Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, on and on.
Warning: Descriptions of rape and torture, language, violence, and lots of depression and angst.
EEEEP! Harry Potter's new book comes out at midnight! I will be at a great book store that is reserving a copy for me at the big midnight release party, so we shall see if I write a new chapter soon.
Harry and Draco were sitting in the audience of the court room with the twins sitting next to Draco. It was the first day of the appeal. Sam Malfoy's case was that Draco had been lying when he said that he had been forced to do everything. His witness was of course, Adrian. What Sam hadn't counted on was the twins coming to testify along with Draco. It was no longer just Sam and Adrian versus Draco which he had thought for certain would get him out of Azkaban. Now he had to contend with the twins as well. Even so, he counting on his threats through Adrian to keep Draco off the stand or cause Draco to change his testimony. What confused Draco the most was that it was just Sam Malfoy appealing the case, the other three wizards were no where in sight. Once again, Draco was the first to testify. As Draco stood he felt his stomach twist into a thousand knots and his knees go weak. But he felt Harry reassuringly squeeze his hand as he left the bench he had been sitting on and he went to the witness box once again. Draco sat down and locked eyes with Harry in the audience.
"Mr. Draco Malfoy," said the same wizard who had questioned him once before. "I am sorry that we have to meet again under these circumstances."
"It's quite all right," said Draco taking in a deep breath. He was grateful for this one moment of sympathy. "Please, I want to get this over with."
"Understandably. Mr. Malfoy, you have described before the torture and rape that you suffered under Sam Malfoy and further more you have shown irrefutable evidence as to the torture you suffered under them. It is now Sam Malfoy's claim that you did all of these things willingly and of your own accord." The wizard didn't disguise his disgust in reading this and then looking at Sam Malfoy like one looks at proud flesh on an animal, like an unholy growth on the flesh of humanity. "Because of this, we need you to once again tell us in detail what Sam Malfoy and only Sam Malfoy did to you."
"Your Honor, I was held, tortured, and raped by Sam Malfoy and the others for six months. I cannot give you a day to day, blow by blow testimony because that would take forever and I really don't want to suffer this court through that much testimony. However, I have searched my memory and singled out certain days which I can describe in detail."
"That is acceptable. Please remember, you can only speak about what Sam Malfoy did to you, not the others."
"Begging the court's pardon but why is only Sam Malfoy appealing this case?"
"Two of the wizards who were put in Azkaban have resigned themselves to living there for the rest of their lives. The third, has lost all grip on reality." Draco shook his head for a second and almost chuckled.
"I had lived with Sam Malfoy for a month before the first incident happened. We were having a magic duel. At first it was all in good fun. Then he petrified me. I fell to the ground with my wand somewhere near by. At the time, I didn't feel unsafe. I wasn't expecting anything to happen. As I lay there, Sam picked me up and stood me against the wall of the dungeon we had been dueling in. I was facing the wall. I was starting to get uneasy, but I couldn't speak. Once the spell wore off, I asked him what were his intentions. He didn't speak. He put my hands in shackles that hung from chains on the wall. I asked him again what were his intentions. 'To show you what pleasure is,' he replied. I asked him how he proposed to do that. He then tore my clothes off. I was starting to panic as I realized what was about to happen. I told him to let me out. I told his it wasn't funny anymore." Draco paused and took a breath. He looked at Harry who wore the same expression of love and encouragement that he had worn at the previous trial. "He grabbed my pelvis and began to rape me. At the first thrust I screamed. It hurt so much. I clawed the stone wall so hard that I made my fingers bled. When I could breathe, I begged him to stop. I pleaded with him. This only egged him on further. Then I felt a sting going in a line down my back. I realized that he was cutting me with a razor or knife. He did this between thrusts saying to me 'Blades always make the pain better. It makes the pleasure better too.' I still begged him to stop even though I knew he wouldn't. I couldn't think of anything else to do, besides scream. When he was finally done, I had five long cuts going down my back from my shoulder blades to my waist. He left the dungeon and left me hanging on the wall. The twins, Crispin and Noel came down an hour later and got me down from the wall. They bandaged my wounds and put me to bed. I told them that it was my birthday. I had just turned eighteen that night." A collective mutter filtered through the court room. Harry suddenly understood why Draco had wanted a simple quiet birthday and didn't want a big romantic one.
