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Draco was in his room at Hogwarts, this was the beginning of his eight year at the school. Everything felt different now, some of his friends had decided to come to the extra year and so had he. What else should he have done? His father was in Azkaban and his mother was at that moment going through the divorce so that she could move away. Her plan was to leave the country and move to France. She had offered Draco to come with her but he knew what that would have led to, matchmaking from hell. No she could survive just fine on her own. His mother was an alpha so she didn't have any problems leaving her mate and his father was also an alpha, and they had never really bonded so his father wouldn't feel much about breaking their contract in marriage either.
Draco sat himself down on his bed and started unpacking his trunk. Neatly packed robes were the first things he pulled out. If there was something he would miss about his mother is was her great sense of fashion. Under the robes were some pants and sweaters in different colours and materials. Draco moved a bit slowly while he unpacked, if it was because he dreaded to acctually finish he did not know but he was willing to bet money on it. Even if he was looking forward to begin the new term he was a bit terrified of what the others would think when they saw him.
At the bottom of the trunk next to some of his ties was a small golden box. Before the pills that suppressed his ranking had been stored in that box. As embarrassing as it was he, Draco Malfoy was and would always be an omega. He still remembered when his father had told him about his birth.
The day of Draco's birth his mother had been so happy, receiving her first child. But even if she had been happy, his father had been furious, that child that his wife held in her arms was an omega. His fathers first reaction had been wanting to scream and tell his wife that she must have cheated and that the child was not his, but that hair on the baby's head was the exact same color as Lucius hair. A sad day was what his father often said when he referred to Draco's birthday. Now you might wonder why the Malfoys didn't get more children but that were easy to explain. Narcissa and Lucius were both alphas so they had a bit more difficulties getting pregnant than other couples but somehow they did manage to get Draco. Narcissa was the only one that referred to her son as a miracle.
The pills had been specially made only for him so that he could suppress his omega rank and pose as an alpha. But as his father was now in Azkaban and wouldn't come out ever again Draco didn't receive more pills. He didn't want any either, now that the war was over he just wanted to forget about his sad childhood and continue with his new life. Even if that was the truth he was still dreading the day when his omega scent would be so strong that others would feel it too. Draco knew that he had been horrible during all those years and he just knew that the alphas of the school would torment him. But he deserved it, all of it. Luckily he had his wand that he could use if the alphas got out of hand. But the wand wouldn't be able to stop him if he was ordered by an alpha to do something. A shiver went down his spine at that thought.
"OMG Draco, you are here!" Blaise yelled as he ran through the dooropening into the room. "I was worried that you would change your mind about coming to school." With fast movements he was by Draco's side and looked at the object in his hands. "Oh, the suppressing medication?" He was one of those few who knew about Draco's ranking.
"Yeah." Draco lifted the lid of the box and showed his friend that the box was empty.
"What? Where are the pills? Have you ordered more?" Blaise stood up and looked at Draco with wide eyes.
"No, I am done hiding. I will stop pretending to be an alpha just to make my father, who is never coming home, happy." Draco closed the lid of the box and put it carefully on his desk.
"Wow that's really brave of you, or foolish." Blaise was impressed by Draco's decision as he knew that Draco thought it was embarrassing to be an omega. An omega craved contact by its mate, they were often weak, small and was always on the receiving end.
"Yeah I think so too, it is foolish of me but if it goes bad you will always be there to protect me, right?" Draco sneered at his friend and Blaise knew that if anyone was brave enough to do something to Draco they would need stitches. So he was sure that if anyone needed protection it sure as hell wasn't Draco.
"Of course, your my mate!"
"Yeah but not your mate mate!" Draco said and this caused Blaise to laugh. Only Draco could say something like that with a stern expression on his face.
"No, even if you are good looking for a guy I still like my beta lady." Blaise smiled as Draco raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean? Wait have you met your mate?" Draco was a slight bit jealous of Blaise, he also wanted to have a mate to share his life with.
"I just started to find a certain woman, well,,, sexy as hell." Blaise looked down on the floor and didn't dare to look Draco in the eyes.
"Who?" Draco asked suspiciously.
"Pansy Parkinson." Blaise whispered. Draco felt a huge relief as he heard that answer. Pansy really liked Draco and used to call him hers. But he had tried for so long to show her that he didn't feel that way for her and then the war came.
