Soo I havent written much on this in awhile but I thought I would post the rest that I did have laying around on my hard drive.
"He actually just wanted me to tell you he would be arriving here shortly." Draco walked further into the house and plopped down on the love seat.
"Did you say your name was Malfoy?"
"S'right." Draco answered. "My mother and your mother are sisters…."
"Which makes us cousins…" Danissa crossed her arms. "Thanks so much for offering to help me when I was orphaned…I really appreciated that."
"I'm sure father wanted to keep as much distance from you as possible….after all your parents were convicted of being Death Eaters."
"I suppose they didn't have the connections your father had." she grimaced. "Or perhaps that's why my parents were caught….some one had to rat them out."
"Are you calling my father a traitor to the family?" Draco was on his feet.
"Of course not." Danissa faked innocence. "I'm only saying I wouldn't put it past him."
"Why you little …"
"Expelliarmus." Draco was going for his wand, but Snape had shot it out of his hand before he even had it fully up.
"Professor." Draco said, with a caught-in-the-act look.
"I asked you here to deliver a message, Draco, not to start a duel." Snape put his wand away, and Draco picked his up off the floor. "Wait outside."
"Yes, Professor." Draco pushed his way out of the room, and Snape advanced into the room.
"You're here to tell me you've resigned from Hogwarts and are willing to come with me to find the dark lord...am I right?"
"I'm here to ask you once more to abandon this quest." Snape drew himself up taller. His voice trailed off waiting for her to say something, when she didn't he started again.. "…but since you seem determined to carry on…I have taken the liberty of giving your name and address to someone. I think he may be able to help you."
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Trissy was in her spot under the kitchen sink. She held her knees close to her and shook her head as though not wanting to listen to them talking in the next room. She had remembered that man from back before the misses and the master went to Azkaban Trissy stuck out her tongue and bit down on it hard. It was her Mistress's guest she was thinking bad things about…she should have to punish herself.
"Trissy!" Danissa yelled after Snape had left. Trissy hurried to her and bowed before her.
"Yes, Miss?" Trissy asked, once she had scampered in from the kitchen.
"Prepare a meal. I am expecting company for supper."
"No Miss…" Trissy began pleading. "No more of these awful people!"
"No?" Danissa's eyes narrowed. "Did I just hear you disobey me?"
"Miss! Miss!" Trissy began shrieking, once she had realized what she had done. "So sorry, Miss!"
"Sorry just isn't going to cut it!" Danessa's eyes leveled. This had gone too far. What would this person think if her own house elf didn't obey her. "You're getting clothes."
If Danissa thought Trissy was shrieking before, the noise the house elf made at the mention of clothes was an all out screech.
"No!!" The house elf rolled on her back on the floor and began to pull manically at her own ears. "Trissy's family is serving Lestrange's for generations! Trissy will never disobey again! Trissy will never speak again! Just no clothes, Miss!"
Danissa watched the spectacle with mild amusement.
"Now, what should it be?" She wondered aloud. "Perhaps a cardigan? I'm sure it will be so very cold out on the street."
Trissy's wails grew louder. She crawled on hands and knees to her mistress and flung herself at her feet.
Danissa leaned down. "Perhaps, I could let you have one more chance, but I hear one more word of dissonance you will find yourself with a brand new scarf."
Trissy immediately deflated upon herself and began promising to be good and thanking her mistress, meagerly polishing her boots with her tears.
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Haley Dale was making her way up the darkened alley. Moody would be angry with her if he knew where she was headed-without backup. Snape had been right. She had let Black slip through her fingers at Hogwarts. This case was her own personal failure, and the only way she could salvage her reputation was to bring him back into custody.
At this moment all signs were pointing to Miss Lestrange.
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The knock at the door nearly caused Danissa to jump out of her skin. Was this him? The one who would help her?
She looked over the table. The house elf had made a decent spread at such short notice.
Danissa checked her appearance in the foyer's mirror before opening the door.
"Oh." she said once she noticed it was a woman. "May I help you?"
"Danissa Lestrange?" Haley asked.
"Yes?" Danissa answered, trying to remember if Snape had indeed said it was a man she was to expect.
"Haley Dale. Ministry Auror." Her arms were crossed. Danissa's lip barely curled, but Haley had noticed it.
"What business does the Ministry have at my door?" Danissa tried her best to sound innocent.
"I heard you visited Azkaban prison recently." Haley said as she walked past Danissa into her home. Neither of them noticing the rat who also ran in.
"Yes," Danissa seethed. She didn't have time for this. "I was visiting my mother."
"Your mother, the Deatheater?"
"That was the charge."
"Expecting company?" Dale asked as she noticed the fully made table.
"Yes, actually. So, if you wouldn't mind getting to the point of all this?"
"Sirius Black. Where is he?" Haley turned to face her.
"How should I know?" Danissa scoffed.
"You were at Azkaban days before his escape. Family ties run deep, Miss Lestrange."
"Do they, Miss Dale? I wouldn't know. I haven't had a family, since auror's like yourself swooped in and stole mine. Rest assured though, if I were to have helped anyone escape that little slice of hell, it would've been my mother and father, not Sirius Black. Now, I really must be getting back to my meal." Danissa motioned Haley back to the door.
"I'll be in touch." Haley said as she left. The only reply was the door slamming in her face.
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