Jade and the Silver Dragon

Chapter 22

The next morning, Harry woke up to two warm bodies. He turned slowly to see who was snuggled at his back and slightly panicked when he saw blonde hair. "Jade... lay still," The blonde groggily said, tightening his hold at his waist.

Harry shifted his body around and put his arm around the blond. "Raiden! When did you get here?" He asked, grinning.

"A couple of hours ago. Forgot about the bloody time changes," Raiden replied, opening his one eye, then lay on his back.

"How did you get in?" Harry asked, snuggling into Raiden's side.

"Dumbledore let me in," Raiden replied. "How are you doing Jade?"

"I'm working on it, Ray," Harry sighed. "Devlin's been helping me work some things out."

"He actually let Draco touch him last night... without any booze in his system," Devlin said waking up. He leaned up to give Raiden a kiss to the lips then snuggled against Harry's back. "Did you bring something to locate the knife, Ray?" he asked softly.

"Yes, we found a spell we could use from an old elven book that was in the American Ministry. I need to wait until tomorrow before we can do anything though. I've been told we need a few Ministry officials from here before we can carry on with the spell. Seems as though there was an attack by Death Eaters somewhere in London and the Aurors have been busy rounding them up," Raiden said.

"Will it work?" Harry asked worriedly.

"We tested it back home by using a bit of someone's blood on a knife, then had another wizard hide it away. They had hidden the knife several floors down from where they originally were. The American Ministry is quite large, and it was found quite easily in an old cement hole in a sub basement of the building." Raiden said yawning.

"Can we talk about this later guys?" Harry asked sleepily, echoing Raiden's yawn.

"Sure, Jade," Raiden smiled as he kissed the top of Harry's head as it lay on his chest. He reached his arm out for Devlin who was still snuggled against Harry's back, his fingers running through the black hair as the three of them drifted off too sleep again.

When they woke up a couple of hours later, they made their way to the dungeons to talk to Severus and Draco, who both had a free morning of classes. Over coffee and tea, they discussed the plans for the next day. They would meet back in Severus's personal lab where Raiden will brew the potion that will help aid in the search for the knife.

Once they finalized the plans, Harry got up from the table. "Well, I should probably go, I still have some essays to mark for my classes this afternoon," He said.

"I've got some free time. Do you want any help with that?" Draco asked.

"I'll come with you two," Raiden replied. "I'd like to check out a class of Harry's."

Harry looked to Raiden thankfully, then back to Draco. "I'd like that. It's just some work from some first years, so it should be easy enough," he grinned thankfully.

Raiden had seen the hopeful look in his cousin's eyes, and was sorry to see a bit of anger then acceptance when he invited himself. Although he trusted Draco, he didn't trust what Draco was capable of. They still didn't know how Zabini was controlling him. He didn't want to take any chances.

He walked between them as they went up the Grand Staircase, talking about their classes... and Quidditch. He had asked when the next Slytherin game was on, then had to grin as Draco and Harry began to banter back and forth with each other over the upcoming game.

The three of them marked papers for the next couple of hours, having Dobby, the house elf, bring up sandwiches for lunch. After their fill of lunch, the two blond Malfoy's left Harry to get ready for his class.