Lucius scolded Azadeh all the way home, eventually she tuned him out because she was tired of hearing about it. "ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!" Lucius snapped, he was worried about her. She could have been hurt and when you pay as much as he did for something, you did not care to lose it.
"Yes, I get it!" she snapped back, he only growled, threatening to punish her, she glared back and then looked outside the window.
When they got home he sat her down, "Azadeh, tonight there is to be a party and you are to dress accordingly, a dress will be waiting for you. I will expect good manners and do not be rude to my guests. However, if any other man DARES get a little too close...please tell me." She nodded. "Good, now go upstairs and get some rest please, Mingle will wake you when it's time to get ready."
Azadeh went upstairs, she actually was tired and as promised, there was a corset style gown, made of an irredescent purple and black material and flats...it was so pretty. She kicked off her shoes and laid down, falling asleep instantly. It felt like she just shut her eyes when she heard Mingle wake her up, "miss? Miss, it's time to get ready?"
"Oh, okay..I'm up," Azadeh went and brushed her teeth, then started to dress, when she was finished, she looked in the bathroom mirror. "OH. WOW." The corset dress was doing it's job, she didn't think they could be that round or...that high. She tried bringing her shoulders foward to make them look slightly smaller but it wasn't working. "Okay...makeup...makeup...surely he bought makeup."
"Ahem." Something was making a noise, Azadeh turned around. "AHEM!" No one was there. "HELLO, right in front of you!" It was the mirror, she nearly had a heart attack. She forgot that most wizarding households had talking mirrors.
"Oh. I'm sorry..."
"I AM the one that will help you with your makeup and hair," the mirror chided.
"Were you here the whole time I was like, taking a bath?" Azadeh blushed.
"Oh PLEASE. You aren't the only one I've seen naked!"
Her jaw dropped, "You..I, what?"
"Oh drop it, I'm a mirror! Anyway, all you do is put your face in me and I do everything, your eyebrows...which by the way, do need to be trimmed, and makeup. Then, you turn around and I do your hair according to your dress. Alright, now just lean in..that's right.."
Azadeh could feel her face being touched, her eyebrows being plucked, her lips being caressed...and it was the wierdest feeling she'd ever experienced. After a few moments, it was time for her hair, she felt her head being pulled back and messed with...again, one of the wierdest feelings she'd ever had. But when the mirror was done, when Azadeh looked at herself, she couldn't believe how pretty she looked..."oh, I do look very pretty...thank you." Her makeup was light but exentuated all her features, making her look even mor exotic, then her hair was pinned back in curly tendrils which was just amazing considering her hair couldn't hold a curl to save her life, but nothing like magic.
"Well, it wasn't HARD, you don't exactly need much. Now, have a good time."
"Okay. Thank you." Azadeh left feeling sort of pretty, she was scared though. She'd never been to a party like this, didn't know what things to talk about or how to act, much less how to do any dances. Would she be forced to just stand there and look like a pretty doll...the pretty doll that Lucius bought? All these thoughts ran through her head as she desended the staircase and finally on the floor, guests were starting to arrive and being greeted by Draco, who stopped in mid-sentence when he saw her, his jaw dropped...and so did the man's who was being greeted.
Draco shook himself out of it when she was asking him something but he wasn't quite hearing it, "I'm sorry, what?"
"I said, do I look alright?"
"Yes...yes, very much," he was smirking like an idiot. "My father wants you to meet him in his den for a...minute."
"Ok," she walked off to Lucius's den where he was waiting, still looking at a paper when she knocked, which he nearly dropped when he saw her. "Um, do I look alright?" Lucius tried to say something and he finally cleared his throat.
"Yes. You look very nice...but you ARE missing something."
"What? I don't think anything else came with the dress," Azadeh looked around it.
Lucius took out a small jewelry box and pulled out a beautiful amethyst necklace and put it around her neck. "I bought that for you when you were alseep."
"I...th..thank you, that was very kind of you," she didn't know what to make of it. At one point, he could be extremely cruel, he was a murderer, but at the same time, he could be very kind...it was like being with a schitzophrenic.
Soon, he was touching her face and brought it up to his, Lucius bent down and captured her lips and it was clear...she was inexperienced in that area as well. He took her in his arms and made it deeper, more passionate. Azadeh's mind was reeling...she didn't know how to react to this, this was her capture...her kidnapper, still, he kissed very nice, yet... She tried to pull away but he actually growled and held her tighter. Opening her eyes, his was staring down at her, narrowing...a warning not to do that again, they closed again and this time, her mouth was being forced open with his tongue.
Azadeh was relieved to hear someone knocking on the den door, while Lucius growled again, holding Azadeh greedily to him, "WHAT is it!"
"YOUR GUESTS are here?" Draco said snidely.
Lucius cocked his eyebrow, "Fine, we will be there in a minute." Draco turned heel and left, scowling. Perhaps it was a good thing his son interrupted, a few moments longer and he would have locked the den door, then transfigured the couch into a bed. He noticed Azadeh was flustered and he finally let her go, her makeup was still normal and looked beautiful...like he hadn't touched her at all. "We'd better go," he purred. She nodded her head and slid out from him, straightening her dress a bit and took his arm.
