He couldn't look away from his reflection. Harry had fled from his Potions class and ran in the first direction he saw, towards the black lake. He sat against his usual tree and stared into the water in front of him, looking at his reflection. He ran a hand across his defined cheek and looked at the sprinkling of his mothers freckles on them in his watery reflection. Eventually he just couldn't force himself to look anymore and sat back against the tree, pulling his knees up to his chest, folding his arms on top of them and burying his head in his arms. The silent crunching of leaves got louder as a figure ran out of the clearing behind him, soon followed by another larger one. Harry silently crawled around the base of the tree to watch the two figures who finally stepped into the light. Harry bit back a gasp, Lucius Malfoy was standing powerfully across from his son, Draco. The silver snake at the top of Lucius' cane was covered in blood, fresh and dried. Draco was a sight, he had a river of blood falling down the side of his face, his tears mixing with the blood, his white blonde hair was staining red by the blood and his arm looked splinched.

"Draco. Are you going to tell me the truth now?" Lucius snapped glaring at his son.

"I-I told y-you everything I-I know!" Draco stammered, his eyes darting around trying to find an escape.

"You're lying." Lucius stated angrily, drawing his wand. "Crucio!"

Harry watched stricken as Draco fell to the floor writhing in unbearable pain which Harry has gone through himself. He felt sick to the core when he saw Lucius smiling at his son's pain and suffering before lifting the curse. Draco wanted to badly to curl into a ball, and cry until the pain went away but he knew that his father would kill him otherwise, so he shakily stood to his feet, gritting his teeth in pain.

"Now Draco. I am going to give you one last chance" Lucius spat wielding his wand threateningly.

"I promise he never showed up for Potions! I swear!" Draco cried desperately, a few tears escaping. "P-Potter never showed up"

Seeing that Lucius was raising his wand, Harry snapped a twig loudly and watched as Lucius dropped his arm and spun around worriedly. He turned back to his son and pressed the wand to Draco's neck.

"I'll. Be. Back and. You. Will. Tell. Me. the truth" Lucius threatened before disappearing into the forbidden forest.

Draco let out a choked and painful sob before collapsing to the ground. Harry quickly jumped up, seeing the blonde falling and caught the boy before he hit the floor. Draco's eyes snapped up to meet his own and watched as the blonde's eyes widen in shock.

"You're safe Draco" Harry whispered. "You're safe."

"Harry…?" Draco croaked unbelievingly before his eyes rolled back and he slumped unconsciously into Harry's arms.

Harry felt his own eyes burn with tears but tried, and failed, to forced them back in as they started falling down his cheeks. He lifted the blondes matted hair to find a open jagged gash along his hair line and gasped in horror. Wiping his cheeks angrily to rid the tears, he lifted Draco up as more tears rolled down his cheeks to replace the others and started running back to the infirmary. He ran through the court yard, he knew that everyone had froze and were watching him but he didn't care and kept on running, he shoved past more than twenty people in his haze and got to the infirmary in less than five minutes.

"Madame Pomphrey!" He called hoarsely.

"I'm coming, I'm com-Oh my! What happened to him?" The Medi-witch screamed.

"Please help him! Please!" Harry begged.

"Put him on the bed" Madame Pomphrey instructed before talking to another medi-witch. "Call Severus"

"Oh Merlin" Harry whispered. "Draco! Please help him! … Please … help…"

Madame Pomphrey screamed in shock again as Harry fainted after placing Draco on the bed. She ran over and propped him slightly before getting the stretcher to carry him to the bed next to Draco's and drawing one curtain around both of the beds. She looked at the boy who fainted, wondering slightly who it was. She was just about to give him a check up before Severus walked into the secluded beds and looked at the witch.

"What is it Poppy?" He asked.

"This boy, he ran in here carrying Mr Malfoy, begging that someone help him and you can see why" Madam Pomphrey explained.

Severus looked at Draco and gasped in horror at the state his Godson was in. He briskly walked over to him and brushed his hair back to reveal the gaping gash along his hairline and sucked in a breath before turning back to Poppy.

"Which boy?" Snape asked.

"This one" She said stepping back to reveal Harry unconscious on the medical bed. "I've never seen this boy in the school before though"

"No!" Snape gasped running over and looking at Harry. "What happened to him?"

"He fell unconscious after bringing Draco in, probably from the whole shock of it all" Poppy told him. "You know who he is Severus?"

"H-he's…" Snape whispered running a hand through the boy's hair, looking at Poppy. "He's-"

Snape stopped in his sentence as he felt a hand clutch against his robes almost desperately. He looked down to see Harry barely away and clutching his robes for dear life as he slowly slid his eyes to meet Snape's.

"Daddy?" He whispered before falling unconscious again.

Here's the fourth chapter! I figured that as I made you wait I would give you two chapters in one update!

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Happiness is found in even the darkest of places if someone remembers to turn on the light
The strongest of us are the ones who can smile in even the darkest of times.

~J.H