Blood ties chapter 6
(hey guys sorry i havent updated in ages but its so close to christmas and i had school and chatting to friends. i hope you like the next installment and please review to tell me what you think. this may not be the best chapter and i will try and make it better later on. marry christmas. Miss D Zambini)
"Ah there you are poppet!" called Regulus as Seraphina and Draco entered the great ballroom." You look gorgeous"
Nice dress sis
Yea we knew that it would be in HIS favourite colour
What are you talking about Zach?
Never mind.
Where did you get the necklace from?
Oh um Draco gave it to me.
Even in her head saying Draco sounded strange but it somehow fit. She could see Zach smirking and Ben smiling.
Cool. You look nice. The malfoys are joining us for dinner as well as uncle Sirius
Uncle Sirius is dea...
Seraphina was about to reply when she saw Sirius walk through the foyer.
"Sirius you're alive!" Seraphina called as she ran over to hug him. "How did you survive? I saw.. I saw you die"
She was in Dumbledore's army. Own up Zach!
Stupid. How did you know that?
Seraphina turned her head to see Zach give Ben some sickles.
"Sirius how did you survive? Why didn't you help in the final battle?" Sirius smiled.
"Alright saff let me get inside and I will explain. And then you can tell me everything that happened." Saffy nodded with a huge smile on her face and stepped back.
"Sirius my man so glad you could make it" called regulus as he went to shake his brother's hand.
"Uncle SERIOUS!" Sebastian screeched and propelled himself at the man with full speed. Sirius picked him up and they started whispering. Sebastian giggled and nodded.
"Bella" Sirius said and nodded. Bellatrix's smiled and nodded back. "boys"
"Hey uncle Sirius"
"Right well since everyone is here why we don't move into the dining room" bellatrix said and everyone started to walk. Seraphina noticed that narcissa and lucius malfoy were there. Narcissa wearing a deep green floor length silk gown and lucius a black suit but with a waistcoat the same colour. The boys were wearing suits and her mother was in 1930s style red dress with her hair in a French plait. Regulus and Sirius looked almost twins except with the different colour waistcoats. Regulus had deep red, whereas Sirius had gold.
They all sat at the long table, saffy's parents at the head. Seraphina held her breath as she noticed Draco and narcissa sit either side of her. Ben, Zach and Sebastian sat opposite her with Sirius next to the little toddler who had decided that "uncle serious" just had to sit next to him.
"Seraphina darling we haven't seen you for so long, how are you?" narcissa declared in a mannered tone. Seraphina was ashen and petrified.
"I'm very well Lady Malfoy just trying to get used to everything. "She replied quietly
"Oh dear call me cissy! We are like family! Isn't that right Bella darling?"
"Yes it is. I think Seraphina is finding it hard cissy since she had to live as a muggleborn for so long. She probably feels uncomfortable" bellatrix replied.
The food popped up onto the table and Saffy started to slowly eat her soup. She wished that narcissa wouldn't ask her anymore questions however it was almost inevitable. She watched as the malfoy matriarch nodded and ate a little.
"So Seraphina." It was lucius this time. "What school do you go to?"
"We found out she goes to Hogwarts uncle lucius" Zach replied smirking
"Ah I see. So you must have seen your brothers and Draco. Where you friends with them before you found out your true identity?"
Seraphina shook her head quickly and hid her face in her glass taking a long drink of butterbeer. She could feel Draco tense beside her and stop eating. She quickly put her glass down and found her parents and the rest of the occupants of the table looking at her curiously except the younger malfoy who wouldn't even look her in the eye.
"Um... no lord malfoy I didn't. I'm not in slytherin so I never met Ben and Zach. Draco and I have never had a friendly relationship shall we say. "Saffy replied slowly thinking of her answer. Draco let out a long shaky breath and she turned her head to see his pale face just peaking under his hair as he raised his spoon to his lips.
The soup eventually disappeared and the second course commenced with roast beef with every trimming imaginable or smoked haddock with a range of vegetables.
Seraphina looked at the wondrous food around her. It was almost like the Hogwarts feast. She suddenly heard a small voice breaking the other conversations.
"Saffy?" asked Sebastian. Everyone stopped talking and Saffy turned to the little toddler across the table. Sirius had a gleam in his eye which she noticed and became suspicious.
"Yes Sebby" she then picked up her glass again
"Well uncle Sirius and I were talking and he was telling me that you went on many adventures with your friends. Um what were their names again uncle serious?"
