Chapter Twenty-Five
Lost Again Part Two (Harry's Point Of View)
Harry turned to his godfathers' and left the room. His feet fell heavily on the cold stones of the dungeon halls and as they headed towards the stairs moving towards the front of the school. He watched as Severus took a sharp turn towards a secret passage to the Slytherin common room to try to control the chaos that would be there with the children of Death Eaters. Harry sighed as he felt the cold air of the castle close in on him as he felt Draco's presence move farther and farther away from him. He stopped at the huge double doors leading outside, he closed his green eyes allowing himself to become completely calm. He knew Draco was moving still somewhere deep within the castle and took a deep breath before he pushed open one of the heavy doors.
Harry could already see quite a number of the older students looking frightfully across from them at the Death Eaters and Dementors. The teachers were quietly talking and strategizing it would seem. The only teachers missing were the heads of the houses and they would be here as soon as they had the students under control and had the prefects in charge of everyone. The doors flew open behind Harry and he turned to see Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Dean, Seamus and even Neville come walking out. Fred and George walked behind them triumphantly as if they were the reason the rest were there but Harry knew it was because they fought tooth and nail with McGonagall. Harry shook his head at them before the doors slammed open to show six very pissed off Slytherins all ready to do battle. Harry turned to the other students to realize there was no Slytherins out to protect their school. Pansy stormed up to him. Blaise stood beside Theodore with Vincent and Gregory.
"You better appreciate this Potter! We have just gone up against the Slytherins trying to get some of them to help, we are the only ones willing to face up to the fact we don't want to rule under he-who-mustn't-be-named." Pansy said poking him in the chest repeatedly. Harry shook his head at her and wrapped an arm around her shoulder.
"Thank you, Pansy." Harry said before turning towards the other four Slytherins. Blaise came up to his other side. Blaise slung his arm around Harry's waist and gave the ebony-haired boy a nod. "Yes and thank you Blaise. Thank you Vince, Greg, Theodore and Adrian." Adrian shook his head.
"Don't thank us, we are just doing it because we can. We choose to do because we don't want to rule under he-who-must-not-be-named. Plus what other Slytherins would come out and fight against their own parents? They think we are all crazy." Adrian replied. Before Adrian led the others to stand with the other students. Harry sighed before going over to Dumbledore. Albus nodded to him before going back to the strategy that Sirius and Remus were slowly coming up with. Harry shook his head. He knew no strategy was going to win this. The doors opened again to admit the four heads of the houses. Severus came over to stand with his mates and Harry for the first time ever truly smiled at the man he used to hate. Severus nodded to him before working on the strategy as well.
Suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Voldemort was looking up at the Astronomy Tower. He turned to see a blond head duck behind the stones. Harry growled angrily in Draco's head before he was forced out. His eyes widened not expecting to be shut out from Draco's mind. He watched in vain as two dementors flew towards the Tower.
Harry went to grab his wand but Severus who had moved beside him put a hand on his shoulder, shaking his head. Suddenly after a few agonizing moments for Harry, a silvery smoke appeared near the Towers floor rising up and out of the smoke a huge dragon appeared breathing smoky fire. Harry smirked. 'Should have known Draco couldn't do anything in a small scale and of course it had to take the shape of a dragon.' Harry thought. The Dementors flew away as they were chased by the smoky dragon. The dragon stopped as if looking down at something before continuing chasing the Dementors causing fear in the Death Eaters eyes.
Harry only glanced at the Death Eaters and turned to stare at Draco. Harry raised an eyebrow and felt Draco slowly open the telepathic link. 'What do you think you are doing? Didn't I tell you to stay in our quarters? Why don't you ever do as I ask?' Harry thought before turning back towards the Death Eaters and the Patronus dragon. He was thoroughly upset with Draco and he knew his counterpart knew it. Harry looked throughout the group of Death Eaters to find Voldemort and a very familiar set of cold grey eyes.
Draco replied softly, 'Harry you know I can't, I tried I really did I even headed that way but I just couldn't. I want to help you even if helping you means staying out of the battle and working from above ground to tell you where Voldemort and Lucius is then so be it. They are the strongest after all and who wouldn't want to know where they are.' Harry sighed within Draco's mind. He knew he couldn't win this battle without Draco and decided immediately he would have to let his lover be there.
'Very well but you can only help by telling me positions nothing else and keep yourself safe. I don't want anything happening to you, I love you too much and I don't want to lose you again.' Harry thought. He was afraid he might lose Draco when he only had just returned to him. The only problem was he didn't know what was going to happen this time, there had been no visions for this battle. 'I hope nothing bad happens to Draco, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if he died and I was allowed to survive.' Harry thought.
