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Broken Wings	By : Drarry-Lisa Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Draco Views: 4083 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter-31
I forgive you.
Harry wrung the bell. The man who opened the door seemed nothing like Dudley Dursley he knew and if Harry had not foreknown that this was in fact the Dursley house, he would have sworn that he had entered the wrong place. The man who stood in front of him had a strong built and warm eyes. He was not fat, no. He was handsome, in fact and looked quite intelligent.
"Hello, Harry and Ah! Hello Mr. -" Dudley spoke to him politely and turned to talk to Draco. Harry gaped. His jaw fell open in shock because Dudley had never spoken politely to anyone in his complete life except for the time when he had shaken Harry's hands.
"Draco. Call me Draco." Draco replied and shook Dudley's extended hands, nudging Harry's shoulders. Harry cleared his throat abruptly, "Um, hello Dudley."
"Come inside and have a seat" Dudley replied again and Harry couldn't help but blurting "You are Dudley, aren't you?"
Dudley looked at him, his brown eyes twinkling merrily and his lips upturned in a smile and murmured "Of course, it is me. I had a makeover." Then the man burst into peals of laughter, his hand on his stomach.
"Daddy. Who is it?" A girl spoke and Dudley turned around "Your uncle Harry is here with Draco, Tessa. Come and invite them in." His voice was so warm and loving that Harry stared at Draco, trying to depict his surprise. Draco smiled a bit and spoke "People change, Harry."
"Indeed." Dudley spoke and walked towards the entry way with his daughter beside him. She was beautiful and had wide blue eyes. Her hair was long and curly and she extended her hand towards him solemnly "Hello. Uncle Harry." In spite of being just ten, her eyes looked matured and Harry knelt down in front of her, kissing her left cheek. She was after all his family.
"Hello, little girl." He said and Draco followed his example, kissing her right one and murmuring "Hello. Tessa."
She looked startled for a moment but recovered quite quickly "Daddy said he was bad to you when you were a baby so you might not like me. Daddy is sorry-"
Harry looked at Draco and his silver eyes looked at him, pleading him to forgive whatever Dudley had done to him in his childhood. They pleaded him to accept this little girl and Harry looked at Dudley who was looking at him, his eyes filled with shame. His eyes were begging him to have some mercy in his heart for Tessa.
"I am also sorry for what dad did and what grandfather-. Although grandfather is still bad, my daddy has changed a lot. He hates violence and he is sorry." Harry's eyes turned towards little Tessa. She was looking at him warmly and perhaps her innocent eyes did the trick. He hugged the girl and murmured "I forgive your daddy and I will never punish you for what he did."
It had been out of question really. Harry would never let what happened to him happen to another child. He would never be so cruel. Tessa had been quite matured till now but her body was trembling when he hugged her. He wondered why and so still at the entryway, he pulled back, asking softly "What happened? Why are you crying?" Tears were streaming down her eyes and she shook her head quietly.
"Tell me." Harry pressed and she shook her head again. He was about to ask again when he felt Draco squeeze his forearm. His silver eyes asked him to let him handle this and Harry nodded.
"Tessa. May I have the pleasure to take you to Honey dukes. It has the most delicious candies I have ever eaten." Draco spoke and Harry said "I will be here and talk to Dudley for a bit. You can take her to Hogsmeade and show her the shops over there. She will like them."
"Tessa. Will you like to go with Uncle Draco." Dudley asked and Tessa turned towards her dad. She nodded slowly and turned towards Draco "Yes. Thank you. Uncle Draco."
Harry stood up and so did Draco. They pressed a kiss on her head and her cheeks tinged pink before she smiled beautifully at them.
"Come let's go." Draco said and held her in his arms before apparating. Before he disappeared though, Harry had the pleasure of watching Tessa's beautiful eyes become enormous and bright with surprise and delight.
"Come on Harry. Let's move inside." Dudley said and Harry moved inside the house.
he followed Dudley towards the sitting room and Dudley spoke politely "Sit. Coffee or tea or something else?"
