Title: Bad Faith
Author name: badfaith
Chapter: 3/?
Author email: anna@tomfelton.zzn.com
Author website: http://www.undisgusied.net and http://nightfall.undisguised.net
Category: Angst
Sub Category: Drama
Rating: R
Summary: Draco Malfoy learned a few things he didn't want to know, and as a result he is plunged into a war. Will Harry Potter be able to save him before it's too late? Or will Harry learn things that might condemn Draco to death?
DISCLAIMER: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. The plot and title are mine, though!
Warning: This story contains slash, which is a boy-boy relationship. If that's not your cup o' tea, I suggested you find some that is, or you'll miss your teatime.
Chapter Three
Conversations With A Stranger
Armed with this realization of his fate, Draco quickly slipped on the cloak, sensually aware of the cold silk soothing the old and new wounds on his back and arms. Protected with knowledge, Draco left his room and headed towards his father's study.
Walking down the richly ornamented, but rarely used decorative hallway; Draco glanced at the Malfoy ancestors. Morgan Malfoy was a great prophetess, who had almost succeeded the Great Prophetess Cassandra herself in greatness -- predicting the fall of Rome. There was Artemis Malfoy, a famous scientist who had discovered how to make anything into gold with a spell. (Draco wasn't sure if he was a disgrace or not; Absent-minded as the scientist was.) Lastly, Draco's eyes fell on the greatest scandal the Malfoy's, and the wizarding world, had ever seen. Adrian Malfoy, an aspiring, handsome young wizard, Head Boy, and Prefect ('going somewhere' friends used to say) Had done the unspeakable. Adrian had fallen in love with his sister. Unable to deal with the horrible truth, he had flown away, never to be heard from again. But, unknowingly, Adrian had left his sister with child. Horrified, (when they found out who the baby's father was, mind you) the Malfoy's had cast her out of the house, and had taken away her title. Filled with grief, the girl had given birth to the child, and cast herself off a cliff. No one knew what had happened to the child. Draco mused that if the girl had taken the trouble to deliver it, then it had probably lived. Smirking, Draco thought, That's the Malfoy legacy for you.
With stark horror, Draco found that he had reached the study in short time. Taking a deep breath, he opened the wooden door. His father, Lucius Malfoy, was standing in the middle of the slightly freezing room.
"Father." Draco inclined his head towards his father in acknowledgment that he was there.
"Draco. I see you made it here early. I assume that you already know what I have planned for you tonight?" Lucius asked his son. Draco confirmed his father's assumption with a nod of his head.
"Yes, Father." Draco answered firmly.
"Good, good."