Winter of the Heart

This is a really, really long time in coming but I finally got my computer fixed for real this time so I’m back! YAY! It only took me like seven months..lol. Nevertheless, here I am and there’s only one more chapter of this particular lovely to look forward to after this. Please review and Happy Reading!

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Draco looked up from his food at the hush that spread through the hall. Silver eyes narrowed as he saw his mate striding purposefully towards him. The determined look on that pixyish face was endearing and he had to remember to breathe as his chest felt oddly tight.


Looking across the hall, he could even see the Gryffindors silent and fixated. Everyone wanted to see what Harry would say.


He walked with a determined stride and tilted his head up as if to say that he would no longer cower before anyone. He looked every inch the war hero he really was.


Harry stopped right in front of the blonde haired man and looked nervously around at the silent hall before straightening his spine. He would prove to Draco that he wanted to be with him this much; he would prove it to himself.


He had thought after he defeated Voldermort that his courage had vanished like ashes in the wind but he knew now that he simply needed someone who needed him. He was forever acting the savior, the martyr and he almost couldn’t believe that there was someone who wanted to save him.


“I won’t hide anymore. I want everyone to know how I feel about you. I love you Draco Malfoy and the fact that you were willing to hide our relationship because you thought it would hurt me makes me love you more. After the war, everyone forgot I existed and while at first that made me happy, it made me sad that no one even said hello in the halls.


Then you came along and you turned my world upside down. You wouldn’t let me hide, you wouldn’t let me sink into depression and just sleep forever. That’s what I wanted, you know.


I thought about it, just falling asleep and never getting up again. I thought no one would notice that no one cared enough about me anymore to see that I was hurting.


But you proved me wrong, Draco. You showed me that there were people who still cared about me, who still needed me if only in friendship. I- I remember the dreams. They were all that was keeping me going for so long. I would fall asleep and there you were, holding me close and whispering how much you loved me and how much I was wanted in my ear.


I fell in love with you then Draco, when I didn’t even know who were or what you looked like. These last few months have taught me things I never thought I would learn. I have friends again, people who wouldn’t abandon me when I need them.


I never thought I would be friends with Slytherins. I never thought I would fall in love with a Slytherin. I never thought that Slytherins, people I was taught to hate would treat me better than Gryffindors, people who were supposed to be my family.


You showed me an altered world Draco, one where anything is possible if I simply reach out my hand and believe that I can possess the things I deserve.


So, I wanted to give you something back for all the things that you have given me these last few months”, A glance at the charm bracelet tied securely around the black haired boy’s slender wrist gave reason to his ramblings.


“I don’t want to wait for tonight. I don’t want to wait another moment. You proved to me that you care enough to put me first, enough to incessantly pursue me despite my bitterness and mistrust”, Harry captured Draco’s face in his hands and pulled the blond haired man close enough to kiss.


“I love you”, He brought their lips together in a passionate kiss, moaning happily when Draco took over, pulling his lover’s scarlet and gold tie to bring him even closer. It was like no kiss they had ever shared before. In it was Harry’s answer, an unceasing barrage of love and affection and forgiveness.


Dimly they could hear an uproarious amount of noise that had them recalling their place in the Great Hall.


Pulling apart reluctantly, the two men were met with many disbelieving eyes. Ron and Hermione were standing red faced directly in front of them, wands pointed at Draco.


“What do you think you’re doing, ferret?” Ron spat, jabbing his wand in a forward motion as if it were a sword. Sighing morosely, Harry shifted in front of his mate.


“You no longer have the right to ask anyone I choose to be with anything. You gave up that right when you deliberately ignored me, belittled me, and disparaged our friendship.


“You, neither of you, can claim the right of friendship. I don’t need friends who refuse to acknowledge me unless it’s for something bad that I supposedly did.


I refuse to be contrite, to bow my head to you when it is you, who should bow your head to me”, Harry raised his wand and batted the offending wand aside. He knew that he sounded shockingly like a Slytherin when the silent students watching them began to murmur and talk amongst themselves.


“I don’t need you anymore and your opinion no longer matters to me”, He dealt the final blow, looking impassively at the two pale faced Gryffindors.


They could only sputter angrily, unable to come up with a cutting retort because they knew that Harry was right. They had been cruel and ignorant of their friend’s feelings and emotions.


They had been so wrapped up in themselves and each other that they hadn’t seen what was right in front of them. They hadn’t known that Harry was depressed or that he was even seeing Draco.


Standing to his feet, Draco slid his arm around a blushing Harry’s waist. Nuzzling the slender neck so appealingly displayed for his enjoyment, he narrowed his eyes at the Gryffindor couple.


