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A/N: Well I hope you guys like this chapter, I'm not super pleased with it, but it does have some Lucius and Orion moments as well as an Umbridge confrontation.

R/R!

Chapter 6: Pushed to the Brink

Orion sighed tiredly, closing his potions' text with a snap. Even though he now mildly enjoyed potions, he'd never enjoy Uncle Sev's assignments. At least now the man marked him fairly, not based on his hatred for James Potter. Massaging his temples in a vain attempt to keep his blossoming headache at bay, Orion glanced around the Common Room. The comfortable room was relatively empty, a few other students sprawled about doing homework or playing games but otherwise it seemed everyone was outside enjoying the rather mild weather which had been October thus far. Putting away his things Orion headed into his and Draco's shared dorm room, intent on putting his things away and going to join the throngs of students outside. He knew his brother and his friends were down by the Quidditch, playing a pick up game or something, and Pansy and the girls were by the lake, discussing fashion, or so he assumed they were since they had left with stacks of magazines. Nick was off with a few other fourth years, they had gone down to the pitch as well, they had invited him but Orion had declined. He liked trying to get his homework done as soon as possible so he'd have some spare time for himself.

He'd never been able to do that in Gryffindor, since Hermione absolutely detested if Harry showed off his intelligence, not to mention he always had Ron distracting him and keeping him from doing his work. It was nice to be able to embrace himself fully now, when he had been Harry Potter he had lived under the weight of many expectations, such as excelling in Defense Against the Dark Arts, being an amazing seeker and parading around under the guise of the perfect Gryffindor hero, not to mention Dumbledore's puppet. Now he was able to just be himself, allow some of his less savory personality aspects flourish, or those that would be considered unsavory for the so-called Gryffindor hero. It was a new experience for Orion to be loved for who he was, accepted fully by his family regardless of his faults, it was incredible and it made almost everything he had endured worth while, it was also one of the reasons he had so easily accepted the Malfoys into his life. His mind healer had discussed what a real family was with him extensively and he realized that the Malfoys were offering him exactly that, a real family. Over the last few months and the summer in particular, the Malfoys had continually shown him that they loved and cared for him, patiently putting up with his many emotional and mental issues (such as being touched and tendencies to hoard food occasionally), instead of berating him, getting angry with him or hurting him, they had worked with him to overcome his issues and still were. It was a level of acceptance Orion had never expected to have and he absolutely loved it.

-Blood-

Tom smiled lightly as Lucius handed him the latest letter the proud father had received from his youngest son. Lucius had written him the week previous regarding the plans for Yule, they had found that Orion didn't react well to surprises, so Lucius and Narcissa were careful to run things by him far in advance of any events, making sure their young son had time to think things over and decide how he felt about it. Lucius had written Orion regarding him finally meeting his godfather, giving carefully veiled clues to who the man actually was.

The last week had dragged by for Tom, he desperately wanted to meet the young man whom he'd heard so much about. He wanted to apologize for the last five years of Orion's life where he'd mistakenly believed he was Harry Potter and had even gone so far to use his blood in a ritual to bring himself back to life. Lucius had explained to him that Orion had nearly completely separated himself from Harry Potter and would try and meet Tom as Tom, not the dreaded Lord Voldemort. Tom just hoped that this would go okay, he very much wanted a relationship with Orion similar to the one that Severus had with Draco.

"So he's okay with meeting me?" Tom said, still slightly stunned by the contents of the letter. Orion was a very clever young teen it seemed, able to decode his father's hints and even respond in a manner that wouldn't give away anything incase the letter was intercepted.

"Yes, he's a bit nervous which is understandable, but he's willing to give Tom his godfather a chance" Lucius murmured, grinning at the other man. Tom smiled, almost giddy at the news that he would finally get to meet the young man.

"I am very pleased to hear that Lucius, the last real memory I have of Orion is Mungos, when you and Narcissa named me godfather and I held him for all of five minutes before he was rushed off" The Dark Lord murmured, wrinkling his nose. The memories of the hospital were bitter sweet for the Malfoy family as well as himself and Severus. It had been amazing that Lucius and Narcissa had had another son (and he had been named godfather) but the sweet memories were tainted by the horror that had occurred while Orion was in the hospital. Sighing, he shoved the memories away, that night still haunted him even more so then that faithful night of October 31st when he'd been brutally ripped from his body by (ironically) by his own godson and rebounding curse.

