A Slytherin's Son

Disclaimer: All the Harry Potter Characters and related insignia are property of JK Rowling.

Summery: What if Harry was TMR's son? Raised by nannies and tutors he is not what his father had hoped for. Now he is being forced to make the choice of becoming his father or being the person he was meant to be, AU. HP/?

Note: In this chapter there are about four paragraphs of description. It's really isn't that bad. I really don't like to spell out for you what people look like I just think that the way a person looks tells you a lot about the person. And I truly believe that the girls needed to be flushed out a little, because they will be playing a bit more of a roll now that Julian is finally growing up.

Chapter 10

The day was hot but not more so than that of any other day of the summer. The sky was a bright blue and Draco and Julian were lying on the roof of the Malfoy town house looking up at the other Slytherins flying in the sky above, tossing a quaffle around. It had been five days since the concert and Julian was happy because for the first time in years he was actually enjoying his birthday. Well with the exception of the headache that he had been suffering from for the past three days. It had been getting progressively worse and today was no different. It wasn't that his friends weren't fun to watch but Julian was tired of watching the bad game involving the girls screaming everytime the ball came near them. So he carefully flipped over onto his stomach exposing his bare back to the sun's rays. Aside from the pain that the light caused his eyes,(which a pair of sunglasses had easily corrected) Julian found that there was nothing more relaxing to him then sunbathing. And lying out on the roof was by far the best thing of all.

Next to him Draco sat up and carefully began to take off his flying boots.

Julian looked at his platinum hair and pale features and noticed that his nose was beginning to turn a pale shade of pink. "I can't thank your parents enough for having everyone here. I know that your mother has better things that she needs to be doing than babysitting us on a Thursday afternoon."

Draco shrugged, "she would just be planning some party or another. And you know that she loves it. I swear that my mother loves you far more than she loves me."

Julian closed his eyes and tucked his right arm under his face, creating a makeshift pillow. "I doubt that."

"No really, you can't do anything wrong. That, and I think that mother is worried about you. Skeeter's article about how you miss your father pulled her heart strings just enough and now she wants to be the mother that Cassie refuses to be."

"All the same, I really appreciate all that your parents have done for me. Skeeter can kiss it for all I care. I'm never taking another question from her never and again and I mean it. NEVER!"

"It won't stop her from writing if she gets a release. Your name is gold."

Julian scoffed, "don't remind me."

Julian closed his aching eyes and readied himself for a nap only to be interrupted by the ball falling with a loud thud on to the roof a short distance away from where he and Draco were laid out on their blankets. Julian groaned at the noise and began to rub the ache out of his forehead.

Draco trotted off to return the ball to Theo who was waiting.

Julian hid his face in his arms and desperately began to tune them all out again. But before he had a chance to nod off he was forced to focus his attention on a question Draco asked.

"How's your head?"

Julian mumbled, "Terrible. But I think it is nothing that a short nap won't take care of?"

"Do you want me to get you a potion for it?"

"No, I'll be fine."

"You do know that they actually help, potions that is, but they will only work if you take them."

Julian shrugged and started shifting again to get comfortable, "I know, I just don't like how they make me feel."

The two friends fell into a comfortable silence. Julian even began to finally nod off in the warmth of the sun and the laughing of Theo and the girls in the sky above.

The week had been very relaxing. Aside from the howler he received from Cassie ordering him to come home at once. But all was fixed when Narcissa fire called his father and informed him of Julian's whereabouts at which point he was given permission to stay the week, much to the households chagrin. Over the next few days Julian found himself surrounded by his best friends. Theo, Daphne, Tracey, Colette, and Alberta had been a welcomed addition to the Malfoy home after Julian had finished dealing with the headlines from his performance. The reporters had used very little of what he had said about the performance in their articles instead they decided to focus on the missing patriarch in the top box and his empty love life.

Theo had made him smile when he arrived by saying that Julian was more than welcome to any of the girls he was seeing if it would make him feel any better.

Alberta's response was to just have him flip to the sports sections and read up on Wheeler's amazing performance in the game against the Cannons the day before.

Daphne sympathized for a moment before telling him that it could be worse. After all, he could have a sister who was stealing all his thunder by getting married.

Tracey was by far the most understanding next to Draco. She just told him not to think about it before rushing everyone out side to spend the day in the sun.

But the best thing by far was Colette who said absolutely nothing about it at all to him. She just kept on doing what she always did, not speaking much and sitting around listening to what everyone else had to say on the matter.

