Chapter 15: Lucius and Nilam
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Thanks: Callisto Star, Rebecca, glory, Draco-luver, blueberry girl, BlueStariNight88, kai kai, Draco'sAmericanGirl, and Emma (thanks for pointing out that ergh little mistake. Yeah.)
A/N: Are you ready for a LONG chapter? I hope so! Enjoy it!!!! (Most of it is flashback though...)
Hermione was stunned for a few moments. She stared at Draco, and he stared right back at her. Hermione did not know what to say to him. Was Nilam really Lucius's brother? Lucius really liked killing off his own family, the insane bastard.
Hermione continued to stare, as Draco slowly began to speak to her, "Hermione, can we talk for awhile? Please? I do not feel that lunch is really important. I would like to speak to you instead."
Hermione could sense the worry and horror in Draco's voice, and she could not refuse talking to him. "Sure you can talk to me. Anytime. You do not even need to ask me that."
Draco nodded, and said, "Come on. Lets head outside. I believe pretty much all of the students are at lunch now, so this would be a good time to chat in private. Lets go."
Hermione and Draco walked out of Beauxbatons together in absolute silence. Hermione began to feel guilty as she walked alongside of Draco. She should not have said Nilam's name. Hermione was sure that Draco did not want to hear about any more deaths in his family, for there had been many. But then again maybe it was important Draco should know about his own uncle's murder.
Hermione shivered when they walked outside together. It was now the end of November, and it was extremely cold outside. Much colder then it had been during the past few weeks.
Draco noticed Hermione was shivering, and he handed her his cloak, "Here. You look pretty cold."
Hermione smiled thankfully, but she said, "But Draco? Won't you be cold?"
"Nah! I will be fine. Here take the cloak, and do not argue."
Hermione wrapped the warm cloak around her and the two continued walking away from the tall white castle of Beauxbatons. Hermione saw the North Tower and shuddered despite the soft warm cloak that she had wrapped around her. How did Draco survive the fall? Hermione sighed deeply. She would never know the answer to that question.
"Here we go. Lets sit down." Draco said softly.
Hermione nodded, and sat on the bench that Draco was pointing at. Draco sat next to her, and wrapped his arm around her shoulder.
Hermione snuggled against him, and felt content. Draco sighed, and muttered, "Why things be simple anymore? I just do not understand this power hungry nonsense."
Hermione did not know what to say, so she did not say anything. "It's absolute rubbish." Draco continued, "That people like my father value power and money over the important things in life."
Hermione sighed and slowly nodded. She totally understood what Draco was saying. Lucius only cared about his power, and nothing more then that. Hermione felt herself say, "Draco. I understand. I really do know what you are saying to me."
Draco smiled, "Would you like to hear a story?"
Hermione nodded, "Sure thing."
"This was what I found out from various people in my family, including my father who added in his bullshit, and I basically pieced this story all together." Draco said, "Well, you're going to be here for awhile. Ready?"
~*~*~*~FLASHBACK~*~*~*~
The sky was a dark gray it looked like it was about to pour buckets of rain. Hogwarts appeared to be almost ghostly against the gray stormy night sky. It was hard to believe that this creepy forbidding looking castle was a wizard school for students.
Nilam Malfoy was in his seventh and final year. He was so proud of himself for everything that he had accomplished this year. He had managed to be the captain of the Slytherin Quidditch Team, and he was Head Boy. Nilam was a Malfoy and a Slytherin, but everyone at Hogwarts loved him. He was like the ideal student and everyone looked up to him, and wanted to be like him. Except for his own brother Lucius. Lucius was in his fifth year at the time and he was extremely jealous of Nilam and his many achievements.
Nilam frowned. Lucius and him were never ever close. They were always competing over nonsense. Nilam really truly cared about Lucius, but Lucius never knew that.
Nilam shrugged, and decided not to think about Lucius. Nilam was walking back from his Quidditch practice, and felt that his team was very well prepared to take on the Hufflepuff team. Nilam laughed to himself. The Hufflepuffs weren't too bad, even though they were a little bit clueless.
Nilam grinned as he entered Hogwarts. He did not want it to rain. He hated the rain with a passion. He just wanted to be nice and dry inside the school instead of being drenched with raindrops.
As Nilam walked down the hallway, and couldn't help but see four boys standing together out of the corner of his eye. They were James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. They were always hanging out together, and could not be separated. Nilam sighed. Even though he was admired, Nilam always wanted a close friend to confide in. He did have Lucius as a brother, but you could never confide in Lucius.
