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Thousands Of Reasons To Smile
Chapter Ten
There will come a day when you'll feel like shit
And you'll want to give up on this life and everything else.
When that day arrives
Save yourself some trouble and do one thing,
Just take a nap
Abraxas P.O.V.
Abraxas Malfoy was not having a good day at all and it was all because of Harrison Potter. He didn't know what it was about that dwarf, but for some unknown reason Abraxas felt compelled to watch out for the kid. He didn't know Harrison and he didn't want to, but ever since he was obligated to wait on Harrison's hand and foot, which was humiliating, he had this bad feeling that something was going to happen to Harrison. Not that he cared. He kept telling himself anyway. Harrison had accepted his apology, but still he couldn't shake off this nagging feeling he was having in the pit of his stomach. It was weird and annoying. He asked his parents what it might mean since they were the ones that forced him to apologize to his cousin, they didn't have a clue and said it was simply mind over matter.
Then there was Avril Moreaux. That girl was a pain in his ass.
"That Potter brat already accepted your apology; I don't understand why you have to-"
"Look Avril, I'm already having a bad day this morning and I don't need your constant whining in the mix of it. What I do is my business. If you have a problem with it why don't you go bother somewhere else?" Avril pouted looking on the verge of crying.
Abraxas sighed and rolled his eyes as he walked past the girl to go to the Great Hall. Abraxas didn't see Harrison Potter when he walked into the room. Not at the Slytherin table or the Gryffindors. When Abraxas reached the Slytherin table, he spotted Antoine Prince eating his breakfast and went to sit next to his friend. Avril joined soon after sitting next to Abraxas still upset.
"You know," Avril said as she sat down, "Hogsmeade is coming up this weekend and theirs this nice restaurant called 'lepor lepos'. It's so nice Abraxas, it's just for couples and they have lovely food and…" Abraxas drowned Avril out as she went on and on about 'lepor lepos'.
"Why did you not wake me Antoine?" Abraxas asked the young man as he took a sip of his pumpkin juice.
Antoine Prince simply nudged his head towards Avril and rolled his moonlight blue eyes (A/N Yes that's his eye color), Avril was oblivious to Abraxas ignoring her as she was still continuing on about the restaurant in Hogsmeade.
"If I woke you then I would have to listen to her mindless chatter. Avril has always strike me as the kind of girl who wouldn't date a boy who didn't spend hours worshiping the ground she walked on, as wouldn't you. Personally, I don't like to date below my class."
"Antoine, that's why you barely have any friends, you are way too brutally honest, it can take its toll on people and let's not forget that you are pretty boring no matter how handsome you are." Abraxas replied smirking as he made his plate.
Antoine raised an eyebrow at Abraxas. "Well before you go and kiss me, -" Abraxas punched Antoine playfully on his right arm, "I have heard no complaints from anybody else about my boring personality."
"How come you don't have more fun? You know, 'In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king?'" Abraxas asked him as he took a bite out of his bacon and eggs.
"In this land of the stupid, the man with one brain cell is king." Antoine replied buttering up his toast.
"Abraxas! You're not even listening to me!" Avril pouted as she lightly shoved him.
"Avril we'll go to lepor lepos Saturday afternoon alright?" Antoine said uncaringly as he went back to eating his breakfast.
Avril squealed happily. "I'll put on something really cute! How about something pink? Or blue or green…"
Abraxas sighed whilst Antoine shook his head negatively, his short nape of the neck length silky black hair shaking at the same time.
"Hi guys." said a black curly haired girl in a happy voice though she really didn't want to as her gaze met with Avril. Avril turned to face her with a smug smirk on her face.
"Goyle, Abraxas and I are going to 'lepor lepos' on Hogsmeade, you know the restaurant for couples." Goyle just smiled sweetly, her honey brown eyes shinning with mirth, which seemed to anger Avril as she was trying to make her jealous. Antoine couldn't help but smirk in amusement of the whole ordeal himself.
"Well that sounds like fun. Abraxas, don't forget we have a prefect meeting that morning before you two love birds go on to Hogsmeade together."
"I wouldn't dream of it Charlotte." Abraxas replied taking a sip of his cranberry juice. Avril just glared at the girl scooting closer to Abraxas.
"So how are you today Antoine?" Charlotte asked trying to force some pleasantness in her voice.
Antoine just shrugged. "It's too early to justify how I feel today."
"You can never give me a simple answer to a simple question." Charlotte exclaimed making her plate.
"Here comes the rest of the gang." Abraxas replied as three boys (his roommates) made their way towards them. One of the three boys had blonde hair that was put in a low ponytail with blue eyes; another had short wavy brown hair and green eyes with a smug look on his face as he spotted Charlotte; and the last boy had shoulder length black hair and brown eyes.
