10th December 2003
Draco was up at 5.30 again. Not much different from when he normally gets up in the morning. He unfolded the Daily Prophet and gasped, throwing the paper in the fire after seeing the headlines.
DARK LORD POTTER DEAD; WORLD ONCE AGAIN FREE
The tortured Wizarding world held its breath as another, mystery dark lord began to rise. We all wondered what would happen at his time, how far this would go. It was revealed that Harry Pott was suspected of causing this uprising, having gone completely mad in the years after the defeat of Voldemort.
its said he isolated himself to the point of insanity, where he did do work for the ministry he was often unsessicarily violent in his take down of criminals - to the point where it is common knowledge in the office that Potter was quite proficient with the cruciatus curse...
Draco couldn't read any further than there, the picture on the cover was one taken in Azkaban, Aurors were zipping up the body bag and taking it away. The injury Harry had gotten while apparently trying to escape looked to be a very large, ban burn. The bloody, seeping scabs glinting, even in the picture. Draco watched the paper smolder as Harry's dead eyes stared at him.
"No," Draco whispered, and was violently sobbing once more.
19th December 2003
"DRACO!" Narcissa ran into the kitchen, hysterical, "Lucius is in the house! He, he's at ther door I saw him, we have to go!" Luna was sent from the house with James and Lorcana, Teddy followed with a reluctant Blaise, by now Lucius had entered the kitchen, smiling sadistically at Draco. Draco threw up a shield charm and held it for as long as he could, Narcissa had frozen in fright, Draco could almost see the memories from the war playing across her eyes.
"MOTHER!" Draco screamed at her, "MOTHER, GET SIRIUS!" she stayed frozen.
"Avada Kedavra!" Draco's shield shattered. He and Lucius traded curses, lights flinging around spectacularly, until a cutting hex caught his shoulder while trying to move Narcissa toward the fireplace. She woke up then and screamed when seeing Draco's blood.
"MOTHER, GET SIRIUS AND GO!"
"Draco, Draco!" Narcissa was screaming and trying to fuss over his shoulder, Sirius, was pulling her skirt.
"Lucius, leave us! Leave! What do you want? Why have you come here? Go away, go away, go away!" Narcissa now was sobbing and shiking her head, chanting the familiar mantra from the war. Draco found a pause in the fight to slap her.
"TAKE SIRIUS AWAY! NOW!" She nodded frantically and looked about for the boy. Narcissa grabbed the little boys hand and Draco was knocked out by his father, watching Narcissa disappearing through the flames, dragging Sirius by the hand, the little boy screaming.
20th December 2003
Draco had been dumped in a cellar at Malfoy Manor by his father, he woke up a while ago; still waiting for Lucius to come down. Bellatrix eventually came to say 'hello' and after a few 'crucios' she lead him out of the cellar. When they lived here, before the war he had never been in the cellars. After the fact he'd been in the cellars more than the rest of his house.
They came into the formal sitting room, which was still in disorder after the war. It looked like people had been in to begin cleaning, but either gave up or were told to stop. "Your Daddy had a special friend!" Bellatrix said, "a very special friend, in fact you get to meet him soon, Draco"
Eventually she opened the door to the dining room, but instead of his father coming out, he was pushed into the room, the door shut again.
"Harry?"
"Draco?"
Draco, if you asked him today, would deny this, and if you asked Harry, Draco would glare at him with promises of an untimely death until he too denied. Draco launched himself across the room and into Harry's arms, sobbing.
"You're alive," Draco said, "You're alive, Harry… I thought, Kingsley-"
"Don't worry about it, Draco, I'm here now." Harry wiped the tears off Draco's face and gently held him. Then Draco just stayed in his arms and cried, until he fell asleep.
29th December 2003
Harry watched Draco sleeping, Harry had a muggle cast on his leg, its itched. His damaged knee was too badly shattered to fix entirely with magic. They put a cast on and threw him in prison.
Harry looked at Draco agin, he remembered before he left, he had kissed him. He had tow objectives, maybe three. The first was to annoy the blonde man, the second was to let him know that yYeah, Harry was interested. The thirds was because he wanted to reassure the blonde. Harry thought this mission would be easy and quick.
he was wrong.
Harry noticed that the large cut on Draco's face had slowly reopened, he ripped off a strip of his shirt and woke the blonde.
"Draco you're bleeding," Harry lifted his head and wrapped the relatively clean cloth around his forehead, using a bit of extra scrap to pad the cut and keep the pressure on.
"Thank you Harry," Draco smiled a sweet, sleepy and slightly pained smile.
He was asleep again quickly and Harry paused for only amoment before leaning down and kissing his hair.
31st December 2003
"We need to get out of here, Draco."
"I know Harry," Draco said. They could both hear the sound of people walking down the corridor.
"Line up against the wall," Bellatrix this time then, Draco winced.
The door cracked open and Bellatrix and Fenrir Came into the room.
"Come on boys, daddy wants a word." Bellatrix smiled at them sadistically as they left the room, Harry supported by Draco because of his shattered knee.
They got to the drawing room in the Manor, a place Draco used to think of with fond memories. Harry uttered a soft 'no', as they entered the room, Draco followed his gaze.
