Finding Freedom

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Notes: Sleepy I'm very sleepy. That's because I have been doing the school thing, then the track thing and then there is no time for sleep. When there is I can't sleep and it sucks…so I write. Which is good for all of you, not good for me or my grades!

Italics are still thoughts

Bold Italics are signifying a flashback…which will be happening a lot in this chapter.

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Majandra: The fact that you were on your knees begging I felt compelled to update for you. I'm glad you like it and you are right…a lot of bad stuff does happen to Harry. Sucks to be him I guess. Don't worry about the son thing, I really didn't care just thought I'd mention it. And my dad thinks I'm his son anyway, he doesn't get that I'm a girl just because he has no sons.

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"Then my mom felt it would be better that I left that school and came here to live with my aunt," Harry finished resting his head on Draco's shoulder. Draco had tears streaming down his face, his hand running through Harry's dark hair to comfort the smaller boy who had started crying during the first few sentences of his story. Remus and Sirius were both crying as well, holding hands in a way of comfort. (Don't hate me too much, just keep reading!)

Draco's hand went to Harry's back and started to rub small circles on his back, he could feel Harry's body shake as another sob ripped through his body. "It's okay Harry, it's over and I will never let that happen again," Draco insured him.

Composing himself Remus gathered enough to speak, "you should really give your parents a ring Draco, they will worry about you," he said. He didn't want to break the embrace of the two boys had but he didn't want anyone intruding while Harry was a bit unstable.

Draco maneuvered himself, without breaking contact with Harry or halting his comforting motions on Harry's back he flipped his cell phone up. Softly saying, "home," the phone dialed for him and a moment later he connected.

"Mother, it's Draco," he said softly, trying to comfort Harry and handle a conversation at the same time.

"Draco, I have been so worried for you, where have you been, you said you were delivering homework," Narcissa said scolding her son for giving her a heart attack.

"Mother I apologize, Harry's guardians invited me for dinner and we have been talking," Draco tried to explain.

"Honey, you didn't say that you were going to see Harry, how is the boy, I hope he was alright last night," she said.

"Not really mother, but he is okay now and safe with these people," Draco said, Harry's head shot up, he knew they were talking about him but for some reason, as long as Draco was there, he didn't care.

"Okay, will you be coming home at all tonight?" she asked, Draco smiled, his mother was so understanding.

"I'm not sure mother, I will see you soon," Draco said, his mother said goodnight and he hung up.

"Is everything alright Draco?" Harry asked softly.

"Everything's alright love, just rest," Draco whispered into Harry's hair kissing his forehead, "just rest."

Harry tried to protest but ended up mumbling and snuggling into Draco's warmth and falling asleep. Remus got off the couch and walked into the back room. While he was gone Draco realized what all the crying had done to him, feeling very tired Draco closed his eyes, even if it was only for a moment.

By the time Remus returned with a blanket he had to turn back and get another one for Draco who had fallen asleep in the minute he had been gone. Draping the blankets over the boys he turned to his lover.

"Sirius, call your cousin, tell her we will care for Draco and he will be back tomorrow, then if you don't mind I would like to go to bed," Remus said, he was genuinely tired.

"Don't you think we should move Harry and Draco, Harry's back has had enough, sleeping like that can't be good for him," Sirius said looking at his godson longingly. He couldn't help but feel a little jealously because Draco could give Harry what he couldn't.

"Your right, first let's move Harry and then we'll move Draco," Remus said, he moved towards Harry yawning, as soon as he tried to pry the sleeping boy away from his boyfriend Harry started to panic slightly. Whimpering and reaching out for something that wasn't there. It became apparent to Remus and Sirius that the only way Harry was sleeping tonight was if he was in contact with Draco.

"Well we can at least maneuver them to make them comfortable," Sirius said taking Harry's legs and swinging them out, then positioning Draco under Harry slightly so that Draco used the couch pillows and Harry used Draco as a pillow. Smiling at his handy work he led the half sleeping Remus to his room and they went to bed.

That night Draco dreamed about what Harry told him, he couldn't believe what they had done to him in his old school. He was almost sure that Harry wouldn't want to be open with him while they were at school, there they would just have to look like normal guy friends who play sports and check out girls together. This would be hard of course because everyone knew Draco was gay but they would work it out somehow. He would have to worry about that when he returned to the land of the waking.

