A/N: This chapter was shorter than i hoped it would be, i hope you'll like it anyway.

Chapter Seventeen – It's Never A Good Time

A shadow moved through the halls of Hogwarts, past the hospital wing, down more stairs, across the entrance hall. It stepped down the stairs in to the dungeons, sliding a hand over the walls, pushing open a door. It stepped inside, walked around, through another door and sat on the end of a bed, regarding the occupants. Then, like a shadow, it vanished into the back.

Draco woke with a start, he felt like someone had just stolen his breath away. Feeling the sudden movement, Harry also woke. His forehead contorted as his squinted through the darkness. "What's the matter Dray babe? Why are you crying?" he asked, sitting up and putting his arm around a rather distort Draco.

"He's here. He's in the castle. I can feel it." Draco spluttered through his tears, curling into Harry's chest and clinging tightly to him like his life depended on it. "Tom Riddle is in the castle."

"He can't be, Draco, I would have felt it, I would have known." Harry said, rubbing Draco's back. "My scar would hurt if he was close by. It was just a dream, just a nasty dream."

"No is wasn't, Harry, he was here! He was in this room, and not just this room, he has been in dad and Sev's room as well. He was looking at Kellan, I could feel it, I could see those red eyes burning into my baby brother." Draco got out of bed, pulling on a loose black button up shirt and he ran out of the room with Harry quick on his heels.

The closer they got to Lucius and Severus' room, the loader Draco could hear his brother crying. He said the password and threw open the door running over and pulling his baby brother up, hugging him and checking him for and sign that Voldemort might have hurt him.

"He's fine, Draco, lay him back down."

"No he's not, look..." Draco said, pointing out something on Kellan's arm. It was dark, he couldn't tell what it was, but he had a terrible feeling about it. The light came on and Severus wandered into the nursery.

"What's going on in here? It's the middle of the night. I know you love him Draco, but I think you can wait until morning to see him."

"No... he's in danger, You-Know-Who is in the castle somewhere, he's been in our room, and he's been in here..." He looked down at Kellan and his eyes widened. "Look! Look there, on his arm!"

Kellan, who had previously quietened down started wailing again as Draco held out his arm for Severus to see. Severus gasped. "Lucius! Get in here! Now!"

A rather tired and irritable looking Lucius walked in rubbing his eyes. "What?" he asked.

"It's Kellan!" Draco squeaked, pointing at Kellan's arm.

Lucius looked down at Kellan's arms and took a very deep breath. His face contorted into a rather angry mess and he walk beck into the bedroom and closed the door behind him. The others waited for a moment, and that's when Lucius started screaming. "BASTARD THINKS THAT HE CAN COME INTO THIS SCHOOL AND PUT DARK MARKS ON MY MONTH OLD BABY! HE'S GOT ANOTHER THINK COMING! I AM GOING TO KILL HIM!"

Lucius walked back out of the room, fully dressed and smiled at the others. "I'm just going to talk a walk, I won't be long." He said and started walking toward the door, but Severus jumped in his way.

"No! Go back to bed, you are not going Voldie-Hunting in the middle of the night! It can wait until morning we just have to take in turns to stay up and watch out for each other. We have a meeting tomorrow night and we can talk then. But for now, you are going back to bed!"

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you ARE! Off to bed with you now... go on!" Severus commanded, and like a naughty puppy that had just been told off by his master, Lucius slunk off back to bed.

"You tell him Sev, you show him whose the man of the... um... school apartment!" Harry said in what he hoped was an encouraging voice. Severus smiled and looked at the two boys. Harry was dead on his feet, Draco on the other hand was wide eyed and talking animatedly to Kellan about how he was going to mangle Voldemort.

"I think it's safe to say that Draco is happy to do the first watch. Then when he is tired he can wake me, and then I will get you Harry, and if you're really not up to it then we can wake Lucius, though I'd rather you didn't because I just KNOW that he is going to do something stupid." Severus said, rolling his eyes.

Both agreed. Harry curled up on the sofa after a rather un-necessary argument with Draco over whether it was safe to go and sleep in their own room. But no sooner had he started to fall asleep the door was thrown open and in came two more for the party. "I heard shouting about someone dying! What's going on?!" Shouted Hermione as she ran in.

Lucius appeared again from the bedroom and closed the door quietly behind him. "Keep it down. Severus is asleep, I don't want him waking up."

Draco looked up at his dad. "I thought Sev told you to go back to bed."

"I did go back to bed."

"More to the point, I think he meant for you to stay there. I'm pretty sure he also said something about NO Voldie-hunting." Draco said, shooting a ::look:: at his father.

"I am not his slave! I am going Voldie-hunting! Whose with me?!"

Ron jumped to attention. "If you're talking me away from ::her::" he pointed blatantly at Hermione. "Then I'll do anything... ANYTHING!"

Lucius smiled. "Voldie-hunting it is then!"

"Oh no it's not." Came a voice from the doorway. They all looked round and Lucius pouted.

"But ::Albus::" he whined. "He put a dark mark on my baby!! I want to kill the bugger. I wanna stamp on his head and stuff. You could come too, it could be like a Voldie-killing picnic." Lucius said hopefully.

"No. Lucius, you are going to bed. Hermione, Ron, you are going back to you ::OWN:: rooms. Severus, you are going to stop eavesdropping. Draco, you are going to stop that racket you all singing. Kellan, you are to stop causing such a fuss and Harry, would you please control your boyfriend, half of Slytherin is in the corridor wanting to know what he was screaming about."

By the end of the speech everyone was blushing and did as they were told. Dumbledore smiled just before he left. "Goodnight everyone... Lucius?!"

"Mmmm..."

"Get back into bed and go to sleep!"

Lucius pouted from the edge of his bed in the next room. "Yes sir."

A/N2: I know I promised to explain some things and didn't but I promise I will in the next chapter (I have already started writing it). Thank you for your patience with me, I'm so cute, how can you not love me to bits.

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