AN Whew...sorry I never got another chance to update during break....I was more busy than I thought I'd be.
Leek A.--Thank you so much. I'm glad you like it so much GaBrIeLa2--Thank you! I know Narcissa is a bitch isn't she? Oh well it makes it all the more fun for bad things to happen to her Chrissy430--Thank you Sorry it took a bit long to update, but here it is. Hope ya like.
Draco was sitting at the table with expensive and very uncomfortable robes his mother had insisted he donned for the night. He was sitting across from Narcissa, who was wearing a very expensive and beautiful dress. It was 5:55 and they were waiting for Severus to arrive at the manor for dinner.
"You better be on your best behavior tonight if you know what's good for you." Narcissa said in her haughtiest tone.
"Of course." Draco said in an equally haughty tone, deciding he might as well play her game of vanity lies and deceit. Otherwise known as the game of being a Malfoy. Narcissa smirked maliciously at her son.
"Alright then. You'd better be." A few moments later, a house elf came into the dining hall.
"Mister Severus is being here my Master's wife." He squeaked. Narcissa's eyes shone with fury.
"YOU ARE TO CALL ME MISTRESS, NOT MASTER'S WIFE!! YOU'RE LUCKY I DON'T KILL YOU FOR THAT!! NOW BRING IN SEVERUS YOU LOWLIFE PIECE OF SCUM!!" She shrieked and Draco almost couldn't resist the urge to roll his eyes at his mother for getting mad over something so stupid. The poor house elf bowed quickly and then ran out and soon came back with Severus.
"I-is t-that all m-my..mistress?" He asked, still quite terrified.
"Yes now get out of my sight." She ordered and the house elf happily complied, practically running out of the room. Severus walked over to the elegant table, taking a seat next to Draco, giving a stinging blow to Narcissa.
"Oh Sev why don't you sit over here?" She purred. Severus barely managed to contain his disgust.
"I..can see you better from over here. That's a lovely dress Narcissa." He said, grateful at his ability to cover up a lie like that. Narcissa smiled, showing her sickeningly perfect white teeth that almost resembled fangs.
"So Sev...you're going to go visit Lucius tomorrow?" She asked.
"That is correct. I will give you word of his condition as soon as I can." He said emotionless, not willing to give Narcissa the satisfaction of him being friendly. Narcissa though not willing to give up on her prey.
"Severus darling you have a loose thread on your robes. Let me get it." She said and seductively reached across the table to pull it off. Draco saw Severus looking panicked so he decided to save him.
"It's alright mother...I'll get it." He said and quickly snapped off the thread before Narcissa could reach it. She glared daggers at her son for a moment before sitting normally back down.
"Thank you Draco." Severus said in a kind tone. Draco smirked.
"No trouble at all." Draco replied, loving the look of anger on his mother's face. Severus saw it the look as well, but didn't feel happy because he knew Draco would get in trouble later on if the night continued this way.
"So Narcissa...how have you been doing? It must be hard right now for you." He asked her with a concerned expression on his face. Narcissa sighed dramatically.
"Oh Sev it's soo horrible! Everything is just absolutely horrible! You don't know how much I have suffered with this!!! I-I'm...just so afraid Sev...ever since Lucius was put into Azkaban...no one looks at me the same!! I'm going to be a social outcast forever! I'm so lonely!!" She cried, tears running down her cheeks. Draco almost laughed out loud at the patheticness of this and looked down at the table. Severus sighed and patted Narcissa on the shoulder from across the table.
"There there...I'm sure this'll all be over soon and you'll go back to being loved by your friends." He said as reassuringly as he could. Narcissa sobbed even more.
"I don't think so Sev...I just don't think so..." She reached across the table, practically throwing herself into Severus's arms. Severus just sat there, stunned as Narcissa continued her crying in his arms. Right then the house elves came in with dinner.
"Mother dinners here. I'm sure Severus must be hungry. " Draco said, trying desperately to help poor Severus. Narcissa again glared at Draco before sitting back in her respectful chair. Severus, grateful that he could breathe again sighed deeply. The house elves began to place the plates onto the table. Severus and Draco began to eat the gourmet meal in front of them. Narcissa was watching them, feeling angry at having food be chosen over her.
