Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or Percy Jackson.
A.N. I decided to let you see what Malfoy and his Mother is up to, hope you like it, and you get a hint of something about Sally and Sirius, that as of right now, nobody knows, not even Harry or Percy. This takes place the day before Piper and the others fought with the dolphin people, I hope it's not confusing, but I decided to show what happen with Draco and Narcissa.
Chapter ten: Staying at Potter's
Draco's P.O.V.
Mother and I got out of the little yellow moving box, that I believe was called a Taxi. She paid the driver in galleons after bewitching him to believe it was muggle money. He drove off leaving us standing in front of a tall apartment building. We looked odd in these uncomfortable muggle clothes; I had on jeans and a green jumper, with a green coat. Mother believed it best to blend in, make it harder for Death Eaters to find us. That's why she chose to come all the way to America to talk to her cousin, instead of staying in England and talking to her sister Andromeda. Mother looked as odd as I felt in her muggle clothes, she had on jeans, a black blouse and a jacket. She was standing here staring up at the building, shivering from the cold and all the snow falling.
"Come, Draco, might as well get this over with." Mother said. I said nothing, I just grabbed the small bag I was allowed to bring and followed her up the stairs. She had a small bag too, but because of a charm she used we could fit a lot in them.
"Do we really have to do this?" I asked. I really wasn't looking forward to seeing Potter, especially now. I had failed to fulfill an order from the Dark Lord, now Mother and I was on the run for our lives. And the damn mark on my arm wouldn't stop burning; I didn't want to get the bloody thing anyway, but father insisted. The Dark Lord had wanted me to kill Dumbledore, I tried to, I put poison in a drink I thought he would be drinking, but Longbottom ended up being the one to drink it, if it hadn't been for Snape's quick thinking Longbottom would be dead. I then bewitched that Bell girl from the Gryffindor Quidditch team to take Dumbledore a cursed neckless, but she ended up touching it and was now in St. Mungo's. She'll live, but I failed to kill Dumbledore, so Mother thought best to switch sides, get away from the Dark Lord and go to Dumbledore for help. But then she thought best to go through someone else, get them to talk to Dumbledore for us. And that's why we are here; where Potter was, to ask for help. Mother was only doing it to protect me, but I still didn't like it and I would rather face the Dark Lord's raft, then for Potter to laugh at me and get enjoyment out of my predicament.
I could just see his face, his smug look as Mother asked his godfather for help. He'll give me a look of pity and I would want to curse it off his ugly face, but Mother said to be nice to him or at least act civil, we didn't want to do anything to make her cousin mad. Sirius may not help us if we do. Like we needed his help or Dumbeldore's we can take care of ourselves.
My mother grabbed my arm and led me up the front steps and opened the front door and made me go in first. Probably afraid I would run off.
"Now, Draco, remember what I said." Mother warned. "No fighting with Potter, or Sirius will not help us. If he was to say something smart, please try to ignore it. I don't like this no more than you do, but Sirius is our only hope. I never really said or done anything to him, not like Bella did anyway, I married your father when I was only seventeen, and never really hung around Sirius too much. So, there is a better chance of him helping us than my sister, besides I know for a fact Sirius is in the Order of the Phoenix, and I have no idea if Andromeda is."
"Maybe I'll get lucky and Potter will be at that muggle camp." I said. My mother frowned, As she got out a slip of parchment that had her cousin's address written on it. Then stuck it back in her, and led me to a flight of steps.
"No, I believe it is only a summer camp." Mother said. As we walked up two flights of steps "Now what floor are we on... Oh, just one more flight of steps than." When we got to the floor Mother was looking for, she pulled out the slip of parchment again and read the apartment number. We walked down the hall and around the corner then stopped at the first door we came to.