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At the Dursley's Petunia and Vernon was talking with their son while they watched their evening news.

"So Harry wasn't in school today Dudley?" Vernon asked, Petunia was silent, she was afraid of she spoke Vernon would see the lie in her eyes.

"Yea, the little fag was too afraid to show his face I guess, I still can't believe he ran like he did, what are you telling Aunt Lily mom?" Dudley asked, turning the conversation to Petunia as much as she didn't want the attention.

"The truth, the ungrateful little brat ran away after we housed him, fed him gave, and him love," she said without flinching, she hoped.

"Good, Dudley don't fail to call me at work if he shows his ugly mug at your school. Now go and sleep, you have school tomorrow," Vernon said taking another sip of his Brandy.

"Yes father, goodnight father, goodnight mother," Dudley said, and exited up the stairs.

"You know that my story won't fall with lily don't you Vernon?" Petunia asked.

"I do have my doubts but I'm sure you will sell the story well," Vernon said. They spoke a little more before they too retired for the night.

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When morning came both boys didn't want to move. They were still tired and they ached because of the way they slept. Groaning Draco stretched his hands above his head, this movement woke Harry who also groaned.

"Harry, how are you feeling?" Draco asked, sitting up and helping Harry sit up as well.

"Fine actually, except sleeping the way we did hurt my lower back," Harry admitted rubbing the area close to his tailbone.

"Come here," Draco said, Harry moved towards Draco, Draco grabbed the blanket spread it on the ground, laid pillows everywhere and pointed for Harry to lay down.

Harry did so without any questions, Draco kneeled beside him and started to massage his back. Moving his hands in circles and then using his knuckles to work out a rather nasty knot he found. Harry just moaned in contentment.

Remus had just woken and decided that he needed some seriously strong coffee to get through this day. He had decided before he went to bed last night that he would go to school today and leave Harry with Sirius and Draco, if he wanted to stay.

As he walked through the hall he heard small sounds coming from the den. Walking closer he heard those sounds become moans. Wondering what the hell was going on, especially after that talk they had last night, Remus picked up his pace. Imagine his relief when he found Draco giving Harry a back massage and Harry moaning in relief as the kinks in his back were worked out. Smiling and walking past the boys he went to the kitchen to make his well deserved coffee.

Draco noticed Remus bit didn't pay him much attention, he was trying his hardest to keep himself at bay. With the sounds coming from Harry it was increasingly hard, but he couldn't imagine how Harry would react if he felt Draco get a little excited over his simple massage.

When he was done with the massage Harry sat up and sighed, he felt great.

"Harry, will you be coming to school with me today?" Draco asked, he laced it with the obvious question about how Harry wanted to show their affection at school.

"I think I will," Harry said not getting the underlined meaning of Draco's question.

"Harry do you want us to act like we are together at school, everyone knows I'm gay and I promise it won't be like before, I would never do that to you," Draco said thinking about the night before:

"Draco, we need to talk, there is more then one reason I moved to a new school," Harry said taking a deep breath.

Draco braced himself, "Okay Harry what ever it is we can over come it," he said with confidence. Harry walked over and sat down next to Draco, Draco refrained from holding him because of the experience they just had with touching.

"You see, where I use to go to school I was on the soccer team. I was the second best on the team, only second to the goal tender, Oliver Wood. One day in the showers I noticed him looking at me, watching me while I showered. I didn't really think much of it, after all maybe they all looked at each other and I had been to preoccupied to notice before. After that day I took notice, only Oliver watched me while I showered, none of the other boys watched me, and he didn't watch any of the other boys.

"One day I asked him about it and he was very straight forward about it, he said he found me attractive and would like to take me out that Saturday. Already knowing I was gay I agreed and was rather excited. I went home and told my mother all about it. The date went great but after the goodnight kiss he told me that during school and soccer we had to act like there was nothing going on between us. I didn't understand it at the time but figured that as long as we were still together then it was okay that we kept it a secret. Of course I told my mother and father who wanted to meet him. When I told him that he just said that we should wait a little longer before we took each other home to meet out families.

