Adrenaline Rush ~hotsleekeyz~
Chapter 11 Impede
Hermione ran to where Wade was hung upside down. Limping, Draco followed. Hermione immediately took Wade out from the tree and embraced him tight.
"Draco, what's happening? It's getting worst!"
Hermione was helpless and panicking. She broke down on the ground with Wade in her arms seemingly in a restless sleep.
"I'll call Harry up. I'll ask him to take you away from me", came Draco's reply.
Hermione took her eyes to Draco with a pleading look on the beautiful pair of auburn. "Please Draco. Don't ask me to do that. We will work through this together. I can't do it without you. . . and Wade. . . he wouldn't be safe with just me around. We need you Draco. Don't ask me to send ourselves away from you"
Draco knelt to Hermione's side and clutched her shoulder tightly. "But you have to go Hermione. This is the best thing that we could resort to at the moment. It's much dangerous when Wade and I are in each other's company. Either way, we could get ourselves killed. The reason why I want you to go with Harry is because he's the only one who could protect you. He will make sure that Lucius' men won't get near you and he would know what to do when worse comes to worst"
"Draco, I---I don't know if this is right. . ."
"It is love. Just think about it. If Wade and I are away from each other, no other incident like this would happen. Until we are together, he will try to kill me. I know it's not him, at least we know he's just being controlled but Hermione, if the time comes no one's controlling him anymore and it's just him acting on his own, there's no stopping him. So right now, the plan is to impede the progress that the Dark Side is doing. I hope you agree to this. There's no other choice"
"Okay Draco. . . but---"
Draco's finger touched Hermione's lips kindly. He hushed her of her words that seemed to ask too much that Draco could not answer anymore.
"I'll get back in then I'll come out to clean this mess that Wade did. You follow shortly, all right?" asked Draco as he glared over the earth that was ornate with dead birds.
Hermione nodded. After a few minutes, she decided to come in with Wade sleeping soundly in her arms. She stared at the little angel---oh yes, Wade did look like an angel. He looked much like his beautiful father.
The moment Hermione reached their room, she saw Draco on the phone, speaking in a hushed voice. He just put the receiver down when he noticed that Hermione was already behind him.
"Mione, hi. . . um, I was just making a call"
"To whom?" asked Hermione as she laid Wade down.
"Harry. He has to know about this as soon as he could. I've arranged your next flight to Puerto Rico in three hours. Harry will use a Portkey going here. I'll just pack your things up. You stay here with Wade"
Without a word in mind, Hermione stayed silent. Draco went to the closet and started packing Hermione's things. And Hermione musingly stared at her wizard husband, not that Harry wasn't one, but it was Draco that the wizards acknowledge as her other half. She was partly amazed by Draco offering to fix her things for her. It was so sweet, yet bitter. Draco could have been the perfect father only that the situation was worse than worst already, he had to stop being one again and pass the responsibility back to Harry.
"Draco. . .what will happen with you after we've gone?"
"I---I don't know Hermione"
"Please tell me Draco. I know there's something in your mind"
Draco stopped from taking Hermione's things out from the closet and turned to her. "I have to face my father again Hermione. I have to know what he wants from Wade. . . from me. . . and from you. I will not stop unless he tells me"
"Do you think you'll have the answer without putting your life on the line? Draco, you know very well that you could die facing him. Just go hiding with us"
"Come with you and forever go in hiding? Hermione, I never envisioned my family to be hiding from one piece of a scum. I will not allow that and I promise you that I will take our freedom back! We will never be tied down in fear of what could happen next. My son doesn't deserve to suffer being in control of someone who doesn't deserve respect, nor am I allowing you to suffer even more than you already are. This will either break it or make it. And I swear I'm going to win Hermione. . . I will"
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Harry arrived twenty minutes after he'd put the line down. He went inside the huge property that was of Draco's and suited himself in, with his bag in one hand. Draco met him and welcomed him. He extended his hand to Harry and so did Harry receive it.
