"Blaise, get Ron out of here! Now dammit!" Draco yelled as he ducked the Cruciatus curse that his father had sent towards him.
"But, what about you mate?" Blaise yelled back. Draco smirked and shook his head. "Are you insane? Elian will kill you if you stay!"
"Not if I kill him first." Lucius said calmly as he lowered his wand and motioned for the few Death Eaters with him to do the same. "You turned out to be such a disappointment, Draco. You had so much potential before you met that bloody girl!"
Blaise looked at Lucius then at his own father standing behind him. 'Is this what Drake and I would have become? These pathetic, power hungry fools?' Blaise thought as he glanced at Draco, who was thinking the same thing.
"Father, I would rather you kill me now, thinking that I am a disappointment… then if I had died in the war, fighting on the wrong side." Draco stated. Lucius' calm demeanor change instantly.
"You dare to question everything you were raised to believe in?" He asked, his voice shaking and his face a violent red. Draco nodded in agreement.
"Oh, come on!" Blaise exclaimed. Lucius, Draco and Blaise's father Morgan looked at him in surprise. "Give us a break! We chose what we thought was right for us, not what you wanted for us. We are not your clones, Lucius, Father, and we don't want to be."
Morgan and Lucius looked instantly furious. "What are you saying, Blaise? That I have wasted years of my life training you to become something you never wanted to become?" Morgan asked his son, his anger evident in his voice. Blaise nodded and glanced over at Draco.
"And you, Draco?" Lucius asked surprisingly calm.
"Yes." was Draco's answer. Lucius nodded and turned.
"Kill them." He said cruelly. The eight men jumped in surprise when Elian instantly appeared before them.
"Whoa. What the bloody hell have you done to my house!" she yelled looking around at the broken furniture, mirrors and splintered walls. "Well?" she looked at Lucius suspiciously.
"We tried to kill them!" Yelled one of the Death Eaters, who Elian instantly recognized as Vincent Crabbe. "Then you had to come back here and ruin it all!" Crabbe continued to rant.
"Crabbe. I should have known." Draco and Blaise said simultaneously. "Where's your boyfriend Goyle?" they asked, glancing at one another.
Crabbe growled and moved towards them. "Gregory was my best friend, not my boyfriend! Your precious Potter killed him two and a half years ago!" He yelled, shaking the house slightly.
"And what did he do to deserve to be killed by my brother?" Elian asked raising her eyebrows. Crabbe moved quickly in front of her and grabbed her by the throat, starting to choke her.
"I dare you to say that again!" Elian smirked slightly.
"What did he do to deserve it? Huh?" she choked out. Crabbe tightened his hands around her throat, she gasped sharply. Draco tried to run to her but was held back by Morgan and Lucius.
"Let me go!" Draco yelled, fighting against the arms that restrained him. "He's going to kill her! NOW LET ME GO!" Crabbe dropped Elian's limp body onto the hardwood floor.
"Elian!" Blaise and Ron yelled. Crabbe started chuckling evilly, soon joined by Lucius, Morgan and the two other masked Death Eaters. Draco broke from his father's and Morgan's arms and ran to his wife's side.
When he reached her, she was still breathing, but very shallowly. Tears began to sting his eyes as he lifted her into his arms. "Ron, Blaise, take her to Harry and Ginny's. I have to attend to some business." Blaise and Ron nodded, then Ron took Elian in his arms and the two of them appearated.
"Let's finish this, Father." Draco said as he took his dueling stance and glared at Lucius. Morgan looked shocked and glanced at Lucius, who was now taking his dueling stance as well.
Hi! I know this is a REALLY short chapter and I'm sorry! Sorry about the cliffy too! Heh! Had to do something... people might lose interest! Anyway, again really sorry this is such a short chapter! I promise to try and make the next one a long one!
Love,
Sarah