It had always amazed him how she could know so much about everybody and everything but never share an opinion on any of it.

Eventually the pain seamed to fade and time stopped for Julian and he fell asleep. He dreamed of nothing, but he remained vaguely aware of his friends. They had all landed and were now sitting around him either napping or talking quietly. Even in sleep he somehow knew that this was by far the most perfect afternoon he had ever experienced.

After about two hours of napping Julian rolled over to look at his friends to see what they were doing. Theo was flirting with a rather receptive Daphne. She was smiling so much that Julian hoped that she wouldn't regret her decision to welcome his advances later on. It was a known fact in the halls of the dungeons that Theo Nott was only interested in one thing.

He looked around carefully and saw where the brooms and discarded articles of clothing had ended up and was pleased to see that someone had the since to fold everything and make it nice and orderly. There was nothing he hated more then when things were scattered about.

Julian also noticed that someone must have brought up more blankets to lay out on. The roof would have been unbearable otherwise. By the positioning of the sun it must be around three and the black shingles would have been scalding their skin if they didn't have the charmed blankets that Narcissa had pulled out for them all to use.

Julian turned and stretched out his back that had now become stiff. He smiled when he saw Tracey was talking quietly but with great animation higher up on the slanted roof behind him. Alberta and Colette were there too listening to what she was talking about. All three were perched on the ridge poll of the roof. If he had a camera he would have taken a picture. All three girls had grown up to be rather pretty. And each one of them, Tracey included, had their distinctive looks.

Alberta was the tallest. She also had the strongest build of the four as well. It was from playing beater on the Slytherin team for the past three years. She wasn't manly, just athletic. Her eyes were still a bit too large for her face but she had corrected her unibrow issue and it made her once impossible face much more tolerable. She had somehow also grown into her nose. It was still to large but now it fit her face. She had long since abandoned her pig tails and now let her dark brown wavy hair fly free. She wasn't ugly but Julian knew that her strong point was most definitely her talent on a broom.

It came as no surprise to anyone that Daphne was gorgeous, just like her sisters and mother. She was perfectly proportioned and very leggy. And just like her sisters her blonde hair was still just as blonde as it was the day she was born. She wore it long and straight normally, but today she wore it in a thick braid that hung down her back just brushing the pink blanket she was sitting on. A few strands had gotten loose and were blowing in the wind. Theo smiled each time and he would tuck the fly ways back behind her ear, and each time she would smile back at him. Julian knew that he would have to talk to Theo soon to find out his intentions for Daphne. He would not tolerate him hurting her. Theo would move on but it was the rest of them that would never hear the end of it.

Julian looked up at the girls sitting on the top of the roof again and smiled as they all started giggling. Tracey had the most beautiful smile out of the lot. Whenever she would flash that magnetic smile of hers she lit up the entire room. She always had the shortest hair of the group but Julian thought that it was because of the curls. Just like when she was younger her tight rust colored curls framed her square face perfectly. She always complained about it but Julian liked it. She was the only one of his friends to have this shade of hair and he felt it fit her extremely well. She wasn't thin like the others either. Where Alberta was muscular with just a few curves to help you see she was female, and where Daphne was thin with only breasts and hips making up her body fat, Tracey was all curves. She carried it well and she was well proportioned, the perfect hourglass. She would never be the beauty that Daphne was but she would never be like Millicent Bulstrode.

And then there was Colette. She was very much the same as she had always been. Short, thin and flat, She was like a pole. Sure she had little mosquito bites for breasts and she had a little weight around her hips but other than that she was a rail. The blonde streak in her hair was still there too. She still parted her hair in the same place making her mousy brown hair look to be a dirty blonde instead. She was still the smallest person in the class but they all knew that inside that tiny little person lay an extremely intelligent and dangerous little snake.

Julian smiled at how pale Colette, Daphne, and Tracey were in comparison to Alberta. It was amusing to see them all turning pink under the sun's attention. Julian turned and looked at Draco who had begun to stir next to him.

"Morning sunshine."

Julian chuckled as Draco yawned a huge yawn and stretched his arms over his head.

Julian reached over to where he had placed his shoes and socks and began to put them back on. He had no clue where his shirt had gotten off to but he didn't care too much. He carefully began to lace his Quidditch boots back up. Being very careful to make sure that his pants where not folded in anyway that would cause irritation.

"What do you say to us flying over to Prescott Park to go and climb some trees like we used to?"