"Thank you for coming soon Potter. Hermione and Wade are resting inside. I had to put a Sleeping Spell on Hermione. She insisted not to sleep", said Draco promptly.
"I expected that. Anyway, Draco, don't worry about them while we're away. I promise to look after them very well just as you would. I do hope your plan goes well. I'll wish you luck", replied Harry with a firm smile on his lips.
Gentleman to gentleman. What could have been the perfect sight? They had to settle their differences aside for their family. Besides, they have grown out of their childish fights. They were men. They had to act their age regardless of what, or who comes in between.
"Let's go inside. I'll wake them up and then you take them to the airport. I won't come along with you anymore. Lucius must still be on the look-out. Just before I wake them---Potter, please don't let them get out of your sight. I've sacrificed too much to have them back with me but the situation calls that I have to completely give up being a father. I'm glad that you've made a good child out of Wade. I have to thank you for that"
Draco turned away from Harry and rushed back in. Before he could have gone too far, Harry said, "Draco, I believe that you will come back for them--- alive. And you don't have to give up anything. You are the real father. . . the real husband, and I believe it that you'll go by all means to protect them. Just on this, give me your word that you will come back for them"
Draco stopped walking and stood still. "Forgive me Harry. I can't." He continued walking and Harry viewed from behind a dying man desperate to make a brave front.
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Hermione had Wade in her right hand and a bag on the other. Wade was still sleepy as he stifled a yawn upon seeing Harry. The moment Wade got his resolve back, he ran to Harry and embraced him at once.
"Daddy! I've missed you! Don't leave us now Daddy!"
Harry dropped his bag and embraced Wade as well. "I've missed you too baby. And I won't leave you now Wade. We're going to live together again." Harry looked at Draco beside Hermione who forced himself to smile at him. Draco nodded at him. Harry took his arms off Wade and gained his position. "I reckon we better get going now. Draco. . ."
Draco nodded again. "Harry." Draco nudged Hermione to go forward to Harry. He felt like he was betraying himself. He was denying himself of the family that he long wanted to have.
Hermione looked at Draco and smiled forcefully. "Take care of yourself now Draco"
Draco nodded. "I will Hermione. I will"
Too much sorrow filled the air between them that they had to force themselves to take each other in their arms. They took one another in their arms so tightly they seemed they won't ever let go. But Draco did. He slowly loosened his grip on Hermione and pushed her kindly away. "Go now. You might be late for your trip", added Draco as he tried to fight back his tears. How could have it been so hard? He suffered years in his father's hands at his every attempt to see them. . . and at that moment, he just had to push them away. He never wanted it to happen. He never even expected it to happen.
Hermione leant onto Draco's ear and whispered. "It will only take about half an hour to get to the airport. We still got plenty of time"
"But I won't let you take it now, would I?" asked Draco in a hushed voice.
One hand tugged both Hermione and Draco's shirts. It was Wade beside them. "Father, let's go", said the little angel innocently.
Draco took his hand over Wade's shoulder and said firmly, "I won't be coming with you now son. I've some important business to attend to. Now promise me that you'll be a good boy, ayt?"
Wade nodded. "When will I see you again father?"
Draco flinched. How was he to tell that they won't meet each other again? There was a very slim chance that they'd do and Draco considered it as the end the moment he meets his father. "Soon Wade, but I can't tell when. But I promise we'll see each other again sometime. . . somewhere"
"Okay. I promise to be a good boy father. I won't hurt mum again. . ." Wade paused for a while and then continued. "I'm sorry father. I'm sorry for hurting you. I'm sorry for being a bad, bad boy"
Draco shook his head gently and managed to give a warm smile. "There's no space for apologies here, now is there? It's okay son. I know you didn't want to do it. I'll give Grandpa some pretty good spanking, don't worry." Draco didn't dare look at Hermione. There were too many hidden messages in his statement.
