This chapter really stumped me. A while ago someone left me a review stating that Caelum using Harry's wand was a little bit weird and a lot of people might recognise it. So in the last chapter I tried to change that and ended up drawing even more attention to the wand. I really didn't know how to approach the matter, so I've ignored it like all the students at Hogwarts. Thank you for pointing out my plot holes and please keep leaving review.

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Risk-free Recovery?

Lucius didn't care about his appearance as he stormed through the ministry, his face showing murderous rage. He walked into Fudge's office, straight past his secretary who started to protest but shut down when she saw his face. He was here to see Fudge and no one else.

"Mr Malfoy!" The Minister of Magic stuttered. "What brings you here?" For someone who was the most authoritative person in wizarding Britain, he did act the coward.

"I want your Dolores Umbridge removed from Hogwarts. She is a danger to the students." Lucius wasn't going to waste any more time than he needed to. The longer he was here, the longer he'd have to wait to sit beside his youngest's bed. Narcissa and Draco were both there already, waiting for Caelum to wake up.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Dolores is a perfectly good teacher and a trusted member of the Ministry of Magic." Wringing his hands together, Fudge looked very nervous, and rightly so. Lucius' eyes had narrowed dangerously and his hand twitched, wanting desperately to reach for his wand and hex the blubbering idiot in front of him. Instead he took a deep breath before dumping the files he had been carrying under his arm in the desk between him bc the Minister. Fudge picked them up gingerly and began to leaf through them.

"Wha-? This is pure torture. How could anyone do anything like this to a child? Let alone a human being. She knows it's illegal to cast a bond dampening spell on anyone who is bonded. Especially with a bond so new as this one." Lucius was a little disgusted with how the Minister flicked through the photos and documents he supplied with morbid fascination. "I always knew Dolores was not one to be trusted. No one listened to me though, and she got into the court and many other high ranking ministry positions." Lucius sighed inwardly at the ridiculous wizard in front of him. "I'll have her removed immediately, you have my word."

"Thank you Minister, I look forward to having a much more pleasant conversation with you next time." Lucius gathered up the paperwork and hurried out of the office and towards the atrium. The flickering of the green fires every time someone stepped out of the floo was normally quite pretty, but today he couldn't care less.

It took a fraction of a second to reach the hospital wing at Hogwarts. Stepping out into the warm room, he noticed that the only bed that was occupied was his son's, he didn't notice that last night. Draco was sitting as close to his brother's bed as he could get the chair, his head leaning on the mattress, pale blond hair fanning out. Narcissa, was sitting slightly away from her two boys, watching over the scene with a sadness that drifted around her.

"How are you, darling?" Lucius ran his hands down Narcissa's arms as he hugged her from behind.

"He hasn't woken up yet. And Draco hasn't woken up since you left. I think he's in the healing sleep with Caelum, due to their bond. Madame Pomfrey thinks that the bond has fully connected them, it won't be long until they learn how to communicate through that bond. Knowing the two of them, it won't take them long, especially after this event. They won't let each other out of their sights. I have a feeling that it's going to be a tough year. But they'll get through it." Narcissa leant into her husband's embrace and the two of them stayed watching their twins for a few hours.

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Caelum and Draco didn't wake for a week. Madame Pomfrey, realising Draco was not going to wake until Caelum did, enlarged the bed and placed him beside his brother. The effects were noticeable, both boys turned towards each other in their sleep, the first they had moved for the entire week. From then on, Caelum's condition improved rapidly, his breathing became less laboured and he began to murmur in his sleep. Draco too, began to respond, he tightened his hand around Narcissa's and buried further into the warmth of the bed when someone tried to wake him. They had many visitors, the mound of sweets piled at the end of the bed was growing bigger by the day.

On the Friday Caelum woke. Narcissa was at his bedside immediately, holding the glass of water to his lips.

"Draco." He gasped out looking around for his brother.

"Calm down, Caelum, he's in the bed beside you. He felt the effects of your injuries as well. But being close to him has healed your injuries quicker than normal. It's remarkable." Narcissa had put the glass down and was smoothing back Caelum's hair. "I'll get Madame Pomfrey, to give you a check up." She caught Caelum looking at Draco guiltily. "Stop that, it is not your fault that he is like that. It's a miracle, it just shows how close the two of you are, even after your tumultuous past. And, between you and me, I'm glad he's been asleep with you, it means he could not land himself in any harm trying to act in revenge. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to send a letter to my cousin after I've spoken to Madame Pomfrey." Narcissa glided out of the room, Caelum didn't understand how anyone could look so graceful.

Madame Pomfrey came bustling in almost immediately after Narcissa left, her wand already drawn and waving in intricate patterns. Pointing it at his arms, the bandages, that Caelum had failed to notice, unravelled themselves and vanished into thin air.

