A/N-- Oh I'm so sorry for taking so long to write this! A whole bunch of things happened in my life at what seemed like all at once and I just couldn't find the mental capacity to write anything...but I've worked through my problems and wrote this! I hope you like it and thanks to my readers and reviewers for your kind words and patience with me.

"Father!" Draco cried happily, running over and flinging himself into his father's arms. Lucius grinned and hugged his son back. For a few moments of bliss, they stayed embraced, feeling as though nothing could upset the few moments of happiness. Draco felt as though he were a child in his father's arms again, and found he didn't quite care for it was the first time in weeks he had felt completely safe. Lucius too felt safer than he had, and more importantly, happy that his son was safe. Nothing else seemed to matter...until he saw Severus's black eyes boring into him. He frowned over at the dark haired man questioningly.

"Oh Severus what are you doing here?" He asked as he reluctantly dropped his arms from around his son and turned towards his best friend. He wasn't quite willing to move away from his son however, and felt as though if he even moved an inch he'd never be able to touch him again. Severus blinked once, staring at Lucius with disbelief and confusion.

"I should be asking YOU the same thing. Then again I am sure of the answer you'd give...But...I came here for the same reason you did I suppose...to retrieve Draco. I suppose you already know that Narcissa is planning on making him a deatheater very soon because of the visit he paid to you...so I of course am here to take him away from her. You're not the only one who cares for Draco's wellbeing. In case you've forgotten I AM his godfather." He said as calmly as possible, although irritation rising up within his all too lean chest.

Lucius's eyes had widened at the mention of his son's visit to him, wondering whether Draco had told him of...their kiss or not. But he highly doubted it since Severus wasn't acting anything but a bit surprised...he imagined the reaction Severus would give him would have been much more...emotional if Draco had told him.

"I know that Severus and I didn't doubt for a moment that you'd let Draco stray into danger. But in case YOU'VE forgotten, he's my son and I need to make sure he's safe for myself. Besides it'd be horrible to have you be caught by the dark lord as a spy...what would any of us do then?" Lucius replied, not meaning for it to sound harsh but knowing it may have. He wasn't thinking straight anyhow, not with having been in Azkaban, having feelings between his son and him come out and the chaos of the prison break.

Severus sighed, knowing Lucius was right but still felt a bit put off. After all HE had been the one to help Lucius with his plan to escape. Hadn't that had been a risk within itself? He thought back for a moment on all the times he had put his neck on the line for Lucius simply because the older man had asked him. And he was lucky at all to receive thanks for his deeds. He couldn't help but feel he was a servant to Lucius and that the only times he was allowed to be put in great risk was when Lucius felt it would be beneficial for himself but of course would never tell him that.

"Yes Lucius...you're right of course. I didn't know you'd be escaping tonight however until I talked to Draco mere moments ago. I'd wish by now you'd know that I am intelligent and cunning enough to avoid being caught." He told the platinum haired man standing across from him, anger flaring up in his pitch black eyes.

Draco glanced at both of his guardians, feeling a little confused at their bickering. Something was definitely going on between them that wasn't being spoken out loud. It wasn't too hard to figure out what part of it was either from Severus's last statement. Severus felt as though his father didn't respect him for his abilities. But he couldn't help but wonder as Severus looked at his father with black, guarded eyes that there was something else of a different matter entirely going on. 'But this isn't the time to wonder about any of that.' Draco thought to himself. He cleared his throat.

"Sorry to interrupt...but I think we should get out of here before mother wakes up or we'll ALL be caught as traitors to the dark lord." He told them both, standing up. "Thank you both for coming to help me... I promise next time not to be so very weak. Father I assume you have a plan..." Lucius looked at his son and smiled a little, feeling a little foolish for fighting at a time when time was of the utmost urgency. A few weeks of Azkaban made him a little dull mentally...that would be fixed soon enough though.

"Ah yes of course. You and I will be going somewhere safe. And don't worry I already have the place chosen. " He told his son reassuringly, ruffling his hair, causing a unintentional and embarrassing blush from Draco. Severus watched them for a few moments, noting the blush again. As he looked at them, he saw father and son side by side...their differences and similarities melting together as their smiles met. He also saw how happy they seemed to look together...almost as if...almost as if...He spoke up after a few moments of watching them.

"Well...I see you have everything set and planned for now. So... I will be taking my leave now." He stated, heading for the door. Lucius grabbed Severus's shoulder harshly, unable to simply let the man walk out without an explanation for his actions. Or, at the very least, without a fight with him FOR an explanation.

