The Wedding Invitation

The Wedding Invitation

firedragon_luver

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"Do you really have to go Draco?" Harry asked as he looked at his lover silently begging him not to go.

"Love, we have gone through this before right?" The blonde answered and he cupped his lover's cheeks and kissed him lightly on his lips.

"How long will you be gone?" Harry asked as he rested his face on his lover's chest.

"We won't be long, promise." Draco embraced him tightly.

It has been two years since Voldemort was defeated, four years since they got together. The Muggle world had been their retreat after the war, though they really never left the wizarding world. Harry owns a coffee shop and Draco a dress boutique that were famous both in the Muggle and wizarding world.

"I think your friends are here," Harry said as he disentangled himself from Draco.

"I'll be back soon." Draco kissed him once more before striding out of their flat in London.

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"Harry...Harry, are you listening to me?" Hermione asked as she waved her hand in front of her unblinking friend.

"Yes..." Harry said as he hurriedly looked at his friend.

"Okay if you are listening, tell me what I have just said about the financial status of Siriusly Black Coffee Shop and Severely Seductive Boutique?" she said as she raised her eyebrows too high for Harry to handle.

"I'm sorry Herm. It's just... it has been a year now since he left," Harry said as he rest his hands on his table and clasped it together.

"Don't worry. They will find Draco; the Ministry is doing their best to find him."

"What were they thinking sailing on Muggle waters, they are wizards for Merlin's sake," The black haired man said exasperated and stood up to go to the window overlooking the Muggle London.

"Harry just have faith, okay."

"They have found the others, but why they can't find Draco Herm? Why?"

"Harry, the Ministry might have had a hard time looking for them but see they didn't find five of Draco's companion in just one search, it took weeks and some months before they found the other and they are alive and well. Don't worry now its Draco's turn to be found." She stood up and went to her friend and hugged him.

"I hope."

"Uhm- I - I just want to ask you something I hope you won't get mad at me," she said without looking at him eye to eye and knowing that this is an abrupt changing of topic.

"What is it?"

"Where do you go whenever you disappear?" she asked still not looking at him striding to her table.

"Nowhere."

"You can't just possibly say nowhere if you disappear for days," she said while going all through the files she brought with her still not looking at him.

"Just trust me. I'm okay," Harry said as he walked to his best friend and took her hand into his.

"Okay, if you say so." She smiled at him contended for now to what Harry just answered her.

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"Daryl, so are you ready for the wedding?"

"Yeah Clive, and besides that's still tomorrow."

"Be sure to make that unruly black hair of yours to be tamed tomorrow there is no groom who looks like they just got out of the bathroom on their wedding day. And that scar of yours tell the makeup artist you have hired to cover it," Daryl said, grinning.

"Yes, Clive," he answered as he looked at a sandy haired man.

"Do you still have the invitation?"

"I left it at home, why?" Daryl asked.

"Nothing just for souvenir, but since you don't have it, it's okay." Clive stood up and left Daryl in is room.

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Two months after the meeting of Hermione and Harry.

"Draco?" Hermione asked as she slowly walked towards the man standing in front of Harry's apartment.

"Hermione?" the blonde said and he burst into tears when he was sure that it was her.

"What happened?" she asked as she took him in her arms.

"Is he here?" Draco asked as he looked again at the place.

"I am not sure, I just arrived. But I haven't seen him yet since I last went here," she whispered.

"Can I come in first?" He looked at her pleading though fear was very evident in his eyes.

She just nodded and Draco went inside so slowly he went in taking his time, preparing himself to whatever he might see. It have been quite sometime since Draco went in and Hermione is getting worried so she had decided to come in and braced herself to whatever she might see. She was surprised when she found Draco sitting on his knees crying, and a card in his hand. She took it from Draco and found the reason of the blonde's suffering.

You are cordially invited to the wedding ceremony of

Daryl Malfoy and Antonina Roberts

On

September 15^th at 8 am

Hermione didn't understand why such reaction from Draco but when she folded the card to close them there she saw Harry's picture in tuxedo with a certain blonde haired woman in a wedding dress.

"I didn't know Draco. He never told me anything." Hermione took Draco again in her arms and cried silently with him.

"I can't blame him you know. But how I wished that he could have waited a little bit longer. I told him I would come back," The blonde said in between tears.

"What happened Draco? Where have you been?" she asked as she guided him towards the sofa.

"It's a long story. And it's no use now," Draco said as he covered his face with his hands and willing himself to calm down.

"Will you tell me Draco?" Hermione said as she conjured drinks for the two of them.

"We were sailing for a month already with a little stop over to different islands that we have passed along the way when we decided that we have to come back. Unfortunately we kind of lost our way and we were at the sea for a month, we thought of using magic but we thought again not to for the adventure. Then one night we were caught by a storm and I think you know what happened after that. When I woke up, I was shocked to see that we were drifting on a big plank of wood for I don't know how long I looked for a dry land and unfortunately it was not habited I stayed there and luckily fishermen passed through it and helped me. The family who took care of me are not that well off so I stayed in their place for months before they were able to send me to a decent hospital. Then I stayed most of the time in a hospital with all the broken bones they told me it was a miracle that I had survived specially taking into consideration how long before I was given proper medical attention," Draco stated and looked at Hermione.

