�Please go, please.� Harry mouthed silently to them, hoping they would leave, but none of them moved except Lizzy who continued struggling violently against Jack trying to get to her father. One other guys� moved to help Jack, unfortunately he stepped on a stick as he moved.
Harry felt Steven jerked at the sound and without much thought slammed his head back into Steven�s face.
Harry was able to grab his pants before they fell down and somehow managed to push the button through its hole to keep them up.
Steven stumbled back clutching his bleeding nose and missed Harry�s next move behind his hands and tear filled eyes.
�You want me to play hard to get, fine.� Harry dropped to the ground and kicked Steven�s legs out from under him; he hadn�t survived the war against Voldemort just because he was good with a wand. (Pardon the Pun)
He turned briefly towards the children and pointed in the direction of the house, then took off in the opposite direction, although he knew it was unlikely they would obey.
Harry only got a few metres before a weight landed on his back dragging him to the ground. Steven flipped him over and repeatedly punched him in the face until he stopped struggling.
�Yes I did Kitten, and how kind of you to also give me a reason to punish you, but first back to business,� hands returned to Harry�s jeans making easy work of the button holding them closed, then disappeared, along with the weight holding him down.
�It would seem we�ll have to cut this short Kitten, we have company and I was never one for an audience.�
Steven�s shadow disappeared from over him and Harry caught a grimace of him has he disappeared into the trees. Harry sat up and scooted backwards till he hit something hard and couldn�t go any further. Seconds� later something landed next to him, although he barely noticed until Lizzy�s arms wrapped around him.
He struggle until he recognised his daughters voice, his arms snaked around her pulling her as close as possible as he had when she was younger. She was saying something to him but he couldn�t make sense of the words.
Then a male voice was heard close by, too close.
�DON�T TOUCH ME!�
Everyone jumped at the unexpected reaction, even Lizzy tried to move away but Harry held on tighter and started whispering things that made no sense, as if trying to calm her.
It took a few minutes but slowly Harry became aware of his surroundings and was able to understand what the people around him were saying.
��gone, he�s not going to hurt you again.� Lizzy was saying, �Dora and Chris went to get help.�
An Alex shaped blur had edged closer then the others dared and added, �Yeah, Professor Weasley and Mister Malfoy will be here in a minute, they�ll catch the bastard.�
Automatically Harry mumbled, �Language.�
Lizzy and Alex smiled comfortingly at him. They had both seen him like this only once before, he had failed to collect Lizzy from Mrs K�s and they had all gone around to check on him, only to find the flat in a mess and him curled up behind the stove, which he had somehow moved away from the wall. Last time he hadn�t talked to them for almost an hour and wouldn�t allow Alex near him till the next day.
Harry looked around at the twenty or so blurred children present, the majority could be identified by the mop of brilliant red hair, like their parents; Draco and Ginny�s, and, Bill and Fleur�s children had blonde hair, then it was only Lizzy and Alex�s that was different.
Gently, Harry removed Lizzy from his lap and used the tree and Lizzy to stand up, leaning heavily on both as his head pounded and the world spun. The world was still blurred, making him suspect a concussion, but in the distance he could three rapidly approaching blobs. Two were obviously Weasley, if he had to hazard a guess he would say Ron and Charlie; but the other he could not identify.
�Lizzy, go home with Mrs Kane.�
�Come on then, we can leave now,� Lizzy said starting to lead Harry back towards the house.
�No Lizzy, you go home,� he pushed away from the tree and his daughter to move away from them. Everyone moved away not wanting to upset him again, except Lizzy.
�What, where are you going, you�re in no state to��
�DO as you�re told!� Harry snapped, and then flinched, as did Lizzy, then he said more gently, �I�ll be back soon.� He kissed her forehead and moved away. Moments later a Black horse disappeared through the trees.