With All My Heart, Forever
MALFOY MANOR
'Cissa, any news of Draco yet?' Lucius Malfoy asked, while cutting the steak which was on his plate. The two Malfoys were sitting at their long rectangular dining table, directly opposite of each other but miles apart, with a banquet of food in front of them. They were sitting in complete silence before that, the only sounds made were the clanking of the cutleries against the plate, with Bellatrix Lestrange occasionally producing weird noises. Somehow the pair found the room quite empty without Draco sitting in between them, although if he was there he would be completely silent too unless spoken to.
'Unfortunately not. It's starting to worry me that he isn't back yet. I even asked his friend Mr. Zabini, and he has not been in contact with Draco either,' Narcissa replied, her eyes not leaving her food either, although there was a hint of worry in her voice, the usual one from a mother who cared dearly about her son. Being his mother, Narcissa had every right to decide which path their child should choose, and she did not want this for him, either. She remembered the day that Draco received his Dark Mark like it was just yesterday, and from that day onwards Narcissa Malfoy felt as though her child has been taken away from her, injected with fear and evil then thrown back to her to care for. Draco's stormy grey eyes were watery that day, which he quickly blinked it away with his to conceal his discontent, but a mother sees all. She could see her son change right before her eyes, and every last bit of her blamed herself for his fate. The only perfection which she had managed to bring in to this world, had been destroyed altogether. The love which Narcissa Malfoy felt for Draco would regrettably never be indulged by Draco himself, but the love was there.
'Well I sent the bludger to look for him, he isn't, there.' Narcissa dropped her cutleries on her plate, eyes widening as she looked up to her husband, whose face did not twitch one bit as he finished the sentence.
'How could you? You've seen the damage that monstrous thing does! It's terrible!' she exclaimed in worry, raising her voice a tad too high for Lucius's liking.
'If he were to just sneak off then he bloody well deserves the bludger!' he slammed a fork on the table, releasing part of his suppressed stress into it. The idea of his son gallivanting around with no intention of coming back to fulfil his duties to the Dark Lord simply sickened Lucius to the core and infuriated him. Voldemort would have him and his wife's head if they failed him just one more time, since the incident at the Astronomy Tower. Blood rushed to Lucius's head and he felt a headache forming at the back of his skull, and he tightened his grip on the fork and exhaled sharply. All he wanted was just to find a loophole out of his current pit of hell, but as he searched for one, he could not find it. The walls were closing upon him and the darkness that shrouded all around him was suffocating his thinking.
'You better find him soon, the Dark Lord doesn't like to be kept… Waiting.' Bellatrix voiced out in a sing-song tone of voice, only making the situation worse. Lucius gritted his teeth, on the brink of hexing the eccentric witch for the sake of releasing anger, but then he would have to answer to Voldemort himself, and that would be the last thing that he wanted to do. Bellatrix on the other hand was one of the most peculiar Death Eaters there were. She has a certain obsession with the Dark Lord, and he intrigued her more that he did to other people. She wasn't scared of the things he could do, and admired him like a schoolgirl when it came to carrying out tasks for him.
Lucius sighed. 'When was the last time you saw him, Bellatrix?'
'Oh I'm not quite sure, maybe a few days ago perhaps. After all I was hunting down that Mudblood.' Bellatrix cackled in her sick, evil laughter. She was cold inside out, with no glint of human nature inside her, almost like her master himself. But she was far complicated, with sudden bursts of random emotion that intimidated the ones around her. Those who knew her swore that she had spent too much time behind the bars of Azkaban prison, and all her sanity had been absorbed away slowly by the cold concrete walls which were around her. Bellatrix found joy in the suffering of others, and realised that she felt even more thrilled when she was the one causing such suffering to her victims.
There was a ring at the doorbell and their house elf Kirrup hurried from the kitchen to open the door.
'Kirrup who is it?' Lucius shouted over to the elf. The poor house elf was puzzled when he opened the door to see no one at the door frame, and all he could see was the long empty walkway with the trees neatly arranged on both sides. It was dark and the house elf had to squint but he clearly saw no one outside.
'No one, Master Lucius,' the elf replied timidly as he turned to close the door. Just as the door was about to click shut, the door flinged opened again, sending the house elf hurling into the air before a spell was casted to set him down gently on the ground.
