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The Slow Unintended Seduction Of Lucius Malfoy	By : ChimaeraChan Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Lucius Views: 37407 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 6
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Chapter Eight
“Albus, I must have misheard you.” Lucius stepped between Harry and Dumbledore, voice unnaturally calm. “You can't possibly be considering sending him back to those muggles. They threw him out in the middle of the night. Abandon him on the side of the road like a bag of trash, with little more than rags on his back.”
Dumbledore ignored Lucius, his gaze fixed on Harry. “You know what will happen if you leave those wards. They need to recharge. There is no other place that can protect you from the Dark Lord.”
Harry felt frozen, numbing bursts of fear sucking him down, darkness closing in and tightening his stomach until he thought he might throw up. He had to go back to the wards. He had to be around Aunt Petunia, so the blood wards would renew and keep Voldemort from breaking down the door. No one had seen the Dark Lord in years, had assumed him dead forever. Except Dumbledore, that was. He had set up protections for Harry to make sure he would be safe from the crazed wizard and his followers that had tried to kill Harry so many years ago. What his headmaster didn't understand was that Harry had yet to be harmed by a wizard, only by a muggle. One muggle. The one living at Privet Drive.
“The Dark Lord? Albus, you're out of your mind.”
Dumbledore finally turned from Harry. “Am I, Lucius? You, of all people, should know better than to underestimate him.” Harry was taut with fear but he fought it down. Maybe there was still hope? Maybe Lucius could convince the man to let him stay?
Nostrils flaring, Lucius glanced at Harry, his expression unreadable. Lucius began unbuttoning his dress shirt, pulling the material away from his t-shirt with a crisp rustle. His shoulder was bandaged, but that was not where he directed Dumbledore to look. Instead, the blond turned the inside of his arm outwards, and held the muscle there to reveal an almost completely faded tattoo. “I would know, Albus. It would be impossible for me not to know if Riddle had returned.”
Harry stepped forward hesitantly, wanting to see the dark mark. Lucius shifted at his approach, holding his arm out to Harry, his expression blank. It was very faded, almost as pale as Lucius's skin, like a dark bruise that refused to fully heal. Harry touched it hesitantly, wondering somehow if it would burn. But it was just a tattoo, old and without magic anymore.
“That it exists at all is reason to be cautious,” Dumbledore said sternly. “You represent the demented number of men and women that would see Harry dead, just because You-Know-Who failed.”
Lucius stiffened, Draco gaping like he had been struck. Harry met Lucius's gaze, his fingers slowly curling from the man's warm skin. Face still otherwise a mask, Lucius raised an eyebrow. Harry nearly burst out laughing.
“It's okay, Sir. Lucius doesn't think I have enough fashion sense for murdering.”
Harrumphing, Dumbledore combed fingers through his beard. “You have been too long from the house. The wards are weakened, and will not sustain the school year. We must keep them strong as long as possible.”
Draco, still angry at his father being accused of wanting to harm Harry when everyone knew his mother was the mad one, refused to be silent any longer. “So Harry is supposed to live there after he's done with school? Like, for the rest of his life?”
Dumbledore nodded. “I see your point, but while he has no protection away from Hogwarts, he must have something. Nothing is stronger than those wards. That home is a complete safe house from Voldemort, and will continue to be as long as Harry is welcome there.”
“But he's not welcome! Don't you understand what that man does—!”
“Don't,” Harry snapped, stepping away and glaring at his friend. “There's no point.”
“Harry, he'll have to let you stay if he knows,” Draco pleaded quietly, his eyes frantic and slightly watery. “You can't go back there. You can't.”
Harry shook his head, even as Lucius placed a hand on his shoulder. “Albus, you are running from ghosts. The boy is old enough to make his own decisions.”
“Actually, I'm not,” Harry said flatly, meeting Dumbledore's heavy gaze. “My Aunt has legal guardianship over me until I turn eighteen.”
“Still,” Draco insisted. “Still, you can't be expected to go back to a place where you're hurt like that. Just tell him, and he'll—”
“He already knows!” Harry hissed. He had told Dumbledore last year. Had written and begged the man to let him come to school early—Anything, just so long as he didn't have to stay with Vernon. Harry had never gotten a reply. Dumbledore had completely ignored him, even when Harry returned to school. That was when Harry realized he had to deal with everything on his own. That he had to endure in silence because no one fucking cared.
