Congratulations, you get a long chapter. I've been working on this a little
bit at a time for the past four days and now I'm bringing it to you! The
worst part is sitting here and typing the mother out but I'm listening to
PoA's soundtrack and it makes it a little easier. I LOVE LOVE LOVE window
to the past and Buckbeak's flight...so pretty, I love the pan flutes in them.
Ummm anyway, sorry about that! The start of some hot sexy Malfoy lovin' is
ahead, haha. It doesn't get to graphic, yet. I forgot to thank my reviews
last time I posted a chapter so thanks are in order for chapters nine and
ten which you will find fallowing this chapter.
Disclaimer – Plot is mine, Characters are not.
Anyway, enough banter from me. Chapter Eleven: A lesson from Death.
Draco stared up into piercing gray eyes that mirrored his own. This was it, the Dark Mark. The one thing he had so cleverly been evading since his father had brought it up last summer during his birthday when he was considered old enough to understand the meaning and horror behind searing the great Dark Lord Voldemort.
"So...you're finally ready? I was beginning to think you'd never join us Draco." Lucius said in his normal cold drawling tone. "I was worried maybe you'd gone off and joined up with Dumbledore and his little band of do- gooders. We couldn't have that, could we?" There was a mocking way it spilled off his lips that ran chills up Draco's spine as if he knew that was exactly what he had done.
"I wouldn't do that." Draco liked through his teeth. The way his father talked about it in that seething voice made him doubt his choices and feel ashamed.
"Of course you wouldn't. You are after all a Malfoy." His father took him by the shoulder and led him into the crowded room.
"Gentlemen!" Lucius ' voice boomed as he stepped up onto the circular platform in the middle of the room. "Governors." He turned to the men sitting in high backed chairs behind him and bowed slightly. "Today my son is to become a Death Eater!" A cheer rose from the masked crowd, another one to join their army of killers.
"It is my proud honor as a governor to welcome this young man into a life of servitude to our great Lord!" Lucius paused "But it gives me even more honor as a Father!" Icy eyes made a connection again as Draco looked to his Father. "Come my son."
Draco closed his eyes briefly before taking that fateful step towards his father's outstretched arm. He felt sick but no t just because he didn't want to be in this position ready to be accepted into something so evil but because he was actually excited to be there in this moment. It had been something pitted deep into him taught over and over that this was right and those thoughts that Draco had learned to burry deep away bubbled up as he was caught up in the moment. The pride Lucius was emitting left Draco with a sick feeling of satisfaction.
"I know this is wrong." Draco whispered under his breath. 'What am I doing? I cant do this!' he though panic stricken as he felt the sleeve of his shirt being rolled up past his elbow. His muscles tightened under his father's steady grip now lifting his arm higher preparing it for the mark that would soon taint his snow-white skin.
Lucius brought his wand down upon Draco's arm and spoke. "Do you promise to serve the Dark Lord for the rest of your mortal life? By accepting this mark you acknowledge that you give your body and soul to the better of wizarding as we know it. To preserve the rarity that is a pure blooded wizard and restore it to what it once was.
"Yes." There was no hesitation in Draco's voice he was surprised at himself. Draco watched as his father touched his wand to his arm and watched slowly as the dorm of the Dark Mark began taking shape on his skin. It veined its way like a snake turning and twisting. Draco felt the most pleasurable feeling throughout his whole body. It was pure ecstasy. He related the feeling to soaring free above the world below on a broomstick without a care in the world. That was the closes he could relate it to but it was even better then that. The pain and agony that he imagined he would received from the Dark Mark never came.
Before he knew it the feeling was gone, ripped away from him, leaving him numb. He looked down at his arm feeling slightly dizzy now from the head rush. Staring back at him were two hollow eye sockets of the skull pulsating green.
"Another soul joins our ranks, nay, our family!" Lucius swept Draco's arm up and raised it for all to see. Draco's head dropped, he was so drained he barely had the energy to support his own frame.
"You must feel a little sick." Lucius noticed his boys lolling head. "Diggory, get Draco out of here for rest. I have some jobs for him later that will requite his full strength. Rest well my son."
