Title: In the pain, there is healing
Sequel to: I Just want your Kiss
Author: Desperate For Attention
For: Whoever wants to read my crap
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy
Disclaimer: Characters are sole property of J.K. Rowling; I am merely borrowing them for my own personal amusement, they shall be returned afterwards.
Summary: Light flooded in through a small opening on the opposite deafening silence rang in Harry's ears his eyes meeting with the familiar bright eyes of his peers before death ears filled with the excited voices of his friends and class mates. Draco moved closer to him, breathing tense breath.
Love will tear us apart
Draco sighed contently when Harry fell against him in the chair. Their stomachs full of fresh food and drink, pleased at the pleasant home comfort of Aberforth small but cosy home. Candles had been lit to help air out the darkness with a gentle glow.
Leaning over Harry pressed his forehead briefly against Draco's shoulder the gesture alone putting Draco into a comforting state. "You alright?" Harry whispered keeping his voice low to avoid disturbing Aberforth and Hermione.
"Though we weren't going to make if, for a second then." Draco laughed half heartedly.
Harry smiled reassuringly at him. "Neither did I."
"Bloody Harry Potter, always getting away by the skin of his teeth." Draco scoffed.
"I'm not the only one that got away," Harry snorted lightly, smiling at Draco when he rolled his eyes.
"What happens next?" Draco whispered softly, looking across at Ron who was still stuffing bread rolls into his mouth as though he hadn't eaten in years.
"Well me, Ron and Hermione are going to get into Hogw—"
"You, Ron and Hermione!" Draco shot quickly pulling back to turn in his seat and meet Harry's stern gaze. "Where am I going then?"
"You're staying here." Harry answered flatly.
"I am not!" Draco growled his voice rose above a whisper. Hermione rolled her eyes in their direction causing Aberforth to do the same.
Harry mumbled a smiled sorry and dragged Draco by the arm out of the room. The blond growling and trying to jerk his arm free until Harry let him go and shut the door to what looked like the bar area before fixing his determined eyes against his scowling lover.
"You aren't coming with us." Harry forced laying his voice with a sharp snap of determination.
"You can't leave me here Potter! You promised you wouldn't leave me again." Draco spat.
"I don't care; you're staying here and that's it."
"No I'm not." Draco pressed.
"Don't be stupid Malfoy. The place will be crawling with death eaters, you-know-who will be there and by now he will know that you are still alive. You don't even have a wand anymore! What are you suppose to defend yourself with?" Harry snapped.
"I will not just stay here Potter. I can't." Draco whispered.
Harry sighed moving to curl his arms to Draco's waist. The blond shuddered a shaky breath gripping the front of Harry's shirt tightly.
"Draco if you go in there un-protected then you are going to die." Harry breathed. "And I'll never forgive myself for letting you go." He whispered softly.
"I'm going no matter what you say." Draco whispered against Harry's chest heaving a heavy sigh from Harry's mouth.
"No. You're not." Harry muttered and Draco snorted stepping back to pull open the door.
"Just watch me." Draco smirked tugging it open to leave Harry seething at the blond before angrily pushing his way back into the company of Ron, Hermione and Aberforth sitting as far from Draco as the small space allowed him.
"Everything alright mate?" Ron asked looking across to Hermione concerned brown eyes before turning his attention to Harry.
"No." Harry snapped. "Sorry, everything's fine just Malfoy being a git."
"The usual then?" Ron quipped playfully dragging a faint smile to Harry's mouth.
(* * *)
"Where are you off to lad?" Aberforth grunted eyeing Harry warily.
"We need to get into Hogwarts."
"Ye don't need to do anything. What ever Albus said none of it you have to do. It's a choice." The elderly man snapped his obvious resentment of Dumbledore clear to everyone in the room.
"I chose to do what he asked me." Harry stated flatly creasing his eyebrow in a scowl. Draco spotted the familiar determination dotted across his lover's pupils.
"Always wrecking other people's lives that brother of mine wasn't enough to just kill one person he had to kill another." Aberforth spat causing Harry to recoil.
Hermione stepped up quickly her curiosity digging into the core of her brain niggling away until she found the right words. "This is about your sister isn't it?"
"Had time to read Rita Skeeter then?"
"No, Elphias Doge mentioned her to us." She whispered softly looking to Harry who nodded his head in conformation.