“You should collect your things,” Dumbledore said, but Harry shook his head.
“I don't want any of my things there with them. Draco, will you take care of Hedwig? Just throw everything else in my trunk, and I'll grab it on the train.”
Draco was gaping at him, very much at a loss of what to do. “Why didn't you tell me? You always tell me everything...”
Harry shrugged, purposely ignoring Lucius's searing gaze as well. It had hurt too much, and he hadn't wanted it to be real. Harry didn't tell many of those things to Draco because speaking them aloud only made everything so much worse. “What good would it have done? It was bad enough I bothered you as long as I did. Sorry for that—Sorry, Lucius...” Harry backed away, hand reaching behind him for the door. There would be no date that night. Probably none ever. It wasn't like Lucius would wait around for someone like him.
“Wait. This is ridiculous,” Lucius spoke up, his voice full of barely restrained anger. “Albus, you cannot knowingly send him into danger because you want to feed your obsession over a wizard long gone. The muggles gave the boy up, and we took him in. No harm will come to him here. Certainly the same cannot be said of that place.”
“If it were that simple, Lucius, I would not be here,” Dumbledore said, sounding almost tired, but still full of conviction. “She is his guardian, and he must stay with her. There are only a few more weeks left. Heaven help if the boy has to stay extra, just to make up for his absence already.”
Harry paled at that, Lucius seeing and stiffening. Before the man could say something else, Harry held his hand up, waving slightly. “I'll see you at the train station, right? Both of you. There's nothing to worry about, so... yeah. Just a few weeks.” Harry slipped the door open and escaped out into the burning sun before the two Malfoys could think to follow him.
He could hear them arguing with Dumbledore, trying to make the wizard see reason. Harry knew better. The possibility of Voldemort had always taken precedence over the reality of Harry's situation. Harry sometimes wondered if Dumbledore wasn't disappointed that Voldemort hadn't returned and tried to kill him. Maybe it would have justified each year of leaving him with the Dursleys.
Wizards just couldn't see that muggles could do damage, even when it was right in front of their noses. Harry knew muggles and wizards were all the same, just people. Some people used power responsibly. Some people used it to hurt others. Vernon never needed magic. He was larger, stronger and owned the house, the food and the clothes Harry needed. That was all the power someone needed over another to hurt them.
“Harry, don't go with him! Don't go back there!” Draco had run around the house while Dumbledore and his father argued, pulling at Harry's arm as if to whisk him away. “We can run. Father will understand. He might even help once he realizes what we've done.”
“You'll only get in trouble,” Harry whispered, staring at the front door of the manor, his mind racing. Could he run away? He had been considering living on his own when afraid he had worn out his welcome at the manor. Maybe he could run and just... What?
“Where would we even go? Dumbledore would find us eventually. He was able to trace your father's magic all the way from the Dursleys,” Harry reminded Draco with a sigh.
“Who cares? It's a huge world, and you've got plenty of money.”
“Not muggle money, though. Everyone knows me in the wizarding world. Once word gets out that Dumbledore is looking for me...” Harry trailed off, biting his lip. “I'd never be allowed back in school. I'd miss my last year. He might expel you too, for helping me.”
“Fuck it!” Draco snapped, his eyes flashing angrily as he pulled more persistent on Harry's arm. “We'll make up the NEWTs—Hell, Father might be able to get us in somewhere else. Or a personal tutor. You have options, Harry. He's not the damn boss of you.”
But that was where Draco was wrong. Dumbledore was the boss of him. He had been from the very beginning, when the headmaster had dangled a new life in front of Harry with the contingency that Harry would be the Golden Boy he was expected to be. Harry owed Dumbledore too much, even if what the man was doing now was terrible. Dumbledore had the right intentions, Harry was fairly certain. It was just the execution that was all messed up.
He carefully untangled his arm from his friend's grasp. “Draco, I couldn't bear if I messed up your future over something like this. Or Lucius's. Going against Dumbledore will only get you both hurt, and your family has been through enough already. Considering your dad's an ex-Death Eater, I think we're both lucky Dumbledore didn't come in here hexing. It's only a couple of weeks.”
Draco growled, clutching his fists at his side. “That was when he hurt you the most last summer,” he hissed lowly. “That was when I healed you on the damn train, and had to find you fucking food, you were that dizzy, and made sure you got your trunk because you couldn't lift your bloody arms.”
