Hunted by Memories

CHAPTER 10: THE MEETING

Draco Malfoy is sitting on his study; in front of him are his parents. Parents that he haven't seen in 20 years. He look at his mother, she is still beautiful even though age lines are starting to appear in her skin. There is a strong silence inside the study, it seems that nobody wants to break the silence first. He looks at his father, and then he sighed. This is not how exactly how he remembers his father. Suddenly Draco realizes that his father look different. Its not because that he haven't seen them both in 20 years but the fact that there is something in his eyes that is quite different from the way he look 20 years back. There's softness in his eyes. For a moment Draco thought that where have all the cold expression? The situation had just become awkward.

"How… how did you found out that we are here? Where we lived and we are very much alive." Draco asked his parents.

Narcissa looks at her son. She wants to hug him and tell him how she had missed him, how she cant sleep at night thinking about her only child. No matter how she had missed Draco, she must control her self, otherwise any moment from now she'll burst into tears. Draco had grown into a very fine man, how long had it been since she had seen his face? Twenty years, it's long enough that Narcissa wishes that they had been forgiven from their mistakes.

"Your twins, when they first came to Hogwarts all I ever wanted is to see you once again. Hoping that you are alive… and it turns out that you are… Your son and your daughter… it's a very strong resemblance…I teach at Hogwarts now… I devoted my time teaching children, to cure…" Narcissa started to speak, but words are not enough to describe how she felt.

"Narcissa!" before Narcissa could say it Lucius already stops her. "The photo" answered Lucius.

"Photo… what photo?" asked Draco. Instead of answering his question Narcissa handed him in the photograph that she found on the back of her classroom. Draco took the photo from his mother's hands. It was a family picture that was taken before his children had transferred to Hogwarts.

"It had been 20 years, Draco. We came here to ask for your forgiveness. Please release us from our sins and mistakes. I had paid my time and Azkaban, and your mother I had witnessed how she suffered from loneliness" said Lucius… it was hard for him to meet Draco's eyes.

"Yes 20 years… we tried to forget and ran away from everything… We never plan to go back but we must. Our children we never plan to send them to wizard's school, but they still sent them a letter. We can't deny the fact that they are wizard and witch. Their magical talent started to show up at an early age… My wife and I can't hide from our past… We tried to run away… but she had been tired from all of these. She can't stop to think about her family… We can't run away forever." Draco said.

"Draco…" it was his mother. Draco stands up from his seat and headed into his mother. His mother look so sad, and all those years he had suddenly realize how much he had missed his parents. Instead of saying something to them, he hugs his mother.

"Mother…" it was the only words that he could say. "Father…" Lucius stood from his chair and hugs both his wife and son.

Ginny and the twins are in the dining hall preparing a dinner for everybody. She sighed and wishing that everything went well. Tonight is the right time to tell their children the secret that they had been hiding for 20 years. Their past that is not easy to forget. She had been tired of running and as years passes by, she keeps on thinking about her family wondering how they are.

Jet was looking at his mother; he had noticed that since their not so ordinary visitor arrived his mother look disturbed. His father is in his study together with their visitor. Jet doesn't have any idea why they are here. It must be something important that only their parents should know.

"Something wrong mom?" asked Jet.

"No Jet" it was a quick reply from his mother. "Just continue what your doing, now did you get the box that I told you?" Ginny asked his son.

"Yes mom, its on the top of the fridge" he replied. "Are you sure your ok mom?" he ask his mother again.

"Yes Jet Im ok" but somehow no matter how she denied that she is ok she knows that she can't fool her children. Especially Jet, who can sense everything what was happening on his surrounding.

"Our visitors are they going to have a dinner here?" Destiny asked her mother as she put the very last food on the table.

"That is entirely depends to your father" Ginny replied.

"I wonder who is the wizard" ask Jet, trying to see his mothers reaction from his question.

"He is Lucius Malfoy" replied Ginny and before she realizes it was already it was already too late. The words had already slips into her lips.

"How did you know?" ask Jet as she looks into his mothers eyes.

