Author's Note: This story begins during the Second year at Hogwarts, during the Chamber of Secrets and will continue as time goes on. This is my first Harry Potter fanfic and along with my friend, ElfFlame, we are writing a series of four stories, which begins with ElfFlame's story- True Revenge. All four of these stories are interrelated and for the best understanding of the characters as we see them, they should be read in conjunction to each other. As always, I own none of this wonderful world that JK Rowling has created.
Author's Note: At this point in time I would just like to say that in telling events of this story from Lucius Malfoy's point of view, I am merely showing his frame of mind. I do not in any way condone or promote the things he does.
Spoiler Warning: This story contains spoilers, both minor and major from all five Harry Potter books.
The Aftermath
Lucius and Adriana went to the bedroom and quickly took their clothing off. Falling into bed, they were going to make love, but months of insomnia had finally caught up with them, and they fell asleep in each others arms before they had a chance to.
They slept late into the next morning. Lucius was still tired, but his tattoo began to throb so hard it woke him up. He let Adriana sleep, while he got up to make some breakfast. Lucius made himself bacon and eggs, and it turned out much more successfully than his first attempt. He ate and worried about his tattoo and what it meant.
When Lucius finished eating, he wandered back over to the bedroom. Lucius gazed lovingly at Adriana while she slept. He wished moments like this would never end. Lucius got back in the bed, next to Adriana, and hugged her to him. Adriana stirred and snuggled against his chest, wrapping her arms around him. Slowly, he drifted back to sleep.
By the time Lucius woke up again, Adriana was awake and dressed. "Morning sleepy head," She whispered to him as she sat back on the bed next to him. Lucius smiled, reached up to Adriana and pulled her down on top of him.
"Morning yourself, gorgeous," Lucius replied, kissing her softly. Getting a close look at her, he was once again alarmed at how thin she was. He was afraid to touch her too hard, she looked as though she might break. But apparently Adriana didn't share that same fear, for she proceeded to take her clothes off and get back in the bed with Lucius.
"I've missed you so much, Lucius," She said, leaning over Lucius, taking his clothes off. Lucius lay on his back, and enjoyed all that Adriana did to him. He'd missed her more than he'd realized.
They spent the day making love, laughing, crying out, screaming in pleasure. Lucius and Adriana had several months of separation to make up for, and they were doing their best to catch up.
After another good night's sleep, the couple began to talk. In the tub together, with hot water and bubbles covering them, Adriana told Lucius about why she had broken up with him. She told him how angry Albus had been at her, and how angry she'd been with herself for showing Lucius what she had that day at the museum.
Lucius leaned back against Adriana, who held him in her arms. She ran her fingers teasingly over his chest and arms. At the moment she brushed her finger over his tattoo, pain began shooting up his arm, into his shoulder. Gasping in pain and grabbing his arm, Adriana looked at his arm and moved the hand covering it. "What's this?" She asked as she traced her finger over the tattoo.
Lucius had never before this point felt shame over the fact that he was a Death Eater. But somehow, looking into her eyes, he saw the pain it would cause the two of them, and wished, he'd chosen other paths in his youth. "That's the tattoo all of the Death Eaters have. It's Lord Voldemort's way of summoning us to his side when he wants us. I was one of the very first to get one," He spoke quietly, his eyes downcast.
"And when it hurts? Is that him summoning you?" Adriana's blood ran cold as she thought about Lucius going back to Riddle, especially with the information he now had. If that got passed onto Riddle, it would be all her fault.
"I'm not sure, it just means something's going to happen. Soon." Lucius replied.
"Will you go to him? If he returns, and calls on you? Do you really hate the Muggle world, my world, and everything I love, so much that you'd destroy it? And all who live there?" Adriana asked in a whisper.
