It had been two weeks since Harry and his husband had returned to school and Harry was starting to worry Severus and Draco. Ron was gloating for he was of course sure he had won and he really had. Lucius hadn't raped him or anything so drastic but Harry was basically a leashed dog, and if anything all it had done was make the rumours spread even more the they had before and Harry was starting to lose hope already that he would ever be free of his husband's control at least till his birthday. He was escorted to classes by his husband or Draco, and he couldn't stand the eyes on him as he was being forced to eat at the head table with his husband. Severus was on his other side and had been doing his best to make Harry feel more at ease up there and had been trying to talk some sense into Lucius but it did not seem to work. Harry was not even allowed to study in the library or in his own house, neither was he permitted Draco or any other friends to come and study with him either. His husband had kept his promise not to force him again but he had returned to his husband's bed and his husband had returned to groping him. He just wished Lucius would return back to the man who had taken him to Thailand. He was starting to see the human side of his husband and feeling like he could come to perhaps come to care about him but that had gone out the window. What ever human side he had seen seemed to slip away as soon as it had come.

Harry had been allowed to escape for quidditch practice Saturday morning but he was confined to the rooms for the rest of the weekend. Lucius was not required to have meals on weekends in the hall and he decided he had no need to share his husband. Severus had actually suggested his brother allow Harry to eat meals at the house table for he was within sight of Lucius, as long as he did not sit next to Blaise, for Harry had not been eating or just barely. Lucius decided if Harry could not handle the eyes on him then they would just eat in their rooms. Harry couldn't understand why his husband would not even allow him contact with Draco.

Lucius was summoned though to his business on Sunday and had to leave Harry. He decided to give Harry a pardon in the form of spending some time with Severus in his potions lab. There had been a time when both Harry and Severus would have thought that they were being punished. But Harry was so grateful for human contact other then his husband and Severus had been worried about Harry.

He watched Harry as he was working on a potion. "Harry I know it is hard. Draco and I are trying to work on him. He can't keep this up forever."

Harry turned to look at him. "You're right, he can only keep doing it until I turn seventeen and then he can't force me. I just have to survive six months of it."

Sighing and shaking his head Severus wished that there was something that he could say which could comfort Harry some at all but he wasn't sure what to say and as much as he tried to convince Harry that Lucius would come to his senses he was no more sure about it then Harry was. He knew how stubborn his best friend could be, it was one of the reasons that the two of them had got into fist fights in the past. He had never expected that his brother would have forbidden even time with Draco. Lucius was just going over board to the extreme and he was only relieved to hear that Lucius had not tried anything physically with Harry since that night.

Harry was surprised when lunch came with a guest. "Draco, but if you're dad....."

Draco cut him off. "My dad is not going to accuse us of doing something wrong and besides my dad will not be back till dinner time."

Though harry was still worried Severus ushered them both into his sitting room knowing Harry needed this right now. He knew Harry was right to be concerned for his husband had left instructions that Harry was not to have any company other then Severus but Harry was growing depressed and he seriously needed some time away from his husband and with people he knew cared about him. Draco was just as worried about his friend as Severus was and he could not even believe what was happening. He had been hearing the kinds of comments the other students were making, Slytherin and Ravenclaw on his side but the others were talking.

Draco kept watching his friend through lunch and they were working on potions that afternoon together and was worried Harry might have seriously become a danger, not to someone for he would never even hex his husband, but to himself. And he knew his Uncle was concerned as well. They had hoped today would help.

Lucius suddenly appeared an hour earlier then usual and was not pleased to see Draco but said nothing. "You will come home for a bath before dinner."

Draco saw the pleading look Harry sent their way as he was taken from the room and turned to his Uncle. "We have to do something. Dad is out of control."

Agreeing with his godson he reminded Draco that Lucius was not doing anything that he was not permitted to do. But he too was anxious to find some way of relieving the tension and problems as well. He had seen the way that Harry was tonight and he had never seen him this depressed and withdrawn before. Harry had fight in him when he had married Lucius but it seemed gone. Severus had a feeling that it was because Harry had seen his husband as a monster and had expected no less of him when they wed. And then he took Severus' advice and tried to find the human side of his husband and had thought maybe there could be more for them. And now this had all happened and his husband had taken the word of someone who had attacked him and tormented him, over his own word.

Lucius had taken Harry back to their rooms and was trying to keep his calm about the while Draco thing. He reminded himself he was being foolish. Draco was his son and there was nothing that anyone would say about the two of them. Besides he didn't really think Harry was betraying him, he just wanted to end rumours. And they had been in private and he was sure that his brother had been the one to set it up.

He pointed towards the bathroom. "You will take a bath since you have been in the lab all day and will come and join me for dinner when you're done."

Harry nodded. "Yes master."

Watching his husband leave the room he went over to pour himself some bourbon. That had been the only response he had in two weeks, the only words, yes master or no master. Harry had called him it on their wedding night but not since. He couldn't deny he was bothered by the fact that Harry was so zombie like right now. He assumed he could loosen some of his hold on his husband; at least allow him to have people over here. He knew the rumours had not been dying down and he might have to come up with different way of ending them, for he missed his husband's fiery spirit.

Dinner arrived and he realized about ten minutes after it did that he had heard nothing from Harry. He headed into the bathroom where he found though the tub was full his husband was lying on the bathroom floor with some kind of bottle in his hand.

He sunk down next to his husband and noticed he was still breathing but barely. He summoned his house elf. "Get Severus here now, tell him it is an emergency."