Don't Leave Me

Harry picked his glass up off the table and started off to the living room. He hesitated at the door to the kitchen wondering whether it was actually Draco. Harry decided whoever it was he still needed to find out who had ended up in his living room. So he walked through the door and into the brightly lit room where someone stood in the middle.

"Hullo. May I ask who you are?" Harry asked the figure as it turned around to look at him. Harry couldn't really see it's face because it was covered in a muggle poncho hood, but it seemed to know who he was.

"I'm Elise Maxwell. I work with the Ministry. You've been called into work." She said pulling the poncho up over her head.

"Couldn't they have just sent an owl?" Harry asked skeptically looking the girl up and down. She was wearing robes of the purest black with red trim and her waist-length blonde hair complemented her color choices.

"No, the Ministry owls are on strike. Something about not getting paid enough. So, they sent me. I didn't have anything else to do and I guess I get on their nerves. They said for me to take my time. So, are you ready or do I need to wait for a while? There's a Ministry car waiting outside. He'll be here for a while." She finished plopping herself down on the couch smiling up at him.

"I can see why they would want to get ride of you." Harry mumbled under his breath. Why? Why? Why, couldn't it have been Draco? Now, I'm stuck with some hyper active girl even the Ministry can't stand. Harry thought to himself. He looked over at Elise who was now lounging on the couch twisting a strand of hair around her finger. "I need to shower and put on some new robes. I'll be about ten minutes. I would say to make yourself comfortable, but you seem to have already." and with that Harry left the room to shower.

Elise sat up as soon as Harry left the room. She got up off the couch and walked over to the kitchen. I wonder if he has any chocolate frogs. She asked herself rummaging thorough the cabinets. "Ha! I found the mother-load!" She had opened a cabinet overflowing with candies. She pulled out a couple chocolate frogs and a pumpkin pastie setting them on the kitchen table she went over to the fridge and pulled out the pitcher of iced tea pouring herself a glass.

She sat down on the table and opened up the fist chocolate frog biting it's head off and pulling out the wizard card. "Yay I got. . .Alowishious Sighbens? Who is he?" She asked setting it down next to her tea. Elise popped the other half of the frog in her mouth and took a swig of tea opening the other frog. This time she pulled out the card first. "OK. . .I got Alowishious Sighbens, again! What's with this guy?" she let out a sigh and popped the frog into her mouth and set the other card on top of it's mate. She picked up the last frog and opened it pulling the card out. "Please don't be Alowishious again. . .Huh? Harry Potter? I didn't know he was on these cards yet." She said out loud to no one in particular. Just then Harry walked into the room.

"I said make yourself at home, not make a dent in my candy stash." He said picking up the frog she had just opened and popping it into his mouth. "Well, I'm ready. Lets go." He turned to leave the room and Elise trailed behind him, but not before she had picked up the pumpkin pastie and the three odd cards.

Once they had made it to the car and were speeding away from Harry's flat Elise started talking, again. "So, how are you. I heard you have a boyfriend. What's his name. Have I met him. Can I meet him. I'm sure he's really cute. I don't have a boyfriend I wish I did. I tend to scare them off. I'm a little weird and I talk a lot." She said with a smile looking over at Harry.

"Hold on. I have to get what you asked straight before I answer. You said way to much for me to process at the same time." He said jokingly. Harry seemed to think for a moment getting the questions in order. "I'm fine, thank you. Yes, I have a boyfriend. His name is Ron Weasley. I have no idea if you have met him yet or not. You may meet him if you want. He is quite sexy and I'm sorry you don't have a boyfriend." Harry finished breathing heavily in a dramatic sort of way.

"Oh, I have met him. That sexy red head that works in the Department of Charms and Curses. He's your boyfriend? Lucky. It's not fair. I wanted him. Drat!" she exclaimed feigning a faint into the side of the car door. Harry lifted an eyebrow. Now he knew what she meant when she said she was weird.

"So let me ask a question. What department do you work in?" Harry asked looking over at Elise. She was sitting up from her collision with the door and rubbing the side of her head.

"Ya, know. I really shouldn't do that. It hurt. Oh I'm in whatever department I want to be in. I'm kind of a go-for. I do whatever. I have enough qualifications I can work in any department so they send me back and forth." She said looking over at Harry and then making a face at him.

"Oh I see. What was that for?" He asked seeing her make the face. This girl has got some serious mental issues. Maybe she should be in St. Mungo's? Harry told himself in his head. She was looking at him with an odd expression on her face.

"Did you have a boyfriend before sexy Ronniekins came along?" She asked avoiding the initial question Harry had asked her. She looked over at Harry whose face had become downcast. Oh great now he thinks I'm weird and I made him depressed. You're just great Elise. She said smacking herself upside the head. "Oh well nevermind. So you went to Hogwarts. I did, too. I didn't really socialize with people outside my house so I guess you wouldn't have known me. I was in Ravenclaw. I had a huge crush on Seamus Finnegan, though." she said looking over at Harry again.

