Chapter 2 – Meet the Family
As one of the large doors creaked open slowly, Lex took a reassuring breath and prepared herself for the worst.
Only to find that it was a simple butler answering the door. Under her breath, she thanked the Gods in gaelic, the native tongue of her deceased father, for giving her the extra time to get her mind back in order. Her mother's revelation had certainly thrown her off and no doubt there was more to come.
They were led through several dark corridors full of landscapes and portraits, the subjects platinum blonde hair looking surprisingly familiar to Lex, and were shown into the drawing room where the 'Mistress and her family' would join them soon.
Once the butler had left her mother pushed her into a chair and said very quickly in what seemed like one long breath, "Don't fly off the handle at me but you're about to meet Narcissa, Lucius and Drace Malfoy. Please, please don't kill me and I promise I'll explain everything to you later, ok? Good." At that very moment said family entered one after the other.
"Beth darling, how lovely to see you! It's been far too long since your last visit." was the warm welcome accompanied by a familial embrace from the slim platinum blonde. 'This can't be my aunt,' thought Lex, 'she's the complete frickin' opposite to my mother! Blonde and black haired women are not born from the same parents.'
Her mind racing at a hundred miles an hour Lex didn't notice the change in introductions to include herself until her mother swiftly tugged her to her feet slightly less gracefully than usual. A light blush dappled her cheeks and she embraced with her 'new' aunt. Catching Draco's smirk she stuck her tongue out at him over Narcissa's shoulder, mentally sniggering at his slightly appalled look at risking something so childish in such adult company.
After some idle chitchat between the reunited sisters, Elizabeth finally turned to Lex to offer her the long awaited explaination. Turns out that her mother had gone to Hogwart's and was Narcissa's junior by two years. Her father, Cameron, had been in Narcissa's year at school and had been a Ravenclaw, her mother a Slytherin. 'Not a bad match considering what was happening at that time' thought Lex. Elizabeth and Cameron had married not long after her graduation and little Lex was conceived on the night of their wedding. The next event in the timeline was the bit that worried Lex the most, her father's death. By the sounds of it whatever her mother had told her was a cover up and the truth was about to be revealed.
"Lex, honey, you're father was killed while working, but not in the kind of shootout with guns." A small sigh escaped from Elizabeth before she continued. "You're father was on a renaissance mission for Voldemort but the information they had been fed had been part of a set up and he was ambushed not long after he arrived. Members of the Order of the Phoenix simultaneously attacked him and the particular combination of hexes and curses eventually killed him."
At that point Lex vaguely remember her mother dabbing her eyes with a hankerchief and taking a few minutes to gather herself. Hearing the news of how her father really died had taken it's toll on Lex's mind and she chose then to up and run out of the room. On and on she ran through the dimly lit corridors; Left, right, right, left, right. Eventually she stumbled to a stop and slumped down the nearest wall, pulling her knees up to her chest and sobbing quietly.
'How could they do that? All this time I've been reading about how god damned brilliant the Order is from a Muggle book of all things and now I find out that they are responsible for my father's death, my mother's a witch and related to the Black's and the Malfoy's and to top it off no doubt I'm a witch too! Man, is life a bitch sometimes.'
Not five minutes later a set of footsteps sedately made their way towards Lex's resting place. Looking up she was met with Draco's grey eyes and a derisive smirk plastered across his other wise angelic features.
"I supposed you've been sent to take me back to here the rest of my twisted life?" was Lex's tired greeting.
"You could put it like that. Running out in the middle of you're life story wasn't exactly the smartest thing to do now was it?" was the snarky reply.
With a huff, she stood up and followed him back to the drawing room, grumbling in gaelic all the way about cousins with sticks up their arses.
The following hour involved indepth conversations about a block that her mother had put on her magic to prevent her precious baby, cue mental eye roll, from being discovered by Dumbledore and his posse and how exactly they were going to remove it and integrate her into Hogwarts etc. From Lex's point of view, a very boring hour through which she barely kept awake, only managing to with the ocassional kick from Draco to keep her in the land of the living.
She didn't remember how she got to bed that night, or how she ended up in a pair of what looked like guys boxers and a t-shirt, but Lex was extremely appreciative of the long lie. Rolling out of bed and heading straight for the bathroom her normal morning routine began. First was a nice hot shower, followed by a full body moisturise and then the most difficult task of her morning routine. Taming her hair! duh duh duuuuh! Today Lex decided on smooth curls since she was without straighteners. While she was drying her hair, head between her legs to give her hair more volume, everything began to sink in. 'Holy Mother of Jesus! I'm a bloody witch! As in the wand waving Harry Potter style. And so is my mum and dad. And I'm also related to the Malfoys; possibly the most evil family in the whole frickin' book! Woohoo!' In the middle of her revelations, she had found the time to leap onto the bed, hairdryer in hand, and start bouning around and shouting with glee. Unbeknown to Lex, Draco and knocked lightly on the door then peered in to see what the ruckus was, catching her only in a small towel jumping around like an eejit.
He smirked and laughed catching Lex's attention. Squealing slightly in surprised she jumped off the bed and checked the towel was still cover all the necessary bits before scolding Draco.
"Don't you know how to knock , you little pervert?"
"Of course I do," he replied, "I can't help it if you're so deaf you can't hear it."
Lex harrumphed and shoved him out the door, slamming it in his face. Despite that, she could still hear him chuckling as he walked away. Infuriated she dressed quickly in the only clothes in the cupboard, some basic underwear ("No support in this damn bra whatsoever" she grumbled), a short denim skirt, a forest green t-shirt to match her eyes and a pair of ballet pumps in the same green. After tying the ribbons around her ankles properly she skipped out the door and tried to find her way to breakfast using her nose.
Sorry there isn't much going on yet but the next chapter includes: Blaise, magic and Diagon Alley!