~*~
The Platinum haired boy Draco Malfoy sat in his couch reading a book when he suddenly heard an owl tapping on his window. 'What kind of an owl delivers messages at this time a night?' He thought as he made his way towards the window to let it in. When he opened the window it quickly swept in and dropped the note she held with her beak. Draco immediately recognised the snow white owl as Harrys, then he looked down at the note he had been given and he drew in a sharp breath. He knew that it was the note he had given to Harry the day before they left Hogwarts. The note was wrinkly and was almost covered in blood.
"Oh Merlin, Harry, what's happened to you?" He said out loud and then he went to get his apperation cloak who allowed the person who apperated to take someone with him or her. Hedwig flew impatience around his head the entire time indicating him to hurry up and Draco wasn't wasting any time. With a flick of his wand he apperated out of his apartment and in to the living room on Private Drive number four. Quickly he established that there was no one in the living room and as he was to go and check the kitchen he first saw the most obese man lying on the floor. He then looked up form the man to see the crumbled form of Harry Potter. Harry lay on his side in a puddle of his own blood.
"Harry!" Draco screamed and rushed to his side. Carefully he checked if Harrys was alive.
"Harry can you hear me?" He tried but got no answer from the unconscious boy.
"Harry I'm taking you out of here. I'm going to petrify you so that I won't harm you anymore and then I'm apperating us to my flat in Diagon Alley."
"Petrificus Totalus" he said and then he carefully lifted Harry of the floor and covered them both with his appertain cloak and with a pop they were out of there.
~*~
The appeared in Draco's bedroom and carefully he laid down the fragile form of Harry Potter on his bed. With a flick of his wand he disposed Harry of his cloths (not his underwear, give the boy some dignity) and began to survey the injuries. Then he ran into his living room and tossed some floo powder in his fireplace.
"Severus Snape's office at Hogwarts!" He screamed.
"Professor Snape? I know you're up! Hurry, it's important!" He screamed half panicked in the fire and seconds after that the face of Severus Snape appeared in the flames.
"Calm down boy what's the hurry, it's after 12 o'clock dammit!"
"Shut up and listen Professor, I need you to come here with a blood replacing potion, some powerful healing potions, pepper up potions and some bone mending once if you have any. Please hurry! I'll explain when you're here."
"Well give me some minutes to collect them and I will be right there."
"Thank you." Then Draco ended the firecall and ran back to Harry who still was unconscious.
"You're favourite professor is coming here Harry, I know he can help." Then he cleaned of all the blood of Harry and sat next to him and stroke his hair gently. 'What's taking him so long?' Draco thought impatient and right then he heard someone coming through the fireplace.
"Draco? Where are you?"
"I'm in here!" He shouted. Severus Snape quickly made his way into the bedroom and when he looked at the bed almost lost his breath. There laid the bruised and battered form of Harry Potter and next to him sat Draco Malfoy, with silent tears running down his face, stroking the unconscious boy's hair.
"Please help him." Draco said as he looked up at his professor. Snape quickly made his way to the boy and placed several bottles of potions and salves on the bedside table. He took on of the bottles and gave it to Draco.
"Try to make some of this down his throat, but be careful so he doesn't choke or suffocate. It's some pepper up potion." Nodding Draco took the bottle and carefully he began to drop it in Harry's mouth. Snape went in to the bathroom and took some towels and then returned to the bedroom where Harry slowly began to become conscious due to the pepper up potion he just had received.
"Harry? Can you hear me?" Draco softly said.
"Draco?" he manages to rasp out as he open his eyelids.
"Yes it's me, you're safe now. I won't let that bastard come near you again." Harry then felt something being put on his lips.
"Try to drink some of this, it will heal any eventual internal injuries." He heard the voice of his potions master say. Carefully he gulped down the foul tasting liquid and then he laid his head down again. After a few minutes he began to feel a little bit better.
"Does it hurt anywhere?" Snape asked. Slowly he raised his arm and pointed at his chest.
"Does it hurt when you breathe?" Harry nodded and Snape then took a bottle with a crystal blue liquid in it. He dabbed some of it on a towel.
