Harry Potter and The Serpent King (BP5)
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Adult ++
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Come For Me
Chapter Number/Total: 40/52
Chapter Title: Come For Me
Words: 2242 Words
The sun was beginning to rise and the sky was a faint pink and grey. The morning was a bit balmy, the summer air thick. Everything was quiet and peaceful, even when Harry knew there had to be much commotion up at the school. He held Draco's hand very tightly, his heart beating madly.
After a few seconds, there was the sound of quick footsteps and the padding of an animal. Remus and Sirius were crossing quickly to Harry and Draco, Sirius transformed already.
Draco was reluctant to let go of Harry's hand. He knew this was the moment. He found himself trying to think of an excuse to delay it.
Harry was not going to let hysteria take him over. He turned to Draco and held his face with one hand, unable to help shaking slightly.
Draco's breath caught when he looked down into those stunning green eyes. "Yours, always," was all he could think to say.
"Always," Harry whispered, touching his lips to Draco's and pulling him into a very tight embrace.
Draco held his lover tightly. "I know you can do it. All of it," he whispered. "You are amazingly powerful. I know you will win and you will come for me. You are my lion, my hero."
Harry closed his eyes and nodded. "I will," he said. "I promise. I'll kill him and I'll find you both."
"We should go," Draco said, and forced himself to release Harry. He was trembling, and if he didn't walk away soon, he didn't know if he would be able to.
Harry felt like someone was literally ripping an entire half of his body away. He separated himself from Draco with a badly shuddering breath, dropping his hands to his sides.
"Potter?" Draco forced a smirk. "You owe me a Quidditch match, remember?"
Harry didn't quite know what the expression was on his face. Some kind of mixture between a smile and a frown, he guessed. "I still plan on winning," he said, taking a single step back.
"And I still plan on seeing you on your knees in front of the entire school," Draco said, still smirking. Gritting his teeth, he turned and began walking toward the Hog's Head.
Harry clenched his fists, resisting the urge to run after Draco.
Sirius reared up on his back legs then and Harry dropped down to hug him. "Please watch him," he whispered.
Sirius barked and rubbed his head against Remus before running off after Draco.
Draco forced himself not to look back over his shoulder as he made his way to the pub, Sirius beside him. He opened the door and waited for Sirius to come through with him before making his way to the bar.
Sirius padded in and stared around the room, panting.
The pub was empty of customers and very quiet, but as soon as Draco entered, Aberforth came running out of the back room, looking scared and worried. "Quickly," he said. "He is waiting for you."
Draco followed him into the room, hand on his wand, just in case.
Sirius turned back into a man as the door closed. "Let's go," he said, Disapparating.
Aberforth followed after him.
Draco stood with them in front of the familiar rock. He was so tense he had to keep reminding himself to breathe.
Aberforth moved very quickly, pulling his wand and prodding the boulder as fast as he could.
Sirius clutched his wand and the bag of supplies filled with potions, the mirror, and with enough room for Draco's silver hand.
Snape appeared quickly, scowling. He didn't say a word but grabbed Draco's arm and Apparated them inside.
Aberforth clutched Sirius and took him.
"He has your son," Snape growled without preamble.
"We know," Draco snapped.
"Is this the 'something big' they were planning?" Sirius asked.
Snape frowned but nodded. "An attack on the Manor and the kidnapping of your son. I only knew they were planning a major attack somewhere. Apparently, he does suspect me."
Draco listened, feeling numb. "Do you know how the attack has gone?" he asked.
Sirius looked at Snape with wide eyes.
Snape shook his head, his hair swaying with it. "And we have a new problem. I was able to use Imperius on the Ward Keeper to make sure you can get in. But he must suspect something because he has now changed the Ward Keeper," he said. "I don't think the new Keeper has modified who can come in, but we must figure out who the new one is if we are to bring them down."
"Merde'," Draco hissed.
"We should move quickly," Snape continued. "With the attack, most of them are gone right now. You might be able to get to the snake."
"What about my son?" Draco asked.
"He is with the Dark Lord," Snape said.
Draco winced, closing his eyes. "Which of his leaders are on site?"
"I am not sure, though, as usual, the coward Wormtail is with his Master," Snape said.
Draco handed his wand to Sirius and began to strip.
"He's waiting for Harry, isn't he?" Sirius said quietly.
