Far Cry
Rated: Pg-13 to R
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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters associated with Harry Potter. I do own the plot, and Haze and Frost and Raye though! The lyrics, I also do not own!
We have Pyro making an entrance along with people giving lots of explanations.
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Dot...STAR!! Pyramid! WOO!
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Chapter 13: Swing Life Away
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ill show you mine if you show me yours first
lets compare scars ill tell you whose is worse
lets un-write these pages and replace them with our own words
Rise Against: Swing Life Away
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Lorelei opened her gray eyes; she blinked several times before looking around not recognizing where she was. She reached for something, but when she didn't find it she started to panic, her breathing speeding up. Crawling to the corner of the couch, she huddled in the corner.
Ron opened the door and walked in, not really expecting the girl to be awake yet. Walking over to his desk he sat down rather hard, rolling his sore shoulder before glancing towards the couch. He noticed that she was awake and looked absolutely terrified. "Oh... wait! I bet your looking for this aren't you?" Ron held up the little doll. Walking over to her, he sat on the edge of the couch, "Here you are, I'm Ron. I'm going to be taking care of you till you can see you mum, Okay?" He watched as her hand reached for the doll and snatch it away, looking at him with now quizzical gray eyes.
"Mummy... I want my mummy!" She practically shouted at him.
"Well! I say you take after Pansy and you are most defiantly Malfoy's little sister. Most definitely." Ron muttered. Ron smiled sadly at the small girl, "Your mum is fine Lorelei, and you will get to see her very soon. Now I bed your hungry! What would you like to eat... anything you want." Ron sat cross-legged on the couch, his back against the armrest, so that he was facing the girl.
"Anything I want?" She said with a small smile, and when Ron nodded, "I want...um.. Cookies! Oh and Milk. Yes, I want chocolate chip cookies with lots and lots of chocolate chips and a BIG (she gestured with her hands) glass of milk!"
"Well I think I can do that for you. My mum makes some of the BEST chocolate chip cookies in the world and it just so happens that I have some with me right now. And how bout I get you a big glass of cold milk and you can tell me everything you remember from the past couple of nights, alright?" The small girl nodded her head and Ron went set up a small table and a chair that she could sit at with her cookies and milk.
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Hermione was waiting for Pansy's answer. Pansy just looked at Hermione as if she were the stupidest thing in the room. Hermione glared at her, "Listen, are you going to tell me or not. I have much more important things to do then baby-sit you."
Pansy just stared at her, not even blinking. This started to unnerve her and she shifted. "Pansy, would you stop looking at me like that."
Pansy finally blinked and let out a painful scream. There was a glow from her belly as it grew another month. Hermione had walked closer to examine her when a very strong arm came up and grabbed her collar, "If you don't get this... this THING out of me this instant I'm Going To Blow Up This Place!!" Sweat started to break out across Pansy's forehead and her breathing was labored. "This isn't normal... no no, this isn't anything like my pregnancy with Lorelei. Of course this isn't a normal pregnancy, nothings normal when the mother doesn't even exist." Pansy was talking to herself as another wave of pain enveloped her and she let go of Hermione as she gripped the side of the bed. "Damn that bastard to hell. Fuck Lucius and Fuck the Malfoy bloodline... I WANT THIS DAMN THING OUT OF ME!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.
Hermione waited for her to stop and asked, "What do you mean the mother doesn't exist? What the hell is going on here Pansy?"
"What... I'm saying you Mud-Blood is that this child shouldn't even exist! You wanna know why Draco was promised to Voldemort?"
"But, I thought he was meant for you?"
"That was just a cover up, I loved Draco at one time, I admit that but even I knew that it wouldn't happen, but still I had to keep up the façade, yes?" Pansy sighed as the pain was but a dull throb now, "Draco was originally meant for Voldemort, he was bred just for him. He was chosen because of his strong blood and the perfect balance of his magic. Hard to believe a Malfoy could be so pure, but yes, that's Draco through and through. He was untouched by the complete darkness of the Malfoy and Black bloodline. A... spell was performed when he was still in Narcissa's womb... but it went wrong." Pansy moaned as a small wave of pain hit her again. "I know I wont survive this... the light of this child will burn me to nothing but ashes when it arrives, the thing is... the very second before Voldemort was defeated he used the last of his power to suck the magic out of Draco." She shifted in the bed and laid her hands on her very pregnant belly. "That magic has been lying dormant for years. Draco was meant to give birth to Voldemort's heir, but as you see it didn't work out that way."
Hermione had pulled out a quick-notes quill and a journal and listened attentively as it wrote down everything that Pansy said.
"I'm guessing that Potter never really told anyone what happened after he had defeated the Dark Lord, did he. How he had taken in the magical essence that the dark lord possessed... thus also taking in Draco's magical essence. Through doing this, Potter purified Draco's essence and that essence, with Draco still alive, wanted to find him again. Lucius had this planned ever since the downfall of the dark lord. Once Potter had found Draco, that purified magic would come to the surface and the spell would be complete..."
"So the dagger in Draco's apartment?"
"Soul Stealer... when Potter found Draco that essence went back into Draco and then that's when Lucius planted the dagger. It sucked the essence back out of Draco and thus this... thing inside of me has come to be. Lucius thought that it would make the perfect heir, the most powerful dark wizard that had ever lived... Draco was supposed to bear the child when he was finally given to Voldemort but Lucius didn't realize this one thing... that through Potter it had purified."
Hermione took a deep shuttering breath and exhaled, "So, what your saying is that before Draco was born a dark spell was cast to let him have Voldemorts Heir, that would eventually be the most powerful dark wizard, but Voldemort had drawn out Draco's magic before his death, in which Harry had taken into himself upon the Dark Lords defeat. Thus, Harry purified this magic. Seeing as Voldemort died, his magic has nowhere to go so it accepted Harry but seeing as Draco was still alive the magic wanted to find and get him back. Am I correct so far?"
Pansy nodded.
"Okay so, when Harry finally found Draco again, the magic inside Harry recognized Draco and went back inside of Draco... but the dagger that was placed inside of Draco's apartment took back that essence and Lucius put this.. thing inside of you and it most defiantly wants out of you." Hermione finished but she was curious, "So why did the readings that I took come up that it was a Muggle born?"
Pansy sighed, "I don't have all the answers! God, maybe it has to do with Draco not having any magic now? Ever think of that... none of this is supposed to happen. It defies... all magic, nature... god! It is unnatural and I want it out of me!" she slammed her fist at her stomach only to have it recoil and she stopped it before she hit herself. "The bloody thing is protecting its self."
"So what is it going to look like? Will it look like Draco?" Hermione found this highly interesting and it would most definitely go down in the history books.
"It could look like Potter for all I know... I don't really care! Can I see my daughter now?" Pansy was tired, and you could hear it in her voice.
Hermione took the quill and notes and put them away, "Yes, I'll contact Ron and tell him to bring her over."
"Do you think... I could freshen up. This may be the last time I get to see her, and I don't want her remembering me like this." Pansy's voice wavered.
Hermione nodded and sent in the nurses, giving them instructions and after that she left.
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Harry was sitting in his living room, on his couch with a several cartoons of Chinese takeout. He had yet to master the art of chopsticks, mostly because he just didn't have the patience and using a fork to eat. He was just about to take another bite of his food when his cell phone rang, sighing he set down is almost empty container and eating utensil and answered, "Potter, what do you need?" He said, rather ticked that he had been interrupted. He loved Chinese food.
"Oh So Sorry, your highness, did I interrupt your lunch hour?" Hermione said rather sarcastically.
"As a matter of fact... YES! What do you want?"
"Well Pansy talked, and she wants to see her daughter. I heard about your date with Draco and I think that you're just going to have to cancel it," Hermione heard Harry growl at this, "and bring him down to the MoM."
"Bring him to the Ministry, eh? You want to face the wrath of Arthur Weasley?"
"Well... my father-in-law is just going to get off his high horse and realize that there are more important things going on. As much as I love Mr. Weasley, he has been getting stranger and stranger these last couple of years." Hermione finished.
"Yea..., anyway so I'm supposed to bring Draco to the Ministry ... and then I guess that we are also going to go to St. Mungo's?" He could practically see Hermione's head nodding. "Gotcha, I'll just give him a ring and see ya then... that is AFTER I finish my—
"Chinese Food? Kay, see ya," Hermione clicked the phone off.
