Chapter 11: Disappearance
It had been a week since Chastity had given birth to Exton, they were both doing remarkably better, but Chastity was still confined to bed in the Infirmary. She was still on an IV and medication due to almost dieing, she was a lot worse then Exton who, though had to be fed through an IV, was able to be taken off of the heart monitor. "Okay Dragon, I'll walk you through this, your going to place your wand five inches from the wound and mutter levoare acercriscre. It's the pain reliever spell, very good, now pick up that needle and thread. It's too deep to use magic right now, so you'll pinch the skin together and it's like sowing, the thingI taught you it last summer, remember?" Dragon nodded, afraid that if he said or broke his consentration something bad would go on, he carefully sowed up the cut and tied it off. "You're doing great Dragon, now you can use the regular healing charm to heal what it can."
"Chastity Michelle Snape, you are suppose to be on bed rest. That was the deal, the Healer and Medi-witches left because you would get bed rest."
"This is a bed." Chastity pointed to the hospital bed she was laying in. "This is me in the bed." She pointed to herself. "This is me resting in the bed." Chastity ran her hands in the air up and down her lying body.
"You resting does not mean you teaching." Snape said, walking over and sitting in the chair next to Chastity.
"Look Severus, I am trying my best to remain calm right now. At any second my son could die, his organs could stop working, his brain could shut down and he could just die. At any moment, my lungs could stop working again, my womb could come un-stappled, and I could bleed out and die, or worse case scenario, my body just decides to reject the blood they gave me during the transfusion. I am trying to remain calm, I am trying to keep my mind off of all of it, and I'm sorry if being hooked up to heart monitors, IV's, medication, and a feeding tube so I can eat doesn't help with the distraction. My three month old premature son is more stable then I am right now, so excuse me if walking my cousin through a simple suture procedure helps alleviate some of the stress. Surgeons are control freaks. With a scalpel in our hands,we feel unstoppable. There's no fear, there's no pain. You're ten-feet tall and bulletproof. I'm a surgeon okay Severus, this is how I deal with stress, it's why I took up the position." Chastity said, hitting Severus on the chest before breaking down in tears. "I could die, and never be able to see my sons grow up, never again be with you. I love you, and I could lose you at any moment." Dragon finished as quickly as he could before ushering everyone out of the Infirmary so Severus and Chastity could be alone. Severus wrapped his arms around Chastity as best he could and hugged her.
"Chast, I love you too, but your a fighter and you know that. You will over come this, you will get better. I am not going to lose my wife so soon, I just found you and I refuse to give you up without a fight. If doing this stuff helps you then I'm okay with that, but you should have told me this at the begining. I would have understood." Severus was rubbing Chastity's back trying to comfort her. Chastity placed both her hands softly on the side of Severus' head kissing him softly before lying back in bed and falling asleep. Severus got up and walked across the room to his son. "You too, you're a fighter, and you need to fight. Not for me, but for your mother, she's worried sick about you and every little thing is setting her off because of it. Even if it's the smallest thing one of your organs becomes strong, anything like that is good enough to stop her from worrying. We love you Exton, your brother loves you, and we need you to fight just a little bit longer." Severus kissed his fingers before sliding them through the holes in the side of the case and placing them on Exton's forehead.
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"Alright class, I understand how hectic your first week back has been so far that's why we are going to brew a very simple potion. Open your books to page ten, it should be the first page after the introduction." Draco said, sitting on his desk. He decided that he didn't want to be the strick, stick up the arse, teacher he was last year. He wanted to have fun and he wanted his students to have fun learning potions. He figured that it would help the information stick in their heads better. "We'll be working in pairs, those pairs you get to chose yourself. One of you will gather the ingrediants, while the other measures and cuts them. After that, one of you will read the directions and keep time, while the second stirs. Who does what job is completely up to you, I will be walking around the classroom to help you and answer any questions you might have." Draco was walking around, checking the progress of random students.
"Hi, will you be my lab partner?" William a Ravenclaw asked the boy sitting behind him.
"Sure, I'm-"
"Brad Pittsir, yeah I heard you introduce yourself to Professor Sprout earlier. If you want to collect the ingrediants, I'll set everything and I swear after that I'll do all the book work."
"How about I'll collected the ingrediants and stir, if you cut and keep the time?" Brad said, going to get the ingrediants.
"Dragon, you-no that doesn't, we can't, will you, GET YOUR HAND OFF THAT!" Mat shouted, jumping out of his seat.
"Mr. Malfoy, will you please refrain from groping your fiance under the table before I have to split you two up into different groups." Draco said, coming up and hitting his son upside the head as he had once seen Snape do to Harry and Ron.
"I wasn't, I was getting about to cut the wrong ingrediant." Dragon said, picking up the jar infront of him.
"Oh like I'm suppose to believe that?"
"Had I added this into the potion before it was time, it would have created a time traveling potion. The effects of which we have yet to learn, and as of right now are currently under investigation at the Ministry of Magic due to heavy and dangerous side effects."
"It's great that you've read Headmaster Snape's collection of Ministry Potion journals. However, as your other hand is still residing under the desk and on Mat's chair, your story doesn't add up." Draco said, before continuing.
"Dragon Malfoy thinks he's so cool because his parents are teachers." Brad whispered to Will.
