Oof, here we go. A new long chapter. It's good, I think.

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SCORPIUS'S POV

Victoire pushed open the door to the office and five heads whipped around. I had barely registered my dad's white-blonde hair in a disheveled mess before he was out of his chair and had grabbed me from Teddy, wrapping me in a tight embrace.

"I'm so sorry, Scorp," he muttered. I could feel the hot tears spilling from his eyes and dropping onto my forehead as he shook with sobs. "I'm so, so sorry."

I hugged him back as tightly as I could, tears of my own spilling over. I couldn't hold them in anymore. "I know, dad. I know."

He pulled back and grabbed my face in his hands. I was tired. My eyes felt puffy, and I knew my hair wasn't much better. "I- I don't know what to do, Dad," my face crumpled and I rushed forwards back into his arms. The sobs took over, making my entire body shake. "I just don't know what to do without Al."

He ran his finger through my hair. "We're going to figure it out, love. We're surrounded by the most brilliant wizards in all of history and I'll be damned if we can't pull something together to save him."

I nodded and took a deep breath. He held my shoulders as I turned around and took a look. Ginny and Harry were fussing over James, Lily, Teddy, Roxanne, and Fred. Victoire, Louis, Dominique, Molly, and Lucy were surrounding Ron and rapidly asking him questions, while Hermione held tightly to Hugo and appeared to be in deep conversation with Rose.

Dad cleared his throat. The noises of conversation died down. "Potter, I think we really out to sit down and talk more about this, don't you think? We need all the details we can."

Though he hadn't been very clear on which Potter he meant, Harry slowly nodded. "I suppose you're right. Sorry, Draco."

Dad shook his head. "You have nothing to be sorry for, Harry."

He pulled out his wand and summoned some large floor cushions. Dad gestured for Teddy to come sit by him, and he crossed the room to sink into a pillow beside me, wrapping an arm around me once more. Victoire delicately sat beside Teddy, with Dom and Louis on her other side. Ron sat with one arm curled protectively around Hugo and the other around Fred, while Roxanne rested her head her brother's lap. Hermione sat beside him with her arms around Rose and Lucy sitting cross legged beside her, staring blankly at the ground. Ginny and Harry sat close together, with Lily in Harry's lap, James leaning on Ginny and holding her hand, and Molly just beside James.

Everyone looked awful. For all of us students, our clothes consisted of barely pulled on robes and glassless faces. James and Lucy looked around blinking and squinting. They hadn't had time to grab their glasses in all the rush. Harry's were one, but his clothes looked very much slept in, so he must've been working late with Ron, who was in a similar state. Ginny was wearing comfortable trousers and had her hair in a ponytail. Hermione was much the same, as was my dad. Well, minus the ponytail.

Harry took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, slightly red. He looked up at us from across the circle. "Scorpius," he said softly, "I'm aware that you're in pain, and I promise we'll get him back. No one is going to take my boy from me and expect me to stay down."

I nodded. "I know," I said hesitantly. My father's grip tightened on my shoulders. We still weren't nearly as close to the Potters as we wished.

Harry turned to his niece. "Rosie, we're going to need the full story."

Rose nodded and took a deep breath before explaining how she'd been in the common room studying for a potions exam when a Dungbomb had gone off, and then another and another. She'd left her wand upstairs and had resorted to try and catch the person, but before she could the smoke had cleared. Everything had seemed fine until she heard gasps and yells coming from the 5th year boy's dormitory. She'd raced up the stairs, only to find their room as it had always been, but without Albus. She then sent a patronus to McGonagall and a message through her coins to Teddy, Scorpius, and the exchange students.

"Exchange students?" Hermione asked.

"I'll tell you later, Mum."

Lucy took over from there, saying that she had been doing her prefect patrol when Teddy ran up to her and said they needed to go to the Gryffindor common room immediately. She didn't bother asking questions, only told him to give her a minute. She'd run to the Ravenclaw common room to get the rest of her cousins while Teddy bolted to the Hufflepuff dorm to get Molly, Dom, and Louis. They met in the Gryffindor common room.

A silence settled over them as the adults thought about the events of the night.

"I don't understand, Dad." James finally said, looking furious.

"Who would do this?" Muttered Molly.

"It's obvious, isn't it?"

All heads turned to Rose, her mouth set in a firm line.

Ron looked at her imploringly. "What do you mean, Rosie?'

Her brown eyes flitted around the room. "Who do we know that's had a long standing grudge against the Potters? Who do we know that resents you, Uncle Harry, and would do anything in their power to see you suffer?"

Ginny looked at her with her eyebrows raised. "That's a long list of people, love."

Rose groaned in exasperation. "Yes, but it's not just us, his family. Albus is connected to every person in this room, and he knows that."

"He?" Dom asked. "How do you know-"

Lucy inhaled sharply. "Rose I hope you're not suggesting what I think you're suggesting."

"Of course I am," Rose snapped. "He just escaped. Who else would do such a thing?"

My vision went red. "Could you just get on with it?!" I yelled. "Who the bloody hell are you talking about?!"

Rose looked at me dead in the eyes.

"Your grandfather, Scorp. He's the only option."

. . . . . .

An hours arguing, yelling, and debating later, the portrait of Severus Snape finally lost it and roared for silence. He snarled a few choice words about our families before Dumbledore chimed in, suggesting that we get rest while we can.

Harry and my father glared at each other once more before Harry conjured up sleeping mats and pillows for us.

I dragged mine to a corner and laid down, away from everyone. I just needed to be alone. My father, sensing my desire, chose a spot close to me and quickly fell asleep.

Roughly thirty minutes later, after most everyone had fallen asleep in various piles of Weasley and Potter, Teddy and Harry were sitting up against a wall, still awake.

"I'm so sorry, Harry," Teddy said, eyes cast downward.

Harry turned his head. "Ted, what could you possibly have to be sorry for?"

Teddy closed his eyes and shook his head. "I let him take Albus." His voice shook with a mixture of exhaustion and fear. He lifted his hands to his face. "I let that bastard take Albus and I promised you I would protect him with everything I have in me and now he's gone and I understand if you hate me and if you're going to kick me out of the house just do it already I can't-"

"Teddy, I would never in a million years think of you as a failure, and never would I abandon you. You're another son to me, a brother to my children. I'm never going to stop believing in you, and it'll be cold day in hell when I think of you as anything less than one of my own. This was not your fault. Albus is going to come back to us, I have to believe that and you do too. We're going to find him. This doesn't bear your blame any more than it bears mine, or even Draco's and Scorpius's."

He wrapped his arms around Teddy and pulled him close as Teddy shook with sobs. I turned over on my mat to face the wall, a sour look on my face. How could he say this wasn't my fault? Of course it was.

If I'd been a proper Malfoy and hated Al, he would have never be put in this situation.

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