A big thank you to the people who are still reading! and yes it is coming to an end. Eventually. It will end! Even if I started this story 4 years ago.
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It was quick for Harry and Draco to gather and shrink everything they had. truthfully, draco hadn't actually had anythin to pack. /This was a first.../ he thought sarcastically/me borrowing Harry's clothes/
Harry had gone down to slytherin house the day after him and draco had talked. Things were now settled with ethan and he agread to babysit the kittens, saying that he was entertained by their tormentting of crabbe and goyle. /Although, they might be cats by the time Draco actually gets them.../ Harry thought. /I just hope he likes cats/
The hardest part, aside from leaving, was Padma. What to do with her? Harry thought to change her shape, but transfiguration was never his or Draco's strong point and any power he used from the room would be gone after they left it.
"We'll silence and bind her, Harry," Draco suggested. "She can be levitated under your cloak. that way no one will be suspicious... As long as no one runs into her."
"That may work." Harry nodded, before willing the room to remove the walls set up around the girl. Harry instantly grimaced at the sight. Holding his nose while she glared at him, he cast a cleaning charm. With everything that had been going on he had honestly mostly forgotten about her, even if it had only been a couple of days. Draco probably didn't really care, after everything she had put them through.
Draco put a hand on his lover's shoulder when he the guilty look on his face. "Harry, you shouldn't feel sorry that she's soiled herself for two days. She's humiliated, but remember she killed my cousin. A little humiliation is not even close to what she deserves. Since, I doubt that your "in-law" really feels up to killing anyone, at the moment, and It's my right to see her put in Azkaban when this is all over. I wouldn't be too upset if she is sent to Mungo's, though, if you really feel prision is to much for her. I doubt that they could prove her sane. Besides, if she is declared sane then she would have no choice but the Kiss." Draco tried to console him.
"No, you're right. Padma should go to Azkaban." Then Harry stopped to think. "Do you think everything will be fine for us, after the war? I'm still a deatheater, Draco. Many people are aware of that and would see me in Azkaban. I'm litterally hanging on to Dumbledore last strand of protection. I don't regret being with Tom, never. But, I want there to be a life for me after this."
Draco knew exactly what Harry meant. at the moment both their lives were in shambles and it would be hard to pick back up the peices. "It'll happen somehow. What happened to the Gryffindor I used to know, spouting all that 'good always concurs evil' crap?" Draco tried to lighted to mood, but It only worked somewhat.
grinning slightly, harry pulled draco close before kissing him once on the lips. "You know damn well I was never really a Gryffindor, Draco. if I can be considered one, than i'm a bad one at that. look at me, running away from my enemy when he's only a few minutes walk away. and my lover and my adoptive father are both Slytherins, at that. yes, i'm such a naughty Gryffindor..." harry drawled, arching an eyebrow when Draco just stared at him for a moment.
"We need to get you out of here, Harry. It's starting to affect you," He said simply.
"I know."
"Mhh!" They turned back and remembered Padma.
"We're not going to untie you, Patil, so you can be quiet now." Harry just rested his chin on Draco's shoulder, shrugging when she glared harder.
"Maybe we should leave while it's still night, Harry. then we can be done with her sooner and avoid the students."
Harry gathered his bags into his pockets and with that they left safty of the room.
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the halways were strangly quiet, even for night. Filch was nowhere to be found and Harry guessed that Mrs. Norris was still getting over her pregnancy. Peeves and all the other ghost was absent as well.
Maybe this should have been their first warning. But they continued down the corridor, with an invisible Padma close behind.
It was Draco who noticed something wrong first.
"Harry, do you smell something?" He stopped to sniff the air, which was filled with a slight acidic odor.
"Now that you say it..." Harry was distracted when his vision began to grow foggy. He blinked to try and clear his vision, but it didn't help in the slightest.
"Harry!" Draco tried to scream out, but his air was suddenly cut off. he noticed harry gasping for air at the same time. His lungs refused to open. Draco's eyes began to burn as tears streamed down his face; his lungs began to burn as well from the lack of air going into them. He vaguly noticed when Padma came crashing down, but what frightened him was when he saw, through the fog, that Harry was unconcious as well. the other boy wasn't moving at all and he vaguly felt himself fall the floor across from him.
He felt, more than heard, footsteps nearing them. desperatly draco wanted to reach out for harry. he just needed to cover him with the cloak, or hold him, or something! He couldn't let this happen... But the steps kept coming closer until Draco was able to make out the outline of the persons robes.
"Wonderful! Simply... wonderful, those muggles," Draco heard before blackness took over. /...bastard.../
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