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Draco convinced Jacob, at last, to let him go with him to the training they were getting with the Cullen's. Jacob didn't want Draco to go because he didn't want him getting hurt, especially since his cast was just recently removed.

Jacob tied his shorts on his ankle band and shifted. He sat on his haunches as he waited for Draco in the forest. He debated whether he should just leave without his imprint. That way, he wouldn't get hurt. Draco didn't know the way so he would have no choice but to stay and wait for him to return.

Jacob stood up on all four paws and was turning to leave when Draco arrived.

"You weren't planning on leaving me, right?" Draco said as he tugged on his new, black long sleeve shirt to make sure the dark mark was completely hidden.

Jacob paused and gave Draco a toothy smile. As a wolf, it looked like a growl.

"It wouldn't have worked, because I would have just followed your scent." Draco smirked.

Jacob rolled his eyes and turned his head. When he looked back, he was stunned into a motionless beast, eyes going wide. There stood in great magnificence and beauty, the white wolf he had imprinted on. Draco didn't know the thrill that his mere presence sent down Jacob's spine and down to the tip of his tail. The boy, now wolf, stood on all fours, head held high looking like a refined wolf indeed. His ears stood straight up and his silver eyes bore deep into Jacob's heart, making him fall even deeper in love with the boy.

Draco's ears flattened back, his head lowered, and his tail wagged back and forward.

'Can I ride on your back?' Draco's voice suddenly shocked Jacob out of his trance like state.

'What? Wait, how can I hear you?' Jacob noticed that although he could hear Draco's voice in his head, he couldn't hear his thoughts nor feel his emotions like he would be able to with any of his other pack members.

'I'm using my magic.' Draco raised his head again and walked towards Jacob. 'So is that a yes?'

Jacob was confused. 'A yes to what?'

'A yes to me riding on your back.'

'What? No way. You have four legs too, use them.' Jacob said, although not a second later, he thought of how close their bodies would be if he said yes.

'But you're a lot bigger than me, and I don't want to get my paws dirty. My fur is pure white; any single speck of dirt would stand out like a sore.'

Jacob noticed, now that Draco was standing beside him, just how small his imprint was in his wolf form. The top of his head, when held high, reached just about Jacob's mid shoulder. He was no bigger than Seth was as a wolf. And even then, Draco was slimmer…and more graceful. He added as an afterthought.

'That's why you take a bath afterwards.' Jacob said sarcastically as he began walking, Draco following right beside him.

'Fine.' Draco finally resigned and huffed through his nose. 'I'll race you there.'

'You don't even know the way.'

'I have as good a nose as you do and I can smell my way there.'

Jacob's lip curled up as he tried smirking. He could easily beat the smaller wolf. Jacob was the second fastest of the pack, Leah being the fastest, and he doubted Draco's small form would be fast enough.

'Ok then, you're on.'

'Alright…ready-set-go!' Draco yelled out suddenly and was already running.

Jacob was shocked but then began running, trying to catch up. Maybe he's faster than he looks.

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'You're pretty fast.' Jacob said to Draco as they reached the clearing where the Cullen's and his pack members waited for them.

'Yea, but you're still faster than me.' Draco said. He had lost, but he wasn't far behind Jacob.

'Jacob, stop fooling around. You've wasted enough time playing your little racing game already.' Sam said to Jacob through their mind link.

'Sorry, Sam.' He said a bit annoyed. They raced there didn't they? He didn't think that was wasting time.

'No, but you shouldn't have waited for him if he was going to take his precious time getting ready.' Sam responded to Jacob's thoughts.

He growled at Sam's words but he said nothing else.

'Is everything ok?' Draco asked him suddenly and Jacob realized that his imprint couldn't hear Sam's thoughts.

'Yea, Sam's just being Sam. Can you hear me when I talk to them?'

'No, unless I want to, and if I did I would only hear what they want me to hear. I wouldn't be able to hear their thoughts nor feel their emotions like you do as a pack.'

Good, thought Jacob. He wouldn't want Draco hearing what Sam was saying.

The rest of the morning, Jasper proceeded to train them. Draco was able to convince Jacob into practicing with the Cullen's and Jacob was able to make Sam understand that practicing against them would be helpful in their training.

Of course, it took a while, but Sam finally saw reason and allowed it. Jacob was of course paired off with anyone but Edward. That was just a fight waiting to happen, so they were kept apart and at a distance.

Their practice had started at around eight in the morning and it was nearing one in the afternoon when things drastically changed for the worse.

Draco had mostly sat and watched the others take turns in mock fighting. He had actually drifted off into a light sleep at one point but was quickly woken when Paul became angry and almost attacked Emmitt. Those two also had some sort of feud going.

