Bye,” said Hermione as Harry and Draco walked away from her.
= =
At the yacht club Harry was feeling a little too excited. He tried to control himself the best he could, but it was proving to be more difficult than he thought.
‘I’m going on a yacht; I’m going on a yacht. I hope I don’t drown while I’m going on a yacht,” he sang in his head.
“Excited?” Draco asked, smiling as he walked up to Harry.
“A little,” said Harry, trying to feign indifference, though failing miserably when a smile broke out on his face.
“Well, I had to swipe the keys to my father’s yacht…,” the blonde said, lifting up a pair of keys, “…since I’m not really supposed to be taking the yacht out without someone with me.”
“Alright, let’s go,” Harry said as he pulled Draco towards the yachts, even though he didn’t know which yacht belonged to Draco’s father.
= =
‘He looks so beautiful when he smiles,’ thought Draco as he and Harry climbed onto his father’s yacht. ‘I could just stare at that smiling face all day,’ he thought with a dazed smile.
‘Snap out of it, Draco. You can’t lose your cool now,’ he told himself firmly, before looking over at Harry’s excited face and smiling dazedly again.
‘How does he do it?’ Draco asked himself. ‘How is he able to look so loveable … so kissable … so…,’ shaking his head, Draco groaned.
‘Draco, snap out of it!’ The blonde told himself. ‘You have to get that dream out of your head,’ he thought as he shook his head only to sigh a second later.
‘But how can I? It was so perfect. He was so perfect,’ he thought as he looked over at Harry, who was looking down at the water. ‘And the dream felt so real. I could smell him … taste him … feel him…’
Draco groaned as his body began reacting to the memories. ‘Oh great, now look at what I’ve done. That’s the third time today. Thank goodness he’s looking the other way.’
Trying desperately to calm himself down, Draco found his voice and called out to Harry. “I think we should go back now,” he informed the shorter boy.
“Do we have to?” Harry whined.
“Yes, I’m afraid we do. But we can come back out here any time you want.”
“Okay,” Harry sighed.
When Draco pulled the yacht back into the dock, he helped Harry down. Then he placed the keys back where they belonged, glad that no one noticed they were even missing. After that, he walked back to the Hurst and found Harry already sitting inside. The chauffeur opened the door and Draco sat down.
“Can you tell me more about Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs?” Harry asked when the chauffeur started driving away.
“Why do you want to know about them?” Draco asked.
“I’m curious,” shrugged Harry.
“Well, Gryffindors are basically all the athletic teams put together.”
“So why do you call them goody-two-shoes?”
“Because… They just are.”
At those words, Harry raised an eyebrow.
“They use their popularity to … help people,” Draco tried to explain.
“And that’s a bad thing?”
“No, not bad; just a waste of time.”
“So I take it that Slytherins don’t use your popularity to help people.”
“Why should we, we’re rich?”
“And what are the Hufflepuffs like?”
“They’re worse than the Gryffindors, they’re not as clever as Ravenclaws and they’re nowhere near as wealthy as Slytherins. The only thing they’ve got going for them is the amusement park that Diggory’s dad owns.”
“Mr. Diggory owns an amusement park?” Harry asked with a little excitement in his eyes.
“Yeah…,” Draco said hesitantly, not liking the look in Harry’s eyes one bit. “They even perform this stupid little show for people there.”
“What kind of show?”
“I don’t know,” the blonde shrugged. “I’ve never been there before.”
“Well then … I think we should go.”
“We…? You mean as in you and me?” When Harry smiled and nodded his head, Draco snorted. “I don’t think so Harry. No Slytherin has ever set foot in that place. No Slytherin wants to set foot in that place.”
“Well then we’ll just have to change that, now won’t we?” Harry asked as he smiled slyly at the blonde.
“You can just count me out,” Draco said as he shook his head.
“I think we should go tomorrow seeing as it’s so late already,” said Harry, ignoring Draco’s protest.
“I said you can count me out Harry,” the blonde repeated.
“Or maybe we should go out on Friday seeing as we have no school the next day and we can stay out as long as we want.”
“Harry, are you even listening…,” Draco said before something occurred to him. “Wait a minute. Did you just say ‘go out’ … on Friday that is?”
“Yes. You don’t have any plans for Friday, do you?”
“N-no, no … none at all,” Draco said, mentally slapping himself on the head when he realized he stuttered.
“Good. Then Friday it is,” Harry said and then felt the car stopping. Looking out of the car window and noticing that they had reached his house, Harry turned back to Draco. “Of course we’ll have to ask our parents first. Mine should be okay with it. What about yours?”
“My parents won’t care,” said Draco.
“Great. Then it’s a date,” smiled Harry. “Hey that makes two in one week.”
“Master Malfoy,” said the chauffeur.
“Yes, what is it?” Draco asked, becoming a little annoyed that this man was interrupting his conversation with Harry.
“I believe your father is inside the Potter household.”
“What?” Draco asked.
The chauffeur gestured to a black limousine. On the side of the car was a picture of two snakes wrapped around a long sword and biting a green jewel that stood on the sword’s hilt. It was definitely the Malfoy crest.
“What would my father be doing here?” The blonde asked.
“When I told him you would be taking young Mister Potter to the yacht club, he mentioned that he might be dropping by the Potter household this afternoon.”