"You probably have a broken rib. Dab this on every half hour for three hours and then every hour for two hours. It should be better by then."
"Anywhere else that hurts?"
"Can't move my fingers." He said pointing with his right hand on his left. Carefully Snape picked the arm up and examined his wrist.
"It's broken, you should see Madame Pomp Frey about this."
"No hospital wing." He said
"He doesn't want to go to the hospital wing, he doesn't like it there." Draco then said.
"Can't blame you." Snape muttered and then he carefully began to rub in a salve on his wrist.
"Rub this in every fifteen minutes for one hour then every half hour for three hours and then every hour for four hours. Healing a broken rib is one thing but healing a broken wrist with potions in another thing. It will hurt more and you will most probably have to wear it in a bandage for a week afterwards." Harry slowly nodded and then he fell asleep again. Snape rose and took another potion from the bedside table and motioned for Draco to follow him out in the living room.
"Draco, what have happened to him? Who did this?"
"His uncle. I don't know why but he is NOT going back there!"
"No, I think that would be for the best. His things are they left there?"
"Yes, and his uncle is petrified on the hallway floor."
"Do you have his wand here?"
"Yes."
"Keep a close eye on him and if he wakes up and are in pain dab this on the area and don't forget to rub the broken rib and his wrist."
"No sir, I won't."
"Don't give him any more pepper up potion, he's going to need his sleep. I'm going to collect his things and then I will talk to the headmaster about this whole thing."
"Okay."
"I will be back in awhile, good bye."
"Bye." Draco said as his Professor disapperated. He went back in the bedroom and sat down at Harry's side. With his wand he conjured an alarm clock set to ring every 15 minutes. Then he sat en waited and monitored the sleeping boy.
Severus Snape apperated direct to Harry's room at Privet Drive number 4 and quickly he collected the boys things and shrunk them to fit in his pocket. When he was to leave the boy's room he stepped on a lose floorboard. He bent down and carefully he felt on the floor board and then he loosened it. Under the board there laid some candy, cakes and some food, there was also a photo album and an invincibility cloak. Snape chuckled as he remembered all the times Harry and his friends had snuck out under it and expose themselves to danger. It was a wonder that Golden Boy Harry Potter had survived to destroy the Dark Lord. Quickly he shrunk the last items and went downstairs in search after Vernon Dursley. He didn't have to look that long, an obese man as Vernon Dursley was not that hard t find. Snape saw him lying on his backside at the bottom of the stairs. He went down and stood beside him, he wrinkled his nose at the alcohol stench of the man. Then he flicked his wand and muttered a spell to awaken the fat man. Vernon muttered and the he looked at the man standing beside him.
"Who are you? Where's my useless nephew?" He slurred. Snape collected a vile from his pocket and gave it to the man.
"Drink this." His cold stern voice said.
"Why should I do that, it's probably poison."
"Drink it or I will kill you right here, not that you don't deserve that." Vernon looked terrified at the black angry man who no pointed his wand at him.
"DRINK!" In two quick gulps Vernon drank the crystal clear liquid and almost direct he felt himself sober up.
"Now that you are a little more sober and hopefully can answer my very simple questions, we can have a little chat." Vernon was to terrified to answer.
"Who, who, who are you?" He managed to stammer.
"Someone you don't want to mess with, not GET UP!" As quick as the obese man could get up he rose.
"You have been in charge of Harry's upbringing if I'm not mistaken?"
"Y, y, y, y, yes."
"And you have been his legal guardian, right?"
"Y, y, yes."
"Bastard." Snape then spit out in his most evil and disgusted tone.
"I should kill you right here on the spot for what you have been doing to Harry. None deserves to be treated as you have been treating him. I may not be the friendliest human on this planet but I would never shrink so low as to beat another human being for my own pleasures." Vernon was absolutely terrified at this moment. Even if he have had anything to say it would be impossible for him to get a single word out.
"Now what to do with you, I won't kill you, Merlin knows you deserves it but I have killed enough people in my life to know that you are not worth my energy." The tip of his wand was now pressed up against one of the mans chins and he was shaking with fear. Then suddenly Snape drew away like the man had the plague and turned around to leave. Then he tuned around to face the man again.