"Do you need a break Mr. Malfoy?" asked the wizard gently.
"No, I'm fine. I would prefer to continue."
"Very well."
"On Christmas Day, Sam said he had Christmas presents for us in the dungeon. We all knew what was coming, but by this time we had all been there for at least three months. If you resisted, you were petrified and then shackled to the wall anyway. Crispin, Noel, and I were chained to the wall. Crispin and Noel were on either side of me. Sam wanted to give us our Christmas present first. He started with Crispin. As everyone can see, Crispin and Noel are identical twin brothers. What you do to one, you do to the other. When Sam started raping Crispin, both Crispin and Noel screamed on either side of me. The sound was deafening. He took a knife and slashed at Crispin's back as he raped him. When he was done with Crispin, he did the same to Noel. When he came to me, he was too tired to rape me with his penis. I thought I was going to get off easy for once. But then I realized that wasn't true at all. He raped me with his fist. Then with a broom handle. While raping me with the broom handle he cut long slices down my back with his knife. I pleaded with him again to please stop and let me out of there. Once again, it only made him more enthusiastic. He made deeper cuts in my back and I was bleeding all over the floor. Crispin and Noel also tried to get him to stop. Begging him to stop or trying to get him to turn onto them instead. But he couldn't be stopped. At some point I passed out from the blood loss. When I woke up again, I was lying in bed. Crispin and Noel had been left to take care of me." Draco's reluctance towards celebrating Christmas suddenly was explained. "The last night I was there was the worst. I was once again hung up with the twins. We were raped simultaneously, the twins by two others, I was raped by Sam. He used an enlarging spell to make his penis abnormally large. The pain was unbearable. I resolved to leave the next day. I stayed up all night, the twins helped me with my wounds. The next day while Sam and the others were still sleeping, I escaped from the manor."
"Was it difficult to escape from the manor?" asked the wizard.
"It wasn't that difficult."
"As much as these questions disgust me, I must ask them Mr. Malfoy. Why didn't you leave the manor earlier?"
"The first month I didn't see any reason to leave. I had a roof over my head and food to eat. When the abuse started, I was often locked away in rooms with the twins or left chained to a wall. After a few months they got careless and would let us sleep where we fell."
"Why didn't you leave then?"
"I didn't feel I had a choice." A quiet murmur went through the audience.
"Why not?"
"Your Honor, the facts that I am about to tell you, no living soul knows and it's hard to even think about these things so please, bear with me. I grew up in a very lovingly abusive family. Insults, beatings and the like were common place. I grew up defining love through violence. This was no different in my mind." The court room was silent. Harry's suspicions about Draco's family had finally been confirmed.
"Thank you Mr. Malfoy, you may step down now." Draco stood, walked back to the bench, and nearly collapsed next to Harry. Harry held Draco's hand and let Draco rest his head on Harry's shoulder.
Sam Malfoy spoke next. His testimony was no different from his testimony from the first trial. Then Adrian was called to the stand.
"Please tell the court in your own words what you have undergone at the hands of Sam Malfoy."
"I wouldn't call it 'undergone'," said Adrian with a smirk. Draco felt his stomach turn. "I prefer to call it, 'experienced'. I have experienced all kinds of pleasure and pain at the hands of Sam Malfoy. I was a willing participant in everything we did. But his favorite was Draco. I always knew that Draco enjoyed everything that he and Sam did."
"How did you know that?"
"Sam made him scream. I can't think of a better thank you for a good night's work." The audience silently winced. Adrian's testimony was possibly more disgusting than Sam's. The wizards judging the case could only take a couple more questions before they asked Adrian to step down. Now Crispin and Noel's testimony only served to assure the judging wizards that they had been right the first time around to put Sam Malfoy in prison. Once again, they handed down the verdict of guilty and put Sam Malfoy back in Azkaban prison.
Harry had invited the twins over to dinner at his and Draco's house to celebrate their victory over Sam Malfoy. While there, Draco's fears became reality. Hedwig came to the window in the middle of dinner and was violently pecking away at the window. She held a note in her claw that said in Dumbledore's flowing writing,
"Sam Malfoy has escaped from Azkaban. Hide now." Harry turned to tell Draco when he heard from outside the house a voice shouting,
"Come out here Draco Malfoy." Draco's eyes went wide with fear.
