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In my Darkest Hours	By : ieatmyfeelings Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 4174 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 6
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Chapter 5: Hunger

“What in the name of Morganna’s knickers?” Minerva McGonagall exclaimed, her eyes glued to the Gryffindor table. At her comment every member of the faculty followed her gaze to see the unlikely sight of Draco Malfoy sitting across from Harry Potter both talking and chuckling.

“I wonder if she realizes we could hear her down here?” Draco asked Harry with an easy grin on his face. Harry chuckled into his goblet of pumpkin juice he was drinking to keep up appearances of being human. He had been shocked when his blonde mate had sat down with him at the Gryffindor table, as had the entire Great Hall apparently.

“I don’t know, but here come your friends. I’m sure their choice words will be heard by everyone too!” Harry said chuckling. After a few seconds though Harry’s smile dropped as he saw Draco stand up “Of course he’s going to leave now that his friends are here.” Harry thought morosely.

       Draco looked at Harry’s crestfallen expression and rolled his eyes. “Oh stop your sulking Potter!” he said quietly with a smirk. I’ll be right back, with new friends who won’t turn their backs on you at the first chance.” He said, raising his voice so that the rest of the Gryffindor table could hear; which caused many students to glare at the blonde and a few of the Lions’ heads to duck in shame. Before Harry could say anything, Draco was walking toward the doors to the Great Hall where Blaise and Theodore Nott were standing staring at him as if he lost his mind. “Ok! Potter got turned into a vampire, all his friends turned their backs on him, and I’m his mate. Now come over here and play nice!” Draco said smirking at the shocked looks on his two best friends’ faces.

“Why do we need to be his friend? He’s never gone out of his way to befriend us.” Blaise asked with a frown once he had absorbed everything Draco had said.

“Because Blaise, he is my mate and you of all people should realize what that means. But that aside…he knows how it feels now to be hated for what people expect you to be, not what you are. He knows how it feels to be a Slytherin. He may not have been sorted into our house but he is now as much of a Slytherin as the rest of us.” Draco said firmly. After a tense moment both of Draco’s friends nodded “I’ll play nice Draco, but I will not sit at the Gryffindor table.” Theo said with a glare at the table of Lions.            Draco frowned and looked over to Harry who was standing up from the table, a few moments later he was walking towards the trio of Slytherins.

“Sorry to interrupt.” He muttered looking at Theo and Blaise. “But I think I’m going to return a couple books I took from the Library this summer, then go to potions. There is really no point in me being here for breakfast considering I don’t have to to keep up appearances of needing to eat.” He said before turning around and walking out of the Great Hall.

Draco frowned as he watched his dark haired mate walk away. “What the hell was that about?” he muttered under his breath confused. Blaise and Theodore started walking towards the Slytherin table with Draco in tow,

“I have a theory” Blaise said after a moment. Upon receiving confused looks from his friends he decided he’d better clarify “About why Potter just walked out. I would bet fifty Galleons that he thinks that we don’t want him around. Obviously he knows that you don’t hate him Draco because you’re his mate, but the rest of us have no such reason to like him. I think he was trying to save you the hassle of getting us to be his friends.” He finished sagely.

Harry hurried to the potions lab as soon as he left the Great Hall. Upon entering the empty classroom he took a seat in the back corner of the Gryffindor half of the lab, knowing that none of his house mates would want to sit with him. He thought back onto the events of this morning as he waited for his classmates to arrive.

“There were some ups and downs…of course Ron and Hermione told everyone…I knew they would…But Draco coming to sit with me that was not something I expected…maybe there is hope for my life yet.” He mused as he pulled out his potions text from his pack along with his dragon hide gloves and anything else he thought he might need. Harry had just opened his text book to read the first chapter when the first of the Gryffindors started filing into the lab. Harry ignored the glares and the whispers as he pretended to read his text. Within ten minutes the classroom was full of Gryffindors and Slytherins, the students of Slytherin were all seated comfortably; three to a table. Two of the tables on the Gryffindor side were squished with four students sitting there, leaving Harry alone at the back with the table to himself.

Draco had been one of the first students to enter the potions lab and he had watched as every single one of Harry’s former friends avoided him like the plague.

“I thought Gryffindors were supposed to be brave…they won’t even sit next to a boy they’ve known for years just because he’s a vampire” he muttered to Blaise and Theo who were sitting at the table with him.