"Scrotumis Rewax!" He said and a yellow light went from his wand to Vernon's crouch. Then he disapperated from the hall and arrived outside the wards of Hogwarts.
~*~
With long strides he made his onto Hogwarts grounds and then towards the headmaster office.
"Lemon Cola Drops." He said and the gargoyle moved. When he was to knock on the headmasters door he head Dumbledore's voice from the other side.
"Please Enter."
"So what could you want at this late hour Severus?"
"I have come with bad news Albus."
"I was suspecting this, now this can't by any chance concern Harry, can it?"
"I got a rather frantic fire call from young Malfoy this evening asking me to bring several healing potions to him immediately. I did so and there I found Potter lying unconscious on his bed. He had been beaten up rather badly and was in deep need of care. I did what I could with my potions, he refused to go to the hospital wing so he is still there resting. Draco is currently looking after him."
"Yes, yes, I believe they became friends at the end of last year."
"I was just at his muggle relatives and collected his things. I strongly recommend that you do not send him back to that place."
"I assume it was them who were behind this assault then?"
"His uncle, I found him petrified on the hall floor." Dumbledore looked at his Potion Master over his glasses with at questioning look in his eyes.
"And if I may ask, where is his uncle now, or rather how is his uncle?" he asked thoughtful.
"I presume he is still at his home. He is probably regretting what he did to Potter last night."
"Exactly how could you know that?"
"Let's just say that he will have to sit down when he goes to the bathroom for the next month or so."
"Will things be returning to the usual after that?"
"Yes, but rather painfully I would say." Dumbledore let out low muffled laugh.
"Well that would only deserve him right wouldn't it?"
"I will pay Harry and Draco a visit this evening to see how Harry would want to spend the rest of the summer."
"He will need to rest for a few days so I would recommend him to stay with Draco for awhile at least."
"Yes, I fully agree with you. Now I presume you are going to leave Harry his belongings?"
"Yes I will."
"Very well then, if there is nothing more you wish to discuss with me, feel free to use my fire place." Albus said and nodded towards the fireplace.
"Good bye then Albus."
"Good bye Severus."
And then Severus Snape was gone in swivel of green flames. When he arrived through Draco's fireplace he strode towards the bedroom where Draco sat and watched over the sleeping form of Harry Potter. Snape took out Harrys belongings, enlarged them and then he put them at the foot end of the bed.
"How is he?" He asked Draco.
"He's been sleeping almost all of the time."
"I collected everything I could find that was his and tell him that I put the things under the floorboard in his trunk."
"Did you talk to the headmaster?"
"Yes, he will be coming to visit you this evening to see how Potter is doing, but he won't have to return to the muggles."
"Good."
"Due to the fact that he doesn't want to go to the hospital wing I would strongly recommend him to stay for at least five days. He is no condition to be moved, he needs to recover completely first."
"He is free to stay as long as he wants." Just then the alarm clock rang. Draco took the tube with bone mending salve in it and carefully he began to rub it in on Harry's wrist. After that he took the rib healing potion and put some of it on a towel and began to dub the sore area. Then suddenly Harry's eyelids began to flutter and slowly he opened his eyes.
"Hey! Time to wake up now?" Draco said softly to him.
"Draco?"
"I'm here." He said as he tried to stoke some of Harry's unruly hair down. Then he carefully took his wrist.
"How does it feel?"
"Sore, but okay."
"Can you move you're fingers?" Slowly Harry's finger began to move.
"Yeah, but it hurts."
"How does you're breathing feel?"
"Better, but kind of heavy."
"Good, good." Draco said as he let his eyes sweep over the boy's bruised body. The bruises had not begun to fade yet, it would probably take two to three days before they went away completely and he was probably going to be more or less sore for two weeks. Draco felt a silent tear roll down his cheek. Harry help up his right hand and wiped the tear away.
"Don't cry."
"Must have got something in my eye." Draco joked. Harry gently stoke the other boys cheek and Draco lent in in the touch
"Go to sleep again. You need you're rest."
