A/N: Hey guys! Thanks for being so patient with me in my struggle to update. But just thought I'd let you know that the end is near! Only one more chapter after this one left! I am about half way through writing the last chapter, so hopefully I will post it soon, but for now enjoy this update and let me know what you think.
I wake up to a house elf shaking me gently and telling me to get dressed and join the rest of the Malfoys downstairs for breakfast. This is one thing that seems so different while staying at the Malfoys, every morning seems to starts with a house elf waking me up. At home if Daddy and Papa don't wake me up, then I get to go and jump on them.
I really hope we are having waffles today. I haven't had waffles in a while, and I know that I can always ask for the house elves to make them for me special, but I feel bad asking them to do that when they have already made me a complete meal.
I quickly get dressed and wash my face before heading downstairs. Draco isn't down yet but Aunty Narcissa serves me breakfast anyways. We aren't having waffles for breakfast, but pancakes which is close enough. As soon as we finish breakfast Aunty Narcissa makes me put on my shoes and wait in the living room by the fireplace for Draco and Uncle Lucius to be ready to go. As I am waiting Uncle Severus steps through.
"Are you three ready to leave yet? The sooner we leave the sooner we can return…" he grumbles walking through the living room where he then starts calling for Uncle Lucius. It doesn't take long after this for everyone to be ready to go.
"Alright Draco, you are in charge of Harry. It's not hard, just make sure to keep an eye on him and that you don't lose him. Severus and I have a few errands to run in Knockturn Alley so can't take him with us. We will meet in two hours for some lunch at our normal location, understood?" Uncle Lucius says, letting go of my hand and placing it in Draco's grip.
"Yes Father," he says before he yanks me in the opposite direction. It's a good thing he has ahold of my hand, there are some many things to look at there is no way that I would keep up!
"Can we get ice cream Draco?"
"Maybe later, I want to go to the Quidditch shop now. I'm not supposed to meet up with my friends until after lunch, but if we run into them you better listen to everything I say."
I huff, but nod my head. Clearly this morning isn't going to be very fun, but maybe this afternoon with Uncle Lucius and Uncle Severus will be better. I hope at some point we go to the candy shop and joke shops that Draco talked about before cause Aunty Narcissa snuck me a couple of coins to spend today. It'd be great to get some things for Daddy, Papa, and Uncle Tony.
We first go to the Quidditch shop, where Draco spends a lot of time arguing over details of a broom with the shop worker. He lets me wander around the shop while he's doing this though, and there are a lot of cool things in the shop! There are so many broom models, and different types of quidditch gear, but my favorite was a set of miniature quidditch players. You could buy different people from all the different teams to build your own team and then you can buy a mini field as well. Then you can set your team up against other teams.
They had a demonstration set out, so I spent a while ordering the little figures around into different configurations. For a while, there was another boy there and we spent some time playing against each other which quickly evolved into trying to get the teams to fight each other, but that's when the shop keeper came over a shooed us away. Not long after that Draco found me and dragged me off to the bookstore.
I found a nice squishy seat in the corner of the bookstore to sit in, looking through a couple of picture books. Draco doesn't spend as much time here, but he comes back with a couple of large books in his arms which he quickly shrinks and sticks in his pocket.
Finally after that, we head to the candy shop! I can't help but look around at all the different kinds of candies, I never would have guessed that so many existed! I decide to buy some dark chocolates for Papa cause I know they are his favorite, and buy some gummy eyes for Daddy. I buy a giant lollipop for myself that's supposed to change flavors as you eat it and some Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans to give to Uncle Tony. Draco buys almost twice as much candy as me, and doesn't complain at all when the shop keeper hands him my bag to carry, and asks for a few extra coins cause I didn't have enough.
"Harry, I need you to sit right here on this bench and wait for me to come back. I am only going to be gone for a couple of minutes but my father would not be very happy to know where I am going. So just sit here and wait for me alright? And if you breathe a word about me leaving you alone to my parents or Uncle Severus, you will be extremely sorry, got it?" Draco says right after we walk out of the candy store before sitting be down on a bench. No wonder he took me to the candy shop.
It doesn't take long for me to get bored sitting on the bench. I try counting the number of people that walk by, seeing how long I can hold my breath, and I even try hanging upside down on the bench to try and waste some time but nothing works.
"Alright Harry, come on let's go meet Dad and Uncle Sev for lunch," Draco says finally reappearing with two new bags in his hands.
"But where;d you go?" I ask grabbing his hand that he holds out towards me.
"None of your business."
"I promise not to tell anyone!" I say trying to give him the best puppy dog look I can muster.
"Alright, fine. I went to muggle London. My father would be extremely displeased that I went, not only because I was alone but because I went undisguised. But there were some things I needed and my father had been ignoring y request for quite some time so matters had to be taken into hand," he says glaring down at me as if daring me to comment.
I just shrug my shoulders. At least now I know where he went.
