Summer at the Malfoy Manor
©Elena C,
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Disclaimer: Both Malfoys, Karkaroff etc belongs to the amazing J.K Rowling. Lena Karkaroff belongs to me and Nadia Irvin belongs to my best friend Nadia. So please restrain the flaming and suing.
Summery: Lena Karkaroff and Nadia Irvin both have to stay at the Malfoy Manor till the Quidditch World Cup. Romance blossoms, anger greatens and friendship strengthens.
A/n:
Nadia: I hate Malfoy!
Lena: Oh come on I know he can be mean sometimes but there's always good in everyone.
Nadia: Whatever…enjoy the fanfic.
The golden sunlight filtered through the silky crimson red curtains of Lena Karkaroff's room. It was 8:49 time to get up before the alarm lock starts singing it everyday routine song. This was the summer before the fourth year, before the Triwizard Tournament at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, second year at Hogwarts for Lena and her best friend Nadia Irvin. Last year they had came to Hogwarts with eight other students from Durmstrang Institute in preparation for the Triwizard Tournament this year. Lena thought it was a stupid idea, coming one year early for preparation that they didn't even do. It was her father's idea, Igor Karkaroff. He was good friends with the stuck up, snotty faced Malfoys. Karkaroff often met up with Senior Malfoy to discuss business, and their children often played together when one of these demented meetings were scheduled. Also joining Lena in meeting Malfoy's son was Nadia, she and her mother moved in with the Karkaroff's when Nadia was one year old. Nadia has been living at the Karkaroff manor since. It was 8:59; five more seconds were left till the annoying alarm begin to ring. Three, two, one buzz buzz…
"Shut up, before I'll hex you!" Lena exclaimed shrilly. She sat up in her magenta pink bed, stretched her arms and sat up as she petted her black cat Jinx. Meanwhile the alarm was still ringing become violently louder by minuet. "Stupid clock." Lena mumbled as she turned off the alarm clock.
Meanwhile Nadia was already up and reading her book, 'Advanced and complicated Potions' slowly sipping her hot coffee in dinning room awaiting Lena's presence.
On the other hand Lena was still sitting on her bed thinking about her stupid alarm clock. She got up and slowly made her way through the warm bear skin carpet that lay snugly in front of her mahogany wood bed. She opened the bathroom door, made her way into the pink room and turned on the shower. Water started pouring gently on the floor of the tub; the good thing about magical showers is that you don't need to wait for it to heat up. Lena slipped of her pajamas a stepped into the warm shower. After 15 minuets she got out against her will and took the white towel that hung on the hanger near the sink, rapped her self into the towel and stepped out of the room. Lena walked toward her closet and quickly picked something to put on, she took out a pair of jeans and a long sleeved, dark red shirt with Bulgaria written on it in cursive. Then she brushed her brown shoulder length hair, and walked out of her room.
Lena made her way through the Russian style hallway. She was now almost near the kitchen, when she heard a voice talking very loudly to someone. She looked around and saw that it was coming from her father's office. Lena peered into the dark green room and saw that her father was sitting in his large leather chair looking at a piece of parchment.
"Umm…father." Lena asked questionably, "Is everything alright?"
"Oh, good morning Lena. Nothing's wrong, its just that I need to reset the protection wards at Durmstrang." Karkaroff said calmly.
"Ok then, well I need to get to breakfast." Lena said, "Good bye, then." Lena made her way out of her father's office and down the stairs toward the kitchen. Nadia was still reading her book, her mind fully soaking up every bit of useful information. At the corner of her eye she spotted Lena making her way into the kitchen.
"Morning, so whatcha readin'?" Lena asked Nadia as she was trying to find the title.
"Advanced and Complicated potions, why?" Nadia told Lena, her eyes still in the book.
"Nothing just interested, so what's for breakfast?" Lena eyes were wandering around the kitchen looking for food, "Have you seen the house elf?"
"Donno, I just made me some coffee, no I haven't call him or something."
"PASHA!" Lena shouted vigorously. With a tiny pop a small elf appeared in front of Lena.
"Vat can Pasha do for you ma'm?" They house elf bowed gracefully.
"Can you fix a couple of pancakes and glass of cold milk?" Lena asked the elf.
"Ov course ma'm." Pasha snapped his fingers; a plate with hot golden pancakes appeared on the table beside accompanied by a tall glass of milk. " Can Pasha do anything else for you?"
