Chapter 39
Susan stood her ground and Arabella put a hand upon Susan's shoulder for support, "No, your wrong Autumn. We Potters, don't enjoy being in the spotlight, we just always get stuck there. Unlike you and that vermin you call your father."
Autumn stepped up in Susan's face, "My father defeated that Mudblood lover you call your father and that Mudblood you call your mother, means that my father and I will defeat you too."
Susan also stepped forward, "No, Autumn, your so wrong. You see, the reason your father didn't succeed in killing Harry and I was because he couldn't. Yes I did get an upper hand in getting away, but Voldemort faced Harry face to face, more than once…if I'm correct, and you know that I am. I also got a hand, maybe not from the 'all powerful Voldemort', but from his right hand men. You are just going to have to face it, Harry and I will defeat your father. Most likely you too, but if not know for a fact that our children will." Susan then walked off with her head held high, Arabella trailing behind her totally stupefied.
After Susan and Arabella made it back to the Leaky Caldron to Floo back home, Arabella stopped Susan. "What got in to you back there?"
"I don't know, but I'm so sick and tired of her and that scum that she calls a father thinking that they can and will control Harry and my life. Just because they killed our mother and father doesn't mean a damned thing! We survived with a little lighting bolt scar to prove that we are survivors and that we will concur Voldemort for not only mum and dad, but all the families that were broken up because of that horrible piece of scum!"
Arabella grasped a table near them and sat down as tears began to stream down her face.
"Are you okay?" Susan sat next to her worried about her aunt.
"Yes, I'm fine. Just a little surprised," Susan gave her aunt a quizzical look. "Merlin knows you've got the famous Potter anger and James's charm, but I'd never in all of my days guessed that you'd have Lily's boldness and spunk. They both always stood up for what they believed in, and don't get me wrong I see James in Harry all the time, but he's the exact replicate of James You look identical to Lily and you are Lily made over," a single tear ran down both of their faces and they sat there for a few minutes until someone came around them and made both girls jump.
"Well, well, well. It's two of my favorite women," Sirius said trying to sound slick.
"Oh, well we're just sitting here waiting for a handsome prince to sweep us off of our feet." Arabella said trying her best not to crack up.
"Aww, man you two are making me sick I'm going back home," with that Susan Flooed back home.
Sirius and Bella just collapsed with laughter, "She sure does have James spirit doesn't she?" Sirius barely spoke between laughs.
Small Hagleton, Riddle House…..
Walking up the stairs and through the long hallway, she kept her eyes opened and tried not to blink at all. She had to remember this place as best as she could it would help all of them in the long run. But, once again that little prat was ruining her concentration, all she could here was his groaning and moaning through the spell-o tape that was over their mouths. They were now walking down a rickety staircase that went down into an old cellar and as she could now see that Draco and herself wouldn't be alone, there in front of her was her sister and mother. Draco was thrown on the floor and it felt as if the man that had Adora's arms was going to throw her, but in some weird way the man was jerked up the stairs and Adora gracefully walked down the stairs to meet her mother, sister, and nephew. Adora looked at her family members and all the spell-o tape came off of their mouths, but it didn't matter anyways. They could all yell as loud as they wanted, but they were deep in ground and no one would ever be able to hear them.
"How'd you do that?" Draco said with his mouth drooping at the floor.
"No, clue." Adora replied back speaking truthfully.
Larissa just chuckled, and Adora looked at her dying mother. It just wasn't fair that she'd finally found the woman that gave birth to her, and she'd be gone soon. The doctors had told them that Larissa had maybe five months yet, if she stayed in the hospital, but now there was no telling. There was a 'click', that told Adora that they'd been locked inside. The only problem was she had no clue where they were.
'To bad I'm not like Susan or Harry or Ginny, those three got the easy power, telepathic passage. At least they can talk to one another, nope not me, I'm stuck out here in this god forsaken place.' Adora got up and started feeling all of the stones in the old cellar, after an hour and her second and a half time of going around the cellar Draco just couldn't hold his tongue any longer.
