Chapter 6: No more lies.
Bailey led Draco up to one of the classrooms on the fourth floor. "I've never noticed this classroom before." Draco said opening the door.
"That's because it hasn't been used in ages. It's the old Arithmacy classroom back when Professor Bartlow was here. You wouldn't know him though, he was a great teacher when he was here." Bailey said stepping into the classroom and locking the door.
"How did you know that this was an old Arithmancy classroom, and that Professor Bartlow was the Professor?" Draco asked sitting on top of one of the desks.
"Draco I have to be honest with you, and I hope that in return you are just as honest with me, but you have to promise me a wizards promise that what I say in this room doesn't leave this room." Bailey said sitting on the desk across from Draco.
"I promise I won't say a word, and that I'll be honest with you." Draco said noticing how scared Bailey was.
" Draco when I was ten my parents were killed at the hands of Lord Voldemort, I literally had no where to go. I was born in London, not America I moved there when I graduated from Hogwarts. I know right now that you have a lot of questions but please let me get this out. When I was ten I was sent to hogwarts because my uncle went here. His parents didn't want to raise a ten year old along with their youngest son, but my uncle was determined to let me stay with him so when he went to Hogwarts he brought me with him. I faced so much scrutiny because I was a ten year old in 6th year classes. At the time the Headmaster was Professor Dippet and my uncle and his friends along with Professor Dumbledore convinced him that my staying here wouldn't disrupt anything, and that if I caught up I could graduate with my uncle. So my uncle, his friends, Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape when he was a student, and believe it or not Peeves help me with my studies. I'm the youngest witch to have passed both O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.S. , and within the same school year. I know that Snape is old, well he's not really old, I mean lets face it he's 26 though you can't tell due to his lack of hygiene, but I'm not that old I'm only 17 years old. Voldemort killed more than just my parents though Draco, he killed my family and friends. I'm sorry that I didn't tell you that earlier but I wasn't suppose to tell anyone, but Draco I love you and I thought you should know." Bailey said on the verge of tears. Draco was speechless, which was a first for him.
"So, um ok. I have one question so far, why are you back?" Draco asked looking confused.
"I'm here to spy on Harry, see if he becomes a Death Eater I know what's going to happen. I know to much for my own good. I can't let Harry know though because if he does become a Death Eater and tells Voldemort what I know, then Voldemort is going to have to kill me before he finds out. I promised my uncle I would protect Harry!" Bailey was now crying. Draco pulled her close to him, he hated seeing her cry.
"Ok so whose your uncle?" Draco asked, he was now hating the meeting Draco was going to have with Voldemort telling him that he was friends with Harry.
"My uncle is James Potter, you know that story already though." Bailey said between sobs.
"I'm so sorry, I don't know what to say." Draco knew what he had to do, he had to stop Harry from becoming a Death Eater, he himself had to stop from becoming a Death Eater.
"Ok I was honest with you, know it's your turn to be honest with me." Bailey pulled her head off of Draco's chest and looked at him straight in his steel gray eyes. "What's been bothering you, and can I help?"
"Not unless you know how to get my mum away from my dad. He's been abusing her since I was a little baby. I can't stand to see him beat her like that, I keep begging her to run away from him but she just won't do it, and I know it's because of me. Plus I talked to Voldemort today and he said that we could become Death Eaters if I killed my father, which right now is fine by me, but we also have to kill a bunch of mudbloods. I don't think I can do that now, espically knowing how much it effected you when you were younger. The thing I hated the most was that your name was on that list, you of all people you were one of the people I had to kill, and I knew I couldn't do it." Draco said looking down at Bailey, they were standing up and he was a lot taller than she was.
"I'm sorry for interrupting you but there's something that I really really need to tell you and it's I am a muggle born, but I'm also part alien there is no wizard in me at all. Jame's brother adopted me when his wife couldn't get pregnant." Bailey said backing away from Draco just in case he didn't take the news lightly.
"Bailey I don't care about that, you could be all purple with four eyes and I wouldn't care. I love you to much. I have to admit something to you, Blaise and I are suppose to be in our 6th year here, but we've failed so many freaking times in some many of our classes that Dumbledore won't pass us, he's going to give us another chance all we have to do is pass AP Potions. Will you please help us?" Draco gave her his verison of a puppy dog face, and pulled her back to him.
"I would love to. Drake about your parents I think we can get them help, but you're going to have to trust me. Is there anything else you want to get off your chest?" Bailey asked looking at him, she remembered what Blaise said about him being afraid of hurting her like his father did to his mother.
"I trust you, and yes there's one thing that's been bothering me, and you have to promise not to laugh or be afraid because if it happened I wouldn't know what to do. I'm afraid that if we get close that I'm going to end up like my father and I don't want that to happen, I don't want to hurt you." A tear rolled down Draco's cheek.
