Disclaimer: Do I have to say it again?? I don't own Harry Potter and am seriously depressed about it!! But I do own the plot!
A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out sorry to keep you waiting! Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was great!! You may disagree, but we all have our opinions! Anyways, I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 11: The Road of Blood and Flowers
"Draco!" Hermione yelled running over to Draco and giving him a big bear hug. Happy to be with Hermione and determined to prove to his father that Hermione was no ordinary Mudblood. He noticed that she had cuts and bruises all over her body. He gently touched one of her bruises.
"Did he give you all these?" Draco asked, eying him. Hermione slowly nodded turning back to look at Lucius. His face was curled in disgust. She noticed two boys walking behind Lucius. It was Harry and Ron. They both waved and told Hermione not to say anything. "Why is it Father, that you have to beat up on her rather then me? You abused me and for that I can not forgive you. You left hundreds of emotional and physical scars. I have yet to figure out why... WHY ON EARTH YOU DID THAT TO ME! All these years, I hated you. I never loved you. I hated you with all my heart!" Draco bellowed.
"Have you not listened to any of the speeches I have given you in your youth?" Lucius questioned. He slowly took his wand out of his pocket; no one noticed.
"'Draco, when you grow up you must learn Mudblood and Muggles are the most despicable creatures to ever walk this earth. You are never to associate with them in anyway shape or form.' That speech? The one I received so many times and have memorized?" Draco answered cheekily.
"No not that one son..." Lucius answered calmly. He knew that Draco's abdomen was healed but had scars and he aimed the spell there. He thundered a spell and it made Draco hit the cave wall. His arm had a puncture wound as well as his abdomen and was spilling blood all over the cave floor at a rapid pace. "No son, 'the speech' as you call it, where I tell you to never talk back to me. Are you happy now? Your bleeding and it is only a matter of time before you die." He laughed evilly. Draco was spread on the floor. Robes bloody and dirt all over his face. He had little breath left and was extremely weak.
"Draco!" Hermione screamed. Her eyes looked all glassy and filled in tears. She went beside Draco. "You can't leave! Not yet! You're too young!" She put her head on his chest, looked him in the eyes and put her hand over his. His hand was all bloody from his wound in the abdomen, again. Hermione got up and took her robe off, leaving her in a dirty white shirt and her Hogwarts skirt. She quickly ripped her robe in half. She put half on his arm tightly and on his abdomen. She hoped that the blood would stop running.
"Thank you. Hermione, these are the sacrifices that you have to go through when you love someone and others don't want the relationship to happen. It doesn't matter if I die, anyway. It would be better for my father. He'll be happy then. He won't have anyone to beat up on or call names. He'll be alone in the world! Your nothing but a man with a lot of anger within you. You took the only girl away that I truly love with all my heart and ABUSE her. For the past 2 months, you kept her captive for what reason? You kept me in agony day after day. I want to be happy with her," Draco yelled, weakly.
"Yes, I have anger stored up in me Draco. But there are reasons ... reasons that are not to be told ... especially to you such an ungrateful brat," Lucius said, trying to sound calm. Hermione was laying beside bloody Draco and looked up at Lucius.
"How can you be so rude to everyone that you are around? Don't you understand that he has done nothing to you. It was out of YOUR past and how you were hurt. It is that simple reason on why you are cold-hearted and rude. Why don't you tell Draco what hidden secret that is," Hermione sniffled.
"What secret is that?" Harry and Draco said in unison. Lucius turned around to see the son, of his past lover, speak. Ron elbowed Harry in the stomach and a very faint 'ow' came out of his mouth. Lucius looked like he was ready to kill.
"How long have you been here Potter?" he spat.
"Longer then you'll ever know," Harry answered, staring in his eyes hard.
"Well, you want to know what my secret is?" he said slowly. Draco nodded and acknowledged it. He had absolutely no idea what his father could have been keeping so long. Draco was a smart young man. He knew that his parents marriage was all based on a lie. It was about to be proved by this secret his father was to reveal. He had a feeling it was a story about how his heart was broken by a Mudblood story. That is the most stupid thing, father hates them and still does to this day, he thought. He tried to concentrate on the expression on his fathers face. His father looked as though he was thinking too hard.
