Chosen Prompt: Lit Christmas Candle

Chapter 15:

Draco looked over to Harry as they walked up the path and saw the worried look on the other man's face. He felt the same way. Maliki was his son also, he may not have known him until recently but he was worried for his son, worried about what Blaise might have done to him. They finally came to the end of a path, where a house lay surrounded by snow covered trees. They turned and looked at each other before walking a little bit closer to the building.

"Do you think this is where Blaise lives?" Draco asked.

"Possibly. He always wanted to live in a secluded place away from everyone and everything. I think he was always trying to rule my life. Keep me and the kids away from others." Harry replied.

"Why did you stay with him so long?" Draco asked.

"I was lost for awhile. I really believed that you cheated on me. I was hurt and confused. Blaise was there when I needed him. Found out I was carrying the boys and decided to stay. When I figured out they were yours I was worried about what he would do. I know I could have taken him but I continued to think about the boys. They only knew him as their Father and I didn't want to take that away from them. I'm so sorry Draco. If I got my head out of my ass I could have fixed this with us." Harry hung his head down and turned back towards the house.

"I don't know if you would have been able to fix anything back then Harry. I don't even know if you can fix anything right now. All I know is that our son is probably in that house right now and I don't know what is happening to him, but we need to get him out of there." Draco replied walking up the steps. "There is wards on the door, we need to figure out a way to get in there." He stated as he felt the door handle.

"Knock. Just go for direct. You go over to the side and wear this." Harry handed him something and Draco looked down and saw it was his invisibility cloak. "Sneak in behind me and find our son, I'll distract Blaise." Harry said and watched as Draco nodded and placed the cloak over himself.

Harry knocked on the door and waited. It only took a couple of moments before Blaise answered the door, smiling when he saw Harry standing there.

"Harry. I was hoping you would come by sooner or later. What bring you today?" Blaise smiled and reached a hand out to Harry, which he didn't take and just looked at the other guy.

"I thought we needed to talk." Harry said and walked in after Blaise, taking a few moments to close the door until he felt Draco walk by him into the house.

Draco ignored the way Blaise was looking at Harry as he escorted him into the living room and walked the other way. He needed to find Maliki. He opened every door he came across on the first floor but found nothing, so he quietly made his way back to the front of the house and up the stairs. He looked into the living room first and saw that Blaise was awfully close to Harry at that moment, but he needed to move on and not worry about that right now.

Draco looked at every room upstairs except one. He finally came to the last door and hoped his son was in there. When he opened it he saw Maliki laying, asleep on the bed. He walked over and tried to wake him up but he didn't move. He quickly waved his wand and saw a stasis charm placed on the boy. He broke it quickly and saw Maliki shoot up on the bed and stare at him.

"Maliki are you alright?" Draco asked.

"Why. Why did Father hit me?" Maliki asked as tears ran down his face. Draco pulled him into his chest and hugged him to himself.

"I don't know Maliki. I need to get you out of here and home. Your Papa is down stairs. We need to let him know that I found you." Draco went to grab the cloak again but Maliki stopped him.

"I'm sorry." He said as he looked at Draco.

"You have no reason to be sorry Maliki." Draco replied.

"Yes I do. I was mean to you when you said you were really our Father. I'm sorry for what I said and how I behaved." Maliki stated.

"It's alright. Let's go. We have plenty of time to talk once we get you home and safe." Draco stated as he threw the cloak over the both of them, making sure they were completely covered before they left the room.

Once they were down stairs Draco sent a spell to one of the Christmas candles on the table in front of Harry and lit it. He was hoping that the other man would know what it meant it it looked like it did. Harry quicly ended his conversation and walked to the door. Draco kept his arm around Maliki and waited for the door to open. When it did he rushed the boy out to the porch and waited for Harry.

"Harry I hope we can really worked through all of this, not just for us but for the boys also." Blaise said as he walked up to Harry.

"I'll talk to you later Blaise." Harry stated and tried to walk away but Blaise grabbed his arm and turned him around, kissing him. Draco was about to get upset about seeing this happen but then he saw Harry's wand come up and blast Blaise back into the house.

"Never do that again. We are over and after everything you have said and done to me and the boys it will never happen again. Good bye Blaise, and never try to hold one of my boys against their will again or you will suffer." Harry spat out making Blaise turn white as a ghost as he looked up the stairs.

Harry quickly shut the door and they took off running to the apperation point and back to Harry's. Once they landed Draco threw the cloak off and Maliki ran into Harry's arms. Draco smiled and turned around ready to leave.

"Thank you Draco. Thank you so much." Harry said smiling at him.

"I have to get home to Tobias now. I hope you will let me get to know the boys and you will want to get to know Tobias." Draco stated as he looked between Harry and Maliki.

"I will. I'm sure the boy want to get to know you also." Just then Draconis ran into the house with Pansy right behind him.

"Papa, Maliki. I knew you would be back." Draconis stated as he hugged his brother and turned around and ran into Draco arms. "Thank you Father." then Maliki ran to him to hugging him next to his brother saying the same thing. That one word coming from both those boys made him smile.

"I have to go." He pried the boys off of him and floo'd back home, wanting nothing more than to sit with his son and never let him go.