“Not that I would ever defend a Gryffindor, but it is more common in the old families like ours, to have someone with creature blood. We know that Potter isn’t a danger to everyone…just you Draco!” Theo teased, laughing at the look on his friend’s face.

Draco was saved having to respond by Snape sweeping into the potions lab; by the time he had reached his desk he had noted the new seating arrangements on the Gryffindors side of the room. Severus stood at the front of the class with everyone’s eyes on him, everyone but Draco’s who was still looking over at Harry with a slight frown. He waited for absolute silence before speaking

“You are all here this year because you possess a rudimentary understanding of the very basics of the subtle art that is potion making. But on the chance that you have…forgotten…your knowledge over the summer we will start the term by brewing the highest level potion you brewed last year. As you no doubt remember this particular brew requires groups of four, your instructions on the board, begin…now.”

Harry sat in his seat watching as the Gryffindors split up into groups of four perfectly leaving only him without a group. Blaise Zambini had noticed Harry’s predicament and decided that if he was going to befriend the vampire for Draco’s sake he might as well start now. Without consulting Draco and Theodore, his other group members thus far, he spoke up.

“Potter we only have three over here. Join us yeah?” The moments the words left his mouth all the eyes in the room were on him and mouths hung open in shock.

Harry nodded with a nervous smile on his face as he quickly gathered up his belongings and moved over to the table where Blaise, Theo and his mate were currently seated. “Thanks Zambini.” Harry muttered genuinely grateful.

Theo looked over at Draco with a smirk before turning to Harry “Any mate of Draco’s is a mate of ours.” he said with a wink and strong emphasis on the first mate.

Snape watched as the entire class began their potions bursting with pride in his snakes. Not only had they offered Harry a group but it appeared that Zambini and Nott were actually enjoying his fledgling’s company. Harry too appeared to be at ease with the trio, but Severus could see how being so close to Draco was causing Harry great discomfort. Every so often when Harry spoke Snape could see a flash of his fangs, proof that being so close to Draco was intensifying Harry’s hunger.

Harry looked down at the cauldron that he was working on with the three Slytherin’s and saw that it was the exact shade of purple that was required, “I think it’s done” he said with a smile looking over at his mate and his new friends.

Blaise smirked and nodded. “And it looks bloody near perfect!” he said happily as he quickly ladled some of the potion into a pre-labeled vial and walked it up to Professor Snape.

Harry sighed in relief at the thought of the potion being complete, he’d be able to leave the dungeon very soon and go and feed. Not that he hadn’t enjoyed the company of the Slytherins, he had, but being so close to his mate that he was bathed in Draco’s scent was excruciating. Many times during the class he had to stop himself from sinking his fangs into the blonde’s neck and drinking deeply from the heavenly liquid just below the skin.

Draco turned his head to look at Harry having felt the vampire staring at him, “Potter?” he muttered quietly, alarmed at the look in Harry’s eyes. “Potter what is wrong?” he asked concerned for his mate.

“I don’t think I can handle this, I can practically see your blood in your veins” he whispered in a daze never taking his eyes from the blue vein showing at the base of Draco’s wrist. Draco sat there in shock, knowing it would be a mistake to let Harry feed but his body remembered when it had happened last night.

Theo looked at Harry slightly alarmed and quickly pulled Blaise down into his chair the moment he got back to the table and whispered to him what was going on. “Harry, you can break out of it and fight this. You’re stronger than the blood lust.” Blaise said setting a hand on Harry’s shoulder trying to snap his new friend out of it.

Harry didn’t register what Blaise had just said, his ears were too full with the sound of Draco’s heart pumping that delicious blood through his body.

Severus had just taken the last completed potion from the class when he heard Blaise’s attempt to break Harry out of his blood lust. “I was concerned this would happen.” he thought as he walked down the aisle to the table Harry was sitting at. “I have taken the last of your potions.” he said addressing the class loudly enough to cause Harry to jump due to his new sensitive hearing. The moment Snape’s voice surprised him Harry was snapped out of his single minded focus, with an apologetic look at Draco he turned to listen to Severus.

“And I was not impressed, only one group managed to brew this fifth year potion without error.” Severus drawled as he gestured to Draco’s table. “Thirty points to Slytherin and ten points to Gryffindor for a perfectly brewed potion.” He said, and after a brief pause in which the Slytherins muttered their thanks and the Gryffindors glared he continued; “And another one hundred points to Slytherin for overcoming house rivalry. On the same note one hundred points away from Gryffindor for turning your backs on one of your own. Class dismissed.”
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