CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR
Lily and Scorpius were in the park, laughing and being with each other when all of a sudden, they were surrounded by darkness and all they could see in front of them were bodies on the ground coverd with bloody blankets and the on top of them, human skins were flying on top them. A dark shadow came over to Lily and Scorpius tried to get in front of it in fruitless attempt. The dark shadow pulled out a knife that was shiny and smeared with blood. Lily screamed.
"Lily, Lily it's okay. It was only a dream" Lily heard her mothers voice and opened her eyes. Her mother had tears in her eyes, looking older then she really was with her worry lines.
"Mom" Lily said as she threw her arms around her mom. Her mom weeped and Lily started to cry as well.
"Oh my god Lily, when I heard that you were kidnapped, I felt like someone had ripped my heart out of me" her mom said and Lily pulled back.
"I'm sorry mom" and her mom sniffed. She nodded.
"Your okay now, that's all that matters" Lily nodded back and they let go of each other. Lily looked at her father next to her mom and hugged him as well.
"Dad"
"Shh Lily" he said as he smooth her hair back from her face. Lily looked around for Albus and James who weren't there and Lily asked about them.
"Well, Al is with you friend helping her out and James is with everyone in the waiting hall" and when her father said everyone, Lily wondered if he meant everyone? He nodded his head and grinned at her. Lily growled thinking of how many times she would have to repeat stuff to her whole family. To forget about that for some minutes, Lily went back to the kidnap.
"How did you know where I was?" Lily asked. Her father smiled.
"It was all because of Al, Fred and Scorpius Malfoy" her father said.
"Scorpius" Lily whispered.
"Why didn't you tell us about him Lily?" her mom asked. Lily looked down, embarrassed that she had not been able to trust her parents.
"I didn't know how you take it since James is always talking about the Malfoys badly and how bad they are. Of course, he do it when I wasn't there since I'm friends with Dani and Jeal who are Malfoy's"
"Buts that James. We don't view the Malfoy in a bad light, but we don't trust them either. We're on neutral ground with them. Not so much with Lucias Malfoy thou, but after what he did, we're even" her dad said. Lily nodded.
"I don't really know what I was scared of. I just thought that maybe you wouldn't like him because of his dad and grandfather" and her father patted her head.
"Its okay Lily. Al told me that you were planing to tell us, so at least you weren't trying to keep it a secret." Lily felt tears fall down her cheeks while her father grinned at her. "Silly Lily" and Lily started to cry at his old name for Lily when she would sometimes do mischievous things and because she was scared of their reaction, not tell them. A knock came from the door but Lily didn't see who it was. Her father turned his head to see who it was then kissed her forehead.
"Someone's here to see you" and her father grabbed hers moms arm and led her out of the door, the person in the door stepping aside to let them through.
"Scorpius" Lily aloud when she saw who it was. He grinned at her and Lily smiled back.
"Hey, how's the head?" he asked as he touched her behind the ear where she had a bump where she had gotten hit. "I was scared when I saw all that blood in your face" he said, he eyes lowering.
"Well, that was not my blood" and Lily got sad at that prospect. That young woman killed for Jaegers use. "What happened to you?" she asked as she noticed his slightly purple green eye. He winked with his good eye at her.
"Your brother did it when he was told what had happened to you and blamed me for it" he said as he pointed at his eye.
"Stupid James" Lily yelled. "I'm going to give him a purple eye for that" and Scorpius chuckled at that.
"It's all good. I deserved it" Lily was going to protest against that when he just 'shh'd' her. "Really Lily, it's alright. It doesn't matter"Lily sniffed and he kissed her on the lips. Lily leaned her head against his shoulder.
"How are they ALL acting towards you? My family I mean?" Scorpius laughed and she felt his chest shake. Lily smiled knowing that she would always liked this feeling of his chest shaking with laughter.
"Well, you know how James took it. Everyone else is okay. Some are shocked others seem happy and others don't seem to care either way. Your uncle Ron keeps glaring me though and your aunt Hermione has to slap him in the head every time she catches him. I like her" and Lily smiled, nodding too because she too liked her aunt Hermione. "Your father and mother told me that they were going to wait for you to get better and when you're ready, then we talk to them. But it seems like they're okay with it. Maybe shocked, maybe mad, can't really tell but we have a chance of at least pleasing someone in your family" and Lily laughed. "And Al seems pleased." Lily then wondered how they found her and Janika.
JANIKA
"WAIT, where's Janika" as she looked at his eyes, her eyes big. He chuckled and smoother hair away from her face.
"Janika's okay. She only got a bump like you but overall relieved that you're okay"
"Where is she?" Lily asked still worried about her.
"She's being asked question about what happened and so. It seems that..."
"Whose with her? Is she alone?" Scorpius shook his head. He ran a hand through his hair
"Al is with her so she's okay. Anyways, it seems that Jaeger had her doing small things for him. She said that he threatened to hurt her mother if she didn't do as he said. Janika said that at first it was small stuff like spying on us, reporting to him, keeping me away from you as much as possible, looking though our stuff. But the biggest one was luring you under the bleachers and him capturing you easily" Lily nodded, remembering how Janika had tried to make Lily go back to the game and then gave her a apologetic face before she got hit with the rock. And then Lily remembered how she feel jealous when Scorpius was late to meet up with her because he had been with Janika.
"How is she feeling right now?" Scorpius cocked his head to one side.
"She's saying thats she happy that's his dead and apologized to your family for what she did."
"What did they say?"
