Wow so this is the last chapter so enjoy! It's been a wild ride.
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Harry reached a quick decision and in one smooth motion he yelled 'impedio!' at the death eaters causing them to move in slow motion as though they were walking through jelly. He then pushed Draco towards the fireplace grabbing a handful of floo powder on the way. Draco was still in shock and not really understanding what was happening he looked at Harry with confusion etched on his face.
"What are you doing?"
Harry looked straight into those piercing silver eyes which he had grown accustomed to over the past few weeks. He hoped he would see them again.
"I'm not letting him hurt you again," he replied roughly before clamping his lips against the other boys in an almost bruising kiss, "now go!"
He pushed him into the fireplace and threw in the powder saying, "the leaky cauldron!"
Draco looked at him in shock as the green flames began to whirl around him, "no Harry! What did you do?"
Harry just looked at him sadly, "he won't hurt you now."
Draco whirled out of sight leaving Harry in a room full of death eaters advancing on him slowly hell-bent on killing him.
"Well I'm not going without a fight," Harry muttered to himself. He wasn't sure how long exactly the charm would last but he would be ready when they were.
He knew he could leave now and just follow Draco but he wanted to do something that the death eaters would remember. To make sure they didn't bother him or Draco again. He would worry about these renegade boys later. He was looking straight at Lucius Malfoy when the charm broke and Lucius immediately yelled 'crucio!' and Harry fell to the floor screaming and writhing in pain. He couldn't ignore the pain, it was everywhere and nowhere but there was burning all over his skin.
Why wouldn't it stop?
"Now boy don't you see you can't stop me! You may have sent Draco away but I'll find him, I always do."
The burning stopped abruptly but Harry couldn't move his skin still seemed to burn and his head threatened to split open at the slightest movement.
"No." He managed to whisper roughly.
"What was that boy?" Lucius hissed raising his wand.
"I said no!" Harry clambered awkwardly to his feet clutching his wand in a shaking fist, "you won't find us ever again!"
Memories of Vernon flashed through his head, pain coursed through him as he remembered the torture, the agony. He wouldn't endure that again and he sure as hell wouldn't make Draco go through that for anything. He had been humiliated enough, he had endured enough! It was time for it to end.
He raised his wand without seeming to realise and heard himself say in a calm voice, "crucio"
It was as if it was someone else watching Lucius fall to the floor writhing in agony. The death eaters who had held back at Lucius's command stepped forward uncertain whether to help and Harry turned towards them not even thinking about what he was doing.
"Either you leave now," he said deadly calm, "or he dies."
Lucius was completely in his power, Harry had done what Lucius had least expected. He thought Harry to good, too weak to use an unforgivable curse but Harry had changed.
He had changed for the better.
He watched with cold amusement as the remaining death eaters back slowly out of the room their eyes glittering with malice beneath their masks.
They couldn't risk the life of one who was favoured so much though. Of one who held so much power.
Harry laughed coldly at the irony; well he held the power now. The door shut behind the last man and Harry was left in the room alone with Draco's father. Now he just had to decide what to do with him. The man was still screaming and Harry mercifully lifted his wand leaving Lucius panting on the floor.
"What happened…to you?" Lucius managed to gasp out
Harry smiled, "you did. Without you I would never have learnt these amazing ways to deal with unwanted visitors."
Lucius's eyes narrowed at his insolence but he was in no position to do anything having dropped his wand whilst under the curse and Harry had picked it up.
"You'll leave us alone," Harry said while fingering Lucius's wand slowly. The man's eyes trailed his fingers carefully as he held his wand. Then with a sudden movement Harry grasped it firmly and snapped it in half, "or I'll come after you"
Lucius gasped in horror and a pleading moan escaped from his mouth at the sight of his broken wand being tossed aside.
"Now I'm going to leave, and you're going to go back to the hell hole from where you came from and you're going to leave us alone." This wasn't a question. That was a command.
Lucius nodded fervently without seeming to realise what he was doing.
Harry knew he wasn't one to be broken so easily but he couldn't kill the man. Not before talking to Draco first at least.
Stepping towards the fire he grabbed the floo powder and stepping in said quietly so Lucius could not hear, "the leaky cauldron."
He didn't want to leave these boys behind, they had tried to capture him and kill Draco but they were doing something not many people would have the courage to do. They were standing up against Voldemort and his troop of death eaters.
He wanted to help them but there was nothing he could do.
Then everything went blurry and the next thing he knew he was being deposited roughly onto a stone floor and then grabbed by someone. He almost hexed whoever it was before he was drawn into a bone crushing hug.
"I thought they had got you!" Said Draco roughly letting go of him somewhat embarrassed at this public display of affection. As public it was, they were standing in the middle of the Leaky Cauldron common room and there were curious folk staring at them from all around the room.
"Well," grinned Draco, "what do you say we get out of here?"
Harry still hadn't responded and couldn't even focus on Draco. They had left all those boys behind just to be taken back into what was practically captivity. He was however, grateful that Draco had not mentioned his father he understood that perhaps it was a conversation for another time.
"There was nothing we could do," Draco said gently seeming to understand what Harry was thinking.
"I know…but they were fighting and now…now they have nothing. Even less than they did before."
"Don't worry, they won't be killed," Draco said, "just punished…severely."
"They'll still make them into death eaters won't they?" Harry asked dejectedly.
"Yes." Draco replied bluntly, "but they won't die and maybe one day, maybe one day we can help them."
"But now…" Harry continued, "right now we're not strong enough."
"We need to find help before we even attempt that."
Harry nodded, "well that's what we'll do then."
"What?"
"We'll go back to Hogwarts and recruit, we'll start up our own anti-death eater league or whatever you want to call it and we'll fight. This isn't the end," he said fiercely.
Later back in their room Harry was staring out the window when Draco came to stand beside him.
"So are we even going to talk about what happened?" He said
"What happened?" Asked Harry lost in his own thoughts.
"I kissed you, then you kissed me" said Draco bluntly.
Harry turned to him and said, "Well what's there to talk about?"
Draco stared at him, "right…sorry I guess I misunderstood…"
He was cut off as Harry pressed his lips gently against his and this time with no hesitation deepened the kiss, tilting his head to the side and slipping his tongue into Draco's mouth. He wrapped his arms around Harry and pressed himself closer against him.
Once the need to breathe became quite urgent they drew apart and in the comfortable silence that ensued Harry said, "people are going to freak when they see us at school together."
"Don't listen to them," Draco replied.
"Well, maybe you're used to having people speak crap about you behind your back…" he was cut off as Draco hit him gently.
"Hey," he said, "I resent that, no one talked about me behind my back. It was all out in the open!"
Harry laughed and flopped back onto the bed staring out at the sunset.
"This is going to be a weird year," he said softly.
"Yep," Draco agreed, "but we'll see it through together."
FINIS
So it's done. Whew it's been a craaaazy trip with you guys! But thanks for your support. In the hopefully not too distant future there will possibly be a sequel to this as I suppose I left it kind of open in the end but if anyone else has any ideas feel free to contact me
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