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Gooey Melting Hearts	By : Blackkitten23 Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 24972 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 6
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In a pain filled daze Lucius struggled to get to the floo and flooed to the Prince family home where he collapsed on the floor. Hours ticked away and his body started getting cold ...
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Remus paled heavily and rushed to the front of the store just in time to see his furious father nearly hit Severus with a spell. Everything that followed seemed to go in slow motion. He was vaguely aware of his father yelling something. Then his father spotted him and reached out to grab him. However, it never happened since Nicholas stepped in front of his father and grabbed his father’s wrist.
“You nearly hit my grandson.” Nicholas said, but despite sounding calm you could feel rage. With a simple twist of that wrist he somehow flipped the furious man over his shoulder and threw him so he went sliding across the floor.
James, with Sirius not far behind, started leaving the shelf maze to see what was wrong, “What’s going- whoa!” James and Sirius both jumped back just in time to avoid getting bowled over by the man sliding across the floor.
James winced as the guy skidded right into the front counter, but then he immediately focused on Severus. “Are you ok? … that’s glass!“ he said as he went over to brush the glass from a shattered jar off Severus’ shoulder.
Severus nodded, “I’m fine.” He said and he was more concerned about Remus and this man. Creatures weren’t treated right as it was, but Severus always suspected if it was the same for Remus at home and this answered that.
“What the hell!” The man growled and struggled to get to his feet. When he was standing he realized he was completely surrounded and his wand was gone. “Give my wand back!” He barked when he noticed Nicholas had two wands.
Patty huffed, “Not if you’re going to destroy my stock. Now why don’t you calmly explain why you’re throwing a tantrum. First, what’s your name?”
The man scowled and pointed at Remus, “Lyall. If you’re worried about your stock and customers then Remus is coming with me. He’s dangerous enough as it is and doesn’t need to be around people, especially people from this alley.”
“Why? I’ll have to say no. He’s an excellent employee.” Patty said while strolling up to the pissed man. “Quit with the attitude or I’ll get the ministry involved-“
“Don’t you fucking dare. We’ll just leave.” The werewolf’s father said, but no one was letting him near Remus.
Remus frowned, “I think my father is just worried about my being revealed as a werewolf-“
“You fucking idiot!” Lyall snapped and tensed as if someone would attack someone.
Sirius blinked, “I don’t get it. Have you never told him that we have known throughout school? A Potter friend, a disowned Black friend and now a Prince friend don’t sound like dark friends that’ll let you go to the dark side of the war.”
“No …” Remus said tentatively and he didn’t need to say much more because he clearly looked scared about the subject and his father. He jumped slightly when he felt someone move close to him and just smiled when he saw Severus and James standing next to him.
Lyall, who looked more confused now, glared, “Prince? Potter? Dragon-“
“Watch the language.” Patty warned knowing full well that he was going to say ‘dragonshit’. “They all know and that’s that. Tell us, is St. Mungo’s dark? Is the ministry dark? No. Now for a fun fact …“ she paused a moment to glare down at Remus’s father effectively making the fool flinch. “I supply St. Mungo’s with ingredients. My best customers, the Prince family, donates ready made healing potions to St. Mungo’s when they’re unable to make enough on their own and they then donate plant clippings here so I can lower the price for struggling families without losing quality. The woman running the wand shop in this alley works with the ministry as a supplier to fix or replace damaged supplies. She arms the Auror-“
Lyall was running on pure rage as he jumped to his feet, “Don’t try and convince me this place isn’t full of dangerous creatures!” He screamed, but backed off a little when Nicholas stepped closer to him.
Patty simply scoffed as if she was used to hearing this crap, “Yes. Yes. Very scary. The bar deeper in the alley makes sure vampires are well fed with donated blood and werewolves are rented out compartmentalized briefcases to transform in during the one night they’re actually dangerous. Yes, this alley is filled with more creeps than usual, but that’s because creatures are here and they’re wanted for war.” Patty realized that she was letting herself get a little worked up by the infuriating conversation when Sebastian placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. She took a deep breath and glared at Lyall. “The reason the ingredients in my shop are as potent as they are is because I have werewolves prepare them. That’s why the war is making creatures look more dangerous than they really are. Voldemort wants that power to create the best potions and what better way to bring werewolves to your side than making everyone fear them.”
