Cold water cascaded over both boys as they leapt from their beds screaming.

"Well, that's what you get for not waking up the first three times I called you. Now get up and get dressed, it's half three and we have to be out the door in fifteen minutes or we'll miss the portkey." Hermione waited as both boys gathered their wits making sure they didn't crawl back into their beds before heading down to the kitchen to wait.

"She's your bloody girlfriend, can't you control her?"

Ron simply laughed and started to get dressed.

Fifteen minutes later, as Hermione and the Twins were beginning to think they would have to go and drag the boys downstairs, Harry and Ron walked into the kitchen and grabbed biscuits from the table and quietly followed the rest out the door.

"Charlie, how far do we have to go for the portkey?" Hermione asked.

"About three miles, we'll be looking for an old butter beer bottle."

As they walked on in silence, Harry began to take in his surroundings. It was still dark out, but he was able to see the countryside pretty well thanks to the light coming from their wands, though it would have been nice to have sunlight to see by.

As the group exited the tree line into an open field, Charlie hesitated and put his hands up to hold everyone where they were. "Something's not right," he whispered.

The Twins exchanged a look, nodded, and walked to opposite ends of the line.

Harry stepped up beside Charlie, "What's up? Did you see something?"

Charlie shook his head. "No, and that's the problem. We are supposed to be meeting some folks from the Ministry and a couple of Goblins I know and I don't see them. Something doesn't feel right either."

Charlie sent red sparks out from the tip of his wand and waited for a response. Suddenly from the left of the field, orange sparks flew into the sky. He looked at his companions and said, "Stay here until I call for you," and started forward into the clearing.

A tall figure appeared in the center of the clearing and Charlie appeared to be talking to him. Charlie was becoming very animated and then turned and waved at the group.

Fred and George led the way with Hermione between them and Ron and Harry right behind them. Just before the group reached Charlie, he and the other man yelled and fell to the ground. A goblin came running from the trees and was able to yell, "Run, it's a trap," before he fell to the ground, hit from behind by a green light.

Instantly, Harry, Ron, Hermione and the Twins were surrounded by hooded figures, wands drawn and pointed at them. "Give us Potter," growled a voice from inside the hood closest to Ron.

"No," came the stereo reply from the Twins. "Give us your wands."

Growling could be heard all around them before the strangled words were heard, "We only want Potter."

"And how does it feel to want?" Hermione said with more cheek than even the Twins could have mustered at that moment.

Charlie began to stir and Ron bent to help him up. No one, with the exception of Harry, noticed the wizard on Hermione's left raising their wand or the red light shoot toward the girl, until Harry jumped in front of her and took the brunt of the spell in his chest. As he sagged to the ground, Charlie and the Twins each grabbed the arm of one of the other three and disapparated with them before any other damage could be done.

"Mum!" Charlie yelled as he brought an unconscious Harry into the Burrow.

When no answer came, Charlie sent Ron to find Molly only to discover she wasn't there.

Hermione hadn't waited to see if Molly was there, she'd immediately headed for the floo and was in the process of fire calling Severus.

"Severus, Harry's been hurt, he was hit with a stunner by someone and is unconscious. Molly's not here. We need your help."

Before she could move from in front of the floo, Draco was bounding through followed by Severus, both with arm loads of potions.

Both men put their supplies on the table and Severus calmly asked where Harry was.

"He's in Ginny's old room," Ron answered pointing up one flight of stairs.

Draco headed up the flight of stairs to the room and stopped on the threshold when he saw Harry lying on the bed. He was pale, had blood on his shirt and Charlie was sitting beside him washing his face and neck off with a flannel.

"Charlie, has he regained consciousness yet?"

Charlie turned and looked at Draco, "No, he hasn't. He was hit in the chest with a stunner at point blank range."

"Okay, I will handle this and Draco will check you over," Severus said striding into the room with a tray of potions. "Thank you for bringing him back with you."

Charlie nodded to Severus as he left the room with Draco trailing.

Severus cast a series of charms to remove Harry's clothes and assess his injuries. There was the obvious burn from the spell contact but there were also a broken rib, concussion and several large gashes on his chest.

