As I walked through the halls I started crying, I had just spilled the secret that I was determined to keep. Now everyone would know. Some would call me a liar, other would just be shocked. But the only person I was worried about was my brother and what he would think of me. Sooner than I knew what was happening, I was by the Black lake. I sat down putting my head in my hands and just letting the tears flow. Sometime later someone sat down next to me.
"Are you o.k.?" a tall blond-haired boy asked me.
"No." I stated rather harshly.
"So you are the new girl, Hi, I'm Draco."
"Malfoy?" I questioned.
"Yes, and son of a death eater, and forced into the family business, one and the same." He said rather calmly.
"My name is Abigail Potter; nice to meet you "I said looking him in the eye for the first time. He had wonderful gray eyes.
"Potter, as in related to Harry Potter, the bloody git who saved my life far too many times?" he asked.
"My brother?"
"Let me get this strait, you are Harry Potter's little sister?"
"One in the same." I said with a smirk one my face.
"Well at least one of the kids turned out right "he said with a genuine smile.
"Well if you are a Malfoy, why do you care what happens to me. Like you already stated you hate my brother." I was a bit sad when I said the one thing that was on my mind.
"It may be true that I should hate you based on my name, but I don't. And I have a feeling that you won't judge me based on my name alone, so I won't either." His voice was quiet. "But come on Abby, it's time for dinner."
"I'm not going to dinner."I said indignantly.
"And why is that M' dear." He questioned.
I ended up tell him the whole story of beating my brother in a duel, and not wanting to face all the people in the great hall.
"Well then, I guess that I will have miss dinner too." He spoke with a smile on his face.
He walked us through the castle, he held my hand, something that I was perfectly fine with, and dragged me to the dungeons. He walked down a corridor with only one painting; he walked up to it and tickled the pair in the painting. It giggled and formed into a handle. He pulled it open and it revealed the Hogwarts kitchens. Thousands of house elves were preparing food for dinner. An older looking one came up to Draco and said
"Mister and Miss, how can Kreacher help you?"
"Kreacher, you master, Potter, this is his sister, Miss Abigail Potter." The small house elf looked at me with awe. "Kreacher, we would like a picnic. Could you whip one up for us?" Kreacher bowed to me and nodded to Draco, bowed to me.
Draco took the basket and led me out to the grounds and we sat and just talked. But soon it began to get dark and he said that he should be going back inside before curfew. He said that he should walk me back to my common room just to be sure that I get in all right. He slowly walked back into the school. He was maneuvering the stair cases in an elegant manor that only he could. As he dropped I of at the portrait and I decided to do something that I don't usually do. I kissed him on the cheek.
"Good night, I had a really good time." I watched him walk away with a little bounce in his step. As I was about to go in Headmistress McGonagall came up to me and said I was needed in her office, since some professors need to talk with me. I slowly walked behind her. When we got to the gargoyle he lets us up. I could hear arguing form behind the door. As I walked in I was shocked. My brother and Professor Snape were standing there.
"Are you really my sister" Harry blurted out.
But before I could answer McGonagall spoke for me,
"Harry, of course she is your sister, don't you see the resemblance between her and your mother. And before you ask where she was that night, Remus offered to take you both trick-or-treating. You parent were ok with it but you wouldn't leave you mother's side. So only she went. When Remus came back, your parents were dead and Hagrid was taking you to your aunt's. When he asked about the baby Remus was holding he said it was his god daughter. What Remus is her god father?"
By now McGonagall's voice was cracking and she was almost in tears.
"She went to live with some squibs in America, she knew that she was a witch in knew who you were. She had been asking Dumbdore for years to see you. It was so hard for him to say no to her, because if he liked you, he loved her. He was like his sister he never got to have. She knew what was going on and you know what Harry, she was so excited to come here and just see you. Since she wasn't supposed to tell anyone who she was. You should commend her for not running up to you and hugging the life out of you and telling you everything about her. Harry can't you see what she has had to go through, having a brother, and not being able to be with the only family she has left."