"We went on three more dates before he came home with me one day. Remus and Sirius were there too, they interrogated him and I was afraid he would never talk to me again. Thankfully, or so I thought at the time, the next day, when we were alone, he was the same loving person that he always was with me. It was around another month after we had been dating he decided to take it to the next step. I was so naïve," Harry had to stop and take a few deep breathes, it was obvious how hard this was for him.

"One day he asked me to stay after practice, to work on something with me, we stayed on the field and talked for a while, then when he was sure that there was no one left in the showers he dragged me in. I didn't see why he was doing it until he started to kiss me. Before long he had my clothes off and the water running, I was starting to feel really uncomfortable when he started to undress himself. He turned me around and pushed me into the tiles. I remember him whispering about how much he loved me and if I loved him to I wouldn't protest to what he was about to do. I didn't know what was happening until it was too late," Draco noticed Harry's eyes sort of glaze over as he started to speak the next part.

"I started to struggle when I felt something hard against my back but Oliver was always stronger, he grabbed me and told me that I was being bad, that I didn't love him. I tried to tell him I didn't want our first time to be in a shower stall but he wouldn't hear any of it. It hurt so bad when he first thrust in," Draco had to close his eyes and take a deep breathe, why was Harry using so much details, why wasn't Remus and Sirius stopping him. Looking to the two older men he noticed the tears in their eyes, hadn't they heard this before?

"I cried so much, I begged him to stop but he just laughed and kissed me as he continued, he didn't even give me time to adjust. Before long he released and pulled out. Blood and semen ran down my legs and I collapsed in the stall. Then it was like it never happened, he helped me up so gently and started to wash me tenderly. I didn't understand why he was bothering to care about me after what he just did. When he finished washing up himself he dressed us both and drove me home. After a goodnight kiss I got out of the car and walked to my front door. I was still in so much pain, it hurt even more with every step. When my mom let me in she immediately asked if I was hurt because of the way I was walking. I just told her that I was really sore from practice. I still don't know why I lied to her, I should have told her and nothing like this would have happened.

"The next day he acted like it never happened, he was tender and loving with me when we were alone. I thought it was just that one time he did it so I forgot about it as well and went back to being happy with him. Three months after that incident in shower Oliver came up to me with a question. He wanted to know if I wanted to do a threesome with a good friend of his. I was confused at first so he explained to me what a threesome was. I was very hesitant but Oliver told me straight out that it wouldn't be like last time and he would stop if I wanted. It was because of this that I agreed, I wanted to know what it felt like when I wasn't in constant pain. This didn't mean I wasn't nervous, when I went to Oliver's house, because his parents were out of town, I had so many butterflies in my stomach.

"He led me up to his room, kissing me and touching me all the way up. When we got there he opened his door and laid me on the bed. I had decided that it was much better then last time and he was already taking much more care. It was then I noticed that there was another in the room, a girl. I was confused when I saw her, I knew I didn't like girls, at all, so I was wondering who she was and why she was there. He introduced her as Holly, she said she was his girlfriend and I just died inside. She was already undressed and he quickly stripped me and himself fluently. At first he was only paying attention to me but then I realized the girl was paying attention to him so what was I suppose to do? Thinking back even if she had been a guy I don't think I would have liked it very much.

"She whispered something to him and he smiled and nodded, then he was gone and she replaced him on top of me. I didn't like this anymore and I was no longer enjoying it. Oliver had gotten me all excited and left, I never really thought of what happened next as rape until I saw a therapist," Harry comment off topic.

"She came down on me and had me fuck her, against my will, until, with the help of Oliver's ministrations, I came. I couldn't believe what had happened at the time. We hadn't used a condom or anything. After that Oliver had his way with me too but by then I was just crying and withering. It didn't hurt as much but I still couldn't walk when he was done, he didn't know how to be gentle I guess. After that incident I ignored Oliver, I didn't look at him at practice and I hid from him at school. I told my mom we broke up so she wouldn't ask questions, I lied to her yet again.

"For the better part of that year, like ten months, I didn't have contact with Oliver or the girl. The one night, while my parents were working late the doorbell rang. It was late and I used the peephole before I opened the door. I couldn't see anything with the peephole anyway. When I opened it there was a basket on my porch with a note and a baby inside.