Nilam slowly walked past the group of boys and into the Slytherin common room to see how everyone was. All of the Slytherins seemed pretty comfortable and were all chatting with each other. Nilam however shivered ~ Damn it's cold in here. I wish these dungeons were a little bit warmer. ~
Nilam looked up and saw Lucius sitting on one of the green couches by himself. Lucius seemed to be watching his crush Narcissa out of the corner of his eye. Nilam sighed, and approached him, "Are you enjoying your fifth year Lucius?"
Lucius narrowed his gray eyes at Nilam, "Of course I am thoroughly enjoying it, Nilam. Did I tell you that I am not a prefect this year even though I sorely wanted to be one? It is just not fair! How come you so perfect, Nilam!"
Nilam was shocked, and Narcissa glared from across the room, "Please Lucius! You are so uptight about your brother all the time. How about you back off?"
"No one asked you." Lucius muttered harshly, "How about you leave us alone Narcissa?"
Narcissa walked away from her group of Slytherin girls, and went over to Lucius and Nilam. Narcissa was the most beautiful girl in the fifth year. All of the boys had a crush on her, including Lucius but he dare not show it.
Narcissa smiled showing all of her white teeth, "I was actually going to talk to Nilam. There is something I would like to ask him that is very important."
Lucius flushed, "Is that so? Well, I will let you talk to Mr. Perfect I suppose. I am leaving. Good bye."
Nilam shook his head, and tried hard not to laugh, "Lucius, it is not like I am dating your crush. She just wants to talk to me."
Lucius blushed a bright red and Narcissa giggled, "AW! That is so cute! I would have ergh never guessed someone as cold hearted as yourself Lucius would have a crush on me."
Nilam and Narcissa burst up laughing but Lucius was pissed. He glared and headed toward the exit of the common room. Nilam sighed in between laughing, "That temper is going to get you into deep trouble one of these days Lucius."
Lucius did not care about his temper and he did not care if Narcissa was standing right there. Lucius decided to take this moment to lash out at Nilam. "You stupid idiot! I hate you! One day I will have my revenge on your perfection and everyone like you!"
Narcissa stopped laughing and put on a big frown, "LUCIUS! That is not very nice, DARLING! You ought to apologize right now."
Lucius rolled his eyes, "I will say sorry to Mr. Perfect later."
Lucius spun around and left the common room before Nilam had the chance to stop him. Lucius stormed down the dark halls of Hogwarts angrily. Now Nilam gave away whom he liked for all five years that he was at Hogwarts. He had been sure to keep his massive crush on Narcissa a secret. Now, Nilam had to blow it in front of all of the other Slytherins.
Lucius suddenly sneered. He noticed that his worse enemies were before him: James, Peter, Sirius, and Remus. Peter gulped at the sight of Lucius, and hid behind Remus. Lucius sneered, "What is the matter with you, Pettigrew? Are you scared of me?"
Sirius glared, "Go away Malfoy. We are not in the mood for your ridiculous nonsense right now. Can you kindly sod off?"
Lucius laughed, "Don't you guys ever stop hanging out with each other? I mean, you remind me of overly obsessive pals."
James glared, "Grow up Malfoy. We all know you have no friends so do not worry. Even your own brother hates you."
This remark caused the group of boys to laugh, and caused Lucius to get even more furious. Lucius gave them one evil glare, and continued walking down the hallway. He hated Potter and his little 'groupies'. All they did was annoy the hell out of people, especially the Slytherins. "Damn them" Lucius muttered.
Lucius continued walking until he was in a part of Hogwarts that he did not recognize, and had never seen before. Lucius felt weird. It was that feeling one gets when somebody is watching you. Lucius shrugged, "I probably took a wrong turn. That's all."
Suddenly Lucius heard a cold voice that said, "If you did take a wrong turn, then it is a mistake that will change your life."
Lucius spun around frantically, and saw a hooded figure standing before him. Lucius stared with shock, and shook his head, "Who are you?"
"I am Tom. It is a pleasure to meet you Lucius." The figure said, while twirling his wand.
Lucius gasped with surprise, "How do you-"
"I know everyone who is worthy of power Lucius," Tom sneered, "I hope you know that. I see you have had problems with the 'lesser' Malfoy."
"You mean Nilam?" Lucius asked.
"That is EXACTLY who I mean!" Tom said menacingly, "Don't you think he is well, too perfect for his own good. He is taking the Malfoy glory away from you Lucius. You have to do something about it. Like taking the perfection away from him permanently."
