Meet the Sullivans

Draco sat in the back seat looking as if he were relaxing comfortably but inside his body was twisted in knots he felt as if was going to puke.

The last thing he wanted was to see his father in flesh and blood even if it was a replica, it still didn't make the feeling of uneasiness go away.

Hermione turned around and looked at him; she didn't want to say anything but she could see the fear in his cool gray eyes.

She looked into his eyes and smiled a reassuring smile and to her surprise he smiled back, Hermione turned around before her face showed the blush that was creeping her cheeks.

Gracella turned and looked at Hermione, she smiled a little at the blush girl and turned on into a driveway of a two story Tudor.

There was a Mercedes and a jaguar in the circular driveway already, which meant that both of Draco's parents were home.

Damn, Draco thought to himself as Gracella turned off the car, they got out and walked up to the French doors that lead to the inside of the house.

Knock knock

A tan skinned grey-eyed girl with striking platinum blonde hair she looked like the female equivalent of Draco, but only 14 years old.

The girl threw her arms around Draco's and hugged him. At first Draco was stunned and didn't do anything then he wrapped an arm around her small frame and hugged her back.

"Hey loser" said the girl as she unwrapped her arms from around her older brother and punched him in the shoulder. "I heard you set your deans car on fire…is that true?"

Her eyes widened as she asked the question, waiting for Draco's answer.

Draco shrugged and smirked "it wasn't intentional" they laughed together and Hermione sniggered, she would have never thought of Draco to be the cool older brother in any alternate reality.

"Yeah mom and dad are shiting bricks as we speak, your arrival was definitely not on the to do list" she finally noticed the others and smiled, "hi, sorry about my rudeness just haven't seen him in a while, I'm Cory"

"Don't you mean Corinne" said Hermione as she stepped forward

"Um…Hermione is that you?" she came forward and examined Hermione a bit more then when Hermione nodded Cory lunged forward and wrapped her arms around Hermione and pulled her into a full on bear hug.

"Oh my goodness I haven't seen you in forever" she pulled back leaving Hermione a little dazed "you look so hot, last time I saw you, you were a twig and too tall with a bush on your head called hair, how have you been?"

"Yeah well things did fill out," added Draco, Hermione had just managed to keep the blush from her cheeks before shooting Draco a death glare.

"And you two are?" asked Cory completely ignoring her older brother and holding out her hand to Zack and Gracella. They introduced themselves then Draco's 'parents' came in.

"Draco, I can't believe you would do something so irresponsible to Dean Horowitz," screeched Mrs. Sullivan, she was a tall woman 5'10 or so, with a beautiful unblemished skin tone, light golden hair and light blue eyes with flecks of green, she was absolutely breathtaking.

Just like Draco's real mother.

Draco turned his head around so that no one would see the tear escaping from his eye when he saw someone that made his skin crawl, standing not 20 feet away from him was Lucius Malfoy, or so Draco thought.

Out of instinct, Draco fear got the best of him and so did his wandless magic. Before the Lucius replica knew what was happening to him, he was on the ground and flying back into a table all the way in the family room, which was a good 15 feet away.

"Oh my god" yelled Cory as she raced to her fathers side as did everyone else, except for Hermione and Draco.

"What did you do that for?" she asked in a panicked stricken voice.

"I...I …I panicked. I thought he was my actual father"

"But I told you in the car" hissed Hermione but before Draco could retort back Gracella came in.

"I need to get some ice, where's the kitchen?"

"I'll go get it," volunteered Draco, "you and Hermione go back in there with my father"

Gracella pulled Hermione into the family room where they saw a strikingly handsome middle aged man sprawled on the floor, he wasn't unconscious, just a little disheveled.

"Where's the ice dear?" asked Mrs. Sullivan

"Draco went to get it"

"And here it is," Draco said as he entered from a different hallway and into the family room "sorry about that"

"Draco this wasn't your fault son" said his father "just an accident, I probably tripped….that's all"

"Yeah…" Draco looked at him still trying to believe that this man wasn't his father "here is your ice" Draco handed his father the ice and continued to stare at him

The only thing that was unnerving about this replica of Lucius Malfoy was that there was no differences, the same long silver almost white hair, same cold steel gray eyes, unblemished pale skin, no lines of age, no differences, nothing.

