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Chapter 50: Dinner and revelations

"So, umm, what does Lucius know of me? Who does he think I am?" I asked Narcissa as she was pulling my now curled hair up in a half bun. We were getting ready for the first dinner together. In the last week, Lucius has been busy at the Ministry and got home only late in the night. Probably this had something to do with the World Cup and the Tournament.

"Well he knows that you're a very close friend of Draco and that you're a muggle born Gryffindor. He just doesn't undersand why his son would be friends with you or why am I protecting you. But that doesn't really count. The ideea is that, if Lucius approves of you in this circumstances, then he'll even be happy when learning who you really are." I turned around so fast, my neck hurt.

"You're going to tell him who I am? But he's a…you know what. And what if-?" I said rubbing my neck.

"Relax, if you'll get along with him I bet you'll have a big surprise. Just, he has to trust you first. But that's not impossible. You'll get along just fine after you spend a little time together. And I made sure myself that he's not going to spend this full month at the Ministry."

"But, Cissa, he's going to kill me if he finds out. Please."

"Selene, look, I know very well what I'm talking about. And I bet he'll be happy when he finally finds out who's the soulmate of his son."

"Hmmm. Ok, I'll give it a shot. But only because I trust you."

An hour later I was descending the stairs to the bottom floor. I was wearing a long sleeved knee length emerald dress and silvery flats. My brown hair was currled and pulled up in a half bun with two strands framing my face. To get to the subject, I was nervous as hell. Since I came at the Manor, I don't think I saw Lucius more than an hour in total and we never spoke. But I knew that his wife urged him to speak with me and just try and give me a chance. Even though I didn't know what he had to hide with such fervor, I didn't bring up the subject. I met Draco at the bottom of the stairs. He was wearing a black suit that really accentuated his pale skin and pale blond hair. I coul see the lines of forms and spots of color on his arms, crawling up his wrist. He was home and didn't need to hide them anymore. I, on the other side, had my sleeves glued to my skin. I didn't need to see the designs on his forearms. They would probably make me even more nervous than I already was.

"Relax, he's not going to eat you alive." He smirked.

"I guess so." The shadow of a smile spread across my face.

We entered the dining room where, at a huge table Lucius was seated at one end, with his wife at his right.

"It's only appropriate that the guest sits next to the head of the house" Lucius stated rather coldly, motioning towards the seat on his left. I sat with Draco next to me and an awkward silence fell upon us. Soon, Zaka came in with the food, and it almost looked like a Hogwarts feast. But my hopes at a silent dinner where I wouldn't have to speak were soon broken by Lucius.

"So, Selene, what are your parents doing in the Muggle world?" I froze but didn't let it show on my features.

"Well, my mother is a doctor, like a muggle Healer and my father is a lawyer."

"Hmm, interesting. When he was little, Draco wanted to be a Healer too. And you? What do you want to do after graduating?" Truth be told, I didn't even know if I'll survive the war that was bound to happen maybe even before we finnished Hogwarts, so I never thought of it.

"Well, sir, I actually didn't think about that. Maybe at some point we'll have a carrer orientation class or something like the ones in the Muggle world. Nevertheless, I still have a lot of time to think of it."

"Perhaps you're right. How does Hogwarts seem so far? And what about our world?" his words were dripping with pride, certainly from being a pureblood and things like that. But I pretended not to notice that.

"Well, Hogwarts is magnificent as well as the wizarding world. I can't help it but be excited to learn so many wonderful spells and magic, and of course, history of the wizarding families. " that seemed to catch his interest.

"Wizarding families you say?"

"Well, yes. I'm especially interested by the concept of the sacred 28. And I'm still learning about all of this traditions and phenomenons occuring only in the wizarding world."

"Interesting. Speaking of wizarding phenomenons, have you read about soulmates yet?" I wasn't sure I liked where this conversation was going.

"Well, yes sir. But are they really only possible in the wizarding world?" that was a sincere question, out of pure interest.

"Well, yes. Speaking of which, my son here has a rare powerful example of soulmate connection. Draco." He extended his hand towards his son who had apparently been in this situation before because he rolled both his sleeves up to his elbows. Oh, God, his forearms had spots of light blue, purple, black, and why the hell was I happy?!?

"Oh, well, that's an interesting combination you have there son, your girl is certainly in a strange situation and-" his eyes suddenly moved to the white outlined peacock on Dracos upper left forearm.

"when did that happen?"

"What?" Draco seemed confused

"When did forms start to appear as well?"

"Sometime in first year. Why?"

"That is a sign of evolution of the connection with your soulmate. Probably happened the moment you met her. I for one would like if the Parkinson girl was it."

"Now, Lucius, maybe she's not someone we know." Narcissa entered the conversation. If only he knew…Her husband gave her a weird look and resumed his dinner.

Later that night, Narcissa was helping me get all the bobby pins out of my hair.

"Oh, God, I never restrained my magic so much." I groaned and finally let go of my magic, my sleeves unglueing and my hair growing wild after three hours of not being able to do anything. I collapsed on my bed, not wanting to move another muscle in the next 10 hours.

"Oh, dear, you were great there.." Narcissa smiled.

"What do you mean?" my words were muffled my the pillow I had my face sunk in.

"You're getting under his skin."

"Why was he so happy about the strength of the soulmate connection? No offense, but he really doesn't seem the type to get excited about romantic things."

"Oh, he's not. He's just excited about what it means."

"And what is that?" I felt really bad. I was supposed to know more about this kind of things.

"Well, for a connection to be this strong, both people have to be really powerful. To have a really powerful magical core. And he's very proud of Draco for having such abilities and for being destined to have such a witch by his side."

"Oh, ok. Thanks."

"No problem dear. No go to sleep, I know how exhausting being in the presence of Lucius can be."

"Ok, goodnight." I said as she exited the room, closing the lights behind her.

I fell into a dreamless sleep again, but at least I knew I was closer to assembling the puzzle that Lucius Malfoy consisted of.

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