Just Breathe

Chapter Twenty-Eight

"Are you hungry?" Harry asked him and he shook his head. His stomach rumbled but it wasn't hunger. It wasn't necessarily upset but he certainly couldn't eat.

Teddy waddled over to him and handed him a stuffed puppy and Draco smiled at him. Teddy laid his head on his knee for a moment before going back to his pile of toys. Andromeda sat on the sofa next to him, holding his hand and she wiped at her eyes.

"Honey, you need to eat something." Janey set a bowl of soup in front of him but just the sight of it turned his stomach. It was more upset than he had thought. Mrs. Green put her hand on Janey's arm.

"I've been trying to get him to eat all afternoon. He's still in shock, poor dear." Mrs. Green came and sat on his table in front of him and rubbed his cheek. He looked up at her and gave her the biggest smile he could muster. She had seen he, Harry, and Ron run off that morning and had waited for them to get back. Unfortunately, they had apparated back almost right on top of her. She took it well and said that she'd figured something was up about him anyway. Then she had seen his tear-stained face and had offered to make a bracing pot of tea.

He looked around and saw Ron speaking with Jason in the kitchen. They had both come back and Jason told him that they had found the charred remains of his parents. He had known that was going to be the case when e saw the house explode, no one could have survived that, but it had still hit like a brick to the face. Harry hadn't left his side since. Jason and Janey had arrived shortly after. Apparently, the news was spreading fast. Even Harry's boss had come to see him and question him. He had said it was too early to tell if it had been set by someone else or from inside the house. He knew it was arson though. Someone had come to do it. As hopeful as they had been, they would have never done it themselves. They had just gotten a new start, and it had been ripped from them.

And he felt like he knew who had done it. Rabastan. He probably knew they were onto him, that someone was onto him, and his parents must have had something on him that would have proved his guilt.

"It was Rabastan that did it," he whispered.

"Draco," Harry started but he cut him off with a look.

"Harry, who else would have done it? No one on the outside knew they were going to be back at the Manor."

"There were a lot of people there that day setting up the house, right?" Janey asked. "What if one of them said something?"

"They didn't," Harry and Ron answered in unison. Harry shook his head.

"Robards questioned us all with Veritaserum, everyone who was there. No one said anything. Robards even took the Veritaserum himself and was questioned."

"Which only further proves my point," he said. He stood up and started pacing.

"Okay, so it's a possibility."

"We've got to go find him, Harry. He's got to be brought in. We need to use that intel from the other day, we've got to go-" but before he could finish, a loud crack split the air and there was a loud banging on the front door. Draco went to open it and found Theo and Greg on the other side.

"The Snake's Den! He's at the Snake's Den right now, Rabastan!" Theo clutched his side as he shouted. Greg nodded and grabbed his arm.

"We saw him just a second ago, settling in, too, not like he was about to leave."

"What do we need to do?" He turned and saw Harry and Ron watching him.

"I've got my invisibility cloak. I'll go with you under that, Ron can disguise himself."

"Theo and I can stand at the entrances."

"And we get him under any means necessary. Alive," he added. Everyone nodded and Draco took a few deep breaths.