"Yes, could I have a piece of toast and some more coffee?" Nadia asked the elf. Pasha nodded and snapped his fingers again, another plate with a piece of lightly toasted bread appeared but this time in front Nadia with a small kettle of steaming black coffee. "Thank you." Nadia added. A second later accompanied by Lena's thank you, a few more seconds later the house elf disappeared with a pop. Ten minuets into their breakfast, Igor Karkaroff entered the dinning room.
"Lena, Nadia I need to go Durmstrang for a few nights to reinforce the protection wards so you will need to stay with the Malfoys."
"But when is mum coming back with Katia (Nadia's mum)?" Lena asked her father.
"There are still on their trip and will be coming back in a week." Karkaroff told them, "If you would like, you can stay there till your mother comes back. I have a lot of things to do and I will have no time for you."
"Won't we be too much for Mrs. Malfoy?" Lena asked her father, trying to make him change his mind.
"I don't think it will if you are on your best behaviors, I have already asked Lucius." Karkaroff said, " Actually it would be best if you stay there till the World Cup, then you can me there and you mother will arrive just in time." Slowly Lena's facial expression melted into a small frown, even the thought of seeing Draco made her mad. Last time she saw him, he spilled pumpkin juice on her transfiguration essay, he didn't even bother to say sorry but instead said that it needed a bit fixing up anyway.
"But father!" Lena exclaimed.
"I though you two were friends with Draco." Karkaroff asked, "I have to go up to the office, you'll be leaving in two hours go upstairs and start packing. You will be returning home after the tournament anyway." Karkaroff then left, his robes with a slight bellowing motion.
"No, I don't want to go to the Malfoys!" Lena exclaimed piercingly.
"I though you liked Draco." Nadia asked Lena with a smile on her pale face.
"Like him? Are you mad? I hate him." Lena answered Nadia.
"Are you still mad at him about that stupid essay?" Nadia questioned Lena.
"STUPID? STUPID? It was not stupid, it was…." Lena said with Nadia cutting her off.
"Just an essay. If I were you I would've gotten over it ages ago, it's not the end of the world you know." Nadia said.
"Well it was then, I got a A. I should have got an O. I spent all night long rewriting it." Lena said trying to make her point.
"Whatever." Nadia said as she stood up, "lets go upstairs, we have to pack."
"Yeah, fine." Lena said following Nadia toward the stairs.
Two hours passed quickly, both Nadia and Lena finished packing. They went down stairs to find their father sitting with Mr. Malfoy with his son Draco on the dark auburn leather coach stood by the big fireplace in the family room.
"Lena, Nadia are you ready?" Karkaroff asked the two girls.
"Yes, father." Lena said as her eyes moved from her father's to the smirking platinum boy's eyes.
"Splendid, now where is the elf? Pasha!" Karkaroff shouted. Pasha appeared in front of Karkaroff.
"Yes, Master Karkaroff?" Pasha bowed.
"Get the girls' trunks out of their rooms." Karkaroff commanded the elf.
"Yes, master." And with a pop the elf disappeared.
"Very disciplined house elf you have Igor." Lucius commented.
"Yes, we got him from Russia." Karkaroff told Lucius, " Do you have the papers?"
"Yes they are right here." Lucius took out a dark green parchment envelope out of his pocket and placed it in front of Karkaroff, "are we going to discus it?"
"We can, follow me to my office." Karkaroff said. Both of them stood up and made their way to Karkaroff's office, "Children, you can stay here till we are done." Lena and Nadia both nodded and turned their heads to Draco.
"Had a good summer." Draco asked striding forward up to the girls, his silver eyes gleaming arrogantly.
"Not till you showed up here." Lena said dryly.
"A little begrudging, are we?" Draco smirked.
"Ok enough! Till this turns into a cat flight." Snapped Nadia, "I don't want this get out of hand. Last time you two had a row, you two were flinging curses at each other."
"It wasn't my fault you had to get in the way." Draco said.
"Excuse me I wasn't the one who missed Lena by ten feet." Nadia snapped.
" Well I at least I have a father!"
" You don't know anything about him."
"You never even seen him, how are you suppose to know something about him if you never seen him?" Draco asked Nadia.
"Enough!" Lena said sharply.