"Now, sweetheart, remember no fighting with Potter." Mother warned, before taking a deep breath and knocking on the apartment door. We waited only a moment before a woman about my Mother's age or maybe even a little younger opened it. She had long brown hair and blue-gray eyes
"I am here to see Sirius Black." My Mother said. In a snappish tone. The women frowned for a moment, taken in my mother's blonde hair and blue eyes. Then her slender figure, she glanced at me and took me in, before turning back to Mother.
"I'm sorry. Sirius isn't here." She said. "Would you like to come in and wait, he shouldn't be gone too long." She stepped back opening the door a little more. Mother didn't even give her a glance before stepping in I followed.
I watched Mother looking around the apartment in disgust, I too felt disgusted. It was too muggle, the only thing in the room that was wizard was the Gyffindor banner hanging on the wall behind the red leather love seat. And a few magic books on a bookshelf over by the fireplace. Above the fireplace hung a tapestry with the Potter family crest on it. Three picture sat on the fireplace.. One of Potter's parents, one of Potter and Black, and one of Potter, his muggle girlfriend and five other muggles.
Mother led me over to the love seat and sat down, she took off her scarf and jacket.
"He calls himself a Black, but lives like this." Mother said. "Aunt Welburga would be rolling over in her grave. He always did things like acting muggle just to go against her."
"Excuse me." The brown-haired women said. "But can I get anything for you while you wait, Soda or coffee?" Mother made a face.
"No, I do not wish to drink some nasty muggle drink, thank you." Mother said. The woman's frown deepened. "I will just wait for my cousin."
"Oh you're Sirius' cousin?" She asked. I could have sworn I saw relief in the women's eyes when Mother called Sirius her cousin.
"I'm Sally." The muggle said. "A um...Friend of Sirius so if you need anything, I'll just be over there cleaning up the kitchen." Mother said nothing, but raised her eyebrow at the muggle. When she said she was a "friend" of Sirius, she began to play with a large diamond ring that was on her left ring finger. When Mother ignored her, she turned and walked over to what she called the kitchen; which wasn't a kitchen at all. Just a little space off from the living room, with a sink, a few cabinets, a fridge, stove and a counter with small chairs sitting around it.
I looked around and my eyes fell on the bookshelf by the fireplace. Along with magic books, and some pictures, one of Potter and his muggle girlfriend, on one side of the picture was a glass figure of a white dove, but nothing sat on the other side. Up at the very top sat glass figures of a dog, wolf, a book and a doe and stag the last two were black and the other three were clear. On the shelf under the pictures was more glass figures these were of, a skull, a hammer, eagle, owl, horse, and a boar. The boar was clear, but the other five were a blue-gray color. My eyes went back up to the picture of Potter and his muggle girlfriend. I wondered what use to sit on the other side of the picture. Before moving my eyes to the picture on the wall next to the shelf, I sneered when I saw it was of Potter, Weasley and their little mudblood Granger.
I leaned in to Mother and whispered. "Potter must be with your cousin." Mother nodded. Just as the front opened and Sirius Black came walking in carrying a box of chicken and a bag with other food; he didn't even look our way as he walked over to the women, he sat the stuff on the counter, then walked over to her and put his arms around her waist and kissed the back of her neck, before letting go.
"l got your chicken you were just dying to have." Sirius gave her a cocky grin.
"Sirius, you have company." She motioned over toward Mother and I. Sirius glanced our way and his look turned to that of anger. He rushed over to us.
"You have some nerve showing up here." He snarled in a voice full of hate. I saw a shock look crossed the woman's face. "After what happen to my son, because of your master.
"What son?" Mother asked. "Sirius, you never had any kids." Sirius growled, sounding a lot like a dog and went over to the fireplace and picked up the photo of him and Potter, then came back over to Mother and tossed it on her lap.
"That son, Narcissa." Sirius snapped. Mother looked down at the photo with a frown. "I adopted him, he is legally my son."
"Potter." I said. Sirius glared at me.
