Drarry Love Book

The Warmest Place Is You

Summary: Draco Malfoy is always cold even with the help of charms, so he has every right to freak out when Harry Potter is the only one that can make him warm.

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Note: This fic is in my series "My Safe Place", the series include five stories about five different couples (Pansmione, Theville, Linny, Drarry, Blairon, in that order) I decided to post the Drarry one here anyway and the other storylines for other couples will be posted in my HP Rare Pair Love Book! Enjoy!
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Chapter 1: I'm Sorry

November 22nd, 1998

Draco shuffled in the hospital wing and found an empty bed for him to sit on, he let out a quiet sigh and glanced at the moon shining outside from the window. It was dark already, but he didn't feel like going back to his dorm. Ever since he got back to Hogwarts to attend the last year here, he has been feeling lonely. His friends were still there for him, but he still felt like something was missing, his heart was empty, and he yearned to be filled.

"Draco, would you mind taking care of the hospital wing for me for a while? I have to go see Minnie" Madam Pomfrey placed her hand on his shoulder, and he gave her a curt nod before she walked out.

It was exactly three months ago when Draco found his new curiosity for healing, it was surprising even for him. There was a food poisoning incident back then with the pumpkin pies, every student that ate it immediately needed treatment. Draco was the only few who didn't eat it, since he hated pumpkins. When he carried a pale and weak Pansy into the hospital wing, it was full of other students already, and he ended up having to heal her himself before she got any worse. Turned out, what he did to Pansy caught Madam Pomfrey's eyes and she had asked him to be her assistant in the hospital wing, helping her whenever she needed it.

She had told him he was good at it and promised him a place as a Healer in St. Mungo's after he graduated from Hogwarts. He didn't believe her at first, but eventually, he realised she was a kind woman, and she couldn't be lying. And he has been helping her for three months now, already preparing for a future where he saved people. He didn't expect himself to be a Healer, yet he found himself loving the feeling when he helped people, it made him feel...good, as if he wanted to make up for his past of doing bad things to others.

His last year here was a new year for him, he wanted to change, and he started being civil to everyone. Not Potter particularly, he just avoided any encounter he might have with Potter or his friends, he couldn't come up with anything nice to say, let alone an apology. He wanted to, but it was an impossible thing for him to do.

Draco rubbed his hands together, even with the warming charm, he still felt the cold around him, it wasn't called the coldest day of the month for nothing. Draco's thoughts were interrupted when he saw a shadow of someone coming in the hospital wing, he straightened his back and stood up on his feet, only to feel anxious when he realised who it was.

"Oh, you" Potter looked at him and glanced around the hospital wing, holding his right arm while his face was slightly frowning, he wasn't sure it was caused because he saw Draco or because of the pain "Is Madam Pomfrey here?"

"No, she just went out" He said shortly, eyes fixed on the injured arm, he wondered what Potter did again to cause this. Potter was draping a scarf over his neck loosely, it seemed like he didn't feel cold at all.

"Never mind" Potter grumbled and spun on his heels to walk out. Draco could ignore him, Potter already has Granger, who was a fairly good witch at healing, she would heal him, Draco didn't need to worry.