Demigods at Hogwarts

Chapter 25: Nathaniel Curt Lillian and a Cold Winter's Night

{Draco's POV}

I grabbed Harry after Leo caught us and pulled him to a new closet.

"Are we just going to spend our day making out?" Harry asked. "I'm not complaining, not at all, but why just making out?"

"Because Leo keeps catching us and I like annoying him. Also, it is a personal goal of mine to make out with you in every closet in Hogwarts. We've completed the second floor today and we're halfway done with the third." I told him seriously. Harry laughed.

"That's a great goal, Draco."

"I'm aware," I told him. "Now let's stop talking and start kissing." Harry and I skipped dinner to finish the third-floor closets.

"What do you say we spend every other Saturday making out in closets for the rest of the year?" I asked as we walked to Gryffindor Tower.

"Maybe you'll have to double your goal." Harry teased, eyes dark.

"Perhaps I will," I kissed across his jaw and up to his lips. "But not tonight, my love. It is a Monday evening, after all."

"Yes, and some of us need to get into the common room," Hermione said. I turned to face her and Ginny, both standing with their arms folded across their chests.

"I shall let you lovely ladies in, of course." I began. I was feeling dramatic. "And I see now you must take my darling Harry with you. You must promise me that no harm will come to him while I'm away."

"Merlin, Draco, you speak as if you're going to war." Ginny rolled her eyes. "Yes, we will protect Harry, because he's died and still has the urge to throw himself into any fight ever."

"I am going far away, my love, but these amazing women will protect you," I told Harry. He rolled his eyes and kissed me.

"If you are going far away, you must have a long journey. Better to begin now than to wait." He grinned at the end, taking the sting out.

"I shall see you soon, my love." I bowed and kissed his hand before leaving. Ginny and Hermione were laughing at our display, but they herded Harry into the common room anyway. I hurried down the Tower steps and took a few shortcuts to the dungeons. On the way there, between shortcuts, I saw Percy and Thalia walking to our common room. I debated joining them, but they seemed to be having a serious discussion, so I went back to my shortcuts.

"Draco!" Thalia had seen me.

"Hey!"

"Were you and Harry making out in the closets at dinner?" Percy asked.

"Yes." I was not ashamed of it.

"Well, don't miss too many meals. Harry doesn't look like he can afford it." Thalia warned jokingly.

"And neither do you, Draco," Percy added. "Well, you'll let you get back to whatever it is you're doing."

"I'm just going to the common room," I said. "I know a few shortcuts. I can show you...?" they exchanged a glance.

"No, sorry, Draco," Thalia said. "We have things we need to talk about. And walking in the halls is better than if we took shortcuts. People have enough questions about us as it is."

"Alright. Next time, then." I said. I wondered what it was they needed to talk about so badly that they couldn't say it in front of me, but decided it didn't matter. I continued my shortcuts until I found my favorite, one I'd found in first year: A slide. It leads right to the dungeons. I hadn't taken the stairs alone since I'd found it. It was just a fast (and fun) as the first time I'd done it, and I was in the common room talking to Pansy and Blaise before Percy and Thalia were even in the dungeon.