Up until he'd met Adriana, he'd never questioned his values and why he did the things he did. He'd been brought up to be who he was, and had never had a problem with it. But now, lying against the woman he loved, in her home, he felt conflicted. When he didn't answer, Adriana continued. "Have you ever thought about why you hate the Muggle world so much? Was it a choice that you came to in your adult life? Or was the choice made for you when Janos beat it into you?" Adriana's hand slipped to his and she brushed her finger against the finger Janos had cut the tip off of so long ago. He didn't remember ever telling her about that, how did she know? Sitting upright, he turned and glared at her, the water in the tub sloshed noisily for a few seconds before he spoke.
"How did you know about that?" Lucius' heart pounded as he awaited an answer.
"You told me many things the day Janos died, I know what kind of a man he was. I was under the impression that you had the potential to be better than him. Your father made the choice for you to become a Death Eater, but now it's yours, whether or not to stay a Death Eater. If something starts, will we find ourselves on opposite sides? I don't know if I could stand that, not after just getting you back in my life," Adriana said.
All his life, Lucius had been taught to hate the Muggle world, and all who lived there. Muggles were a nuisance, they were inferior, they were of little or no value and therefore, not worthy of the right to existence. With all the changes going on in his life, that was the only constant left to him. The only unchanging idea he could cling to for comfort. He wasn't ready to give that up yet.
Lucius moved to the opposite end of the tub, in order to face Adriana. "The world would be better with no Muggles. Wizards with power are the ones who should be here. Can you imagine it Adriana, the two of us, do you have any idea how powerful we could be together? We could be even greater than Voldemort," Lucius said excitedly.
"Lucius, you must know by now that I will never let you use my powers for that. Ever. So if that's the only reason you're really here, then..." Adriana trailed off.
"I'm not leaving you again. I just need more time to think things over, but there is no time. Adriana, I need your help," Lucius said. He knew that Lord Voldemort would make a return as soon as he could, and that Lucius knew far too much than was good for anybody to know. Voldemort would be able to read his mind like a book, and when he did, it wouldn't be a pretty sight. There were things Lucius needed to be rid of and he hoped Adriana would be able to do that for him. "Can you do memory charms?" He asked.
"Of course, why?" Adriana asked.
"How strong can you make one? Most memories can be recovered, even with the strongest of charms. Can you erase a memory? So it's like it was never there?" Lucius asked, desperation in his voice.
"Yes, but what do you need to forget?" Adriana sounded worried.
"The museum, the war, all those Muggles I was researching, everything, nothing can stay in my mind. Can you do it?" Lucius asked, looking into her eyes.
Adriana saw fear in Lucius' soul as she stared at him. This was wonderful of course, it meant that he wouldn't be attempting to take over the world or be in a position to pass the information over to Riddle, but, it also meant Lucius knew he'd be rejoining him when the time came. "Yes, I can do it," Adriana said quietly.
"Now?"
"All right," Adriana said, "Close your eyes, and lie back, this will take some time." Adriana closed her eyes and concentrated hard on the task at hand. She had to single out the memories Lucius wanted erased from all of his others. But memories have a way of entangling themselves in others, and make it difficult to erase completely. Even though she had his permission, Adriana felt as though she was violating Lucius' innermost thoughts. She had trouble holding herself back and only erasing the memories Lucius wanted to be rid of. She knew the painful things he'd told her, and saw some new things she wished she could take from him. But she couldn't do that, she didn't have the right. When she was sure she'd erased all the thoughts Lucius wanted gone, Adriana broke off contact with him and opened her eyes.
She didn't know how long this had taken, but the water in the bath had grown cold, and she hadn't noticed it. Breathless, Adriana looked at Lucius, told him to open his eyes, and observed that the level of fear in his eyes was much less now. Exhausted, it took all of her strength to climb out of the tub and get dressed.
Lucius was equally exhausted and felt extremely vulnerable as he dressed. He knew Adriana had seen memories he wished he didn't have, but he knew she could be trusted. And though he couldn't remember what it was that she had erased for him, he knew it was important, and was very grateful to her for all of her help. Together they walked into the bedroom, collapsed on the bed and slept for the rest of the day, all through the night, and well into the next morning.
