A Mother's Vengeance
Chp.7 Finding Out
I woke-up and stretched my arms out, slowly crawling from my four poster bed. I'd been busy with so much homework as of lately that I didn't even know what day it was. It had been about two weeks since the exchange students had arrived here and already I'd had two run-ins with the Chang girl. I walked over to my closet and grabbed some low rise jeans. Once I had those on I looked in search of a long sleeved shirt. It would be Christmas soon and Keygan and I both were staying at Hogwarts and spending it together. Today we were heading into Hogsmeade to do shopping. I decided I was going to pick something our for Professor Malfoy, both of them. They had been so nice to me and something had drawn me to my transfiguration teacher.
[Christmas Eve]
Keygan and I walked into the Great Hall for Christmas Eve dinner and sat down at the Slytherin table. Mattie was sitting next to us with her new boyfriend Jason Miller who was now one of Keygan's friends. They were all spending Christmas together and they were going to spend the night in the room of requirement. They had decorated it up and had a big Christmas tree in it that had been decorated and had presents under it.
"So what time are we meeting in the room tonight?" Mattie asked me.
"Anytime between 11 and 2; if that's okay with you?" I asked, looking up from my plate at them.
"That's fine; we have a few things to do anyway." Mattie answered with a twinkle in her eye.
"Okay, we'll make sure we're in there some time around there. Are we all opening one present tonight?" I said looking back down at my plate and then back up for their answer.
"Sure." Mattie said but then Keygan added something.
"We should meet at 11:30. Then we can open a present at the stroke of mid- night." Keygan added.
"That's a good idea. Can we do that instead you guys?" I asked excitedly.
"Yeah, that'd be fun. What do you think Jason?" Mattie asked turning to him.
"Whatever makes you happy, love."
"Thanks Jason. That sounds great you guys. So, we'll see you at 11:30." Mattie said standing up and grabbing Jason's hand. She dragged him away from the table and they turned down the hall towards the dungeons.
[11:00p.m.]
"Come on Keygan, we have to stop now." I said a little out of breath.
"Why? It's only 11 o'clock." He said glancing at the clock.
"Cause, we have to meet up with Mattie and Jason."
"Fine." He said disappointed as he pulled away from kissing on my neck. "However, I intend on finishing this later." He whispered in my ear.
"Maybe." I said.
"What do you mean 'maybe'?"
"If you're a good little boy for me then I'll think about it." I said walking past him and opening the door. "Coming?"
"Umm...yeah." He said kind of shocked.
[11:59 p.m.]
"Okay everyone come sit by the tree." I shouted as I looked up at the clock. It struck 12 and I looked around at the three people surrounding me. "Well everyone grab a present." I said grinning. I went to pick up a present that said from the Malfoys but before I could open it there was a tapping on the window. I walked over and opened it taking the letter and looking at the cover.
[Ginny and Draco's room]
A light tap came to my window at exactly mid-night I opened the window and took the letter from the bird. The cover read:
'To Mrs. Ginny'
I looked around and Draco motioned for me to open the letter. I gently pulled the seal back and gazed at the letter below.
Dear Mrs. Virginia,
Merry Christmas. Here's the first clue. A young girl taken when she Was only just new Looks like him But fights like you
I hope your Christmas is wonderful. Have fun thinking about your long lost daughter. It's to late for you...she's mine.
Thomas Riddle
[Room of Requirement]
I looked at Keygan and he stood and walked over to me. He gantly slipped his amrs around me and nudged me to open the letter. I looked down at it and breathed out slowly as I opened it.
My daughter,
I know the young boy has followed you to Hogwarts and he will pay once you return for the summer. However, my decision will be swayed to allowing him to not be punished if you give me what I want. I want you to figure out where Dumbledore keeps the sword of godric Gryffindor and I want to know where the prophecy of any Malfoy's are kept. Find this information for me before you return home or you will find yourself short a lover. Do not think I will hesitate to punish you as well once you come home. You return without that information and your lover will die and you won't ever see the world except from your window.