Lucius had to decide now how he was to go about telling Potter, Weasley and his son, his secret. He didn't know how to approach it. He could come right out and say it or... Yes! He decided to do that. It was a brilliant idea. "I'll take you back in time. It will be a memory. You are unable to talk to anyone and they will not talk to you. Potter I may warn you ahead of time not to scream at it." Harry looked at him puzzledly. He didn't know what Lucius was talking about. Why was he only telling him and no one else? This is odd, Harry thought. All of them felt a jerk and were soon in an area of black and white.
There he stood holding her hand... looking deep into her eyes ready to confess his feelings to her, again.
"I love you Lily Evans!" Lucius Malfoy confessed. Lily Evans? Harry thought. Why does that name sound familar? It was only a matter of time before Harry realized that that was his mother. His mother dated Lucius Malfoy? His eyes were wide open and intently watching what would happen next. Draco's eyes were also wide open. Lucius pulled her in for a kiss only to notice that she was crying. He had no idea why she would cry. He hadn't said anything wrong, did he?
"I can't hide this anymore Lucius..." Lily said, walking away from him, towards the window taking in the snowy scent of November. It was a chilly night for a chilling confession. It was going to be hard for her to tell him. She pondered and pondered and felt it was best to tell him and be straight. "I don't love you anymore. I'm sorry." She couldn't bring herself to say it.
"You love the Head Boy don't you? James Potter? Why h.." Lucius was interrupted. Harry and Draco starred at each other both knowing what was coming next.
"Stop and let me finish, please. This is already hard enough for me to tell you," she asked, not taking her eyes from the snow that was falling on the Quidditch field. "I love James and we have a baby on the way. Lucius, I'm sorry but I'm pregnant with James Potter's child. I'm keeping the baby. James and I are planning to get married before July, when the baby is born." Harry felt somewhat bad for Lucius but at the same time he didn't. His mother dated Draco's dad and was forced to marry James, Harry's dad. It was a lot to take in.
"Your what? With who? I cannot believe this! I hate you MUDBLOOD!" Lucius shrieked, leaving. The memory was over and everyone stayed silently in the cave.
"You all wanted to know and that was the memory that Hermione was talking about."
"Mr. Malfoy, you dated my mother who became pregnant with me? That was the great secret?" Harry asked. Lucius nodded and explained that he really loved his mother and she was the reason for all his hate. "But, you couldn't have loves my mother that much though could you? How long did you like her? Why did you pick her from all those Slytherin girls? Wh.." Harry was interrupted by Lucius.
"One question at a time," he said. "I liked your mother since our third year. I started to talk to her and my feelings became stronger as each day passed. I picked her because the other Slytherin girls were all beneath me."
"But ..." Draco said weakly. He was still bleeding and Hermione was still laying on his chest "Why didn't you just tell me the truth on why you didn't like Muggle borns?"
"Because if I had told you, people would have suspected that I was weak and still in love with a Mudblood. Being a Death-Eater, it is wrong to like girls let alone be in love with them. Voldemort found out and I was punished. Peter Pettigrew indeed told Voldemort the Potters' whereabouts before they died and your mother, Harry, died partly for the reason that I was in love with her. And I still love her. I know that it is impossible for her and I to be together in peace and harmony because she is dead and she had fallen in love with your father," Lucius stated. It looked as though he really was in love with Harry's mother.
"How can you still be in love with someone who doesn't exist?" Ron asked curiously. He said that he really had no idea. It was one of those feelings that never left and stayed no matter what he was put through. Draco started to laugh as if it was all a joke.
"What is so funny, Draco?" Lucius demanded angrily.
"I find it really hard to believe that my father was in love. How is it that Voldemort found out about you and Lily Potter if you never told him and you would not let you love show?" Draco asked trying to comprehend the situation. It made no sense to him on why his father was punished and how the Dark Lord found out about them.
