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 Fourteen(U)
"We have to help them!" Draco gasped, his hand going immediately for his wand tucked safely into the back pocket of his jeans.
"How? They're in Italy," Jasper pointed out softly.
"Harry and I can Apparate there," Draco said, his mind working quickly on a plan to help his muggle best friend, "They won't be expecting us…"
"They will be if Aro reads Alice's mind," Jasper interrupted quickly, resting his hands on Draco's arms gently to stop him drawing out his wand. "If you've thought it then Alice has seen it and Aro will know about it."
"Only if he does read her mind," Draco argued.
"Aro will read one of their minds, he has a need to know everything. And he's always been obsessed with Alice and her gift so out of the three of them it's more that likely to be her mind that he reads," Jasper explained softly.
"Shit!" Draco hissed, pulling away from Jasper and leaning against the wall.
"What can we do then?" Harry asked softly, picking Teddy up and perching the quiet boy on his hip.
"Nothing," Jasper sighed, "There's nothing we can do but…wait." Draco let out an angry growl at that and rushed out of the room, his feet pounding up the stairs. "Draco…"
"He doesn't like feeling helpless," Harry explained softly as the door to Draco's bedroom slammed above them, "In fact I'd go so far as to say he hates it."
"I know," Jasper sighed, "I can feel it. It was nice speaking to you again Harry, and Teddy of course, but I'd best go upstairs and calm Draco dow- what?" He cut himself off with a loud gasp, his eyes snapping up to the ceiling.
"What?" Harry asked worriedly.
"He's still feeling angry and frustrated but also…excited and…and rebellious and…and free…I don't understand," Jasper mumbled worriedly as he sorted out the jumble of feeling coming from up in his boyfriends room. "His windows opening…" he mumbled for Harry's benefit as his inhuman hearing picked up the tell tale sounds. "What is he…?"
"Oh I have a bad feeling about this!" Harry gasped, rushing out of the room and up to Draco's room, carrying Teddy. Jasper followed. The wizard threw open the door just as Draco jumped out of the window on a…
"Is that a broomstick?" Jasper asked in shock.
"Yes," Harry answered shortly, "Damn you Draco, what if someone sees you!" He turned away from the window and lowered Teddy's onto Draco's un-made bed. "He should know better than to risk everything we have like this!"
"Why is he..?"
"I don't know about Draco but when I go flying it makes me feel…free," Harry said as he went back to the window, watching as Draco disappeared up into the clouds, "It takes away my worries and fears and I can just…feel."
"Oh," Jasper breathed, feeling every one of Harry's remembered emotions.
"I should go and get him. If a muggle sees him we will be so deep in the…well yes…" Harry broke off. "Can you watch Teddy?"
"What?" Jasper asked, startled.
"I've got to fly up and bring Draco down before someone sees him. I can't take Teddy with me," Harry explained, "You'll behave for Jasper wont you Teddy?"
"Behave," Teddy echoed, nodding his head.
"See? I'll be back before you know it with a hopefully calmer Draco coming with me," Harry smiled, walking back to the bed and ruffling Teddy's hair.
"O-Ok," Jasper agreed, still a little bit shocked that Harry was willing to trust him with Teddy. After all they'd only met a few hours ago! Harry smiled, kissing Teddy's forehead before heading down to his own room and returning with his broomstick. "Those things really fly?"
"For us they do," Harry grinned, "If Teddy starts to fuss his favourite toys are on his bed or scattered on the floor around it."
"Thanks," Jasper said, watching with wide eyes as Harry straddled his broomstick in front of the open window. "How do you…?"
"Watch," Harry laughed, "Back in a minute!"
And then he kicked off from the ground and, lying flat on his broom, zoomed out of the open window. Teddy jumped down off the bed, running over other window. He waved wildly with his hand, laughing happily. Jasper stood behind him, watching as Harry flew up into the clouds after Draco.
"Whoa…" he mumbled as he watched the display of magic. Teddy's giggle brought his attention back to the little boy. "Soo…" he mumbled, not sure what to do and feeling rather…awkward now that he was alone with the two year old boy.
"I show you my toys?" Teddy offered sweetly, "Like daddy say?"
"Ok," Jasper smiled softly down at the boy. He could feel nothing but happiness, love for his daddy and…trust from the two year old gazing up and him. "How many toys do you have?"
"Lots!" Teddy cried happily, reaching up to take one of Jasper's hands with both of his little ones, the temperature difference enough to make him yelp. "Cold." But he didn't pull away.
"Yes," Jasper said apologetically, "So you're toys are in your room?"