Harry never moved while Severus treated the wounds and burn. He twitched as his chest was wrapped to help support his ribs while the break healed.

Draco followed Charlie into the living room and sat next to him on the couch. He found himself having a hard time controlling his anger and took a moment to try and rein in the urge to hex each and every person in the kitchen as they speculated about what was wrong with Harry.

Finally, as he began to check Charlie over for obvious injuries and treating the cuts he found, he quietly asked, "What exactly happened?"

He explained everything up to the point of being knocked out, before going on to what he saw as he woke.

Draco listened intently, waiting to hear about any security they had set for the area, any unseen Order members or Aurors keeping an eye on them for protection, but heard about none of those precautions being taken. It angered him even more when Charlie got to the part about being helped up by Ron, "Where was the security? You're a member of the damned Order and you thought it would be okay to walk around without any protection? Was no one watching those surrounding you?"

"Harry was." Charlie quietly answered, ignoring the other questions. Draco had found a particularly large knot on his head and was pushing on it, causing Charlie to see stars in front of his eyes from the pain.

Draco put his head in his hand and asked, "So how did Harry come to be stunned?"

"I believe the stunner was meant for Hermione, not Harry," Charlie answered. "I saw him dive in front of her as I stood and then he fell."

"Sounds like something a Gryffindor would do," Severus said as he entered the living room followed by the others. "Harry's resting comfortably. Taking the stunner that close will cause him some problems, but he will be fine. He will need to rest to heal. I will stay with him for now. When will your mother be home?"

Charlie stood and wobbled a bit "We don't know. We didn't know she would be gone. We weren't expecting to be back until tomorrow at the earliest."

Severus scanned the Dragon wrangler and nodded, "Charlie, send your patronus to her and let her know what has happened then head up to Ron's room and get in bed. Ron, you will need to keep an eye on him tonight as he has a concussion and will likely be unsteady for now."

Charlie nodded and went outside to send the message while Severus spoke to the others, "Why don't you all get cleaned up and unpacked. Draco," Severus said turning to his Godson, "have one of the Manor elves come and help get some food ready and then contact Poppy and let her know what happened. Once you've eaten, come and see me. I'll be with Harry."

No one questioned Severus' orders as they silently complied. Severus went back to Harry's beside and waited.

"Severus, how is he?" Molly asked as she set the dinner tray on the table beside the bed.

"He's resting comfortably but is still unconscious."

"You should get some rest; I will stay with him for a while."

"No, that's okay. He's my responsibility."

Molly put her hand on his shoulder and gave a squeeze, "Severus, you need to rest. Harry's doing fine and Merlin knows I've sat up with sick children before."

"I will stay with Harry tonight," Draco said walking into the room with a pillow and blanket in his arms. "I'll sleep in here in case he needs anything. I will call one of you if he wakes up."

Molly and Severus acquiesced to Draco's suggestion and left him with Harry. Molly showed Severus where he could shower and put him in Charlie's room as Charlie was in Ron's for the night.

Draco curled up in the chair beside Harry's bed. He watched Harry's bandaged chest slowly rising and falling, almost hypnotized by its rhythm. He wondered how long it would be before Harry woke and he could beat him unconscious again for doing something so unbelievable stupid as taking the spell head on.

"Water," Harry's raspy voice quietly requested.

Draco jumped up and brought the glass to Harry. He sat on the edge of the bed and helped Harry sit up so he could drink.

After finishing the entire glass, he smiled weakly, "Thanks Draco, but what the hell are you doing at the Burrow?"

Draco put the glass on the table beside the bed and refilled it then walked to the door and called for Severus, knowing the man wouldn't be sleeping no matter what Molly insisted he do. He walked back the Harry's beside and sat in his chair before saying, "Harry what do you remember?"

Harry gave him a strange look then said, "We were walking to the portkey point and people were there. They were cloaked so we couldn't see their faces and they demanded I be given to them. Charlie had been hit with something and was on the ground. They killed his friend."

Harry reached for the glass and Draco handed it to him. Harry continued as Severus walked in and sat next to Draco listening to Harry talk. "The Twins said they wouldn't turn me over and when they said they only wanted me, Hermione gave them cheek and asked them how it felt to want. Charlie started to wake up and I saw a wand rise. That's the least thing I remember."

