A/N: Thank you all for reviewing or for those of you who didn't review, thank you for at least reading the last few chapters. I hope you enjoy the new chapter.

Warnings: Slash, swearing and abuse…shrugs I don't know I just write the stuff.

Disclaimer: That's right it's mine, not really it's JK Rowling's, only the plot belongs to me and any original characters I may create along the way.

Chapter Four

The Truth

Draco woke slowly allowing his body to wake before he opened his eyes. He realized he had somehow had been stripped in the middle of the night and was only wearing his boxers. The silky sheets and downy comforter laid gently on his skin and warmth surrounded him. 'Warmth? There's only ever my warmth in my bed, why does it feel like there is someone else in my bed. Oh god, please don't let it be him. Please don't let it be him. I can't handle anymore of it.' Draco thought scared as panic started to rise in his chest. He opened his eyes to see unruly black hair curled comfortable beside him and an arm was draped across his midriff carelessly. His body quickly relaxed again as he remembered what had happened the day before.

Suddenly the blinds whipped open and Harry's head buried deeper against Draco's body. Draco squinted his silver eyes allowing them to adjust. Jet black hair stood out in the bright sunshine. Emerald stood in front of the window fully dressed and sporting a big grin.

"Rise and shine you two. Good morning Draco, how did you sleep last night?" Emerald asked cheerfully. Harry groaned snuggling closer before sitting straight up right and looking down at Draco. His mind was racing trying to process everything with only just waking up.

"I slept well, Emerald." Draco answered. Emerald nodded happily.

"I'm going to go wake Silver now. We'll come back and get you for breakfast. You know it's a family affair around here." Emerald said as he disappeared through the mirror. Draco turned to Harry who was staring down at him in confusion. He grabbed the pillow pulling it over his face wishing he could go back to sleep. This place was just not for him.

"Why are you in the same bed as I am?" Harry asked. Draco groaned pulling the pillow away and staring up into confused sleep-filled emerald green eyes. Draco exhaled heavily trying to figure out what the emerald eyed boy was thinking.

"You wouldn't let me go when I brought you up here. How's your ankle feeling?" Draco asked trying to change the subject. Harry sighed crossing his legs to bring his ankle more into view. It was bruised but seemed completely normal.

"Well it doesn't hurt but that potion really took it out of me and I think something about going back in time made me tired." Harry replied. Draco nodded furrowing his brows mentally checking out his physical condition as well. "What's wrong?"

"Well I guess my body hasn't adjusted to going back in time either and we might find we are tired for the first little bit while we are here." Draco said. Harry looked down at Draco then gave a small shocked look that came over his face. He looked over inspecting Draco's milky white skin a little closer than he normally would have.

"Who hurt you?" Harry asked. Draco sat up and quickly moved across the room to the closet ignoring Harry's question. Harry could see as the blond walked away old scars crisscrossing on his back. "I know someone hurt you. I know what the bruises look like in all stages and I know those scars aren't self-inflicted."

Draco threw open the doors of the closet before hanging his head. He turned around looking at Harry. If there was only a way to not talk about it, Draco was going to take that route. Only one other person had ever seen his body in this shape and worse. Every time she would nurse him back to health. 'Thank god for my mother. If only she would grow a back bone.'

"Something's Harry are better left unsaid and hidden away from the rest of the world." Draco replied. His silver eyes turned dark dull grey, all light seemed to be zapped from them. Harry climbed out of bed and walked forward. Draco eyes widened in surprise. Harry came to stand in front of him looking directly into his eyes. Even though Harry knew the seriousness of the conversation he couldn't help but realize that they were exactly the same height and a below average height at that. 'It must have been all those years stuck in a cardboard for me that stunted my growth. Where could they have put Draco to do the same?'

"I told you, I know what the bruises look like. I know what the scars are like. You're not the only one who had to deal with the secret of hiding the evidence." Harry said looking vulnerable. Draco moved forward looking at the almost healed bruises carefully. He ran a finger over one of the yellowing bruises.