A masked figure Draco could only assume was Diggory answering his fathers call lead Draco off the platform and through the doors he first entered.
Draco narrowed his eyes. Diggory seemed different, shorter maybe? Draco shook his head. There had to of been some other kind of side affects then just the drowsiness. Draco's eyelids drooped and he found himself slumping onto Diggory's shoulder. He heard the masked Death Eater groan a little under the extra eight barring down on his shoulders.
"Diggory?" Draco's legs were wear, he felt as though eh had been walking for miles. "Diggory lets stop. Just for a little while, I cant hardly walk." Draco slumped his whole weight onto the wizards shoulders now, he felt him struggle to keep them both standing. Draco never found out if Diggory managed to keep them both in an upright position. He slipped away, down and down in a clouded haze away from everything that had just happened to him.
"Get my father. I want the Dark Mark." The words came ringing around him over and over again in the pitch black. Suddenly with a swirl of color the scene of him receiving the mark played before him, he was seeing things through the eyes of the mass of Death Eaters watching on.
"...But even more so my honor as a father." Draco's head snapped up and he watched his own body go ridged as he enjoyed the pleasure of the glowing green tattoo etching itself deep into his skin. Suddenly he was ripped from the scene as though tight elastic ha shot him back after being pulled to tight then released.
He found himself in unfamiliar settings a Death Eater mask laid next to him.
"Yes Professor."
"Hermione." Draco recognized her voice.
"Draco! You're up!" Hermione ran over and perched herself on the bed next to him she was soon fallowed by Dumbledore entering the room closing the door behind him with a click of the lock.
"I see you've received a rater interesting tattoo Mr. Malfoy." Dumbledore spoke. Draco grabbed at his forearm.
"I can explain. It was the only way I could get in. Diggory...Where did he go?" Draco took a quick look around the room. "Without it I couldn't get in and the meeting it was important...I though I could maybe find things out. I needed to know what they were going to do." Draco paused realizing he now had a Dark Mark and absolutely no information. He frowned even more upset with himself now then before.
"Your sacrifice, dangerous as it was, is not in vain. Don't be trouble by it." Once again Draco swore that Dumbledore was reading minds. "And as for Diggory, he wouldn't be found here...not now at least. The one you thought was Diggory was actually Miss Granger and she was the one who dragged you to safety dressed in the Dark Lords cloaks and mask. Now you find yourself at your father's side in Voldemort's most inner circle but we must use this to our advantage. It will be dangerous, I wont lie, but are you willing to take chances for the better of the wizarding world?
'This sounds familiar, more oaths of allegiance.' Draco thought.
"Yes sir, but this mark..." Draco looked down at it. "Its more than just a mark, I could feel things...I still feel them inside of me and I'm afraid I'll change."
"Don't have any fears just yet. For now you need to just rest." Dumbledore of course knew more then he lead on. Draco could see it in the old man's eyes, he knew he was right.
He had left Hermione and Draco alone with an uncomfortable silence between them.
"We should have never gone there. I should have listened to you. Because I didn't you went all pig headed and Slytherin on me and just had to prove you were right."
"Hermione..." Draco had wanted to apologize.
"Draco, you're so stupid." Hermione said in a hushed tone as she looked down at his arm.
"Herm—"Hermione's lips caught his and they fell back into the softness of the bed. Draco still tired from the experience of the evening was at the mercy of Hermione. She held his face with two hands and places small kisses here and there catching his mouth every once in a while in a eruption of pure passion. Draco snaked an arm around her holding him tight to her and the other hand danced over her back with light touching and caressing.
Hands roamed, tore and pulled at clothing exploring each part of the others body.
"Draco." Hermione breathed, he brushed his lips against her mouth again not wanting to stop what they had started.
"Draco." Hermione said a little more firmly and pulled back. "Before this goes any further I just have something I think I should tell you."
Oh that was awful of me.
Please read and review, it really fuels me to write and post chapters faster!! Thank you!
Taka TakaEnnaMSN.COM
To the reviewers.