"Yes, enough before some of us get out of hand, anyway you two were like best friends before. Remember how you two shared a broomstick." Nadia said.
" We don't need history lesson Nadia." Lena turned her head to Nadia, "lets talk about something else."
"Like what?" Draco asked Lena.
"Like essays…transfiguration essays, and why you spilled the pumpkin juice on it?" Lena dark chocolate eyes were glaring at Malfoy's cold steal gray ones.
"I said I was sorry." Draco said.
"No you didn't, you said it needed work anyway!" Lena was almost shouting at Draco now, "plus I ask Professor Flitwick to check over it and he said it was a very good one, fifth year level!"
"Lena, honestly you need to get over it. It's been almost two months already." Nadia said calmly.
"I don't care!" Lena shouted. Meanwhile Draco sat down back on the coach, not even paying attention to either of the girls. The little argument went on for a couple of minuets till Draco said, " Would you to quit it already, your giving me a headache." Both of the girls stopped.
"Yea, this is stupid…we're acting like five year olds." Lena smiled.
"Yes we are." Nadia formed a small smile in her lips, "now where are your parents?"
"Well it has only been 15 minuets, but someone like you wouldn't have the common sense to check the time." Draco smirked. Nadia was about to say something till decided not to, for it will probably makes things worse. So she let his comment slip. Lena sat down on the coach on the right side of Draco far away from him.
"Anyway, you two never answered how your summers went by." Draco said.
"Actually, we did." Lena said, "well I did. I went by fine until you came, then we went into our little fight." Meanwhile Karkaroff and Malfoy were walking down the mahogany staircase.
"Draco, Its time to go now." Lucius said.
"Nadia, Lena go get dressed." Karkaroff looked at the two fourth year girls. They made their way to their rooms.
"Draco go help them." Lucius told his son. Draco followed behind Nadia and Lena.
"Why in the world is he coming with us? It's enough already that we have to go to his house." Lena whispered to Nadia.
"I don't know maybe they still have to talk so they need Malfoy out of there." Nadia whispered back. They reach the end of the stairs and continued walking toward their room followed by Malfoy. Nadia stepped into her room; Lena was still walking toward her room.
"You can wait here." Lena told Malfoy as she was opening her room.
"Why can't I come in?" Draco asked.
"Don't be a pervert." Lena looked at Draco as their eyes met.
"I said stay out there." Lena pointed.
"Oh come one Lena." Draco said, "You aren't really going to make me stay out there."
"Fine!" Lena walked toward her closet. She opened the mahogany doors, and took out a black cloak with a Durmstrang crest embroidered on the left. Meanwhile Draco eyes where watching Lena's every move as he sat on the nearby leather chair.
"What? What are you staring at?" Lena snapped.
"Nothing." Draco said. He tried to look at something else, then he saw her black cat sleeping on Lena's bed.
"Uhhu…right." Lena said whispered. She turned around and took a wand out of her nightstand drawer, then took out a fairly large leather bag out of the same drawer and put a few other things in there. "Ok ready, lets go."
"Right." Draco said. As Lena was waking toward the door, something stopped her from taking another step and she tripped over the big bearskin rug. Next thing she new was that she was in Draco's arms. Lena almost fell but Draco caught her just in time. She could sense a faint smell of his cologne; it almost made her melt in his arms.
"I new you too would makeup soon." Nadia was standing a few feet away from them, smiling.
"I didn't makeup with him." Lena snapped.
"Well with the look on your face you looked like you wanted to melt in his arms." Nadia laughed.
"I didn't want to melt in his arms, Nadia." Lena nudged Malfoy as she walked out of her room making her way towards her father and Mr.Malfoy. Meanwhile Karkaroff finished his conversation with Mr. Malfoy.
"Ready dear?" Karkaroff said, "and were are Nadia and Draco?"
"Here we are sir." Nadia exclaimed.
" Ready then?" Karkaroff stood up and went toward the redwood bookshelf and took a glass jar filled with gray ash.
Lucius stood up and looked at the three children," Draco, I will meet you later." And with a pop he apparated out of the Karkaroff mansion.
" Lena, Nadia, I have to go so flew to the Malfoy Manor along with Draco." Karkaroff looked at the three-fourths years.
