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{|By Koi|}
I'm so sorry this took so long. I just got home (boring vacation) and I started to type ASAP. I hope everyone had a Happy New Year!
This chapter is dedicated to Christina, who sent me a really cool Christmas card (sorry again that I couldn't send one back)
And to D-chan: I love your fan fictions. Not only your HP/SM, but your fic 'Damned, Cursed, and Loved' is one of my favorites. Along with ALL the others!!!
Also: I made a boo-boo earlier in the fic, which I'll do my best to correct in this chapter. As it was pointed out, I said Lucius (Draco's brother) was about 19 when he would have to be like 34 or so years old. I'm gonna try to fix that, but he IS supposed to be 19.
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Previously:
She quickly corrected that last thought. It wasn't quite empty. Leaned against the wall, watching her with narrowed eyes, was a person she knew far too well.
"Well, well." The person said. He laughed softly. "Look's like my trick worked. I'd hoped to lure you up here."
Usagi narrowed her blue eyes at the man. "What the hell are you doing here, Lucius?" She asked coldly.
***
Chapter Five
Usagi was really ticked off. No, that was an understatement. She was beyond mad at that moment. She glared up at the man in front of her, not even acknowledging the fact that he was an extremely dangerous dark wizard. "What are you doing here?" She repeated.
The other person in the small room shrugged. "Usagi, Usagi." Lucius murmured. "That attitude of yours is going to get you in trouble some day." He said.
The blond girl rolled her eyes. "Do I look like I care?" She asked sarcastically. "I'm not afraid of you. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to be late for class."
"Before you go, I have a favor to ask of you." Lucius said. He reached into the pocket of his robes to get something.
Usagi gripped her wand tightly in a fist. She didn't trust him at all. "And you actually think I'll do something to help you?" She asked.
Lucius pulled out a small piece of parchment that he'd folded in half. "I need you to deliver this to my brother." He said. He held it out and waited for her to take it.
She regarded the paper warily. 'What game is he playing?' She thought. Tentatively, she reached out and snatched the note, retreating to safety before she figured he could try anything.
He merely lowered his arm and waited for her to look at him. "Now, I must be going." He said. "My master does not wish me to be here for too long. Now, go to your class before I get bored with you.
Usagi called him something very inappropriate under her breath before she glared at Lucius and left the room.
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By the time she slid into her desk in History of Magic, the class was almost half way over. The teacher, a Mr. Binns, didn't seem to notice her truancy as he lectured the class on who- knows- what.
Harry was dozing off at his own desk when he felt someone bump into him. He looked sleepily at the desk on his right as the blond Japanese girl sat down in her seat and pulled out her notes.
"Where've you been?" He whispered, sitting up and stretching to wake up a bit. "You're really late."
Usagi shrugged. "I got lost." She said. After that, she purposely ignored him and everyone else in the room. She hadn't looked at the note yet, and she wasn't too sure she wanted to. One thing she'd learned about Lucius was that he liked to play with his targets.
Looking around to make sure no one was paying attention to her- of course some of the students were still glancing at her from time to time with curiosity- she dropped the note from her clenched fist onto her desk and kept it hidden as she opened it.
Only a few words were scribbled on the piece of parchment. Usagi wasn't able to keep her face from paling a few shades but somehow managed to keep herself from gasping aloud.
I HAVE FATHER.
*^*
Malfoy stared down at his food, trying his best not to pay any attention to what was being said around him. He was lucky most of the other students weren't eating lunch at that time, or the whispers would be much louder. His fellow Slytherins were totally not believing that he- Draco Malfoy, the boy who HATES all Gryffindors- would go out with one.
The whispers suddenly stopped as a person approached the table. Malfoy looked up to see what- who- had managed to get the other students at his table to shut up.
Usagi was standing there, her face a cross between anger and despair. She nodded in greeting before producing a sheet of parchment for him. She waited for him to take the paper and read it.
Curious, Draco opened the letter. He read it once, then blinked. No wonder Usagi was so mad. She'd only met his brother once, before they'd started to date. She hadn't liked him at all then.
