Title: Truth behind the name and the lies pt.4
Pairings: DracoxHarry, twincest, OliverxPercy, RemusxSeverus, CharliexBlaise,ViktorxHermione, future BillxFleur. Stalker Ginny! SeamusxColin, AdrianxNeville*hides*
Fandom : HP
Notes: An abused boy finds out he's a wizard and a hero; his tormented mind rebels. One person sees through the misconceptions to the real Harry and treats him the way he deserves. How does this change them both and those around them.
Chapter 37- Lily's Temper
Two days after Percy and Oliver's Bonding…
Harry and Draco were bored so they'd taken over an empty classroom after classes.
It was actually the classroom Draco had overseen his DADA classes their second year.
Draco sighed, "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Harry nodded, stubborn, "We need to work on my reflexes."
Draco, George, Fred, Hermione and Blaise sighed.
Draco twirled his wand between his fingers, "Adder, you're fine. You caught up to us Slytherins just fine. The same as Hermione, you're a fine duelist."
"I am not! I'm a coward." Harry glared, "When Blaise was attacked it was Hermione that disarmed them. Not me. When Moody attacked you I just stood there and watched. Who knows what I'll have to face in the Black Lake? I have to be ready because I'll be alone."
"You'll be fine Harry." Fred tried to reassure him.
"Do it!" Harry snapped.
The other two started attacking Draco and Harry with spells; the room had already been shielded so their little practice session wouldn't leak magic.
"Avis oppugno." Hermione yelled pointing at Draco.
"Protego." Draco yelled.
A shield rose before him and Harry, Harry cursed, "Again!" he was sick of this; he had to learn how to protect.
"Telum offa." Arrows shot from Fred's wand only to bounce harmless off Draco's shield.
"Bombarda!" Blaise growled.
Draco's shield quivered but held.
The four recast.
"Bombarda!"
"Bombarda!"
"Bombarda!"
"Bombarda!"
Draco's shield collapsed, Draco snapped, "Protego."
Harry stood there wand shaking.
"Confringo."
Draco's shield crackled as it was hit with fire.
"Confringo" it was hit again.
The shield crackled louder, and then crashed, Draco growled in French and Russian.
"Duckifors." Blaise said grinning.
Draco was transformed into a duck.
Harry shook and his face lost color, "Everte statum!" casting the hex at Blaise.
Blaise was thrown backwards hard, his wings emerging to slow him down.
"Flip," George began.
"Everte statum!" Harry snapped casting the hex at George.
Fred cast a spell that slowed his twin down, "Harry!"
Harry was too angry to care; he didn't even shield himself as he started casting every curse and jinx he knew.
Blaise pointed his wand at Draco, "Finite Incanteum."
Draco transformed back into himself, he called out, "Adder, stop. It's over."
Harry ignored him, "it's not over until I say it is." Still casting more spells.
"Adder, don't make me disarm you."
Their friends were dodging Harry's spells and casting shields but they kept coming.
"Slytherin's Ballocks! Expelliarmus." Draco disarmed Harry.
Harry spun to look at him, "Give me back my wand."
Draco shook his head, "Not yet. Calm down I'm fine."
Hermione, Blaise, George and Fred collapsed in relief.
"See? You went too far. I'm sorry I lost my temper and didn't recast my shield before Blaise hurled that spell at me." Draco apologized.
Harry growled, "Give me back my wand. We're not done yet. I haven't managed to protect you yet."
"You did just fine for now. We'll do this another time."
Harry stomped his feet, "You don't understand! I have to be able to protect you! I won't let you be hurt because of me. Now give me back my wand."
Fred's eyes widened between Moody's attack on Draco and the Golden egg's song Harry was getting desperate. He didn't know if he could handle doing as Harry needed.
"Adder, calm down please."
Harry's eyes narrowed, "Acio wand." His wand leapt back into his hand, "fine! Sleep in the dormitory or on Blaisé's couch. I don't care. You're not welcome in my room until you listen to me."
Fred stared at him, wasn't that counterproductive? How could Harry protect Draco if they weren't together?
Draco blinked, "Adder?" what the hell happened? "Harry, calm down. Talk to me."
"Forget it." Harry stormed out.
Draco was dumbstruck; they'd never fought before. He stared at the door; he wasn't welcome in Harry's room? They had been inseparable for months, since he'd confessed.
George rest his hand on Draco's shoulder, "He's just upset, he'll calm down. He's been through so much recently; it must be all coming to a head. He lashed out at us because he knows we'll accept it and forgive him." They all knew about Harry's past and his Gryffindor temper. He only really lost it when he was protecting someone, like when Blaise hadn't been given credit for McGonagall's giant Chess set and insisted on all of them receive awards for what they'd done while asking nothing for himself. He'd reverted after the punishment Harry's Muggle uncle had given him that left him near death, it had taken him a while to be capable of losing his temper but this was more then he'd ever seen.
