Chapter 16

The Family Connection

After thoroughly deciding that the door was indeed locked and there was not other exit the boys sat beside their severely injured girls.

"What's broken?" Snape asked his daughter as she rested her head against his shoulder.

"I've got a few broken bones, with one puncturing my lung. I think Hermione is just battered and bruised," Evi said turning to look at Hermione in Harry's arms beside her.

Ron, who had been pacing up and down the floor clearly hoping to wear a hole in the floor for them to escape through, suddenly stopped and turned to Evi. "You called him dad?" he said confused. Evi laughed.

"Yes, Severus is my father," Evi explained.

"Well that explains a lot," Ron exclaimed.

"Doesn't it!" Hermione added.

"You shouldn't have come," Evi said out of the blue.

"Did you really expect me to sit by and let Lucius kill you?" Snape defended himself.

"No, but you could have waited for back up. This is exactly what Lucius knew you would and do and he's going to kill us all," she simply said.

"I escaped from here once before, I'll do it again," Snape said confidently.

"No you won't. Last time you were alone. Now you have four teenagers with you, two severely injured," Evi said trying to explain the severity of the situation. "Please tell me you have a plan?" They all looked at him.

"What?"

"Oh god," Evi said.

"We're all going to die! Ron shouted.

"You're not half wrong, Weasley." Lucius was back.

Snape instantly stood in front of Evi to protect her and Harry did the same with Hermione, while Ron hid behind Harry.

"How predictable of you all," Lucius taunted. Harry and Ron quickly got their wands out of their pockets and held them directly in front of them and at Lucius.

"Severus, your pupils come more prepared than you. You bring no back-up apart from two scrawny students and you expect to beat me!" he laughed. But that smile was soon wiped off his face when Snape hit him with a disarming spell, without the use of his wand.

"You never were the brightest spark in the electricity generator were you?" Snape quipped, but still could tell he was furious by the tone in his voice. "Good wizards don't need wands to cast spells."

"Which explains why you still need your wand Malfoy," Harry said. "Do you really think you'll win with five against one?"

"You're forgetting, Mr Potter, that his is my house and thus you're my prisoners. Anyways, your not much of a match. Two injured girls, two pathetic students and a disgrace of teacher against one who stands beside the greatest and most powerful wizard of all time."

"But he's not here to save your sorry ass right now," Evi said.

"I would watch what you say Miss Dementia, or Miss Granger will join in the broken bone department," he threatened.

"You even think about hurting her, I will kill you!" Harry warned him.

"Thought about it; done it; yet I'm still standing. You wouldn't kill me, you don't have it in you to kill," Lucius shot Harry down.

"He may not, but I certainly do," Snape added.

Ron who, until this point, had been hiding behind Harry had been looking around the room, desperately looking for an exit, when he looked at Snape and noticed his eyes. He elbowed Harry in the ribs.

"Harry, look at Snape's eyes," Ron whispered to Harry.

Harry reluctantly took his eyes off Lucius to see what Ron was referring to. Harry had to do a double take as Snape's eyes were bright red like they were full of blood. Harry could almost see flames rising up in his eyes as his anger deepened.

"I didn't give you credit for coming up with such a devious plan, Lucius. Take Hermione to get Harry and take my daughter to reel me in. You get rid of two muggleborns and three thorns in Tom's side," Snape said.

"I'm sorry, did I hear that right? Two mudbloods?" Lucius said suddenly confident.

"Muggleborns," Ron angrily corrected him.

"Come on Severus, we both know there is only one mudblood here."

"Are you thick as well as an idiot Malfoy," Ron boldly said, still partially hiding behind Harry.

"You're one to talk Weasley. Your family are more of a disgrace to the wizarding world than even those stupid mudbloods." Ton tried to run forward to hit Lucius but Harry prevented him.

"But what did you mean one Muggleborn? Evi and I have at least one muggle parent," Hermione said now standing, but still behind the Harry and Ron barricade. Evi was looking quizzically at Lucius, or possibly like he was insane.

"You mean you don't know?" Lucius said bursting into hysterics, clutching his side where Evi had hit him earlier.

"Severus, I'm disturbed that you could be so devilish and not tell you own daughter. Actually... I'm quite proud. Didn't think you had it in you," Lucius praised him.

"Shut up you son of a bitch," Snape warned him, taking a step towards him.

"Dad?" Evi said dragging herself off the floor and wincing in pain as she did so.

"Aren't you going to tell her who her mother is?" Lucius gleefully asked Snape.

"I know who my mother is," Evi said.

"Oh, I don't think you do," Lucius teased.

"Shut up Malfoy, or I'll make you shut up," Snape threatened.

"You don't want to tell her? OK, I will. Your mother is Lily Evans." Evi and Harry's eyes widened.

"That can't be possible!" Harry exclaimed. Snape remained silent, somehow restraining himself from attacking Lucius.

"You and Lily Potter!" Ron said shocked.

"Evans," Evi corrected him. "He said Evans. It must have been before she married James," Evi said in a monotonous tone like she was in a trance. Harry had lowered his wand, and was blankly staring at the person in front of him. So many things were going through his mind, so many questions. When? How? Why? Was that Sirius' suspicion? Did he think that Snape and Lily had an affair? Harry mentally shuddered at the image that invoked in his head. No this can't be possible, he told himself.

Evi Finally came round out of her trance like state, and turned to face her dad.

"Dad?"

"That just can't be true!" Harry exclaimed again.

"Well Severus had quite the crush on Lily in school," Lucius butted in with a huge smirk on his face.