"But you have magic Draco. You could have used it," she said.

"The doctor's told me that I was shocked from the experience I have been through, so I think that's the reason why I forgot about my magic. My arms and legs were put into cast because of the broken bones and it took time before it was removed. Hermione you don't know how much I wanted to Apparate but I feared that I might splinch myself into hundreds of pieces because I wasn't feeling well." Draco continued nursing the cup from Hermione.

"Did you just arrive?"

"No I have been looking for Harry, I have been Apparating around here and in the wizarding world in search for him, it was only today that I decided to knock at his doorstep," the blonde said as he put the cup down.

"Would you like to see him?" she asked eyeing him intently.

"Yes," he whispered and trying not to cry again.

"Then we will go there!" she said with certainty.

"How?"

"The address where the wedding will take place is written here so we can go there. We have to be very early if you want to talk to him," she said as she sat down close to him.

"Hermione does he love her? Does he love her more than he ever loved me?" Draco asked not looking at her.

"The truth Draco, I do not know. He never introduced her. He has been disappearing for weeks without telling me where he has been going to."

The two stayed up late that when they woke they were already thirty minutes late, both of them panicked and Apparated to the church. They were surprised to see how grand the wedding was, there were lights everywhere, even though it was early in the morning. There were many guests that they did not know of, both the bride and groom were already at the altar.

Then they heard the priest say, "Those whoever do not want this union to come through speak now or forever hold your peace..."

There was silence in the church. Draco tensely looked at Hermione as if asking for permission and she nodded and when he looked at Harry how happy he was looking at his bride who equally is beaming at him.

"STOP!" Draco shouted on top of his voice.

"Draco?" Harry whispered.

"Who is he?" Harry's bride asked him.

"STOP THIS WEDDING! HARRY OR DARYL, WHOEVER YOU ARE TODAY PLEASE HEAR ME OUT BEFORE YOU CONTINUE THIS..."

"Draco... please stop this what are you doing?" Harry said though not shouting nor not whispering.

"NO HARRY. I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART. I AM SORRY IF IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME BEFORE I REALIZED HOW IMPORTANT YOU WERE TO ME. WHEN I WAS OUT THERE ALL ALONE WHEN I WAS SO HELPLESS, IT WAS YOU WHO I THOUGHT OF. I THOUGHT OF HOW YOU WOULD FEEL, WHAT YOU MIGHT BE DOING, IF YOU WERE WAITING FOR ME THAT GAVE ME THE STRENGTH TO HOLD ON AND BELIEVE THAT WHEN I RETURN THERE WOULD BE SOMEONE WAITING FOR ME. HARRY YOU ARE MY LIFE, I LIVE BECAUSE OF YOU. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH HARRY!" Draco stopped talking for a while. The guests also were saying nothing to stop him. Draco strode forward towards Harry and took his hand and he kneeled. "Harry I bought his ring the first time I was able to come back. Harry my love, will you marry me?"

"Draco... I - I?" Too shocked the black haired man was lost for words.

"I would understand if you would not marry me but instead marry her. But please, I beg you to accept me; accept me again into your life," Draco said now his tears were falling endlessly.

"Draco, I will marry you." Harry brought his lover up and kissed him so passionately and hungrily.

Draco slid the ring to his lover's fingers and the guest invited to the wedding broke into cheers some crying because of the intensity of the love between the two.

"CUT!" Shouted a loud voice from the back of the church

When Draco heard that he looked at Harry who is now stifling a laugh.

"What the - - ?"

"Hey Harry what an ending! Pack up guys!" Clive shouted from the back.

"Harry what was that?" Hermione asked as she ran towards the two.

"We were in the middle of a shooting when you two came." Harry said casually.

"What?" Hermione asked baffled.

"Harry can we go home now?" Draco asked hiding his face from his lover out of embarrassment.

"Okay, give me a minute I have to talk to my director and we will go straight home, we need to talk. A very long and serious talk," Harry said before he left them.

"Draco, please tell him that I have to go ahead." She kissed him softly on the cheeks then she grinned saying, "Welcome back and congratulations!"

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It was late in the evening when they finished talking about what happened to Draco. They were in their Muggle home in London watching the film where Draco appeared in. Harry bought it from his director friend for a good sum of money who was now busy taping the scene that Harry both but this time using a different actor.

"Harry, why did you change your name?" Draco asked eyes still glued on the television.

"As an artist you are required to have a screen name," Harry said as he stare at the blonde whose eyes were still fixed and intently watching.

"I think it's cool, you know... to be an artist," Draco grinned when he said that to his fiancée.

"Don't even think about it!" Harry exclaimed and capturing his love with a searing kiss.

-fin-