Chapter 26: never giving up

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Draco started to get worried, every day he felt worse and worse about what he had said, he felt disgusting, but he knew he deserved how he felt, it wasn't Harry's fault, while Draco was struggling to keep himself together Harry was struggling to keep himself alive.

Harry spent days locked away behind the shed in the backyard, they put a chain around his neck and only gave him a blanket, the beating and gotten worse, with every week Harry was with them he was getting closer and closer to death, maybe from blood loss or maybe from starvation.

Draco was never a religious person, he never believed in god, or Jesus, he believed someone was out there looking out for everyone but he wasn't sure who, but Draco decided it was time to have a tiny bit of faith and pray that he would find his precious Harry

Draco got on his knees in front of his window and put his hands together

"Hello? God? Jesus? Is someone listening?"

he looked up at the light cloud covered blue sky hoping for a sign that someone was there but nothing, he closed his eyes tight

"Please someone help me, I'm scared, I love Harry so much, please give me a chance to find him!"

his eyes filled with tears, suddenly the sky went from a beautiful light blue to a dark almost black color, causing Draco's stomach to drop

"please tell me where he is.."

he looked up at the sky, his heart pounding in his chest as he bit his lip

the sky didn't change, there was no sign, there was nothing.

Draco curled into himself, his fist shut tight with anger, he slammed his head against the wall, trying to fight away the tears stinging in his eyes, suddenly he hears a loud thunder, he looked at the sky, and saw nothing, as he looked up at the stars he thought about Harry. draco rested his head against the wall, finally allowing the tears he had been holding onto for so long fall down his pink cheeks

Draco cried softly into the wall, a feeling of emptiness in his heart as he thought about what he had said to harry

"If only you knew how much I loved you.."

he shut his eyes tight and drifted off into a deep sleep

Harry laid awake behind the shed in the Dursley's back yard, his back, arms, legs, and bottom were covered in welts from the beating he had received only thirty minutes before.

his body ached with pain as he started to shiver, the sun had already completely set and it was quite windy, Harry looked up at the sky and smiled, he often star gazed when he was in hogwarts, he would go out for a stroll by the forbidden forest and look at the sky, but the sky was no longer his happy place.

Harry couldn't stop himself from thinking about Draco, all he wanted to do was tell Draco why he had done everything he did, he knew he had fucked up the moment he made himself throw up.

Harry closed his eyes and listened to the sound of his heart beat, he laid quietly as the wind blew in the trees, Harry slowly found himself drifting off to sleep, as he fell asleep the aching pain in his body went away

harry opened his eyes to see Draco standing in front of him

"Draco? Draco!" Harry tried to run to him but as soon as he got close enough he fell and lost him

"Draco I'm sorry!" Harry cried as he chased after him, suddenly Draco stopped moving

"you pathetic little thing. You really thought I loved you? Who would love a freak like you?" Draco snarled at harry

"You! You would love someone like me! I'm not a freak. I am not pathetic!" Harry started to cry

"you really think so?"

"I know so"

Hard opened his eyes and realized it was just a dream, he felt a throbbing pain in his back

Draco slept through the night, by the time he woke up it was only 5 am so he had plenty of time before school to do whatever he wanted, he went to the bathroom and started to run himself a bath, as he undressed he thought about Harry, he smiled to himself as he saw the plastic toy frog that Harry absolutely adored still in the bath tub

Draco got into the bath and started to wash his head, as he washed his hair he suddenly heard a loud banging on the door and screaming

"OPEN THE DOOR! DRACO WAKE UP AND OPEN THE DOOR PLEASE!" The voice shouted

Draco quickly ran to the door, a towel wrapped around his waist, as he opened the door a sobbing Fred hugged him

Fred cried hard into Draco's chest

"What's wrong?" Draco asked with a worried tone in his voice

"We are never gonna find him! We have searched everywhere! There's no place he could possibly have gone that we wouldn't think to go!"

Draco felt his eyes fill with tears

"we aren't going to give up, I promise you we will find him" Draco took Fred's hand and smiled softly

Harry woke up just in time to get breakfast from his uncle, they had changed his diet since they thought table scraps was too good for him, so he got dog kibble, and they only allowed him 30 seconds to eat all of it, otherwise they would taken it away and he would be punished, Harry thought it was unfair, he wasn't able to finish to fast enough and almost always got a much rougher punishment

as Harry ate his food as fast as he could he suddenly felt a large hand on his face

"Stop now boy!" His uncle demanded, causing Harry to take move back away from the bowl

"If you wish to eat you will bring back my son. If you don't then you will not live to see another day." His uncle growled and kicked Harry roughly in the stomach

Harry whimpered in pain

"Y-yes sir"

Harry suddenly felt dizzy, and everything went black

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