Nicholas stopped Lyall from saying anything stupid by pressing his wand to Lyall’s throat, “It’s true. Go to Gringotts or the ministry and just ask, they don’t care about hurting creatures needlessly. I think you should go. Your son will be fine here until you decide to see reason.” Nicholas said and handed back the wand he took.
“Rem-“ Lyall scowled when he saw Remus back away from him and snatchedhis wand before stumping his way to the door. “Fine. Maybe I will tell the ministry.” He said. However, with the way the man slowed down when he opened the door it was clear he was bluffing to scare Remus.
“Well … go on already.” Sebastian said dismissively and watched the fool finally leave. “That was not a nice introduction.”
“I should say not.” Patty huffed before turning to Remus. “After that display of stupidity I can’t allow you to go home until I know he gets those thoughts out of his head.”
James grinned, “Guess you’re spending the night with us!” He exclaimed as he slung an arm over his werewolf friend’s shoulders.
Remus sighed, “Are you guys going to let me sleep or just build pillow forts all night?”
Nicholas chuckled, “If they give you trouble you can stay with us.” He offered and Severus immediately nodded though he knew they were only joking. “Tell us if anything changes.” He said clearly wanting to know if Lyall tries anything stupid.
“I’ll update you if anything happens. Tell me what your friend thinks of my plan!” Patty said with a bit more cheer than earlier and gave the Prince family their purchases. Once Severus and his grandfathers left she turned back to her employees. “Excitement is over! Back to work you three.”
Remus followed his friends into the shelves, “Yes, Patty!” He said and as he walked back to the back counter he noticed a pouty look on James’ face. “James … why are you pouting?”
“I’m not …” James argued weakly, but the werewolf didn’t look convinced. “It’s just … Severus’ family invited you over.”
The werewolf stopped in his tracks, put his hands on James' shoulders and looked into the Potter’s eyes, “They invited me over because they’re kind people. That’s all. They didn’t offer Severus’ bed. Even if they did, I won’t take your chance.” He said and smirked as his friend turned bright red in embarrassment. They returned to the back counter and the werewolf frowned as he found Sirius thinking about something. “What are you thinking about, Sirius?”
Sirius tilted his head as if trying to shake an answer out, “It’s just … how did your father figure it out? Someone had to have told, right? … but who would’ve seen you here and known enough to tell your father?”
Remus frowned, “I … I don’t know. We can think about that later.” He said before checking where they were on their orders.
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After only taking one step out of the floo and into the Prince Manor, Severus, Nicholas and Sebastian saw an odd sight. A pale Lucius was laid out on the couch and had a large heated blanket draped over every inch of him. It didn’t seem too bad to Severus, but his grandfathers seemed very concerned.
“I’ll call Mathias.” Nicholas exclaimed and immediately turned around to floo call the healer as Sebastian and Severus went over to the couch.
Severus frowned, but when he got closer to his friend his eyes widened in worry, “What’s wrong with him?!” He exclaimed as he realized that his friend was pale and not waking up. For a split second after he left the floo he actually thought that his friend simply returned from the meeting with the dark lord and decided to get a blanket and rest, but Severus realized this was far more serious than a cat nap.
Nicholas already had his head in the floo and couldn’t talk as he tried to get in contact with the healer, “Mathias! We have an emergency! It looks like Lucius was hit with the torture curse and possibly something else.” Nicholas explained quickly and moved out of the way to go check on Lucius while Sebastian went outside for some reason.
“Torture curse?” Severus muttered breathlessly and looked at his friend. He has seen how Lucius deal with the effects of that curse before, but this was far worse than anything he has seen before. He glanced at his grandpa who was checking Lucius’ pulse on the Malfoy’s throat. Right after he looked out the nearest window where he saw his grandfather talking to the house elves.
Though the healer’s face never appeared in the fire Mathias did floo in a moment later, “I’m sorry I didn’t answer. I only just got back. Now what happened?” He asked just as Sebastian came back into the manor. With a gentle nudge the healer gestured for Severus to move aside as he whipped out his wand and scanned the young wizard on the couch.
