Author's Note: I hope you enjoy this, please tell me what you think. I'd love some feedback. Title belonging to Taking Back Sunday.

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"Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh." Melody Zabini repeated over and over before she was silenced by her friend's waving hand. Her black hair covered some of her face at the angle she had her head.

"Shh! Do you want my parents to hear you? It'll ruin everything!" Evie whispered to silence her friend who had now resorted to whispering it to herself. When she decided to tell Melody, she had always expected a dramatic reaction. That was Melody for you, she always pushed the limits of what she could do. Even with what she said or heard. Though, she hadn't expected this reaction from her best friend. Sure, it was surprising news, but she didn't want her to wake up her bloody parents!

"Sorry, but I expect a few things when you say you 'have to tell me something'. Not something to where you're sneaking into your dad's potions cupboard and stealing his supplies!" Melody was sneaky, that was a fact. It was her Slytherin nature. Sneaky was practically Melody's middle name. But sneaky or not, Evie's dad did have his ways to both terrify her and put her in awe. Evie did find it a bit disgusting that Melody found her father attractive. It was something she could have went on without knowing.

"Just be quiet before you get us caught. The last thing I need is you accidentally waking them up. I don't even know what their reactions would be if they found out, and to be honest, I don't want to." Evie ran her fingers over the lines of the words written in her father's potion book. Lucky enough this potion was in here, usually you have to get some official or your parent to help you. And she did not want to deal with that anytime soon unless it was certain. She would just make with what she had.

"And plus, we don't even know for sure yet. This is just to check. It's more than likely not any ways, I just want to be sure." The brunette girl brushed it off as though it were nothing, that this situation was completely unreal. She was treating it as if no matter what, it was just oddly impossible for this to happen to her. She was a Malfoy after all. Things like this didn't happen to Malfoys.

Though, the fear in the back of her mind stayed with her. Of course, there was always going to be that possibility that it would come up exactly like she was dreading. This might be covered up easily in her expressions, but Evie for one was very concerned for what answers this potion held. Wouldn't anyone? A life altering situation, and you're trying to find out if you'll never be the same again hidden with your best friend in your bedroom in secrecy from your parents. Evie was sure almost everyone would be a bit worried if that had come to face them in their life. Especially at her age...and her family.

The final moments making the potion went by in silence between the two friends. Mainly because Evie was busy trying not to screw up the potion, and Melody was taken with her thoughts of what had been going on in the past hour. It seemed extremely tense in the room, but it would be a bit surprising if it wasn't. Melody was sitting on Evie's bed wondering if this was actually happening and not a dream.

Evie sighed, before pricking her finger and letting the final ingredient fall into the cauldron; her blood. To make sure she'd done it correctly, she re-read over the instructions, every last word until the potion was finished. Melody brought Evie out of her thoughts when she stirred on the bed and moved to the edge to see the potion. "Oh, it's finished! Wait! Don't look yet!" Evie paused. "What colors mean what?" Melody had caught her before she could look to see the answer to her question.

Evie looked down on the script once more before looking back at her friend. "Green is what we're wanting." She stated with confidence. It was like she didn't have any doubt that it would be green, even though there would always be that chance. The two looked at each other silently, both wondering who would look first. After a second or two, Evie peered over the edge of the cauldron only to groan in response. It was a bright light blue. The exact color they had not been expecting.

"I must have done something wrong, that's it." Evie repeated to herself, flipping back and forth to see if she missed a page. She kept looking between every bit of the pages and in between each line, but knew that she'd done every step correctly. Even Melody could confirm that. They had read over the instructions five times before even attempting it.

"Make another one?" Melody asked her, but Evie shook her head furiously. She was lucky her father had all the supplies she'd needed just for this one potion. One, he would notice if he was completely out of at least seven ingredients that are used for this potion, and she doubted there were enough left to make a spare batch. If there was one thing Evie knew for certain, it was that her parents were not easily fooled with these things. They aren't the kind to catch on late, so she had to be as discreet as possible.

There was no way she could go back into her father's cupboard, she was lucky she got away with it the first time. But she wouldn't rely on some homemade potion that she'd done behind her parents's back. Especially on the first and only try. "Come on," Evie said, grabbing her wand while getting off the floor and onto her feet.