It was precisely then that Sam had asked Jacob to tell Draco to show them his magical power, if indeed he had any, since he had yet to show them.

Draco thought then that it would be ok to use his magic, since Harry told him in the letter that he was forgiven by the ministry of magic.

He shifted back to his human form and pulled out his mother's wand. He decided to show them something that he would be using against the vampires.

"Incendio!" He cast the fire spell at a bush and it caught fire immediately, then he cast, "Bombarda!" and the bush blew into smithereens. He then waved his wand and the remaining fire that had splattered onto the forest floor and nearby trees went out.

"I think that's the combination of spells I will be using. It's should do the job effectively, right? Or perhaps blow them up and then set the pieces on fire?" Draco was talking as he looked on at the place where the bush once stood. He turned to look at everyone when his question remained unanswered. The Cullen's stood still as, well, as still as a vampire did, and the shifters all looked on in wonder. Sam looked not impressed like everyone else, but angry.

"That was…"

"Amazing!" Alice finished Carlisle's sentence. "That will definitely work to bring the new-borns down." She said smiling her bright smile. "I suggest you try blowing them up first, though."

Draco gave a nervous smile, but then it wavered as he saw the way Sam was standing. He looked like he was ready to attack him. His head was lowered, his ears lay flat, and his lip curled in a silent growl and his eye's bore holes of hatred into him. Draco became afraid then. He could feel the hair on the back of his skin stand on end, Sam's hatred became so thick in the air, he could almost touch it. The Cullen's hadn't noticed, but the shifters plus Edward and Jasper did. They all turned to Sam and tried to calm him. Jacob was beginning to growl at the alpha and was moving closer to Draco to protect him.

Draco didn't know why Sam seemed to hate him so much. He thought perhaps he saw his dark mark, so he looked down and pulled his sleeve to make sure it was covered.

That was a mistake.

Sam noticed the movement and immediately, his paranoid mind set out to figure out what the boy was hiding. He knew he was hiding something from them.

Sam walked behind a tree and shifted and pulled his shorts on. Then he approached Draco and motioned to his arm.

"What are you hiding?"

Jacob was confused and extremely angry with Sam. What the hell is his problem? Draco just demonstrated his magical abilities and he becomes angry. Now he accuses him of hiding something? Bastard! Jacob quickly shifted behind a tree and went to stand in front of Draco.

"Sam, what's wrong with you? He's hasn't done anything to you, why are you being like this?" Jacob yelled. He saw through the corner of his eye that the Cullens were standing off to one side. Surely, Edward would be explaining to them Sam's suddenly mental and angry mindset.

"He's hiding something. I know there's something that he's keeping from us, from everyone, because he's afraid of the consequences!"

Draco felt his eyes watering and the tears just started flowing down his cheeks uncontrollably.

"He's guilty of something, something bad!"

"I won't allow you to keep insulting my imprint the way you are. Enough is enough!"

Draco was too into his thoughts at the moment to realize that Jacob had called him his 'imprint'. Instead he stepped forward.

"I'm sorry." He said in a lowered voice. Everyone remained silent, waiting for him to continue. "Sam is right; I have a dark past that I'm not proud of. I made a mistake and—"

Draco was cut off as Sam roughly seized his left arm with a very strong grip that pained his recently healed bone, and shoved his sleeve up.

Draco winced as his dark mark was now exposed to everyone.

"I knew you were hiding something. What is this? The mark of your dark and evil fan club?" Sam spat and roughly pulled on Draco's arm causing him pain. Jacob immediately shoved Sam away as he pulled Draco to him.

Draco cradled his arm and his body trembled in Jacob's arms.

"Draco, it's ok. You don't have to answer anything else." Jacob whispered to him and before anyone else said anything, Jacob picked Draco up into his arms and ran away from the clearing.

There were a few growls and Jacob knew that his pack members had to hold Sam back from chasing after them.

Draco cried silently into Jacob's chest as the latter swiftly ran through the forest. He hated Sam, this was the last straw. He would confront Sam the next time he saw the bastard. He wasn't going to stand by like he has been, and he's been an idiot to allow it to get this far, and allow Sam to act the way he has been towards his imprint. Sam knew what their absolute law was against other pack members' imprints, yet he continued to act as if the blond was his most hated enemy. He wasn't going to stand for it any longer.

Jacob reached his house and immediately took Draco inside and laid him on the bed. He was about to go into the kitchen to make Draco some tea to calm him down, when his small fragile hand shot out to keep him there.

"Draco?" He asked tentatively.

"I'm sorry, Jacob. Sam was right; I've been keeping the truth about myself from you and everyone." Draco wouldn't look into Jacob's eyes and tears were still flowing down his flushed cheeks. His eyes were red and his nose was tinted pink. The boy was absolutely distraught.