Harry picked up his carton and continued eating... he loved his Chinese food.
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Hermione stood in the office with Ron and the small Lorelei. "She's so cute, it's hard to think that she's the daughter of Lucius and Pansy." The girl was now coloring on a piece of parchment with an enchanted crayon. All the child had to do was think of what color they wanted and it would change.
"Yea, I know what you mean." Ron said as he came up behind Hermione and hugged her waist.
"So what did you find out from her... about the past few nights?" she asked.
"Nothing much, really. She remembered being put into that hiding place by her aunt Isabelle, and then she fell asleep.. though she did hear the voice of a man that she had never met before and she remembered that she was afraid... but then again that she wasn't. I think that she recognized Lucius on some level in her psyche as him being her father, but other then that..." Ron shrugged. "When's Harry going to be here?"
"Not sure, he was eating when I called."
"Ahh... so never?" Ron laughed only to be elbowed in the gut by his wife.
Hermione moved away from Ron and sat on the floor beside the young Malfoy, "Hello there, I'm Hermione. Have you been having fun?"
Lorelei looked up with bright blue eyes, "Yes, I'ves been having fun with Ron. Ron's funny."
Hermione smiled, "Yes he is pretty funny looking, isn't he?"
Lorelei giggled and looked back down at her drawing. Hermione looked down also, "Wow this is really pretty, can I see?" Hermione picked up the drawing when Lorelei gave her permission. Standing she looked at it, her brow furrowed as she looked at it. There were lots of yellow and reds. There was an outline of a roughly drawn... person, she guessed and it was engulfed in bright light. There were shades of green that she guessed was grass and trees and there were birds... it looked like a perfect little Eden except for the fact that there were little dark specks floating around the yellow.
"Lorelei, what is this supposed to be?" Hermione asked as she gave it back to the girl.
Lorelei shrugged, "When can I see my mummy?"
"Soon, just as soon as Harry gets here."
Lorelei nodded and went back to coloring.
Hermione set down on the couch with her husband as they watched the small girl play and hum.
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Draco pulled up to The Kedavra; he noticed that Raye and the others were already there. Humming, he took out his notebooks and walked inside. "Hey guys, what's up?"
"Nothing much, just meeting Haze's new girl here." Frost said from where he was perched up on the edge of the stage. "Yea, she's a real crazy violinist." Frost snickered as he saw Haze come out of the back room with Raye and a red headed girl.
"Nice, so when did this happen. I've noticed that people have begun to hook up and I... meaning ME, being the last to find out here." Draco muttered and threw his notebooks down on the nearest table. They had spent a whole day last week cleaning up the place after it had gotten trashed. It looked better then it had before... luckily most of it had remained untouched and it was just the tables and chairs in the dinning area that was the most trashed. "So who's the lovely lady that got her hands on Haze, here?" He asked as he looked that the girl.
And what he saw he would have never guess in a thousand... no a million, actually scratch that, a zillion years. There she stood in all her fiery glory. Her long red hair hung down her back in waves, her green shirt perfectly matching her eyes and a long black skirt that flared around her ankles. "Virginia Alexandria Weasley...Pyro, I haven't seen you... in AGES!" Haze looked over at Draco quizzically as the girl at his arm spun on her booted heel and looked over at the person calling her name. She did a double take.
"Draco? Draco!!" She ran towards him and flung herself at him. He caught her, stumbling back a few inches before enveloping her in a warm hug.
"What can I say," He kissed her cheek after he had let her go, "You haven't grown an inch!"
"Draco!" She jabbed him in the stomach, "You haven't changed a bit." She smiled brightly, "I have to say that I've missed you extremely. My 6th year was enormously boring with out you there to complain to and joke around with. No one to call me Pyro." She sighed and got serious suddenly, "Has Harry found you yet?"
He was about to answer when Haze came up and looked at the two, "So... how do you two know each other and what's with the Pyro?" He asked, with one of his dark brows raised.
"Oh, cut it out Haze. We went to school together. In fact, Draco here is the one that taught me the Violin. After the few lessons he started call me Pyro because of well... the way I played, and I think it had to do something with the Weasley temper and Oh yea, my hair." She grinned giving Draco another hug, "Oh gosh, I've missed you so."
Draco smiled warmly; he couldn't believe that Ginny was here. Of course, no one knew that they had become good friends in his last year there... one of the ones that kept him sane through many many nights. "Yea, Harry found me. Actually we're supposed to go on a date tonight to the Inferno. God Gin, where have you been?"
Gin leaned against Haze, his arm wrapped around her waist, but she didn't let go of Draco's hand, "I've been... around. Putting all those lessons to good use, I pretty much have it made in the Muggle and Wizarding world thanks to you."
Draco nodded, "I'm glad that I was able to help. So Anyway! How long have you two been seeing each other?"
"Actually, a little over a month. I met Ginny here at an Apocalyptica concert, which was the best may I add!" Haze's dark eyes lit up with excitement.
"Well I am extremely happy for you Pyro, really... but be care around this guy." He leaned over and whispered rather loudly in her ear, "He's Mental!"
Ginny laughed, "I'll try and remember that."
Haze made a face and looked over at Raye and Frost. "So I think we were here to practice, yes? Well let's get on with it then!"
Draco blinked... "Hey wait a minute! Who died and made you lead?"
"Well... no one, not yet anyway!" Haze ran to the back room away from Draco, leaving Ginny grinning madly.
"Well Gin, we have a lot to catch up on, and I would just LOVE to do it now, but I have to go kill you boyfriend!" Draco ran after Haze.
"Draco... DON'T HURT HIM TOO MUCH!" She laughed; it was nice to see Draco again.
Raye and Frost had already left following them to the back room... a few minutes later she felt a hand on her wrist, "What the hell you still doing out here, Pyro? You're coming and rocking with us, babe." Draco dragged her to the back room where they kept all the equipment.
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It had been an hour since Hermione had called and an hour before he finally decided that he would call Draco and tell him that he had to cancel. It started ringing... and it was still ringing... ringing ringing ringing ringing... Harry hung up and called his cell phone. Ringing... and finally an answer! Score! Or so he thought, anyway. Maybe not... Draco is going to be pissed, but then Pansy did talk.
"Hello? Hey Hi Hiya... What do you want? Is anyone there... POTTER SNAP OUT OF IT!" Draco finally yelled.
Harry jumped, "Draco... er sorry about that. I kinda just...zoned out there. Yea! That's it."
"Yea... alright, so what do you want?"
Harry listened and it sounded like Draco was a little out of breath, 'Hnm.. must be practicing.'
"Harry... earth to Harry, is anyone home?" Draco said into his cell, he looked over at Ginny and saw her rolling her eyes and Raye just looked annoyed, her leg bouncing up and down.
"Yea, listen Draco I'm going to have to cancel out on going out tonight. Pansy talked and from the sound of it, it was pretty important. Well its sounded like it anyway, it was Hermione." Harry leaned his back against his wall.
Draco was fiddling with the strings on his electric. "Yea, I gotcha, so what does this have to do with me?"
"Lots, you have to come with me to MoM and to Mungo's. Its had to do with what I was going to talk to you about."
"Oh No, Harry I did leave that world and I don't want to go back into it. You can tell me what she said right here and now, I'm not going to step one foot into the Ministry." Draco said, kind of pissed that he had to explain himself.
"Listen Draco, I KNOW that alright, and you know that I wouldn't do this unless it was really important so you HAVE to come. Draco... you have," Harry sighed, he might as well just tell him over the phone, "You have a sister alright. She was being hidden from Lucius in the Parkinson Mansion. Draco... Lucius just recently slaughtered every breathing thing that was at that house."
Draco paled, "And... the girl?"
"No, she survived."
"And I have to come to the MoM for this, right?"
"There's more, but I haven't been filled in with any of that information. According to Hermione its too big to be told over the phone. Its really important." Harry stressed the word important.
"Fine, I'll go but I'm bringing support."
"I understand, I'll see you in a few." Harry hung up the phone and stood, thudded his head against the wall. 'Things are never normal for me, never.'