"That old bat," Aberforth scoffed. "Never could keep anything to himself. Especially when it came to his precious Albus, could do no wrong could my brother but let me tell you kids, Albus Dumbledore was not as innocent as he liked to think." He growled swigging again at his glass of mead. "Funny how most the people he cared about end up in an early grave."
"Then why are you still here?" Harry snapped, suppressing his own in-secure thoughts of the former Headmaster and rushing to defend him again. "Can you help us into Hogwarts or not?"
Aberforth chosen to turn a blind eye to Harry's snapping and continued to glare meaninglessly at Hermione who shifted un-comfortably but stood her ground. "You are only seventeen, what kind of a man would I be if I let all of you go to your deaths."
"You'd be doing everyone a great favour." Harry pressed.
"I would be sending four young wizards to slaughter. You haven't even left school yet and you expect to win again wizards with powers greater than your own, look at you! You know nothing of the world yet, she's book smart." Aberforth grunted gesturing towards Hermione. "He thinks that a goat is a silver doe, and him!" Aberforth roared looking to Draco. "Oh yes, I know exactly who you are and the things you have done in your time mate."
"Get on with it." Harry snapped impatiently.
"You expect to win battle based entirely on drawn, books and junior Death eaters." Aberforth practically spat.
"He isn't a death eater." Harry scowled. "He did bad things, but haven't we all? Don't we all do things that we shouldn't? He was never a death eater and he never will be so back off."
"Hit a soft spot did I?"
"On more than one occasion tonight." Harry growled.
Aberforth looked ready to rant on again, but sealed his lips in an awkward smirk that riled Harry even more.
"We need to get into Hogwarts; if you won't help us then we will wait until morning and find a way in ourselves." Harry huffed getting Aberforth attention. "If you can help us, then get the hell on with it because I don't have all day."
Aberforth looked ready to fight his corner but dropped the matter with a sigh keeping his fixed against Harry's now soft determined eyes. Clearing his throat he quickly climbed to his feet with a heavy heart. Harry watched as he stepped across the room stopping to come face to face with the portrait of Arianna.
"You know what to do." He whispered hesitantly. Turning on his heels again when the girl began walking away swallowed by the blinding darkness. "There is only one way in, all the exits are protected by Dementor's and death eaters. Snape is in charge now; he has security tightly enclosed within the walls even beyond them. It is near on impossible for anyone to get in or out."
"We haven't heard that before." Ron scoffed, rolling his eyes to Harry's amusement.
"Don't go barging into this one like you have previously, this is not Gringotts young Weasley." Aberforth snapped.
Ron flushed a light red for a minute and cast his eyes over to Draco who smirked.
"I wish you luck." Aberforth whispered sincerely, raising his hand to pat against Harry's shoulder in a light admirable gesture but let it slip quickly and grunted with an air of light resentment.
The four of them turned their attention again to the portrait watching with curious eyes as a small white dot appeared between the various folds of darkness, the small figure of a girl walking quickly towards them, accompanied by someone larger than herself. The boy at her side looked worse for wear.
His clothes rumpled and torn, seeping gashes across the front of his face, hair over grown and thick with grease.
Draco jumped when the portrait swung forward, recklessly reaching out his hand to grasp Ron's arm tightly, the red head jumped as Draco's hand fell light against him but quickly shoved the blond off with warning scowl. Draco flushed and looked away awkwardly.
Harry's heart skipped with excitement when none other than Neville Longbottom let out a delighted roar and leapt from the mantelpiece. "Harry!" He shouted wrapping his arms to Harry's neck in a tight embrace that Harry returned eagerly. "I knew you'd come! I told them all, I knew it!"
"Neville?" Hermione whispered but didn't have chance to say anything else before the clumsy Gryffindor moved across to envelope her in a tight hug, Ron was shortly followed after but Neville's excitement quickly fell when his eyes landed on Draco.
"Didn't think you'd bring Malfoy though." He scowled. "I mean we all knew you'd taken him but we thought you'd just left him somewhere." He turned his nose up at Draco who bit the end of his tongue to prevent lashing out.
"How'd you know we had him?" Harry asked quizzically. Neville shrugged.
"Mrs Malfoy put something in the Prophet asking for anyone with information come forward." Neville mumbled.
"Clever." Harry smiled.
"What is?"
"He's been travelling with us for the past few months." Harry muttered. Neville opened his mouth looking between the four of them with confusion. "It's a long story, I'll tell you later." Harry smiled.