Chapter Nine –
Gamesprite Badger – Im trying to keep it going and uh the "togetherness" may be happening next chapter.
Princess Faye – Thank you!
Autumn Malfoy – Here it is and I hope to update again soon, keep the reviews coming!
April Showers -- Hermione is a you don't get to find out until later!
Anna – Thank you very much! Glad I was able to break out of the typical D/Hr fic!
Blue-Dreamz – I have! And there is more to come please keep reviewing!
Crazy – Thank you! More on the way!
Eva – Thank you, yeah things are heating up.
Lazy – Thank you so much, I hope to update more frequently.
Cookies – Thank you and I'll try to get things up ASAP!
Mdemanatee – Thanks and I'll try!
Heather – Oh come on! I love Lucius!
Alexis McLean – Thank you, glad to hear it!
Hobbit Shortness – No Lucius is the awesome! You can't kill him! Without him my story would die!
Water Demon – Thank you! More then kisses coming soon.
Karly – mwahaha I love your rhyming skillz of doom!
TriGemini – Yes even more action going on and plot advancement! Yeah Draco has been in a funk...maybe Im in a funk...he usually always reflects me somehow when I write.
ChipStick – Hopefully he makes the right choice, though given chapter ten and this one....maybe not. Haha thanks for the review!
Paper Star – Oh Em Gee. My beta! I forgot haha until I got to this part. I don't even know if youre around or on the D/Hr scene even more...anyways thank you for your fun spaztastic reviews!
Rhiannon – Thank you, yes twist are fun fun fun!
Chapter Ten –
Gamesprite Badger – I really don't want to piss anyone off. Lol I'm sure I did when I dropped this story a while ago, glad I picked it back up, hopefully ill be able to finish it this go round. Thank you for the review!
TriGemini – No, didn't happen. In fact Lucius was thrilled! As you saw...Thank you for the review!
Sweetytweety – LOL I'll try to keep the updates coming! Thanks for reviewing!
Meew – Deep down in the depths of his heart (if he has one) I think Draco has the ability to be good in JK's little world...in mine it's a definite that he can be good, but not to good...it would ruin his whole coolness and sex factor I think. Haha I rambled. Oh well. Thanks for the review!
Jay'a and Shiane -- I'm sure it got even more interesting now! Haha Thank you for your review!
Disclaimer – Plot is mine, Characters are not.
Anyway, enough banter from me. Chapter Eleven: A lesson from Death.
Draco stared up into piercing gray eyes that mirrored his own. This was it, the Dark Mark. The one thing he had so cleverly been evading since his father had brought it up last summer during his birthday when he was considered old enough to understand the meaning and horror behind searing the great Dark Lord Voldemort.
"So...you're finally ready? I was beginning to think you'd never join us Draco." Lucius said in his normal cold drawling tone. "I was worried maybe you'd gone off and joined up with Dumbledore and his little band of do- gooders. We couldn't have that, could we?" There was a mocking way it spilled off his lips that ran chills up Draco's spine as if he knew that was exactly what he had done.
"I wouldn't do that." Draco liked through his teeth. The way his father talked about it in that seething voice made him doubt his choices and feel ashamed.
"Of course you wouldn't. You are after all a Malfoy." His father took him by the shoulder and led him into the crowded room.
"Gentlemen!" Lucius ' voice boomed as he stepped up onto the circular platform in the middle of the room. "Governors." He turned to the men sitting in high backed chairs behind him and bowed slightly. "Today my son is to become a Death Eater!" A cheer rose from the masked crowd, another one to join their army of killers.
"It is my proud honor as a governor to welcome this young man into a life of servitude to our great Lord!" Lucius paused "But it gives me even more honor as a Father!" Icy eyes made a connection again as Draco looked to his Father. "Come my son."
Draco closed his eyes briefly before taking that fateful step towards his father's outstretched arm. He felt sick but no t just because he didn't want to be in this position ready to be accepted into something so evil but because he was actually excited to be there in this moment. It had been something pitted deep into him taught over and over that this was right and those thoughts that Draco had learned to burry deep away bubbled up as he was caught up in the moment. The pride Lucius was emitting left Draco with a sick feeling of satisfaction.