"You're not going to end up like your father, I mean look he's serving Voldemort and you were able to change your mind about Lord Voldemort, and your father wasn't. I bet your mother is more proud of you than she is of her husband. I'm proud of you, just because you don't act or think the way he does. I love you Draco Edward Malfoy." Bailey kissed Draco on the cheek.
"I love you too." Draco took his hand and tilted Bailey's head towards his and kissed her on her forhead. " Now how do we help my mum?" Draco asked pulling her into a hug, he felt a lot better, even more so knowing all that about Bailey.
"Follow me." Bailey said taking Draco's hand and leading him towards Dumbledore's office.
"Professor Dumbledore, Draco and I need to talk to you. I swear you really should give me the password to this thing! Come on open up, you know you can't resist me." Bailey yelled up the stone gargoyle and started smiling.
"What was all that about?" Draco asked, it seemed a little odd to him that Bailey was telling Dumbledore that he couldn't resist her.
"He's one of my godfathers, Hagrid is the other one." Bailey stepped onto one of the gargoyle's steps.
"How did you stand the four of us saying things like mudblood, and stuff?" Draco felt bad that he had said all that.
"I've heard it before, I'm use to it." Bailey said opening the door to Dumbledore's office.
"What can I help you two with?" Dumbledore asked sitting down behind his desk.
"Dumbly-dore, if there is one thing you could do for me it's this, please get Narcissa Malfoy away from Lucious." Bailey pleaded sitting infront of Dumbledore. Her eyes were still red from crying earlier.
"Bailey what has gotten into you, and with mister Malfoy here." Dumbledore said getting up and walking around his desk to sit in the chair next to Bailey.
"Please don't be mad with her Professor, but Bailey told me everything, she made me promise not to tell anyone though, and I'm going to stick with that promise. If it's going to end up costing her her life then I promise not to tell a single soul. She knew that I was upset and that something was going on, I suspect that one of the others might have told her what happened earlier, and she tried to get me to open up. When she heard what happens to my mother she decided that she was going to try to help me out, and that's why we're here." Draco said while kneeling down besides her since there wasn't a chair, and trying to calm her down.
"I'm not mad, I just need to know what's going on with your parents." Dumbledore said calmly helping Draco off the floor and onto the chair.
"My dad keeps beating my mum, and I keep asking her to run away but she won't do it. When I went to talk to my dad today, he wasn't there but my mum was and she was in terrible condition. I'm afriad that if she doesn't get to St. Mungos that she'll get worse. Will you please help me get her out of the house?" Draco asked taking Bailey's hand.
"Albus please help Narcissa, and after you do I would like to talk to you and Draco about the you know what." Bailey said watching Dumbledore get up, get out a quill and a piece of parchment, scribble something down and hand it to Fawkes his Phoenix.
"We can talk about that while we wait for Fawkes to return with Sirius' response. I also asked Remus, and Severus to come up also. So what is it that you would like to discuss with us?" Dumbledore asked sitting back down behind his desk.
"I was wondering if we could have Draco, Blaise, Marcus, and Harry become spies for the you know what. I mean if Snape's one I can't see why they can't be, espically since Voldemort is looking for students to be spies for Hogwarts, if they were our spies we could know what Voldemort is doing, and control what he's thinking." Bailey said looking at Dumbledore, she was afraid of the look that Draco might be giving her.
"Professor if I may speak, if it helps kill the man who hurt Bailey and her family than I'll do anything. If you want me to be a spy I swear I'll be the best one you've ever had. We are in talks about it already, he has no idea that Harry and I are friends, however he wants me to kill my father and muggle born students at this school. Bailey's name is on that list, but I swear I could protect her and some of the others. If we have to we can fake a few of the students deaths I swear." Draco looked Dumbledore straight in the eye afraid that he might not believe him.
"Ok mister Malfoy, but I'm the last person you need to convince. You need to take it up with Bailey's guardians, I might be the leader of the Order of the Phoenix, but Bailey's guardians have taken the post of recruiting new members, since they know better than I do when people are lieing or not. I'm not saying that you are lieing but I know that they are going to think about it, and question you more than I could. I'm happy to know that you love my godchild though." Dumbledore said shaking hands with Draco.
"You are not going to question him. I know he's not lieing about this, and I know that both Marcus and Blaise have been thinking about backing out of getting the Dark Mark also, and if they do then Harry is going to follow them. I'm not stupid I've been mind reading them since I got here. Why did you have to ask them to come." Bailey hated when her guardians came, when ever they were together it was guaranteed that some sort of prank was going to be pulled. Before Bailey could say anything else though Fawkes was back with Sirius' response.
"What does it say?" Draco asked afraid that it would say something like 'there is no way I'm helping a Malfoy.'
