Picking and Choosing (Tales of Hogwarts Romance) Chapter 13
(AN: Another short chapter, but I should be able to put another one up in the next two days, R&R –Richard S.)
"LUCIOUS!" Illy's scream resonated through the room, reverberating off the walls, waking anyone who might have been napping, and calling Dolan from the spot where he was hiding in the corner. Draco was horrified, she had just called him by his fathers name, he was crushed, denied, destroyed, and toyed with, he felt filthy and uncomfortably pure all at once. His eyes began to water as he looked up at her like a wounded animal, but she lost consciousness in that moment, her head fell back, and her body began to fall, Draco caught her in his arms.
He didn't know what to do for several seconds, but his brain began to work again as he easily picked her up and laid her on a nearby couch. Dolan stepped forward, looking from Draco to Illy and back,
"I'll go get help, try to get her conscious, whatever just happened, it wasn't your fault." He said before rushing from the room, wand to his throat screaming for help. For someone in his situation Dolan was unnervingly calm, but it helped Draco think strait. He looked at her, tears now flowing freely,
"Illy, wake up, please wake up!" He shook her lightly. "Whatever my father did, I'm sorry! Please, just wake up for me, I'll do whatever you want." He pleaded as he smoothed over her hair and put both of their clothes back into place; the circumstances of the situation could only make it worse. As he moved to pull her shirt up some to cover her rather very team spirited underwear he noticed that her necklace was swirling the same way her eyes had, he reached down to it, within seconds of his brushing its surface Illy was awake again…and Draco had relived her visions in every vicious detail.
"Draco…Draco I-"
"I know Illy, it'll be okay, I promise I'll never ever let that bastard touch you again!" He moved to the couch, letting her rest her head on his lap as he stroked her hair, wide eyed.
"Draco, there's something I have to do…"
"Anything you want, I'll do whatever I need to."
"You need to forget that. I know how this sounds, but you're going home to your family in just a few months. We've only seen one bit of all this, you can't go back there and mention this, which would be impossible now." She seemed astoundingly level headed now.
"Fine then, I just won't ever go back. I don't need them anyway."
"No Draco, they're your family, they could be entirely innocent and we wouldn't even know it."
"An innocent face doesn't look the way his did, and an innocent man doesn't keep a child locked in his basement." Illy sat up to look Draco in the eye,
"Please, just forget all this, it will make it better."
"Because Snape's cure really worked for you didn't it." She looked away from him, he reached a hand out to her face, pulling her closer, gently, he places a soft, pointless kiss on her lips, just in time for Snape to burst through the door.
"Get away from her." He instructed but Draco didn't budge. "I suggest that unless you want to relieve what just happened to her you back away." With a quick hug and a silent 'I love you' he was off the couch and by Snape's side. "Ike, I'm going to fix it again, make it go away, just close your eyes and don't think too hard." She nodded at first, closing her eyes, but then she remembered Draco.
"No! No, wait-" the flash in her face blinded her in white light. Draco stood completely still, Dolan at his side, the man who might as well of been his step father just erased some of the most painful and important things in his best friends life from her mind. Thoughts reeled through his mind for what seemed like minutes before he decided on a course of action,
"You'll have to tell her one day, you know you will. My father fucking raped that girl! You think I'm a horrible person for what I did? You let him get away with it," Draco was now in hysterics, taking exaggerated strides toward Snape with his want out and pointed, "You're as bad as he is! He beat her, he cut her, he broke her bones, and you! What do you do? You just make her forget all of it! She'll find out! She sealed it in blood to never forget his name, it's a wonder she hasn't noticed before, but three years and it's all going to come out!"
"Calm yourself, I did what was best for my daughter at the moment, now be still!" Snape commanded, drawing his own wand on Draco, but there was no need, the boy was in shock, his wand fell to the floor with a light spark shooting from it.
"Her father?...you let my father do this to…your daughter…"
"I didn't even know she was alive until you told me about that day in the drawing room with your mother!"
"You erased my memory too didn't you!...you don't care about her at all do you!" Draco had lost all control, he was sobbing like a child as he collapsed into the chair he had originally been in.
"Draco stop, this is hard enough for Professor Snape as is, don't make it worse by pointing fingers, you're no angel yourself." Dolan tried to make as much peace as he could.
"Shut the fuck up Dolan! He doesn't care, not about me, not about her, not about sending my father to jail! He probably doesn't give a shit about any of this, well since all the secrets are coming out, and since he clearly doesn't give a fuck, how about this Servius!" Dolan was desperate to stop Draco from doing things he would regret, but when he moved to sit Draco back down Snape stopped him, holding him in place with one hand on his shoulder. "How about this DAD! I fucked your daughter! Right there in that chair! But don't seem too surprised, it's the second Malfoy you've let take advantage of her! At least with me it was a choice, but now the truth is out, I fucked your blood daughter, then she had an epileptic seizure in combo with a flash back to her past and what could quite possibly be sever precognitive visions! Why don't you have a seat to let that all sink in," Draco motioned to the chair he had been sitting in. Snape remained cold, glancing at Dolan,
"He didn't even… He loves her too much to fuck up that badly." Snape nodded,
"Gentlemen, this ends here, I'll see you for chess." The room was filled with a white light in a matter of seconds.