Severus stood and passed his wand over Harry, checking to make sure everything had healed before saying, "If you ever do something so stupid again, Potter, I will kill you myself. The next time you are told to wait for someone, do it. And do NOT take it upon yourself to take on a curse of that magnitude. You should have called for Miss Granger to drop."

Seeing the confusion on Harry's face, Draco translated the rant, "Harry, the wand you saw raised fired a stunning spell at Hermione and you jumped in front of her, taking the spell yourself. You've been unconscious for close to Twenty-Four hours."

"Huh," Harry said, "and how did I get naked?"

"Molly, really, I'm fine," Harry insisted as he tried to get out of bed.

"Harry, I won't brook any argument on this. Before he left, Severus said you need to rest and rest you will."

"Yes ma'am," Harry sighed in resignation. He knew he wouldn't win any further argument so he conceded and layed back down.

Two hours later, as he finished the last of the Quidditch weekly magazines Charlie had brought him, Ron and Hermione came in and sat down, uncharacteristically quiet.

"Alright you two, what's going on?"

Ron looked at Hermione, who simply nodded, before he said, "Well, we know who they were."

Harry didn't need to ask who Ron was talking about and he wasn't sure he wanted to know, but curiosity got the best of him as he asked, "Well then, who were they? And how did you find out?"

Hermione answered the first, "They were working with Greyback. He apparently knew you were in that village last week and he wanted to stop you from interfering with his plans. He figured they could take you and kill you before anyone was the wiser. We were all to be killed as well."

Harry took a deep breath, realising how close he'd come to losing everything with his stupid trip to the village and nodded, acknowledging what Hermione was telling him.

Ron answered the second question by simply handing him a parchment that read,

Harry dearest –

You've gotten away this time and saved your friends again but this is the last time that will happen.

You will be mine to destroy and I will succeed where others have failed.

I will take you from right under their freckled noses and you will be mine before they have even noticed you're gone.

I've been told of your proclivities and can't wait to show you how it feels to be taken completely and owned.

My companion has made me aware of the places you frequent and I have seen the defenses you have mounted. They are insufficient to stop me in my course of action.

My love has given me quite the tour of your living arrangements and I must say, while I know your desire for family is strong, living in such Blackness must be very lonely. I can eliminate that loneliness for you.

Come to me willingly and I will spare those you consider family.

Do not, and they will grace my table at the celebration feast when you are mine.

Make your choice soon. I will not wait long.

Thought it was unsigned there was no doubt it was from Greyback and that Ginny had given him a lot of private information about Harry. He looked at his friends and raised an eyebrow in question.

"Okay, so we have already begun to pack things up and we're planning on heading to Grimmauld for the time being," Hermione began. Harry was already shaking his head but she continued anyway, "I have a number of questions for you not the least of which is 'proclivities'? And do you really think he meant what I think he meant by his 'companion'?"

Harry broke in when she took a breath, "Hermione, first off, yes he meant Ginny. I believe, based on this," he waved the parchment in the air between them, "that she has told him many of the things that she's been privy to about my private life and all of you. That is why I believe Grimmauld to be an unsafe place to stay."

Harry got out of bed, mindful of that fact that Hermione was in the room and he was only in boxers, and got dressed. The pair followed him down to the living room where he said, "Molly, I need to speak to Severus right away, may I use the floo?"

She nodded absently and continued packing the family photos she was taking. She paused briefly to caress the picture of her wedding day as a tear fell on the glass.

"So, I found evidence of Stupefy, Crucio, Petrificus and most worrying, a Shock Spell. I'm not sure how Charlie survived all those."

"I don't believe he would have if he wasn't so fit," Severus said as he finished his soup. "I know he has had to learn to throw off the Unforgivables but I'm impressed he became conscious on his own after the severity of the Shocking Spell."

"I would have to agree," Draco mumbled. His appetite had been greatly diminished seeing Harry and Charlie injured. His secret hope had been that with Voldemort gone, Harry would be safe and would no longer have to spend all his time looking over his shoulder. He hated to be wrong.