-Flash Back-

Tom stepped gingerly through the fire into the Malfoy's normally pristine sitting room. He had received a frantic floo call from Severus, but he had barely been able to understand the babbling man, only getting that he needed to come to Malfoy Manor immediately. Shaking his head, the dark-haired man took in the complete destruction of the room and his confusion and worry grew. Summoning a house elf, he was shocked when the creature appeared sobbing. Demanding to know where Lucius and Narcissa were and finally getting a response from the sobbing elf he practically ran down the hall towards Lucius and Narcissa's private quarters. The room was once again completely destroyed and he found Narcissa sobbing in near hysterics on the couch and Lucius screaming into the floo and presumably someone from the Ministry. Severus was walking circles around the room, holding a squalling Draco Malfoy and muttering angrily to himself, his own eyes red with tears.

"W-what's going on?" The normally stoic man asked, moving to take a now quietly sobbing Draco from Severus. It was clear the blond one year old really didn't know what was going on and was just crying because everyone else was.

Lucius finally emerged from the floo, the normally calm Malfoy looked furious and his hands were twisting madly on the head of his cane.

"Orion was kidnapped" He rasped out, his voice husky from all the shouting he had just done. That announcement brought another wave of sobbing-turned-screaming from Narcissa before the woman seemingly collapsed in a heap, her grief so great she couldn't physically express it.

"What?" Tom gasped, his hands tightening carefully on Draco, the boy babbling incoherently about 'Ori'.

"When Healer Lawrence was doing her rounds this afternoon she stopped in to check on Orion and found he was missing, she immediately began asking other staff members and it was quickly discovered that Orion was no longer in the hospital. He's gone" Lucius said, tears now coursing down his face as he fell onto the couch, his head cradled in his hands, his shoulders heaving as he gave into his own grief.

"They have no leads?" Tom snapped, looking at Severus now, he was the most calm out of the group.

"None" The dark-haired man said, summoning a crying elf and asking for a bottle of fire whisky. Sinking to the chair nearest the fire, the dark haired man caved and began to drink directly from the bottle the elf had returned with. Tom couldn't believe what he was hearing, someone had kidnapped Orion, his godson? Shaking, he sank down onto another chair, still cradling a sniffling Draco. The little blond boy could only keep saying 'No Ori' or 'Ori gone' and it was utterly heartbreaking.

-End Flash Back-

Lucius caught the look on his friend's face, realizing the man had been thinking about the same day he had just been remembering.

Lucius still couldn't even discuss the day Orion had been kidnapped it brought far to many miserable emotions to surface and he had no desire to ever re-live that experience.

"Would you like to spend the entire holiday at the Manor?" Lucius asked Tom suddenly, "Sev has already accepted the invitation and will be joining us the day after the holidays begin"

"Of course, I have no plans for the holiday this year and I would like to see Draco again as well as spend some time with Orion, give him a chance to get used to me" The red-eyed man said with a small grin.

"Narcissa will be delighted, she loves having everyone at the Manor and this is our first Yule with Orion back with us, the first time we can truly celebrate" The blond-man said with a smile. The family's previous holidays and events had always been marred by the fact that they were missing a vital member of their family. The pain had dulled mildly with time, but losing Orion had been like losing a limb (if you considered the family unit a body), you learn to function but you were always extremely aware that it was gone.

"It will be a wonderful holiday Lucius, I shall need to find some suitable presents however. I know what Draco enjoys but what about Orion?" Tom asked curiously. Lucius chuckled and the two men began a discussion about christmas presents and the youngest Malfoy.

-Blood-

"Finally wrote Dad back eh?" Draco said, sliding onto the bench at Slytherin table next to his younger brother.

"Yea, I figured I'd left him and our Uncle'-he stumbled over the word-'Tom hanging long enough" The shorter blond responded, carefully spooning some salad onto his plate very aware of his brother's watchful gaze.

"And?" Draco promoted, smiling as Orion added some beef to his plate.

