How Could You?
by The Torn Apart Paper Yoyo
DISCLAIMER- If I owned it, this is exactly how it would have gone. *Sigh* Instead they are straight and dead.
CHAPTER 1- Draco's Reaction to the News
Narcissa Malfoy was the first to notice that her son had returned home. She'd heard the 'pop' of someone aparating closely followed by a heartbreaking sob of someone in agony. She followed the noise downstairs to find Draco crumpled on the Entrance Hall floor virtually falling apart.
"Draco." She screamed, running towards her son, knowing that something serious must have happened. "What happened? Is it Neville?" at the sound of his lovers name, Draco released a heart wrenching cry. "Draco, son, talk to me!" the only answer she got was another sob. "Draco! Talk to me! Please!" she screamed as she pulled her son into her arms, hoping that her son would give her a reply that would tell her what was wrong.
When Narcissa realised that she was not going to get any information out of her son, she did the only thing she could think of
"Lucius" she yelled desperately for her husband. "Lucius! come quickly, something's happened to Draco!"
When he heard that something had happened to his heir, Lucius hurriedly left the study praying that his wife had been exaggerating.
"Narcissa," he yelled as he descended the main staircase, "What happened?" was all he could ask when he reached the bottom and saw his son literally falling apart in his wife's arms.
"I don't know Lucius, he was like this when he arrived." She told her husband.
"Draco, son, what happened?" he asked hoping for an answer.
Draco gripped onto his father like he was the strongest man in the world. "N...Nev...Neville." Draco said desperately looking up at his father.
"What happened to him son," Lucius asked unsure, already dreading the answer.
"He...he...he...he..." unable to bring himself to say it, he opted for another choice, "I. Hate. Him!" Draco managed to scream before crumbling back into a poor defenceless child.
"We need to find out what happened." Lucius told his wife, "I can't even begin to imagine what happened between them."
"I'll floo to their apartment now. I know that Draco is okay here with you, but what about..." Narcissa glanced pointedly at her son before looking back to her husband, mouthing the other boys name to her husband. "... he lost all of his remaining family in the Battle of Hogwarts nine years ago. We're all the family he has now."
"I was about to suggest that. I know how you care for the boy. Go over and make sure he's okay. I'll stay here with Draco." He told his wife, allowing some of his care and worry for both boys to show through his eyes.
"Draco honey," she said to her son, "there are a few things that I need to go and do, I'll be back later." Narcissa kissed her sons' forehead before moving into her husbands' study to floo to her sons' shared Cardiff apartment.
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