Chapter 4: Finding Harry

Draco was walking around on the train following the sweet scent of his mate but what angered him was that it was mixed with his mate's blood someone had dared to harm his precious little mate. Speeding up his pace Draco growled at the people in the hallways blocking his way to his mate one of them being the Weasley Chit who was no doubt looking for Harry. Pushing past her and the others Draco ran down the train not caring for what people thought of him if they saw him, but he knew they wouldn't as he was using his vampire speed to reach his mate's as his little submissive a blood was becoming more potent and he could hear his mate's struggling for breath.

After a few minutes Draco reached the very back compartment that had all the blinds down and he knew that his mate was behind this door by his delicious scent and the smell of his mate's blood and the sound of his mate struggling for breath, growling in frustration at another obstacle getting in the way of his mate, as he tried the door but found it locked. Whipping out his wand Draco started sputtering spells under his breath to unlock the door. After a few agonising minutes the door finally flew open and Draco rushed into the room absentmindedly closing the door behind him.

Once in the room Draco rushed over to the unconscious form of his mate not caring that it was Harry Potter as in third year they had put the stupid feud behind them and he was glad that Harry was his mate as he had been getting feelings for him. Crouching on the floor in front of Harry, moving a strand of hair out of his mate's face he was angered that anyone would harm his sweet little Harry. "Harry? Harry baby can you hear me?" Draco asked panicked as he got no answer from his mate whose condition seemed to be worsening.

Gently picking him up Draco made his way out of the compartment to the teachers compartment where Severus was as he had boarded the train to make sure his godson, Draco would be alright after not long coming into his vampire inheritance. Careful not to jostle his injured mate Draco raced along the corridors as fast as he could. "Shhh. It's alright Harry. Everything's going to be alright from now on I promise." Draco murmured as Harry whimpered in his sleep in Draco's arms. In a matter of seconds Draco came to a stop at the teacher's compartment, whispering the password his godfather had given him Draco raced into the compartment startling his dourer Potions Professor.

"What the?" Snape said startled before he regained his composure. "Draco what is the meaning for this? And why do you have an unconscious Mr Potter in your arms?" Snape asked. Draco ignored his godfather and Potions Professor for a moment as he gently laid his mate down on the seats before turning to his godfather with worried molten silver eyes that had flecks of red in them making the silver look more startling. "Uncle Sev. Please you got to help Harry. He's covered in his own blood and his breathing is laboured and he's not just my friend but he's my submissive mate Sev and look what his Uncle has done to him. I know it was him Harry told me in fourth year what his aunt, uncle and cousin do to him every summer since he was left there and the old coot does nothing." Draco growled at the end of his rant.

"Draco slow down. Are you saying that Potter is your mate? And what do you mean his uncle did this to him?" Severus Snape asked though he had a suspicion of what his godson meant but he hoped he was wrong.

"Of course he is my mate why would I say he was if wasn't. And I meant exactly what I said he is abused by his so called relatives whatever the old coot told you about my sweet little Harry are all lies. He knows Harry is abused and yet he does nothing. Now can you heal him?!" Draco shouted. Snape nodded and turned to the seriously ill Potter who looked like he was on death's door step. Waving his wand over him performing a Diagnostic charm Severus paled as the results appeared on an extensively long piece of parchment. "Uncle Sev what is it? What's wrong with Harry?" Draco asked worriedly he had never seen this reaction from his godfather before and it scared him slightly as whatever was wrong with Harry must be serious to cause this reaction from the dourer man.

"Draco take this bowl and get me some warm water and hurry but do not spill any." Snape ordered. "When you come back I will tell you now go." he said forcefully with his back to his godson as he Draco would have been about to argue with him. He distantly heard the door closing as he turned back to Harry stripping him out of his much too large and faded clothes he hated himself for not seeing the signs of abuse when they were obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes and knows what to look for as Harry hid it well as Snape took down three glamours wincing at the emaciated and battered boy in front of him.

He hated the fact that if he wasn't so focused on believing the old coot and believing the boy was James reincarnated all this could have been avoided, what annoyed Severus the most was that the boy didn't even look like James apart from his hair, though even that had red tints in it, he was more like Lily he had her facial structure and his body was more petite than muscular and Severus knew it wasn't just the starvation playing into his body structure.

"Draco instead of just standing their gawking get over here so I can start cleaning him up so I know how much I need to heal!" Severus snapped at his godson while he threw healing charms at the grievously injured boy. Careful as to not spill a drop of the warm liquid Draco rushed as quickly as he could to his godfather's side to see if he could be of any help in healing his mate. "Draco carefully wipe up the blood with the cloth and warm water so I can apply the paste. He has multiple injuries covering all or most of his body, he also has several broken bones and one of his badly broken bones has punctured his lung which is causing the laboured breathing.

"But I fixed it and the lung while you were out as they were the most cause for concern aside from the blood loss we just need to make sure he doesn't get pneumonia. It looks like he hasn't been to the doctors once as nearly all of his bones have been healed wrong. I don't understand why Pomfrey never fixed any of this he's been in the Hospital Wing enough, though I've never fully trusted the bint." Severus growled.

Severus sat back on the ball of his feet sighing in relief, it had been nearly two hours Harry was all healed with as much healing spells and potions could heal him the rest was up to Harry. But at least he wasn't unconscious due to blood loss and a punctured lung but unconscious due to being dosed up on potions. "He's not out of the woods yet dragon he still has a long way to go in the regards to physical healing but as for emotional and mental I'm afraid that will take much longer to heal and no amount of spells or potions can heal that." Severus said with a wary sigh as he watched his godson diligently and carefully dress his mate in his school robes.

"Draco when we get to Hogwarts we'll take him to your quarters so we can keep an eye on him and I'll contact his godfather Lupin to let them know what has happened as Dumbledore wouldn't let them see Pot....Harry all summer." Severus sighed he didn't want the remaining Marauder in his quarters but the deserved to know what has happened to his godson and he knew that Harry would freak out when he woke up and he was in a strange place. 'Wait since when had Potter become Harry to him?' Severus thought. 'Since you almost lost the boy you swore to Lily you would always protect and not to take into account that he is your godson's submissive mate.' his mind supplied for him.

Growling quietly at himself Severus sat back in his seat opposite the two mates, where Draco now had Harry's head pillowed in his lap. "Draco if he starts to stir in a few hours give him another pain potion and a blood replenishing potion." Severus ordered seeing his godson nod Severus picked up his book and continued to read where he had left off when he was interrupted by the emergency Draco had brought into his compartment and subsequently his life called Harry James-Sirius Potter.