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Draco put down his electric and glanced over at the others, "Looks like practice is going to have to end early today, guys. But hey, look on the bright! It seems that I have a little sister that I never new about!" He exclaimed and walked out of the room.
Ginny looked over at the others and sat down her violin, "Um guys... if you could just excuse me for a second." Ginny followed Draco out the door leaving the three staring after them.
"Should we... I dunno, feel left out? Because, I'm feeling left out." Frost muttered. Raye walked over and put a hand on his shoulder.
"This is way over our heads, and Ginny... well, she is apart of that world that is effecting him so much. We wouldn't be able to understand everything now would we?" Haze looked up from where he had been dazing out.
"Yea, and maybe we will eventually get into that world. I think Draco is going through a lot of shit right now and the only way we're going to be able to help is by being here for him." He ran his hand through his black hair, "I just wish I had a better understanding of everything, that's all."
The others nodded their head in agreement, "Hey ya know, that Ginny can seriously play. It sounded awesome when we all played together. We have seriously got to do a show with her and have a recording. I mean, its kick ass!" Frost piped up, trying to cheer everyone up.
"I have to agree, I think we need to add that on to our CD... we should make a CD! Actually... we should start coming up with more merchandise so we can spread out more. Yes, that's it. Maybe we could become famous one day. That would be awesome.. to travel and stuff." Haze commented.
They all sat down around the small table they kept in the back and started to come up with ideas.
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Draco was leaning against the doorway of the entrance, his arms folded across his chest. 'A sister... after all this time I wont be alone. Not like I was truly ever alone anyway. I must protect her from Lucius. No one deserves to go through what I went through all those years ago. No One...' He sighed, as he looked out across the busy streets of London.
Ginny stood behind him, her hands clasped in front of her as she observed him. He had definitely changed from the boy he used to be. She remembered finding him one night in Hogwarts... the room of requirement to be exact. She had seen him walking around the room, look at various instruments on the wall. She had felt bad about stumbling across him, not wanting to invade on his privacy. He had never really bothered her anyway, always a small glance here and there, but never taunting her like he did the others. She remembered how he had chosen a violin from the wall and how he had caressed its fine workmanship. She remembered how she had sat and watched him play and found it to be mesmerizing, and when he had turned and found her he had said nothing just turned his back on her and played more.
It was afterwards, that they started meeting and he had begun teaching her how to play. They had become friends ever since that night, but she could never remember exactly how it came to be. Sighing, she found her self back in the present with Draco staring at her. She tilted her head.
"Well, have you heard any of the news that been going on lately?" Draco asked.
"Not much, I'm not tied up with the Ministry and I haven't seen Ron in almost a year. So what's up?" She asked rocking backing on her heels.
"Oh well, you'll never guess what happened in these past two weeks..." He began to tell her all that had happened. With Lucius, the attack at the club and finding out that Pansy was pregnant. Even mentioning the part about him being magicless.
Afterwards she had walked up to him and hugged him, "Draco, you know that I'm here for you right? Just like Haze and Frost and most definitely Raye. If you want, I'll come with you to the Ministry."
"Yea, I was going to ask you about that. Thanks." He said and walked back to his band mates to tell them the news.
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Harry pulled up in front of the Kedavra where he saw Draco standing in front of the entrance, wearing a pair of faded blue jeans and a black t- shirt. Beside him, he saw none other then Ginny Weasley, her hand clasped in Draco's. He reached over and opened the door, with nothing but a raised eyebrow and Ginny climbed in the back and Draco in the front.
Draco looked over at Harry and gave him the same expression. "Just what the hell are you anyway, you really need to make this clear to me." He said, looking at Harry's clothing... if you could call it that. Ginny looked between the two and shrugged. Harry could tell him, his self. It wasn't like the Shadow Walker wasn't a known figure in the Wizarding world. He would find out pretty quickly.
"All in due time, right now we need to get to the Ministry and see what's so important." Harry looked in the rearview mirror and looked at Ginny, "Haven't seen you in a while, we're have you been hiding." He put the car in gear and began driving the sleek black BMW towards to entrance of the Ministry.
Ginny gave him and look, "Don't give me that Harry, you know where I've been. Its not like you couldn't just lock onto my magic signal and apparate, so don't you give me that shat." She stuck her tongue out at him and went back to staring out the window.
"So Draco, you didn't tell me you know the world renown Violinist, Alexandria." Harry heard Draco snort and look over at him.
"Who do you think taught her to play, Potter?" Draco grinned roguishly, "I am good at everything."
Harry made a noise, causing Draco to jab him in the side with his elbow, "Hey, what the hell did you do that for?!" Harry mock glared over at the blonde.
"Because I can. So are you going to tell me what you actually do for a living? Because, honestly... I don't think that a librarian dressed in armored leather. Geez Harry you look like a fucking dark auror!" When Draco said this, he could feel the tension increase, "You kidding me right?"
Harry shook his head.
"You're a Dark Auror. I mean, sure I've been out of touch with the Wizarding World, but I at least new that was part of the 'Dark Lords' plans," He spat out the dark lord with disgust.
"Yea, I know. When I defeated his 'Lord Darkness'," mimicking Draco's tone, "All the knowledge and well... everything was absorbed into me so that he couldn't be reborn again. There are prices that are paid in war, and I've paid several times over. Lets just say I took the Dark Auror bit, twisted it around and took over what he had already started. No one really knows where 'we' have come from, but that we just seemed to appear. Just know that I've kept this world and the Wizarding world safe for that past couple of years, I just cant figure out how Lucius slipped through our fingers." Harry explained as if he were describing the weather.
Draco just sat there thinking it over, "So..., let me guess. You're the leader of the DA?"
Harry nodded.
"What are YOU called?" Draco asked.
Harry shrugged, but Ginny answered for him, "The Shadow Walker."
"Yes, but we're not really known as Dark Auror's, even though that's basically what we are. No, we are known as the WSS. Wizarding Secret Service... Shadow Walkers. Yada Yada Yada. We have so many names its not even funny. But mostly the Shadow Walkers. People know that we exist, but they have never seen us. Not even Ron or Hermione know all this information, but I figured, you two are trustworthy and won't blow this out of proportion." Harry flipped on the turn signal and made a left.
"So... whom exactly do you work for?" Draco asked.
"Well... we really don't work for a single person... employer, or whatever. We're hired, but I don't just work for anyone. So if Lucius wanted to hire us... then I would just kill him. Like I said, we are known but then again... we aren't. At the moment I'm sorta employed by the Minister." Harry parked the car.
"I don't understand, it's a little confusing." Draco said, a frown on his lips.
"Ah love, don't worry about it so much. It'll click into place." Harry grinned, blowing his dark hair out of his eyes.
"Guys... would you just kiss and get it over with. It's not like I don't know that you two are together." Ginny huffed in the back.
Draco grinned, "You just want to see two hot guys make out."
"Damn strait now get with the making out and none of the talking!" Ginny shook her fist.
Draco laughed and was about to say something else when he felt Harry grab the back of his neck and their lips crashed together. Draco opened his mouth, letting his tongue pierce Harry's lips and he tasted Harry once again, and he had to say that he loved the way that he tasted. Draco felt Harry bring his arms around his waist and pull him closer, their chests touching with the closeness.
Harry couldn't think strait... forget that, he couldn't think at all. All he wanted to do was throw Draco in the back seat and ravage him. Back Seat...
Draco heard a small cough and broke his kiss with Harry and looked in that back. Ginny was sitting there fanning herself, blushing like bright red. "Wow, you guys are hott."
Harry blushed and a small grin made its way to his lips.
Draco just arched a brow and looked coolly at his friend, "I think I'll take that as a complement Alexandria. If your fans only knew how perverse you were..."
Ginny shot him a smoldering look, "Can we get out of the car now and get on with this?"
"Yeah, lets get it on!" Draco shouted. Only to be smacked in the back of the head my Ginny. "Hey, watch it Pyro." He shot back, climbing out of the car and helping her out.
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Ron looked up when her heard the door open, to see Harry, Draco... "Ginny!" He shouted as he stood up and rushed to give her a bear hug.
"Good to see you to Ron." She laughed, "Gosh, its not like I'm back from the dead or anything... but I will be if I don't get any air!"