"You went to Hogwarts? I guess that's how you know me, right? I don't know how I couldn't have noticed you. You seem to never shut up. Seamus?" He said to her smiling. She had a crush on Seamus? Good lord put those two together and we would have a disaster. I wonder who talks more? Harry thought chuckling to himself at the idea.

"What? Oh ya know you never asked why you were being brought into work." She said as they pulled into the parking lot of the Ministry. The driver got out and opened the doors for them allowing them to step out into the now dreary cold. I hate November! It's always so cold! She thought waiting for Harry to come around the car.

"You and Seamus. That's scary. So why am I being dragged into work today?" Harry asked looking at the building in front of him. It wasn't much, but Harry knew there were many secret passageways and it was as mysterious as Hogwarts had been. He smiled.

"Hey, I'm offended by that!" She exclaimed slapping Harry playfully in the arm. "Oh yeah, they brought in someone for you to question about Lucius Malfoy's death. Not that anyone really cares. They're not going to send the killer to Azkaban. They're going to just give him 20 hours of community service and send him on his way. They said I could go with you. I can be annoying like that sometimes." She said smiling mischievously at Harry as they entered the building.

Are they punishing me? Are they trying to drive me insane? Why did they have to send her? It's not fair! Harry screamed in his head. "Oh yay, I'm so thrilled. So where are they keeping this guy?" He asked following her through a couple corridors, but not really noticing where they were going.

"Umm. . .in some cell down here and I'm not that bad, am I?" she asked walking down a flight of stairs and into another passageway. She stopped for a minute and counted the doors along the corridor and when she was done led him to the thirteenth one on the left.

"Uh. . .No comment." Harry said dreading what she would say if he told her she was that bad. He looked at her and then at the door. Harry felt as sense of impending doom and watched her unlock the door and open it letting him walk in first. She walked in and closed the door behind her. Elise took out her wand, murmured something unintelligible, and lit all the torches along the wall. Harry shielded his eyes from the sudden coming of light until his eyes adjusted. He started when he heard a painfully familiar drawl coming from behind him and whipped around to see Draco Malfoy sitting at a table in the middle of the room.

"Hello, Harry." he all but whispered looking Harry up and down. "You haven't changed much. I suspect your still with Weasley?" Draco asked suddenly noticing the other girl. He made a face and looked over at her. "You again? You already talked my ear off this morning. Don't you have anything better to do?" he said and annoyed tone reaching into his voice.

"Oh shut up, ferret boy!" She said. Elise had been one of those lucky people to have seen him being turned into a ferret by "Mad- Eye Moody". It made her laugh.

Harry sat down across from Draco looking into his eyes. "So, you killed your father?" Harry asked. He didn't really want to have to be there long seeing as Ron was only right upstairs at work. Draco looked up at him and smiled.

"Yes, I did, for you." Draco stated reaching over to place a single kiss on his cheek. Harry blushed a little and smiled back at him. He looks so beautiful under the torchlight. I'd jump him right now if it wasn't for that girl standing over there. Draco thought to himself pulling one of Harry's hands into his.

"What about Ron, Draco?" Harry asked pulling his hand out of Draco's. Ron was going to be very heartbroken. I really don't want to hurt him that much, but I. . .How can I be doing this? He asked himself looking at the boy in front of him. Because you love Draco with all of your heart, not just part of it. The little voice in his head answered back.

"Weasley? I don't know, Harry. I don't know." He said shaking his head. Draco knew Ron wasn't that bad. He just resented him for taking Harry after he had broken up with him. Ron was a complication for them getting back together.

Harry sat there for quite awhile until he heard the door open. Cornelius Fudge walked into the room in all of his green pin-striped glory looking down upon them like he was God himself. Harry rolled his eyes. He never did really like Fudge.

"Mr. Potter, Mr. Malfoy. I assume you have been able to get a confession out of him, Harry?" He asked looking down his nose at Draco with a disgusted look upon his face. Draco never liked Fudge either. He had the feeling it was mutual.

"Yes, sir, I have." He said looking over at Draco. He gave him an encouraging smile and went on with what he was supposed to say. "Draco has agreed to let you search the Malfoy Mansion for any Dark Arts related objects contained within, on the condition that none of them are held against him. The Dark Arts were his father's work, not his." Harry stated looking Fudge squarely in the face awaiting some sort of reply.

"Very well then. You are released from custody." Fudge said throwing another disgusted look toward Draco and promptly leaving the room. Elise looked over at them and stood.

"So, this was why you didn't answer me earlier." She said with a sly smile. Draco Malfoy had been the hottest guy in their year. Everyone knew that. God, all the good guys are either gay or married. It's not fair! She thought to herself throwing up her arms in frustration. "Well, you are free to go." she said walking over to the table. The two boys just sat there.

"I will come to visit you soon. Find a way to get Ron out of the house." Draco stated getting up from the table. He walked over to Harry's side and gave him a quick kiss on the lips. Then he quickly left the room closing the door behind him.