He crumpled the note in his fist and shoved it deep into his robe's pocket. When Voldemort had been alive the last time, Lucius had been too young to understand what was going on. That had been when his father had been put under the Imperious Curse. Draco himself had only been a few months old at the time, so he didn't know the full details.
But from what he'd gathered from the note Lucius had written, they'd put his father back under the Imperious Curse. He still hadn't received any letters from home, either.
Lucius had been into the Dark Arts for as long as Malfoy could remember. After Voldemort's fall before, Lucius had only been four years old. Even then, though, he'd been into the Dark Arts. He'd gone to live with an uncle who was known to be a very strong Dark Arts supporter and had practically vanished from the Malfoy's life.
Of course, he'd come back to visit every once in a while. He'd also attended a different school, Durmstang- known to rely heavily on the Dark Arts. And from what Lucius had told Draco during one of his visits (without his father knowing), it had been the same uncle that trained Lucius that put the Imperious Curse on his father. And now that Lucius knew the curse himself, he could perform it whenever he wanted to.
Draco snapped out of his memories and stood to follow Usagi from the hall.
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Harry and Ron were late for lunch. Harry had insisted on dropping their bags off in the dormitory before going to the meal.
"Told you we'd be late." Ron was saying. "Now we won't have enough time to finish eating everything. And today's fish and chips, too"
Harry rolled his green eyes at his friend. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a familiar blond haired girl turn the corner to the library. Turning his head to get a better look, he was just in time to see a second blond following the first. He elbowed Ron and pointed to where the two had vanished down another hall.
Ron nodded, having also seen the students. The boys sneaked around the corner and into the library, careful to avoid being seen.
Harry slid behind a bookshelf and watched the couple from between two books. As he watched them talking, he noticed a slip of parchment hanging out of Draco's robe pocket fall to the ground.
"Accio" He said, pointing his wand at the paper. Instantly it skidded along the ground until finally flying up to his waiting hand. He opened it up and read it. "I have father?" He asked himself.
"I don't believe that's any of your business." A voice drawled out. Harry looked up to see a blond boy glaring at him. "Incindo." He said. He aimed at the paper and it burst into flame.
Harry cursed under his breath and dropped the burning paper to the ground, stomping it out with his foot. "What was that all about?" He asked.
Usagi stepped out from behind another bookshelf with a very unhappy red haired boy in tow. "Look who else I found." She said. "He was trying to get close enough to hear what we were saying."
Ron shrugged. "I was not." He muttered. "I was just looking for a book to check out."
"In the History section?" Usagi asked skeptically. "Try again."
Malfoy gestured to the black haired boy before him. "This one was too." He said. "He's the one that used the Summoning Charm to get the paper."
Usagi plopped into one of the couches and looked at the two. "Why were you trying to listen in, anyways?" She asked. "It's not like we were talking about anything interesting."
"Then explain the note." Harry said stubbornly.
Malfoy opened his mouth to tell Harry to go away, but shut it as a large owl flew into the room through an open window and perched on the chair next to Usagi. It dropped the letter it was holding in her lap before flying off again.
"That was strange." She said as she picked up the letter. "It's addressed to both of us." She looked up at Draco.
He sat down next to her, both of them now ignoring the two confused boys. "Let's see it." He said. He took the letter from her and tore open the wax seal.
'If you want to save him, you're not doing a very good job at it.
Father is totally under my control.
But if you really want him, I'll make a deal.
You give me Usagi, and I'll remove the curse from him.
You have one week to decide.
Choose well, brother.'
It was unsigned, but Draco didn't need a signature to know who sent it. "Damn it Lucius." He muttered. He crumpled the note in his fist.
Usagi gently pried her boyfriends fist open and took the paper from it. She smoothed it out and read it herself. After a minute, she folded the note back up and sat in silence, staring at the floor.
"I'll have to go." She said after a minute.
Draco looked at her sharply. "Absolutely not." He said. "And that's final."
Usagi rolled her eyes. "We both know what You-Know-Who is after." She said. "If he thinks he'll get it through me, he's seriously mistaken. But it's better for me to go then to just stay here and let that bastard keep your father."
