An Eye for an Eye

Disclaimer: I do not own anyone or anything related to the Harry Potter world.


Pairing: Harry/Draco

An Eye for an Eye - Chapter 1


“What do you mean you’re leaving?”

Harry asked stunned, “Draco, answer me.”

“I don\'t understand... I come hope from St. Mungo\'s where I was laid up for months after finally killing Voldemort, only to find that the one person I want to spend my life with now that I actually HAVE a life to live is packing up his belongings getting ready to walk out of my life.\"

\"What’s going on?”

Harry was getting seriously upset here at Draco, well at the whole situation. The whole time he was talking he watched Draco move back and forth packing up his belongings from around the room, not saying a word. Not even looking at Harry since he dropped his initial bomb of a statement. Harry couldn\'t even tell what he was thinking for Draco wore his stoic face that was void of any and all emotions. Oh how Harry hated that face. Harry had enough of being ignored. The next time Draco walked past he grabbed onto the blonde and forced his attention. “Tell.Me.” At a sigh, Draco pulled out of his grip “it’s better this way for both of us. I am not someone who can live in your world. Please accept this and move on..I have.” With that last statement Draco Malfoy walked out of the room and out of the life of his boyfriend of 4 years.

Harry immediately felt as if his world just ended. His defeat of Voldemorte months before had left him almost dead. He had spent all of his time fighting death for the chance at life with Draco, when he was released he couldn’t have been happier. The two had formed a grudging acceptance of each other after Draco had witnessed first hand The Dark Lord’s disapproval of the Malfoys in general after his father’s arrest. Although Draco still didn’t get along with “Mudblood’s” or approve of their existence, he figured that Harry and Dumbledore’s side wouldn’t Crucio him for looking the wrong way or for just breathing. The acceptance turned to friendship which in turn became love by the beginning of seventh year. Draco and Harry worked side by side in strategies and ideas that would help to bring the end of the war. And now at the war’s end when everyone told him that life would be better he felt with certainty that it couldn’t possibly be worse.

TEN YEARS LATER

Harry hated London. It was way too noisy and there were too many people around. For someone who counted on solitude and quiet this kind of life was not at all appealing. But unfortunately he had no choice. A year after Voldemort’s defeat and Draco’s departure, Harry cashed in his galleons and headed out to a quaint little village on the coast of England. There he opened up a small shop that sold gifts, books and sweets that tourists and locals alike seemed to enjoy. He was very content in his life. The sea air and quiet beauty of the village seemed to call to him and he hated these trips to London that he had to take to pick up supplies. Over the last ten years Harry had not kept in touch with the wizarding world. Only a few select people had the honor of his occasional letters and even fewer meetings. The only two that were regulars in his life were his godfather Sirius Black and Sirius\' partner Remus Lupin. The two had bought a cottage not far from Harry’s and helped him in his shop. Which they were currently watching over while he was here on business. Stopping for a cup of tea at an outside café he let his mind wonder. His friends were very supportive at first of the grief that Harry was feeling at Draco’s abrupt departure from his life. Consoling him with hugs and words of “you can do better” and “we saw it coming, he was no good for you”. After the appropriate grieving time they sent man after meaningless man his way in hopes that he would find the right one. The last one, Eric, was a young partner of Hermione’s parents who if he was a wizard would have been a Hufflepuff. Loyal, sweet and dead boring. That relationship lasted a few months before he put himself out of his misery and ended it. Much to the displeasure of Ron and Hermione who thought Eric was the perfect mate for Harry. See the thing he never shared was that every guy that he met was measured by the Draco stick. And noone has come close. He would rather be alone than be with someone that didn’t mean that much to him just for the sake of well....not being alone.

As he was coming back from his thoughts Harry happened to see something that made his heart stop. A blonde head. And not just any blonde either. He only new 3 people with this color hair and two of them were dead. Throwing money on the table he took off after him. By the time Harry reached who he was sure was Draco he was bursting with anger and left over pain. Grabbing on to an arm and not even caring at the moment if it was Draco he pulled him in the closest alley and Dissapperated to his cottage on the coast.