Your father,
Thomas Riddle
I finished reading and turned towards Keygan letting tears slip down my pale face, staining it. He wiped the tears from my face and gently brushed his lips against mine. He looked me straight in the eyes and told me the one thing I never thought he'd say.
"He'll die before he can touch a hair on you Abby. I won't let him come near you."
"I hope so Keygan; I hope so." The snow slightly tapped the windows, melting and then dripping down the window while the wind cried outside. Keygan wrapped his arms around me and carried me over to the couch laying me down and covering me with a blanket.
Draco sat cradling a crying Ginny in his arms. He rarely saw her cry and he knew that whatever had been in that letter upset her severely. He layed her sleeping body down on the bed and walked over to where she had dropped the letter.
I picked it up and glanced towards her sleeping form.
After I read the letter I found myself sitting in my arm chair. I had a bok just lying open on my lap and all i could do was stare into the fire. I heard Ginny stir behind me and I turned to look at her. All that was left where she'd been was a pile of sheets.
I walked around the room looking for her but came up empty. I wondered where she was and grabbed my cloak. I left the room with my cloak on and headed towards the lake. I knew that's where she always went when she was angry, upset, or just needed to blow off steam. I headed out the giant doors of hogwarts and down towards the drenched, dark figure.
"Abby! No, come back! Don't run Abby!" Keygan screamed as I ran down the halls toward my favorite place in Hogwarts. I could hear his feet bang on the ground as he raced behind me. I picked up speed when I heard him do the same. Damn it why wouldn't he just let me be? I felt his arms wrap around my wrist and I spun around, throwing him up against a stone wall. I looked in shock at hat I had done. Keygan sat back aginst the wall his head thrown to the side, not moving.
"Oh, Keygan. I'm so sorry." I said kneeling down next to him. I looked at him, he still wasn't moving.
"Wake up!" I said shaking him. "Please wake up." I pleaded to the motionless figure. I took my hand and ran it down over his head. I saw his eye lids flicker. Giving a sigh of relief I tried to wake him again. Once he had woken up I finished healing him completely and we headed back to the room of requirement. I never did make it to the lake but that was okay, I was just happy keygan was alright now.
"Are you alright?" I asked when we arrived back at the room of requirement.
"I'm fine Snow. Don't worry about it." He said smiling at me.
"Are you sure? You hit your head pretty hard." I asked him.
"Really, I'm perfectly fine. Stop worrying about it. Now can we get back to what we were doing earlier?" He grinned innocently.
"Well," That was the only thing I could say before his lips reached mine.
He moved me and layed me down on the floor never breaking the kiss. Once he crawled over top of me he trailed kisses down my jaw line until he got to my neck. I moaned a little when he started swirling his tongue around on my neck and sucking on it, raising a slight welt. His hands ran from the bottom of my legs up until they reached my waist where he tightened his grip a little. My hand came around and I started to play with the hair at the end of his neck, turning it between my fingers. One of his hands snaked up my shirt, he moved his hand in a circle on my stomach and kept moving his hand farther. I payed no attention to his hands and just started to kiss his lips. It started out slow and sweet but then something took us over. I flipped us over and threw my legs on either side of his torso. Throwing my hair to one side of my face and dipped my head and started kissing him again. His hands found a resting place on my hips again and he started rubbing circles with his thumb while we kissed. My fingers played with the soft pieces of hair at the base of his neck as my other hand was laying still on his chest.
My head shot up when I heard someone cough and when I looked there I saw Professor Malfoy, both of them. I slid off Keygan in surprise and hit the floor beside me somewhat hard with my elbow. Licking my lips and then straightning my hair up from where his fingers had been laced in it before. Keygan just sat up on his elbows and grinned at the Professors. My face was the colour of a strawberry and I knew it. This was one of the most embarassing things that had ever happened to me and all Keygan did was grin about it.
"Good to know the room is getting some use." Mr. Malfoy chuckled out. Mrs. Malfoy just smiled at me and smacked her husband slightly on the arm.
