A/N: This is Part 2 of Aries' backstory, hope ya'll enjoy it, and stuff!

Disclaimer: Do I have to say it again?

I was waiting outside the room that Aries and the Dark Lord had been talking in. It felt like I had been waiting for hours, even though it was only a half an hour. I was pacing back and forth outside the bronze door that was blocking me from entering the room. I was curious about what they were talking about, and I really wanted to know what was going on. I hoped that Aries wasn't disappointing the Dark Lord, and that he was being respectful. He's not a very respectful man, and doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut, so hopefully, he'll be good.

I kept pacing back and forth, thinking about all the things that could possibly go wrong, when the door creaked open. I stopped abruptly, and looked toward the door, seeing Aries stepping out from the doorway, and the door shutting behind him.

"What happened?" I asked excitedly, hoping that the Dark Lord accepted Aries.

"Nothing." He replied bluntly.

"What do you mean, 'nothing?' Something had to have happened!"

"Nothing happened. That's all you need to know."

"What did he say?"

"NOTHING!" He yelled as he started to walk away from Lucius, down the dark hallway and toward the place where we had arrived.

"You don't even know how to get out of here," I said as I walked after him, rolling my eyes.

"Then show me. I want to leave."

I grabbed his wrist and twisted him around to face me. I stared straight into his bright blue eyes. He had gotten his eyes from our Mother, and I got the famous Malfoy grey eyes.

"What happened?" I asked calmly.

He sighed and looked away from me.

"Aries…" I trailed off, hoping that he would tell me.

"Later, Lucius."

"But-"

"Not here."

"But-"

"LATER!" He yelled. I stared at my brother, who seemed so different after this little meeting with the Dark Lord.

"…Okay."

Aries ripped his wrist away from my hand with strength that I didn't know that he had. He started walking away, and I fell into step next to him. I led him down hallway after hallway, and to the only place where you can apparate away.

"Grab my arm," I said. He grasped him arm strongly, and I apparated to Malfoy Manor.

We walked through the huge wooden doors of our house, and ran up the stairs, not even acknowledging Mother and Father as we ran to my bedroom. I threw the door to my room open and plopped down on my green and silver bed, for Slytherin. Aries sad town on my desk chair. I stared at him, willing him to start telling me about what the Dark Lord had said.

"What?" He asked, noticing me staring at him

"Well? What happened?"

"I can't say."

"Can't, or won't?"

"Fine, I don't want to tell you."

"Why?"

"Because, you'll yell, and scream."

"What if I promise that I won't?"

"You promise?" he asked, sounding like a 12 year old kid, not a 17 year old adult.

"Promise." I confirmed.

"Alright. He asked me to join. I said no."

"You said no? HOW COULD YOU SAY NO? That's the greatest honor a person could have!" I yelled, breaking my promise. I jumped off my bed and walked closer to Aries.

"I know, but-"

"You denied the Dark Lord? No one denies the Dark Lord! I did, though, to get him to talk to you, and you just turned him down? WHAT THE HELL?"

"But-"

"How can you be such an idiot? We are going back, and you'll tell him that you want to join! Right now!" I said, grabbing his arm and starting to pull Aries out of my room.

"LISTEN TO ME!" he screamed as he ripped his arm out of my grasp, "I don't want to join! I want a life that doesn't end with me being killed or ending up in Azkaban! You might, but I don't."

I stared at my brother, as if seeing him for the first time.

"I don't want to be killed, or end up in Azkaban. We won't! We'll survive, and we'll kill off all the bad blood, so there are only those who are pure, like us, left."

"I don't want the mudbloods and half-bloods to live, but I don't want to be the one to kill them."

"Why?"

"I don't want to be a murderer." he whispered.

"And you think I do? I don't! But if I have to kill someone for the greater good, I will!"

"Well, I won't!"

"You're such a coward!" I spat out.

"Am not!"

"Yes, you are! You're too much a chicken to kill a filthy mudblood! They're barely even human! It's like killing a filthy bug, but you're too much of a coward to even do that."

"I'm not a coward."

"Yes, you are!" I retaliated.

"I'M NOT!" Aries screamed as he jumped up from the desk chair. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his wand. Before I could react, Aries had his wand pointed toward me. A flash of purple light came toward me, and I felt as if I had been shocked by lightning. I felt the electric shock flow through my veins, and I screamed with the pain that was traveling through my body. When the pain finally subsided, I looked up at Aries with hate. I saw regret etched on every part of his face.

"Lucius, I'm so sorry!"

I kept staring at him, as if he had said nothing. Aries started to walk toward me, and crouch down where I was laying down on the floor in a fetal position. He reached out his hand toward my shoulder to comfort me, but I slapped his arm away.

"DON'T! ...Don't touch me."

"Lucius… I'm so sorr-"

"Save it. Get out."

"Lucius-"

"GET OUT!"

"But, brother-"

"We are no longer brothers."

Aries started at me, and I saw his eyes starting to water, but it could have been a trick of the light. I sat up slowly and put my back to Aries.

"Lucius! You can't really mean that!" He said, his voice cracking slightly.

"GET OUT!" I screamed

I heard Aries' footsteps cross my rather big bedroom. Then, I heard the door creak open, and slam shut.

XxXxXx

The next day, I walked down the stairs to the kitchen for breakfast. I arrived in the kitchen and noticed that it was eerily quiet. Our house-elf, Willie, wasn't running around and making breakfast. Then, I saw that Father wasn't sitting down at the kitchen table, reading the Daily Prophet. It was rather weird. I walked out of the kitchen and into the living room, hoping to see Mother sitting down on the couch, but she wasn't. I ran upstairs, looking for either one of my parents. I ran straight to my parents' room and saw Mother and Father sitting down on their bed. Father had his arm around Mother's shoulders, and her head was laid on Father's chest, and Father was staring into space.

"Mother? Father? What happened?"

They seemed to be snapped out of their trance, and they looked up at me. I saw tear streaks down Mother's cheeks.

"Your brother… he-" Mother started, but started sobbing again instead.

"What happened to Aries?"

"He left!" Mother yelled, then put her head back down onto Father's chest. Father held out his hand, and in it was a piece of parchment.

"Read it."

I hesitantly reached forward and grabbed the parchment, and read the message.

My family,

By the time you read this, I'll be gone. I'm sorry that I disgraced you and the Malfoy name. I'm sorry for being such a coward, but I'll be better! I'll be brave! You just wait. I'm not a coward.

Aries

I looked up from the note Aries had written. He had run away, because of me. It was all my fault.

A/N: Well, that's Aries' story. Hope it was exciting and awesome and stuff. :D