Lucius stared at Tom and actually thought aloud something he would never think to say, "But isn't that evil?"
Tom threw back his hooded head into a malice filled laugh. Lucius gasped again and for a second thought that somebody was going to hear what was going on. But nobody came. Tom suddenly ceased laughing and stared at Lucius. Lucius felt as though Tom was staring into his very soul.
Tom said in a steady voice, "Lucius Malfoy, there is not such thing as evilness, and there is no such thing as goodness. There is only power. Power that you can achieve to become great, and well known. Think about it. You can be great, and be higher then Nilam ever will be. Do you want this power?"
Lucius felt himself sneering that sneer that he was so well known for. He said to Tom, "Yes, I want this power."
~*~*~*~END OF FLASHBACK~*~*~*~
Hermione was stunned. All she could think was ~ Lucius is such an evil man. He is so power hungry and terrible. ~
Draco stared Hermione up and down, "Well, what do you think of that?"
"How did you know all of this?" Hermione asked curiously.
"Well, I did read my father's school journal." Draco admitted to Hermione.
Hermione shook her head, and wrapped the cloak around her tightly. The two sat in silence for a few moments until Draco spoke again, "Nilam came to warn me about something, and Lucius has murdered him. Lucius swore to get revenge on his brother for always outdoing him, and he got his revenge."
Hermione felt tears well up in her eyes. She clung onto Draco tightly, and said softly, "Lucius is awful. He killed his own brother, and he killed Jewel."
Draco sighed, "Lucius always thought that Jewel resembled Nilam. That is why he could not stand her. I remember when she was living her happy life that Lucius would always exclude her from practically everything we did. Poor Jewel."
"Poor Jewel." Hermione repeated, "And poor Nilam too."
Draco sighed, and said, "All Lucius cares about is power. The same with Voldemort. I can only hope everything works out okay in the end."
Hermione nodded, and put on the most determined expression on her face, "Lucius was responsible for killing our kind headmaster Dumbledore, he murdered a loving person like Jewel, and he killed his own brother, Nilam. We must stop him from killing anyone else! We must save Blaise before she becomes another one of his victims of power."
Well, I hoped you enjoyed that. It's a lot for you to take in, but I thought it was a chapter well worth the read ^_^
~*Sophiebabe
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Thanks: Callisto Star, Rebecca, glory, Draco-luver, blueberry girl, BlueStariNight88, kai kai, Draco'sAmericanGirl, and Emma (thanks for pointing out that ergh little mistake. Yeah.)
A/N: Are you ready for a LONG chapter? I hope so! Enjoy it!!!! (Most of it is flashback though...)
Hermione was stunned for a few moments. She stared at Draco, and he stared right back at her. Hermione did not know what to say to him. Was Nilam really Lucius's brother? Lucius really liked killing off his own family, the insane bastard.
Hermione continued to stare, as Draco slowly began to speak to her, "Hermione, can we talk for awhile? Please? I do not feel that lunch is really important. I would like to speak to you instead."
Hermione could sense the worry and horror in Draco's voice, and she could not refuse talking to him. "Sure you can talk to me. Anytime. You do not even need to ask me that."
Draco nodded, and said, "Come on. Lets head outside. I believe pretty much all of the students are at lunch now, so this would be a good time to chat in private. Lets go."
Hermione and Draco walked out of Beauxbatons together in absolute silence. Hermione began to feel guilty as she walked alongside of Draco. She should not have said Nilam's name. Hermione was sure that Draco did not want to hear about any more deaths in his family, for there had been many. But then again maybe it was important Draco should know about his own uncle's murder.
Hermione shivered when they walked outside together. It was now the end of November, and it was extremely cold outside. Much colder then it had been during the past few weeks.
Draco noticed Hermione was shivering, and he handed her his cloak, "Here. You look pretty cold."
Hermione smiled thankfully, but she said, "But Draco? Won't you be cold?"
"Nah! I will be fine. Here take the cloak, and do not argue."
Hermione wrapped the warm cloak around her and the two continued walking away from the tall white castle of Beauxbatons. Hermione saw the North Tower and shuddered despite the soft warm cloak that she had wrapped around her. How did Draco survive the fall? Hermione sighed deeply. She would never know the answer to that question.
"Here we go. Lets sit down." Draco said softly.
Hermione nodded, and sat on the bench that Draco was pointing at. Draco sat next to her, and wrapped his arm around her shoulder.
Hermione snuggled against him, and felt content. Draco sighed, and muttered, "Why things be simple anymore? I just do not understand this power hungry nonsense."
