Chapter 2
"Draco wake up. You've gotta eat. You've barely slept or eaten since last Sunday. Wake up." Blaise was shaking his shoulders.
"No thanks, I'm fine here" Draco groaned cacooning himself in his
blankets.
"Draco, c'mon you have to eat. You deserve more than less than an hour of sleep and one meal every other day"
"What I deserve is for you to leave me alone"
"Draco. It's Friday. You get to actually sleep tomorrow. And you have to eat sometime. You can't ruin yourself like this. You quit quiddich, your grades are close to shit, and you haven't said anything about anything since the beginning of the school year. Where are your-"
"Opinions? Thoughts? Feelings? I've heard this a million times Blaise." Draco was starting to feel bad, and rolled twards Blaise and into his arms off the bed.
"I know, but Draco, you can't let what your family did to you ruin your life." Blaise set Draco down on his feet. He handed him his button up and tie, and started to look for Dracos jeans.
"It wasn't my whole family. It wasn't my mom Blaise." Draco muttered
Nodding, the taller boy handed Draco the only clean pair of Dracos pants he could find, and tossed Dracos shoes at him. When the blonde boy had gotten his pants on, Blaise knelt down and tied Dracos shoes.
"Ready? Let's go."
"Carry me?" Draco pouted
"You're not a kid Draco"
"Please? I'm not in the mood for walking today."
"Ugh. Fine. But just this once." That's what he had said the last time, (3 days ago)
"Thanks Zambini"
Blaise groaned, he hated being called that, he leaned down and let Malloy climb onto his back and get settled.
"Jesus Draco, how much do you weigh?"
"Last I checked? 47.17 kilos"
"What the hell man, you need to eat"
"Eating is boring, and a waste of time, now, ONWARD MIGHTY STEED" Blaise was less than impressed by this comment, but made his way to the great hall fairly quickly for carrying the Queen of Extistentialism on your back up two flights of stairs and halfway through a castle.
Blaise set Draco down on the bench next to him, and grabbed himself a plate of eggs and toast, and an apple and toast for Draco.
"Thanks B" Draco muttered with a mouthful of green apple.
Blaise ate his breakfast, and tried to make conversation with the kids around him. That never worked, even Pansy wouldn't talk to him anymore, Blaise was one of few Slytherins who had condemned anyone involved with the Dark Lord. He had been working his ass off to get muggle classes implemented as required, math, literacy, the works, and to make sure that muggleborns weren't restricted by their blood status as to which house they where sorted into. He also seemed to be the only person in the world who had the ability and patience to take care of the mess sitting next to him.
Harry sat across the hall, staring ahead blankly.
"Harry? Harry did you hear me?" Hermione snapped in front of his face.
"Sorry, I just spaced out for a few, what?"
"I asked if you would want to start DA again, even without the threat of a war right away, if kids aren't educated, they'll feel rejected and not involved, they won't know how to protect themselves, something bad could happen to them."
"I know, I will, eventually."
"Also, there's a S.P.E.W. meeting tonight, and I want you both there"
"I have to plan for DA. Sorry 'Mione" Harry smiled unapologetically.
"And your excuse Ron?"
Ron jumped at hearing his name,
"What?"
Hermione repeated herself.
"Don't wanna? I'll make it up to you promise babe" Hermione sighed, and said goodbye to the boys.
She walked into the Slytherin common room, and hung up the S.P.E.W. posters on the builtin board, there was little hope that anyone would come, but it was worth a shot.
She went to class. Draco did not, he told Blaise he wasn't in the mood for herbology, and escaped back to the common room. He sat on the couch and stared at the fire. Spotting the S.P.E.W posters, he tore one off the mantle.
'Room of Requirement, immediately after last class.'
Draco decided to go. He'd always liked house elves, why not spend more time with them? He went to History of Magic.
Blaise was waiting for him, and handed Draco notes from herbology. Draco handed him the crumpled poster from earlier.
"What's this?"
"Saw something that might interest you, we're going." That was Dracos code word for I want to do this, you're coming, if anyone asks, you made me come.
"Alright Draco. You gonna pay attention today?"
"Nah." Draco leaned back into his chair. He stared at Harry, tracing his facial structure with his eyes, lips first, jaw, cheekbones, nose, eyes, and hair.
'God, his hair. It's so fucking cliché but god do I want to pull it, pull it and touch it, and stroke it. The pain and comfort it would provide Harry,' Draco had to stop doing this in class, these thoughts never went anywhere PG. Plus, Weasly kept looking at him.
Muggle studies was boring, and easy. It was one of three classes in which he did his work. Dada? Nope, he had fought with, for, and against the Dark Lord, he knew dark magic inside and out.
Lunch consisted of Draco not eating and Blaise getting worked up over it.
"God dammit Draco, you have to eat."
"I did."
"This morning doesn't count. You had an apple,at least have a sandwich or something."
"Fine" Draco grabbed a turkey sandwich, he cut it into triangles, and then into fourths, miticulusly cutting off the crusts in the process. He ate half of it before eating two carrot sticks, and leaving the rest on his plate. Blaise was subdued.
The rest of the day was boring. After alchemy, his only class without Blaise, the two met up to go to the RoR. Blaise carried Draco again.
There where two other people in the room, Granger, and Ginny Weasly. Everyone stopped talking ubruptly.
"Are you sure you two don't have the wrong room?" Ginny, scoffed.
"Positive, Ginger" Blaise smirked,
"Ginny."
"Isn't that what I said?"
Draco sat down on a beanbag that was next to where Blaise was standing.
"Welcome to S.P.E.W." Hermione sat down in an arm chair and gestured for everyone to do the same.
"Luna will join us soon, hopefully, but until then, let's get started. As this is the first meeting of the month, we'll go over the minutes, the treasury statement, and our mission statement. And because Zam- erm, Blaise and Draco have joined us today, we'll take questions after that. Minutes Ginny?"
"Oh, um yeah, last week, see, last week we held-we held a meetin', and we had a few house elves join us, and we had them let us know- know their needs, and their wants, and their opinions- when it comes to S.P.E.W. and forming a- a union."
Draco nodded at her, smiling. 'Beings who do so much for wizards deserve repayment, or at the very least to be viewed as something other than disposable'
"We also, started a fundraising campaign, and we've made 14 galleons, 12 knuts, and 17 sickles." Luna had appeared in the room without warning. "Draco, Blaise? Hello"
"Hello." Draco muttered on behalf of both of them.
" Welcome, and the first meeting of a month is a recap of what we've done. Now that that is out of the way, S.P.E.W. stands for Society of the Promotion of Elvish Welfare. And in short, as S.P.E.W. we work to use our privlage as wizards to bring any species that is viewed as less than us to be seen as equal. I'm glad that the two of you have decided to join our cause," Hermiones reciting skills where impressive to say the least.
"Any questions?"
Blaise shook his head, and looked at Draco expectantly.
"Um, yeah, what-I mean, how do you plan about bringing equality without lowering the status of wizards, I mean, not to offend, but how will everyone be equal, if we have all been stripped of our rights and become nothing but servants?" Draco was never very eloquent.
"You see Draco, the plan is not to lower wizards, but rather raise everyone to be able to make the same decisions and live the same lives as wizards, regardless of weather they are wizards or not." The same could not be said for Luna.
"Makes sense."
"Of course it does, now if there are no more questions I, personally would like to make it back before supper is over."