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The shock quickly wore off as the three men's war training came back to them Severus made his way to Draco and the children to help protect them whilst Remus moved towards Lucius and Harry moved towards Bellatrix. Hexes and curses were flying everywhere, and Harry could barely register who was shooting what hex and at who. Suddenly he got lucky and clipped Bellatrix with a slashing curse, she fell to the floor with a deranged scream. Malfoy and Bellatrix shared a look before both teleported out in black smoke the only way deatheaters seemed to know how.
Harry and Remus shared a look of their own, clearly both annoyed that the deatheaters had managed to get away. A soft whimper behind them reminded them why they were there in the first place. Severus was leaning over Draco Malfoy who was still using his body as a shield for the two young blonde children behind him. Both of the Gryffindors walked over to them and arrived just in time to hear Draco whisper, "are they gone. Are we safe?" Severus turned to look at the Gryffindors, pain his eyes as he noticed how injured his godson was.
"Uhh ye they left, we obviously we scared them off" Harry replied trying to send a reassuring smile to the former Prince of Slytherin. Draco signed in relief as his eyes started to close.
"Sev keep the twins safe until I wake up I just need to close my eyes for just a second." Draco collapsed in exhaustion, he had obviously been fighting of the insane deatheaters for a while whilst having the disadvantage of not being able to move out of the way of the curses as he had to keep the children behind him in order to protect them from the curses.
"Daddy! Is he ok? Is he dead?" The young girl lent over her father tears streaming down her face.
Severus grasped the child in a hug and smoother her hair. "No Cassie, daddy's just tired ok. We are going to take him to where I work and a very nice lady is going to fix him right up ok. But for now I am going to need you and your brother to be brave for just a little bit longer ok." Both children nodded in agreement, both seemed to straighten up slightly in a way that reminded Harry scarily of how Malfoy used to in school whenever someone said something nasty about him or his family. Harry believed it was his way of not showing his emotions to the world. Harry could relate to that.
"Ok, why don't you two apparate the children whilst I take Draco, we need to get him straight to the infirmary." Severus stated looking at Remus and Harry who both nodded, each taking a child in their arms. The young girl in his arms smiled shyly at Harry. "Hello, I'm Cassiopeia but my daddy calls me Cassie." She whispered. Harry smiled, obviously Malfoy had instilled good manners onto his children. "I'm Harry." He replied with a gentle smile on his face. "I'm going to apparate us ok. Have you ever side apparated before?" She nodded to let him know she had. "Ok well let's go shall we." Harry apparated himself and the young girl in his arms to the edge of the apparation wards at Hogwarts closely followed by Remus and the young boy, whose name he did not yet know, and Severus and Draco. Severus sent a Patronus ahead to warn Poppy of their arrival. The group rushed to the infirmary where Poppy was waiting for them. She ushered Severus to bed and had him place Draco on the bed as the nurse began to run diagnostics on the pale man on the bed., whilst simultaneously sending Severus for potions. Harry and Remus placed the two young children on a bed away from their father, close enough so they knew he was there but not close enough that they could see him being worked on. The Gryffindors asked the children if they had been hurt both of who shook their heads.
"Daddy protected us. He stood in front of us so the curses did not hit us." the boy whispered looking over at his father sadly.
Harry stood in front of him and placed a hand gently on the child's shoulder. "Well your dad is very brave and I'm sure when he wakes up he is going to be very proud of how brave the both of you are being." Both children smiled at him in response. Harry took this time to study the children. They were obviously twins about the age of four. Both had blonde hair and gray eyes, which they had obviously gotten from Draco, although their faces held features of someone he couldn't quite place in his mind. Both looked exhausted which was understandable after the trauma they had been through. Harry wondered who their mother was and where she was. His thoughts were interrupted as the door to the infirmary slammed open and an angry Blaise Zabini stormed through.
"Uncle Blaise!" Both children exclaimed in delight as they jumped off the bed and into the Italian's arms.
"Scorpius. Cassie. I was so worried about you guys. Are you ok?" The twins both nodded their heads. "Where's your dad?" They both turned in unison and pointed in the direction of their father's bed. He took the hand and walked towards Draco. His friend was lying on the bed, he looked pale and relatively unharmed for someone who had gone up against two deatheaters alone. He could almost pass for just being asleep.
"What happened? I got a message from Severus telling me the wards of Draco's house had been breached by the time I got there the place was a mess and him and the children were gone." Severus walked over to explain the attack and assure the man that Draco was fine and was simply exhausted. For someone who had taken on the two craziest deatheaters alone he had managed to hold his own and blocked most of the curses only being hit with a cutting curse here and there, which Poppy had instantly healed. Now they were just waiting for him to wake up which wouldn't be probably until the morning.
Blaise sighed in relief and held the twins closer to him as if he was scared they would disappear. "I knew he should have stayed with me to begin with. It's out of the country and the ward are centuries old no one can get through them."
Severus nodded his head in agreement. "I actually agree but if they go, I'm coming too at least until Lucius and Bellatrix are found. Luckily school finished in two days so we have the summer to find them so that we can keep Draco and the children safe." Blaise agreed that Severus coming was a good idea if anyone knew how the two deatheaters thought and could guess what they would do next it was the former spy. He looked towards the Gryffindors and noticed the disappointment on the werewolf's face at Snape's statement. Obviously there was something going on between them that even they didn't realise was happening yet. Well always looking for the chance to play cupid, and deciding if anyone deserved a chance at falling in love it was the potions teacher everyone knew he had pretty much given up his life for the war. Anyway having an extra pair of eyes on the lookout for the deatheaters wouldn't be a bad thing. He looked at Harry and decided he might as well invite him too.
"You are both welcome too of course." Blaise couldn't help smile at the grin that spread across the former defence professor as both Gryffindors nodded in acceptance. "Great we will work out everything tomorrow. For now I think we should get these two to bed they look like they are about to fall over." Both twins were yawning adorably trying very hard to keep their eyes open.
"Ye you three can stay in my chambers tonight, trust me the infirmary is not the best place to spend the night." Harry stated.
Snape snorted at that. "If anyone should know it's you Potter. I'll stay here with Draco and keep an eye on him. You guys go get some sleep." He gave the twins a hug and gently nudged them towards Blaise and Harry.
"I'll stay too." Remus stated giving Severus a look that clearly stated that there was no argument in the matter. Both pulled up a chair to Draco's bed and made themselves comfortable for the night.
Harry and Blaise each took a twins hand in there's and walked out of the infirmary. Harry turned to look at Blaise and asked, "out of curiosity where are we staying?"
"Rome." Blaise answered simply.