"Fist, long rod of some sort, and cigarette." Draco said pointing to the different bruises and scars on Harry's chest. Harry gave a small nod at Draco's assessment of the bruises.

"My cousin started smoking this summer. His pals and him like to still use me as a human punching bag. Only now they are getting more creative and I have to deal with Uncle Vernon who likes to see me in pain." Harry muttered with his head hung, his eyes were glued to his feet. Draco put a finger under his chin lifting Harry's face to look straight up into his eyes. He sighed looking at Harry. Standing so close, Draco felt a little uneasy. He was never this close to anyone, he didn't willingly get into anyone's personal space and didn't allow people into it.

"The scars on my back are from a whip. I get punished for anything I did wrong for the entire year I was at school. If you beat me to the Snitch, I get a week in the dungeon with no food and little water with whatever punishment father decides to inflict upon me. Sometimes it's a rod, sometimes a whip, sometimes a curse and sometimes even worse." Draco said quietly, rocking back on forth from foot to foot. "It's funny how I believed you to have a perfect life after all you were the boy-who-lived I thought you would live like a king. I bet you thought the same thing about me."

Harry nodded before slowly moving over to wrap his arms around Draco's body. He laid his head on Draco's shoulder. Draco stood shocked before his arms moved to wrap around Harry as well. Draco couldn't believe it, he actually didn't mind a hug, of course he had never been hugged like this in his life. 'Maybe Harry and I will be able to become friends after all of this. I don't know but one thing is for sure, I do like hugs.' Draco thought.

Silver growled as he walked through the mirror with Emerald following behind him. He looked like he was about to kill Emerald and he was breathing heavily. Emerald stopped in his tracks seeing the two embraced. Harry went limp quickly before the others realized making Draco look like he had caught him. Harry slowly straightened.

"Thanks Draco. Guess I have to be a little more careful with my ankle." Harry said moving towards "his" closet. He looked at all the clothes in amazement. Draco leaned up against the wall.

"Harry, I think we should tell them. We aren't going to be able to function around here without their help." Draco said sensibly. Harry spun around looking at him in shock.

"Are you sure?" Harry asked. Silver and Emerald looked at each other and then at their twins in mystification. Emerald was becoming more certain that since they came back that they were a little strange. Draco nodded to Harry. "Can we get dressed first?" Draco rolled his eyes and allowed Harry to throw him a pair of black trousers and white button up shirt. Harry scanned the clothing before picking out a pair of light brown trousers and red shirt.

The two quickly dressed and sat down on the bed. Silver and Emerald sat down opposite them. Harry looked over Emerald in a more closer light, he hadn't really seen him last night as he had passed out. He was shocked to realize it was like looking into a mirror except he had the scar on his forehead and Emerald didn't. Harry turned looking at Silver, he was the spitting image of Draco and the two looked like they were sculpted out of pure marble.

"So what is it that you two want to tell us?" Silver asked shifting positions to sit more comfortably. Emerald grinned from ear to ear.

"I know I know! You are two are secret lovers?" Emerald asked jokingly. Harry rolled his eyes at his counterpart. He turned to Draco.

"You're the one that's more of a diplomat. I'm the one that gets the limelight; you are the type to tell me what to say." Harry stated. Draco mocked glared at him before turning towards the other two.

"I know this is going to be hard to believe but it's true. So first I have to ask are you two willing to keep a secret?" Draco asked. Emerald and Silver looked at each then back at their twins and they crossed their hearts in unison. Draco raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"It's a muggle thing, Draco. It means they promise." Harry stated. Draco shook his head clearing his thoughts.

"Harry and I aren't your actually twins. We are from the future." Draco said. Emerald raised an eyebrow in question. Silver started laughing holding on to his stomach. Draco sighed and Harry shrugged as their eyes connected.

