The noise of Lupin making tea awoke Draco gradually from his disturbed sleep. The little boy sat up slowly, rubbing his eyes with balled fists, the memories of the previous night washing unpleasantly through him, reminding Draco that it had really happened and that it wasn't a dream…
Lupin looked around as he heard a small whimper coming from the direction of the kitchen table. He had seen Draco when he had come down a few minutes ago, curled up in his chair, crying in his sleep, but he hadn't woken him. Lupin was sure Draco would tell him what was wrong in his own time.
Best not to push these kinds of things.
Now, Remus went over and sat down by the sleepy child, putting a small mug of tea by him, which Draco accepted silently.
"You okay?" The were-wolf enquired gently. Draco looked up at him, hesitated, then gave a small nod,
"Yeah. I just…couldn't sleep, 's all. So I came down here." He sniffed and quickly lowered his eyes so that Lupin wouldn't see the tears welling up unwillingly in his eyes,
"What's that mark on your face? That wasn't there yesterday, how did you get it?" Draco frowned, what mark? His father hadn't hit him, so why should there be a bruise?
"I don't know." He answered truthfully, "I didn't know there was one." Remus handed him a spoon, into which Draco looked, to see what he was talking about.
Sure enough, an unpleasant purple bruise had formed on his cheek, blatantly obvious against the paleness of Draco's skin.
The boy blanched slightly at the sight. Visions of the serpent- cane being pressed to his face surfaced in his head, along with the imprint of the ring.. Then his father's words- 'I promise you, you'll regret it if you tell,' Draco gulped,
"Oh…I-I slipped an'…hit my head. It-it must've been from that." Lupin gave him a look that said, very clearly- 'I don't believe you, but I accept that you don't want me to know, so that's fine with me.' The were-wolf nodded understandingly,
"Okay, it must've been a nasty fall to make such a horrible mark," Draco flushed and self-consciously sipped at his tea, "Do you want me to get rid of it for you?" The boy looked up, a sudden spark of hope in his otherwise dull eyes,
"Really, would you? Please!"
"Sure." Remus drew his wand and pointed it at Draco's face, a thin jet of orange light shot out the end of it and hit the bruise, which instantly began to fade visibly.
"Thankyou." Draco whispered, relieved that he wouldn't have to have the others giving him peculiar looks and asking him 'How he did it'. Lupin smiled kindly at him,
"That's okay. It must've hurt when you did it. Why didn't you shout for someone?" Draco looked at him suspiciously, it was almost like he knew…but he couldn't! Could he/
"I- I didn't want to worry anyone. It didn't hurt that bad anyway. Besides, I've had worse." He added for bravery. Remus laughed,
"I'm sure you have. But seriously, Draco," He leant over to the boy and said in his ear, "If he turns up again, yell for someone." Draco gaped at him, but before he could answer, Lupin stood up, "I'm going to wake Tonks up." He told him and left the room, giving Draco a friendly wink as he went.
Draco sat there in a stunned silence for a few minutes, one word repeating itself throughout his brain- Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead.
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A/N: Heya! Sorry bout not putting the translations in last chapter :) Thought I'd leave you to work it lout Lol!
La mauvaise conduite entraîne la discipline, La discipline entraîne la peur. La peur entraîne le respect, donc la peur est la respect.
Misbehaviour leads to discipline, discipline leads to fear, fear leads to respect. Therefore, fear is respect.
I heard it somewhere before and it kinda stuck in my brain, it just seemed appropriate for this chapter… oh and Bellatrix told him how to get in, cos She's a Black right? So I thought she must've gone there some time, so she must know how to get in so… meh!
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