Running about his apartment William stuffed what he would need for his trip into a shoulder bag, fitting more into the leather satchel than humanly possible. He was about to go under his bed for the last two things he would need when there was a knock at the door, groaning irritably he looked out the peep hole, and groaning once again when he saw who it was.
"What do you want Harris?" He asked rubbing his eyes.
"C'mon Spike let me in!!" He yelled through the steel lined door.
"No, I'm gonna finished packing and then leave!"
"You've an hour till sunset, let me in till then.... Besides who 're you leaving to feed your cat and water the plants?" Xander ask in an unusually diplomatic tone.
"Fuck..." William whispered then open the door, standing behind it as he shut it behind the muggle of a human.
"Right now what do you want Harris?"
"Why are you going to England?" He said sitting on the arm of the couch. "Just wondering, not like I'll tell." He said absently as he crossed his arm looking around the two room apartment.
"I'm going to go help a young man who is having the shit beat out of him daily, and the AUTHORITIES CAN'T DO ANTHIN' ABOUT IT!!!!!" William finished as he punched his can through the solid oak bathroom door.
Xander looked at him surprised, surprise both at his anger, and surprised by the desperate caring in his voice. "and if I'll kill the bastard hurting him if I have to." The resolution scared Xander a little bit, causing him to wonder who this boy was.
"You're going to bring the kid back then?" Xander said knowingly.
"Yeah, they'll be on holiday by then." William said as he looked at his watch, "Look, the Kat will be fin on her own, water the planted every other day, and they'll be fine. Don't pick anything growing and you better go."
Xander nodded and walked out the door, now dark outside, the said good luck and walked away his mind working over what he had just learned. Running to his room he dug out from under his bed and pulled out a long box with a large snake inland in silver on it. Opening it reverently he pulled out a brand new FireStar Code Blue and his wand, a wand he hadn't touch more year than he could count, he tucked the wand up the sleeve up his trench coat and stepped out side broom in hand. "Damn I wish I could still Apparate." He grumbled as he seated him self on the broom, kicking off gently, hovering for a moment and then with a small smile kicking off into the still young night.
"Ooo... The Gang isn't gonna believe THIS!" Xander said softly as he ran back to the Magic Shoppe.
**Over in Hogwarts**
Draco sat in his bed in a small ball, not sleeping he looked around the room sighing at the sigh of Crabbe and Goyle, Lucius had gotten rid of the fourth person in the room, saying only his bodyguards should be in his room. He almost felt himself dying in side sometimes, he was even more secluded from the rest of the student body than before. Before it had just been the people outside of Sythirin, but now it was most of the student IN Slytherin as well they all just seem to be skittish around him and maybe a little afraid. Getting out of his bed he cast a silence spell around him so none of his actions would make any noise, and throwing on his own invisibility cloak, he left the room. He ran down the steps to the common room and up the stairs out of the Slytherin dungeon, he loved running around in his cloak, he was free and best of all Lucius couldn't see him. Hell he didn't even know Draco had the cloak, Draco himself could hardly remember where he got it from he just remembered finding it on his bed one morning when he was nine, and hiding it before Lucius could take it away or ask where he got it. From then on he used it to escape for a hour or two at a time, escaping from Lucius, school, his 'friends', and anything else he needed to get away from. He summoned his FireBolt and took off running into the air, he smiled, his body still wrapped in the cloak and just went as high as he could, then just turned off the broom going into a dead fall not even bothering to reactivated it till he was just under fifteen feet, taking off again with a swish, he reached his hand down and let the tips of his fingers skim the grass. He sat there over the lake, moving back the hood he looked at himself in the reflective serface, frowning he pulled out his wand and drew a circle in the water. He cast a small truth spell, for the way he would look if Licie hadn't been fixing him up the last few weeks, he knew it wouldn't be pretty but it was worse than he had truely expected. Draco heard somebody crying and it took a moment for him to relize that it was himself.