Harry interrupted. "Off we go now then. Wade, hand me in your bag"
Wade ran to Harry and handed him his bag. He was not to look back at Draco but then he did. Wade ran back to Draco and hugged his biological father. He took his little arms around Draco's slim waist. "I'm going to miss you father"
Draco took his eyes away from Hermione and Harry's eyes as tears fell down his own. His left hand took Wade's head in his grasp and the other hand brushed his precious tears away. "I'm going to miss you too Wade. It was a pleasure meeting you", said Draco formally, just as his own father did to him when he was young. No emotions. No feelings, or so Draco believe there should be none so that their parting would be easier. And so he took his hands on Wade's and took them away. "Go now. You might miss the plane"
Wade stood still in front of his mirror image. He stared into Draco's eyes. Wade offered his hand and Draco took it. Wade actually shook Draco's hand very formally. "No father. The pleasure is mine." If Draco wasn't that strong, he could have let his many tears flow down. He was seeing himself in Wade more and more. The scene that was presented to him was the same scene that anyone would find inside the Malfoy Manor. Everything was so formal that there was no room for love, even at least care or concern.
Hermione felt her heart breaking at the sight. She knew well that Draco didn't want that approach for his son. It was too much the same treatment he was given at home. What surprised Hermione was how Wade knew how to respond to what Draco was acting. Draco didn't want to make anymore bond between them. And Wade certainly didn't want to make anymore of that. The little kid knew they won't see each other again for Draco wouldn't be so stiff if he wasn't hiding something.
Too much for her to contain, Hermione pulled Wade away. "Let's go Wade"
Wade let Hermione pull him away as his eyes never left Draco.
Draco turned towards the house and started to walk back in. His tears naturally flowed from his flushed cheeks. He was surprised when a hand caught his shoulder. He turned around and saw Harry.
"Be brave Draco. By far I've seen, you are way braver than any other wizard I've met or at least heard of. It would take too much courage to push them away."
"I don't know how that would help Potter, but thanks anyway"
"Draco, don't burden yourself too much thinking you won't come back alive"
"I've accepted the fact long before"
"But you don't have to"
"What are you trying to tell me?"
Harry searched his hand through his pocket and let out a bottle that contained silver dusts in it.
"What is this?" Draco asked.
"Something for you to figure out what for. It'll will help loads soon"
"Uh, thanks"
Draco was about to move forward only that he was pulled back by Harry.
"Not just yet Draco. There's something else that you must have"
Harry searched again through his pocket and laid out a small black box and handed it over to Draco.
"What's this?" asked Draco who didn't recognize what the box was.
"Hermione's wedding ring with you. she's kept it all these years and she never wanted to do anything with it, not at least when you plan to renew your vows. . . it's one reason why you should go back. Hermione loves you so much. Don't break her heart again. Live for her. Live for your family. Live to see that you will make it against Lucius. Live to return that ring back to her. It's hers. . . just as YOU belong to her. . . farewell Draco. Good luck"
With that, Harry turned towards the gate and left Draco in awe. Draco saw how much hope Harry had in him. He actually admired the famous scarred man.
"Uh Harry---" yelled Draco.
Harry stopped and turned around. "Yes?"
"Thanks"
"No worries"
"No, I mean, for everything, not just the ring"
Harry nodded and said, "I'm just returning something that's yours. And I will give them all back in due time. Just come back for them." Harry went back to walking towards the gate.
Draco watched them all leave. It was such a sad sight. But he saw the other side of everything after Harry bade his farewell. He actually saw the light. There was still hope he could come back for them, only if he figured out in time how to make use of the silver dusts that Harry gave him.
~Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns characters, setting, etc. Except: the plot is mine.~
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Okay, I have to cut this fic short soon. Perhaps this won't go any farther than 6 or 8 chapters, maybe even less. I have to complete this one and move on with my other stories. I reckon there won't be much here except for the confrontation of Lucius and Draco, then a bit of something after that. Just cross our fingers they won't plunge into their deaths like my other stories do to the characters.
Thanks fore reading and for the wonderful reviews! I'll try to answer them all soon!
