Harrison sat on his bed clenching the tie close to him. Why? Why did he say that? What was so special about that snake?

So lost in his thoughts and questions, Harrison did not hear the door open. Soft footsteps walked across the room to where Harrison sat on the bed, almost falling to the floor. The bed dipped and squeaked next to Harrison.

"Wanna talk about it?" Sea said quietly, a soft voice he never used in public. Harrison shook his head before laying it on Sea's shoulder. They both sat there as Percy and Caleb came and sat on Sea's bed across from them.

"I accidentally smelt some of the Amortenia," Harrison started not being able to handle the silence, "I smelt his cologne. I smelt things that made me think about nothing but Dolan. It made my mind go all fuzzy and numb. I-," Here Harrison's voice broke, "I felt happy, as happy as when I first met Harry. He made me that happy with nothing but a whiff of his scent." Here Harrison began to tear up and Sea rubbed his back.

"Then in the hallway, his magic- his magic felt so comforting, but storm raging. It made mee feel numbed and weird kinda like the scent. His magic felt so nice and good to me but made me so pained for the anger. I wanted to stop him from panicking- I- I just wanted," here Harison let some tears slip as he hiccuped, "I wanted him to just focus on something else."

An 'eep' was heard by the door. The boys turned to see Des holding up two struggling third years with a sleepy-looking Harry not far behind. I went downstairs to find Harry and Neville asleep with four sets of homework nearby and these two missing from there.

"We just wanted to know the story behind the rumours, Harry said no, then fell asleep with Neville doing the work. We were gonna tell them later" Hermione said. Hermione often cared but did not know how to go about helping. Ron often did not think before following suit with Hermione's schemes, often leading to Harry getting Harrison to get them out of trouble. Half of Harrison's detention was often him taking the blame for those two's "help".

"Hey Harry, come over here," Sea said, left arm still around Harrison as the younger Pendrake curled up into Harrison's right side to get some more sleep. "Thanks, Des, see you later," Percy continued standing up to bring to get Neville from whee he most likely still slept downstairs unaware. "You two in, stop spying on us while you're at it will ya?" Caleb said ushering in the two defiant but embarrassed Third Years.

Ships:

WyattxCaleb

HarrisonxDolan

HarryxDraco

DesxOFC

Maxx???

Irkx????

Garretx???