CHAPTER 6- LEADING TO LEAVING
The next morning, Harry and Blake woke up to the feeling of a water balloon being dropped on their heads. They sat up and saw the laughing figures of Ron, Seamus, and Dean. They magically dried their bedclothes got ready and walked downstairs. Ron was sitting in front of the fire laughing. Blake and Harry waited until Ginny and Hermione came down and greeted them with a kiss on the lips. The girls smiled, Ron's face grew red with fury and the heard him mutter something that sounded like, "We'll make you pay."
Harry and Blake escorted their girlfriends down to the Great Hall, ate breakfast and then set of to potions class early. Their father had his classroom door shut. They knocked and heard a cold voice say, "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" The heard footsteps and their father swung open the door and glared. Then he realized who it was and his glare was replaced with a soft smile.
"Morning dad." Harry said.
"Morning." Blake said.
"What are you doing here? Class doesn't start for another thirty minutes." Severus said.
Harry's smile disappeared. "Well if you don't want us here, we can just..." Harry turned around, disappointedly.
"No, Harry, it's not that. I just wasn't expecting to see you two this early in the morning."
"Oh." Harry smiled and Severus moved to let his sons in.
They sat down at a table and started to talk. Somehow the topic turned to be on Lucius. Severus got serious for a minute. "Blake?"
"Yes sir?"
"Would you take your father to court for this?"
"Why would I want to take to you court?" Blake teased.
"You know what I mean. Will you take Lucius to court?"
"I'd have to think about it. See, even though he wasn't really my father, he did support me, and treated me like a son."
Severus's face grew red and he shot out, "PUTTING CRUCIATUS ON YOU IS TREATING YOU LIKE A SON!"
"Dad, calm down. I do think he should take Lucius to court. Something bad was done against him. When something like that is done, the person needs to pay. Blake, I would take him to court."
Severus just got angrier. "THEN WHY WON'T YOU LET ME TAKE YOUR UNCLE TO." Harry stood and walked out of the classroom. Severus grew pale. "I did it again." He said in a whisper.
"Dad, I'll take Lucius to court. But now, I have to go talk to Harry. He had another nightmare last."
"Why didn't he come tell me he had a nightmare?" Severus asked, quietly.
"Because he knew this would be how you react. The court thing would be brought up again." Blake walked out of the room and to Gryffindor tower. Harry wasn't there. Neither was he in the library or great hall. He checked the towers and when he looked out the tower windows he saw his brother sitting by the lake. He started the long walk out to the lake. But his father got there first.
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Severus walked up to Harry. He had his back to Severus but Severus knew his son was crying. Harry heard his footsteps and said, "Blake, I don't want to talk about it."
"Well if it was Blake he might actually care."
"Oh, it's you."
"Correct, it is me."
"Dad, I really don't want to talk about this, what happened is over and."
"It's not over if you are still having nightmares about it." Harry turned around and glared at his father. "I can't believe he told you. I thought he said he wouldn't tell."
"Harry. You are my son. I just want what is best for you. What he has done to you. I can't stand it. He has hurt you physically and mentally. You need to get some closure on this."
"Dad, I just.can't. He.I can't stand to see him. I am just happy to be away. I don't have to see him ever again. That is good enough for me."
"Harry, I can't stand to see you like this. You think you are okay, but you aren't. You need to face him. You need to see him. You need to get closure. I think the best way to do this is court. He can then get punished for what he did you in court. But you will face him. You have to. I hate to do this, but if you don't take him to court, we are going to visit them, and tell them how we feel. You have to face your demons. So if you don't decide by this Saturday, whether we take them to court, we will go there and see them in their home."
"Do you know what you are asking me to do?" Harry started to cry harder. "He has done this to ME not you. It is MY decision what happens. I don't have to stay with you. I can be with Sir." Harry then remembered that he couldn't be with Sirius. Sirius was in a mental institution. "It isn't your decision to make." Harry stood and looked his father angrily in the eye. "Father, you have not been here for seventeen years of my life. You have no right to barge in now, when you hadn't been there for me. Get away from me; you are no father to me." Harry promptly ran off and didn't see his father's eyes fill up with pain.
Severus stayed by the lake. His son didn't love him. He had been stupid to ever think they would actually treat him like a father.
