Chapter Three
December
December found Kaylee sitting in one of the many sitting rooms of 12 Grimmauld Place during winter break, writing a letter to her boyfriend. During the night spent on the Astronomy Tower, Draco asked Kaylee to be his girlfriend, to which the girl had said yes. For the month and a half before Christmas break, Kaylee spent every possible moment with Draco in the Slytherin common rooms. She felt bad about keeping her relationship with the blond heir a secret from her family, but it was easier to lie to Harry than to cause fights because of who she was with. The only ones she hadn't been able to keep the secret from were Lilly, Remus, and, even though they were not related by blood, Alexandre.
"Writing another letter to Draco?" A strangled squeak escaped Kaylee as she whirled around to face Remus, who was leaning in the doorway watching her.
"Papi! Don't do that to me!" The werewolf chuckled.
"Sorry." He moved further into the room to sit beside her. "I take it things are going well between you two?" The girl nodded, her eyes lighting up.
"Yes. I'm still in shock, Papi, about how someone as belle, magique, et is est etonnant puet trouver un interet en moi(beautiful, magical and amazing as him would be interested in someone like me), ." Remus took a moment to translate what she had said before smiling.
"Kaylee. You are a very beautiful and talented young woman. Any man blind enough not to see that is an idiot." A faint blush crossed the girl's cheeks.
"Thanks, Papi."
"What the hell is this?" Kaylee jumped and looked up to see her brother standing in the doorway with an envelope clutched in his hand. An envelope with very familiar handwriting on it.
"Where did you get that?" the girl yelled, jumping to her feet.
"It just arrived. I thought you said you had stopped hanging out with him!"
"No. You assumed that I had stopped hanging out with him!" Kaylee dove for the letter, but missed when Harry dodged. "Give it, Harry!"
"Harry..." Remus started, trailing off when his lovers entered the room.
"What's going on?" Lily asked, looking between her son and daughter.
"Kaylee's been writing to Draco Malfoy." The silence in the room was ringing, yet you could have heard a pin drop. James looked at the girl.
"Kaylee?" Remus settled his hands on the girl's shaking shoulders. "Kaylee is this true?" One look in Kaylee's tear filled eyes was conformation enough for him. "How long..."
"Draco and I have been friends for a while now." The girl's voice caught on the word friends. Her stormy eyes narrowed at Harry. "And dispite what you think, he has no interest in using me as a copain de baise(fuck buddy)." Lily gasped and looked at an angry and confused Harry.
"What makes you think Draco just wants to use Kaylee as a...as a sex toy?" Sirius answered Lily's question before Harry could.
"He's a Malfoy. What else do you expect?"
"You're both wrong!" Everyone looked at Kaylee, and Sirius felt guilty when he saw the tears streaming down his daughter's face. "Draco has been nothing but caring and attentive. Anything that has happened between us...sexually..." Kaylee's face turned red at this point. "...Has been initiated by me, and we have never gone further than kissing." As soon as he digested what Kaylee had said, the guilt Sirius had felt was replaced with dread and anger.
"What are you saying, Kaylee?" The girl swallowed, refusing to show her fear of what their reactions were going to be at what she was to say next.
"Draco Malfoy and I have been dating the past few months." Another ringing silence filled the room. James and Sirius looked at Lily when she sighed.
"You knew about this?" Sirius growled. The woman glared at her husbands.
"Yes. Remus and I both knew. Kaylee felt we were the only two who wouldn't over react, and she was right." Kaylee gripped Remus' hand, turning to whisper to him when she felt him lean closer.
"Papi, s'il vous plait ne pas laisser se batter a cause de moi.(please don't let them fight because of me)" The werewolf squeezed her shoulders before straightening.
"Enough. Sirius, James. You saw how miserable Kaylee was at the beginning of the school year. When Draco came into her life, she turned back into the cheerful little girl we know and love. That's the only thing about her that has changed since she started dating him. She's happier." James bit his lip before nodding.
"That's good enough for me."
"Not me." Remus sighed and tried to stop Sirius from continuing. "I agree with Harry. How do you know he's not just using you for something? What if he's already a Death Eater and is using you to get to the Order?" A low growl escaped Kaylee.
"You know what? You're right! He is using me. But not as a Death Eater, and certiantly not as a servant of Voldemort, or-" She glared at Harry"-for sex." Storm grey eyes met storm grey. "His mother wants help from the Order. She wants to bring Voldemort down just as much as all of us. Lucius wants to be free from that bastard, and wants to join our families together again. The only reason Lucius Malfoy EVER became a Death Eater was because Voldemort was holding his wife and son against him, and was threatening to KILL them." Biting her lip to keep the tears at bay, Kaylee ran from the room, pausing in the kitchen just long enough to grab a small packet from the mantle before running up to her room. Her family, fearing what she might do in her anger, burst into her room in time to see her disappear into the signature emerald flames caused by Floo Powder.
Draco looked up from the book he was reading when he heard the familiar sound of someone flooing into the room down the hall. He paid it no mind until he heard his mother call for him. He made his way down the hall and froze for a moment when he found his girlfriend in the protective curl of his mother's arms, sobbing.
"Kaylee!" The blond had the girl curled to his chest in moments, murmering in French as she gripped his shirt in her hands.
"Ils savent. Mon frere a votre lettre. J'ai fini par leur dire. Papa etait tellement en colere. Ils savent tout, Draco. Je suis desole...Je suis desole...Je suis tellement desole...(they know. my brother had your letter. I ended up telling them. Daddy was so angry. They know everything, Draco. i'm sorry...I'm sorry...I'm so sorry...)." Draco stroked her raven locks, trying to sooth her.
"Kaylee..." Narcissa reached over and rested a hand on the top of the girl's head.
"Shhhh...C'est bien, mon petite. Ne vous inquietez pas a ce sujet. Tout ira bien.( It's all right, little one. Don't worry about it. Everything will be alright.)" After a short time, Kaylee calmed to hiccups in her boyfriend's lap. Lucius watched from the doorway as his wife spoke softly in French to the girl. "Tes parents savent que vous etes ici? (do your parents know you're here?)" Kaylee shook her head.
"Non. Je reste quand papa refuse d'ecouter. (No. I left when daddy refused to listen)" Narcissa laughed softly at the girl.
"I'll speak to your parents. Why don't you two go to your room, Draco?" The blond boy nodded, scooping the girl into his arms, smirking when she squeaked. Lucius watched his son carry the girl down the hall before turning to his wife.
"Be careful, Narcissa." The woman smiled before stepping into the emerald flames.