Harry, who had been listening to the conversation intensely, decided now would be the best time to show up. "What the bloody hell are you two talking about?" He hissed. "What's all this about Voldemort wanting Usagi?"
Only Ron flinched at the name. Usagi and Malfoy both interrupted their conversation to look at the speaker. "We need to discuss this in private." Draco said. He took Usagi's hand and helped her up.
"It doesn't need to be discussed any further." Usagi said. She looked her boyfriend in the eye. "If I don't go, you're father in gonna stay under his control for who knows how long." She said.
Draco shook his head. "No." He said. His tone booked no room for argument. "I'm not going to trade you for my father. He'll be fine, and you know it."
The blond girl stomped one foot on the ground. "It's my decision." She said. "Besides, once he takes me, you can follow behind and save me or whatever." One hand waved over to where Harry and Ron were standing. "Hell, we might as well tell them what's going on and use their help as well. Harry Potter on our side would really help."
"These idiots?" Malfoy looked at the two boys. He closed his eyes for a moment as though mentally debating something. "Fine." He said. "But they might as well go get that Granger girl too. She's the only one with any sort of brains."
Usagi nodded, satisfied. "Good. Now that we have that settled, why don't you two go get Hermione so we can fill her in. In the meantime, I'm going to write to some of my friends at school in Japan and see if any of them will help me. If we're going to do this, we should do it over Winter Vacation, when we can all be together."
Draco nodded. "I'll help you contact your friends." He said. He glared at the other boys. "If you two want any answers, you'd better go find that Mudblood friend of yours." He said.
Harry and Ron both turned and left seconds later without any hesitation.
*^*
I apologize for this being short and taking so long.
Happy Birthday to Tempest!!!
And please read my Sailor Moon/ Lord of the Rings crossover. It's titled 'Mornie Alantie'. It really is the original LOTR/SM crossover, as it was written before I went on vacation. I was going to post it after I finished this chapter. I figured it was an original idea and no one else would think of anything like it.
It is STILL original, more so then the others that are out. But because I decided not to post it last week, other people wrote theirs and posted them.
But please read it anyways.
Ja ne!
~`Koi`~
{|By Koi|}
I'm so sorry this took so long. I just got home (boring vacation) and I started to type ASAP. I hope everyone had a Happy New Year!
This chapter is dedicated to Christina, who sent me a really cool Christmas card (sorry again that I couldn't send one back)
And to D-chan: I love your fan fictions. Not only your HP/SM, but your fic 'Damned, Cursed, and Loved' is one of my favorites. Along with ALL the others!!!
Also: I made a boo-boo earlier in the fic, which I'll do my best to correct in this chapter. As it was pointed out, I said Lucius (Draco's brother) was about 19 when he would have to be like 34 or so years old. I'm gonna try to fix that, but he IS supposed to be 19.
***
Previously:
She quickly corrected that last thought. It wasn't quite empty. Leaned against the wall, watching her with narrowed eyes, was a person she knew far too well.
"Well, well." The person said. He laughed softly. "Look's like my trick worked. I'd hoped to lure you up here."
Usagi narrowed her blue eyes at the man. "What the hell are you doing here, Lucius?" She asked coldly.
***
Chapter Five
Usagi was really ticked off. No, that was an understatement. She was beyond mad at that moment. She glared up at the man in front of her, not even acknowledging the fact that he was an extremely dangerous dark wizard. "What are you doing here?" She repeated.
The other person in the small room shrugged. "Usagi, Usagi." Lucius murmured. "That attitude of yours is going to get you in trouble some day." He said.
The blond girl rolled her eyes. "Do I look like I care?" She asked sarcastically. "I'm not afraid of you. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to be late for class."
"Before you go, I have a favor to ask of you." Lucius said. He reached into the pocket of his robes to get something.
Usagi gripped her wand tightly in a fist. She didn't trust him at all. "And you actually think I'll do something to help you?" She asked.
Lucius pulled out a small piece of parchment that he'd folded in half. "I need you to deliver this to my brother." He said. He held it out and waited for her to take it.
She regarded the paper warily. 'What game is he playing?' She thought. Tentatively, she reached out and snatched the note, retreating to safety before she figured he could try anything.
