Finding Draco Malfoy

A/N Okay so I have a poll up on my profile to decide who Ron will be with, in this story. Please go and vote, as of now Severus is in the lead. This chapter has a bit of a one sided Ron/Severus drama but don’t think that means that they will be together in the end… I am feeling sneaky! This chapter introduces what I hope to be the only Oc’s in the story. They were necessary for later plot development so please don’t hate me. Thank you to everyone who reviewed so far!

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Finding Draco Malfoy
Chapter nine
A loves labor


Harry started as Snape emerged from a door on the far wall, the brunette blinked rapidly at the striking figure he cut against the harsh morning light. The normally dreary man looked positively cheerful in the muggle jeans and polo he wore. Harry caught Draco smiling at Snape out of the corner of his eye, the blond looked radiant; he wondered if he had ever seen that smile on his face before.

“Severus, you look quite jovial this morning, it’s puzzling considering…” Draco offered gesturing to Narcissa.

“Draco Abraxas Malfoy, you should be glad your mother is alive and making a full recovery. That fact alone is reason enough to be in excellent spirits.” Snape snapped taking the seat on the other side of Narcissa’s bed.

“I suppose… Severus Harry brought up breakfast would you like some?” Draco asked diverging from the subject of his mother’s condition.

“It would be prevalent to eat, you did not poison it did you Potter?” Snape asked taking the tray from Draco’s out stretched hand.

“Of course not Snape.” Harry snapped glaring at his prickly ex-professor as the man sniffed the steaming food.

“Severus, Harry can you two please behave, mother is recovering! She doesn’t need all of this negativity hampering her.” Draco whispered looking at his mother’s slack face.

Harry glared at Snape but quieted himself, Draco called Snape Severus, he smiled at him like he was god… Harry wasn’t so sure Blaise was right about Draco liking him. In fact Harry thought Draco was mooning over their surly ex-potions professor. The blue eyed man seemed absolutely smitten; Harry felt a sharp pain in his gut. He didn’t know why this was so surprising, his life was never easy. Harry sighed and stood to leave the room; maybe Blaise and Hermione would have some idea about what to do with this new information.

“I’ll see you later Draco, I’ll come by later and bring some lunch.” Harry bit out as he stomped to the door and out in to the hall.

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“What’s wrong with him?” Draco asked looking to Severus.

“How am I supposed to understand the whims of our great savior?” Severus asked buttering a piece of toast.

Draco sighed and gave his godfather a sharp look. He couldn’t think of what could have happened to make the green eyed man act this way. Draco let his head fall on to the bed next to his mother’s slack hand. Taking the fragile pale fingers in to his hand he wished she were awake, his mother always knew what to do.

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Hermione smiled as she watched the two men play chess in front of her. Blaise was giving Ron a run for his money, both boys were deadly silent as they studied the board. She was sitting in a comfortable high backed chair with the Encyclopedia of Hexes Vol. 2, but had been neglecting it in favor of watching the tense game between the two men. Faintly she heard a door slam; she made a face and wondered who was in such a foul mood. Then Ron cried out, he slammed him hands down on his thighs and crooned to Blaise.

“I got you, check mate in two moves!” Rom cried sticking his tongue out at the shocked Slytherin.

“Blaise please forgive Ronald, he is as sore a winner as he is a loser.” Hermione commented picking her book back up to hide her grin.

“Yeah I got that… good game Ron, I am glad I’m on your side in this war.” Blaise laughed standing to stretch. “You all want to head back outside? Charlie has to be done de-noming by now.” They had been forced in doors under the threat of having to help Ron’s older brother an hour ago.

“Eh, sure mate just give me a minute to clean up this game.” Ron said winking at the darker man. “Why don’t you and Herm go on out without me, I’ll just be a minute.”

“No I don’t think that’s a good idea boy’s.” Hermione commented looking out the large picture window. “It looks like rain.”

Blaise sighed and damned the elements as he glanced out the window as well, dark clouds were approaching quickly. “Hermione’s right, looks like it’ll start up any second.”

