Lucius quietly opened the door to the room of requirement, slipped in, and gently shut the door behind him.
He smoothly walked over to the bed in the centre of the room, with all the dignity expected of him as a pureblood, and stared down somewhat fondly at the serenely sleepy boy. Seeming to sense his presence, the boy shifted and groggily opened his eyes. He stared up, calmly at his observer and shifted into a sitting position on the bed. He patted the space next to him, gesturing for Lucius to sit. He complied, gracefully folding his hands neatly in his lap and met Peter's eyes evenly, face expressionless.
Peter smiled warmly at him before and relaxing back on his pillows, eyes never leaving the blonde's.
"Peter," Lucius began, breaking the silence. "You need to move back into your dorm."
Peter stared at him blankly for a second. "Why? They don't want me there, besides, it's easier for you to see me when I'm here."
"You're supposed to be a fucking Gryffindor for Merlin's sake! Just go in and face them. If their your friends and the true Gryffindors you swear they are, they'll listen to you and welcome you back as if nothing's happened."
"I can't now, and I like it here. I've seen you a lot lately, and well, it's just... nice," Peter shrugged, smiling tentatively with a slight flush.
"You can't stay here forever; you need to face things like a man."
"That's easy for you to say, you're like the king of Slytherin with hundreds of followers waiting for your orders."
Lucius sighed exasperatedly, "Have you listened to nothing I've said this past week, it's not anything like it seems, it's not all that easy, it's hard work, and it take a lot of sacrifice. Something you obviously know nothing of."
"I gave up my friends, and my dorm, for you. I think I know a little of what sacrifice is."
"Exactly, and look where that got you."
"So, what are you saying?" Peter asked sitting up, crossing his arms over his chest.
"I'm saying," Lucius said, eyes narrowing. "That this was all a mistake. One terrible, huge, colossal mistake, that started with a plan. I'm sure you don't even know how big of a mistake this really is sense you only played a small part in it. Your friends I'm guessing have it much worse."
"I-, what are you talking about?"
"This, all started with Snape's plan. To break up the four of you Gryffindor's friendship. Regulus and I helped of course. From what I know, they hired another Slytherin, a real slut if you ask me, to break up Regulus' brother and his boyfriend. Apparently it worked, even you would have to notice that from what you've seen in the great hall. Their last plan is to hurt James and the red head, Snape's old mudblood friend."
"Don't call her a mudblood," Peter muttered still shocked as he was trying to take in all of what he had heard.
Lucius ignored him and went on, "Now you have two choices here, you can either ignore it, and let things get worse and worse, or you can grow up, and do the Gryffindor thing for once by letting them in on what's happening."
"Aren't you helping Snape and Regulus though, why are you telling me this?"
Lucius shrugged, "I thought I'd try the right thing for once, this is probably one of the only times though. But that's beside the point, what are you going to do?"
"So, me and you was all just-"
"Another part of the plan"
"So I.." Peter began, not really wanting to hear the answer, "mean nothing to you?"
"I wouldn't call it nothing."
"So where does this leave us?"
Lucius sighed again. He was unsure what to say, he could hardly get his thoughts in order for the answer to the question. But he managed to come up with a truthful answer despite his reeling mind. "There is no us, there can't be. I'm a Malfoy, a pureblood Slytherin. I'm going to marry a pureblood, more than likely Narcissa, and we will provide an heir. This," he said, gesturing between Peter and himself, "Whatever this is, it has to end, now."
With that he stood up and glided to the door. Before he left, he looked back and said, "You have two choices Peter, please, for once, make the right one."
-XOXOXOXO-
"Goodnight Lily," James smiled, as he leaned down and kissed the red headed Gryffindor girl he had been chasing almost since he started Hogwarts.
Lily smiled and hugged him with a murmured 'good night' in response, as she walked up the girls dormitories stairs.
James trudged up the stairs to his dorms and closed the door behind him with a sigh of relief. It had been a long day of classes and he couldn't wait to go to sleep.
He looked over to Peter's empty bed and sighed, annoying as he may be, James was starting to miss his fellow marauder.
He tiredly flopped onto his bed and reached over the foot board to rummage through his trunk. He pulled out the map he and his three friends had so cleverly constructed and smiled, tapping his wand against it and murmuring the words to see it.
He briefly scanned it and frowned in confusion. He saw Regulus and Snape standing outside in the corridor, not too far from the portrait. After a few minutes they retreated back and seemed to be heading back to the Slytherin common room. James had spotted them doing that several times in the past two weeks or so, and usually Lucius Malfoy had been with them, except for tonight. James knew they were up to something and he didn't like. If it was up to him he would have done something about it along time ago, but it didn't feel right to bring something like that up at a time like this. He hated the way things were. Remus wouldn't talk to Sirius, and Peter avoided them all like the plague. Most of the time Sirius would be gone for hours seemingly to wallow in self pity, cry, and think of new ways to help Remus. What surprised James the most was that Lily had said that very day that she had taken Sirius' side, but that she was too tired to talk about it and would tell James later. James had tried to ask Sirius but he said there was no use, James probably wouldn't believe him anyway. James took great offence to that but shrugged it off knowing that his friend would come around and tell him eventually, he would just have to be patient. That knowledge however irked James to no end. He wasn't the best a being patient, but resigned himself to the fact that he had to be in order to get things back to normal, or as normal as they used to be. Nothing was ever quite normal for the marauders.
James was interrupted by his thoughts by a knock at the door. He dragged himself up with what strength he had left and opened it. He was slightly shocked to see Peter standing in the doorway.
AN: I'd just like to thank my awesome beta Lady Annika and also let you all know that there'll probably be too more chapters left. So sorry for the long wait but I've been terribly tired lately. But please let me know what you think! At least let me know that all my hard work is ok. Please? Anyways good or bad are appreciated.
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