Chapter 3: Reluctance
The summer was creeping by and both twins were getting frantic.
The confinement had even started to get to Draco and now they were boxed in.
If they wanted to absolutely anything they had to ask permission.
"Fuck!" Harry snarled kicking a box away from him and slamming his head against the wall.
"You know what you have to do to stop this Hadrian," Lucius sighed, hating seeing his children so torn up.
Harry glared at him before looking away.
He wouldn't let the bastard win.
Lucius sat down facing Harry.
"Hadrian, I know this is hard for you. Both you and Draco are wonderfully independent. I know the thought of having someone else take even a little bit of that independence is tearing you both apart but would you rather it be a little bit or all of it? You know the Dark Lord is not above restricting you even more. You just have to say the words, you just have to accept it and you'll have it all back again," Lucius sighed.
Harry looked at his father.
"How did you do it? You're a Malfoy, how did you just give yourself to him?"
"Because I believed in what he was doing and he had more power I could ever wish for,"
"But father Draco and I would be even greater than him, accepting him would stifle that," Harry protested shaking his head.
"Then perhaps you should look at him more as a mentor? He could help you get there faster than any book and all he'd ask for is your loyalty," Lucius sighed before standing.
He clapped Hadrian on the shoulder.
He hated having to do this to them, but it was part of the greater picture.
Hadrian sat in his room later that day pondering what their father had said.
After a summer of restrictions and what was looking to be a home schooled fifth year would it be so bad to offer a bit of loyalty?
Voldemort could teach them and help them get better. Harry had seen him perform magic that Harry himself could only dream of. Not only that but it would be a guarantee safe point for his parents and once they'd learnt all they could from him they could go their own way.
He wouldn't be able to stop them.
Sighing he went to find Draco.
Draco gaped at his brother.
"Are you out of your mind!" Draco hissed quietly.
Harry rubbed his temples.
"At the moment yes, Watcher, this is all killing me and I can not spend the next year here like this. Think about it, all we have to do is tell him we're loyal, once we do that we can get him to teach us, we can get him to leave our parents alone and we get our freedom back. I know it isn't ideal and hell I don't want to do this but with him we can get better we can become the very best and then when we are we can stop it all. We can protect mother and father and we can cast him out because we will be better than him,"
Draco went through what Harry was telling him and rubbed his neck. There really wasn't anything else that could be done.
Harry's plan sounded foolproof but it sounded naïve as well.
Voldemort wouldn't be that stupid, he would ask stuff of them that they wouldn't be able to say no to if they went through with it.
But then again there was no way else to do it. They were either prisoners or they could accept Voldemort and at least have most of their freedom back.
Grudgingly Draco nodded, sighing at what they were about to do.
They both knew doing it would cause a chain reaction but they saw no other way out of it.
They had to do it in order to be able to look at the bigger picture.
Voldemort looked up from where he was talking with his Death Eaters when the door opened.
The twins knew better than to interrupt him so he knew it was either something he would be punishing them for or something he would very much like.
They entered both stood tall and looking at him with grim determination.
"I suggest the two of you start talking or I will punish you for interrupting this meeting,"
"If we accepted you, if we pledged our loyalty would you teach us? Would you mentor us and help us grow to our full potential?" Harry demanded.
Voldemort smirked.
"Of course boys,"
"We don't want you teaching us so we're above par, we want you to teach us to be the very best. With books it'd take years, more than what we're willing to wait. If we're going to do this then you have to swear on your magic that you will train us to meet our potential and even stride past it," Draco stated strongly.
The victorious smirk that lit the monster's face had many of his Death Eater's paling but the boys didn't care.
"I swear it upon my magic, boys, that I will help you grow and be the very best of the best. You will go up and beyond your potential,"
It would be a victory to both sides unlike the impasse they'd been at since the beginning of the summer.
"And we pledge our loyalty to you, you will be our mentor," the twins said together.
The Death Eaters in the room shuddered at the power they felt go through the room.
It was final.