"I know this is wrong." Draco whispered under his breath. 'What am I doing? I cant do this!' he though panic stricken as he felt the sleeve of his shirt being rolled up past his elbow. His muscles tightened under his father's steady grip now lifting his arm higher preparing it for the mark that would soon taint his snow-white skin.
Lucius brought his wand down upon Draco's arm and spoke. "Do you promise to serve the Dark Lord for the rest of your mortal life? By accepting this mark you acknowledge that you give your body and soul to the better of wizarding as we know it. To preserve the rarity that is a pure blooded wizard and restore it to what it once was.
"Yes." There was no hesitation in Draco's voice he was surprised at himself. Draco watched as his father touched his wand to his arm and watched slowly as the dorm of the Dark Mark began taking shape on his skin. It veined its way like a snake turning and twisting. Draco felt the most pleasurable feeling throughout his whole body. It was pure ecstasy. He related the feeling to soaring free above the world below on a broomstick without a care in the world. That was the closes he could relate it to but it was even better then that. The pain and agony that he imagined he would received from the Dark Mark never came.
Before he knew it the feeling was gone, ripped away from him, leaving him numb. He looked down at his arm feeling slightly dizzy now from the head rush. Staring back at him were two hollow eye sockets of the skull pulsating green.
"Another soul joins our ranks, nay, our family!" Lucius swept Draco's arm up and raised it for all to see. Draco's head dropped, he was so drained he barely had the energy to support his own frame.
"You must feel a little sick." Lucius noticed his boys lolling head. "Diggory, get Draco out of here for rest. I have some jobs for him later that will requite his full strength. Rest well my son."
A masked figure Draco could only assume was Diggory answering his fathers call lead Draco off the platform and through the doors he first entered.
Draco narrowed his eyes. Diggory seemed different, shorter maybe? Draco shook his head. There had to of been some other kind of side affects then just the drowsiness. Draco's eyelids drooped and he found himself slumping onto Diggory's shoulder. He heard the masked Death Eater groan a little under the extra eight barring down on his shoulders.
"Diggory?" Draco's legs were wear, he felt as though eh had been walking for miles. "Diggory lets stop. Just for a little while, I cant hardly walk." Draco slumped his whole weight onto the wizards shoulders now, he felt him struggle to keep them both standing. Draco never found out if Diggory managed to keep them both in an upright position. He slipped away, down and down in a clouded haze away from everything that had just happened to him.
"Get my father. I want the Dark Mark." The words came ringing around him over and over again in the pitch black. Suddenly with a swirl of color the scene of him receiving the mark played before him, he was seeing things through the eyes of the mass of Death Eaters watching on.
"...But even more so my honor as a father." Draco's head snapped up and he watched his own body go ridged as he enjoyed the pleasure of the glowing green tattoo etching itself deep into his skin. Suddenly he was ripped from the scene as though tight elastic ha shot him back after being pulled to tight then released.
He found himself in unfamiliar settings a Death Eater mask laid next to him.
"Yes Professor."
"Hermione." Draco recognized her voice.
"Draco! You're up!" Hermione ran over and perched herself on the bed next to him she was soon fallowed by Dumbledore entering the room closing the door behind him with a click of the lock.
"I see you've received a rater interesting tattoo Mr. Malfoy." Dumbledore spoke. Draco grabbed at his forearm.
"I can explain. It was the only way I could get in. Diggory...Where did he go?" Draco took a quick look around the room. "Without it I couldn't get in and the meeting it was important...I though I could maybe find things out. I needed to know what they were going to do." Draco paused realizing he now had a Dark Mark and absolutely no information. He frowned even more upset with himself now then before.
