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Harry was dreaming again, but this time it was not one of the one's Voldemort sent him. In the dreams he now had, he saw his friends disappear or murdered in front of his eyes, over and over again, and he couldn't do anything to help them. When he finally woke up, he was covered in sweat.

Harry took a deep breath to calm himself, before walking over to a small door he hadn't noticed the previous day. When he opened it, he found a small bathroom, with a toilet, a shower and a sink. Though the bathroom wasn't big, it was more than enough for Harry, who was happy that he didn't have to walk all the way to the big bathroom Lucius had shown him. It would've been rather embarrassing if he walked in on someone.

After a quick shower, Harry dried himself off, and cast a glance up at the clock on the wall. It was already a quarter to eight.

Harry grabbed his clothes and after dressing in what probably was a new world record, he dashed out of the room and down the corridor. He stood in front of Lucius's study about five minutes later, trying to regain his breath. 'Hell, Draco was right about one thing at least!' Harry thought 'Malfoy manor is huge!'

After he had calmed himself a little, he cleared his throat and knocked on the door, not really sure if he could just walk in or not.

He heard a 'come in' from the other side of the door and Harry opened the door and stepped inside.

Lucius was sitting at the desk writing down something on a piece of paper. When Harry came in, he looked up and nodded.

"Good morning Mr. Malfoy." Harry said, still not sure how to act in front of the older man.

"Good morning. Did you eat some breakfast?" Lucius asked.

Harry just shook his head and Lucius sighed. "It's important that you eat, or you won't have any energy to do your work! Chiri!"

The moment Lucius called, the little house-elf stood in front of him and bowed. "Chiri, I want you to make some food for Mr. Potter. A healthy breakfast and some tea would be nice." Harry almost wanted to say that he could decide his own breakfast, but something told him to just keep quiet. The breakfast that Lucius ordered didn't sound that bad, anyway.

He walked over to the desk, still a little unsure of what to do. He didn't have much experience with office work. Lucius looked up at him.

"Ah, yes. To begin with, you can just sort these in alphabetical order" he said and handed Harry a pile of papers. "When you're done, just put them here, and I'll take put them where they are supposed to be." Harry nodded, took the papers and sat down in front of a smaller table near the bookshelves.

The time, Harry realized, went by far too quickly. Before he knew it, it was already time for dinner. Chiri had, like always, appeared and asked what they wanted to eat and Lucius ordered some beef and wine for himself and lasagne for Harry. Harry didn't mind much, he wasn't particularly picky.

They ate the food in silence, the only noise were the sound of the knife against the plate when one of them cut trough their food.

'I wish he talked a little more, but I guess that's too much to hope for' Harry thought. He was beginning to feel a little bored. He was used to always worry about getting killed or protect his friends. Then it struck him, why hadn't he asked about his friends?! After all, they could be alive somewhere!

"Mr. Malfoy?" Harry nervously began. Lucius just looked at him like he always did, silently asking him to go on. "Do you happen to know what has happened to my friends?Since I was captured, I have absolutely no idea, and it would be kinda nice to just know if they're alright..." Harry blurted out.

Lucius didn't answer right away, and Harry started to loose hope that the man knew anything, when he suddenly broke the silence.

"Your friends are okay. The Dark Lord decided he could have some use for Ms. Granger in the new ministry, because of her brains and Mr. Weasley was given as a gift, like you, to someone in the inner circle of Death Eaters."

"Do you know who he was given to?" Harry asked, growing nervous, who knew what a Death Eater would do with Ron, who was from one of the most Light families in the wizarding world after all!

"Let me see, I think it was Severus Snape." Lucius said, still as calm as ever. Harry on the other hand, was far from calm. Severus Snape?! Professor Snape?! He couldn't help but feel extremely sorry for his best friend.

"Not to be rude or anything, but do you think he will be okay there? Professor Snape isn't exactly fond of Gryffindor's in general, but he seems to hate me and my friends." Since Harry knew that Lucius was friends with the greasy-haired professor, he didn't really want to say anything about Snape that could cause Lucius to be upset.

"Even if Severus can act quite stuck up sometimes, he's not a bad person. He won't do anything to harm your friend. I have to admit that you two were pretty lucky to not end up with the more violent of the Death Eaters." Lucius said, with a little smile at the last part.

Harry wanted to believe the man, but he still wasn't completely sure if he could. He couldn't imagine a nice Snape, there was just too many years of dislike from either one of them for that to happen.

"Ah, Potter, Severus is coming over here tomorrow, I can ask him if he could bring your friend along, that way you'll be able to talk to him" Lucius said. Harry looked at him with big eyes, nearly not believing his ears. "Y-You mean it?" he stuttered out.

"Of course, a Malfoy never promises anything he can't hold after all" Harry had to really control himself so he wouldn't give the older man a hug. He would be able to see Ron! That was, if Snape bothered to bring the red-head with him.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Malfoy!" Harry said, his face brightening up in big smile.

"No problem."

The next hours went unbelievably slow, Harry thought. He couldn't wait until he could go to sleep and then the next day he could meet with Ron again! The only thing he wished for now was that Hermione also could visit him some day, maybe he should ask Lucius about it? But not now, the man had already done so much for him. Harry didn't want to ask anything more from him.

Harry had by now taking a liking to the work Lucius asked him to do. When you mentioned office and paper works to other people then they would probably groan and complain about it, wanting to have something a little more fun to do, but Harry wasn't 'other people' and by doing the work Lucius gave him, he kind of felt important, like he did something to help another person out. It was a nice feeling, he concluded.

"I assume you want to meet that other friend of yours, Ms. Granger?" Lucius asked, after keeping silent for a long time, looking up at Harry.

Harry blinked and nodded dumbly.

"Well, if you really want to, I could arrange it so she comes here"

That was it, Harry thought, the man was officially declared a mind-reader. Or maybe he just thought that it would be nice to see your friends. It didn't matter.

"Y-You could do that?" Harry stuttered. He seemed to be doing that a lot lately.

"Of course I could, I am the Dark Lord's right hand man after all!" Lucius said and lifted an elegant eyebrow at him.

"Thank you very very much!" Harry said, feeling more happy than he had done for a long time.

Lucius opened his mouth to say something, when the door to the office suddenly was pulled open and one very pissed Draco Malfoy stood there, panting like he had just run trough the whole mansion, which he probably had.

He glared at Harry before turning to Lucius.

"Father, why is Potter here?! I just heard from Blaise that Potter was given to you from our Lord! Why the hell haven't you told me?! It's not like it doesn't concern me!" Draco spat out, his normally pale face, red with anger.

aaaand, here I will leave you with a nice cliffhanger! reason being that I have my exams tomorrow (shudders) and that means I can't write much more and I wanted to update so...

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