"What the hell are you doing? Has the stupidity Potter charm hit you yet or what?" Draco said sounding as if he was about to pull out his hair, well that is if his arms weren't tied behind him.
"Trying to find away out of here," Adora snapped at Draco and he just rolled his eyes as she kept moving along the walls. "What the hell do you mean by the stupidity Potter charm, we're all sane people. Don't you mean why hasn't Draco been hit with the stupidity Malfoy charm?"
"And what makes you say that?" Draco said trying to stand up for himself.
"A POTTER WOULD NEVER KIDNAP THEIR OWN FAMILY MEMBERS SO THAT HE OR SHE WOULD NOT BE ALONE. ONLY YOUR GOOD FOR NOTHING PITIFUL FATHER WOULD!" Adora screamed at Draco.
Narcissa and Draco just looked at each other speechless, but Larissa just started laughing like a mad woman, after about five minutes of laughter she finally got control of herself.
"I told Narcissa that since the first day that she brought that trash home to meet me."
"Nice to know that I'm loved." Came a long drawing voice from the stairs that led you down into the cellar.
"Nice to see that your scum ass could finally greet us with your vermin present," Adora replied to him very sarcastically.
Lucius walked down and pulled Adora's face into his hands, "Alright, Potter. Keep talking like that and you'll end up just like disgusting father, your Mudblood loving brother, and that nasty Mudblood sister-in-law of yours."
Adora spit at him, "Shut your pie hole, Malfoy. You'll meet your end soon enough."
"Ahh," Lucius began to laugh at the young girl. "Making a threat are we, little Potter?"
"Not a threat, I saw it so in that case," Adora grinned the biggest grin she had at Lucius Malfoy. "It's a promise."
"What you mean that you 'seen' it?"
"Exactly what I said, I saw it. As in I'm a seer, you dumb ass." Adora said grinning at Lucius.
"Liar."
"Actually, I'm for once telling you the truth. All Potter women have the talent," Adora said grinning. "If you would have ever read a book written by Cassandra Gryffindor, she predicted it, that actually where I get it from. You know Godric Gryffindor's wife? My very great-grandmother." Adora tried to advance at Lucius, but she tripped and Draco caught her as soon as he did everything went hazy as she heard Lucius yelled at Draco.
There Adora was in an almost empty field, well it wasn't for long anyways. Lucius Malfoy was pacing around until his son approached him. Draco looked the same except more built and a little taller. The boy approached his father, "You wanted me?" Draco said in a lazy drawing voice.
Lucius nodded, "Leave her alone."
Draco stood there for a moment trying to think what his father was talking about. "Leave who alone?" Draco asked, but the way Draco said it scared Adora. Adora had never heard her nephew sound so angry.
"You know who I'm talking about," Lucius said his voice starting to growl
"No I don't," Draco said forcefully.
Lucius approached his son, they were so close that their noses almost touched. "I got rid of your grandmother, mother, and that buffoon you called your stepfather. If I have to I'll get rid of her too."
Draco's face softened at the mention of her, but his voice never failed him. "You had a chance before, and what happened? You blew it. Adora's right, all you live for is Voldemort. You don't even want me to be happy, you don't even want me to be with the girl that I love more than life it's self, the girl that I'd die for, the girl I want to marry and have children with."
"You are to marry a girl from the Slytherin house, not one who was sorted in Gryffindor." Draco roared, "Why not make it Slytherin's heir, Autumn loves you with all of her heart and soul. Why can't you return that love?" Lucius asked Draco.
"That wasn't love, I knew that you and Voldemort were up to something so I dated her to find out what you had planned. When I found out you wanted to hurt the only girl I ever loved I dumped Autumn. It's not my fault that Autumn fell in love with me, I don't love her! How many times do I have to tell you? Autumn is an evil person, I can't love Autumn. I love…."