Ron let her go and Hermione was the next one to rush up and hug her, "nice to see you to 'Mione." She hugged her sister-in-law. "Oh who do we have here!" Ginny tucked her hair behind her ears and kneeled down to the little girl. "Hi there, I'm Ginny. What's your name?" She asked the little girl.
"I'm Lorelei... can I see my mummy now?"
Ginny stood and looked over at the others, "Yes, we are going to take you to your mum real soon." Hermione said as she walked and sat on one of the chairs in front of Ron's desk.
Draco was standing by the door not really knowing what to do, his gaze fixed on the small girl sitting at the table. The girl had golden blonde hair, not silver like the Malfoy's but not that of Pansy's dirty blonde color, but golden hair. Her gray eyes scanned the paper she was coloring on, her skin pale from not being in the sun a lot. Draco swallowed and walked over to the little girl, set down on the floor.
Everyone else in the room took a seat, except Harry who just leaned back against a wall near the doorway.
Draco watched her color and waited for her to notice him. She finally looked up and saw the man staring at her. She looked at him quizzically. "What's your name?" She asked.
"My name is Draco Malfoy."
"You have my last name!" She exclaimed, her eyes wide with curiosity.
"That's right I do, I'm your brother." Draco said.
"Brother... I got's a brother. Wow. Do you know mummy?" She asked, her interest entirely on Draco now.
"Yes, me and your mum were...er friends at school. My mum died when I was 15." Draco said sadly.
Lorelei was confused, if he was her brother didn't they have the same mum. She looked at him with a confused look.
"We have the same father, but not the same mum. But you are still my sister. We are family." Draco gave the girl a small smile.
"Wow... brother." Lorelei smiled and launched herself at Draco wrapping her small arms around his neck. Draco hugged her back, standing with her still in his arms. Lorelei was smiling as she looked at everyone. "Mummy now?"
"Yes, we can go see you mum now, Lorelei." Hermione answered leading them to a Port key that would take them to Mungo's because of Draco and Lorelei not able to apparate.
Ginny and Harry smiled at each other as they watched as Draco walked in front of them, holding his sister protectively.
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"Draco... I don't like that. I don't wanna do it ever again." Lorelei said as they arrived at Saint Mungo's by port key.
"I know how ya feel, I don't like it either. We may have to do it one more time though, okay?" Draco answered the girl that was now perched on his shoulders.
Lorelei scrunched up her face, "Okay."
Draco laughed and saw that everyone was grinning at him, "What?"
"Nothing Draco, lets just get this over with, okay?" Hermione answered, shaking her head.
"Okay."
At that everyone laughed, but their good mood was about to end.
Harry opened the door that was the entrance to Pansy's room. Draco stepped in, ducking so that Lorelei would bump her head.
Pansy looked up at the sound and saw Draco entering with her daughter; she smiled. "Lors! Oh, my baby girl!" Draco placed Lorelei on the floor so that she could see her mum.
"Mummy!" Lorelei cried out and bounded over to her mum and tried to get up in the bed with her.
"Here, let me help you Lorelei," Ginny said as she picked up the small girl and set her on the bed with Pansy.
"Oh! Its so good to see you again. So what have you been doing?" Pansy asked as she hugged her daughter.
"Oh lots! Ron said I could have anything I want and he gave me cookies and milk and I got to color and play games! It was fun, Ron is really funny." Lorelei said in one big rush.
"Oh really, well I'm glad you has so much fun!" Pansy looked up at the others that stood watching and gave them a silent thanks... the only thanks that they would ever receive from her.
Hermione motioned for them to step over to the farthest part of the room as they left Pansy to talk with her daughter. "Alright, this is what I got from Pansy." Hermione pulled out four sheets of parchment that had everything that Pansy had said on it. After they took she stood to the side and waited for them to read it.
Ron was the first finished, "Hermione... is this even possible? Harry... why the BLOODY HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU OBSORBED HIS POWERS!" Ron shouted, his face turning red.
Harry didn't pay him any attention and re-read what he had re-read several times over. "This sounds completely impossible but yet totally possible at the same time."
"Harry! Didn't you hear me? You Know RON! The One That's Over Here Turning Red and Shouting At You!?" Ron exclaimed.
Draco just looked at the paper, "Well this tells me what I already knew. One of the main reasons I didn't want to join the Death Eaters and why I fought against my father for so fucking long. The part about him sucking my magic sounds plausible, Harry purifying it, wouldn't doubt it. Sounds just like something the Golden Boy would do. Now, the part about giving birth to the most powerful dark wizard sounds way far fetched, though I knew it was going to be his heir. Now, how could my magic be born... or arrive as she out it? Having the kid look like Harry would be nice, then it would be like having a kid of our own... will I still get pregnant if I have sex?" Draco was musing to himself. The others were staring at him like he said that he was in love with Pansy. "Poor Lorelei, her mums going to die. Killed by her father just like my mum. Bastard." Draco calmly folded the parchment, stuck it in his back pocket, walked over to Lorelei and Pansy and sat down in a chair watching them.
"Do you know how weird that was?" Hermione said as she broke the silence, "I didn't think he would react like that. I mean, Ron you acted more surprised then anyone. I expected Draco to act like Ron just did...but," she trailed off.
"No... I didn't expect him to act so calm, but I didn't expect him to explode either. This is Draco we're talking about." Ginny spoke up, she was also folding the parchment. "I think I know him better then all of you." Ginny turned and walked over to Draco. She laid her hand on his shoulder and squeezed it in reassurance. "I'll see you later, okay? If you need me, just ask Haze and get my number. It was really good to see you again Draco."
Draco nodded his head, "You too, Pyro."
Ginny nodded to the others and walked out, her heeled boots clicking as she walked out the door.
"What did she mean by, 'I think I know him better then all of you?' Shat? Huh... and Harry?" Ron folded his arms.
"Huh...er... yes Ron, what is it?"
"YOU NEVER DID ANSWER MY BLOODY QUESTION!" Ron yelled at Harry, who only grinned back at him.
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Pansy looked over at Draco, "That was that female Weasley, wasn't it?"
Draco nodded.
"She plays the violin wondrously. I wonder who she learned that from?"
Draco just shrugged.
Pansy sighed, "Listen Draco, I know that you hate me," Draco looked up at this, "Believe it or not I am NOT that stupid, okay? Now listen, I know that you know that I'm not going to make it through this, and I know that this will be the last time that I ever see my daughter again... I want to know that I'm going to be leaving her in good hands."
"Mummy... you not leaving me are you?" Lorelei asked, her little voice wavered a little.
"Oh, honey, I'm so so sorry." She hugged the girl to her and kissed her hair. "You know that mummy loves you very very much right?"
She nodded.
"And you know that I would NEVER leave you unless I didn't have a choice, right?"
Again she nodded.
"Well, mummy doesn't have much of a choice, okay? I'm sorry, my love." Lorelei started to cry and she hung to her mother's neck. Pansy wiped the tears that fell silently from her eyes, "But you have a big brother now who is going to take real good care of you, okay?"
Lorelei shook her head, "NO! I Want Mummy To STAY!"
Draco just sat there watching them, wishing that he had gotten to say bye to his mother before she had 'left' him. His eyes were glassy as he watched Lorelei cling to her mother.
"Lors, please don't make this harder then it already is. Nothing has ever been as hard as this... never as hard as this." Pansy whispered as she stroked her daughters golden blonde locks. "Mummy is always going to be with you, okay? You just may not always see me."
Draco stared without blinking, listening to Pansy trying to reassure her daughter. He couldn't help but hear how corny everything she was saying seemed, but he wouldn't mind if his mother said that to him, he wouldn't have minded at all. Looking up he watched Pansy rock her daughter to sleep, humming a wordless tune that he had never heard before. Standing up, he walked over to the bed, he laid his hand down on his sisters hair and looked at Pansy. "I do understand." And with that he turned and went to stand some where in a shadowy corner of the hospital room, drowning out everything as he listened to that wordless tune.
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To Be Continue'd
So... sorry it took so freaking long for me to update, seriously, if you ever see me out on the street I give you my full permission to whack me upside the head with a stale breakstick! I will not fight back, because I know that I deserve it. Anyway, I want to say thanks to all those who reviewed and to keep at it! Cuss me out, curse me anything you want for not updating.