"Abby," Mrs. Malfoy said to me in a quiet voice, "can I talk to you outside?"
"Sure." I said. We walked out and into the hall right outside the room of requirement. The Professor looked at me and sighed, I saw a tear roll down her cheek.
"What's the matter Professor?" I asked worried for the teacher I had come to think of as family.
"I don't know how to say this Abby but I think I've figured something out."
"And what would that be?" I asked confused.
"I think I've found my daughter." She said quietly.
"That's wonderful," I said excited for her, "where is she?"
"She's standing in front of me." She said looking straight at me.
"But...that's impossible. My mother's dead and Professor I'm to old to be your daughter." I said very confused.
"No, I had Headmaster Dumbledore check DNA and everything Abby. You're Draco's and my daughter. Voldemort, or as you know him Tom Riddle, sped up your life and you aged five years every year as close as we can figure. I didn't believe it at first but then Draco and Dumbledore showed me the research they'd done and t's true."
"NO!" I screamed. "You're NOT my mother. My mother's dead, my father killed her. Her name was Elizabeth Abbigail Riddle and SHE was MY MOTHER! NOT YOU!" I screamed and turned around quickly, running straight for the lake.
[Inside the Room of Requirement]
Keygan sat in a giant arm chiar looking at the wall in confusion.
"So, you're telling me that Abby is truely only five years old?"
"No, she is fifteen and she thinks, feels, andis a fifteen year old girl. Voldemort, or Tom I guess to you, sped up her life."
"That's impossible, I grew up with her. We lived together our entire lives. Our mothers knew eachother and our fathers worked together. How could her life had been sped up when I grew up with her?"
"He must've done the same thing to you as well, Keygan."
"No! This couldn't possibly be true. There's no way it's true. Is it?" He said looking at Draco.
"Yes, I'm afraid it is."
"But, that means our parents lied to us." Keygan said with a pain stricken face.
"No, your fathers lied to you. Your mothers most likely didn't know, I highly doubt that they would've done that. I do wonder though, how your fathers managed to keep it under wraps. What about you all practicing magic? I know you went to scholl but how does Abby know so much when she didn't have a wand until this year?"
"She doesn't need a wand for magic. She's never needed one and her father didn't let her use a wand."
"She's just like her mother then." Draco whispered. Just at that moment Ginny stepped in, tears rolling down her cheeks, she took two steps and collapsed in sobs.
"Where's Abby?" Keygan asked worried.
"She...she...she ran." Ginny sobbed out.
"Damn!" He said as he took off down the corridors and towards the lake. If you didn't get to her in time she'd surely freeze to death,
[Back i nthe room]
"Ginny, what happened? What did you say to her?" Draco asked.
"I told her that we were his parents. She just took it harder than I thought and she was positive I was lying. She doesn't want to believe I'm her mother, I think she loved her mother so much that she doesnt want someone to say she's lived a lie. Her mother was really the only real thing in her life that she loved, besides Keygan."
"Ginny, she's fifteen and she's confused. How would you feel if someone came up to you and told you that you weren't really a Weasley?"
Ginny just sat there, she didn't say anything about it and came to the realization that she had to give Abby time. She wiped the tears from her face and stood up off the floor.
"I think that we should go talk to Dumbledore." She said and they headed out the door.
[Down by the Lake]
Keygan sat with a shivering Abby in his lap. He'd just yanked her out of the lake and was trying to dry her shivering body as much as he could before moving her back into the cold. He took her soaked clothes off and trew his shirt and jacket on her frozen body. He picked her up and rushed back into the school, he headed straight for the room of requirement. Laying her down on the couch he reached over to the side table and took his wand. He lighted a fire in the grate and put a heating spell over her body. He wrapped her in a blanket and cradled her in his arms. Her lips were a purple colour and her breathing was labored. He knew she'd be alright so he just hel her the rest of the night.
Author's Note: Sorry it took so long to get this chapter out and I hope to have chapter 8 out soon. I'll try to post it within the nexzt few days. Thanks to all my reviewers and readers.
