Never Leave Me
Author's note: Lol so I've been spelling Hermione like Herminie this whole time, got seriously chewed out for it so I'm going to try and spell it right from now on, don't hate me if I mess it up now and then. Also, I discovered the Legacy Stats and this is my most read story, with over 3,442 hits (I assume that means people viewing it) and 25 people have added it to their favorites, hell till I read the stats I didn't even know 25 people had read it. Anyway, thank you all for reading, Please leave reviews so I know that you are real people, the more reviews I get for a story the more time I spend on it, this might be my most read story but I've hardly had any reviews on it compared to some of my other stories… I have a few stories no one has ever wrote reviews for, and although I love them I have decided to stop working on them because no one has told me they are interested in them. Like Peace Treaties, I really like that one, it was Draco-centric but it was different than what I usually write. Anyway please Review and ENJOY:
Draco transfigured a hideous little lamp (why there was a lamp when there wasn't electricity was not a question he could answer) into an elegant and sturdy table. As Draco was transfiguring the table, Madam Pomfrey came out and asked to have a private word with Dumbledore. The other's, all now curious, pulled their chairs up to the table as Draco opened the Notebook to a…. blank page. Herminie asked, "You have a Plan for something like this?"
Draco shrugged and said simply, "I'm a Slytherin."
Hermione just decided to accept that explanation because trying to understand Draco's irrational logic was making her brain hurt. She had never really tried to understand Draco. Sure she had know a lot about him, and had been silently cataloging details about him that pointed towards one mental disorder or another. The facts had knocked her off her feet. She had been so sure that Draco was a Narcissist, and that he had to have some sort of disorder, otherwise how could he have been so mean to her all those years.
Draco tapped the notebook a couple of times and suddenly words seemed to write themselves on the page at an unreadable fast pace, they scrolled down and around Draco's wand, and then continued right off the page, disappearing from view only to be replace by new words. It looked almost like Draco was scrolling down a long page filled with writing. Draco sighed as more and more words continued to scroll across the page and had a seat. Blaise sat down a crossed from him, because he was to afraid of what Harry might do if he sat next to him, and asked, "Alright so what is your almighty plan?"
Draco raised an eyebrow and said, "It's a step by step process. Step one of course being we break the bond between my mother and that bastard."
Blaise frowned and said, "You can do that?"
Draco frowned and asked, "Would it be a part of my plan if I couldn't?"
Blaise made a face and said, "Okay so step one of you plans is to break an unbreakable bond between a Veela and his mate? I totally think this is going to work out."
Draco said, "You forget, Lucius is a weak half-Veela, who's never lived in a Veela community."
Blaise frowned and said, "You're serious? You think you can break their bond?"
Draco said, "Actually, I know for a fact that I can."
Blaise looked a bit uneasy and asked, "How?"
Draco kept his eyes on the scrolling words in the notebook as he said, "There are reasons why Veela's do what they do. I visited a Veela community once, asked them about mating and all that, and they told me that full-blooded Veela had rules about mating and offspring. I got to thinking why would they have rules? It's because they might not know it on an intellectual level, but certain things can endanger the mate bond, and that's why they are frowned upon and why Veela community's have rules prohibiting these things. Of course to actually break a bond it takes a lot of broken rules."
Hermione asked, "What sort of rules are you talking about?"
Draco glanced up at her and his lips turned down in a slight frown, but he answered anyway, "They have lots of rules. Never take an underage mate. Never hurt your mate. Never leave your mate unprotected. Never let lie with another after you have taken your mate. And the most important rule of all, Never ever, no matter what the circumstances, raise a hand to your mate's offspring, especially if their yours as well."
Hermione swallowed and said, "Those are all good rules."