Draco went towards Igor Karkaroff, he opened the glass jar – Lena took a handful of the gray ash stepped in the fire, "Malfoy Manor." Green flames surrounded the platinum haired boy and in a blink of an eye he was gone. Next was Nadia she did the same thing and disappeared with green flamed gushing around her. Last was Lena, she went up to her father took a hand full of gray ash before shouting her destination she said goodbye to her father. Next thing she new was that she had a rather hot sensation. Lena landed in front of someone's feet, particularly a pair of boy's feet.
"Very graceful, Lena." Draco smirked.
"Shut up." Lena mumbled and she stood up, luckily her clothes didn't get dusty from her hot trip. Lena and Nadia followed Draco out of the room into the kitchen where Narsissa Malfoy was sitting reading Witch Weekly.
"Hello honey." She said as she kissed Draco cheek. The Malfoy Manor was a lot less traditional than the Karkaroff Mansion, a lot more sharp and cold. "Ah, good afternoon Nadia, Lena. How are you two?" She asked as her blue eyes looked at the two girls.
" Fine and you?" Lena asked the blonde woman.
" Splendid, but I have to make a couple of errands and I won't be back till two. Draco show the girls their rooms." Narsissa said.
"Yes, mother." Draco smiled. A couple of seconds later Narsissa apparated out of the manor.
"Follow me to your rooms." Draco said as he began walking. The girls followed after the smirking boy. As they walked through the medieval hallway, they noticed at every corner stood a metallic iron suit of armor. Family portraits also hung on the wall, from Maxwell the First (Draco's greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgrandfather) all the way to the last Malfoy.
" Here Nadia you can take this room." Draco said as he pointed to a door. Draco led Lena a few doors down and came up to another door. " Here is your room." Lena looked at the boy and noticed that he had a mild smirk on his face. She became rather suspicious.
"Uh thanks." Lena said as she opened the door. The room had almost all shades of blue from pale sky-blue all the way to dark navy, also it had an enchanted cloud sealing with a small sun hiding behind a couple of white fluffy clouds. Its beauty mesmerized Lena.
"No problem." Draco smiled.
Lena entered her beautiful blue room lost in its magnificent colors, admiring the enchanted sealing. She laid on the queen size bed as her eyes drifted into a peaceful sleep. Lena woke up two hours later, by a bird chirping outside her window. As she stood, and noticed that her bedroom that was opened a bit. Maybe Draco came in and didn't close the door all the way. Lena walked toward the door, when she opened it no one was there. "Or maybe the wind opened it. " Lena thought.
Meanwhile Nadia was almost nearly finished with her potions book, lying on her dark olive green bed thinking about verituserum a very, powerful truth potion that with one drop it will have you spilling you most inner secrets; discussed in the chapter she was in. She paused for a second only to get a piece of parchment to write something down.
Albert Agavichi, an Italian philosopher, born in the 1600's, created Verituserum. He was rejected as a wizard only because he believed in muggles sciences….
"And…" Nadia spoke, "And muggle theory. That should do it."
" What should do it?" A blonde boy came in Nadia's room.
"Nothing, just taking notes for my Potions essay." Nadia answered as she continued to write on her parchment.
"Oh, by the way have you seen Lena?" Draco asked Nadia.
"She's sleeping in her room." Nadia told Malfoy. Malfoy left, without even saying thank you to Nadia for giving him Lena's current position. As he stepped into Lena's room, he found her reading an old gray book—it looked almost ancient to him.
"What are you reading?" Draco continued closer to Lena's dark blue bed.
"Ancient transfiguration, what's it to you?" Lena snapped.
"Nothing, just curious." Draco said. "So you do fancy your room?"
" Yes, I like it a lot." Lena answered with her eyes still fixed on the book.
"Do you want go fly a bit before lunch?" Draco smiled.
"No, I want to finish my book." Lena said blankly.
"Come on, your not going to turn into know it all Granger, are you." Draco stepped closer to Lena's bed till his knee's touched the edge.
"Fine, what kind of broom with you give me, I don't have mine with me?" Lena said as sat up.
"You can you ride my old comet but it's a bit torn up." Draco smiled. They both stood and went out of Lena's room. Passing a portrait of Lucius's mother counting her galleons.
"How torn up?" Lena asked as they entered Draco green and gray room. She could smell a pinch of cologne in the room's cool air. Lena's eyes keep wondering around his room looking for something interesting. She could see that he put his Quidditch equipment in the corner obviously trying to them show off. Draco opened his closed door and took out a beaten up broom.
