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The Wooing Of Draco Malfoy	By : Drarry-Lisa Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 2084 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter-12
Burning And Hopelessness
Draco watched Harry's charred body in horror. It was black and the skin was peeling off from several places. He had reached the burning manor and had followed Harry's screams of pain. He swayed as he stared at Harry's burnt body lying in midst of destroyed furniture and barely restrained the scream that wanted to escape his mouth so very desperately. How was he supposed to keep the man alive? The thought of Harry's death created a lump in his throat and he breathed deeply. His wings had emerged again when Harry had needed them. How could he have refused when this was probably the last thing Harry would ever want from him. Last thing. The thought brought tears in his eyes, tears that he had stopped when Harry had lost consciousness because he needed to escape.
The man was breathing erratically and Draco knew that he had to escape from this horrid manor quickly if he wanted a chance to save Harry. He got up and tried to stand but his legs refused to carry his weight when his eyes fell on Harry's blackened body. Was there even a remote chance that Harry would survive? Harry's erratic breathing was the only evidence that Harry was still alive.
The worst thing was that it was bloody ridiculous of Harry to expect him to forgive him just because he had wanted to sacrifice his life or suffer as much as Draco had. Yes, Harry had suffered but how was Draco supposed to forget everything just because Harry had brought that suffering on himself. But he shook his head and tried to stand up again. Now was not the time to think all that. He had to take Harry to St. Mungos. He needed immediate medical attention.
He had already disposed off the one way portkey Greengrass had left for him. He touched Harry's hand and activated the eagle Portkey that was given to him by his godfather.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself in front of a white faced and frozen Severus Snape and frantically shouting Lucius Malfoy.
"Binky. Sniffy. Be quick. Call Mrs. Granger-Weasley and have her bring some help too. We need to move Mr. Potter to St. Mungos. In no circumstances, are his kids to enter the room yet. Force them to keep away. They mustn't-"
"Dad, are you back?" Draco heard Albus's hopeful voice. He stayed frozen on the floor as Harry was ushered out of his grasp and magically levitated on his bed. Harry was directly in his line of sight and Draco felt oddly numb. Harry whimpered and moaned and screamed in pain and he could nothing about it. His misery or Harry's former mistakes seemed so unimportant to him right now. How could have Harry just run away like this?
"Dad."
"Mr. and Mr. and Mis. Potter, please wait outside." His father spoke in a formal voice and his godfather was still frozen on his spot beside Draco, his tearless eyes staring at Harry's completely burnt body.
"No." Came three furious shouts and "please let them see their dad, grandpa. It's only fair." came his son's soft voice.
Draco waited for the impending explosion. As promised, it came.
"DAD" Albus shouted when he saw Harry " Oh! Dad. Wh- what-"
"Albus, why are you shouting?" Lily asked and then she entered the room and stared at her father. Draco turn to look as Harry's youngest kid fell down on her knees and started sobbing. He turned back to Harry and waited for his eldest son's explosion. But it did not come.
Draco turned to enquire the reason and was met with James's brown eyes that were terrified and the boy was simply staring at Harry's body.
"Dad, please don't die. Please wake up." It was Albus Potter again who moved forward. Scorpius tried to hold him "Albus, please-"
"KEEP YOUR BLOODY SELFISH HANDS AWAY FROM ME, MALFOY." He shouted and pushed Scorpius away with weak hands an then walked towards his brother.
"James, dad. James." He repeated his brother's name because James was still just staring at his father in shock. "James. James. Dad. He-" and James still didn't listen.
Albus turned towards Lily who was sobbing her heart out beside Draco and took his sister in his arms.
"Potter." His son spoke to the eldest Potter kid and this was new because since when had Scorpius started treating James with respect.
Draco paid attention to everything around him because it was so much better then paying attention to his own increasing terror and despair and numbness.
"Potter, snap out of it. You have younger siblings who need your support and father who needs you to take decisions right now."