Chapter 11 Impede
Hermione ran to where Wade was hung upside down. Limping, Draco followed. Hermione immediately took Wade out from the tree and embraced him tight.
"Draco, what's happening? It's getting worst!"
Hermione was helpless and panicking. She broke down on the ground with Wade in her arms seemingly in a restless sleep.
"I'll call Harry up. I'll ask him to take you away from me", came Draco's reply.
Hermione took her eyes to Draco with a pleading look on the beautiful pair of auburn. "Please Draco. Don't ask me to do that. We will work through this together. I can't do it without you. . . and Wade. . . he wouldn't be safe with just me around. We need you Draco. Don't ask me to send ourselves away from you"
Draco knelt to Hermione's side and clutched her shoulder tightly. "But you have to go Hermione. This is the best thing that we could resort to at the moment. It's much dangerous when Wade and I are in each other's company. Either way, we could get ourselves killed. The reason why I want you to go with Harry is because he's the only one who could protect you. He will make sure that Lucius' men won't get near you and he would know what to do when worse comes to worst"
"Draco, I---I don't know if this is right. . ."
"It is love. Just think about it. If Wade and I are away from each other, no other incident like this would happen. Until we are together, he will try to kill me. I know it's not him, at least we know he's just being controlled but Hermione, if the time comes no one's controlling him anymore and it's just him acting on his own, there's no stopping him. So right now, the plan is to impede the progress that the Dark Side is doing. I hope you agree to this. There's no other choice"
"Okay Draco. . . but---"
Draco's finger touched Hermione's lips kindly. He hushed her of her words that seemed to ask too much that Draco could not answer anymore.
"I'll get back in then I'll come out to clean this mess that Wade did. You follow shortly, all right?" asked Draco as he glared over the earth that was ornate with dead birds.
Hermione nodded. After a few minutes, she decided to come in with Wade sleeping soundly in her arms. She stared at the little angel---oh yes, Wade did look like an angel. He looked much like his beautiful father.
The moment Hermione reached their room, she saw Draco on the phone, speaking in a hushed voice. He just put the receiver down when he noticed that Hermione was already behind him.
"Mione, hi. . . um, I was just making a call"
"To whom?" asked Hermione as she laid Wade down.
"Harry. He has to know about this as soon as he could. I've arranged your next flight to Puerto Rico in three hours. Harry will use a Portkey going here. I'll just pack your things up. You stay here with Wade"
Without a word in mind, Hermione stayed silent. Draco went to the closet and started packing Hermione's things. And Hermione musingly stared at her wizard husband, not that Harry wasn't one, but it was Draco that the wizards acknowledge as her other half. She was partly amazed by Draco offering to fix her things for her. It was so sweet, yet bitter. Draco could have been the perfect father only that the situation was worse than worst already, he had to stop being one again and pass the responsibility back to Harry.
"Draco. . .what will happen with you after we've gone?"
"I---I don't know Hermione"
"Please tell me Draco. I know there's something in your mind"
Draco stopped from taking Hermione's things out from the closet and turned to her. "I have to face my father again Hermione. I have to know what he wants from Wade. . . from me. . . and from you. I will not stop unless he tells me"
"Do you think you'll have the answer without putting your life on the line? Draco, you know very well that you could die facing him. Just go hiding with us"
"Come with you and forever go in hiding? Hermione, I never envisioned my family to be hiding from one piece of a scum. I will not allow that and I promise you that I will take our freedom back! We will never be tied down in fear of what could happen next. My son doesn't deserve to suffer being in control of someone who doesn't deserve respect, nor am I allowing you to suffer even more than you already are. This will either break it or make it. And I swear I'm going to win Hermione. . . I will"
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Harry arrived twenty minutes after he'd put the line down. He went inside the huge property that was of Draco's and suited himself in, with his bag in one hand. Draco met him and welcomed him. He extended his hand to Harry and so did Harry receive it.