"His name is Harry." Sirius said. "And he was dragged down to Tartarus while fighting Voldemort in the Underworld. I don't know why he was down there. All I know is my son is gone and its Voldemorts fault." I Understood a little about what he was talking about. I can remember Drew telling the Dark Lord about the Underworld and Tartarus and Greeks gods, not that I'm saying I had believed any of it. But Drew still became my only real friend among the Death Eaters. They threw their nose up at her; because she's a muggle and did the same to me, because they thought I was too much of a wipe and couldn't handle being a Death Eaters. I guess they were right about that.
"I'm Sorry, Sirius, Lucius never mentioned any of this." Mother said. I could tell by her look she didn't understand what Sirius was talking about. She leaned forward and laid the picture on the coffee table. "Please, I am not here to fight. I came here for help." At that Sirius raised his eyebrows. Mother pushed up her sleeves and held her arms out and showed Sirius her bare forearms. He looked completely shocked.
"Lucius may have controlled most the things I did. Well, maybe he controlled everything I did, but no matter what he said or did. I never took the Dark mark." She put her sleeves down. "I never believed in allowing someone to burn their mark into my arm, Lucius hated the fact I wouldn't allow him to take me before the Dark Lord and asked to be branded like some cow." I wrenched at her last words and Mother turned to me. "Draco, show Sirius your arm."
I looked at Mother shocked. She wanted me to show the guy she came to for help my dark mark. After staring at her for a moment, I took my coat off, then pushed up my sleeve and held my arm out for Sirius to see, his eyes widen in shock at the mark burnt into my arm. He stared at it in disgust, then turned back to Mother.
"He's Harry's age right?" Sirius asked. Mother nodded. And Sirius mumbled something about the same age Regulus was.
"Pot.. Harry was born just a few weeks after Draco I believe." Mother said. "I could not stop Lucius from taking my son before the Dark Lord and asking to allow him to join the Death Eaters." Mother took a long deep breath. "Please, Sirius, you're my last hope, You-Know-Who made Draco take the Dark Mark, he wanted Draco to kill Dumbledore, but of course Draco couldn't and now we are on the run for our lives." Mother stood walked over to Sirius and grabbed the front of the leather jacket he wore. "I don't care about my life. If I get killed, I get killed, but, please, don't turn us away, he's my son." And to my shock Mother started crying. "My only son, Sirius, you would do anything for your son wouldn't you? We're family."
Sirius took hold of Mother's wrist and pushed her back. "Family, really? Ever since my name was blasted off the family tree. You turned your back on me. I was no longer your cousin. And now you come asking me for help. You want me to help you protect your son. Do you not realize him and my son hate each other. He made fun of Harry and his friends, Harry's whole time at Hogwarts and you ask me to help him? Why should I?"
"You know I never really did anything to you. Not like Bella did. Please, just contact Dumbledore for us." Mother said. "I want to protect my son by joining the order. Don't be like Snape, don't turn me down." Mother suddenly dropped to her knees. "Please, Sirius, you were my last hope. I have no where left to turn. We'll be gone by the time Pot... Harry returns home. Just let us stay here for the night, and flew Dumbeldore tomorrow. He's my only son." Mother grabbed the leg of her cousin's black jeans as he looked down at her in total shock.
"Sirius." The muggle suddenly called. He looked over at her and she waved for him to come over to her. He pulled my mother off him and went. I didn't hear what she said, because she was talking too low. But both kept glancing over at us. Mother was on the floor still wiping her eyes and sniffing. The woman laid her hand on Sirius' arm and said something that sounded like "Harry would." And Sirius sighed, then gave a nod and the muggle woman grinned and gave him a quick kiss. Before he walked back over to us.
"Get up, Narcissa." Sirius demanded. "I'm going to help you." Mother gasped, jumped up and hugged Sirius.
"Thank you." She said, he pulled away from her.