Potter snapped at his son "For the past fourteen years,-"
"Even if your dad was over engrossed in his own affairs, your school bills were being paid. I am sure they were not paid from your mother's earnings solely. Potter families investments were also handled and now he is not going to be in a position to handle anything, least of all your siblings and that's not counting your mum, who has been his best friend for past many years even if they have barely talked to each other. Buck up and fulfil your responsibilities." Scorpius said in a no-nonsense tone. "Albus is not going to listen to me at all."
"Malfoy,..." and Draco tuned them out since his attention had drifted back to Harry who was being levitate on a stretcher by Granger. When had she arrived?
"Malfoy." Said Weasley in an urgent voice and Draco did not bother to answer.
"Malfoy, he will recover. He is a fighter." Please-"
"Don't give any false reassurances to him, Ron." Granger snapped at him and turned towards Draco with an emotionless face. Her eyes betrayed nothing except a few stray tears which had already dried up.
"Come on Malfoy, we need to go to St. Mungos. He is your mate and you will need to sign the documents." Draco stared at her numbly.
"What documents?"
"He will be kept under observation for a period of five hours and if he does not make any progress, he will be removed from the life support system." That caught Draco's attention. He looked around and found that Harry had been taken and the kids had left and so had his father.
"Mrs. Granger, they can't just let Harry die like this."
"This is pure murder, Mione. You can't remove the life support system."
"Why are you asking me when you know the answers?" Granger replied bluntly "Their is no point of keeping him alive. Their is no hope, no cure for him. His body has burnt."
"Their is a cure for everything in Wizarding world. How can you just be so cold, Mione?" Weasley snapped at her.
"My skin had peeled of too, but you saved me." Draco asked her in a trembling voice.
"Being burnt by water and fire are two separate things and his condition is worse than yours.
"Mr. Granger, -"
"I don't want to argue. We will have this discussion in my office at Mungos. Please do not argue with me till then."
"Granger, you can't just kill him like this."
"PLEASE LET ME GO. I HAVE TO SEE WHAT I CAN DO FOR HARRY." Granger screamed at him and Draco stepped aside.
Draco stared as the woman almost ran with a red face, her bushy hair flying everywhere on her head.
"Come on Malfoy, we have to go."
"Please leave. I will follow you in ten minutes." Weasley heaved a heavy sigh and left.
"Severus, Harry is dying." He looked at his godfather whose tearless eyes were staring at the sky outside the windows.
Severus stayed silent and Draco asked again, a little desperately "Just tell me that he will live, like you did before he left for the forest."
"He won't survive, Draco. I am sorry, but he won't. You both were never compatible with each other, both hot-headed and stubborn and mad. He is as stubborn as you are. You can't forgive him and I am not blaming you for anything. I am just telling you the truth. You can't forgive him and he can't live without you. I have seen madness in his eyes, Draco. He won't survive, not because their is not cure, but because he doesn't want to come back. He knows you will be free when he is gone, free to chose another mate and move on. He is giving you a chance to live a life that he couldn't give to you."
Draco just stared at the man.
"How can you be so cold about this, so blunt. You are not even crying." He asked, his heart was beating loudly and he wondered if the heart beats were audible.
Draco's tears had stopped when Harry had been taken to St. Mungos.
"Somehow, I have always known this. I have somehow always known that this would end badly, with his death or madness. I have known and accepted this fact but it still does not decrease the pain. I failed. I tried to protect Lily's child and failed. I could give nothing to him, neither a childhood, nor happiness." Then Severus became silent.
"Will you not come to Mungos?" Draco answered, already at the door.
"I will be visiting Lily first."
Draco nodded and replied "He will not die."
"He will die Draco and this time, no ritual will bring him back."
Draco asked his next question a little desperately "What WILL bring him back, then?"
Severus did not answer and he did not ask again. He left for St. Mungos where Harry was perhaps taking his last breaths.
TBC
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