"So do you." Harry replied as he saw the tired look on the blonds face.
"I'm fine. Now sleep." Harry slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep almost direct. After awhile Draco stood up and went past Snape who stood in the doorway going over the scene, of what he just had seen, in his head. He then followed Draco out in the kitchen. Draco was pouring himself some coffer and drank it swiftly.
"How many cups have you been drinking?"
"I stopped counting at 10."
"When was this if I may ask?"
"Awhile ago." Draco answered.
"Potter is right, you to need you're sleep."
"I'll sleep later."
"I can watch over Potter for awhile and wake you immediately if there was any change." Snape said with genuine concern in his voice.
After the fall of Voldemort he had been much fairer towards the Slytherins, he no longer had any favourites. He was still cold and hard but not at all as cold and hard as he had been before.
"No. I'm not that tired."
"Very well then." Snape stated knowing that he would not be able to make him rest some now.
"If there is nothing you wish to ask I will be returning to my chambers then." Snape then said.
"No." Draco said as he shook his head.
"If there is anything you wish t ask or if anything might happen I will be in my chambers all day. Feel free to firecall me at any time." Then Snape went to the fireplace and tossed some floo power in it.
"Good bye Draco."
"Bye Sir."
And then Severus Snape once again left Draco's apartment. Draco went it the bedroom and sat on the bed and continued to watch over Harry. He had been lying when he had said that he wasn't that tired. Truth to be told he was glad he hadn't fell asleep standing while talking to Snape. He felt his eyelids go heavy and quickly he snapped them up. After 30 minutes of almost falling asleep he rose and walked around the bed a little, he then looked at the alarm clock and noticed that it was only 15 minutes until he was supposed to tend Harry's wounds again. Quickly he went out in the kitchen to get another cup of coffee and then he sat down by Harry's bedside again. When he had rubbed the wrist and dabbed the rib he lay down at the bed again but this time he didn't notice when his eye's closed and soon he fell in a dreamless sleep.
~*~
The Platinum haired boy Draco Malfoy sat in his couch reading a book when he suddenly heard an owl tapping on his window. 'What kind of an owl delivers messages at this time a night?' He thought as he made his way towards the window to let it in. When he opened the window it quickly swept in and dropped the note she held with her beak. Draco immediately recognised the snow white owl as Harrys, then he looked down at the note he had been given and he drew in a sharp breath. He knew that it was the note he had given to Harry the day before they left Hogwarts. The note was wrinkly and was almost covered in blood.
"Oh Merlin, Harry, what's happened to you?" He said out loud and then he went to get his apperation cloak who allowed the person who apperated to take someone with him or her. Hedwig flew impatience around his head the entire time indicating him to hurry up and Draco wasn't wasting any time. With a flick of his wand he apperated out of his apartment and in to the living room on Private Drive number four. Quickly he established that there was no one in the living room and as he was to go and check the kitchen he first saw the most obese man lying on the floor. He then looked up form the man to see the crumbled form of Harry Potter. Harry lay on his side in a puddle of his own blood.
"Harry!" Draco screamed and rushed to his side. Carefully he checked if Harrys was alive.
"Harry can you hear me?" He tried but got no answer from the unconscious boy.
"Harry I'm taking you out of here. I'm going to petrify you so that I won't harm you anymore and then I'm apperating us to my flat in Diagon Alley."
"Petrificus Totalus" he said and then he carefully lifted Harry of the floor and covered them both with his appertain cloak and with a pop they were out of there.
~*~
The appeared in Draco's bedroom and carefully he laid down the fragile form of Harry Potter on his bed. With a flick of his wand he disposed Harry of his cloths (not his underwear, give the boy some dignity) and began to survey the injuries. Then he ran into his living room and tossed some floo powder in his fireplace.
"Severus Snape's office at Hogwarts!" He screamed.
"Professor Snape? I know you're up! Hurry, it's important!" He screamed half panicked in the fire and seconds after that the face of Severus Snape appeared in the flames.
