All This Time, You Were Missing From My Heart

Chapter Eleven

"What the hell happened to him?" Mme Pomfrey surprised the three carrying Harry by cursing.

"He drank the Numbness Potion on an empty stomach," Draco groaned as they heaved Harry onto a bed.

"Why didn't you three just levitate him?" Pomfrey asked, opening a cabinet full of potions.

Hermione scowled and slapped Draco and Ron on the back of their heads. Simultaneous 'ows' rang throughout the Hospital Wing.

"Bloody prats," Hermione muttered as the two boys glared at her.

"You're supposed to be the smart one," Draco shot back.

"OUT! I can't work like this!" Madame Pomfrey shouted, causing the two Gryffindors and the Slytherin to jump.

"We need to eat anyway," Ron shrugged.

"Ugh! You should be worrying about Harry, not your black hole of a stomach!"

"I am worrying about Harry! But why worry on an empty stomach?" Ron asked as the three seventh years started for the door.

"You two are impossible!" Draco glared. "If you two weren't shagging already, I'd tell you to get it over with!"

Poppy shook her head as they left, trading insults.

***

Severus watched as Draco, Hermione, and Ron came through the Great Hall's doors without Harry. He glared at the Gryffindor table as he stood and stalked out of the Great Hall.

He groaned as his little voice started up.

~You left because he wasn't there!~

'Shut up,'

Severus replied inwardly.

~You do realize that you're heading for the Infirmary, don't you?~

He could hear the smirk.

Severus let out a frustrated sigh and changed his course. He wondered fleetingly if there was a potion to suppress mental insanity.

***

Harry tossed and turned as he slept off the affects of the Numbness Potion gone wrong.

{Harry was lying on a bed, naked. His hands were tied to the bedposts. A shadow walked towards him. He couldn't see their face, but it looked like they were holding...A BONG?! The person blew a smoke ring that took the shape of a pair of handcuffs.

"Harry, love!" The voice was high and squeaky. The person climbed into the bed and on top of Harry.

Harry screamed as he saw the person's face. Voldemort.}

"AH!" Harry sat up shouting. Madame Pomfrey stuck her head out of her office.

"Take that potion next to you and I'll be with you in a minute," and with that, she went back into her office.

Harry shuddered and quickly swallowed the afore mentioned potion. He shuddered again as he tried to push the dream out of his mind.

***

"What are you doing?" Draco asked. He tried to keep his ees on the girl as she rushed back and forth.

"I'm looking up Magical Laws," Hermione answered.

"Why?" Ron was following her with his eyes as well.

"I'm going to study about Magical Child Abuse Laws," Hermione told the two. "For Harry."

"Harry didn't ask you to do this, Hermione," Draco said quietly.

"I know, and he won't."

"He won't because he doesn't want you to do this."

"This can't go unpunished!"

"Dumbledore's taking care of it. You won't be helping Harry get over it if you do stuff like this!" Draco surprised the Gryffindors by snapping at the girl.

"I know, Draco. I...just have to research something before I go crazy. I've got to find someway to help him."

"Just be his friend. Treat him like you always have," Draco told her. He grinned suddenly. "And if you need to research something, you can help me study Medical Spells."

Ron shook his head as the two began searching for Medical Books.

***

"What's wrong, Siri?"

"There was something..." pause as the animagus threw a shirt over his shoulder, "I was going to give..." another pause and a crash. "Ow."

"Oh shit. That must have hurt," Remus winced at the sight of his spouse lying with a long mirror on his back.

"Really?" Sirius glared as he tried to lift it off himself.

"Here, doofus," Remus muttered as he stood the looking glass up. He held out a hand to ex-convict. "Now, what were you looking for?"

"I had something for Harry," Sirius answered, taking the offered hand. "It was what I found in our secret room. We left the stuff for future Marauders, remember? James had some of Lily's sketches in there, too."

"Oh, he'll love that," Remus nodded and began looking with Sirius for the precious artefacts. "Where'd you see them last?"

"I have no idea. I laid them down just before you gave me a heart attack last night," Sirius told him, his voice muffled by the bed he was looking under.

Remus snickered. Sirius didn't sound too happy about his 'scariness', for lack of a better word, the night before.

"I was going to give them to Harry, but Albus had asked him up to his office to talk."

Remus could hear the resentment in his lover's voice. Sirius had vowed never to really trust the headmaster again. Not after what had happened to his godson.

"James and Lily are probably rolling over in their graves right now," Sirius said bitterly.

"Rolling with laughter from watching you," Remus tried to lighten the situation as he laughed at the boxer shorts handing from his mate's ear. Sirius grinned sheepishly as he pulled the red garment from his head.

"What were they thinking when they chase me, Moony? You'd have done a better job," Sirius said after a minute.

"They were thinking that you're wonderful, funny, caring, smart person," Remus replied, hugging the slightly taller man.

Sirius snorted at the last one. "You're much smarter than I am, Rem."

"Maybe, but you are the perfect godfather," Remus grinned.

"I don't know why. You're all that, too," Sirius told the werewolf as he began to scratch behind Remus's ear. Even in human form, Remus would melt when the animagus did that. The former D.A.D.A. teacher let out a sound from the back of his throat, which sounded strangely like a purr. Sirius grinned as his husband tried to glare at him. Remus grasped his wrist and pulled the hand away. Then he gave a wolfish grin as his only warning before he pounced on the other prankster.

***

"But, who's going to tell us what to do now?"

"Nope, not a clue," Crabbe shook his head.

"Maybe Pansy will. She's kinda like Draco," Goyle said.

"Nope, not a clue."

"Let's go find her!"

"Nope, not a clue."

***

"Would you two keep it down?" Neville looked over at the two.

"We would, but you get all weird when we kiss. If our mouths were properly occupied, we wouldn't be so loud," Seamus grinned at his dorm mate.

Neville shook his head and Dean thwaped his boyfriend on the head.

"Anyone want to go visit Harry?" Ginny asked, suddenly appearing at Neville's side.

"Sure, why not?" Dean shrugged.

"Aww! I was going to have the House Elves send up hot fudge!" Seamus cried, earning glares from the other three Gryffindors.