Draco shrugged, "I don't know. We aren't kids anymore. I'm not sure we can still do it."

"Not sure we can still…." Julian laughed, "That is a load of bullocks come on. Get your shoes back on we are going!"

He finished tying off the last lace and then hopped up. He didn't realize that it was going to be too quickly. As he made his way over to the girls his headache which had been temporarily cured by the nap was now pounding in his ears and slowly he felt his vision begin to fade out. Slowly he bent back over to allow the blood pressure in his head to stabilize. Once his vision returned and the pounding eased a little he began to stand upright slowly. This time he felt the headache flair but at least his vision remained normal.

So like he had been doing for the past three days he ignored it and moved on walking over to the girls up at the top of the roof to tell them the plan.

Tracey looked a bit skeptical, "are you sure it's alright?"

"Why wouldn't it be? We used to do it all the time when we were kids."

Colette shook her head, "Correction. YOU used to do it all the time. I never climbed trees."

Alberta was all for it and was hurriedly trying to get her shoes back on. "Come on Coley! Stop being a baby. It's just a few trees!"

"I'm not a baby I just don't want to climb a tree! Can't we just toss the ball again?"

Alberta shook her head and tossed Colette's shoes to her, "No. We are climbing trees. It's Julian's birthday and he wants to go climbing so that is what we are going to do!"

Tracey chose not to argue and slipped her shoes back on before picking up the blankets that were left forgotten by the other girls. Julian smiled at her and headed over to talk to Daphne and Theo.

Seeing that everyone had begun to put their shoes back on and Draco had begun flying things back to the ground where a house elf was waiting to collect the unwanted items, they too had started to get ready for whatever was going on.

Theo smiled brightly, "What are we up to Jules?"

Julian smiled back and sat down next to Daphne who was having trouble untying a knot in her laces, he took the shoe from her and began to untangle the mess, "We are going to fly over to Prescott Park to climb trees."

"Rock on, Man!"

Theo quickly began to help put stuff away. Julian didn't realize that a full picnic had been brought up while he was sleeping.

Daphne smiled when Julian successfully untied the knot. "It will be just like when we were kids!"

Julian smiled and nodded, "We still are kids."

The blonde girl smiled and shook her head, "No were not silly, one more year and I could be getting married. And you, you're going to be done with school this year. You don't have anything left to do. We've grown up."

Julian shook his head, "I don't think so. We're still kids. It's my birthday, I make the rules! And today we are still twelve."

She smiled and hugged him. "Have I ever told you how much I love you?"

Julian smiled at the familiar endearment, "why I think I have heard it a couple of times."

Julian looked up and saw that the roof had been cleared of everything except the blanket that the two of them were currently sitting on, and Draco was on his way to retrieve it from them.

"Come on you two!"

Julian allowed the girls to fold the blanket as he walked over to the last two remaining brooms, picking both of them up. Daphne came over and took her Nimbus 2000 Lady's Edition and mounted it carefully. She was the only person he ever knew to insist upon flying a lady's broom, but he figured it had something to do with being the third of five very proper girls. To this day she had never flown astride her broom and he believed that she never would if she could help it.

When everyone was set Julian reached up and tapped Alberta on the foot before running off the edge of the roof at full speed and mounting his broom mid-jump. They all laughed and began a game of tag as they made their way through the skies toward Prescott Park.

Three years ago this would have been a very serious crime, flying in broad daylight. But with the removal of all Muggles from the area and the new ward being set in place this past February it was officially stated that flight inside the city limits was now permissible if you were a licensed flyer. Julian laughed when the officials had come to Hogwarts in April this past year and announced that to get a license you had to be fifteen. The groan that was heard through out the hall was one that he had enjoyed immensely.

Julian landed in the park next to the very large statue of his father and quickly started to run off toward the large Oak that was affectionately called the kissing tree.

He could hear Draco, Alberta, and Theo right on his heels. The four of them were very well disciplined in running. This was nothing. That was until Julian slowed to a resting position once again and he felt the pounding in his head escalate to the point of severe pain and his vision begin to recede.

Quickly he sat down on the cool grass beneath the tree and leaned his body back into a relaxed position as not to alert his friends to the issue. His head returned to a more normal state once again but this time it took much more time.

While he was waiting he watched as they were joined by Colette who was breathing heavily, and then a while later by Tracey and Daphne who were walking leisurely.

