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WISH CHAPTER SEVEN Third step – Fight"How the HELL did you let him get away!?" Blaise yelled and kicked one of the demons in the stomach, hard. "There were fifteen of you and one of him!!!"
"I'm sorry!" Another demon cried. "We underestimated him."
Blaise sucked in a deep breath and seethed.
Blaise had been boosted up to Commander in rank. Lucifer was not going to be happy with this news…
"Well you're going to have to find him now, aren't you?" Blaise said with a terrifying grin.
The demon beneath his boot nodded vigorously and Blaise let him up.
"Once you've found his whereabouts, report back to me. I'm going to have to deal with him myself…"
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When Harry had reached out a hand toward Draco and stroked his cheek, his eyes had closed and he fainted. Draco had caught him and carried him here.
Hermione's house.
"Harry? Say something… anything… come on. Talk to me." Draco pleaded with the angel.
Harry stared straight ahead. Unblinking and seemingly unaware of what was around him.
"What's wrong with him?" Hermione asked, her voice shaky and her eyes filled.
Ron and Hermione had gotten of the shock of Harry's wings. Though Ron was still staring at them.
"I don't know." Draco replied, he was just as worried at the brunette was.
"This is so surreal." Hermione said quietly, really, an angel in her home?
Draco tried to smile at her but found he couldn't.
"What can we do?" The frizzy-haired woman asked, eager to help in any way she could.
"I don't know what we should do," Draco answered. "What could be wrong with—"
"I'm so sorry! I didn't know! How could I? I didn't mean for it to happen!" Harry had apparently woken up from his trance, but he was still in another world...
"Harry? Harry! Stop it! It's alright!"
"I didn't mean to hurt you! I thought you'd be okay!"
"I'm okay—I"
"Shush, Draco, I don't think he's talking about us."
They looked at him; he was still staring off into space, though tears were running courses down his cheeks.
"I'm so, so sorry—" He was trembling and he wrapped his arms around himself.
He folded his wings and they disappeared.
"What's he talking about?" Ron asked, but nobody answered him.
"No—" Harry whimpered and then there was a loud crash from outside the house.
"What was that?" Hermione cried and jumped to her feet.
Ron was at the window in record time but pulled the curtain quickly over the glass plane.
"We should go—" Ron said, eyes wide. "Now."
"What is it—" Draco was going to ask but a hideously loud cackle answered for him.
"WE'VE GOT HIM!" Someone on the outside cried.
"Oh no!" Hermione shrieked and Draco pulled Harry to his feet.
"Harry? We have to go, you're coming with us—can you walk?"
Harry fainted again.
Draco cursed loudly and brought the angel up into his arms.
"Let's go." Draco hissed and the redhead and brunette raced towards the back door.
They all rushed outside and quietly made their way to the back alley, just in time to hear the front door collapsing.
"Oh," Hermione winced. "That'll cost me."
"I'll pay for it, just run!" Draco said and they did.
"Where are we going?" Ron asked, why were they running when they had nowhere to run to?
"I know a place." Draco said and hurried down another alley to the right.
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They arrived in front of a big house. It wasn't anything as luxurious as Draco's own home, but certainly of high fortune.
They climbed up the stone steps to the porch and Ron banged on the door.
"Who lives here?" Hermione asked.
"A friend." Draco replied, shifting Harry's weight in his arms.
A butler answered the door.
"Can I help you?"
"Yeah, let us in." Draco said and shoved past the old man.
"I'm sorry but—" The butler was saying but was cut off by a high shriek,
"Draco Malfoy! Get the hell out of my house!"
Draco lay Harry down on a rich velvet crimson couch and turned to face her.
"Hello Sapphire Dear..."
"Don't you Sapphire-Dear me!" The woman cried and glared holes into his head. "I don't want anything more to do with you! No one cheats on Sapphire Dele and I certainly won't take you back!"
Draco sighed and raked a hand through his hair, "I didn't come here for you to take me back, Dele. I just needed somewhere to—"
"And who are these people? This isn't a hotel!"
Hermione and Ron said nothing, though the obvious dislike of this woman was clear on their visages.
"Listen Dele, we have someone after us and we just need to keep low for an hour or two—"
"Absolutely not! I won't have—"
Draco placed his hand over her mouth, silencing her. "Dele… please."
He stared her straight in the eye and removed his hand.
She said nothing. She looked from Hermione to Ron, to Harry and then back to Draco. "Fine!" She said in an annoyed humph and the rest of them let out a breath they hadn't realized they were holding.
"What is this about?" She asked, folding her legs elegantly beneath her and remaining perfectly still as Draco told her the whole bizarre story.
She laughed.
"You really expect me to believe that?"
Draco rolled his eyes, "Maybe not but that's the best I've got."