Albus had heard the report of the Masque from Snape and was most displeased. Not with Snape, it wasn't his fault, but he should have known Lucius would've been able to worm his way back into her affections. And she'd been doing so well lately too.
Snape hadn't known where Adriana had gone until the Masque was over and he and Narcissa Malfoy were the only two left in the ballroom. Snape's evening went from bad to worse as he realized he'd failed Albus. Trying to put off the inevitable, he played the perfect gentleman and escorted Narcissa home. If he was lucky, he'd be able to slip back into Hogwarts, retreat to the dungeons, and get some sleep before Albus asked for his report of the night. But Albus had stayed awake and summoned him to his office for the report as soon as he'd returned to the school.
Albus was actually very calm when he heard the terrible news. He didn't yell, throw, kick, or kill anything. His knuckles turned white as he balled his hands into fists, and the vein on his right temple throbbed; those were the only signs of agitation. He explained calmly to Snape that he'd give Adriana a couple of days with Lucius to sate her appetite, before going over to her house and seeing to the matter himself. Snape wasn't sure who had more to worry about: Lucius or Adriana. He was just glad that he didn't have to be there for whatever happened in a few days.
The morning after Adriana erased Lucius' memory, he was in the kitchen preparing breakfast, while Adriana was in the barn milking the cow, when he heard a knock on the door. "Who the hell could that be? And how did they get past the perimeter?" Lucius thought to himself as he turned off the stove before walking to the door. He couldn't have been more displeased to see anybody in his life, then when he opened the door and found himself standing face-to-face with Dumbledore. "You! What do you want? Haven't you caused enough trouble already with your meddling?" Lucius hissed at him.
Albus glared at Lucius. "Trouble? You want to talk about trouble? Look at all the problems you've created. You're lucky I don't--"
"Don't what?" Lucius interrupted. "Don't kill me? You're not the type to use an Avada curse on a man now, Dumbledore. Besides, you're not going to do anything to me. Adriana told me how you slept together. And while I find that thought in and of itself repulsive, what I find thoroughly disgusting is the fact that you'd use a young girl like that. She said it was a long time ago. She must have been at Hogwarts still. A student Dumbledore, I wonder what the Ministry would think about such a thing," Lucius shook his head disapprovingly.
Dumbledore's eyes grew wide. "Adriana told you that? Where is she?" Not waiting for an answer, he called out to her, though Lucius never heard a word.
Sitting on the stool in the barn, milking the cow, Adriana clapped her hands to her head and tried to shut out the yelling in her mind. She yelled back, telling Albus to shut up. She'd had time to think about things over the last few days, and found she resented Albus for telling her what to do. The pain she'd felt over the last several months had been because he told her to break up with Lucius. Standing up, Adriana apparated back to the house to save time.
As soon as Albus caught sight of Adriana, he called out to her in his mind, "Adriana, what are you doing? I thought we'd decided it was best to never see him," Albus jerked a thumb in Lucius direction, "again."
"You decided you mean. Besides there's no problem anymore, everything's been taken care of," Adriana said silently, glaring at Albus.
"What do you mean?" Albus asked.
"I wiped his memories of the museum and everything he's been researching. He doesn't remember anything," Adriana explained.
Lucius looked extremely frustrated, "Will you two talk out loud? Look, I know you can talk to each other in your minds, but all this silence is terrible."
"So, you took him back?" Albus asked out loud.
"Yes I did, thank you very much," Adriana answered haughtily.
"Do you know how much stress you're causing me?" He asked Adriana.
"Well, you know, you should have just married me when I wanted you to, and none of this would be happening, right?" Adriana put her hands on her hips.
"We are not going to go over that again, it's ancient history! I have to get back to Hogwarts. I guess you two are going to continue seeing one another, no matter what I try to do, so I'm not going to anymore. You're on your own now Adriana. Don't come running to me the next time he breaks your heart or you do something stupid." With that, Albus apparated out of Lucius and Adriana's sight.