Melody rolled off the bed to her feet with curiosity lighting her bright blue eyes. "Where are we going?"

Evie raised her bedroom window and a light breeze swooped in, blowing her small curls out of her face. The breeze was slightly cool, but not enough to need a jacket. It had been hot lately, after all. More hotter than I would have liked right now...Evie thought to herself bitterly, knowing full and well she wasn't just thinking about the weather. "St. Mungo's" she answered her friend calmly.

"What if they recognize us? They'll tell our parents!" Melody was never one to worry about sneaking out. But she knew that sneaking into St. Mungo's would get her into deep trouble. Even more seeing as how she'd just gotten caught for sneaking out of her own home with a boy not two weeks earlier. If this got to her father, she'd probably have bars on her windows to where she couldn't even curse them off.

"No, St. Mungo's has an anonymous contract. If requested, they are not allowed to reveal the identity of their patient if the patient so wishes," Evie quoted as though from a textbook. "And plus, seeing as how they'd recognize us and some random person would snitch, we can use glamour charms," She thanked Merlin she'd turned seventeen last month. Come to think of it, she hadn't really overused the privilege of her finally being able to legally do magic outside of school. Most expected her to. Though, with everything that had been going on, she didn't really have much thought about it. This glamour charm would be perfect practice of it.

"I dunno, I mean, I would really want to. But you know my dad, I wouldn't be allowed out of the house until we graduated!" Melody exclaimed.

"Come on, Mel, I have to do this - and it's the only time I can while my parents are asleep. They're throwing that party tomorrow night, so everyone will be around, and I know they'll make sure I don't leave. If we get caught, I'll take the fall and say I kidnapped you or something," Evie began to plead with her friend. It was one thing for her to ask a favor like this, a completely different one to plead for it. This showed how desperate she was, and Melody knew it. She may be sneaky, but Evie wouldn't abandon her friends if she had been involved in some kind of trouble with them.

Melody sighed in defeat, and Evie let out a squeal of thanks and hugged her friend. "I swear, if I didn't know you for a Ravenclaw, I would swear you were a Slytherin." Melody started to laugh along with Evie at her joke. It was true, Ravenclaws she'd known weren't this sneaky. But then again, she did have the ruler of Slytherin as her father, and a very courageous mother. She was surprised herself, along with her parents, that she didn't get sorted into Slytherin. But the Sorting Hat couldn't make a decision on Gryffindor or Slytherin, he said she was too equally measured for both. So he said she would fit best in Ravenclaw, where she could use her intelligence to use both her courage and cunning to use all in one.

The two grabbed their wands and tiptoed down the hallway, making sure not to make much noise. Her parents' room was on the same hall, so they had to make sure not to wake them. Unfortunately, Evie's bedroom had to be the one on the second story, so it was a bit more difficult to sneak out whenever she wanted to leave. Her last attempt from a few years ago when she was fifteen proved so, as she fell down the vine she was climbing down from and broke her arm. Ever since, she'd had to try and sneak her way through to the downstairs so she could use the floo network.

Experience is where you learn most, she'd always thought. Beginning her flooing at night, she'd learned that it was too noisy and would wake her parents. So before flooing, she'd make sure to place a silencing charm around it so they wouldn't be able to hear it. Muffliato - her mother had told her about that one. Though, she didn't expect for Evie to use it to help her sneak out of her home. When Evie was little, her mother would tell her stories of her and her old friends' adventures, thus telling her about the Muffliato spell. Evie didn't really know why they weren't friends anymore, all she knew is they hadn't spoke to each other since their seventh year at Hogwarts.

The spell worked basically the same for wanting to talk in class, just a bit differently. It worked just as well for wanting to silence noises, which was just the spell Evie was always looking for when wanting to leave in the middle of the night.

Crawling down the stairs, Evie turned around to shush her friend as she stepped on a creaky stair. Once finally making it to the ground floor, they made their way towards the living room where the fireplace was. Evie and Melody pulled their wands out of their pockets before casting the glamour charms on themselves. Evie's once curly brown hair was now bright red, and her eyes a shade of green. She could have passed for a Weasley. Melody's hair was now a short blonde bob, and her eyes a hazel color. Melody vanished in a blink after stating their destination. Stepping into the fireplace with the powder to follow her friend, Evie whispered, "St. Mungo's waiting room," before being consumed by the green flames.