She sadly heard something in the war that she just shouldn't have heard. Draco had stood in the chambers and muttered "Why fucking him of all bloody people? Why was it that damned Potter? Couldn't it have been someone else? Did he have to come and save me? Fuck! Why do I feel so?! It only makes it more difficult to hate him! I hate- fuck- I ha—hat—hate,,, why is it so difficult?" And then she had heard Draco whisper "I love you Potter" into the wall. This had made her fall from where she had been hiding and they had met up and talked it over during the summer. She was now another person in school that knew of his ranking. It was a bit of fun to hear that she wasn't that surprised to begin with and that she actually had been thinking that I was gay for some time and because of my drama and meek body she had started to wonder if my ranking really was an alpha. Draco thought as he started pack away some of his clothes.
"It is great that you like her! She might give you a chance this year!" Draco said and pulled up a shirt from his trunk.
"Sure and that she has been crushing on you for the last five years counts as nothing?" Blaise laid himself down on Draco's bed.
"She knows about my ranking so I think you will be okay." Draco said as nonchalant as possible.
"Wait what?!" Blaise sat himself up in record time and looked at Draco. "How, when, why?"
"I told her this summer." Draco started pulling at one of his socks from the pile of clothes on the bed and tried his best to find the other one. "Where is that damn sock?" He looked deeper into the pile.
"And your telling me this now? You should have told me before!" Blaise hurried to the door. "Wish me luck I have to start courting her now!" Then he disappeared through the door and out into the corridor. Draco let out a heavy breath and looked at his room.
It was a single bedroom, with a separate bathroom. Students were often divided in grades and ranking. The only ones in Slytherin back to the eight year was all betas and alphas, then it was him, the only omega, so he got to sleep alone in his room. It was the best solution really, because the scent alone especially during his heat would drive any alphas or betas insane. That was why the school had rooms for each grade so that the classmates could sleep together and then rooms that divided people into their ranking to make sure that omegas slept in the same room as omegas etc. But because he had been taking pills until now he had been staying in a room with the alphas in his class.
It felt good to be back, to have a chance to be a better person. Then Draco's thoughts took a turn, he started to think about when the affect of the pills would wear off. When would he start to smell like the omega he was? Oh dear Merlin what would Potter think? Harry bloody Potter he was the alpha over the alphas. He had the strongest scent in school and he had an even stronger alpha than any of the teachers. Potter could have anyone he wanted in the school, anyone. Someday he would feel a scent coming from an omega or beta that would capture his attention and then he would be hooked. Yeah someday Potter would feel the scent that would drive him insane if he couldn't mark that person at that very spot. What if he already had marked someone? What if he in that moment was telling his friends about his mate? Draco shook his head, why was he thinking of Potter now? He should be concentrating on getting ready to move to the great hall for some food. I wonder if I will meet Potter on my way... NO what am I thinking?! Draco decided to stop what he was doing and take a quick but needed shower to cool his head.
At the great hall there were lot of pupils already sitting down and enjoying their food as Draco, Blaise and Pansy walked in. Almost everyone stopped talking the moment they saw Draco and some even yelled "Death eater!" Draco felt shame running through his body and he started to doubt his decision to come to Hogwarts at all but was surprised when Potter stood up from his seat and instead of killing Draco on the spot he yelled, "The war is over abd Malfoy has as much right to be here as all of you!" If many went silent before it was nothing compare to when Harry had spoken. Not a single sound was made in the room and everyone looked in shock to see Harry Potter defend his enemy.
"I don't need you to fend for me Potter." Draco said as he walked into the room and passed the golden trio.
"Nice to see you too Malfoy." Harry said and started eating again. Ron looked at his mate and started saying that he shouldn't be nice to such a git as Malfoy.
Draco hurried to an empty seat at the Slytherin table with both Blaise and Pansy after him.
After they sat themselves down and started to eat Pansy leaned in towards Draco. "So how are you feeling hun? Having your prince charming defend you in front of all these people?" She smiled and gave Draco a nudge on his shoulder.
"Shut it Pansy!" Draco said right before he started to chew on a sandwich.
"Feisty this morning aren't we?" Pansy laughed and turned her attention towards Blaise. My prince charming? Don't make me laugh! Draco thought as he glanced over to the dark haired alpha with those green dreamy eyes.