Forward to Times Past

CHAPTER 11

The castle alarms woke them up. Jumping up, the pair threw on their boxers; being unable to find the rest of their clothes, and ran out the door, not quite fully awake.


What they stumbled upon wasn’t quite what they expected.


Standing in the middle of the Great Hall, were people. Even with the glamours, Liam and Draco were able to tell
who they were.


“Dad!” Liam yelled as he hurled himself towards his father.

Sev spun Liam around before hugging him tightly. Letting go, he grabbed Draco in a hug as well. With a smirk, he slung an arm over their shoulders, and turned the boys around to face the others.


Ron was bent over laughing, clutching his stomach tightly. Daemon and Blaise were chuckling slightly, and Hermione had just rolled her eyes and thrown her hands up, muttered something that sounded suspiciously like, ‘boys’. Ginny had her camera out, and was trying to take pictures while laughing. Confused, Liam and Draco just looked at each
other before shrugging.


After wiping the tears off his face, Sev finally decided to clue them in. “Liam Alexander, Draconis Lucian Orion ” he started calmly. “What in Merlin’s name are you two only wearing boxers for, and why, Laim are you wearing Draco’s?”


Both boys were now a deep red as they realized what had everyone laughing so hard. As a joke, the boys had received a pair of custom made boxers. The reason behind them, Fred and George explained, was that because they
shared everything else, they needed one thing that was exclusively their own.


One pair was black and had ‘Draco’ on the back in green letters, which was currently on Liam’s body. While the
other pair; which were green and had ‘Liam’ on the back in black letters, was what Draco was wearing. Apparently,
in their rush, they grabbed the wrong ones.

“Uhhhh.” Liam struggled to find words.

Draco however, decided on the random approach. “Look! It’s Santa!” While everyone was turning to look, Draco
grabbed Liam’s hand and sprinted out the doors.

Liam laughed as she followed Draco out. “I can’t believe they turned.”

“I mighta transfigured someone, and put a slight compulsion spell on the group.”

Liam laughed. “Why am I not surprised? You can take the boy out of Slytherin, but can’t take the Slytherin out of
the boy.”

Draco just ignored that. “Just get dressed before they find us.”

“Good Luck with that!” Sev’s voice answered them.

“Hey Da.”

“Hey Uncle Sev.”

“Now I believe you two have some explaining to do.”

“Ummmm. We love each other da.”

Sev rolled his eyes. “That was always obvious. You might want these.” He dumped the pile of clothes on the ground.

“Where were they?” Draco asked.

“Trailed through out the hallway.” He rolled his eyes. “Be more careful next time, okay?”

Liam threw himself at his dad. “I’ve missed you.”

Sev gladly caught his son, and held him tightly, as if trying to make up for the missing years. “I’ve missed you
too. But you really should know by now that I’m not that easily distracted. Answer please? When did this finally
start?”

The boys looked shock that they were that oblivious. “At the dance.”

“Oh yes, the dance. That was fun wasn’t it?”

“Yeah.”

Draco and Liam shared a look, they were wondering why Sev hadn’t yelled at them yet.

“You’re not….mad are you?” Liam hesitantly asked, hope making his eyes bright, he didn’t want to lose his father
now that he found him.

“About you two? Gods no! That would be slightly hypocritical of me if I was. It did take you long enough to figure
out though. I’m happy for-” he was cut off when the boys threw themselves at him, again. “What I am mad about is
the fact that you didn’t tell me that you were leaving.”

“But Dumbledore said……”

“We all know that he’s not the most trustworthy person.” Sev responded dryly.

The boys shared incredulous looks. Before Draco asked the obvious, way to calmly, “He didn’t tell you guys did
he?”

“No.”

The anger Liam was feeling suddenly escalated at the admission. Power glowing a dark green, bordering black,
surrounded him like an aura, and Draco had to grab onto him arm to try and get him to calm down before he hurt
himself. Liam however, ignored the calming hand, and started to rant.


“That manipulative bastard! Who does he think he is? Why does he think he has the right to interfere with my life?
To try to mold me into his perfect little ‘Golden Boy’! News flash! I’m not stupid nor ignorant, and I am no
longer his fucking pawn! When we get back I’m going to forcefully deal with his meddling attitude.” His power
continued to manifest around him, and Draco had started to frantically try to calm him down.

“Liam, calm down. I need you to clam down for me, baby. Please? It’ll be okay. He’ll learn, but later, when it’s
to late. But I need you to let go of the energy. Clannel it into something, please baby. Just bring it down. I
can’t have you exploding on me now. Not now that I’ve just found you...”

Experience had taught the blonde how to talk Liam down from his anger. ‘Let’s try something different.’ Making his
way to the center of the swirling magick, he gently kissed the other boy. After a moment, Liam responded, and
slowly the magick disappeared from the room.

