Chapter 14

An hour later, Tobias was surrounded by his pack. Clearing his throat to gain their attention, he waited, ignoring the onyx eyes that were drilling into his back.

"Tonight we go to Malfoy Manor. Tonight we become a pack in more than name. From tonight you do not answer to anyone but me – unless I tell you otherwise. Draco is an extension of me. If he tells you to jump, you are to respond with 'how high'. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes Alpha."

"Good. Tomorrow night we are going to be introduced to father's followers – All of them. There will be malcontent from them. They will try to harm you. They will not be allowed to do so. The dreams you have been having is in fact the training you were promised. Everything you could do in them you can do in the here and now. I am not your Lord. I will be the Young Lord to Pateras' followers, but I am your Alpha. You are my family. I would kill to protect you. There is little doubt in my mind that I will have been forced to do so by the end of this weekend. The only being allowed to punish any of you is myself – but I will never make the punishment public or lasting. I cannot promise that it will not be painful. I will not waste energy in punishing other people for my own mistakes either. I do not wish for you to fear me. The only time I will go against this is I one of you disobeys or harms either Drakontas or myself."

Tobias looked around meeting each member's eyes. "I will never hit any of you with any of the unforgivables. I may hex you, but never with a curse to cause pain. This fact alone is going to make me look weak in front of those of the Death Eaters who do not know me, but they will learn. Neville, I'm warning you now that Bella dearest is going to be in attendance. You are only allowed to harm her if she misbehaves. If that occurs, then try not to damage her too badly. Pateras still will not gift her and the rat too me. And stay away from Cruciatus on her – after my time with her I strongly suspect that she gets off on it."

A malicious grin crossed his face. "I suggest using the curse we were discussing last night with the charm Flitwick taught us first this year."

Neville thought for a moment before he started laughing hard enough for tears to fall down his cheeks. "Re-remind me to stay on your good side, Alpha. Th-this is going to hit her hard … not as hard as you punished her, but still hard."

Shock ran across Severus' face while the rest of the group looked puzzled. "What did you do to her?" he asked softly.

Tobias smirked. "I made her watch Bambi."

Severus' face paled. "You didn't," he whispered. Tobias, Neville and Draco just grinned at him. Severus swayed slightly, pale green coming up in his cheeks.

"What is it, Professor?"

Tobias answered for him, keeping both eyes on his godfather. "Bambi is a children's movie a wizard made for the entertainment of muggles. This wizard's name was Walter Disney – better known as Walt Disney," Tobias stretched, ignoring the gasps of surprise from The Pack. "Bambi is the story of a fawn … Let's just say that it is so sweet and cutesy that it would even give Lavender Brown a toothache to watch it."

Draco started to giggle, causing everyone bar Tobias – who just grinned at him – and Severus, who was now looking like he was going to faint, to look at him in worry.

"Can I tell them, Bi? Please?"

Tobias chuckled and nodded. "Of course, Drakontas."

Draco bounced in his seat, laughing uncontrollably.

"Ok, what have the rest of us missed?" a bemused Ginny asked.

"What most people here in Hogwarts don't know is that A-Aunt Bellatrix isn't scared of Tobias – She's terrified of him. For two weeks Tobias used her as a guinea pig to test out all his favourite curses on – not including the amount of crucio's he sent at her just for fun. When the Dark Lord told him to stop before he killed her prematurely, Tobias locked her in an empty room with no light and, using a projection spell, forced her to endure a week of non-stop Bambi. It just played over and over and over without stopping. Mother was sent to retrieve her at the end of the week. She was pale and jittery. When she saw the Dark Lord, she bowed to him, shaking slightly. When she saw Bi, she flinched back, curled up in a ball shaking whimpering, 'please, no more. I'll be good, I promise'."

The Pack looked back at Tobias, awe in their eyes. Ginny was the first to break the silence.

"Damn, Bi. When you hold a grudge, you make it painful!"

"The bitch should have thought of that before touching what was mine. If she had, she wouldn't be on my bad side."

Draco hugged him. "Come on Bi. It's almost time to go home for our family get together. Mother and Father are expecting all of us to be there for Tea, and she will not be happy if anyone doesn't turn up on time."