I woke-up and stretched my arms out, slowly crawling from my four poster bed. I'd been busy with so much homework as of lately that I didn't even know what day it was. It had been about two weeks since the exchange students had arrived here and already I'd had two run-ins with the Chang girl. I walked over to my closet and grabbed some low rise jeans. Once I had those on I looked in search of a long sleeved shirt. It would be Christmas soon and Keygan and I both were staying at Hogwarts and spending it together. Today we were heading into Hogsmeade to do shopping. I decided I was going to pick something our for Professor Malfoy, both of them. They had been so nice to me and something had drawn me to my transfiguration teacher.
[Christmas Eve]
Keygan and I walked into the Great Hall for Christmas Eve dinner and sat down at the Slytherin table. Mattie was sitting next to us with her new boyfriend Jason Miller who was now one of Keygan's friends. They were all spending Christmas together and they were going to spend the night in the room of requirement. They had decorated it up and had a big Christmas tree in it that had been decorated and had presents under it.
"So what time are we meeting in the room tonight?" Mattie asked me.
"Anytime between 11 and 2; if that's okay with you?" I asked, looking up from my plate at them.
"That's fine; we have a few things to do anyway." Mattie answered with a twinkle in her eye.
"Okay, we'll make sure we're in there some time around there. Are we all opening one present tonight?" I said looking back down at my plate and then back up for their answer.
"Sure." Mattie said but then Keygan added something.
"We should meet at 11:30. Then we can open a present at the stroke of mid- night." Keygan added.
"That's a good idea. Can we do that instead you guys?" I asked excitedly.
"Yeah, that'd be fun. What do you think Jason?" Mattie asked turning to him.
"Whatever makes you happy, love."
"Thanks Jason. That sounds great you guys. So, we'll see you at 11:30." Mattie said standing up and grabbing Jason's hand. She dragged him away from the table and they turned down the hall towards the dungeons.
[11:00p.m.]
"Come on Keygan, we have to stop now." I said a little out of breath.
"Why? It's only 11 o'clock." He said glancing at the clock.
"Cause, we have to meet up with Mattie and Jason."
"Fine." He said disappointed as he pulled away from kissing on my neck. "However, I intend on finishing this later." He whispered in my ear.
"Maybe." I said.
"What do you mean 'maybe'?"
"If you're a good little boy for me then I'll think about it." I said walking past him and opening the door. "Coming?"
"Umm...yeah." He said kind of shocked.
[11:59 p.m.]
"Okay everyone come sit by the tree." I shouted as I looked up at the clock. It struck 12 and I looked around at the three people surrounding me. "Well everyone grab a present." I said grinning. I went to pick up a present that said from the Malfoys but before I could open it there was a tapping on the window. I walked over and opened it taking the letter and looking at the cover.
[Ginny and Draco's room]
A light tap came to my window at exactly mid-night I opened the window and took the letter from the bird. The cover read:
'To Mrs. Ginny'
I looked around and Draco motioned for me to open the letter. I gently pulled the seal back and gazed at the letter below.
Dear Mrs. Virginia,
Merry Christmas. Here's the first clue. A young girl taken when she Was only just new Looks like him But fights like you
I hope your Christmas is wonderful. Have fun thinking about your long lost daughter. It's to late for you...she's mine.
Thomas Riddle
[Room of Requirement]
I looked at Keygan and he stood and walked over to me. He gantly slipped his amrs around me and nudged me to open the letter. I looked down at it and breathed out slowly as I opened it.
My daughter,
I know the young boy has followed you to Hogwarts and he will pay once you return for the summer. However, my decision will be swayed to allowing him to not be punished if you give me what I want. I want you to figure out where Dumbledore keeps the sword of godric Gryffindor and I want to know where the prophecy of any Malfoy's are kept. Find this information for me before you return home or you will find yourself short a lover. Do not think I will hesitate to punish you as well once you come home. You return without that information and your lover will die and you won't ever see the world except from your window.
