Its already chapter eight! My apologies my dearest readers! I haven't updated in forever! I've been busy, and it seems that whenever i sit down to write, i go complete stupid and can't do anything.
Argh! The thought of school starting makes me depressed. I like school, but i detest it too. Its no fun! Plus, i wont be able to update at all for a looong time i bet. I'm a terrible procrastinator concering homework, and school stuff, etc, so i probably will be forever banned from the compie until winter break. ARGH!
Ah yes, by the way, I've decided i like this new title, so i shall be keeping it!
Okay, i know you wana read, so some quick shoutouts:
Dragonnet - in all honesty, i didn't think i wrote too...gruesomely-ish but hey! thats okay! And yes, Lucius is that stupid, at least in this story...
Fan-OF-HP - thank you! Meeso glad you like it!
Ruperts-a-Honey - I did warn you i did! Good question about who Evie will hook up with...hm...haven't quite figured that out yet actually! heh, and Draco is older than Evie by two minutes and twelve seconds. funny how life works huh? They both protect each other in their own ways, i suppose.
Kat- eeeh!! A new reviewer! I love you too dont worry! hehe, but i'm really really REAAAALLLLYYY happy that you like my story!! When i read your review i did a mad dance afterwards in salute to you! Did i really make you cry? yay! My story has touched somebody's heart! I feel sooo happy! Ah yes, about the first three chapters, i only reedited them in certain parts, enough to make some changes, but not change everything entirely. Oooh i feel so..soo..giggly now! hehehhe. I hope you like this next chappie!!
Alyanah - I can't guarentee complete happiness, but its going to be pretty happy for the next few chappies! Of course, until old Moldywarts and Lucius are taken care of, i cannot guarantee anything...they have minds of their own! And thank you for the shoutout to Sev! He thanks you mucho for it! :)
Okay! Thank you all for your awesome reviews!! You all rock my socks! I know you want to read now, so i'll shaddup and let you read!! Ah yes, by the way, i am totally unaware of the time difference between France and England, so lets pretend its only, like, two hour difference or something, kay? weeeeeeeeeee!
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Sweet and Sour
Chapter 8: A New Home
Pain. It wasn't like the cruciatus, but she could feel it. It hurt enough to be a constant sort of nagging. Like a bad migrane, except not in your head.
Evie frowned while she washed the dirty dishes. Her back had begun hurting about an hour ago, and nothing helped to make it stop. It wasn't so powerful that she couldn't move, but it made her back feel hot, and itchy. she took a numbing potion earlier, but that didn't help.
It worried Evie. Being a twin, one of their abilities was to be able to feel each others pain. Mind you, it had to be very strong to be felt by the other. Evie remembered when Lucius had placed Draco under cruciatus for the first time. She could feel it throughout her entire body. It was a much lighter version, but it still dropped her to her knees and left her breathless.
Finishing the dishes, Evie walked to the pantry. She gasped in horror; they were out of her favorite snack! It was a muggle snack, and although her relatives were Malfoys, they were more tolerant of muggles and muggleborns. Evie ran upstairs to grab her purse and jacket when she stopped short.
It happened in the snap of a finger, but she remembered everything she saw. her eyes glazed, and her surroundings went black. A vision appeared rapidly in front of her eyes.
About five death eaters stood in front of her in a 'V' line. The one in the very front held up his wand, and pointed it directly at her. The front death eater took off his mask, revealing Lucius's face. He had on a sardonic grin. His mouth moved, but no sounds came out. A green light shot out of the tip of his wand, blinding her, she heard screaming
and suddenly it was over. Evie stumbled a bit, but regained her balance. She placed a hand to her forehead, and leaned against the wall. Why was it that with her visions there always came bad news? Thankfully, her relatives were out, but what if deatheaters came to attack right now? Evie squealed, a cold sweat making its way onto her forehead. For not the first time in her life, Evie was at a loss of what to do.
She took a deep breath, placing a hand over her heart. Oddly enough, she didn't feel as scared as she ought to, considering her father was coming to France to kill her. Maybe it was because it was all to surreal for her to believe. She'd never had to deal with anything like this before, well, except for that one time when she and Draco were nine...She had to leave, go somewhere away. She had to warn her relatives too. But how could she since they were out and her owl was delivering a letter?
