Daddy I Love You
Chapter 5
Summary: 6 years ago, Matt was brought into their lives. But she ran from their life and Draco was left to raise their baby all on his own. Now, she's regretting her decision, but when she spots them one day heading home from work, she freaks out. She had put so much room between them. No way could they be here. Not now, not when she was just returning to normal. Will this send her back to a time she wishes to forget? Will she try to fix her mistake? And if she does, will Draco let her? Or will she just keep running?
Its now Matt's first year at Hogwarts. The hat informs him that his mother was in Gryffindor and that he had met her before. Puzzled, will Matt just leave it all to fate or will he go in search of the mother that abandoned them so long ago? And here's Rae, the best teacher in Hogwarts. She's the go to girl for all teens in trouble at the school, be it male or female. Everyone recognizes something about her, but no one will believe what their hearts are telling them and their heads convince them otherwise. And Draco, what's going on in his head this whole time?
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the plot and characters that obviously don't come from the books.
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Previously:
"Not that, just never been in this wing before, so I've never had to find my way. . . wait a second, how did you know what house I used to be in?"
"Because every Malfoy to ever walk this planet was in that house. Never does change. Your sons in there isn't he?"
"Yeah, that would be why I'm looking for it"
"Its that way, turn a your first right then two lefts and you'll come to the old Charms classroom. You should know your way from there"
"Yeah thanks. Can I just ask you one more thing?"
"Sure, just make it quick" she sighed. All she wanted to do right then was go and lay down and go to bed.
"Could you explain to me what I ever did to you? I've never met you and yet you seem to be mad at me"
"Malfoy, I honestly don't feel like going into this with you right now. Think about it. Think really hard. What's the worst thing that ever happened to you? Then think about what really happened. Make some connections, connect all the dots. Then dig a little deeper. How much you went against what you said you would do and how much you've battled with it for all this time. Then you'll com across your answer. The obvious is only hidden when you aren't willing to look. Now, I want to go into my rooms and go to bed. I'll speak to you tomorrow"
"Yeah, ok thanks" Draco turned to leave, confused over what she had said. It fit, but he didn't know what to think. It was pretty obvious that there was no way she was going to just come out and tell him.
"Oh, and Malfoy" Rae shouted
He turned back, "Yeah?"
"You have second year potions with Gryf and Raven tomorrow right?"
"Yes. . ."
"Good luck" she grinned then walked into her rooms and the sound of the portrait slamming shut filled the corridor.
Draco watched the spot that she had disappeared from for several moments. There was something about her. Something that he couldn't place. He felt like he should know her from somewhere, she seemed so familiar. But the only person that he had ever known like that had been Hermione and no way was that girl her.
As sister maybe? No, that wasn't possible, Hermione was the only child in her family. There was no way that Rae was related to Hermione. Right?
Draco just shook his head and headed toward the Slytherin commons, following her directions. The whole way and all that night he was fighting an internal battle about whether or not Rae was who he thought, but in the end his logic and reason won. There was not a way on god's green earth that that was Hermione.
Matt looked up as he watched his father leave.
He loved his dad more then anything. He had always been there, but he always felt like his dad was hiding something. He knew what that something was, but he also knew that he shouldn't push his dad. He'd seen the elder Malfoy angry and it wasn't a pretty sight.
He remembered seeing his dad getting mad at some lady years and years ago. His dad didn't know that he had seen that exchange, and, if Matt had any control over it, Draco would never find out.
It had always bugged him though. Why had his dad been so angry with that lady? As far as Matt knew, his dad had never seen her before in his life. Well, not while Matt had been around anyway.
Matt turned back to his friends again and somehow. About 1 ½ hours later found himself in the corridor with them. They had decided to go exploring………after hours. After all, the castle must look different at night then it would during the day.
They explored every hall, every empty class, any empty rooms they found. They looked at every picture, ran into the Weasley's a couple of times, figured out where all the teachers classrooms are. Everything. Just as they were heading up to examine the Astronomy tower, their last stop before they headed back to the common room, they heard something. Assuming that it was Filch and his ugly cat again they ducked into the nearest empty classroom. One stood by the door, listening for the foot steps to disappear.
Finally, they were gone and they headed out the door Well, they thought they were gone.
"Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Loiger, Mr. Rukfed, Miss Rukfed and Miss Bensil. Should've know that it would be Slytherins out of the first night. Has been for three years now" Rae looked down at them, a smirk on her face. "Now, which of you plans to give me the excuse as to why your all out at this time of night this year. I don't think they get much better then the Weasley's excuses but you can try"
They all stood there starring at her, each one waiting for the another to step forward. Glaring at the others, Matt finally stepped forward.
"Fine, none of you will step forward, I'll do it. Miss. . ." he trailed off forgetting the teachers name.
"Call me Rae, Matt. Just Rae"
"Hey, how'd you know my name?" Matt was completely puzzled.
