Harry sat on his bed as he heard his friends gathering by the front door ready to go back to school. He could hear Emma's protests, Ron and Hermione chatting to each other and Ginny trying to cheer up Jenny. Harry hadn't spoken to any of them since his talk with April. There was a knock on his door as April called for all of the teenagers to get back downstairs.
"Harry." Jenny said quietly. "Harry, can I come in?" Harry didn't say anything, the door opened and Jenny came in. "Harry, I'm going now." Jenny said quietly.
"Have fun." Harry muttered. Jenny sighed and sat on the bed next to Harry.
"I'm not angry with you." Jenny said to him. "Just talk to me."
"You're going now so what's the point." Harry said. Jenny put a hand on Harry's leg and looked away from his eyes. She couldn't stand looking into them right now. The pain and anger and hurt in them was enough to hurt Jenny.
"JENNY!" April called up.
"I'll write to you when I get to school" Jenny said. Harry mumbled a reply as Jenny kissed his cheek and got up and left the room silently. He stared at the door as his girlfriend left him for a place run by his mortal enemy. Why was he letting her go back? Harry lay down on his bed and decided that he didn't care. He heard the front door shut and then they were gone. Hermione was still in a huge stress with Harry and they hadn't spoken more then two words to each other. Ron was torn between his girlfriend and his best friend. Harry knew he was going to side with Hermione, it was obvious. Harry pressed his face into his pillows. At least he had his room to himself now. Harry closed his eyes shut and felt the bridge of his glasses press into his nose. His friends were returning to Voldemort. Distance yourself, that's what April said, just distance yourself and he can't use them to get to you. Harry told himself. April had sent Petunia and Vernon packing once she'd gotten Dudley to St. Mungos. Harry knew they were staying in some wizarding house somewhere hidden and only April knew where they were, and Jenny but only because she had read April's mind. Harry turned over and stared at the wall. The two broomsticks stood against the wall. Unused and uncared for. Harry slipped his legs over the edge of the bed and looked at them. He stood up and went to his Firebolt and Draco's Nimbus two thousand and one.
"I reckon Malfoy deserves something." Harry muttered. He picked up Draco's broom and headed towards his desk where his broom servicing kit lay under a large pile of books and parchment. Harry lay it on the desk and started wiping the dust off it. Draco's broom was in remarkably good condition but then it was one of Draco's most prized possessions. Harry had been polishing it and servicing it for an hour when he was called down to lunch by Sirius.
"You ok?" Sirius asked Harry as Harry ate in silence.
"Yeah." Harry said.
"You know you can talk to me if you need to." Sirius said kindly in a father like way.
"I'm fine." Harry lied. Sirius frowned. Harry could tell that he was worried about Harry but Harry couldn't care less. He didn't want anything to do with anyone, he just hurt all those around him.
"Harry." Sirius said seriously. "We're all worried about you. Why did you quit auror training? April's devastated."
"That's all you care about, April." Harry muttered, he wasn't in the mood to talk.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Sirius asked dangerously.
"You only care about April, trying to get me to sway Jenny's mind so you can marry her. Doing everything she says." Harry said.
"I care about all you kids, particularly you and Jenny. Jenny's my daughter and you're my godson. April and I vowed to your parents that we'd protect you if the worst happened to them."
"You did a good job of it didn't you." Harry snapped. "You left me with those Muggles all my life."
"I was in Azkaban." Sirius said quietly.
"Oh, it doesn't matter." Harry got up. The chair he had been sitting on scraped loudly on the floor and he left the kitchen. The door slamming shut. The front door opened and April walked into the house. She looked at Harry for a moment before he stormed up the stairs. April sighed sadly and took her cloak off and threw it over the banister. Harry went into his room and sat on his bed. He didn't care what any one thought about him or who he was being unreasonable to, none of them understood. Harry spotted a small book at the end of his bed and he picked it up. It was his photo album, he knew. He opened up to a random page and he saw a photo of him Ron and Hermione laughing at something from their third year. Hermione had her arms around both Ron and Harry's shoulders and they were laughing. Harry snapped the book shut and threw it at he wall.
"I don't need you!" he shouted at the book.
"How was your holiday?" Lavender asked Hermione and Ron as they went to their dorms after the 'feast'.
"Don't get me started." Hermione snapped.
"That good huh?" Dean asked.
"Why what happened?" Lavender asked.
"No really don't get her started." Ron warned. Lavender and Dean gave him a confused look.
"I'm going to bed." Hermione said as she got into her bed and pulled the hangings around them. Dean and Lavender looked at Ron. He went to them and lowered his voice.