As the three boys came up to the table, the green eyed boy struck a dramatic pose and grinned down at them with a heart-melting smile.
"Congratulate me, ladies and gentleman. Charlotte accepted to go on a date with me."
"You did?" Avril asked with a slight tone of jealousy in her voice.
"Well I do believe congratulations are in order, Oscar." Abraxas said bemused. "I can't believe after so many years Charlotte finally caved in." Charlotte glared at Abraxas.
"I didn't cave in; I'm simply making a point that it's not going to work out between us."
"I'll give it two weeks tops." Antoine replied as the boys took their seats.
"Antoine just because you don't have a love life doesn't mean I won't." Oscar said fixing his breakfast along with the others.
"Here we go again." The boy with the ponytail said to the brown eyed boy next to him.
"I can get any girl I want Watkins, unlike you, I don't have to grovel." Antoine sneered at him.
"Grovel—!"
"Who cares I just want to know the details." Avril said.
"There's really not much to tell. He asked me out again and I told him if I didn't like the date then he had to stop asking me." Charlotte explained.
"So anyway what's the latest on your little cousin Abraxas?" The black haired boy asked him trying to break the tension between Antoine and Oscar.
"Torin what did I tell you about bringing him up?" Abraxas snapped at him.
"See Abraxas, Rosier hates the brat just as much as I do." Avril said smugly.
"Don't put words in my mouth Moreaux, I can speak for myself." Rosier said trying to not get in trouble with Abraxas.
Avril just rolled her eyes.
"Just leave it be, I'm sure Abraxas has his reasons for being exceptionally odd around the Potter boy." The blonde with the ponytail said to the group as he took a bite out of his strawberry jam toast.
"Dolohov, what Abraxas is doing, I wouldn't call odd. More like obsessively stalking a little twerp that got the best of him." Antoine replied smirking at getting a rise out of Abraxas as said person gave him a death glare.
"I hate you so much." Were Abraxas words.
"That's too bad because I just adore you." Antoine said sarcastically standing up as he gathered his book bag with him.
"We have double-potions with the Gryffindors today, I'm heading off." Antoine left without another glance back.
"I swear Prince gets more reproachful every time I see him." Oscar said annoyed.
"Antoine has been my friend for as long as I can remember, you guys will just have to deal with it as you have been before. He means well." Abraxas replied standing also.
"You're leaving already?" Avril pouted.
"Come, I'll walk you to your class." Abraxas replied as Avril smiled cheerfully grabbing her book bag.
As Abraxas started walking down the stairs from his divination class which he found the class a waste of his valuable time, he came across Antoine Prince whom looked very hesitant about something. That was new, Antoine was always sure of himself which made Antoine who he was. This perked Abraxas interest.
"Antoine, what an odd coincidence that you happen to—"
"You're girlfriend morally screwed up her time in Hogwarts. She'll be lucky if she doesn't end up in Azkaban." Antoine said as he walked back down the stairs.
"What?!" Abraxas grabbed Antoine's shoulder to get him to stop and explain.
"Moreaux went to confront your cousin Harrison while he was on his way to the Slytherin common room."
Abraxas ran his hand threw his long blonde hair nervously. That girl was so stupid!
"How bad is the situation?" Abraxas muttered out oddly concerned for the boy.
"Moreaux almost let a whole unforgivable curse out of her mouth, the crucio curse. Professor Slunghorn and Professor Flamel stopped her in time before any damage was done to the boy, which is more than I can say about Moreaux. Potter performed aFurnunculus spell on her. Never heard of it myself, but from what I hear, Moreaux looks simply revolting. She's in the hospital wing now." Antoine said with a slight amusement in his voice.
Abraxas Malfoy was pissed. He had told Avril directly to leave the kid alone! Now his parents were going to blame him for his girlfriends' action and of course he was probably going to have to apologize for that and grovel for forgiveness. His parents were going to disown him for sure this time he knew it! He wasn't supposed to get in any kind of mishap with the boy and now his soon to be ex-girlfriend was going to get him killed.
"Dammit!" Abraxas stormed past Antoine down the stairs with quick haste.
"What are you going to do Abraxas?" Antoine called after him.
"I'm going to see Moreaux."
Antoine smirked knowing that Avril Moreaux was in for an early funeral.
Normal View
Tom was a wreck. He didn't know what to feel or think. He had never had this problem before. If he was mad then he would simply throw out his anger on someone, and there wasn't anybody he couldn't do that to now. He never had this feeling of… of… well Tom didn't know exactly what it was that was making him feel this way. He couldn't sort out his emotions correctly because it was all muddled all together. Tom was back in the Gryffindor dormitories pacing back and forth in his room. Charlus was just sitting on his bed watching Tom's progress, not sure of what to do or say when he was just as upset as Tom. Charlus tried over and over again telling Tom it wasn't his fault. It wasn't like Charlus could blame Tom anyway; he just wished that Tom would stop that annoying pacing and tugging of his hair.