Draco had spent the last of his ten years making the most of his life alone that he could. When he walked out of the door of his and Harry’s house he left the wizarding world and enrolled in a muggle college. Living with Harry had taught him how to survive without magic. He hasn’t even touched his wand in all of the ten years except to move it from one place to another. Not that he doesn’t keep it near him. It’s better to be safe than sorry. After attending university Draco got a job at a large bank in London where he has worked himself up to manager where he was the best at what he does. After all he knows money. His life wasn’t the best but he was content. Well, as content as he could be without Harry. The love of his life. Severus informed him of his departure from their world shortly after his own. He is not sure where he is but knows that Lupin and Black are with him.

He sometimes wonders if he should have told him the truth of his leaving. Even if it was to send an owl with a full explanation. He probably owed him that, but it was too painful. He hated pain. He was a Slytherin, out for his own preservation. And he had to get away from the pain that he was in, but oh how he missed Harry. It took years before it seemed as if he could breathe on his own. Harry had become his very breath and his heart took so much time to heal from it’s self inflicted wounds. He just saw no other way out.

So here he was years later at the start of his weekend off from the bank. He had nothing planned but to get a glass of wine, have some takeaway and read a book he just bought in front of the fire. At least that was until someone decided to try and rip his arm out of his socket and drag him into an alley. Indignant within seconds he whirled around to tell off his would be attacker when what color he did have washed out on his face. Standing in front of him looking mighty angry was the subject of his thoughts and the owner of his heart....Harry Potter.


“Harry”

The only thing that Draco could say as they arrived at a comfy cottage. His mind was blank. Although he was just thinking of him, there was no way to be prepared for this. Seeing him face to face after all this time. And he did not look happy to see me.


“Draco. You and I are going to have a chat, and you are going to give me answers. You aren’t going to leave until I get them. Even if I have to bind you..do you understand?” Harry growled out to the man before him.

“Yes, yes, yes...Draco replied shaking his head in defeat. “Where are we?”..

“We are at my cottage on the coast..and stop changing the subject”, Harry glared at him.

“Give me a second..Please..”, Draco begged his old lover, “this isn’t easy for me. If it was I would have said all this to you years ago. It was easier to leave. You wouldn’t have believed me anyway.”

Harry could not believe what he was hearing and it showed on his face. “How about you could have given me the chance to believe you, both than and now. You were my boyfriend for 4 years, you think that doesn’t mean anything?” Harry’s voice was starting to raise in his anger.

“Yes it does, but you were friends with them for longer, and you were always telling me to give your friends respect, be nice to them. Well..you know what? I tried that and even though they didn\'t deserve any of it for you I did.\" Draco\'s own anger was starting to become evident in his voice. \"You won’t believe me if I tell you. The Golden Trio can do no wrong.\" His old sneer becoming really pronounced in his voice.

\"Will you lay off of Hermione and Ron? What do they have to do with this? I am talking about you and why you decided to end \"us\" without even talking to me first.\"

\"A pensive\" Draco abruptly said. \"Do you have one?\"

“A pensive?” All of Harry\'s anger dissapeared into confusion, what does a pensive and Harry’s request about his best friends have anything to do with each other. “No, I don’t have one, I don’t have really anything magical here, why do you need one anyway?” Harry wondered out loud.

“Because the only way that you will believe the truth of what happened, is to see it for yourself.” Draco explained to him, starting to lose his nerve at the mere thought of what was to come. “Can you owl someone, you still have an owl don’t you?”

“Yes, Hedwig came with me....alright, who do you want me to owl? Serverus? Dumbledore? Who?” he asked the blonde.

“How about you send a letter to Severus and ask if he and Dumbledore could both come here, along with Black and Lupin. They both have a right to know. ...and ask Severus if he could bring a vial of Vertiserum with him.” Harry unable to watch to blonde pace around anymore left to do as he asked. As he was at the door he stopped when he heard Draco call out to him.

“Oh, and Harry, is it alright if I just lie down here for a bit? It’s been a long day and the thought of all that is to come is making me even more exhausted.”

“Yeah, sure. Use the couch, there is a blanket there in the closet if you need one, I’ll be right back. As Harry exited the room, Draco sank down on the couch and hoped that at some point Harry would forgive him for what he would soon learn.