"It's not me you should thank." Sirius said. "If it wasn't for Sally, I would throw you both out in the cold, but she has a son of her own, and knows how it feels when his life is in danger." Sirius held up a hand. "But you stay here just for tonight, and tomorrow I hand you both over to Dumbledore, he'll take you to Order headquarters and you'll stay there. And don't ever hug me again." He shivered at the last part and I could swear Mother smiled a little.
"Would you guys like something to eat?" Sally called over. My mother opened her mouth to say something, but Sirius caught her eye and gave her a look. One I knew to mean; you treat her nicely or out in the cold you'll be.
"No, um.. Thank you." Mother said. "I think I'll just go on to bed."
"You know what, I haven't introduced you two." Sirius smirked at Mother and reached his hand out to the muggle woman he called Sally. Sally took his hand and Sirius pulled her in front of him. "This is Sally Jackson, Sally this is my cousin Narcissa Malfoy and her son Draco."
"Nice to meet you." Sally said, with a small smile. "Narcissa, I've never heard that name before. It's pretty."
Mother's eyes fell to the large diamond ring on her finger. Then to the little round stomach just starting to show through her shirt. I could see disgust cross Mother's face before she gave a forced smile.
"Nice to.. Nice to meet you." She said, before turning back to Sirius. "Is there a place I could lay down. And of course Draco will need somewhere to sleep.
"This place only has two bedrooms, so I guess you can sleep in my room I'll take the couch. I've been looking for a bigger place, but that doesn't really matter to you. You'll be gone by then." Sirius said. "And I guess Draco can sleep in Harry's room, but don't touch anything, Harry is a neat freak and he'll know if just one little thing is out-of-place." He then turned and walked back over to the counter and started laying the food out. Sally went over and started getting out plates and stuff. "My room is the first on the right."
"Are you sure you're not hungry?" Sally asked. Mother just gave a nod. "How about you, Draco?"
"No, I rather just lay down." I said.
"Harry's room is the last one down the hall to the left." She said. I gave a nod and walked that way. I couldn't believe I had to stay here in this muggle place, in Potter's bedroom. Where I'm sure I will see nothing but scarlet red and gold.
Sirius Black wasn't kidding when he said Potter was a neat freak, not a thing out-of-place. The bed was neatly made, nothing on the floor. He had a banner of some women hanging on the wall next to his bedroom window. The woman was turned sideways; with a staff in her hand and a hawk on her shoulder, a cuckoo bird on her other finger; down at her feet was a lioness and a peacock. I didn't know nor care who she could be and turned to take in the rest of the bedroom. I walked over to the desk and picked up a photo, it was of Potter and some blonde haired boy. I put it back down and picked up the one of Potter and his girlfriend. Then put it back down.
I went over and sat on the bed and got in my bag and pulled out a green t-shirt and changed out of the one I was wearing. It was too hot in this muggle dump to wear a jumper. I looked above Potter's bed and saw his firebolt hanging there. If we wasn't in such a muggle area I would try it out. I wanted one that year they came out, but father wouldn't let me have one. Cost too much he said. Look how much I had spent to get you on the Quidditch team already. Said I would get a new broom when mine was so wore out nothing but a toothpick was left.
I turned away and looked down at the night stand by his bed, there was another picture of his girlfriend. How many freaking pictures of her did he have. I looked away, and sighed. I got up and looked around some more. I opened his dresser drawer, nothing but clothes neatly folded. I shut it and opened the next one, and to my shock it was full with girl clothes. Sirius lets Potter's girlfriend spend the night with him. I suddenly didn't want to sleep in his bed. To think they probably... I shivered and shut the drawer before I threw up in it.
I turned from the dresser and sat back on the bed. I wanted to go home, to go back to England. I wanted my large bedroom at Malfoy Mannar back. To sleep in my large queen size bed. For things to be like it was before the Dark Lord returned.
Father said Sirius had gotten all the Black fortune and the Black family is the richest pure-blood family in England, and the Potter family had been the second richest. So Potter would be like the richest teenage wizard from England; since he would have inherited all that gold from his parents. And they choose to live in this place. Blood-traiters sure are weird. Why the heck don't they just use some galleons and buy a huge Mannar somewhere.