Snape snorted, hands on his hips as he waited for Draco. "He expects the Gryffindor to come charging in, of course," he answered.
Sirius gave a nod and opened the bag to take one of Draco's Invisibility Potions out for him.
"Are you going in as a dog, invisible, or both?" Draco asked him, taking the potion vial.
"I'm not sure if it will work while I'm transformed," Sirius said, frowning slightly. "Would it? I know as a human I would need to strip and leave our things behind to be invisible. As a dog, they disappear and are there when I transform again."
"Good point," Draco said with a nod, giving his silver arm to Sirius to put in the bag.
Sirius nodded too and took the arm, stowing it away. "So I'll go in as a dog then and try to keep out of sight."
"If they find the arm, they will know you are there," Snape said.
"I'll have it. They won't find it," Sirius said.
"I won't be able to speak once I take this," Draco said. "Severus, you will have to show or tell us where to go when we get there. Sirius, remember, you have my wand and I can't do wandless. I will literally be naked and unarmed."
Sirius nodded. "Hopefully we won't be caught," he said seriously.
Snape and Draco both rolled their eyes. It might have been funny in other circumstances. Draco uncapped the potion, holding it up like a toast. "To success," he said, and downed it. His body shimmered and disappeared.
Snape nodded. "Impressive," he said. "I will Apparate Black."
Sirius nodded and willingly held his arm out for Snape to hold. He took a very large breath, letting it out slowly.
Snape nodded and took it, Apparating them into Death’s End, as it had come to be called.
Draco followed a moment later, eyes adjusting to the dark chamber that was Snape's quarters in the stone castle. He reached out and touched Severus's arm to let him know he was there.
Sirius looked about the room, very quiet. Without a word, he transformed into the great black dog.
"The snake has the run of the castle," Snape said, grimacing. "She is usually near him in the throne room or in his quarters unless she has gone to feed, molt or explore. I expect He is in the throne room right now, waiting for reports of the attack."
Draco nodded, even though he couldn't be seen.
Sirius, not being able to show normal human emotion, wagged his tail in understanding and jumped a bit.
Snape frowned. "You two will be the death of me, yet," he complained, sighing and walking from the room. It seemed that he expected them to follow as he made his way through the halls.
***
Hogwarts was more chaotic than it had been even when Fred and George had let off their fireworks in fifth year. Harry was in McGonagall's office, using the fireplace to communicate. He was also helping to bring in the people from the Manor through the Floo. There had been a major attack there and apparently, something had been caught on fire. It was hard to determine what, however, as loud crying and screaming filled the air all around him as more people were brought through the fireplace to be taken from the room and placed in the Great Hall with the others. Many of them had lost family members, were panicked, nervous, or plainly terrified. They were all mostly covered in soot and dirt, as were many of the Order members who had helped at the Manor. Luckily, as far as Harry could tell, no one in the main building had been more than injured. Fleur had needed to be escorted down to the Great Hall with the others to have her injuries dressed.
The twins were handing out the packs they had made with Draco to everyone able to fight if need be.
"Here's more of them!" Mr Weasley called through the fireplace before the scared Muggles started coming through, one by one, and in pairs in the case of children.
"Over here, please!" Ron called from the door over the noise. "I'll take you downstairs and you can find out what's going on there."
Remus was covered in soot too from helping people out of the fireplace. He looked disappointed each time, as if waiting to see someone in particular.
Harry held the mirror in his hand, checking it every few minutes. He was focused on what he was doing, but his mind was constantly on his husband. He could hardly stand staying in Hogwarts. He wanted to leave.
As Ron led the group out, Hermione entered into the room, having just taken a group down herself. "The Hall's getting very full," she said. "I don't think there are many more."
Harry nodded. "I'll check in with Lee after the next group," he said. "See what's going on at the Ministry. Percy's supposed to be helping him too."
Tonks came through then, her pink hair more black from soot and smoke, and her face smudged. Remus jumped up to help her out of the fireplace and seemed unwilling to let her hand go for a moment. "Anyone else?" he asked.
She shook her head. "Shacklebolt, Lee and the others will be along later," she explained. "They'll be going back to the Ministry before meeting us here."
Harry sighed with relief and nodded. All of their people were mostly all right then.
"So, what now?" Hermione asked.
"We have to get ready for Draco and Sirius to call me on the mirror," Harry answered. "Everyone find Fred and George and get a kit from them."