"You both must think we are joking but we are completely serious, Emerald. You are my great times a lot grandfather. We made a potion at school during potions and it sent us back in time. We know nothing of your time, we are just trying to go along with everything pretending we know everything. We have to stay here until we can get back." Harry said. Emerald hit Silver in the arm hard to stop the blond from laughing. Silver stopped glaring at him.

"He's telling the truth." Emerald said. Silver snorted.

"Yeah, how do you know?" Silver asked. Emerald glared.

"I just know okay." Emerald stated. Silver looked at him and sighed looking down at his own hands.

"How do we know you are telling the truth?" Silver asked. Draco leaned up against the headboard and crossed his arms in front of him.

"I'm an only child. I play Seeker for the Slytherin house at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardary. I'm not sure what I can say to convince you I'm not your twin." Draco said. Harry sighed.

"I think I might be the more convincing story. My parents are dead, I never knew them as they were murdered when I was one. I lived all my life as a muggle with Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon until I was eleven and I was accepted into Hogwarts. I spent most of my first eleven years of my life in a cardboard under the stairs." Harry said staring at Emerald, with pleading eyes. Draco smirked.

"And don't forget you're the saviour of the wizarding world." Draco stated. Harry glared at him and swatted at him.

"I was a year old! I don't remember it." Harry grumbled. Emerald and Silver looked at each other and sighed.

"So we aren't twins? Then how come everyone knows about you and we can remember everything we ever did together?" Silver asked. Draco shrugged one shoulder lazily.

"Albus Dumbledore in Diagon Alley knew we were coming. We are supposed to learn something while we are here and work together to get back home. The potion we made might have simply altered memories to allow us to fit in." Draco said. Harry rolled his eyes. "In our time though, the two of us are enemies. We actually really don't like each other. Only over the past 24 hours have we been civil to each other so as to be able to get through everything."

"Amazing, you two really hated each other yet you slept in the same bed, that's hard to believe. Anyway what's the future like?" Emerald asked excitedly. Harry shook his head sadly.

"We can't really tell you or we may change something in the future. By changing the past, we alter the future." Harry said. Emerald nodded in understanding. Silver groaned stretching his arms behind his back and then sat forward a little.

"I guess we are going to have to give you the basis of a few things." Silver said. Draco nodded staring at Silver in a little bit of hope that he finally understood that they were telling the truth. "Draco, we have two sisters. One older and one younger than the two of us. Bianca is the oldest; you'll know her when you see her. She looks like death as she is so pale. I don't think she goes outside without a veil over her face and gloves on her hands. Tanith is our younger sister, she is a bundle of energy but she's sweet. Bianca is seventeen and Tanith is thirteen." Emerald rolled his eyes at the description of Bianca.

"Harry, we are a little more complicated. We have an older brother named Michael, he's eighteen and two younger sisters, Iris is fourteen and Jade is thirteen. Michael is the first born so he gets whatever he wants, he's the spoiled one next to us. For some reason we are special, don't ask me why. Iris and Jade are complete opposites. Jade looks like mum but with dad's eyes and we all have the black untameable hair that all Potter's manage to inherit. Iris is the only one that seems to be quiet and shy. We all also inherited the arrogance of dad." Emerald said. Silver sighed and leaned up against the bedpost.

"Yeah and with my luck, I'm the one that got stuck being engaged to her." Silver stated in annoyance. Emerald patted his shoulder.

"It's okay Silver. We'll figure out a way to get you out of it. It might just make our families a little upset but we will figure out something." Emerald said reassuringly. Harry and Draco sat there watching the exchange feeling like complete outsiders to their world which they were. Harry suddenly realized that they were talking about something he was not entirely familiar with.

"Whoa, they have arranged marriages?" Harry asked. Draco nodded slowly groaning. Emerald stood up pacing around collecting his thoughts slightly.

"Purebloods still have arranged marriages." Draco said. "I'm to marry Pansy unless I can find a more suitable bride myself." Harry gave a look of disgust and shivered at the thought. Silver looked towards Emerald.