I opened the little drawer in Potter's nightstand to see what he kept in it. There was a few papers, a pouch with a few galleon, and green pieces of paper and other weird-looking coins. I then saw an envelope and took it out and looked in it. It was pictures of Potter and his muggle friends. Even one of Potter standing on a large rock, to make himself taller than the muggle he was standing next to. Some teen about seventeen or eighteen. With green eyes and black hair. And wearing goofy grin on his face that just screamed out trouble maker.
I tossed the pictures back in the drawer without even bothering to put them back in the envelope. I then heard the sound of someone knocking. I looked around confused, then got up, left the room and walked quietly half-way down the hall, then stood in the shadows as Sirius held out his wand and called through the door.
"Who is it?"
"It's me, Clarisse." A voice said through the door. Sirius must have known who this Clarisse was, because he put his wand in his back pocket then opened the door. My eyes got big when I saw the girl walk in. She was as large as Crabb and Goyle. With stringy brown hair.
"Hey, Clarissy, what brings you here?" Sirius asked, as he shut the door behind him. I saw the muggle woman was still here and had come around the counter to listen to what the female Goyle had to say.
"Don't call me that." She snapped at Sirius, but I saw her cheeks blush as he grinned a little at her. "I can't stay long, but Chiron gave me permission to come give you an update. You know I came the other day and told you how they knew where Harry was, and Jackson and the others went to go save him.."
"Yeah, any news?" Sirius asked. "Are they back?"
"No, but Chase contacted Chiron though Iris-Massage." Clarisse said. "They keep getting sidetracked, and that Weasley witch, Grace, and Levesque have left the others. Hecate showed up and gave Weasley a quest of her own."
"Who?" Sirius asked. Clarisse smirked.
"You're a witch and don't know who Hecate is?" She asked.
"Wizard." Sirius said. "I'm not a witch, I am a wizard."
"Same thing." Clarisse waved her hand. "Anyway, she's the goddess of magic. "
"Oh," what did she send Ginny to do?" Sirius asked.
"To save some goddess of Harmony." Clarisse said. "Grace and Levesque went with her. So now: Jackson, Chase, that other Weasley, di'Angelo, the bushy haired witch, McLean, and Valdez, are now the only ones on the way to save the little runt."
Sirius snorted at what Clarisse called Potter. Then reached in the inside of his pocket and brought out a little glass figure of a Hawk. That was a dark gray.
"My spell on these things work." Sirius said, "Since the beginning of the week Harry's hawk has turned darker every day." Sally reached over and laid her hand on Sirius'.
"What would it mean if it turned black?" Clarisse asked. Sirius shuddered.
"It would mean Harry is dead." Sirius said. "Right now the darker the gray, the closer to death he is." My eyes got big and I looked at the hawk, it wasn't far from being black. "
"When the person the glass figure represents becomes in danger it'll turn a gray-blue color. Like Percy and the others are, because the quest they are on is dangerous. But the more danger they are in and if they get hurt, they'll turn darker and become gray, then the closer they get to death, the darker the gray will get and when it's black. It means.." Sirius trailed off and tapped the hawk with his finger. "I got a little worried when Piper's dove turned gray. But after a while it turned back gray-blue. I guess she had gotten badly hurt. Then there was another time when they all had turned gray. All but Jason's."
"They were probably fighting something." Clarisse said. "Grace was no longer with them at that time." Her eyes moved and landed on me. She sneered and before I could even blink, she was in front of me and grabbed my shirt and slammed me into the wall.
"It's rude to eavesdrop." She sneered my face.
"Clarisse." Sally said. "It's okay, he's Sirius' guest." Clarisse didn't listen to her, she tighten her hold on my shirt and lifted me off my feet. I could hear Sirius snickering. "Sirius." Sally scowled. He grinned at her. She glared at him.
