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Ease My Pain	By : Drarry-Lisa Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 1324 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter - 2
Regrets
Twinkle Twinkle little star
How I wonder where you are
Albus gasped as the song flicked in the forefront of his mind. He hates it. This is the song that they used to terrify him. Albus remembers everything very clearly. Scorpius was the only other person who knew what happened.
They were very just five when Albus had told him and Scorpius won't have understood it then. He trusted him not to tell anything to anyone. Dad was worried for him, had always been. Albus knew this but he did not like to talk to anyone. Dad never forced him. He always kept a watch on his tutoring sessions.
Dad considered himself responsible for his kidnapping. According to him, he must not have left Albus alone at home. Albus knew that the blame did not rest on his dad's shoulders because Albus had volunteered to stay alone. Dad was studying wand lore and he saw that father used to miss classes to take care of him. So he had volunteered. He had been careless. Dad had asked him not to unlock the door because he was too small and did not know to cast any spells. He should have listened to his father.
Alas He hadn't and-
"Albus." Dad's soft voice interrupted his musings and he replied in a soft voice "Coming. Dad. I am just making tea for us." Dad was ill and no healer in France had a cure of the strange fever that Dad had caught. He had owled some healers in Britain anonymously and all of them had owled back that no one except Draco Malfoy could cure it.
He did not want to return to Britain. He did not even want to set a single foot out of this house. But he couldn't live without his father. This fever was deteriorating him day by day and it killed him to see dad like this. So he had decided to return to Britain to get him cured. They could always return back.
Dad had sacrificed to so much for him. He could tolerate a few days of pain and fear for him.
A noise alarms Albus and he calls nervously, "Dad, is the front door locked?"
"Yes, the wards are in place. I designed them myself, you know." Dad replied and the sentence that he should have warded his house himself before he was kidnapped went unsaid. In the past, dad had said this sentence at least a thousand times and Albus had told him that he was not to be blamed because he did not know that the wards on the house will be weak.
He loved his father and the only other person he loved was Scorpius. He had stayed away from him because he simply could not allow any other man in his close proximity and Scorpius deserved better than that.
Returning to Britain amidst the wizarding population who wanted to fawn over his father would be a nightmare for him and he wondered how will he continue his studies over their. He wanted to be a potions master. He liked the art and wanted to do his internship under Severus Snape, dad's godfather.
He had prevented dad from contacting anyone for the past ten years. He had been too terrified and he wondered if Potions Master Snape will train him. He might begrudge him for keeping dad away from him. They had lived in their little world in which no one could intervene except his teachers but they were females and father never let anyone dominate over Albus at all.
He tried to be strong but then very dark and dangerous thoughts start entering his mind. So he just relied on dad for everything.
Returning to Britain would ruin everything. Sighing a bit, he entered their bedroom. Dad was looking paler than yesterday and the smile that he gave Albus was weak and his eyes were red and all of a sudden Albus couldn't breath.
"Dad, did you take medicines?" He asked, keeping their breakfast aside hurriedly and checking dad's tablets and potions.
Dad coughed and tried to get up and Albus helped him. "Yes, I did. They do not work anymore, Albus. I am afraid that-" Dad coughed again and Albus's breath became laboured "-that I won't survive much longer."
Albus shook his head and slumped next to dad. He loved his father. He wondered if anyone could love anyone else so much. He loved his father so much that he couldn't imagine a life in which dad did not exist. Ever since dad had burst into the hell that had destroyed his life and rescued him, he had been Albus's everything, father, mother, best friend, protector, mentor, everything. He held his father's hand and looked into his eyes. For the first time in the past ten years, he felt the need to be strong. The need was desperate because his father was weak. His hands were trembling and there were dark circles beneath his eyes and he looked too old for his age.
He had to be strong and take hard decisions and it was so difficult. He wished he could be a baby and dissolve into tears. But he couldn't. He breathed and tried to collect his thoughts. He held his father's hand desperately and looked at nothing in particular. Father never interrupted his silence and he stayed quiet. He never did anything to cause pain to Albus and Dad was in so much pain and Albus just couldn't bear it.
"We are going to firecall Healer Malfoy immediately." Albus spoke and dad squeezed his hands, compelling him to look into his eyes.