About 2 hours later Draco was being shook awake by Severus. Groggily he rose to a sitting position to see the room filled with men all staring at him with hesitant looks. Dumbledore broke the silence, “it’s good to see you again Mr. Malfoy.”

“Thank you sir. Hello again, Black...Lupin. Severus, do you have what Harry asked for?”
“Yes, Draco. Mind telling us what all this is about?”

Draco ran his hands across his face and through his hair seeming to bare the world’s burdens on his shoulders. “Ten years ago I left, this you all know, and you probably know that I did so without any explanation and hurting a few people, affecting all of you in this room. I am sorry. Please believe me. The past years have not been easy for me and go against everything I was ever taught on how to act and deal with things. I just saw no other alternative. I hope that despite all that, you will withhold any angry remarks until you have seen what I have to show you.” That being said he got up and went over to the pensive that Severus had put on the table. “Oh, I need a wand. I don’t have mine. Severus, may I borrow yours for this?” He took the wand from his old potions professor and extracted strand after strand from his mind watching as they swam together.

“Well, there it is.. I guess have at it, but if you don’t mind I think I will wait here for you all to return. I am not sure I am up for a viewing of things I would rather forget.”

The others looked around and pulled out their wands walking towards the pensive as they watched Draco again take up residence on the couch seemingly trying to pretend all this wasn’t going on. Harry went in first shortly followed by all the others. They would soon hopefully understand why he gave up.


When they arrived in the pensive the first scene they saw was Draco getting ready for what looked like a day at Hogsemede. What was odd was how big his smile was. Malfoys on principle don’t smile at least not that these men could attest to. Aside from Harry that is. Harry recognized the outfit Draco had on. The reason, was because it was the one he wore on their first date. The color of his jumper matched the grey-blue of his eyes perfectly. His hair wasn’t gelled back but flowing around his face looking as soft as it felt. As they watched Draco gathered his cloak and left the dungeons to go meet Harry. They watched as Draco lit up at the site of his new boyfriend and quite the same reaction if truth were told from Harry to Draco. The next scene falling in was Harry and Draco sitting with Hermione and Ron at a table at the Three Broomsticks. Enjoying drinks, talking and laughing as Draco who was taller than Harry had an arm securely wrapped around his shoulders.
The next scene they saw took place later in the same day as Draco was bound with his jumper hanging half off his body as Hermione had her wand pointed at Draco telling him that he was not to touch Harry. That he had been warned and now he was going to pay. That said just before Hermione let off a slashing curse on the same arm that was around Harry earlier. They watched in shocked horror as blood poured out from his arm as he was left alone in the abandoned hallway. The next scene morphed into Harry and Draco parting from an abandoned classroom after what looked like an unbelievable shag. As Draco carried himself back to the dungeons he found himself thrown against the wall and followed by the worst pain possible as he felt like his balls were on fire. Through his tears he saw Ron holding his wand out with the most hateful look possible as he spat out “please, continue not to listen to our warnings, this is fun for me. I would like to keep it up until you die from the pain.” On and on the scenes continued in the same vein. Harry and Draco meeting and than a punishment from Hermione or Ron. Curses ranging from temporary impotency to slashing charms, crucio, even a charm that Hermione had used to remove his dick that would slowly regrow after a week, the whole time feeling like something worse than someone throwing a crucio on him. They barely were able to watch as time after time he would drag himself back to his room to do some healing spells, or go to the hospital wing. Once even Remus had found him and healed him and after pleas and lies from Draco gain a promise not to mention it to anyone. This torture seemed to be suffered in silence from their time in school up to when he left Harry. They also saw Draco being smart to both Hermione and Ron in Harry’s company only to be yelled at later for not showing respect to Harry’s friends like he felt they deserved.

Harry couldn’t take it anymore. He had already been sick once, and the tears hadn’t been able to stop flowing down his face since he saw the first torture his Draco had been put through by his supposed best friends. He had so many emotions running though him he didn’t know what to concentrate on first. Pain for Draco, unbelievable rage at Hermione and Ron for their actions towards Draco and their betrayal of him, and his own guilt for proving that Draco couldn’t come to him against his own best friends. He had to get out of here. He had to see Draco. He had to hold him and see if there was anyway he could ever be forgiven.