Theo shot them a mock glare which prompted Tracey to defend herself, "If fat girls could run, then we wouldn't be fat!"

Several people laughed and Julian replied automatically, "You're not Fat!"

When Daphne said nothing in her defense all eyes settled on her. "What? You all know that Greengrass' girls don't run!"

The whole group laughed and moved on with the plan to climb the tree.

Tracey smiled and laughed when Theo jumped to try and grab a hold of a rather large branch only to miss and fall on his back in failure.

She smiled and walked over to a soft patch of grass and sat down next to Julian. "You guys are so dumb!"

Theo glared at her. "Why don't you try it, if you think we are so dumb?"

She shook her head, "Nope, the laws of gravity say that what goes up will come down. And I don't want to fall. Fat kids don't climb trees."

"You're not fat!" Julian reassured her automatically.

Colette walked over and joined the two of them in the prime viewing spot. "Why don't you all just fly up to the first branch and then go from there?"

Alberta shook her head, "No that would be cheating."

Theo, being the tallest, tried again and fell again, while everyone stared in a vain attempt to figure out how the heck they had ever gotten up there as kids.

After a few more attempts and a few more laughs Draco looked over at Julian with a slight smile on his face, "I got it! I got it! It isn't ideal but I really don't see any other option. Julie climb on my shoulders and I'll lift you up, then you can help us the rest of the way."

"Why me?" Julian whined.

"Well because Theo is about twice your size and Daphne and Berta are not going to be much help in getting us up there."

"Why can't I lift you?"

Draco laughed, "Because I'm bigger and older, and I thought of it first!"

Julian sighed and stood up from his spot slowly. He smiled at the girls and shrugged before walking over to stand in front of Draco who was squatting really low.

"You have to spread your legs a bit!" Daphne said with a laugh.

Julian sent a look that could kill toward her and the others who were all snickering. But he complied, spreading his legs a bit. Before he was ready Draco grabbed a hold of his royal thighs and slipped his head between his royal legs lifting at the same time.

"Holy Shit!" Julian nearly flipped over backwards but caught himself on the branch that was now in easy grabbing range.

"You got it?"

Julian replied a quick yes before getting a better grip on the limb. When he was sure that the branch would hold his weight he pulled himself up on to the limb and off of his best friend's shoulders.

He carefully flung his leg over the strong branch and smiled when he realized he was up in the tree. Everyone was laughing and smiling.

Julian smiled down at them and carefully hopped up on to his feet being sure not to take his hands off the branch beneath him. He then carefully stood up to reach for the limb that was above his head and walked over to the trunk never once letting himself let go of the limb above him. "Alright Draco sit with your back against the trunk and let Theo use you as a step."

No one asked questions they just did as they were told, trusting their friend. Theo carefully reached up and grabbed a tight hold on the hand being offered to him and then quickly stepped on to Draco's knees. Julian wasn't really sure how he got up but he did and that meant that they could get everyone else up as well.

"Draco, we'll pull you up last I want you to spot every one alright?"

The blonde nodded, "Berta, why don't you come next. Theo, go out on the limb and lie down on your chest and let your arms hang down. Then pull her up the rest of the way so she can grab a hold of the limb. She can probably get it from there right?"

The brunette girl smiled and nodded. It took a few moments but Alberta got herself up. They did the same process with Daphne but she didn't have the upper body strength to pull herself up so Draco pushed her up enough for Julian to get a hold of her leg and help her get it over so she could pull herself up.

Draco had no issue getting up the same way that Alberta did after both Colette and Tracey refused to attempt to climb. Once he was in the tree though they had some real fun trying to maneuver all five of them on the one branch.

To make things easier he left Draco to figure out how exactly to go about the maneuvering and he began to climb up the tree. He went higher and higher. Until he knew the branches wouldn't be able to hold him any longer. Julian looked down to see Theo sitting on the bottom branch leaning against the trunk of the tree with Daphne sitting between his legs leaning against him. They appeared to be talking to the girls on the ground. Alberta had found a perch that she like and was looking out over the pond where several kids were picnicking with their parents. Draco was climbing up to join him on the highest branch he could manage. Julian was happy to see that the branch he was sitting on was big enough and strong enough for two.

"I have to admit it. This is fun."

"Not sure we could still do it eh?"

Draco smiled, "Alright you win." He paused for a moment before continuing, "What do you think of Theo and Daphne?"

Julian shrugged, "if anyone can handle him it's her. I just don't want to see it end badly."