"Tom… Tom, stop it!" Charlus abruptly stood up and snatched Tom around so that he was facing him.
Tom swallowed the lump in his throat but couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes when he heard his brother talk. He didn't even care that Charlus had grabbed him the way he had. "It's my fault Charlus, I'm suppose to look after Harry, mum and dad were counting on me and I couldn't even do that," Tom gave a bitter laugh, "I-I couldn't protect Harry, my brother Charlus! What good am I to mum and dad-?"
"Tom! What are you thinking you dolt? Don't take everything so literally! Mum and dad love you regardless of what you do or don't do idiot, that's what parents are suppose to do. Love you no matter what." Charlus rolled his eyes and gave Tom a hug, holding onto him and trying to ignore the fact that Tom was wiping his nose on his shoulder.
This hug or hugs he received from time to time was still such a foreign movement to Tom, but he couldn't help but to enjoy it when it was offered to him. There was no way he was giving that up anytime soon when he so desperately needed the comfort knowing that there was someone out there that cared for him.
"I'm here to protect you to, Tom." Charlus whispered to Tom in his ear. "I'm right here when you need me little bro."
Tom just sniffed and nodded feeling terribly awkward as he finally let go of Charlus and Charlus did the same. Charlus mused to himself as he noticed that Tom believed his words so much quicker than he ever did before. For that, Charlus was thankful. Maybe Tom was actually starting to see him as his brother, Charlus hoped so anyway because he would do anything for that prat just to make him happy.
But then Charlus realized something when Tom had pulled out of the hug.
Tom was worried that mum and dad didn't love him and he was trying to gain their love. I guess Tom had more issues of abandonment than Charlus realized. I mean who wouldn't when his own parents left him the way they did when he was born. Of course Charlus couldn't pass judgment because he didn't exactly know the story himself. Charlus guessed that Tom probably didn't either.
"You know Harry will be alright don't you? I mean the most trouble he will get is detention at the most. Moreaux is the one that will most likely get banished from Hogwarts. I mean she tried to perform one of the unforgivable."
Charlus jumped as Tom's red velvet curtains caught on fire beside Tom.
"Tom!" Charlus urgently pulled Tom towards him and away from his position by his bed.
"Tom, Tom make the fire stop, please." Charlus said to him worriedly.
Tom clinched his eyes shut tightly and bit his lip as he tried to calm himself down, but that girl Moreaux and his supposedly cousin Malfoy was definitely a trigger to his anger.
When Tom opened his eyes again, Charlus was looking at him frowning. "That seems to happen a lot lately with you."
Shrugging Tom looked up at his burnt curtains. "I'm working on it." Looking back at Charlus Tom gave him a small smile. "You know I would never do that to you right, I have more control of it when I'm not an emotional wreck."
Charlus just rolled his eyes at the boy. "I trust you Tom."
Tom looked at him shocked. "Why?"
Smiling Charlus just shrugged his shoulders. "That's what families do. They trust each other, duh."
"Duh." Tom mimicked Charlus rolling his eyes making Charlus crack a smile.
Knock, Knock
"Who is it?" Charlus called as Tom waved his hand towards his velvet red burnt curtain and immediately the damage was gone.
Whoever it was didn't answer back as said person opened the door and walked in.
"Hey guys."
"Harry!" Charlus ran up and tackled Harry to the floor as soon as Harry closed the door behind him.
"Do you know what the hell you've put us threw you ungrateful prat?!" Charlus hissed at him knocking the wind out of Harry.
"Er…" Harry was beyond shocked, he hadn't been expecting this behavior from Charlus at all, he was sure it was going to be from Tom.
"Give us a break Harry, Tom and I are not trying to torment you or undermined you. We are worried about you! Every time we turn around somebody has it out for you, you stupid git and then you end up getting hurt! I can't speak for Tom, but I'm sure we are on the same page. We have a lot to worry about, because of you. Grindelwald, Malfoy, Prince, Moreaux, basically the whole Slytherin clan! All we wanted to do was to protect you to give us some peace of mind!" Charlus heaved a huge sigh as he finally stopped ranting.