"You do not have to do this." Dad spoke softly and Albus shook his head, desperately trying to be strong. He had stopped crying ever since he had turned eight. "No. I won't lose you dad."
"But-" dad spoke again and Albus shook his head adamantly "No. Just- just let me do this dad. Okay?"
Albus pressed and dad looked at him, trying to read his face, before whispering "Okay. I do not know how long I can -" dad coughed "- stay conscious so it is better that you call them soon."

I can protect myself now. No one can take me away. I would take dad to Healer Malfoy and get him cured and then come back to live in peace. I would not stay in Britain. I won't hunt them down. I won't.
He repeated these words in his mind and took a few calming breathes before completing his breakfast.
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"Scorpius, how are your studies going on? You are having NEWTS when your school reopens." Father asked and Scorpius replied, his attention on his DADA textbook, "Fine."
Father's sigh was audible before he mumbled "You are having a quidditich match after the exams. Why don't you apply for the seeker's position?"
"Not interested." Scorpius mumbled again and father pressed "Are you always going to remain angry with me?"
Scorpius did not reply and took a small bite of his omelette. He just couldn't forgive father. He had never gotten over the fact that father had driven Albus away to a place where Scorpius could never find him. He had tried and tried and tried but hadn't been able to find any trace of the boy and his father. He had asked Potions Master Snape and the man had sighed that no one was aware about Harry Potter's whereabouts.
"This is my house and you will talk to me-" Father started and Scorpius replied curtly "I have been tutoring students for a while now and have saved enough money to rent an apartment and settle over there after Hogwarts if you want."
"Forgive me Scorpius. Please forgive me. I - I regret my decision and not just because you are angry with me. I was just starting my career and didn't know exactly what Albus was going through. I was selfish for my son. I have no one except you Scorpius and I am trying to find them." Father whispered and this was not the first time they were having this conversation.
"Your regret or apologies won't bring him back, father. It won't change the fact that you drove a child who had been - been kidnapped by pedophiles and was in pain. He needed support and you just drove him away. I won't have forgiven you even if he had been some other child. Your regret doesn't change the fact that he might be dead or insane. I could have healed him father but you drove him away. He was and will always be my best friend. I wish that your deed haunts you till your last breathe. I can't believe that my father can be so heartless. Perhaps, perhaps, Lord Voldemort took away the humanity you had when he was destroyed, perhaps that is why you behaved like a monster, perhaps that is why you-" Scorpius spoke in a soft and dangerous voice.
"Scorpius, stop." Father spoke desperately.
"-you kicked a five year old child out of your house because he panicked when -
"Stop." Their was a hint of alarm in his voice but Scorpius went on.
"-when I hugged him, not knowing what effect it will have on him."
"Please please stop."
"You, as good as, sent a child to hell. He needed healing. He needed friends. He needed all the support we could have given to him but you gifted him with loneliness and depression. I HATE YOU, father. I love you because you are my father and have raised me but I HATE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MY BEST FRIEND." Scorpius was shouting and panting for breathe by the end.
"STOP." Father shouted at last and looked at him with crazed eyes. "I AM SORRY. I AM BLOODY SORRY FOR NOT HELPING HIM."
After a minutes pause, he muttered "Do you think that I do not regret those few moments every minute of my life. I can't change the past. "
Scorpius looked at him with blank eyes "It does not change anything. I will never get my best friend back. You snatched him away from me and I hope you never get over the fact that you as good as cursed your son with a lonely life." He stood up to leave when the floo chimed.
"I will check it out." Father said after clearing his throat and Scorpius did not reply. He was almost at his room's entryway when he heard father's shouts "Scorpius, Scorpius Come here. Scorpius." Scorpius was so alarmed that he did not reply. He just kept walking and father shouted, his voice utterly panicked "SCORPIUS. SCORPIUS. COME HERE QUICKLY."
"I AM COMING. COMING. FATHER. WAIT. ANOTHER MINUTE AND I WILL BE THERE."
As promised, he reached the sitting room in a minute and entered it. Father was knelt in front of the floo, looking at it in panic. His feet froze and his eyes shot wide open when he looked at the person who had panicked father so much.
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