Best In Me

Draco Malfoy leant back and closed his eyes…

Actually Draco Malfoy wasn’t even his real name anymore, but no one except a few select people knew that, in all actuality, Draco’s surname was that of one who had been, for many years, considered his enemy.

Somewhere between their fourth and fifth years, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy discovered they had feelings… for each other. They immediately did the obvious thing and went into denial. However this stage only lasted as few weeks, and they eventually began to accept that maybe this wasn’t something they were meant to change, maybe this was how things were meant to be.

Anyhow they both decided to ‘give it a shot’ as Harry so nicely put it. Halfway through their sixth year at Hogwarts they had their first date, at least their first date with each other. Quite surprisingly they both enjoyed it and didn’t waste anytime in having a second, (Twelve hours as a matter of fact) and then a third, fourth etc. etc. Of course all of this was going on behind peoples backs, not a single soul knew, except theirs of course.

The relationship steadily deepened and so did their understanding of each other. Neither of them thought it would last as long as that, but somehow it did. Many nights were spent hugging, kissing and talking, although they never went any further, believe it or not, Draco Malfoy does actually have morals.

When the summer came they snuck owls to each other and sometimes Draco managed to floo over to Harry’s house. His aunt and uncle had recently changed their electrical fire for a more natural one. They seemed to have forgotten the little incident with Mr. Weasley when Harry went to Quidditch world cup.

At school no one seemed to notice when Harry disappeared in the middle of the night to visit Draco, or when he turned up to breakfast looking like death warmed up. But what was not so hard to miss was the fact that Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy suddenly started getting along with each other, they no longer bickered in the corridors and dueled at midnight. Draco even stopped insulting Ron and stopped calling Hermione a Mudblood. They managed to persuade every one that they were just friends. They told every one that since it was their last year at Hogwarts it was time to put all the childish behavior aside and get along with each other. Eventually Hermione and Ron started to become friendlier with Draco and only then did they realize that maybe he wasn’t the evil Slytherin and cold hearted bastard everyone (Including them) thought he was.

A month before Christmas Harry asked Ron and Hermione what they thought about same sex relationships, they told him that they supported him and Draco. Needless to say this shocked Harry, how had they known that was what he had been going to tell them next?

They explained to him that they weren’t his best friends for nothing, of course they had noticed the looks that they sent in each other’s direction when they thought nobody was looking and how could they have not noticed when Harry snuck out of his dormitory nearly every night.

Then another shock for them came on Christmas morning, Draco woke up to find Harry sat on the end of his bed watching him sleep. Draco sat up and was just about to wish Harry a merry Christmas, when Harry put a small ring box in Draco’s hand.

Draco smiled as he remembered how Harry had proposed to him, it was about five o’clock in the morning and he got down on one knee and asked him to marry him. Harry always was one for the romance, candlelit dinners, fine wine and roses. ‘God, I miss him so much.’ Draco thought to himself as the car he was in pulled into the parking lot.

Draco always liked to surprise people, so just after they got married in small ceremony, and had been on their honeymoon (which was paid for by his parents, who weren’t Death Eaters, they never had been, they were in fact spies like Snape). Draco sent a demo tape of a song he had written to a record company, who immediately snatched him up and gave him a contract for a year. This contract soon got extended, when Draco reached number one with a song he co-wrote with Eric Foster-White and he even did a duet with a Muggle pop singer who goes by the name of Britney Spears on the track, I will still love you. Which was featured on his debut album, Draco, which was released over five years ago and was also a number one.

Which would explain why Draco was currently sitting in hair and make-up, an hour before he was due on the stage of his fifth sold out tour. Sheffield arena being his last stop on the tour that had kept him away from his home and family for nearly three months.

Three hours later the show was drawing to a close, but Draco still had a surprise up his sleeve.

The screaming of the fans was almost unbearable but Draco loved it. “I’m going to leave you with a sneak preview of my next single, best in me, which is out next month,” Draco shouted down the microphone.

The music started and the crowd got a little bit quieter as a slow ballad started playing, and Draco started singing in that incredibly sexy voice that he was world famous for.

“From the moment I met you I just knew you’d be mine.

You touched my hand and I knew that this was gonna be our time.

I don’t ever want to lose this feeling,

I don’t wanna spend a moment apart.

‘Cos you bring out the best in me, like no one else can do.

That why I’m by your side, and that’s why I love you.

Every day that I’m here with you, I know that it feels right.

And I’ve just got to be near you everyday and every night.

And you know that we belong together,

It just had to be you and me.

‘Cos you bring out the best in me, like no one else can do.

That why I’m by your side, and that’s why I love you.

And you know that we belong together,

It just had to be you and me.

‘Cos you bring out the best in me, like no one else can do.

That why I’m by your side.

‘Cos you bring out the best in me, like no one else can do.

That why I’m by your side, and that’s why I love you.

‘Cos you bring out the best in me, like no one else can do.

That why I’m by your side, and that’s why I love you.”

The whole stadium erupted in cheers as Draco finished the song and made his way back stage and back to his dressing room. Ten minutes later a knock on his door was heard and Harry stuck his head through the door. Harry came in, followed by his mother and father and three-year-old Lily Potter, who was asleep in her grandfather’s arms. (Who only existed now thanks to a mixture of Muggle technology (Something he never thought he’d use.) and complicated spells.) As Draco received hugs as kisses from everyone, and they talked about the show, Draco was glad Harry like the song. After all he did write it for him, because Harry really did bring out the best in him.