"Gust, right." Clarisse sneered, bringing my left arm up, I thought she was going to break it. "With this on his arm. I don't think so."
"It's fine, he claimed, he's turning from Voldemort. His mother too. I'm giving them to Dumbeledore, first thing in the morning." Sirius said. When she still didn't let me go, Sirius grinned. "Clarissy, it's fine. You can let him go."
Clarisse sneered and leaned in so only I could hear. "If you or your mother is trying to trick Sirius and hurt him in any way..." She let the threat hang as she let go of me, letting me drop to the floor. She glared down at me, before going over and standing next to Sirius as if she was his body-guard.
"Was there something you needed, Draco?" Sally asked. I stood and dusted myself off.
"I... just wanted a glass of water." I lied, then walked past her and went over to the sink. "I wasn't eavesdropping." Both Clarisse and Sirius snorted.
"I'm going on back to my apartment now." Sally said. She then yawned. "I'll see you tomorrow. I'm going to bed."
"Don't you think it's too early to go to bed?" Sirius asked. Sally shook her head. "It's only ten o'clock."
"I have an early class tomorrow." She bent and gave Sirius a kiss, before saying bye to Clarisse, then me. (Which I ignored,) Then went out the door.
"I better get going too." Clarisse. "I got a couple of my half-brothers standing outside waiting on me."
"Okay, Clarissy." Sirius said. "Thanks for the update." She gave him a nod and walked out the door without another word.
Sirius' eyes locked on mine as I took a drink from my glass of water. He stood went over to the fridge got out some muggle drink in a brown bottle. He looked at me a moment. Then got in one of the cabinet and got out a bottle of Butterbeer.
"I'm sure this is a lot better than water." He said, holding the Butterbeer out to me. I sat the glass of water in the sink and took it.
"Have a seat, Draco." Sirius said. "I want to talk to you." I walked over and sat down in one of the chairs on the other side of the counter. Opposite Sirius. He didn't say anything at first, he just sat there and took drinks from his bottle.
"Has your mother ever told you about my little brother Regulus?" Sirius asked. I shook my head.
"No, but father did, before.." I motioned to my arm. "He praised him about being one of the youngest Death Eaters. And how he died for the Dark Lord. Doing the Dark Lord's work." Sirius shook his head. And started playing with his drink. Twirling it around.
"Is that what Voldemort told everyone?" Sirius asked. "Are is that what good old Lucius told you. Either way it's all a lie."
"What do you mean?" I asked. Sirius leaned back in his chair, giving me a pity look, I didn't like.
"My brother didn't die doing work for the Dark Lord." Sirius said. "I had once thought Regulus had gotten cold feet and died trying to leave the Death Eaters. But that too wasn't true, you see my baby brother did regret joining the Death Eaters, that much is true, but he had found out a very dark and disgusting secret about Voldemort and died trying to put an end to your so-called Dark Lord."
I looked at Sirius wide-eyes. "What did he find out?" Sirius shook his head.
"I can't tell you that." He said. "Maybe later on if you show you can be trusted. And that means getting my son to trust you when he returns too. Because I'm sure he'll be at headquarters a lot. " I frowned.
"Hey, I tried to be friends with Potter." I said. 'He's the one that turned me down."
Sirius raised his eyebrow at me. "You had tried to befriend Harry? When?"
"On our first train ride to Hogwarts." I told him. " I told him he shouldn't hang around people like Weasley and afford him friendship and to help him find the right friends, but he said. "I can find the right friend for myself thanks." Sirius started laughing and shook his head before taking a drink of the brown bottle.
"Don't you see?" Sirius said. "If you had left out the part about Ron and helping Harry find the right friends, he probably would have shaken your hand." He took another drink and sat the bottle down. I noticed the label said Budweiser on it, Sirius saw me looking and said. "Do me a favor, Harry comes back don't mention me drinking this. He'll get mad." I just raised my eyebrows at him and Sirius tossed the now empty bottle in the trash and got out another one and took a big drink of it.