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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters associated with Harry Potter. I do own the plot, and Haze and Frost and Raye though! The lyrics, I also do not own!
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Chapter 13: Swing Life Away
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ill show you mine if you show me yours first
lets compare scars ill tell you whose is worse
lets un-write these pages and replace them with our own words
Rise Against: Swing Life Away
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Lorelei opened her gray eyes; she blinked several times before looking around not recognizing where she was. She reached for something, but when she didn't find it she started to panic, her breathing speeding up. Crawling to the corner of the couch, she huddled in the corner.
Ron opened the door and walked in, not really expecting the girl to be awake yet. Walking over to his desk he sat down rather hard, rolling his sore shoulder before glancing towards the couch. He noticed that she was awake and looked absolutely terrified. "Oh... wait! I bet your looking for this aren't you?" Ron held up the little doll. Walking over to her, he sat on the edge of the couch, "Here you are, I'm Ron. I'm going to be taking care of you till you can see you mum, Okay?" He watched as her hand reached for the doll and snatch it away, looking at him with now quizzical gray eyes.
"Mummy... I want my mummy!" She practically shouted at him.
"Well! I say you take after Pansy and you are most defiantly Malfoy's little sister. Most definitely." Ron muttered. Ron smiled sadly at the small girl, "Your mum is fine Lorelei, and you will get to see her very soon. Now I bed your hungry! What would you like to eat... anything you want." Ron sat cross-legged on the couch, his back against the armrest, so that he was facing the girl.
"Anything I want?" She said with a small smile, and when Ron nodded, "I want...um.. Cookies! Oh and Milk. Yes, I want chocolate chip cookies with lots and lots of chocolate chips and a BIG (she gestured with her hands) glass of milk!"
"Well I think I can do that for you. My mum makes some of the BEST chocolate chip cookies in the world and it just so happens that I have some with me right now. And how bout I get you a big glass of cold milk and you can tell me everything you remember from the past couple of nights, alright?" The small girl nodded her head and Ron went set up a small table and a chair that she could sit at with her cookies and milk.
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Hermione was waiting for Pansy's answer. Pansy just looked at Hermione as if she were the stupidest thing in the room. Hermione glared at her, "Listen, are you going to tell me or not. I have much more important things to do then baby-sit you."
Pansy just stared at her, not even blinking. This started to unnerve her and she shifted. "Pansy, would you stop looking at me like that."
Pansy finally blinked and let out a painful scream. There was a glow from her belly as it grew another month. Hermione had walked closer to examine her when a very strong arm came up and grabbed her collar, "If you don't get this... this THING out of me this instant I'm Going To Blow Up This Place!!" Sweat started to break out across Pansy's forehead and her breathing was labored. "This isn't normal... no no, this isn't anything like my pregnancy with Lorelei. Of course this isn't a normal pregnancy, nothings normal when the mother doesn't even exist." Pansy was talking to herself as another wave of pain enveloped her and she let go of Hermione as she gripped the side of the bed. "Damn that bastard to hell. Fuck Lucius and Fuck the Malfoy bloodline... I WANT THIS DAMN THING OUT OF ME!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.
Hermione waited for her to stop and asked, "What do you mean the mother doesn't exist? What the hell is going on here Pansy?"
"What... I'm saying you Mud-Blood is that this child shouldn't even exist! You wanna know why Draco was promised to Voldemort?"
"But, I thought he was meant for you?"
"That was just a cover up, I loved Draco at one time, I admit that but even I knew that it wouldn't happen, but still I had to keep up the façade, yes?" Pansy sighed as the pain was but a dull throb now, "Draco was originally meant for Voldemort, he was bred just for him. He was chosen because of his strong blood and the perfect balance of his magic. Hard to believe a Malfoy could be so pure, but yes, that's Draco through and through. He was untouched by the complete darkness of the Malfoy and Black bloodline. A... spell was performed when he was still in Narcissa's womb... but it went wrong." Pansy moaned as a small wave of pain hit her again. "I know I wont survive this... the light of this child will burn me to nothing but ashes when it arrives, the thing is... the very second before Voldemort was defeated he used the last of his power to suck the magic out of Draco." She shifted in the bed and laid her hands on her very pregnant belly. "That magic has been lying dormant for years. Draco was meant to give birth to Voldemort's heir, but as you see it didn't work out that way."
Hermione had pulled out a quick-notes quill and a journal and listened attentively as it wrote down everything that Pansy said.
"I'm guessing that Potter never really told anyone what happened after he had defeated the Dark Lord, did he. How he had taken in the magical essence that the dark lord possessed... thus also taking in Draco's magical essence. Through doing this, Potter purified Draco's essence and that essence, with Draco still alive, wanted to find him again. Lucius had this planned ever since the downfall of the dark lord. Once Potter had found Draco, that purified magic would come to the surface and the spell would be complete..."
"So the dagger in Draco's apartment?"
"Soul Stealer... when Potter found Draco that essence went back into Draco and then that's when Lucius planted the dagger. It sucked the essence back out of Draco and thus this... thing inside of me has come to be. Lucius thought that it would make the perfect heir, the most powerful dark wizard that had ever lived... Draco was supposed to bear the child when he was finally given to Voldemort but Lucius didn't realize this one thing... that through Potter it had purified."
Hermione took a deep shuttering breath and exhaled, "So, what your saying is that before Draco was born a dark spell was cast to let him have Voldemorts Heir, that would eventually be the most powerful dark wizard, but Voldemort had drawn out Draco's magic before his death, in which Harry had taken into himself upon the Dark Lords defeat. Thus, Harry purified this magic. Seeing as Voldemort died, his magic has nowhere to go so it accepted Harry but seeing as Draco was still alive the magic wanted to find and get him back. Am I correct so far?"
Pansy nodded.
"Okay so, when Harry finally found Draco again, the magic inside Harry recognized Draco and went back inside of Draco... but the dagger that was placed inside of Draco's apartment took back that essence and Lucius put this.. thing inside of you and it most defiantly wants out of you." Hermione finished but she was curious, "So why did the readings that I took come up that it was a Muggle born?"
Pansy sighed, "I don't have all the answers! God, maybe it has to do with Draco not having any magic now? Ever think of that... none of this is supposed to happen. It defies... all magic, nature... god! It is unnatural and I want it out of me!" she slammed her fist at her stomach only to have it recoil and she stopped it before she hit herself. "The bloody thing is protecting its self."
"So what is it going to look like? Will it look like Draco?" Hermione found this highly interesting and it would most definitely go down in the history books.
"It could look like Potter for all I know... I don't really care! Can I see my daughter now?" Pansy was tired, and you could hear it in her voice.
Hermione took the quill and notes and put them away, "Yes, I'll contact Ron and tell him to bring her over."
"Do you think... I could freshen up. This may be the last time I get to see her, and I don't want her remembering me like this." Pansy's voice wavered.
Hermione nodded and sent in the nurses, giving them instructions and after that she left.
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Harry was sitting in his living room, on his couch with a several cartoons of Chinese takeout. He had yet to master the art of chopsticks, mostly because he just didn't have the patience and using a fork to eat. He was just about to take another bite of his food when his cell phone rang, sighing he set down is almost empty container and eating utensil and answered, "Potter, what do you need?" He said, rather ticked that he had been interrupted. He loved Chinese food.
"Oh So Sorry, your highness, did I interrupt your lunch hour?" Hermione said rather sarcastically.
"As a matter of fact... YES! What do you want?"
"Well Pansy talked, and she wants to see her daughter. I heard about your date with Draco and I think that you're just going to have to cancel it," Hermione heard Harry growl at this, "and bring him down to the MoM."
"Bring him to the Ministry, eh? You want to face the wrath of Arthur Weasley?"
"Well... my father-in-law is just going to get off his high horse and realize that there are more important things going on. As much as I love Mr. Weasley, he has been getting stranger and stranger these last couple of years." Hermione finished.
"Yea..., anyway so I'm supposed to bring Draco to the Ministry ... and then I guess that we are also going to go to St. Mungo's?" He could practically see Hermione's head nodding. "Gotcha, I'll just give him a ring and see ya then... that is AFTER I finish my—
"Chinese Food? Kay, see ya," Hermione clicked the phone off.