"Okay." she said out loud, "I'll just take my wand, and some money, and split for a couple of hours. I'm sure nothing will happen. I'm sure everything will be fine..." Putting on a slightly forced cheerful face, she ran to her room, grabbed her wand, and her dragon leather pouch (for her money).
She suddenly realized she was in no condition to go outside, considering she was still in her jimjams. She groaned, frustrated, and took off her shirt. She walked over to her dresser when something in her mirror caught her eye. She stopped, and looked over. Her eyes widened, and she ran over.
She looked at her side, and to her horror, saw glowing pinkish red scars. She turned her back towards the mirror, and looked over her shoulder. She screamed when she saw her back.
It wasn't like anything she had ever seen before. She tore herself away from the mirror, and fell to the ground. She backed away from it, tremors running through her. Her whole back was covered in glowing scars. Some were thin, long lines that trailed along her back, others were large jagged shapes.
Evie stifled a sob, her hands covering her eyes. At least she now knew where her pain was coming from. Something must have happened to Draco, something terrible. The thought of Draco getting hurt brought tears to Evie's eyes. She sniffed, and blinked them away. She had to stay strong, she had to stay calm and collected.
Taking a few deep breaths, she clenched her fists, and pushed herself up from the ground. She slowly got dressed, her thoughts only on Draco.
She walked outside, her heart beating. She was probably doing the wrong thing (she had a knack for that) but she knew that whatever came her way she would face it, and live to see Draco afterwards. She would save him.
(Grimmauld Place)
Laughter could be heard throughout the large Black household. Harry, Ron, Hermione, most of the Weasely clan, Sirius and Remus were in the kitchen. A little while earlier, they were all so terribly bored, so Hermione suggested they play a muggle game. Charades, actually. At first everyone was a bit, erm, hesistant, but once the game got going, it was loads of fun.
They had conjured three hats. Each hat stood for something: A person, a verb, and an object/person. Whoever was up took a piece of paper from each hat, and had to act out that combination. They could use props, people, and magic as long as they didn't speak, or blatantly give away what the answe was. It was currently Sirius's turn.
Sirius took a slip of paper from each hat and looked at them. His eyes widened, and his face was a mixture of amusement, and astonishment before melting into gleeful delight.
Sirius got down close to the ground, and began to hop around. He tried to wiggle his nose, but failed horribly.
Ron shouted out the first word, "A rabbit!"
Sirius nodded frantically, still hopping about the kitchen. He stopped, and leered at an unsuspecting Remus who was sitting on a chair, drinking tea. Sirius hopped over to Remus, and pointed at him. Remus raised any eyebrow, and setting down his tea, stood up and walked next to Sirius.
"Okay," hermione said, "So the first, and most likely third words are a rabbit, and Remus."
Sirius snickered, leering suggestively at Remus. Remus gulped, and scooted away from Sirius. Sirius pounced on Remus, knocking him to the floor.
"Sirius!" Remus cried, the wind knocked out of him. "What the bloody hell are you doing?"
Sirius winked at Remus, and tried to undo his trousers. While Remus struggled to keep his pants on, Sirius looked meaningly at the group as if to say, 'Isn't it obvious?' He began to bounce on Remus's abdomen, wiggling his nose, and trying not to laugh. Remus's face was already a bright red, but when Sirius began bouncing on him, his face turned dark maroon.
It didn't help that everybody else in the kitchen was laughing their arses off at the pair. Sirius and Remus had told them all about their more than friends relationship, and occasionally open about expressing their love (Usually Sirius would steal a passionate kiss from Remus when he wasn't suspsecting anything).
Remus growled, and yelled, "I swear, if you all dont start shouting out answers, i will be forced to hex you all into next Tuesday!"
The speculators began to shout out random guesses
"A rabbit bouncing Remus!"
"A rabbit playing with Remus!"
"um...a rabbit burying Remus?"
"A rabbit fucking Remus!" "Ron!" SMACK! "Ow Mum! Bloody hell that hurt!"
Sirius laughed and said,
"Close enough! Shagging is more like it!" He stopped bouncing on Remus, and grinned. Remus growled, and pushed Sirius off his stomach. He got up, his face still dark red, and brushed himself off,
"Honestly! These charades are so dirty!"