"She had an argument with Harry and she's been ranting about him all the way from Kings Cross" Ron whispered.
"Ron I can hear you, I'm not deaf." Hermione said. Ron frowned and looked at Lavender and Dean.
"So how were your holidays?" Ron asked.
"Well, I don't know what April's got the trainee aurors doing but I hardly saw Pavarti or Padma this winter." Lavender said.
"And Seamus wasn't around to talk to." Dean said.
"They've been busy." Ron said, "Harry wouldn't-"
"Don't you say his name." Hermione said jumping off her bed. "If I hear his name once more I swear I'm just going to-" Hermione shook with anger and Ron put his hands on her arms.
"Relax, Hermione." Ron said. Hermione looked at Ron and relaxed slightly, "He's miles away from here." Hermione's expression calmed and she nodded,
"I suppose." Hermione said. "It's just he's so full of himself, thinking he doesn't need anyone with him and he's selfish, thinking everything revolves around him. I love him and everything but he's really got to cut that attitude." Hermione said.
"Yeah." Lavender said cluelessly but determined to be in the conversation.
"What do you know?" Hermione said to Lavender with a slightly glare on her face.
"I think you still love him." Lavender said. Hermione looked at Lavender in contempt and went straight back to sleep.
Jenny and Ginny stayed up talking when the door to their dormitory opened and Emma finally walked in.
"Where have you been?" Ginny asked casually.
"Don't ask." Emma said glumly. She turned away from them and put her wand down and began to change. Jenny's frown deepened and she sat up in her bed.
"Are you ok?" Jenny asked.
"Yeah, sure. I'm just great" Emma said sarcastically. "Drag me out of Durmstrang to come to a dump like this where the only thing I get are beatings, the best thing ever." Emma changed her top and Ginny saw a few raw marks on Emma's back.
"They beat you again?" Ginny asked. Emma didn't look at them.
"No, they cursed me. Slightly different." Emma said, "but then I got caught by some Slytherin's in the corridor." Ginny and Jenny both made painful faces. Ginny got up and went to Emma.
"What did they do this time?" Ginny asked. Emma looked at Ginny to reveal a swollen lip and a bruised eye.
"They obviously don't like me." Emma said.
"Does Draco know?" Jenny asked.
"Probably but he doesn't like me anyway. None of my family do." Emma said.
"Harry likes you" Ginny said. Jenny started slightly at his name.
"Can you not mention him." Jenny said quietly. Ginny and Emma looked at Jenny.
"Why?" Ginny asked. Jenny looked at her bed as she played with the folds.
"No reason." Jenny said. She turned over so that her head was at her pillows instead of her feet and pulled the duvet over herself. "See you tomorrow." She pulled the hangings around her and lay in the darkness in silence. Ginny looked at Emma, who glanced at Ginny before getting changed completely.
"Do you want me to talk to Malfoy? I could transfigure him into a Ferret if you want." Ginny said. Emma raised an eyebrow but shook her head.
"No it's fine." Emma said, "I'm going to talk to him soon anyway." Ginny nodded.
"Do you want me to help you sort out your, erm, wounds." Ginny said uncertainly.
"No I'm fine." Emma said darkly. "Merlin, I wish I was still at my old school." Ginny scowled and sighed.
"If you were still there you wouldn't have met me and Harry." Ginny said. Emma smirked.
"I suppose. Is Fawkes here?" Emma asked.
"Um, I don't know. I thought you left him at Grimmauld place." Ginny said.
"Yeah, I did but he was supposed to come after a while." Emma shrugged and slipped under her duvet. "Oh well, night."
"Night." Ginny said as she returned to her bed. She could hear Jenny asleep already and her regular breathing. Ginny closed her eyes and went into a troubled sleep
Emma sat on her own in the great hall eating her lunch, she had just come out of ancient runes and had her book open in front of her but she was paying little attention to it and more attention went to the door where she was waiting for her brother to come in, her adopted brother, she corrected herself. She saw him coming in with his goons Crabbe and Goyle and Pansy Parkinson fixed on his arm. He pulled his arm free and wrapped it around Pansy's waist and they headed towards the Slytherin table. Emma frowned, Draco and Emma weren't allowed to show affection, it was one of their father's rules. Ginny and Jenny joined Emma and sat down in front of her.
"You cleared up your face." Jenny pointed out. Emma glanced at her.
"What?" Emma asked, looking at Jenny. "Oh, facial glamour" Emma said realising what Jenny had said.
"Who are you looking at?" Ginny asked turning around. "You like someone?"
"I have a boyfriend." Emma said unamused. She took a bite from an apple and put her book away.
"A boyfriend that never writes." Jenny said, "You should get a boyfriend who cares about you." Jenny said smiling.
