'So you…broke him out?' Adam asked for the fifth time.
'YES Adam, we broke him out. You know why so don't ask.' Hermione sighed.
'But still…your criminals!'
Jordan stared at his father, 'we're crimimals? What's that?'
Everyone ignored him. The Theodore household was very quite, a depressing feeling hung over them. Harry was in deep discussion with Draco, filling him in on the story.
'What's America like?' Draco asked suddenly.
Harry, who was in the middle of the ransom note description, was caught off guard. 'Er, it was fine, you know, hot and stuff…'
'It was hot?'
'Yeah, their sun's stronger than ours.' Harry joked.
Draco didn't seem to get the joke. 'They have a better sun than us? That's unfair, let's steal their sun.'
'One crime at a time, Malfoy.' Hermione said glumly. She glanced at her watch. 'Jordan, time for bed.'
'Nooooooooooooooooooo!' Jordan cried dramatically. After a few minutes persuading, Jordan could be heard trudging upstairs.
Draco looked around nervously. 'I'm hungry.'
Harry felt his stomach, 'Yeah, me too, come on.'
Draco followed Harry into the kitchen. Harry made sure to close the door securely before turning to the blonde.
'I want you to be honest, Malfoy,' He said, sounding very tired.
'Ok.' Draco said seriously, 'I have never liked you, probably because of your glasses.'
Harry gave him a confused look.
'You told me to be honest.'
Harry sighed. 'I was meaning be honest in our upcoming conversation.'
'Oh? And what's the conversation about?'
'It's about how Jordan was able to see your father's gravestone during a nightmare. He could also see you. How?'
Draco didn't answer right away. Slowly he said, 'Hermione was right…security is terrible at the hospital. Do you know where my father's grave is?'
'No…' Harry answered.
'It is where all deceased Malfoy's are, in the Malfoy Cemetery outside my mansion, or should I say, the mansion which should be mine.' Draco said bitterly. His eyes seemed to have darkened. 'Those traitors stole it from me-'
'Traitors?' Harry asked quickly, 'Zabini and Nott?'
'Yes!' Draco snarled, he turned towards the window and grasped the work top tightly. 'They lied to me, stole from me and put me in a place I didn't want to be!'
Harry cast a silencing spell around the room so Draco wouldn't wake up Jordan. Slowly and cautiously, Harry approached Draco and whispered 'what did they say when they lied to you?'
He had hoped his quiet tone would make Draco lower his voice as well. It did. 'They said they were my friends…they promised I would keep my inheritance…they said they would look after me…' Next, he shocked Harry by bending down slightly and cried softly into his hands. Harry froze. He knew he looked stupid. His ex-school enemy was crying and he was standing not a metre away doing nothing. Awkwardly he patted Draco on the back. He was eager for more information. He wanted to know what Nott and Zabini promised and why they said they would look after Draco.
Harry's eyes glanced at the window and saw his reflection. The reflection also showed the kitchen door open. Hermione had walked in and froze at the sight of Draco crying, just as Harry did. Harry turned his head to her. Hermione gave him the thumbs up as if to say 'I see you're handling this, well done, I'll leave you to it' and slowly backed out the room. Harry gave her a furious look as the door closed.
'Draco?' Harry whispered, turning his attention back to the sobbing boy. Draco refused to look at him and gripped the worktop tighter. 'Draco, do you want to say goodnight to Jordan? He might not be asleep yet and we can continue this discussion later, ok?'
At the mention of Jordan's name, Draco whipped round and quickly wiped away his tears. He sniffed and nodded.
Harry led him upstairs to Jordan's room. Luckily, Jordan was still up. He was found in his bedroom playing with dinosaurs (which were charmed to move).
'Hey there!' Harry said as they entered, 'just up to say goodnight,'
Jordan grinned at them. 'Ok, want to play with me? we can play dinosaurs, car racing or with action men!'
'Action men sound cool!' Draco said.
'No,' Harry replied sternly. 'We're up to say goodnight, that's it, you can play tomorrow.' He felt child like eyes beg him to reconsider. 'Draco stop it.'