"Sevvy....I don't think I can cut this meat...my nail my break. That would be a tragedy because my nail stylist is out of the country right now.Do you think you can do it for me?" She asked in a whiny tone. Severus sigher and, not being able to think of a way to get out of it, leaned across the table and cut the woman's meat for her. In the middle of it, Narcissa grasped onto his hands.
"Such smooth skin Sev..." She purred. Severus almost gagged at the remark. Narcissa, who either failed to see his disgust or chose to ignore it, began to rub one of Severus's hands to her face.
"I really am quite lonely you know...and I'm sure you must be too Severus." She said in a light, disgustingly seductive tone. Severus was desperately trying to figure a way out of the situation and Draco just watched on in shock.
"W-we really...can't Narcissa...what...what would Lucius say?" He managed to get out. Narcissa smiled slightly.
"Please...it's his own fault for being so careless...it would serve him right for leaving me to deal with all of this while he goes off to some secluded place for a while. Without the dementors, Azkaban has to be like some sort of vacation for him I'm sure. He is so selfish at times..." She said. Draco felt anger seethe inside of him. How dare she...
"Mother if you don't mind me asking...what the fuck is your problem?" He asked in a calm tone of voice. Narcissa glared at him in shock.
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!!" She cried out. Draco glared back at her.
"No don't you DARE talk about father like that. He has worked so hard to keep you and me happy and you have absolutely NO RIGHT to speak of him like that. You think he wants to be there? The fumes from all those anti wrinkling potions must've gotten to your head!!" He said in an extremely angry voice. Narcissa slapped him from across the table.
"YOU ARE AN UNGRATEFUL LITTLE PIECE OF SCUM!! YOU HAVE RUINED THIS DINNER!!" She shrieked.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING UNGRATEFUL!? AND I THINK THE SECOND YOU TRIED TO HIT ON SEVERUS THE DINNER WAS RUINED!! HE..DOESN'T...LIKE...YOU!! UNDERSTAND?!" He yelled, years of pent up anger toward his mother finally breaking through.
"I DON'T HAVE TO TAKE THIS!! GO TO YOUR ROOM AND WAIT FOR ME TO COME AND PUNISH YOU!!" She demanded. Severus looked between the two very angry people and held his hands up between them so they wouldn't try and kill each other.
"N-now now why don't...you both calm down. Draco...apologize to your mother and..Narcissa...try to ease up on him alright? It's hard for him too I'm sure." Severus said and looked pleadingly at Draco, hoping he'd just apologize. Draco sighed.
"Sorry mother...don't know what got into me..." He said as sincerely as he could at the moment. Narcissa smirked.
"Very well...I suppose...I could...lessen the punishment..." She said, wanting to make Severus happy. Severus sighed.
"Alright good...well I happen to be quite full...why don't take Draco to his room...I think I left something up there from this morning anyway..." He said. Narcissa frowned.
"Sevv...come onnn....don't leave yet!! You haven't even had desert yet!" She pleaded. She looked at him with desperate eyes.
"I-I can't...I'm sorry...I really can't...I....have to be going home...I...have a potion simmering and I need to add an ingredient at exactly 6:47. It's already 6:20...and it takes 10 minutes to get back to my house." He said, never more thankful for his ability to lie well to people.
"Fine. But you'd better come back to see me soon...I worked HARD ordering the house elves around to get this meal prepared. You OWE me. And next time...I can assure you the boy will be gone...we will have a WONDERFUL time." She told him, saying the last sentence with a wink and in a seductive tone. Severus groaned inside but smiled outside.
"Sure thing. Well I'd better be taking Draco upstairs now." He said and hurriedly grabbed Draco's hand and walked hastily upstairs with him, extremely eager to get away from Narcissa. Once they reached Draco's room and the door was closed, Draco could let out the rest of his outburst.
"Who the bloody hell does she think she is saying those things about father!!?" He said angrily.
"I know Draco I feel the same way...but you really have to control these outbursts. You may hate the woman, but you cannot forget the fact that she's your guardian and has control over you. Don't get on her bad side."
