Of Lions And Lambs - Part Two | By : Marblez Category: Harry Potter Crossovers > Slash - Male/Male Views: 4232 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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(U)Chapter Twelve(U)
(A/N This is my FOURTH complete re-write of this chapter. Grr!)
"No. No it's not possible," Draco gasped, his body shaking as he began to almost hyperventilate. He couldn't be here. He couldn't be! It wasn't…it wasn't fair! He'd just been starting to get over him…to stop thinking about him…and now the dream and…and now…now… "Jasper…"
"Yes. It's me," the beautiful vampire said softly as he closed the window gently, he pane of glass squeaking as it was lowered back down into place. "Draco…" He stepped away from the window, reaching out a hand to the blond wizard.
"No! Stay…stay over there!" Draco ordered, his voice higher than he had anticipated, filled with more panic than anger. "G-Get out!"
"I can't do that Draco…"
"Get out!" Draco shouted, his chest heaving, his wand trembling in his hand. Tears leaked out of the corners of his eyes and his left hand brushed them away. "Get out! Get out!"
He didn't cast a spell…or at least he didn't remember casting a spell but still a flash of blue lightning shot out of the tip of his wand, striking Jasper in the chest where his un-beating heart lay. The hex sent him smashing back into the window, the glass shattering with a loud crash, shards falling on and around the vampire as he crumbled to the floor. For a few moments the only sounds in the room were Draco's gasping breaths and the tinkling of glass shards falling off of Jasper as he climbed back to his feet, not even a hair out of place.
"Draco…Draco please…"
"Get out!" Draco screamed, his wand sparking.
"I've come to apologise," Jasper said quickly, "I've come to apologise for being a pig headed idiot, for treating you the way I did, for not listening to you, for not believing you, for not listening to Alice, for loosing control of myself, for hurting you…most of all for hurting you." As he spoke without breathing, something he could do quite easily as he had no need of air, he rushed across the room at a reasonably human pace. His hands were held out stretched in a gesture almost like a surrender. "Draco I am so sorry…"
"You're…you're sorry?" Draco asked angrily, "You're sorry!" This time it was shout and another blue lightning bolt shot out of his wand, this time hitting Jasper in the shoulder and sending him spinning into the wall. The impact left a dent in the wall and knocking down all the pictures hanging on it, more glass shattering with loud crashes. "You're sorry! I loved you! I loved you like I have never loved anyone else and you abandoned me! You destroyed me!"
"Draco, I am so, so sorry!" Jasper cried, throwing himself across the room. His hands gently pushed Draco's sparking wand aside so that he could grip the wizard's arms in a gentle but none the less tight grip, his face only a few inches away from Draco's face. "I was…I was an idiot."
"You were a lot more than an idiot! You were a bastard!" It was a testament to how truly upset and angry Draco was that he was swearing just like it always was when the cusses left his lips. "You were a fucking bastard!"
"Yes I was," Jasper agreed with a nod, "I was trying to protect you from me, the monster, but in trying to protect you I hurt you…"
"You didn't need to protect me!" Draco interrupted him, "I can take care of myself! I've always been able to take care of myself! Jasper, you know what I've lived through. I've lived through a war! I can take care of myself!"
"I can see that now," Jasper said softly, his hands sliding down Draco's shaking arms to grip his wrists as the wizard tried to push him away, "But I couldn't then. No matter what you said, no matter what I knew about you and your past I could only see you as the person who held my heart, fragile and delicate. And I…I could only see myself as a monster."
"You aren't a monster any more than I am a fragile damsel in distress!" Draco snapped, trying to pull his wrists out of Jasper's stone like grasp. The vampire wouldn't let him go though, his grip tight but not tight enough to bruise.
"Draco! We heard crashing!" his mother panicked voice came through the door moments before it was flung open and Lucius, Narcissa and Harry all rushed in, wands drawn. "You!" she screamed, seeing the vampire holding her son. "Let go of my son you filthy blood sucker!"
Harry and Jasper had never seen the beautiful woman so angry and without realising it Jasper had let Draco go, stepping back with his hands up in a definite gesture of surrender. Lucius walked around Draco, pushing the still hyperventilating wizard back towards his mother, and only came to a halt when the tip of his wand was pressing against Jasper's throat.
"Any last words before I kill you, vampire?" he growled.