Sapphire was about to retort when Harry sudden shot up like a bolt and stared around wildly.
Sapphire jumped and then fled from the room.
"Harry," Draco said immediately at his side. "Harry, it's ok. We're okay… they haven't found us yet."
Harry took in shaky breaths and again wrapped his arms around himself.
Hermione's face was sympathetic, but there was nothing she could think of to do.
"Watch him for a second." Draco told her and she nodded.
He left the room in search for Sapphire.
She was standing before a portrait.
"Sapphire… what are you—" He stopped short… the portrait—
It was Harry!
"Where did you get this?" He said, grabbing Sapphire by the shoulders.
She glared at him, "Let me go," He did. "It belonged to my grandmother, it was painted some hundred years again—that man you brought in—"
"It's him! I know his face! That's him!"
They both stared at it.
The painting was expertly tinted. Everything was in exact likeness of the angel. Except this man in the portrait was no angel. He looked miserable, mean, and spiteful. He was scowling at the artist and his dress was most definitely not of late.
"I'm named after my grandmother you know," Sapphire said quietly. "I was born on her birthday. When I was younger I felt as though I knew this man in this painting. Like I had remembered him from somewhere, I just couldn't remember where--- my grandmother—" She stopped and turned to Draco. "Was killed by this man."
Draco stared back at her, that couldn't be true!
It just couldn't!
"Draco!" Hermione's voice from the living brought the two back to reality and they went to the three in the other room.
"What is it?" Draco asked, sitting down on his knees next to Harry.
Harry had his eyes closed tight and he was rocking back and forth.
"Harry," Draco said softly and placed a hand on his head. "Open your eyes."
Harry did slowly but then his eyes widened in shock as he focused just over Draco's shoulder at Sapphire.
He gasped loudly and gave a loud sob.
"Sapphire!" He said, choking on tears. "Sapphire!"
Sapphire stepped backward, startled.
"It was an accident!" Harry said, he got to his feet and stepped toward Sapphire, who backed away. "I didn't mean for it to happen!" Tears were all over his face. "I didn't know that they'd hurt you! I didn't think they knew how much you meant to me."
Sapphire had a terrified expression and the others could only watch in silence.
"I left that day when Montgomery called and threatened my life and yours. I knew I had to leave!" He said, his eyes were glazed and he didn't seem to realize he had the wrong person, but the startling revelations of his past life were beginning to shine. "He told me if I didn't pay him back that he would have someone kill me. I could tell that you were afraid; I didn't want to hurt you—please believe I never would have hurt you."
Harry was so desperate upset that no one could stop him.
"But I was so afraid if I told you how I really felt, it would make the others feel I was weak… oh I was a fool. I thought by acting superior they would think me so and not perceive me as the coward I was! Please forgive me Sapphire—When I left that day I thought they would follow me—I thought that maybe I could get them away from you and even if they killed me then, I'd have known that you were safe."
Harry clutched his hand to his chest and made a gasping noise.
"I didn't know that they hadn't seen me leave! I didn't realize that they wanted you more than they wanted me! I didn't recognize that they would come after you in the night! Violate you and slash your throat!"
Hermione gave a loud gasp and Sapphire started crying.
This upset Harry even more. "They blamed it on me! They told everyone that I had done it! Raped the one I loved and then killed her in my lust!" He was sobbing now and he fell to his knees.
"I never wanted you hurt! Please forgive me! I never—I never…" He grew quieter and quieter as he wrapped his arms around himself and rocked back and forth.
Sapphire watched him as if in shock and then hesitantly she approached him.
"Don't." Draco said but she didn't listen to him.
She kneeled down in front of him and touched his forehead. He didn't move.
"Harry." She said quietly and through a tear-stained face he looked at her.
"I forgive you, Harry." She said and embraced him tightly.
Harry made a soft noise that sounded as though he was crying again and for a long time they sat there.
Draco, Hermione, and Ron said nothing, as the two held each other and rocked back and forth.
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Draco's cell phone rang and he answered it tiredly, "Yeah?"
"Draco! Are you okay?"
It was Spade.
"Yeah, great." He said without meaning and empathy.
"Good," Spade didn't notice how tired he sounded. "Look, me and Diamond did some researching and we found a very interesting book."
Draco rolled his head; he was just too tired for this.
"This book was written off as fiction but the situations is describes and the facts it states are the same as Harry's!"
Draco perked up slightly. "Yes?"
"Well, it talks about Heaven and about falling and getting rescued by a mortal. Then granting that person one wish for the favor."
"That's great! So what?"
"So I think we should track down this author and talk to him."
"Is he still around?"
"Well it was a few years back but I think our Diamond would be more than capable of finding someone related with him."
"What's the name?"
"Remus Lupin."
"Alright, find everything you can and when you do, call me back."
"Will do, Mr. Malfoy."
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