"Thank you son" he held up his hand "help an old man out"

Draco grabbed his fathers hand and helped him up, he felt something different when he did, he looked a his fathers hand and noticed that he had half a finger missing, and instantly knew that this wasn't Lucius Malfoy.

With a sigh of relief, he helped him up and to the couch.

"So what this I hear about you blowing up a bus" he chuckled as he leaned into the couch.

Draco smirked, "I didn't blow up a bus, it was the dean's car and the exhaust pipe exploded, for some reason there was a banana up it"

Everyone started laughing, except his mother whose lips were pursed so tightly they looked as if they had disappeared.

"Robert, he pulled a cruel practical joke and got himself expelled it is no laughing matter" she said huffily, and everyone immediately quieted down "Draco, your father and I have decided as your punishment to vandalizing Dean Horowitz car is that you'll pay for it, by getting a job"

The color from Draco's face immediately drained and him mouth dropped open.

"Yes son a job and you'll have to find it on your own. Now you aren't allowed to ask us for money until you pay off the Dean's car."

"But dad that's going to cost a lot of money why can't we use the money in my savings"

"Because you don't have respect for others property hopefully by repaying it with your own hard work, you'll have integrity and compassion for the property of others" said his mother.

Draco got up and went to his room not even looking behind him.

"Well that went horribly wrong," said his dad as he got up, "I think we should give him a little while to calm down"

"Yes" his mother got up Hermione, Cory, Zack, and Gracella were left in the room.

"Well I think we should leave" Gracella breaking the impending silence.

"Yeah, nice meeting you all and come by soon" Cory agreed as they stood up and headed towards the front door.

As soon as they got outside and heard the door lock behind them Gracella rounded on Hermione. "What the hell was that?"

"Draco? I don't know he says he panicked," she answered as the got into the car.

"That doesn't make sense" Zack said, "why would he fear his own father"

"They didn't tell you his dad tried to murder us?" Hermione asked looking at Gracella and zack as if they were aliens

"Lucius malfoy is after you two?!" Gracella yelled as she slammed on the breaks "what in seven hells" she unlocked her doors, "…get the hell out of my car"

"What?" Hermione sounded astounded and confused, "wait what were you told?"

She stared at the faces of Zack and Gracella intently.

"We were told" Zack started, "that you and Draco were to be protected because a plan had gone wrong. We knew Draco was undercover, we knew about the bombing killing 20 or more death eaters, we even knew of your capture and rescue…"

"But we knew nothing of having a psychotic malfoy after you…you might as well be dead you're better off." Gracella spat her hands were still clutching the wheel in a death grip, she looked like she was ready to strike.

"Wha…what happened to you Gracella, did Lucius do something to you?" Hermione asked timidly.

Immediately Gracella's head spun around to face Hermione and she felt as if there were invisible hands around her throat, taking away her very existence.

"GRACE!" Zack screamed in a panicked stricken voice as he pulled her shoulder "GRACE! STOP IT NOW!"

Suddenly the invisible hands let go of Hermione's throat. Gracella leaned her head on the steering wheel and began to cry.

Zack's hand loosened its grip and lightly rubbed her shoulder "grace's father was head of the W.B.I. he helped Europe a lot during the crusade against the dark one" he stopped as if to make sure she was all right "her whole family was tirelessly working to help rid the world of death eaters"

Gracella nodded "they made quite a few enemies. So many that they were all killed by them, my mother, father, brothers. The only reason I can think of that I was not killed is because I was with my grandparents for protection. That was 16 years ago. After my family was dead, Lucius Malfoy rose to Voldermort's side. I have no doubt he uttered the curse that killed my father."

Hermione sat thunder shocked at what she was just revealed to her, "I think you should take me home."