"Yes," Jasper said softly, looking past Lucius at Draco as he stood next to his mother, her arms holding him tightly bout the shoulders, "I love you Draco. I love you and I am so sorry for everything I have said and done to hurt you." He turned his gaze back to Lucius. "Go on then, it is your right to kill me. Do it."
(I)"Incend-"(I)
"Wait!" Draco's sudden gasp interrupted his father's growl.
"Draco…" Lucius turned his head to look at his son.
"You would let us kill you?" Draco asked this of Jasper.
"I hurt you," Jasper said softly as if it explained everything.
"And killing you will make it hurt less will it?" Draco asked sharply.
"Draco…" Lucius said once again.
"Wait father," Draco said, his breathing under control once more. He stepped up beside his angry father but made no move to get the senior Malfoy to move his wand. "You want to die?" he asked Jasper softly.
"It's what I deserve for hurting you," Jasper said softly, "I asked Carlisle to kill me over and over again but he wouldn't. Nor would anyone in my family. And then when we found out about Bella…I couldn't stand the thought of you doing something like that so I came back so you could…could find closure."
"Closure," Draco repeated, "By killing you?"
"Yes," Jasper nodded, his chin touching the wand still at his throat.
"What about Bella?" Draco asked, unable to contain his curiosity despite the seriousness of the situation. Jasper frowned deeply at him, looking confused.
"We know she killed herself," he finally said softly.
"Wait, what?" Draco shouted, "Killed herself? I think you've been a bit miss informed Jasper. She's alive, a little depressed and quite sad but most definitely alive. Harry and I spent the day with her."
"Y-Y-You did?" Jasper asked, completely stunned.
"Yes," Draco said shortly.
"Oh…oh shit…" Jasper gasped slowly. "Edward…"
"Is he trying to get himself killed as well?" Draco asked.
"Yes," Jasper said, screaming with his thoughts in a hope that Edward would somehow hear (unlikely) or Alice would get a vision of the truth (more likely).
"Idiots," Draco muttered, "You should check your facts first before…"
"But we did!" Jasper cried, "Edward called and someone told him Charlie was at the funeral. That's all he was told and he thought…what with Alice's vision not going any further than Bella in the water…and…"
"He thought she was dead, I get it," Draco interrupted, "She's not."
"But then…who did die?" Jasper asked.
"Harry Clearwater," Draco answered, "He had a heart attack."
"Oh…"
"And now that we've cleared that up it's time for you die vampire," Lucius growled, pushing his wand even harder against Jasper's exposed throat.
"No," Draco said quickly, pushing Jasper back and standing in front of him facing his father, "No."
"Draco…" Lucius growled warningly.
"No," Draco shook his head and turned around to look at the quiet vampire, "Did you really think that your death would make me feel better?"
"Yes," Jasper whispered.
"Idiot!" Draco snapped. "It would have made me hurt more!"
"It would?" Jasper asked softly.
"Yes!" Draco shouted, "Because I still love you!"
"Draco…" Narcissa gasped softly.
"You stupid…stupid…stupid…" Draco was obviously searching for the right word, "You stupid leech!" Jasper winced. "I still love you despite trying not to so why on Earth would killing you make me feel better?"
"But just now…" Jasper said confused, "You-You shot me…"
"Yes! Because I was angry that you left me, angry that you hurt me, that you didn't trust me but I wasn't going to kill you!" Draco shouted at him, tears once again building up in his eyes.
"I was," Lucius growled, "And I still will once you move out of the way Draco."
"Then it's a good thing I'm not moving," Draco said tearfully, smiling sadly at the vampire he loved, "Jasper, I still love you. Believe me when I say I tried not to. But I do. With every beat of my heart I love you." He took a deep breath before speaking again, his voice soft and gentle, "And so, if you promise never to do anything so utterly stupid again, promise to believe me and trust me and never to leave me…I will forgive you."
"What?" Narcissa screamed, "Draco! What are you doing?"
"Do you promise Jasper?" Draco asked softly, ignoring the people behind him, his entire attention on the person before him. "Do you promise me?"
"I do," Jasper whispered and Draco got the feeling that if he could have been the vampire would have been crying. "I promise. Everything you want I promise with my whole heart." Draco let out a loud sob and threw himself into Jasper's arms, his wand clattering to the floor.
"Draco!" Narcissa gasped.
