The Power You Have

Part 4

"What?!?" The shock reverberated off the surrounding corridors. Snape shot staggering glances around the halls, no one is here. He pushed Draco inside with a forceful shove, making him stumble and fall. 

"What is the meaning of this?!" The professor toward over him, making Draco rethink his decision to tell him... 

"I-I just thought you would like to know the meaning of my further disappearances." He gave a nervous grin while laughing, at a failed attempt to make the tension between them, smaller. 

"You know what I would like to know Draco?" In a stern voice, he leaned down to come down to the blonde's eye level. 

"W-w-what would yo-"

"Why the bloody hell you would like to become invisible! You know those types of potions have consequences!" I hope these walls are sound proof...  

"I-I just wanted to go away for a few days, like a little stay-cation?" He shrugged, while trying to hide the obvious lie. Snape knew something was off, after all, he was Draco's closest thing to a godfather. 

"Thats not true Draco," The man picked him off the ground, to seek the truth in those grey eyes. 

"Yes-s it is!" He stomped on the cold brick like a two year old, "It Is!" Draco's eyes began to water, becoming blinded by his own truth. He slumped into the nearest chair, resting his wet face in his sweaty hands. He began to fiercely rub his puffy eyes. 

"I want to hide, I want to run, I need to go away! I'm in love with another man, and as the sole heir to the Malfoy line, I cannot be gay! Do you know what father would say? What he would do to me? Disown me most likely!" He paused to catch his quickened breath. "I-I," Breathe Draco, breathe. "I'm in love with Harry Potter." It stung, saying out loud made it even more painful, it is painful to accept what is true. He finally looked up at his potions master, a look of expectant worry plastered his face. 

"Well bloody finally..." In monotone voice, a look of boredom became him. 

"What?!" Draco put a hand to his heart, hyperventilating, he began to panic. 

"Did you tell anyone? Is it that obvious? Who did you te-"

"Honestly Draco do you really think I would tell anyone? Of course not! I know because I see all those wistful glances across the room, every time you would pick useless fights with Harry. Didn't you notice how at most of those fights I would magically," He waved his hands around in a sarcastic notion. "appear? I don't think your fellow clueless classmates have seen it, but I know Dumbledore has,"

"He has!?" His eyes grew bigger by the second.

"Seriously! He is headmaster at this school, he knows everything that happens the second it does!" He rolled his eyes in a iamsodonewiththis manner. 

"Well, now that you can so clearly see that I have a huge problem on my hands, would you so kindly give me the ingredients?" Draco's hopeful grin didn't do the trick, Snape sighed heavily. 

"Look, I can't say that I wish I could, but from an official's point of view," He looked straight into Draco's eyes. "I can say that I absolutely cannot condone this sudden spring of utterly insane train thought. Because on this train of your life, this is where I shall get off."

"Are you disowning me?" Hyperventilating once again, he began to worry once more. This entire situation is unnecessarily stressful. 

"Of course not Draco! I am simply saying that I cannot, under my terms, allow this behavior." He gave a very serious look, and put a hand on the boy's shoulder. "I hope you can look past this, and start a new, with much better judgement." A wistful glance crossed the blonde's eyes, which made him very angry. 

"Fine!" He shoved Snape away from him, and began to run away. But turned around to say one final thing,  "If you can't help me, the I'll find someone who will!" The door slammed shut, and there were no words left, except for the ones of worry and endangerment. What has he gotten himself into...