"It's too late for that Sev....I've always been on her bad side and you know that. No matter what I do, she hates me and you know what? I don't care anymore." He stated with bitterness.
"I figured as much....but still....I want you to be careful Draco...who knows what she'll do now that she can do whatever she wants around here." He warned. Of course, with the whole almost being stabbed to death by a drunken Narcissa incident, he already pretty much knew what his mother could and would do to him without a second thought.
"I will..." Draco told Severus who smiled lightly at him.
"Now then...do you have the letter?" Severus asked Draco, who nodded in response. He picked up the note, which was on his bed, and handed it to Severus.
"I won't read it if you don't want me to." Severus told him and Draco nodded.
"Thank you.." He told his godfather. "And you'll tell me how he is right?"
"Yeah...I'll be able to do that the day after tomorrow. Until then, try not worry about it."
"You know I am though..." Draco said, looking down at the ground, already worrying. Severus reached into his trusty potions bag(A/n-I am resisting greatly the urge to say handy dandy potions bag--) and pulled out a vial of purple liquid.
"It's a sleeping potion. I know you're going to need it. Drink half tonight and half tomorrow night if need be." He told Draco.
"Like I'm going to want to sleep anyway. What with Narcissa stumbling around drunk with death threa--" Draco stopped. He hadn't meant to tell Severus of Narcissa's knew hobby of trying to threaten and kill her son.
"Draco...what happened?" Severus asked in one of his 'I'm going to find out no matter what so you might as well tell me voice.' Draco groaned.
"Forget it alright? It's nothing..."He said. Severus frowned.
"I don't think so. You will tell me." he said threateningly. Draco sighed.
"Fine...Narcissa just..you know likes to drink...and she finds it...amusing to come and threaten me. " He said.
"Has she harmed you?" He asked.
"No...she hasn't ever gotten past the door." He lied. Severus of course being the master at lying, could tell Draco was.
"What did she do Draco? Severus asked in his concerned voice.
"Nothing Sev just drop it." He snapped. Severus wasn't going to give up though.
"Don't make me use veritisearum." He threatened.
"I won't take it." Draco retorted stubbornly.
"I'll tell your father how your mother's treating you. You know him. He'll do something stupid to try and help you." He said, smirking and silently saying in his head, 1 Severus, zero Draco.
"FINE! It was only once...she came into my room at night and...well she tried to...stab me I guess. She was extremely drunk and passed out though and I'm very cautious now. So don't worry." He told his godfather, who looked extremely angry at this.
"Draco! How can you say it was nothing?!" He asked in a harsh tone. Draco recoiled slightly at his godfather's tone, deciding to take a different path.
"Look it's almost 6:35...you'd better go or Narcissa will get mad. Don't worry about it I can handle her." He reassured Severus and at the same time masterfully changing the subject.
"Fine...but we're talking about this later. Don't think by changing the subject you can get out of talking to me." He 'reassured' Draco who gasped dramatically.
"Are you being...fatherly Sev?" He asked in a shocked tone. Severus mock glared at him.
"Well someone has to be a parent to you right now..." He stated in
"Oh come on I think Narcissa is doing a splendid job!" Draco said in an over-cheery tone. Severus rolled his eyes.
"Well I'd better be going then...you be careful alright...and...eat your vegetables or...something." He said as he stood. "Oh and at least TRY and get some sleep sometime."
"I usually sleep during the day..." He said and Severus nodded.
"Fine...I'll contact you in two days...either by owl or in person...it depends which is safest."
"Alright then...bye." Draco said as Severus exited the room. Draco lay back, hoping it wouldn't in the end be Severus who did something stupid for him. That was his father's job. And he had just reminded himself of his father, something he told himself he wouldn't do until Severus came back. Oh well it was impossible for him not to think of his father.
The strong protective arms that always managed to qualm his fears. How he missed them. Draco wrapped his own arms around himself, something he would do as a child when his father was away and he was scared. He would pretend they were his father's arms. It never worked nearly as well as the real thing, but it worked a little. He lay there for a bit, wanting to get out of his room...out of the house he was beginning to feel trapped in, but knew if he did his mother wouldn't let him. He didn't really understand why his mother had to hate him so much. He knew she blamed him for 'stealing' all of Lucius's attention, but couldn't she at least TRY and be a good mother?