Draco sat stunned behind the bushes. HOW DARE HARRY SAY THAT!? Draco stood up, fury in his eyes and ran off after his brother. He met his brother in the library. Harry looked up and smiled. "Hey Bl." He was interrupted when his brother lifted him by the collar and flung him against the wall. He sunk down waiting for his sight and breath to return. Draco loomed over him. "HOW DARE YOU! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT, WHATSOEVER, TO TALK TO OUR FATHER THAT WAY! HE WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE THE ENTIRE TIME IF HE COULD HAVE. HE CAN'T HELP WHAT HAS HAPPENED. IT ISN'T HIS FAULT. YOU NEED TO TAKE YOUR UNCLE TO COURT AND APOLOGIZE TO DAD OR YOU CAN JUST KISS US GOODBYE. YOU GOT A FAMILY THAT CARES ABOUT YOU, WHAT YOU SAID YOU WANTED. NOT YOU ARE THROWING ALL OF THAT AWAY. IF YOU DO NOT APOLOGIZE TO WHAT YOU SAID TO HIM, YOU ARE NO LONGER MY BROTHER."
Harry sat dazed. "So, he told you. He told you what I said. He is trying to force me to do something I don't want to."
"No, he didn't tell me. He wouldn't want me to say all this to you. He wouldn't want me to say I wasn't your brother if you didn't apologize. Besides, he hides his pain. First he loses a son. Then he loses a wife. Sixteen years later, things seem to get better, he gets back both sons. NOW, BECAUSE OF YOU, HE HAS LOST THE SON HE HAD ORIGINALLY HE THINKS. YOU HAVE DESERTED HIM WHEN ALL HE DID WAS CARE ABOUT YOU. Harry, I hate to say it, even when I was Draco Malfoy, kind of assholes, I didn't hate you. But right now, Harry, I despise, loathe and hate you." Harry looked up from his lap.
"I have been stupid." He said in a whisper.
"That is the understatement of the year."
"I'll go talk to him. I am sorry, Blake."
"Don't apologize to me. You'll need all your apologies to go to him."
Harry nodded and stood. He was already late for class. He had to still go get his stuff. He ran up to the dormitory while Blake went to class. Fifteen minutes later, he knocked on the classroom door. Severus Snape opened it; Harry saw a look of pain pass on his features. "Can I talk to you, before I start class?" Severus stepped out of the classroom after threatening his students to be quiet.
"What is it Harry?"
Harry grabbed his father up into a hug. Harry cried on his father's shoulder. "I am so sorry. It is my fault. You are my father. I will take him to court. I LOVE YOU!"
Severus looked his son in the eye. "I am sorry."
"IT'S MY FAULT!" They spent several minutes hugging and crying. Severus then did a spell so it wouldn't show where he had cried and walked into the classroom. Harry followed him in.
Harry sat in the empty seat next to his brother. Blake had tried to get a seat next to Hermione, but Neville had claimed her first. Snape put on his "professor face". He scowled at his students, despite the happiness coursing through his veins. He gave the students their instructions.
Harry and Blake finished their potion first. It was perfect. Severus came over to inspect it. "Well it seems for once in your miserable life you got a potion right, Mr. Pot- Mr. Snape." The class gawked at the acknowledgment of Harry as his son.
"It seems that way, da-Professor." Severus smirked and walked back to his desk.
When the bell rang Snape dismissed them but called out, "Mr. and Mr. Snape please stay behind." The class looked at them funny again and the boys smiled.
They were ushered into their father's office. They sat in the chairs in front of the desk.
"Is there something you needed us for, Professor Snape."
"Cut that out, I will not having you call me Professor Snape when we aren't in class."
"Yes, Pr.dad." Blake said, gingerly.
"Ok. Blake, I have talked to the minister and the headmaster. Lucius is going to be told tomorrow. But something more important happened tonight. We intercepted a letter, sent to you. It was from your "father". We haven't read it, do you want to?"
"Yes, please."
"Okay." Severus pulled out a letter. He handed it to his son, who took a deep breath and broke the seal. He skimmed through it, then read it out loud.
'Dear Draco,
I overreacted when you said you wouldn't join my "cause". You are very much a son to me. I know you have discovered your true parentage. I am sorry it was him. I really thought you were Potter's kid. However, a Snape is even more powerful than a Potter. I ask you to be my heir. You are my son and I do care about your well-being, it is not with Snape. He has been a traitor. I fear that if you do not accept me as a father, you won't have one later. If you choose me, we won't kill the traitor. You have been warned. Make the right decision.
