Lucius intense gaze broke from the flickering fire as his partner walked into the room. "How is he Siri? How's the cub?" He asked as he rose from his chair to meet the exhausted man.

"He woke, and we talked for a moment, but he was still in considerable pain and he was about to freak out a little bit, so I gave him another Dreamless Sleep to keep him from hurting himself worse." Sirius replied sadly.

"Severus will be here before breakfast in the morning with healing potions and salves. From the sounds of Harry's injuries he thinks it may take several weeks of constantly applied salves to repair his skin injuries to avoid scars and possibly heal some of the wounds which have already scarred." Lucius said gently.

"I think we can handle a few weeks of helping him heal" Siri said as he snuggled into Lucius' loving arms. "The emotional impact this ordeal has had on him will take longer than a few weeks to heal. He'll be here with us for a while, I think."

Lucius sighed, knowing he was about to have a very unhappy husband. "I think you misunderstand me Siri. Severus, with his training as a trauma healer, will have to be the one to administer the potions and salves. He knows the proper dosages and applications to prevent further pain to Harry and to speed the healing process. Without Severus, it could take months to properly heal Harry unless he wanted to go to St. Mungo's."

"Weeks? Fuck, Luc! I don't know if Harry can make it through several weeks of Snape being here too. He seemed so uneasy at the thought of just being in Malfoy Manor, with you and Drac here. And you know he thinks that Severus hates him, after the way things always seemed to go in his potions classes."

"You'll help him Siri. I'll help him, and Draco will help him too. Everyone who loves him will help him heal from the horrible things that have been done to him." Luc reminded him.

"I know Luc, but I'm not sure that my cub will ever be the same. I can't imagine anyone surviving the things that he's survived, seeing the things that he's seen and coming out intact. I don't think I could do it. I don't think I know anyone who could." Sirius cried into Lucius' chest.

Lucius remained silent for a moment, thinking, as he held his Sirius to his chest.

"Siri, you need to rest. Would you like me to get you some Dreamless Sleep too? It would help, you know." Lucius asked him quietly.

"I can't sleep, I have to be here for Harry, and he'll lose it if he wakes up with you or Drac sitting with him, especially with all this so fresh on his mind."

"Take half a dose and you'll be awake in plenty of time to be with Harry when he wakes. You need to rest so that you can be there for him, Siri. I know how much your cub means to you, how afraid he is right now and I want nothing more than love and peace for him. Drac and I will keep watch over him while you sleep. Nothing will happen to him Siri, not on my life." Lucius promised, holding his lover close.

"Thank you, Luc" Sirius said, squeezing the man who cared for him so well. "I don't know what I did in life to deserve such a wonderful man, but whatever it was, I'm glad I did it."

Sirius took the vial that Lucius pulled out of the pocket of his robes. He held it to his lips and drank a little less than half of the potion, put the cork back on and handed it back to his lover.

After slipping the potion back into his pocket, Lucius carefully guided an exhausted Sirius down the hall toward their bedroom and helped him out of his clothes and into the bed. After a kiss on the lips and watching his lover drift off to sleep for a moment he left the room, closing the door quietly behind him.

He then went to find Draco to keep him company and help him keep watch over Harry, while he and Sirius slept.

Father and son walked into Harry's bedroom and Lucius transfigured the chair that was beside his bed, into a sofa so that both of them could sit comfortably and make sure Harry didn't have any nightmares or wake up too soon. Even with the potion, they were afraid that all the trauma would make the nightmares stronger than the potion.

Together Draco and Lucius sat on the couch, keeping vigil until the early hours of the morning.