"I said I'd like to meet him. I know what he did to Harry Potter, but the Malfoys and Severus were also awful to Harry Potter" Orion murmured, "So, as Orion Malfoy I'm going to give him a chance, plus he is my godfather and I want to meet him" Orion confide in his older brother softly.

"Good, Uncle Tom is really nice" Draco said with a grin, taking a sip from his goblet.

Orion just grinned before digging in, he was a bit worried about meeting his godfather, especially since he knew Sirius was the godfather the Potter's had assigned him, and the man had always been really nice to him, but he also wanted to meet the man that the Malfoys had trusted to take him in should anything happen to them. Sighing softly, the young Malfoy focused his attention on his food, once again ignoring angry glares directed at him from the lions' table. It was a regular thing for him now, the glares and angry remarks and he had learned to ignore them, or at least pretend he was ignoring them.

-Blood-

"Damnit" Orion groaned as he rushed down the hall towards the DADA classroom. He had overslept, been late to breakfast and was now running down the hall frantically late for class. He knew Umbridge hated people being late to her classes and he knew he was bound to get into trouble, he just hoped he wasn't assigned a detention, he had heard detentions with Umbridge were awful.

Slowing once he reached the door, he carefully pushed the door open and slipped inside.

"So good of you to join us Mr. Malfoy" Umbridge simpered from the front of the room.

"Sorry Professor" Orion mumbled, offering the woman a shy smile. He resisted the urge to gag, she was wearing this ridiculous pink concoction and she looked like a toad stuffed into a pink dress that was four sizes too small.

"I shall let it slide this time Mr. Malfoy, but if you're late again I'll have to give you a detention" She said, a sickly sweet smile on her face as she flounced away and flopping down in her chair and looked at him pointedly.

"Thanks Professor" Orion said, sliding into his seat next to Nick and tugged his awful defense book from his bag and flipped to the appropriate chapter.

"Lucky" Nick muttered to him, "She gave Weaselette a detention for being late last class" The fourth year murmured to his friend.

"My dad's a huge donator to the Ministry, plus he works there and is her superior, she like worships Fudge and Fudge worships my dad, she probably doesn't want to piss him off by putting me in detention" Orion murmured in return, keeping his voice pitched low so the toad (as Umbridge was affectionately called by the students-and some of the staff) didn't overhear.

"Probably" Nick agreed, bending over his text and beginning the arduous task of slogging his way through the chapter. Orion, taking a cue from his friend, did the same, mentally thinking of all the curses he could use on the woman as he did so.

Halfway through the very boring defense class, a note landed on Orion's desk. Glancing around, Orion saw Ginny Weasley motioning at him to open it. Biting back an annoyed sigh, the blond boy carefully unfolded the crumpled up parchment, his eyes growing wider as he read the nasty words the girl had written about him and his family. Pushing the note away, he pointedly ignored Weasley, though she continued to toss notes through out the class, angering the blond boy. As yet another note landed on his desk, Orion snapped. Whipping out his wand, he turned and sent a stinging hex at Ginny Weasley, feeling extremely vindicated as it struck her cheek, making the girl yelp.

"Mr. Malfoy!" Umbridge shrieked, her shrill voice making many students wince and some go so far as to cover their ears.

"Detention, tonight with me" She snapped, ignoring the protests that Nick voiced about the notes.

"Don't bother, written words don't hurt people in her opinion" Orion murmured to his friend. "I used a spell, doesn't matter that it was essentially harmless one"

"Your brother's gonna kill you" Nick murmured as the boys began to pack up their bags.

"Mr. Malfoy" Umbridge called, Orion turned to see that she was gesturing for him to come over to her desk. Sighing, Orion gestured for Nick to go on without him as he moved over to Umbridge.

"Yes Professor?" He murmured.

"Your detention is for eight tonight, please be on time" She said, handing him a detention slip, the time written in pink ink. Orion nodded, resisting the urge to crumple the parchment up and instead opted for shoving it in his bag.

"See you tonight then Professor" He said, shifting his bag and heading off to his next class.

-Blood-

"You what?" Orion winced at the angry tone of his brother's voice.

"I have a detention with Umbridge tonight" Orion said, handing his older brother the detention slip.