"All seems to be better, sleep seems to have done miraculous work on you Mr Malfoy. If only we'd known a few years ago, you could've spent less time in here!" The mediwitch waved her wand a couple more times then left the room, giving Caelum strict instructions to "Eat!" An elf appeared at the end of the bed and Caelum ordered his and Draco's favourite foods, feeling the twinge in the back of his mind that told him Draco was waking. Draco groaned in his sleep and his eyelids began fluttering.

"Draco?" Caelum asked, his voice soft, only just above a whisper. He received a grunt in reply. "Draco, I know you're awake, come on, don't be selfish." Draco groaned once again but opened his eyes.

"Caelum?" He asked rubbing his eyes and blinking a few times. "Caelum! You're okay! I thought you were going to die!" Without any thought of who could be observing, Draco crushed his brother to his chest. Caelum clung to him just as tightly. For several minutes they sat there content in each other's company. Feeling the emotions flowing from the both of them stunned them.

"I-I've been able to feel your emotions for a while," Draco admitted. "But never this openly. It started with little things, like a feeling of heat when you were angry and stuff like that, but I never thought I could feel what you were feeling. What is this?"

"That, Draco, is often known as a twin bond." Lucius' smooth tones cut through their conversation.

"Father!" They both said, their voices merging into one.

"I'm not very familiar with the subject, but now that you're both awake, I will try to find someone to talk to us about this phenomena. But for now, I bring news of Umbridge." He paused as if trying to think of the correct words.

"Please do tell Father." Draco promoted and scowl on his face. Caelum remained silent.

"Umbridge has been removed as a teacher from this school…"

"But?" Caelum prompted his face neutral.

"But she still has the right to interfere if she doesn't agree with Dumbledore's methods and the teachers here. I believe she is sacking that con artist Professor Trelawney."

"Trelawney is not a con artist, she made a true prediction to me back in third year." Caelum said absentmindedly, he was scared of the influence that Umbridge could have on his school year.

"Ah, well I'm sure Dumbledore will place an equally competent teacher in her place. Probably someone the ministry hates even more." Lucius replied with a disinterested tone. "Now the two of you need to get some more rest, you've missed enough lessons already this year. You can't afford to miss any more of you want to get your OWL grades." There was the Lucius Malfoy the world expected, the cold father who expected the best of his sons. "I wish to add an extra lesson to your timetable as well. I have arranged with Dumbledore, that I will visit every weekend to teach you extra defence, against torture and other bodily harming spells." Lucius smiled sadly, his eyes holding nothing but fear and worry, so much that Caelum became worried that his father was so close to breaking point. "I don't want either of you in the hospital wing due to spell damage again this year. Please boys, your mother and I will go grey before our time."

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Caelum and Draco's first lesson back was defence against the dark arts. Both boys were anxious, but knew they couldn't hide from this lesson forever. Now, they had a new teacher to meet, and a new wand to test. They walked into the classroom, subdued, hidden amongst the other Slytherins who formed a tight circle around them. Dispersing they headed to their seats, wands gripped tightly. They needn't worry though. The new defence teacher sweeped amongst the desks, her emerald green robe billowing out behind her, the fabric showing the wealth she had.

"Mother?!" Both Caelum and Draco gasped out as the familiar women turned to sweep her gaze across the class, evaluating each and every student.

"It's Professor Malfoy, during class boys." she reminded her tone gentle to those who knew her, but to the rest of the class she seemed cold and uninviting. "I have been asked to replace Madame Umbridge as the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, and will be getting you ready for your OWLS. Are there any questions about what I'll be teaching?" Her expression seemed to almost dare the students to say something against her, Ron Weasley fidgeted in his seat. As always, Hermione's hand shot into the air. Narcissa nodded at her.

"Hermione Granger ma'am. I was wondering if you were going to teach us the practical, or if you were going to follow Professor Umbridge's lesson plans." Narcissa paused before answering, regarding Hermione and filing information away for later.

"I plan to teach you what you need for your OWL examinations and that includes the practical alongside the theoretical. I plan to start with a recap of your last few years at Hogwarts. We will start with your basic spells such as Expelliarmus and Stupefy and we'll work from there. I want you to partner up and practice those spells, I will observe and see who needs to spend longer on those spells." She finished her spiel with a cool elegance that very few people could play off, which left no room for argument and a strange desire to do as she said, even Ron Weasley kept his mouth shut. Draco and Caelum smiled at each other, it would be odd having their mother in the castle but it meant that they would be safe.

"You can go first, try out that new wand." Draco encouraged Caelum, both facing each other before Caelum held his wand level to Draco's chest. His new wand felt even more a part of him than his old one did. It was a dark wood, with a lighter grain, hawthorn, the same wood as Draco's wand. The cores were the same too, dragon heartstrings, from the same dragon. The strangest part about the wand was the intricate carvings across the handle, the constellations. There was draco and scorpius along with caelum and orion. The wand felt at home with his magic. Caelum cleared his mind and focused on what he wanted to achieve, with only a few utterances he could send Draco flying across the room. But that wasn't the point of this exercise, so restraint was necessary.