Remus and Tonks were smiling at each other, a bit nervously. Then they turned and went to get their kits.
***
The stone halls were cold and naked Draco shivered. The stone under his feet felt like ice. He would have crossed his arms, but that was harder to do with only one hand. He followed the robed figure of his godfather. They saw few others on the way. Robed figures who stopped and watched Snape and the dog walk past them.
Finally, Snape stopped and seemed to be looking at his hands while he whispered. "We will check the feeding room," he said. "You won't like it. Don't do anything stupid."
Sirius could only let out a very short whimper. He stopped himself as if the sound had been unintentional.
Draco gritted his teeth to keep silent and took a deep breath. He had a pretty good idea of what Snape meant and it made it hard to prepare himself. Severus led them into a side passage, dark and damp. The smell hit Draco the minute they walked into it and he had to imagine it was hard on Sirius in his form. It was the smell of snake and human waste.
The room itself was warmer than the rest of the building. It had no windows, but several side passages. Draco's eyes were immediately drawn to the figure in the centre of the room. The boy was naked and looked, at most, twelve. He was hunkered over, crying. His right leg was tied to a metal stake in the stone floor.
Sirius whimpered again and went for the boy, but stopped short, hanging his head and trembling.
Snape stood, back straight, and looked about the chamber. "It looks like she may feed soon then," he said coldly. "You two wait here. If she comes, you know what to do. I will go see if I can learn more of the current situation."
There was, of course, no spoken agreement from either Draco or Sirius.
Sirius sniffed Draco out and sat close beside him.
Draco was warmer here but he still shivered. He had never touched Sirius Black before, but he reached a hand out to touch him then. He didn't know if it was for his own comfort, or to make sure Sirius knew where he was.
Sirius leaned into Draco's hand, part of it because, as a dog, he felt he needed to comfort him, and part of it because he was reminding his human self of what he was there for - Harry.
Draco used his fingers to gently grip Sirius's fur and lead them over to the wall, where he sat down to wait, leaning against the stone.
Sirius rested his head on Draco's shoulder, whining softly as the boy continued to cry.
Draco closed his eyes and tried not to think of their son. He hated waiting. He hated not knowing what was happening to either Valen or Harry.
Chapter Title: Come For Me
Words: 2242 Words
The sun was beginning to rise and the sky was a faint pink and grey. The morning was a bit balmy, the summer air thick. Everything was quiet and peaceful, even when Harry knew there had to be much commotion up at the school. He held Draco's hand very tightly, his heart beating madly.
After a few seconds, there was the sound of quick footsteps and the padding of an animal. Remus and Sirius were crossing quickly to Harry and Draco, Sirius transformed already.
Draco was reluctant to let go of Harry's hand. He knew this was the moment. He found himself trying to think of an excuse to delay it.
Harry was not going to let hysteria take him over. He turned to Draco and held his face with one hand, unable to help shaking slightly.
Draco's breath caught when he looked down into those stunning green eyes. "Yours, always," was all he could think to say.
"Always," Harry whispered, touching his lips to Draco's and pulling him into a very tight embrace.
Draco held his lover tightly. "I know you can do it. All of it," he whispered. "You are amazingly powerful. I know you will win and you will come for me. You are my lion, my hero."
Harry closed his eyes and nodded. "I will," he said. "I promise. I'll kill him and I'll find you both."
"We should go," Draco said, and forced himself to release Harry. He was trembling, and if he didn't walk away soon, he didn't know if he would be able to.
Harry felt like someone was literally ripping an entire half of his body away. He separated himself from Draco with a badly shuddering breath, dropping his hands to his sides.
"Potter?" Draco forced a smirk. "You owe me a Quidditch match, remember?"
Harry didn't quite know what the expression was on his face. Some kind of mixture between a smile and a frown, he guessed. "I still plan on winning," he said, taking a single step back.
"And I still plan on seeing you on your knees in front of the entire school," Draco said, still smirking. Gritting his teeth, he turned and began walking toward the Hog's Head.
Harry clenched his fists, resisting the urge to run after Draco.
Sirius reared up on his back legs then and Harry dropped down to hug him. "Please watch him," he whispered.
Sirius barked and rubbed his head against Remus before running off after Draco.
Draco forced himself not to look back over his shoulder as he made his way to the pub, Sirius beside him. He opened the door and waited for Sirius to come through with him before making his way to the bar.