"Why? How?" Draco asked, looking at the note with a scowl.

"Weaselette" Orion muttered, "She kept sending me nasty notes through class, each one worse then the last, finally I snapped. I hit her with a stinging hex and Umbridge gave me detention" Orion shrugged.

"Did Weaselette get detention?" Draco demanded, still scowling.

"No, Umbridge would've given her one, but she was complaining about the pain of my hex, so Umbridge let her go. Umbridge hates all spells so I got in trouble" Orion shrugged, he wasn't really upset about the detention, he felt rather pleased that he'd managed to hex Ginny, the comments she had been making were inappropriate and rude. He knew, realistically, he should have just told on her and she would have gotten in trouble instead of him but that was no where as good as hexing her, even if it had been just a mild hex.

"Just be careful" Draco muttered, "I've heard some pretty bad things about Umbridge's detentions"

"I know" Orion murmured, "I'll be careful Dray, besides I got to hex Weaselette that makes things pretty much worth it"

Draco just snorted in response, he wasn't surprised Orion had snapped. The young teen was fiercely loyal and he loved his family and wouldn't tolerate anything being said against them, Weaselette had been harassing Orion continually in class and while he didn't like that his brother had responded in such a manner, he wasn't surprised by it. Though Harry Potter didn't technically exist any longer, Orion still had Harry's temper, he just had a bit better control.

At five to eight Orion knocked on the door to Umbridge's office.

"Come in" The Professor's sing-song voice called out. She sounded far to pleased with herself for Orion to feel at all comfortable.

"Hello Professor" Orion said, slipping into the room his eyes widening in shock as he took in her office. The walls were covered in collectable plates all of them housing mewing kittens with large, blue eyes. The office was also painted a garish pink colour, with red and pink pillows spread on a small couch. Shuddering lightly, Orion moved to sit in the desk that she indicated for him.

"You'll be doing lines tonight Mr. Malfoy"* She said, nodding to the top of the desk which was adorned with a stack of parchment and a quill.

"You haven't given me any ink Professor"* Orion murmured, looking at the woman curiously.

"It's a special quill Mr. Malfoy, now I want you to write 'I must not use dangerous spells' until I tell you to stop" The toad-like woman said with a wide smile.

"Err, alright" Orion muttered, picking up the quill and beginning to scratch out the words. Gasping, he very nearly dropped the quill as he felt a sharp pain in his right hand. Looking down just in time he saw the very words he had just written healing on the back of his hand. He looked up at Umbridge in shock, the woman was smiling widely at him, clearly she didn't care that he was a Malfoy at all.

Biting the inside of his lip to keep himself quiet, he began to write the ridiculous statement again, each time cutting himself open only for his hand to heal. He wondered how long it would keep healing before the message in his hand began permanent.

Nearly three hours later Orion stumbled out of detention. Umbridge had been pleased to see the message carved in his flesh and had said he was free, no more detentions. Obviously she had just been making a point, since he had heard that most students were assigned at minimum three days detention with her. Although his detention was only one day, three hours of continually cutting himself open had left Orion with a nasty cut on his already injured hand and he knew it was going to scar, though not nearly as bad as it would have with a week long detention.

Letting out a pained sigh, Orion carefully made his way to the Common Room, wondering how he was supposed to keep this hidden from his brother. He highly doubted he'd be able to considering Draco would notice the minute something was off. Realizing it would be a futile waste of time and energy, Orion made his way straight to the dorm room, ignoring the few older students that called out to him in greeting.

"How was detention?" Draco asked intently as Orion shuffled into the room.

"Not so good" The teen mumbled, yawning tiredly.

"Oh? What did she have you do?" Draco asked, sitting up a bit on his bed, staring at his little brother with narrowed grey eyes now.

"Lines" Orion said, rubbing his eyes with his left hand, which drew Draco's attention to his right hand which was hanging loosely by his side. His eyes widened as he saw the bloodied bandages.

"When did your hand start bleeding?" The older blond gasped, shooting off the bed and to his brother's side. Carefully he manhandled a protesting Orion over to his bed and forced the younger boy down. Ignoring his little brother's babbling, Draco carefully unwound the once-white bandage, staring in horror at what was hidden under it.

