Escape
Chapter eleven
The survivors of the battle found them like this, the Order had won over all but many people had been lost in the fight. Hermione cradled Harry's head in her lap as she cried, she stroked his hair and the others looked on. Dumbledore hurried forward, he checked all the vital signs and smiled.
Hermione saw this and was enraged, she knew the two had been fighting before his death but to smile … it was too much for her, she exploded in a fit of rage. "How dare you, you let him die, you brought him back to die and now your smiling, how cold are you."
Dumbledore placed a reassuring hand upon her shoulder to calm her down "He is not dead, he is weak and close to death but he has not crossed over yet, we may still be able to save him. Mrs Granger, I need you to go and fetch Draco, Glory and Gavin, they must remain at the castle."
She nodded and ran off to do as she had been told to do while Harry was moved to the hospital wing. Draco mean while was playing with the twins in the hotel room, his thoughts could not leave Harry, he couldn't believe that he had let him go.
At the sound of a knock on the bedroom door he rushed to it begging that it would be Harry on the other side, he would be smiling and happy, they would kiss and everything would be alright again.
When he opened the door and saw that it as in fact Hermione on the other side he collapsed to the floor and cried, "Please tell me he's not dead."
Hermione helped him up and put him on the bed, "He's not dead." She said and a light shone from Draco's eyes, the light of hope, she saw it clearly and felt the need to explain further. "He's weak, he decapitated Voldermort but he was hit by the killing curse, Dumbledore wants you to go back to the castle, all of you."
"I can't."
"Why?"
"I made a promise to Harry."
"Will you not go and see him? I'm sure you could come back here afterwards."
"Yes, I have to see him."
So Hermione helped gather up the children and they travelled together back to Hogwarts, it was a slow drive as Hermione insisted upon driving at the speed limit (they couldn't apperate with the twins) but they finally got there. They drove right up to the great oak doors and got up, wizards and witches everywhere were burying bodies, Draco shielded the eyes of both of his children and headed inside.
At once they were the centre of attention, Remus came up to them and began to coo over Gavin. "How cute, whose are they?" he asked.
"They are Harry's and they are mine." He said and everyone looked startled at this.
"You mean to say that … you and Harry …"
"That's how babies are made." Draco said irritably looking around or the headmaster.
"You came here to see him didn't you?"
"Your deduction skills amaze me, why would I be here otherwise?"
"He's not here, we had to transfer him to St Mungo's, the injuries he sustained were too much for Poppy to handle."
"Can you arrange a port key to take us there?"
"Can't you apperate?"
"With two children in tow?"
"Right, I'll arrange one now."
Draco was soon at Harry's side, being told exactly what was going on by one of the medi-witches in charge of looking after Harry. "There is a possibility that he'll never wake up, the longer that he stays in his coma the less likely it is that he'll wake up."
"But there is a chance."
"There is always a chance, however small."
"How big a chance does he have?"
"Not very big I'm afraid, there is a fifteen percent chance that he'll wake up, his body might struggle to recover from two hits of the killing curse, but Harry is strong and he's fighting."
"Can we see him?"
"Are these children his?"
"Yes, his and mine so can we see him?"
"Of course"
The room that Harry had been put in had been painted a cheery shade of yellow, it did nothing to improve Draco's mood as he entered very slowly. He held the hands of both Glory and Gavin and walked at their slow paces. He hated the idea that they were going to see their mother like this but he had to see Harry and he wouldn't let them out of his sight.
He sat on the edge of the bed with the twins next to him. He leant forward and whispered ever so softly, "I'll keep my promise and I'll be waiting for you when you wake up, we'll have the life that you've always wanted and we'll have it together."
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