Destiny's Turn

Chapter 3

Sunlight streaming through the window causes Severus to wake with a groan in the same place he was in last night, sitting beside Harry’s bed. He stands up stretching, trying to work the crick out of his neck from the way he had slept in the chair all night. He steps over to the bed, checking on Harry seeing that he is sleeping peacefully now and would wake when his body was ready. He leaves the room quietly and calls a house elf, telling it to give Lucius a message that he had gone to see the Headmaster and would return as soon as he can.

Lucius was given the message as he left his rooms heading down to breakfast. Luicius made his way down to the dining room and had his meal as he read this morning’s Daily Prophet. As Lucius is finishing breakfast a house elf appears with a pop. “Master the boy be waking up.” The little elf bounces excitedly. “Thank you Dobby. Get a tray of light breakfasts foods and bring it to the in about twenty minutes.” Dobby bobs his head in agreement before popping away. Lucius stands and leaves the dining room heading up to see how the child is doing this morning.

When he gets to the room he looks to the bed only to find it empty. He quickly searches the room, not finding him in the bathroom, closet or anywhere. “Harry where are you? My name is Lucius Malfoy and this is my home. I am not going to hurt you little one. I just want to check and make sure that you are alright and that your injuries are healing properly. Harry come out form where ever you are hiding. I promise I do not want to hurt you.”

Lucius continues to look around for him finally deciding that he must be under the bed and not wanting to scare him by checking. When Dobby appears with the food for Harry, Lucius motions for the elf to put the food out on the little table then sends Dobby on his way. “Alright, Harry I understand that you are scared and I will not force you to come out. I will leave you alone so that you can eat. I want you to eat all that you can, I will come back later and check on you maybe then you will let me see you.” He turns to leave the room. When he gets to the door and has it open he hears a noise behind him then a tiny voice asking him to wait.

He turns around slowly and smiles down at the tiny little boy in front of him. “Hello there Harry,” he kneels down to put himself more on an equal level with the boy. “Will you please look at me, I would like to see your eyes.” Lucius watches as the bowed head slowly rises up and Lucius gasps slightly as the biggest prettiest green eyes he has ever seen looks up at him.

“Well now Harry those are very pretty eyes you have there.” Lucius smiles at Harry as kindly as he can.

Harry slowly smiles shyly at the really nice man, “do you have my glasses sir?” Harry asks quietly quickly looking back down at the floor.

“No Harry I was not aware that you would need glasses, none were brought with you. I can get you a temporary pare for now until we can get you eyes checked. Will that be okay little one?”

“Yes sir. I would really like to be able to see you clearly.’’ Harry whispers shyly looking down even further at the floor.

“If you will wait right here I will go and get those glasses it will not be but a moment.” Lucius stands and slips out the door pulling his wand. He quickly conjures a pair of plain wire framed glasses. Charming them to adjust to Harry’s eyesight so that they will work for him for the time being. He turns heading back into the room walking over and kneeling back in front of Harry who had not moved an inch since he left. He holds the glasses out to Harry, “here you go Harry.” Harry very carefully reaches out taking the glasses from Lucius slowly slipping them onto his face. He slowly blinks his eyes getting used to being able to see then looks around the room taking in the grand setting he is in. Finally he turns his face up to look up at Lucius, he can’t help but stare eyes going wide at this beautiful man that must be an angel with his long white hair and clear silver eyes.

“Well how is that Harry?” Lucius asks as he slowly stands looking down at him.

“Thank you so much sir, this is even clearer then my old glasses. I can see everything with these.” Harry says letting a little excitement slipping into his voice.

“It was nothing really, now you really need to eat something. You need the food to get better, you are much to thin and it’s not healthy.” Lucius leads Harry over to the table. “Now you eat and I will leave you to it, I will come back and check on you later.”

“No! Wait please stay with me.” Harry shrinks back not believing he would blurt something out like that. He knows better then that.

Seeing how scared Harry is he quickly steps over to the table sitting down one side. “Sure Harry I will stay with you while you eat. Maybe we can talk a little bit.”

Harry slowly walks over to the table staring at it for a minute making sure its alright before he sits down across from Lucius. He stares at all the food not sure what he is allowed to have, not seeing any plain bread anywhere. Lucius seeing Harry’s problem reaches out and picks up a plate putting a little bit of everything on it then slowly slides it in front of Harry. “There you go, eat as much of that as you can.”

Lucius is filled with so much anger toward those muggles when he sees the look of awed wonder on little Harry’s face as he stares at the plate. “I can really have any of this food I want?”

Lucius slowly reaches out so as not to scare Harry, he lightly runs his fingers through Harry’s hair brushing it out of his eyes. “Yes, little one you can have all the food you want. I will never tell you that you can not eat. So just go right ahead and eat all the food you want.” He slowly pulls his hand away grabbing a scone to eat for himself.

Harry just sits there in shock; he can’t remember ever being touched with such gentleness before. He is not sure how he is supposed to react, so he watches Lucius for a minute to make sure he isn’t going to change his mind. Then he reaches out picking up his fork starting to eat slowly. Harry had never had seen so much food and it all tasted so good. After he was sure it was ok to be eating Harry started shoveling the food in, he was so hungry. Lucius watches him for as long as he can, “Harry why don’t you slow down a little bit. The food will not be taken away from you and I want you to enjoy it. I also do not want you making yourself sick by eating so fast.”

Harry glances up from his plate smiling shyly and slows down eating at a more normal pace. He eats all that he can almost cleaning his plate before he quietly asks, “You are not the one who came and saved me are you? Your voice sounds very different then the one I remember from my cupboard.”

“No Harry I was not the one. My good friend Severus Snape was the one that came and rescued you from there, and then he brought you here. He sat with you all night until he had to leave for a meeting he had to be at. I know he will be back soon though, would you like to see him when he gets here?”

“Oh, yes please. I really want to see him and thank him.”

“Well then I will send him in to see you, why don’t you take a bath and get into some clean clothes. I will lay some of my son’s clothes out for you. After you are cleaned up you need to get some more rest. I will send Severus up to you when he gets here.” Lucius shows Harry to the bathroom running some water for him. “I will leave your clothes on the bed for you.” Lucius turns and leaves the room heading to get some of Draco’s night clothes and gives them to Dobby to leave them on the bed for Harry. Then Lucius heads to his office to wait for Severus.