In the next second he was on the floor in front of Draco with his head in the blonde’s lap sobbing while speaking incoherently to him. “....Draco...sorry..so sorry...(sob).....please forgive me..please...(sob)..please..Draco..oh....”

All he could do was hold Harry close and pet his hair as his own tears flowed. He looked at those surrounding him and felt they looked in some of the same way Harry did. Although it looks like Severus had been bound by Dumbledore white knuckled grip on his wand with a look to kill on his face. Maybe Draco thought this will all end soon.

The wind started to kick up and windows started to break as Draco noticed that Harry was no longer leaning on him, but staring with his own look of death at the wall as if it betrayed him in some way.

Black and Lupin seemed to notice this too and headed over to calm there godson down. “Harry..come on pup. Calm down. Think. You can’t go rushing into anything, it will only get you into trouble. Calm down. Breathe...They continued with Draco to rub Harry’s back and shoulders as the magic in the air seemed to dissipate somewhat.

Harry was back to staring at Draco and offering his apologies again “Draco..I don’t know what to say but, I AM sorry. I know that isn’t enough, but I didn’t allow it so you could come to me. As your boyfriend I should have been able to listen, but all I could see was you being snarky, and them complaining that you were still going on about them being poor and a mudblood. I......”

“Harry, sshhh...it’s ok. I could have found a way..someway to let you know, maybe by even doing this with a pensive for you to see. I just had too much on my head to put thoughts straight. And you had too much on your plate for me to add to it. But I want you to know it was never you. I never left because of you. These past years have been the hardest and loneliest of my life. I still love you. I always will.” Draco leaned over and softly placed his lips lovingly against Harry’s. When they broke he said, “I just couldn’t handle the pain anymore, and I felt that you would never give them up for me. I just didn’t see how I could fit in that world with you and them be included. Forgive me....please?”

“Draco there is nothing to forgive you for, I feel like I screwed up not you. But right now, please know that I never stopped loving you. I have been miserable without you. Noone can compare to you. There will never be anyone for me but you, if you are willing to give US another chance?”
Draco grabbed the back of Harry’s head in response as he sucked Harry’s bottom lip into his mouth and proceeded to kiss him a little more passionately than the one before.

Now that that was taken care of it was time to deal with those who betrayed him and hurt Draco. “Any ideas, aside from murder?” Harry asked the room at large.
“Well Harry, Draco..”, Dumbledore broke in the sparkle absent from his eyes as he turned to Harry, “I believe that you might know of a way if you can think back on your short time in the ministry after the war and the work you did.”

For the year after the war that he remained in the wizarding world, Harry had worked in the ministry helping to go through archive after archive of laws and decrees that were still active in hopes to revamp the ministry into a fair establishment once more. Some of the laws went back to shortly after Merlin’s time. The idea was to find laws to see if they still held if at all, and if not to get rid of them. It was here that the Headmaster was speaking of and it was like Lumos over Harry’s head as he thought he might know of what the old wizard was referring to.

“An eye for an eye.” Harry looked up at the Headmaster.. “that is what you mean isn’t it?’

“Yes Harry, an eye for an eye. The law was never done away with, and although not known by many, is still legal. Not to mention the time in prison that they will both be doing by using an unforgivable multiple times. But....this is all up to Mr. Malfoy. Well Draco, what would you like to do?”

Draco was looking curiously at the older wizard unsure of what it is that him and Harry were just speaking about. “Um..I’m not sure I know what that law is. I mean I know what it sounds like, but could you explain?’

Harry turned to Draco still sitting on the floor at his feet and grabbed for his hand. ‘An eye for an eye, is just what it sounds like. It was used in the early 1900\'s as a way to deal with crimes that happened as an alternative to prison. Basically it allows one wronged wizard to take revenge on the wizard or wizards that wronged him but doing the same thing back. You are given a wand that is pre-loaded with any spell that was used or hex and when it is empty you are done. Aurors and the ministry would be present as well as anyone else involved. So all the pain you went through they in turn would get the same.”