"Use your common sense Draco! He is the most evil wizard of our century and therefore able to ask questions and get answers without you knowing. It is quite remarkable what he is capable of doing. He must have asked me without realizing what was happening," Lucius said, staring intensely at Draco. "But the hardest part for me to understand was he told me that he would kill her if I didn't stop loving her. Before I could stop, Peter Pettigrew already told him, her whereabouts and eventually he killed her and James. For the first year, it was difficult to cope with the loss. Even now it still is." Hermione was not sure whether she felt upset for Lucius or to be glad that his heart was broken. She figured that if his heart was not broken, he would not have captured her. But on the other hand, she tried to imagine Lucius Malfoy as a caring, loveable man. It was hard to imagine but she guessed that anything is possible. It is quite astounding how one memory can change a man to be the complete opposite. While no one was looking, Ron quickly and quietly walked out of the cave.
Outside, there was an enormous thunder storm erupting. Each time thunder crashed, the cave shook. Draco some how thought that something was going to happen but was not sure what. Everyone in the cave was silent until Harry burst o ut into screams. He fell to the floor. His hands around his head.
A shadowy figure appeared. It resembled a bony figure and was dressed in head to toe in black.
"Ah... you are here Harry Potter," spat the creature. "I have finally arrived to finish you off... once and for all."
"I was wondering when you were to come," Lucius commented.
"You were in on this?" Hermione articulated in concern. He nodded. This was all apart of his plan. He knew that Harry would come and help her. He would then... "Y-y-you are He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Names? And you have come to kill Harry?
"Yes, Mudblood it is true. I have come to kill Harry and I'm Lord Voldemort. Come Harry let the games begin!" he said. Harry got up slowly and carefully. Was everything that Lucius Malfoy said a complete lie? The way it seemed to be, it was. He got up still clinging his scar. His wand was out; he faced Lord Voldemort. "Any last words Potter before you die?"
"Yes... This is for my parents," Harry mentioned, confidently to take on the Dark Lord one final time.
A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out sorry to keep you waiting! Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was great!! You may disagree, but we all have our opinions! Anyways, I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 11: The Road of Blood and Flowers
"Draco!" Hermione yelled running over to Draco and giving him a big bear hug. Happy to be with Hermione and determined to prove to his father that Hermione was no ordinary Mudblood. He noticed that she had cuts and bruises all over her body. He gently touched one of her bruises.
"Did he give you all these?" Draco asked, eying him. Hermione slowly nodded turning back to look at Lucius. His face was curled in disgust. She noticed two boys walking behind Lucius. It was Harry and Ron. They both waved and told Hermione not to say anything. "Why is it Father, that you have to beat up on her rather then me? You abused me and for that I can not forgive you. You left hundreds of emotional and physical scars. I have yet to figure out why... WHY ON EARTH YOU DID THAT TO ME! All these years, I hated you. I never loved you. I hated you with all my heart!" Draco bellowed.
"Have you not listened to any of the speeches I have given you in your youth?" Lucius questioned. He slowly took his wand out of his pocket; no one noticed.
"'Draco, when you grow up you must learn Mudblood and Muggles are the most despicable creatures to ever walk this earth. You are never to associate with them in anyway shape or form.' That speech? The one I received so many times and have memorized?" Draco answered cheekily.
"No not that one son..." Lucius answered calmly. He knew that Draco's abdomen was healed but had scars and he aimed the spell there. He thundered a spell and it made Draco hit the cave wall. His arm had a puncture wound as well as his abdomen and was spilling blood all over the cave floor at a rapid pace. "No son, 'the speech' as you call it, where I tell you to never talk back to me. Are you happy now? Your bleeding and it is only a matter of time before you die." He laughed evilly. Draco was spread on the floor. Robes bloody and dirt all over his face. He had little breath left and was extremely weak.