"Dinners ready?" it was Draco coming in from his study along with his parents.

"Yes it is ready Dad," replied Destiny. "Wow for the first time a wizard and a witch are going to have a dinner us, isn't that amazing Mom?" said Destiny who sounds so amaze of the idea.

"Lets eat then," said Draco and he already took his seat. "You can seat on any of the vacant chairs" he was talking to his parents and they seat on vacant chair.

As they started to eat, Jet notices that his mother is more silence than usual. It was not a habit in their household to talk in front of food. Something is wrong and no matter what it was he knows that it has something to do with his professor and the wizard with her. He look at Destiny who seems that she is not paying attention at all, it was more like that she cant wait to finish eating her dinner. Before they started to prepare dinner an owl had arrived delivering a letter for Destiny. He knows that the owl was James Potter's owl because he had seen the owl delivering him a letter.

"Jet, Destiny I believed that you have already met your professor Malfoy from Hogwarts?" asked Draco. Jet look at his father and then at his teacher. After a while he stared at the wizard who is sitting beside his teacher.

"Yes, dad" replied Jet. He looks at his sister who is sitting in front of him and he notice that she wasn't paying attention at all. It was then that he kicks her foot.

"Im sorry dad, I wasn't paying attention at all what did you say again?" Destiny asks.

"I said that I do believe that you have met your professor Malfoy from Hogwarts?" Draco repeated his question.

"Of course" replied Destiny.

"They are indeed a very promising students" it was Narcissa. "And a very Jet is a very good Quidditch player"

"Now I want you to meet her husband. Jet, Destiny meet Lucius Malfoy," said Draco.

"It was nice meeting you Jet and Destiny" said Lucius.

"Aren't you going to introduce them to mom?" asked Destiny.

"Your mom knows them"

"But how?" it was Jet.

"I have met them more than 20 years ago" it was Ginny.

"But how?" asked Destiny. This time she's already paying attention and stops to think about James Potter.

"Jet and Destiny, since you are were little your mother and I thought you the gift of understanding. We always tell you to understand people and not to judge people whatever they are and whatever what they do and what they did" said Draco. "And now I want you to understand what we were about to tell you."

"Draco" it was Lucius and Jet and Destiny look at him at the same time.

"Draco?" it was Jet. He had heard the name before. He had heard it from Professor Flint how could he not when his Professor always calls him that name.

"Who is Draco? I've heard that name before from Professor Flint. He used to call Jet by that name" added Destiny.

"Ever since that you started to attend to wizards school your dad and I had been so proud of you" it was Ginny. "We always think that someday you will find out something that you may think that it may sounds impossible. Nothing is impossible… you know that Jet and Destiny. For both of you had been exposed to magic and started to learn it."

"I don't understand what was this all about?" asked Jet who had put down his fork and knife with a confuse look on his face.

"Jet don't interrupt your mother" said Draco.

"Does it has something to do with someone named Draco… Draco Malfoy and a girl named Ginny"? asked Destiny. Now this time it was everybody in the dining look at her with a surprise look. "I found a very old love letter from a very old Potions book in the library and I decided to keep it. That love letter was from someone named Draco Malfoy, addressed to a girl named Ginny. I was thinking that perhaps Draco is related to Professor Malfoy."

"Yes Destiny, he was related to me" said Narcissa.

"He was your son, isn't it?" asked Jet. Narcissa nod her head as an answer. "Professor Flint asked me once if I know someone named Draco, and he also told me that Professor Malfoy had a son named Draco. And I told him 'No, I don't know anybody named Draco"

"Is there any chance that someone had asked you if you know someone named Ginny?" asked Draco.

"No" replied Jet and Destiny in unison.

"Ginny is my daughter in law" those words are from Lucius, which made Ginny drop her fork. She gave Lucius a surprise look. Did he say daughter in law? Does it mean that after all those years she was finally accepted as one of their family?

All Ginny could ever say was "Mr. Malfoy?"

"So Ginny and Draco are married? But where are they? Why do we have to talk about this?" said Jet in exasperated words.