Harry stepped back, but Draco grabbed both his hands, eyes pleading for him to listen to reason. “He threw you out. What the hell is going to happen when you walk back in!”
“Just stop,” Harry whispered hollowly. “It's fine. I'm fine. I'm a wizard, and I'll be fine.” The door slammed open, Draco and Harry jumping at the noise. Dumbledore walked out stiffly, but it was Lucius, looking like fury incarnate, that had opened the door. Harry had never seen Lucius so angry, not even when bitching about messes in the house and Harry nearly sleeping to death.
“Harry, it's time to go,” Dumbledore said, holding up a portkey.
Draco looked near tears again, and Harry felt sorry for his friend. “Harry, I'll write. You should take the owl, so you can get messages out—Damn it! Don't do this. Please.”
Harry smiled halfheartedly for Draco's benefit, taking a step back. “I'll see you soon. It'll be a breeze, that's how fast time will fly. Say hi to Blaise and Pansy for me, 'kay?”
“Potter, I'll be by to check up on you,” Lucius practically boomed from the top of the stairs, anger radiating off of him in waves.
Harry pursed his lips, his heart beating wildly once caught in that searing gaze. He wanted to run to Lucius. Let the man tell Dumbledore to fuck off. They could all go somewhere far away and never care about any of this. But that was a child's dream, and Harry had to face reality. “You shouldn't visit. If you come around, it will just make him angrier. Same with letters. He doesn't like reminders... Don't make it worse.”
Harry didn't say goodbye. He reached out and touched the portkey, letting the illusion of safety jerk away in a whirl of color and plummet of stomach.

Aunt Petunia was afraid. Harry noticed it the moment she opened the door, Dumbledore ushering Harry into 4 Privet Drive before she could think to shut it. The thing was, she wasn't afraid of Harry or Dumbledore, so much as the presence of the man currently missing.
The house on Privet Drive felt so much smaller and darker than the last time Harry had been there. It had only been weeks, but the manor had done something to him. Everything seemed so ugly in the cramped space, especially the people.
Dudley was watching TV even though it was the middle of the day, turning his head to glare at Harry with beady eyes hidden within rolls of fat. The boy had gotten even larger, as if the meager scraps Harry had used to eat had somehow fueled Dudley to greater grotesque girths and rolls. His fingers were sausages now, of an almost purple color, and Harry wondered if the boy might be at risk of a heart attack.
Dumbledore and Petunia had a terse conversation, where the headmaster promised Harry would behave himself and keep from using magic at all times. Harry tucked his wand into the inside band of his new jeans, knowing if Vernon were to ever find it, the man would destroy it. Ignoring Dudley's sneer, he walked upstairs to see what had happened to the second bedroom.
It was full of Dudley's things again. Not even in order, just full to the brim with toys, electronics and boxes of Dudley's winter attire and gym equipment. Harry's room had barely been larger than a closet—although bigger than a cupboard—and it was now being used as a closet. Harry heard Dudley come up the stairs. He couldn't help but notice with the way the boy was wheezing, the stairs creaking warnings under his heavy weight.
“Hey, ya freak. Don't think you're getting my room back.” Dudley smelled of Slim Jims and Fritos, and something sour with a sickly sweet undertone, like rotting teeth and soda. “Just wait till dad comes home. He's going to fucking flip when he finds out.”
Harry turned to face Dudley, glaring up. Anxiety was twisting in the pit of his stomach. “What do you mean? Doesn't he know I'm back?”
“Do you think you'd be in the fucking door? He'd have been on the steps with a shot gun.” Sneering, Dudley went to punch Harry in the arm, only to stop, inches away, uncertainty flickering on his too wide face. “Don't touch my things, you shit eating freak.”
Harry stepped away, Dudley pushing into the small cluttered room and sitting his bulk in the middle like a territorial, blob shaped dog. For all Harry knew, the boy would start pissing on everything just to mark his space. Harry wouldn't put it past his crude cousin. He walked back to the kitchen, but Dumbledore had already left without saying goodbye. Petunia was hunched, grabbing the back of a kitchen chair as if holding it to keep from falling. She snapped upright when she caught sight of Harry, her eyes narrowing in on him.