All three teenagers jumped as the door to the library slammed open. Harry strode in and threw himself on to the chaise closest to the fire.

“Something wrong mate?” Ron asked staring at the fuming brunette.

“Draco liked Snape! Snape, the greasy, bitter old man!” Harry fumed crossing his arms and glaring at the flickering flames in front of him.

Blaise tried not to snicker, but his best attempts were for naught as the uproar of his laughter burst through the room. Harry turned his glare on to his new friend; the dark skinned boy was going to die after he explained what was so funny.

“S-S-Severus is Dray’s Godfather!” Blaise exclaimed as his laughter died down. “He’s like his f-father!” Blaise continued to giggle madly as the other three occupant stared at him like he was insane.

Harry blinked, Godfather? Well he supposed that would explain some of the more tender moments between the two.

“But the way Draco looks at him… it as if… as if he make the day brighter just by being there.” Harry groused turning to Blaise for help.

“Harry you have to believe me, Draco has no interest in Severus. Severus is like another father or a favorite uncle. You have to understand he needs Severus right now, he just lost his father in a way.” Blaise comforted putting a hand on Harry’s shoulder. “Draco likes you believe me, he may not know it but I know my best friend.”

“I think he is right Harry, I mean who would pick Snape over you anyway.” Hermione added smiling at her friend.

“I dunno, he’s not that bad looking.” Ron commented as he cleaned up his chess set. As the red head realized what he said he slapped his hand over his mouth and walked to the large cabinet with the chess set to hide his red face.

Harry stared at his best friend, in shock. “I did not just hear what I think I heard.” Harry stated blinking rapidly.

“Well I dunno Harry, if you heard Ron say he though Severus was attractive then either we are both hallucinating or… it actually happened.” Blaise commented looking to Hermione for reassurance.

“Ron… you think professor Snape is… attractive?” Hermione asked clearly stunned. She caught sight of Ron’s red face and squeaked in surprise. “Seriously?”

Ron glared at the three of them and bolted from the room, slamming the heavy oak door after him.

“Well… that was strange.” Harry commented totally forgetting about Draco.

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Albus Dumbledore stood at the entrance of a large mansion; he had been waiting for someone to answer the door for the last five minutes. As soon as he had realized what it was the order was dealing with he had rushed to find Liam, and his search had brought him to this grand manor in the middle of the sands of the Sahara. Liam Borque was the only living being to ever have seen a demon and lived to tell about it. It seemed they would need his unique talents for this war not to have been in vain.

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The first thing Narcissa noticed as she slowly woke was that there was no pain. She blinked as she slowly awoke, where was she? The last thing she remembered Lucius had been beating her. Pain had been expected… her husband was very good at what he did.

She sat up slowly, and realized Draco was there, he had her hand grasped tightly in his own. Narcissa smiled and ran her hand over her babies beautiful hair. She looked around, it seemed she was in an infirmary, the blond woman had no idea how she had gotten here but she was thankful to not be at Malfoy manor any longer.

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Severus paused as he entered the attic; Narcissa was sitting up looking around the room as though she had no idea where she was. Severus smiled as he watched her stroke Draco’s face, he was so glad they were both safe. They were the only family he had left as it was and he felt very protective of the blonds. With one last glance at the Blond woman he turned and made his way back down stairs to find Poppy, she would want to know her patient had awoken.

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Ron curled up in a mess of pillows and throw blankets on the window seat in the sitting room. He was hiding from the other occupants of Number Twelve; he couldn’t believe what he had said. It had been in the back of his mind for the last few days, seeing Snape outside of school had brought up some uncomfortable feelings. He had never like boys, it was just not something he had ever thought of before but hearing Snape speak with such conviction at the order meeting had… made certain things hard to ignore. The red head sighed and looked at the roaring storm outside, the weather seemed to mimic his mood perfectly.