When they broke apart, Liam sheepishly ducked his head to hide his embarrassment. “Sorry,” he whispered.

Both reassured him that it was okay.

“How did you know we were here?”

Sev just gave him a look.

“Oh. Right.”

“Thing actually make more sense now.”

“Can you give us any pointers?”

Sev paused. “I really can’t, can I? It’s already done. If I tell you to change something, it might have a negative
effect on the future.”

“Bloody hell, I HATE paradoxes,” Draco interjected; both ignore him.

Sev turned to Liam. “I do want to thank you thought, for showing that memory. It helped sway a lot of people’s
decisions. Actually thinking about it now, it’s weird. I have the memory of seeing someone saving you, at 18. But
I can’t remember actually doing it after the incident was...moved. But I remember it from you showing us because I
wasn’t directly involved...”

Draco threw up his hands in annoyance. “Fuck it, I give up!” This time Liam and Sev laughed at his frustration.

“Let’s go. I’m getting hungry.”

---

The three arrived at the Great Hall to find everyone else sitting at the table, eating. Seeing only two chairs
left, Sev quickly sat in one, causing the two boys to look at each other then shrug. Liam sat, and pulled Draco
onto his lap; both being to lazy to conjure up another seat.

Liam look around at the shocked faces of the present faculty. “What?”

Dumbledore managed to find his voice, “Would you like me to conjure up another chair for Mr. Winters?”

Liam looked at the blonde man comfortable sitting on his lap, and ignoring the snorts of laughter from his
‘family’ he shook his head. “No thanks, we’re fine how we are.” That seemed to break the spell on the others, as
they broke out laughing; Ginny once again, taking a picture. Shaking their heads, the two started to eat, and
conversation eventually continued.

“Hey dad?” Liam interrupted suddenly. “Where are your other two partners?” Sev smirked, “They’re at home, taking
care of something. They send their wishes, and a Howler of sorts,” he handed Liam the bright blue envelope. “We
will have a surprise when you two come back.”

“Oh. Will-”

“No.”

“But-”

“I said no. Now eat.” Amidst much grumbling, Liam continued to eat.

---

Hours later, everyone was finally finished. An excited Liam addressed the group. “Now we’re all done, can we open
pressies? There are pressies rights?”


They all laughed, some sadly, as they remembered why the boy was excited. “Yes there are presents Lee.” Sev
answered.

Draco started bouncing excitedly. “Can we go? Can we go?” Many looked with open-mouthed shock; they’d never seen
the Malfoy Lord this exposed.

Liam rolled his eyes at his over-exuberant boyfriend, but he couldn’t help but smile too; Draco’s excitement was
contagious.

The group slowly made their way to the boy’s room. And after unlocking the multiple spells with a wave of their
hand, the doors opened.

Sev wasn’t surprised to see clothes scattered all over the place. Even though the Elves cleaned the room, it
always looked like a bomb had gone off. He once watched, and recorded, undetected, of course, as the boys tried to
decide what to wear. They would throw clothes back and forth, asking the other of their opinion, often interrupted
by blatant staring at the other’s body. Then they would dive back into the pile of discarded clothes or the
closets, trying to create a specific outfit.

Sev chuckled at the memory, and only shook his lead as the others turned to stare at him. “On second thought, lets
go to the Room. I have a feeling that there’d be no space here.”

Liam and Draco turned a dull red, before shrugging. “Okay. We only wanted to grab the pressies anyways.”

The rest of them rolled their eyes. “Sure, you were mate.” Ron said, echoing the other’s thoughts.

The small group made their way to the Room of Requirement, and one they paced across the hall, the door appeared.
They opened the door slowly, as if not sure what exactly they would find.

The Room was decked out in mostly dark colors, with randomly colored couches. There was a huge tree standing in
the corner, decorated, and glowing brightly. There were piles of presents covering the floor underneath the tree.

A huge fireplace took up another corner of the spacious room, and a table with food and drinks covered another.
The peaceful tranquility was broken when both Ron and Draco bolted to the presents, and started sorting through
them. The rest of the group laughed as they followed the two boys in.

Liam made his way over to his boyfriend, who was buys stacking his gifts around him.

“Hey Lee! I got presents again!”

Liam leaned over and gently kissed him. “I know, love. You’ll always have presents, from now on, I promise.”

Draco smiled sadly. “I-I guess. I know I’m a pain with this, it’s just-”

Liam hugged him tightly, “I know-”

They stayed like that; silent, in their own little world, as the rest passed out the presents.

Once every one had theirs, they glanced around, and shouted ‘Go’ at the same time. Everyone frantically tearing
into their gifts, in true Christmas spirit. Draco and Liam laughing happily, their earlier melancholy forgotten.