Tobias nodded in agreement and before anyone could protest, he apparated them, their homework and weekend things into the entrance Hall of Malfoy Manor.

"How the Hell."

"Did we get."

"Here? Last thing."

"We know is."

"Serving a customer."

"Before the shop closes itself."

"Locks itself up and then."

"Us and our belongings."

"Seemed to apparate here."

"Without a thought!"

Ginny laughed at the shocked faces of her four family members she was proud of. All four of them looked as if they'd walked through a long line of ghosts.

"That was one of the effects of The Pack mark, I'm sorry to say. We have a long weekend ahead of us and tonight we will be binding The Pack together as such. Tomorrow night we are taking our rightful places within Pateras' group. There will be threats, there will be curses and there will be death – none of it for me and mine, I can assure you."

"How can you be sure of that?" a pale Bill asked.

"Because he's seen it." Multiple gasps were drawn from everyone's throat before turning and bowing lowly to their Lord. Tobias walked forwards to hug the man.

"You look fabulous, Pateras. I knew that would work on you."

Voldemort smiled at his son. "So, Rowena's gift has been awakened fully now, has it?"

Tobias nodded. "It is very useful, but a pain in the arse. I love Rowan though. And Helga is lovely. Hey Pateras? I think I know why you used to act like a Gryffindor with your plans, at least where they concerned me …" Tobias quickly ducked the hand sent to swat at his head. Chuckling, he turned to him. "Can I be blamed if we both have mixed Slytherin/Gryffindor blood in us?" he smirked as his father froze. "Yeah, Sal and Ric were bonded. They had two kids together too. You are descended from one, mum and I from the other. No wonder we are both fucked up. We are Gryffindors with Slytherin tendencies … or is that Slytherins with Gryffindor tendencies?"

Smirking at his father shocked face, he led his pack into the seating room. Severus followed them, his eyes lighting up when he spotted his mate. Tobias chuckled and pushed him in the direction of the werewolf. He laughed when Remus dragged Severus out of the room enthusiastically. He and Draco locked eyes, both knowing what was going to happen. Tobias noticed something deep in Draco's eyes and stepped forwards and let his arms wrap around his beloved. "I know you don't understand why I've been avoiding most contact with you lately, Drakontas. After tonight you will know. You deserve nothing but the best." He ran his fingers over the sharp lines of Draco's face. "I want to give you the best."

Draco nodded his understanding, even though he felt like he was dying inside. Tobias smiled at him and walked to the door before looking back at him.

"I promise you this Drakontas. I will be yours in every sense of the word, but not right now. I love you and I always will. Please believe me when I say I have a good reason for what I've done." Tobias then left, leaving a hurt and confused Draco in the room alone.

Later that night the adults were all awakened by a large pulse of magic tearing through the house, followed closely by a scream of pain.

Running through the Manor to find what was wrong, they stopped outside the rooms Tobias and Draco were sharing. Opening the door, Remus paled at what he found. Yelling out to Severus to find The Pack and Draco, he hurried to do what he could for his godson, the Dark Lord on his heels.

Draco was seated on a chair, pale and shaking. The memory of the past three hours going through his head as he waited for his father, Sev, Remus and the Dark Lord to tell him it was okay for him to see Tobias. He felt so scared and disgusted with himself it was unbelievable. He should have guessed that Tobias would do something like this and that was why he hadn't been spending as much time with him as he had been before. Tears gathered in his eyes, no matter how much he willed them away.

FLASHBACK

Severus found the blonde youth in the library curled up in front of the fire. With him were Blaise, Pansy, Ginny and Neville.

"We need The Pack with us, quickly. We may lose our Neogennito tonight. He needs his trusted ones around him tonight."

Pansy, Ginny, Blaise and Neville moved to Severus' side immediately. Draco sneered at them. "Go ahead and answer the all like good little puppies. That's all we'll ever be to him – Play things and lapdogs!"

"What the bloody hell are you talking about Draco? Tobias is badly injured and you are acting like you couldn't care less!" Blaise glared at him.

"Why should I care when he doesn't give a rat's arse about what I want or need?"