"Daddy!" Sirius was sitting on the floor at Lucius' feet, a collar around his neck, Lucius holding the lead.
"Sirius, no, no, no baby. Malfoy, let him go, he's a child, this isn't his fight, he's suffered enough from the war, let him go," Draco's heart broke as he watched Harry's spirit break before him, Sirius tried to run to Harry, but the collar stopped him.
"Father, this is low, he's a child," Draco sneered at his father.
"Crucio!" Lucius seemed to be fascinated by the little boy's screams and cries. Harry was snarling, his eyes flashing dangerously. Sirius tried to crawl away; he was calling for Harry, or Draco, for help, for the pain to end.
Harry snarled and elbowed Rodolphus in the face, he was quick to snatch the man's wand but Lucius was faster. Harry was played with by Lucius and Bellatrix for an age. Draco was being held down by Fenrir, who didn't take his eyes off of sirius. Eventually he and Harry were thrown back in the cellar, Harry skidded across the grimy floor and smacked into the far wall, but he was up back at the door faster than Draco could see.
"NO! SIRIUS! NO, NO, NO," he panted, still smacking his fist on the door, "SIRIUS! NO, I'LL KILL YOU, MALFOY, I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU, AND I'LL FUCKING ENJOY IT, YOU BASTARD, YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" Harry began to cry, and then he screamed "SIRIUS! SIRIUS BABY! NO, NO, NO, No, no, no, no, no!" Harry whacked his head against the door and his shoulders shook with each sob.
15th January 2004
The next time Bellatrix came to get them, Harry lunged at her, but she just waved her wand and threw him against the wall.
"Come on, Daddy Harry, wouldn't want your bad behaviour to hurt a little someone, would we?" Bellatrix was speaking in her mock baby voice again, it was like nails on a chalkboard to Draco.
"You bitch, where is my son?"
"He's safe with Uncle Lucius, trust me," Bellatrix was practically purring.
They were lead to one of the manor's many sitting rooms.
Lucius was sitting in a winged armchair, his feet on Sirius' back, using him as a footrest.
"Evening Mr. Potter," Lucius smiled viciously. "I hope you know why you are here?"
"Because you're psycho, Lucius, because Voldemort's dead, because I put you in prison, I don't know, I don't care, do what you will with me, just send my son home, please, please."
"No, no, we can't have that." Lucius kicked Sirius in the side, sending him rolling across the floor, the cry of pain breaking Harry just that little bit more, Draco could see him giving up. The little boy slid until the collar around his neck stopped him with an animalistic yelp.
"We have you here, because, Potter, you're going to bring back the Dark Lord!" Lucius announced. Draco couldn't even bring himself to react now. They were here for nothin. They would be killed after this.
"You're insane!" Harry shouted, "You're insane," he said again.
"No, you're the seventh Horcrux! Potter, I know you are!" Bellatrix screamed, grabbing Harry's shirt.
"No, I'm not," Harry cried, he pushed Bellatrix away, "he killed the Horcrux in me in the foyer!"
"Ah yes, You're cute little trick, we're not falling for it Potter." Bellatrix put her foot on Sirius' back, he cried out.
"Daddy, help, please!"
"Sirius baby, hold on' I'll try!" Hary said, scrambling to his feet, Bellatrix jabbed her wand at him.
"Crucio!" She hissed, Harry didn't scream, just thrashed around for what seemed like hours to Draco.
Finally Bellatrix stopped torturing Harry and he just lay motionless. "Is he dead?" Lucius asked, and Rodolphus bent down to check his pulse. But then Lestrang's head was rolling across the ground.
Harry had Rodolphus' wand trained on Lucius, who had his wand pointed at Harry's three year old son, whose screams still haden't ceased, only long enough for the little boy to cough up handfuls of blood, his voice raw and hoarse.
"Let him go, Lucius, this is not his fight," Harry looked at Lucius with an insane, desperate glint in his eye.
"Bella," Lucius purred, she jabbed her wand into Draco's neck "Bella, come take little Sirius Potter-"
"PORTEGO!" Harry shouted, a bright blue sheild leapt from the tip of the wand and setteled over Sirius like a blanket. The chain Lucius was holding snapped.
"Avada Kedavra!" Lucius shouted, Harry jumped to the left, out of the curse's way and shot the killing curse right back at Lucius, who fell to the ground, dead.
"Bellatrix, this is definitely not in your favour," Draco said.
She laughed, and slashed her wand, in a final desperate attempt to do some damage. A blood red streak of light hit Harry in the chest and he started bleeding immediately, wounds opened up on his face and neck, where his clothes had been ripped away, Draco could see the skin tearing and opening.
"Avada Kedavra!" Harry said, the curse hitting Bellatrix In the face.
"Get Sirius out of here, Draco, please." Harry whispered and slumped to the floor. The shield-blanket faded and Draco swept the little boy into his arms and grabbed Harry's hand before apparating them all away, straight to St. Mungos. He ran through the lobby yelling for a healer, Harry was carted off with three, He gave Sirius to another Healer and tried to follow them as Sirius was taken away, calling for Harry. Draco eventually stopped trying to fight with the Healers and was taken to be healed himself.