A Father's Love
Chapter 8: Green Glow
~~***~~ December 26th - Year Four~~***~~
Harry woke in Draco's arms and remembered the night before, smiling he slowly made his way out of the bed and took a warmed shower before changing and heading down to the dungeons. While Christmas day was spent in the company of his two friends and both parental figures, the day after was reserved for Severus and Harry alone. This year, Sev had promised to take Harry to London for lunch after they went for a fly around the Hogwarts grounds. Harry had extra clothes in his room in the dungeons consisting of various muggle and wizard outfits. When Harry reached the door he could hear Remy's deep scratchy voice and his father's more smooth but still stern sounding voice already up and apparently arguing.
"What if something happens? What will you do then? You will be in Muggle London!! For Merlin's sake Severus Snape it isn't safe!!"
"There you are wrong. Incase you hadn't forgotten, we will be entirely safe. There is nothing to worry about the Ministry…."
"The Ministry is full of idiots! Just last month, Sirius died there! They killed him because they can't even catch Peter and you think MUGGLE London is safe! Are you DAFT or just completely BLOODY STUPID??"
Harry gave the password and stepped into the room before he heard anymore. "Morning." He said brightly pretending he hadn't heard anything. "Ready for the morning flight?" Pasting a smile on so he could get out of the company of the angry fight he had brought to a halt. Severus smiled at the young man half dreading the outing and half relieved for his early arrival.
"Just gonna put a warming spell on your robe and then we should be off." Severus continued smiling as he preformed the charm but the light in his eyes was fading, as the outing grew impossible to get out of. Sev wanted so much to make up for the first eleven years of the boys life, he could not tell the boy no even when it was safer to do so. But Severus was letting Remus get to him. It was perfectly safe to go to London. Remus was being paranoid. IF Remus had his way, he would never be allowed to leave Hogwarts, never see Snape manor again. Never see adults besides his fellow professors. No, Severus decided, He and Harry would be safe. When they came back to the room to change into muggle clothing after their flight, Remus was not to be found and Severus only assumed he had joined the rest of the castle for lunch.
Harry was swept up by the light and sounds of a fresh snow on a busy London street. He had not been to London that he could remember. Severus pointed out various pubs and alleyways and pointed out some places only wizards could see. Finally when they reached the restaurant, Harry was ready to eat, they ordered and Harry ate hungrily he had been so happy that morning, that he had forgotten to eat breakfast and while he had some of George and Fred's sweets, he could not trust them to not make him ill without Ron's advise.
"How was your Christmas?" Severus asked.
"The best I have had so far." Was Harry's cheerful reply.
"And what made it the best?"
Harry blushed a little. "Well I… Draco and I kinda are gonna go out on a date."
"Really now? Well don't be foolish and have fun, but not too much you understand me?" Sev gave his son a stern look.
"Thank you dad!" Harry said excitedly. "I promise not to get into any trouble. I'll be back I need to use the lu."
"What did you want for dessert again?"
"The Chocolate Truffles." Harry said before leaving the table. Harry did not reach the bathroom he was stopped by a man in fine clothing with hair the same shade of blond as Draco's.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here? We have the Famous Harry Potter do we not?" The man smiled his lips curling upwards in devilish delight at finding that the youth had the same skinny figure of his father at the age of fourteen. Harry turned to find another way but the large blond man grabbed his arm.
"DAD!!" Harry screamed. Severus looked up and froze as he saw Lucius Malfoy handling his son. A waiter perhaps in his mid forties tried to approach the man and boy but was grabbed by another wizard one guarding Lucius.
"Let my son go." Severus said standing matching Lucius's glare.
"See I do not think that is fair. You took my son, even made it impossible for me to get him back, and now that I have yours, I do not think I will be giving him back." Lucius used his free, gloved hand to pull out a dagger from his robes and pulling Harry to his body placed the knife cleanly against the vain in the boy's neck. "I only wanted my son and you took him away from me. I am going to kill your son, here right now in front of all these people. He's going to die slowly and painfully as this dagger is poisoned and not even you can concoct the potion to cure him in time. HE will die in your arms blood running from his body barely breathing." Harry began to whimper as Lucius brought the tension of the knife to make the slightest cut into his skin. Harry felt a tingling as if the dagger really was poisoned. He cried out and his arm jerked involuntarily.
"LET HIM GO!!" Severus bellowed as several people fled the restaurant to seek more sane places to spend the afternoon.
"NO!! YOU TOOK WHAT WAS MINE TO HAVE AND TO KEEP AND NOW I AM TAKING THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS!!! YOUR SON WILL DIE!!" Lucius voice had never been this angry or vengeful he pulled the dagger deeper into the boys body.
"you. are. the. worst. man. i. know." Harry choked out making the blade cut him a little more with each word. Then he spoke no more, his body seemed to slump a little but the dark green aura from four years ago returned to the boy's body. Lucius screamed in pain, his fist unclenched leaving it to hang a minute in Harry's neck before clanking to the floor. The metallic blade covered in blood that was turning a sickly shade of yellow as it mixed with the poison on the blade. Lucius's screams continued as he still clutched Harry's arm. The aura spread to the men closest to the pair. They too screamed with the pain that Harry was emitting. Severus could only watch as his son looked weaker and weaker, the Aura had almost reached him but he would not run from the pain he felt before. Moving in as close as he could, he tried to reach Harry but he was soon down on his knees in pain with all the other wizards. As suddenly as it had started, the aura faded leaving boy and man alike to collapse on the floor.
Severus rushed to Harry, he faced downwards Sev turned him over and his neck was completely clean, there was not the slightest scar or trace of blood on the boy only the un-sounded screams of pain that Harry had not uttered a single sound after he had spoken. Sev feeling confident that Harry was fine, checked on Lucius, the man was dead, stiff as stone and already cold. Sev gathered Harry and apperated out of the restaurant leaving the damage control for the ministry.