Chapter Fifty
As he slowly came into the land of consciousness, Harry noticed he was encased in warmth and without opening his eyes, he began to fight against the arms holding him.
"Harry," the voice made him stop, but he continued to tremble.
"Sev," Harry whimpered.
"It's all right, Harry, I'm here," Severus whispered. "Open your eyes, love."
Harry obeyed, and looked up at the blurry figure now standing before him. He began to ask for his glasses when the Potions Master placed them on his face.
"See, Harry, it's all right. I'm here, love. We're all right," Severus kissed the Gryffindor's hand.
"It's gone, Severus," Harry's eyes filled with tears and he placed his free hand on his abdomen.
"You...you knew?" the ex-Death Eater asked, surprised.
"It was in my dream last night," Harry turned his head away from his lover as images of the dream flashed in his eyes.
"Are you all right?" Severus asked, and he brought Harry's hand to lie against his cheek and placed his other hand over Harry's on his abdomen.
"I will be. I always am," the green-eyed teen turned back to the Slytherin and gave him a slight smile.
"I'll be with you every step of the way," Severus looked deeply into Harry's eyes and his heart broke at the pain he saw, and felt.
"I know," the Boy-Who-Lived squeezed his hand.
***
Madame Pomfrey came to check on Harry later, and deemed him physically healed, and released his into his lover's care. She tried hard not to cry when Harry flinched away from her. Harry looked mad at himself and gave her a hug.
***
"Do you want me to leave?" Severus asked his dark haired beauty as the Potions Master handed him his cloths.
Harry looked distraught for a moment, but Severus touched his hand briefly and stepped out of the room to wait.
Harry sighed and mentally kicked himself in the arse. "Stupid Harry." The orphan stood and began to put his cloths on.
When he finished, he cautiously stepped out of the room, feeling no pain from the Numbness Potion give to him by Mme Pomfrey. Severus was standing by the door, waiting for him, and gave him a small reassuring smile.
The Boy-Who-Lived looked around the main part of the Infirmary, and saw his brother lying on a bed, with one of the twins curled up with him, asleep. The other, Fred, was trying to straighten his robe, obviously having slept in it.
"Hi, Harry," the older twin said quietly. Harry could see guilt in the elder twin's eyes.
"'Lo, Fred," Harry replied, trying to give him a small smile. In a moment's decision, Harry hugged the red head and whispered into his ear. "It wasn't your fault. I ran out of the room. I would have hexed you to get out."
He pulled back and Fred smiled at him.
"Thank you," the Weasley said to his blonde fiancé's brother as he gave a small grin.
"You're welcome," Harry said, grateful that the conversations hadn't turned on something more recent.
"You need to come to the store more often Harry. You know you have a say in everything," Fred told him. "We'd like to see what you think of some of our new products."
"Sure, Fred. I'll try to come in next Hogsmeade weekend," Harry said to him quietly.
"Good," the older twin smiled. "I've got to get to the store right now, but I'll see you later, right?"
"Sure. You two ought to come to Hogwarts more often; someone needs to terrorize the professors," the Boy-Who-Lived gave an impish grin as he glanced back at his lover, who gave a scowl.
"Gryffindor will lose the House Cup," Severus raised an eyebrow, as if to dare them to do it.
"You can't take points away; George and I don't go here anymore," Fred grinned at his former professor.
"He'll find some reason to take away points, I'm sure," Harry's lips quirked up in a soft smile as he looked again to Severus.
"Oh, I will," Severus spoke, his tone much as it had been in what he liked to think of as 'pre-Harry'.
"Well," Fred grinned," as nice as it was to see you, Harry, Professor, I do need to get to the shop, lest anyone waiting decides to take their business elsewhere."
"Bye, Fred," Harry said as he left.
Severus gave a curt nod to his godson's fiancé. "Mr. Weasley."
At the band of the Infirmary doors, George snorted in his sleep and rolled over so that he was lying on Draco's back.
Harry rolled his eyes at the sight, and tried not to look at eh mop of platinum blonde hair.
"Love?" Severus asked softly, seeing the distraught expression on Harry's face.
"Can we go back to your rooms?" Harry asked, looking up at the taller man as he took his hand.
"Absolutely," Severus pulled out his wand, and Harry flinched and took step back.
"What are you doing with that?" Harry whimpered, pulling his hand from Severus's.
Seeing the frightened look, Severus quickly put his wand away.
"Harry. Harry, its all right. I was just going to cast an Invisibility spell on us, so no one would see us," Severus held up his hands, empty, for Harry to see. Harry visibly realized but he looked as if he were about to cry.