In sincerity, Lucius Malfoy'
Snape had a scowl on his face, Harry looked frightened. "I will do it."
"Do what?" Harry asked.
"I will go back to him."
"WHAT!?" Severus said.
"I can't have your death hanging over me.you are my father, and will always be my father, but I need you to be my father who is ALIVE. For that, I will do as Lucius asks."
"I don't care about that! They would attack me anyway! It doesn't make a difference. I am a traitor. I have already got death threats. It doesn't matter if you go back to him or not! I want you with me."
"Dad."
"NO! I have lost you both before. At least I got to SEE Harry. I just discovered you were my son and I REFUSE to have you taken away from me again!"
"Dad, this isn't your choice."
"Make it mine. Please. I want to make my own choice. I want you to stay with me! Please don't leave me! I need you. I can't lose you again!" Blake sat in his desk. Then without a word he stood and said, "I am sorry, father. But I am a Malfoy, I have to be." He then walked out of the room.
Harry was stunned. He snapped back to reality when the heard his father punch the desk and start crying. He walked around the desk and pulled his father out of the chair and into his arms. "It will be okay.everything will be all right."
Severus pulled away. "HOW CAN IT BE OKAY!? I just lost the son I had just found." He kept crying. Harry put a sleeping charm on his father and then carried him to his chambers. He changed his father into his pajamas with a wave of his wand and put him in bed. He then got a calming potion out of his father's potion cabinet and poured it down his father's throat. He then kissed his forehead and after saying, "I love you, dad" walked out of the room. He walked back up to Gryffindor tower and into dorm room. He glared at Blake who was sitting on his bed and said, "Buzz off, Malfoy." Blake's eyes filled with tears as his brother drifted to sleep. Blake started to say something but he heard a voice in his head say, "Malfoy, before you even start, go to hell and leave me alone." Then it was gone.
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The next morning, Harry and Blake woke up to the feeling of a water balloon being dropped on their heads. They sat up and saw the laughing figures of Ron, Seamus, and Dean. They magically dried their bedclothes got ready and walked downstairs. Ron was sitting in front of the fire laughing. Blake and Harry waited until Ginny and Hermione came down and greeted them with a kiss on the lips. The girls smiled, Ron's face grew red with fury and the heard him mutter something that sounded like, "We'll make you pay."
Harry and Blake escorted their girlfriends down to the Great Hall, ate breakfast and then set of to potions class early. Their father had his classroom door shut. They knocked and heard a cold voice say, "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" The heard footsteps and their father swung open the door and glared. Then he realized who it was and his glare was replaced with a soft smile.
"Morning dad." Harry said.
"Morning." Blake said.
"What are you doing here? Class doesn't start for another thirty minutes." Severus said.
Harry's smile disappeared. "Well if you don't want us here, we can just..." Harry turned around, disappointedly.
"No, Harry, it's not that. I just wasn't expecting to see you two this early in the morning."
"Oh." Harry smiled and Severus moved to let his sons in.
They sat down at a table and started to talk. Somehow the topic turned to be on Lucius. Severus got serious for a minute. "Blake?"
"Yes sir?"
"Would you take your father to court for this?"
"Why would I want to take to you court?" Blake teased.
"You know what I mean. Will you take Lucius to court?"
"I'd have to think about it. See, even though he wasn't really my father, he did support me, and treated me like a son."
Severus's face grew red and he shot out, "PUTTING CRUCIATUS ON YOU IS TREATING YOU LIKE A SON!"
"Dad, calm down. I do think he should take Lucius to court. Something bad was done against him. When something like that is done, the person needs to pay. Blake, I would take him to court."
Severus just got angrier. "THEN WHY WON'T YOU LET ME TAKE YOUR UNCLE TO." Harry stood and walked out of the classroom. Severus grew pale. "I did it again." He said in a whisper.
"Dad, I'll take Lucius to court. But now, I have to go talk to Harry. He had another nightmare last."
"Why didn't he come tell me he had a nightmare?" Severus asked, quietly.
"Because he knew this would be how you react. The court thing would be brought up again." Blake walked out of the room and to Gryffindor tower. Harry wasn't there. Neither was he in the library or great hall. He checked the towers and when he looked out the tower windows he saw his brother sitting by the lake. He started the long walk out to the lake. But his father got there first.