'Experlliarmus!' two voices suddenly shouted. Bellatrix and Lucius were disarmed immediately. The three adults were shocked, and stood up to look at the vast empty space in front of them. Their eyes widened and tried to search for their visitor. Narcissa took out her wand and pointed it at the direction where the sound came from.
'Homenum Revelio' she whispered. The invisibility cloak was lifted, revealing Harry and Ron who was standing about
'Ah, hello Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley. Didn't your parents tell you that it's rude to barge in to someone else's house and Disarm them first-hand?' Well I guess I can excuse you, Mr. Potter, for you have no parents. But I doubt you'd be any better if you did.' Lucius spat, collecting back some courage when he saw that it was merely two boys which stood before him, threatening him in his own home. Insolent little brats who think they're so good.
'Don't say a word against my parents, Malfoy.' He pointed his wand directly at Lucius.
'And Ma'am, it wouldn't be wise to use any spells if I were you,' Ron pointed his wand back at Narcissa. Bellatrix let out a laugh.
'Immobulus!' Ron shouted, causing Bellatrix to freeze in her tracks, her amused face and widened eyes stuck into place.
'I always wanted to do that to her,' Ron let out a slight chuckle. Narcissa held her wand out, and placed it on the floor.
'Mr. Potter, would you like to tell us why you're here?' Narcissa asked calmly. She always had a maternal instinct, and could sense that the duo meant them no harm. She lifted her hands up to show that she was no threat towards them, as Harry's hand followed her every rude.
'Would you be too kind to inform us where our friend Hermione might be?' Harry asked politely. He had no intention of hurting any of them, besides Bellatrix for killing his godfather, but his hatred for her subsided some time ago. He spoke with all the Gryffindor courage he had in him, not letting out a sign that he was quite nervous about the encounter. Walking into the enemy's lair was not for the faint-hearted, especially when they have a direct hotline to the big boss himself.
'I am sorry to inform you that however simple it might be to find Miss Granger her and save her, she is not here. In fact Madam Lestrange had lost her while she was hunting her a few days back.'
'You! Don't even think of moving an inch!' Ron barked at Lucius, who was slowly retreating from the dinner table to lean against the wall, hoping that they would not be looking at him being too preoccupied with his diplomatic wife.
'How am I sure that you aren't lying to me?' Harry asked.
'Fell free to check the Manor, but I will assure you, you will find nothing. Besides, it has been a few days since we have seen our own son, too.'
'Malfoy's gone too?' Ron thought out loud, finding it hard to relate his disappearance with Hermione's.
'Are you saying that your son's disappearance might be related to Hermione's?' Harry asked, his piercing green eyes curiously eyed Narcissa, curious on why she would think that this two incidents might relate.
'That's exactly what I'm saying. It could not be pure coincidence that they disappeared at the exact same day.'
'Well if 'Mione was to fight Malfoy she would win but she'd probably be splinched and brought to You-Know-Who. So are you sure that she isn't kept captive somewhere this very instant?' Ron asked aggressively, his voice full of suspicion. He would never forgive them after what they did to Hermione, and it took every nerve in his body to resist the urge of cursing the frizzy haired freak who tortured Hermione.
'Try me.' Nacissa said calmly. Harry pointed his wand at her and muttered the Legilimency Spell. Narcissa made no attempt to create barriers around her mind and Harry could see clearly everything that happened since the day they left the Manor. She wasn't lying. If she was Harry could tell because he was getting better at it without even knowing. Narcissa let in some happy memories of her with Draco, trying to make Harry understand that she was truly worried about her son.
At that moment Lucius made a dive for Narcissa's wand.
'Stupefy!' Ron shouted, but he missed. The Death Eater became a cloud of black smoke and shot curses at Ron.
'Protego!' Harry drew a barrier between them and Lucius. At that very moment Bellatrix broke free of the freezing charm, and touched her Dark Mark. She laughed her evil laugh which shocked the whole room.
'He's coming!' and Bellatrix bust out in laughter again. Lucius took advantage of this situation and stunned both Harry and Ron. Bellatrix retrieved her wand from Ron and spat at him, sending a torturous curse that hit him square in the chest. The pair lay down on the marble floor of Malfoy Manor, defenceless and weak, awaiting their terrible fate. Suddenly there was a pop sound and someone apparated into the room.
Everything became blur, and then, darkness.
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