Hermione did not know what to say, so she did not say anything. "It's absolute rubbish." Draco continued, "That people like my father value power and money over the important things in life."
Hermione sighed and slowly nodded. She totally understood what Draco was saying. Lucius only cared about his power, and nothing more then that. Hermione felt herself say, "Draco. I understand. I really do know what you are saying to me."
Draco smiled, "Would you like to hear a story?"
Hermione nodded, "Sure thing."
"This was what I found out from various people in my family, including my father who added in his bullshit, and I basically pieced this story all together." Draco said, "Well, you're going to be here for awhile. Ready?"
~*~*~*~FLASHBACK~*~*~*~
The sky was a dark gray it looked like it was about to pour buckets of rain. Hogwarts appeared to be almost ghostly against the gray stormy night sky. It was hard to believe that this creepy forbidding looking castle was a wizard school for students.
Nilam Malfoy was in his seventh and final year. He was so proud of himself for everything that he had accomplished this year. He had managed to be the captain of the Slytherin Quidditch Team, and he was Head Boy. Nilam was a Malfoy and a Slytherin, but everyone at Hogwarts loved him. He was like the ideal student and everyone looked up to him, and wanted to be like him. Except for his own brother Lucius. Lucius was in his fifth year at the time and he was extremely jealous of Nilam and his many achievements.
Nilam frowned. Lucius and him were never ever close. They were always competing over nonsense. Nilam really truly cared about Lucius, but Lucius never knew that.
Nilam shrugged, and decided not to think about Lucius. Nilam was walking back from his Quidditch practice, and felt that his team was very well prepared to take on the Hufflepuff team. Nilam laughed to himself. The Hufflepuffs weren't too bad, even though they were a little bit clueless.
Nilam grinned as he entered Hogwarts. He did not want it to rain. He hated the rain with a passion. He just wanted to be nice and dry inside the school instead of being drenched with raindrops.
As Nilam walked down the hallway, and couldn't help but see four boys standing together out of the corner of his eye. They were James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. They were always hanging out together, and could not be separated. Nilam sighed. Even though he was admired, Nilam always wanted a close friend to confide in. He did have Lucius as a brother, but you could never confide in Lucius.
Nilam slowly walked past the group of boys and into the Slytherin common room to see how everyone was. All of the Slytherins seemed pretty comfortable and were all chatting with each other. Nilam however shivered ~ Damn it's cold in here. I wish these dungeons were a little bit warmer. ~
Nilam looked up and saw Lucius sitting on one of the green couches by himself. Lucius seemed to be watching his crush Narcissa out of the corner of his eye. Nilam sighed, and approached him, "Are you enjoying your fifth year Lucius?"
Lucius narrowed his gray eyes at Nilam, "Of course I am thoroughly enjoying it, Nilam. Did I tell you that I am not a prefect this year even though I sorely wanted to be one? It is just not fair! How come you so perfect, Nilam!"
Nilam was shocked, and Narcissa glared from across the room, "Please Lucius! You are so uptight about your brother all the time. How about you back off?"
"No one asked you." Lucius muttered harshly, "How about you leave us alone Narcissa?"
Narcissa walked away from her group of Slytherin girls, and went over to Lucius and Nilam. Narcissa was the most beautiful girl in the fifth year. All of the boys had a crush on her, including Lucius but he dare not show it.
Narcissa smiled showing all of her white teeth, "I was actually going to talk to Nilam. There is something I would like to ask him that is very important."
Lucius flushed, "Is that so? Well, I will let you talk to Mr. Perfect I suppose. I am leaving. Good bye."
Nilam shook his head, and tried hard not to laugh, "Lucius, it is not like I am dating your crush. She just wants to talk to me."
Lucius blushed a bright red and Narcissa giggled, "AW! That is so cute! I would have ergh never guessed someone as cold hearted as yourself Lucius would have a crush on me."
Nilam and Narcissa burst up laughing but Lucius was pissed. He glared and headed toward the exit of the common room. Nilam sighed in between laughing, "That temper is going to get you into deep trouble one of these days Lucius."
Lucius did not care about his temper and he did not care if Narcissa was standing right there. Lucius decided to take this moment to lash out at Nilam. "You stupid idiot! I hate you! One day I will have my revenge on your perfection and everyone like you!"
Narcissa stopped laughing and put on a big frown, "LUCIUS! That is not very nice, DARLING! You ought to apologize right now."
