Chapter Fourteen
Albus awoke slowly he saw that Madam Porphyry was leaning over him and the others. "That was a foolish thing to do Potter. Then again your family has seldom thought about repercussions. You are incredibly brave but also brash and now you might very well die because of it." Albus shrugged and glanced at Scorpius sleeping soundly besides Rose and Robert. Robert was snoring loudly but the others did not stir. "Do you know what you did? You preformed dark magic and now your fates are tied together, none of you will ever be able to be a thousand feet from one another."
"I saved the life of my friend and my cousin. Scorpius helped me and together we saved them." Albus replied and was glad to see that the sword had returned to a wand clutched tightly in Scorpius's hand. Albus felt very weak and took out the potion in Scorpius's pocket. He took a few drops and then gently opened his friend's mouth and put the drops into it. Scorpius awoke and smiled groggily at Albus.
"We did it didn't we? they will live. I don't think we can do much more." He then looked around him. "Where are the others?" Madam shook her head slowly. Scorpius jumped up. "No." He said and wrenched back the curtains, Zoriah lay near death.
"You slept for a day, its too late for all of them. Ted tried to save them but nothing worked."
'Stupefy." Scorpius said and then he held the bottle over Rose and Robert's lips. They had two drops and opened their eyes. "Blood fever." Scorpius said. "Help me save him." At once all four got shakily to their feet. Together they reopened their wrists and touched them to Zoriah's. The pain was horrible but worth it as they grew weaker Zoriah grew stronger until all five of them were merely swaying on their feet. Scorpius took out the blue vial and shakily gave himself a few drops and did the same for the others. They passed it around until their strength returned.
"Thank you." Zoriah said. "I know what you have done, I saw you I thought you had killed yourselves and that was when I gave up hope. Thank you for choosing me to save." Scorpius smiled.
"Of course I would, you are my closest friend. I don't know what to do for the others." Scorpius said. "I suppose I could try something, but I don't know if it will work or not." Taking his still bleeding wrist he squeezed some of the blood into a vial. "Add yours to mine." The others complied and soon the potion was dark and murky.
"What are you going to do with that?" Rose asked.
"Administer it to everyone in the room. It can't harm anything." Scorpius said and shook the potion. "It is worth a try at least." He then walked to each bed and dribbled the potion into the mouths of the occupants. They all groaned and moaned but Scorpius managed to get them all to take it.
"Try to use your magic." Albus said and Rose nodded.
"Alorhamora." She said and a trunk unlocked.
"Good job." Albus said and grinned as did Robert.
"I feel to weak to try at the moment." Robert said as they watched Scorpius walk around each of the bed.
"That will keep it at bay at least. We can't join with all of them."
A boy raised his hand weakly and Scorpius came over to him. "Freeze us." The boy said. "Muggles have experimented with freezing people near death. I don't want to die." He shuddered. "That stuff you gave me helped but you need to freeze us, or stop time within a room."
"That is a very good idea, you are a Ravenclaw aren't you?"
"Wrong about you, sorry Scorpius." The boy said and Scorpius nodded.
"It's alright." Scorpius replied. "Just rest, you need it more than anything else." The boy nodded and closed his eyes. Scorpius looked around him and sighed. "I don't know what to do." He said. "I suppose I can always communicate with my father."
"How?"
"I have floo powder." Scorpius said knowing that it was important to keep his head level. He threw the powder on the flame and cried out. "Ministry of Magic, artifacts devotion." His father's office appeared. "Dad."
Draco Malfoy looked up from his desk and Scorpius saw that his father had been crying. "Son." He said and rushed to the fire.
"I am alright Dad, joined blood with Albus, Rose, Robert and Zoriah. I tried to make a potion and it seems to be holding back the disease. I don't think any of us have it any more, the merging of our blood seems to have stopped it. We are however all weak."