Blaise felt faint and then kneeled over.
Blaise blinked, he was swallowing a potion from Fred and then jumping into the Black Lake gripping his wand. Wait! That wasn't his wand; it was Harry's…he was in Harry's mind?
He closed his eyes focusing on the connection from the ring that Narcissa gave him but got nothing. What was it he said?
When an empath is linked to someone, they can easily "reach out" and feel the one to whom they are linked, and then know how that one feels, emotionally and physically, and sometimes even perceive what they are doing. When a link deepens to a bond, the empath doesn't even have to "reach"; it is as if the other person is constantly standing right next to the empath.
A mistake that some empaths make is bonding to someone, and thinking that it will go both ways. If the other person isn't also an empath, or if the other person isn't strongly attached to the empath, then they probably won't form a bond back to the empath. Those situations can easily lead to a frustrating relationship where the empath who bonded feels everything that goes on with their partner, but the partner doesn't feel what is going on with the empath.
He had a link to Draco, an empathic one. A link through their very soul, Draco was missing…he was down here somewhere but where? He closed his eyes; the dragon would guide the Lion and raise him up? Their destinies were bound up with that of the Wizarding world? In that case he needed to be sure he wouldn't lose Draco for good…
Harry reached out farther, where are you Draco?
He felt a faint echo; deep in the lake…Harry swam weakly straight down blasting anything that got in his way. He hadn't been allowed lessons and could barely dog paddle? Whatever it was they called…
Blaise freaked, Harry couldn't swim? Time was growing short…the second task was in a week.
Harry barely noticed some water monster thing cornered Fleur but he had more pressing concerns. 'Draco, I'm coming…' vaguely realizing those were grindylows…
How did Harry know Draco was in the Lake?
Draco, Harry hadn't seen him since yesterday…
Blaise could feel the emptiness that Harry felt at Draco's absence…
A couple of grindylows tried to stop him but Harry growled, and cast a nonverbal banishing charm before swimming frantically towards the weak feeling he had from Draco. Why wouldn't Draco answer? 'Dray? It's Adder, talk to me? Dray?' the silence in his mind and his heart made this all the more terrible. Why him? Why had someone done this? Trapped him in a magical contract? What had he ever done? He'd been beaten and starved by his own relatives who hated him. He'd been haunted by the Dark Lord and his servants, his beloved Draco had been hurt because of him. Blaise had gotten hurt…
Blaise was shaken…
"Blaise? Come on wake up. Don't make me get Charlie. He'll want to claw my eyes out."
Draco?
Blaise pushed the residual feelings from his vision in Harry's mind; Draco was NOT his mate. He opened his eyes slowly, "Fine."
"You fainted. You're not fine." Hermione glared.
"Didn't faint." Blaise protested.
"We saw you" George began.
"Vision."
"I thought you only did prophecies." Fred asked.
"I don't know. It was a little disconcerting to be in Harry's mind Dray…I mean Draco." He glared at Fred, "When you gave him that potion did you even think to ask if he knew how to swim?"
Draco blinked when Blaise called him Dray, "Huh?"
Fred blinked, "Ask if Harry knew how to swim? No, never crossed my mind."
Blaise glared, "He can't swim."
Fred groaned, "Oh hell. I thought giving him the potion would help."
"He's a mess because he can't swim and he's terrified he'll lose Draco if he can't find him in time during the second task." Blaise said crossing his arms.
Draco closed his eyes, he hadn't known…
Fred gave them all a small smile, "George and I can use the Prefect's bathroom. We'll teach him how to swim there."
Hermione sighed, "Poor Harry."
Draco sighed, "Should I respect his wishes and not go to his bed?" their bed…
Blaise shrugged, "It's up to you. Harry's lost and confused right now. He's struggling; he doesn't feel like he's done well at all. He feels like he's failed both of us…"
Draco closed his eyes, "I can't not protect him its something I can't fight or resist without injuring myself. Damn it Adder," knowing Harry was in pain was opening himself to it. He could feel his lover's anguish and sorrow, the guilt was crushing….
Blaise stood up slowly, his wings shrinking and finally disappearing as he mended his clothes. "I know, it will be fine. We have to trust him."
Draco clenched his hands into fists, "Why can't he talk to me?"
"He doesn't want to be too dependant. He wants to be equals." Blaise said, "I need chocolate." He leaned against the wall, "Audy."
His and Charlie's house elf appeared, "Yes Master Blaise?"
"Chocolate."
"Right away master."
"We should take you back to Charlie." Hermione said.
"I'll be fine. I just need chocolate." Being a Veela seer was a hassle but if it helped Harry….
