I'm really sorry it's taken so long to update! I feel really bad, but this is midterm week and I'm squeezing this chapter in before the choas begins.
Izzy and I are running through the halls of Malfoy manor trying to get to the lower levels of the house. Occasionally we would hear an explosion off from the courtyard, but other than that the house is silent, too quiet for my liking. The only noticeable noise is coming from the sounds of our feet hitting the ground. Izzy and I are trying to find our way out of here. It seems that my memory is severing me correctly, since I've been able to find a few stairwells that have taken us down two flights of stairs.
"Scorpius, I gather you know where were going? This place is huge and I really don't feel like running through a maze tonight," Izzy explains herself to me as we reach another fork in the hallways. I point left and lo and behold there is another staircase letting us go down ward. We go down as quietly as possible only to be greeted by spells coming at us. Izzy pushes me to the floor causing us to tumble down the last few steps.
"I see that you've gotten yourself out?" I hear an eerily familiar voice say from the stairwell entrance. The person sounds deranged, almost insane. A man walks into view, and it's my grandfather. He finally makes himself known.
"What do you want from us, Lucius?" I ask him pulling out my wand. I don't think I'd be breaking any laws since this is an emergency. I see a wand pulled out behind me. I guess Izzy is at the ready, as well.
"You mean you haven't put the pieces together yet? Do you really think that Greyback came up with those plans?" He questions, laughing slightly at the thought of Greyback doing anything remotely intelligent.
Suddenly all the pieces are coming together. My Grandfather has been orchestrating all the murder plans of Lily Potter all year, but there is one thing that my Grandfather didn't plan on. He didn't plan for me to get involved, the only other Malfoy heir besides my father. That most likely set his plans back a couple of months. Until now, it seems that he felt taking me and Lily together would be the best idea.
"Why take me with Lily?" I question him with my wand pointed straight at him just in case he attacks. He then proceeds to start laugh, it's an insane laugh, one that chills me to the bone.
"Why? Well, you and your father have destroyed the Malfoy name! You're father married a half and blood and you're in Muggle Studies and are dating that Potter filth! I have to make it right and I was going to have you kill her until you escaped a few minutes ago. You would have brought back honor to the Malfoy name and destroyed the Potter's all at once. It would have been wonderful!" he replies with a smile that shows his yellowing teeth.
The reply makes my blood boil. He was planning on me killing Lily, after he found out that I was dating her. I guess after my grandmother left him all of his humanity disappeared, or at least what was left of it. Before I could reply Izzy gives him a murderous glare. I notice that her eye color is back to a coal black instead of the calming hazel that Lily has.
"Are you telling me that you've been the one attacking Lily all year? You're horrid man!" Izzy yells, the rest of her disguise coming off. She now looks like an avenging angel as she jumps after my grandfather hurling spell after spell at him. The two go back and forth throwing curses, hexes and I bet my grandfather is throwing unforgivable curses at her.
"You're that mudblood I've been hearing about. You've caused me more problems than you're worth. I hope I can give a horrible death that you deserve," my grandfather snarls at her. He mutters a curse under his breath and he lets it fly. The first thing I notice about it is its bright green color and then the dots connect, he's really trying to kill her.
Izzy notices this even before I do and dives out of the way missing death by centimeters. "Izzy, we need to get out of the stairwell, make it to the main room!" I yell to her and she sends a stunning spell at Lucius causing him to hit the wall behind him. We sprint past him and make it into the main room right as the Aurors and Deatheater rejects come busting in.
To my surprise my mother is leading the Aurors with Lily right behind her. I send a smile to Lily when our eyes meet. She gives me the brightest smile until her eyes go wide. I follow her gaze quickly and see a curse coming straight for me. I feel the impact and how I crash through a glass table. I taste the blood in my mouth and am aware of the large gashes from the broken glass and the curse on my body. I hear Lily scream my name.
I open my eyes painfully to see her coming over to me. At this point I know it's too late. "Scorpius, I'm going to try and heal you. Please, don't die," Lily sobs out while pulling out her wand.
Her face starts to fade away and the pain starts to disappear. I let the darkness take me. The only thought running word running through my head at his point is 'Lily'
When I open my eyes again I'm greeted by bright light and no pain. I look around and notice that I'm sitting in a meadow with a clear water pond in the middle. There's an edging of trees at the other end of the pond, but other than that there isn't anything here.
No one's around and I there aren't any sounds. Only me sitting in a bloody meadow. I notice now that I don't have any injuries…what happened to me? Where am I? The last thing I remember was getting hit by the curse and Lily trying to tend to my wounds. Now my mind is racing…
"Am I dead?" I whisper to myself running my hands through my hair worriedly. Did I really leave Lily alone?
I suddenly hear a crunch of leaves and turn my head towards the sound. What I see surprises me, it's a small group of animals. A stag, a doe, a large dog and a wolf all watching me curiously.
Do you hate me? I hope not there're still two more chapters left! =D
~Animerocker
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