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Chapter 12

Harry sat silently, taking deep breathes, trying to calm his rapidly beating heart, fear crushing him. Looking at the dark haired man in front of him, his heart practically stopped, realizing that he would be subjecting his memories, his most private moments to this man that hated him, and who looked at him like slime. Shutting his eyes, Harry could feel the black eyes of his professor peering at him, with burning intensity, he could practically feel the anger that rolled off him, he could feel it suffocating him.

"Potter, the longer you prolong this the longer it will take to complete." Stated the professor, the sound of his voice bored.

Harry nodded, opening his eyes, immediately feeling the older man delve into his mind, quickly scanning the memories, then dismissing them, as though they meant nothing. Finally the professor found what he was looking for, and that was what scared Harry more than reliving it. The older man pulled both memories, but Harry found something strange in the way he took them. He didn't just grab, he gently extracted, coaxing the memories from his mind, as though they were too precious to just rob, but that you had to cradle memories. Harry slowly came out, blinking rapidly, trying to see what was happening, deciding to take what he had just learned and store it away for later.

Severus stood, emptying the memories into a pensive, watching as the other two Gryffindors tentatively looked in. Feeling arms entwine themselves around his chest, Severus lent back, closing his eyes as he felt his lover send a wave of magic into his tired body. The two Gryffindors stepped away from the pensive, their eyes heavy and sad.

"We will finish these discussions off the castle grounds tomorrow at the Manor, be there at nine o'clock." said Lucius, giving his lover a quick peck on the cheek, before leaving the room, his bare feet padding softly against the cold stone.

Severus quietly showed them out of the dungeons, weaving in and out of the maze of tunnels under the school's main building. "Don't try to find the entrance, Hogwarts hides it all the time, so it's dangerous to come down here alone, especially Gryffindors. The children find them especially annoying and will make sure house points are lost if you come too close to home." stated the potions master, turning and disappearing into the darkness of the dungeons.

Harry looked on, shivering with cold as they walked the rest of the way out of. Coming into the sunlight, they realized they had really not spent so much time as they thought. Remus sighed, placing one arm around his godson, managing a smile for the younger boy. "Whose ready for breakfast?" asked the werewolf, watching the young boy's reaction to the thought of food.

Harry smiled slightly, looking over at the werewolf, and nodding his head, before following his godparents up into Gryffindor tower, allowing them to lead him, back up to familiarity.

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Severus stood silently, his dark eyes focused on his son, watching as the pale boy slept, his small chest raising and falling with each breath, his face relaxed in sleep, untroubled by nightmares. Gently running his fingers through the blonde's hair, he sighed, settling himself in a chair next to the bed, pulling a book from the nightstand that he had started a few days before, when all he had to worry about was Draco coming home with his sanity intact.

Lucius stood silently in the door way, leaning leisurely against the door frame, watching his lover and son, a small sad smile tugging at his lips. "You look the same as when Draco was born." stated the older man, stepping into the room, to stand next to the taller darker man.

Severus smiled slightly, running his hand through his hair, ever-so-slightly feeling the tremor that every so often would shatter his steady hands. Nerve damage was a bitch to deal with when a potions master; he was just too tired and busy most days to deal with creating a potion to regenerate the damaged nerves. Looking at his son, he smiled, feeling that no matter how annoying the shakes got, they were worth it to have his son laying there in that bed, sleeping soundly.

"I remember when he was about an hour old and you had finally been in to see him. You came into the room carrying him, and you just couldn't take your eyes off of him. You looked like you were in heaven, and you wouldn't let Cissa hold him. She was so angry with you. But then she saw that look on your face, the one when you're between crying and laughing, and she didn't even have the heart to take him away from you." Said Lucius, gently pulling Severus's head to his stomach, combing his fingers through the dark hair, sighing.

Severus just continued to look at his son, breathing in his lover's scent, his dark eyes half lidded with tiredness. Sighing, he looked up at his lover, a small smile making it's way onto his stern face, as he looked into those grey eyes that would send Mad Eye Moody into a shaking fit."I miss when those days. When I go to the manor, and you two would be there, sleeping in the library, waiting for me. I thought, I would get to see him more when he finally came to Hogwarts, but by then he was smart enough to take care of his Slytherins without my help. He grew up without my say, and now I find that my baby is gone, and there really isn't anything I can do about it, but sit back and watch." explained Severus, allowing his head to fall into his hands, his shoulders shaking ever so slightly with suppressed tears.

Lucius gently shushed him, kneeling onto the floor, tenderly brushing the hair from his eyes. Placing a kiss onto his beloved's forehead, Lucius connected them, staring into the dark eyes of his love. A sad smile formed on Lucius's face, as he began to hum their lullaby, watching Severus pulled himself together, slowly, piece by piece, until every layer of his mask was back in it's place."There now, my love, my amorato, that's the Severus I know." he said, placing a kiss on the taller man's nose as he sat back on his heels. "We are parents, my love, all we can do is love them, all we can do is steer them in the right path. But at the end of the day, it's their decision to follow in our footsteps, or continue on their own. Draco is a strong boy, he's decided to continue on the path that will be right for him. All we can do now, is pick up the pieces and hope that he does loose himself."