"Thank you for coming soon Potter. Hermione and Wade are resting inside. I had to put a Sleeping Spell on Hermione. She insisted not to sleep", said Draco promptly.
"I expected that. Anyway, Draco, don't worry about them while we're away. I promise to look after them very well just as you would. I do hope your plan goes well. I'll wish you luck", replied Harry with a firm smile on his lips.
Gentleman to gentleman. What could have been the perfect sight? They had to settle their differences aside for their family. Besides, they have grown out of their childish fights. They were men. They had to act their age regardless of what, or who comes in between.
"Let's go inside. I'll wake them up and then you take them to the airport. I won't come along with you anymore. Lucius must still be on the look-out. Just before I wake them---Potter, please don't let them get out of your sight. I've sacrificed too much to have them back with me but the situation calls that I have to completely give up being a father. I'm glad that you've made a good child out of Wade. I have to thank you for that"
Draco turned away from Harry and rushed back in. Before he could have gone too far, Harry said, "Draco, I believe that you will come back for them--- alive. And you don't have to give up anything. You are the real father. . . the real husband, and I believe it that you'll go by all means to protect them. Just on this, give me your word that you will come back for them"
Draco stopped walking and stood still. "Forgive me Harry. I can't." He continued walking and Harry viewed from behind a dying man desperate to make a brave front.
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Hermione had Wade in her right hand and a bag on the other. Wade was still sleepy as he stifled a yawn upon seeing Harry. The moment Wade got his resolve back, he ran to Harry and embraced him at once.
"Daddy! I've missed you! Don't leave us now Daddy!"
Harry dropped his bag and embraced Wade as well. "I've missed you too baby. And I won't leave you now Wade. We're going to live together again." Harry looked at Draco beside Hermione who forced himself to smile at him. Draco nodded at him. Harry took his arms off Wade and gained his position. "I reckon we better get going now. Draco. . ."
Draco nodded again. "Harry." Draco nudged Hermione to go forward to Harry. He felt like he was betraying himself. He was denying himself of the family that he long wanted to have.
Hermione looked at Draco and smiled forcefully. "Take care of yourself now Draco"
Draco nodded. "I will Hermione. I will"
Too much sorrow filled the air between them that they had to force themselves to take each other in their arms. They took one another in their arms so tightly they seemed they won't ever let go. But Draco did. He slowly loosened his grip on Hermione and pushed her kindly away. "Go now. You might be late for your trip", added Draco as he tried to fight back his tears. How could have it been so hard? He suffered years in his father's hands at his every attempt to see them. . . and at that moment, he just had to push them away. He never wanted it to happen. He never even expected it to happen.
Hermione leant onto Draco's ear and whispered. "It will only take about half an hour to get to the airport. We still got plenty of time"
"But I won't let you take it now, would I?" asked Draco in a hushed voice.
One hand tugged both Hermione and Draco's shirts. It was Wade beside them. "Father, let's go", said the little angel innocently.
Draco took his hand over Wade's shoulder and said firmly, "I won't be coming with you now son. I've some important business to attend to. Now promise me that you'll be a good boy, ayt?"
Wade nodded. "When will I see you again father?"
Draco flinched. How was he to tell that they won't meet each other again? There was a very slim chance that they'd do and Draco considered it as the end the moment he meets his father. "Soon Wade, but I can't tell when. But I promise we'll see each other again sometime. . . somewhere"
"Okay. I promise to be a good boy father. I won't hurt mum again. . ." Wade paused for a while and then continued. "I'm sorry father. I'm sorry for hurting you. I'm sorry for being a bad, bad boy"
Draco shook his head gently and managed to give a warm smile. "There's no space for apologies here, now is there? It's okay son. I know you didn't want to do it. I'll give Grandpa some pretty good spanking, don't worry." Draco didn't dare look at Hermione. There were too many hidden messages in his statement.
