It was three days later in the evening when Severus and Draco seemed to realize something was wrong. For what was going to be the third night in a row, Harry had gone from dinner straight to his rooms instead of spending time with Severus and Draco. With this in mind they walked up to Harry's personal rooms, and Draco went to push open the door. He frowned when it didn't budge, he tried again with the same result, "Did he lock his door?"

"Let me try, he's never locked his door," Severus said, and tried the door, which other than making noise as the knob turned from side to side, did nothing. He then knocked on the door. For a full minute there was no sound, and worried, they tried an unlocking spell. The door opened with ease.

Harry didn't even look up from a large stack of essays and tests he was working through as they walked in. He jumped when Severus gently put a hand on his shoulder, "What are you doing here?"

"We came to check up on you, and were worried when you didn't answer the door." Severus explained.

Harry gave a half smile, "Sorry, I put a silencing spell up because Bill was holding a dueling practice in the corridor earlier, I must've forgotten to take it off."

"Well, let's get you out of here, you can't stay locked up for so long." Draco said grabbing Harry's hand with the intention of pulling him from the room, but Harry refused to move.

"Sorry, but I really have to get this done," Harry said, lowering his eyes to the floor.

"You can do it this weekend," Draco reasoned.

"I have a meeting at the ministry on Friday, Saturday I'm helping Bill all morning with a dueling club exercise, and I have tutoring in the afternoon. Sunday I have promised the quidditch team to watch practice and give them some tips for the match next week, and have to talk with Minerva, and I don't expect it to be a short visit." Harry listed off, looking exhausted.

"What about tomorrow? Friday?" Draco asked.

"It's going to take me tonight and tomorrow to finish this, and then Friday… Friday I can't do anything." Harry said, really hoping they would leave Friday alone.

"What's going on on Friday?" Severus asked.

Harry sighed, "A doctor's appointment."

"For what?" Draco asked, "Are you sick?"

Harry looked at them, Draco animatedly worried, Severus looked suspicious. His eyes fell to the ground again, "Yeah, don't worry about it though."

"Why didn't you tell us you were sick?" Severus asked in a stern tone.

"It's not a big deal, I didn't want you to worry." Harry shrugged.

"I know you better than that," Severus said, and Harry looked up alarmed, "When it's nothing you would either go to me or Poppy and get a potion that would make you better. You only hide what's wrong when it's important. If I recall, the last time you didn't tell me something because you didn't want me to worry, you'd been dueling and all the bones in your left arm had shattered. What's wrong?"

Harry took a ragged breath, "On Friday I'm finding out how long I have to live."

Harry wiped his eyes with the palm of his hand as his boyfriends were frozen in shock. He felt two arms wrap around him and lift him from the chair, but didn't have the will to argue with being picked up at the moment. Within a minute he was lying on his bed crying as he was held by the other two.

Harry fell asleep quickly, curled into Severus' chest. Severus looked at Draco who seemed to be trying not to deal with the fact that Harry was going die at the moment. He got a determined look on his face, "You take care of him, I'll finish grading for him."

Severus got a weird look on his face, "You'll do that for him?"

Draco nodded as he took Harry's place at the desk, "Harry got me with you, I'd do just about anything to repay that. Besides, he obviously has an asymptomatic terminal illness. The only ones I know of, the first signs are exhaustion and occasionally insomnia. He needs to sleep, and he has enough to do without grading schoolwork."

"I could help as well," Severus offered.

Draco laughed, "What did his students do to deserve that?"

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(A/N: First of all, I know the chapter is short, but I'm going to try to post short chapters every week or so. Also, guesses on what the illness is are too general. As a clue, it IS some kind of Luekemia. If you have the time, please review!)