Adriana sighed. She hated it when she fought with Albus. Turning to walk into the bathroom, she was faced with a thoroughly confused and upset Lucius. "You two were going to get married?"
"Oh, not now Lucius, please!" Adriana said as she walked to the bathroom and locked herself inside.
Author's Note: At this point in time I would just like to say that in telling events of this story from Lucius Malfoy's point of view, I am merely showing his frame of mind. I do not in any way condone or promote the things he does.
Spoiler Warning: This story contains spoilers, both minor and major from all five Harry Potter books.
The Aftermath
Lucius and Adriana went to the bedroom and quickly took their clothing off. Falling into bed, they were going to make love, but months of insomnia had finally caught up with them, and they fell asleep in each others arms before they had a chance to.
They slept late into the next morning. Lucius was still tired, but his tattoo began to throb so hard it woke him up. He let Adriana sleep, while he got up to make some breakfast. Lucius made himself bacon and eggs, and it turned out much more successfully than his first attempt. He ate and worried about his tattoo and what it meant.
When Lucius finished eating, he wandered back over to the bedroom. Lucius gazed lovingly at Adriana while she slept. He wished moments like this would never end. Lucius got back in the bed, next to Adriana, and hugged her to him. Adriana stirred and snuggled against his chest, wrapping her arms around him. Slowly, he drifted back to sleep.
By the time Lucius woke up again, Adriana was awake and dressed. "Morning sleepy head," She whispered to him as she sat back on the bed next to him. Lucius smiled, reached up to Adriana and pulled her down on top of him.
"Morning yourself, gorgeous," Lucius replied, kissing her softly. Getting a close look at her, he was once again alarmed at how thin she was. He was afraid to touch her too hard, she looked as though she might break. But apparently Adriana didn't share that same fear, for she proceeded to take her clothes off and get back in the bed with Lucius.
"I've missed you so much, Lucius," She said, leaning over Lucius, taking his clothes off. Lucius lay on his back, and enjoyed all that Adriana did to him. He'd missed her more than he'd realized.
They spent the day making love, laughing, crying out, screaming in pleasure. Lucius and Adriana had several months of separation to make up for, and they were doing their best to catch up.
After another good night's sleep, the couple began to talk. In the tub together, with hot water and bubbles covering them, Adriana told Lucius about why she had broken up with him. She told him how angry Albus had been at her, and how angry she'd been with herself for showing Lucius what she had that day at the museum.
Lucius leaned back against Adriana, who held him in her arms. She ran her fingers teasingly over his chest and arms. At the moment she brushed her finger over his tattoo, pain began shooting up his arm, into his shoulder. Gasping in pain and grabbing his arm, Adriana looked at his arm and moved the hand covering it. "What's this?" She asked as she traced her finger over the tattoo.
Lucius had never before this point felt shame over the fact that he was a Death Eater. But somehow, looking into her eyes, he saw the pain it would cause the two of them, and wished, he'd chosen other paths in his youth. "That's the tattoo all of the Death Eaters have. It's Lord Voldemort's way of summoning us to his side when he wants us. I was one of the very first to get one," He spoke quietly, his eyes downcast.
"And when it hurts? Is that him summoning you?" Adriana's blood ran cold as she thought about Lucius going back to Riddle, especially with the information he now had. If that got passed onto Riddle, it would be all her fault.
"I'm not sure, it just means something's going to happen. Soon." Lucius replied.
"Will you go to him? If he returns, and calls on you? Do you really hate the Muggle world, my world, and everything I love, so much that you'd destroy it? And all who live there?" Adriana asked in a whisper.
Up until he'd met Adriana, he'd never questioned his values and why he did the things he did. He'd been brought up to be who he was, and had never had a problem with it. But now, lying against the woman he loved, in her home, he felt conflicted. When he didn't answer, Adriana continued. "Have you ever thought about why you hate the Muggle world so much? Was it a choice that you came to in your adult life? Or was the choice made for you when Janos beat it into you?" Adriana's hand slipped to his and she brushed her finger against the finger Janos had cut the tip off of so long ago. He didn't remember ever telling her about that, how did she know? Sitting upright, he turned and glared at her, the water in the tub sloshed noisily for a few seconds before he spoke.
