Chapter Eleven

Saving Another Flower

Harry stood beside Draco as rain poured down from the sky. Draco glanced to his side to see nothing. Harry was under his invisibility cloak hiding from any onlookers. Dumbledore stood in front of them smiling before nodding. Harry wrapped his arms around Draco and disappeared.

Draco looked around their new surroundings. They were only a little walk from where he was supposed to meet his mother. Harry let go slowly.

"Don't worry, I'm right here." Harry said quietly before placing a whisper of a kiss on the blond's cheek. Draco turned to him unsure if he imagined it or not but gave a tiny smile before walking down the road with Harry following in step. Turning a curve in the road Draco stopped. His mother stood a few feet away dressed completely in black with a black umbrella over her head. Beside her sat her trunk. Narcissa smiled sadly at him. Draco walked up leaving Harry behind him.

"Mother." Draco said bowing kissing her hand.

"Draco." Narcissa replied in turn. "It was so good of you to come." Something in her voice made him realize he was surrounded by Death Eaters plus a strange tingle went up his spine. He stood looking around him. A mask came off and there stood his father. Fear shot through Draco planting him in place. He glimpsed to his side, he knew Harry was outside of the circle waiting for the right moment to attack. Draco glared up at his father in defiance.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Lucius said steely. Draco sneered.

"I know what I have in front of me. A fucking asshole of a fucking man, oh wait he isn't even a man because if he was he wouldn't have all his pals here to kill his son. Then of course you could be fucking them too so who knows maybe you're just a fucking sick person who likes to get off on other people's pain." Draco replied coldly. Lucius glared down at him before raising his hand hitting Draco across the face hard. Harry quickly pushed down his anger it wouldn't be good for Voldemort to find out about his wandless magic. Draco turned towards his father angrily. "Can't handle the truth can you?"

"You're lying." He sneered before hitting Draco again. Narcissa turned her head away as tears slipped down her cheeks. Suddenly she grabbed Lucius' arm before he could hit Draco again.

"Stop it. He is your son." She cried. Lucius turned cold eyes towards her before slapping her hard across the face causing her to fall to the ground. Draco's eyes burned with a strange fire in their silver depths. Harry felt the hum of Draco's magic in the air knowing the rest couldn't feel it. Lucius pulled out his wand pointing it at Draco.

"Expelliarmus!" Harry said disarming Lucius. "Accio wand." The wand flew into his hand easily. His invisibility cloak kept him concealed and Lucius wand was slipped underneath it. Draco grinned at his father's shocked look.

"I believe you are not the only one who knows how to trick someone, father." Draco said with the Malfoy smirk in place. Lucius glared.

"You were always in love with your enemy, with my enemy and no matter how hard I tried I could never get your mind off of him could I? You are given freedom and you go running straight to him don't you? How sick is that; my son in love with Harry Potter." Lucius ridiculed. Harry glared at Lucius even though the older man couldn't see him.

"To tell you the truth Lucius, you always say that. Also your son is right you do get off on other's pain, every time you do. Do your fellow Death Eaters know what you did to your son and how sick you are? I know and I would gladly destroy you along with your master." Harry said circling the group. The rest of the Death Eaters moved trying to find the boy. Harry chuckled. "You will never find me. For I am here and here." His voice moving in the air from one side of the group to the other confusing the death eaters.

"Find him and kill him." Lucius ordered. Draco grinned pointing his wand at his father's throat.

"Oh how I would love to kill you but it's not time yet. I'm going to let you live...for now." Draco said hearing Harry stun Death Eater after Death Eater. "I'm not your son anymore. I am just Draco Malfoy and I will restore good to our last name or I will die with my name being the only good Malfoy in a long time." Harry moved to help Narcissa up. She smiled softly at the feel of the warm body pressed against her side and his arm around her waist.

"Draco, come on. Let's go." Harry said. Draco nodded without taking his eyes off his father. He slid his arm around Harry's invisible waist before picking up his mother's trunk. They disappeared leaving behind Lucius' wand.

As soon as they appeared in the headmaster's office. Harry threw off his cloak and checked Draco's face for any damage done from the hits he received. Narcissa sat down none too gracefully in one of the chairs. Draco smiled softly at Harry.

"Mother, I would like you to meet Harry Potter, currently my protector and friend." Draco said turning to Harry. Harry smiled taking Narcissa's hand kissing it just like Draco had done before.

"It's nice to meet you, Mrs. Malfoy." He replied. "Your son is quite interesting. I just didn't realize how clingy he could be. I swear I might have slept in my bed alone once." Draco gave him a light tap upside the head laughing. Narcissa watched the exchange with a smile.

"Harry please call me Narcissa. It's nice to finally meet you. I have never once seen Draco so happy. I've seen him happy when he was young but once he started to grow older becoming what his father told him to I never saw him like I just did." She said quietly. Harry nodded to Narcissa before he turned to Draco with a grin.

"Now what's this I heard about you always loving me?" Harry asked. Draco blushed pulling Harry outside the room. Narcissa laughed and turned to Dumbledore. Dumbledore's eyes twinkled.

"Are they always like this?" she asked. He smiled.

"Not always but sometimes they are." Dumbledore answered.

Harry closed the door waiting for Draco's answer knowing the blond would take his time especially now that he was pacing wildly. He smiled at the blond's nervous response to his question. Draco suddenly stopped turning towards Harry staring into deep emerald eyes.

"Growing up, I had a fascination with you. I couldn't understand how someone so powerful could be defeated by a child. As I grew older my fascination diminished, mostly I just hid it because of my father's orders and I turned to wanting to become that powerful. Well then I met you and my fascination returned with a vengeance but you turned down my friendship so to get close to you I did the one thing I could, I became your enemy and started to hate you. Of course my hatred towards you turned to a…crush and that made me hate you even more. I wanted it to go away knowing what my father would do if he found out. I kept trying to push it down, to get rid of it. It was so hard, how could I just let go of all those feelings that I felt and oh how I just wanted it to end. I knew you would never feel the same, it was just some impossible dream that I would never get to have like all the dreams I had. I think they were of the past though but it could have been my imagination. I –" Draco said before a hand covered his mouth stopping his rambling. Harry smiled.

"It might just come true, dragon. We will just have to wait and see." Harry said before heading down the stairs. "Spend time with your mother, I'm going to visit my aunt see how she's doing." Draco watched Harry walk down the stairs. Harry stopped before he was out of sight of Draco and turned around winking then disappeared down the stairs. Draco watched surprised and gave a happy smile then returned to his mother inside Dumbledore's office.

To Be Continued...

Descendant of Doom