"No no no no no no no no no NO!" Draco knocked over his chair as he ran to the front door followed closely by Crispin and Noel. When Draco threw open the door he saw Sam Malfoy standing on the front lawn with Adrian.
"Crucio!" shouted Sam and pointed his wand at Draco. Draco couldn't move. He knew what was coming. He knew that soon he would be screaming again because of Sam. Then he saw Harry throw himself in front of Draco. Harry caught the spell meant for Draco. Harry fell back against Draco screaming. Draco tried to help him stand but Harry fell to the porch in a fetal ball.
"Damn you!" shouted Draco. Before he could reach for his wand Sam shouted the worst words ever heard.
"Avada Kedavra!" Noel stepped in front of the curse and then he fell to the porch dead. Draco heard Crispin scream. Draco pointed his wand and disarmed Sam, he ended the crucio curse, he put up a protection shield over the rest of the them, then shouted out,
"Incarcerous!" Ropes suddenly appeared and bound Sam and Adrian. "Congratulations," said Draco in a dead tone of voice, "you're going to Azkaban forever now." Officers who had been tracking Sam and Adrian from Azkaban finally arrived and took both of them into custody.
Draco, Harry, Crispin, and Noel's body were all taken to St. Mungo's Hospital. Harry was whisked away by the doctors and nurses who all assured him that since the crucio curse only lasted a few minutes that Harry should make a full recovery. Having nothing else to do he went down to the morgue to check on Crispin. He found the remaining twin sitting next to his brother's dead body.
"Crispin?" said Draco gently.
"How's Harry?"
"They say he's going to be okay," said Draco calmly.
"That's good."
"Do you need help... with anything?"
"No, Draco. I appreciate the thought, I really do. I'm going to take him back to Switzerland and bury him next to our parents. He was my brother." Crispin paused. "He would know what to say right now." Draco nodded numbly. "Go, be with Harry. He is the one who needs you now."
"Thank you my friend, for everything."
"Thank you."
A week later Draco sat next to Harry's bed in St. Mungo's. Harry had gone into a coma and now it was just a waiting game to see when he would wake up. Draco had slept next to Harry every night. While at first the doctors and nurses had protested this fact, they had eventually given up trying. No matter what they said, Draco would not leave Harry's side. People had visited, but it seemed that Harry would wake up on his own time. News had reached Harry that Sam Malfoy was to receive the Dementor's Kiss that night at midnight. Draco didn't really care. While the idea of Sam getting his soul sucked out by a Dementor did give him a certain feeling of satisfaction, he just wanted Harry to wake up. His world just didn't feel right without Harry.
Crispin had reached Switzerland with his brother's body in tow. He began digging his brother's grave next to the graves of their parents. He had now lost the one person who had literally been with him since birth. As he dug the light got dimmer, but he lit some lamps and kept digging. He felt wrong after his brother's death.
Sam Malfoy sat in his jail cell waiting for midnight.
Draco looked up at the clock and saw that it was ten minutes to midnight. He sighed and crawled up into bed with Harry. He gently held Harry close to him and kissed Harry on the forehead.
"Please come back to me soon," he whispered to Harry. "I hope you can hear me. Please come back to me. I love you Harry." Looking at the clock again it was five minutes till midnight.
Crispin silently finished burying his twin. Shoving the blade of the shovel into the earth he knelt down next to the grave. He pulled out his pocket watch and saw that it was three minutes till midnight in England. Soon Sam would be gone from their lives for good.
"I wish you were here now," said Crispin to the grave before him. "You always knew what to say when I didn't. I guess that's the advantage to having a twin. I miss you. I hope to see you again." It was midnight.
Sam Malfoy was alone as the Dementor loomed over him. Now Sam Malfoy was filled with the fear and panic that he had bestowed on others. He suddenly felt the feeling of being totally alone and unable to defend himself. Then nothing.
Draco was alone as he held Harry and wished that his lover would soon find his way back to him.
Crispin was alone as he mourned the death of his other half.
Draco and Crispin were finally free of the man who had tortured them.