Everyone shifted uncomfortably until Voldemort gave the signal to attack. Spells and counter-spells were flying everywhere as everyone engaged in the battle. Harry wove in and out of the Death Eaters quickly heading towards Voldemort while taking down as many as possible. Suddenly he stopped, several feet in front of him stood a ghost from the past. 'It can't be. He couldn't have come back. I had made sure he couldn't come back, it's impossible. Wait a second Tom Riddle…they must be related. After all he used to call himself a man of riddles. Voldemort must have found a way to bring him back.' Harry thought urgently. The man was snakelike in appearance, his eyes were an acid green staring back at Harry. He wore black robes with silver snake jewellery. Harry gasped as the man became two so that he could watch both Harry and Draco.
'Hello Phoenix. It's been a while. You are a lot younger this time then the last time we met. I believe you were twenty the last time I met you. I bet you have a lot of painful memories from me, don't you? I'm glad to see my great great great grandson gave you the exact same lightning bolt scar on your forehead. I'm very proud of him even though he is a half breed. I still can't believe you cursed my family line to be Muggles for the rest of their existence until every last one of us were dead. Well this time I'm going to make sure there will be no more Potters to deal with. Seeing as if no more Potters are born, no more of your precious Dragon will be born either. Oh speaking of Dragon, he's kind of all tied up right now.' He hissed in his head, he slithered around in his mind trying to get inside. Suddenly Harry grasped at all his ties with Draco trying to strengthen them. Their ties were slowly being severed and Harry felt Draco's magic clinging to them desperately.
'Of course if you two aren't connected at all then there is no way for you two to be born together again. Yes you are strong without each other but together you are unbeatable well that's not entirely true as I am going to kill both of you and you will never return to this plane again.' Riddle said with an eerie laugh.
Harry's magic clung to Draco desperately, fighting the magic that was being used to break them apart. 'Draco, please don't give up. Please fight this. I can't lose you now, I love you so much. Please fight Dragon. Please for me. Can you hear me Draco? Please fight, don't give up.' Harry thought distraughtly. He increased the power of trying to cling to Draco so tightly. 'How could I have forgotten that the best way to get at me is by attacking those I love?' Harry thought. He listened hopefully to see if Draco was fighting back. Suddenly Draco was struggling and Harry heard him coming through their link.
'No, I will not let him go again. Not now, not ever! I won't let you take him away from me or me away from him. We are one and we will never be parted. Even if you severe all ties with him, there is one that will never be broken. Even if you take over my body and my mind, I will always love him and no one can take that away! Not even you.' Draco thought penetrating Harry's mind. Suddenly the blond was struggling harder to try to hold on to him and rid the presence out of his mind. Harry turned triumphantly at Riddle.
'You've forgotten how strong he is. You won't be able to take him over and I won't allow you to either.' Harry thought to the snakelike man. He raised his wand to cast a spell, Voldemort knocked the wand out of his hand. Harry turned to the man who killed his parents and glared.
"Sorry Potter but I wouldn't want you to ruin our plans now would we?" Voldemort hissed. Harry grabbed his stomach and gasped air. He sunk to his knees as their ties became thin threads. He grasped at them frantically hoping that he could keep them together alone as he felt Draco in the distance being taken over. Then all ties were severed and in the distance he heard Draco's voice in his head say, 'Harry I'm sorry I should have listened to you. I love you.' A tear rolled down Harry's cheek as his world slowly spun and spun.
"HARRY!" Draco screamed from the Tower. Harry turned his head towards the tower with growing dread. They were going to have them battle it out to the death. His world continued to spin and he knew he was getting lost in his memories. He was dimly aware that he was on the ground staring up at the men that had just taken away his love. His whole world had been shattered. He had lost the one thing that was more precious to him then anything else in the world.
"DRACO!" Harry screamed out as tears rolled down his cheeks faster and faster. Dumbledore suddenly stood over him. Sirius scooped him up into his arms.
"You have won this time Voldemort. Take what you came for and leave." Dumbledore said.
"No! I won't fucking let you have Draco! I won't fucking allow you to take him! No! Fuck Sirius let me go!" Harry said trying to get out of Sirius' arms. 'I love you, Draco. I'm sorry I failed you.' Harry thought before his world started to fade away and he slowly stopped struggling. 'I have failed you my love. I'm so sorry. I love you.'
To Be Continued…
Descendant of Doom