Draco nodded, making no further comment.

"Does your mum know where we are?"

"Yeah, I told her before we headed out. She'd never forgive me if we just disappeared."

After another moment of silence Julian decided that it was time to play a game, "It's time for questions."

Draco groaned, "No! I hate that game."

"So!"

"Why?"

"Cause I'm smarter, more talented, and it's my birthday!"

"Fine," Draco turned his body so his back was against the trunk of the tree and he had one leg on either side of the branch. Julian turned so that one leg was on top of the branch and the other was left dangling.

"We haven't played in a while so this should be fun."

"Yeah I know. Fun for you to torment me!"

Julian smiled, "It can't be that bad."

Draco shrugged, "I go first."

Julian nodded and waited for his question.

"If you had to choose between rooting for the Harpies or the Cannons who would you choose?"

"Cannons, I don't care if they do suck. I hate watching only girls play. Alright….. If you had to choose between blowing up the potions lab or the divination tower, which would choose?"

Draco laughed then vocalized his logic, "Well if I blew up the Potions Lab Sev would kill me, but if I blew up the Divination Tower Sev would kill me and then I would have to serve detentions with Trelawney!"

Julian laughed.

"Potions Lab definitely. Kay….so…..if," Draco paused, "if you could go back in time and change any one thing or to see any one thing again what would you do or see?"

Julian knew he had to answer the question, but the point of the game was to either be honest or be funny. And it was way too early in the game to be honest about a question like this. "I would go back to the Second year when Weasley cursed himself!"

Draco laughed loudly, "I forgot about that! How did he break his wand again?"

"Stupid oaf took a dare to try and touch the Whomping Willow."

"That is priceless."

Julian nodded in agreement before asking the next question, "Alright, which girl would you sleep with? Pansy Parkenson or Hermione Granger?"

Draco turned slightly pail before invoking his right to refuse to answer one question.

Julian freaked out, "Oh MY GOD! Who? Which one? You never told me!"

He shook his head, "I just…..I choose not to answer the question"

Julian laughed again, "If it was Granger you mightn't have told because she is an FG and a Gryff too boot, but then again you would have told me because we could flaunt it in Weasley's face. If it were Pansy you mightn't have told me because…..well it's Pansy. But you would have told me because…You slept with Pansy Parkenson?"

Draco when from white to bright red before he plucked forth the courage to ask another question, "My turn! Have you ever had sex?"

Julian shook his head no. "Did you enjoy it?"

Draco shrugged, "it was alright. But it would be ungentlemanly to elaborate. Have you ever had or given oral?"

Julian started to feel flushed and shook his head no, "Would you ever do it again?"

Draco shrugged and started to turn pink again. "Have you ever made it to third base?"

Julian was glad that he never showed his blush. And shook his head no, "have you had other partners other than Pansy?"

Draco nodded.

Julian's eyes widened and felt an odd feeling settle on his stomach. Why didn't he know about any of this? Draco was supposed to be his best friend.

Draco's obvious frustration from being found out was etched on his flushed face. "What does it matter? At least I have the balls to do it. At least I'm no not a prude. I mean, come on Jules. Have you ever even been kissed?"

This wasn't the Draco he knew. His Draco wasn't cruel, His Draco would never ask questions just too be mean. And that was what he was doing. Julian stared at his friend not even trying to hide the hurt in his eyes. He felt the sudden extreme urge to flee the situation as fast as possible.

So he did, scaling his way down the tree with agile speed.

"Julie? I didn't mean anything by it!"

Julian nodded acknowledging that he knew that Draco had spoken to him. "I know."

"I'm sorry!"

"I know," Julian looked at the next limb over it looked pretty sturdy. He stepped on to it and looked for the next safe branch.

"Julian please!"

Julian didn't want to hear it. That had hurt. All he wanted was to get away. He climbed on to the next branch not caring if he had checked it for stability. One after another he hopped lithely from one branch to another. He just wanted to get to the ground. He didn't care how.

That was when he heard the limb break and he fell. He landed oddly on his ankle that immediately burst into pain. However it was dwarfed by the searing pain that was radiating in his scull.

He ignored what everyone was saying to him choosing instead to grab his broom and to fly away from the situation.

It wasn't really to flee his friends permanently, he never left their sight. Choosing instead to fly to another tree a short distance away where he carefully landed on a very large sturdy lower branch. Once there he carefully balanced his broom on a fork in the limb.

