Drarry; A Comfort Story

Chapter 4

Draco's POV

Now that Harry has left, I'm deciding to stay in the ROR for a bit longer. I can't stop thinking about what he told me, though.

'For the longest time, I had to sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. When I finally got my own room, they barred the windows and locked me in there, bringing me one can of soup a day for dinner. That was everything I ate, for a while, at least. They locked all my wizard things in the cupboard I slept in before, probably because they were afraid, but this prevented me from doing a lot. They only let me out of my room to do chores, and to cook, most of the time. I wasn't allowed to go outside, unless I was gardening in what seemed like 100°C while they supervised me from inside. I couldn't talk to my friends, at all, because my Uncle Vernon would lock my owl, Hedwig, in her cage. I was always getting bullied by my cousin Dudley and his friends, whenever they came over, but, hey, I don't think life there was too much worse than Hell.'

That was only some of a fraction of it.

I feel so bad for what I had done to Harry over the years, I had only made his life worse, back then.

He was probably hoping Hogwarts would give him a break, or escape, and something to look forward to after a long, draining summer, but I had taken that from him.

All these years.

I've decided I'm going to try to make it right, maybe, just maybe, even better.

I want to be able to comfort him all the time, and be there for him. He already seems to be comfortable with me, and I'm sure he returns my feelings. I don't want to make any big assumptions yet, though.

But I want to go bit by bit. Make sure is comfortable with me, and be friends with him first, then make my move before the end of the year.

We are only a couple of weeks into the year, so I have some time, I hope.

I'm getting myself some food, then I'll head for the dungeons to my common room.

I walk in a few minutes later, and Pansy ran at me shouting.

"WHERE WERE YOU? BLAISE AND I WERE LOOKING ALL OVER FOR YOU DRACO! WE WERE SO WORRIED WHEN YOU DIDN'T COME BACK AFTER DINNER; YOU DIDN'T EVEN COME BACK AFTER CURFEW! TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED AND WHO HURT YO-"

"Pansy, calm down. He looks fine. Stop shaking him. I'm sure he'll explain." Blaise saves me by walking into the room.

"You better explain." Pansy says sternly.

So I explain. How I went to go find Potter, then we became friends, him explaining his whole life story, then us falling asleep in the position we did.

"You think he likes you back? He better, or I'm going to break his spine if he breaks your heart." Pansy said when I was finished.

I came out to Pansy and Blaise as gay in 3rd year, after I found out I had a thing for Potter.

They support me, and I'm glad they do. Before Harry and I became friends last night, they were my only true friends. In 4th year, I found out the Crabbe and Goyle were using me for fame.

(Pretend that's how it is here)

They have bullied Harry even more without me, since then. Goyle continues to bully Harry, blaming him for the death of Crabbe and why I left them.

I'm going to protect Harry at all costs, even if it means I nearly die.

I wouldn't want to lose my life, obviously, because I still need to be with Harry, but you get what I mean, right?