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Liam stalked in to the receiving room; he thought his servants must have been idiots, allowing Albus to stand outside for nearly eight minutes. It was such a large breach of protocol he wasn’t sure how he was going to face his oldest friend. As he neared the receiving room he turned to check his appearance, he pulled his long blond hair back and tied it with a length of leather to keep it out of his amethyst eyes. He brushed a bit of sand from his golden skin and decided that this was as good as he could look without a good scrubbing. Sighing he tuned and took a deep breath looking at the ornate door it was now or never.

Albus was sitting in an overstuffed leather chair sipping a cup of tea and looking out the floor to ceiling picture windows on to the sands.

“Albus, what a surprise!” Liam exclaimed putting his arms out and walking towards his friend.

“It has been too long my friend, but I am saddened to say this is not a social visit.” The graying man stated as he embraced his oldest friend.

“Albus what is it? I haven’t seen you this upset since Gellert went mad and tried to off all of the muggles.” Liam commented sting across from Albus and pouring himself a cup of tea.

“Yes well… I have come in to some very sensitive information concerning the newest dark lord. It seems he had been dabbling in the occult before his first reign of terror.” Albus explained taking a lemon drop from the silver tea tray.

“Hmm well I understand why you came to me Albus; do you know what demon is helping him? My first choices would be Azriel or Cain but Levi has also been known to dabble in the affairs of the living.” Liam commented running through the list of demons that could be assisting Voldemort in any way.

“It is not who is helping him I am worried about… I believe he may be possessed. By whom I have no idea but I thought you may be able to use your contacts in the world of the dark ones to… dig up the truth.”

Liam stared at Albus in shock, in his two thousand years on this earth he had never seen a possession of the kind Albus was talking about. What demon in his right mind would break The Oath that obviously? “Albus I will have to be careful with my inquiries, I don’t know who would be dumb enough to risk angering the Father by that kind of blatant disregard for The Oath but whoever they are I am sure they have taken precautions not to be caught.” Liam stated looking out the window on the far side of the room.

“I was afraid you would say that my friend… will you come to London with me this evening?”

Liam looked in to Albus’ eyes and nodded. “Of course whatever you need.”

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Harry watched the rain beat the garden out the small kitchen window. He had volunteered to cook so Molly and Arthur could have a night together. He was humming as he waited for the water to boil for the pasta, and kneaded dough for biscuits. He supposed he could have done it all with magic but he was feeling particularly introspective and cooking helped him think.

Hermione was sitting at the kitchen table with a book of crosswords with Blaise who was playing solitaire. Harry had told them it wasn’t necessary to sit in with him but his friends had told him there was no reason for him to be alone. He knew when Hermione got that look in her eye there was no arguing.

The whole Ron thing was… strange to say the least. But Harry supposed there was no way around it if Ron really did like the greasy git, he wasn’t going to lose his best friend over who the red head wanted to shag. He hadn’t seen Ron since he had fled the room a few hours before, but he was sure he was around here somewhere; it was pouring outside and Ron wasn’t stupid enough to go out in this weather. Harry smiled as the timer went off and he placed the dough in a greased bowl setting a warm paper towel over top of it. Sighing he went to wash his hands and retrieve the noodles from the pantry.

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Poppy was worrying over Narcissa as the blond sat in the white hospital bed. Draco was estatic that his mother was alright, he hand Severus were waiting on the other side of the white curtain that was pulled around her bed. The bond was waiting to be sure that his mother was really okay and then he was going to go find the others and tell them the good news.

“I feel fine Poppy, really I’m not even a bit sore.” His mother’s voice filtered through the curtain.

“Now now Narcissa you just stay where you are, something like this is not so easy to recover from. You are to stay in this bed for at least another day. I’ll send for your sister she has been fire calling me every hour since you were brought in.” The matron scolded pulling the curtain open and bustling past the two gawking men presumably to fire call Andromeda.

“Mother, I am going to find Blaise and bring him here at once.” Draco stated hugging Narcissa.

“That is a good idea Dragon, I need to speak with your uncle Severus for a moment so hurry along.” She pushed him towards the door after dropping a kiss on Draco’s head.

Draco smiled and made his way down the hall, he needed to find Blaise; it had been a very long while since they had something to celebrate.

Okay so here it is :) I hope you all liked it!