"Guess with all the fashion and vanity in her genes theres no room for good mothering.."He muttered to himself as he lay there, trying to pass the time somehow. He let his mind wander aimlessly, thinking back to the good times his father and him shared. Most of the good memories Draco had were of being with his father.
"That's it...I am going to stop moping and do something productive!" Draco told himself. "I know...homework." He walked over to his unopened school trunk and took out his sheet of assignments and began to work. But after a few minutes of his history essay, he heard his mother shout up to him for him to get downstairs. He sighed, wondering what she was going to do. He walked down the spiraling stairs to to the room at the bottom where his mother waited.
"Draco I have your punishment for ruining tonights dinner. You are to clean the entire kitchen until it's spotless. I'm going out to a party and it had BETTER be done by the time I get back."She said. Draco let out a sigh of relief. Nothing too horribly bad.
"Yes of course mo---Narcissa." He said correcting himself. He walked to the kitchen, but stopped dead in his tracks. In the middle of the floor lay the owl his father had bought for him...dead. Its feathers were everywhere and blood was collecting in a large pool. Draco screamed loudly and house elves rushed in.
"Is master Draco being alright?" One of them asked. Draco glared at them.
"Who...did...this?" He demanded in a deadly whisper.
"Your mother Master Draco...She wrung its neck and used a spell to pluck off its feathers sir." One of them responded. Draco had tears running down his cheeks. He heard a distant laughing and door slamming. Draco growled dangerously.
"Thats it Narcissa...if its war you want...it's war your going to get!" He said angrily as he began cleaning everything up and formulating a plan. At least now he had something to get his mind off his father.
A/n...Wow aleady 4:00am? No wonder I'm so tired Anyway, sorry for the delays...I hope you like this chapter...Oh and btw...theres not gonna be ne Severus/Draco or Severus/Lucius or Draco/Severus/Lucius involved(sorry for all those who woulda wanted one of them) I will put Severus with someone though!!(as soon as I figure out who and how) Thank you and please review/flame
Leek A.--Thank you so much. I'm glad you like it so much GaBrIeLa2--Thank you! I know Narcissa is a bitch isn't she? Oh well it makes it all the more fun for bad things to happen to her Chrissy430--Thank you Sorry it took a bit long to update, but here it is. Hope ya like.
Draco was sitting at the table with expensive and very uncomfortable robes his mother had insisted he donned for the night. He was sitting across from Narcissa, who was wearing a very expensive and beautiful dress. It was 5:55 and they were waiting for Severus to arrive at the manor for dinner.
"You better be on your best behavior tonight if you know what's good for you." Narcissa said in her haughtiest tone.
"Of course." Draco said in an equally haughty tone, deciding he might as well play her game of vanity lies and deceit. Otherwise known as the game of being a Malfoy. Narcissa smirked maliciously at her son.
"Alright then. You'd better be." A few moments later, a house elf came into the dining hall.
"Mister Severus is being here my Master's wife." He squeaked. Narcissa's eyes shone with fury.
"YOU ARE TO CALL ME MISTRESS, NOT MASTER'S WIFE!! YOU'RE LUCKY I DON'T KILL YOU FOR THAT!! NOW BRING IN SEVERUS YOU LOWLIFE PIECE OF SCUM!!" She shrieked and Draco almost couldn't resist the urge to roll his eyes at his mother for getting mad over something so stupid. The poor house elf bowed quickly and then ran out and soon came back with Severus.
"I-is t-that all m-my..mistress?" He asked, still quite terrified.
"Yes now get out of my sight." She ordered and the house elf happily complied, practically running out of the room. Severus walked over to the elegant table, taking a seat next to Draco, giving a stinging blow to Narcissa.
"Oh Sev why don't you sit over here?" She purred. Severus barely managed to contain his disgust.
"I..can see you better from over here. That's a lovely dress Narcissa." He said, grateful at his ability to cover up a lie like that. Narcissa smiled, showing her sickeningly perfect white teeth that almost resembled fangs.