"Like Harry?" Emma said with a slight smirk. Jenny's face fell immediately.
"He's just going through a rough time." Jenny muttered. Emma nodded.
"He's been going through a rough time for a while if that's what it is." Emma said, "I swear, he's not going to write to you what's up with him" Emma told Jenny.
"He's going to tell me, he has to." Jenny said,
"You've been trying for nearly two weeks. He didn't tell you two weeks ago when we left home and he won't tell you now." Emma said trying to get Jenny to see some sense. Jenny glared at Emma and stood up.
"What do you know?" Jenny said, "You're a Malfoy." She stormed out of the great hall. Ginny bit her lip with worry.
"You know she's touchy about Harry." Ginny said.
"I'm just telling her the truth." Emma said. "I really don't think Harry's going to tell him anything. I have difficulty explaining my emotions and I can only guess that he is the same. I am related to him after all."
"I suppose." Ginny said worriedly. "But still, I think it'd be a good idea you didn't say anything like that to Jenny. She's under a lot of stress with the whole performing thing and stuff." Emma nodded and got up.
"I have something to do" Emma told Ginny. Ginny looked at her curiously.
"What is it?" Ginny asked.
"I need to see my brother." Emma said. She walked towards the Slytherin table. Ginny got up slightly alarmed.
"Are you kidding?" Ginny asked, "They hate Gryffindors, regardless of who you are." Emma gave Ginny an amused look.
"Do you really think they're going to hurt me?" Emma asked Ginny. Ginny shrugged.
"Why wouldn't they?" Ginny asked as they walked towards Draco.
"Because Draco's my brother and from what I've heard everyone is terrified of him." Emma said.
"Did you see his face? That mudblood is going to be in the hospital wing for ages." Draco told Crabbe and Goyle. They started laughing and Crabbe hit the table with his fat fist.
"Who did you curse this time?" Emma asked Draco. Draco spun around to look at Emma.
"What are you doing here?" Draco asked, "I thought I told you I don't want to see you." Emma smiled sarcastically and sighed.
"Grow up Draco, I want to put our differences aside" Emma said
"Typical Gryffindor." Pansy muttered.
"I heard that and for your information I am a true Gryffindor and I'm sure you don't want father learning about your relationship do you Draco?" Emma asked. Draco stood up and looked at Emma. He was almost a head taller then her but Emma still had some growing to do.
"Is that a threat?" Draco asked dangerously.
"It will be unless you actually decide to put our differences aside." Emma said equalling Draco's tone. Living her entire life with the Malfoys was enough to let her match the tones of anyone. Draco glared at her.
"Come on." Draco said grabbing her arm and dragging her out of the great hall.
"Draco." Pansy squealed.
"Family business" Draco said back. Crabbe and Goyle knew better then to interrupt and Ginny followed Emma out of the hall.
"Ginny, go ahead, I'll talk to you later." Emma said. Ginny nodded and headed towards the Gryffindor tower. Draco took Emma to a hidden corner where they were unlikely to be heard.
"Ok, what do you want?" Draco asked Emma.
"I just want to be friends again." Emma said.
"Friends?" Draco snarled, "With a Gryffindor?"
"With your sister." Emma said, "I want to make things right between us like before father made that stupid agreement."
"Stupid? You get everything, the manor, the supplies and the dark lord's powers" Draco said.
"And do you actually think I want them?" Emma asked, "I'll just hand them over to you anyway." A smirked played on Draco's lips.
"You never were a true Malfoy." Draco said.
"So you know I'm adopted?" Emma asked crossing her arms and smiling.
"Yeah, father told me over the holidays. I can't believe he took in a Potter. Of all people." Draco said.
"Well, we Potters are the best" Emma said smirking.
"Take that smile off. You wont be smiling once Slytherin thrash Gryffindor on Saturday." Draco said putting a brotherly arm around Emma like he had used to before the agreement that their father had made.
"You want a bet? I'm the best seeker they've had in ages" Emma said.
"Potter was better then you, you're all over the place" Draco said. "But I'll bet you twenty Galleons that Slytherin win."
"Deal." Emma said shaking Draco's hand. "I'll see you tonight at Jenny's next performance." Draco nodded and headed back towards the great hall when Emma thought of something else.
"Draco." Emma said. Draco turned to look at his sister.
"What?"
"Could you tell the Slytherins to stop beating me up?" Emma asked. Draco nodded and put on a serious face before entering the great hall again.
A/N:-Ok, I'm sorry i aint updated for a while. I'll try and get this story all finished posted. 7 chapters to go then i can post my next Generation stuff...YAY!!