The silence was overwhelming and for a long, scary moment, Draco was convinced that Harry was going to push him away. He couldn't look at Harry's face as he discovered the state of Draco's chest, but the wait almost felt like torture. It was impossible to tell how Harry was going to react to what he was seeing. It was very ugly and he knew that it was a lot to take in, but he hoped that Harry's reaction wouldn't be too bad.<br/>However, once Harry finally spoke, Draco almost wished that he had had a bad reaction. The softness in Harry's voice was almost too much for him to bear and it took everything in him to not burst into tears then and there. The last thing he wanted to do was to make Harry feel guilty about what he had done; it had happened so many years ago and that had not been what he had tried to do when he showed Harry the scars.<br/>"Don't," he breathed, biting down hard on his bottom lip and really starting to wish that he wasn't about to have this conversation while straddling Harry, but he couldn't very well change that now. He would just have to go through with it like this. "I don't want you to feel bad," he added, not spoken a whole lot louder this time, "which is why I didn't want to show you in the first place."