A Love So Tender

Pairing: Harry/Draco

Rating: R

Warnings: it's SLASH that means m/m love, don't like don't read

Disclaimer: I own nothing, sadly, and am not making money in any way by writing this.

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Chapter 1 – Prologue

Harry Potter sat beside his father waiting to be called back in to the exam room. He was at Doctors Office that day because he needed to get his eyes checked. Harry recently found out he had glaucoma which is an eye condition where the fluid in the front of the eyes can't escape through the drainage pathways, that are suppose to drain the fluid from your eyes. As a result, pressure builds up and most if not all vision will be lost unless treatment is given as quickly as possible.

Harry has always had problems with his eyes since he was 8, now he was 10-going-on-11 and for the past two years, his eyes were doing ok until last month. Tremendously bad headaches plagued Harry and he was constantly complaining of them, so his father thought a visit to the family doctor couldn't hurt. People don't usually find out that headaches are a symptom of glaucoma until a doctor tells them and by this time, the pressure is high, high enough to cause some visual disturbances. And this was exactly what was happening to poor Harry.

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"Harry Potter" a rather round woman called sticking her head out of the doorway from across the hall.

Harry and his father stood up and went back to the exam room with nurse Pomfrey. The main reason why Harry and his father were there that day was because he started having headaches very badly that week the front of his forehead hurt really badly and his vision was constantly blurring.

Once back in the exam room, nurse Pomfrey the checked Harry over and clearly noticed the signs of glaucoma. She when tot check the pressure build up in his eyes to see how bad he was off. After putting a drop in his eye that numbed it so it wouldn't feel the tip of the measuring tool press against it. She frowned and paused for a moment.

"What's wrong?" Mr. Potter asked getting concerned.

"The pressure appears to be out of the normal range. The pressure is up to 62, but I'm going to have Dr. Snape check it again."

Harry began to get even more afraid than he had already been. He knew from previous appointments with Dr. Snape that certain procedures could be Attempted, surgical procedures that is and he couldn't handle the thought of any surgery, much less surgery on his eyes.

The nurse left and a few minutes later Dr. Snape came in to the room.

"Hello Mr. Potter," he said in a sharp almost annoyed voice.

"H- hello Dr. Snape," Harry said with a slight studder. "It's bad isn't it?"

Dr. Snape pulled up a chair in front of Harry and his father and sat directly in front of Harry, a small smirk on his face.

"Harry," he began. "I will do the usual parts of this eye exam, but I'll be straight with you. I'm not very optimistic based on the reading Poppy took. I'll take another reading, and I'll look at your eye to see if there's any blood vessels that are broken, but I don't see any conventional means helping." He said with gleam in his eye.

Dr. Snape took another reading, and this time it was 68. He then used a slit lamp to look at the back of Harry's eye. Moving the slit lamp away from Harry, he reclaimed his seat in front of him.

"Well, there's a large collection of blood in the front of the eye, most likely due to the elevated pressure in the eye. I'm going to strongly recommend surgery." Snape said with a creepy smile on his face. Dr. Snape had an odd fascination with surgery that almost made a patient afraid to get in the operation room with him. But then again he had the highest success rate.

"I know you can't see much anymore, but I'm going this rout mainly because of pain management. You should know that the headaches can get even worse then they are now."

"I know the pain is really bad, but are there no medications that could possibly lower the pressure quickly?"

"Well, there is a pill that is sulfur-based, one of my own creation, but I have great concerns with giving it to you."

"What are the risks?" Mr. Potter asked.

"Well first off, the pill is called Veritaserum, and it tries to do what the eye drops can't do as well. Anyway, there's a risk of losing feeling in the fingers, and toes, nausea, bad tastes with certain food or drink and eventually, it could possibly go in to the blood stream and cause anemia among other rather nasty things."

"And that actually helps" Harry said struggling to hold back tears.

" Yes Mr. Potter I does help your eyes work normally again but every thing has side affects." Snape Sneered at the boy for insulting his medication.

"I think it's clear what has to be done." Mr. potter said.

"I really wish there was more I could do," Dr. Snape said with fake concern on his face. "It's June right now, and the only good thing of this is that by the time you get back to school, you'll have recovered enough to go back. I know that's probably not an appropriate thing to talk about at this moment in time, but-'''."

"You're right," Harry interrupted. "It's not an appropriate thing to talk about this right now. Anyway, what surgery will you be performing?"

"I'd like to implant a small drainage tube in your eye. It will be a narrow tube that goes in a horizontal position in the front of the eye and a collection plate goes in the back of the eye. Once that's implanted, the fluid will drain through this tube, back into the collection plate, then to a piece of tissue that absorbs the fluid. The tubes will regulate the pressure and keep it down to safe levels."