Harry picked up his carton and continued eating... he loved his Chinese food.
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Hermione stood in the office with Ron and the small Lorelei. "She's so cute, it's hard to think that she's the daughter of Lucius and Pansy." The girl was now coloring on a piece of parchment with an enchanted crayon. All the child had to do was think of what color they wanted and it would change.
"Yea, I know what you mean." Ron said as he came up behind Hermione and hugged her waist.
"So what did you find out from her... about the past few nights?" she asked.
"Nothing much, really. She remembered being put into that hiding place by her aunt Isabelle, and then she fell asleep.. though she did hear the voice of a man that she had never met before and she remembered that she was afraid... but then again that she wasn't. I think that she recognized Lucius on some level in her psyche as him being her father, but other then that..." Ron shrugged. "When's Harry going to be here?"
"Not sure, he was eating when I called."
"Ahh... so never?" Ron laughed only to be elbowed in the gut by his wife.
Hermione moved away from Ron and sat on the floor beside the young Malfoy, "Hello there, I'm Hermione. Have you been having fun?"
Lorelei looked up with bright blue eyes, "Yes, I'ves been having fun with Ron. Ron's funny."
Hermione smiled, "Yes he is pretty funny looking, isn't he?"
Lorelei giggled and looked back down at her drawing. Hermione looked down also, "Wow this is really pretty, can I see?" Hermione picked up the drawing when Lorelei gave her permission. Standing she looked at it, her brow furrowed as she looked at it. There were lots of yellow and reds. There was an outline of a roughly drawn... person, she guessed and it was engulfed in bright light. There were shades of green that she guessed was grass and trees and there were birds... it looked like a perfect little Eden except for the fact that there were little dark specks floating around the yellow.
"Lorelei, what is this supposed to be?" Hermione asked as she gave it back to the girl.
Lorelei shrugged, "When can I see my mummy?"
"Soon, just as soon as Harry gets here."
Lorelei nodded and went back to coloring.
Hermione set down on the couch with her husband as they watched the small girl play and hum.
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Draco pulled up to The Kedavra; he noticed that Raye and the others were already there. Humming, he took out his notebooks and walked inside. "Hey guys, what's up?"
"Nothing much, just meeting Haze's new girl here." Frost said from where he was perched up on the edge of the stage. "Yea, she's a real crazy violinist." Frost snickered as he saw Haze come out of the back room with Raye and a red headed girl.
"Nice, so when did this happen. I've noticed that people have begun to hook up and I... meaning ME, being the last to find out here." Draco muttered and threw his notebooks down on the nearest table. They had spent a whole day last week cleaning up the place after it had gotten trashed. It looked better then it had before... luckily most of it had remained untouched and it was just the tables and chairs in the dinning area that was the most trashed. "So who's the lovely lady that got her hands on Haze, here?" He asked as he looked that the girl.
And what he saw he would have never guess in a thousand... no a million, actually scratch that, a zillion years. There she stood in all her fiery glory. Her long red hair hung down her back in waves, her green shirt perfectly matching her eyes and a long black skirt that flared around her ankles. "Virginia Alexandria Weasley...Pyro, I haven't seen you... in AGES!" Haze looked over at Draco quizzically as the girl at his arm spun on her booted heel and looked over at the person calling her name. She did a double take.
"Draco? Draco!!" She ran towards him and flung herself at him. He caught her, stumbling back a few inches before enveloping her in a warm hug.
"What can I say," He kissed her cheek after he had let her go, "You haven't grown an inch!"
"Draco!" She jabbed him in the stomach, "You haven't changed a bit." She smiled brightly, "I have to say that I've missed you extremely. My 6th year was enormously boring with out you there to complain to and joke around with. No one to call me Pyro." She sighed and got serious suddenly, "Has Harry found you yet?"
He was about to answer when Haze came up and looked at the two, "So... how do you two know each other and what's with the Pyro?" He asked, with one of his dark brows raised.
"Oh, cut it out Haze. We went to school together. In fact, Draco here is the one that taught me the Violin. After the few lessons he started call me Pyro because of well... the way I played, and I think it had to do something with the Weasley temper and Oh yea, my hair." She grinned giving Draco another hug, "Oh gosh, I've missed you so."
Draco smiled warmly; he couldn't believe that Ginny was here. Of course, no one knew that they had become good friends in his last year there... one of the ones that kept him sane through many many nights. "Yea, Harry found me. Actually we're supposed to go on a date tonight to the Inferno. God Gin, where have you been?"
Gin leaned against Haze, his arm wrapped around her waist, but she didn't let go of Draco's hand, "I've been... around. Putting all those lessons to good use, I pretty much have it made in the Muggle and Wizarding world thanks to you."
Draco nodded, "I'm glad that I was able to help. So Anyway! How long have you two been seeing each other?"
"Actually, a little over a month. I met Ginny here at an Apocalyptica concert, which was the best may I add!" Haze's dark eyes lit up with excitement.
"Well I am extremely happy for you Pyro, really... but be care around this guy." He leaned over and whispered rather loudly in her ear, "He's Mental!"
Ginny laughed, "I'll try and remember that."
Haze made a face and looked over at Raye and Frost. "So I think we were here to practice, yes? Well let's get on with it then!"
Draco blinked... "Hey wait a minute! Who died and made you lead?"
"Well... no one, not yet anyway!" Haze ran to the back room away from Draco, leaving Ginny grinning madly.
"Well Gin, we have a lot to catch up on, and I would just LOVE to do it now, but I have to go kill you boyfriend!" Draco ran after Haze.
"Draco... DON'T HURT HIM TOO MUCH!" She laughed; it was nice to see Draco again.
Raye and Frost had already left following them to the back room... a few minutes later she felt a hand on her wrist, "What the hell you still doing out here, Pyro? You're coming and rocking with us, babe." Draco dragged her to the back room where they kept all the equipment.
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It had been an hour since Hermione had called and an hour before he finally decided that he would call Draco and tell him that he had to cancel. It started ringing... and it was still ringing... ringing ringing ringing ringing... Harry hung up and called his cell phone. Ringing... and finally an answer! Score! Or so he thought, anyway. Maybe not... Draco is going to be pissed, but then Pansy did talk.
"Hello? Hey Hi Hiya... What do you want? Is anyone there... POTTER SNAP OUT OF IT!" Draco finally yelled.
Harry jumped, "Draco... er sorry about that. I kinda just...zoned out there. Yea! That's it."
"Yea... alright, so what do you want?"
Harry listened and it sounded like Draco was a little out of breath, 'Hnm.. must be practicing.'
"Harry... earth to Harry, is anyone home?" Draco said into his cell, he looked over at Ginny and saw her rolling her eyes and Raye just looked annoyed, her leg bouncing up and down.
"Yea, listen Draco I'm going to have to cancel out on going out tonight. Pansy talked and from the sound of it, it was pretty important. Well its sounded like it anyway, it was Hermione." Harry leaned his back against his wall.
Draco was fiddling with the strings on his electric. "Yea, I gotcha, so what does this have to do with me?"
"Lots, you have to come with me to MoM and to Mungo's. Its had to do with what I was going to talk to you about."
"Oh No, Harry I did leave that world and I don't want to go back into it. You can tell me what she said right here and now, I'm not going to step one foot into the Ministry." Draco said, kind of pissed that he had to explain himself.
"Listen Draco, I KNOW that alright, and you know that I wouldn't do this unless it was really important so you HAVE to come. Draco... you have," Harry sighed, he might as well just tell him over the phone, "You have a sister alright. She was being hidden from Lucius in the Parkinson Mansion. Draco... Lucius just recently slaughtered every breathing thing that was at that house."
Draco paled, "And... the girl?"
"No, she survived."
"And I have to come to the MoM for this, right?"
"There's more, but I haven't been filled in with any of that information. According to Hermione its too big to be told over the phone. Its really important." Harry stressed the word important.
"Fine, I'll go but I'm bringing support."
"I understand, I'll see you in a few." Harry hung up the phone and stood, thudded his head against the wall. 'Things are never normal for me, never.'