Sirius padded in and stared around the room, panting.
The pub was empty of customers and very quiet, but as soon as Draco entered, Aberforth came running out of the back room, looking scared and worried. "Quickly," he said. "He is waiting for you."
Draco followed him into the room, hand on his wand, just in case.
Sirius turned back into a man as the door closed. "Let's go," he said, Disapparating.
Aberforth followed after him.
Draco stood with them in front of the familiar rock. He was so tense he had to keep reminding himself to breathe.
Aberforth moved very quickly, pulling his wand and prodding the boulder as fast as he could.
Sirius clutched his wand and the bag of supplies filled with potions, the mirror, and with enough room for Draco's silver hand.
Snape appeared quickly, scowling. He didn't say a word but grabbed Draco's arm and Apparated them inside.
Aberforth clutched Sirius and took him.
"He has your son," Snape growled without preamble.
"We know," Draco snapped.
"Is this the 'something big' they were planning?" Sirius asked.
Snape frowned but nodded. "An attack on the Manor and the kidnapping of your son. I only knew they were planning a major attack somewhere. Apparently, he does suspect me."
Draco listened, feeling numb. "Do you know how the attack has gone?" he asked.
Sirius looked at Snape with wide eyes.
Snape shook his head, his hair swaying with it. "And we have a new problem. I was able to use Imperius on the Ward Keeper to make sure you can get in. But he must suspect something because he has now changed the Ward Keeper," he said. "I don't think the new Keeper has modified who can come in, but we must figure out who the new one is if we are to bring them down."
"Merde'," Draco hissed.
"We should move quickly," Snape continued. "With the attack, most of them are gone right now. You might be able to get to the snake."
"What about my son?" Draco asked.
"He is with the Dark Lord," Snape said.
Draco winced, closing his eyes. "Which of his leaders are on site?"
"I am not sure, though, as usual, the coward Wormtail is with his Master," Snape said.
Draco handed his wand to Sirius and began to strip.
"He's waiting for Harry, isn't he?" Sirius said quietly.
Snape snorted, hands on his hips as he waited for Draco. "He expects the Gryffindor to come charging in, of course," he answered.
Sirius gave a nod and opened the bag to take one of Draco's Invisibility Potions out for him.
"Are you going in as a dog, invisible, or both?" Draco asked him, taking the potion vial.
"I'm not sure if it will work while I'm transformed," Sirius said, frowning slightly. "Would it? I know as a human I would need to strip and leave our things behind to be invisible. As a dog, they disappear and are there when I transform again."
"Good point," Draco said with a nod, giving his silver arm to Sirius to put in the bag.
Sirius nodded too and took the arm, stowing it away. "So I'll go in as a dog then and try to keep out of sight."
"If they find the arm, they will know you are there," Snape said.
"I'll have it. They won't find it," Sirius said.
"I won't be able to speak once I take this," Draco said. "Severus, you will have to show or tell us where to go when we get there. Sirius, remember, you have my wand and I can't do wandless. I will literally be naked and unarmed."
Sirius nodded. "Hopefully we won't be caught," he said seriously.
Snape and Draco both rolled their eyes. It might have been funny in other circumstances. Draco uncapped the potion, holding it up like a toast. "To success," he said, and downed it. His body shimmered and disappeared.
Snape nodded. "Impressive," he said. "I will Apparate Black."
Sirius nodded and willingly held his arm out for Snape to hold. He took a very large breath, letting it out slowly.
Snape nodded and took it, Apparating them into Death’s End, as it had come to be called.
Draco followed a moment later, eyes adjusting to the dark chamber that was Snape's quarters in the stone castle. He reached out and touched Severus's arm to let him know he was there.
Sirius looked about the room, very quiet. Without a word, he transformed into the great black dog.
"The snake has the run of the castle," Snape said, grimacing. "She is usually near him in the throne room or in his quarters unless she has gone to feed, molt or explore. I expect He is in the throne room right now, waiting for reports of the attack."
Draco nodded, even though he couldn't be seen.
Sirius, not being able to show normal human emotion, wagged his tail in understanding and jumped a bit.
Snape frowned. "You two will be the death of me, yet," he complained, sighing and walking from the room. It seemed that he expected them to follow as he made his way through the halls.
