Safe and Warm

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Chapter Three

Harry was asleep for two days, two days in which Draco never left his side. Of course they couldn't start tracking down his family because they didn't even know what his name was, he was registered under John Doe.

Lucius wasn't sure that he wanted to track down the young boys family, not after learning what the poor child had been though. The most disturbing thing was that no one had reported anyone even remotely fitting his description missing.

Where ever he had come from no one was missing him and that made Lucius even angrier. The one thing he couldn't stand was child abuse and neglect. He donated millions every year to child protection charities. This young man was now working his way into Lucius' heart.

When Harry awoke he was so confused, he didn't understand where he was, how he had got there and who the people surrounding him were. He began to panic and with no nurse there to solve this problem it was left to the only person in the room.

Draco jumped up and immediately stopped Harry from pulling out the tube feeding into his arm. Draco had to hold him and start rocking him making shhh-ing sounds to calm the poor boy down. Now he did feel slightly odd doing this with a teen he didn't even know but he felt himself enjoying the contact.

He had known that he was homosexual since he was twelve when he had taken up dance lessons and ended up snogging the only other boy in the class.

Though after everything that this teen had been though he wasn't sure if he should let himself even have a slight crush on the boy. He was a miniscule creature, Draco couldn't imagine how anyone could treat another human being so badly.

The hospital staff had discovered burn marks on his back, brand marks it looked like. The details of the abuse that the young boy had suffered were sickening, even to Lucius who was a grown man and had listened to many people share their stories at fundraising events.

"It's okay," Draco said rubbing soothing circles on the panicking boys back, "Your safe now, you're in hospital, everything is going to be okay now." He said trying to keep his voice low and calming.

Very slowly and gradually Harry began to calm down, his breathing still heavy as he broke down into quite sobs of desperation and sadness. Draco was completely taken aback by this and even more so when he clung to him desperately.

"What's your name?" Draco asked softly as he stroked the young man's shaggy mass of raven hair.

"Harry." The boy replied, he was scared about not answering and he wouldn't ask questions, not ever, he was too afraid of being punished.

"How old are you?" Draco asked, he was becoming firmly attached to this boy and he was keen to know everything he could about him before a nurse came in to check on him.

"Fourteen." Harry replied with a slight stutter as he continued to cry into Draco's sapphire blue shirt. It was Draco's favourite but he didn't mind it being slobbered on. He was shocked to learn the boy before him was his age, he would have thought he was much younger because of his size.

"Are you in pain, should I fetch a nurse?" Draco asked kindly. Harry looking terrified shook his head, he looked completely and utterly terrified. The terror on his face only increased tenfold when Lucius walked into the room.

He looked startled to see his son holding the other boy as filthy as he was and even more shocked to see that he was awake. "I'll fetch a nurse." Lucius said and before his son could protest at this Lucius had gone to do just that.

By the time the nurse had arrived Harry was panicking again. He was clinging to Draco and would scream if anyone else touched him. It was behaviour that concerned the nurses greatly, though it wasn't at all surprising considering what the poor child had been through.

Eventually the nurses had to sedate him to carry out what they needed to do and to administer the antibiotics and other drugs that he needed to make him feel better.

"Did he say anything to you when he woke up?" One of the female nurses asked Draco who nodded.

"Yes, he told me was called Harry and he's fourteen." Draco said, "He didn't say anything else to me." He said truthfully. Harry, despite being sedated still hadn't let go of Draco's hand.

"Nothing about his relatives?"

"No, I didn't get the chance before Dad came in."

"He'll be awake again before long, he seems content in your presence young man, see if you can't get some more information from him when the sedatives wear off." The nurse said and Draco nodded. Lucius just looked slightly concerned.

"I have spoken to Albus and Severus they are standing by for when he can tell us who hurt him and who his relatives are, I'm guessing they are one and the same but we cannot judge that beforehand."

"What will happen to him if his relatives have been hurting him?"

"I will make sure he's well taken care of."

Draco nodded, however he wasn't so sure, he didn't doubt his father's capabilities of securing a happy ending for the poor battered teenager but he was becoming more and more attached with each passing moment and he didn't want to leave.