Harry smiled and replied "Tea." Though he was smiling, his insides were churning with something indescribable. This was the same house in which he had been almost assaulted multiple times and he had not wanted to ever set a foot in this house again.
Dudley came back and sat across him, giving his cup of tea and looked at him silently.
"He is sedated. Do not worry. We will wait until Draco returns." Dudley stopped at this and looked at Harry expectantly. Harry looked at him flabbergasted.
"How did you even know?" He asked and at this Dudley's eyes shown with pain.
"Tessa has this look in her eyes at times." He said and Harry's fury flared and so did his magic. Their cups trembled and so did the windows. Their eyes met and Harry was the one who broke the silence "Why did you not owl me earlier? This is a delicate issue."
Dudley opened his mouth and then closed it again.
"I - we were so inhumane to you Harry. You are my cousin, for gods sake and I despise myself for what I did. I told her a bit about how we treated you and she rarely ever speaks to me and on the top of everything she is a witch and I have no experience with it." Dudley stopped at this and looked at him earnestly "I can not begin to tell you how thankful I am to you."
Harry was about to speak something but a soft voice interrupted him.
"Harry." For a few moments, he was confused as to who would call his name. The voice was not recognizable at all. He turned around and his cup almost fell from his hand when he saw his aunt Petunia standing at a few feet from him. He turned to look at Dudley but the man was literally gaping at his mum.
"Aunt Petunia." He said and Dudley whispered "She has not spoken word since we uncovered dad's sins. This is the first time she has said a word."
He did not turn around though because he stunned speechless when he saw his aunt's eyes well with tears. Her face was pale and thin. She was practically a bag of bones. It was like she was not eating anything at all.
"I - I am so sorry Harry. I am so sorry." The voice belonged to his aunt and this time his cup did fall from his hands. He was utterly shocked. As far as he remembered, his aunt never apologised.
She looked at him, tears streaking down her pale cheeks "Lily would never forgive me. My god. What did I do? I am so sorry. I starved you and Vernon-. My god. She will never forgive me."
Harry still stared and Dudley stayed still on his couch, not daring to break aunt's speech.
"I tried to repress your magic and never knew that Dudley was a wizard as well. I hated a child, an innocent child and god punished me through my own son and granddaughter." She spoke and fell on his knees. Finally, Harry came out of his shocked stupor and cast a quick reparo through a flick of his hand. The cup, as good as new, flew on the table and Harry walked towards his aunt.
She had her hands on her face now, sobbing uncontrollably and Harry did not know why he felt mercy in his heart for this woman. She had never loved him. She had ridiculed him, starved him, given him chores, repressed his magic, scolded him. She had never spoken softly to him. She had never hugged him when he had a nightmare. Why, then he knelt in front of her took her sobbing, trembling body in his arms?
Dudley who had treated him as his punching bag most of his childhood walked towards him and placed a hand on his shoulder. Why did he not shove it off? He was here to rescue a child, not forgive his relatives.
Why were his eyes shining with unshed tears as his aunt sobbed on his shirt mumbling "I am sorry. So very sorry. I should have loved you. I punished a child. Lily will never forgive me."
"She will. Aunt. She will forgive you." Why was he murmuring these words to the woman who had not looked at him with soft eyes even once?
He looked around and noticed that Dudley's eyes were tearing as well. His eyes had regret and an apology and Harry found himself forgiving them.
He had not realized that he was crying until the bitter tears slipped inside his mouth. Was this what he had needed? A closure. An acceptance from the only blood relatives he had.
"It's okay. I forgive you, aunt Petunia. You must calm down. Shhh." The words escaped his mouth and he was surprised because he had not known that he had the heart to forgive them.
Finally, she stopped crying and pulled back a bit. She held his cheeks softly and kissed his forehead and Harry stared at her with wide eyes. He had never felt this-their was no name for the emotions he was going through. Aunt Petunia had never looked at him with love in her eyes. Never had he imagined that it would feel so good.
