~Watching Diamond~ By:Lone Draco Chapter 13 - Darkness Falls Rating: R

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Draco: Uh-huh, she thinks that'll save her from the wrath

LD: IT COULD

Harry: Children.play nicely

Draco: I love you Harry (

LD: I love you Harry!

290: It doesn't work for you LD, give it up. Because my co-author is being lame I'll start the story..

LD:I'M NOT LAME!!!!!

Draco & Harry: suuuuuuuuuuuuuure!

290: SHUT UP!

With no further ado.

~Watching Diamond~ By: Lone Draco Chapter 13- Darkness Falls

Steeling himself Harry pushed open the door to see Lucius Malfoy standing over the bloodied body of his son. Drawing a breath the lion attempted to contain himself to no avail, his clover eyes raged at Lucius found himself stepping away from his son's lover.

"What. Did. You. Do." The older man found himself thinking he would have been able to retort had Harry yelled, but under the spell of that icy, accusing voice all he could do was stammer for a moment before turning his back. "Malfoy. Turn and face me. Tell me what you have done to your SON!" Harry's control faltered on the last word he spoke, and his mind was suddenly red with rage, his eyesight clogged by the hate he felt for this being before him. "You bastard of a man, you bastard of a MAN!" His wand was out and aimed before another breath was drawn and the Gryffindor was not shocked to see his hand shaking.

Lucius turned and found Harry like that, his body trembling with rage, his wand pointed and his mouth half open with the curse on his lips. Suddenly two gray figures dropped through the ceiling between the two opposing parties. The wand that had held such a threat clattered to the ground.

"Ron? Hermione? Wha.? How?" As they turned to face him Harry was sure of their identities. Hermione was stunning, her once chestnut hair tumbling around her face in the perfection it held before she mixed herself in darkness, her eyes held their old sparkle and her mouth was curved into the small smile he remembered her wearing. Ron was much the same, his youthful spirit and fiery love for the woman beside him shone from his eyes, and his stature was proud and tall, as Harry had remembered him.

"Harry, love, is this really what you want to do? For Draco? For yourself?" Hermione's cultured tones brought him back to the problem at hand and her quickly retrieved his wand, returning it to its place, aimed at Lucius' heart. The older man seemed stunned by the exchange, but with the end of a wand pointed at him he kept silent and watched in morbid fascination as his fate was decided before his eyes. Slowly Harry looked around and saw Draco's still form on the floor, worry and love again filled his senses and he glanced at the ghosts of his friends.

"One of you, get help please. The other, watch him, I'm going to knock him out," The words were so soft and even that Lucius didn't process their true meaning until the spell was uttered and the flash of light hurtling towards his chest. The living Gryffindor provided nothing to ease his fall and nodded to Hermione and Ron before falling to his knees next to Draco, pulling the young man into his arms.

Draco stirred, revealing his injuries to Harry. A large gash crossed his face, where the skin had split from the force of his father's blow, and blood seeped from a wound hidden by now pinkish hair that had most likely resulted with his contact to the floor. The Slytherin's eyelashes fluttered for a moment, before Harry was confronted with stormy eyes filled with terror and pain.

A spasm surged through his body and more blood bubbled from the head wound. Without thinking Harry copied the muggle trick and ripped some of his robe off from the sleeve, placing it to slow the flow, wishing that someone would have taught them the basics of healing. Another spasm and Harry clutched the body to him, trying to get him to respond in any way. Slowly, and with slurred words Draco fought to speak.

"Har.Harry, I'm so co.so cold." Harry pulled off his robe and draped it across his lover as another spasm racked the weakening body.

"Shhh Love, I'm here, shhhh. Don't talk, don't try and do anything. Just focus on me, focus on my voice," Harry rocked him slightly as much to comfort himself as anything else. With horror he watched as Draco's eyelids fluttered once, twice, then began to close. Footsteps sounded in the hallway, but they were to far. To late. No time. Harry watched at the chest he loved slowed its rise and fall, and when finally it rose only enough for Draco to exhale, he panicked.

"NO! DRACO.DRACO DON'T LEAVE ME! STAY HERE! NOOOOOOOOOOO.

~TBC~

EN: Well, worth the wait? Or no? I ONLY KNOW IF YOU TELL ME! Heh, love me!

Harry: * Mumbles * I Hate This Chapter! Hate It!

Draco: * silence *

LD: ahh, the cliffhanger. * breathes deeply * feel the joy!

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