Chapter 34: Flashbacks

Hermione and Draco walked quickly, and separately, through the castle to the Room of Requirement. Hermione got there first and thought of the same room she always thought of. Draco appeared just as the door appeared. Draco sat on the couch and pulled Hermione onto his lap and pulled her into a deep, passionate kiss.

"So what is the daughter of the Dark Lord coming to a mere servant for?" Draco said teasingly.

"Dumbldore told me my mum, my birth mom, is coming to Hogwarts" Draco's smile turned to a look of concern. "Yes, but he refuses to give me any information. And if father knew that she was coming, well, I do not know what would happen. He never has mentioned her before. I wish I knew who she was. I mean, Dumbledore sounded like it was really important and he is having the Heads working on a special assignment. Do you think that they're related? And Voldemort has been killing and..."

"Shh. Don't worry 'Mione" Draco wrapped his arms around her "I'm sure everything will be fine"

"Has your father ever mentioned my mother?"

"Well, I do recall hearing something as a lad"

13 YEARS AGO(Draco's POV)

I was walking around the manor for my mommy.

"Mommy! Wea aw you! (where are you)" and then I stopped in front of daddy's room. I always liked to go in there, but when his big friends came over I wasn't allowed in. The big men scared me. "Daddy?" I said as I creaked the door open. "Daddy!" I walked into the room. 'Maybe daddy is playing hade and seek with me' I thought, but then I heard voices in the hall. One of them was Mr. Zucchini's (Zabini or however it is spelled). He always scared me but when he brought his son the two of us would play together. I quickly ran behind the plant in the corner because daddy gets mad at me when I go into his room when he isn't there.

"Malfoy, what are we to do about the girl?" Mr. Zucchini said

"She is the only daughter, let alone magical blood relative, of the Dark Lord. We must get her away from that accursed mother of her's, and the family too. Our only problem now is how to do it."

"Why not just kill them all?"

"Because they are the ruling family of the wizarding world!" Daddy screamed as he hit his table. "We cannot just waltz into the palace and take the princess's daughter!"

I got scared. Daddy had been angry before, but never this scary. I began to cry. Daddy came over to me and picked me up

"Draco, what are you doing in here? You know that you're not allowed in here when I am not"

"sniff I-I thought you were playing hide and seek." I said

Daddy put me down and walked me out of the room, locking the door behind him.

End Flashback

"Oh my god! 'Mione, I think that I know who your mum might be" Draco said.

"What do you mean?" Hermoine asked, curious about Draco's nervous, yet excited state.

"Okay, well when we were little, there was a ruling family over the wizarding world, the-"

"Ralds!" Hermione turned to her boyfriend "but they only had one child, a daughter who ran away at the end of her first year at Hogwarts, only coming back for the school year and at then at the and of seventh year. She can't be my mum, she was accepted two years early because she was home schooled until she was advanced enough to attend and even then Voldemort was a seventh year."

"Yeah, but-" Draco tried to interrupt

"But then again she was sent back to learn thirty years in the past" Hermione continued to ramble.

"And don't forget that before it was known that she was pregnant she was banished, at least until they found out that she was a princess if she would marry her betrothed and found her helping to tear down the Berlin Wall."

"And don't forget-"

"But she didn't accept the invitation to become a princess again, and then disappeared again when Harry destroyed father, she came back to the kingdom, then ruled by her betrothed after he struck a deal with her parents and right away married him, giving birth to her child a few weeks later."

"And that was-"

"But as soon as the baby was born a dark cloud came over the castle for one week straight. People say that the king was upset because of the child and that he never wanted it."

"And-" Draco trued to cut in again, becoming annoyed by all of the interruptions.

"And then after that attempt when the baby, who she named Emma, was like three or something, and then the princess or someone took her somewhere to keep her protected and Emma was never seen again."

"But don't forget that-"

"But I can't be that baby because-"

"HERMIONE!" Draco yelled at her.

"What?"

"They checked the baby's blood after the attack. It is only known to a select few that the princess's baby was the daughter of Tom Marvolo Riddle!" Draco happily said remembering everything, also happy that he had finally gotten a word in.

"Oh my god! I remember being attacked in a large garden" Hermione said, going onto deep concentration.

Flashback

I was standing in a large garden with mommy. She was sitting on a stone bench.

Her beautiful hair flowed down her shoulders, covering her wet eyes.

I put my small hand on her's and looked up at my mother. She sniffed and looked at me. A weak smile came to her beautiful face.

"Wot's the matta mommy?" I asked her.

She picked me up by my hips and placed me on her lap. She wrapped her beautifully decorated arms around me (I had a very large vocabulary for someone my age).

"Mommy is just sad that your daddy is so far away and she does not know where he is." She said in a soft voice.

"But daddy is inside wif grama." I said confused.

"Yes honey, he is" she said slowly, as though trying to make me feel better.

