Chapter 13

Once a Fool, Always a Fool

Draco took in a deep breathe, feeling rather foolish, he walked slowly up to the door, wand in hand, the door was locked, figures.

"Alohamora.", Draco commanded, his wand pointed to the door knob, the door immediately unlocked, Draco used his other hand to open the door, it was dark inside, only a few candles had been lit, everything looked dead and dark, like nobody had lived here for years, and yet, two people had lived here, slept here, breathed here. Draco slowly walked through the entrance, remembering his scarce childhood living in this house.

He crept down the halls, it was getting darker and darker, and his Father had probably locked Hermione in the blasted dungeon on the bottom floor. He was about to open the door to the dungeon, free Hermione and live happily ever after, when his Father stepped up behind him and poked his wand straight into Draco's back.

"Ergh…" Draco said, his words muffled into the door, his body pressed against the door.

"I can't believe you had the fight to even come back and try to rescue that excuse of a witch." Luscious snarled, jabbing the wand deeper into Draco's aching back.

"She's more of a witch then you are a wizard Father!" Draco spat the last word.

"How dare you!" Luscious growled; he shot a spell, sending Draco up into the air and electrifying him with all the power he could use. Draco shouted in pain. Luscious evilly laughed, finally letting go of Draco, sending the teenager flying back to the ground. Draco was bleeding everywhere, but he didn't give up, he didn't raise his arm, he didn't send a killing curse at his father, he knew, that his Father must die in the most miserable state of death, he wanted to see his Father weaken, his Father beg him for life, his Father all these years had taken life for granted, and now, Draco was going to teach his own Father a lesson he'd never forget.

"I could kill you right now, right here, in your own home, but I've decided in the time I was torturing you, that's I'd make you suffer first."

"I will rescue Hermione, whatever you do, if she dies, so do I!" Draco bellowed at his bluffing Father.

"Well, well, so you have fallen in love with a mud-blood." Luscious sucked in his breathe, and walked a circle around Draco's bleeding body, "I thought higher of you Draco, I thought you would learn the way of a true Malfoy."

"Never, I hate you and our blasted family, Mother was the only good one!" Draco yelled.

"She was worthless, I could never use her for anything, she was too soft, too…Gryffindor-ish. I began hating her for it, she wasn't even human!"

"Of course she was human you bastard!" Draco yelled, he wanted to reach for his wand, now was a perfect chance, but he wanted to kill another way.

"No, not at all, your mother was a fairy; she lived in those blasted forests before she came to Hogwarts! She's a freak, I hadn't known till' days after our marriage, it made me sick to know, I beat her for it, her and her stupid origin. Now you're going to get beaten to death too, for you are too much like your mother."

"Fairy?" Draco gasped; he couldn't hold back confusion now.

"O, why yes, you unlike me, have the blood of a fairy, you hadn't known, I hadn't known, you see," Luscious pulled a knife out of his pocket and struck a line across of his own arm, blood began dripping out, "It's dark, dark, bloody dark, red eh? Now let's see you." Without giving Draco time to run away, he stabbed Draco lightly on the arm as well, blood dribbled out, it was purple.

"Why had I never noticed when I was young?" Draco demanded.

"That, I'm afraid, I cannot tell…" Luscious sarcastically added.

"Well, whatever I am, I'm still going to kill you!" Draco shouted out, trying to stand up was difficult, but he managed.

"I could always shout the killing curse at you right now, but as I said before, I'm going to make you suffer very much first!" with that, Luscious grabbed the back of Draco's shirt and forced him down to where Hermione was.

Draco let out a moan of anger and surprise mixed together when he saw Hermione's bleeding, blood stained body.

"What did you do to her?" Draco shouted at Luscious beginning to raise up his fist, but then thought better of it, his Father then gratefully waved aside the question.

"Hermione!" Draco shouted, he began running towards her, when he ran straight into an invisible wall.

"Hermione!" Draco shouted once more, he pounded on the blocking wall, but she didn't see him, she didn't hear him, it was if she was blind and deaf, she just stared into the space she had.

"Ah, ah, ah, I told you didn't I, you must suffer first, I have sealed her in a cage, all she sees is the surroundings she saw five hours ago, and you of course, are not in it!" Luscious laughed.

"What am I going to have to do to save Hermione?" Draco demanded.

"Ooo, we're getting into bargaining, I hoped one day you would learn the skill. Let's see, perhaps, if you let me throw at curse upon her in front of you?

"Never, I will never let you hurt her, you evil arrogant freak!" Draco glared hatefully at his Father.

"Now, if you'd excuse me, I have some more important things to do right now." Luscious angrily shouted, he was seething mad, with a gust of his long cloak she stormed out the cellar.

Draco couldn't hold his anger in anymore, it was useless even trying, once his Father turned his back he swiftly took out his wand, pointing it at his Father who immediately turned around.

"You're going to kill me aren't you, what a bluff, you as a child were a failure, couldn't hurt a fly, pardon the pun, and now you're going to kill your own Father, can you think of how people are going to treat you when you go back?" His Father teasingly answered.

"Don't push your luck, you're so full of bullocks." Draco barked furiously.

"Fine, kill me, right now, just try, you probably can't, you're useless when it comes to fighting."

"That's not true."

"O, why yes it is, I'll prove it, kill me, right now, I'd like to see you try."

"I will, I can!" Draco shouted, feeling the hot rising up in his body.

"You can't you fool, you can't!"

"You Father, are the weak one, you appear strong, but you can't stand love, who is so weak that they can not bare love and sweetness? It is you! And now, I'm going to expel you from this world before you get worse!"

"Tut, tut, you can not, do you hear me NOW? YOU CAN'T-

"Avada CADAVRA!" Draco screamed, his eyes felt like some kind of magic had sewn his eyes shut while he screamed the cursed spell, all anger shot up, through his wand, it combined with the powerful spell, the shot of green tied with purple (his blood color) burst through, directed at the surprised Father, it hit him like concrete, he flew to the wall, his eyes twittered open and closed, open and closed, then fell, he fell, his life fell altogether.

Draco then realized what he had truly done, with so much rage he hadn't noticed the wrong he had committed, even if his Father was evil, he had still murdered a wizard who coincidentally was his own Father.