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Run And Hide
The rays of the summer sun crept in through the dusty blinds of the Malfoy Manor. Housekeeping had become a rare event in the once handsome mansion ever since the reports of the mysterious disappearances of Draco Malfoy and Serverus Snape. Narcissa Malfoy had abandoned the habit of puttering around her large empty house in worry and now only sat in silence by a dust covered window, watching, waiting. The Malfoy houseelves had fled from the manor long ago, Narcissa had thrown them out on a rather frightening fit of hysteria. And though that fit was a rather far time back, Narcissa even in her silence, still looked hysterical. Her once golden locks of hair nad become more tangled than a desert shrub, her eyes looked wild, yet dead and empty. She had also become eerily skinny, on a count of she hadnt left her chair for a week or so. The only vauge thought Narcissa had left in her now distant mind was, 'Where has my dragon gone?'.
"Lets stay in here for the night and we can try and look for food tomorrow.."
Draco Malfoy looked at Severus Snape as if he were insane.
"Are you mad?" Sputtered Draco, "Its practically a cave! I mean look at that, its damp and wet and I'll get my robes ruined, and who knows what sort of things are crawling about in there!"
"Oh, shut up and get in!" Sneered Snape, giving Draco a small shove.
Draco hissed a bit, and stepped into the tavern that was in the middle of god knows where.They had been running for what seemed like decades until they realized they truly had no where to turn. Snape had disobeyed direct orders from Voldemort by killing Dumbeldore instead of Draco doing it, and it would not be long before Voldemort discovered this if he didn't know it already. So they couldn't turn to a fellow death eater, but they couldn't turn to a wizard on the light side seeing as Snape just assasinated their top source of hope in the war against Voldemort. So what option did they have left except run and hide for as long as they could?
"I really can't believe you dragged me into this!" Draco cried in frustration that night as he squatted in a little ball in fear of touching anything.
"Oh, like the Dark Lord isn't after your arse too!" Snape growled, "If you had just gone through with your own damn mission---"
"I would have if YOU hadn't messed it up!"
Snape sneered once again, "So why didn't you? You were there for at least up there for a good 20 minutes, Dumbledore was weak and dying before you, even you could've killed him then, so what was the bloody hold up Draco?..Or did you have a change of plans?" Snape's sneer turned into skeptical look with a raised, greasy eyebrow.
"Of--of course not!" Draco crossed his arms defensively.
His eyebrow still raised, Snape blinked, paused, and then leaned on the wall of the cave, "Well despite the clear hesitation in your response and the fact that you had an entirely clear shot at destroying the greatest wizard of all time but passed it up, I'm sure you tried your hardest." Snape scoffed, and then turned away, "The Dark Lord
would not tolerate your behavior Draco, we both know this very well, and it is one prime reason that we are in hiding! Don't you understand? I made that vow for you and your mother, I saw this happening, because in my head, I knew you couldn't do it! But you had a chance Draco, Dumbledore was so damn weak and you had to fallfor his damn talk of redemption and saving and what not! If you hadn't Draco, if you only hadn't and did what you were supposed to, then we wouldn't be in this mess, so ultimately Draconis, it is indeed, your fault!"
"Would you listen to yourself?", Draco almost screamed, "Your no more a killer than I am! The only reason you killed Dumbledore was to save your own neck, not for the Dark Lord, if you were trying to assist the Dark Lord, you would have let me do it and followed direct orders!", He shouted. Draco's eyes looked bulging, his skin pink, and anger and frustration and the highest peak of annoyanced had been etched on every area of his pale, pointy featured face.
"Draco! Thats enough!" Snape hissed, yet he looked somewhat startled.
Draco scoffed and stood up.
"Goodbye Proffessor."
Draco walked out of the mouth of the cave, and before Snape could even stand up, he apparated off.