"Draco!" Hermione screamed. Her eyes looked all glassy and filled in tears. She went beside Draco. "You can't leave! Not yet! You're too young!" She put her head on his chest, looked him in the eyes and put her hand over his. His hand was all bloody from his wound in the abdomen, again. Hermione got up and took her robe off, leaving her in a dirty white shirt and her Hogwarts skirt. She quickly ripped her robe in half. She put half on his arm tightly and on his abdomen. She hoped that the blood would stop running.
"Thank you. Hermione, these are the sacrifices that you have to go through when you love someone and others don't want the relationship to happen. It doesn't matter if I die, anyway. It would be better for my father. He'll be happy then. He won't have anyone to beat up on or call names. He'll be alone in the world! Your nothing but a man with a lot of anger within you. You took the only girl away that I truly love with all my heart and ABUSE her. For the past 2 months, you kept her captive for what reason? You kept me in agony day after day. I want to be happy with her," Draco yelled, weakly.
"Yes, I have anger stored up in me Draco. But there are reasons ... reasons that are not to be told ... especially to you such an ungrateful brat," Lucius said, trying to sound calm. Hermione was laying beside bloody Draco and looked up at Lucius.
"How can you be so rude to everyone that you are around? Don't you understand that he has done nothing to you. It was out of YOUR past and how you were hurt. It is that simple reason on why you are cold-hearted and rude. Why don't you tell Draco what hidden secret that is," Hermione sniffled.
"What secret is that?" Harry and Draco said in unison. Lucius turned around to see the son, of his past lover, speak. Ron elbowed Harry in the stomach and a very faint 'ow' came out of his mouth. Lucius looked like he was ready to kill.
"How long have you been here Potter?" he spat.
"Longer then you'll ever know," Harry answered, staring in his eyes hard.
"Well, you want to know what my secret is?" he said slowly. Draco nodded and acknowledged it. He had absolutely no idea what his father could have been keeping so long. Draco was a smart young man. He knew that his parents marriage was all based on a lie. It was about to be proved by this secret his father was to reveal. He had a feeling it was a story about how his heart was broken by a Mudblood story. That is the most stupid thing, father hates them and still does to this day, he thought. He tried to concentrate on the expression on his fathers face. His father looked as though he was thinking too hard.
Lucius had to decide now how he was to go about telling Potter, Weasley and his son, his secret. He didn't know how to approach it. He could come right out and say it or... Yes! He decided to do that. It was a brilliant idea. "I'll take you back in time. It will be a memory. You are unable to talk to anyone and they will not talk to you. Potter I may warn you ahead of time not to scream at it." Harry looked at him puzzledly. He didn't know what Lucius was talking about. Why was he only telling him and no one else? This is odd, Harry thought. All of them felt a jerk and were soon in an area of black and white.
There he stood holding her hand... looking deep into her eyes ready to confess his feelings to her, again.
"I love you Lily Evans!" Lucius Malfoy confessed. Lily Evans? Harry thought. Why does that name sound familar? It was only a matter of time before Harry realized that that was his mother. His mother dated Lucius Malfoy? His eyes were wide open and intently watching what would happen next. Draco's eyes were also wide open. Lucius pulled her in for a kiss only to notice that she was crying. He had no idea why she would cry. He hadn't said anything wrong, did he?
"I can't hide this anymore Lucius..." Lily said, walking away from him, towards the window taking in the snowy scent of November. It was a chilly night for a chilling confession. It was going to be hard for her to tell him. She pondered and pondered and felt it was best to tell him and be straight. "I don't love you anymore. I'm sorry." She couldn't bring herself to say it.
"You love the Head Boy don't you? James Potter? Why h.." Lucius was interrupted. Harry and Draco starred at each other both knowing what was coming next.
"Stop and let me finish, please. This is already hard enough for me to tell you," she asked, not taking her eyes from the snow that was falling on the Quidditch field. "I love James and we have a baby on the way. Lucius, I'm sorry but I'm pregnant with James Potter's child. I'm keeping the baby. James and I are planning to get married before July, when the baby is born." Harry felt somewhat bad for Lucius but at the same time he didn't. His mother dated Draco's dad and was forced to marry James, Harry's dad. It was a lot to take in.