Severus wanted desperately to hug Harry, but he didn't want to scare his lover again. Instead, he opened his arms for the hug, but didn't approach Harry. It worked, and Harry stood on his tiptoes to bury his face in Severus's neck.
"It's all right, Harry. It's all right to be afraid right now," Severus whispered into his hair.
***
Remus threw the paper down in rage as he finished reading the front page headline article.
"Rem?"
"That fucking bitch!" the werewolf growled, showing his teeth.
"Who?" Sirius asked, slightly shocked to see Remus that angry.
"Rita Skeeter!" Remus shoved the paper at his husband.
The headline read: The Man-Who-Lived Raped by Uncle and Death Eaters
"Oh god," the animagus murmured.
'The great Harry Potter, our saviour, lived with the Dursleys, his only living relatives (muggles), for the past sixteen years. After the murder of his parents, and the incarceration of his godfather, Sirius Black, the Boy-Who-Lived was sent to live with Vernon and Petunia Dursley and their son of the same age.
'Sources say that our courageous Gryffindor lived in a cupboard for the first ten years of his life, and was only moved to his cousin's second bedroom after he received his Hogwarts letter.'
'The summer before his second year, Harry Potter was locked in the room with bars on the window. Potter ran away from the house on Privet Drive just days after his godfather escaped from Azkaban, after blowing up Dursley's sister.
'The summer after Harry's fourth year was when the physical abuse began. The Boy-Who-Lived would be hit after waking up screaming from a nightmare concerning the Dark Lord or Cedric Diggory's death. In the next summer, Dursley moved Harry back to the cupboard under the stairs, and there Harry stayed until he was allowed by Dumbledore to stay with Remus Lupin-Black, Harry's second godfather and werewolf for the last week before returning to school. Since the former (and now current) Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts is a werewolf, the Ministry would not allow him to care for the young Potter, something that has been changed with Minister Weasley's new laws concerning the Dark Creatures.
'The final summer with the Dursleys, Vernon's drill company (a drill is a muggle tool for putting things together) began to loose money and finally went bankrupt. Sources say that the large man began to drink heavily and started to beat Petunia, their son, and Harry more often. The day before Harry was to return to Hogwarts, his uncle raped him.
'Before the Final Battle, Harry was reported to have no signs showing for his time at the Dursleys, except for the large hand-me-down cloths that were quickly thrown away. The emotional recovery was thanks to Draco Lupin-Black, formerly Malfoy. The two became fast friends in the beginnings of the seventh year when the youngest son of Minister Weasleys, Ronald, explained that hey were friends. Draco was told by Hogwart's former Headmaster to live with the large family after the Slytherin sought out refuge from his father after refusing the Dark Mark. Reportedly, though no formal announcement, Draco Lupin-Black is engaged to Fredrick and George Weasley, the twin sons of the minister, who own Weasley Wizard Wheezes in Hogsmeade.
'More recently, after Harry awoke from his coma, induced by using the Killing Curse to defeat the Dark Lord while sick with Wizard's Flu, he and Sirius and Remus Lupin-Black, along with Draco, ran errands at Diagon Alley.
'The first was to officiate the adoption of Harry and Draco by the two Hogwarts Professors. Harry has kept his name, while Draco took on the last name of his new fathers, not wanting to associate with the name of the Malfoys. The second errand was to replace the Boy-Who-Lived's wand, which exploded in the Final Battle.
'When they reached Ollivander's Wand Shop, the elderly wizard was dead, killed by Lucius Malfoy moments before they arrived. Potter became hysterical, and ran off as Aurors began to appear. He ran into Oliver Wood-Weasley, pregnant husband of Percy Weasley, the Minister's third son. He ran off again and was captured by Lucius Malfoy in a dark, concealed alleyway. There, he was raped and beaten again, and then many times more when Malfoy called in other escaped Death Eaters, including Hogwarts seventh year, Pansy Parkinson. Harry was rescued and the dark wizards taken into custody. They await a trial in Azkaban Prison cells.'
"Harry can't see this," Sirius told Remus, who was still growling.
"He won't. You keep anyone from showing him," Remus said as he pulled a robe on.
"Where are you going?" his husband asked as the werewolf picked up the Floo powder.
"I'm going to get Rita Skeeter fired," the D.A.D.A. professor grinned. "The Daily Prophet!"
Sirius shook his head as he watched him disappear through the hearth.
End Chapter Fifty
Sorry it took me so long to write this chapter! It wasn't easy. I promised it by Sunday, but I didn't get through typing it until tonight. Sorry!!
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