Pins & Needles.




I'm not tied down, I don't have to be. By now I know not to move when he's pushing it in. Took me two nights, just like this one, to realise this and then a further six to control the urge to shift away. I don't know why I used to flinch as it never hurt until I did. I guess it was just the thought of it.

I stare at the ceiling as I feel him lift up my arm. Slight pressure in the joint of my elbow, then the strange feeling of sucking it out. Still not quite used to that. Can't see his face very well, but I know he's watching it. Don't know how he can see it, it's fairly dark in the Great Hall. It's clouded outside in the real world so the ceiling only shows that too.

The syringe is full now, and the thin metal slides out. It's only afterwards that it starts to hurt, more of an ache actually. Not surprising really, has to hurt sometime after all. His hand starts to rub my chest, making sure that he didn't hurt me too badly, that I'm not angry. He knows when I am, it's when I bat his hand away. Tonight, I let him rub. This part always feels good. I like this part.

I sometimes wonder why I can't just have this part. I wonder why he always wants the needle.

I guess the war ... I guess it finally got to him in the end, in its own way. I guess that's good, shows that he truly is human. I was starting to wonder as the fighting grew to its climax. To face it all and still survive. After all that, how could I not allow his slight ... quirks?

He doesn't say much about his time, but I'm sure he had it as bad as everyone else. Maybe more so, given who he is. The needle slides into my thigh as he goes to return the blood he 'borrowed'. No real pain, just that odd feeling of something foreign in my body. It'll only hurt later, bruised muscle, pricked skin. Needles out now, he's become very good at this. In the beginning he was awkward, a little unsure of how to do it. But now all his movements are smooth, well known.

The needle slides into the soft flesh behind my knee, I hadn't even noticed him lift it. Have to stop staring at the ceiling and drifting, don't want to be taken by surprise and jerk away. I'm going to be very sore tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after. But I'm okay with that. I know I shouldn't be, but I am. The clouds must have parted briefly outside, because they did on the ceiling. I can see him a little better now, he's watching the syringe. It always fascinated him how the blood just seems to pour out, following the directions of the vacuum.

Putting my leg back down now, his left hand slides up the leg, to my nipple and he squeezes it. I know why, and internally I whine. I was already half hard with the anticipation of later but now my body responds to his gentle touch. He shifts slightly and leans over, replacing his hand with his mouth and my breathing speeds up slightly. His hand moves back down my chest sliding his fingers through the hair until he reaches his goal. A small squeeze and I breathe out louder than normal, even though I'm dreading what's to come.

He straightens back up and I want to flinch away. This always hurts the longest afterwards. That's why he has to let me wait at least a week for the next round. I see his other hand move towards my erection and this time, for once, I can't help it. "No." A breathe out, wondering if he'll hear me ... or if he'll even bother to listen. "Not tonight. Please."

Neither of his hands move. He's looking at me, I know it. I look at the ceiling panicking about what will happen now. I've never told him no before, not once. I've wanted to, thought it, even opened my mouth to say it, but never followed through. And then I hear the unthinkable. He's put the syringe down on the table, above my head, I just make out his empty hand moving back down. I close my eyes, dreading what might come next than any ache and discomfort the injection would have caused me.

"Harry." His voice is slow as it usually was lately. He wants me to open my eyes but I won't, cant, too afraid. "Harry." A little firmer this time. I hear him move slightly, sliding up the table to lie next to me. "Why do you let me do this to you?" I'm really worried now. He's never asked me this before. He rarely asks me anything. "Why do you let me do this?"

"You seem to need it." I whisper back. And that was why I first started this. Detention, first day back from the summer holidays, for casting at each other during the feast. I can't even remember why it started, just that I was very angry at him, boiling and seething.