Harry interrupted. "Off we go now then. Wade, hand me in your bag"
Wade ran to Harry and handed him his bag. He was not to look back at Draco but then he did. Wade ran back to Draco and hugged his biological father. He took his little arms around Draco's slim waist. "I'm going to miss you father"
Draco took his eyes away from Hermione and Harry's eyes as tears fell down his own. His left hand took Wade's head in his grasp and the other hand brushed his precious tears away. "I'm going to miss you too Wade. It was a pleasure meeting you", said Draco formally, just as his own father did to him when he was young. No emotions. No feelings, or so Draco believe there should be none so that their parting would be easier. And so he took his hands on Wade's and took them away. "Go now. You might miss the plane"
Wade stood still in front of his mirror image. He stared into Draco's eyes. Wade offered his hand and Draco took it. Wade actually shook Draco's hand very formally. "No father. The pleasure is mine." If Draco wasn't that strong, he could have let his many tears flow down. He was seeing himself in Wade more and more. The scene that was presented to him was the same scene that anyone would find inside the Malfoy Manor. Everything was so formal that there was no room for love, even at least care or concern.
Hermione felt her heart breaking at the sight. She knew well that Draco didn't want that approach for his son. It was too much the same treatment he was given at home. What surprised Hermione was how Wade knew how to respond to what Draco was acting. Draco didn't want to make anymore bond between them. And Wade certainly didn't want to make anymore of that. The little kid knew they won't see each other again for Draco wouldn't be so stiff if he wasn't hiding something.
Too much for her to contain, Hermione pulled Wade away. "Let's go Wade"
Wade let Hermione pull him away as his eyes never left Draco.
Draco turned towards the house and started to walk back in. His tears naturally flowed from his flushed cheeks. He was surprised when a hand caught his shoulder. He turned around and saw Harry.
"Be brave Draco. By far I've seen, you are way braver than any other wizard I've met or at least heard of. It would take too much courage to push them away."
"I don't know how that would help Potter, but thanks anyway"
"Draco, don't burden yourself too much thinking you won't come back alive"
"I've accepted the fact long before"
"But you don't have to"
"What are you trying to tell me?"
Harry searched his hand through his pocket and let out a bottle that contained silver dusts in it.
"What is this?" Draco asked.
"Something for you to figure out what for. It'll will help loads soon"
"Uh, thanks"
Draco was about to move forward only that he was pulled back by Harry.
"Not just yet Draco. There's something else that you must have"
Harry searched again through his pocket and laid out a small black box and handed it over to Draco.
"What's this?" asked Draco who didn't recognize what the box was.
"Hermione's wedding ring with you. she's kept it all these years and she never wanted to do anything with it, not at least when you plan to renew your vows. . . it's one reason why you should go back. Hermione loves you so much. Don't break her heart again. Live for her. Live for your family. Live to see that you will make it against Lucius. Live to return that ring back to her. It's hers. . . just as YOU belong to her. . . farewell Draco. Good luck"
With that, Harry turned towards the gate and left Draco in awe. Draco saw how much hope Harry had in him. He actually admired the famous scarred man.
"Uh Harry---" yelled Draco.
Harry stopped and turned around. "Yes?"
"Thanks"
"No worries"
"No, I mean, for everything, not just the ring"
Harry nodded and said, "I'm just returning something that's yours. And I will give them all back in due time. Just come back for them." Harry went back to walking towards the gate.
Draco watched them all leave. It was such a sad sight. But he saw the other side of everything after Harry bade his farewell. He actually saw the light. There was still hope he could come back for them, only if he figured out in time how to make use of the silver dusts that Harry gave him.
~Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns characters, setting, etc. Except: the plot is mine.~
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Okay, I have to cut this fic short soon. Perhaps this won't go any farther than 6 or 8 chapters, maybe even less. I have to complete this one and move on with my other stories. I reckon there won't be much here except for the confrontation of Lucius and Draco, then a bit of something after that. Just cross our fingers they won't plunge into their deaths like my other stories do to the characters.
Thanks fore reading and for the wonderful reviews! I'll try to answer them all soon!