Her Eyes || Draco Malfoy

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TW// mention of abuse, attempted suicide and self harm

April ended in the blink of an eye, May had arrived and Draco was still weak from that night.

My concussion had gone and now I took care of the blonde whos head laid in my lap as we sat on the couch watching Magnolia as she began crawling.

She would be one soon.

Theodore decided to not return to hogwarts instead stay with us and take care of Ivy and Magnolia.

I smiled at the brunette as he looked over at me for a second then back at Ivy, kissing her cheek which made her smile and look over at him.

They loved eachother so much snd they deserved eachother more than anything else.

I grew up with them, I watched Theodore fall in love with her in 4th year and while I never acknowledge it to him, He knew I knew.

I felt Draco move in my lap making me look down at him as I moved my hand to his cheek then his forehead, frowning "your warm" I hushed because I knew what this had meant, his wounds needed more healing.

Ivy and Theodore knew too as I nudged Draco off me and helped him to our room.

"god this sucks" he mumbled as he sat down on the bed so I could help him remove his shirt to reveal the cuts that had yet to heal.

"I know baby I know" I told him as he laid back.

I held his hand, silencing the room and began healing him, letting his deepest wounds that seem to struggle the most with healing.

I saw his eyes as they filled with pain and when it was finally over; tears escaped his eyes.

He pulled me to lay down next to him with my arm draped across his bare chest.

"baby it'll all get better, soon this will all be over" I whispered patting his hair and smiling down at him as he did the same.

"Thank you, I don't deserve you"

"you do, you do deserve me"

I leaned down meeting his lips as he held my face with one hand and smiled softly against my lips.

For a moment there was peace, there was no worrying if we would live to see the next day.

My hand still tangled with his free on when the door opened, forcing the both of us to break apart and turn towards the door.

"Draco, your mother" Ivy paused, forcing her eyes on me "shes here"

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"No. I said before I wasn't coming home and I stand by that, my home is here because its where Iris is"

I hid my smile as I looked at the witch infront of me, my legs thrown across Dracos whos arm was hooked around my waist.

"I'm sorry but my decision is final I can't take Iris back to the manor knowing what happens there at night, the torture is to much to handle mother, I know you know that because it looks as if you haven't slept for weeks" he told her and she couldn't argue because it was true and she didn't need to confirm it.

She looked at me, her eyes begging for me to say something as I looked over at Draco who was already looking at me.

"and I can't go back somewhere I know she won't feel safe" his eyes never left mine as he held back his tears, there was another reason.

There was a deeper reason why he couldn't go back.

and as a tear fell from his eye I wiped it away when he closed his eyes taking a shaky deep breath.

"I finally escaped from the abuse he put me through and I can't go back just to endure it all over again, you know this" he was fully crying now, looking at his mother as she cried covering her mouth.

She knew something I didn't, he had a secret he hadn't yet shared with me.

"you've known this since the day you found me lying in my own blood after I tried to kill myself" I froze and he turned to look at me realizing what he said as tears began to fall down my cheeks.

"You've known. . ." He paused, unable to speak as he looked down "you've known since you caught me cutting myself in the bathroom at the beginning of my 3rd year and when I got my mark" he was revealing stuff I didn't know about him and I grabbed his hand.

"But he'd never lay a hand on you, so it doesn't matter as much to you" he shot "right?" He asked as the room fell into silence.

He huffed out, looking at me for a moment as I watched Narcissa's reaction infront of me as she hesitated to speak, she looked away avoiding eye contact.

"How can you sit there and let your husband beat your son close to death right infront of you!" He hissed "how can you be okay with it!" He was almost screaming, only calming dow  slightly when I placed my hand on his leg.

It was when he looked at me that he broke down, falling against my chest and I watched Narcissa leave the room slowly, her hand still over her mouth and the look of pure guilt in her eyes.

I held him, and I pressed soft kisses against his forehead like he would with me.

"Baby it's okay, I'm here" I told him as I made him look at me, his eyes red and puffy while tears stained his cheeks.

He shook slightly and I pushed the tears away.

"I'm sorry you had to go through what you did" I wanted to cry, I wanted to cry but I couldn't, I had to be strong for him "I'm so sorry" I whispered, I realized he never told me the full extent of what his father did to him.

It broke me to see him like this, suddenly I knew how he felt.

Pushing his hair back I kissed his forehead "I'm here, I'll never leave" I leaned in again and left a kiss on his lips.

"I promise, I'll never leave"

He rested his head back on my chest and I rubbed his back.

"Wanna talk about it? it'll help" he nodded slightly and I placed a silence charm on the room. He moved slightly and I shifted so my back was against the arm rest of the couch.

"it started when I came home during the holidays in 1st year, I had failed to befriend Potter like my father asked so he punished me" he started as I played with his hair to keep him calm.

"he would beat me, burn me with cigars, he was drinking more for whatever reason and all the built up anger he took out on me, he was always verbally abusive with me but I could take it, some of it at least I had learned to but it turned physical"

"And as time went on it got worse and worse, then one day he beat me half to death and I couldn't take it, so I tried to take my own life and my mother was the one who found me, laying unconscious in the bathroom" I was crying now "I poisoned my own drink"

"She has known, she watched me get beat by him and did nothing to stop it, she used to scream for him to stop but it never worked"

"She gave up saving me"

I held him tighter as the last words he said hit me in the chest, I kissed his forehead "just like everyone else had"

"Everyone but you"

I made him look at me, holding his face in my hand I pushed away his tears "I'll never give up on you" I told him quietly which made him smile softly.

"You've never given up on me and I'll never give up on you" I hushed pressing one last kiss on his forehead before letting him fall asleep peacefully on my chest.

He was at peace.