Audy returned with chocolate, "Here master. Master Charlie is coming."
Blaise closed his eyes, "Slytherin's Cauldron."
Charlie stormed in, "Blaise?"
Blaise sighed, "I'm just fine. I had a vision after helping Harry with his dueling skills. Nothing to worry about."
Charlie checked him over for injuries, "Vision? I didn't know you had visions."
"Neither did I," Blaise said dryly.
"Can you tell us?"
Blaise shook his head, "I told all I could. I'll need to see Harry soon."
"We'll see him about swimming, a week is such a short time but every bit counts." Fred felt terrible for not asking if Harry could swim…
XoooooX
Harry stormed into the rooms he shared with his dads, the portrait slamming behind him.
Severus broke the kiss with Remus to see Harry, his son's magic crackled around him and he held his wand in a death grip. "Harry? What happened?"
"That git took my wand!" Harry snapped, "As if him being hit with that spell and being helpless wasn't bad enough."
Remus blinked, "What?" were Harry and Draco fighting?
"I wanted to work on my reflexes. I want to protect Draco but I didn't cast anything until Blaise hit Draco with a spell that turned him into a duck of all things. That rotten Veela had the audacity to laugh!" Harry growled.
Neither Remus nor Severus had ever seen Harry like this.
Remus fought a grin, "That is not James' temper."
Severus sighed, "I was at the receiving end of that temper more times then I can count."
Harry pouted, "Don't make fun of me. I can't be weak!"
Severus winced, his Mark had been burning and growing cleared but he dare not mention it. He didn't want to give rise to his suspicions and make them real. It had only become less faint since Harry became a Champion.
Remus knelt next to his son, "I'm not making fun of you pup. You're just reminding us of your mother, that's all. It's okay to be weak sometimes,"
"I could lose Draco!" Harry said bursting into tears, "they're going to take him away. I don't know if I can get him back. I hate this tournament. I hate whoever did this to me. Why me? Haven't I been hurt enough? Am I not a good boy? Is that why I'm being punished?"
Remus took Harry into his arms and hugged him "Hush now. You're a very good boy, smart too. We wish we could help…" they were teachers it was against the rules, he glared at Severus.
Severus held up his hands, "It was me or Draco, I wasn't eligible because I'm a teacher. The others are more like siblings; it was out of my hands. I didn't think he would react like this…"
Harry cried himself to sleep and Remus put him to bed.
Draco opened the portrait later after sensing Harry was asleep, "Is he okay? I was worried. He told me I couldn't come to bed. I'm under orders to sleep on Blaisé's couch or return to the dormitory." He said shifting nervously from foot to foot.
Seeing his normally confident godson like this was unsettling, Severus sighed, trying to ignore the Mark, "He's just upset. I'm sure he'll be fine in the morning."
"It's my fault you know, if I hadn't lost my temper when my second shield collapsed them Adder wouldn't have reacted like that." Draco said softly, "I probably shouldn't have disarmed him. He was so angry…"
"He has Lily's temper, when she was upset about something she lost her temper with someone she trusted. When Petunia made her angry it was I she screamed at. I was the one who had to teach her to control her magic." Severus said with a far away look in his eyes, "that was why after that fight with James I lost my temper with her, she would have forgiven me if I hadn't called her a Mudblood."
Remus interrupted him, "She did forgive you for that, she was just disappointed that you fell more and more involved with the Death Eaters."
Severus winced, his Mark itched it didn't burn yet but he was worried that it might.
Remus noticed his mate's discomfort, "Sevy? Are you alright?"
"Just an old injury." Severus tried to brush it off.
Remus sensed it wasn't the truth; he pulled up his mate's sleeve.
Severus pulled away trying to cover the Mark.
"I can still see it, it's darker now." Remus said sadly. "It's been getting darker for months now. I just tried not to notice. Is Lucius' reacting?"
Severus bit his lip, "Haven't asked but Karkaroff is so jumpy I wouldn't be surprised. He was a Death Eater too but he gave up a lot of names."
"He seems the type to jump ship." Remus said with a snarl, that man had a weird smell.
Draco was emotional and magically exhausted, he wanted to go to Harry but he felt like he didn't have the right.
Remus sighed, summoning a blanket and transfiguring Draco's clothes into pajamas, "Just rest here. No need to go elsewhere for the night, Severus would never throw you out." Harry needed the night to calm down but he hated seeing them both upset.
Between Harry's recent behavior and his godfather's darkening Mark Draco was even more concerned. Why Harry? Why did fate have to choose him? Those were Draco's last thoughts before sleep embraced him.
Exceeds Expectations? Outstanding? Troll? What do you think?
Well that was different wasn't it? I hope you all like it. it wasn't quite the fight I had planned but it seems to work. And Harry is standing up for himself a bit more...