"No! Don't you dare say that! You don't love that scum!" Lucius roared at his son. "You will leave her or I will disown you."
"Disown me, I don't care. I plan on changing my last name to Crane anyways. You killed my mother because she found the right person, and know you want the same with me?"
Lucius smiled at his son, "If that's what I've got to do then so be it."
Draco just shook his head pointed his wand at his father and muttered, "Avada Kedavra." Adora roared "NOOOOOOOOOO!"
Adora then began to come back from her vision and she heard a woman screaming. When Adora's eyes came back into focus there was blood around her in a circle and she heard Draco chanting something. Lucius was gone, and Draco stood there wrapping his bleeding arm back up, he then stopped chanting at the sight that Adora was conscious again. Narcissa was sobbing over a lifeless body. Adora looked up at Draco to see a single tear to roll down his face and she watched as it hit the cellar floor. Adora finally spoke up, "Why is there blood all around me in a circle? Why is your arm bleeding? Who is Narcissa crying over? Where's mum?"
Draco looked at Adora and she could tell it was all going to be bad news she was about to hear about.
"After you passed out father advanced on you to kill you, you know how he wants all the Potters dead. Father said that the Potter's need blood shed. Grandma jumped on him and told him to leave you alone and he turned around and performed the Avada Kedavra curse on her." Adora felt a rush of tears hit her as she was still sitting in the circle of blood, "I figured after he got your mum he'd come after you and I remembered reading in my Charms homework about the Circle of Blood, that it'll save a loved one you love. So I did it and started chanting the chant that Professor Flitwick told us. So I cut my arm to the blood around you. Father saw me and went to hit me but he was jerked out of the room like the men that brought us in here. Father looked as if he was terrified of you and ran. My mum is over there with Grandma, although of course she's already gone."
Adora sat there in silence thinking and letting it all float around in her head, 'I really am an orphan now. My foster parents are dead, my father is dead, and now my mum! What's next?'
Adora looked up at Draco and nodded at him. Adora began to get up to approach her sister and her mother's lifeless body. Adora kneeled next to her sister to look at her mother, Narcissa looked through her tear-stained eyes to see her baby sister. Adora wouldn't cry like her older sister, she wanted to get even. Adora looked up at her older sister, "He will pay for this."
Narcissa began to sob even harder, "Don't you dare! I can't bare to loose you, too!" Narcissa yelled while her whole body shook.
"Not me, unfortunately I won't have the pleasure of killing that nasty vermin." Adora said as she then turned to Draco.
'Who is he taking up for in my vision, so much to kill his own father?' Adora asked herself, Draco looked as mad as he had in the vision.
"Adora is right mum, father will pay." Draco said cracking his knuckles, "Lucius kidnapped all of us to kill all of you and raise me to rule with Voldemort, Autumn, and himself. Father not only wanted Grandma, you, and Adora, but also the Sadie Potter, Arabella Evans, and Ginny Weasley. Why you ask? I have no clue!" Draco realized the scene he was creating and shut up, but the thing that really got Adora's attention was that his fingers had scarlet and gold sparks at them. Adora must have been the only one to notice because the others didn't say a thing.
Draco stood up and walked up the stairs in the cellar and turned the door knob, still locked he squinted at it and the door slammed open. Adora's mouth dropped to the floor, this was impossible…or was it? "Mum the door is open we need to leave before he gets back, I'll get Grandma." Draco said coming back down the stairs to pick up his grandmother's lifeless body.
Draco walked out of the cellar first to enter the dining room in the old Riddle Home right above the fireplace there was a bowl of Floo Powder, "Where are we going to go?" Narcissa asked.
Adora threw some Floo Powder into the fireplace and yelled, "Office is Dumbledore's!"
"What?" Narcissa asked her son as she was totally lost.
