Title: Betrayal of the Raven
Author: Miss Lesley
Email: Douglaslraol.com
Archived: Fan Fiction Net, Ask if you want to place elsewhere
Fandom: Harry Potter
Chapter: Two: Hospitals are?
Type: Has stuff from ALL the books.
Warnings: SLASH, MPREG bad Language. AU
A/N: Not a new chapter, I broke up the last one up into two. It makes a better read this way. Also I improved the story. Slowed it down and filled in stuff. So go back and read. I promise new chapters soon.
48 Hours Later Location: Blessed Angel hospital
Draco's eyes fluttered open and he was met with the sight of an all white room that smelled kind of like a hospital smell. Draco's first thought was that he was in the Hogwarts Hospital wing. But as his eyes came into focus he realized from the pictures in his muggles studies book that he was in a muggle hospital room. For a moment Draco was confused at to why he would be in a muggle Hospital, but then suddenly his memories came flooding back, and he remembered the beating that the Weasel Heir had given him. Draco instinctively raised his sore hand to his belly to see if his baby was okay. As soon as his hand touched he felt the baby give off pulse of reassurance. Glad Draco let out a sigh of relief and joy.
"Well hello John, how are you today?" The red headed girl said.
Draco looked around the room for John, but upon seeing that he was the only one there he said, "Who is John?"
The girl's laughter floating on the air, "Well you are John, John Doe to be precise. It is what we call anyone who comes here, without any identification. Since we have to have to call you something until you wake up and tell us what your name is, most hospitals settled for John Does for men and Jane Doe for woman. Can you tell me your name so that I can update all your records?"
Thinking over what the woman said, Draco's mind was working overtime to decide how to turn this to his advantage. 'Think Draco, with you ending up here you probable was able to slip whoever the order or Voldemort had stationed looking for you. But it won't take them long to figure out where you ended up. Here no one knew who he was, but his classic Malfoy looks will give him away if someone comes here looking for him. So if he lies to the Hospital then the Order or Voldemort might guess he is either on to them or has something to hide. However, if he gives his real name, they will think, he thinks that he has nothing to fear from them and it will make changing his identification easier later on. Thus deciding quickly he smiled and answered, "Draco Malfoy, nice to meet you. Although, I do wish it was under better circumstances. I would shake your hand but I am under the weather right now." Draco finished with a chuckle.
Walking over to her patient, "My name is Nora McGregor, and I your night nurse. And if you let me I will help you get into a sitting position. Then I would like to check your vital signs. Then I can get the Doctor to talk to you about your situation, if you'd like."
Draco nodded his consent and after helping him into a comfortable upright position, Nora began to fuse about him, she wrapped something around his arm and began to pump it up. After looking at it, she jolted something down on a chart. Nora used another devise to listen to his chest and back whiling sticking glass stick under his tongue and telling him to hold it there. Whatever these thing told her about him, she continued to record on his chart.
When she was done Draco asked her a question, "Do you mind if I ask you some questions?" being very polite, with him not being certain about the proper etiquette required of a person here.
Smiling, she nodded her head yes, "Frankly I am surprised you were able to restrain yourself for so long, you don't seem the type to wait. Most people that come through here demand answers as soon as they wake up."
Laughing, "Your right, I am not use to waiting, but I have had a long affair with medical staff and it is always easier to allow them to do their work first. It makes my life easier and you get better answers to your questions. Okay, first question is where am I?"
Drawing up a chair she sat, "That's an easy one, you are at the Blessed Angels of Mercy Hospital. In London center."
Nodding, Draco had a vague idea where he was. "How and when did I get here?"
"You are very lucky, you were brought in here 2 days ago suffering from a bad beating, malnourishment and exhaustion. A bobby or policeman found you while doing his rounds in an ally off of Chambers street."
"Does anyone know why I was attack?" Draco asked.
"Well since they found an envelope with a thousand pounds in it beside you there are two theories, either someone attempted to rob you or you were involved in a drug deal gone wrong."
Draco tilted his head in confusion, "I am not sure what you mean by drug deal gone wrong, but the money was given to me by my father. I just graduated from school and I was going on holiday to Spain, so he gave me some pin money so that I could have fun.
Nora looked Draco in the eye, searching for something and she must have found it, because she smiled and nodded her head. "I did not think that you would be caught up in such a nasty thing. While there is something dark contained within you. I get the feeling that you are more grey. Do you have any other questions?"
"Yes how soon will the Med-.. Ah Medical professional be in to speak to me? I am anxious to know how I am doing and when I can leave."
Nora quirked an eye at Draco's odd phrasing but let it slide side he was still most likely confused from his beating, "Well, the Doctors just finished rounds so your doctor will be in shortly after I tell him your awake."
