This here is for the DG Forum's 100 Days, 100 Drabbles Challenge, put forth by imadoodlenoodle. So hold on tight while I stress away to get the 100 Drabbles done in time!
First up, 'New' with 400 words exactly. Guidelines are at the bottom.
I Disclaim.
Now here we go!
New
A new broom. After everything that had happened, my father's apologetic gesture came simply in the form of a new broom.
"Really, Father?" I hissed.
"I thought you might enjoy the gift." Sitting at his desk, Lucius Malfoy was the picture of a doting father. Except I was no longer a child. I hadn't been for years. He had made sure of that.
"You think a new broom, one I could purchase myself, would make me forget that you are a miserable man who has offended possibly the only woman that will ever truly love me?" I dropped the broom on his desk.
"Draco, dear. Your father is trying…" My mother placed a hand on my arm. I hadn't realized she had entered the library, all I could see were the lies my father continued to try to weave.
"He's trying to buy my obedience, that's all he is trying to do!" I snapped. I didn't want to snap at her, but she had to stop making excuses for the man I called my father.
"You must understand that I can't simply accept the humiliation of you running around with that Weasley. A blood traitor, of all women!"
I heard Mother's sharp intake of breath beside me. Turning my attention to her, I saw her stiffen and hold herself higher before turning sharply and leaving in a flurry of dark velvet robes.
"Do not forget, Father, that your wife too was a blood traitor in the end. And we should all be thankful for that." Lucius began to rise from his chair in anger at my words. He would never tolerate my new found attitude. I leaned forward, over his desk, not giving him a chance to respond. Not any more. "You will never say another word against Ginevra or her family in front of me again. I will walk out of this house and happily cut all ties with this family and the Malfoy name."
I left him at his desk, staring after me. With all my so-called rebellion, he would never have thought that I would one day threaten to leave him and his Malfoy prosperity.
Walking toward the front door, I saw Mother in the drawing room, staring out to her gardens.
Little did she know that she had given me the strength to live this new life. To learn how to defend the ones you love.
A new life prospective and a new broom! The different things his parents gave him.
Objective: To write one hundred drabbles in one hundred days or less.
Guidelines:
1. The first drabble must be posted after June 20th and the last by September 27th, one hundred days later. The last drabble must be posted within one hundred days. If you aren't able to post on the last day of the challenge, then you may post them - and complete the challenge - earlier.
2. Drabbles must not be more than 400 words long. If you go over, edit.
4. Drabbles must be posted in the order prompted, with the prompt as the title of the chapter.