"No Draco, don't believe what he says, he's only trying to—"

"But it's true!" Draco stood up from the bed and walked out and into the living room, towards the vanishing cabinet. "I told you that I came through here in the middle of a battle against a mad man, didn't I?" He said motioning the cabinet. "What I didn't tell you was that I…I—" he shuddered and continued in a whisper, "I was fighting on the wrong side."

Draco went down on his knees and sobbed into his hands. "I'm sorry, please, I made a mistake…" he spoke to no one in particular. He was expressing what he truly felt.

Jacob was instantly beside his imprint pulling him into his arms. He understood what Draco was saying, that he was the bad guy in the battle of the wizarding world, but Jacob could care less. He loved Draco no matter what, and he knew that Draco was truly sorry for his actions. He wanted forgiveness for his mistakes, and Jacob wasn't going to push him away when he needed him the most. He would never push him away.

"Shh, Draco it's ok." He soothed the boy by rubbing his back and running his fingers through his blond hair.

They stayed in that position, Jacob holding onto Draco on the floor, for quite a while, until Draco's body stopped trembling with the gasping sobs that had taken over.

"Why aren't you upset? I'm not who you thought I was. I'm a lying, and conniving bastard. I did the dark lord's will just to save my own hide, while innocent people suffered."

"You're not a bastard, Draco. You were scared and you recognized you were doing the wrong thing didn't you? Everyone deserves a second chance, and I would not only give you a second chance, I would give you as many as you needed."

"But why, Jacob? You hardly know me. For all you know I'm a murderer who's killed many people."

"But you're not. I just know you're not as bad as you think you are. You have good heart; you just haven't realized it yet."

Draco looked up at Jacob at his words, and his tears began flowing again. He had never met a person like Jacob; He was always so kind and caring.

Jacob cupped Draco's soft wet cheek and wiped away the tears with his thumb. Then he slowly and lovingly leaned down and took the boys lips for the first time. In that soft kiss where their lips touched in a gentle caress, Jacob was able to express to Draco that he loved him and would always protect him. There was nothing in the world that would change his mind, not Draco's past nor future mistakes.

When Jacob pulled back, he saw that Draco had his eyes closed and his head was slightly tilted back. When his eyes opened, Jacob saw the same emotions he felt for Draco coursing within them.

There were no words spoken. Instead, they shared a smile before Jacob picked Draco up and carried him back into his room. He closed the door and lay down on the bed, holding Draco tightly against his chest. Draco snuggled into Jacob's large form and felt protected and loved, a feeling that he hadn't felt in a very long time.

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Harry jumped out of his chair so fast it tilted backwards and fell. He was shocked and he swallowed with the possibility that it was true.

For the past few weeks, Harry had been searching for any trace of magic that could be traced to Narcissa's wand. He had a fleeting hope that perhaps, there was the slight possibility that Draco was alive. That he had survived the fire in the room of requirements. He felt like he needed to search for this possibility because he desperately wanted Draco to be alive. The boy had been a bully, yes, but he was frightened and was only doing what Voldemort wanted him to do because he couldn't escape his clutches. That, and knowing that Draco was alive, Narcissa would have something to hold on to while she waited in Azkaban, for who knows how much longer. He was afraid she was going to lose her mind by the time her trial came to pass.

And now Harry's hard work seemed to finally be paying off. He was using the ministry system to search for the magical trace and he finally found it.

"What is that?"

Harry stumbled to hide the information he had written down on a paper. He turned and saw the minister standing behind him, picking up the overturned chair.

"It's nothing, sir."

"Mr. Potter, you were searching for a magical trace without authorization. I demand to know what you found." The minister's voice turned harsh and demanding and Harry had no choice but to confess.

"It's Mrs. Malfoy's wand, sir. I've been able to trace it, which means—"

"Which means that Draco Malfoy is still alive." The minister finished for him. "Where is he?"

Harry reluctantly handed over the information he wrote down.

"Forks, Washington. So he's escaped to America." He rubbed his chin for a moment. "Very well, I shall send for his immediate capture."

"What? But, sir, you can't. Draco is innocent, as is his mother!"

"Save your testimony for their trial. Right now, there's a death eater roaming free, and I will not stand for it."

Harry stood there as the minister left in a hurry. Harry immediately went into action. He had to try and reach Draco before he was attained. He had a few hours at the most until the aurors prepared and created the port key's needed to reach America.

He knew he needed Hermione's help.

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AN: And it begins! I'm excited to finally reach this point in the story. And sadly it is quickly approaching the end. So please review and thanks to all of you who review and read and like my story.

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