"She used a blood quill on you?" He breathed in shock, looking up at Orion, who's lower lip was now trembling. Draco immediately pulled the younger boy into a tight hug, murmuring soothing things as Orion began to sob. The pain must have been horrible, particularly considering Orion's hand was already injured.

"I'm going to get Uncle Sev" Draco finally murmured when his brother had stopped crying and was just hiccuping against his shoulder now. When Orion stiffened and began to shake his head, Draco stilled him with a soft shushing noise. "He needs to know Ori, not only is it illegal for Umbridge to be using a blood quill but he needs to make sure your hand doesn't get any infections or something else" He said softly, carefully detaching his brother's arms from him and slipping out of the room.

Draco nearly sprinted the way to Severus' office, banging inside without even knocking.

"Draco? What is the meaning of this?" Severus snapped, banishing spilt tea from his clothing.

"Umbridge used a blood quill on Orion, his right hand's pretty beat up" The blond panted. Severus dropped his teacup in shock, immediately heading for the Common Room, leaving a house elf to clean up the broken shards of glass, Draco hot on his heels.

Bursting into the Common Room, completely ignoring his startled snakes as he and Draco quickly headed towards the Malfoy boys' shared dormitory. Opening the door, Severus immediately calmed his movements as he saw the upset fourteen year old on the bed.

"Let me see" He murmured, sitting down next to the young blond and unpacking his bandages and salves (both which he always carried with him).

Orion carefully moved his hand so it was sitting on the book Severus had settled in his lap in loo of a proper desk.

"Damn" Severus murmured, carefully waving his wand over the injury to check for infection or other problems.

"W-what?" Orion asked, Draco sitting behind him so he could rest against his older brother.

"This is a very ragged cut" Severus murmured, "Blood quills are designed to cause maximum pain as well as guarantee scaring" The potions' master explained. "It leaves the skin ragged and cuts deep to invite infection" He added. Orion shuddered at Severus' explanation as his brother rubbed his back soothingly. "Normally I'd use Essence of Murtlap* to help sooth your hand and clear up infection but that can interact badly with the salve I've been using on your hand" The dark-haired man explained. "Instead I'm going to use the normal salve and bandage this up with a new bandage. I'm going to floo your father and speak to Albus as well, your regular healer needs to see this" Severus murmured, beginning to carefully apply the salve. Orion winced, pressing hard into Draco's chest as pain began to shoot up his arm, even though Severus was being as gentle as he could be. Thankfully he was soon bandaging the hand and giving Orion a pain reliever potion before giving the teen a small dose of sleeping potion and helping Draco tuck him into bed.

"I'm going to go floo your father and then speak to Dumbledore" Severus murmured to Draco, "I'm also going to write a note dismissing Orion from class tomorrow in order to go to Mungos so Healer Lawrence can see this" He added. Draco nodded, settling himself on his brother's bed and pulling Orion against his chest, unwilling to let his little brother to go for now.

Severus stepped back from the floo as Lucius Malfoy barreled through all sense of propriety forgotten.

"Where is he?" The blond man demanded, his eyes slightly wild as he looked around Severus' quarters.

"Resting in his room with Draco" Severus said keeping his voice soothing as he tried to placate his long time friend.

"I want to see him" Lucius demanded, "And I want her fired and thrown in Azkaban!" Severus had explained everything over the floo call before Lucius had come through to Hogwarts.

"I know Lucius and you will" Severus murmured, "But first we need to speak to Albus and the Ministry" He murmured, "I want Healer Lawrence to take a look at Orion's hand, I've given him the day off class tomorrow so you can take him to Mungos" He explained hastily as the blond glowered at him.

"Fine, take me to Dumbledore" He said, his voice tight as he kept a tight leash on his anger.