Your father,
Thomas Riddle
I finished reading and turned towards Keygan letting tears slip down my pale face, staining it. He wiped the tears from my face and gently brushed his lips against mine. He looked me straight in the eyes and told me the one thing I never thought he'd say.
"He'll die before he can touch a hair on you Abby. I won't let him come near you."
"I hope so Keygan; I hope so." The snow slightly tapped the windows, melting and then dripping down the window while the wind cried outside. Keygan wrapped his arms around me and carried me over to the couch laying me down and covering me with a blanket.
Draco sat cradling a crying Ginny in his arms. He rarely saw her cry and he knew that whatever had been in that letter upset her severely. He layed her sleeping body down on the bed and walked over to where she had dropped the letter.
I picked it up and glanced towards her sleeping form.
After I read the letter I found myself sitting in my arm chair. I had a bok just lying open on my lap and all i could do was stare into the fire. I heard Ginny stir behind me and I turned to look at her. All that was left where she'd been was a pile of sheets.
I walked around the room looking for her but came up empty. I wondered where she was and grabbed my cloak. I left the room with my cloak on and headed towards the lake. I knew that's where she always went when she was angry, upset, or just needed to blow off steam. I headed out the giant doors of hogwarts and down towards the drenched, dark figure.
"Abby! No, come back! Don't run Abby!" Keygan screamed as I ran down the halls toward my favorite place in Hogwarts. I could hear his feet bang on the ground as he raced behind me. I picked up speed when I heard him do the same. Damn it why wouldn't he just let me be? I felt his arms wrap around my wrist and I spun around, throwing him up against a stone wall. I looked in shock at hat I had done. Keygan sat back aginst the wall his head thrown to the side, not moving.
"Oh, Keygan. I'm so sorry." I said kneeling down next to him. I looked at him, he still wasn't moving.
"Wake up!" I said shaking him. "Please wake up." I pleaded to the motionless figure. I took my hand and ran it down over his head. I saw his eye lids flicker. Giving a sigh of relief I tried to wake him again. Once he had woken up I finished healing him completely and we headed back to the room of requirement. I never did make it to the lake but that was okay, I was just happy keygan was alright now.
"Are you alright?" I asked when we arrived back at the room of requirement.
"I'm fine Snow. Don't worry about it." He said smiling at me.
"Are you sure? You hit your head pretty hard." I asked him.
"Really, I'm perfectly fine. Stop worrying about it. Now can we get back to what we were doing earlier?" He grinned innocently.
"Well," That was the only thing I could say before his lips reached mine.
He moved me and layed me down on the floor never breaking the kiss. Once he crawled over top of me he trailed kisses down my jaw line until he got to my neck. I moaned a little when he started swirling his tongue around on my neck and sucking on it, raising a slight welt. His hands ran from the bottom of my legs up until they reached my waist where he tightened his grip a little. My hand came around and I started to play with the hair at the end of his neck, turning it between my fingers. One of his hands snaked up my shirt, he moved his hand in a circle on my stomach and kept moving his hand farther. I payed no attention to his hands and just started to kiss his lips. It started out slow and sweet but then something took us over. I flipped us over and threw my legs on either side of his torso. Throwing my hair to one side of my face and dipped my head and started kissing him again. His hands found a resting place on my hips again and he started rubbing circles with his thumb while we kissed. My fingers played with the soft pieces of hair at the base of his neck as my other hand was laying still on his chest.
My head shot up when I heard someone cough and when I looked there I saw Professor Malfoy, both of them. I slid off Keygan in surprise and hit the floor beside me somewhat hard with my elbow. Licking my lips and then straightning my hair up from where his fingers had been laced in it before. Keygan just sat up on his elbows and grinned at the Professors. My face was the colour of a strawberry and I knew it. This was one of the most embarassing things that had ever happened to me and all Keygan did was grin about it.
"Good to know the room is getting some use." Mr. Malfoy chuckled out. Mrs. Malfoy just smiled at me and smacked her husband slightly on the arm.
