Unexpected Consequences

Ch. 8 daddy mode

A few weeks passed and everyone went back into the normal routine of the day. Abby noticed that Draco was acting as if nothing had changed between them. She didn't want to be treated different, but she would have liked to be acknowledged from time to time. The only time she knew he was paying attention to her was when she was writing song lyrics during class instead of taking notes. She got a hefty detention for that one.

"So you don't want to be treated special?" Neville asked her on the way to the great hall for lunch after she got her detention.

"No, I don't. But it's as if he is completely ignoring me now" she answered quietly. The two of them continued talking about it while they ate lunch. Neville was the first one that Abby filled in about everything that she found out. She figured that since her dad thought it was ok for him to see her in her normal self that it would be ok to tell him everything from now on. It was a nice change, actually. Having someone to talk to about all the different things in life that bother you…

"So what time is your detention tonight?" Neville asked after they were done discussing her being ignored.

"Seven. He did that on purpose too! He knows that I have practice today!"

"Yea, there is a game next week. I'd say good luck but frankly I don't want you to win."

Abby glared at Neville but she knew that he was joking with her. She appreciated it too. Sometimes being the daughter of Harry Potter had its downsides. Actually… most of the time would be considered the down side. She sighed and stood up so that she could run back to the dorm and get her books for the afternoon classes.

That night at 5 minutes till 7 she knocked on the door for professor Malfoy's office. The door swung open and he let her in. As soon as she was in the room she groaned. All over there were piles of old caldrons that needed to be scrubbed clean.

"And I don't want you to use any magic for it either. You can leave when they are all clean"

Abby got to work. It was hard work, but she was not going to complain. She scrubbed for hours and finally got to the last caldron. Glancing at her phone she saw that it was a little after 11. She sighed and got to work. She started scrubbing away at a last bit of dried…stuff in the bottom of the caldron. While she was scrubbing the stuff gave way and her hand went through and was covered in something liquid.

'What the hell is that?' she thought to herself as she wiped off the bit of leftover potion. She looked at the bit that was in the bottom on the caldron and saw that it looked really familiar. She remembered her father taking some strange yellow potion one night so that he would get a cold.

"I know that normally we try to get rid of colds, but for today I'm going to pretend to have one so that I can call work and it will be believable. Then, once I'm officially sick, I will take the antidote and we can spend all day together. How does that sound?"

That was for her 8th birthday. That was also the very last day that they had ever spent the whole day together. Well... except for Christmas every year, but that is expected. After all, it is Christmas. She also remembered his telling her about the potion that he was taking. At that point in time she did not "allow" him to take any potion that she did not know about. She knew that this one, if left out for a long period of time, could form a covering, almost like a scab.

"Yuck, that's disgusting." She finished cleaning it up and stacked all of the clean caldrons in the corner before leaving the room and going to her dorm. That night she did not even bother doing her homework before falling asleep right away.

The next morning Abby woke up with one hell of a headache. She noticed that everyone else was already gone and, with a glance at her phone, she noticed that she was to late to be able to go to breakfast. She stood up and tried to walk over to the bathroom to get washed up after she took one step the whole room started to spin, and she had to sit back down again.

'What the hell was that?' she thought and tried to stand up again. That time she was managed to get to the bathroom but as soon as she did she felt sick to her stomach and everything that was in it, though it was not that much, was emptied into the toilet.

When her stomach was completely empty she stood up and walked back to her bed. By the time she got there she was exhausted and covered is sweat. She was also shaking uncontrollably and could hardly move without her body throbbing with pain. 'What the hell is wrong with me?' she thought t herself seconds before she fainted.

Draco Malfoy was not the kind of person to worry, but for some reason he had a strange feeling that he should be worried about something. Or someone. That morning he noticed that Abby had not shown up for breakfast. That was not all that strange though… she had been up late and probably over slept. It was nothing to worry about.

Right?

When lunch rolled around and she had still not been spotted he started to really worry. She was not the type to skip classes, and after talking to some of the other teachers quickly he found out that she had not been to any of her classes that morning.

'I'll give it till dinner. If I don't see her at dinner I will go check the hospital wing.' Dinner came and went and still there was no Abby. He walked up to the hospital wing and found out that she was not there either. He sighed and wondered if he should go looking for her. He sighed again and knew that if he didn't go look for her he would never stop wondering where she is.

He walked down to the Slytherin common room and asked Mariah to go up and see if she was in her dorm. He stood in the common room for a minute before he heard Mariah screaming "PROFESSOR COME QUICK!" He ran up the stairs and into the 6th year's dorm. He saw Abby lying on her bed, beat red. She was barely breathing and would not wake up. He also saw that on the floor next to the bed there was something that looked a lot like vomit.

"Abby? Abby can you hear me?" He whispered in her ear. She did not respond in any way, she didn't even stir slightly. "Shit, someone find some floo powder I have to get her to the hospital wing fast." Mariah ran down to the common room to find some powder while Malfoy picked up Abby and carried her down the stairs carefully. By the time he got to the common room Mariah had bullied some floo powder out of a second year and she threw it into the fire a second before Malfoy stepped into it and yelled his destination.

He stepped out of the fireplace carefully and yelled for the school nurse. She hurried out of her office and ran over to the bed where Abby was now being set on. "What happened to her?" she asked as she started doing some quick spells to find out what was wrong with her. Professor Malfoy explained that he found her like that and did not know what actually happened.