The room was a lot more full than the girls had expected. Evie groaned, this was going to take longer than expected. She just hoped they would be back home before daylight. She knew very well that her parents woke up every morning at dawn. How or why they did it, she had no clue. But if she wasn't back within a short amount of time, she doubted her predicament would be a bit fearful then. It would be more for her life.

Walking up to the receptionist, she grabbed the clipboard and wrote down her information. Lizzie Thymus. 17. Pregnancy potion. That sounded believable, Evie grinned as she wrote down a fake address before going to take a seat beside Melody. Picking up a random magazine, she began to flip through the pages randomly, barely even paying attention to them. She was more listening to the names being called back, waiting for her turn. She should have just done this to begin with, she would have had much more time rather than waiting forever for that potion to brew.

An hour passed, and Evie was still waiting impatiently in that same uncomfortable chair. Every few minutes she would look out a window to see how much closer it was to the sun rising. She knew she was a few hours away, but she couldn't help being paranoid. Thee o'clock coming by, Evie was grateful that she finally got called back. It wouldn't be long now, it barely took as much time here than at home. They didn't have to brew a potion. They had bottles of it in storage and all they had to do was go and retrieve it. Had Evie owned a bottle herself, she would have done it herself. But unfortunately, they only give that of information to the MediWizards' disclosure.

A woman MediWitch walked in that Evie realized looked familiar. It was one of her mother's old housemates, Parvati Patil. Evie had met her at one of their parents' parties when she was just a small girl. The woman smiled softly at Evie, completely oblivious to the fact that it was Draco Malfoy's daughter presented in front of her. Evie knew if she wanted, Parvati could just do a simple spell and rid of the glamour charm in a snap. After all, she was much more accomplished at magic than Evie was. But if it was there and Parvati had noticed, she at least knew that whoever it was was wanting their identity kept a secret.

"So, Miss," Parvati looked at her clipboard once again to check the name, "Thymus, I'm Healer Patil. What can I do for you at this hour?"

"It says pregnancy potion, and you can see that too seeing as how you have the bottle in your hand." Parvati was a bit startled by Evie's sharp tone. She was sleepy, and her father's child. That and being sleep deprived isn't really a good combination with Evie. "Can we just get on with it?" Parvati looked down, and handed the younger girl the bottle, and Evie drunk every last drop.

"Okay, since the five minutes have passed, let me see," Evie gave a glance towards Melody in the corner while Parvati ran a spell over Evie's stomach. The look on Parvati's face said it all. And Melody already knew the answer once she saw Evie's expression, and ran to cling to her friend.

Evie's head was spinning. This couldn't be happening. She was only seventeen for Merlin's sake! There was no way she was ready to be a parent! Even Evie knew that she wasn't responsible enough to care for a child. This is all a mistake, it had to be. People like her didn't have these situations happen to her. Or her family...Oh, no, her family. No one in the Malfoy family (that they speak of or acknowledge, at least) had ever had this happen. What would they do? Disown her? No, her parents wouldn't do that...would they?

Parvati was the one to bring her out of her thoughts. "You're only a month along...You know, you do have options," Just by the tone of her voice Evie could tell that Parvati wasn't all that fond of informing the patients of these types of options.

"I know that," Evie snapped, she hadn't meant to sound that cruel. But Parvati's small jump showed that she had done just that. She was too concerned for what was happening to apologize. Abortion...No, she couldn't kill her baby. Evie was disgusted with even having the thought of ending her child's life. Then there was adoption...But could she really have the strength to just freely give up her own child? Before she could even think about it, Evie already knew she wasn't that strong of a person. And even if she was, she would be too guilt ridden to do anything about it. "I'm keeping it,"

Melody gave her hand a tight squeeze when she heard this. A few minutes of a lecture from Parvati, and Evie was sent on her way. This was the hard part of getting home. Now she was able to apparate home, she just hoped the spell was still in effect. With a POP! the two girls had vanished from the hospital as though they'd never even been there.

Score! They'd made it! Evie wanted to dance, she had had her own doubts about this one, but they'd been able to pull it off. Grinning to herself, her and Melody made their way towards the stairs.

"Evelyn Sabriel Malfoy, where the hell have you been?"

Evie and Melody stopped dead in their tracks.

Busted.