"Expelliarmus." He said, his tone neutral. Draco's wand flew out of his hand, without much thought Caelum reached up and snatched it from the air, before sending a quick 'stupefy' at his brother. At that moment Narcissa chose to evaluate his spell casting.

"No, no Caelum. You must put more into the action with the wrist. You have a lot of power behind the spells, you just need to refine them, and making more precise movements will require less magical strength. Give Draco back his wand and try again, this time focusing on the movements." Caelum did as he was instructed and was surprised to feel the affect it had on his magic.

"Thanks. I didn't know that."

"That's my job," she replied cheekily nudging Caelum with her elbow. Caelum looked back at Draco and saw him smiling widely and couldn't help the grin that stretched over his face.

All too soon the lesson had finished. Narcissa Malfoy cleared her theory delicately and the class fell silent.

"It seems that most of you are proficient in casting those two spells, so next lesson we will move on to magical creatures. I want you all to have prepared a foot-long essay on the benefits of using the spells we covered today." The class groaned. "Dismissed." The class filtered out of the room, Hermione was chatting excitedly to Ron about what she thought of Professor Malfoy. Ron just grunted in disgust. Caelum and Draco stayed behind. When the last student left the room and door closed behind them, they rushed to their mum's awaiting arms.

"Boys." She said her expression softening. "How are you? I'm sorry I couldn't come see you when you were let out of the hospital wing, I was setting up here. You are perfectly well again aren't you." She pushed both boys away to arm's length and started to examine them.

"Mum, we're fine." Draco gasped laughing. Narcissa paused her examination.

"Honestly." Caelum added. She nodded.

"So was my first lesson any good?" Caelum was instantly reminded of Hagrid's first lesson as the Care of Magical Creatures professor.

"Mum, you were perfect. I don't think we've had a teacher that is as good as you." Caelum replied, honesty pouring out of his tone. Narcissa preened under his words.

"Yeah Mum, it's saying something when Weasley doesn't say anything!" Draco laughed. Narcissa only smiled, pride shining through her eyes. She was so proud that her boys could laugh and joke after such a traumatic experience.

"Did you leave the office pink?" Caelum suddenly asked, and Narcissa was a little surprised at the question.

"No, of course not. It was putrid."

"Can I come see it?" The voice of her youngest was full of trepidation and sounded so much younger than fifteen.

"Are you sure?" It was Draco who voiced his concerns first, his expression closed off. Caelum moved closer to his brother.

"You know the answer to that Draco." Caelum replied softly. He closed his eyes in retreat. Caelum was right, he could feel how much Caelum was afraid and how much he wanted to run away but he could also feel the overwhelming sense that he had to do this.

"Okay." He answered, mainly for his mother's benefit. She nodded silently and turned on her heel, leading them up to her office.

The office looked completely different. Narcissa had chosen to return the walls to their normal stone grey and had removed all traces of anything pink, fluffy and cat related. Instead pale blue candles littered the room sitting on shelves in the huge bookcase that covered one entire wall and on the desk and on the cabinet top. The only thing that had remained the same in the room was the desk. Caelum froze when he saw it.

"Get rid of the desk Mum." Draco said panic lacing his voice as he felt his brother withdraw. "Now." With a flick of her wand the desk was gone. Without a word Caelum drifted over to his brother and collapsed in his awaiting arms. "You're okay Caelum. I promise. It's Mum she won't hurt you, see as soon as she realised she got rid of the desk. She wants you to be comfortable. What type of desk would you prefer her to have. Reminder she's quite particular about how things look." Narcissa stepped back and allowed her oldest to comfort his brother, rambling in his ear. Suddenly she noticed Maikoa sliding across the floor towards her, fangs bared.

"Caelum darling, your snake is about to attack me." She said as calmly as possible.

Maikoa, no she didn't do anything to me. She's my mother, she's on the list of people you are not allowed to hurt no matter what. Got it? Narcissa was glad that her son was responsive enough to stop his snake, but was slightly intimidated by the harsh sounds of parseltongue matched with the he furious glare in his eyes. Maikoa took one more look at Narcissa before slithering back to her master, who had retreated from Draco's arms. Things would take a while but they were in the road to recovery.

"Mum, I have a question about the essay."

"No Caelum, you are not exempt from the work."

"That wasn't it, actually." He replied haughtily. "Are you going to be the only one who sees these essays? Can I write about personal experience from past years?" Narcissa froze while she considered her answer.

"I suppose you can, just make sure none of your classmates read it over your shoulder. Now your father asked me to remind you that, your extra defence lessons will be on Sunday mornings with the both of us in my classroom. Go on, I know you have work to do. Shoo!" Narcissa waved them out of her office, and sat down heavily on her chair. This would be an interesting couple of terms.