-Blood-

Dolores Umbridge gave an indignant squawk as she was rudely (in her opinion) awakened by an irate house elf. Frowning as the tiny creature summoned her imperiously to Dumbledore's office she hastily dressed, pulling her obnoxious pink house coat over her far to revealing pink night gown. Stuffing her wide feet in her slippers the woman quickly headed off to the Head Master's office curious as to why she was being summoned. She had gone to bed directly after her detention with Orion Malfoy and had slept right up until she was woken up, ergo she hadn't done anything wrong. Frowning she spoke the password (Chocolate Frogs) to the gargoyle guarding the entrance to Dumbledore's office and headed up the rotating staircase. Knocking on the door she was called inside by Albus jovial voice and she hurried inside.

"You summoned me Head Master?" She said, looking around in surprise as she saw Lucius Malfoy and Severus sitting in front of Albus' desk drinking tea. Lucius Malfoy looked livid and her breath caught in her chest as she wondered if the Malfoy brat had whined to someone about her little punishment.

"Yes Dolores, I'm terribly sorry to get you out of bed at this hour" He said, looking pointedly at her outfit. Lucius snorted at the comment, murmuring something to Severus which caused the man to snort as well. "However, Severus has reported some rather disturbing news about a detention you held with young Mr. Malfoy this evening" Albus murmured, his expression turning from jovial to serious.

Dolores frowned, looking at Albus with what she hoped was a confused expression.

"I had Mr. Malfoy in detention this evening for attacking another student Albus, I set him to do lines that's it" She said with a shrug.

"Liar" Lucius spat scathingly, his silver gaze like molten silver as glowered at her.

"I am not" She said, puffing herself up, much like a toad about to feed, "I assigned your son to do lines" She hissed, flinching back as the man rose.

"You used a blood quill on my son" He spat, moving to tower over her, his magic crackling angrily around him.

"I-I" She stammered, stepping away from the angry man.

"I saw the evidence myself Dolores, Orion will be excused from classes tomorrow to go to St. Mungos to be treated by his healer since his right hand was badly damaged this summer and your bloody quill has aggravated the injury" Severus snapped, standing up and placing a hand on Lucius' shoulder placatingly.

"You have no proof that I used a blood quill on him. Yes I had the lad in detention, but he only wrote lines" Dolores shrieked, causing the three men to flinch back from her loud tones.

Albus looked at the three adults over his steepled fingers thoughtfully.

"I can solve this" He murmured, "Twinkle" He called out, smiling as the elderly house elf appeared in front of him.

"Yes Master?" The aged elf asked, his grammar surprisingly good, "What can Twinkle be doing for you?"

"I'd like you to go to Professor Umbridge's office and bring me the lines written by Orion Malfoy this evening as well as any dark artifacts that you can find" He said.

"Yes Master, Twinkle will be right back" With a soft crack the elf disappeared, leaving the three men slightly smug and the woman frantic. She had taken no pains to hide the quill, assuming none of the children she used it on would be stupid enough to report her. Of course the one that did report her was the one that was safest from her and the Ministry's wrath. In fact Cornelius would be livid if he found out she hurt the Malfoy brat since he lived in Lucius Malfoy's deep pockets. Another crack startled her out of her thoughts as Twinkle reappeared next to Albus, snapping his fingers and causing her items to appear on the desk in front of the Head Master. She sucked in a harsh breath as Albus carefully picked up the red quill, and checking it over curiously before putting it down on his desk and casting a few spells on it. The man frowned, casting dark eyes on Dolores before looking at Severus.

"Severus please call the Ministry and have them send over some Aurors" The man said, his tone serious as he began examining the parchment that Orion had written on.

"I think it prudent that you get a Healer's statement on young Orion's injury tomorrow Lucius" Albus murmured, "As well as some photographic evidence perhaps" He suggested. Lucius nodded, his lips thinning into a straight, annoyed line.

"May I go see my son now Head Master? I'd like to make sure he is alright" The blond haired man asked.

"Of course Lucius, Severus you'll need to go as well so Lucius can get into the Common Room, I shall keep Madame Umbridge here until the aurors appear" Albus murmured, watching the two men leave the room just as Kingsley and Tonks flooed in, unsurprisingly accompanied by an irate Cornelius Fudge. Sighing, Albus began to explain what had happened while Dolores tried to get her two cents in.

-Blood-

Lucius sighed as he sat down gingerly on the edge of Orion's bed. He gently picked up his son's hand which was resting on the top of the blankets. The young teen made a pained noise and his eyes flickered open. His movement awoke his brother, as Draco was still in Orion's bed, holding his younger brother against him.