Lucius couldn't believe it, he would have never thought Voldemort wanted his children so much that he'd be willing to swear on his magic and not demand something more than loyalty in return.
He looked at his sons and grimaced.
Voldemort would get them back for the oath they'd made him perform but would the boys already know this?
They met his eyes.
Yes, yes they did know and they were expecting it.
Lucius had never been so proud and so scared for his sons as he was at that moment.
As assured every restriction lifted off them, the bands remained on their arms but only for transport reasons.
Voldemort didn't want to mark them just yet.
The only thing that didn't return to normal was that Voldemort kept their wands.
"Wandless magic only comes when you have nothing else to rely on," Voldemort stated as they stood in front of him for their first lesson.
The boys shared a secret win.
Voldemort hadn't known they'd been practicing with the wand that Harry had smuggled back into the manor and they weren't about to tell him.
Blaise looked up when he saw the crowds part.
Things like that only happened because of one reason.
He watched smirking, hiding his worry, as the twins, Lucius and Narcissa, as well as a man they'd never seen before, walked through the crowd.
They looked powerful, more so than they had the last time he'd seen them.
The smirks that appeared on their faces when they saw him made their mischief shine in their eyes.
They may have changed since last year but the twins would always be Deviants before anything else.
"Behave boys and don't forget to write home. Your defence professor this year will no doubt be painful but you must try your hardest. It's OWL year and I expect the best results from both of you," Lucius said nodding to them and clapping them on the shoulder.
Narcissa hugged them.
"Have fun boys, you'll need a tension reliever this year for sure,"
"You have my instructions boys, follow them and I'll test you on Halloween," the unknown man said nodding at them.
"Yes, Uncle," they said together before turning and walking over to Blaise.
Their eyes told him not to question just yet and he nodded and turned with them onto the train.
When they were in their compartment and their trunks and animal cages enlarged Blaise turned to them.
"Who was that?"
"Voldemort in disguise," Draco shrugged putting his feet up on the seat.
Harry snorted.
"Don't get too comfortable, Watcher, you've got that snotty prefect's meeting,"
Draco scowled at Harry.
"Prefect?" Blaise laughed, bending over. "You got prefect?"
Harry couldn't help but grin along with Blaise.
The thought of any of the Deviants been prefect was a laughable idea.
"Damn it, you pair of twats are unbelievable," Draco sighed standing up.
"Best bit about it is that Pansy is his partner," Harry snickered.
Draco flipped them the bird before walking out of the compartment.
"Amazing," Neville said dryly as he entered the compartment. "You've already managed to piss him off, what did you do?"
"Made fun of him because he's a prefect this year," Harry shrugged while Blaise still chortled.
Neville raised his eyebrow.
"You think I'm gullible enough to think they made him a prefect?"
Harry sniggered.
"Seriously Hulk, he's the prefect, him and Pansy,"
Neville gaped and dropped onto the bench.
"What were they smoking?"
Blaise lost control of his laughter again.
"I was actually expecting if it was one of us for it to be Sly," Neville continued.
This sent Harry in to a roar of laughter.
"You mean after he told McGonagall to suck his left toe in third year? Or when he stuck all the furniture of her classroom to the roof?"
Blaise and McGonagall had a very limited relationship.
Neville chuckled and shook his head.
As he thought about it out of the four of them Draco was actually the most likely candidate but even that wasn't saying much for the sanity of the teachers.
When Draco reappeared the expectant nature of the atmosphere thickened and with reluctance the twins told them what had happened.
AN: Before anyone says anything yes I know the twins and Blaise weren't talking in third year but once I've completed the series and it's all up and running on here I'm going to do a Deviants on the side and the incident in third year between McGonagall and Blaise will be posted there :) Thanks for all the support guys :)
cocobyrd87 - I know but it had to be done :( Daphne and Pansy will definitely be a pain so yep you'll be wanting their certain deaths pretty soon into term haha :) Just remember the twins are always plotting and planning ) They never stay down for long.
Dragons-Twilight1992 - More coming :)