"Uh-huh," Teddy nodded, pulling Jasper out of Draco's dark room and out into the hall. He stopped at the top of the stairs. "Daddy says I have to be caftul," he said, looking up at the vampire nervously.
"Ok, we'll be careful," Jasper smiled down at him, "You don't want me to carry you do you? No, you're a big boy." Teddy nodded proudly and Jasper was slightly shocked at how easily it was to slip into…well the best phrase was parental mode. "How about you hold my hand and the banister and we'll go down nice a slowly, one step at a time."
"Kay," Teddy nodded in agreement.
Obeying the vampire's orders the little boy made his way slowly down the stairs, only having trouble once when he miss-planted his foot and almost fell. Jasper pulled him back up gently, brushed a hand through his hair and nudged him gently into continuing his decent. They reached the bottom and Teddy smiled up at Jasper happily, announcing proudly,
"Never got all way down 'afore."
"Really?" Jasper pretended to be much more surprised than he really was and was pleased when Teddy giggled loudly. "So where's this favourite toy of yours?" An even bigger smile broke out across the little face.
"In here!" he cried out, letting go of Jasper's hand and running into his bedroom. Jasper followed at a reasonably human pace so as not to frighten the boy. He'd only just stepped into the room when Teddy rushed up to him. "This is Teddy!"
Jasper took the toy that was pressed into his hands, feeling the pride rolling off of the little boy as he looked down at what turned out to be a much loved teddy bear. The brown fur had faded, one arm had been re-stitched along the seam, one leg had been re-attached, one ear was in tatters, there was a large red patch on the little bears back and one of the eyes was missing.
"He was my mummy's."
"Your mummy?" Jasper asked softly, trying to hide his surprise. He knew Harry had adopted the little boy, Draco had confirmed it even thought was obvious. And Harry had mentioned Teddy's 'Angel Daddy' but not once had anyone ever spoken about the little boys mummy.
"She's in heaven," Teddy answered softly, "With Angel Daddy." He trotted over to the bedside cabinet by the large bed in the centre of the room and returned carrying a photograph. "Mummy and Angel Daddy."
"It's moving," Jasper mumbled in shock as he took the picture in his other hand, staring at the couple that were hugging each other over and over again. It was obviously a wedding photo, the beautiful woman wearing a rather…wacky wedding dress. "You look like you're Angel Daddy."
"Thank you," Teddy mumbled politely. Harry had obviously started teaching his little boy his manners already. Jasper studied the photograph for a few moments, taking in the fact that as they hugged the woman's hair turned from pink to blue and also the fact that the man in the photo was quite a few years older than his bride. But the thing he saw the most was the love they felt for each other, this was the photograph of a couple had truly loved one another.
"So Teddy is your favourite toy. What is your second favourite?" Jasper asked, knowing that he needed to lighten the mood. He could feel the sadness creeping up within the boys happiness and that would not do…
"My army!"
"Army?" Jasper asked, confused.
"Yeah!"
"Ok. Let's see this army…"
"Draco!" Harry called out, pushing his broom to its impressive speed limit so that he could catch up with the blond wizard. "This isn't a good idea!"
"You didn't have to follow me," Draco pointed out, his body as tense as his voice as he slowed down so that he hovered in the air, just above the thick clouds that were about to rain down on Forks.
"Yes I did," Harry said, flying round to hover in front of Draco, facing him. "I couldn't let you blow our cover. We're just lucky that it is very cloudy today. Hopefully no one will have seen any of…this."
"I need to breath Harry," Draco said softly.
"Couldn't you have just gone for a walk?" Harry asked, leaning back to sick both comfortably and naturally on his broom.
"I needed to feel free Harry," Draco sighed, copying Harry's position, letting go with one hand to push his hair back out of his eyes, "I just…I hate being useless!"
"I know," Harry said softly, "I know Draco."
"We're wizards for crying out loud! We should be able to do something to help them!" Draco snapped, his hand pulling at his hair now instead of gently moving it away. "Why can't I help my friends when it matters most? When they need me? Why am I so useless Harry?"
"Draco, you are not useless," Harry said firmly, "Far from it. Useless is…is Crabbe and Goyle trying to do simple mathematics!" That got a chuckle from Draco, remembering his two 'sidekicks', both of who had been less than stellar in the brain department. "You can't do anything Draco. This is one of those horrible situations where doing something would put your friends in more danger than they are already in. Been there, done that, have the t-shirt."
"What?" Draco asked in confusion.
"Muggle saying," Harry explained quickly, "Now have you had enough air and freedom? Because it's really dangerous up here…"
"Harry, flying is hardly dangerous for us," Draco interrupted him.