"If you can leave the hospital wing it should be a simple matter of walking through the door, if you do not have the disease." His father said. "Let me talk to Madam Porphyry."
"I well sort of stupefied her so she wouldn't interfere. Blood bonding is considered dark magic but it was the only way to save Rose, Robert and Zoriah. We joined magic and none of us are entirely sure of what that means."
"Try to get out my son." Draco said and Scorpius nodded as they disconnected.
"Come on guys." Scorpius said. "Lets go, I am not sure if we can catch it again or not." Scorpius lead and the others weak from their ordeal fallowed. They exited the door to the hospital wing and leaning against each other made their way to the chambers of the four. "That explains the passages and why each of the beds is so close to the other." Everyone nodded before going to one of the bed and falling fast asleep.
They all awoke in the same moment, Scorpius reached for his potion and took a few drops he then went to each of the others. Then they all stood up and went back out the passageway. "We saved each other, so that means that really the blood of the funders runs in each of our veins. It is time to see the library." Scorpius said and took them into the room. Rose looked around like a kid in a candy store.
"Ohh, healing." She said. Scorpius smiled and studied a spell to freeze time it was complicated but he was able to get it right after a little practice. "Accio books." Scorpius said and the books flapped away revealing an fifth set of armor and a fifth wand. Zoriah stared at the armor for a while before he picked it up and it blazed gently with light. He grinned and took out the little black book. Scorpius then put the books back on the shelves.
"Hogarth Hogwarts had no descendants."
'That the four knew of. His sending was cast by them not by Hogarth." Rose said and smiled at Zoriah. "Welcome to the extended family." Zoriah laughed and clapped Rose on the back.
"Welcome to the ranks of those who's blood is Pure." Zoriah returned and grinned. "You know loyalty makes a pure blood and the willingness to blood bond although ours is much stronger than most."
"I wouldn't have it any other way, all my friends are in this room." Scorpius said and everyone smiled at him and his griffin roared in defiance.
"Well the five are reunited. Shall we cast the time spell?" Zoriah asked. "Without permission from the ministry?"
"I don't think permission will be a problem, I am already respected as the next Potions Speaker." Scorpius replied. "You are the son of the boy who lived, and your the daughter of his two best friends. If we march on the ministry asking for something they won't deny us. Especially if eleven year olds lives are at stake. Join hands with me." The others nodded and together they appeared to the Ministry in the healers division.
"Can I speak with Alica Spinet?" Albus asked and was shown in.
"Albus!." Alica said and suddenly Albus was being embraced.
"We have come to ask promising for a time stop inside the hospital wing." Scorpius said and Alicia stared. "It is the only way to insure none will die while we search for a cure."
"Agreed." Alica said. "Your request is granted, we will issue a time stop."
"This seemed to help." Scorpius pulled out the bottle filled with blood and the blue potion. "It brought them back from death but I don't know if it can do much else."
"Quick thinking Mr. Malfoy." Alicia said. "Hogwarts has been closed so you will all return to your families for home study."
"About that, to save ourselves, we kind of blood bonded to each other." Alica looked horrified. "We can't go farther than a thousand feet from one another." Albus said. "So if we are to go back to our houses we will have to take turns."
"I want to see my little brother." Zoriah said close to tears.
"We all do." Rose said and gently took the boy's hand. "A thousand feet is nearly a quarter of a mile. I wonder if one of us was a thousand feet away and each was the same distance we might be able to stretch it to a mile. How did the funders manage going to wars and so forth?"
"I don't know." Zoriah said starting to really cry.
"It's alright we will go see your family first." Rose said. "We need to reassure others as well though."
"I don't need to see my father and nether do you really, he would have told your father that we are all together. Don't think I don't know what your playing at Zoriah. You might be my friend but I refuse to let you trick my other friends. Nether of our fathers need to know that we are alive. Ron however no doubt thinks that his daughter is dying and Hagrid must believe the same. I know that you want to see your family so do I, your house is not even a mile from mine or Goyles but Rose and Hagrid have the greater need." Scorpius said and disappeared. His friends had no choice but to fallow him to the Wesley's house.