“Is that a bad thing?” Harry asked as the chauffeur opened the back door for Harry and Draco.
“No, not bad,” said Draco as he followed Harry out of the Hurst, “just unusual.”
Finally leaving the Hurst with Draco close behind, Harry walked up to his house. When Harry unlocked the door and walked inside, he saw that not only was Mr. Malfoy there but Sir Harold as well.
“Well Harry there you are,” beamed Sir Harold. “And Draco is here as well, how wonderful.”
Harry could tell that his parents were, for some reason, very uncomfortable. “Hullo grandfather,” he said. “What brings you here?”
“I was wondering if I could have a word with you. Shall we go up to your room?”
“Okay.”
Sir Harold followed Harry up to his room. When they got there, Sir Harold closed the door and smiled at Harry in a way that made Harry feel a little uncomfortable himself.
“Well Harry,” Sir Harold started saying. “I see you’ve made good friends with Draco Malfoy.”
“Yes I have,” Harry said with a small smile on his face.
“Spent the whole day with him, did you?”
“Yes.”
“Good. What do you think of him?”
Harry was shocked. Why would his grandfather ask him a question like that? Did he know that Harry liked boys instead of girls? Was his grandfather just trying to find him someone who met his approval? If so this was perfect. He could be more honest with his grandfather. Finally tell him things that he had to keep a secret before.
“I like him a lot actually,” Harry finally said.
“Do you now? Think he’s a nice boy, do you?”
“Yes I do Sir.”
“Think he’s good enough for this family?”
“Yes Sir.”
“Good. Now that I know you approve of him, I want you to help me set him up with your sister.”
“W-w-what?” Harry stammered.
“Harry what have I told you about stammering?”
“Sorry Sir. What do you mean by setting Draco up with Sammy?”
“I mean that I hope to get your sister and Draco to start a relationship with each other. And then hopefully marry.”
Harry was, in lack of a better word … devastated. He had hoped that his grandfather wanted him to be with Draco, not Sammy. Of course how could he have thought that his grandfather would allow such things? Harry’s grandfather lived in another time and in his head men did not have sexual feelings towards other men. Harry knew that his grandfather didn’t approve of Sirius and Remus’ relationship so why would he approve of anything other than friendship when it came to Harry and Draco.
“I’ve always wanted our two families to marry into each other,” continued Sir Harold.
“You mean the Malfoys and us?”
“No, I mean the Blacks and us. You see, Harry, Draco’s mother’s maiden name was Black. She’s Sirius’ cousin.”
“Are you kidding?”
“No. I had wanted James to marry her, but he met your mother and well … the rest is history.”
“Grandfather…?” Harry asked uncertainly.
“Yes Harry.”
“When were Mr. Malfoy and my father friends?”
“Well Harry … they weren’t really friends I guess. But the Potters and the Malfoys were the richest and the most powerful families at that time. I had hoped that James would become friends with Lucius since his father and I were friends.”
“But that never happened?”
“No it did … for a while. Or at least I thought it did. You see, when your father started going to middle school he met Narcissa and Sirius. They all became quick friends. Narcissa’s family was very wealthy at the time and I had hopped James and she would marry when they came of age. For three years everything was going perfectly. You never saw one without the other. Then one day everything fell apart. James met your mother when he started high school and he began ignoring Narcissa. Of course she was devastated that your father had left her for your mother. I tried to fix things; to get your father to go back to Narcissa by using anything I could find to separate your parents.”
“And you ended up using Lucius.” Harry guessed.
“Yes I did. I had found out that Lucius had feelings for your mother so I persuaded him to befriend you father, hoping that he could come between your parents. He agreed.”
“So you and Mr. Malfoy tried to sabotage my parent’s relationship?”
“My dear boy, I did no such thing. All I did was try to make things right again. The way things should have been. The way they were before your mother entered the picture. And it would have worked if it hadn’t been for your godfather stepping in and fixing everything, ruining all of my hard work in the process. In the end Lucius married Narcissa. But I believe that those two are still in love with your parents to this very day.”
“Grandfather, that wasn’t a very nice thing you did.”
“Nice? My dear boy ‘nice’ will only bring you pain and suffering. Now, about Draco and your sister…”
= =
Lying in bed, Harry thought about what his grandfather had told him. Sir Harold had been adamant about Harry trying to fix his sister up with Draco and now Harry felt like his world was turning upside down. First Cedric and now this… What else was going to happen to him?
Just as that question crossed Harry’s mind, Sammy walked into the room.
“Harry, I forgot to tell you. A letter arrived for you,” she said handing him an envelope.
Taking the envelope from his sister, Harry saw it was a regular, plain white envelope with nothing on the front except for his address.
“Who’s it from?” Harry asked.
“How should I know?’ Sammy shrugged. “Open it and let’s find out.”
Harry opened the letter and read it to himself. ‘We will be together soon my love,’ was all that it said.
“What does it say?” Sammy asked nosily. “Who’s the letter from?”
Crumpling up the letter, Harry threw it in the trash by his desk.
“No one,” he said, though knowing exactly who had sent the letter.
For a few seconds Sammy looked at Harry with a strange expression on her face. A moment later, she shrugged and left the room, closing the door in the process.
= = =
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