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Chapter 5:

The Date

The summer had gone by relatively smoothly for the antsy teenagers, with only the small interruption of the idiot recruit the days had almost flown by and it was now the last week of July. The house was bustling with busy witches and wizards, the house elves were about to burst with how much they had to prepare and Aurora was in a tizzy about everything that had to be done to prepare the manor for her party.

"The cake has to be made, the china must be cleaned, the ballroom must be decorated, father needs to get his tux cleaned (if he's even in town this time)" she muttered to herself "and I still need a dress… AND a date! How am I going to finish all of this in two days?" she whined to Narcissa as they sat down to breakfast. The women had been organizing her party for almost a month now and both knew that they were behind schedule on just about everything. Not to mention the seamstress that was supposed to make Aurora's dress had stupidly mentioned she would only work for the highest class of purebloods. She was promptly thrown out of the manor and warned never to return. No pureblood or muggleborn was better than any other in Aurora's eyes; they were all gifted in their own ways. She was impossible to replace and now Aurora was on the verge of tears about how her party was going to be ruined.

"You don't honestly expect that you will be doing any of this yourself do you?" Narcissa asked sweetly. Upon seeing the heartbroken look on the young woman's face she laughed slightly. "You can't be serious. You are Aurora, daughter of our teacher, diamond of our hearts, you are our princess! The only thing you must do for your party is show up and look beautiful, and we all know how well you can do that." She said knowing it would brighten the girl's mood. "Besides I thought you and Draco were going to your party together. I don't think you've had a date other than Draco since you were 2, and that was only because you didn't want your stuffed dragon Ralph to feel bad about not being invited."

Aurora smiled as she remembered the small silver dragon her grandfather had given her. It was still sitting up in her room on the small bed she made for it out of her father's old work robes. He still wondered where those had disappeared to.

"Well yes, I thought Draco and I were going together as well but he hasn't asked me yet and I think he might want to go with someone else." She said sadly playing with the bacon and toast on her plate.

Narcissa was astonished at what the girl was saying. Had she not taught her to be more strong willed than this? She must have failed as a mother to this girl if she was sitting here waiting for her daft son to ask her to her own party.

"My dear, he isn't going to ask you to your party" Aurora's head shot up as she heard the older woman speak, she looked to her confused hoping she would explain what she meant. "Of course he wont ask you, it is your party darling. You are supposed to choose your escort, not wait for one to choose you. Why you sound like one of those poor girls from Hogwarts waiting around for some fool to ask them on a date."

Aurora smiled at the small stab at her former schoolmates. She was right, she did sound like a desperate little twit waiting for someone to take pity on her, but she was Aurora

Malvagità for Merlin's sake and she was not going to sit around and wait for that fool to come to his senses. "Thank you Cissa, now there is something I must do, please excuse me." Narcissa smiled to herself as the girl rushed out of the room and up the stairs. My how manipulative she could be when she wanted.

"DRACO!!" Aurora hollered as she finally reached the third floor landing, "Draco, where the bloody hell are you?"

"Will you shut up woman I am trying to read!" came Lucius' voice from the study. He stuck his head out only to quickly pull it back in and lock it, praying the young witch was not in a vengeful mood. Aurora watch as the lock clicked in the door, she would take care of him later, right now she had other things on her mind, like finding that damn boy.

"DRACO! WHERE THE FU…" but she was cut of by an unexpected blow to the back of her head. She quickly turned around to find the culprit lying on the floor. There in a pile of feathers was her pillow with a small note attached.

Aurora,

I am in our room you idiot and I was trying to take a nap. Instead of barging up here trying to cause the entire house to go deaf why don't you check the most obvious place first!

All my love,

Draco

Aurora quickly stalked into their room to find a very exhausted Draco lying on the bed with his back to her. "If you're going to yell and scream just get it over with please. My head is pounding rather cruelly and I'd like to be able to sleep as soon as possible." He said flatly. Aurora slowly walked over and sat next to him on the bed, she slowly began to stroke his hair as he turned to look at her. "You were looking for me?" he said, his eyes questioning why she had suddenly become so calm after her tantrum like screaming just a moment ago.

"Yes, well I was wondering if I could ask you something but since you aren't feeling well it can wait." she whispered as she pulled the blanket up over him, "You need your rest love, you look like you've been to hell and back." She carefully began to get off the bed as he softly grabbed her hand to tell her not to leave. Carefully she lifted each finger and placed his hand back on the bed as she turned around she could see a small frown form on Draco's lips.

Draco watched as Aurora slowly walked over to the large wooden door, but instead of leaving she quietly closed the door and turned around. She slowly came back and carefully climbed into the bed with him. She knew something was wrong, he never asked her to lay with him when he was sick. True, he has asked her many other times to join him in bed but that was never simply to lay there with him. Carefully looking over to him Aurora could see he had already fallen fast asleep with his arm around her midsection. Scooting closer she laid her head on his chest to listen to his steady heartbeat.

She smiled to herself as she thought about what her future would be like with this man. If only she could finally express exactly what she felt, if it could only be out in the open, then everything would turn out right. She fell asleep with her head on his chest and his arms wrapped protectively around her. When anyone came across the two that night they all simply smiled to themselves and moved on. Even Marcus had poked his head in to say goodnight and chuckled quietly to himself as he carefully closed the door.

Well, he thought to himself, the prophecy was true, but if that was right then there would soon be death coming to their family. Marcus slowed as he remembered the prophecy and what it had foretold for his family.

The fates have chosen their destiny. With the combining of the two children a new power will be brought into this world, one that no wizard or mortal has ever dreamt of before. With their joining an era will end, and the death of a great man will bring about the destruction of the Malvagità line.

Marcus carefully walked back to his study. He would need to do research immediately if he was to be ready when the time came. Unfortunately no one knew exactly when that would be.