"Your what? With who? I cannot believe this! I hate you MUDBLOOD!" Lucius shrieked, leaving. The memory was over and everyone stayed silently in the cave.
"You all wanted to know and that was the memory that Hermione was talking about."
"Mr. Malfoy, you dated my mother who became pregnant with me? That was the great secret?" Harry asked. Lucius nodded and explained that he really loved his mother and she was the reason for all his hate. "But, you couldn't have loves my mother that much though could you? How long did you like her? Why did you pick her from all those Slytherin girls? Wh.." Harry was interrupted by Lucius.
"One question at a time," he said. "I liked your mother since our third year. I started to talk to her and my feelings became stronger as each day passed. I picked her because the other Slytherin girls were all beneath me."
"But ..." Draco said weakly. He was still bleeding and Hermione was still laying on his chest "Why didn't you just tell me the truth on why you didn't like Muggle borns?"
"Because if I had told you, people would have suspected that I was weak and still in love with a Mudblood. Being a Death-Eater, it is wrong to like girls let alone be in love with them. Voldemort found out and I was punished. Peter Pettigrew indeed told Voldemort the Potters' whereabouts before they died and your mother, Harry, died partly for the reason that I was in love with her. And I still love her. I know that it is impossible for her and I to be together in peace and harmony because she is dead and she had fallen in love with your father," Lucius stated. It looked as though he really was in love with Harry's mother.
"How can you still be in love with someone who doesn't exist?" Ron asked curiously. He said that he really had no idea. It was one of those feelings that never left and stayed no matter what he was put through. Draco started to laugh as if it was all a joke.
"What is so funny, Draco?" Lucius demanded angrily.
"I find it really hard to believe that my father was in love. How is it that Voldemort found out about you and Lily Potter if you never told him and you would not let you love show?" Draco asked trying to comprehend the situation. It made no sense to him on why his father was punished and how the Dark Lord found out about them.
"Use your common sense Draco! He is the most evil wizard of our century and therefore able to ask questions and get answers without you knowing. It is quite remarkable what he is capable of doing. He must have asked me without realizing what was happening," Lucius said, staring intensely at Draco. "But the hardest part for me to understand was he told me that he would kill her if I didn't stop loving her. Before I could stop, Peter Pettigrew already told him, her whereabouts and eventually he killed her and James. For the first year, it was difficult to cope with the loss. Even now it still is." Hermione was not sure whether she felt upset for Lucius or to be glad that his heart was broken. She figured that if his heart was not broken, he would not have captured her. But on the other hand, she tried to imagine Lucius Malfoy as a caring, loveable man. It was hard to imagine but she guessed that anything is possible. It is quite astounding how one memory can change a man to be the complete opposite. While no one was looking, Ron quickly and quietly walked out of the cave.
Outside, there was an enormous thunder storm erupting. Each time thunder crashed, the cave shook. Draco some how thought that something was going to happen but was not sure what. Everyone in the cave was silent until Harry burst o ut into screams. He fell to the floor. His hands around his head.
A shadowy figure appeared. It resembled a bony figure and was dressed in head to toe in black.
"Ah... you are here Harry Potter," spat the creature. "I have finally arrived to finish you off... once and for all."
"I was wondering when you were to come," Lucius commented.
"You were in on this?" Hermione articulated in concern. He nodded. This was all apart of his plan. He knew that Harry would come and help her. He would then... "Y-y-you are He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Names? And you have come to kill Harry?
"Yes, Mudblood it is true. I have come to kill Harry and I'm Lord Voldemort. Come Harry let the games begin!" he said. Harry got up slowly and carefully. Was everything that Lucius Malfoy said a complete lie? The way it seemed to be, it was. He got up still clinging his scar. His wand was out; he faced Lord Voldemort. "Any last words Potter before you die?"
"Yes... This is for my parents," Harry mentioned, confidently to take on the Dark Lord one final time.