A/N: So I am going to write a small epilogue and then continue on in a sequel. I really hope you all continue reading. It won't be as long as Sweat the Battle, but I still have more to tell of this story and I feel this is a natural transition point.
Soundtrack: Lord Huron's "Setting Sun"
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Lucius lifted his face off the floor, blood trailing from his face to a small pool on the ground. He felt like his entire face was one big bruise and he blinked his eyes, glaring around him. He looked at the destroyed room. It was a mess.
The large wardrobe's door was shattered with bits of wood inside and out. Tonks' jacket and shoes were lying askew on the floor and not far were a pair of lace panties. Glass surrounded him and the sun shone in strongly, filling the room with a sticky heat.
He groaned as he pushed himself up. Rabastan was on the floor, leaning against a far wall, his head resting on his chest and his mouth hanging open. Crabbe and Goyle both were sprawled out in opposite corners. Several tables and chairs were overturned and scattered across the room.
He crawled forward to where her golden dress still lay on the floor, grabbing it tightly in a shaking fist. He held it up, clutching it tightly. There was a pool of blood on the floor not far from him and he recognized it as it was where Tonks had been held as Lucius had beat him. Lucius looked down at his hand, his silver Malfoy ring was caked in dried blood and his knuckles were raw and red.
But he was nowhere to be seen. And neither was she.
Andromeda was gone. She had left with that Mudblood. She had left him.
Lucius felt his blood pump quickly in his veins and his face began to throb painfully.
He wanted to make her pay. Make them both pay.
She had humiliated him in the Great Hall. She had run off and spent the night in the arms of a Mudblood. And it hadn't even been the first time. His hatred turned cold and sick inside of him as he remembered her telling him that she had been with him the entire time she was supposed to have been his fiancée. That deceitful cunt.
Lucius pulled himself up using a nearby desk and stretched out his stiff limbs.
She had been cheating on him for months. She had told him how important it was for her to stay pure until their wedding night all the while she was letting that brute inside her. She had lied straight to his face and he hadn't even known. Lucius closed his eyes to the images his mind conjured of that animal taking her in every way he had wanted to.
His hands shook with rage. Malevolence boiled in him as he recalled the image of her wrapped in Tonks' arms this morning when he had found them. Her body curled next to his, her leg hooked over him, her hand resting on his heart.
Lucius wanted to tear the bloody thing out of the Mudblood's chest.
He wanted to shove it into her mouth and make her choke on it.
His chest rose and fell heavily.
How could he? How could he even find them? They could be anywhere by now. Andromeda always did have a habit of slipping away, that's why he had gotten the watch and ring enchanted in the first place-
The ring…
The ring.
Lucius quickly pulled the silver watch out of his pocket and clicked it open.
Andromeda still had the fucking ring.
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A/N: The story continues in the sequel called Light Years! I will be posting the first chapter soon!