"Speaking"
Thinking
!!"On The Phone"ii

AUTHOUR'S NOTES --
Welp. Here I am again, staring at another blank notepad document, wondering what the hell promted me to start writing these damn things. Oh well. Something more for you to bug me about.

This Chapter Dedicated to Lief, Because She updated her fic, and I promised to update one of mine in return. For, Ms. Lief, a Special Christmas Chapter! Enjoy!

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Over the next couple of weeks, Harry and Draco became closer than ever. Though both had secret reservations, worried that the other didn't feel the way he did.

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Soon Christmas rolled by, and every one was in a state, getting ready for the holidays. Some students getting ready to go home to their families, while others tried to find ways to get gifts for thier families that they had at the school. The teachers were decidedly more relaxed with their rules as the holidays approached. They were organising more and more trips into town for students to do their Christmas shopping and most were glad for it.

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"C'mon, Draco! We've only got two hours!"

"ONLY???"

Harry and Draco rushed into the local mall, thier arms already laden with many gifts. "Alright, so we meet here in an hour and a half, which gives us enough time to shop and then we'll have lunch and head back to the school, okay?" Harry asked.

Draco nodded and the went thier seperate ways.

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Harry looked around the bookstore, heading right towards the section he knew he would find the perfect book in. Being Draco's roomate, he knew one thing that would secure the greatest gift: Draco loved Fantasy novels. It was the blond teen's little secret, which Harry had discovered. He walked straight to one shelf in particular. He ran his finger along the titles until he found the one book he knew Draco had been looking for for months. He'll love it! This'll be the greatest Christmas gift ever! But It needs something else...... Harry payed for the book and left the store heading off in a definite way towards the nearest HMV. He said he wanted that CD.......

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Draco stared at the endless rows of Comic Books. When Harry'd found out what his books were, he'd let slip that he loved Comic Books. Especially one series in particular.....

He truned towards the desk. "Uhm, excuse me, sir?"

"What can I do for you?"

"Well, a friend of mine loves this one series, and I was wondering if you had any of them...."

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At the agreed upon time, Harry and Draco met at the food court and split the price of two soft tacos at Taco Time, that being the cheapest thing. Both were trying to hide their purchases from the other.

"So, What do you say we get everyone together to open gifts? You. me. Ron, Fred and George?" Harry asked.

Draco nodded. "Sure, why not. Sort of like a family, considering we practically are."

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It was Christmas Eve and the staff had decided to put on a banquet for the students, who were ecstatic at this turn of events. They entirety of the staff, students and cleaning crew ate, drank and were merry long into the night. Of course, no one was alowed any alchohol, much to the disapointment of some of the teachers and older students.

Harry and Draco walked into their room, waving goodbye to Ron, Fred and George as they continued singing various bawdy renditions of christmas carols.

The Brunet flopped (1) onto his bed, laughing. "Well, I'll see you in the morning, Draco! Merry Christmas!"

His only response was a slight snore as Draco fell asleep on his own bed.

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"HARRY, DRACO! Wake up, you sleepy heads! It's Christmas!"

"Nmmm....I'm up, Ron, I'm up, no need to yell....."

"Yes there is! It's Christmas!"

"You said that already......"

"You too Draco! And open the door so we can get in!"

The three Weasly brothers were soon let in by two very sleepy roomates, who were soon awake, and as excited as the other three. They went around in a circle exchanging gifts and jokes, everyone laughing, and generaly having a good time. Ron got several bags pf jelly beans from , well, pretty much everyone. Fred and George got cherry bombs, spray paints, whoopie cushions, fake vomit, invisible ink......etc. Harry recieved a couple of CDs, namely home-made ones Fred and George had managed to con their friends into making, as well as a few of the latest X-men comics from Ron. The greatest gift, though, was a boxed set of the Essential X-Men, in full color(2) that Draco had bought him. He was stunned.

"Draco....How much did this cost?"

"Draco shrugged. "Not too much..."(3)

Draco got some CDs, mostly Beatles, as he was a fan. From Harry, however, he got a hardcover book (as well as the Beatles 1 CD) that he had been looking for ages for. The Hardcover edition of SoulMusic, by one Mr. Terry Pratchett. (4)

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Eventually, everyone left to go show off ther new gifts to their other friends and Harry and Draco were left alon in thier room.

"Draco?"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you....."

Draco turned to smile at Harry. "It's no problem really. Think of it as a thank you gift for helping me out over the past few months. You've been a pal. Don't think I could've done it without you, mate."

Harry smiled back. "Hey, I wasn't entirely unselfish about it. I'm just glad ot have made a friend so easily. Some of my past roomates have been real losers, y'know?"

Suddenly, there came a knock at the door, Harry went to answer it. "Oh! Proffesor McGonagal! Come in!"

The strickt teacher stepped in, sort of smiling, though one, if they knew her well enough, would know that something was worrying her. "Mr. Potter, this came for you today. We thought it might be something for the holidays, so we decided to bring it up to you."

"That's very kind of you, Thank you, Proffesor. Merry Christmas!"

"Merry Christmas to you two too, Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy, Have a nice afternoon."

After she left the room, Harry sat down on his bed and looked at the envelopeshe had handed to him.

"Who's it from?" Draco asked, looking up from the CD player - which they had bought with their pooled together money a little while back - where he was trying to play one of the CDs they had gotten.

"Sirius Black."

"Not that git again?"

"Yeah.....My dearest Harry.....

"Merry Christmas and Happiest Holiday wishes! I was dissapointed that you didn't respond to my earlier letter, I was hoping you would. Doesn't the idea of having a family appeal to you? --

"I've already got a family thank you very much....

"Did you get my gift? If you didn;t it was just some clothes that I though might do you some good over the winter months. God knows how well they clothe and treat you there. --

"Better than he would..." Growling, Harry crumpled up this latest letter and tosed it in the trash. Sighing he leaned his head agaisnts his knees. "He's just gonna keep trying, isn't he? I wish he could just go away and leave me alone. I'm fine were I am....doesn;t he get that?" Soon his shoulders began to quake, as though with silent sobs. Just like he did the last tiem, Draco got up from where he was sitting and went to go comfort his friend.

"Hey, It's gonna be alright, Harry. Your parents entrusted this place with you... All the teachers love you, they'd probably put up a fight if someone wanted you to leave. C'mon, babe, stop crying...." Draco whispered comforting words to Harry not noticing when he slipped and used one of the nicknames he had for Harry, as 'Let It Be' slowly floated through the speakers of their CD player. Draco soon found himself singing the words softly to the Dark haired biy in his arms.

"When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be. Yeah
There will be an answer, let it be.
And when the night is cloudy,
There is a light that shines on me,
Shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music,
Mother Mary comes to me,
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
There will be an answer, let it be.

As he finished singing, he noticed Harry had fallen asleep. Smiling to himself, Draco lightly kissed the top of Harry's head, still huming the soothing tune of the music.

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(1) - That word again. I lve that word. And yes, I know I overuse it.
(2) - I don't know if this exists, but I do know that there is an Essentials X-Men line, but It's in black and white. I own it. I know. I'm giving chraracters my traits. I'm sorry.
(3) - It was on sale. ::nodnod::
(4) - I know this exists. I own the paperback version, as I couldn't afford the other one. See appology in note number 2.

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So, Lief? How'd ya like it? I hope it wasn't too crappy and short, and I know there are spelling mistakes that I'm too lazy to go back and fix, but there you go, Chapter...what is it...three? Anyways, the Latest Chapter of HCILY. See y'all around.

Dammit, I'm not southern!