"Calm down boy what's the hurry, it's after 12 o'clock dammit!"
"Shut up and listen Professor, I need you to come here with a blood replacing potion, some powerful healing potions, pepper up potions and some bone mending once if you have any. Please hurry! I'll explain when you're here."
"Well give me some minutes to collect them and I will be right there."
"Thank you." Then Draco ended the firecall and ran back to Harry who still was unconscious.
"You're favourite professor is coming here Harry, I know he can help." Then he cleaned of all the blood of Harry and sat next to him and stroke his hair gently. 'What's taking him so long?' Draco thought impatient and right then he heard someone coming through the fireplace.
"Draco? Where are you?"
"I'm in here!" He shouted. Severus Snape quickly made his way into the bedroom and when he looked at the bed almost lost his breath. There laid the bruised and battered form of Harry Potter and next to him sat Draco Malfoy, with silent tears running down his face, stroking the unconscious boy's hair.
"Please help him." Draco said as he looked up at his professor. Snape quickly made his way to the boy and placed several bottles of potions and salves on the bedside table. He took on of the bottles and gave it to Draco.
"Try to make some of this down his throat, but be careful so he doesn't choke or suffocate. It's some pepper up potion." Nodding Draco took the bottle and carefully he began to drop it in Harry's mouth. Snape went in to the bathroom and took some towels and then returned to the bedroom where Harry slowly began to become conscious due to the pepper up potion he just had received.
"Harry? Can you hear me?" Draco softly said.
"Draco?" he manages to rasp out as he open his eyelids.
"Yes it's me, you're safe now. I won't let that bastard come near you again." Harry then felt something being put on his lips.
"Try to drink some of this, it will heal any eventual internal injuries." He heard the voice of his potions master say. Carefully he gulped down the foul tasting liquid and then he laid his head down again. After a few minutes he began to feel a little bit better.
"Does it hurt anywhere?" Snape asked. Slowly he raised his arm and pointed at his chest.
"Does it hurt when you breathe?" Harry nodded and Snape then took a bottle with a crystal blue liquid in it. He dabbed some of it on a towel.
"You probably have a broken rib. Dab this on every half hour for three hours and then every hour for two hours. It should be better by then."
"Anywhere else that hurts?"
"Can't move my fingers." He said pointing with his right hand on his left. Carefully Snape picked the arm up and examined his wrist.
"It's broken, you should see Madame Pomp Frey about this."
"No hospital wing." He said
"He doesn't want to go to the hospital wing, he doesn't like it there." Draco then said.
"Can't blame you." Snape muttered and then he carefully began to rub in a salve on his wrist.
"Rub this in every fifteen minutes for one hour then every half hour for three hours and then every hour for four hours. Healing a broken rib is one thing but healing a broken wrist with potions in another thing. It will hurt more and you will most probably have to wear it in a bandage for a week afterwards." Harry slowly nodded and then he fell asleep again. Snape rose and took another potion from the bedside table and motioned for Draco to follow him out in the living room.
"Draco, what have happened to him? Who did this?"
"His uncle. I don't know why but he is NOT going back there!"
"No, I think that would be for the best. His things are they left there?"
"Yes, and his uncle is petrified on the hallway floor."
"Do you have his wand here?"
"Yes."
"Keep a close eye on him and if he wakes up and are in pain dab this on the area and don't forget to rub the broken rib and his wrist."
"No sir, I won't."
"Don't give him any more pepper up potion, he's going to need his sleep. I'm going to collect his things and then I will talk to the headmaster about this whole thing."
"Okay."
"I will be back in awhile, good bye."
"Bye." Draco said as his Professor disapperated. He went back in the bedroom and sat down at Harry's side. With his wand he conjured an alarm clock set to ring every 15 minutes. Then he sat en waited and monitored the sleeping boy.