With his vision fading Julian forced himself to take deep breaths and to lean his head over to establish adequate blood pressure in his throbbing head.

After a moment he became acutely aware of the pain that was in his ankle. With the pressure in his boot reaching a new very painful level, Julian knew that he must have done something really bad to it when he fell. He lifted his leg carefully and began to unlace the boot. When he freed it from its confines he became infinitely more aware of the pain and swelling that was occurring.

"Fuck!"

He slowly removed the sock trying to be very careful not to cause himself any excess pain in the process. The rapid swelling was the first tip off to him that he had broken yet another limb but it was accompanied by the tell tale signs of and obviously displaced bone.

"FUCK!"

It meant that he was going to have to go to the hospital and there was nothing that he could do about it until his father arrived to fill out the forms.

Julian scooted his back up to the limb and extended his leg on to the higher part of the branch in an attempt to ease the swelling.

A million thoughts flooded through his tired and aching head. He knew that the body always places the more acute or dangerous injury higher on the pain register but what he didn't get was why his head was still on the top of that pain list and why he was still feeling hurt by Draco's comment. He should be crying right now. He should be focusing on his wounded limb.

What did it matter if Draco had a sex life? And Julian didn't understand why he was so hurt by the kissing comment. It wasn't like it was a secret that he was a prude. He had always been busy with other things, always too busy for that kind of social life. But what threw him the most was that Draco didn't say it to prove a point he did it to hurt him, something completely out of character.

Julian mulled this over until he was joined by the last person he wanted to speak to. Apparently his friends had decided to listen to the jerk and agree to let him come and sort out the issue before coming to talk to him.

When Draco landed further down the limb Julian forced himself to look away from the direction of his friend and injured ankle.

"What happened?" Draco carefully began examining the injury.

"I'm sure you saw me fall. The whole lot of you did. But you know how it is. I'm a klutz; nothing is ever going to change that."

"Maybe we should go to St. Mungo's. It looks pretty bad."

Julian turned and glared at his friend, "you know damn well that they won't be able to do a damn thing until my dad shows up to sign the forms. He won't be back until tomorrow. I wait 'til then, What do you want?"

Draco looked like a wounded pigeon. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that."

"What? The part about me never having been kissed, or the part about how you've been hiding things from me for who knows how long?"

"It wasn't like that. Never told you cause I never told anyone. Pansy and I never talked about it. We would do stuff and then act as if it never happened."

"I'm not blind Draco. She's always around you; just because I'm not there a lot of the time doesn't mean that I don't see how she wants to be with you."

"She knows I don't care for her."

"What about the others?" Julian looked pointedly at his friend and waited for his response.

He sighed and shrugged, "The other knows I don't care either. They know that it was all just experimentation. It was for them as well."

"So that's all it is with THEM? A few rolls in the sack so you could experiment. Whatever it's your life. I just don't understand why you didn't tell me. ME! I tell you everything. And you think it's cute that I just spill my heart to you when ever something is wrong. I thought that this was two way, man!"

Julian clinched his eyes tightly shut when he pain that resided there amplified again. He knew that his face must have looked like his was angry with his eyes hidden behind dark sunglasses but he didn't really care. He wasn't going to take them off.

"It's not like that! I couldn't tell you!"

Julian didn't respond he tried in vain to rid his head of the pain again.

"I wanted to tell you, I wanted to be honest. But I…just couldn't. Every time I tried….I couldn't find the words. I want to tell you everything but don't know if I can. I don't even know what everything is."

The pain was excruciating, and he didn't know how to stop it.

"Do know what is like to completely redefine who you are? Do you know what it is like to live a lie? Constantly hiding. It's not fair. And befor you to freak out on me, I wonder if you really are the friend I thought you were. Who cares if I slept with two people? It's my life. I thought you would understand that."

"It hurts."

"This isn't about you. Don't you get that? I'm sorry I hid it from you but you must understand that I'm not like Theo. I can't just talk about my private life as if it's nothing."

"I get that you couldn't tell me. It's fine, it just hurts!"

"Why do you keep saying that? You think I don't understand that I hurt you by not telling you?"

"No Draco!" Julian fought back the tears that were in his eyes and grabbed his forehead, "My head! It hurts! I can't….."

Julian leaned forward and put his head in his hands. His ankle that was now swollen to the size of a grapefruit was now out of his mind completely as the pain that once throbbed almost gently was now radiating through out his nervous system and Julian became aware of nothing else.