Curse Of Pain

Chapter 20

Harry's POV

It was the last day of Christmas break. Teddy and I sat in the living room that evening playing wizards chess.

Draco and Scorpius had gone to visit Blaise after the cafe.

"Dad! That's cheating!" Teddy shouted.

"Nope. Im actually allowed to do that." I stated. Yawning slightly. I must be tired or something.

Teddy's hair darkened. "But now I'm gonna lose." He pouted. I laughed at his comment.

"You're right. Knight to M4." The piece moved towards the king. "Check mate."

Teddy rolled onto his back exasperated. "No fair! I was winning at first and then you had to go and trick me!"

"It was all apart of my strategy." I smiled triumphantly. He groaned at my comment.
All of a sudden my breathing hitched and my muscles tightened.

"I was so close! I could've beaten you. Dad, let's go again." Teddy said sitting up and looking at me.

"Teddy. Room. Now." Teddy immediately realized what was happening and nodded his head.

He went to his room and I went to mine before collapsing on the floor.

Before anything bad happened, I put all of the usual charms up.

The daily process started. I gasped as pain covered my torso, blood leaking through my shirt. My heart rate quickened at the sudden change and my hands grew shaky.

"Harry!"

No. What's Draco doing here? I forgot to deactivate the bracelet! He can sense my pain right now! How could I be so stupid?

"Harry please! Let me in. I can feel it. How much you're hurting. You're not alone anymore, please, please, let me be there for you." His voice cracked. It was hurting him.

He's in pain because I forgot to deactivate the bracelet. How could I be so stupid?!

I took out my wand and said the spells on the bracelet to deactivate it. "Harry! Why did you do that?!" I don't want him feel the worst of it, which hasn't come yet. I can barely take it, let alone make him go through it as well.

I'm usually smarter about this. I usually deactivate it before Draco has the chance to realize it, but for some reason I just didn't today. I was extremely clumsy, apparently.

My wand dropped as burns formed on my hands. I clenched my teeth together in hopes of distracting myself.

"Please, Harry. I love you. Let me help you." Tears poured out of my eyes.

I can't keep hiding from him. It's hurting me. Both of us too much.

I stretched out my shaky hand towards my wand and undid the locking charms, but did not lift the silencing charms. The kids are here, I won't let them hear this.

The door clicked as it unlocked and slowly, Draco entered.

I was in a ball on the middle of the floor. Everything hurt. A new cut formed on my face and my eye blackened.

"Harry!" Draco cried out. He shut the door and put the locking charms back on.

He grabbed me and pulled me into his lap on the floor. He comforted me through the whole process. He didn't care that his shirt was getting drenched in blood or the fact I probably was screaming his ear off.

"Shh, baby. It's ok. It'll be over soon." He whispered.

"I-It h-hurts so m-much." I said between sobs.

"I know. It's gonna be ok."

My whole body shook, my temperature rised and the pain only got worse.

Draco rocked me back and forth and just held me close. He kissed my forehead every once in awhile in hopes of it being a sense of comfort.

It did help. Even just a little.

I pulled away from him, knowing what was coming next. I faced away from him and coughed up blood. Though the process is utterly disgusting and would make the average person throw up, Draco never stopped rubbing circles on my back.

A stabbing pain shot through my stomach and I yelped as the coughing fit only made it worse.

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A hour had passed. My breathing began to calm down and I was back in Draco's lap.

"I'm sorry." My voice raspy and short.

"No. You have no reason to apologise. This isn't your fault." He said. He pulled out his wand. "Take your shirt off."

I obeyed and stripped it off for him to inspect the damage done.

My eyes dropped every once in awhile as he muttered spells and incantations.

When he finished, he cleaned up all the blood before carrying me bridal style to the bed and laid me down gently.

He joined me and pulled me close to him. I instantly cuddled to his side.

"So that's what happens every day?" He asked. I nodded my head. "Harry, I'm so sorry."

"It's ok. I'm used to it by now." His comforting was very different from Ginny. She would usually cry and by the end of it, I'm comforting her, but Draco wasn't like that. He comforted me through the whole process, not even caring how big of a mess I was. "I'm sorry if that scared you." I whispered.

"I'll admit. At first it did. I didn't realize how bad it was. Seeing you cough up blood and watching cuts appear out of nowhere. It freaked the hell out of me."

"Sorry." I mumbled. Maybe letting him in was a bad idea.

"Don't be. I'm glad you unlocked that door. Harry, I never want you to be alone again. I'm not gonna leave you." He lifted my chin up with his finger. "I promise I'm gonna help you and stand by your side."

Tears pooled my eyes again. "Ok."

He smiled and kissed my lips gently. "Do you want to tell me exactly what that was though?"

I sighed. Not because I didn't want me to tell him, but because I didn't want to freak him out anymore.

"Right before Voldemort died nine years ago, he cursed me. He cursed me to eternally live in pain and suffer for an hour everyday. My first time was the day after his downfall and I've had them ever since. We learned later in after researching a cure that it was a curse Voldemort himself created and therefore has no cure." I explained.

He grew silent. I looked up at him to see an unreadable expression on his face. "So even with him gone, you're still battling him." He whispered.

I nodded my head. My eyes grew heavier, this one took a lot out of me. More than usual, which probably isn't a good thing. "I guess you can look at it like that."

"I'm gonna help you. We're gonna fix this." I only nodded my head again before drifting off into a peaceful sleep.