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AU. Established relationship. Harry/Draco pairing.

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CHAPTER FOUR

Draco nodded slowly. It was a testament on how tired he really was for the fact that that thought had not occurred to him. He raised the cool cloth and started wiping the sweat from Harry's chest as he thought.

"Who? What? Ginny?" He asked Hermione as he continued.

"Honestly, I don't know. I don't think it was Ginny, she loves Harry, just as you do, and I don't see her doing this."

"But she kept him from me for a month!" Draco snarled.

"She was doing what Harry asked of her, Draco." Hermione said softly. She waited as the silence grew and she knew that the other man would never forgive Ginny for what she had done, even if she had done it because Harry had begged her too.

"I have narrowed it down to three different drugs, all muggle, that it could have been. The problem now arises which one, if we pick the wrong one and give him the antidote for it, it could cause more problems than we already have." Hermione sat on the other side of Harry and gently pushed his hair from his forehead.

"Why muggle? Wouldn't they use a potion?"

Hermione shook her head slowly, "I think it was done that way purposefully. Think on it, why would you, a pureblooded wizard who despises anything muggle, think to look for a muggle drug?"

"I wouldn't. But, surely they know of your friendship? They would know you would be here."

"True, but I can hardly classify myself as muggle anymore, Draco. I haven't been back to that world since my parents funeral. Neither has Harry. We wouldn't look for it."

"Okay. Why can't we give him the antidote to each drug?"

"His system can't handle it. We have to know which drug it is before we do anything else."

"How do we find out?"

"I have contacted Dr. Rosbierre. You remember him?"

"Didn't he sign off on our beginning research grant?"

"That's him. He gave me the three possibilities. The good thing for us is that there is only one place you can get these drugs besides on the black market."

"The hospital in London?"

"No, Draco, these drugs are not used for humans."

Draco shot her a confused look. Not used for humans? "What?"

"They are sedatives used mainly for horses."

Draco was speechless with shock. "Horses?" He choked out.

Hermione nodded. "I think they gave that to him first, over the course of months. Then when he was unable to fight it anymore, they gave him our potion. When we pumped his stomach, we got our potion out but the sedatives remained in his system."

"Months?"

"I think so, that would explain his behavior of the last months."

"He was being drugged and I didn't know!" Draco threw down the cloth onto Harry's chest and backed away from him quickly.

"Draco!" Hermione jumped up and rushed around the bed to his side. "You couldn't have known. I didn't know!"

Draco didn't hear her anymore. All that she had told him in the last few minutes, and his own suspicions, were crowding his head. With a small whimper he reached up his shaking hand and grabbed fistfuls of hair. With a cry he slowly sank down the wall and landed on his side. He didn't hear Hermione's voice calling out to the healers. He didn't hear the calming spell aimed at him and he didn't feel when they lowered him onto a newly conjured couch.

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Draco woke with a moan. His head was pounding and his body hurt. He lay there for a few moments before his and Hermione's conversation came back to him. Harry had been drugged! Over the course of months! And he hadn't known!

He forced his eyes open and turned his head to stare at his husbands still form on the bed beside him. He smiled slightly when he saw Ron asleep in the chair he had been occupying for close to two weeks. He got up as quietly as he could but Ron's Auror training kicked in and before Draco had fully sat up, Ron's wand was pointed in his face bore the other man had even woke up.

"Sorry, Malfoy." Ron apologized as he put his wand back down on his lap from where he had snatched it so quickly.

"Where's Hermione?" Draco grimaced at his scratchy voice and nodded thanks to Ron when he handed him a glass of cool water.

"She took some blood and then went to the lab. She was going to try to isolate the drug so that we could give him the right antidote."

"How long has she been gone?"

"You've been out about seven hours, so about six."

He was about to ask another question when the door was slammed open. Both men turned, wands raised, to see a flushed and panting Hermione standing there.

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