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Chapter 7
Revelations

Something inside Ginny seemed to be melting away when she woke up again, after what seemed like endless hours of sleeping. She didn't know nor did she care what time it was. She was content to stay in her bed, safe arms protecting her. She sighed, she sort of liked this. Ginny tilted her head and stared at the sleeping form of Dracornis. She wondered what had made him like this, what had made him so madly fierce about himself what his story was. Those questions would wait though it wasn't the time, he didn't ask her why she cut, and she wouldn't ask him what was up with him. Some things were unspoken rules, this was one of them.

"Hi." Dracornis whispered as his eyes drifted lazily open. Ginny stared at him in shock, was she supposed to move now? Could she keep laying and not worry if she were lying wrong, or she was squishing him? "You can stay there…" Dracornis whispered seeing the question in Ginny's eyes. The red haired girl smiled.

"What changed?" Ginny ask, killing that so called unspoken rule that was once in place, that had now been shattered. Hey, could you blame the girl for being curious.

Dracornis stiffened slightly shifting his eyes to look away from the girl laying on him. How could he answer something that he could barely come to grasps with himself at times? "My... My father." He shook his head; he couldn't say what was expected of him. "My father… No my Mast... No... I ..." He stuttered not knowing what to say, what way was expected of him to say. "Mr. Malfoy did this to me." He settled on it seemed like a neutral answer. Though Ginny had probably figured that out already on her own.

"Oh…" She sighed staring at him hard. Was that the answer she had been looking for? "Why?"

"I don't know Ginny… I…" Dracornis took a deep breath this was hard to come out and say… but to gain trust you have to give a little to get a little. "I went home, at the end of last year thinking about what had happened to Diggory in the maze. He didn't do anything to deserve that… It changed what I felt about the Dark Lord. It made me question where my loyalties lied. I found.. that they didn't lie with the dark yet they didn't lie in the light side either. I'm my own. I fight for my own, I fight to stay alive when needed… and I'll fight for the people I hold dear to the very end. So I got home… father was angry, I don't know why. I was telling him about what had happened that Harry Potter had seen him at the meeting, when Diggory was killed. He was infuriated he lashed out at me. I was so shocked, that I didn't know what to do. The blows kept coming; they were non stop, before my father stopped. I'd never been hit before. I had never been beaten. I just ran to my room, maybe he wouldn't do it again. I was wrong. He came back when he was mad; he started blaming what was going wrong on me. He said that I should have stopped Potter from saying anything about him. That I went to the same school I should have been able to shut him up. But I couldn't, what was I supposed to do? With teachers every where there was nothing I could do.

Dracornis paused to take a breath; he glanced down at Ginny who was listening with rapt attention. "Days turned into weeks and still my father would come up to my room and beat me until I passed out. I was only there for him to beat on I began to think. What else was there? Everything that I had been brought up on was crumbling around me. All I could feel was pain; before it had a chance to heal more was brought. I didn't have a say in my life. Near the beginning of school, I told him that I was never going to be like him. He turned on me fast, I had been being beaten all summer, but none of that ever expected that he would turn his wand on his son. His only son, he put the crutatius curse on me. I don't know how long. But he held it there until my screams stopped and were mere whimpers of pain, showing him that he had won."

"Dracornis…" Ginny began but was over ridden by the blond haired boy who continued as if she had never spoken.

"By the time school started, the isolations and the beatings had there effect. I stayed away from everyone, I was scared, would they turn on me like my father had? Would they hurt me like he had? I let go of my Prince title, to become with everyone else. Not standing out not doing the best nothing mean or nasty, just letting things go. Letting me be me I guess. I had to... There was nothing left for me to be. Everything I knew had been shattered. Everything moved on no one cared about Draco Malfoy, no one noticed that he had fallen from the graces of everyone in Slytherin, who in turn did what his father had done to him…

Dracornis let out a chocked sob at the truth finally being said. Even at school he had been hurt by his fellow Slytherines. He was treated as their slave, he was nothing more to them. They were cold and heartless, he had been taught his lessons. He tried to continue keeping tears that he wanted to shed at bay.

"A couple of months ago, I was sent a letter by him, saying that I was expected home, and that I didn't have a choice. I left on the same day as everyone else and he beat me again. I came back two days ago. He had sent me back here after he beat my mother to death. While I was gone, he used her to vent his anger on, and finally killed her." The tears let loose as Dracornis told Ginny about his mothers death. "He sent me away because he would have killed me too."

Ginny was in shock. How could this be the same boy that she had met all that while ago… before he was different? She didn't know. "Dracornis… oh Dracornis." Was all that she could say as she rolled over and pulled the boy close to her, soaking up his pain. Letting her soothing thoughts drift to him. "He won't get you again, not as long as your at Hogwarts. Don't worry. We have plenty of time before summer vacation is here. Maybe by then we can do something else, find somewhere else that you can go. Don't worry okay? He can't hurt you as long as you are here. Don't worry…" Ginny said sternly, she wouldn't let him be hurt again. Yes he had been an ass, but he hadn't deserved having his entire world ripped away from him in a year almost no one deserved that punishment.