“The house elves say he flooed here not long after we left and collapsed on the floor. Since they have orders to stay out of the main floors unless there’s an emergency they waited to see if he’d get up. When he didn’t they got worried and moved him to the couch a few minutes ago.” Sebastian explained as he took a seat.
Mathias winced as he skimmed the results of his scan, “I’m not surprised he blacked out.” The healer said as he immediately pulled out a potion that any potion lover would instantly recognize as a blood restoring potion. Mathias wasted no time spelling open the unconscious wizard’s mouth and putting the potion carefully down Lucius’ throat. “You are very lucky you found him when you did.”
“Why?” Severus asked, feeling immense relief when the color returned to the you Malfoy’s face. “The torture curse has never done this to him so what caused the blood loss?”
While using advanced healing spells on Lucius’ chest and stomach Mathias nodded, “I’m going to put aside the fact that you implied that he has been tortured before … for now. The dark lord has apparently been experimenting with different, and quite damaging, varieties of the torture curse … I’ve sadly seen a few victims who have bled out because of the internal damage. How did he run into the dark lord and where? I should have someone check for other survivors before they bleed out.”
Sebastian saw Severus become quite tense and looked at the healer seriously, “We have your vow of silence, correct?”
“Yes, of course. Why?” Mathias asked focusing more on the healing, but when he finished he realized that there was only silence. He finally looked up and saw Sebastian point to Lucius’ left arm. It took a second for the healer to understand the message and roll up the sleeve that hid the dark mark. “Voldemort tortures his own followers like this?” The healer gasped.
Severus shook his head, “Lucius didn’t exactly volunteer for the mark so he could be getting the brunt of the abuse just like with his father.” He said casually sliding that extra ‘abusive father’ detail.
“I see … sadly that would make sense.” Mathias commented solemnly. Any crazed leader would aim to vent or make an example of using the least loyal followers.
Nicholas nodded, “We’d like your advice on something. How fast can someone get in, at least, the trainee level as a healer?”
Mathias looked a little baffled at the change in subject, but pondered the question, “It’d take about 10 weeks maybe. Possibly even less depending on the grades of the person.” He said and everyone noticed Lucius’ eyes open.
Sebastian frowned as the now conscious Malfoy was given a second blood restoring potion and allowed to drink it by himself this time, “In theory, would it be possible to qualify to walk around with someone who is on certain medications that cause dizziness and complete the qualifications before the patient goes to school?”
The healer’s eyes widened and glanced at Lucius, “If he was an apprentice to a healer and willing to work hard then he can do that.” He explained and Lucius clearly realized what that could mean.
After all, if Lucius had a really good excuse to get into Hogwarts as a fake spy he could spare himself further pain. The fact that he’d be assigned to help his friend was the cherry on top. Granted, Mathias wasn’t aware about the dark lord’s reasons for hurting Lucius. The healer just saw a chance to help someone who’s stuck in a dangerous situation and took a chance like he did once before.
“This will also give me a chance to keep an eye on your condition.” Mathias said cheerfully as he reached in his coat pocket. All he needed to see was the look in Lucius’ eyes to know this is what the wizard wanted and he pulled a stamp out of his pocket. He took Lucius’ hand and pressed the stamp into the palm. “There! You start early tomorrow! I’ll contact Severus’ head of house and tell him I found someone to help Severus get around. No worries about giving details. You’ll be fully qualified by the time school starts.” He said as he put his stamp away.
Lucius nodded, still feeling a little dazed, “Yes, thank you.”
“You’re very welcome. Now take one more blood restoring potion with dinner and I’ll see you tomorrow.” Mathias said before flooding away.
The Malfoy’s sliver eyes lingered on the little blue St. Mungo’s mark now on his palm, “He was angry because he didn’t have a spy in Hogwarts.” Lucius muttered as he slowly sat up.
Severus sat down next to him and held his unsteady friend’s shoulder, “There’s one more thing to try. It might be a way to get everyone safe.”
“What?” Lucius asked as he looked around at the three wizards.
Sebastian nodded, “When you’re ready I’m taking you to Gringotts.”
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