Lucius rolled his eyes, "I will say sorry to Mr. Perfect later."
Lucius spun around and left the common room before Nilam had the chance to stop him. Lucius stormed down the dark halls of Hogwarts angrily. Now Nilam gave away whom he liked for all five years that he was at Hogwarts. He had been sure to keep his massive crush on Narcissa a secret. Now, Nilam had to blow it in front of all of the other Slytherins.
Lucius suddenly sneered. He noticed that his worse enemies were before him: James, Peter, Sirius, and Remus. Peter gulped at the sight of Lucius, and hid behind Remus. Lucius sneered, "What is the matter with you, Pettigrew? Are you scared of me?"
Sirius glared, "Go away Malfoy. We are not in the mood for your ridiculous nonsense right now. Can you kindly sod off?"
Lucius laughed, "Don't you guys ever stop hanging out with each other? I mean, you remind me of overly obsessive pals."
James glared, "Grow up Malfoy. We all know you have no friends so do not worry. Even your own brother hates you."
This remark caused the group of boys to laugh, and caused Lucius to get even more furious. Lucius gave them one evil glare, and continued walking down the hallway. He hated Potter and his little 'groupies'. All they did was annoy the hell out of people, especially the Slytherins. "Damn them" Lucius muttered.
Lucius continued walking until he was in a part of Hogwarts that he did not recognize, and had never seen before. Lucius felt weird. It was that feeling one gets when somebody is watching you. Lucius shrugged, "I probably took a wrong turn. That's all."
Suddenly Lucius heard a cold voice that said, "If you did take a wrong turn, then it is a mistake that will change your life."
Lucius spun around frantically, and saw a hooded figure standing before him. Lucius stared with shock, and shook his head, "Who are you?"
"I am Tom. It is a pleasure to meet you Lucius." The figure said, while twirling his wand.
Lucius gasped with surprise, "How do you-"
"I know everyone who is worthy of power Lucius," Tom sneered, "I hope you know that. I see you have had problems with the 'lesser' Malfoy."
"You mean Nilam?" Lucius asked.
"That is EXACTLY who I mean!" Tom said menacingly, "Don't you think he is well, too perfect for his own good. He is taking the Malfoy glory away from you Lucius. You have to do something about it. Like taking the perfection away from him permanently."
Lucius stared at Tom and actually thought aloud something he would never think to say, "But isn't that evil?"
Tom threw back his hooded head into a malice filled laugh. Lucius gasped again and for a second thought that somebody was going to hear what was going on. But nobody came. Tom suddenly ceased laughing and stared at Lucius. Lucius felt as though Tom was staring into his very soul.
Tom said in a steady voice, "Lucius Malfoy, there is not such thing as evilness, and there is no such thing as goodness. There is only power. Power that you can achieve to become great, and well known. Think about it. You can be great, and be higher then Nilam ever will be. Do you want this power?"
Lucius felt himself sneering that sneer that he was so well known for. He said to Tom, "Yes, I want this power."
~*~*~*~END OF FLASHBACK~*~*~*~
Hermione was stunned. All she could think was ~ Lucius is such an evil man. He is so power hungry and terrible. ~
Draco stared Hermione up and down, "Well, what do you think of that?"
"How did you know all of this?" Hermione asked curiously.
"Well, I did read my father's school journal." Draco admitted to Hermione.
Hermione shook her head, and wrapped the cloak around her tightly. The two sat in silence for a few moments until Draco spoke again, "Nilam came to warn me about something, and Lucius has murdered him. Lucius swore to get revenge on his brother for always outdoing him, and he got his revenge."
Hermione felt tears well up in her eyes. She clung onto Draco tightly, and said softly, "Lucius is awful. He killed his own brother, and he killed Jewel."
Draco sighed, "Lucius always thought that Jewel resembled Nilam. That is why he could not stand her. I remember when she was living her happy life that Lucius would always exclude her from practically everything we did. Poor Jewel."
"Poor Jewel." Hermione repeated, "And poor Nilam too."
Draco sighed, and said, "All Lucius cares about is power. The same with Voldemort. I can only hope everything works out okay in the end."
Hermione nodded, and put on the most determined expression on her face, "Lucius was responsible for killing our kind headmaster Dumbledore, he murdered a loving person like Jewel, and he killed his own brother, Nilam. We must stop him from killing anyone else! We must save Blaise before she becomes another one of his victims of power."
Well, I hoped you enjoyed that. It's a lot for you to take in, but I thought it was a chapter well worth the read ^_^
~*Sophiebabe