Harry stared at the unknown man, biting his bleeding, bottom lip.
"This is Fenrir Greyback, he's a family friend." Lucius told him shortly, letting him know that anything he had to say, he could say it. This Greyback was obviously another Death Eater.
"Rowle attacked me in the bathroom." Harry said shortly and straight to the point.
He had the pleasure of seeing the anger flare in Rabastan's eyes, which was mirrored in Rodolphus'.
"I suppose I didn't teach him enough of a lesson last week." Rodolphus snarled, his large hands curling into fists, the knuckles cracking menacingly at the move.
"Where is he now?" Lucius demanded.
"I…well, you see, he took me by surprise and when he knocked me to the floor, well, he tried to rape me."
"What?!"
Harry closed his eyes at the volume of at least three men shouting.
"He said that Rabastan wouldn't want me if I was defiled and pregnant with his child, so he tried to rape me."
"Then he doesn't know me very well." Rabastan growled harshly. "I wouldn't break our contract because he'd done that to you, I'd have killed him instead."
"He said that if you did still want me afterwards, then he'd dispose of you, leaving himself as my only suitor as the father of the baby he'd given me."
"I wouldn't betroth you to a man who'd murdered your love and had raped you. Pregnant or not." Lucius insisted firmly, his grey eyes glinting like polished steel.
"I'm not so easily killed." Rabastan snarled. "Did he hurt you, Harry?"
"He…not really, just a little. I was more scared than hurt and then I got angry. He's a lot bigger than I am, so I couldn't stop him physically."
"He actually raped you?" Xerxes demanded fiercely, making a violent hand gesture.
Rabastan gently tugged on his robes, opening them to show that they had no fastenings left, that they were torn and his trousers were ripped open, misshapen and missing a button.
"Did he dangerously.
touch
you?"
Rabastan
asked
"Yes, he did manage to fondle me, but that's not what I need help with."
"I'm going to kill him." Rodolphus declared seriously. "Ah, well…I may have already done so. That's what I'm trying to tell you." He admitted with a grimace.
"What do you mean?" Lucius asked, everyone, even the unknown Fenrir Greyback, looked at him interestedly then.
"He was threatening to kill Rabastan and he was trying to rape me!" Harry told them angrily. "Do you really think I'd just lie there and bloody let him?! I couldn't fight him off physically, but I am a wizard still."
"What did curiously.
you
do?"
Rodolphus
asked
Harry licked his lips. "Well, I did say the reductor curse was one of my favourites…" He grimaced and closed his eyes. "I…I may have blown off his left leg."
Whatever he was expecting, it was not raucous laughter. He blinked open his eyes to see Rodolphus completely beside himself with mirth, almost bent double with his uncontrollable laughter.
"Are you hurt?" Lucius asked him calmly. "You were vague when Rabastan asked you."
"Not really, he headbutted me and punched my mouth, he also tried to strangle me, but all this blood is actually his from when I blew his leg off. The blood went everywhere, he was bleeding a lot when I left, there was a puddle under the stump where his leg used to be and it was getting bigger and bigger as I watched. I also broke his arm, I could see the bone poking through the sleeve of his robe."
Rodolphus started laughing harder and he stepped forward to pet his head, ruffling his hair.
"I will go and clean up the mess in the bathroom, then." Lucius sighed.
"I'll come with you." Xerxes insisted.
"I'll get rid of the body." The man, Fenrir, insisted firmly with a gleam in his eyes that Harry didn't like. It made the hair on his arms and the back of his neck stand up and his skin prickled with goosebumps.
"You will keep your cannibalistic tendencies out of my home." Lucius told him sternly.
Harry's stomach knotted and his gorge rose at hearing that.
"He was alive and screaming when I left the room!" He insisted in a squeak.
"He won't be when I'm done with him." Greyback grinned, showing off his pointed teeth.
Harry's eyes widened before he could stop them and he instinctively sought out Rabastan for protection. He sidled closer and pressed against his betrothed, gripping that large hand tightly.
"Go and finish off Rowle before I beat you to it." Rodolphus told the frightening man.
Harry felt a hand on his shoulder and he knew it was Rodolphus' because both of Rabastan's hands were around his chest, holding him tightly.
"Ignore him, he likes frightening people." Rodolphus told him kindly and Harry wondered if he was trying to make amends for forcing him into that Veritaserum test or if he liked him more because he'd blown off Rowle's leg and broken his arm. "I'm going to go and see what Rowle looks like." He said with a demented grin and Harry thought then that it was probably the latter.
Rabastan waved his wand over Harry and the blood peeled off of him and another spell had the pain in his mouth and head vanishing as his split lip was healed, along with the unnoticed cut he'd had at his hairline from hitting the mirror.
"I can't do anything for your throat, it needs to come out into a bruise and then have a bruise salve applied and there's no fixing this robe. Let us go and get you changed." "I only have one robe left and it's supposed to be for the Wizengamot party. Can't I just go and stay up in my room and not come out?"
"No, we have to alleviate you of blame by giving you a room full of alibis while Fenrir eats what's left of Rowle. I'll buy you a new set of dress robes as a gift."
Harry grimaced as he thought of Fenrir eating Rowle alive. It made him feel queasy and faintly light-headed.
"Do you think we need a chaperone?" Harry asked as Rabastan peered out of the doorway and then pulled him out and down the corridor to the stairs.
"No. Dealing with Rowle is more important and I don't want to jump you after what that scum has just done to you." Rabastan said gently. "I want to clean you up, get you changed so I can't see what that filth did to you and then I am not going to let you out of my sight."
Harry smiled and snuggled in tightly to the man who was doing his all to make him feel better after what had happened to him only minutes before.
They reached his bed suite quickly and without incident and Harry went into his bedroom, pulling Rabastan with him.
"I've never been in your bedroom before."
"And so you shouldn't have!" Harry teased him.
Rabastan laughed and took a seat on his bed as Harry went into his walk-in wardrobe and stripped off his ruined robes, taking out his best green robes.
"If anyone asks I'll say I had a slight accident with a glass of water or something." Harry said as he brought the robes out. "I'm not poor enough to have the need to clean mere dress robes! I can just buy new ones, how dare you suggest otherwise." He sniffed in an imitation of Draco that sent Rabastan into peals of deep, rumbling laughter. Harry chuckled and took the robes off of the padded garment hanger, but before he could put them on, Rabastan reached out and pulled him between his legs, his large hands holding the dip of Harry's waist before he kissed him full on the mouth.
It was Harry who took things further and he climbed onto the bed and straddled Rabastan's lap, their kiss deepening as Harry opened his mouth to allow Rabastan entry.
They had nothing to distract them, nothing to interrupt them and neither of them had the will to stop as their passionate kiss intensified. It was Rabastan who found the will to stop first when his hand accidentally brushed against the damaged trousers with their missing button.
He broke apart from Harry, panting heavily and lust clouding his mind. Harry tried to kiss him again, before giving up and nibbling his neck instead. Rabastan groaned in pleasure before he pulled back and separated them firmly. "If we don't stop now then it'll be too late." He groaned. "I don't want to hurt you, I love you."
"I love you too, that's why I don't care what Rowle did. I can look after myself, I'm not some weak little boy who will curl up and wait for rescue. I can and I will defend myself and what he did means nothing, absolutely nothing to me. You are not him, not one little bit and the biggest difference of all is that I love you, not him. So this…" Harry indicated the both of them. "Is everything to me, everything that I want and dream about. What he did was vile and wrong and he got what he deserved because of it."
"Merlin, you're amazing." Rabastan grinned. "Now get dressed and let's go before we're caught and the both of us get spanked for our behaviour."
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