Draco raised an eyebrow and said, "Anyway, after that I stumbled across a journal that answered my question." Draco tapped his wand one more time and in the middle of the notebook, a rippled appear, like a drop of water had just hit a lake. Draco suddenly reach down and his hand passed through the pages like they were indeed water and after a minutes he pulled his hand out and there in his grasp was an ancient looking bound journal, which he tossed to Blaise and said, "Herbert Johnson's mother, Madelyn, was mated to Sir Rodger Johnson. Sir Rodger was know as a bastard, sleeping with anything with legs, gambling away their fortune, tarnishing their family name with misdeeds and the like. Herbert said his mother stuck by him through it all till one night Sir Rodger got drunk and started beating Madelyn in front of him. Herbert was only eight at the time, but he stuck up for his mother and that's when Sir Rodger pulled out his dirk and cut his son's face, then beat him till he passed out. It was the only time Sir Rodger ever raised a hand to Herbert but he left a mark, the cut from the dirk scarred, and it was how Herbert eventually broke the bond between his parents."
Blaise stared at Draco with wide eyes for a moment, then quickly undid the latch on the journal and opened it up to the first page. He frowned at it for a moment and said, "What the fuck does this even say?"
Draco snorted and said, "It's in ancient French."
Blaise frowned and said, "I can't read that."
Draco laughed and said, "What, you don't read ancient slightly obscure French languages on a regular basis?"
Blaise tossed the journal onto the table and said, "Funny. Okay so there has to be a mark of abuse? Didn't your dad always feed you healing potions sot there was never a mark?"
Draco sighed and said, "Not that one time he broke my arm, still have a scar where the bone broke through the skin."
The group winced and Blaise said, "Forgot about that one, you came over to my house that night didn't you."
Draco nodded and Ron asked, "Your father broke your arm?"
Draco raised an eyebrow and asked, "Have you met my father?"
Blaise said, "Yeah that time he did more than break your arm, didn't you have like three broken ribs and a bump the size of Texas?"
Draco asked, "Texas?"
Blaise snorted and said, "Muggle U.S. State."
Draco ran a hand through his hair and asked, "Why would you compare an injury to a state?"
Blaise laughed and said, "Merlin, because Texas is like the biggest of all the states."
Draco made a 'hm' of understanding before asking, "Are they're many states?"
Blaise frowned and said, "I think there is like twenty or something."
Hermione said, "There are 52 states in America."
Draco frowned and asked, "Why do that need so many?"
Blaise said, "Because they're muggles."
Draco nodded like that explained everything and said, "Anyway, back to the plan, I can break the bond but I've had a small complication I need you to help me sort out."
Blaise frowned and asked, "Are you asking me to help you break a bond between your psycho half-Veela Death eater father and your wonderfully gorgeous aristocratic goddess of a mother."
Draco snarled, "Blaise! When I told you I would de-man you the next time you checked out my mother, I was including mentally picturing her naked in the equation."
Blaise went a little white and said, "Draco, it's not my fault your mother's got a come hither look to her."
Ron frowned and asked, "Dude, she's old enough to be your mother."
Blaise grinned and said, "That just means she's experience, she knows how to make a guy…"
Draco stood up and in a low voice said, "Finish that sentence and I will fucking castrate you!"
Blaise said, "Right, so, what did you need my help with?"
Draco sat down, took a deep breath and mentally counted to fifty before saying, "There is a ceremony to break the bond, I had everything ready and just needed to get outside the wards to perform it, but Potter here fucked up one of my ingredients."
Blaise frowned and said, "Right, does it matter if it's a girl or a guy?"
Draco made a face and said, "A guy would be preferable, but considering the this school is full of sluts I'd settled for a girl."
Ron asked, "What are you talking about?"
Draco sighed and said, "I forgot we were working with children."
Blaise laughed and said, "It's not their fault, they weren't raised with our proper education."
Draco snorted and said, "You had never spent a day in school in your life till we came to Hogwarts."
Harry asked, "What did you mean, when you said I messed up one of your ingredients?"