"Not dangerous as in we could plunge to our deaths, we're both too good a flyers for that. Dangerous as in we are risking exposure to the muggle world every second we are up here," Harry said firmly.
"Ok. I can see your point…I can see all your points," Draco sighed, "Let's head back down. Wait, who's with Teddy?"
"Your boyfriend," Harry answered as they both manoeuvred the brooms around and began their descent. "That's another reason we need to head back. I don't know if it's possible for a vampire to go insane but a hyper Teddy might just achieve it given enough time."
"Jasper looking after Teddy…this I have to see!"
"You can keep the change," Narcissa said with a smile as she handed over a few of the green notes she was getting the hang of. The taxi driver mumbled a thank you as he watched the couple struggle to get out with the many shopping bags the trip to the nearest shopping centre had resulted in.
"I hope you didn't give him too much of a tip," Lucius said as they walked away from the taxi, both of them carrying two bags in each hand, "He was rather rude and completely unhelpful." The taxi roared away behind them.
"No. It was only a little bit," Narcissa replied, having realised what kind of a man the driver had been early on in the journey when he'd ignored her friendly questions and refused to participate in the 'chit-chat'.
"Good," Lucius smiled in response as they reached the locked door, (I)"Alohomora."(I) The whispered spell unlocked the door and made it much easier to enter their house carrying the shopping.
"Draco! Harry! We're home!" Narcissa called out brightly as she stepped into the house. No answer. "That's odd."
"Hmm," Lucius mumbled in agreement, putting his bags down by the wall so that he could shut and lock the door. "Draco?" he called out once that was done, able to shout louder than his wife. This time they head something, a giggle from inside Harry and Teddy's room.
"Harry?" Narcissa asked, putting her bags down beside Lucius' and pushing open the half shut door to the only downstairs bedroom. "Harry, why didn't you-"
But the person playing with Teddy on the floor of the room wasn't Harry.
"So who's this?" Jasper asked as yet another teddy bear, this one had fur that changed colour depending on the mood of the person holding it (or so the tag still connected to the bears ear said.) In Teddy's hand it had been blue, in Jaspers hands it turned purple. Jasper didn't know what that meant…
"Ran'bo," Teddy answered. Jasper doubted he meant 'Rambo'.
"Rainbow?" Jasper asked and Teddy nodded. "That's a nice name. Now where should Rainbow go?" They were creating an 'army' of teddy bears and toys, setting it up to fight away the nasty dreams and the monsters that his under Teddy's bed and in his wardrobe. It was already covering most of the floor but there were apparently more toys left in the trunk by Teddy's bed.
"Here," Teddy said, placing his hand down in a gap next to the largest teddy bear of the 'army'. Jasper obediently lent over and put the toy down carefully. "Next!" He pointed to the trunk and Jasper obediently reached in and pulled out a stuffed dragon with a gold bow round it's neck.
"Where's Draco and Harry?" Lucius asked, speaking before Teddy could announce the name of the toy dragon. The little boy looked up with a startled gasp but Jasper had known they were there, he had known the minute they had gotten out of the taxi thanks to vampire hearing.
"They went out for a few minutes," Jasper answered, handing the toy dragon to Teddy who hugged it tightly, calling it 'No-bow'. This time Jasper had no clue as to what that name could really be.
"And they trusted you to look after Teddy?" Lucius almost scoffed.
"Yes I did," Harry's vice came from behind the couple in the doorway and made them both jump. Jasper had heard the two wizards land in the bedroom upstairs and had heard their quiet steps on the stairs. "How's he been Jasper?"
"Fine, watch out for his army," Jasper said as Harry pushed gently between the Malfoy's and stepped into the room.
"Army?" Harry asked, looking around at the toys.
"Teddy was telling me all about the monster under the bed and I told him what I used to do when I was little and afraid of the night time monsters," Jasper explained with a smile, "I used to make an army out of all my toy soldiers and they used to keep the monsters away. So we've been making an army of teddy bears, with the teddy called Teddy as the General."
"Generdal," Teddy nodded in agreement.
"He's very advanced for his age," Jasper said softly to Harry.
"I know, but then he had a very smart father," Harry smiled, ruffling his little sons hair and making it as messy as his own. He sat down on Teddy's other side, being extra careful not to knock any of the carefully placed toys. "Come on in Draco, between the three of us I think we can create a good enough army to keep the monsters away." Draco squeezed past his parents and sat on the other side of the army, smiling across at Jasper.
