A/N: Takes place in sixth year; the events of HBP are not part of this story.

Warnings: This is a Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy romance story, if you do not like such a paring then I suggest not reading it.

Disclaimer: I do not own these characters nor do I make money from this story, JKR is the rightful owner-but I'll play with them all I want.

Mirror Image

Chapter One:

The emptiness of my reflection

Another lonely night, another lonely walk through the all too familiar corridors of Hogwarts, his home.

A home without a family

Even though it was only two weeks into sixth year much had changed for Harry Potter, but that was hardly a surprise. However it was what had changed that shocked the Gryffindor.

Ron and Hermione had formed a duet in there adventurous trio and while Harry was happy for them he was once again back where he had started: alone.

There was once a time when his two best friends would wait for him in the common room in the morning and together they would walk down for breakfast, but that was no more. There was once a time when Hogsmeade trips involved all three of them, but now it was only two and Harry was not one of them. There was once a time where Ron, Hermione, and Harry would fit in together as one, but that too was no more.

There eyes where only for each other, there hearts held no more room and no more did Harry belong.

Then there was Sirius and that was a subject the Gryffindor strictly avoided-no matter what. And while it was old news to every body else, for Harry it was a new experience of loss every day. No more letters to and from Sirius, no more Christmas with Sirius-not that he had all that many with the man. Sirius was gone and that thought hit Harry like a tone of bricks every morning when he would wake with the vision of his death fresh in his mind and it would only lead Harry right where he started: alone.

All in all Harry just wanted to jump off the ledge of the Owlery and end it all. He was tired of only being seen as the-boy-who-lived, he was tired of the people whom he had once thought of as best friends, he was tired of Dumbledore, of Snape, of Voldemort, of Slytherin vs. Gryffindor, he was tired of Draco Malfoy…

Draco Malfoy

No, he was grateful for that Slytherin prince, despite his ignorance. Malfoy was the only student, no person Harry knew that didn't pity him or ignore him. Oh sure Draco Malfoy loathed him, but he was still there to yell at Harry, to notice Harry was alive even if the blond didn't like it. He was still there to fight with Harry and to make him feel something other then the numbing emptiness inside. No, Draco Malfoy was still there and for some odd reason beyond explanation that made life livable for the Gryffindor.

Draco Malfoy had not left him cold an alone.

And so here he was, walking the uninhabited halls of the dungeons, thinking about Malfoy and feeling utterly solitary. Maybe he was just losing his mind.

Putting a bock on his self-pitying thoughts and turning a few more corners Harry found himself face to face with the door leading to the Slytherin common room. 'Why do I always end up here?' the Gryffindor wondered silently.

This was where he found himself every night-with out meaning or thought. Normally the door to the Slytherin dorms would have been Harry's turning point, where at once he would head back to the Gryffindor tower. But tonight, something inside was nudging at him to keep going.

Even though his instincts in the past had always seemed to either get him in trouble or hurt someone he loved, Harry couldn't help but listen to the voice within him-the voice telling him that if he just kept walking….

Faster and faster, deeper and deeper Harry raced down the dungeons, his heart was pulsing so harshly against his chest that it could almost be considered painful, but this feeling-he had to find it, what ever it was.

Before Harry even had the chance to turn another corner the teen tripped gawkily over his socked feet, falling face first onto the jagged stone floor and losing his now broken glasses in the process.

He groaned in the dead stillness of the night, his nose and head where throbbing, the nudging urge he had been feeling only moments ago was now gone and he was practically blind with out his glasses-not to mention he was surrounded by the cold, murky gloom of the dungeons.

"Just fucking brilliant" Harry mumbled to himself as he began to crawl on the stone floor in desperate search of his glasses.

Sliding his hands against the stone tanned golden fingers suddenly coiled around an icy solid metal. The feeling was back, only it was flowing though the raven-haired boys body like liquid fire-coming straight from the object now tight in his grasp.

Even though he could hardly see, the article in question began to glow with an angelic light, it was both calming and fierce and its unearthly radiance felt like a dream-a dream so real and faultless that Harry would not bring himself to look away.

Gently, turning the item in his hand the boy let out a small gasp, "it's a mirror, but why don't I have a reflection?" the Gryffindor questioned. "It is almost as if it knows how empty I am inside…so empty that I don't even have a reflection."

As if on cue the glass of the metallic mirror began to shimmer and mold, causing the trance like Harry Potter to gaze at it in mechanical wonder. It began to show flashes of small images that the teen could vaguely make out as glitches from his past; soon the whole object was shaking in his tight hold and the light of its glow turning to rich and powerful silver.

The glow milked its way around the boy like a snake coiling its helpless pray, but Harry was too focused on the slideshow of his memories before him to notice. His body was filled with electric desire and contentment as he drew himself closer and closer to the elegant mirror. A wave of energy and illumination grasped onto the raven-haired boy, swirling about him like a storm and in one thundering flash Harry Potter and the mirror where gone, leaving only trade mark spectacles and the staling of time in their trail.

A/N: yeah I know it's short, but no worries the following chapters will be longer-just wanted to get this chapter out of the way. Also I'm still in search of a beta so my grammar and such I'm sure is fairly horrible, but please don't flame me for it. Thanks for reading and reviews would be lovely.