He merely lowered his arm and waited for her to look at him. "Now, I must be going." He said. "My master does not wish me to be here for too long. Now, go to your class before I get bored with you.
Usagi called him something very inappropriate under her breath before she glared at Lucius and left the room.
*^*
By the time she slid into her desk in History of Magic, the class was almost half way over. The teacher, a Mr. Binns, didn't seem to notice her truancy as he lectured the class on who- knows- what.
Harry was dozing off at his own desk when he felt someone bump into him. He looked sleepily at the desk on his right as the blond Japanese girl sat down in her seat and pulled out her notes.
"Where've you been?" He whispered, sitting up and stretching to wake up a bit. "You're really late."
Usagi shrugged. "I got lost." She said. After that, she purposely ignored him and everyone else in the room. She hadn't looked at the note yet, and she wasn't too sure she wanted to. One thing she'd learned about Lucius was that he liked to play with his targets.
Looking around to make sure no one was paying attention to her- of course some of the students were still glancing at her from time to time with curiosity- she dropped the note from her clenched fist onto her desk and kept it hidden as she opened it.
Only a few words were scribbled on the piece of parchment. Usagi wasn't able to keep her face from paling a few shades but somehow managed to keep herself from gasping aloud.
I HAVE FATHER.
*^*
Malfoy stared down at his food, trying his best not to pay any attention to what was being said around him. He was lucky most of the other students weren't eating lunch at that time, or the whispers would be much louder. His fellow Slytherins were totally not believing that he- Draco Malfoy, the boy who HATES all Gryffindors- would go out with one.
The whispers suddenly stopped as a person approached the table. Malfoy looked up to see what- who- had managed to get the other students at his table to shut up.
Usagi was standing there, her face a cross between anger and despair. She nodded in greeting before producing a sheet of parchment for him. She waited for him to take the paper and read it.
Curious, Draco opened the letter. He read it once, then blinked. No wonder Usagi was so mad. She'd only met his brother once, before they'd started to date. She hadn't liked him at all then.
He crumpled the note in his fist and shoved it deep into his robe's pocket. When Voldemort had been alive the last time, Lucius had been too young to understand what was going on. That had been when his father had been put under the Imperious Curse. Draco himself had only been a few months old at the time, so he didn't know the full details.
But from what he'd gathered from the note Lucius had written, they'd put his father back under the Imperious Curse. He still hadn't received any letters from home, either.
Lucius had been into the Dark Arts for as long as Malfoy could remember. After Voldemort's fall before, Lucius had only been four years old. Even then, though, he'd been into the Dark Arts. He'd gone to live with an uncle who was known to be a very strong Dark Arts supporter and had practically vanished from the Malfoy's life.
Of course, he'd come back to visit every once in a while. He'd also attended a different school, Durmstang- known to rely heavily on the Dark Arts. And from what Lucius had told Draco during one of his visits (without his father knowing), it had been the same uncle that trained Lucius that put the Imperious Curse on his father. And now that Lucius knew the curse himself, he could perform it whenever he wanted to.
Draco snapped out of his memories and stood to follow Usagi from the hall.
*/*\*
Harry and Ron were late for lunch. Harry had insisted on dropping their bags off in the dormitory before going to the meal.
"Told you we'd be late." Ron was saying. "Now we won't have enough time to finish eating everything. And today's fish and chips, too"
Harry rolled his green eyes at his friend. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a familiar blond haired girl turn the corner to the library. Turning his head to get a better look, he was just in time to see a second blond following the first. He elbowed Ron and pointed to where the two had vanished down another hall.
Ron nodded, having also seen the students. The boys sneaked around the corner and into the library, careful to avoid being seen.
Harry slid behind a bookshelf and watched the couple from between two books. As he watched them talking, he noticed a slip of parchment hanging out of Draco's robe pocket fall to the ground.
"Accio" He said, pointing his wand at the paper. Instantly it skidded along the ground until finally flying up to his waiting hand. He opened it up and read it. "I have father?" He asked himself.
"I don't believe that's any of your business." A voice drawled out. Harry looked up to see a blond boy glaring at him. "Incindo." He said. He aimed at the paper and it burst into flame.