Harry looked dumbstruck and Snape looked like he was going to cry. They both kept looking at me like I was an alien from Mars.
"Well, Abigail, it's almost time for curfew, let me walk you back to your dorm." My brother said.
We started walking up the steps. He got me the common room. He walked me up to the girl's steps and kissed me on the forehead.
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I hadn't been down to any meals for the two weeks that I had been here; I ate with Draco in the Kitchens. I didn't tell my brother what I was doing and after I wouldn't talk, he told me that he was forcing me to go to a meal, with him, I am going to die. I like my meals with Draco, he is really great. But my thick-headed brother seems to think that I should be exposed to the public, wonderful.
I ran to the lake that night, it is where Draco and I meet every night at eleven. L slowed my pace down as I neared the beech tree. I saw him there, smiling, tracing something on the tree. I got there; he was still tracing something in the tree. I cleared my throat; he looked up and motioned me over to take a closer look at the mark.
"I think that you'll like this, come and see it" he asked.
I walked over and squinted at the mark. In a heart, there were letters, it was LE+JP. My parents had marked their names into the tree that Draco and l constantly came to. How odd was that? I was pondering fate, Draco was staring at me. Finally as I finished my thoughts, Draco, who I had finally looked at, had an odd look on his eye. It was almost a gleam, or a shine that was as rare as his father laughing at something funny that my brother said.
"Draco?" I said laughing, for it took him a second to come out of his day dream.
"What Abby?" He said almost sleepily.
"What were you thinking about?" I questioned
"I was thinking about the future." He stated as it was the simplest thing in the world.
"Future?" I questioned again, trying to figure what was going through his mind. Then he stood and pulled me up from the grass. He sent me a look that said we should go back in.
That night, as I lied in my bed, I just kept thinking about my family. My crazy messed up family that just kept getting crazier, I had my brother, my Godfather was dead and my parents were dead. Boy did my life suck, but there was a light at the end of the tunnel and his name was Draco.
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He was doing it, he was actually doing; my wonderful brother was taking me, no, forcing me to go to dinner with the commons, or the other students if you are not Draco and me. He said that I shouldn't be eating my meals with the house elves, but when I tried to explain that I was eating with another student, he just wouldn't have it. So when he cornered me after my Herbology class, I was upset. My meals with Draco are my highlights, they make me so happy. It's the first time I've really laughed. But my git of a brother had to ruin that.
As I walked into transfiguration, I sat in the back. Draco made sure that he was last in to the class so he could sit next to me in class. As I talk notes, I get a note on my parchment.
Are you o.k., you seem down, what is wrong?
Draco, I'm fine, it's just, never mind.
Abby, what is it; I know when something is wrong!
It's just, my brother is making me go to dinner with the commons tonight and I really don't want to. I like eating with you.
That's it; I thought your owl died or something. You'll be fine; no one will bother you if you walk in with your brother.
Yes they will, even more so, they will talk about me, no one but you, Harry, Snape, and McGonagall know who I am. Everyone will think that Harry is cheating on Ginny with me because of the Potter Curse.
O.K., I see your problem. But what is the Potter Curse?
The Potter Curse is Potter men falling in love with red-haired women.
O.k. class that is it for today. I gathered my books, and stuffed the note into my bag. I knew that Draco would be waiting just behind the corner till I came out then we would walk to the Kitchens together. But as I was about to leave a voice ringed out.
"Miss Abigail, may I speak to you?" Professor Granger called out to me.
"Yes Professor, what do you need?" I asked.
"Well, Ginny has talked with me and she said that you never attend meals, and it has her worried. She also said that you had a brother that was a year ahead of you, but he never knew that you were alive, is that true?" she said quietly.
"Yes it is, but that isn't the only thing on your mind is it Professor?"
"No, it is not, you seem very perceptive, but to my point, you look familiar, do I know you from somewhere?" She asked genuinely confused.