Smiling his thanks, Draco watched as Nora left, Draco got comfortable because he wanted to conserve energy. He needed to be awake and clear headed when the Doctor came. The Doctor came into Draco's room 15 minutes later. After reviewing Draco's chart he gave him a run down on his prognosis and told him that he expected to make a complete recovery. Although Draco wished to discuss his pregnancy with the doctor he knew that he couldn't; it was during one of his muggle studies classes when the Professor stated that men could have babies, he was violently contradicted by a muggle born studies. The final conclusion was that while wizard men could and did have babies, muggle men did not and if one ever did, then he would become a scientific experiment. So not wanting that for his child or himself Draco remained quite. The Doctor also informed him that he would only have to stay in the hospital for another couple of days, just for observation and a precaution. With that the Doctor was gone. After that Draco gave into his tiredness and went to sleep. Two hours later Draco was awakened by Nora, she checked his vital signs once again. Knowing that he needed to plan Draco asked Nora, "Upon Nora could you possibly bring me paper and something to write with?" Nodding her head, "Sure thing Draco."
In the morning, Draco woke up to the disgusting smell of hospital food lucky for him it did not set off his need to make an offering to his new God. However going two days with out food caused both him and the baby to be starved so he dung in. After that the morning nurse named Sarah, who was not as friendly as Nora, came in and took his vital signs. He was able to get permission to shower, after she had finished her work she guided him to a bathroom where he showered and put on fresh hospital clothes. When he got back to his room two Police officers waiting for him, after he settled in they proceeded to question him for an hour, most of what they asked he did not understand, but he keep to the story he told Nora the day before. After they were done, they told him they would file an attempted mugging report, and would keep on the looking out for the perpetrator, (Draco have given the police Bill Weasley's description and hoped that they did find him.) They also assured him that his money would be returned to him before he left the hospital.
Now that Draco was clean, relaxed and alone he began to make plans for him and the baby's future. "Okay what are the things I must consider?" Thinking from all angles
"Well the first question is whether I should stay or leave England. Also if I decide to leave then where would I go? And that then I need to explore what am I going to need to have a normal and safe pregnancy?"
Sighing, such a short list but filled with so much responsibility. "Okay the first thing to address is whether I should stay or leave England. My banishment from the magical community did not include me having to leave its muggle counter part. So if stay here I would have some familiarity, but then that increases the chances that someone from the magical community namely Voldemort, the Order of the Phoenix or the Ministry finding out where I am and possible figuring out that I am pregnant.
Plus without being able to use magic I would not be able to conceal the fact that I am pregnant. Right now all sides are content to let me go but that would change in a New York minute if they found out I was carrying Har... HIS baby." Draco paused thinking about his vernacular. The time he had spent with HIM had odd ways showing itself, however the most common way was his speak. When Draco and HIM had been planning to travel they looked up and studied different cultures and stuff in a way of not standing out. One day they had come across a book on slang, boy did they have a fun time reading that, not that they understood much of it but they keep it. Shaking his head Draco focused his head on his current task.
Staying here was too risky, they all might decide to come after me and I don't want it to make it too easy for them. So I vote for us leaving and since I am the only one voting I win."
"This brings me to number two, now that I am leaving England where shall I go? Although, the Malfoys have estates throughout the world, in order for me to approach them I have to have magic. Since I have no magic it would be impossible for me to bypass all the muggle repealing and illusion charms surrounding the properties, thus the Malfoy holdings are worthless to me. Plus I am sure the Ministry is watching all of the Malfoy's British properties and if they found out that I had defied my magical banishment by going to any of the properties the Ministry would take everything away from my father and I can't allow that."
Draco was frustrated with not being able to decide where to go, decided to move on to number three, "How am I going to have this baby safely and normally. What do I have to do during my pregnancy?" Draco had his pen posed to start writing, but his mind drew a blank, not expecting to do deal with this topic until after the war Draco had no reason for further study. All Draco knew was that he needed potions to help his body synthesize the necessary hormones and protections needed to aid his and the baby's bodies during the pregnancy. Draco had no clue how to answer that question. Then a bell went off in Draco's head as he realized that the answer might be contained in the big potion book his father had sent him while in jail. Draco pressed the call button and waited for the duty nurse.
As Draco sat there and waited a sudden thought came to him and he realized that his lack of magic might interfere with his pregnancy or cause harm to either him or the baby. Draco became very scared at the thought, "Hold on Dragon. Breathe, you have to calm down and breathe." Draco started to take slow deep breaths. Slowly inhaling then slowly exhaling. Draco began to clam and he was able to get himself under control. "Now Draco think it's been three days since they stripped you of your power, if something was going to happen to the baby, you would have already miscarried already. So if you don't stress yourself out, and can get the proper potions then everything should take care of its self." Draco knew that without the proper information this was nothing but wishful thinking, but right now he held on to it like a lifeline.