He relection showed his face covered in bruises and lesions covered his face, his hair caked in his own blood, his arm was broken in two places and his collar bone stuck out at a funny angle.
"I hate you... I HATE YOU!!!" He scream at both Lucius and himself. "i hate you..." He felt a single tear roll of his face and into the water, the drop disrupting the spell causing his reflection to go back to normal. He felt a hand touch his shoulder causing him to jet forward about fifty feet turning to see who it was. Draco almost fell of his broom in shock, "Professor?" He asked worried, "Please don't tell Luc... Ah My father, I'll do as much detention as I have to, just please don't tell him." He sounded nearly panicked.
"Mr. Malfoy, please calm yourself, and come here."
"Yes Professor......" He said dejected, gliding over slowly.
"If you don't mind removing the rest of your cloak, it's a bit disturbing talking to a flowing head." The teacher said with a small hidden smile.
"Yes sir." He took off the cloak, turning it inside out, so it looked dark blue instead. Professor Snape smiled at the young Malfoy. "Please don't tell him." Staring at his teacher who was sitting on his own broom arms crossed.
"Mr. Malfoy, I believe you and I should have a little talk... Put your cloak back on properly and follow me." He said not waiting to hear what the student's reply was, as he flew back to the school.
"I'm so dead..." Draco whispered as he followed the head of Slytherin house, but then maybe he wasn't, but then he had never pressed his luck like this before.
**Snape's Office**
"Sit Mr. Malfoy." Shape said pointing to a dark green high back chair, seated across his desk. Sitting Draco, rubbed his eyes with the palms of his hands. "You look like you haven't slept much."
"No Sir, I've been sleeping fine..." He lied without thinking." He looked up and saw Snape looking at him, obviously not buying what he was saying. "Maybe a little trouble." Snape pulled out a small clue vile, filled with a smoky gray liquid, and set in font of Draco.
"I want you to take two drops in your drink before you sleep and get strait to bed, for the next three nights." Snape pulled out his wand and a silver tray with two cups filled one with hot chocolate, the other coffee. Taking the coffee Snape took a sip and motioned for Draco to take the other cup. Hesitantly he took the cup then held the vile in one hand and looked at Snape questioningly. "It will help you sleep, for every half hour you sleep, you'll as if you've slept two. And you'll sleep deeper and most likely without dreams." Draco nodded and smiled gratefully.
"Thank you sir, I've... I've had a lot on my mind lately." Draco said mostly the truth.
"Draco, we all know." Snape said as he watched the boy, hiding just how worried he really was for the boys safety.
Draco gagged on the hot chocolate and started shaking his head furiously.
"No, I... I don't know what you're talking about Sir. I'm just thinking about my birthday coming up." Draco said with a tight smile.
"Yes your right it's coming up on the 21st of December, am I right?" Snape asked
"Yes Sir."
"And you'll be here?"
"Yes Sir."
"Again?"
"Yes Sir."
"And you'll be turning 18?"
"Yes Si... No! No, 16, I'm turning 16." Draco looked disgusted with himself, then looked at his teacher with a realistic smile. "I'll be 16 this month."
"Draco, drink your chocolate and sleep solution." Snape said hiding his scowl behind the cup, his suspicion were indeed true. He watched as Draco let two drops fall into his drink, and with a slightly shaky he took a deep draught. "Feel a little better?" The boy nodded as his eyes started to droop, the teacup slipping from his grasp falling to the floor and making a slight 'ker-tink' as it hit the stone floor. Draco was out like a light before the cup touched, the boy was slumped over in the chair his light hair fallen over his face. "Poor child." Snape said picking up the cup and setting it on the desk and holding Draco's broom and wand makeing them disapparate and go back to where they belonged in the student's room. Then using a powder and sprinkling it on Dracoa nd himself they both appred in Draco's room, qickly he put the boy in his bed in a fatherly fashion taking off only his shoes and tossing them under his bed and covering him with his comforter, then hiding the cloak under the boys pillow. "Don't worry Draco, he'll be stopped."