"Your father said it was okay. She did what she had to do so save her mother and no one could be faulted for that. Your brother also mentioned that without her note, it would of taken us a longer time to figure where you were. So she's good with you family but like I said, the Ministry of Magic is just asking her questions" Lily nodded and looked at the clock. 1 P.M. What day was it? How long had she been in the cave? How long had she slept? It seemed that she only been at the cave with Jaeger only a couple of hours when to Lily it had felt longer then that. A nurse came in to check up on Lily and then left. Scorpius then told here everything that they had been doing to find out where she was. They had gone to Janika's parents house where they found many answers. Lily was remembering the events of what happened in the cave when she remembered his grandfather.
"Your grandfather?' Lily asked him and his eyes lowered.
"He doesn't have much time. The bullet was taken out but his health over all is failing him" Lily grabbed his head and looked at him in the eyes.
"I'm sorry" Scorpius shock his head.
"No, it's okay. He did what he did and now it's his time like it will be for all of us one day and that's one thing magic can never fix" Lily nodded, feeling a tear fall down her cheek and she felt her eye lids getting heavy. Scorpius laid her down. Lily cracked open her eyes to look at him.
"Scorpius, thank you" he squeezed her hand and she fell asleep.
Scorpius was watching Lily's sleeping form when the someone ran into the room. He looked up to find Jeal there, her eyes wide and breathing hard.
"What?" Scorpius asked, getting up still holding Lily's hand.
"Scorpius, grandpa, he's...he's really dieing this time" and at that, Scorpius ran to his grandfathers room where his father, mother, grandmother and Dani were, looking at the old man breathing unevenly, his eyes closed.
"Dad?" Scorpius said and his turned, his eyes expressionless. Scorpius walked up to the bed in which his grandfather was in and looked at his grandmother who was crying softly. Scorpius looked down at the old man who was looking at him. He stretched his hands outwards and Scorpius grabbed his hand, resting both of their on the bed, his grandfathers grip strong.
"Scorpius..." the old man croaked.
"Honey please, don't force yourself" Narcissa said but Lucias shook his head.
"No, I have to" Lucias turned his eyes to Scorpius. "My grandson, I was mad at you at first when Jaeger – " cough cough "... told me that you and that Potter girl were together. But then, I was sad at the thought that you didn't trust me enough to tell me about you and that girl and it wall all my fault for never trying to raise you with love and trust" cough cough ."When Jaeger told me what he was up to, I decided to help only to save the Potter girl, that much I owed Harry Potter" cough cough. Lucias looked at Dani and Jeal "I knew that you two were there that day, overhearing what we were saying" Jeal and Dani nodded, their eyes filled with tears. Lucias turned toward Scorpius. "I never meant for that muggle girl to die either but Jaeger had found out about me and sent me out to help with a new plan, but it was all a trap to kill all three of them easily" cough cough, pause. "I'm only happy that I got to you early enough to stop him. Scorpius, I hope that you can find in your heart some forgiveness for me for what I made your life like and your sisters your whole life" Scorpius nodded, knowing his grandfather had not always been a cold man and only to realize his faults too late in life. Lucias turned towards Draco.
"My son, I also ask for you to forgive me for what I made you go though since birth. I asked you to do unforgivable things..." cough "...and me only thinking about my own life and greed. Then I made you an outcast from the wizard world, for many to view our family bad" Draco nodded. Astoria smiled and hugged her husband, happy that finally son and father understood and forgave each other.
"Astoria, you have made my son a happy man and a different man then I wanted him to be and for that I grateful to you for saving him" Astoria smiled at him, tears rolling down her cheeks. Lucias looked at Dani and Jeal. Lucias chuckled only for it to turn into coughs.
"My beautiful granddaughters. Dani you look so much like your grandmother when she was young and you Jeal, so much like your own mother" Dani looked at the grandmother and Jeal at her mother. "I'm happy that you and that Potter girl are friends, she seems to be so different from her own family and yet as good as them" cough cough. Lucias turned his gaze to his wife, Narcissa.
"Narcissa, ah my love. I ask you to forgive me for what I made you go thought me over the years. I was happy when you stayed with me at my worst moments and when you saved that Harry Potter, I could not find it in my heart to be mad at you. All that mattered to me was you and our son but I lost part of that over the years and here I am, remembering what is important in life" cough cough cough. Lucias coughed for some few seconds. When he fell back into his pillow, his face was even paler with his thin blond hair sticking to his head. He looked at all of them.
"My only regret the fact that I never got the chance to say this sooner. Pride was holding me back and now I see how useless that emotion is. I...love...you" Lucias said and now his breathing was even harder now, his eye wide. Narcissa gripped his hand and Scorpius felt the pressure on the hand he was holding of his grandfather slowly fade away with his last breath taken, as Lucias Malfoy died.
"Lucias, Lucias" Narcissa screamed her son pulling her back. Narcissa cried into her sons shoulder.
"Scorpius" Dani said as she hugged Scorpius and cried herself. Jeal cried on their mothers shoulders. Scorpius smiled while a small tear rolled down as his cheek. Even though he and the old man had never gotten along, with his final words, they had been able to forgive each other for the years wasted on fighting with each other and Scorpius knew he would miss that. Scorpius looked at his dad and both man nodded at each other, acknowledging each other and respecting each other.
How sad. Now I get Lucias. Well to me Lucias always seemed to me like a guy who was raised to act a certain way with everything and his family and to never take importance on many things (like family or something like that). Oh well, too me he was the good guy and in the end, when it was too late, he realized what really was important to him and his family and accepted it. He even went out of his way to help Harry Potter which might never actually happen except here in FanFiction. END OF STORY AND THANK YOU ALL WHO READ THE WHOLE STORY. YES I KNOW IT WAS LONG AND DRAGGED ON BUT STILL THANK YOU AND I HOPE YOU REALLY LIKED IT. Oh and theres going to be an epilogue but I'm too tired to write it right now, so till tommorw or some other day, so its not really the end yet.