Severus Snape apperated direct to Harry's room at Privet Drive number 4 and quickly he collected the boys things and shrunk them to fit in his pocket. When he was to leave the boy's room he stepped on a lose floorboard. He bent down and carefully he felt on the floor board and then he loosened it. Under the board there laid some candy, cakes and some food, there was also a photo album and an invincibility cloak. Snape chuckled as he remembered all the times Harry and his friends had snuck out under it and expose themselves to danger. It was a wonder that Golden Boy Harry Potter had survived to destroy the Dark Lord. Quickly he shrunk the last items and went downstairs in search after Vernon Dursley. He didn't have to look that long, an obese man as Vernon Dursley was not that hard t find. Snape saw him lying on his backside at the bottom of the stairs. He went down and stood beside him, he wrinkled his nose at the alcohol stench of the man. Then he flicked his wand and muttered a spell to awaken the fat man. Vernon muttered and the he looked at the man standing beside him.
"Who are you? Where's my useless nephew?" He slurred. Snape collected a vile from his pocket and gave it to the man.
"Drink this." His cold stern voice said.
"Why should I do that, it's probably poison."
"Drink it or I will kill you right here, not that you don't deserve that." Vernon looked terrified at the black angry man who no pointed his wand at him.
"DRINK!" In two quick gulps Vernon drank the crystal clear liquid and almost direct he felt himself sober up.
"Now that you are a little more sober and hopefully can answer my very simple questions, we can have a little chat." Vernon was to terrified to answer.
"Who, who, who are you?" He managed to stammer.
"Someone you don't want to mess with, not GET UP!" As quick as the obese man could get up he rose.
"You have been in charge of Harry's upbringing if I'm not mistaken?"
"Y, y, y, y, yes."
"And you have been his legal guardian, right?"
"Y, y, yes."
"Bastard." Snape then spit out in his most evil and disgusted tone.
"I should kill you right here on the spot for what you have been doing to Harry. None deserves to be treated as you have been treating him. I may not be the friendliest human on this planet but I would never shrink so low as to beat another human being for my own pleasures." Vernon was absolutely terrified at this moment. Even if he have had anything to say it would be impossible for him to get a single word out.
"Now what to do with you, I won't kill you, Merlin knows you deserves it but I have killed enough people in my life to know that you are not worth my energy." The tip of his wand was now pressed up against one of the mans chins and he was shaking with fear. Then suddenly Snape drew away like the man had the plague and turned around to leave. Then he tuned around to face the man again.
"Scrotumis Rewax!" He said and a yellow light went from his wand to Vernon's crouch. Then he disapperated from the hall and arrived outside the wards of Hogwarts.
~*~
With long strides he made his onto Hogwarts grounds and then towards the headmaster office.
"Lemon Cola Drops." He said and the gargoyle moved. When he was to knock on the headmasters door he head Dumbledore's voice from the other side.
"Please Enter."
"So what could you want at this late hour Severus?"
"I have come with bad news Albus."
"I was suspecting this, now this can't by any chance concern Harry, can it?"
"I got a rather frantic fire call from young Malfoy this evening asking me to bring several healing potions to him immediately. I did so and there I found Potter lying unconscious on his bed. He had been beaten up rather badly and was in deep need of care. I did what I could with my potions, he refused to go to the hospital wing so he is still there resting. Draco is currently looking after him."
"Yes, yes, I believe they became friends at the end of last year."
"I was just at his muggle relatives and collected his things. I strongly recommend that you do not send him back to that place."
"I assume it was them who were behind this assault then?"
"His uncle, I found him petrified on the hall floor." Dumbledore looked at his Potion Master over his glasses with at questioning look in his eyes.
"And if I may ask, where is his uncle now, or rather how is his uncle?" he asked thoughtful.
"I presume he is still at his home. He is probably regretting what he did to Potter last night."
"Exactly how could you know that?"
"Let's just say that he will have to sit down when he goes to the bathroom for the next month or so."
"Will things be returning to the usual after that?"
"Yes, but rather painfully I would say." Dumbledore let out low muffled laugh.
"Well that would only deserve him right wouldn't it?"
"I will pay Harry and Draco a visit this evening to see how Harry would want to spend the rest of the summer."
"He will need to rest for a few days so I would recommend him to stay with Draco for awhile at least."
"Yes, I fully agree with you. Now I presume you are going to leave Harry his belongings?"
