I Am Draco Malfoy-Potter
Chapter Thirteen: Past, Present, Future
The ride home was mostly quite. No one really wanted to talk. Instead, they enjoyed their silence cuddled up to the people they loved.
They had found the real Alastor Moody and Crouch Jr had been sentenced to the Kiss. They had said goodbye to the boys of Durmstrang and the girls of Beauxbatons. Now as they sat in their compartment headed home, Harry was at a loss of words.
"Do you think we'll ever have a quite year at Hogwarts?" Ron's question was met with sighs and groans.
"No." Draco answered with a deep and suffering breath. This year had been the worst, he wasn't able to do anything to help his lover, but from now on, he was going to be able to. Harry would be protected, he would make sure of it.
"No, not really." Hermione answered to, frowning. "Everything going to change from now on isn't it?"
"This have been changing since the first year. Why would it stop now." Ron snorted.
"Promise you'll write this summer. All three of you." Hermione insisted, glaring at her boys. They all nodded.
"Every week." Harry said with a small smile. Draco smiled too, looking at Harry.
They were going to the Malfoy Manor today.
When the train finally stopped at King's Cross station, they all filed out, hugging each other and saying their goodbyes. Once everyone had left, Draco took Harry's hand and pulled him out into the exit where he knew his mother was waiting.
"Hullo dears." She said with a sad little smile. "I have heard of what happened this year. Harry dear, are you okay?" The boy smiled at the woman, laughing when she hugged them. "Lucius won't be joining up this summer, he said that to keep you safe from evil, he needed to refrain from coming home."
Harry frowned. "I'm sorry. I could go to my relative's place if Lucius would rather come home."
Narcissa snorted. "Oh no you don't. You are a guest in the Malfoy house as of today. Lucius is many things, but once he accepts you into the family, you will not leave." She smiled again, a little fuller this time. "Now lets go boys, the Manor awaits."
She hold out a fancy scarf, looking at the two boys as a command to take it.
They both touched it and they were gone.
Vernon scowled as he waited, before long he gave up. The damn freak could walk home if he wanted to take so long to leave. Getting into his car, he was gone not noticing the woman that had taken his charge smile at him when he walked away.
"Welcome to the Malfoy Manor." Narcissa smiled as she looked at Harry's face. Draco was smiling too rather proudly if she had to put a name on it.
"Narcissa, it's beautiful." And in her opinion it was two. She'd changed things up during the boy's school year. She'd had the house elves clean almost every room, she'd added brighter curtains, more elaborate furniture and refurbished the tile floors. She'd done her best to make the place look presentable for her new son-in-law. She had to laugh at that.
"It's nothing Harry. Now, we have a guest room ready for you across the hall from Draco's room, but if you would like to share one with him instead..." She let her sentence hang in the air as the brunet boy started to blush. He'd taken to sleeping with Draco in the Room of Requirements for the last year, so he was a bit uncomfortable with the thought of sleeping by himself.
"We'll share mum, it's a big manor and I'm sure Harry isn't really comfortable in big lonely places.
"Harry!" Sirius' voice started the brunet who didn't look fast enough and was tackled onto the ground by an over grown child. "Harry! How are you? I heard about You-Know-Who returning, I heard about the tri-wizard tournament! Harry you're a champion! I can't believer you won!"
The shy smile Harry had maintained since seeing Narcissa Malfoy in the train station had now turned in and all out grin, as he hugged his godfather and laughed at the man who talked a mile a minute.
"Sirius, when did you get here?" He asked as the man finally stood up off of him and held a hand to help him up.
"I got here yesterday, Narcissa set everything up with Dumbledore." Sirius answered with a smile, look at Draco and sending a nod. The blond returned it. They haven't interacted much despite being related, so Draco and Sirius were mostly just polite to each other.
"Wait, Dumbledore agreed to let Harry stay here?" Draco asked in awe. The old man would never to alright with Harry in the house of a known Death Eater family but Sirius nodded, and his mother began to explain.
"No. At first he was against it. He had believed Harry would be safer under the blood protection charms of his relative's house, but then Lucius walked in." Narcissa smiled wide and looked at Harry. "He gave them a pensive memory of the night Voldemort returned and also provided names. As of now, Lucius is a spy for the Order."
Harry frowned "The Order?" He asked and Sirius panicked a bit. Harry wasn't supposed to know of the Order, but Narcissa wouldn't have that. It was Harry's right to know.
"The Order of the Phoenix." Narcissa answered as he watcher her son come up behind Harry and wrap his arms around the slightly shorter boy's waist. So they were together. Narcissa smiled. "It was formed during Voldemort's first rising. Now that he has returned, Dumbledore called for a new Order. I believe you will be joining it soon Harry." The woman shook her hand and grabbed Harry's hand. "But enough of unpleasant things, let me show you to your room."
As the woman dragged Harry off, Sirius looked at Draco who had a content smile on his face.
