Chapter Five - I Wish I could Believe You

Draco was tired... very tired. All he seemed to do these days was sleep. Several times Tonks had to force feed him because he was too tired even to eat. But despite all her efforts Draco was getting weaker. Harry hadn't been much help either. He kept disappearing for days on end to the point that even Dumbledore began calling Harry up to his office to discuss his behaviour, though Harry said very little.

If it had been any other circumstance then Harry would have been expelled a long time ago, but Draco needed him so they let him stay. Draco woke one night to find Harry creeping out of the room. "Where are you going?" he questioned, trying to keep the distress from his voice. "I hardly see you anymore. Where do you keep sneaking off to?" he pouted. "I need you here."

"I have things to be doing." Harry said, liguring by the doorway, seemingly desparate to leave. He edge a little toward the door and Draco started crying again. The only thing he seemed to do other than sleep was throw up and cry. Harry closed the door and ran back over to the bed. He tried to put an arm around Draco but Draco pulled away.

"Get out." Draco said softly. "You obviously have something, or more likely someone, more important to see than your pregnant boyfriend. So just go, get out. I don't want to see you." Draco said, turning over and laying down. He felt queezy, but he didn't want to attract any more of Harry's attention so her forced it away.

"It's not that, really, you have to trust me." Harry said, walking round the bed to try and face Draco but he turned over again.

"I really want to believe that, but right now i just can't. I want you to go. i'll do this on my own." Draco said coldly. Harry put a hand on Draco's back but Draco sat up and looked at him with and icy face. "I said get out." he spat.

Harry resigned from his calmed face and stormed out of the room. Draco burst into tears an eventually cried himself to sleep. Tonks and Severus had watched the whole thing from the office next to the room. "Should we tell him?" Tonks whispered nervously. She glanced at Severus but he just stared out of the window at the now sleeping Draco.

"No. That is for him to find out. He wants to do things by himself, let him learn by his chosen method. He'll be fine." Severus said, a small smile forming on his lips. Tonks smiled at him, she couldn't believe how much everyone was changing, Severus most of all. Usually Severus would be cold and would barely speak to anyone, now words would flow like he had been doing it all his life, especially when the subject was Draco Malfoy.

Later that night

Draco was being shaken until he awoke. "Go away Tonks, I am not hungry, I don't care that I need to eat, right now I have to sleep. Bugger off and i'll come and find you when i'm hungry." Draco mumbled tiredly, pulling the covers up over his head.

"Suprise, suprise jelly baby! It's not Tonks, i'm not trying to feed you and i don't care if you're tired, you are going to come with me right now." A voice said loudly, pulling the covers off of Draco completely. The rush of cold air made Draco rolled over, a blurry Sirius came slowley into vision.

"What do you want? I want to sleep. I need to sleep. You people confuse me so much! You tell me to get some rest and then when i'm resting you drag me out of bed! It's not fair!" Draco whinned. Sirius rolled his eyes and threw Draco a cloak.

"Get up, it'll only take a moment, then you can go back to sleep. But until you get up, and come with me i am going to bug you, even if it means you get no sleep until you're thirty!"

Draco finally gave in, throwing his cloak round his shoulders, fifteen years without sleep seemed a little extreme. He swung his legs over the edge of the bed. He tried to stand but his legs shook under the weight and he stumbled forward into Sirius. Sirius swept draco up and started to walk toward the door when Tonks appeared in the other doorway. "Sirius, put him down, he needs to eat something."

"Can it girly, we have something to do. You can stuff him with all the crap you want when we get back." Tonks didn't get a chance to say anything else as Sirius pulled the door shut behind them.

He carried Draco out of the school and across the lawns until they reached a small hill beside the lake upon which stood a rather ordinary looking crashed coke can. Sirius picked it up and the world began to spin around them. They landed down somewhere in the country in front of a large house.

Sirius pushed open the door and carried Draco into a lushly furnished entrance hall. A huge elaborate staircase rose up in front of them, tall mahogany doors stood all around the edge of the circular room. Sirius' boots clicked as he walked across the marble floor toward one of the doors to their left.

Draco struggled out of Sirius' arms, determined to stand on his own. Sirius pushed the door open, revealing Harry sleeping on the sofa. Draco stared longingly at him for a moment, he looked back at Sirius. "I want to go back to the school. I don't want to see him."

"And why not? Because he keeps sneaking off? Well look around you, this is what he has been doing. He has sold everything he can spare to make this place perfect for you and the baby." Sirius said dangerously under his breath. Draco looked around the room, everything was exactly the way that he would have wanted it.

Draco lowered his face, utterly ashamed of himself. He took a shaky step toward Harry but stopped. Sirius watched Draco for a moment, unsure of what to do. Draco felt sick, his face glazed with sweat. He stepped back and Sirius placed a hand on his shoulder. "Are you alright?" Sirius said softly. Draco was breathing hard now. "Draco?" Sirius said louder, but still Draco said nothing.

Harry stirred at the sound of his lovers name. He rubbed his eyes and grabbed his glasses from off the floor beside the sofa. He looked up and saw Draco, whose eyes were on the ground, flicking around in a somewhat panicked fasion. Draco's breath began to quicken and Harry jumped up. He grabbed Draco as he fell forward, he was doubled over and Harry slowley lowered him to the ground. Harry's looked up at Sirius, eyes wide with fear. "We have to get him back to the school."

"None of you are going anywhere." Came a cold voice from the door behind them. Harry and Sirius both looked up, and Sirius pulled out his wand as he stared toward the only exit. A scowl came over his face.

"Narsissa."