"Harry Ron and Ginny"
"Yea harry, Ron and Ginny!" Sebby replied very happy with himself
Seraphina choked on her drink and Draco dropped his fork where it clattered on the table and fell onto the hard floor ringing in the silence.
"Go on Saffy we would love to hear your view of the war and your participation. We are in the presence of a war hero" Sirius smirked.
Hermione after regaining from her coughing fit looked around the table. Her father was smiling a little encouraging, bellatrix scowling at Sirius. Sirius smirking daring her to continue. Zach was confused but wide eyed and Ben was still eating his dinner like nothing had happened. She could tell that Draco was tense again and drumming his fingers on his knee slowly. Narcissa was staring at her and lucius kept a calm facade but was also looking.
"uh...umm well the answer to your question Sebby is yes I did go on many so called adventures with my friends and you Sirius I want to throttle right now and if we were anywhere but here I would do so. "
"I know you would. You would possibly castrate me." It was lucius and narcissa who choked this time and bellatrix laughed. "You were always able to keep my godson and those weasleys in line with a couple of threats. I don't think that any of the order would have even dared to get the great Hermione granger riled up. Especially when they heard you broke Draco's nose in 3rd year. They thought I had gone positively mad for some time!"
"Sirius that is quite enough" the ashen Saffy turned to see her father giving a deathly glare to his brother.
"And when you fought off all of those deatheater. Everything thought you were bloody frightening at that moment when your magic was uncontrollable. When you were tortured and your screams could be heard throughout Nott's manor. "Sirius continued.
"You're HERMOINE GRANGER!" Zach shouted and stood up. Lucius was muttering under his breath at the same time however Ben hollered out
"You broke his nose?" And then broke down into hysterics. Hermione shook her head and looked down Draco had his head in his hands.
"Darling I thought that you got into a fight with a couple of over slytherins or it was some beast you were fighting in the forbidden forest?" narcissa cooed. "You had it bandaged for weeks"
Draco stood up and left the table leaving the laughing boys and the shocked parents. Seraphina didn't know what to say or do. They heard a door slam some distance away.
Saffy could feel something constrict in her chest. It was her heart. She felt pain. She glared at Sirius.
"Sirius why did you say those things?" she screeched and stood up. Zach sat down nervous of his sister's anger boiling up. "You were always a pain in the arse and never realised that you hurt people's feelings by riling them up. I'm already having a hard time as it is. I don't need you and your crazed antics. You need to get over that ego of yours. I thought you might have after a couple of years of death. You have no idea what I've been through during the war and how much it damaged me" tears were streaming down her face. She then pointed her fingers at her two brothers. "And you two can just shut up. Zach yes I am the know it all Gryffindor so shut it and deal." She then pointed at Ben" did you even think that Draco may have feelings? I know he's a stuck up prick and we hate each other but at least I have some decency not to bring up my breaking of his nose and laughing at him. "
She then stormed out of the room slamming the door behind her leaving shocked occupants in the room.
"That definitely comes from you Bella darling." Regulus grumbled
"I know it does and I'm pleased she sticks up for herself" Bella replied "I better go and see if she's alright and also Draco. All of you stay here I'll be back and Sirius don't you dare move otherwise ill castrate you myself for what you've done."
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Saffy was furious at Sirius, Furious that he went through Sebastian. Her heart was pounding and ached as she ran down the many corridors. She couldn't remember where she was going but just decided to keep running. Soon she found herself outside near a large lake.
It was cold out but she didn't care. Her body slumped down next to a tree and she sobbed. There was a stone building up ahead on top of the hill but she couldn't move anymore.
With her head buried in her hands she cried as the memories that she had been trying to hide came back to her, the screams of people dying and in pain.
"Seraphina."
"Their screams won't do away!" she sobbed as she was quickly gathered up into an embrace. "Why won't they stop?"
"Shh I know but they will go away. I promise they will. We just have live every day."
Seraphina cried out again and clasped her head in her hands trying to rack out the everlasting screams. Her hair had fallen out the bun and was now flowing everywhere.
"Please make it stop. Please. I need it to stop!"
"Listen to me. You will get over this but it will take time, but I will be here for you for every step. I promise you that however much you may not like me to be."
"How can I be helped if I don't fit in here!" she hiccupped.
"You do you just don't know it yet. I think you fit in fine better than I thought."
"Really malfoy? You think I will be able to fit in?"
"Yes granger I do now shut up and watch the stars"
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