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Severus walked up to Harry. He had his back to Severus but Severus knew his son was crying. Harry heard his footsteps and said, "Blake, I don't want to talk about it."
"Well if it was Blake he might actually care."
"Oh, it's you."
"Correct, it is me."
"Dad, I really don't want to talk about this, what happened is over and."
"It's not over if you are still having nightmares about it." Harry turned around and glared at his father. "I can't believe he told you. I thought he said he wouldn't tell."
"Harry. You are my son. I just want what is best for you. What he has done to you. I can't stand it. He has hurt you physically and mentally. You need to get some closure on this."
"Dad, I just.can't. He.I can't stand to see him. I am just happy to be away. I don't have to see him ever again. That is good enough for me."
"Harry, I can't stand to see you like this. You think you are okay, but you aren't. You need to face him. You need to see him. You need to get closure. I think the best way to do this is court. He can then get punished for what he did you in court. But you will face him. You have to. I hate to do this, but if you don't take him to court, we are going to visit them, and tell them how we feel. You have to face your demons. So if you don't decide by this Saturday, whether we take them to court, we will go there and see them in their home."
"Do you know what you are asking me to do?" Harry started to cry harder. "He has done this to ME not you. It is MY decision what happens. I don't have to stay with you. I can be with Sir." Harry then remembered that he couldn't be with Sirius. Sirius was in a mental institution. "It isn't your decision to make." Harry stood and looked his father angrily in the eye. "Father, you have not been here for seventeen years of my life. You have no right to barge in now, when you hadn't been there for me. Get away from me; you are no father to me." Harry promptly ran off and didn't see his father's eyes fill up with pain.
Severus stayed by the lake. His son didn't love him. He had been stupid to ever think they would actually treat him like a father.
Draco sat stunned behind the bushes. HOW DARE HARRY SAY THAT!? Draco stood up, fury in his eyes and ran off after his brother. He met his brother in the library. Harry looked up and smiled. "Hey Bl." He was interrupted when his brother lifted him by the collar and flung him against the wall. He sunk down waiting for his sight and breath to return. Draco loomed over him. "HOW DARE YOU! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT, WHATSOEVER, TO TALK TO OUR FATHER THAT WAY! HE WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE THE ENTIRE TIME IF HE COULD HAVE. HE CAN'T HELP WHAT HAS HAPPENED. IT ISN'T HIS FAULT. YOU NEED TO TAKE YOUR UNCLE TO COURT AND APOLOGIZE TO DAD OR YOU CAN JUST KISS US GOODBYE. YOU GOT A FAMILY THAT CARES ABOUT YOU, WHAT YOU SAID YOU WANTED. NOT YOU ARE THROWING ALL OF THAT AWAY. IF YOU DO NOT APOLOGIZE TO WHAT YOU SAID TO HIM, YOU ARE NO LONGER MY BROTHER."
Harry sat dazed. "So, he told you. He told you what I said. He is trying to force me to do something I don't want to."
"No, he didn't tell me. He wouldn't want me to say all this to you. He wouldn't want me to say I wasn't your brother if you didn't apologize. Besides, he hides his pain. First he loses a son. Then he loses a wife. Sixteen years later, things seem to get better, he gets back both sons. NOW, BECAUSE OF YOU, HE HAS LOST THE SON HE HAD ORIGINALLY HE THINKS. YOU HAVE DESERTED HIM WHEN ALL HE DID WAS CARE ABOUT YOU. Harry, I hate to say it, even when I was Draco Malfoy, kind of assholes, I didn't hate you. But right now, Harry, I despise, loathe and hate you." Harry looked up from his lap.
"I have been stupid." He said in a whisper.
"That is the understatement of the year."
"I'll go talk to him. I am sorry, Blake."
"Don't apologize to me. You'll need all your apologies to go to him."
Harry nodded and stood. He was already late for class. He had to still go get his stuff. He ran up to the dormitory while Blake went to class. Fifteen minutes later, he knocked on the classroom door. Severus Snape opened it; Harry saw a look of pain pass on his features. "Can I talk to you, before I start class?" Severus stepped out of the classroom after threatening his students to be quiet.
"What is it Harry?"