“You shouldn't have come back!” She hissed viciously, knuckles turning white. “Disrupting everything again. He had the priests over—It was finally getting quiet! You've ruined everything.”
Harry glared, trying not to flinch at the unfair words. “I didn't want to come back. You're the one that agreed. You should have told Dumbledore no.”
“What, and have him kill me stone dead? Do you think we're allowed to say no to creatures like them? Like you?” Her eyes tore into Harry, and he took a step back. “Anyone that is touched by that evilness ends up dead or ruined. Even my own sister. I will do what I can to keep my family safe, even if it means taking you in. You will leave for school, and never come back here again, boy. Never.”
Harry didn't want to come back. He didn't want to be there now. “Why haven't you told Vernon yet?”
“Because I don't know how,” Petunia snapped, releasing the chair to have it clatter against the floor. She had been holding it so tightly she had lifted it.
“Well, you better figure it out. Him walking in here with me sitting at the dinner table is not going to work.” Harry wished it was anger compelling him then, but it was the cold pit of terror, ever growing in his stomach. He could feel his breath, threatening to slip away and leave him gasping. He held control of himself, knowing it would do no good to panic now. He was in the middle of it, and had to deal moment to moment if he was going to make it through.
“It's Saturday,” Petunia said grimly, her eyes glancing once to Harry, and then away. She went to the stove, arranging items idly, her hands in constant motion to hide the shaking.
Harry gaped. He had forgotten. He hadn't had to worry about the days of the week for a month. Had been so blown over by suddenly being torn from the beautiful fantasy of Malfoy Manor and dumped into the horrors of the Privet Drive so abruptly, he had forgotten how things worked. Harry had woken up, without a bed again, without clothing, or food, or a space of his own. On a fucking Saturday.
“Maybe he won't come home,” Harry whispered, wrapping his arms around his body.
Petunia shook her head sharply, sponging down the counter top with brisk, cutting movements. “He doesn't know you're here, and I can't reach him on the cell. He'll be home. He'll be drunk.”
Hissing under his breath, Harry stepped around her, heading out the kitchen door into the backyard. He never should have come back here. Never should have listened to Dumbledore. But what choice did he have? Really? He was underage. Wasn't even allowed to use magic outside of school, or without the supervision of a wizarding household. Harry had no rights for another year, and Dumbledore had been happy to exploit it.
Maybe Lucius would come anyways? Maybe he would ignore Harry's very reasonable request to stay away, and come and save him before everything went to shit? Harry shook his head even as the thought hit him, immediately dismissing it. He was such a child. Such a weak, damn child waiting for someone to fix it all for him. God—He wanted someone to fix it!
It was easier, still in the shadow of the manor, to tell Draco he didn't need help. Harry had felt stronger there, protected by magic he was allowed to use, and the support of two amazing men. Harry had felt like a real person there, allowed to speak his mind and for the worst receive an annoying snark back. God help him, he had thought maybe he had even felt love there, as maddening a delusion as that must have been. Because Harry was not to be loved. The Dursleys reminded him of that every day.
Here, Harry was not a full person. He lost his voice in the house on Privet Drive. He lost his power. He lost his rights to exist as he was made to be, angry voices insisting he be something else. And whatever it was they wanted, Harry was never even allowed to be that either. He had tried to twist and change into whatever it was they wanted, and still, he was a freak to them.
Harry sat in the yard until it got dark and then he continued to sit. Aunt Petunia didn't offer him dinner, and he wouldn't have wanted it anyways. His stomach was in knots. His breath kept slipping, lungs giving random spasms while he fought to keep the panic at bay. The later it got, the more drink Vernon had a chance to get down. The darker it was, the more money Vernon would piss away, Petunia counting the hours in twenties and fifties, the paycheck for the week. That too was Harry's fault. Vernon never would have turned to booze if Harry had never graced his doorstep all those years ago.
Harry could hear the television, Dudley watching something violent and loud, and laughing in discord. Harry began to pace, unable to sit still any longer. He shouldn't have come here. Nothing could be worse than this. His lungs gave another gasping squeeze, and Harry whimpered and prayed Vernon would not return.
Of course, he did. Eleven thirty, dull and stumbling up the drive. The taxi barely glowed as it slipped away with a hum. Harry froze beneath the shadow of the maple tree hanging over from the neighbor's yard. He listened. He waited.
Harry counted his breaths, and told himself to stay calm.