"Emerald is engaged to Gabrielle Delacour. She's pretty but he doesn't love her. He's always wanted to find true love and all those lovely things. He tends to be a bit of romantic, he's charmed enough girls over the years though. It's too bad he doesn't like woman anymore, I know quite a few hot ones." Silver teased by telling the other two. Emerald stopped in his pacing and his cheeks turned a bright red. Harry looked over at Emerald and shook his head.

"Who cares about his sexual preference? Does it really matter?" Harry stated. Draco nodded slowly realizing the past might be even worse than their present.

"In the wizarding world it does. We are a little more free thinking than the muggles who are only now starting to not care but this is the past and wizarding families are not always keen on it. Malfoy's are killed on the spot for even announcing anything along those lines." Draco said and Silver nodded in agreement to the last part. Harry looked at Emerald in hope he would tell him about their family.

"Do Potter's care about such things?" Harry asked quietly. Emerald turned around and dropped to the floor crossing his legs to sit.

"Some Potter's do but mum and dad are one of the few who don't mind. They don't know though and I do like girls I just also like boys." Emerald said glaring at Silver. Silver climbed off the bed and moved down on the floor lying his head in Emerald's lap.

"It's okay Emerald, you know I was only teasing." Silver said quietly. Emerald smiled running his fingers through Silver's hair. Silver closed his argent eyes and just enjoyed the attention. Harry looked at Draco and he sighed.

"Father would have my head if he ever found out I went both ways." Draco muttered. Harry's eyes widened in surprise.

"So if what your saying is true then Silver should feel the same as you because Emerald and I are the same just we have a few different personality traits. We are almost carbon copies of the other." Harry assumed. He leaned back against the pillows thinking. Draco suddenly sat bolt up looking at Silver and Emerald wildly.

"We aren't engaged to anyone are we?" Draco asked frantically. Silver opened his eyes lazily still enjoying his head massage that Emerald had started giving him.

"Nope. You two are the lucky ones. All of us are engaged to someone. The only one I kind of feel sorry for is Iris except for myself." Emerald stated. "Iris is starting to like the same sex and she's been coming to me with all her problems knowing that I'm Silver's best friend and she's engaged to him. Gabrielle has been here the last few weeks and Iris has taken a liking to her a lot. Only problem I'm engaged to Gabrielle. So it's kind of an interesting twist of fate. Seeing as Silver and I just really want to be left to our own devices like mischief and mayhem."

Silver sighed slowly pulling away from Emerald's moving hands and sat up. He looked at the door almost glaring at it. Emerald rubbed Silver's shoulders a little.

"They are looking for us. We better get going." Silver said gracefully standing up to his full height. Emerald held out his hand and Silver pulled him up.

Suddenly a knock came to the door, that was almost timid. Silver waved his hand letting the doors fly open. Two small girls stood at the door. One girl had long black hair that was only a little tamed in the tight braid going down her back and chocolate brown eyes. The other had silvery blond hair and the biggest pair of sparkling bright blue eyes anyone had ever seen.

"Iris, Gabrielle. It's so good of you to come and find us." Emerald said with a cheery disposition. Iris looked down at the floor as if unsure what to say. Gabrielle flashed pearly-white teeth politely in a smile.

"Everyone is wondering when you will be joining us for breakfast." Iris said with a soft spoken voice. Silver rolled his eyes knowing the girl was nothing but full of energy and anything but shy.

"We are on our way down." Silver said. They nodded and ran off down the hall. Harry and Draco looked at each before getting up standing beside their twin. The four set out of the room and downstairs for breakfast.

To Be Continued…

I hope you liked it. I'm almost certain that this chapter was purely boring and didn't tell you much at all. I know it was mostly talking but I needed to somehow let you kind of find out the atmosphere surrounding the four of them. I still haven't figured out where this story is going but when I did some of the preparation work it almost looked like a soap opera and I've never watched a soap opera in my life. So many twists and turns coming up. Please Review!