"So Sev...you're going to go visit Lucius tomorrow?" She asked.
"That is correct. I will give you word of his condition as soon as I can." He said emotionless, not willing to give Narcissa the satisfaction of him being friendly. Narcissa though not willing to give up on her prey.
"Severus darling you have a loose thread on your robes. Let me get it." She said and seductively reached across the table to pull it off. Draco saw Severus looking panicked so he decided to save him.
"It's alright mother...I'll get it." He said and quickly snapped off the thread before Narcissa could reach it. She glared daggers at her son for a moment before sitting normally back down.
"Thank you Draco." Severus said in a kind tone. Draco smirked.
"No trouble at all." Draco replied, loving the look of anger on his mother's face. Severus saw it the look as well, but didn't feel happy because he knew Draco would get in trouble later on if the night continued this way.
"So Narcissa...how have you been doing? It must be hard right now for you." He asked her with a concerned expression on his face. Narcissa sighed dramatically.
"Oh Sev it's soo horrible! Everything is just absolutely horrible! You don't know how much I have suffered with this!!! I-I'm...just so afraid Sev...ever since Lucius was put into Azkaban...no one looks at me the same!! I'm going to be a social outcast forever! I'm so lonely!!" She cried, tears running down her cheeks. Draco almost laughed out loud at the patheticness of this and looked down at the table. Severus sighed and patted Narcissa on the shoulder from across the table.
"There there...I'm sure this'll all be over soon and you'll go back to being loved by your friends." He said as reassuringly as he could. Narcissa sobbed even more.
"I don't think so Sev...I just don't think so..." She reached across the table, practically throwing herself into Severus's arms. Severus just sat there, stunned as Narcissa continued her crying in his arms. Right then the house elves came in with dinner.
"Mother dinners here. I'm sure Severus must be hungry. " Draco said, trying desperately to help poor Severus. Narcissa again glared at Draco before sitting back in her respectful chair. Severus, grateful that he could breathe again sighed deeply. The house elves began to place the plates onto the table. Severus and Draco began to eat the gourmet meal in front of them. Narcissa was watching them, feeling angry at having food be chosen over her.
"Sevvy....I don't think I can cut this meat...my nail my break. That would be a tragedy because my nail stylist is out of the country right now.Do you think you can do it for me?" She asked in a whiny tone. Severus sigher and, not being able to think of a way to get out of it, leaned across the table and cut the woman's meat for her. In the middle of it, Narcissa grasped onto his hands.
"Such smooth skin Sev..." She purred. Severus almost gagged at the remark. Narcissa, who either failed to see his disgust or chose to ignore it, began to rub one of Severus's hands to her face.
"I really am quite lonely you know...and I'm sure you must be too Severus." She said in a light, disgustingly seductive tone. Severus was desperately trying to figure a way out of the situation and Draco just watched on in shock.
"W-we really...can't Narcissa...what...what would Lucius say?" He managed to get out. Narcissa smiled slightly.
"Please...it's his own fault for being so careless...it would serve him right for leaving me to deal with all of this while he goes off to some secluded place for a while. Without the dementors, Azkaban has to be like some sort of vacation for him I'm sure. He is so selfish at times..." She said. Draco felt anger seethe inside of him. How dare she...
"Mother if you don't mind me asking...what the fuck is your problem?" He asked in a calm tone of voice. Narcissa glared at him in shock.
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!!" She cried out. Draco glared back at her.
"No don't you DARE talk about father like that. He has worked so hard to keep you and me happy and you have absolutely NO RIGHT to speak of him like that. You think he wants to be there? The fumes from all those anti wrinkling potions must've gotten to your head!!" He said in an extremely angry voice. Narcissa slapped him from across the table.
"YOU ARE AN UNGRATEFUL LITTLE PIECE OF SCUM!! YOU HAVE RUINED THIS DINNER!!" She shrieked.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING UNGRATEFUL!? AND I THINK THE SECOND YOU TRIED TO HIT ON SEVERUS THE DINNER WAS RUINED!! HE..DOESN'T...LIKE...YOU!! UNDERSTAND?!" He yelled, years of pent up anger toward his mother finally breaking through.