"Yes Mr. Malfoy, what seems to be the problem?" the asked nurse Sarah upon entering his room.
It took Draco a few minutes to snap out of his panic and address the nurse in front of him. "Oh, yes I was wondering where I the stuff I came in here wearing were located?"
The nurse looked at the boy and walked over to the closet and pulled out two bags one was his bag, the other appeared to be a clear plastic bag with his clothes in them. "Here they are. Is that all, I do have other sick patients on the floor."
Draco forced himself to smile and said, "Thank you, you have been a great deal of help." The nurse glared at him then left.
Draco went through his clothes first and found the invisible pouch that his father had given him. He had been worried that it had been lost after they brought him into the hospital and stripped him, there would be no way to find it without his magic. He did know whatever his father had put in there would help him to survive in his new life as a muggle. Draco put it aside after deciding to would be better to explore the contents of the bag when people were less likely to walk into his room. Turning to his backpack, Draco opened up it up and pulled out the two books within, the potion book was charmed to only revel its content to the reader if they had Malfoy blood. The herbology book was something that could be found in the muggle world, (although it wasn't since it contained a more complete and detailed description of flora and fauna than anything muggle currently had.) however, it was not charmed but explainable. Thus when the authorities went through his stuff they would not have found anything suspicious about the books.
Opening the potion book he looked up the index for potions on Wizard's pregnancy. The index indicated that the chapter on Wizard's Pregnancy stated on page 419. When Draco turned to the correct page he was surprised, thinking that he would find only a short write up on the potions needed and directions on how to brew them, what he got was a comprehensive study, analysis as well as an extensive explanation on the theory, magic and necessary conditions for the ideal Pregnancy. The chapter also told him what do after he conceived. With nothing else to do but rest and recover Draco began to read the chapter page by page. 10 hours later Draco knew that in order to sustain and give birth to a healthy child he would need a lot of different potions, such as hormones to correct his blood composition, energy boosters, immune suppressors, vitamin supplements, and one to remove any toxins the baby might create in his body over the next six months. The only problem was that most of these potions contain ingredients that were rare for even the magic world, hell some of them were regulated my the Ministry of Magic, while others were impossible to find accept in there natural environment. This would cause a major problem because he was sure that he would not find them in the muggle world.
"It seems that it seems that if I am going to have my potions I will need to harvest ingredients fresh for each one. Which means this is the solution to my problem of where to go. I need to be wherever the potions lead me." Smirking Draco began listing the ingredients he would need. Then he spent the next three hours looking them up in the herbology book to find out where they were located. At the end of his project Draco found that there were only two places were the ingredients grew, the Forbidden Forrest, in Scotland and the Emerald Forrest in Southern Ireland. The best part is that the Emerald Forrest is so pure that no dangerous dark creatures live there. Since the Forbidden Forrest was out because of its proximity to the older and the old fool Dumbledore as well as its abundance of dark creatures Draco chose the Emerald Forrest. The night's activities caught up with Draco and almost as soon as his location was decided he fell asleep.
After about 8 hours of sleep Draco awoke to an aide walking into his room to deliver his lunch, since he missed breakfast he was vanished. As Draco began to eat, he remembered that the book said he needed to eat regularly and more that he usually would, since his body needed more energy. 'Okay note to self, no more missing meals.' After eating Dr. Edwards came into the room and checked Draco over, the doctor told him that if he had no problems for the rest of the day he would be released late afternoon tomorrow. Draco was happy with the news, although he could not have asked for a more ideal place to get his bearings and make decisions he had been here to long and the longer he said, the more likely someone could find him. Draco decided to take a nap until dinner. At 4:00 PM he was awakened briefly to have his vitals checked by Nora. At 6:00 PM the aide woke Draco to serve him dinner. After dinner Nora encouraged him to get up and walk around the halls to work his joints and muscles out. Doing as she suggested he followed her on her rounds and although she acted as if it was nothing Draco saw her assessing his condition when she thought he was not paying attention. By the time he got back to room he was ready to do nothing but sleep. However, Draco had much to do before he was released. When they got back to room, Draco gave her a twenty-pound note and asked her to pick up newspapers, rental listings for Spain and Greece as well as a book of maps for Europe. Then he went off to dreamland.
The next morning Draco woke up, took a shower, dressed and waited for the aide to bring his breakfast. After eating, he moved from the bed to the chair by the window and began to read the Wizard's pregnancy chapter in his potion book. The hours trickled away Draco absorbed a lot of information. The only thing that disturbed his day was the nurse coming in to check his vital signs, using the bathroom, and meals. After dinner Nora entered his room with the newspaper and rental listing. At the end of Nora's shift she came and Draco told her he was leaving in the morning. Draco thanked her for her help after talking for a while longer she left and he went to sleep.
Draco Malfoy left the Hospital of the Blessed Angels and disappeared.