"He means a lot to you, doesn't he?" Sirius asked. He wasn't sure why, but he could feel it. A connection to this boy he was supposedly related to. This connection would never be as strong as the one he had with Harry, but it had the potential to be just as important.
Draco looked at him with hard eyes. He hadn't ever met Sirius, he had died during fifth year, but now was his chance and he was going to make sure this man liked him. For Harry's sake.
"Yes sir. He's the most important thing in my life."
No one spoke for a while as they followed after Narcissa and Harry, but Sirius felt it again. This boy was family. Maybe this would be good for him and Harry. Being alone never did appeal to his inner dog.
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"Is it ready?"
Eager eyes bore into the back of his head, and he had to smile at his little sister. She'd turned 11 not too long ago, but nothing had changed. She was supposed to be going to Hogwarts this year, but in this time, that wasn't really going to happen.
"Yes." Scorpius grinned. "It's done."
Lilian jumped into the air, not being able to hold back her joy as she ran around the room, jumping into her young brother's arms. Jamie caught her without a problem, smiling just as widely as she was. "We'll be able to see them soon." He spoke into her ear as he hugged her.
"We can do it tonight if you guys want to. Can one of you call Leonis and Severus?" Scorpius asked as he poured the potion into four different veils.
"Where do you think they are?" Jamie asked as he watched his bother work. The potion had turned out even better than they had theorized. The perfect protection potion not even their father who was a world renown Potions Master had been able to do. Sure, it had been accomplished by four children, but they were Malfoy-Potters. He's whole family had a tendency to be amazing.
"We're right here." Leonis' voice sounded through the door before he actually pushed it open, but as he walked in, so did their Uncle.
Their uncle had never looked so fragile.
"Uncle Sev!" The twins yelled in unison in pure surprise. He was limping, his face marred with blood and dirt.
"He is of no use to the Dark Lord anymore. He was to be killed tonight. We have to leave. All of us." Leonis said with a hard look on his face. He was only 15 years old now and already his eyes had the look of a veteran soldier. Severus gazed at the children in sympathy and sadness.
"You four must not be found here. Destroy the records of the research you have accomplished and leave at once. I do not want you in my house any longer." He had tried to sound commanding, but all he did was sound weak.
"Uncle Sev," Scorpius sighed. "We can't just leave-"
"The hell you can't!" Severus yelled managing to just perfectly. "I have watched you grow up in a world filled with pain as happy and loved children. You will go and leave me to face the ghosts of my past."
The four siblings looked at each other and each one made their decisions. Their Uncle Sev would be safer in the past.
"Come with us." They said together.
Severus scowled. "I am not-"
"Not like us. Don't come in a physical boy. Come to the parallel world like Dad had." Scorpius answered. "We saved the rest of Dad's potion and we can send you first before going ourselves. Please Sev, we aren't leaving you here alone."
In all honesty, Severus knew it would be better if he did not. It would be better for everyone. But he wanted to be selfish, if only this once. He wanted to watch over these children for a while longer, he wanted to see Draco, Harry...Sirius...
"I- I can't." Severus argued, but the look on the four children's faces broke his ever strong resolve.
"Uncle Sev, we need you." Lily said softly and as he looked at her face, he knew it was true. These children were scared. What they would find, what their parents would think, what would happen to them, there wasn't one thing this children were sure of, and they needed this as much as Severus needed a new beginning.
"Alright." Severus sighed and the kids began to smile.
"Lets hurry, we don't have time to waste. The Death Eaters are on their way here tonight."
The children saluted comically before getting to work. "Yes Sir!"
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"Harry, I want do show you something."
Night had fallen not long ago, and Harry sat on Draco's bed with his back resting against the headboard reading a transfiguration book that he'd grabbed out of the Malfoy Library earlier that day. His eyes strayed from the book up to his blond.
"Yes Dragon?" He smiled a bit. He liked this, the way they were right now. The comfort and the closeness.
Draco climbed on the bed too, caring that photo album he'd brought back from the future.
"When you started this album, you asked for my parents wedding picture. I think your parents' are in here too. I want to show it to you." Draco smiled and leaned against Harry a bit as he flipped through pages rather quickly.
He and Harry had yet to go through the book together, but that was alright, anytime they got the urge it was there for them. As Draco opened it and found the right picture, he passed the book to Harry.
There before him where two whole pages dedicated to both his and Draco's parents. Right in the middle of the page were wedding pictures of each couple. Lily, James, Narcissa, and Lucius. They were each smiling in joy and looking perfectly content to life. Suddenly Harry got a thought.
"Does this album have our wedding pictures?" Harry asked.
Draco snorted and tried not to laugh. "Yes it does. Look for it if you want."
Harry did just that, passing page after page of pictures of their children and Ron and Hermione and Snape and surprisingly Luna and Neville. Until he finally found it.
The second he laid eyes upon it he laughed so hard he couldn't stop. He grabbed his stomach and had to pass the book to Draco.
