A/N: So..............I am so sorry. School started up again an I have five college classes two of which are condensed and have seven papers for due within the next two weeks, BUT I decided to get my shit together and not prolonge your agony. (It's also going to be much shorter than the others, but I will be keeping them to around 1000 words from here on out). So here's the next chapter!
Previously:
An appalling scream snapped Draco awake. Sunlight streamed through the crack he had been sleeping in with Hadri-where was Hadrian? He jumped up and out of the tree and looked around the area frantically.
"Hadrian?!"
Draco searched with his eyes once more before turning and looking around the tree they had slept in earlier. "Hadri-" He voice caught in his throat when he finally sighted him.
There were big, gloopy tears filling the Tot's eyes as he struggled in the hold of the man holding him tightly. Dumbledore's hold.
Draco's POV
He didn't think it was possible for him to think of a panic attack nevermind have one, but that was what was happening. Right at the moment when he should be saving the little tyke. He chest constricted and tightened more at the thought. He needed to save Hadrian.
Or maybe not, Draco thought as he watched the 'old' Headmaster's eyes roll back when a spell from behind hit his spine. Draco wasted no time in racing towards Hadrian - his lungs be damned. He held the tot tightly as he sobbed into his robe soaking it through. Draco simply held and rocked him, murmuring softly, his airways finally opening.
His head snapped up and his shoulders tensed at the sound of a branch breaking. When he focused in on the crop of short hair and the bush next to her, Draco relaxed. "How did he find us?"
Pansy shook her head. "We have no clue. One minute we were sleeping, next awake but not able to move and right behind him." She muttered in annoyance as she nodded to Dumbledore.
"Ow! Yeah, well let's not wait until he wakes up and we..." Weasely frowned as he stumbled through the few bushes. "What?" Gra-Hermione rolled her eyes.
"He's already bound and unconscious. We didn't mask our tracks in the first place or make a portkey or anything that would've helped up in the long run."
"We 'av kee. Prewty 'n shwiny." Draco glanced down at the blubbering toddler in confusion, then back up to the small band of stragglers.
"What do you mean, bud?"
"Mommy says my kee prewty an' shwiny. Jus' like my eyes!" A big crinkly smile bloomed on Hadrian's face. Draco didn't know how he stopped himself from squeezing the air out of his lungs, which still hurt.
Blaise knelt down next to them. "Do you know where your...mom put the portkey?" He smiled when Hadrian grinned and nodded. "That's good. Good. Can you tell us?"
"NOpe!" Hadrian giggled.
Draco then recalled how frustrated he was with the boy when he was his normal age. The toddler version was worse. Much worse. "Can you please?" He hated to resort to begging the child.
Hadrian's brow scrunched. "Only you pwomise to keep it a secwret. Okay?"
Draco nodded with a solemnity only he could manage. "Yes."
Hadrian smiled. "Kay! Hold hands." Draco blinked, before nodding to his friends. They quickly formed a circle and held hands. (No one commented on the blushing faces of anyone.)
"We wready?" Draco nodded with a half-smile. Confusion on his face. What on earth were they doing?
"We go home now!" Hadrian yelled in Draco's ear. He had just enough time to see the flash in Hadrian's eyes before the world went white.
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"...and then we met up with Severus. We didn't realize it was our abandoned vacation home until he mentioned it."
Draco's parents were silent for a moment. "So you don't know where he is now?"
"No. We portkeyed before we could secure Dumbledore properly. Sorry-"
"No, not him." Draco's mother looked like she could barely refrain from rolling her eyes at him. "I meant Harr-Hadrian! Wasn't he sleeping there just a moment ago?"
Draco snapped his head to the couch where he'd laid Hadrian an hour or so ago to sleep. The couch was void of his-not his Hadrian. Several persons jumped up and bolted to the couch, Draco among them.
He touched the spot where the boy had laid earlier and felt a chill go up his spine at the temperature of the leather. There was no warmth to be found. Hadrian had been missing for the better part of the hour at least. He sprung up and looked around the room in a hurried fashion.
Draco felt his blood freeze and his heart stop. The front door...
"We need to find him quickly."
He nodded to Severus without sparing him a glance as he raced to the door with everyone right behind him. They split into every direction (quite literally), but Draco paid no mind as he headed North-east - towards Hogwarts.
Draco ran through the woods surrounding the house frantically calling for the boy who'd gone and left him without his heart. His lungs were not very happy about this knowledge but continued trudging on in hopes of finding Hadrian.
He had only been walking (running) for a half hour when he spotted him. He sprinted over to Hadrian only to stop at the treeline to a small cliff. A small, precarious cliff Hadrian was getting closer to.
Draco couldn't breathe. Hadrian was following a bloody butterfly. "Hadrian!" He couldn't stop the shout. Draco's face whitened when the boy startled in surprise and swiveled around to face his voice...only to slip on the crumbling rocks on the edge of the cliff. A crack and a sob floated up to Draco before he could even blink.
A voice was screaming. It was annoying and afraid and devastated and sobbing and - it was his voice. Draco had sprinted around and leaped off a shallower section of the cliff to reach his Tot. Blood scoured the ground around Hadrian. He had cut and bruises covering his skin along with a gushing gash on his head. Draco lifted him up carefully and screamed for help before returning his attention to the bleeding and broken boy in his arms.
Hadrian, who had been sobbing loudly earlier, was now quieted. Draco simply spoke softly to him, trying to keep him awake.
"Come on, Tot. Stay awake, help's coming. Stay-" Draco's voice cracked when Hadrian's eyes fluttered.
The boy tried to speak, but his words jumbled. "Don't forget...find...save m.." His eyes slid closed. Draco began to panic and screamed at the cliff.
"Blaise! Pans! Bloody Weasely! Anyone! Someone get over here!" His eyes widened with hope when he heard footsteps racing towards the cliff. Then they slowed. Draco's eyebrows bunched in confusion. "Hello?"
His mother came into view above the cliff with a small smile.
"Time to wake up, Dragon."
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Draco shuddered awake. His mommy had picked him up and walked to the window. It was still dark out, but he liked to watch the sun creep up with his mommy so he wasn't too upset about being woken up.
"Are you okay, Dragon? You woke up screaming? What was your nightmare about?"
Draco turned as best he could to look at her, a puzzled expression on his face. "I don't know...don't remember." His mommy frowned slightly.
"Well if you do, you know mommy and daddy are always here for you to tell us." She whispered to him as she stroked his cheek as if she was wiping away a tear, but he didn't cry so that couldn't be it.
Draco turned away to watch the sun come up. It must not have been a very important dream if he couldn't remember it. He yawned. He wondered what happened?