A few minutes later the nurse was frazzled and said that she did not know what was wrong with the girl. She tried giving her a fever reducing potion and a number of other things but none of them worked. "Some stronger potions might work but I don't have any of them here. St. Mungos should have them though, if you think we should take her there."

Draco immediately picked her up again and went over to the fire. He waited while the nurse threw some floo powder on and he stepped yelling for him to be taken to St. Mungos. As soon as he entered the waiting room for the hospital there were many witches and wizards taking her from his arms and putting her on a bed to take her to an exam room to figure out what was wrong with her.

As much as he hated admitting it, he knew it was probably his fault. People don't get that sick that fast, it just didn't happen. There must have been some sort of reaction to something that was in one of the caldrons that he made her clean the night before. 'I have to get a hold of Harry.' He thought to himself as he walked back over to the fireplace. St. Mungos always had floo powder ready for people to use so he grabbed a handful and floo'd straight over to the ministry, where he figured Harry would probably still be. He walked out of the fireplace and down the hall to where he knew Harry's office was. He did not even bother knocking and he threw open the door, finding Harry sitting at his desk with a load of paperwork in front of him.

To say that Harry was shocked to see Draco there would be a big understatement, but he did not let that show. "What do you want Malfoy?"

"It's Abby...no. Lilly. She's at St. Mungos."

"WHAT?" Harry yelled, but he did not wait for any kind of answer before he walked out of his office and ran to the grates with the fireplaces. He went through to the hospital and started yelling for the secretary to tell him where his daughter was.

"Harry calm down, they don't even know her name right now. You have to explain what happened." Draco said to calm him down. Then a Healer walked out of the exam rooms and went over to the two of them.

"Mr. Malfoy you are the one that brought in the patient aren't you?"

"Yes, I did, is she ok?"

"I'm Healer Green. She is still pretty bad, we don't now what's going on right now with her. But she is stable, which means that we must have parental consent to do any kind of treatment or tests because she is under age…"

He was interrupted by Harry saying, "I'm her father I will sign for whatever needs to be done." Healer Green smiled at him and led him into the room where Lilly was being watched over. Harry grabbed Draco's hand and took him with into the room. When they got to the room they saw that Lilly had woken up, but was barely able to talk.

"Daddy?" she said softly. Harry raced to her side as fast as he could.

"It's ok Lilly. I'm here for you."

"Daddy my head hurts."

"I know Lilly. The Healers are working on figuring out why. They are going to help you get better." Lilly nodded and started to drift off to sleep again but Draco stopped her.

"Wait Lilly you need to stay awake for a minute longer." She opened her eyes again and moved her eyes to find her professor. "Last night when you were serving detention was there something there that I missed? If there was that could be why you're so sick."

Lilly nodded very slightly, but all she cold say before passing out again was, "It had a scab"

Harry and Draco both started trying to think of potions that would scab over if left unattended. Neither could think of any. Draco then suggested asking Hermione if she knew of any. He hated to admit it but she knew what she was doing when it come to… well… anything.

Draco started to walk out of the room to call her, but Harry stopped him. "Draco wait. What is the name of that potion I used to use all the time that would give you a cold? Didn't that scab eventually?"

Draco nodded, "It was just a simple cold serum I think. It scab after a year and then you're not supposed to use it any more because it gets so strong that it basically kills you from touching it."

They told the Healers what they thought it was, but they had to leave the room while they worked on getting Lilly well again.

An hour later Harry and Draco were sitting in the waiting room, and trying to find out what was going on with Lilly. The healer had not been back out to see them and they did not know if anything was working or not.

Harry was feeling stressed, but Draco was feeling guilty. "It's my fault she's sick… I should have checked the caldrons better before I had her clean them."

Harry secretly agreed, but he did not say that. Instead, he decided to comfort Draco. He moved over and wrapped his arms around the man beside him and said, "It's not your fault. You were probably thinking that she would cheat and use her want anyway weren't you." Draco nodded. "And if she had gotten something on her hand she should have known to wash it off better and go to you about it. It's nobody's fault, it just happened. She's a strong girl and well pull through this."

Draco nodded again and wiped away the tears that were running down his cheeks. Harry noticed this and gave him a quick kiss before standing up and going back over to the secretary's desk to see if anything new was available. Just as he got to the door he saw the healer that was talking to him earlier walking towards them. "We were able to stop her from getting worse, so she will live. However, she will be in a bit of pain for a while until we find a strong enough potion to completely reverse the damage done already. Don't worry, we will figure it out soon enough. You can go see her if you want to."

Harry ran back over to where Draco was sitting and told him the news, and they both went back to the room she was in. She was awake again when she got there and she smiled slightly, but it looked almost painful for her.

Harry immediately broke down in tears and went over to her bed. He crawled in next to her and held her tightly against his chest. "Lilly you scared me. I was so scared, you have no idea…"

"It's ok daddy," she said softly while hugging him back. "I'm going to be fine now so there is nothing to worry about."

Harry gave her a kiss on the forehead and reached behind her neck to take off the necklace that she had on. She was instantly in her normal form, and was thankful for it. "They might be able to help more if you're like this," Harry explained. He, then, looked over at Draco and saw that he was standing at the end of the bed looking slightly awkward. Harry got up and walked over to him. "Thank you Draco. You saved her life, you know that?"

"Well what is a father for?" he responded. Harry replied by hugging him and thanking him over and over again.

Lilly watched for a minute before smiling to herself and going back to sleep. Things were really going to change now, and hopefully for the good.

Hope you all liked it. Sorry it took so long. I'll try to update again soon. Please reaview!!