Harry grabbed his father up into a hug. Harry cried on his father's shoulder. "I am so sorry. It is my fault. You are my father. I will take him to court. I LOVE YOU!"
Severus looked his son in the eye. "I am sorry."
"IT'S MY FAULT!" They spent several minutes hugging and crying. Severus then did a spell so it wouldn't show where he had cried and walked into the classroom. Harry followed him in.
Harry sat in the empty seat next to his brother. Blake had tried to get a seat next to Hermione, but Neville had claimed her first. Snape put on his "professor face". He scowled at his students, despite the happiness coursing through his veins. He gave the students their instructions.
Harry and Blake finished their potion first. It was perfect. Severus came over to inspect it. "Well it seems for once in your miserable life you got a potion right, Mr. Pot- Mr. Snape." The class gawked at the acknowledgment of Harry as his son.
"It seems that way, da-Professor." Severus smirked and walked back to his desk.
When the bell rang Snape dismissed them but called out, "Mr. and Mr. Snape please stay behind." The class looked at them funny again and the boys smiled.
They were ushered into their father's office. They sat in the chairs in front of the desk.
"Is there something you needed us for, Professor Snape."
"Cut that out, I will not having you call me Professor Snape when we aren't in class."
"Yes, Pr.dad." Blake said, gingerly.
"Ok. Blake, I have talked to the minister and the headmaster. Lucius is going to be told tomorrow. But something more important happened tonight. We intercepted a letter, sent to you. It was from your "father". We haven't read it, do you want to?"
"Yes, please."
"Okay." Severus pulled out a letter. He handed it to his son, who took a deep breath and broke the seal. He skimmed through it, then read it out loud.
'Dear Draco,
I overreacted when you said you wouldn't join my "cause". You are very much a son to me. I know you have discovered your true parentage. I am sorry it was him. I really thought you were Potter's kid. However, a Snape is even more powerful than a Potter. I ask you to be my heir. You are my son and I do care about your well-being, it is not with Snape. He has been a traitor. I fear that if you do not accept me as a father, you won't have one later. If you choose me, we won't kill the traitor. You have been warned. Make the right decision.
In sincerity, Lucius Malfoy'
Snape had a scowl on his face, Harry looked frightened. "I will do it."
"Do what?" Harry asked.
"I will go back to him."
"WHAT!?" Severus said.
"I can't have your death hanging over me.you are my father, and will always be my father, but I need you to be my father who is ALIVE. For that, I will do as Lucius asks."
"I don't care about that! They would attack me anyway! It doesn't make a difference. I am a traitor. I have already got death threats. It doesn't matter if you go back to him or not! I want you with me."
"Dad."
"NO! I have lost you both before. At least I got to SEE Harry. I just discovered you were my son and I REFUSE to have you taken away from me again!"
"Dad, this isn't your choice."
"Make it mine. Please. I want to make my own choice. I want you to stay with me! Please don't leave me! I need you. I can't lose you again!" Blake sat in his desk. Then without a word he stood and said, "I am sorry, father. But I am a Malfoy, I have to be." He then walked out of the room.
Harry was stunned. He snapped back to reality when the heard his father punch the desk and start crying. He walked around the desk and pulled his father out of the chair and into his arms. "It will be okay.everything will be all right."
Severus pulled away. "HOW CAN IT BE OKAY!? I just lost the son I had just found." He kept crying. Harry put a sleeping charm on his father and then carried him to his chambers. He changed his father into his pajamas with a wave of his wand and put him in bed. He then got a calming potion out of his father's potion cabinet and poured it down his father's throat. He then kissed his forehead and after saying, "I love you, dad" walked out of the room. He walked back up to Gryffindor tower and into dorm room. He glared at Blake who was sitting on his bed and said, "Buzz off, Malfoy." Blake's eyes filled with tears as his brother drifted to sleep. Blake started to say something but he heard a voice in his head say, "Malfoy, before you even start, go to hell and leave me alone." Then it was gone.
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BYPRODUCT OF EVIL
RACHIE-BABY18 (You don't like evil Ron?)
NICKOLE RIDDLE (hope school and the story gets better.)
BONNIE4
THE DARK VEELA
CASSA-ANDRA (cute idea)
MIKEE (I have another potions class coming up within the next two
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LADYSNAPE13
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STAR06
THE INVINCIBLE ONE-(hey. This is a hard place to fit "I
can smell the feet" in!)