"Why are you both so wet?" Narcissa asked worriedly.
"Um…" Draco looked down at the nearest toy awkwardly.
"We…" Harry looked just as awkward, not wanting Draco to get in trouble with his parents but he couldn't think up a convincing lie.
"Draco was worried about Bella," Jasper said calmly, "He went for a walk and Harry went after him to make sure he was all right." He shot both wizards a quick look and he could feel their thankfulness.
"Oh Draco that wasn't a very good idea, you'll both catch chills now," Narcissa said in her most mothering tone. She pulled out her wand and quickly spelled both the wizards clothes dry. "Don't go walking in the rain again."
"I won't mother," Draco said softly.
"So Teddy, where is Norbert going to go?" Harry asked, turning his attention back to the little boy holding the dragon toy.
"Norbert!" Jasper laughed, "That's what he meant."
"Norbert?" Draco asked, "He called a toy dragon Norbert?"
"No," Harry answered, "Norbert was gift from Uncle Charlie wasn't he?" Teddy nodded. "Charlie named him after a dragon both you and I have seen." Draco frowned. "Do you remember in our first year you followed me, Ron and Hermione to Hagrid's Hut? And you saw the baby dragon hatch?"
"I told on you," Draco chuckled softly, remembering the incident.
"Well that was Baby Norbert," Harry smiled, "He went to live on the reserve Charlie works at. Of course they then discovered one rather important thing that Hagrid hadn't realised when naming Norbert."
"What?" Draco asked.
"He was a she," Harry laughed, "So the name changed to Norberta. But Charlie's Christmas present is a boy and is called Norbert."
"No-bow," Teddy agreed.
"A name Teddy hasn't quite got the hang of," Harry chuckled.
"So where is Norbert the dragon to go?" Jasper asked.
"At the front!" Teddy cried, holding the dragon out. It was Draco who took it and put it carefully at the front of the army. "Yay!"
"We'll leave you all to it," Narcissa said softly, with a gentle smile on her face.
"We will?" Lucius asked.
"We will. We have shopping to unpack," Narcissa smiled at her husband, "Have fun you five. It's nice to have a house filled with laughter." She took her husbands hand and pulled him from the room, shutting the door gently as they left.
"So…are there any more toys?" Jasper asked.
"Are you kidding? That's a magically enlarged trunk Jasper," Harry said and Jasper now understood why it had felt like there was no bottom when he was pulling toys out, "We're very popular back home and people send Teddy toys. I get letters and chocolates and thing and he gets toys. They're all checked by Aurors, all our mail is just in case. But I wouldn't have kept them all if he hadn't got so upset the first time I tried to take some of them away."
"So how many are there?" Jasper asked.
"I lost count at 246 but there have been more since then. Thankfully no more have come since we moved as people don't know where to find us," Harry chuckled.
"246?" Jasper asked in shock, "Well this is gonna be a big army."
"No kidding…" Draco breathed, "It'll take up the entire house!"
Draco nearly jumped out of his skin when his phone beeped loudly, telling him that he had received a txt. They had put a stop to Teddy's game a while ago, Harry making the final decision because it really had spread out around the house and moving about had become difficult. Lucius was in the front room, reading the latest copy of the Daily Prophet to be delivered. At Harry's insistence they got the Quibbler too. Narcissa was busy in the kitchen, preparing the dinner. The group had retired to Harry and Teddy's room, Teddy napping on his bed while the three young adults sat and talked on Harry's bed.
"It's from Bella," Draco announced as he opened the txt. He was sat on Jasper's lap and the vampire's arms tightened comfortingly around his waist as he began to read the txt aloud. (B)"We're ok. On our way home. Alice says you've been worrying. Lots to talk about when we get home. Will txt you details later. Bella."(B) He turned his head to smile at Jasper. "They're ok."
"They're ok," Jasper agreed.
"They're ok!" Draco cried out, pressing his lips to Jaspers in a hard kiss, dropping the phone as his hands fisted in Jaspers hair. By then he'd turned around in Jaspers arms, straddling the vampire. Harry laughed from where he sat beside them, turning his head away and the couple broke apart. "Sorry Harry but…they're ok!"
"Yes, I gathered that," Harry chuckled. "Just warn me next time."
"Ok Harry, I'll warn you. Look away now. I'm going to kiss my boyfriend again," Draco laughed happily. Harry covered his eyes theatrically as Draco pressed his lips to Jaspers once more. "Everything's ok," he murmured against the cold lips.
"Yes. Everything's perfect."
A/N An epilogue is on it's way as I simply cannot leave it here. It won't let me.
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