A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! I ONLY OWN THIS PLOT!

Alex didn't answer and everyone else sighed. Maybe Ron was right? Maybe Malfoy had betrayed Alex and that's why she wasn't speaking. How would they ever find out the truth?

Later on everyone was in the same spot, Professor McGonagall walked in and too everyone's surprise Malfoy was behind her.

Justin, Ron, and Hermione were up from their seats and standing in front of Alex. Harry still had her cuddled close to his chest holding her comfortingly.

"Professor…" Harry started.

"Mr. Potter, before any of you speak just listen. Malfoy has asked me to take him here because he promised to tell you everything that happen."

"I say we leave it up to Alex." Justin said.

Alex nodded. "Let him stay. You guys need to hear what he has to say. I know he'll be honest and won't lie to you."

Everyone sat back down in their seats. Malfoy walked over and sat down in an empty chair.

"Everything was fine when Alex first got to class. We were just teasing each other and fooling around." Malfoy started slowly. "Because of what happen last year we never really had a permanent Professor for the year and we were talking about who our next one would be. Then my father walked in. We both knew in that moment it wasn't going to end well."

"Why? Don't you and Daddy have the perfect father son relationship?" Ron asked, the mute spell from Hermione had worn off.

"Actually no, Ron. I don't. I don't have the perfect relationship with my father. In fact, I don't have any relationship with my father at all."

"Why not?" Hermione asked.

Malfoy looked to Alex. She nodded softly. He inhaled and exhaled a deep breath.

"Because Hermione, part of the reason I was so mean to you guys all the time was because of him. He would…" Malfoy exhaled and inhaled a deep breath once more. "My Father beat me and my mum if I wasn't bad. Over the break my Mum left him and she said I was allowed to be good again and try to start over. I knew it would be hard but I thought saving Alex would be a start."

"Malfoy, I had no idea." Harry said. "I'm sorry."

Malfoy shrugged. "Anyway…" he told them changing the subject. "That's why we knew him being the Professor would be bad. If he found out about my friendship with Alex he'd try to make me ruin that and hurt her."

"Did he?" Justin asked.

"Are you blind! Of course he did otherwise Alex wouldn't be a scared child on Harry's lap." Ron yelled.

Alex whimpered and flinched at his yelling and buried her face in Harry's stomach.

"Shhh, you're all right, Sweetie. Shhhh." Harry soothed.

"Yes, Justin, he did. He had us create a truth potion, one that will make anyone who drinks it tell the whole truth and make it impossible to keep anything hidden."

"Yeah, I bet you shoved the bottle down her throat!" Ron growled.

"Actually he didn't!" Alex said sitting up getting angry at Ron for being so mean to Malfoy. "He tried to drink it instead but his father said he wanted me to do it! That's how this whole mess started."

"She's telling the truth. I was going to drink it. I had it in my hand and was going to drink it. But my Dad told me not to. He was going to force Alex to drink it, so I had to come up with a way to stop him."

"What did you do?" Harry asked.

"I tried to make him believe that I already knew all of Alex's secrets and that she didn't have anything good to hide."

"He wouldn't believe me and gave us two choices. Either Alex would drink the potion or I tell the whole class all her secrets. I stood up to my father and I told him I wasn't going to allow him to do either. He hit me and I fell back and hit my head on something. That's all I remember because I blacked out."

"You tried to protect her." Justin said.

Malfoy nodded. "I couldn't let Alex get hurt. I guess I didn't do such a good job."

"NO duh, idiot!" Ron growled at him.

"Ron, shut up! Just shut up for once!" Alex yelled getting angry. "Malfoy risked his life by standing up to his father in order to protect me and my secrets. He did everything he could. It's not his fault he got knocked out!"

Alex climbed off the couch and went over to Malfoy and gave him a hug. "Thank you. Are you sure you're ok?"

Malfoy nodded and hugged her back. "I'm fine. A bump on the head but I'm ok. What about you? What did my father do to you?"

Alex squeezed her eyes shut going over in her head everything that happen after that, thinking nobody could see it.

Suddenly Harry gasped. "Alex!"

Everyone looked to him shocked, even Alex looked up to him confused. Did he just see that?

"What?" Alex asked confused. "I haven't said anything."

"No, but I saw what you were thinking…and when we were in class I heard you calling for help." Harry said again.

"But how?" Alex asked.

Everyone shrugged.

"You know, it's been said that when a Witch and Wizard form a true solid bond special things begin to happen." Professor McGonagall told everyone. "These special powers are even stronger when they are meant to be true soul mates."

"So because Harry and I love each other he can now read my mind?"

"I wouldn't go that far but it might be possible that you two can speak telepathically with one another."

Harry and Alex shared a look. Alex decided to test this theory. Harry? Can you hear me?

Yeah, I actually can hear you, but you're inside my head.

I can hear you in my head too.

This is pretty cool.

Yeah!

Nobody else in the room could figure out what was going on. All they knew was that Harry and Alex were staring at each other and every few minutes Alex would giggle or laugh.

"I guess they do have that special bond power thing." Ron said.

Everyone laughed at him.

"Well, Harry can you tell us what happen after Malfoy was knocked out?" Justin asked.

"Only with Alex's permission." Harry said and looked to Alex. She nodded and cuddled back into his arms, letting a small whimper escape her lips "Shhh, I've got you. You're safe." Harry hugged her close and rubbed her back.

Harry went on to tell them everything that happen and everything Mr. Malfoy said to Alex.

"I'm sorry, Justin. I'm sorry I killed our daddy."

Everyone sighed. After Christmas Alex was starting to believe she wasn't the cause of it, now because of Mr. Malfoy she was broken all over again. But the good news was that after today Malfoy had proved himself to not only Alex but to the others as well, now they can trust him too and between all of them, they can help build Alex back up to the top again.

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