"Well, my brother was in your house, and I do look a lot like my mother, and both of my parents are dead, so you could have seen a picture of them somewhere. And do you know when Quidditch tryouts are?" I said.
"Who is your brother?" she asked again trying to get to the bottom of my puzzle.
"You're the smartest witch of our age, figure it out." I stated quite plainly and then walked out of the classroom. I started to look around for Draco but I ran into someone. I fell over and when I looked up, it was brother, probably come to drag me to dinner.
"Hi" I said.
"Time to go to dinner"
"Do I have to?" I whined to him.
"Yep, come on." Then he wrapped an arm around my shoulders and walked me to the Great Hall.
We were walking down to Gryffindor table and every eye in the hall looking down on me. I gulped, froze, and my brother literally had pull me towards Ginny. And then he sat me down across from Ginny, who was fuming and looking like she wanted to kill me and my brother.
And he said the stupidest thing possible, "Hey love."
Ginny was livid and I could feel a scene coming on. "Harry Potter, don't you 'hey love' me. What in the name of Merlin would make you treat me without any respect that you tell me you are breaking up with me by showing up with another girl that was one of my friends. Now he was gapping like a fish and was stone still, the flying instructor Ron, Ginny's brother also was ready to kill my brother.
"Wait one second before you kill him Ginny, my name is Abigail Potter." A gasp went through the Hall.
"So what, she is your wife, nice, I was the mistress on the side." She was now heartbroken then she brought her left hand to wipe away the tears and I saw the ring. She was engaged with my brother. No wonder she was so distraught, she was so madly in love with my brother. She had dreams to plan with my brother and I was not going to ruin that.
"Ginny, he's my brother, I can prove it and two questions, when are you marrying my brother, and can I help. And the biggest smile I've ever seen lit the face of my brother and his fiancé face.
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After that I left the hall, everyone was crowding around the happy couple and I took my leave. He must have seen me leave because not a minute after he caught up to me in the corridor. "Abby, do you want to Hogsmeade with me this weekend?" he asked mumbling. "Are you asking me out Malfoy?" I said smirking. "Maybe, will you?" he asked quietly.
"If you ask my brother?" I said smirking.
"What, he'll kill me!" he said looking very scared.
"O.k. since I would like you alive, you don't have to ask him. But he is going in the afternoon to Hogsmeade, we'll go early in the morning and then we hang out by our beech tree."
"Great, I'll meet you in the courtyard at10:00." He smiled at me and walked away.
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I got up at eight in the morning. Ginny, who is my only roommate, was also up. She to was getting ready for a date. She saw me move to my closet in frustration and came over to help.
"you have date today don't." she told me.
" yeh, I do, and I have no idea what to wear, help?" I asked rather feebly.
" sure, wear the emerald shirt, with the dark jeans, and black boots. Who's you date, do I know him?"
" you know him but were trying to keep it quiet."
"ah, I see, we did them same and by the way quidditch tryouts are next Tuesday after classes.." She smiled at me and told me to get dressed and ready.
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Hogsmeade was so much fun. We were the only ones there since were really not allowed to go till noon. Went went to all the usual place and steered clear of Madam Pudifoot's (sorry if I spelled it wrong) then we came back to the school through a secret tunnel behind a portrait. Then we went down to our beech tree.
We sat down and just talked about life and what we wanted to do when we finished school.
"would you move back to America?" he asked and I knew that question had been bother for a while.
"no, never, I like it way to much here to ever want to leave." I said honestly.
"good cause I like you waytoo much to want you to leave." Then he kissed my and I felt like I was on fire. I was burning on the inside but had chills on my skin. He snaked an arm around my waist and pulled me closer. I put my arms around his neck and did the same.
I was have an amazing makeout session with a hot guy when I heard someone behind us clear their throat. We parted and turned around. Behind us wass my brother and Ginny. Harry with a slightly horrified and furious look on his face with Ginny just looking shocked. O crap, this is going to be hell.