“Well, we have to keep in mind that Arthur Weasley is now the Minister of Magic. Would he let this happen to his son and daughter in law?” Remus brought that question to everyone’s mind.

Dumbledore looked thoughtful for a moment.. “well, he is on record saying that his job would come first if one of his children were brought to charges. Although, I think everyone was assuming it would be Fred and George with their infamous behavior as jokesters that would be in question at some point. No, I don’t believe that we will have any problem with him at all. And I think with Harry Potter being part of bringing up the charges the ministry will back the situation regardless of what Arthur wants to do.”

Harry along with the rest of the room was staring intently at Draco, “Co? What do you want to do? It’s up to you.”

“I want revenge Harry. I let them steal 10 years of my life away from you. I can never get them back. But I didn’t want the pain anymore. It became too hard. I want them to scream, and bleed and than spend ten years away from who they love. Can I do that? Will you help me? I haven’t done any kind of magic in all these years, I am not even sure I could do a Lumos.”

“I’ll help you Co, anyway that you need me to.” Harry turned toward Dumbledore, “could you release Severus now, I think he has calmed down enough.

Within seconds the potions master was again free. Still glaring he turned to Draco, “This will get done, even if I have to polyjuice myself into you for it to happen. The two of them will get what’s coming to them with or without your cooperation or anyones for that matter.” Turning to Harry, he said, ‘you are lucky that Draco has forgiven you, for if it was me you would be on the receiving end of this as well.”

“Sev..” Draco tried to interrupt but Severus raised his hand for silence. “He is just as much to blame with his lack of trust in you and your complaints against the rest of the Golden Trio. Harry has made bad choices from day one when it comes to those two.”

“Wait just one minute Snape..” Sirius interrupted him angrily, “Harry had no reason not to believe the two people who have always had his back on things. How was he to know that they were closet psycho’s? Besides Draco early behavior hadn\'t changed at all from when he first became part of the light side up until he left. So their complaints could seem justified.”

“We are losing the big picture here people”, Harry cut in, “Right now there is a decision that needs to be made and the Ministry to talk to.”

“Right you are my boy” the Headmaster agrees, “I believe that a meeting should be set for tomorrow with Minister Weasley and Madame Bones along with Kingsley and Madame Pomphrey to decide when this should be done. We of course will need the pensive so please keep it safe until tomorrow. I would assume that all of us in the room will also be present for this?” At everyone’s agreement he nodded and rose from his chair. On his way out of the cottage he stopped in front of Harry and Draco. “Boys I am sorry that the truth has taken so long to come to light. I hope that when this is all over that you will try and build on the love that you started all those years ago. And Draco, I am sorry that you had to endure that from two that we believed that we could trust.” With a pat on their heads and a nod from Professor Snape the two were gone.

Sirius and Remus also rose to leave as Remus placed his hands on Draco’s shoulder and Sirius’ on Harry’s, “I am glad that you two are together again. There was never a more complete couple that was to be seen. Good night boys. We’ll see you tomorrow. If you need anything remember, we are right down the lane.”

“Night”, Harry and Draco called out together. “And guys?” Remus and Sirius stopped looked at Draco as he smiled, “thanks”. At their nod they were gone.

“Well Co? It’s just you and I here? As it should have always been. Do you need anything? Do you want to eat?”

“Harry, to be honest I don’t think I could keep anything down. This subject has always been so trying for me. It has brought up a lot to the front of my mind. Things that I have tried to keep down for years, you know? What I would really like, is to go into your bedroom wherever it is and get undressed and just hold you all night. Can we do that? Does that sound ok to you?”

Harry stands and reaches out his hand to Draco pulling him close when he stood. “It sounds perfect to me, one of your best ideas yet” he adds with a soft smile.

“Well you know, I do come up with some good ones. Tomorrow is gonna be one hell of a day, we need our strength. Revenge takes a lot out of you and well to be honest I can’t wait until it takes a lot of them, the bastards.”

Harry smiled an evil looking smile in agreement of what was to come with regards to his former best friends, “I can’t wait.”