"I think it's more because of the fact that he's a Malfoy and they own this school and surrounding town. I heard he isn't as bad as Professor Malfoy was when he went to the school. Plus, Dragon isn't so bad when he's nothorny, he can actually hold a pretty intellegent conversation."
"That's all fine and dandy, but what could he possibly know. He's a pop singer, wanna be celebrity."
"That's a little harsh, plus Mat's slowly starting to change him into a pretty nice guy."
"Okay, let's just get this potion done with." Brad said, adding the ingrediants and stiring the potion. Once class was done, the students bottled up their potion and placed it in the basket on Draco's desk before leaving the room.
"Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Mcguire can I see you for a second?" Draco asked, calling them towards his desk.
"Look, we're sorry about earlier." Dragon said, walking towards his father's desk.
"No, it's not about that. That boy there, sandy blonde hair, five feet about, black backpack. Does he seem familiar to you? He's obviously in your year, but in Slytherin, have you seen him around?"
"He doesn't look familiar. He could be a new transfer student."
"I would have been informed of that earlier, keep your eye on him."
"You don't think he's a threat do you?"
"He might be, just be careful until I can get the word out and see what's going on."
"Yes sir." Dragon said, before hugging his father and leaving the room for lunch.
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"I swear, I am never going to get all of this work done." Mat said, plopping down next to Dragon, he had gone to change out his books before his next class after lunch.
"You'll do fine, you'll get through this and you'll pass your O.W.L.s and everyone will celebrate." Dragon said, kissing Mat before going back to eating.
"Everyone huh? What if I wanted a private celebration?" Mat said pouting.
"Ah, so you wanna go to jail for having sex with a minor huh?"
"That's right, I'm legal now and you're still underage, damn you Dragon." Mat said before bursting out in laughter.
"Guys, I'm new and I was wondering if you could help me. The school is huge, and it seems like you two help everyone, I have Charms after lunch and I'm embarrased to ask anyone at my table where the room is located." Brad said, walking up and tapping Dragon and Mat on the shoulder. "You don't mind if I have a roll do you?"
"No, go ahead. The Charms classroom is located on the fourth floor besides the picture of the sunken pirate ship." Mat said, moving out of the way so that Brad could get a roll.
"Didn't it move to the fourth floor west wing, across the hall from the picture of the Bloody Baron when he was alive?" Dragon asked, turning towards Mat and away from the table.
"That's right, sorry. Take the main staircase to the fourth floor, turn right and halfway down that hall you'll see the portrait of the Bloody Baron, the classroom right across from that is the Charms classroom." Mat said, writing it down for Brad.
"Thanks, you two are great." Brad stuffed the roll into his mouth with his right hand, before slipping his left back into his robe pocket.
"You're welcome." Dragon took a drink from his goblet.
"What are you drinking?" Mat asked, looking at what was definitely not Pumpkin Juice.
"Strawberry flavored Butterbeer, wanna try?" Dragon handed Mat his goblet, Mat tried a little before pulling a face.
"That's really tart."
"Well, it's Strawberry Butter, of course it's gross tasting to you. However, dad has me trying out a numbing potion and I accidently put my finger on my tongue so my tongue is numb, I can't taste anything." Dragon said laughing
"That was just evil." Mat said glaring at him.
"That's so cute, you're trying to glare." Dragon said, pinching Mat's cheeks before finishing half of his drink. "Go on, finish the rest, you know you love it. "Dragon said, handing the goblet to Mat.
"Fine, I'll do it because the tart taste will be on my tongue and keep me awake while studying." Mat said, finishing off the drink. His face contorted, it looked like he had sucked seventeen lemons at once.
"We better hurr-" with a loud 'pop', Dragon and Mat disappeared from the Great Hall.
"Everyone remain seated, no one is leaving this hall until I find out what just happened to my son and Mr. Mcguire." Harry yelled, standing up. The doors slammed shut and the hall went quiet. "Now, whose going to be the first to crack?"
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D/N: Da Da Dum... Mwahahahahahahaha! We're evil, we know! On with the reviews eh? keeps laughing madly by the way MARCH 7th! GOF DVD goes ON SALE! There are going to be 3 different versions the third released on APRIL 3rd! The ones being released on March 7th will be the regular and Deluxe editions..The April on is High Definition DVD, for this you must have a high def TV and DVD player! It will also cost you a lot more because of not many people having a high def DVD player.
Sarahamanda: Glad Indy is doing good. Glad you enjoyed the chapter.
Heather: What conversation? Of course Chast will get better.
Adrianna: Ha ha Go Poison oak! He he and Poor George:(. I loved Grey's Anatomy this week. Yep, and I got a signed photo along with a few regular ones that my friend took for me. I'm going to scan the photos and put them on my myspace. Of course you never saw that coming, you weren't suppose to. Lucius: I didn't do anything! Of course we want James to be killed now...I call for a recount! (We can do that, we live in Florida) I vote for James to be in the story now so he'll die.I'm not old, I'm young!
Bitcake: Severus: Thank you Bit.I'm acting like a two year old, have you seen yourself lately? Sticks out tongue. Kime: Yes I got to talk to Jamie Yeates, and you got to hear it! lol. MARCH 7TH GOF DVD! I cheered for George again and Go Poison oak! Whoo hoo! James: shrugs I don't know what I was talking about. Mat: I do not woman! I have O.W.L.'s coming up!
