When we got off the train, and I was by my parents, about to leave, I heard my name being called frantically.
I turned and saw red curls bouncing and medium brown hair flopping as their owners ran to me.
"Hey." I laughed. "You couldn't wait to see me again, could you?" I pretended to think I was all hot stuff, and my best friends laughed.
"No Scorp. We just forgot to give you our Christmas gifts." Albus said, grinning. "Here, this is James' and this is mine." He handed them to me.
"Don't open them until Christmas." Rose said, starting to give hers to me, and then yanked her arm back when I put the other two gifts in one arm and reached out with my free arm for the new one. "Wait, better not risk it. Here." She handed the gift to my father. "Keep it away from him will you, Mr. Malfoy?"
"I'll guard it with my life." My dad joked, and my mom, with her hand holding his upper arm, smiled, and leaned her head onto his shoulder, giggling.
"Thanks Rose." I muttered.
Rose kissed my cheek bye and then hugged me fiercely. "Merry Christmas, Scorp. Have a good holiday." She whispered in my ear before pulling back, and then Albus hugged me quickly too.
"Have a good one, mate." He grinned.
Then, they left me, and standing there for a moment, I realized I had yet to give Albus gave his dad's invisibility cloak. It was one of the Deathly Hallows too! I had to give it back! I suddenly grabbed my suitcase from my mum and rummaged quickly through it, and pulled out the cloak and ran after my friends.
"Scorpius- how did you-" my mother started, astounded by seeing the cloak after so many years. She must've had good times with this cloak and her friends. I knew my mother would zip my luggage back up, and I kept going. I'd already given them their gifts for Christmas, before getting off the train, but how I forgot this, I didn't know. Everyone seemed to be heading the direction opposite me, and that just made it all the harder. Finally, I saw a glimpse of Weasley red hair- and ran over, and pushed the cloak into Albus' astonished hands.
"Here." I panted.
Mr. Potter and the other adults looked puzzled at how I'd had it, but I didn't care.
Albus grinned. "Scorp- you didn't have to give it back to me now!"
"I felt bad." I admitted.
Albus sighed, shaking his head. "Alright Scorpius- we'll see you soon." And I nodded, and took off again, back to my own family.
Now, at home, on Christmas Eve, I sat with my parents in the living room, and mistletoe and the holly and garlands hung everywhere- and it was festive. We'd just had dinner minutes ago, and now were relaxing, as a family in front of the crackling fire on the sofa.
Then, the alarm went off in the house. That meant someone had broken through the gates. We all tensed up and looked at one another.
"It's nothing." My parents tried to assure me, but I was sure they were trying to convince themselves more than me.
Then, there was a knock on the door- a loud echoing knock- with our brass knocker.
That tore it for my father, who realized the situation's brutality.
"'Nise, go. Take Scorpius with you. I'll hold him off." We were all standing now, and now the lights were off, and the fire had gone out, making the house very dark- besides the natural moonlight through the windows.
"No!" my mother shouted. "Not without you." He eyes shone with tears, and her voice cracked.
"Denise, listen to me. It's me they want. I need you to be safe, please. I need you and our son to be protected and away from here. I won't let anything happen to you because of my mistakes- not again." He caressed her cheek, and she tried to hold it there, but he pulled it away, as the mystery person knocked again.
A tear fell down her cheek. "Draco- please. Together, I can't let you do this alone. I'd be making a mistake by letting you face him alone."
The push on the door was startling. They were breaking in.
"GO!" my father pushed us to the stairs. "Run!" he kissed her quickly and then looked at me for a second, and with another clap that sounded like thunder but was really the door being broken down, he became more urgent. He pulled out his wand, "I'm ready." He whispered.
My mother looked at him, then me. She ran over to him, and quickly looked at his face with her hands holding his head, and then kissed him once more, and brushed his hair out of his eyes.
"Forever." She said softly, and I realized she was pointing to her locket. "And always."
Then another thunder clap and she let go of him.
"I love you. Be safe!" she called back to him, as she grabbed my hand and pulled my up the stairs. "Go and get your wand from your room- I'll grab mine. Meet you in the hallway. Go!" we split up. I darted into my darkened room and I heard a fight downstairs.
"It's your fault my son is dead!" an older male voice yelled gruffly.
"Crabbe! It's not! It was his own damn fault-"
"You were supposed to be his friend!"
"I was!" my father said, and I then focused and launched at my nightstand for my wand, and I knocked the lamp over as I wrapped my fingers around my wand.
"There's others in this house right now." The man guessed right, after hearing me.
"No there's not." My dad said quickly.
"We both know that's a lie. Wherever you are, your little love, Diggory, is never far behind. Is she upstairs, Malfoy? Are you trying to protect her? Telling her to run? You always were stupid." The man chuckled. "I heard you have a son now too- but you never know when locked up in Azkaban for almost 20 years. You should've joined us there- along with your parents. You got off easy. You three were never really true followers. You shouldn't be allowed to have that mark on your arm! You're not worthy of it!" Crabbe yelled.
I shoved the wand my pocket, and ran down the hall to my mother. She was in her and dad's bedroom, and was looking around saddened.
"So it's true. You married her, and had a little boy. Is he the spitting image of you, or her? Either way- he's the spawn of two blood traitors." The man spat. "He looks exactly like you. Is he exactly like you too? A coward that uses bigger people to fight his battles? You don't deserve to have a wife or son when my son didn't! You don't deserve family when I've lost mine! It's all your fault!" he must've seen pictures along the mantle or wall of the three of us.
"I'm right here- ready to fight you. I don't see Potter, or Granger, or Goyle here to fight for me!"
I blocked it out. Dad had to win against this man, he had to.
"We'll come back soon, mummy." I said innocently, as I took her hand. She realized I was there, that it wasn't just Dad and her anymore, they had a son together now, and she picked up her wand, putting it in her own pocket, and paused a moment. I was so scared, but I had to be the man here for my mum. Dad always said if something happened to him, I was the man of the house.
"Azkaban- it's cold, dark…you lose yourself there…I can imagine your girl after seeing you so insane for being there for years…she'd run screaming, and you'd be alone until the day you die there, and you'd be buried outside the prison."
I could almost see my dad gritting his teeth. "That's where you're wrong, she'd never leave me. She didn't upon learning what I'd become- one of you- when we were in school- she wouldn't now. Plus, she'd never allow me to die and be buried there. She loves me too much."
"So you think!" he laughed.
"You have really forgotten what love is haven't you Crabbe? Losing your son, because of his stupidity. I almost died there too! I wanted to save him! It was too late though!"
"LIES! I'm done talking; it's time to finish what the Dark Lord started." And I heard something shatter downstairs where a spell must've hit.
"We're apparating. Brace yourself." my mother said fiercely , determined to get me away from there. And so I grabbed onto her right arm tightly, and was sucked into a world of darkness, where it was suffocating.
And when we got back to the light of the real world, we weren't at home anymore.
We were at 12 Grimmauld Place- the Potter's house.
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