I hit the ground and felt my right high heel break. "Shit, Alex!" Draco jumped up and raced towards me. He pulled me up and I took off my shoe whimpering. "I really liked these." He snatched them from my hand and easily fixed it with a simply spell. I smiled and took it back from him putting it on. I brushed off my dress and pulled out a twig that was stuck in my hair. We were in a forest on a hill.
"Where are we?" I asked he began walking down the steep hill. I picked up my dress and quickly followed him. Once I caught up with him I saw a small cabin. It was a log cabin. It was very simple looking and the yard around it looked like it hadn't been kept up in years. "Are you going to answer my question ever?"
"This" He said pointed to the cabin "is my Aunt Bellatrix's hide out. When she first got out of Azkaban, my father hid her here. Well once the Dark Lord came back into power, she didn't need it anymore. My mother thought this was the perfect place to hide you before school starts back. Only a Malfoy or Black can unlock the door." He said walking towards the red front door. He grabbed the door knob and I heard a click. He pushed it open and walked in.
The second I walked in, I knew it was a place of a Malfoy. The furniture perfectly matched cabin. The kitchen was large and had wood floors with dark marble counter tops. There were three bedrooms that all looked like the master bedroom. Let's just say the cabin looked more like a Manor that a cabin in the middle of the forest.
"Our bags are in the room towards the back. I guess your father doesn't care about us sleeping in the same bed." Draco chuckled leaning me into the room. I took off my heels tossing them into the closet. Draco took off his suit jacket and placed it in the other closet. I grabbed my PJs and went into the bathroom to change. I took off my dress hanging to up and took my make-up off. I pulled on some plaid PJ pants with a t-shirt. I felt like everyone knew something I didn't. It was really starting to get on my nerves. No one was telling me anything. I wish I could owl Potter and tell him what was going on, but I knew that would give away where I was.
I walked out of the bathroom and Draco was already asleep on the bed. I knew I couldn't sleep, so I walked into the kitchen for something to eat since I didn't eat that much at dinner. I began walking towards the door and saw my wand lying on the dresser. "Well just to be safe." I whisper snatching up my wand and placed it in my pants pocket.
I walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge to see if there was anything to drink. It was completely empty and once I looked in the cabinets I saw those were empty also. I heard a pop behind me and turned around.
"Hello Miss!" I screamed and pulled out my wand. "Miss Tasso, it is just me, Millie!" I lowered my wand and saw the bright green eyes of my house elf from the Tasso Manor.
"Millie, don't ever do that again!" I hissed sitting down at the kitchen table holding my head. "Millie is very sorry, Miss" Millie said bowing. I heard a thud and noticed the bedroom door flew open. Draco came running into the kitchen with his wand out. "Alex, what is it?" He yelled yanking me up and pushing me behind him. I lowered his wand and pointed to Millie, who had her head bowed waiting for me to tell her what to do.
"Oh, hey Millie." Draco said blushing and finally letting go of me. Millie was brought when my father found out my mother was pregnant with me. I had known Millie my whole life, so my dad said she was mine. Millie wasn't like normal house elves, well of course you always seemed to get scared when she did something wrong, but she was like my best friend. She gave me advice and whenever Draco needed a house elf because his father took Dobby, I would send over Millie. Millie was very important to me. I probably wasn't your normal pureblood because I treated Millie like a person instead of a thing.
"Millie, what are you doing here?" Draco asked sitting down placing on the table. "Well Mister Malfoy, I went to the Malfoy Manor to look for Miss and Mister Philip told me where to find her. Millie thought you might need a house elf." She smiled and climbed up into the seat next to Draco
"I am hungry, Millie." I sat down next to Millie. "Well, Miss what would you like?"
"French Toast and apple juice, please." She nodded and turned towards Draco. "And you Mister Malfoy?"
"Just tea for me, Mill." She smiled at her nickname and jumped up to start cooking. Millie always called Draco and I, Mister Malfoy and Miss Tasso, but she called my brother and the rest of my family by their first names. I finally gave up on tell her to call me Alex.
"I'm sorry for waking you." I said weakly staring down at my hands. "Don't worry about it, Alex." I looked over at Millie, who was standing on a stool cooking my French toast on the shove. She had lit some candles and had already placed Draco's tea in front of him. I noticed a cut on the back of her neck. "Mill, this tea is wonderful! Man, I have missed your cooking." Draco said taking another drink of tea.
"Thank you, Mister Malfoy. If you would like Millie can bring you some at Hogwarts. Dobby works there and surely Dumbledore will let Millie do that." Draco smiled, "That would be great, but only if you really want to" Millie grinning and turned back around to finish up the French toast.
"Millie, what happen to the back of your neck?" I asked her as she brought me my food and apple juice. I took a drink of my apple juice waiting for her to answer my question. Draco leaned back in his chair and looked at the back of her neck.
"Well Miss Tasso, Madam Lestange came to the Manor asking where Miss Tasso was. Master Hector had already asked her to leave. Millie would not answer her, so Madam Lestange hit Millie has she began to walk away." Millie said rubbing the back of her neck where the cut was on her neck. I growled and looked at Draco, whose hand was wrapped tightly around his cup.
"I am so sorry, Millie. I will talk to my father about that. Bellatrix should have not done that." I said cutting up my food angrily eating it. "Mill, did you hear what said between Bellatrix and Hector?" Draco asked, I could tell by the look on his face that he thought something wasn't adding up.
"Yes Millie did. Master Hector told Madam Theodora and Mister Philip to go upstairs, and then Madam Lestange said the Dark Lord wanted to know Miss where about. Master Hector said if the Dark Lord wanted to know, he could owl Master Hector himself. Madam Lestange got very angry saying that Master Hector was hiding something for the Dark Lord. Master Hector asked her to leave and then asked Millie to show her out." She took a deep breath and took Draco's cup refilling it with tea.
"Why would he want to know where I was?" I asked Draco as Millie handed him back his tea. "Maybe he thought you would be at the safe house with him."
"Mister Malfoy, Master Hector told the Dark Lord they would be placing Miss in another place if anything happened. Millie had gone with Master Hector that day." Millie took my empty plate and began washing it. She refilled my apple juice and taking Draco's empty cup. Well, if my father told Voldemort, so why did he care where I was.
"Alex, I think he knew your father staged that break in at the Malfoy Manor." My heart stopped, if Voldemort knew that my father had staged the whole thing then my father would be killed soon. Millie stopped washing and stared at me. She climbed down from the stool and placed a small hand on my shoulder rubbing it.
"Miss, Millie believes if the Dark Lord wanted to kill Master Hector, the Dark Lord would have done it by now." She did have a point.