"Dad?" Evi repeated. Snape close his eyes and when he reopened them, they were their normal dark colour.

"She and James had a fight in which Lily left him. She needed a place to stay and I offered to let her stay with me. Let's just say we grew close and I asked her to join the death eaters."

"You lie!" Harry shouted at the last little bit of that sentence. "My mother was good. She would never join the death eaters," Harry maintained.

"Lily had a bit of a dark streak in her," Snape told them. "After a time, she found out she was pregnant, and left me and went back to James," Snape said, but it appeared that retelling the story was far worse than any punch Lucius could throw.

"So explain to me why I was brought up with you sister and not Lily and James?" Evi said, with tears running down her face.

"Because James didn't want you," he bluntly said. "You weren't his child so he wanted nothing to do with you. He would have asked for an abortion if he could have," he told her.

"Nice to know I was wanted," Evi said hurt.

"You were wanted. Lily wanted to keep you, so did I. She wanted to keep you so bad, but James told her they were getting you adopted. So Lily and I arranged to have me take you from the hospital when you were born. I took you to my sister and her husband to bring you up in a loving family environment."

"You still lied to me!" Evi said taking a step back to avoid Snape trying to comfort her.

"You told me my mother ran off with the milkman."

Lucius burst into hysterics again bending over as she strained his stomach with laughing so much. Evi, who was standing the closest to him, kneed him in the head with one swift sharp movement. His nose started gushing with blood and looked disjointed as Evi had broken it.

"That wiped the smile off your face!" Ron laughed.

"And this will wipe the smile off yours," Lucius said getting his wand back out and pointing it at Ron.

However, he didn't get a chance to cast a spell as the door burst open in a flash of blinding light. Snape instantly covered Evi, while Harry and Ron both covered Hermione from whatever was coming next. Even Lucius cowered down at this noise. Harry looked up at what had made such an entrance and once the smoke cleared he could see a figure standing there. A figure of someone he never thought he would see helping them. Lucius lifted his head and looked at the figure.

"Son! What an entrance!" he exclaimed happily praising Draco. But soon found himself staring at his son with fear in his eyes. Draco had his fists clenched at his side but sparks were coming from them. Harry looked at his eyes. If he thought he saw flames in Snape's eyes before, he definitely saw them in Draco's now.

"You. Have. Crossed. A. Line," Draco said slowly, but his voice was different, like it was not him speaking, but someone else speaking for him.

"They have haven't they," Lucius said, assuming he was talking to one of his prisoners.

"I meant you, not them," Draco explained. Lucius slowly turned to face his son, who eyes burned with hatred.

"Now, now Draco, calm down," Lucius said with his voice sounding panicked.

"It is one thing to attack me, but it's another to attack them."

"You wouldn't attack me Draco. You're not my equal," Lucius put him down.

Draco rubbed his hands together, but his hands weren't touching, but sparks were flying off as if they were. He was radiating power and electricity. "We'll see about that shall we?" Draco said challenging his father.

Lucius turned his wand on his son. "Expelliarmus!" Lucius shouted and a flash of green hit Draco directly on the chest. Draco looked down as the light hit him, and then back at his father.

"Let's see if I can do any better," Draco cocking his head to one side. He unclenched his fists and sparks came flying out in the direction of Lucius. Lucius was lifted off the ground and thrown against the wall by this spell and was being pushed against the wall by it. Finally Draco dropped his father heavily on the floor.

"Had enough yet?" Draco asked.

"This betrayal will not go down lightly with the Dark Lord," Lucius said.

"Well, the Dark Lord can go and shove his wand up his ass for all I care. No longer will you hurt me. You took my brother away from me, and you constantly beat my mother, and let's see how you like it shall we?" Draco said.

During Draco's speech, Lucius had time to regroup and got his wand up again. But Draco just smiled. He held his hand out and said "wand" and the wand disappeared from Lucius' hand and into Draco's. Lucius looked shocked at this and tried to back away. Draco raised his free hand and Lucius flew across the room again with such a force that all of them could hear his bones breaking at he hit the wall. Lucius was slumped on the floor, unable to move, or defend himself from such an attack, when Draco walked over to him.

"I'm so going to enjoy this," Draco said. He raised his hand to make it level with Lucius' head, and closed his eyes. Sparks starting coming from his hand and into Lucius. Lucius cried out in pain, but unable to move away from this torture. Evi ran over to him and grabbed Draco's arm.

"Draco stop!"

"Why?" Draco looking at her, still with red eyes.

"Yeah, why? After all he has done to us, he deserves more than this," Ron asked.

"Because you are a better man than him, Draco," Evi said quietly to him. "You are not a killer. Don't let him make you one." Draco looked at her, and closed his eyes, and they returned to normal again. He put Lucius down. Lucius struggled to get his breath back, and remained slumped on the floor.

Draco pointed the wand out of the door and said, "Alohomora," and the latch on the trap door down to the dungeons opened. He turned back to his father.

Draco pointed the wand at his father and snake-like rope twisted out of the end of his wand and bound his father in a tight bind. Finally, he snapped the wand in two and threw it down on the floor.

"The authorities are on their way, as well as a medical team for you all," Draco said, and then turned to leave.

"Draco," Evi called. He stopped and turned back around.

"Thank you," she said. He bowed slightly and left. Evi heard a sort of pop, which can only be associated with someone disapparating. Hermione who was watching this was completely overcome with tiredness and only managed to stay awake long enough to see a medical nurse coming towards her before she blacked out.