"That's the Floo Powder address to Dumbledore's office, he told all of the Prefects, he wanted it different, something Voldemort was too stupid to figure out now, GO!" Narcissa was gone after she said the phrase Draco left with Larissa's dead body. When Draco entered Dumbledore's office Adora and Narcissa weren't alone with Dumbledore, they were accompanied by Arabella Evans, Professor McGonagall, Minister Black, and a pretty redhead with brilliant green eyes that matched Arabella's perfectly.
"Um, I don't mean to be rude Professor, but why is Ms. Evans, Minister Black, Professor McGonagall and um I'm sorry I don't know her name, here?" Draco replied the last part to the pretty redhead.
"Well, Mr. Malfoy," Draco flinched at his last name. "They were here before Adora, Narcissa, and yourself appeared, but obviously this is more important." Dumbledore replied looking at the young boy who was still holding his grandmother. "Mr. Malfoy, if you'll Floo to the ministry with Minister Black with Ms. Boyle-Crane you can start to get the funeral arrangements in order." They both nodded and were gone momentarily. Draco turned to Adora, "Ms. Potter you are excused from tonight's dinner and tomorrow's classes and dinner, here's a key to a suite in the Leaky Cauldron for you and Narcissa, you are to stay there. There will be security watching out for the two of you, and I won't take no for an answer. They both nodded, got the key from Dumbledore and Flooed to the Leaky Cauldron. McGonagall walked out to leave Dumbledore alone with Arabella and Susan.
"Well, Ms. Potter are you ready for dinner and your re-sorting?" Professor Dumbledore asked Susan.
"A little," Susan mumbled.
"Don't be nervous, Sweetheart." Arabella said putting an arm around her niece.
"What! How'd you know?" Susan asked totally lost.
"Sweetheart, I've already told you about the 'Evans Eyes'. The brilliant green means we are able to read other's minds, but there only two that we cannot."
"WHAT? THEN WHAT'S THE POINT?"
"Someone we truly love, and someone who's is so purely evil is who we cannot read."
"Well, I guess Seamus and I just aren't…." but they never found out what Seamus and Susan weren't about. Sirius and Draco appeared once again through the fireplace. "Well, Sirius and Arabella you are invited to dinner, of course." They both nodded and headed towards the Great Hall. "Mr. Malfoy, your mother and aunt are staying in a suite that I got for the three of you at The Leaky Cauldron, you are to go there now. You are excused for the next two days dinners and tomorrows classes."
"I won't be going," Draco said firmly. Dumbledore looked at him questionably. "Mum and Adora need time alone to sort this out, I promise I will be fine, I want to stay here."
Dumbledore nodded, "Very well then, but you still will not attend classes tomorrow, am I understood?" Draco nodded, "Well, then the two of you may want to head back to the Great Hall I think dinner has already begun, I will be there momentarily. Oh, yes Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Parkinson is greatly worried about you."
"Great." Draco mumbled not to happy. 'I really need to dump her,' Draco said to himself. Susan just giggled, reading minds was so much fun but Draco looked at her oddly.
The two teenagers left Dumbledore's office and began to walk down the hall in silence until Draco got up the nerve t say something to the pretty little redhead, "So are you new here?"
Susan smiled at him the smile was kind of familiar looking, but it warmed his heart. "I guess you could say that," she said smiling once again.
"Okay? So what house do you think you'll be in?" Crossing his fingers it would be Slytherin.
"I don't have to think, I know I'll be in Gryffindor."
"Oh, really? How do you know?"
"Sadie Susanna Potter, heir of Gryffindor could only truly be in Gryffindor."
"Your Potter's twin!" Draco asked totally flabbergasted.
"In the flesh, and formerly known as Susan Bones of Hufflepuff. Nice talking to you, Malfoy. There's your girlfriend and she doesn't look to happy that your talking to me, toodles." With that the very beautiful Sadie Susanna Potter left Draco so he could be alone with his girlfriend Pansy Parkinson.