"Why are you leaving?" He asked. He could tell something was wrong with his friend...but when something was wrong with Severus...it was always almost impossible to find out what was wrong. He never spoke of his emotional troubles...to anyone. Not to him or not to Dumbledore. Lucius wondered sometimes if Severus himself ever even knew what was wrong...or whether or not the reason Severus didn't tell anyone was because Lucius himself was part of Severus's problems.

"Nothing is wrong Lucius. I just have to start preparing for the upcoming death eater initiations." He told Lucius nonchalantly, wrenching his shoulder away from the others grip. He had to get out of that room and he had to do it at that moment. He felt as though he had suddenly regained his claustrophobia, although that problem had gone away years ago.

Draco looked in concern over at his godfather. It was very rarely that he ever saw the man like this and the times he had seen him acting strange had been after a death eaters meeting. But of course his father usually became irritable after those too. The way Severus was acting...so out of the blue upset...was just...not like Severus. "But...Sev...I" Draco began to say, but was cut off.

"I'll get your appearance changing potions to you tomorrow morning...So don't worry about that. Well until then..." He said, heading out the door quietly and quickly. Draco was about to run after him, but Lucius held him back, placing a hand gently on his chest. Draco looked questioningly up to him

"Shouldn't we stop him father?" He asked, eyes still watching the door, body still poised to go after him. Lucius however simply shook his head.

"Let him go son... when he gets in one of these moods, it's best to let him be. We'll talk to him tomorrow." Lucius told Draco. Draco sighed and watched the empty doorframe, a feeling of frustration creeping through his body. He wasn't even going to ask Severus about the damn potions. Lucius held the boy closer, sensing his frustration. He kissed his son lightly on the cheek, causing another blush to creep up on Draco's pale face.

"Father..." Draco said softly, turning to face the man. Lucius smiled a little at him, rubbing his back softly, still holding him tightly in his arms. "What do you say we head to our new home before your mother wakes up? We'll talk more there." With that promise, Lucius led Draco outside the Manor and helped him apparate to the Summer home by the lake.

Severus managed to get to the outside of the Manor and apparate to his own house without waking Narcissa. He sat down on a chair in his grandiose, but bare kitchen, feeling strangely unnerved. It wasn't like him to lose his cool in front of people, not even to those who regarded him as their friend. He sat down warily on a kitchen chair, feeling a tired that no man of 35 should be feeling. A tired of absolute defeat and a strange emotion he couldn't quite place. It felt almost like jealousy... the kind of feeling he used to get when he was last picked for Quidditch or when Lucius had blown him off for something or someone else back in school.

"Why am I feeling this way?" He said softly. He didn't know why...but for some reason the scene of father and son looking so happy together...well it just made him feel out of place. He knew that it was foolish of him and that Lucius and Draco considered him a part of their family. He knew it was irrational of him to feel frustrated when Lucius hadn't even bothered to thank him for trying to save Draco and for putting his own neck on the line to help him escape. But if it was so irrational...so stupid of him...why did he feel so terrible?

"Merlin... What's happening to me? I haven't felt so horrible... since...since..." Since he had been rejected by Lucius back when he was younger. Well it hadn't exactly been rejection...It had been naiveté on his part. He had been the one that was so naively blind that he hadn't saw that Lucius had been using him...not that he blamed Lucius for it at all. He actually felt it was quite pathetic of himself that he didn't realize that Lucius didn't love him back until he stopped using him.

"Dammit...just stop Severus...you're an adult now. There are many more important issues than your uncomfortable feelings." He said to himself and stood, going to work on those potions. Making his way to his lab, he tried desperately to throw of the feelings of uselessness he was so strongly feeling within himself. He shook his head harshly as he reached the lab.

'They need me to make these potions...they need me!' He thought to himself as he took a deep breath and walked into the large potion lab that had once been his father's room. He was still important to them, even if was just because he could make them potions. And that's all he really needed. Really...

A/N Hope you enjoyed that chapter...I'm gonna be working on the other one today and will hopefully finish in a bit and it will be up by this afternoon or night. Thanks again for all your patience...I have everything planned out for this fic...all I have to do is write it now. I still have Severus with Lucius and Draco(since that's the pairing...er...threeing?...threesome...there...that's the word.) I have all planned out for and have already began writing for.