"I am proud of the man you have become." These were the first coherent words that escaped her mouth and he blinked several times to prevent the tears from falling again.
When he had been little, he had dreamt that his relatives will be proud of him someday and it was as if a dream had come true.
"Thank you." He whispered and Dudley whispered "I am sorry, Harry. No matter how many times I apologise, I know it will always be less."
"I forgive you." Harry said, his eyes somewhere ahead and he realized that he had in fact forgiven them for everything they did to him and perhaps he was like that, he was like his mother. His mother never held grudges. This he knew from what Severus had told him.
"You are like Lily." Aunt said and his eyes focussed and blurred as he looked at her. "I will tell you about her. I have her albums, you know. I hid them years ago so that no one finds them. I will give them to you. I found her journals as well though I never peaked inside until Dudley told me about Vernon. You are like her because she wrote that she forgave me for everything I said and that she loved me even if I was angry with her. Of course she did not use the word jealous. I am sorry Harry because I hurt you just because you were a wizard. I paid for my sins though. Dudley never got to visit Hogwarts. Lily wrote that it is beautiful and Tessa has been living in fear."
"Aunt-" He started and she shook her head. It must have been uncomfortable sitting like this for her. But she did not even move.
"Let me speak. I was always jealous of your mum and a little angry as well. I love her and have always loved her. She was my small sister but then she was a witch and I wasn't and so I was jealous and I took it on you. It feels like Dudley and Tessa are paying for my sins. Mother had always said that children pay for their parents's sins and I am sorry Harry. I would like it if you stay in touch with me. Dudley told me that you had married some one named Draco. I would like to meet him as well. We are your family and I am not saying this so that you save Tessa. No. Please believe me when I tell you that I am sorry. I need you to know that I regret for not loving you when you were small and just wanted me to love you and be proud of you. I feel rotten and everything inside burns with shame. If I could, I will go back and murder Vernon in cold blood, but I can't and I am so sorry that you had such a rotten childhood because of me."
Harry stared at him and when he turned to look at Dudley, he found the man looking somewhere outside the window, tears streaming down his cheeks, his eyes practically burning with shame.
"I spoiled Dudley and he treated you as a punching bag and I never bought new things for you Harry and I am so helpless because I can't bring that time back. I see a fear in Tessa's eyes and I had never known why until Vernon spat it out in a fit of arrogance. He told me that he had told Tessa about everything we did to you. I see her eyes burn with shame and anger when she looks at me and when she looks at Dudley as well."
Dudley gasped and Harry looked at him "Let's sit on the couch and you can tell everything to us Aunt Petunia." She nodded and they settled on the couch. He gave a cup of tea to her and she denied it but he insisted so she took it. Their was an odd look in her eyes when she did though and he asked "What happened?"
"We forced you to cook when you were small. Many a time, you burnt your little hands and I never paid attention to the fact that you needed comfort." She spoke and Harry stared at her and Dudley again. the man was looking silently at the table, looking lost and upset and aunt continued "Vernon said that Tessa knows everything and she does not trust anyone in this house at all. She does not speak to anyone because she thinks that we will hurt her like we hurt you."
"Ah! That would explain why she did not answer me." Harry whispered, continuing "Perhaps she thinks that I would not help her."
Dudley nodded and finally spoke "I do not know what to do. She is so terrified all the time and she did not want to stay in this house. At night, no one can enter her room now."
"That must be the wards. I think it is her accidental magic." Harry answered, his eyes sharp "Do not worry. I am here now. Let Draco return. I am sure she must have opened to him. He is good with kids."
He jumped when he felt aunt Petunia's hands grasp his "You will stay in touch with us, won't you?"
He nodded, grinning "Yes. I think you must move from here. I think she does not like living here." and Dudley agreed "Yes. I am sure."
"After we are done over here, I will tell you all the options you have Dudley." He spoke and as if on cue, the door was knocked again and Draco entered in, his face red with fury. Tessa was in his arms, her face streaked with tears on Draco's shoulders and Harry was alarmed because Draco's eyes had never been so bloody murderous.
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