"Oh no way!" He laughed. Draco joined in with a light blush on his face.
"It was Hermione's idea." He answered the unasked question.
In the picture was just Harry and Draco standing at the alter frowning at the camera like they were about to murder the person behind it, but that wasn't the funny part about the picture. What was funny was the fact that both he and Draco were wearing dresses, pure white wedding dresses holding flowers and hidden somewhat in vials.
"She did not!" Harry yelled as he laughed.
"Yes she did! She said 'All party's have themes' and made it a Gender Bender party! You should have seen the dress she made Ron ware, it was bright freakin red! Like Fire red. I still remember that night so vividly. She had ended up on the wrong ends of so many wands that it didn't take long for her to agree it was a bad idea. She asked for a picture before we changed into formal dress robes though, and that's where this picture came from."
Harry looked at it with tears of laughter in his eyes. "Oh wow, I wish I had this memory." He said thoughtfully. Draco suddenly stopped laughing and looked straight at Harry before sighing. That sobered Harry up real quick.
"I wish you had those memories too." Draco said with a sigh.
Harry suddenly felt like he was seeing Draco for the very first time. Like they were strangers, and that scared him a bit.
"Draco?"
The blond said nothing as he sunk down under the covers, wrapping his arms around Harry's legs.
"Being the only one to have these memories, being the only one who knows some things. It's lonely. Sometimes I feel like I'm going out of my mind. Like everything I remember is just a dream. My whole life before this was just a dream. My children, my marriage, my accomplishments, they were all just...dreams." Draco hid his face in Harry's hip and Harry pet the blond head of hair softly, with a sad frown on his face.
"I'm sorry Draco." Harry whispered feeling weak and useless. "I'm not the Harry you fell in love with..."
Draco's head bolted up to look at Harry in the eye and glared at the bright green emeralds. "Don't you dare say something like that. No matter what I remember, I love you now just as much as I will in the future. You are the one I need to protect, the one I'm living with right here and right now. While I miss the moments in my past, this right here is my future."
Harry had to smile as Draco said this. Future Harry would always exist in memory, but the Harry right now was the future. The brunet understood what his love was trying to say loud and clear.
With a light kiss on the lips, Harry put the album on Draco's nightstand and kissed the blond's lips, sinking down under the covers with him.
"You're my future too, Draco." Harry sighed.
They fell asleep like that, wrapped in each other.
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"From here to there
Where once began to go wrong
Let this lonely soul bare
So selfless and strong
Not for change or to despair
But to relive and to replace
What all at once had not been fair
To revive a soul that lead this race."
The four siblings watched Severus drink the potion and begin to fade right before their eyes. This is how Dad had gone, but it won't be how they left.
"Do you have it ready?" Scorpius asked Jamie. The boy nodded and brought up the photo album. He and Lilian shared one but Scorpius and Leonis had their own, so risking one was okay in the long run.
"Do you think this will work?" Lilian asked softly, not really wanting to be insecure but really nervous about the success rate of their little plan.
Scorpius smiled at her. "Just remember everything you want to tell Papa when we see him Lily. We'll be fine." She sighed one last big breath and them smiled up at her oldest brother. He was right. They had spent almost two whole years on this potion and the charm that would be used to open up the parallel world. It was going to work, it had to work.
"Leo, get the album ready." Jamie said as he brought the veils of potions. He handed one to Lilian and then one to Scorpius, waiting for Leonis to pour something silver over the album before he too was giving one of the veils.
"Let's do this." Scorpius said looking at each of his siblings.
"This item we carry marks one in a pair
From this world to the next it is very rare
We ask for one lonely open path
To allow us entrance in another world's wrath."
Each one drank their potion, one after the other starting from the youngest. The wind had begun to pick up in the enclosed room. It was almost violet.
"Help us to recover what we have lost
For we are ready to pay any cost
Open the portal to where the other half lies
And let us pass through before severing ties."
A dark hole began to grow just in front of the children and the wind seemed to be pulling everything into that hole.
"We ask not for a new life to start
Just merely to depart-"
Before they could finish something knocked Lilian off her feet and the wind began to drag her to the portal.
"Lily!" Scorpius yelled reaching for her. He managed to grab her hand but the momentum throw him off and he wasn't strong enough to hold them both.
"Scorp!" Leonis yelled and grabbed the oldest boy's ankle. Jamie looked at the portal and cursed. It wasn't going to last for long.
"No one let go!" Jamie said, rushing forward to grab the album they'd used and then reaching for the three backpacks they'd prepared so that they could take with them. Inside were all of his Dad's and Papa's journals and even some of their own things.
"Let go, the portal's closing!" Jamie yelled but the wind was too loud. A bit frustrated, he ran for Leonis and tackled the boy off his feet, holding onto his waist as Lilian was sucked in first, followed by a panicking Scorpius and Leonis with Jamie hanging on his waist.
This would work. This had to work. Jamie thought as they all screamed. This HAD to work!