"Have you ever heard of anyone using the Shocking spell in such a manner Uncle Sev?" he asked as he placed the dirty dishes in the sink.

No I haven't, but I wouldn't put it past some of the remaining followers to try it. Why don't we check the Library for any references to the spell being used in any other manner than medicinally?"

Draco followed Severus into the large room and began searching the left side of the room while Severus headed right. They would meet in the middle by the seating area and fireplace and see what they had come up with.

Harry strode into the kitchen, threw power into the floo and stuck his head into the fire, "Severus? Are you there, I need to speak to you now."

Moments later, Severus appeared and said, "What do you need Harry? Are you alright?"

He explained about the letter and what his interpretations were and found Severus agreed with him regarding Grimmauld and the Weasley's safety. He asked Severus if there was anywhere else they could go and heard a voice in the background answering. "Severus, I didn't hear that. Did Draco have an idea?"

"Several, but the only useful one was that they utilize an estate house that no one knows about. I agree with him and believe it will be possible, but only if Molly is open to it. I will need to speak with her so I'll be right there."

Harry went back to the living room followed moments later by Severus and Draco.

"Molly, I understand you and your family have need of a place to stay?"

Molly looked up from the trunk she was shrinking and said, "Yes Severus, I believe we do. It would seem that a very pissed off, scruffy, over grown mutt has decided to use one of my own to make my life an even bigger hell than it already is at present by forcing me out of my own home. Did you have someplace in mind?"

Severus handed her a slip and when she read it, her eyes went wide. "Severus are you sure?"

Severus nodded once, "It makes the most sense, though it will require a bit of housekeeping to be comfortable."

"Safety?"

"Unplottable and unknown to the Ministry. That address will need to be seen by those you wish to have with you. Anyone else is welcome with us."

As the two quietly discussed the temporary move, Draco pulled Harry up the stairs and back into the bedroom before unleashing, "Have you lost what's left of your mind?" He had no fear of yelling as he had sealed the room with a silencing spell the minute the door closed. "You could have been killed. Why do you keep throwing yourself in front of things like this? Do you really have a death wish or do you just want to see me gray before I'm eighteen?"

Harry smiled slightly at the image of Draco with gray hair. He had no doubt it would shine and would never be out of place.

"I mean seriously, you're going to give me a heart attack if you keep doing things like this. And let's not even talk about the idiocy of the people you were with. I mean really, just because Voldemort is dead, doesn't mean you aren't in danger," Draco continued as he paced the room gesturing wildly as he spoke, magic flaring off of him with each motion.

"How do they not have the brains the Gods gave a dung beetle, and have some form of security set up for the portkey sight? Or use an unregistered portkey? I mean, there were so many other options for getting to the match that would have kept you safe."

"Draco," Harry ventured as he put his hand on the blonde's arm to stop him.

Draco turned and dragged Harry into a fierce embrace before Harry could stop him. "Please stop doing stupid stuff like that," Draco whispered.

Harry wrapped his arms around the blonde, patting him on the back, "I make no guarantees."

The boys stood like that for a minute more before Draco let him go and said, "We should go, we won't be privy to where they're going when they go, so you'll need to say goodbye now."

Harry followed Draco down the stairs, shaken by the emotions he felt from himself and Draco, and found everyone gathering in the living room readying themselves to leave.

Hermione hugged Harry first and quietly said, "I understand and it's fine. I trust your judgment. Just be careful."

Ron shook his hand and said, "We'll owl but no floo. Mum said it won't be safe to do that. And it won't be Pig with deliveries as she'd get noticed. Watch for it."

Molly hugged Harry tight and said through tears, "We'll be home soon and then you boys can come over for a proper dinner. I haven't been able to really spoil you in a while and I think I would like to get to know Draco a little more if he's going to be part of this family now." She kissed him on the cheek and gathered Ron, Hermione, the Twins and Charlie into a huddle, "Now read the address on this parchment. When we walk outside, I'll make mention of going to Diagon Alley for dinner but this address is where we will be going. Hold onto each other until we get there. We will be apparating for safety and Severus, Harry and Draco will be covering us from the house. Ready?"

