"I'm starting to get second thoughts about this…" Anthony sheepishly says as the group walks through the castle completely hidden.
"Will you shut up about it? Why are you backing down we've been planning this for hours." Greggy says. "And besides, no one can see us." The group begins to walk under the cloak accidently knocking over and idle vase that stands in their way.
"But they can hear us." Seth implies as he turns back to see the plant grow legs and walk away. "That's normal…it probably escaped from the Herbology room…come on let's keep going." Staying quiet, the three proceed to the stair case that is no doubt shifting in all positions.
"I think we'll have to go visible…" Anthony says stepping from underneath the cloak. "There's no way to keep up with the stairs if we're all huddled together like this."
Greggy leans over, looking down as if to determine the impact of the fall. As she thinks to herself, a strange image of people jumping and falling out of the Astronomy Tower pops into her head. Quickly, she is shaken back into reality as she hears the sound of distant footsteps.
"Quick!" Seth says. "Get back under the cloak!" As the three attempt to fit the ruffled cloak back over the in time, a familiar blonde makes his way toward them.
"I heard you," He manages. "You are talking rather loud." Scorpius comes from the shadows and stares hopelessy at the whole group.
"Are you going to tell on us?" Greggy asks with a worried voice. "Please, if you're not going to tell on us you can come with us…you probably know a lot more spells that we do."
Scorpius gives a little shrug and sighs just a bit. "I guess you're right about that, though I was already planning to come with you guys." He says walking forward. "And plus, even though it was just a bit hard to master, Rose and…well I, found a spell that'll stop the stair case from acting goofy. Here it goes, Immobilize!" With a flash of blinding light, the stair cases stop moving and stand in a stiff position.
"Blimey…" Anthony says, receiving a grin from Scorpius.
"Well then, we need to get going, it won't hold for long." He says, noticing a very curious glare from Greggy.
"How did you figure out?" She asks, crossing her arms. Scorpius shuffles in his thoughts for a while before answering and telling the truth. The other three stare horrified as he finishes.
"So this means that…she's going to tell the Headmistress." Anthony says, looking down.
"Well, not exactly, I've put her under a sleeping charm…she'll be up in three hours and since it's late she'll most likely wake tomorrow morning." Scorpius happily reassures making his way down the wooden steps. Reluctantly but suddenly, the other three begin to follow him as they all make their way down to the forbidden forest.
So far, staying at home by himself is the hardest thing. As much as he tries to block them out, demons from his past do nothing but attack him. The fear of hurting himself rings in his ears and of course the fear of someone else hurting him. He just needed his blond to return to him sooner rather than later.
"A visitor, who in the right mind would come to this place during this time of the year, and to visit me?" Draco asks one of the workers as he sits like a statute at his desk.
"Astoria is her name, she claims she's some unsettled business with you." Draco feels his face flush with anger. Who is she to show her face to him? He rises to his feet beckoning for the worker to leave and bring back Astoria. Five minutes pass and he hears footsteps making their way upstairs and then the door to his office opens.
"State your business and leave." Draco says sharply cutting her off before she says anything. She makes herself comfortable in a chair in front of his desk, not daring to make eye contact.
"Why did you leave me, that's all I want to know." She asks, looking down at her gloved hands. Draco only stares down at her giving her a light smirk.
"Dear, don't act like you're innocent here. You've cheated on my countless amounts of times and would've anyone ever know, you'd've had your self a nice place in Azkaban. It's because of my pity that you're still able to walk the streets as a free woman! I've nothing to say to you, and all I ask is that you leave me and my family alone."
"How dare you!" Astoria says, rising to her feet. She walks close enough to Draco so that he can see every tear on her eye lashes. Clenching her fists, she slams her hands on the table angry as she gets no response of fear from Draco.
"I made you a man and you can't deny that! You've left me for that…that whore! You know nothing about him, he only_"
"Shut your mouth!" Draco yells in anger progressing toward her. "How dare you challenge me like this! How dare you insult me, my family? Out! Get out of my office or I'll have you sent to Azkaban right away!"
"It is freezing out here!" Greggy says as the group walks freely and visibly through the forest. Chants of Accio: Wand are heard from every single one of them. The cool air flows freely though their clothes causing them to give little shutters and sounds of discomfort. The night's curtain makes the search for the wand difficult as the moon light is the only thing guiding the children.
Thirty minutes into the search, Anthony gives a yelp of excitement as he pulls his father's old wand from under a rock.
"Look…I've found it! We can go back now!" He says but paling as he sees an animal like creature ahead of him. The other three stop and come face to face with the same creatures…centaurs and from what Harry told Greggy, he hadn't had a very good run in with them.
So now…even though the four are running for their lives and hiding seems to be the best outcome, at least they're not caught, at least they got the wand back and at least they're together.
"My love,
Words cannot express how much I need you. My actions cannot begin to show how much I want you. I am like a plant, and you are like water. Without you, I begin to starve and eventually I end up dying. You are like light in a dark cave, when I am stranded, it is your light that saves me. Knowing you, you probably didn't understand a word of that so to sum it up, I miss you. I trust things are going great for you and our unborn baby. Please inform me of the gender when you can, it's been bugging me. I love you more than you'll ever be able to imagine.
Your Love, Draco
(PS, how are the children doing?)
Harry reads the letter over and over again before he goes to bed. Finally, something good that he has on his mind.
As he observes the letter be begins to think about…how different they are. Not that it's a bad thing but Draco seems to be at a much higher level of understanding than Harry and Harry is rather…slow? He quickly shoves that thought out of his head. Though Draco is much more intelligent, it doesn't take brains to do the right thing.
Placing the letter next to his parent's picture, he dims the oil lamp on his night stand and quietly dozes to sleep.
I almost forgot to add a note at the end...silly me! Anon, I'm quite positive he likes someone else but thanks for caring! Strange, he pat me on the back though. So anyway, the prequel's going quite nicely if I do say so myself. I plan to have it posted some time this week. Anyway...remember I don't own Harry Potter, but have fun reading this...I only own my oc's :(