As Harry was heading down to the kitchen to try and find Ron and Hermione he ran into half way down the hall Draco.
"Look." Harry said as Draco was about to pass him. Draco stopped and turned looking annoyed.
"I don't particularly like you and I know the feelings mutual. But Lynn loves you, I cannot figure out why but she does. That being said, it killed her every day to not tell you the truth. So just give her a chance," Draco didn't say a word but Harry could see it in his face that he was at least considering the words the raven haired boy said.
"She's in the training room, the last door on the right." Draco slightly nodded as he walked away.
As he got closer to the door he could hear faint talking, which caused him to stop at the door and watch Lynn as she spoke to herself in the mirror.
"Draco, I know you hate me right now and I don't blame you but please know that I love you and everything I have done has been to protect that love,… Oh good grief that's corny. Ok " Hailey pauses to take a deep breath before continuing to talk into the mirror.
"Draco I love you and I have always loved you. You were the only thing that made sense in my screwed up lie filled world. You were the one thing I could count on. But I never really let you know me, everything I told you, well almost everything I told you were things I thought you wanted to hear. I want you to get to know me, the real me. I hope that you can forgive me long enough to let this happen." Hailey had been looking at her hands as she said this, but when she was done she looked up into the mirror again, looking at her self straight in the eye all she could think was how much she hated herself for not just coming out and telling him. For letting things get so bad, feeling all this anger from so many years of worry and stress she finally decided to release it. Ever so quickly she cocked back her fist and slammed it right into the mirror, right where the reflection of her face was. As the glass fell and her hand started to bleed a very harassed Draco came running in the room.
"Lynn what the hell are you thinking?" He yelled as he pulled her away from the broken glass to take a look at her hand which was bleeding rather heavily from a long cut over her knuckles.
"I'm sorry Drake, I'm so sorry I should have told you everything so long ago." She said this calmly and quietly, there were no tears of rage or guilt left. But even so Lynn had to force herself to look at him. In that moment Draco realized what all of this had been doing to her. He had been so angry at her about the deceit towards him that he did not think of the mental ramifications it could have left on Lynn.
"No Lynn, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything your father put you through; even more for everything my father has put you through. I wasn't thinking about you and everything you showed me. I was stuck on everything you did to me." He wrapped an arm around her and leaned his forehead against hers as he said this. She stood against him blank and numb.
"I'm sorry Drake, I'm so sorry. Please forgive me, I'm so sorry" Lynn kept repeating this over and over until Draco put a finger over her lips.
"Shhh it's ok, we will work with out. But first we need to get your hand looked out." As he lead her out of the room he grabbed a towel on the bench next to the door and wrapped it around her hand.
The pair quietly made their way down the hall and over to the study door where they had last left Severus. But just as Draco was about to knock on the door the kids heard laughing in the room. So instead of knocking they quietly opened the door and what they found was definitely not what they ever would have expected.
To their amazement Severus and Sirius were sitting on the couch laughing hysterically with a bottle of half empty fire whiskey between them. It seemed they were telling stories of Lucius back in his Hogwarts days and how much of an ass he really made of himself. The two men were slapping their knees and had tears coming from their eyes.
"There was that one time, do you remember? We were in the great hall for the Halloween feast and Narcissia jinxed Lucius with out him knowing!" Sirius roared as he animatedly rehashed the story.
"With the bunny ears!" Severus yelled remembering the apparently hilarious incident.
Hailey and Draco could do nothing more then stare in amazement at the two men who would on any other day hate each other but were now at this moment drunk as could be and making fun of Draco's father. Instead of interrupting the slightly disturbing scene Draco lead Hailey out of the room and down the hall to the kitchen where they found Mrs. Weasley cleaning up after supper. Lucky for them she was the only left.
"Excuse me Mrs. Weasley could you help us?" Draco asked as he sat the injured girl down in a chair. Mrs. Weasley looked from one teenager to the next before noticing Hailey's wrapped hand.
"Oh Merlin what happened?" She yelled as she grabbed a bowl and filled it with soap and water.
"Lynn had a bit of a disagreement with a mirror." He said worrying about how deep the glass shards might have gone.
"Where is your father?" Molly asked Lynn as she started to un wrap her hand. Hailey just looked at Draco.
"He's a bit… indisposed at the moment." Molly didn't seem to pay the comment any mind as she was busy trying to carefully clean Lynn's hand while getting the shards out.
"Draco could you please go get Saverus I don't care how indisposed he is he needs to know that Hailey hurt her hand and needs to go to Saint Mungo's." Upon hearing that Lynn spoke up.
"No please, can't you fix it? I really don't want to go back there" Moly smiled reassuringly.
"I will do my best dear but I really need your father.
"Drake go get him, stun him if you have to." Lynn directed. So off Draco went to try and get the very inebriated Snape to come down and take care of his daughter.
In the mean time Harry was outside trying to reason with his two best friends.
"I still don't understand why you didn't tell us." Hermione was saying as the trio sat on front porch.
"I wasn't allowed, my father…."
"Your FATHER, really." Ron snorted cutting Harry off.
"Yeah Ron my father, I am sorry you have a problem with that but it's the truth."
"How is that exactly, seeing as you and Lynn are the same age how is it that he is both your father? Did your mum have an affair?" Ron interrogated Harry in the hopes of finding any kind of dirt on Snape. Harry sighed knowing that this is what his supposed friend was searching for.
"No, apparently my mum and James were friends with my dad and Lynn's mum. A few days after Lynn's mum found out she was pregnant with Lynn they went to my mum and James's house. Apparently they weren't able to have kids together so my mom asked my dad for, err help." He ended weakly. At the thought of Snape having adult relations with anyone made them all shudder so at the mention of this all three let out a simultaneous
"Ewwwww!"
"How long have you known, that he was your father I mean?" Hermione, ever the calm one asked.
"Since first year/" Harry shyly admitted.
"FIRST YEAR!" Ron yelled/
"After everything we have been through you couldn't have thought to trust us enough to tell us. That's real nice mate, real nice." Ron said as he stood up and loudly stormed off into the house.
"As much as I want to understand your side, I have to agree with Ron on this one. We have been though a lot, you should have been able to trust us by now." Harry who was getting more irritated by the minute at the miss understanding finally blew up.
"It had NOTHING to do with trust! I couldn't tell ANYONE. Lynn couldn't even tell Draco and they are betrothed!" He yelled so loud and so suddenly that it made Hermione jump.
"Besides does it really matter who my family is? So my father's the potion master and my sister is going to marry into the most evil pure blood families there is! So what?" He exclaimed! Yet after he said this he thought about what it all sounded like.
"Well Harry when you put it like that." Hermione said with a smirk.
"Shut up." The raven haired boy said with a laugh.
"That sounds pretty terrible doesn't it." Hermione grinned.
"Yeah it really does. Look I understand we can't chose our family and I have seen how you are with your sister. I am happy if you are. I just don't want anymore secrets." Harry nodded.
"That's fair." He said as he stood up and started to walk inside.
"Where are you going?" She asked, confused as to his sudden departure.
"Well you said you didn't want anymore secrets so I'm going to go tell Ron how you really feel about him." He replied with a grin.
"Oh don't you dare!" Hermione said as she ran after him into the house.