We head to a small sit down café that I never would have noticed if we weren't heading there right now. As soon as we get inside, Draco finds us a table before sitting me down and excusing himself to the bathroom. It's not long after this that Uncle Lucius and Uncle Severus arrive.
"Harry? Where's Draco?" Uncle Lucius asks walking towards me.
Before I even have the chance to explain Draco comes back towards us and takes a seat at the table. Soon Uncle Severus joins us as well, and then we all start looking through the menus. Even though I said that I wanted to pick out my meal myself, Uncle Lucius picks it out for me. It is as we are sitting waiting for out food that we start to hear loud bangs and screaming coming from outside in the alley.
Uncle Lucius and Uncle Severus share a long look before Uncle Severus gets up and goes outside to investigate. He is gone long before he races back to us picking me up out of my seat before I can protest.
"Lucius, we need to leave. Now! Death Eaters have started an attack, anyone with half a brain will get out of here quickly. We can't be caught by the ministry here, it would look to suspicious."
"Draco grab onto my arm, Severus take Harry."
Next thing I know Uncle Severus has me wrapped up in his arms and he turns on the spot. I feel like all of the air has been squeezed out of me before we appear in the living room of Malfoy Manor. As soon as the room seems to have completely solidified, Uncle Severus places me on the floor and nudges me towards Aunty Narcissa who is standing in the door way. He then turns around heads towards the fireplace and floos away.
"Don't worry Harry, he will be back in time for dinner, I am sure."
I nod my head, and Aunty Narcissa leads me to the kitchen to find something to eat.
Sure enough a couple of hours later Uncle Severus returns. Uncle Lucius and Uncle Severus spend a lot of time in Uncle Lucius' study before Aunty Narcissa calls them out for dinner. Draco and I play exploding snaps while we wait in the living room.
We are about half way through dinner when the doorbell rings. Uncle Lucius gets up to answer it while Aunty Narcissa leads me up to my room. A house elf comes in not long after that and whispers something to her but I can't hear it. Next thing I know, Aunty Narcissa is packing up my bags and stuffing Patches into my arms.
"Narcissa, Harry and I need to leave. The Dark Lord arrived a short time ago. Please, take him home," Severus says from where the doorway. "I've already spoken to him and explained my soon to be absence but you need to go join your husband and son."
No other words are exchanged, but Uncle Severus picks me and holds my bag before he does the apparating thing at least three more times before we stop in a familiar location, Uncle Tony's tower in New York. I don't get to get too excited though, for I am soon crumpled on the ground where I throw up.
"Harry! Severus! What are you doing here? Harry are you alright? Sirius?! Bring a stomach calming draught will you?" Papa says jumping up off of the couch and rushing towards us.
"There has been an attack on Diagon Alley. It appears as though the Dark Lord has decided to take temporary housing at Malfoy Manor. Harry is no longer safe there. I must return to Hogwarts, I have to speak with Albus immediately. Is it safe to assume that you will be able to handle this situation? I'm sure Narcissa will send the rest of Harry's stuff soon," Uncle Severus says before promptly apparating out again.
Papa scoops me up into his arms and cuddles me close before giving me the stomach calming draught that Daddy just brought in to us. I am soon passed over to Daddy for a hug and happy greeting as well.
Its early afternoon back in New York City, so I join Daddy and Papa in my second lunch of the day, but I quickly talk Daddy into making waffles. Not long after lunch, Papa and Daddy seem to decide that I need a nap and though I tell them I don't need one, they don't listen. We all sit on the couch together to watch a movie and I am sad to say that it doesn't take me long to fall asleep, curled up between my dads on the couch.
The next time I wake up I am in the room I slept in the last time I was in Stark Tower. I crawl out of bed and start looking for Daddy and Papa though it doesn't take long for me to find them.
"Just take Harry to Malibu, or if you don't want to be that far from us just outside of the city. Tony seems to think that Loki is heading to Stark Tower and want the two of you out of here before he gets the chance."
"And what are you going to do Sirius?"
"Try and stop him when he gets here, if that doesn't work, then hide out until reinforcements arrive. I'll contact the American Ministry and Tony and his friends are on their way here as we speak. Just please, I need to know the two of you are safe. I know it's been awhile, but I was an auror for quite some time. I'll be able to hold my own."
"What's going on?" I ask walking into the room, confused by the little bit of the conversation that I heard.
"We are going to go home, to Malibu," Papa says walking over to me and picking me up. "Daddy and Uncle Tony are going to meet us out there as soon as they can, ok?"
I nod my head, and Daddy comes over to give Papa and I both a huge hug before giving Papa a kiss and kissing my forehead.
"I love you both very much, and I will be home as soon as I can, but until then be good for your Papa ok bub?" I nod my head, and before anymore can be said, we hear a crash below us and Papa apparates us away.
"Wait Papa, what about Daddy? What was happening? You have to go back and help him!"
"Shh, it's alright pup Daddy knows what he is doing. Everything will be alright."