Chapter Three

Draco went down into the courtyard, and sat on his knees in front of a stone bench, his arms crossed on top of the bench, looking down, his hair hanging to his nose. He slammed his fist hard against the bench, not even thinking about the bit of pain his hand was feeling. He sat there, just thinking about what to do for a while. Then he stood. He walked to the dungeons, and into the common room. Everyone had left for dinner by now, and were realizing that Tabby really wasn't there. He grabbed a broom, not caring who's it was. He also went up to the girls dorm for a moment. Up there, as he knew would be, was a picture of him and tabby, sitting next to Tabitha's bed. He took it out of the frame, and put it in his robe pocket. He then left the dorm, heading to kitchen to grab some food before he left. Just then, one of the boys came into the kitchen, and leant against the doorway.

"So, where you heading to, Malfoy." they asked

"The manor" said Draco, without looking up, not even caring to notice which student it was.

" just bring her back." they said.

"So you believe me?" he said, spinning around to see Kino

"I never said that. I do believe that she's gone. And we all want her back." he said, not believing he was trusting the rescue of Tabby to Draco.

Draco nodded.

"I will Kino" he said.

"Thanks..." said Kino.

"One more thing.." said Kino

"hmm?"

"Why did you lie to Tabby?"

"What do you mean?"

"You told her your mother was killed, when she was just here yesterday."

"what are you talking about" said Draco shakily.

"Bunny told me what you said."

"Oh.. That... Um.."

"What were you trying to hide?" asked Kino.

"Nothing.. I just, cant tell her the truth about that..." he said.

"Why not?"

"Because, it would hurt her..."

"How?"

"Because."

"NO! I want to know Why, and I want to know now Draco!!" he screamed.

"Why do you Care anyways!"

"Because, she's my sister." he said, his voice quiet again.

"What?"
"Yeah, small world isn't it?"

Draco sighed.

"Fine… But only because you're her brother. When I dropped the amulet, I didn't care about anything. I only cared about power. Once I left Hogwarts because, because me and Tabitha got into a blow out argument. I didn't even care about her that night at Halloween. After realizing i lost the amulet, Tabitha wrote me. She wanted to know why I had changed. I made up the story that my father controlled me. I had realized that she thought poorly of me. After that small fact ran through my head a thousand times, i felt guilty. I could have killed her!" he said, yelling his final sentence, tears in his eyes.

"So I said my father was controlling me, and that the amulet was only a keep sake. Her jinx wont work if I did use it for what it was."

"And what was it really?" asked Kino, sounding p/oed.

"It belonged to Voldemort, believe it or not. Its said that when used with a healing spell, a spell of good, it gives the user powers. Its a trick. Most think 'bad spell, bad charm, not good.' But in reality, 'bad charm, good spell, not good.' I couldn't let her know that I wasn't afraid to kill her.. that I did all that to you, that I killed her uncle..." said Draco. At this, Kino came at him, and wanted to wrap his hand around Draco's through, but his hand went right through Draco.

"Your very lucky I'm dead!" screamed Kino.

"You lie to my sister, who you claim to care about, about something so big, she almost died!! And you killed her uncle too! My father!! If you really cared, you would have never, even shown your face on Halloween, and would have stayed away...." he said finally.

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Back at the Manor... Tabby was in for a shock..

Narcissa entered the room, followed by two men, who seemed to be treating her as Lucius was treating Tabby....

"Narcissa!" screamed tabby, as she ran up to Narcissa, and they hugged.

"Tabitha... I thought you were dead.." she said.

"I thought the same of you..." said Tabitha confused as they parted, looking at each other with confused expression.

"Who told you I was dead?" asked Tabitha, as they still stood, and the two men left.

"Lucius. I no longer have the respect to call him my Husband." she said vagrantly as she looked Lucius' way.

"What about you?" finished Narcissa.

It took Tabitha a moment, then she turned her head, and stared into the gray eyes of the boy who's smile shined brightly, winking at her, as he laughed. Narcissa looked that way.

"Draco… Draco said it." she finally said.

"Why? Why would he lie?"

"I don't know. He had, a snake amulet. He said it had been yours, that he gave it to you. That Lucius had died, which we all thought, and then his haters killed you… Draco lost the amulet, and I found it. It was 'all he had left of you'." she told her practically-mother.

"If you don't mind, I don't think our chef will appreciate it much if or food goes to waste. Sit down, sit down." gestured Lucius. Narcissa sat at the end of the table, Tabitha sitting next to her. Narcissa ate very little, pushing her food around. Tabitha sat there, her arms crossed in front of her on the table.

"Now dear, you must eat." encouraged Narcissa.

"I'm not that hungry…" said Tabitha, and she stood up, threw her napkin to the floor, and ran to her room.

Narcissa glanced Lucius an evil look, then got up, and ran after Tabitha. Lucius only grinned as he continued to eat.

Tabitha threw herself on her bed. She looked much as Bell did when she did the same thing, after the Beast told her that dinning with him was not optional. He shoulders bobbed, and tears fled her eyes into a massive river. Narcissa came in, and closed the door. She sat next to Tabby. Tabitha sat up, and threw her arms around Narcissa.

"What's happening." she asked through her tears.

"Shhh.. Shh now child. It will be alright.. It will be alright." replied Narcissa, as the wind outside created a whistling sound, blowing about the snow, perfecting the scene.

What they didn't know, was that in the fire place behind them and out of their eyes' view, was another pair of eyes, staring mainly at Tabitha, looking as if tears could fall. Only one did. Before he pulled away, the words;

"Tabitha… I love you.", were spoken from Draco's mouth.