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Draco put down his electric and glanced over at the others, "Looks like practice is going to have to end early today, guys. But hey, look on the bright! It seems that I have a little sister that I never new about!" He exclaimed and walked out of the room.
Ginny looked over at the others and sat down her violin, "Um guys... if you could just excuse me for a second." Ginny followed Draco out the door leaving the three staring after them.
"Should we... I dunno, feel left out? Because, I'm feeling left out." Frost muttered. Raye walked over and put a hand on his shoulder.
"This is way over our heads, and Ginny... well, she is apart of that world that is effecting him so much. We wouldn't be able to understand everything now would we?" Haze looked up from where he had been dazing out.
"Yea, and maybe we will eventually get into that world. I think Draco is going through a lot of shit right now and the only way we're going to be able to help is by being here for him." He ran his hand through his black hair, "I just wish I had a better understanding of everything, that's all."
The others nodded their head in agreement, "Hey ya know, that Ginny can seriously play. It sounded awesome when we all played together. We have seriously got to do a show with her and have a recording. I mean, its kick ass!" Frost piped up, trying to cheer everyone up.
"I have to agree, I think we need to add that on to our CD... we should make a CD! Actually... we should start coming up with more merchandise so we can spread out more. Yes, that's it. Maybe we could become famous one day. That would be awesome.. to travel and stuff." Haze commented.
They all sat down around the small table they kept in the back and started to come up with ideas.
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Draco was leaning against the doorway of the entrance, his arms folded across his chest. 'A sister... after all this time I wont be alone. Not like I was truly ever alone anyway. I must protect her from Lucius. No one deserves to go through what I went through all those years ago. No One...' He sighed, as he looked out across the busy streets of London.
Ginny stood behind him, her hands clasped in front of her as she observed him. He had definitely changed from the boy he used to be. She remembered finding him one night in Hogwarts... the room of requirement to be exact. She had seen him walking around the room, look at various instruments on the wall. She had felt bad about stumbling across him, not wanting to invade on his privacy. He had never really bothered her anyway, always a small glance here and there, but never taunting her like he did the others. She remembered how he had chosen a violin from the wall and how he had caressed its fine workmanship. She remembered how she had sat and watched him play and found it to be mesmerizing, and when he had turned and found her he had said nothing just turned his back on her and played more.
It was afterwards, that they started meeting and he had begun teaching her how to play. They had become friends ever since that night, but she could never remember exactly how it came to be. Sighing, she found her self back in the present with Draco staring at her. She tilted her head.
"Well, have you heard any of the news that been going on lately?" Draco asked.
"Not much, I'm not tied up with the Ministry and I haven't seen Ron in almost a year. So what's up?" She asked rocking backing on her heels.
"Oh well, you'll never guess what happened in these past two weeks..." He began to tell her all that had happened. With Lucius, the attack at the club and finding out that Pansy was pregnant. Even mentioning the part about him being magicless.
Afterwards she had walked up to him and hugged him, "Draco, you know that I'm here for you right? Just like Haze and Frost and most definitely Raye. If you want, I'll come with you to the Ministry."
"Yea, I was going to ask you about that. Thanks." He said and walked back to his band mates to tell them the news.
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Harry pulled up in front of the Kedavra where he saw Draco standing in front of the entrance, wearing a pair of faded blue jeans and a black t- shirt. Beside him, he saw none other then Ginny Weasley, her hand clasped in Draco's. He reached over and opened the door, with nothing but a raised eyebrow and Ginny climbed in the back and Draco in the front.
Draco looked over at Harry and gave him the same expression. "Just what the hell are you anyway, you really need to make this clear to me." He said, looking at Harry's clothing... if you could call it that. Ginny looked between the two and shrugged. Harry could tell him, his self. It wasn't like the Shadow Walker wasn't a known figure in the Wizarding world. He would find out pretty quickly.
"All in due time, right now we need to get to the Ministry and see what's so important." Harry looked in the rearview mirror and looked at Ginny, "Haven't seen you in a while, we're have you been hiding." He put the car in gear and began driving the sleek black BMW towards to entrance of the Ministry.
Ginny gave him and look, "Don't give me that Harry, you know where I've been. Its not like you couldn't just lock onto my magic signal and apparate, so don't you give me that shat." She stuck her tongue out at him and went back to staring out the window.
"So Draco, you didn't tell me you know the world renown Violinist, Alexandria." Harry heard Draco snort and look over at him.
"Who do you think taught her to play, Potter?" Draco grinned roguishly, "I am good at everything."
Harry made a noise, causing Draco to jab him in the side with his elbow, "Hey, what the hell did you do that for?!" Harry mock glared over at the blonde.
"Because I can. So are you going to tell me what you actually do for a living? Because, honestly... I don't think that a librarian dressed in armored leather. Geez Harry you look like a fucking dark auror!" When Draco said this, he could feel the tension increase, "You kidding me right?"
Harry shook his head.
"You're a Dark Auror. I mean, sure I've been out of touch with the Wizarding World, but I at least new that was part of the 'Dark Lords' plans," He spat out the dark lord with disgust.
"Yea, I know. When I defeated his 'Lord Darkness'," mimicking Draco's tone, "All the knowledge and well... everything was absorbed into me so that he couldn't be reborn again. There are prices that are paid in war, and I've paid several times over. Lets just say I took the Dark Auror bit, twisted it around and took over what he had already started. No one really knows where 'we' have come from, but that we just seemed to appear. Just know that I've kept this world and the Wizarding world safe for that past couple of years, I just cant figure out how Lucius slipped through our fingers." Harry explained as if he were describing the weather.
Draco just sat there thinking it over, "So..., let me guess. You're the leader of the DA?"
Harry nodded.
"What are YOU called?" Draco asked.
Harry shrugged, but Ginny answered for him, "The Shadow Walker."
"Yes, but we're not really known as Dark Auror's, even though that's basically what we are. No, we are known as the WSS. Wizarding Secret Service... Shadow Walkers. Yada Yada Yada. We have so many names its not even funny. But mostly the Shadow Walkers. People know that we exist, but they have never seen us. Not even Ron or Hermione know all this information, but I figured, you two are trustworthy and won't blow this out of proportion." Harry flipped on the turn signal and made a left.
"So... whom exactly do you work for?" Draco asked.
"Well... we really don't work for a single person... employer, or whatever. We're hired, but I don't just work for anyone. So if Lucius wanted to hire us... then I would just kill him. Like I said, we are known but then again... we aren't. At the moment I'm sorta employed by the Minister." Harry parked the car.
"I don't understand, it's a little confusing." Draco said, a frown on his lips.
"Ah love, don't worry about it so much. It'll click into place." Harry grinned, blowing his dark hair out of his eyes.
"Guys... would you just kiss and get it over with. It's not like I don't know that you two are together." Ginny huffed in the back.
Draco grinned, "You just want to see two hot guys make out."
"Damn strait now get with the making out and none of the talking!" Ginny shook her fist.
Draco laughed and was about to say something else when he felt Harry grab the back of his neck and their lips crashed together. Draco opened his mouth, letting his tongue pierce Harry's lips and he tasted Harry once again, and he had to say that he loved the way that he tasted. Draco felt Harry bring his arms around his waist and pull him closer, their chests touching with the closeness.
Harry couldn't think strait... forget that, he couldn't think at all. All he wanted to do was throw Draco in the back seat and ravage him. Back Seat...
Draco heard a small cough and broke his kiss with Harry and looked in that back. Ginny was sitting there fanning herself, blushing like bright red. "Wow, you guys are hott."
Harry blushed and a small grin made its way to his lips.
Draco just arched a brow and looked coolly at his friend, "I think I'll take that as a complement Alexandria. If your fans only knew how perverse you were..."
Ginny shot him a smoldering look, "Can we get out of the car now and get on with this?"
"Yeah, lets get it on!" Draco shouted. Only to be smacked in the back of the head my Ginny. "Hey, watch it Pyro." He shot back, climbing out of the car and helping her out.
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Ron looked up when her heard the door open, to see Harry, Draco... "Ginny!" He shouted as he stood up and rushed to give her a bear hug.
"Good to see you to Ron." She laughed, "Gosh, its not like I'm back from the dead or anything... but I will be if I don't get any air!"