"What about after the surgery is completed?" Mr. Potter asked.

"I'll put Harry on an eye drops form of Asphodel to keep down inflammation down and lower the risk of infection, and I'll also prescribe another eye drop to help control the pupil of the eye, it will paralyze it to help the healing."

"Will I have to be careful?" Harry asked.

"Yes, you stupid boy. Do you want to land your self back in surgery. You'll not be able to do your normal activities for three weeks. The tube has about a 2 week window of opportunity in witch it can slip out of it's position. Should that happen, knowing you it will, I'd have to reposition it."

"And you'll be doing my surgery or can I have a nicer doctor?"

" You stupid boy, I'll have you know that I'm a master in my field. You should feel grateful I'm doing this simple surgery on you. But, if you would rather have a less capable doctor do your -"

" Mr. Snape I apologize for my son, we would love for you to do the Surgery for Harry." Mr. Potter said looking down at Harry with a disapproving look.

"Yes, I can do it for you. But, I can always recommend someone else later on if Harry doesn't feel comfortable."

He said glaring at Harry.

"No. . . . I want you to do it."

"Well then lets get the process started," Dr. Snape said grinning. "I'd like to do it next Tuesday. I'm concerned that if we wait too long, more damage will occur."

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After the appointment was finished, Harry and his father walked out to the car and got in. Harry couldn't hold back his tears any longer and started crying. His father held him tight and ran his fingers through Harry's messy hair.

The day of Harry's surgery came in the form of a dark rainy cold morning Harry finished his shower and as he dried off, he couldn't stop shaking. That day of last week was the most horrifying day of his life, or so he thought that day was, but today was even worse. There was also something else that was bothering Harry. Since he beginning of the year he had been having odd feelings about other boys. he knew he liked guys more then girls because when the other boys talked about kissing other girls he only to kiss the boys that we talking about them. He felt towards girls only friendship, and with guys, he felt an odd pull towards them. He had fantasies about holding and being kissed by guys, more in to the hugging and kissing aspects of relationships he had never been told about before, not with guys or girls.

He had a great fear about telling his father. He knew his father was

accepting of some his weird habits like talking to snakes. But, for some reason he felt that this was different then just pretending that snakes could understand what you were saying.

Harry's thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. He called

for his dad to come in. The door opened "Are you almost ready?" his father said

"Yeah. I just have to get my hair brushed and I'll be ready."

"Okay."

Harry brushed his untamable hair and left the bathroom and went to the front of the house. He put on his shoes and waited for his dad to come in to the kitchen where he was standing. His father came in and then they left for the hospital.

Harry was in a daze, every thing flew bye. And soon he was dressed in one of the hospital gowns and was falling asleep for his operation.

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Harry awoke slowly from the anesthesia. He felt pain above his right eye which was the eye that was effected by the glaucoma. He also felt more tired than he ever thought humanly possible.

"Harry," Dr. Snape said. "Harry, are you awake boy?"

"Huh. . . . . what," Harry said weakly.

"It's Dr. Snape. I want to see how you were doing. Your surgery is done. It went perfectly as expected, no other doctors needed boy."

Harry blushed "It's over. . . right?"

"Yes. It's over. Do you feel up drinking some water in the other room?"

"No, not now. I'm too tired."

"Fine. I'll check back in a while.

"Where am I?"

"You're in the recovery room now."

"Oh."

Dr. Snape left and thirty minutes later, Harry felt awake enough to go to the room where his father was waiting. He lay in a reclining chair and every few minutes would take small sips of water that his father had for him.

The anesthetics still keeping him in a haze, and the pain of his eye, Harry still had fear about his father finding out about his new oddity. The fear was beginning to waver a bit mainly because of how

Caring His father always is. Harry didn't think of his father

as An uncaring man at all, he just had a major fear of his dad's reactions. He just always wanted his dad to be pleased with him.

"Dad," Harry said in a whisper. "Could you promise me that no matter

what, you'll always be there for me?"

"Of course son, I love you" Mr. Potter said. "Of course I'll always be here for you, no matter what."

"You promise?"

"Yes I do son."

"Okay."

Harry felt a little reassured and he just lay there until nurse Pomfrey came to give he and his father post-operative instructions. A few minutes later Harry and his father left the hospital to go back home.

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AN: well the plot doesn't involve any magic and the characters are a bit OC but It will change later. And Snape is Harry's doctor and not his teacher because you will see him more as Harry's doctor. I'm also making James a single parent. Who do you think I should pair him with later? Also I'm looking for a bata reader please message me if you would like the job. I plan to update weekly.