CHAPTER TWO
It was close to midnight, where everyone in Malfoy Manor was asleep. When Draco and Hermione felt someone trying to get through the manor's wards. He sat up, grabbed his wand from the night stand as she did the same. They looked at each other for a moment. All the love and fear conveyed in that moment of eye contact between the couple. Hermione ran to the closet to grab the twins bags she had prepared for them. "Go to the twins. I'll alert Potter." Said Draco as he ran out of the room only looking for a moment into their kids bedroom.
Hermione shook the twins awake," Scorp. Cass. Wake up loves." She peeled away their blankets from them. "What's going on?" Asked scorpious sitting up rubbing the sleep from his eyes. "You both need to head to the safe room. Now." Hermione handed her son his bag. Cassiopeia finally got out of bed and ran towards her mother. Bringing her into a hug. "It will be okay love. Remember what I told you." Hermione patted her daughter's back and broke away from the hug. "You need to go."
The twins took their bags and nodded. Hermione kissed the top of their head. "We love you, be safe." They walked out of the room and watched her kids head towards the Malfoy Library.
Once she saw them close the door behind them she took a deep breath and gripped her wand tightly. She felt the wards go down and heard the disturbing cackle and the first of many curses being thrown. She ran downstairs to her husbands side.
Hermione and Draco created the safe room in the back corner of the Malfoy Library for emergencies. They hope to never use it or just modify it into another room for different use. But tonight it was just what the teens needed. It was just a room where only specific people can apparate in and out of. It was a also a hiding place. Undetectable unless you knew what you were looking for.
The twins walked into the library. They went up to the back corner wall. Cassiopeia waved her wand," Scorpious Hyperion and Cassiopeia Narcissa Malfoy." A wooden door appeared in the wall with the Malfoy Family Crest engraved on the front. The room recognized them. Scorpious opened the heavy wooden door and they walked into the room.
It was the size of a small bedroom. It had a black leather couch with matching settees on either side and a mahogany coffee table in the center.
"Now what?" Scorpious sighed, setting his bag down by his feet as he sat down on one of the settees. "We wait for the others." Cassiopeia didn't bother to sit down. She was scared. "They'll be okay Cass. They've done this before." Scorpious pulled his sister down towards the couch. Grasping her hand and squeezing it gently. "How do you know? How do you know if they will survive this war as well?" Cassiopeia was shaking now. Suddenly 3 cracks rang through the room.
"Cass, are you alright?!." Asked James Potter as he let go of his brother Albus's arm. Cassiopeia looked up and smiled," I'm fine Jamie."
"Where are Aunt Daphne and Uncle Harry?" Asked Scorpious. "They are with the our parents." Answered Alex Zabini.
"We should go. They don't want us to worry about them." Said Theo Nott III
His sister Althea Nott nodded, "Do you have what we need?" She asked looking at Scorpious. He nodded.
"Gather up everyone. Cass has to put the chain around all of us." Scorpious grabbed Althea and Cassiopeia's arms to pull them close. James, Albus, Theo and Alex joined them. Taking a deep breath, "Ok ready?" Cassiopeia looked at the people around her. She considered them family. She turned the dial 5 times.
A great gust of wind swept up from under them and a bright white flash blinded them. At what felt like an hour they finally felt the the wind come to a sudden stop and opened their eyes.
They were facing a fancy wooden desk with an even fancier high back chair that looked uncomfortable. On the desk were parchment, quills and tombs scattered as if someone were looking for something. The moving portraits behind the desk looked at them curiously. Two in particular watching them in amusement with a twinkle of blue eyes behind half moon glasses and the other a scowl.
"Hogwarts." Alex whispered as he looked around the room seeing nothing different from before. "The Headmaster's office. Did it work?" Asked Althea wondering if it just transported them back to school.
Just then the door to the office swung open. In came a Witch with green and black robes, with a stern face. Her greying hair pulled back in a tight bun. The teens faced the head mistress.
"Professor McGonagall."