***
Hogwarts was more chaotic than it had been even when Fred and George had let off their fireworks in fifth year. Harry was in McGonagall's office, using the fireplace to communicate. He was also helping to bring in the people from the Manor through the Floo. There had been a major attack there and apparently, something had been caught on fire. It was hard to determine what, however, as loud crying and screaming filled the air all around him as more people were brought through the fireplace to be taken from the room and placed in the Great Hall with the others. Many of them had lost family members, were panicked, nervous, or plainly terrified. They were all mostly covered in soot and dirt, as were many of the Order members who had helped at the Manor. Luckily, as far as Harry could tell, no one in the main building had been more than injured. Fleur had needed to be escorted down to the Great Hall with the others to have her injuries dressed.
The twins were handing out the packs they had made with Draco to everyone able to fight if need be.
"Here's more of them!" Mr Weasley called through the fireplace before the scared Muggles started coming through, one by one, and in pairs in the case of children.
"Over here, please!" Ron called from the door over the noise. "I'll take you downstairs and you can find out what's going on there."
Remus was covered in soot too from helping people out of the fireplace. He looked disappointed each time, as if waiting to see someone in particular.
Harry held the mirror in his hand, checking it every few minutes. He was focused on what he was doing, but his mind was constantly on his husband. He could hardly stand staying in Hogwarts. He wanted to leave.
As Ron led the group out, Hermione entered into the room, having just taken a group down herself. "The Hall's getting very full," she said. "I don't think there are many more."
Harry nodded. "I'll check in with Lee after the next group," he said. "See what's going on at the Ministry. Percy's supposed to be helping him too."
Tonks came through then, her pink hair more black from soot and smoke, and her face smudged. Remus jumped up to help her out of the fireplace and seemed unwilling to let her hand go for a moment. "Anyone else?" he asked.
She shook her head. "Shacklebolt, Lee and the others will be along later," she explained. "They'll be going back to the Ministry before meeting us here."
Harry sighed with relief and nodded. All of their people were mostly all right then.
"So, what now?" Hermione asked.
"We have to get ready for Draco and Sirius to call me on the mirror," Harry answered. "Everyone find Fred and George and get a kit from them."
Remus and Tonks were smiling at each other, a bit nervously. Then they turned and went to get their kits.
***
The stone halls were cold and naked Draco shivered. The stone under his feet felt like ice. He would have crossed his arms, but that was harder to do with only one hand. He followed the robed figure of his godfather. They saw few others on the way. Robed figures who stopped and watched Snape and the dog walk past them.
Finally, Snape stopped and seemed to be looking at his hands while he whispered. "We will check the feeding room," he said. "You won't like it. Don't do anything stupid."
Sirius could only let out a very short whimper. He stopped himself as if the sound had been unintentional.
Draco gritted his teeth to keep silent and took a deep breath. He had a pretty good idea of what Snape meant and it made it hard to prepare himself. Severus led them into a side passage, dark and damp. The smell hit Draco the minute they walked into it and he had to imagine it was hard on Sirius in his form. It was the smell of snake and human waste.
The room itself was warmer than the rest of the building. It had no windows, but several side passages. Draco's eyes were immediately drawn to the figure in the centre of the room. The boy was naked and looked, at most, twelve. He was hunkered over, crying. His right leg was tied to a metal stake in the stone floor.
Sirius whimpered again and went for the boy, but stopped short, hanging his head and trembling.
Snape stood, back straight, and looked about the chamber. "It looks like she may feed soon then," he said coldly. "You two wait here. If she comes, you know what to do. I will go see if I can learn more of the current situation."
There was, of course, no spoken agreement from either Draco or Sirius.
Sirius sniffed Draco out and sat close beside him.
Draco was warmer here but he still shivered. He had never touched Sirius Black before, but he reached a hand out to touch him then. He didn't know if it was for his own comfort, or to make sure Sirius knew where he was.
Sirius leaned into Draco's hand, part of it because, as a dog, he felt he needed to comfort him, and part of it because he was reminding his human self of what he was there for - Harry.
Draco used his fingers to gently grip Sirius's fur and lead them over to the wall, where he sat down to wait, leaning against the stone.
Sirius rested his head on Draco's shoulder, whining softly as the boy continued to cry.
Draco closed his eyes and tried not to think of their son. He hated waiting. He hated not knowing what was happening to either Valen or Harry.