"Your sacrifice, dangerous as it was, is not in vain. Don't be trouble by it." Once again Draco swore that Dumbledore was reading minds. "And as for Diggory, he wouldn't be found here...not now at least. The one you thought was Diggory was actually Miss Granger and she was the one who dragged you to safety dressed in the Dark Lords cloaks and mask. Now you find yourself at your father's side in Voldemort's most inner circle but we must use this to our advantage. It will be dangerous, I wont lie, but are you willing to take chances for the better of the wizarding world?
'This sounds familiar, more oaths of allegiance.' Draco thought.
"Yes sir, but this mark..." Draco looked down at it. "Its more than just a mark, I could feel things...I still feel them inside of me and I'm afraid I'll change."
"Don't have any fears just yet. For now you need to just rest." Dumbledore of course knew more then he lead on. Draco could see it in the old man's eyes, he knew he was right.
He had left Hermione and Draco alone with an uncomfortable silence between them.
"We should have never gone there. I should have listened to you. Because I didn't you went all pig headed and Slytherin on me and just had to prove you were right."
"Hermione..." Draco had wanted to apologize.
"Draco, you're so stupid." Hermione said in a hushed tone as she looked down at his arm.
"Herm—"Hermione's lips caught his and they fell back into the softness of the bed. Draco still tired from the experience of the evening was at the mercy of Hermione. She held his face with two hands and places small kisses here and there catching his mouth every once in a while in a eruption of pure passion. Draco snaked an arm around her holding him tight to her and the other hand danced over her back with light touching and caressing.
Hands roamed, tore and pulled at clothing exploring each part of the others body.
"Draco." Hermione breathed, he brushed his lips against her mouth again not wanting to stop what they had started.
"Draco." Hermione said a little more firmly and pulled back. "Before this goes any further I just have something I think I should tell you."
Oh that was awful of me.
Please read and review, it really fuels me to write and post chapters faster!! Thank you!
Taka TakaEnnaMSN.COM
To the reviewers.
Chapter Nine –
Gamesprite Badger – Im trying to keep it going and uh the "togetherness" may be happening next chapter.
Princess Faye – Thank you!
Autumn Malfoy – Here it is and I hope to update again soon, keep the reviews coming!
April Showers -- Hermione is a you don't get to find out until later!
Anna – Thank you very much! Glad I was able to break out of the typical D/Hr fic!
Blue-Dreamz – I have! And there is more to come please keep reviewing!
Crazy – Thank you! More on the way!
Eva – Thank you, yeah things are heating up.
Lazy – Thank you so much, I hope to update more frequently.
Cookies – Thank you and I'll try to get things up ASAP!
Mdemanatee – Thanks and I'll try!
Heather – Oh come on! I love Lucius!
Alexis McLean – Thank you, glad to hear it!
Hobbit Shortness – No Lucius is the awesome! You can't kill him! Without him my story would die!
Water Demon – Thank you! More then kisses coming soon.
Karly – mwahaha I love your rhyming skillz of doom!
TriGemini – Yes even more action going on and plot advancement! Yeah Draco has been in a funk...maybe Im in a funk...he usually always reflects me somehow when I write.
ChipStick – Hopefully he makes the right choice, though given chapter ten and this one....maybe not. Haha thanks for the review!
Paper Star – Oh Em Gee. My beta! I forgot haha until I got to this part. I don't even know if youre around or on the D/Hr scene even more...anyways thank you for your fun spaztastic reviews!
Rhiannon – Thank you, yes twist are fun fun fun!
Chapter Ten –
Gamesprite Badger – I really don't want to piss anyone off. Lol I'm sure I did when I dropped this story a while ago, glad I picked it back up, hopefully ill be able to finish it this go round. Thank you for the review!
TriGemini – No, didn't happen. In fact Lucius was thrilled! As you saw...Thank you for the review!
Sweetytweety – LOL I'll try to keep the updates coming! Thanks for reviewing!
Meew – Deep down in the depths of his heart (if he has one) I think Draco has the ability to be good in JK's little world...in mine it's a definite that he can be good, but not to good...it would ruin his whole coolness and sex factor I think. Haha I rambled. Oh well. Thanks for the review!
Jay'a and Shiane -- I'm sure it got even more interesting now! Haha Thank you for your review!