"I DON'T HAVE TO TAKE THIS!! GO TO YOUR ROOM AND WAIT FOR ME TO COME AND PUNISH YOU!!" She demanded. Severus looked between the two very angry people and held his hands up between them so they wouldn't try and kill each other.
"N-now now why don't...you both calm down. Draco...apologize to your mother and..Narcissa...try to ease up on him alright? It's hard for him too I'm sure." Severus said and looked pleadingly at Draco, hoping he'd just apologize. Draco sighed.
"Sorry mother...don't know what got into me..." He said as sincerely as he could at the moment. Narcissa smirked.
"Very well...I suppose...I could...lessen the punishment..." She said, wanting to make Severus happy. Severus sighed.
"Alright good...well I happen to be quite full...why don't take Draco to his room...I think I left something up there from this morning anyway..." He said. Narcissa frowned.
"Sevv...come onnn....don't leave yet!! You haven't even had desert yet!" She pleaded. She looked at him with desperate eyes.
"I-I can't...I'm sorry...I really can't...I....have to be going home...I...have a potion simmering and I need to add an ingredient at exactly 6:47. It's already 6:20...and it takes 10 minutes to get back to my house." He said, never more thankful for his ability to lie well to people.
"Fine. But you'd better come back to see me soon...I worked HARD ordering the house elves around to get this meal prepared. You OWE me. And next time...I can assure you the boy will be gone...we will have a WONDERFUL time." She told him, saying the last sentence with a wink and in a seductive tone. Severus groaned inside but smiled outside.
"Sure thing. Well I'd better be taking Draco upstairs now." He said and hurriedly grabbed Draco's hand and walked hastily upstairs with him, extremely eager to get away from Narcissa. Once they reached Draco's room and the door was closed, Draco could let out the rest of his outburst.
"Who the bloody hell does she think she is saying those things about father!!?" He said angrily.
"I know Draco I feel the same way...but you really have to control these outbursts. You may hate the woman, but you cannot forget the fact that she's your guardian and has control over you. Don't get on her bad side."
"It's too late for that Sev....I've always been on her bad side and you know that. No matter what I do, she hates me and you know what? I don't care anymore." He stated with bitterness.
"I figured as much....but still....I want you to be careful Draco...who knows what she'll do now that she can do whatever she wants around here." He warned. Of course, with the whole almost being stabbed to death by a drunken Narcissa incident, he already pretty much knew what his mother could and would do to him without a second thought.
"I will..." Draco told Severus who smiled lightly at him.
"Now then...do you have the letter?" Severus asked Draco, who nodded in response. He picked up the note, which was on his bed, and handed it to Severus.
"I won't read it if you don't want me to." Severus told him and Draco nodded.
"Thank you.." He told his godfather. "And you'll tell me how he is right?"
"Yeah...I'll be able to do that the day after tomorrow. Until then, try not worry about it."
"You know I am though..." Draco said, looking down at the ground, already worrying. Severus reached into his trusty potions bag(A/n-I am resisting greatly the urge to say handy dandy potions bag--) and pulled out a vial of purple liquid.
"It's a sleeping potion. I know you're going to need it. Drink half tonight and half tomorrow night if need be." He told Draco.
"Like I'm going to want to sleep anyway. What with Narcissa stumbling around drunk with death threa--" Draco stopped. He hadn't meant to tell Severus of Narcissa's knew hobby of trying to threaten and kill her son.
"Draco...what happened?" Severus asked in one of his 'I'm going to find out no matter what so you might as well tell me voice.' Draco groaned.
"Forget it alright? It's nothing..."He said. Severus frowned.
"I don't think so. You will tell me." he said threateningly. Draco sighed.
"Fine...Narcissa just..you know likes to drink...and she finds it...amusing to come and threaten me. " He said.
"Has she harmed you?" He asked.
"No...she hasn't ever gotten past the door." He lied. Severus of course being the master at lying, could tell Draco was.
"What did she do Draco? Severus asked in his concerned voice.
"Nothing Sev just drop it." He snapped. Severus wasn't going to give up though.
"Don't make me use veritisearum." He threatened.
"I won't take it." Draco retorted stubbornly.