Draco glanced at Harry, and his jaw clenched for a moment, and he had to do that counting thing in his head again before he could even consider responding, Luckily Blaise stepped in because he thought he might need to count to a million before he was calm enough to talk to Harry. Blaise smiled and said, "His exact words where that you fucked up one of his ingredients, and he meant that literally. A lot of ceremonial standard spells require Virgins."
Harry's eyes went wide and his mouth made a little 'oh.' Blaise smiled and said, "Not to worry, I'll find a replacement. Wait, Draco, is it alright if they aren't in Slytherin, because you're the only one I've ever met who's not loose as a fucking well used whore." Blaise frowned and said, "Speaking of, whatever happened to Pansy being your secret keeper?"
Draco frowned and asked, "Why would I have a dog as my secret keeper?"
Everyone in the room turned to look at Draco with surprise at that comment, and Blaise asked, "You have a dog named Pansy?"
Draco looked a bit confused at the obvious disbelief in his friend's voice, he raised an eyebrow and said, "Yes, you've met her."
Blaise snorted and said, "Are you saying Pansy Parkinson is your dog?"
Draco rolled his eyes and said, "Are you telling me she doesn't remind you of one of those retarded puppies who just randomly pick someone out of the crowd and follow them home." Blaise was trying to hold back some of his grin as he opened his mouth to ask something, but Draco continued, "One of those puppies that is the kind that drools all the time and always jumps up on you and gets mud on your new clothes, but you would feel bad taking it back to the pound because you know it's not going to find a home, so your pretty much guarantying that it gets put down. The one that you kind of don't how you've put up with it all this time, but its been around so long, it'd be mean to throw it out now."
Blaise gave up trying to hold back, and burst into laughter. Harry was trying hard not to do the same, to think he had been so worried The Whore was going to steal Draco's affection. After Blaise had calmed down a bit he asked, "Dude, Do you even know what a dog is?"
Draco rolled his eyes and said, "Yes, I know what a dog is, Crabbe showed me his little picture book."
Blaise snorted and said, "And I didn't think the big guy had a sense of humor."
Draco shook his head and said, "He doesn't, at all."
Blaise had to gasp for breath, finally he got control of his laughter and said, "Right, again does the virgin have to be a snake?"
Draco shook his head and said, "Why would house have anything to do with a Veela ceremony?"
Blaise nodded and said, "Right. Okay what ells do you need for this ceremony, besides a mark of abuse from your bastard father and a Virgin."
Draco sighed and said, "I have all the other ingredients, although if you still have that ceremonial knife, I would appreciate if you let me borrow it."
Blaise frowned and asked, "Do I want to know what you need my knife for?"
Draco shook his head and said, "Not if you want to hold down your dinner, no."
Blaise nodded and said, "Right, okay, so you do the ceremony and then what?"
Draco tapped his notebook with his wand and said, "Once the bond I broken, all of his magic will go to my mother."
Blaise made a little choking sound and said, "What?"
Draco sighed and said, "That's how the ceremony prevents the broken bond from killing the mate, all of Lucius's magical energy, what little there is, will go to my mother."
Herminie frowned and asked, "Wait a minute. Oh my god, I just realized, if you succeed, and managed to break the bond between your mother and father, what's to stop you from breaking the bond between you and Harry?"
Harry tensed, he hadn't even thought about that. 'What if Draco broke the bond between them?'
Draco sighed and said, "Have you been listening to a word I've said. These are completely different circumstances."
Ron frowned and said, "Well if you can break one Veela mate bond what to say you can't break another?"
Draco ground out, "I wish it were that simple, but the fact is that Potter's a Dark Veela, there has never been a bond breaking between a Dark Veela and their mate, ever. Even if Potter had broken every Veela rule and thus dwindled down the bond to nothing more than a tiny link in the cosmic chain, it still would take the magical equivalent to a nuclear bomb to even have a chance at breaking it, and there is no way the mate would survive. Besides that, the ceremony is designed so only a child of the Veela's mate can actually perform the spell and as Potter and I have not, nor will we ever, have children, so that's not a problem."