“I have no quarrel with you despite the fact that you hurt my mate so badly. I am not a full veela and as such I don’t have all of their urges. However, I won’t allow you to hurt him anymore. I suggest you take your jealousies and prejudices and stick them where the sun doesn’t shine”, with that parting remark Draco led Harry out of the Great Hall, having decided that he was finished with eating anyway. He wanted to speak to Harry in private and his private eight year Prefect quarters would work just fine.

Draco smirked at the Gryffindor duo before entwining his fingers with Harry’s own slender digits and bringing him close. Savoring the appalled gasps that echoed through the Hall, he made his escape.

Arriving at his room, Draco pulled Harry inside and paused as the other boy stopped in the middle of his room.


“What is it? What’s wrong?” Draco turned to look Harry’s impassive face. He leaned closer as be wondered if maybe he had hurt the emerald eyed boy in some way by dragging him here. Or maybe it could be that he didn’t want to be alone with Draco right now. Draco tilted his head to one side and squinted in an effort to figure out which.


A sunny smile spread across Harry‘s face, erasing Draco‘s silent worry. “I love you”. Draco found it hard to breathe as he looked into those beautiful eyes filled with love and happiness.


It boggled his mind that he was the one to put it there. Draco had always wanted to get closer to Harry and now fate had given him exactly what he wanted. He was closer to Harry than anyone else.


This beautiful, kind hearted boy loved him and he knew in his heart what a precious gift that was. He didn’t know what he had done to deserve something so amazing happen in his life, but he would never change a thing.


“Aren’t you going to kiss me?”, Harry leaned closer and breathed on Draco’s parted lips. With a muffled growl he took control.


Harry’s lips parted under his like they were made for him. It was wet and hot and sent shivers down both their spines as their toungues tangled in a dance as old as time.


Draco gasped into the kiss as Harry stumbled closer, inadvertently bringing their clothed cocks into contact. He nearly swallowed his tounge as Harry pulled back and began to arch and rut his hips against Draco’s.


The heat was building fast in both of them and Draco was glad they were in his rooms. He reluctantly pulled away from Harry’s lips and proceeded to divest them both of their clothes.


Kneading Harry’s arse, Draco gasoed into their renewed kiss as slender legs wrapped around his hips and brought their cocks together in a hot friction filled glide.


He hadn’t known Harry was so flexible, but he couldn’t say he hated it as the boy devoured him from the mouth down. Delicate hips thrust slowly, bringing leaking cocks together and then shifting away.


Draco groaned knowing that he couldn’t take anymore teasing without exploding. His raven haired beauty made a startled squeak when he tossed him on the striped silver and black comforter.

Quickly sledding his remaining clothing, he crawled across the bed and proceeded to help his mate rid himself of the same. He couldn’t help but give a smirk at all the delicious noises coming from his mate’s mouth.

Harry was beautiful in his passion. His green eyes were blown wide and glassy and his midnight hair was rumpled by his constant shifting. He seemed almost shocked to feel so much pleasure, as if he had never imagined it could be like this,

Draco knew that he would be happy to show Harry all the ways it could be good. Running his hands over lightly tanned skin enticed strangled moans from the boy beneath him.

Plucking at tender pink nipples and stroking his slender red tipped cock had the emerald eyed boy mewling and begging for things Draco was more than happy to provide.

A shiver shook his mate’s body as he gently prodded his quivering entrance. Whispering reassurances, Draco stroked the tender opening before slowly sliding his finger inside.

A shocked gasp met his ministrations as Draco crooked his finger and hands came up to clutch at his back. One finger was soon joined by two and they both knew it was time when the pain eased and Harry began to rock back and forth on the invading digits.

Sliding them out and smiling at Harry’s protesting noises, Draco lined up his copiously leaking member and slid home. After waiting a few moments for Harry to adjust, he began to move.

It was like nothing he had ever felt before and ever would again. Harry was hot and tight and perfect. He thrust deeper, gasping and trembling. His mate was wild beneath him, squirming and begging for more and harder and yes.

On and on they went racing for the bright pinnacle hot and taut and good and there. They came together in an explosion of multicolored sparks, brilliant and earth shattering.

Shivering in the aftermath, Draco smiled as he pulled his sleepy mate close. It had been a long time in coming but they were finally together. Breathing in that amazing scent unique to his mate, Draco thought they could afford to take one day off and relax. They deserved it.

“Love you”, Harry whispered as he snuggled his face under Draco’s chin. The warm hands rubbing his back rhythmically were putting him to sleep. “I love you too Harry”, Draco kissed his mate’s pouting lips and arranged him so he draped across the blonde’s body like a living blanket.

Tomorrow they would have to deal with the fallout from their classmates but for this one day, they would be happy. Draco had finally found his mate and as he had told him months ago in the trophy room, he wasn’t about to let him go.