"I love you," Draco said, leaning back from where he had been sobbing into Jaspers shoulder, "I love you."
"I know. And I love you," Jasper said.
And then they kissed, a kiss that felt so perfect and right, lips soft against each other, arms tight around each other, tongues dancing together.
"Ok, I think we should go now," Harry spoke up, his cheeks blushing red as the kiss escalated, hands grabbing hair and bums, pulling each other closer.
"But…why is he…?" Narcissa stumbled, confused. Lucius simply look furious, frozen to the spot watching his son and Jasper kiss. Harry literally had to drag the pair of them out of the room, shutting the door behind them. "Why did he…"
"Because he loves him," Harry repeated what the couple had just said, "Wouldn't you take Lucius back if he hurt you without meaning to? If he left you thinking it was for the best? Wouldn't you? Yes, you would because that is love. I know I'd forgive Jacob almost anything."
"But the vampire…" Lucius growled.
"Quite obviously loves him," Harry said, "He was willing to die if it would make him feel better. That says a lot in my books."
"But…"
"Enough buts. It's Draco life, let him live it," Harry ordered and to his surprise the two worried and angry people before him shut up, "Now I don't know about you two but I'm going back to bed. See you at a decent hour of the morning. Or possibly afternoon depending on when I get up after this early morning adventure."
Harry walked down the stairs and they heard him shut the door of his room gently so as not to wake Teddy. Narcissa bit her lip worriedly and looked at Draco's bedroom door. Her baby was in there with the vampire that had hurt him…but what Harry said was true. If Lucius ever had or ever did hurt her either unwillingly or to try and help her she would have forgiven him in a scene not too different to the one she had just witnessed. Sighing deeply she took her husbands arm.
"Come my love, we should return to our bed," she said softly.
"But Draco…"
"No love, Harry was right," Narcissa said, pulling her husband away to their own room, "It is Draco's life. He has to make his own decisions."
"Even if those decisions end up hurting him?" Lucius asked angrily.
"Yes. But I don't think this one will," Narcissa admitted with a sigh. "But let us sleep on it for now. We can talk more with Draco and…and Jasper in the morning."
"Fine."
Inside Draco's room the couple finally pulled away from each other, Draco gasping in much needed air but refusing to let Jasper go. His tears had stopped thankfully but almost as if his body was conspiring to embarrass him he couldn't stop a long and loud yawn escaping him.
"Sorry," he apologised.
"It's ok, you are human, of course you are tired this early in the morning," Jasper smiled at him, "Thank you for forgiving me. I was so stupid…"
"Yes you really were," Draco chuckled before asking softly, "Will you forgive me? For hexing you earlier?"
"Nothing to forgive, I deserved it," Jasper shook his head, "Although you have made a bit of a mess." The couple looked around at the glass-covered room and Draco couldn't hold back a giggle.
"A bit?" he asked, "If my mother hadn't been so mad at you she'd have been killing be for destroying my room." Stepping back from Jasper he bent down and picked up his wand. "But, like many things, it's easily fixed. (I)Reparo.(I)" The glass moved across the floor with a light tinkling sound and re-formed into the window pane in seconds. The glass of the photo frames did the same although the frames remained on the floor. "There. All done."
"What about the dent?" Jasper asked, looking at the wall.
"I'll leave that for now," Draco said, too tired to put the energy into the spell for it to be able to fix the wall. Another yawn escaped him and he yelped as Jasper picked him up and carried him to his bed, laying him down gently and pulling the covers up and over him.
"Sleep," the vampire ordered softly.
"You will be here when I wake up right?" Draco asked nervously.
"I'm not going anywhere," Jasper promised, laying down beside Draco but on top of the covers, "If you want I'll never you again."
"Sounds good," Draco said, sleep beginning to claim him once more as he turned and snuggled up against Jasper's familiar form, "Although I don't think you should be with me when I go to the bathroom…ew…"
"Ok. One exception," Jasper said with a smile, kissing Draco's forehead softly, "Sweet dreams." Draco made a little humming sound before his eyes closed and his breathing evened out as sleep claimed him.
A/N Gah! You have no idea how hard it was to get that right! And a part of me still wants to try again but I fear if I do I will never move on from this chapter so this is it. Hope you liked it. Oh and there's only a couple more chapters to go! Woo! R & R.
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