AN: oh the wonders of procrastination. I'm supposed to be studying for two tests I have tomorrow but I'm gonna write this instead. Cause I haven't worked on this one in a while. oh and BTW when I finish up another fic I'm doing I'll start posting that one, so look out for "To Fly Among the Stars"!
Disclaimers: they don't belong to me, but they somehow managed to own me. Oo don't ask me how that works.
SAXandCLARINETgrl: I'm glad you liked the cliffy, I tried, you still won't find out her name in this chapter but I'm sure you'll life
Yana5: I know I'm sorry! but I started this with the thought of it being Dracocentrec. I'm sorry if you were expecting more Harry, hes important yes, but not for while
Haunt of twilight: Orion: YAY! SOMEONE LIKES ME! stuffs Orion in a closet sigh I'm glad you like him, but you just boosted his ego, and now I'll never shut him up! And I'm sorry its taken so long to update. RL has caught up with me
Taking out the name tags from the little dispenser, she looked over them nodding before she pinned her own on.
"Please go ahead to the front desk where you will be required to present yourselves for inspection."
Maria rolled her eyes. "Mother, must we really go through with this horrific experience?"
"Sadly my dearest daughter, we must. The idiotic wizards think that they have control over us. I suppose they do to a certain respect but I believe they tend to ignore the fact that we have our own hierarchy with in ourselves and are quite competently running ourselves." Rubbing her temples she led the three of them to the front desk.
"Hello, what can I… do… for…" The witch at the front desk was smiling as she looked up from her magazine to see the three Vampires smiling down at her.
Their mother smiled widely and licked her canines. "We are here to sort out my daughter and my son. We have a limited time to do this in, so please let us go to the third floor.
The magazine dropped to the floor as the young witch ran to the back to get her superior.
"Mother isn't that harassment?" Maria smirked.
"No my dearest, it is simply persuasion of the highest degree." She smiled benevolently.
"Ah.. Mother?" Draco looked up at his 'mother'.
"Yes Draco?"
"Is there a reason they seem far more frightened of you than they would normally be? I mean most mortals are frightened of us, but they seem even more so with you." Draco was hesitant; he had never been in a situation like this before. To be sure people were afraid of his Father for who he was, but when it came to his new Mother, people seemed petrified almost to stone.
She put an arm on her sons' shoulder, "My boy that is something you shall learn soon enough. One day they will all bow and scrape to you as well for you are my son. But now is not the time for a family lesson."
Draco began to pout at her, but the man had finally come out from the back. "Finally. What makes you think we have time to spend waiting for you?" He spat out, earning a small smile of approval from his mother. He was beginning to feel better about his situation with that one smile.
"My son is correct. We do only have a limited time to be here tonight. We need to be on our way as soon as possible." She curled her lips into a smirk that sent the man behind the desk to shaking in his shoes.
"My humble apologies my Lady, my assistant is new. You of course may go straight up; they are waiting for you at this moment."
"They had better be. We have not yet fed. And the hours grow small." Maria quickly ran her tongue over her canines, her eyes flashing brightly.
The man turned paler.
Slightly inclining her head in a manner of dismissal, their mother turned and with skirts flowing made her way to the third floor, followed closely by Draco and Maria.
When they reached the Department for Magical Creatures, the three Vampires were escorted to a separate room that was filled with lavish chairs and paintings. Draco followed his mother in choosing a chair and gracefully sitting down all the while looking intently at the nervous young magistrate of sorts in front of them.
Draco smirked, he could smell the fear rolling off this man, off of all the people in the building actually. Internally he was quite surprised about that, he however didn't show it. Using the Malfoy mask that he'd worn for his whole life, Draco began to sort through his new power of smells.
The most prominent was fear. It came off of every mortal in the building. Underneath that was fascination with the three of them. He found that some people were even ignoring their presence, or at least attempting to by busying themselves with work. He started to probe deeper into it when a hand touched his face.
"Draconis love. Now is not the time for experimentation. We shall discuss that tomorrow. We simply need you to sign this and then our business with the Mortals is completed." His mother whispered as she looked into his eyes with something akin to affection burning through her gold-amber eyes. Draco realized he had 'zoned out' the entire meeting.
"Yes Mother." he leaned forward, somehow instinctively knowing that his Mother would never have him sign anything that was horrible and signed it after briefly skimming it.
All the document said was that when he finished his training with his mother, he was required to come back and tell them that so he could collect what ever inheritance that was left to him, and that anytime he procured a 'son' or 'daughter' they too were to come to the Ministry and sign the same document.
"My Lady, we are finished now. We thank you for your patience with the situation and hope that…"
"That what? I'll come back? No you don't. You needn't worry, I highly doubt any of you will need see me ever again in your life time." She cut him off and stood up elegantly. "We'll leave now." She grabbed Draco's arm. "Maria, please return to the house, before sunrise, we have several things to discuss. You'll stay the night at the house, and we'll talk tomorrow sunset."
"Yes Mother." Maria bowed her head, before she faded out of the room.
"Now Draco, I think we should go back and set up your room at the house and talk for while don't' you?" She smiled at her new son and gave a cursory nod to the Ministry officials before she too faded out.
The world became clear once more and Draco looked around at his new home.
It was elegant.
That is all that could be said about it.
"Mistress! You've returned with a new son!" A portly woman came into the main hall and busied herself by making sure that they had no garment for her to relieve them of.
"Yes Doro. Please see to it that the…"
"Yes yes of course my Lady. I'll have my girls get to it." Doro snapped her fingers and smiled as four girls came to her.
"The Lady wishes for her new son to have the Mid East room. So get to cleaning it for him. The new Master is not to sleep on those sheets."
His mother laughed. "Thank you Doro, you always know what I need."
"You'd think I would after all these years. I'll have wine sent to the library at once, perhaps a pop for the young Master?" Doro raised her eyebrow.
Draco was confused. A pop?
"Yes I think a pop would be fine for him right now. I'll have a glass of the 1890 San Cria Merlot." She ran a hand through her hair and began to walk towards the library. "Come Draco."
Draco hurried after her. When they reached the library his mother sat down on one of the long couches and gestured for him to sit with her. He did so. They sat in silence until Doro came with the wine and pop.
He finally understood what she had meant by pop. He was sucking on a blood pop, and liking it. He supposed it was to get him used to the idea of drinking blood.
His mother smiled at him. "I suppose we should start from the beginning. I don't believe Severus told you who exactly I was did he?"
"No Mother. He didn't. I wasn't given much of a choice in the matter." Draco gave his mother a look that clearly stated he would have liked to have a say.
"It was me or death Draco. I'm sure you'll learn to live with it." She giggled at her own little half pun. "Now to the matter of my name. I am…"
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry, I couldn't help it. I'll say her name next time I swear! I'll tell you the, the pronouns are getting to me, so her name is gonna appear finally. I have issues with doing that have you noticed :D anyway. I think that's it…
Orion: continues dancing someone likes meeeeeeeeeeee!
rubbs temple owww. Orion I have enough headaches from Brit Lit and Japanese that I don't need to deal with your hyper ness. Please calm down if only for me?
Orion: sorry Miss Liss. I'll stop now
Draco: Thank you. I was getting a headache.
Harry: rubs Draco's back I'm sorry sweetie kisses his temple
Draco: purrs
coughs I think we'll leave them at that, and I'm off to study again sigh