After several minutes of begging from two annoying blonde males, Harry was forced to leave Jordan and Draco to play with action men.
'We must save Lady Barbie from her fate of being eaten alive by soft birds,
Jordan cried, waving a teddy parrot above his head.
'What about Sir Homer Simpson and the rings of cake?' Draco asked, getting into character.
'Sadly we must leave him behind, perhaps he'll eat his doughnuty fiends.'
Harry closed the door and retreated down stairs. To his surprise he found Hermione and Adam in the kitchen packing food into bags.
'What ARE you doing?' Harry asked.
Hermione gave him a sad, tired look. 'Harry, we need to get away from here. Adam and I both agree. As soon as word gets out about Malfoy's disappearance the police are going to put two and two together and are going to be ramming at our door. We have to be gone by tomorrow afternoon so we have to pack for our leave in the morning.'
Harry almost hit himself for not thinking of that before. 'But where will we go?'
'We've discussed that,' Adam sighed, 'my old school mate has an apartment in central London that we can stay in. we won't be traced there.'
'Oh…I'll get my stuff together, then,' Harry said, leaving. 'I'll get Jordan's things as well.
'Thank you Harry!' Hermione called.
By midnight everyone in the Theodore household had packed and was ready. Seeing this, Hermione decided to leave early. Adam and a very confused but happy Draco put everything in the car. Hermione rushed around the house to double check they had everything they needed. Harry held a sleeping Jordan in his arms. He felt guilty, looking at the young boy. 'So innocent…'
'What's innocent?' said a voice behind him. He turned to Draco.
'Nothing. Just Jordan.' Harry stuttered, receiving a funny look from the blonde.
'Hey, I'm innocent!'
'Yeah right,' Harry rolled his eyes.
'I am!'
'SHHH!' Hermione cried. She pointed them to the car as if telling them to get in. They did so. Harry got squished in the middle between Jordan and Draco. The car was rather small. Adam adjusted the mirrors in the driver seat and Hermione sat in the passenger seat staring sadly at the house. Harry squeezed her shoulder in a comforting way.
They drove for about two hours. Hermione was asleep with Adam sipping from a flask of coffee he had brought to keep him awake. Jordan stretched out while he slept, so now Harry had to deal with little legs on his lap. Draco stared out the window into the starry night, smiling.
'What is it?' Harry asked quietly.
Draco looked at him, for the first time in a friendly way. 'I missed my freedom…the stars…I miss them…I may not have said it…but I'm grateful you let me feel that again, you and the mud-Hermione…' He turned back to the window.
Harry was reminded of Sirius. True, Draco was the most annoying, self obsessed little brat known to human kind, but no-one deserves to be locked up for something they didn't do. Sirius's face appeared in Harry's mind. Harry felt something heavy at the back of his throat. Sirius died because of Harry's misjudgement. Harry made a silent promise unknown to Draco. I promise I won't let them get you. I promise you will never feel trapped or locked up again.
Hermione was awoken by Adam in the early hours of the morning. She first noted that the car had stopped and outside was pitch black.
'Honey? Can you take over?' Adam asked tiredly, 'I found myself nearly asleep back there, I had to stop.'
Hermione nodded, yawning. She got out the car and switched sides with Adam. Putting her seatbelt on, she looked back at the three in the back. 'Aw, Adam look!'
Adam, with beady eyes, looked round. 'Huh? Yeah…'He yawned, 'Cute.'
Harry, Draco and Jordan were all asleep. Harry's head was leaning back, Jordan and Draco's head was leaning on his shoulders. Draco was sucking his thumb.
They stayed like that till the car pulled up at a set of apartments in London. Hermione went to wake them up but after sharing a glance at her husband she smiled and locked the car. She and Adam entered the apartment together leaving the three to sleep.
AN I'm so sorry it took me this long to update and I know this is a crap chapter but I'm moving so there's a lot to do. I'll try and update more, I promise!