We'd had to sort all the library books that had 'mysteriously' returned, well after their due dates. First day back was always an amnesty day where that was concerned. Pince had been supervising like a hawk after she'd explained to us what had to be done. There were two piles, the ones returned that day and the ones the house elves had found left behind in dormitories and classrooms over the holidays. A few had even been found on the roof this year. So we'd sat there, noting down the titles, authors or compilers, and library codes, hissing insults at each other, careful to not let Pince hear us. Write down details, sort on trolley, walk around returning them to their shelves when the trolley was full. All the while sniping at each other and thinking up more and more elaborate threats.

One point I'd lost it and grabbed his arm, pushing at his sleeve a little. He pulled away but I saw the cuts that were still healing. I'd said something about 'angering Daddy' and he laughed. A real laugh. Said his father would never hurt him, and I couldn't really picture him lying about that. Not after that laugh. But he wouldn't say what the cuts were from. So I said he made them himself and he just smiled at me, shaking his head.

I believed him. He's not the type to damage himself. Too proud, too vain. I never asked about them again.

Next time we were returning books that night, I asked him, just said it as honestly as I could. Wanted to know what he really would do to me if he had the chance. He smiled, leaning in and I shivered.

'Strip you naked and draw your blood.' I saw his pupils dilate. 'I'd give it back, don't worry. Wouldn't be any fun if you died.'

Told him he was crazy. He only smiled. 'And then I'd get to fuck you.' He placed the last book in the shelf and walked away, leaving me, my mouth open, to push the trolley back to our desk.

It only took me two weeks of thinking about it, picturing it, wondering if he would, for me to turn up in his room one night, asking him if he'd go through with it. A soft laugh and gentle words telling me to take my clothes off and find out.


"Because I need this?"

I open my eyes and look to him. "Yeah."

"And what if I didn't? What if I just wanted it?"

I shrugged.

"Are you trying to save me, Harry?"

"No." Nothing to save him from, everyone's safe now. Safe, safer, whatever.

"Do you like this?" He never seems to yell anymore. He used to, just before the end, no more stress, I guess.

"Sometimes."

His hand back on my chest now, finger tips sliding up, down, up, down. "But not always?"

"I always like some of the things." I want the questions over, they make me uncomfortable. Back to the needle, back to the touching, that's where I want to be.

"These things?" Then he kisses me, starts out soft, always becomes harder. I like it like that, he knows it. He pulls away. "Are you just here for the sex, now?"

"Yes." Didn't used to be, used to like the needle, still do but not as much. Now I just wait it out, knowing what always follows. Waiting for that part.

Hear him pick up the needle and I smile because we're finally getting back to the program. But the smile fades as I hear the click of its container. I don't want him to go, we're not finished yet. And he doesn't and I'm confused. He slides back to standing on the floor, my knees are starting to ache, because the edge of the table it pressing in behind them. Can feel the wood pressing into the tiny prick mark on my left leg.

Then his hands, gently rubbing my thighs, I feel a kiss to the one with the mark, right over where the needle had been. I raise myself up on my elbows, meaning to ask why the rules had changed but decided against saying anything as I feel his fingers drift up my erection. Can see him better now, clouds are going, watch as he leans forwards and then I sigh. Warm, wet, wonderful. Always feels good, even when I didn't stop him with the syringe.

I smile as one of his hand moves around to my lower back, helping him keep his balance. I shiver when his tongue slides across the tip, and then it's back down, sliding, sucking, making me smile. I don't make a noise as I cum, but I think I can hear my heart pounding. He stands up and I move to lie back down.

Instead he hands me my robe. "You're shivering."

"I'm not cold."

"We have to go." Sometimes I get really sick of his constantly low tone. But I don't push the subject now. He helps me to my feet and drapes the garment over my shoulders. "I really should go and pack."

I should too, last day of Hogwarts. Have to catch the train home tomorrow, then have to sort out what to do with the rest of my life. But I'm still confused about his behaviour. And not just tonight. Ever since I got back from the hospital he's been different. I know I was injured pretty badly, but I'd made a full recovery. So there's nothing there to explain why he rarely accepts my offer of having me. "I guess I'll see you on the train."

"Yeah." I offer back weakly.

As Draco walks away, I can feel the part of me that doesn't want him to.



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