Everyone nodded and followed Molly out the door. Severus burned the parchment before he positioned himself by the door, out of sight, to watch their progress.

"Okay, I know this dinner isn't something you're all looking forward to, but I am, so we will go and that's that. If we get separated, the restaurant is at the Northern end of Diagon Alley, so meet us there. Right then, hold on everyone and think about where we're going."

Hands clasped, the circle disappeared. Severus, Harry and Draco breathed a sigh of relief and made sure the Burrow was locked up tight before sneaking out the back under an invisibility charm and apparating back to the Manor.

Percy watched from the old fort in the back garden as a small band of wolves approached the vacant house and sniffed around. He noticed his sister walk up beside the largest and scratch behind its ear while saying, "There are only a few places they could have gone sweetheart. We will find them and you will have Potter. I promise you."

Percy shivered in silence at the cold tone his sister's voice carried and didn't miss the easy affection shared as she climbed on the back of the wolf as they ran for the woods. He waited for half an hour before he felt it was safe to head home.

As he sat with his tea, trying to settle his nerves, he posted an owl to Harry with a short note,

They were watching but saw nothing.

They arrived between departures and could not follow.

She was/is helping so be careful.

I will try to find out where they are staying and get that to you. Please keep them safe.

I will help as I can.

He left it unsigned but knew Harry would know it was from him. He only hoped that Harry had found someplace truly safe for his family.

Harry was propped up on the couch in front of the fire writing in his journal when the owls arrived. He let them in and removed the scrolls before giving them water and treats. Both left quickly and he chuckled watching them try to out fly each other.

Severus walked in with tea and raised an eyebrow at the notes.

Harry held up the first and said, "They're safe and said it will do just fine; though they may have to make some changes to the décor."

Severus chuckled.

Harry handed the second to Severus who read it and looked at Harry, "Percy."

Severus nodded in understanding.

Harry got up, bid Severus goodnight and headed into his room. He sat in bed and reread his journal entry before drifting off. He hoped his sleeping mind would help put things in a manageable order for him so he could sort through all the feelings he had. He'd hate to misread anything and embarrass himself or anyone else.

10p

So, today became an interesting day to say the least.

First, I woke up from the oddest dream I've had in years, then I get a love note from the Wolf, followed by a tirade and bone crushing hug from the blonde and ended with my family leaving for someplace I'm not allowed to know about.

About the dream, Sirius and I were walking along the tracks into Hogsmeade following a small ball of light. He was telling me about his first love, who I assume was Remus – though he never gave me a name – and about how the more they tried to deny their feelings and hide it from others, the worse their relationship had gone. Once they were open about it, they discovered others had known longer than they had. I'm not sure why, but the ball of light began dancing around my head and then wrapped around me like a hug. I felt safe and loved and like I could do anything.

I may have to reexamine the light later….the rest, well, I suppose I can figure that out easy enough. I have to look into myself and see whether keeping my sexuality secret from my friends and family is worth the pain and trouble of keeping quiet.

My first love note and it's from HIM. He somewhat outed me and I know Hermione has figured it out as she told me she's okay with it. I only hope she doesn't try to match make for me now.

He's going to be a problem if I can't get rid of him soon. He's caused them to leave and I don't know where they are or if they really are safe.

The blonde is a bit of a conundrum. He appears to be adjusting to having me around fine. He sees his Mum everyday and on the bad days, he seeks me out to do something with so he can distract himself. Other days, it's like I'm not even there. It's only been a little over two weeks but we still have a least a month left before I can even hope of getting away.

Today though, today he really made a step forward, if I'm reading things right. Today, he pulled me aside and let me have it for putting myself in danger and the Weasley's for not taking better care of me. He was so angry his magic was rolling off him in waves and then he admitted to being worried about me. A lot.

When he hugged me, I swear I could feel his heart racing.

I don't know how I feel about all this yet, or if I return those feelings, but I am willing to think about it. He really has changed and it's real. I guess time will tell.

AN: As always, these characters are sadly not mine and I make no money from them…..

I wish you all a very Happy Easter!