Rose looked at the Burrow and stared at the brooms and cars assembled there. "Family meeting." She said to Albus and he nodded.
"We will wait outside, I know that they don't exactly like me or Zoriah." Scorpius said and Albus and Rose nodded.
"That would be best." Rose said. "Come on Hagrid will be there knowing your dad and Al's."
"I will go but only if they go with us. Our families need to get used to us being together." Robert said and Scorpius nodded, they both squared their shoulders and smoothed their faces. "Don't do that!" Robert said.
"What? You want us to wear our emotions on our sleeves in a potentially harmful moment. It is better to show no weakness. My grandfather is completely mad because of these people. He sings to himself when we are there he doesn't even notice. My grandmother is scarcely better and its directly related to your fathers. So you have no right to tell me not to mask my feelings, as you have no right to tell Zoriah what to do. You have no right to order us about, you know even with the blood bond your mud bloods to think that." Rose and Albus stared shocked at Scorpius.
"If it means that much to you Scorpius, then you can do so if you wish." Rose said. "We would never intentionally order you."
"Why I didn't want you to do that is that if you go into the house like that it would not be good. Don't pretend to be emotionless, it makes some people angry."
"Alright, I won't be nasty if they aren't, right Zoriah?"
"Yes, Malf." Zoriah replied and they both smiled as they entered the Wesley's house. At once they all heard sobbing and something that sounded like a foghorn.
"Father." Robert said. "He most probably thinks I am dead."
As if to confirm that point Hagrid let out a bellow. "WHY?" He demanded and it sounded like something was being bashed in.
"We should go in and show them that we are alive. This is horrible." Rose said.
"Just a moment I think I hear my brother, he might say something while he thinks that I am dead that he wouldn't say when I was alive." Albus said.
"It's alright Mum we will get through this we are Wesley's we get through everything." His brother said and Albus smiled his brother did care after all.
"Come on lets go in." Albus said.
"If you go in now, we will be mobbed." Scorpius said dryly. "I know families, and yours is distinctly large."
"But I want to see my family." Zoriah protested.
"Alright." Scorpius said. "Let me just cast a small sleep spell."
"Agreed, I know how hard this is for you Scorpius." Albus said and Scorpius waved his hands slowly in hypnotic circles pointing at the group of people and said a word in his mind. At once the crying was replaced by snoring and deep breathing. Albus moved to where his father slept and sat in his lap like when he was younger. Harry's deep breathing filled his ears and Albus felt lulled by the effect.
"Maybe we should rest here, just for a moment." Scorpius said yawning and Zoriah was as well. The two young men sat against a corner in the wall and were soon fast asleep.
Robert saw his younger sister Elemere sitting on his mother's lap. He wiped gently at her eyes and picked up the little girl. He had spent time in france with his mother and sister but his father would stay at the school until summer vacation when the family could be together again. Hagrid was a Hogwarts man and his mother could not stop being Headmaster of Bebitans. He sat in his father's lap comforted by the soft snoring and slow and gentle movement of his father's breathing. He had only seen his dad a week ago but it seemed like a much longer time. He reached up and gently touched the tears that had gathered at the corners of his father's eyes. "I love you dad." He said and hugged his little sister. Elemere startled awoke.
"Robby?" She asked and Robert smiled turning her around.
"I don't know what our parents told you Elly, but I am fine." He said in french. She hugged him surprisingly strong for a nine year old but then again they were both full giant, his father wasn't sure quite what would happen because they had more giant blood then him and their mother, but they also had more wizard blood. Brother and sister were very close spending half a year with their mother and half the year with their father.
"But ow ed ou geet here?" She asked in heavily accented English.
"Speak french ma Cher. Your English has something to be desired." Robert said and she laughed.
