THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS


CHAPTER 16: RESURRECTIO: RESURRECTION

Once there was hopelessness, today there is joy and affirmation, once there was general desperation, today there is resurrection and reawakening.
--Robert Ley

Haziness. And blinding light.

Whoever said that waking up to blinding light was quite annoying was making a rather huge understatement. In fact, if he had anything to do with whatever was making that confounded beam that was making it directly into his eyes, damn it, the object may not likely survive for another two seconds.

As soon as he could move that is.

Slowly he opened his eyes. And scowled. The light wasn't going away. If anything, it was hurting his eyes even more.

"Now, hold still, Mr. Malfoy, your eyes are going to be rather tender for the next few days." Draco groaned intensely as he fought his way to sitting up on the bed.

"Okay, I know this is cliché, but what happened?" he demanded as soon as he sat up.

"Voldemort attacked you, as well as the rest of the victims with a transfiguration curse directed to your emotions."

"What?" Draco said, furious. "Wait, a second, I was the eighth…that's not possible with the colours…"

"You were silver," explained the medi-witch patiently. Draco started, remembering that Pomfrey had been one of the victims. "And you were Death."

"Death?"

"The other seven victims basically took on the personality of the Seven Sins. Or at least that's the easier version of it."

Draco screwed up his forehead. "Oh. Wait, so Harry did it?" His voice tinged with excitement, he turned his face into the direction that he thought the nurse was in.

The medi-witch shook her head sadly. "Yes he did. Voldemort's dead."

A large beam made its way onto the blonde youth's face. "That's great!" He turned his head from left to right. "Where's Harry then?"

The nurse hesitated. "He's right beside you," she finally answered, rather softly.

A puzzled frown. "Huh?"

Silently, she placed his hand onto the wires surrounding the raven-haired boy on the next bed. There was an expression of confusion before sudden realization happened across his face. "That's—"

"Yes."

"Oh." Senior nurse Harris felt dread creep in from around the room. Maybe she should have waited before telling…

"Can I move the bed a little closer?" said Draco suddenly.

Hesitating only for a second, she nodded, helping him move the piece of furniture towards the other.

Draco nodded at her quietly, then curled up cautiously next to the raven head.

And so it was for days.

Everyone's eyes soon healed, everyone able to get out of the hospital. Draco had been able to see Harry –horrified by the sight that greeted him. Harry was so delicate that the wizarding world, with all of its miraculous remedies, had been reduced to using muggle technology. A pale, thin body surrounded by wires of a myriad of colours was what met his eyes, and he wondered exactly what had happened.

Because only Harry knew what had happened. Even Dumbledore had had no knowledge to share –he had only been transported out of his office. Anything else, he did not know.

And as the days passed, everyone else wondered if they would even get to know.

The Weasleys had made up to each other. Ginny had admitted to Ron that for the first milli-second of Harry rejecting her, she had blamed him, but that it had been the shortest while. Cinnamon eyes had pleaded to cinnamon eyes and Ron had forgiven –but he and the rest of the Trio would never forget.

Hermione, on the other hand, had only deepened her relationship with Ron. When she had asked, he had only told her that he would never have done anything without her present, and that although it had technically been Hermione, it hadn't really been 'Mione, and that was all it was really. Hermione had only hugged him tight, but they had each understood.

Pansy and Blaise had gotten together, as well as Dean and Seamus. Both of the victims had been humiliated as soon as they saw what had happened through their partners' memories. Nevertheless, the awkward situation hadn't lasted long, with Blaise forcefully kissing Pansy and Seamus simply holding Dean in his arms.

Draco had watched all of these situations, storing them inside his memory until Harry could wake up and see all of them. He had already placed them all into a pensieve and was waiting for the Gryffindor to just wake up.

And as two months crept by he sat at Harry's bedside, just waiting. Neither drifting away but neither overly joyful. Just patiently waiting.

Waiting.

Waiting.

-

"See you back at the dorm later, yeah?" said Blaise, his arm around Pansy.

Draco nodded, as he walked towards the hospital wing. His arms were full of a pile of homework, but fortunately he managed to open the door anyway.

His friends nodded, and ran off. Inside, Ron and Hermione also left, the red-head giving Draco a hug, and the brunette giving him a peck on the cheek. As they always did. As they always would.

At least until Harry woke up.

In his normal routine, he sat down on Harry's bed, flipping to Arithmancy. He'd started on the first sum –getting quite into it, really –when the first shuffle came. Thinking it was something to do with the breeze, it wasn't until the second and third shuffle beside him came that he turned around.

And saw Harry moving around significantly.

He stared; then recovering his mental facilities, he ran to the neighbouring ward. "Pomfrey!" he yelled frantically. "Pomfrey! Come quick, he's moving!"

Hearing nothing, he sat there, helplessly. Then, deciding that just sitting there was definitely not going to help his Harry, he reached around the maze of wires and grabbed hold of Harry's hand. "Come on, Harry, open your eyes for me. Open your eyes for me…"

Harry's body went still then, and Draco's hopes dropped. Then eyelashes fluttered, green eyes stared at him and there was silence as they met each other's gaze, startled.

"Hey," said Harry finally, trying, with what feeble strength he had left, to squeeze Draco's fingers.

Tears already starting to flow down Draco's cheeks, the blonde sniffed, his voice cracking as he murmured: "Harry…"

They nuzzled each other for a few moments, Draco completely unable to stop the tears and Harry unable to release himself from the wires.

"How long was I out?" whispered Harry huskily. His voice was rusty from disuse.

"Three months. You've got a heck of a lot to catch up on." Draco's head was pillowed on Harry's rather hard collar bone, but he didn't really care.

"Oh." Harry's forehead wrinkled. He wondered if Draco knew…

"Yeah." Draco wondered if Harry remembered…

There was a few minutes of blessed silence.

"Oh my Lord!" Draco sat up, just in time to see Pomfrey in a dead faint on the floor.

"That has to be the fastest record I've had for making someone keel over," he heard from the bedside. And for the first time in three months, Draco Malfoy threw back his head and laughed.


Replies to Reviewers: Enelaya: I'm so sorry you had to be one of the first reviewers. Actually, the first reviewer for this chapter! You had the longest wait…I'm so sorry! Please don't murder me, I still have one more chapter to write!

Dark Angel's Blue Fire: I'm glad about the liking…

Lurkindarkness: I am very glad that you love me. Very.

Julia: Well, it's not one big joke.

Cheezewhizz: He has a miraculous recovery.

BlackNeonTears: Yes!

Itchangescolorwhenitdries: Oh. Well, they don't really have sex until they're twenty, but when they do it they do it on this nice lovely bed that they bought to put in one of their many houses. And that's because they can't really skronk in the orphanage can they? And yes, they have one. Harry took a job for the 'family business department' in the Magical Ministry. Draco is an investor. He also works a dating service alongside Hermione. Lol.

Radish Earrings: Was that a good 'oh!'?

Clayscarface: What does a guy's scream sound like? I've never heard a guy scream before. And about the other most important thing…

…WHERE ARE THE GRAMMAR MISTAKES!

TheSmallestGhost: Well, you bumped into the fact that a. I never said there would be nothing other than the seven sins. And secondly, since it's not a seven sin, I can make it totally out of the pattern! Smiles.

IceBlueRose: I am so happy you noticed that author's note. I was slightly worried that I was going insane, because it seemed to be appearing just fine in the screen to me! Thank you for all those wonderful compliments!

Hiril moon: You know, if you got Harry from those wires he'd be kind of dead. Like, seriously dead. And the second thing would be that they wouldn't be able to hold hands and then how would Harry wake up!