"It says that Sirius would be greatful to go retrieve his cousin from her abusive husband, if he knew about this earlier he would of had both your mother and yourself living with him at Grimmauld Place. Don't worry about your father finding her, it's protected and hidden. I've put spells on it, Snape's put spells on it, and so has Bailey. It also says that Sirius should be joining us in about 30 minutes, or as soon as he gets Narcissa situated." Dumbledore said folding up the letter.
"You mean that Sirius Black is my cousin? Why didn't anyone tell me earlier?" Draco said shocked.
"I have no idea, but I wouldn't do anything to make him mad or upset with you." Dumbledore said walking towards the door, he knew that Remus was going to be there soon.
"Why not? and is there anyone else I shouldn't get mad?" Draco asked turning around to face Dumbledore, however it wasn't Dumbledore that answered but Bailey.
"You shouldn't make Remus mad either, they're both my guardians. It was stated in James' will that if anything was to happen to him and/or Lily that Remus Lupin, and Sirius Black would gain guardianship of Harry and me, but since Harry has special magic in his veins he had to live with the Dursleys, and I got stuck with dumb and dumber." Bailey said not noticing that Remus entered the room.
"So whose dumb and whose dumber?" Remus asked walking through the door.
"Well lets see since neither one of you knew how to raise a teenager, and Sirius was the worst of all I'd say you were dumb and Sirius was dumber. I don't think he'll ever grow up, and I'm not being mean about it I mean I'm grateful that you took me in and taught me everything, but I just wish that James could of raised me, or that I could of been raised by my parents, not two teenagers who were trying to figure out their lives, and mine at the same time. You did a great job, you know with everything." Bailey started crying and gave Remus a hug.
"Minister-er sorry Professor, I have to agree Bailey is a great girl, you and uncle Sirius did a great job raising her." Draco said shaking hands with Remus.
"Thanks mister Malfoy. It's always good to hear good things about the kids you raised." Lupin said smiling.
"Remus, Sirius is on his way, he had to pick up Narcissa Malfoy and drop her off at Grimmauld Place before he arrives, it seems that Lucious doesn't know how to treat his wife." Dumbledore said magicking up two chairs, one for Lupin and one for Sirius.
"I understand. So Bailey how was Snape's class?" Lupin asked sitting down.
"Before we get into that I believe Bailey has something to confess to you, before she confesses it to Sirius." Dumbledore said noticing the scared and upset look on Bailey's face. He knew she was more afraid to tell Sirius than Remus.
"Moony you have to promise you won't shout or yell but see this as a positive thing." Bailey said getting up again and pacing the room.
"I promise, but by the sound of it Sirius won't be as kind." Lupin said getting up to stop Bailey's pacing.
"Thank you, she's been doing that since she got here." Dumbledore said helping Lupin get Bailey into her seat.
"I told Draco everyting, about how James raised my, and that I'm an alien, and well everything but the order, Dumbledore told him about that sort of and he said that he doesn't want to become a Death Eater, but I thought that maybe the four of them could be spies like Snape, since Voldemort is already considering making them young Death Eaters. Please don't be mad." Bailey said all this in one breath while looking at the ground, she couldn't even imagine the look on Remus' face.
"I'm not mad, I can figure out what made you tell mister Malfoy, but lets make sure that Sirius, and Snape get the main reason before you start your ramble fest." Lupin said hugging Bailey, about ten minutes later Snape walked throught the door, just as Sirius came out of the fire place.
"So what's going on? Why is Bailey and Malfoy here? Did something happen?" Sirius asked concerned after noticing the scene in front of him.
"I find it amazing that you care more about someone other than yourself." Snape commented taking a seat next to Draco.
"Well seeming that I raised the girl, and that she's the niece of my best friend, I obviously care for her. However what you're doing here is beyond me." Sirius said taking a seat by Lupin.
"That's enough out of the both of you. Uncle Sirius, Snape is here for the same reason you are, and Cranky Pants we agreed that since we were firends that you'd at least be civil to Sirius, as I would have been to Elizabeth!" Bailey yelled over Lupin's shoulder.
"Sirius, Severus, Bailey has a few things to tell you, and as I understand she did this to get mister Malfoy to open up about everything, she only did it for the order." Dumbledore said trying to calm the two adults.
"Acutally Dumbledore is only half right. I did this because I love Draco, and thought he needed to know the truth, and if either of you yell at me I will literally hex the living day lights out of you. I told Draco everything, except the order. He said that he doesn't want to become a Death Eater, and he could pursuade the others to do the same. I'm sorry for betraying you and tellng Draco but I had to. He wants to join the order, even if he's underaged." Bailey said looking at the floor again.
"Bailey I'm proud of you. It takes a lot of courage to stand up to three adults, and tell them the truth. I guess Moony and I did something right. Mister Malfoy if you'll follow us please." Sirius said going into a side room with Snape, and Lupin. Draco looked back at Bailey before entering.