"But I'm confused. Why are you sad about AAHH! MOMMY!" I shrieked as a force pulled me from my mommy.

"EMMA!" She screamed at me. "NOOO! TOM!"

"Dearest, what is GAK!" Daddy said as he rushed out, followed by grammy, grama, grampy, grampa, and everyone else.

"ACCIO EMMA!" Mommy yelled as she pulled out her wand.

I tried to swim down to my mommy, but the force was too strong and mommy's spell wasn't strong enough.

I began to cry.

"TOM! BRING ME MY BABY! I KNOW THAT YOU ARE ALIVE AND HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS!" Mommy yelled into the sky as she put down her wand.

"She is the spawn of evil, conceived out of wedlock. Let the child go" Daddy said in a calm voice.

"DADDY!" I cried to the cruel man. Tears formed into my eyes hearing this from the man I had loved so much.

"YOU BITCH!" Mommy screamed. "Mother, watch Emma and I swear if anything happens to her there will be hell to pay for everyone." With that mommy jumped on top of daddy and began to punch his face. She jumped on top of his fallen body and continued to put daddy in pain.

"MOMMY! HELP ME!" I cried to the most important person in the world to me.

"HONEY!" Mommy muttered something and her broomstick flew to her. She jumped onto it as it flew into the air.

She flew up beside me and took my hand. She squeezed it tightly and pulled me into her arms. We held tightly to each other as she tried to fly me away.

I opened my squeezed closed eyes and looked down. Everything was blurry because of the tears in my eyes, but I was able to see the guards attacking people in black robes.

The men in black (A/N lol) ran away quickly and disappeared with a large crack. Mommy and I were slowly lowered by one of the guards who caught us as we came closer to the ground.

Mommy ambushed me with huggies and kissies, which I gladly returned with a tight hug.

"Ruby, I told you that this would happen" Mommy's friend Hermione said to her quietly. "We must do it, for her safety."

"No! I refuse to give her up. She is all I have left to remember him by. And without her, my sun would never shine." Mommy said.

I looked at the two ladies in confusion.

"Mommy" I whispered as I pulled on her skirt. Mommy leant down and picked me up. "I do not want you to be sad or not have sun," I said as I snuggled into her hair.

"Ruby, I am sorry but it is the only way. I know of a family, muggles. They work in the government, the muggle and magical connection. They can take good care of her, and you can see her any time you want to. Their undercover identities are muggle dentists, so you can check up on her twice a year, and if you have cavities more."

Mommy sighed.

"Please, it is for her. We can even change her name so that she is protected and wipe her memory so this does not upset her or anything" Ruby looked at my mommy with pleading eyes.

"RUBY! Oh my dear, thank goodness that you are okay!" Daddy said. His face was not bloody anymore, but his nose did look funny. He leant in for a kiss, but mommy stepped out of the way and put out her foot so he would trip, which he did. "That little brat is the cause of your clouded mind! We must be rid of her"

"Stay the hell away from me. Stay the hell away from my daughter" mommy said in a cool voice.

"I am the king, and if I wish it, so shall it be! Guards, take that child!" daddy called.

Mommy picked me up and handed me to Hermione. She kissed me on the forehead.

Tears formed in her eyes.

"Always remember that your mommy loves you" she said quietly.

"MOMMY!" I cried out to her, not knowing what was going on as Hermione and I disappeared with a crack.

End Flashback

Draco looked at me with concern in his eyes. I had obviously spaced out.

"Mommy" I whispered. Tears streamed from my eyes.

I could remember it so perfectly now. As soon as Hermione took me to a house she removed my memory so that I would not be upset or anything and so that it would be easier for me.

I felt Draco wrap his arms around me slowly.

"I remember that father came home one day upset. He said that his plan had worked and that they would be receiving news soon, but the news never came. I overheard him tell my mother that Dick never got the job done. That is the name of the king." Draco said quietly.

"My father never wanted me. He was always trying to be rid of me, no matter the cost. One time he tried to teach me how to fly, by pushing me off of a broom" Hermione giggled, followed by Draco. "Wow, and I was only two. Luckily though, I grabbed onto his ankle in fear and pulled him down, using him as a soft landing" the two began to crack up.

"Well what are you going to do?" Draco asked as soon as their laughing died out.

"What do you mean?" Hermione asked wiping a tear from her eye.

"Are you going to tell your dad or not? What are you going to say to her? Are you going to tell Pothead and Weasel?"

"Stop being mean to them, and by the way, thanks a bunch for voting for Vicktor to come to the dance. I hate you so much"

"I didn't want to tell you this, but I've caught them spying on us." Draco said quietly

"What! They would never! HOW COULD YOU SAY A THING LIKE THAT?"

Draco pointed at the door.

Hermione opened it and in fell two figures, but they were not Harry or Ron.