"Tu sabot." She said.
"That's right I am an Oaf and so are you." He laughed and so did she. He had missed her so much he was only just beginning to realize. He tickled her and she laughed delightedly trying to squirm away. Which woke his father.
"Robert." His father said and Robert gently set his sister down his father's eyes were still closed.
"Why do you close your eyes father?"
"My dreams are being cruel." His father replied and Robert smiled.
"You can't feel things in dreams now can you?" Robert asked his father and gently touched his face and kissed his cheek. "I am here, tired yes but here. Open your eyes father."
"I saw you, as you were unconscious but you screamed." He said and Robert hugged him.
"I am fine father, or rather I will be." Robert said and Hagrid opened his eyes.
"So it is not a dream after all." Hagrid said. "Or a very strange one, I don't think Malfoy's boy would be here."
"He saved my life, him and Albus." Robert said. "And Rose, but I also saved hers. We are related to Hufflepuff father."
"Hufflepuff? But me dad's bloodline didn't carry that blood."
"What about the giant bloodline?" Robert asked and took out the small book. "I found this in a chamber at Hogwarts it's Hufflepuff's diary." His father started to read and then his eyes grew wide.
"You might be right." He said and smiled. "I do not care one bit, as long as you and Elly are safe." He hugged him tightly.
"Er Dad, breathing is a part of being safe."
"What? Oh sorry." He let his hold loosen a bit. "That better."
"Much." Robert agreed and yawned.
"You have been through a dragon's jaws and come back again, sleep." He said and Robert's little sister sat in his lap. "Dragons fly high above you, Griffin's wings at your back, Unicorns surround you around an oak tree. Rest my children beside me. Hear my voice of comfort feel our breath together and make yours deep and slow. Fly away past the waking world into the realm of dreams. Beyond fear or prejudice fly safe in your dreams." Robert felt comforted by the familiar song and soon he was sound asleep. Hagrid gently stroked his son's hair and reached his arm around his sleeping children to his wife. He gently shook her on the shoulder and she awoke. "Be quiet they are both asleep."
"Both?"
"Both, Robert is fine, he has returned to us." Hagrid replied. "He isn't dying he's recovering. He said something about Malfoy's son saving his life but I don't know if it's true or not."
"Look at ze wrist." She said. "My poor baby." Hagrid looked down and saw the thin cut now a scar on his son's wrist. It was a five-pointed star.
"He and the others must have mixed blood that's what saved them, no wonder they were so tired." Hagrid said. "Wake Harry, he needs to know that his son is alright." Madam Maxime nodded and walked over to where Harry was asleep Albus in his lap.
"Harry wake up." She said and Harry startled jerked awake, Albert fell to the floor but did not awaken.
"What is it Madam?" He asked her.
"Look down." She replied and Harry stared at his sleeping child.
"He is alright." He said and picked up Albus. "Thank Merlin." He hugged his child and Albus stirred although he did not waken. Tears of relief and joy came to his eyes. "Rose is here too and Robert." He said and still holding his child hugged Madam Maxime she was laughing and crying.
"Es, Alive." She agreed. "But ze blood ez bonded." She said to him and he blinked.
"Albus bonded his blood to the others?"
"Not alone, ze Malfoy boy, ez sleeping over there." She replied and Harry stared at the sleeping boys.
"They saved the lives of my child and yours." He thought. "I suppose that we were wrong about Malfoy if he could do something that brave for someone else."
"I do not know how long eze children will sleep." Madam Maxime said.
"I don't care if they are asleep as long as they are alive." Harry returned and hugged his son to him. "We might as well sleep here for tonight at least." He said and Madam Maxime nodded.
"It ez for ze best." She said and went back over to where her husband was sitting sound asleep holding both of their children in his arms. Madam Maxime could not help but wonder how she had grown to love this silly monster loving man so much. She smiled and closed her eyes.