"Dad?" Orion murmured tiredly as Draco looked around trying to figure out what was going on.

"Hey kiddo" Lucius said softly, letting go of Orion's hand to reach over and brush the bangs from his face.

"What are you doing here?" Draco asked curiously, a bit more awake then his brother.

"Severus flooed me about what happened to Orion" Lucius said with a smile as Draco nodded in recognition.

"Sev told me he'd floo you" Draco mumbled, yawning tiredly.

"Dad?" Orion mumbled, holding his arms up, clearly wanting a hug.

"Yea buddy?" Lucius said, carefully pulling his son from the blankets. Sure Orion was fourteen and he wasn't really supposed to be held or cuddled (or at least he wasn't supposed to like it) but the mind healer had found that the Dursleys had emotionally stunted Orion (or Harry as he used to be) and now the young boy was able to indulge in a lot of his hidden desires and suppressed emotions so Lucius, Narcissa and Draco all cuddled him and Orion seemed to love it, not to mention they'd missed out on fourteen years of not being able to cuddle their son and were desperately making up for lost time.

"Hurts" Orion mumbled, despite the pain potion that Severus' had given him.

"Blood quills tend to do that" Lucius said, settling his son in his lap and cuddling him as Draco stretched and roused himself. Orion mumbled incoherently and cuddled against his father, his face pressed into Lucius' chest tiredly. Lucius smiled lightly and began to rub Orion's back, trying to lull his son back to sleep. He hated that he was enjoying this moment, but it was a new experience being able to sooth his son like this and he relished these times, even though he hated the circumstances that had led to his son seeking him out for comfort. As Orion relaxed against his father, Lucius glanced at Draco who looked torn between pissed off and pained.

He knew his son was disappointed in himself for not protecting Orion better but Lucius didn't blame Draco at all.

"Its not your fault Draco" He murmured to his son, still rubbing Orion's back.

"I let him get hurt" He murmured, "I knew Umbridge gave weird detentions but I let him go anyway"

"Draco, Umbridge was a Professor at this school she assigned Orion a detention, he had to go, there was nothing anyone barring Dumbledore could have done to get him out of it. Even Severus doesn't have the authority to get him out of a detention" Lucius murmured to his son. "You took care of him when he got back from his detention, you alerted Severus and by extension myself and Dumbledore that Umbridge was using a dark and illegal artifact on students, you did everything you could for your brother" He murmured to his upset son.

"I should have done something" Draco muttered, though he looked reassured.

"Orion will be fine Draco, I'll take him to Healer Lawrence tomorrow and she'll check his hand out. Plus thanks to you and Orion, Dolores Umbridge is no longer employed by Hogwarts and will be facing criminal charges of child abuse and knowingly using a dark object on children in her care" Lucius said.

"Good" Draco sighed as Orion fell into a deep sleep in his father's arms. "She was an awful defense teacher"

"I gathered that from your letters, hopefully Dumbledore will get a competent teacher for the rest of the year" Lucius said, carefully tucking Orion back into bed and motioning for Draco to go to his own bed.

"I'm going to head back to the Manor to reassure your mother that everything is alright, I shall be back around nine tomorrow morning to collect your brother" Lucius said, pressing a kiss to Orion's brow and going over to Draco's bed and kissing his oldest son's forehead, ignoring his whine of protest.

"Indulge me" Lucius grumbled as he left the dormitory and headed to Severus' quarters in order to floo home.

"Night Severus, I'll see you tomorrow" Lucius said, smiling at the man who was sprawled tiredly on the couch.

"Night Lucius" Severus mumbled, watching the man disappear in a woosh of emerald flames. Severus sighed, relieved that Orion would be taken care of not to mention he'd finally gotten rid of Umbridge, of course an entire investigation would have to take place now and Cornelius would probably try and muck things up, but hopefully his reliance on Lucius' 'contributions' would prevent him from really attempting to get Umbridge's case dismissed.

*These lines are similar to those used in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Between Harry Potter and Dolores Umbridge.

A/N: Like I said, I'm not pleased with this chapter, but I hope you guys like it!