"LEAVE ME ALONE!!"
Severus stepped out of the way of the empty whisky bottle that came hurling towards him and glared at the man in front of him as he heard the bottle smash against the wall behind him. "You throw one more thing at me I'll make sure you have no hands to throw anything again!" He snapped.
"I don't care. I want to be left alone."
"And I've told you Draco I am not leaving unless you come with me, now get showered and dressed and come with me to the burrow." He shook his head. "Who'd have thought five years ago, you'd let yourself get in this state over a Weasley."
"You can't call me! You're only a miserable bastard because you are stopping yourself from being with Harry." Draco snapped.
"That's it!" Severus said quietly, he stormed over to Draco and grabbing him by his arm he apparated them straight to the bathroom where he waved his wand leaving the blond naked and shoved him into the shower and turned it on. "Wash! Now!"
Draco shrieked. "Fuck that's cold."
"Good!"
Harry walked up to Ron. "I know what you can give me for my birthday."
"What's that?"
"The truth, why did you break up with Draco."
"Not this again, look at me."
Harry looked at his best friend sitting in a wheelchair. "I am looking, I see a foolish bloke."
"I'm protecting Draco, he won't want to be with me like this."
"No you can't say that. A young spoiled Draco would be like that but not the Draco we know now. He wouldn't give a shit."
"Well I do! Don't get me wrong mate, I've come to terms with how I am now, yes I will spend rest of life on this chair as my legs took that much damage in the war but I'd rather lose the use the of my legs than my life and a lot of people can't say that, I can't and won't put Draco through that."
"You won't have a choice when he sees you."
"And why would he see me?"
"He's my close friend and it's my birthday party."
"Then I'll go inside if he comes."
Harry sighed and walked away.
Feeling a burn in his pocket, Harry took out the coin and saw a message from Severus to say to come to the apparation point.
Harry smiled at the guests and made small talk, saying hello as he passed and thanked them for coming.
Severus stood at the edge of the burrow holding Draco's arm.
"I won't leave, you can let go." Draco scowled.
"I don't think so. You should be here anyway, I know it hurts that Ron dumped you but Harry is your friend, you owe it to him to show up."
Draco looked at his godfather. "All the shit we all went through in the war, Harry more than anyone deserves to be happy and you are still letting him be miserable."
Severus turned his head sharply. "One more comment Draco, I'm warning you."
Harry jogged up to them both. "Thank you Severus. I know if anyone could get Draco here it's you."
"Only here by force." Draco mumbled. "Stripping me naked and shoving me in the shower, stunning me to dress me."
"Severus really?" Harry asked.
"Yes. You wanted him here looking his best and he refused to as he was wallowing."
Harry smiled and put his hand on Draco's shoulder. "Thank you Draco, I wanted you here to show you something."
"What?"
"Ron made me promise not to tell you the real reason why he dumped you, but he said nothing about showing you."
Draco shook his head. "You've been hanging around with Slytherins too much."
Harry looked at Severus and sighed. "Not as often as I'd like to." He said before looking back at Draco. "Now then do you see Ron?"
"Ron is normally next to the buffet table helping himself and I don't see him there. Just a bloke in a wheelchair."
Harry looked across and sure enough saw Ron at the buffet table. "Draco… that is Ron."
Draco gasped. "What? What happened?"
Severus looked at Harry before looking at Draco who looked sad. "The war Draco, I have tried all potions and researched all I know. He won't walk again, Draco. He dumped you as soon as he got told because he didn't think you'd want to be seen with him how he is now."
Harry sighed. "All what he's had to go through, he has accepted it though, he said he'd rather lose the use of his legs than his life. But he said you can't be happy together with him. Can't live a normal life, have kids, how do you go out with kids with him in the wheelchair, if you have to push him what about the baby."
"The baby can sit on his father's knee while I push, or I can push the baby in the pushchair while Ron is at the side of us. There are magical chairs that do what you think for them." Draco exclaimed.
"Yes and expensive, he won't let me buy him one." Harry answered.
"Well he'll have no choice when I buy him one!" Draco said and stormed over to where Ron is.
Severus looked at Harry. "I apologise, I didn't buy you anything. I don't know what you want, what do you buy someone who can afford everything."
"There is one thing I don't have."
"Which is?"
"You Severus. I don't have you."
"Harry I am twenty years your senior, a death eater, I don't have riches or good looks."
"None of that matters to me Severus, I don't go on looks and riches, I go for the person and that is you Severus. We could live in a tent in a forest and have to hunt for our food and I'd be happy as I'd be with you. The sooner you realise that, the happier we will both be." Harry said as he walked towards Draco and Ron and saw Draco sit on Rons knee.
"How's it going?" Harry asked with a smile on his face.
Ron glared at his friend. "I can't believe you told him. You promised you wouldn't."
"I didn't tell him I showed him. And he'd have found out eventually when he saw you out and about."
"He said he was going to wait until I was with someone else before he'd let me see him." Draco said. "He is stubborn but I am worse." He added before looking at Ron. "First thing tomorrow we will be sorting out a new chair for you which I will be getting." He said and kissed Ron hard.
Ron pulled back when air was needed and laughed. "I've missed you."
"It's your own fault, trying to protect me. I will decide what's best for me and that is you Weasel."
"Okay Drake, have you been drinking?" Ron asked.
"That's all he has been doing since you dumped him, Mister Weasley." Severus said as he came to stand beside Harry.
Harry gasped and looked down when he felt a hand touch his and watched as Severus' fingers entwined with his and looked up at the older man who raised a single brow at him. "About time, Severus."
The end.