"What do you want Harris?" He asked rubbing his eyes.
"C'mon Spike let me in!!" He yelled through the steel lined door.
"No, I'm gonna finished packing and then leave!"
"You've an hour till sunset, let me in till then.... Besides who 're you leaving to feed your cat and water the plants?" Xander ask in an unusually diplomatic tone.
"Fuck..." William whispered then open the door, standing behind it as he shut it behind the muggle of a human.
"Right now what do you want Harris?"
"Why are you going to England?" He said sitting on the arm of the couch. "Just wondering, not like I'll tell." He said absently as he crossed his arm looking around the two room apartment.
"I'm going to go help a young man who is having the shit beat out of him daily, and the AUTHORITIES CAN'T DO ANTHIN' ABOUT IT!!!!!" William finished as he punched his can through the solid oak bathroom door.
Xander looked at him surprised, surprise both at his anger, and surprised by the desperate caring in his voice. "and if I'll kill the bastard hurting him if I have to." The resolution scared Xander a little bit, causing him to wonder who this boy was.
"You're going to bring the kid back then?" Xander said knowingly.
"Yeah, they'll be on holiday by then." William said as he looked at his watch, "Look, the Kat will be fin on her own, water the planted every other day, and they'll be fine. Don't pick anything growing and you better go."
Xander nodded and walked out the door, now dark outside, the said good luck and walked away his mind working over what he had just learned. Running to his room he dug out from under his bed and pulled out a long box with a large snake inland in silver on it. Opening it reverently he pulled out a brand new FireStar Code Blue and his wand, a wand he hadn't touch more year than he could count, he tucked the wand up the sleeve up his trench coat and stepped out side broom in hand. "Damn I wish I could still Apparate." He grumbled as he seated him self on the broom, kicking off gently, hovering for a moment and then with a small smile kicking off into the still young night.
"Ooo... The Gang isn't gonna believe THIS!" Xander said softly as he ran back to the Magic Shoppe.
**Over in Hogwarts**
Draco sat in his bed in a small ball, not sleeping he looked around the room sighing at the sigh of Crabbe and Goyle, Lucius had gotten rid of the fourth person in the room, saying only his bodyguards should be in his room. He almost felt himself dying in side sometimes, he was even more secluded from the rest of the student body than before. Before it had just been the people outside of Sythirin, but now it was most of the student IN Slytherin as well they all just seem to be skittish around him and maybe a little afraid. Getting out of his bed he cast a silence spell around him so none of his actions would make any noise, and throwing on his own invisibility cloak, he left the room. He ran down the steps to the common room and up the stairs out of the Slytherin dungeon, he loved running around in his cloak, he was free and best of all Lucius couldn't see him. Hell he didn't even know Draco had the cloak, Draco himself could hardly remember where he got it from he just remembered finding it on his bed one morning when he was nine, and hiding it before Lucius could take it away or ask where he got it. From then on he used it to escape for a hour or two at a time, escaping from Lucius, school, his 'friends', and anything else he needed to get away from. He summoned his FireBolt and took off running into the air, he smiled, his body still wrapped in the cloak and just went as high as he could, then just turned off the broom going into a dead fall not even bothering to reactivated it till he was just under fifteen feet, taking off again with a swish, he reached his hand down and let the tips of his fingers skim the grass. He sat there over the lake, moving back the hood he looked at himself in the reflective serface, frowning he pulled out his wand and drew a circle in the water. He cast a small truth spell, for the way he would look if Licie hadn't been fixing him up the last few weeks, he knew it wouldn't be pretty but it was worse than he had truely expected. Draco heard somebody crying and it took a moment for him to relize that it was himself.
He relection showed his face covered in bruises and lesions covered his face, his hair caked in his own blood, his arm was broken in two places and his collar bone stuck out at a funny angle.
