M A T E S // a drarry fan fiction.

Flashbacks

Loud muggle club music was playing in the Gryffindor common room, and lights were making every part of it brighter. Harry and Draco were in Harry's dorm, trying to figure out how they were gonna tell their friends about their relationship. Every once in a while, one of them would crack a joke, and they would laugh. 

But one joke turned out to be a perfect idea.

'Imagine if we pretended to drink a whole bunch and then tell everyone we were dating!' Malfoy said when they were laughing hard from another joke.

Harry gasped. Draco gasped. Then they stopped laughing.

'Malfoy, you're an absolute genius!' Harry screamed.

They gave each other a high five then ran down the stairs, into the main area of the common room.

But before they could get to the bottom of the stairs, Harry felt a huge jolt of pain in his stomach. 'Maybe we shouldn't do that right now.' Malfoy said. He carried Harry back up the stairs and gently layed him on his bed. 'The pain is getting worse.' Harry groaned. When kissing Harry's forehead, Draco had a strange flashback. Something from his childhood.

flashback

'Draco! I'm coming! You better be hiding well!' Kovus yelled. Draco tried to stay silent, and he succeeded very well.

Kovus and Draco were playing hide and seek, Kovus being the seeker, of course. 

Five minutes later, Kovus got a bit tired. 'Draco! Come out, please! I'm getting sleepy.' But Malfoy knew it was just a feint. A mere act to get him to come down from his hiding spot in a tree.

Fifteen more minutes passed, and Kovus began to cry. 'Draco! Please, come out! Draco, I'm not kidding, please, oh please come out!'

'Draco? Draco!'

Kovus couldn't find Malfoy. He lay on the grass, bawling his eyes out. His mate was nowhere to be seen. 'Maybe Draco just can't hear me.' Kovus thought.

Kovus was about to yell again when Draco jumped down from the tree he was hiding in and cradled Kovus in his arms. Draco never felt so much remorse in his whole life. 'I'm so sorry, Ko, I didn't know you weren't joking! I would have come down straight away if I wasn't so stubborn!'

Then the memory faded. Harry saw it too, but from Kovus's perspective. He didn't know how it happened. Draco then sat on Harry's bed, and Harry sat up, too. 'What was that?' He asked.

'My mate.' Draco replied. 'I haven't seen him since that day. I forgot everything about Kovus and that daylong with all others including him, until just now.'

Harry went to kiss Malfoy, thinking that maybe he might help him remember something else.

flashback

'That was really fun, Ko. We should meet again sometime.'

'Obviously! We're mates, Dray.'

All of a sudden, someone knocked at the door. 'I'll get it!' Kovus said.

Ko opened the door and saw a man with a long, white beard and hair. 'Ah, Kovus Riddle.' He said merrily.

'Riddle?' Harry thought.

The man took Kovus away, closing the door behind him as he walked away from the house. 'Obliviate.' He whispered.

Kovus woke up on a doorstep. He was with his muggle 'Uncle' and 'Aunt'. He hated the Dursleys.

Harry understood now. Draco was Kovus Riddle's mate, who was taken away by a man called Albus Dumbledore, who Obliviated him and beautified him, turning him into Gryffindor's one and only Golden Boy, Harry Potter.

'How come this didn't happen earlier?' Draco asked himself.