Losing Pain

Chapter Twelve

Once the picture was taken, the two boys chatted happily with the other Slytherins. None of them were disturbed by the fact that the two were together. Truthfully, the only reason they made fun of Harry before, was because Draco had done it. Everyone followed Draco Malfoy. The Malfoy's always ruled above the rest.

While in the middle of a memory relapse, someone yelled out loudly. "Draco Lucius Malfoy! Come here this instant!"

Draco cringed as his full name was called. He hated when that voice, the voice of his father, spoke it. It was never spoken by him in a nice way. He was always cold with it.

Both Draco and Harry turned around. The rest of the group scattered away. They knew that staying around wasn't a good idea when Lucius Malfoy was angry.

Lucius Malfoy and his wife, Narcissa, were walking towards the two. Narcissa had a bright smile on her face. Quickly, before Lucius could yell, she hugged the two tightly, whispering her congratulations. Harry and Draco whispered their thanks right back. The mother didn't seem to mind that Draco was with Harry either. In fact she thought it was quite delightful. She treated the teen like her own son, sometimes even better.

"Hello, Father." Draco bowed his head a little.

"Hello, Lucius." Harry copied Draco's action.

"What have you been thinking, Draco?" Lucius immediately exclaimed. "I'm wondering if I should take you in to St. Mungo's."

"Father, nothing is wrong in my head." Draco told him defiantly.

"Then why have you gone and quit Quidditch?" Lucius started to wave his hands around like a madman. "And why do you seem to think that your preference is the male gender?"

Draco glared at his father long and hard before he answered. "Quidditch isn't all that it seems to be, Father. Actually, it's much more fun to watch than to actually play, but you wouldn't know that would you?"

Lucius seemed to have become even angrier at his son. His pale face was starting to turn a light shade of pink. Harry thought he was starting to look a bit like Uncle Vernon when he got mad. "Now just because something isn't fun doesn't mean you should stop. You'll come across many things that aren't fun but you'll have to go through with them anyways. If you had continued, you could have had a chance at becoming a professional!"

Draco scoffed. "A professional Quidditch player? Father, that was your dream as a kid. But since you hadn't even made the team, you put it in your mind that it was my dream. You don't even know what my likes or dislikes are, including my preference!" He yelled the last word loud enough to make almost everyone's head turn, not that most of them weren't turned already.

"Nobody in our family has ever been with someone other than a girl." Lucius said simply.

Draco raised his eyebrow, challengingly. "What about your two brothers? What about your father." Draco sneered at the last one.

Lucius's face quickly changed from a light pink to a deeper shade. His hands were clenched at his sides, but they were shaking immensely. "They are no longer a part of this family! Is that what you want?" Lucius yelled even louder than Draco had before.

Draco made himself look like he was thinking about it. He looked back and forth from his father to Lucius. Harry immediately got nervous. He never thought Draco would have to choose.

"Draco, go. Go with your father. You have so much more opportunity as a Malfoy. You'll be great. You'll be everything you've ever wanted." Harry coaxed Draco softly. He lightly touched the blonde's wrist before he dropped his own hand to his side.

Draco looked at Harry astonished. He never thought the Gryffindor would side with his father. Before, Harry had been happy whenever Draco told him that he'd always choose him over his powerful name. He didn't actually think that the boy would choose differently.

Quickly he thought over every possibility between the two. His back and forth looking quickened its pace. Now he was seriously starting to second guess. But then, his mother walked over to him and took his hand. She looked fiercely into her husband's eyes and spoke. "Lucius, if you make our son choose between love and power, then I'm leaving you. I've already stayed with you when you abandoned your brothers, even when you abandoned your own father. But I've had enough. Our own son? This is going too far."

Lucius looked at his wife almost like he was scared. The man loved her with all of his heart. Everyone knew that. If something happened to her, he was always by her side. He never thought of the possibility that she'd leave him. "Narcissa." He spoke softly.

"I'm not joking about this Lucius. You treat people badly, I know that. But, treating your own son like this is going too far!"

This time it was Lucius who looked back and forth between his son and his wife. He really loved Draco too. He had always been the person Lucius could never be. Back during his school years, he was really a weakling who got through his years by his name. Draco actually was a strong person. People feared him for more reasons than just his name.

"I...I..." Lucius stuttered. "I can't let you both go." He finally whispered.

Harry, Draco, and Narcissa all smiled happily. Everything was perfect again. Lucius walked closer to the three and hugged Draco and Narcissa tightly. Harry stood back and watched, still smiling brightly. But then Lucius looked at the boy and held out a hand. "You're part of the family now, Harry. You might as well join."

Harry walked slowly closer to the huddled group until Lucius grabbed his arm and pulled him all the way. His face got pressed into Draco's hair. Before they let go, he took in a deep breath of the wonderful smell the blonde locks gave off. He could never get enough of it.

But, the moment they all let go, Draco touched his hair and his eyes got wide. Quickly he ran towards the castle, his hands frantically trying to fix his hardly ruined hair. Lucius, Narcissa, and Harry all looked at each other and laughed.

"I don't think I've ever seen someone fret about their hair more than that boy." Lucius shook his head with a playful smile on his face.

"Oh don't worry. He's even worse after we've snogged for a bit." Harry laughed again, but then a look of horror crossed his face after he realized what he'd just said.

Lucius looked at him with a slight glare at first, but then he started to laugh again, as did Narcissa. Soon enough Harry's little comment got around the whole crowd and everyone was dying of laughter.

When Draco came back, hair perfect once again, he found almost everyone practically running out of air from laughing so much. His face became confused. "Harry, what's so funny?"

Harry looked up at him from where he had fallen on the ground. "I'd rather not say."

Out of everyone that had been to the graduation, only Draco turned out to be pissed in the end.

A/N: Here's the twelfth chapter! I know I'm posting it just a tad bit early...okay a few hours early, but I won't be able to do it at any other time. Also, I won't be able to add another chapter tomorrow either. I am going on a trip for two days. The next chapter will be up either Wednesday or Thursday. I'm not sure because I'm not positive about what time I'll get back. Also, a special thanks to Tintenkatze for giving me Draco's middle name. It has been changed in this chapter as well as chapter eleven. Finally, as always, thank you to everyone who continues to read this story!