"Abby," Mrs. Malfoy said to me in a quiet voice, "can I talk to you outside?"
"Sure." I said. We walked out and into the hall right outside the room of requirement. The Professor looked at me and sighed, I saw a tear roll down her cheek.
"What's the matter Professor?" I asked worried for the teacher I had come to think of as family.
"I don't know how to say this Abby but I think I've figured something out."
"And what would that be?" I asked confused.
"I think I've found my daughter." She said quietly.
"That's wonderful," I said excited for her, "where is she?"
"She's standing in front of me." She said looking straight at me.
"But...that's impossible. My mother's dead and Professor I'm to old to be your daughter." I said very confused.
"No, I had Headmaster Dumbledore check DNA and everything Abby. You're Draco's and my daughter. Voldemort, or as you know him Tom Riddle, sped up your life and you aged five years every year as close as we can figure. I didn't believe it at first but then Draco and Dumbledore showed me the research they'd done and t's true."
"NO!" I screamed. "You're NOT my mother. My mother's dead, my father killed her. Her name was Elizabeth Abbigail Riddle and SHE was MY MOTHER! NOT YOU!" I screamed and turned around quickly, running straight for the lake.
[Inside the Room of Requirement]
Keygan sat in a giant arm chiar looking at the wall in confusion.
"So, you're telling me that Abby is truely only five years old?"
"No, she is fifteen and she thinks, feels, andis a fifteen year old girl. Voldemort, or Tom I guess to you, sped up her life."
"That's impossible, I grew up with her. We lived together our entire lives. Our mothers knew eachother and our fathers worked together. How could her life had been sped up when I grew up with her?"
"He must've done the same thing to you as well, Keygan."
"No! This couldn't possibly be true. There's no way it's true. Is it?" He said looking at Draco.
"Yes, I'm afraid it is."
"But, that means our parents lied to us." Keygan said with a pain stricken face.
"No, your fathers lied to you. Your mothers most likely didn't know, I highly doubt that they would've done that. I do wonder though, how your fathers managed to keep it under wraps. What about you all practicing magic? I know you went to scholl but how does Abby know so much when she didn't have a wand until this year?"
"She doesn't need a wand for magic. She's never needed one and her father didn't let her use a wand."
"She's just like her mother then." Draco whispered. Just at that moment Ginny stepped in, tears rolling down her cheeks, she took two steps and collapsed in sobs.
"Where's Abby?" Keygan asked worried.
"She...she...she ran." Ginny sobbed out.
"Damn!" He said as he took off down the corridors and towards the lake. If you didn't get to her in time she'd surely freeze to death,
[Back i nthe room]
"Ginny, what happened? What did you say to her?" Draco asked.
"I told her that we were his parents. She just took it harder than I thought and she was positive I was lying. She doesn't want to believe I'm her mother, I think she loved her mother so much that she doesnt want someone to say she's lived a lie. Her mother was really the only real thing in her life that she loved, besides Keygan."
"Ginny, she's fifteen and she's confused. How would you feel if someone came up to you and told you that you weren't really a Weasley?"
Ginny just sat there, she didn't say anything about it and came to the realization that she had to give Abby time. She wiped the tears from her face and stood up off the floor.
"I think that we should go talk to Dumbledore." She said and they headed out the door.
[Down by the Lake]
Keygan sat with a shivering Abby in his lap. He'd just yanked her out of the lake and was trying to dry her shivering body as much as he could before moving her back into the cold. He took her soaked clothes off and trew his shirt and jacket on her frozen body. He picked her up and rushed back into the school, he headed straight for the room of requirement. Laying her down on the couch he reached over to the side table and took his wand. He lighted a fire in the grate and put a heating spell over her body. He wrapped her in a blanket and cradled her in his arms. Her lips were a purple colour and her breathing was labored. He knew she'd be alright so he just hel her the rest of the night.
Author's Note: Sorry it took so long to get this chapter out and I hope to have chapter 8 out soon. I'll try to post it within the nexzt few days. Thanks to all my reviewers and readers.