Ron let her go and Hermione was the next one to rush up and hug her, "nice to see you to 'Mione." She hugged her sister-in-law. "Oh who do we have here!" Ginny tucked her hair behind her ears and kneeled down to the little girl. "Hi there, I'm Ginny. What's your name?" She asked the little girl.
"I'm Lorelei... can I see my mummy now?"
Ginny stood and looked over at the others, "Yes, we are going to take you to your mum real soon." Hermione said as she walked and sat on one of the chairs in front of Ron's desk.
Draco was standing by the door not really knowing what to do, his gaze fixed on the small girl sitting at the table. The girl had golden blonde hair, not silver like the Malfoy's but not that of Pansy's dirty blonde color, but golden hair. Her gray eyes scanned the paper she was coloring on, her skin pale from not being in the sun a lot. Draco swallowed and walked over to the little girl, set down on the floor.
Everyone else in the room took a seat, except Harry who just leaned back against a wall near the doorway.
Draco watched her color and waited for her to notice him. She finally looked up and saw the man staring at her. She looked at him quizzically. "What's your name?" She asked.
"My name is Draco Malfoy."
"You have my last name!" She exclaimed, her eyes wide with curiosity.
"That's right I do, I'm your brother." Draco said.
"Brother... I got's a brother. Wow. Do you know mummy?" She asked, her interest entirely on Draco now.
"Yes, me and your mum were...er friends at school. My mum died when I was 15." Draco said sadly.
Lorelei was confused, if he was her brother didn't they have the same mum. She looked at him with a confused look.
"We have the same father, but not the same mum. But you are still my sister. We are family." Draco gave the girl a small smile.
"Wow... brother." Lorelei smiled and launched herself at Draco wrapping her small arms around his neck. Draco hugged her back, standing with her still in his arms. Lorelei was smiling as she looked at everyone. "Mummy now?"
"Yes, we can go see you mum now, Lorelei." Hermione answered leading them to a Port key that would take them to Mungo's because of Draco and Lorelei not able to apparate.
Ginny and Harry smiled at each other as they watched as Draco walked in front of them, holding his sister protectively.
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"Draco... I don't like that. I don't wanna do it ever again." Lorelei said as they arrived at Saint Mungo's by port key.
"I know how ya feel, I don't like it either. We may have to do it one more time though, okay?" Draco answered the girl that was now perched on his shoulders.
Lorelei scrunched up her face, "Okay."
Draco laughed and saw that everyone was grinning at him, "What?"
"Nothing Draco, lets just get this over with, okay?" Hermione answered, shaking her head.
"Okay."
At that everyone laughed, but their good mood was about to end.
Harry opened the door that was the entrance to Pansy's room. Draco stepped in, ducking so that Lorelei would bump her head.
Pansy looked up at the sound and saw Draco entering with her daughter; she smiled. "Lors! Oh, my baby girl!" Draco placed Lorelei on the floor so that she could see her mum.
"Mummy!" Lorelei cried out and bounded over to her mum and tried to get up in the bed with her.
"Here, let me help you Lorelei," Ginny said as she picked up the small girl and set her on the bed with Pansy.
"Oh! Its so good to see you again. So what have you been doing?" Pansy asked as she hugged her daughter.
"Oh lots! Ron said I could have anything I want and he gave me cookies and milk and I got to color and play games! It was fun, Ron is really funny." Lorelei said in one big rush.
"Oh really, well I'm glad you has so much fun!" Pansy looked up at the others that stood watching and gave them a silent thanks... the only thanks that they would ever receive from her.
Hermione motioned for them to step over to the farthest part of the room as they left Pansy to talk with her daughter. "Alright, this is what I got from Pansy." Hermione pulled out four sheets of parchment that had everything that Pansy had said on it. After they took she stood to the side and waited for them to read it.
Ron was the first finished, "Hermione... is this even possible? Harry... why the BLOODY HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU OBSORBED HIS POWERS!" Ron shouted, his face turning red.
Harry didn't pay him any attention and re-read what he had re-read several times over. "This sounds completely impossible but yet totally possible at the same time."
"Harry! Didn't you hear me? You Know RON! The One That's Over Here Turning Red and Shouting At You!?" Ron exclaimed.
Draco just looked at the paper, "Well this tells me what I already knew. One of the main reasons I didn't want to join the Death Eaters and why I fought against my father for so fucking long. The part about him sucking my magic sounds plausible, Harry purifying it, wouldn't doubt it. Sounds just like something the Golden Boy would do. Now, the part about giving birth to the most powerful dark wizard sounds way far fetched, though I knew it was going to be his heir. Now, how could my magic be born... or arrive as she out it? Having the kid look like Harry would be nice, then it would be like having a kid of our own... will I still get pregnant if I have sex?" Draco was musing to himself. The others were staring at him like he said that he was in love with Pansy. "Poor Lorelei, her mums going to die. Killed by her father just like my mum. Bastard." Draco calmly folded the parchment, stuck it in his back pocket, walked over to Lorelei and Pansy and sat down in a chair watching them.
"Do you know how weird that was?" Hermione said as she broke the silence, "I didn't think he would react like that. I mean, Ron you acted more surprised then anyone. I expected Draco to act like Ron just did...but," she trailed off.
"No... I didn't expect him to act so calm, but I didn't expect him to explode either. This is Draco we're talking about." Ginny spoke up, she was also folding the parchment. "I think I know him better then all of you." Ginny turned and walked over to Draco. She laid her hand on his shoulder and squeezed it in reassurance. "I'll see you later, okay? If you need me, just ask Haze and get my number. It was really good to see you again Draco."
Draco nodded his head, "You too, Pyro."
Ginny nodded to the others and walked out, her heeled boots clicking as she walked out the door.
"What did she mean by, 'I think I know him better then all of you?' Shat? Huh... and Harry?" Ron folded his arms.
"Huh...er... yes Ron, what is it?"
"YOU NEVER DID ANSWER MY BLOODY QUESTION!" Ron yelled at Harry, who only grinned back at him.
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Pansy looked over at Draco, "That was that female Weasley, wasn't it?"
Draco nodded.
"She plays the violin wondrously. I wonder who she learned that from?"
Draco just shrugged.
Pansy sighed, "Listen Draco, I know that you hate me," Draco looked up at this, "Believe it or not I am NOT that stupid, okay? Now listen, I know that you know that I'm not going to make it through this, and I know that this will be the last time that I ever see my daughter again... I want to know that I'm going to be leaving her in good hands."
"Mummy... you not leaving me are you?" Lorelei asked, her little voice wavered a little.
"Oh, honey, I'm so so sorry." She hugged the girl to her and kissed her hair. "You know that mummy loves you very very much right?"
She nodded.
"And you know that I would NEVER leave you unless I didn't have a choice, right?"
Again she nodded.
"Well, mummy doesn't have much of a choice, okay? I'm sorry, my love." Lorelei started to cry and she hung to her mother's neck. Pansy wiped the tears that fell silently from her eyes, "But you have a big brother now who is going to take real good care of you, okay?"
Lorelei shook her head, "NO! I Want Mummy To STAY!"
Draco just sat there watching them, wishing that he had gotten to say bye to his mother before she had 'left' him. His eyes were glassy as he watched Lorelei cling to her mother.
"Lors, please don't make this harder then it already is. Nothing has ever been as hard as this... never as hard as this." Pansy whispered as she stroked her daughters golden blonde locks. "Mummy is always going to be with you, okay? You just may not always see me."
Draco stared without blinking, listening to Pansy trying to reassure her daughter. He couldn't help but hear how corny everything she was saying seemed, but he wouldn't mind if his mother said that to him, he wouldn't have minded at all. Looking up he watched Pansy rock her daughter to sleep, humming a wordless tune that he had never heard before. Standing up, he walked over to the bed, he laid his hand down on his sisters hair and looked at Pansy. "I do understand." And with that he turned and went to stand some where in a shadowy corner of the hospital room, drowning out everything as he listened to that wordless tune.
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To Be Continue'd
So... sorry it took so freaking long for me to update, seriously, if you ever see me out on the street I give you my full permission to whack me upside the head with a stale breakstick! I will not fight back, because I know that I deserve it. Anyway, I want to say thanks to all those who reviewed and to keep at it! Cuss me out, curse me anything you want for not updating.
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