Chapter Twelve: Spar

The following week went by with the rebellion cooling it while Harry was harmed; they were smart enough to know they needed him in good shape if they wanted even a chance to survive. So on Saturday while Seamus was out on a date, Lucius was overseeing a detention and Tom was holding a Meeting Harry was in their room with a fighting dummy in front of him. Lucius and Tom had met up at the Meeting and were discussing a new spell that seemed to work wonders on getting stains out of clothes when they heard music come from their rooms.

'I've been so wrapped up in my warm cocoon, something's happening, thing's changing soon. I've been pushing the edge, I'm feeling it crack, and once I get out there no turning back! Watching the butterfly go towards the sun I wonder what I will become!' at this point they slipped in to see Harry swing his leg up and kick the dummy in the head with force, then he jumped back doing a flip and connecting with the chin, 'Metamorphous, whatever this is, whatever I'm going through. Come on give me a kiss, come on I insist, I'll be something new a Metamorphous,' and Harry kicked the dummy again in the chest region with enough force to push the dummy back about an inch.

Bring his fist up in a right hook and then three sharp jabs Harry jumped back and spun to kick the dummy twice, 'Things are different now, when I walk by you start to sweat and you don't know why, it gets me nervous but it makes me calm, to see life all around me moving on. Watching the butterfly go towards the sun I wonder what I will become!' Harry stopped when he saw them and turned the song off and grabbed a towel to wipe at the sweat on his neck, he had been doing this for close to three hours.

"I um…how long have you two been there?" Harry asked he only wore a pair of sweat pants and was uncomfortable with the stares they were both aiming at him, "Guys?"

"A bit," Tom said walking over he sat on his couch, "Nice moves, where did you learn to fight?" he asked curiously, Lucius had taken up residence in his favorite armchair.

"At a local ring back in Surrey, my cousin use to go there until they threw him out…so I went," Harry said before shrinking the dummy and tossing it in his room where it immediately went in his trunk.

"Why did you not inform us you could do that?" Lucius asked subtly gazing at Harry who still wore no shirt; they could now see the lean muscle from training his body in Quittditch and apparently a sort of street fighting.

"It never got brought up," Harry shrugged before adding, "My boys can fight like that as well, I've trained them to be just as dangerous as me," then he headed towards the bathroom, "Gonna take a shower, you see Seamus tell him he has laps in the morning for skiving off a spar with me."

Seamus came in the room ten minutes later and instantly sat down relaxing back before noticing them both looking at him, "What?"

"Laps in the morning for ditching out on your fight," Tom said which made Seamus's jaw drop, "Now laps around what?"

"The forbidden forest," Harry said exiting wearing jeans and a muscle shirt, he normally had muscle shirts on under his robes since they were light weight and he could easily take off into a forest without his sleeves catching a branch and slowing him down, but they did not know that, "Ten, and that includes the spiders nest."

"But they try eating me!" Seamus said which made Harry tilt his head, "Yeah, yeah I know you don't care."

"So since you were out doing nothing of importance I am also making you go on a date with Ginny," Harry said sitting down and summoning his coffee to his hand, "I have no idea what it is but she is keeping a secret from me about the rebellion, so you will seduce it from her if need be,"

Seamus began sulking and Tom smirked when he realized Harry kept his boys in line quite well, Lucius was the one who finally seemed to have a back bone because he turned to Harry and asked, "Want to go on a walk with me?" getting blinked at then a nod he offered the teen a hand and helped him up, they left the rooms. A few halls down he asked, "Why do you make them fight?"

"To survive," Harry said easily, they were no longer touching so his hands were crossed behind his back, "I want them safe, don't you agree it's a good idea to have those you care about ready to take on the world?"

"Maybe I should get you to train Draco," Lucius said before Harry chuckled, "Something funny?" they were almost outside and when Harry stopped he did as well, in ten seconds flat Harry had him pinned to the wall opposite them a wand drawn to his throat and his hands pinned and legs pinned, the teen really could move.

"I'd end up hurting him," Harry said before hearing a squeak, turning he saw a girl staring at them, "Please go back to your common room and tell no one what you've seen," getting a nod he watched her run away and then he felt Lucius's hand slip away and twist so his wand was pointed up and then a knee collided with his gut off balancing him and he was pinned chest to wall with the blonds wand on him.

"My Father thought the same way you do, except it wasn't about people he cared about just those who could defend him," Lucius said before Harry's leg twisted and hooked behind his knee and he was forced away about four inches and then Harry's elbow came down into his gut and the teen twisted out of his grip, "Not bad."

"Thanks," Harry said slightly flushed, that had been exhilarating to him, "Why not train him yourself?"

"I don't want to be like my father," Lucius said leading Harry outside, "He would beat the hell out of me and then tell me to get stronger, I fear doing the same."

"Hey," Harry said, when Lucius turned towards him he threw a punch and the blond blocked, "You would not do that, I just attacked you and you haven't beaten me to a pulp."

"You're not my son, I don't want to know what would happen should I try," Lucius said before catching Harry's leg as the teen tried kicking him, that gave Harry the leverage to swing his body up and kick him upside the head. Falling back he dragged Harry down and they ended up in the grass with Harry on top of him, "You have nice calves."

"Thanks," Harry said sitting up and dabbing at a cut on Lucius's forehead with the bottom of his shirt, "I hurt you."

"Here," Lucius went through the wand motion of a simple healing spell and then told Harry the spell and the teen did it right, "See you still have much to learn."

"I know I do," Harry laughed before getting up and helping Lucius up to continue their walk.