A/N: Chapter 2!!! OK, OK. I AM REALLY HYPER!!! OK THIS IS DA HEALING CHAPPIE!!!! DON'T WORRY ALL YOU SADISTS TORTURE IS A'COMMIN'!!! ALSO ALL YOU DRACO FANS, HE WILL BE IN LATER CHAPTERS OK? JUST BE PATIENT!! THE LITTLE BLONDE BOY IS COMING!!!!

Disclaimer: I own nothing...I make no money, blah, blah, blah!!! I own the storyline. THAT'S ALL!!!! I don't even own the computer I'm typing this on! All I own is Lucius sweet beautiful Luc...I mean NOTHING!! I own nothing!!!

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Ch 2

Lucius awoke suddenly. The first thing he noticed was the excruciating pain in his left arm. He winced. Then he noticed that he was no longer lying on the soft grass but on a small bed. He couldn't quite figure out where he was as his head ached and the room swirled and came in and out of focus.

He blinked. This place seemed so familiar yet he could put his finger on it. As Lucius sat up he noticed another thing, his leg was almost completely healed save for a small wound where the bone had penetrated. Also the ribs that had been broken the night before were now healed

Footsteps broke the dead silence. Lucius moaned as each dull 'clunk' pounded in his head. Now he heard someone yelling, actually screaming, in rage.

"WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING HERE?!?" Raged the male voice. "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU BROUGHT HIM HERE!!!!"

A calmer voice answered, "He was near dead! You can't possibly think I would leave a man to die like that! Or let alone die at all!"

Lucius was a little surprised they were talking about him and by the fact that both of those voices seemed oddly familiar. If only his brain wasn't so fried from the torture he had faced last night. He couldn't comprehend anything that was happening. This was horribly frustrating.

The footsteps were now very near. Lucius turned to look at the door. Two men entered. One about his age and the other terribly old.

"Severus?" Lucius croaked. He finally realized where he was, the infirmary at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Severus Snape gave Lucius a hard look and failed to answer. He simply rolled his eyes and brushed his greasy black hair from his pale face.

Now the older man spoke. Albus Dumbledore. "Lucius, last night I found unconscious and almost dead so naturally I brought you here," his bright blue eyes looked over his half-moon spectacles with an eerie intensity. "Severus, however, seems to think this was not prudent."

"Why?" Lucius felt quite juvenile when he asked this.

"Because, Lucius you are sided with Voldemort. People who are with the Dark Lord are enemies to the school," answered Snape coolly.

Lucius looked almost ashamed as he gazed at his left forearm. "Not anymore," he said so quietly that it was heard by no one but himself.

"Pardon?" Dumbledore said this very kindly as if Lucius was a small wounded child.

"I have no longer decided to side with him. I have relieved myself from the position of Voldemort's henchman. I am done with him...forever."

"A lie," snapped Snape, "he is most obviously deceiving us Headmaster!"

"No I think not Severus. I believe that Mr. Malfoy hear is telling us the truth." Then Dumbledore smiled softy at Lucius.

At this moment their conversation was rudely interrupted by an older woman entering the room.

"Headmaster, I asked you to tell me at once if the patient was awake!!" She scolded.

"Dreadfully sorry Madam Pomfrey," stated Dumbledore, "I just wanted a word with Lucius."

"Well if you are finished I would like to examine the patient now!"

Dumbledore nodded and signaled Snape to follow him. The left the hospital wing quietly and closed the door behind them.

Lucius watched as Madam Pomfrey undid the bandages on his arm. The burn looked horrible, a raw crimson. He whimpered slightly as she spread a thick orange paste onto to the wound.

"Oh hush! You are a grown man", she said shortly.

Lucius' urge to hit her hard in the face was rising. Instead he simply glared at her.

"Jesus! You haven't changed a bit!" She then gave him the honor of a sharp smack across the back of his head.

She left Lucius fuming. Shortly she returned will a small bottle and a goblet. She poured a miniscule amount in and handed the glass to him. He gulped it down quickly and gagged at the horrid taste.

"Aug. That's horrible!!!"

"Well it will get rid of that headache I suspect you have."

Soon the room was spinning softly and Lucius fell into an uneasy sleep.