AN: sorry these are getting longer and longer apart once again.. oh and i am going on vacation(thank god i need to get away, like we all do at some point lol). anyways my point is that i might not be able to have computer access where im going so it may be another week before another update. :( hopefully i'll came back clear minded and ready to go! lol

A slumped body sat soundlessly in a rather uncomfortable chair. Breakfast ended too fast for his taste, and already he was annoyed. Snape stood from his current position making himself taller than the young flesh before him.

Draco rolled his eyes. Snape always tried to make him seem inferior to him. Well it wasn't doing him any favors. Snape being the ex-spy he was caught the body language. Just what he needed... a highly pissed off teenager.

Harry was taking his time to go up the stairs. His curiosity was over taking him and he wanted to know what Snape wanted to say to Draco. Why did it have to be in privet? Was it about him? As he made his way up the stairs, he past Mr. Malfoy; who at the moment seemed to be in an early morning rush. "Good morning Harry." He quickly added before sweeping past him.

"Morning sir." Harry answered back, turning around watching as Malfoy descended down the stairs. He quirked an eyebrow. Maybe he could just stay and listen-they would never know-

"Don't even think about it Harry, it is none of your concern." Lucius quickly responded without even bothering to look back. Harry stood mouth wide open.

"Freak." He mumbled. Why can't I listen? Huh? What's the big secret? Bloody bastards. See what happeneds when you leave me out!? Why can't I-

"Go to your room-please, Harry."Snape's voice sounded from the dining room.

"Fine!" Harry said stomping upstairs. Draco who heard both what Snape and his father said, sat with a smirk on his face. Not only was Harry a horrible liar but he sucked at even thinking about eve's dropping.

"Wipe that smile off your face Draco, Severus is trying to talk to you and it is not in any way humorous." Draco sent his father a nasty look and turned his attention back to his 'god father.'

"You have my attention. What do you want?" Draco snapped snidely.

"I just wanted to talk to you Draco. You have been acting very differently and you are changing. I'm worried, and so is your father." When Snape received no response from Draco, he sighed. "It's been brought to me that you.. hate me. Is that correct Draco?" Snape's voice was soft now. Yet Draco's expression hardened. He eyes turning into solid ice.

"I do hate you." The words sounded from every corner of the room. Ringing into the ears of the potions master. Lucius watched his friend closely. He had seen that face before. When Severus had been told that Lilly and that Potter were in danger. The face of despair. A face full of pain. Snape swallowed once keeping his face in check. He watched the boy before him. It was no longer Draco. It was no longer the boy he once knew.

Now standing before him, was a torn and ripped person, isolated and hurt. Draco watched as one of the people who cared so much about him was being pulled apart. He knew that he shouldn't feel this way, he knew he shouldn't care.. but he couldn't stop. Why did Snape care about Harry? It was supposed to be him that Snape cared so much about, and know that Harry had taken his spot, even his father would like him better. Then what would happen to Draco? He would be nothing and Potter would have everything.

"..You." Draco repeated standing from his chair and fleeing from the room and up the stairs, and there he was. The traitor; the worst possible person that could have been there.

Harry stood wide-eyed in the hallway, something came into Draco's mind and a smile appeared across his face. "Have you ever gone flying in Snape's backyard?"

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Snape went through numbly for the rest of the day. Spending his time making potions and by the time the sun fell, a knock sounded at the door. He didn't even hear the knock, he didn't even recall the last time he blinked.

"Severus?" Lucius softly asked. He watched as his friend stood relatively still. He was hunched over a little with his hand on the counter; propping him up. Snape stirred with his free hand and didn't even seem to be paying any attention. Lucius watched as something boiled over a smothered Snape's hand. Snape took a moment to realize the pain, when finally he lashed out throwing the potion across the room shattering viles and viles upon viles.

Snape stood still again, ignoring his injured hand. Lucius nibbled his lip, before nodding his head and began to approach Severus. He reached a hand on Severus's shoulder and knitted his eyes as he saw Snape flinch before calming.

"What is it?" Snape's voice cut in somewhere below a mumble.

"I was just checking on you. I haven't seen the boys in a few hours and was wondering if you knew where they were?" Lucius tried to stay calm. He knew that the boys were missing, or he wouldn't have come down to bother Snape, but after looking everywhere he knew that something was wrong.

Snape read his friends face, and caught the slight bit of fear coming from him. "They are in the bedroom?"

"No, they aren't." Lucius KNEW that they were not anywhere in the house, he checked and checked everywhere, Snape said shaking his head. "They have to be."

"Trust me, there not. They aren't even anywhere in the house, I can't find them Severus! I don't even know how long they've been missing!" Snape nodded his head and looked at his desperate friend.

"I understand. We need to go to the headmaster."

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Hours later Snape and Malfoy stood in the headmasters office. All had been exsplained and the headmaster look towards Snape.

"You mean to tell me both boy's are missing, my boy?" The twinkle in his eye had faded and was now blank and empty.

"Yes! What don't you understand Headmaster!? I don't know what to do.." Snape finally snapped. It had been hours now and no one knew where the two boys had disappeared to.

"Let down your guard, Severus and you will be surprised of what you find."

AN: Finally I know where this story is going, time to wrap it up and finish lol.. well not for a few more chapters, obviously. Anyways I wanted to thank all of you who have followed this story so far! reviews are wonderful! :)