"I listen Matt. Now, please, continue with what you were saying"
"Well, Rae" he started, as he tried out the name on his tongue. It felt weird, but what could he do about it, "I would come up with some bold-faced lie. Something that we could tell you that you would never believe and get us in trouble or I could tell you the truth. I'm going to assume that your one of those people that would appreciate the truth over a lie. And my dad always taught me that its much better to tell the truth then to tell a lie and to own up to my mistakes unless there's a reason to tell a lie and not the truth" Matt stopped there, hoping that she wouldn't notice that he hadn't actually told her what they were doing.
"A Slytherin actually willing to tell the truth, I'm impressed. Now what do the others think, Would guys rather Matt continue and tell me the truth or would one of you like to take over for him and tell some idiotic lie? And, yes Matt, I did noticed that you didn't tell me what you were doing. Sorry, I'm a little quicker then a lot of the teachers around here. Try that again in like 20 years and it might work. Now, back to you guys, let Matt continue or have one of you lie?"
They all looked at each other and nodded. "Let Matt tell the truth" they chorused. Either way they would get in trouble so might as well do the right thing, this one time anyway.
"Matt, apparently its up to you. Tell me, and I can tell whether your lying your not"
"We wanted to see what the castle looked like. Simple really. We wanted to see, so we saw. Almost everything. We were on our way to the last spot, but somebody stopped us" Matt sneered at the teacher.
"Mister Malfoy, don't you dare sneer at me. I can see that your father taught you a few things that you never should've learned, but I guess in a family of Slytherins, there's a pretty slim chance of anything different happening" Rae's gaze bored into his. "Matt, jus so you know, your looks will never work on me"
Matt just stared at her, eyes wide, jaw dropped. He couldn't believe that nothing affected this lady. Not a sneer, not a glare, nothing. That had never happened to him before. Well, unless it was his father but that was understandable considering he had been the one to teach Matt all of this.
"Don't look so shocked Mister Malfoy. All five of you, bed, now. I catch around again and I will be forced to hand out detentions. And Mister Malfoy, don't worry. I wont tell Draco single thing, not yet anyway. I catch you again and I'll have no choice but to"
They stood there, all with confused looks on their faces. Did this mean she was letting them off? They weren't going to get in trouble? No, no, that couldn't be right.
Rae smirked at them. "You guys have exactly 10 seconds to turn around and get out of my sight before I do decide to hand out detentions"
They didn't need to be told a third time. All five of them quickly spun around and ran for their Common Room, not wishing to get in trouble on their first day back.
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Draco was doing one last loop around the corridors that Dumbledore had assigned him to check before going to bed. Nothing. He hadn't caught a single kid out tonight. Weird.
As he headed back to his rooms he saw another figure in the distance.
"Draco" Rae greeted.
"Rae" he answered back
"Find anyone tonight?" Rae asked casually.
"Oddly enough, no. Funny too, because I was warned that I would be handing out several detentions tonight. Actually I was kind of looking forward to that. What about you? How many did you find?"
"Well lets see, 3 Hufflepuffs, 2 Ravenclaws, 4 Gryffindors, 5 Slytherins. And all those were first years. And the of course all the Weasley's. They grow each year. It's starting to be insane. Luckily we don't get any new ones next year, but that means we get six the following year, plus the Potter twins. I don't know what it is about them, but the only one so far to have a single child is Ron and that was his first. His next 4 were two sets of twins though. I feel so sorry for those families sometimes. But they sure do love those kids. Even Potter's are treated like family"
"They do seem to keep growing don't they? But what can you do about it right? All you can do is pray that they aren't all in the same house. Now, about these Slytherins. . . "
"Yes, one of them was Matt" Rae cut him off. "You should be proud to know that. You should also be happy to know that he's detention free, they all are. Actually, they're the only ones that are detention free this year. First they weren't going to say anything, then Matt stepped forward and they let him tell the truth. I was quite impressed actually, a Malfoy telling the truth. Haven't seen that for years"
"I'm surprised that you've ever seen it at all. Before my son, few have seen it" Draco looked at her quizzically. Only one person had seen him be completely truthful. Hermione. And there was something about Rae that just screamed Hermione, but he still managed to convince himself that it wasn't possible.
"Remember Malfoy, I know more then you think" and with that said Rae continued her way to her room.
"Yes, you do Miss Zyran. You know much more then you let on" a quiet voice came from in the distance, "Welcome back Hermione"
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YAY!!! I'm Happy! 2 chapters done in two days. Ok, so its more like 2 pages. I was like completely done both except for the endings. CRD had a little bit of a crappy ending, but I think this has a KICK ASS ending. I love it anyway.
Any guesses on who the person is?? (for those of you who read Given Up all the way through, NO ITS NOT NEVILLE =p)
Major thanks for all the patience. And people, feel free to email me at any point and time if your getting fed up with waiting! Emails and reviews like that make me work harder faster!
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'til next time (which should be soon!)
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