Unconditionally

Chapter four

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Draco and Harry had agreed in meeting in the Room of Requirements, where they were sure no one would interrupt them. Harry already was there, thinking about different ways to style the room, trying out different colours and furniture. It took him a while, but then it was perfect, he only hoped Draco would think the same.

While Draco walked in the direction of the room, he thought about the conversation he had had with those huffepuff girs. It had been an interesting talk.

“What’s your name? I mean we’ve been talking for a while now and it was fun, but we don’t even know how you’re called.” A name. She hadn’t even thought about a name, how could she have been so stupid?! “You come up with a nice name, I’ll see if I use it.” At this, the other girls looked, of course, confused. “What do you mean? How can we give you a name? You know your own name right?” She sighed “Look, you have never seen me before right?” All nodded “That’s because I’m not usually in your house, or at this school technically. Well I am, but not with this look, normally I look, er, quite different. ” At this, the girls looked rather confused “You mean your someone else? Looking like this girl?” Draco nodded. “But why? And who are you than?” “I can’t tell you who I am, but I look different now, because it’s, er, because it’s the only way to be myself.  Looking like myself, I can’t be.” The girls looked at her with pity “Well, let’s come up with a name then shall we?” Draco smiled, these girls were amazing, even now they knew she was actually someone else, they accepted her, okay maybe it helped that they didn’t know she was actually Draco Malfoy, but still. “Thank you!”

The girls had come up with a whole list of beautiful names, and now he only had to choose the best one, it was an important decision, as he would have that name for the rest of his life as a girl. He liked the names Celeste, Dabria, Dawn, Ethelyn, Gloria and Kiana the most. Celeste meant sublime, Dabria an angel of death, Dawn stood for sunrise, Ethelyn signified a graceful and noble woman, Gloria a woman of glory and Kiana meant soft, silky.

When he stood in front of the door that lead to the Room of Requirements,  he stopped thinking about the name issue. Draco entered the room to see Harry sitting on a comfortable looking couch near a burning fireplace. “Hi Harry” Harry turned around “Hey Draco” Draco walked over to the couch, and sat down beside Harry, who pulled the blonde boy close in his arms. They didn’t need talking, not right now, just being there with eachother was good enough.

“Hey, Harry?” “Yeah Draco?” “You really don’t mind, keeping this a secret?” harry smiled and looked at Draco “No I really don’t mind Draco.” Draco sighed in relieve “Good, thank you.” When Harry thought about it, he came to realise he and Draco didn’t even know each other quite well “You know, we don’t know each other that well right? Could we talk?” “Of course we can Harry.”

“First, tell me something about your life at home, you live with muggles right?” Of course Draco ahd to ask that question first, but he Harry had wanted to talk, so now he must talk. “The muggles I live with are terrible, they hate me. I’ve lived in a cupboard until I was eleven, they beat me, starved me, made me do everything there was to do in and round the house. Before Hagrid told me the truth, I thought my parents had died in a carcrash when they were drunk.”

It was clear Harry had a hard time speaking about his relatives, and Draco took the boy in his arms, kissing his forehead gentle. “That’s horrible Harry... Why do you still go there? Someone must have noticed something was wrong right?” Harry hid his face in Draco’s chest “No one noticed, except for Dumbledore, but I still have to go back there every summer, for my ‘protection’” Draco was shocked “Dumbledore KNEW? Then why the hell didn’t he do something about it?! Surely he could have at least threatened those muggles to don’t do those things to you anymore? Why didn’t he?” Harry shrugged his shoulder, he really didn’t know. “I have no idea, it was like he didn’t care at all. ”

“They put you in a fucking cupboard, abused you, lied to you, and that old fool didn’t give a fuck?!” Draco was so angry with the headmaster at this moment, he really felt like storming up to his office right now, telling the idiot exactly what he thought, maybe hexing him or something. Harry, seemingly reading his boyfriends mind said “Don’t you dare do something now Draco, it’s already happened, there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Draco hugged his boyfriend, trying his best to comfort the boy, who was now slightly crying as his memory’s came back. They sat like that for a long time, holding each other tight, simply enjoying each others company.

After a while, Harry noticed Draco had fallen asleep, and smiled at his cute sleeping face. He put Draco on the couch. He felt the urge to lay down beside the sleeping boy, but knew he couldn’t do that, his friends would get really suspicious of course when he suddenly stayed away the whole night. After covering Draco with a soft blanket, he wrote a note, letting Draco know he was going back to the common room.

When he entered the common room, Harry was glad to see that Ron and Hermione had already gone upstairs, he wouldn’t have to answer any of their questions tonight. Tomorrow was another story though...

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