AN: Sorry for the late update guys, I started my new job this week and have been super busy. but here it is!

Dracos POV

I put the photo album back and started to head towards the dungeons. Working with Sev always calms me down and makes me feel better. I knocked on the oak door and listened for the familiar 'Enter'. When I heard it I went in and smiled at him. His lips twitched slightly upwards in greeting. I walked over to the store cupboard and got out another cauldron. I knew my way around these rooms like the back of my hand. I started shredding Boomslang skin when I felt Sev put his hand on my shoulder. I looked up at him questioningly.

'Are you okay Dragon?'

'I'm fine Uncle Sev. Just having a hard time being close to him all the time. I just need to be away from it for a while.'

'Do you want to leave it for tonight?'

'Do you mind? Could we just sit and have a drink? I've upset myself by looking at the photo album he gave me'

Sev nodded and put a stasis spell on the cauldrons. Hed finish them later. We went and sat down in his living room with a glass of firewhisky. We sat talking about anything and everything trivial. As long as no one mentioned the elephant in the room we'd be okay.

General POV

Sev sat looking at his godson. He was still totally besotted with the Potter boy. No, he must start calling him Harry. For Dracos sake at least. Draco didn't deserve to be treated as badly as Harry had treated him. He had turned his back on Voldemort all those years ago and helped Harry and his friends. Sev remembered the day when Draco admitted to him that he was in love with Harry.

_Flashback_

Sev heard someone faintly crying as he was doing his rounds. He followed the sound and came across his godson crying on a bench outside the main entrance. He was worried. Draco would never show weakness willingly. He'd just been employed by Minerva as the new Charms professor. He should be ecstatic. Or at least not crying like this.

'Dragon, what's the matter with you?'

Draco jumped and wheeled round, tears streaming his face.

'I can't take it anymore Sev. I need to be myself!'

'What do you mean Dragon? What's happened?'

'He's gonna disown me Sev. I can't be the pureblooded son he wants and I certainly can't have an heir like he wants. I don't like women Sev. I'm Gay' Draco was sobbing and had wrapped his arms around himself. He looked so pitiful. Sev did the only thing he could think of to offer the young man some comfort. He sat down and pulled Draco to him and hugged him tightly. Draco sobbed on his shirt.

'I'm sure there are lots of presentable gay wizards your father would approve of dragon, and you can always adopt?'

'No Sev, I don't want a presentable gay wizard. The only one I want, I can't have. I know I can't because I don't even think he's gay, and that's the reason fathers going to disown me, because I'm in love with him!'

'Who? Draco I can't help if you don't explain'

'Potter, Sev! Potter!' Draco collapsed into tears again.

Sev was shocked to hear that Draco was in love with the boy hed tormented since they were 11, but once he started to think about it, it made sense. The built up tension and hatred had slowly, for Draco, moved to jealousy, then interest, then infatuation. Sev just hoped Potter wouldn't hurt his dragon. He hoped hed grown up.

_End flashback_

Sev sat watching the changing emotions on Dracos face and the shadows that passed through his eyes. It hadn't been easy since his father had disowned him. Draco quite often spent his weekends in Sevs rooms, he hated being alone. He had nowhere else to go and no one else to turn to. Sev was his only family left.