"Jet the question is 'who are they'?" said Ginny as she looks at her twins.

"Jet, Destiny… it's about time for both of you to know about your true identity. An identity that we have kept from you for seventeen years" it was Draco. "Jet can you get the box that you mother told you to get?"

"Its on the top of the fridge you want me to get it?" replied Jet.

"Yes" replied Draco and Jet stands up from his chair to get the box and handed it in to his father. Draco opened a box and he found two scroll of parchment, he opened it and started to read it if it was the document that he need. Along with the parchment there was also green notebook that looks like a diary. "Do you still the story that we told you before you started going to Atlantis?" Draco asked his children.

"Which one 'The Serpent and the Lion?' that story does it has something to do with this? With us? With those people named Draco and Ginny?" asked Jet. He knew it something was wrong but he can't just ask his parents whatever it is. He is loosing his patience, he just want to leave the dining table but he knows that he cant.

"Yes Jet it has something to do with everything. Just calm down, I know that you are loosing your patience" said Draco as Lucius look at Jet with a proud look in his eyes. Lucius is thinking that Jet just didn't inherit his father's look but also a Malfoy's attitude as well.

"Your father and I will explain how that story factored into us. That story is about Ginny and Draco." Said Ginny.

"But who are Ginny and Draco?" asked Jet feeling more annoyed.

"Here take this" said Draco and gave the twins the two-piece of parchment to both of them. Destiny and Jet started to unroll the parchment and started to read it.

And Jet says "It says here that a boy was born named Jet Derek Draco Malfoy and his parents are Draco Malfoy and Virginia Weasley Malfoy" he said in a very surprise voice." Does it means that my parents are Draco Malfoy and Ginny Malfoy? That my parents are wizards after all that they are not muggles"

"That mom and dad are Draco and Ginny?" finishes Destiny. "You're grandparents then…" as she look at Lucius and Narcissa.

"Yes, we are" replied Lucius.

"That explains everything why mom and dad are never afraid of magic" all Jet could ever say.

"Jet, Destiny… are you mad at mom and dad?" asked Ginny. "Please understand us that we just want to protect you during those times. We don't mean to hide it from you…"

"Mom, stop" said Jet. "We're not mad at you. We completely understand your reason. The charm that protects your old dairy… I want to know what is the secret behind that charm. Why nobody could destroy that diary? I want to know the secret of that charm"

"What old diary? What charm?" asked Ginny.

"Mom, its your old diary during your last couple of years in Hogwarts. Don't you know anything about it? Asked Destiny.

"That's impossible! My old diary is the one that your dad is holding right now" said Ginny as they all look at the diary that is in Draco's hands.

"I've duplicated your dairy… and I gave the copy to Percy that night when we said our goodbye to him. As for the charm, as long as the original copy is not destroyed the duplicated copy cannot be destroyed" said Draco.

"But why? Why did you do such a thing" Ginny asked her husband.

"I don't know what got into me that night. Maybe because I don't want anybody from the wizard community to forget about us" replied Draco.

"So its not Ginny who invented the Furtive Charm, it was you then Draco" said Narcissa to his son.

"Yes mother it was I, who conjured that charm" admitted Draco.

"Um… Mrs. Malfoy I just want to ask about my parents?" ask Ginny.

"Oh Ginny my dear, you don't have to call me Mrs. Malfoy. You can call us 'mother and father'. You had been part of the Malfoy family for 20 years now. Arthur and Molly are fine" said Narcissa to Ginny.

"Its getting dark Narcissa, we need to hurry up eating. We need to get back at Malfoy manor before midnight" said Lucius to his wife. "Draco may I ask your permission if we could take your children with us back to the Malfoy manor?"

"Why don't you just stay in for the night and we are all going there tomorrow" suggested Draco. "Its been 20 years, and there are so many things that we all need to discuss.

"Tomorrow then, if that's what you wish" said Lucius.

Narcissa look at his husband and son, then to Ginny and to their grandchildren. She smiles, she was finally happy… She never thought that a day like this will come that their family will ever be complete again.

TO BE CONTINUED…