Sirius laughed, "You know you liked it Moony!" Remus stopped brushing and grinned a bit.
Harry couldn't help but laugh at their interaction. He was grateful for the distraction. His scar was hurting slightly. Voldemort was probably annoyed about something, but he wasn't too worried. Right now he just wanted to have a good time with his friends he considered his family.
It was Arthur Weasely's turn next. He jumped up preparing for the worst. Loud knocking startled the group. They looked towards the door in the next room. Remus got up holding his cup of tea,
"Its probably Dumbledore or Snape. I'll be right back." He got up ignoring Sirius muttering angrily about "Slimy Snivellus."
While the others continued their game, Remus walked to the door and answered it.
Arthur Weasely had just begun and already they were guessing when they heard a glass break. Jumping up, they looked at Remus. His face was pale, his hands shaking. He brought a shaky hand up to his mouth and whispered,
"Dear Merlin, what happened to him?" Remus looked over at Sirius, his face deathly pale, "Padfoot, would you come over here for a minute? The rest of you, please continue. His voice was slightly high-pitched.
Sirius frowned, and quickly walked over. He looked through the doorway, and threw himself back against the wall, shielding his eyes with his arms,
"Holy shit! What the...Jesus! Who...how? What the fuck happened to you two?"
Severus Snape stood in the doorway, Draco in his arms. His arms and front were stained with blood. Draco was lying in Snape's arms, his hair messy and stained with blood. A black cloack was on top of him, dark stains on the cloth.
Harry ran up to Sirius's side,
"Whats wrong?"
He caught side of Draco and Snape. Soon everyone was at the door. There was a multidude of gasps, and raised voices. Snape stood scowling at them for about...five seconds before shouting,
"He is not some attraction you come to stare at! He is dying, and I will not be held responsible for my own godson's death! He needs help...Please." That was his last resort, saying please. Hopefully they would stop gawking, and start helping.
Remus snapped out of it, and formed a pathway. Snape sighed in relief, and took Draco inside. Remus and Sirius guided Snape upstairs to a clean room. Everybody else followed them until Snape yelled at them to mind their own business. He told them that if they were going to help, fine, but if they weren't, get the hell out. Harry stayed behind as support for Sirius.
When entering the room, Snape hesitated when he saw the bed. Molly touched his shoulder,
"Put him down on the bed. We need to heal him."
Snape rolled his eyes, "I know that, but Draco's wounds are on his backside, not his front. Some people might not be able to handle the sight of the wounds." He deliberately looked at Harry, who scowled at him,
"I can handle it! Just tell me what to do, and i'll do it."
Snape scowled, before nodding and turning to the bed. He gently rolled Draco from his arms onto the bed. The sight of his back nearly made everybody retch.
(You know all the gorey details of what Draco's back looks like so i'll spare you, but just this once! :)
Snape inspected his back, and said, "We'll need blood replenishing potions mostly. I dont know if we can heal the skin without leaving scars."
(Since i'm terrible at writing about these sort of scenes, i'll leave it to your wuvwy imaginations)
They got to work. While they worked, Snape told a smiplified version of what Lucius did to Draco. He didn't tell them anything about Voldemort, though. After supplying Draco with many blood-replenishing potions, they worked on his back. A lot of the skin was gone, showing muscle, and a hint of white bones.
Harry was mortified at the sight. He couldn't understand how anybody could do that to their only child. He wondered how Draco had taken it. Draco was probably going to be a nasty git still, but at least he had good reason. Maybe he ought to offer a sort of truce to Draco if...no, when he wakes up.
Once they finished treaing Draco enough so that he would live, they let him rest. Snape was about to leave with Harry when Draco moaned. Snape was at his side in an instant. They had given him a dreamless sleep potion, he should be asleep. Draco cracked open one eye. It was glazed over. He whispered snape's name. Snape leaned closer,
"What is it Draco?"
Suddenly, Draco shot out his arm, and grabbed Snape's sleeve. He whispered fiercely, "Save Evie." before losing conciousness and submitting to sleep.
TO BE CONTINUED
Unfortunately, my good fans, i must leave you for now. I have to get off the computer, so i figure, why not let you read this, and then continue the rest in another chappie?
Actually, i'm just going to add more to this chapter, so i'll tell you when i add this chapter again.
Hope you enjoy! Please review!
VS