Lucius greeted his guests and introduced her as 'his companion'. All the men kissed her hand, she smiled. 'Ok, smiling like a ninny...check,' she thought. Until a man came, he had a mask, a half mask that went around his nose and across his cheeks, clearly made for his face, with the Death Eater's symbol in the middle of the forehead. He took her hand and held it far too long and kissed it far too long for Lucius's taste. "It's good to see you again," it was HIM, 'the Chosen'... "Hopefully, Lucius will allow me to dance with you?"
"Certainly," Lucius growled.
The party was in full swing, but Lucius kept a close eye on Azadeh, who was drawing a great deal of attention and he could tell she wasn't used to it. Still, she charmed everyone, to the women who had the bracelets...the pure-breds wouldn't speak to her, to the men, who kept bringing her drinks, which Lucius was careful to watch as well. But then his alarm was raised when HE came up to Azadeh, took the drink out of her hand, gave it to someone to hold and led her to dance.
"I finally get to dance with you," he said. He felt so familiar but Azadeh said nothing. Holding her close, almost hugging her, whispering in her ear. "I'm going to find a way to steal you from Lucius, Azadeh. I know you...from somewhere, and I'm going to find out. But for now, just know I'm going to take you away from him...you'll belong to me. It was my own fault, not saving enough...spending it on frivolous things, meaningless women...you are the only woman I want in my house...permanently. And what I want. I get." He then pulled her in front of a crowd where Lucius couldn't see and started kissing her neck, no one was paying attention. He moved to her lips and devoured them, casting a 'obscure charm', one that made what he was doing, unnoticeable so he wouldn't be interrupted. Azadeh tried to pull away but he wouldn't let her and growled, "you're not getting away."
Finally, she managed to pull away and nearly ran out of the room. His animal instincts were in full swing and he was about to chase after her when Lucius stepped in front of him, "GOING somewhere?"
"I just wanted to see what upset Azadeh."
"I WILL see what has upset Azadeh, you just enjoy the party...PLENTY of pretty young ladies here," Lucius growled. He smiled then turned, 'the only pretty young lady I'm interested in, is the one that left the room'
The party was almost over with anyway, people trickling out now. She went upstairs and quickly got undressed, she felt sexually harrassed...by TWO men none the less, Draco was the only one that was decent to her. Then she took off her makeup and undid her hair, brushing it through...feeling almost violated. Azadeh gently placed the necklace she was given in a nice little jewelry box, but soon a knock came to the door and then Lucius stepped through.
He wasn't happy that she had changed so quickly, the guests were still leaving and some had asked where she'd gone. But, before he could say anything. "I'm sorry I left early, I just wan't feeling well, I guess I was overwhelmed by all the energy."
"It was more than that...," Lucius stated. "He came after you..WHAT happened?"
"I told you, I was just overwhelmed with energy and I guess it bothered him that I left so quickly," she stated back. 'Why am I protecting him...?' she thought.
"Indeed," She was lying, but he left it. "Well, I am going with some friends to attend to business. Everyone has left so you are free to roam around in your night clothes, DON'T open the door for anyone without Draco present, please." Azadeh nodded and Lucius left, but not before kissing her on the forehead. She went downstairs to play the piano, paying no mind to the light in the den, assuming either he'd left it on or Draco was in there reading.
But everyone had NOT left. Draco and 'the Chosen' were having a drink together. He had a plan and he knew Draco well, couldn't hold his liquor...it was then they heard the piano.
"Uh, listen to her...doesn't she play beautifully? When I first saw her...I thought, maybe my father bought her for me...no, that would be TOO kind. Didn't even TELL me that someone like her was up for auction, I may not be a Death Eater, but I am a SON of one."
"Here, here!" he said, she was in the next room...if he could get this idiot to pass out...
"Did you see how she looked, my GOD! He's fourty-seven, he needs to find someone his own age and leave girls like her to young bucks like us, who won't leave her widowed at fifty or something. Speaking of which, did you know her kind practically NEVER age, when they get to be my father's age, they look like they're twenty...I thought she was fifteen when he brought her home! Still...maybe I'll get lucky and he'll let me marry her," finally Draco was dozing off.
Azadeh paid no mind, but when she heard the door open and looked up, there he stood. She immediately stood up, "oh, I'm sorry...I thought everyone had left, I'll be going." He stood in her way. "Please excuse me."
"We need to talk."
"I think you said everything you wanted to say to me, please, Lucius will be home soon."
He put his arms around her, "do you not feel a closeness to me as I do you, I know you feel it...why do you think I bid on you? I've never bidded on a woman. We have concubines, you know...we don't have to, still, when I saw your picture...I knew."
"Knew?"
"You were the one for me."
"Funny, Lucius feels the same way," Azadeh said nervously.
"No, you're a possession, a pretty thing he's found to recapture his youth..."
"Look, I need to go," she tried to leave but he grabbed her from behind, placing his one hand around her neck and tilting it so he could kiss it, and the other around her waist, trapping her arms.
"I warn you, I am much more deadly than Lucius."