"How did you know about that?" Lucius' heart pounded as he awaited an answer.
"You told me many things the day Janos died, I know what kind of a man he was. I was under the impression that you had the potential to be better than him. Your father made the choice for you to become a Death Eater, but now it's yours, whether or not to stay a Death Eater. If something starts, will we find ourselves on opposite sides? I don't know if I could stand that, not after just getting you back in my life," Adriana said.
All his life, Lucius had been taught to hate the Muggle world, and all who lived there. Muggles were a nuisance, they were inferior, they were of little or no value and therefore, not worthy of the right to existence. With all the changes going on in his life, that was the only constant left to him. The only unchanging idea he could cling to for comfort. He wasn't ready to give that up yet.
Lucius moved to the opposite end of the tub, in order to face Adriana. "The world would be better with no Muggles. Wizards with power are the ones who should be here. Can you imagine it Adriana, the two of us, do you have any idea how powerful we could be together? We could be even greater than Voldemort," Lucius said excitedly.
"Lucius, you must know by now that I will never let you use my powers for that. Ever. So if that's the only reason you're really here, then..." Adriana trailed off.
"I'm not leaving you again. I just need more time to think things over, but there is no time. Adriana, I need your help," Lucius said. He knew that Lord Voldemort would make a return as soon as he could, and that Lucius knew far too much than was good for anybody to know. Voldemort would be able to read his mind like a book, and when he did, it wouldn't be a pretty sight. There were things Lucius needed to be rid of and he hoped Adriana would be able to do that for him. "Can you do memory charms?" He asked.
"Of course, why?" Adriana asked.
"How strong can you make one? Most memories can be recovered, even with the strongest of charms. Can you erase a memory? So it's like it was never there?" Lucius asked, desperation in his voice.
"Yes, but what do you need to forget?" Adriana sounded worried.
"The museum, the war, all those Muggles I was researching, everything, nothing can stay in my mind. Can you do it?" Lucius asked, looking into her eyes.
Adriana saw fear in Lucius' soul as she stared at him. This was wonderful of course, it meant that he wouldn't be attempting to take over the world or be in a position to pass the information over to Riddle, but, it also meant Lucius knew he'd be rejoining him when the time came. "Yes, I can do it," Adriana said quietly.
"Now?"
"All right," Adriana said, "Close your eyes, and lie back, this will take some time." Adriana closed her eyes and concentrated hard on the task at hand. She had to single out the memories Lucius wanted erased from all of his others. But memories have a way of entangling themselves in others, and make it difficult to erase completely. Even though she had his permission, Adriana felt as though she was violating Lucius' innermost thoughts. She had trouble holding herself back and only erasing the memories Lucius wanted to be rid of. She knew the painful things he'd told her, and saw some new things she wished she could take from him. But she couldn't do that, she didn't have the right. When she was sure she'd erased all the thoughts Lucius wanted gone, Adriana broke off contact with him and opened her eyes.
She didn't know how long this had taken, but the water in the bath had grown cold, and she hadn't noticed it. Breathless, Adriana looked at Lucius, told him to open his eyes, and observed that the level of fear in his eyes was much less now. Exhausted, it took all of her strength to climb out of the tub and get dressed.
Lucius was equally exhausted and felt extremely vulnerable as he dressed. He knew Adriana had seen memories he wished he didn't have, but he knew she could be trusted. And though he couldn't remember what it was that she had erased for him, he knew it was important, and was very grateful to her for all of her help. Together they walked into the bedroom, collapsed on the bed and slept for the rest of the day, all through the night, and well into the next morning.
Albus had heard the report of the Masque from Snape and was most displeased. Not with Snape, it wasn't his fault, but he should have known Lucius would've been able to worm his way back into her affections. And she'd been doing so well lately too.