Neville surprised everyone when he turned around and hit the blonde boy in the mouth with his clenched fist, brown eyes blazing. "You egotistical, self-centred arsehole! I hope you are happy with yourself, Draco Lucien Malfoy. Thanks to you thinking that Tobias cares nothing for you just because he will not fuck you before you have been bonded, you just may be the cause of his death! You knew what he was doing tonight – we all did, he told us remember – unless you were too busy being self-centred to listen to him. If you don't know, he was making The Pack bonds between us all with nothing but his blood. Your selfish thoughts just may have been enough for the magic to find him unworthy and so turn on him. I hope for your sake that he still loves you as deeply as he did before, otherwise you are going to be in for a long and unhappy marriage – IF he survives." Neville spat at him before taking off towards the rooms he was supposed to be sharing with Tobias.

Severus glared at his godson. "To say that I am disappointed in you, Draco is an understatement. You wanting to cheapen the relationship you have with Tobias with a quick tumble before being bonded to him is something I thought was beneath you. To put his life in danger because of it is pathetic. You are lucky Neogennito loves you more than life, because if he didn't, I would kill you now just to get him out of the contract binding him to you. So help me Merlin if I lie." Sev looked down his nose scornfully at Draco.

"I do not think you should come anywhere near him until he asks for your presence. I'd rather he die then have him beholden to someone who thinks more of himself and his wants then the person they are supposed to love with all their hearts." Severus stormed out of the library, leaving a scared, hurt and very distraught Draco behind.

END FLASHBACK

Severus, Lucius, Narcissa and Remus stood around the chair watching the tears fall down Draco's cheeks as what he'd done hit him over and over. Eventually, Remus took pity on the young man and sat beside him. Placing a hand on his shoulder, he soon found himself with his arms full of sobbing blonde.

Remus tightened his grip around the boy and looked up at Lucius and Narcissa in shock. All three of them turned their heads to look at Severus. Looking back at them tiredly, he responded to their unasked questions.

"I will not take back what I said to him as I meant every word I said." He slowly lowered himself to the chair beside Remus and put a hand on Draco's back, making him look up at him. "Draco, you know I love you and would do anything for you. I know you love Neogennito more than anything and want the world to know it – but you must learn to be patient. Please remember that Tobias is powerful, but also delicate. He needs you to be strong when he can no longer maintain his masks. I'm sorry about saying that I'd rather he die then bond with you. I was angry and upset – Not that it is any excuse. I am willing to take any punishment Tobias and milord come up with because I was wrong to say that. It was the love the two of you share that saved him. He knew that the backlash would be great and didn't want you to suffer it with him, so he forbade you to have much contact with him beforehand. He's been asking for you for the past hour, but I stupidly refused to send anyone to come and get you." Severus shivered. "I will never again keep the two of you apart."

As soon as Draco heard that Tobias was calling for him, he jumped up and ran from the room and into the form of the Dark Lord. Bowing and making an apology, Draco took off again to get to his intended's side. The Dark Lord remained where he was on the floor, blinking in surprise after him.

Draco knocked tentatively on the door to his childhood bedroom before opening the door slightly. He gasped when he saw the bandages wrapped around Tobias' hands. Tobias opened his eyes at the sound. Draco almost ran to his side, tears once more running down his cheeks.

"I'm sorry Bi. I'm so so sorry. Please believe me." He bowed his head as more tears fell.

Tobias slowly put a hand on Draco's hair, running his fingers through it. "Calm down, Drakontas. It isn't your fault. None of this is your fault. Anyone would fight me doing this and of all the people I did this with, you fought me the least. I love you so much Draco. Please look at me."

Draco looked up at him. "Bi?"

Tobias smiled at him. "Can I get you to join me here please? I need something to cuddle," Tobias whispered. "I want my Drakontas back."

Draco felt his throat close on him as he struggled to not cry again. Nodding, he climbed onto the bed with Tobias. When Neville, Blaise, Pansy, Ginny and Narcissa walked in twenty minutes later, they found the two of them curled up together, with Draco holding Tobias as if he were a lifeline he was afraid to loose.

Names:

Pateras – Father

Drakontas – Dragon

Neogennito – Cub