There was a long moment of silence as the Golden Trio digested those words.
Harry frowned and asked, "You don't want to have kids?"
Draco blinked and said, "You think I'm going to bring a child into this mess? Anyway, back to the plan. Once the bond is broken all of Lucius's power will go to my mother, leaving him completely powerless, which leads to the next, slightly more complicated and dangerous part of the plan."
Blaise frowned and asked, "What's the next part of the plan?"
Draco smiled and said, "We start a civil war."
Blaise's eyes went wide and he said, "That's either bloody stupid and Genius!"
Ron frowned and asked, "What?"
Draco let out a put upon sigh and said, "My father's the left hand of the Dark Lord. If he has no power, every death eater will want to take his place. With a little well placed work from myself, Severus, and a few others, all the Death Eater should turn on each other, civil war. Then while they are busy sorting out the power struggle, we'll cut the head off, and take old Voldie out."
Blaise sighed and said, "That won't work, the Dark Lord won't allow that much unrest in his troops."
Draco smiled and said, "That's why we distract him with the chance at what he really wants."
Blaise frowned and said, "What's that?"
Draco snorted and said, "Potter."
Hermione frowned and said, "We're not giving Harry over to torture just so you can attempt and likely fail to kill the dark lord."
Draco growled out, "We're not going to actually give Potter over to him! That would be fucking stupid. No, I'll go to him."
Ron said, "That doesn't sound like a smart plan."
Draco snarled, "Let me finish, I'll go to him, tell him that Potter kidnapped me and forced a mate bond, which isn't exactly a lie, and I'll tell him that my parents bond was just a practice run, that I plan to do the same with our bond. He'll see how defense-less and powerless my father is, and he'll have a chance at that with Potter, if he only hands over something powerful enough to fuel the spell."
Blaise grinned and said, "The only thing he'll be able to think of that is that powerful is a horcrux!"
Draco grinned and said, "I'll use the hocrux for a ceremony, only instead of bond breaking ceremony, I'll do a power stealing ceremony, which is almost exactly the same in design. The power from the ceremony will pass through the mate bond to Potter. The Dark Lord will be nearly defenseless, and cut off from the power of his Horcruxes for a long enough time period that simple slashing hex will do the trick, of course Potter, you'll have to do that part, you know the prophecy and all that shit."
Blaise clapped his hands and said, "Genius."
Harry frowned and asked, "Magic can flow through a mate bond?"
Draco held his head and said, "That's all a mate bond is."
Hermione frowned and said, "That doesn't sound right, all the books say that a mate bond is a connection of love between two people."
Draco laughed and said, "Oh, that's funny, have you seen this mark on my shoulder, I don't even fucking like Potter, in fact I kind of hate him almost as much as I hate my father, you know almost. All the bond is, is Potter's magic interacted with my own during sex, thus establishing a connection that was solidified by Potter marking me. The withdrawal symptoms are due to the fact that without physical contact, the magical flow of the connection is only going one way."
Harry felt his eyes prickle and he asked, "Do you really hate me?"
Draco tilted his head and said, "Give me one reason why I shouldn't?"
Blaise frowned and said, "That's a bit harsh man."
Draco sighed and said, "It's reality, you can't tell me that if you were in my position you would feel different."
Blaise sighed and said, "You're right, but it's still harsh, he's a Veela, I mean I know it's not an excuse but he is and he's not your father."
Draco snapped, "Yes well he sure acts like him."
Blaise said, "You act like him to sometimes, that doesn't mean you are."
Draco stood up and said, "I'm going to go check on my mother." And left the room.
Once Draco was out of earshot Blaise turned to Harry and said, "Don't take it to heart just yet, he's coming around."
Ron frowned and said, "That's him coming around?"