"Here you can use this." He pointed to the ragged comet 260.
"You want me to ride this thing!" Lena said.
"Well, I have no other broom unless you want to ride my broom along with me." Draco smiled.
"No thanks." Lena said as she took the broom out of Draco's hands.
"I can't wait till Quidditch season this year." Draco said he sat down on his bed, imagining himself catching the snitch for the first time instead of famous Harry Potter.
"They be no Quidditch this year." Lena said.
"What no Quidditch!" Draco was outraged.
"Because of the tri…I mean the thing that is happening this year at the school." Lena forgot that Draco didn't know about the tournament, "The reason we came to Hogwarts last year."
"They'll be no what!" Draco screamed.
"Just what I said, no Quidditch." Lena said calmly.
"That's just bloody great, all that practicing for nothing."
"Well at least you became better at the sport." Lena smirked.
"Better, what's that suppose to mean?" Draco questioned Lena's comment.
"Exactly what I said. At least I didn't buy my way onto the team." Lena snapped.
"Your not going flying with me then." Draco said.
"Fine I never even wanted to go flying in the first place." Lena stormed out of Draco's room passing the same portrait she saw before she entered his room. Striding towards her friends room.
"Hey." Lena said calmly as she entered Nadia's room.
"Hi, what was that all about? Did you have another row with Malfoy?" Nadia asked Lena while adding a few more things to her notes.
"I guess you can call it that." Lena said as she sat down beside Nadia. Right after Lena's comment a house elf appeared right behind her scared half to death.
"Lunch in ready in the parlor." Said the small scrawny elf in a think Irish accent, disappearing right after. Lena was still recovering from her horrid scare.
"Are you all right?" Nadia ask Lena.
"Y..yes…I am…just a little shaky." Lena said quietly.
"All right, lets go then." Nadia said as she stood up. Shortly after Lena followed her out of the green room. They arrived five minuets later in the parlor, being lost a couple of times around the manor. Draco was already sitting there munching away on a small sandwich while his face buried in a book called 'Useful uses for the Dark Arts'.
"And you called me a bookworm." Lena said, making her point.
"This is fascinating, listen to this; the first time Avada Kedavra was used was in the 1400's by a Dark wizard by the name of Rastislav Omonin…he killed 35 people one after another…dead carcasses lying all over…"
"We don't need to know any more, Malfoy. Plus we already know enough information about the unforgivables." Nadia said as she grabbed a sandwich. They ate in silence until they were full. The rest of the day went by rather quickly. Nadia was sitting on her bed with Lena playing exploding snap.
"Hey that wasn't fair!" Nadia exclaimed.
"Yes it was, anyway its late I'm going to go shower. See you tomorrow." Lena stood up and went to her room. She collected her pajamas and went to the nearest bathroom; the room was gray and black—looked like it was Draco's bathroom. After 15 minuets, Lena got out of the warm shower and wrapped her self in her towel. A second later Draco came into the bathroom, half naked—in silver silk pants that looked like half of his pajamas and a towel resting of his shoulder.
"MALFOY GET OUT!" Lena shouted, she closed the door and stared gathering her things.
"Well you're in my bathroom." Draco said outside the door. Lena opened the door, her towel rapped around her. Malfoy was still standing there.
"I couldn't find my bathroom." Lena snapped. "Is that why you gave me that room, so I could use your bathroom, so you could see me naked. Well bloody hell Malfoy, you'll never see me again." Lena started walking, when Malfoy captured her arm and held it.
"Malfoy let go of me." Lena shouted, trying to make him let go of her arm.
"No, Karkaroff. It's fun tormenting you."
"Excuse me, tormenting me? I had enough of your silly games, now LET GO OF ME!"
"No, you deserved this, using my bathroom without permission." Draco said as he pulled her closer to him, but Lena quickly punched him in his gut, he squatted down holding his stomach not even have the strength to tell Lena off.
"Humph." Lena stormed off into her room smiling to what she had done; still snickering at the she sat onto her warm soft goose down bed, "Serves him right opening the damn door!"
"Serves who right?" Nadia asked as she walked into Lena's bedroom.
"Nothing, just Malfoy, that no good git." Huffed Lena as she rested down on her bed, moments later she fell asleep still clutching the rage of anger in the pit of her stomach.