Harry just blinked up at Charlus with uncertainty as Charlus finally got off of him. Well Harry really felt like crap now, Harry stood back up with both Charlus and Tom glaring at him. Harry could understand their point of view; I mean he had to deal with that protective behavior since the war. Harry didn't realize what he had been putting his brothers, he had been incredibly insensitive. Harry honestly hadn't planned this whole 'going back to the past' thing right. He knew he was supposed to play his part of the orphaned eleven year old that was oblivious to the cruelty that was out there in the world, but at times his twenty-one year old personality would get in the way and he would act as he would if he was back in his future. Harry supposed he didn't know what having brothers were going to get him into no matter how many times he remembered by spending times with the Weasley's.
"I know you guys are worried about me, but it's getting out of hand. We have to make a compromise here." Harry suggested as both Charlus and Tom raised their eyebrows at Harry.
"You want us to compromise?" Charlus asked Harry still slightly annoyed.
"What were you suggesting?" Tom asked this time in a calming voice.
"Okay, I'll let you guys walk with me after dinner if you guys let me pick my own battles."
"What do you mean 'pick your own battle'?" Tom asked with a slight edge to his voice.
"When I happen to have an argument with one of my housemates I don't want you guys to interferer. I know how to handle it." Harry exclaimed as both Charlus and Tom looked disapproving.
"I don't think-"
"Then you can't walk me to my house room." Harry interrupted Charlus smugly.
Charlus looked at Tom and Tom rolled his eyes. "If that's what it takes then fine, but during dinner time you have to eat at the Gryffindor table. I think it would be best if you ate at the Slytherin table in the mornings and at lunch time so that your housemates don't think that we're forcing you to eat with us." Tom suggested looking just as annoyed as Charlus about this compromising.
Harry sighed and rolled his eyes. "Where I eat is not important to me, but I'll do as you wish. It's not that that bothers me. It's the fact that you guys are always babying me. You have to give me some credit here; I'm not going to let my housemates get the better of me again okay. Have a little faith in me. After what happened to Moreaux I'm sure that everybody is going to handle me with extreme caution now."
"Yeah well, just be more careful Harry. Slytherins are not a huge fan of the Potters." Charlus said with a small smile on his face.
'You know you can always come back up here when it gets to tough. At night or whenever' Tom said to Harry in parseltongue.
Charlus blinked confused.
'I know Tom, but you talk in your sleep and Charlus snores' Harry laughed as Tom glared at him.
"I do not talk in my sleep." Tom said offended as he spoke in English this time so that Charlus could be included again.
Charlus rolled his eyes as he smile amused. "What happened with the Headmaster? Did they punish you?"
Harry just sighed and shrugged his shoulder as he went to lie on his back on Charlus bed. "Headmaster Dippet said that since I was trying to protect myself that he wouldn't give me detention and then he said that if I have anymore problems with my housemates that I should report it immediately to Professor Slunghorn instead of handling it myself."
"What about Moreaux?" Tom said with disgust in his voice.
Harry smirked at this. "I don't know the fate for Moreaux."
"Then why are you smirking?" Tom asked him as both he and Charlus sat on the bed with Harry.
"Well after I got done talking to Professor Dippet, he sent me off to the hospital wing to make sure that I was really okay. Professor Flamel stayed behind to speak more to the Headmaster. Anyway, as I made my way to there I could hear all this shouting from outside the door, but I couldn't really understand it so I quietly opened the doors to look inside, Professor Slunghorn was practically dragging Malfoy away from Moreaux, he looked like he was trying to choke the girl."
All three boys laughed.
"Are you serious?" Charlus asked Harry amused.
"I kid you not. Malfoy was shouting all these profanities at Moreaux in front of the Professor! I was so shocked that I couldn't laugh! He kept on about how they were over and that Moreaux was a disgrace to purebloods. Moreaux was just bawling her eyes out. Nobody didn't even notice my presence."
This made Charlus laugh even harder.
"I was supposed to let Madam Abbott check me, but after what Malfoy said…"
"What did he say?" Tom eyes harden, laughter forgotten as was Charlus.
Harry shook his head negatively. "He said quote 'how dare you even think about harming my cousin Avril! My blood! If something had happen to him because of you it would be your life!' and that's when I sneaked back out the hospital wing."
"What?" Charlus said stunned.
"Yeah I know." Harry yawned sleepily.
"This might be a problem." Tom muttered under his breath.
"What do you mean?" Charlus asked Tom.
"I have a feeling that Abraxas is going to be more in our lives then ever."
Author's Note: First off, I would like to apologize for the late update, busy with college and stuff! I'm sorry if I offended anybody with my note about this story, but what I said was true. I mean I come back from school and work and stuff and then I get all these nagging comments about my spelling and errors etc. I write in the beginning of all the chapters saying that I don't have beta and I'm not planning to get one! What the heck is wrong with you people? Haha whatever I don't care; just don't be surprised if you get blocked!