"Please, don't be stupid...he'll be home soon, you wouldn't be that stupid?"
"Yes, I'm afraid he would," a voice drawled. It was Lucius. "LET her go, because if you don't...I can assure you I can draw faster than you, and if we lose our wands, I can assure you, I will break your neck before you blink..." He only smiled and let her go, Lucius grabbed her hand and put her behind him, "Now, GET OUT!" He left. Lucius turned his attention to Azadeh.
"What was HE doing here! Where is my SON?"
"I guess the den, but I didn't know anyone else was here..."
"GET to your room!" Azadeh left immediately.
Draco felt someone grab him by the scruff of his neck and realized it was his father, "what?"
"WHAT! Do you even REALIZE what happened. YOU LEFT HER ALONE WITH ANOTHER MAN...WITH HIM! WHICH he decided to TAKE ADAVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION! YOU'RE LUCKY HE DIDN'T RAPE HER!" Lucius dragged Draco up the stairs, not caring if he couldn't stand up, and he didn't care when he nearly rammed his head into the bedroom door. He threw Draco on his bed..."SLEEP IT OFF!" and the door slammed. Draco started to tear slightly...he hadn't realized he was being played and he should have known better.
She heard the commotion, wondering if she should pretend like she was sleeping...doubting that would work anyway. Soon, the footsteps came to her room and the door swung open, and Azadeh jumped. "WHY DIDN'T YOU FIGHT BACK!" She tried to answer but he cut her off. "YOU COULD HAVE BEEN HARMED, he's very PERSUASIVE! AND HE'LL DO ANYTHING TO GET WHAT HE WANTS! Aren't you going to say anything!"
"I don't know...are you done yelling at me?" Lucius stopped for a moment. "You're always so angry, Lucius...why?"
"Because that's the way I AM!"
Azadeh got off her bed and came up to him, looking up, she took her hand and traced his brow, "you need to relax, it's not good for you to be angry all the time." She focused on his mind, causing him to relax, Lucius felt this wave of euphoria sweep over him, his body started to go limp, but then he jerked himself out of it and grabbed her hand.
"What are you doing to me?" he hissed.
"Nothing, I'm just trying to relax you..it's a meditation." Lucius noticed they were in HER room. In one movement, he threw her over his shoulder and took her to his room instead. "Wait, I said I wasn't trying to hurt you! Where are you taking me!"
He brought her to his room and put her down, "you may go ahead with the meditation, but there are protective charms all over this room...be leary, if you go too far." Azadeh noticed how everything was black, the sheets, chairs and desk.
"No. You wouldn't trust me, would you? But I guess in your line of work, one doesn't really have that option." Lucius quirked his eyebrow. Again she did the meditation and as she worked, his hands went around her waist and held her close. The charms only worked if he felt threatened, but he didn't, not at this point. Soon, he was half asleep and she led him to his side of the bed, removing his shirt, blushing when she noticed his chisled body. Quickly she got his night shirt on, but left his pants alone and laid him down.
Azadeh then went to let herself out...but the door was locked, "DAMMIT." So, she went to the other side of the bed and laid there on top of the covers and fell asleep.
The next morning Lucius woke up fully rested and relaxed, something he hadn't felt in a while. He felt movement by him and there she was, curled up in a ball, Azadeh, who was shivering because she was laying on top of the covers. When he looked down he noticed he had his night shirt on but his dress pants weren't off, he grinned, she was afraid to do the pants. Lucius scooted over and put his arms around her, she moved over to the warmth and turned over, nuzzling his neck which was driving him crazy. He wanted to be careful...being a morning man and her in his bed, was getting tempting.
Azadeh blinked open her eyes and found she was staring into the a black silk cladded chest, looked up and tried to jolt out of Lucius's arms, but he didn't let her. "Good...good morning," she said nervously.
"Good morning," he purred. "Azadeh, why do I still have my dress pants on but not my shirt?"
"I..well, I just...you're bigger than me and I had a hard time...doing that, plus..just I've never...er, removed a man's pants before...don't know you that well?"
"And the reason why you're in my bedroom?" he knew why, but this was fun.
"Well, I tried to get out..but the doors wouldn't let me out."
"No, they wouldn't, protective charms...remember?"
"Oh. Right," she looked up at him and he looked down at her. Lucius slightly caressed her lips with his, letting her know he wanted to kiss. Azadeh let him, and he was like a hungry man that hadn't eaten in days, devoring her lips and neck. He wanted to give her more time to get used to him, but why, he bought her, why would he...others didn't? No, she was special, that's why...she made him feel things he'd never had.
Azadeh was enjoying this, she was in a word 'making out' with a very handsome man, still her body wanted more...she understood what it was, but she was also very frightened. Lucius was responding and started to shift his body on top of hers, he was getting lost in his wants, but sensed she was becoming frightened and almost locked his hold so she couldn't get away. Suddenly, the alarm went off and Lucius threw it against the wall, growling. He HAD to be at work. Azadeh was slightly grateful, she wasn't ready...and he frightened her.
FInally she was let go, only for him to chuckle at her when she practically ran out of the room.