Chapter twenty: Pain and Agony

As Seamus entered Hogwards he knew that something was different.

This year the holiday seemed to long. His father was more violent than ever before and had even forbidden him to open his letters from Draco, Blaise or Dean.

Dean had always been his best friend so he was allowed to write one letter to him just to make sure that he didn't alert anyone. His father had slapped him across the face as he tried to tell him that Draco and Blaise would be worried about him. Then he proceeded to tell him that nobody would be interested in what he was doing. That he was just to stupid and ugly for anyone to care.

Then he beat him up, just to rape him afterwards. Ever since his mother had left in his second year his father hurt him. He didn't know why, just that it was probably really his fault that his mother left, just like his father told him.

He hurt really bad this time and had to take six painkillers before he could even walk. Then he had to make sure that his glamor was in place before even leaving the house to get to Kingscross. There he had meet up with Dean and told him a well rehearsed lie about being busy all holiday.

Seamus had looked everywhere for Draco or Blaise but had not discovered them in the crowd.

So he sat down and slept the whole drive. He was tired and would have to built his mask again as soon as he had enough food to make sure he wouldn't collapse.

But than at the feast he hadn't been able to eat much. Beside him sat his friends and they always asked him if he would be alright. He just smiled and tried to crack a joke. Harry was starring at him as if he knew something was up. But that impossible. As the feast ended he stood up and made his way to the dorm to shower and sleep. But he didn't make it there. The painkillers couldn't compensate as he rounded the corner and bumped into someone. As he fell down the world went black.

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Ethan walked with Ripper towards the Great Hall to get Harry because they decided that their presence shouldn't be known. As they rounded a corner they ran into someone. As Ethan recovered enough he started to make snarky comments as he saw a boy lying on the ground, unconscious.

"Ripper! We have to take him to Poppy! I can smell blood around him!" Ethans voice booked no argument and Giles liftet the boy up. As he started to move the boy moaned in pain and they moved faster.

"Poppy!" Ethan called just as they entered the hospital wing. The Nurse came running and as she saw whom the two had brought in she hurried over to a bed and told them to lay im down.

"Rupert, Ethan what happened to Mr. Finnigan?"

"That is Finnigan?" That couldn't be! This skinny boy should be the Fourth they had been looking for?

"Yes. Now what happened?"

"We ran into him and he fainted." Giles said in a calm voice. This was the hurt boy they had been looking for. Now they would be able to help him!

"Please Rupert, call the Headmaster. The others should be with him now."

He did just that and seconds later the hospital wing was full with worried people.

Sirius, Harry and Xander felt suddenly complete with Seamus near them. Never before had everything felt so right. When it was just two of them they felt a tibgling sensation running through them, but now it was more like an awareness.

As Poppy undressed Seamus they could see nothing as such as scars. But then Severus ended the Glamour surounding the still sleeping boy. What they saw was more than anyone could take. Tara fainted as well as Cordy. Xander looked ready to throw up and Draco as well as Blaise had tears in their eyes. Their mate was hurt really bad and someone would pay for it. The other had seen things like this before but it hurt them to see it on a boy this age. There were welts and burn marks. Marks from boots and theeth. Hand shaped marks on his hips and even a knife wound. Not all were fresh. Some were many years old and hadn't healed right. They could see his ribs and he looked haggard. Then Poppy turned him and they could see where the brunt of the violende had gone to. His back and arse consisted only of scar tissue and bloody welts. They could see that Seamus was torn from the inside cause there was blood leaking out. Most likely caused by the landing on is arse in the hallway.

"How can someone do this?" Gunn asked. He would never understand how someone could hurt a child and find pleasure in it.

"We will have to ask him when he wakes. But we forgot to look at his tigh. Poppy, make sure you have enough of the different healing potions and be ready. We will have to admister it carefully. Some bones seem to be broken and he put himself down with some muggle painkillers, his pupils are dilated and his breathing is qiuck. Most likely a fever or just emancication." Severus slipped into his professional role, to make sure that the boy would be alright was the first priority. Then would come the Prophecy.

They turned Seamus on his back and as they looked on his tigh there seemed to be no mark...

"It is on the inside. But you shouldn't all look at him lying here naked!" Draco told them. He didn't like it when so may looked at his hurt love!

Poppy and Severus were the ones to spread Seamus tighs to get a look while all others glanced away.

"You are right, Draco. It is there!"

Just then Seamus moaned and opened his eyes.

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