Blaise glared and said, "It was only yesterday that he would rather be dead than with Harry, that's what it means when he goes all unresponsive, that's he's so hurt he doesn't, can't, deal with life. The fact that he's willing to go through all these hoops for a shot of living means Harry has a chance to clean up all this shit. He might say he hates Harry, but that just his fear talking, because it might not seem like it but Draco's fucking terrified, and for good reason. The only ever close interaction he's had with a mated Veela is his father, and so far Harry's acted so much like Lucius that it's a wonder Draco isn't pissing in his pants let alone fucking standing his ground."
Hermione looked like she was going to cry and Harry looked a step behind her as he asked, "How do I fix this?"
Blaise smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mrs. Malfoy and I have a plan, it might not be as fucking anal as Draco's but it'll work."
Harry brightened and asked, "Really?"
Hermione grinned and asked, "How can we help?"
Blaise returned the grin and said, "Alright, first of all Draco's the most stubborn person I know, he's already having symptoms but he'll fight them till he drops if we let him."
Ron frowned and said, "He seemed fine to me."
Blaise shook his head and said, "Draco's not the prince of Slytherin for nothing, he's the kind of deception, especially when it comes to his feelings. For instance, your terrible attempts to woe Draco over, they weren't as terrible as they seemed."
Harry felt a glimmer of hope, "Really?"
Blaise snorted and said, "Yeah, Draco didn't curse you out half as much as he normally does that week you kept smiling at him. I don't recommend you go that direction now, since you know he'll think you're fucking with him. No, we'll have to go the spoil him route."
Ron asked, "What does that mean?"
Blaise said, "Draco, like any Slytherin, likes to be spoiled and shown artificial affection."
Hermione asked, "You mean to win Draco over Harry has to buy him stuff."
Blaise nodded and said, "Yeah, kind of, but not like your thinking. You know how his mother's always sending him chocolates and stuff, he never say it out loud, but that's how he knows for sure his mom hasn't forgotten about him or died on him, even when she just send a little box of candy, or something from home that he didn't really need. It's also how Draco himself shows affection, he's always buying his mother jewelry and trinkets, every time we go to Hogsmead or London he buys her something. Whenever he orders something from a catalog he gets her something too. It's the way they convey they're affection."
Hermione smiled and said, "That's actually kind of sweet."
Ron looked horrified, "You can't buy someone's affection."
Hermione shook her head and said, "It's not buying affection, it's just a way to show affection. Do you have any suggestions of what to buy him?"
Blaise let out a breath and said, "Well, definitely something to symbolize your relationship, he won't wear it till you guys are in a better situation but the idea that you would want him to show everyone you're in a relationship, something that isn't a painful reminder, would definitely be a good thing. Not a ring, maybe a bracelet, or a band or a necklace, but definitely not a choker or something that might look like a slave collar. Silver's your best bet, but if you really want to win him over get him something with emeralds or rubies."
Hermione had gotten out a piece of parchment and was writing all this down. Blaise paused to think for a secant and said, "He's allergic to Lilac, but he loves anything that smells like roses, it reminds him of his mother's perfume. Chocolate is great, he's got a giant sweet tooth, but nothing with cherries, he hate's cherries. Surprisingly he really likes things that mix muggle and wizard sayings. He's got like four T-shirts with muggles sayings converted to fit in the Wizarding world. Also, something most people don't know, he visited the United States once and went to a muggle movie theater, if you can managed to get , him to sit down to a movie and give him popcorn and Soda and all that, it would really earn you points. Same with dinner, if you can get him to go to a restaurant and treat him to a nice meal, it would be good."
Ron asked, "How do you remember all this?"
Blaise laughed and said, "Draco and I grew up together, his mom and mine have an agreement that if their husbands ever get to violent with one of us kids then we have a place to stay, I can't even tell you how many times Draco had to come stay with me or I had to go stay with Draco because one of our 'Father's' got mean. Draco's my best friend and my brother; he deserves to be treated better than he has."
