Ladies Wood
Slightly AU set after a few years after HBP. Draco rescues his father from Azkaban but the journey home has a few surprises along the way (includes OC's and will be rather 'muggle' orientated) possible pairings LM/OC DM/HrG
Rated M for language and implied non-con
Disclaimer: I own nothing apart from the plot and my own characters the rest is down to JKR
Reunion
The rain fell in sheets over the rocky densely tree covered island that held the prison of Azkaban. The wind was blowing up a ferocious storm yet it did not bother the small sleek and rather wet ferret as he moved like a streak of white lightning through the trees to his goal. Slipping swiftly through the gates, he made his way through the prison his nose twitching for a familiar smell. The odour would have been overpowering and unbearable in his human form but it bothered the little ferret not. Then he found who he was looking for and slid through the bars of the cell with ease.
With a final check around the ferret changed with ease and stood over the once elegant and powerful Lucius Malfoy who was now a broken man. "Father" the young man said with a slight shiver in his voice, the before him turned his head in the general direction but his eyes were unfocused. Draco fell to his knees and clasped his father's face with both hands "Father, I have come for you" he said softly, yet the watery grey orbs remained the same.
"Father, I know you can hear me, why have you not got yourself out before now?" it pained him to see his Father like this but he knew that his Father was animagus like he was.
"Father, we don't have much time. I came here via the prison boat but we will need to fly back, Father please for my sake you have to change" Draco knew that if he couldn't get through to his Father then he would be stuck here with no wand until the next boat back to the mainland and he had no idea when that would be.
"Think Father think, is there anything, even just one small thing that you can think of that you wish you could, damm, I don't know, put right or…..or" Draco was lost for words in a last ditch attempt then he noticed a glint of something in his Fathers eyes and a familiar smirk flickered on his lips.
Draco stood up and helped his Father from the floor, within seconds the arm he was holding seemed to disappear and Draco was then looking a rather dishevelled albeit regal falcon and just as quick the ferret was now looking into the eyes of the falcon and with a slight nod the strange pair made their way out of the cell and towards freedom.
The darkness must go
Down the river of night's dreaming
Flow morphia slow
Let the sun and light come streaming
Into my life, into my life
(There's a Light-Rocky Horror Show)
The ferret knew he was going to have one hell of a sore neck once this was over, that's if he made it he thought as the falcon flew dangerously close to the sea, at some point the ferret was sure that his back legs had made contact with the water. But before he could ponder that thought there was land in sight but the falcon was showing no signs of slowing up. A swift turn found the falcon with a ferret in his mouth moving away from the land and following the River Thames towards London. There was sheer terror in the ferrets eyes now, not to mention the pain in his neck, what in the hell was this lunatic thinking! In the distance the ferret could just make out a bridge, then without warning the falcon turned sharply to the left leaving the ferret with the only consolation that there was land below now.
The pair came to a bone crunching halt on the grass, transforming immediately Draco put a hand to his neck and felt the warm blood coming from what felt like bite marks, he then turned and looked down at the falcon who was shuddering, a closer inspection revealed the bird of prey's right leg was snapped at the knee. "Father, oh fucking hell" the panic evident in his voice as the bird began to convert back to its human form.
Draco stared down at his Father's leg and the bile rose in his own throat, the lower leg was at an alarming odd angle and the knee bone was showing amongst the body tissue and ……Draco was throwing up what little contents he had in his stomach. "Draco….son" rasped a voice "over there" Draco, bend doubled, turned in his Fathers direction to see him pointing towards a well lit low rise building in the not so far distance. Draco looked at his Father, somewhat perturbed but the last thing that Lucius mumbled before losing consciousness was "take me there"
A/N This is my first fanfic, please be gentle with me