Harry cursed under his breath and dropped the burning paper to the ground, stomping it out with his foot. "What was that all about?" He asked.
Usagi stepped out from behind another bookshelf with a very unhappy red haired boy in tow. "Look who else I found." She said. "He was trying to get close enough to hear what we were saying."
Ron shrugged. "I was not." He muttered. "I was just looking for a book to check out."
"In the History section?" Usagi asked skeptically. "Try again."
Malfoy gestured to the black haired boy before him. "This one was too." He said. "He's the one that used the Summoning Charm to get the paper."
Usagi plopped into one of the couches and looked at the two. "Why were you trying to listen in, anyways?" She asked. "It's not like we were talking about anything interesting."
"Then explain the note." Harry said stubbornly.
Malfoy opened his mouth to tell Harry to go away, but shut it as a large owl flew into the room through an open window and perched on the chair next to Usagi. It dropped the letter it was holding in her lap before flying off again.
"That was strange." She said as she picked up the letter. "It's addressed to both of us." She looked up at Draco.
He sat down next to her, both of them now ignoring the two confused boys. "Let's see it." He said. He took the letter from her and tore open the wax seal.
'If you want to save him, you're not doing a very good job at it.
Father is totally under my control.
But if you really want him, I'll make a deal.
You give me Usagi, and I'll remove the curse from him.
You have one week to decide.
Choose well, brother.'
It was unsigned, but Draco didn't need a signature to know who sent it. "Damn it Lucius." He muttered. He crumpled the note in his fist.
Usagi gently pried her boyfriends fist open and took the paper from it. She smoothed it out and read it herself. After a minute, she folded the note back up and sat in silence, staring at the floor.
"I'll have to go." She said after a minute.
Draco looked at her sharply. "Absolutely not." He said. "And that's final."
Usagi rolled her eyes. "We both know what You-Know-Who is after." She said. "If he thinks he'll get it through me, he's seriously mistaken. But it's better for me to go then to just stay here and let that bastard keep your father."
Harry, who had been listening to the conversation intensely, decided now would be the best time to show up. "What the bloody hell are you two talking about?" He hissed. "What's all this about Voldemort wanting Usagi?"
Only Ron flinched at the name. Usagi and Malfoy both interrupted their conversation to look at the speaker. "We need to discuss this in private." Draco said. He took Usagi's hand and helped her up.
"It doesn't need to be discussed any further." Usagi said. She looked her boyfriend in the eye. "If I don't go, you're father in gonna stay under his control for who knows how long." She said.
Draco shook his head. "No." He said. His tone booked no room for argument. "I'm not going to trade you for my father. He'll be fine, and you know it."
The blond girl stomped one foot on the ground. "It's my decision." She said. "Besides, once he takes me, you can follow behind and save me or whatever." One hand waved over to where Harry and Ron were standing. "Hell, we might as well tell them what's going on and use their help as well. Harry Potter on our side would really help."
"These idiots?" Malfoy looked at the two boys. He closed his eyes for a moment as though mentally debating something. "Fine." He said. "But they might as well go get that Granger girl too. She's the only one with any sort of brains."
Usagi nodded, satisfied. "Good. Now that we have that settled, why don't you two go get Hermione so we can fill her in. In the meantime, I'm going to write to some of my friends at school in Japan and see if any of them will help me. If we're going to do this, we should do it over Winter Vacation, when we can all be together."
Draco nodded. "I'll help you contact your friends." He said. He glared at the other boys. "If you two want any answers, you'd better go find that Mudblood friend of yours." He said.
Harry and Ron both turned and left seconds later without any hesitation.
*^*
I apologize for this being short and taking so long.
Happy Birthday to Tempest!!!
And please read my Sailor Moon/ Lord of the Rings crossover. It's titled 'Mornie Alantie'. It really is the original LOTR/SM crossover, as it was written before I went on vacation. I was going to post it after I finished this chapter. I figured it was an original idea and no one else would think of anything like it.
It is STILL original, more so then the others that are out. But because I decided not to post it last week, other people wrote theirs and posted them.
But please read it anyways.
Ja ne!
~`Koi`~