Author's Note: Uh…when I wrote the first chapter, I didn't mean there to be a second one. I guess I gave everyone the wrong impression. You see, I stopped writing chapters because I am the absolute worst when it comes to updating. So I only wrote the first chapter thinking that was it. Lucky you.
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"Good Evening Severus." Lucius said handing the professor a wine glass. "I'm so glad you came…."
"I was not as busy as expected." Snape said helping himself to the drink. In all honestly he needed it. Snape was beginning to think that the party was for Death Eaters when he saw a few grim, old classmates hanging outside the Malfoy's Mansion.
"I would like it if you sat next to me at dinner." Lucius said carelessly.
Snape drank the alcohol faster. There were all kinds of bad that could be interpreted in that sentence. The sudden favor from a Malfoy was dangerous, however, Snape did not detect any hostility behind the statement, which worried him. However, Snape remained calm and collected.
"Draco has been telling me so many things about you. I've always known you were just the sort that I wanted my son to learn from. I admit I'm not home enough to be a proper example of the man I want my son to grow into." Lucius said to Snape while smiling and greeting other people around the house. "Although, I have to talk to you about something very important in private."
"Be careful of the flatterer." Was the only thing that echoed through Snape's mind as Lucius led him into an empty room.
"You know
what I admire about you Severus?" Lucius said now they were alone in what
looked like a library.
"I haven't the slightest clue
Lucius." Snape said cursing himself for not bringing his wand.
"You're not a suck up. Do you know how many wizard families there are that would just kill to get my favor? They practically grovel at my feet. It's such a pathetic thing to watch. You've never put me in that position Severus. I've never seen you as weak."
Snape noted that Malfoy was smiling, but not very pleasantly.
"Is he threatening me? Or is he really complementing me?" Snape thought. "DAMN MALFOY'S!!! WHAT DOES HE WANT ME TO SAY!?!?!"
"However…you are a true Slytherin. I know you have been lying to me. I'll leave it up to you to tell me the truth." Lucius said sitting on a desk.
"He's playing a game with me." Snape thought to himself. He'd seen Draco act just like this to Potter a couple of times. Thank goodness the wine had not made Snape dim-witted, he had experience in manipulation also.
"Oh Lucius, I'm happy I could be the one to clear up your misunderstanding." Snape said with a smirk on his face.
"I'm so glad. Please don't leave out any details."
Snape did not panic. There were only two things that Lucius could have thought he was lying about: Draco or his loyalty to Voldemort.
" I didn't want to embarrass the boy and I promised I would not tell you the real reason he was upset." Snape said. "However, you need not worry because I am helping him through it. Undoubtly you have the same silky white skin that Draco has. I didn't think that the rash idea would work very long, especially since it is easy to see that no rash could possibly touch a Malfoy."
Lucius burst into one of those unpleasant smiles.
"Thank you Severus, that was all I wanted to know. It's amazing what one can find out if you ask someone the simple truth. You would be surprised how many people I've talk to that nearly collapse into pieces."
"I can only imagine." Snape thought.
"I hope you enjoy yourself. I have some business to attend to, I'll see you at dinner."
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Snape leaned on the stone wall that surrounded the garden. He didn't even know that so many pureblood wizard aristocrats existed, but there they were in the Malfoy's house, garden, libraries, kitchen, dining room, ballroom- Malfoy couldn't have known that many people. They were all drinking and eating light snacks as they socialized. Snape hated socializing and grew bored. If it wasn't for Lucius and the wine, he'd of left already.
Snape checked his watch.
"Ten minutes until dinner. Who knows what they've killed and cooked tonight." Snape said to himself grimly. He thought of how skinny Draco was and wondered what his diet was when he was not at Hogwarts. "Things could have gone worse…." He said drinking the bottom of his third glass of wine.
There was a long table in the dining room that had forty chairs; nineteen on each side. Lucius was sitting at the end drinking; Draco was sitting on the end of the right side of the table. Snape noticed there was a nametag on all the plates.
Most everyone was seated and Snape walked steadily to his seat giving Draco a small bow of acknowledgement. Draco, Snape noticed, was also drinking a glass of wine.
"Dinner will be ready shortly." Lucius said. "Would you like some more wine?"
"No, I already had three glasses." Said Snape staring at all the silverware. He was trying to remember how to use them all. "That's a lot of eating utensils. How many courses are we having?"
"The best way to remember what you use is to know that we always use the outside silverware and work our way in. And the desert fork is always the one placed above your plate." Draco said. Lucius smirked at Snape and raised an eyebrow as to say "Well look at that, the boy know's how to eat".
"I think I'll be having that drink now." Snape said in return of Lucius' gesture.
Servants were bringing food to the table and my goodness; there was a lot of food. Snape noted not to eat at all before he was invited to the Malfoy's estate for dinner.
"Have you ever tried Griffin Professor?" Draco said as a servant put a slab of meat on Snape's plate. The professor could not hide how immensely amused he was.
"Griffin? We're eating Griffin?" Snape asked with a smile. "Why no, I've never tried it. But I'm looking forward to it."
Griffin meat proved to be a tender and very easy meat to swallow.
"Those stupid Gryffindor git's would cry if they knew half the dumb animals we cook here every week." Draco said absorbed in his gleeful malice. "Don't you think we have a better chance to win the House Cup this year?"
"Of course. I am making sure that the Headmaster knows that no more points can be given to Potter for the sake of favoritism." Snape said.
"My third year was so bogus, when he gave Gryffindor all those points after we won!" Draco said sneering.
Lucius was too busy cutting up his meat into tiny squares to participate in the conversation. Snape guessed his perfect teeth were better for showing off then grinding.
"How am I supposed to cut with a dull knife- who was in charge of sharpening the knives?" Lucius was muttering to himself, cutting with a perfectly sharp knife.
The night really went by smoothly. Draco got really sleepy after his second glass of wine and went to bed after dinner. Lucius had not talked to Snape during dinner, except to complement him on his leadership skills in Slytherin. However, Lucius had invited Snape over again on the weekend. Snape felt a bit uncomfortable at the openness that Lucius expressed to him. If Lucius was still a Death Eater…. Snape didn't want to think about the sort of things Lucius was trying to get him into.
Snape remembered Lucius' parting words to him, " I want you to come over. We can talk, and I want to show you something."
"Those words could mean so many different things." Snape thought. He only hoped they weren't bad…
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Authors Note: Like everything I write, I wrote this chapter not knowing what I was going to write. I don't even know what's going to happen next. I suppose you've trapped me into writing another chapter. But actually this is interesting enough that I will feel like writing one. Sorry there wasn't a lot of Draco, but I promise the next chapter will have more Draco then Lucius. That is if you like the way things are going now and don't care…