"I'll tell your father how your mother's treating you. You know him. He'll do something stupid to try and help you." He said, smirking and silently saying in his head, 1 Severus, zero Draco.
"FINE! It was only once...she came into my room at night and...well she tried to...stab me I guess. She was extremely drunk and passed out though and I'm very cautious now. So don't worry." He told his godfather, who looked extremely angry at this.
"Draco! How can you say it was nothing?!" He asked in a harsh tone. Draco recoiled slightly at his godfather's tone, deciding to take a different path.
"Look it's almost 6:35...you'd better go or Narcissa will get mad. Don't worry about it I can handle her." He reassured Severus and at the same time masterfully changing the subject.
"Fine...but we're talking about this later. Don't think by changing the subject you can get out of talking to me." He 'reassured' Draco who gasped dramatically.
"Are you being...fatherly Sev?" He asked in a shocked tone. Severus mock glared at him.
"Well someone has to be a parent to you right now..." He stated in
"Oh come on I think Narcissa is doing a splendid job!" Draco said in an over-cheery tone. Severus rolled his eyes.
"Well I'd better be going then...you be careful alright...and...eat your vegetables or...something." He said as he stood. "Oh and at least TRY and get some sleep sometime."
"I usually sleep during the day..." He said and Severus nodded.
"Fine...I'll contact you in two days...either by owl or in person...it depends which is safest."
"Alright then...bye." Draco said as Severus exited the room. Draco lay back, hoping it wouldn't in the end be Severus who did something stupid for him. That was his father's job. And he had just reminded himself of his father, something he told himself he wouldn't do until Severus came back. Oh well it was impossible for him not to think of his father.
The strong protective arms that always managed to qualm his fears. How he missed them. Draco wrapped his own arms around himself, something he would do as a child when his father was away and he was scared. He would pretend they were his father's arms. It never worked nearly as well as the real thing, but it worked a little. He lay there for a bit, wanting to get out of his room...out of the house he was beginning to feel trapped in, but knew if he did his mother wouldn't let him. He didn't really understand why his mother had to hate him so much. He knew she blamed him for 'stealing' all of Lucius's attention, but couldn't she at least TRY and be a good mother?
"Guess with all the fashion and vanity in her genes theres no room for good mothering.."He muttered to himself as he lay there, trying to pass the time somehow. He let his mind wander aimlessly, thinking back to the good times his father and him shared. Most of the good memories Draco had were of being with his father.
"That's it...I am going to stop moping and do something productive!" Draco told himself. "I know...homework." He walked over to his unopened school trunk and took out his sheet of assignments and began to work. But after a few minutes of his history essay, he heard his mother shout up to him for him to get downstairs. He sighed, wondering what she was going to do. He walked down the spiraling stairs to to the room at the bottom where his mother waited.
"Draco I have your punishment for ruining tonights dinner. You are to clean the entire kitchen until it's spotless. I'm going out to a party and it had BETTER be done by the time I get back."She said. Draco let out a sigh of relief. Nothing too horribly bad.
"Yes of course mo---Narcissa." He said correcting himself. He walked to the kitchen, but stopped dead in his tracks. In the middle of the floor lay the owl his father had bought for him...dead. Its feathers were everywhere and blood was collecting in a large pool. Draco screamed loudly and house elves rushed in.
"Is master Draco being alright?" One of them asked. Draco glared at them.
"Who...did...this?" He demanded in a deadly whisper.
"Your mother Master Draco...She wrung its neck and used a spell to pluck off its feathers sir." One of them responded. Draco had tears running down his cheeks. He heard a distant laughing and door slamming. Draco growled dangerously.
"Thats it Narcissa...if its war you want...it's war your going to get!" He said angrily as he began cleaning everything up and formulating a plan. At least now he had something to get his mind off his father.
A/n...Wow aleady 4:00am? No wonder I'm so tired Anyway, sorry for the delays...I hope you like this chapter...Oh and btw...theres not gonna be ne Severus/Draco or Severus/Lucius or Draco/Severus/Lucius involved(sorry for all those who woulda wanted one of them) I will put Severus with someone though!!(as soon as I figure out who and how) Thank you and please review/flame