"The note had simply said that Holly had gotten pregnant and had the baby but later on decided that he was too ugly to care for so they gave him to me. He was so beautiful and had no name. I fell in love with him that night but when my parents got home all hell broke loose. They yelled at me, told me they were disappointed that I let this happen, that I had sex without a condom, and that I cheated on Oliver. But I couldn't tell them the truth at the time, I hurt too much to know I was used. Then the next thing they said will haunt and hurt me for the rest of my life. They said I had to give the baby up, I had to put him up for adoption. I argued with everything I had, how they could ask that of me, he was my son. I slept with Zachary that night and I cried, I couldn't believe what my parents were doing.

"They called the agency in the morning and this lady came, Tonks was her last name. She took Zachary and explained to me I would never see him again, and then they were gone. I had felt so physically sick for the next week, I just laid their and cried, I wouldn't sleep, I wouldn't eat, I would just lie their and waste away. They tried to apologize by saying they did it so I could have a normal life and after time I forgave them but it still hurts. He was mine and he shouldn't have been sent away, I don't even know if he was given to a good family, or if they changed his name.

"Before I went back to school they took me to therapy sessions, it was there that I confessed about the abusive relationship I had been in. They took me to the doctors to make sure I was okay and were very careful with me. Finally I decided I needed to have a normal life again and wanted to go to school.

"Back at school I was taunted and tormented daily, I quit the soccer team because being near Oliver was too much. I tried to take my life one time but Sirius stopped me. Then my mom felt it would be better that I left that school and came here to live with my aunt," Harry finished resting his head on Draco's shoulder.

Draco snapped out of his trance when Harry nodded against his chest, "I want people to know that I am taken by a rather handsome man by the name of Draco," he said. Draco couldn't help but feel relieved he didn't want to hide their relationship like it was some sort of dirty thing.

The smell of coffee snaked its way into the Den where they were sitting and almost at once had the two boys on their feet following it. Remus turned in surprise when there were all of a sudden two extra bodies hovering over his coffee.

"Draco, Harry good morning," Remus said almost feeling protective of his coffee with the two vultures looking at it the way they were.

"Good morning," both boys replied still not taking their eyes off the coffee.

"Will you be staying here today Draco?" Remus asked.

"No, I'll be going to school obviously," Draco replied.

"You don't have to, your mother said you could keep Harry company today," Remus said.

"I know, that's what I'm doing," Draco said like it was obvious.

"And how will that be if you're at school?" Remus asked, he was a little confused by Draco's cryptic responses.

"I'm going with him," Harry said, finally speaking up.

Remus was very surprised with this answer, "Harry are you sure, I'm not sure if you are healed yet, you should be taking it easy and I know school will put a slight strain on you body, and what about your cousin he could try and hurt you, I still haven't figured how you would be safe at school," Remus was rambling.

"Don't you think I've thought of that, I'll be walking Harry to every class that we don't have together, and those classes that we do have together I will be taking good care of him," Draco said protectively. Harry smiled and rubbed his head into Draco's chest affectionately.

"You two have already decided this correct?" Remus asked, Harry looked at Draco and the two boys nodded simultaneously. "Well then who am I to stop you, please come by my room during your lunch period and I will take care of you food wise," Remus said leaving no room for argument.

"I think I will have detention today during lunch, I obviously didn't go yesterday so I guess I have to make it up," Harry said.

"And why do you have detention in the first place my dear godson?" Sirius asked walking into the kitchen, the smell of coffee enticing him as well.

"I answered Professor Snape's question correctly, though I was zoned out while he was speaking," Harry said truthfully.

"I don't think you need to worry about that, I will talk with my godfather, but for now let up get ready for school. I have a spare pair of clothes in my bag. I'll meet you back here in ten," Draco said.

Both boys ran off and true to their words they came back in around ten minutes. Remus had two cups of coffee waiting there for them, Harry's as he liked it, Draco's plain with the fixes next to it.

"Okay boys, I will see you at lunch, stay safe and Draco if anything happens to Harry you will be killed terribly," Remus said playfully and Draco playfully saluted him back.

"Yes sir, see you later sir!" Draco said, looped arms with Harry, and left to drive Harry to school.

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