Snape hadn't known where Adriana had gone until the Masque was over and he and Narcissa Malfoy were the only two left in the ballroom. Snape's evening went from bad to worse as he realized he'd failed Albus. Trying to put off the inevitable, he played the perfect gentleman and escorted Narcissa home. If he was lucky, he'd be able to slip back into Hogwarts, retreat to the dungeons, and get some sleep before Albus asked for his report of the night. But Albus had stayed awake and summoned him to his office for the report as soon as he'd returned to the school.
Albus was actually very calm when he heard the terrible news. He didn't yell, throw, kick, or kill anything. His knuckles turned white as he balled his hands into fists, and the vein on his right temple throbbed; those were the only signs of agitation. He explained calmly to Snape that he'd give Adriana a couple of days with Lucius to sate her appetite, before going over to her house and seeing to the matter himself. Snape wasn't sure who had more to worry about: Lucius or Adriana. He was just glad that he didn't have to be there for whatever happened in a few days.
The morning after Adriana erased Lucius' memory, he was in the kitchen preparing breakfast, while Adriana was in the barn milking the cow, when he heard a knock on the door. "Who the hell could that be? And how did they get past the perimeter?" Lucius thought to himself as he turned off the stove before walking to the door. He couldn't have been more displeased to see anybody in his life, then when he opened the door and found himself standing face-to-face with Dumbledore. "You! What do you want? Haven't you caused enough trouble already with your meddling?" Lucius hissed at him.
Albus glared at Lucius. "Trouble? You want to talk about trouble? Look at all the problems you've created. You're lucky I don't--"
"Don't what?" Lucius interrupted. "Don't kill me? You're not the type to use an Avada curse on a man now, Dumbledore. Besides, you're not going to do anything to me. Adriana told me how you slept together. And while I find that thought in and of itself repulsive, what I find thoroughly disgusting is the fact that you'd use a young girl like that. She said it was a long time ago. She must have been at Hogwarts still. A student Dumbledore, I wonder what the Ministry would think about such a thing," Lucius shook his head disapprovingly.
Dumbledore's eyes grew wide. "Adriana told you that? Where is she?" Not waiting for an answer, he called out to her, though Lucius never heard a word.
Sitting on the stool in the barn, milking the cow, Adriana clapped her hands to her head and tried to shut out the yelling in her mind. She yelled back, telling Albus to shut up. She'd had time to think about things over the last few days, and found she resented Albus for telling her what to do. The pain she'd felt over the last several months had been because he told her to break up with Lucius. Standing up, Adriana apparated back to the house to save time.
As soon as Albus caught sight of Adriana, he called out to her in his mind, "Adriana, what are you doing? I thought we'd decided it was best to never see him," Albus jerked a thumb in Lucius direction, "again."
"You decided you mean. Besides there's no problem anymore, everything's been taken care of," Adriana said silently, glaring at Albus.
"What do you mean?" Albus asked.
"I wiped his memories of the museum and everything he's been researching. He doesn't remember anything," Adriana explained.
Lucius looked extremely frustrated, "Will you two talk out loud? Look, I know you can talk to each other in your minds, but all this silence is terrible."
"So, you took him back?" Albus asked out loud.
"Yes I did, thank you very much," Adriana answered haughtily.
"Do you know how much stress you're causing me?" He asked Adriana.
"Well, you know, you should have just married me when I wanted you to, and none of this would be happening, right?" Adriana put her hands on her hips.
"We are not going to go over that again, it's ancient history! I have to get back to Hogwarts. I guess you two are going to continue seeing one another, no matter what I try to do, so I'm not going to anymore. You're on your own now Adriana. Don't come running to me the next time he breaks your heart or you do something stupid." With that, Albus apparated out of Lucius and Adriana's sight.
Adriana sighed. She hated it when she fought with Albus. Turning to walk into the bathroom, she was faced with a thoroughly confused and upset Lucius. "You two were going to get married?"
"Oh, not now Lucius, please!" Adriana said as she walked to the bathroom and locked herself inside.