Neville on the other hand wouldn't let the matter drop, his new found Gryffindor courage getting the better of him on more than one occasion lately. "You made my life hell," He grunted causing Draco to grunt and step back. "Not just me, all of us. Harry's too nice to punish you but I don't have any problem with making you feel exactly the way I felt all those years."
Draco's breath had hit a high note and he glanced momentarily at Harry before turning back at Neville who was now fishing through his pockets for his wand.
Neville stopped his eyes meeting the point of Harry's wand and soft apologetic eyes. "I can't let you do that." He whispered and Neville could tell that Harry was sympathetic. "He's sorry, he was an idiot okay, it's different now. Isn't it Draco?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, I'm sorry." Draco squeaked and Neville seemed to take a deep breath and relax.
"The others won't like him there, death eat—"
"Will you all stop calling him that!" Harry snapped. "He isn't a death eater so just back off."
"He's got a soft spot for the snake." Aberforth put in quickly.
"S-sorry." Neville squeaked.
"No, I'm sorry it's been a long night. Shall we get going then?" He smiled apologetically and Neville nodded his head in a grin.
Moving across the room he took Hermione's hand to help her up onto the mantelpiece, Ron, Harry and Draco quickly climbing up after her. Harry stopped at the mouth of the hole and turned to address Aberforth a thankful smile pulling at his mouth.
"Thanks." He whispered, closing the portrait as they left to cloud the small space in complete darkness. Neville spoke as they moved, filling them all in on what had been happening since Harry's departure, since Dumbledore's cold blooded killing.
He explained to Harry the manner in which he had received his wounds, the way in which the Carrow's had saw fit to change lessons and up punishment to extreme measures. "That's barbaric!" Hermione shouted appalled at Neville's words. "It shouldn't be allowed!"
"Snape just turns a blind eye; I think that he enjoys it sometimes." Neville whispered. "He'd have probably loved it more if you were there Harry; he was always big on punishing you."
"Who wasn't?" Harry laughed lightly.
"You going to tell me what you brought Malfoy for then?" Neville asked slowly. "Still a long way to go."
"I didn't want to bring him, I told him to stay back at the bar but you know what he's like." Harry scowled.
"I told you Potter, I'm coming no matter what." Draco snapped from behind Ron.
"You don't even have a wand!" Harry spat.
"He doesn't?" Neville asked.
"No, I have it, mine broke and his seems to work just as well at the minute." Harry grumbled, still mourning loss of his own wand.
"So, he's kind of like a hostage situation or are you blackmailing the Malfoy family?" Neville muttered.
Ron snorted a laugh and muttered under his breath. "I wish."
"Actually he's my boyfriend." Harry breathed stopping when Neville seemed freeze up ahead.
"Your what?"
"Oh yeah, both of `em been at it since last year Nev." Ron shouted. "Surprise ain't it?"
"Not half." Neville laughed lightly.
"You okay with it Neville?" Harry asked hesitating lightly but relaxing when again Neville began his way down the tunnel.
"Yeah, your life Harry." He smiled. "Ginny is going to disappointed though, do nothing but talk about you since she got back." He whispered. "Although your name has been going all over the school. Even the Slytherin's have been talking about you, nothing nice but still you."
Harry laughed lightly.
Light flooded in through a small opening on the opposite deafening silence rang in Harry's ears his eyes meeting with the familiar bright eyes of his peers before death ears filled with the excited voices of his friends and class mates. Draco moved closer to him, breathing tense breath.
The roaring chorus of Harry's friends seemed to distract everyone from his presence. He was almost pleased to see Harry being so popular. Draco flinched when he felt Harry be knocked back by a pair of thin arms and a flash of ginger hair.
"Harry!" Ginny squealed excitedly rushing across the floor to embrace him tightly. Her thin frame pressing comfortingly against him, Harry didn't even think about it curling his arms to her waist and grinned happy to be back amongst his friends.
It's late, It's short and it's not the best I know guys!
It's late because I have been busy looking for a job for next year, and If i don't then i'll nowhere to live. Simple as.
It's short because I can't really think of anything to put so ideas would be appriciated
It's also short because i'm getting ready to go out with my friends, watching all three twilight films in one night D: shoot me!
Next chapter might be better, can't really promise anything to be honest with you.
Review and i'll send Neville after you :p