"I hate you... I HATE YOU!!!" He scream at both Lucius and himself. "i hate you..." He felt a single tear roll of his face and into the water, the drop disrupting the spell causing his reflection to go back to normal. He felt a hand touch his shoulder causing him to jet forward about fifty feet turning to see who it was. Draco almost fell of his broom in shock, "Professor?" He asked worried, "Please don't tell Luc... Ah My father, I'll do as much detention as I have to, just please don't tell him." He sounded nearly panicked.
"Mr. Malfoy, please calm yourself, and come here."
"Yes Professor......" He said dejected, gliding over slowly.
"If you don't mind removing the rest of your cloak, it's a bit disturbing talking to a flowing head." The teacher said with a small hidden smile.
"Yes sir." He took off the cloak, turning it inside out, so it looked dark blue instead. Professor Snape smiled at the young Malfoy. "Please don't tell him." Staring at his teacher who was sitting on his own broom arms crossed.
"Mr. Malfoy, I believe you and I should have a little talk... Put your cloak back on properly and follow me." He said not waiting to hear what the student's reply was, as he flew back to the school.
"I'm so dead..." Draco whispered as he followed the head of Slytherin house, but then maybe he wasn't, but then he had never pressed his luck like this before.
**Snape's Office**
"Sit Mr. Malfoy." Shape said pointing to a dark green high back chair, seated across his desk. Sitting Draco, rubbed his eyes with the palms of his hands. "You look like you haven't slept much."
"No Sir, I've been sleeping fine..." He lied without thinking." He looked up and saw Snape looking at him, obviously not buying what he was saying. "Maybe a little trouble." Snape pulled out a small clue vile, filled with a smoky gray liquid, and set in font of Draco.
"I want you to take two drops in your drink before you sleep and get strait to bed, for the next three nights." Snape pulled out his wand and a silver tray with two cups filled one with hot chocolate, the other coffee. Taking the coffee Snape took a sip and motioned for Draco to take the other cup. Hesitantly he took the cup then held the vile in one hand and looked at Snape questioningly. "It will help you sleep, for every half hour you sleep, you'll as if you've slept two. And you'll sleep deeper and most likely without dreams." Draco nodded and smiled gratefully.
"Thank you sir, I've... I've had a lot on my mind lately." Draco said mostly the truth.
"Draco, we all know." Snape said as he watched the boy, hiding just how worried he really was for the boys safety.
Draco gagged on the hot chocolate and started shaking his head furiously.
"No, I... I don't know what you're talking about Sir. I'm just thinking about my birthday coming up." Draco said with a tight smile.
"Yes your right it's coming up on the 21st of December, am I right?" Snape asked
"Yes Sir."
"And you'll be here?"
"Yes Sir."
"Again?"
"Yes Sir."
"And you'll be turning 18?"
"Yes Si... No! No, 16, I'm turning 16." Draco looked disgusted with himself, then looked at his teacher with a realistic smile. "I'll be 16 this month."
"Draco, drink your chocolate and sleep solution." Snape said hiding his scowl behind the cup, his suspicion were indeed true. He watched as Draco let two drops fall into his drink, and with a slightly shaky he took a deep draught. "Feel a little better?" The boy nodded as his eyes started to droop, the teacup slipping from his grasp falling to the floor and making a slight 'ker-tink' as it hit the stone floor. Draco was out like a light before the cup touched, the boy was slumped over in the chair his light hair fallen over his face. "Poor child." Snape said picking up the cup and setting it on the desk and holding Draco's broom and wand makeing them disapparate and go back to where they belonged in the student's room. Then using a powder and sprinkling it on Dracoa nd himself they both appred in Draco's room, qickly he put the boy in his bed in a fatherly fashion taking off only his shoes and tossing them under his bed and covering him with his comforter, then hiding the cloak under the boys pillow. "Don't worry Draco, he'll be stopped."