He lost his breath before Vernon even touched him. Dudley was laughing from the couch, no longer at the television, but at the show of Harry gasping for air while Vernon lumbered down the hall and threw him into the living room. Harry blinked up dizzily from the floor, black spots floating and fuzzing his already blurred vision, his glasses lost somewhere. Dudley sneered down, poking a fat finger painfully into Harry's chest.
“Fucking told ya, freak.” Beady eyes glinting in the dim light, Dudley grimaced down, and ran his thumb across his bloated throat menacingly. Harry would have rolled his eyes at the theatrics, but was too busy trying to breathe.
“Vernon, please calm down. It's only for a few weeks. I was assured this was the last—”
“No! I want him OUT OF HERE!” Vernon roared, his voice thickly slurred and dripping spittle and hate. “I kicked him out—I WARNED HIM what would happen if he came back here! That fucking freak, ruining everything. Ruining good people and good families and just...”
Harry tried to push himself off the ground, chest heaving painfully. Vernon was getting into his 'Harry was the devil' tirade. It was the worst one, and Harry needed to get the fuck out if he wanted to ever breathe again. He grabbed at the couch weakly, his body swaying. Vernon turned from where he was arguing with Petunia, red face snarling purple once he caught sight of the boy.
“What did I fucking tell you? You were never to come back here! NEVER! Or I'd make you suffer!” He pushed Harry back, thick, ham-sized hands bright red as they slammed into Harry's chest, and forced what little air he had managed to get into his lungs out. Harry's hand clawed at the couch, but only wretched his fingers painfully as he went flying back, tripping over the ledge by the fireplace and smashing his head against he wall.
Shit... He could barely see... Darkness was encroaching on Harry's vision, either from the fall or lack of oxygen. He couldn't tell. What was wrong with him? Had the softness of Malfoy Manor taken away his ability to endure what he had always endured before? Wouldn't resting have made him more resistant, and not just so pathetically weak? Harry's lungs burned for air, and he grabbed at his throat, trying with all his might to fight the strange haze and breathe.
“Rotting us away until there was nothing good left—YOU DID THIS, BOY! You SICK, twisted hell-spawn, RUINING everything from the inside out! You ruined us! RUINED!” Vernon was stumbling, the overwhelming smell of beer, sweat and piss abating for a moment.
“D-dad, what are you doing with that?”
Harry struggled to sit up from his sideways sprawl on the brick wall, eyes seeking out Dudley's frightened face. He could barely find him feet away, everything caustic bright and shadows in the blue light flashing from the television.
Petunia was backlit in the kitchen entrance, turned away. “Vernon, please. Please, not in front of our son.”
Harry's lungs had stopped fighting for air, his body now just shaking as everything grew darker and more fuzzy. He was going to suffocate to death. Whatever it was that Vernon had holding in his fist was not going to kill Harry. His fucking panic attack was.
Harry smiled weakly, head dropping forward against his shuddering chest. He felt like he was sparking, each gasp of broken breath a jolt of sputtering electricity. What had Lucius called it...? A message his body was trying to send his brain... He was afraid. That was the fucking message. What other fucking message was there to say?
Harry could barely hear them now, his Uncle sounding far away. “You're not right... You're not right and you need to be stopped... For my family, you see... Set you right...”
“Vernon, stop!”
Harry could see it now, swinging at the man's hip as he approached. A frying pan. Like Harry had woken up in a poorly lit cartoon, and his face would leave an imprint, and he'd bounce away. Maybe he would? He was a wizard, after all.
Harry sparked again, a sudden breath hiccuping through him. The darkness faded for a small instant, and again he wondered what his body was trying to tell him.
Vernon saw the spark, his face twisting in a rage. “DON'T DO THAT! Don't bring that fucking sickness in my house!”
Harry had no idea what he was doing, but Vernon seemed afraid to test out his frying pan, so it must be good. Another bigger spark, green this time, and the darkness cleared again, Harry almost getting a half of breath in. He wheezed, his chest contracting and pushing air out as quickly as it had come. He tried to raise himself to his feet, hoping if Vernon would just be scared of him a little longer he might make it out the door.
It was the wrong action, Vernon perceiving Harry moving to be more dangerous than sitting. Bellowing in rage, Vernon raised the fist clutching the frying pan and swung it down as hard as he could. All Harry could do was spark back in defense.
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