"Yes I will."
"Very well then, if there is nothing more you wish to discuss with me, feel free to use my fire place." Albus said and nodded towards the fireplace.
"Good bye then Albus."
"Good bye Severus."
And then Severus Snape was gone in swivel of green flames. When he arrived through Draco's fireplace he strode towards the bedroom where Draco sat and watched over the sleeping form of Harry Potter. Snape took out Harrys belongings, enlarged them and then he put them at the foot end of the bed.
"How is he?" He asked Draco.
"He's been sleeping almost all of the time."
"I collected everything I could find that was his and tell him that I put the things under the floorboard in his trunk."
"Did you talk to the headmaster?"
"Yes, he will be coming to visit you this evening to see how Potter is doing, but he won't have to return to the muggles."
"Good."
"Due to the fact that he doesn't want to go to the hospital wing I would strongly recommend him to stay for at least five days. He is no condition to be moved, he needs to recover completely first."
"He is free to stay as long as he wants." Just then the alarm clock rang. Draco took the tube with bone mending salve in it and carefully he began to rub it in on Harry's wrist. After that he took the rib healing potion and put some of it on a towel and began to dub the sore area. Then suddenly Harry's eyelids began to flutter and slowly he opened his eyes.
"Hey! Time to wake up now?" Draco said softly to him.
"Draco?"
"I'm here." He said as he tried to stoke some of Harry's unruly hair down. Then he carefully took his wrist.
"How does it feel?"
"Sore, but okay."
"Can you move you're fingers?" Slowly Harry's finger began to move.
"Yeah, but it hurts."
"How does you're breathing feel?"
"Better, but kind of heavy."
"Good, good." Draco said as he let his eyes sweep over the boy's bruised body. The bruises had not begun to fade yet, it would probably take two to three days before they went away completely and he was probably going to be more or less sore for two weeks. Draco felt a silent tear roll down his cheek. Harry help up his right hand and wiped the tear away.
"Don't cry."
"Must have got something in my eye." Draco joked. Harry gently stoke the other boys cheek and Draco lent in in the touch
"Go to sleep again. You need you're rest."
"So do you." Harry replied as he saw the tired look on the blonds face.
"I'm fine. Now sleep." Harry slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep almost direct. After awhile Draco stood up and went past Snape who stood in the doorway going over the scene, of what he just had seen, in his head. He then followed Draco out in the kitchen. Draco was pouring himself some coffer and drank it swiftly.
"How many cups have you been drinking?"
"I stopped counting at 10."
"When was this if I may ask?"
"Awhile ago." Draco answered.
"Potter is right, you to need you're sleep."
"I'll sleep later."
"I can watch over Potter for awhile and wake you immediately if there was any change." Snape said with genuine concern in his voice.
After the fall of Voldemort he had been much fairer towards the Slytherins, he no longer had any favourites. He was still cold and hard but not at all as cold and hard as he had been before.
"No. I'm not that tired."
"Very well then." Snape stated knowing that he would not be able to make him rest some now.
"If there is nothing you wish to ask I will be returning to my chambers then." Snape then said.
"No." Draco said as he shook his head.
"If there is anything you wish t ask or if anything might happen I will be in my chambers all day. Feel free to firecall me at any time." Then Snape went to the fireplace and tossed some floo power in it.
"Good bye Draco."
"Bye Sir."
And then Severus Snape once again left Draco's apartment. Draco went it the bedroom and sat on the bed and continued to watch over Harry. He had been lying when he had said that he wasn't that tired. Truth to be told he was glad he hadn't fell asleep standing while talking to Snape. He felt his eyelids go heavy and quickly he snapped them up. After 30 minutes of almost falling asleep he rose and walked around the bed a little, he then looked at the alarm clock and noticed that it was only 15 minutes until he was supposed to tend Harry's wounds again. Quickly he went out in the kitchen to get another cup of coffee and then he sat down by Harry's bedside again. When he had rubbed the wrist and dabbed the rib he lay down at the bed again but this time he didn't notice when his eye's closed and soon he fell in a dreamless sleep.
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