I gave a nod I believe I was starting to like Sirius Black. His only problem was adopting Potter and acting too much like a muggle. But I could still see the pure-blood side of him. Deep down, if only I could bring that back out. Make him act like a Black, but something told me that wouldn't be possible, especially when I remembered the muggle women that had been here.
"Sirius." I asked. He looked up at me. "If.. if you had a son and you wanted him to do something he didn't want to do. Would you make him?"
"Just because Harry isn't mine by blood, doesn't mean he isn't my son." Sirius said. Then he took a drink of his Budweiser and then leaned in. "But, no, if I wanted him to do something and he didn't want to do it. I wouldn't force him." His breath smelt awful. I wondered if it was from what he was drinking or if he never brushed his teeth. I looked down at my form arm. The mark was burning again.
"Draco." Sirius said. "I know what you're trying to figure out. And the answer is no. It's not right or normal for a father to make their son do something like take the Dark Mark. You didn't want to. Did you?" I shook my head. Sirius sighed and ran his hand through his hair. "Neither one of my parents had forced Regulus, but he still did it for them. He saw how I was treated after going against our parents and did everything he could think of to keep them happy with him. Why he even cared I don't know. Draco, when you have parents like mine were.." He trailed off and looked down in his bottle. He looked as if he was going to start crying, but then shook his head and stood, went over to the sink and poured the rest of his drink down it. Then sat the empty bottle on the counter.
"You're lucky, your mother at least cares." Sirius said. "Harry never had a real family, his Aunt and Uncle hated him for being able to do magic." My eyebrows rose. I've heard of wizard hating kids for not being able to do magic, but I never thought muggle could feel the same way, when it came to their kids being able to do magic. Sirius walked up to me and patted my shoulder.
"Think about the lives that have been destroyed by that mad man." Sirius said. "If your Mother and you are truly serious about turning sides. You're doing the right thing. Even if your Mother is only doing it to save you." Sirius walked over to the to the other side of the counter.
"It'll be a while before you two are trusted." Sirius said. "Some if not most may never trust you."
I just sneered at him. "I don't care. Don't trust us." Sirius snorted.
"I'm going on to bed. You might want to too." Sirius said. "I'll be getting you and my dear cousin up early." He turned and went down the hall. He went in what I guess was the bathroom, then about five minutes later he came back carrying a pillow and thin blanket, now dressed only in a pair of sweat pants. He laid down on the couch and covered up.
"Night, Draco." Sirius called, he waved his wand and all the lights went out.
"Don't get me up too early." I said, standing. I went back to Potter's room to try to get some sleep, which was impossible. I laid there thinking about everything that has happened and the pictures of Potter and his friends and how Sirius wasn't really his real father and still cared for him. I could tell if it came down to it, Sirius would die for Potter. My father would probably throw me in front of the line of fire, then run to save himself. And my friends, yeah right, the only real friend I have was a muggle who claimed to be the daughter of some love goddess. Now she probably wasn't my friend now that we turned on the Dark Lord. Not that I was really on his side. I was just going along with it to protect mother and my friend. Father didn't like me liking Drew and had threatened, if I didn't do what he said, he would tell the Dark Lord a lie that would make him kill her. And the Dark Lord was saying if I didn't do what he wanted he would kill my mother.
I sighed and rolled over on my side and closed my eyes. I really wasn't looking forward to tomorrow. I didn't want to go to the Order of the of the Phoenix headquarters. Just because I didn't want to be a Death Eater, doesn't mean I want to on Dumbledore's side either. I wish Sirius would just let us stay here. But then Potter's friends will probably save him and I would get kicked out when he shows back up wanting his room.
When I finally fell asleep I had a strange dream, I was standing in a field. At first I thought it was land my father might have owned, if I went by all the peacocks. But then a throne suddenly appeared in front of me, sitting in it was the same women from the throw on Potter's wall. Her long black hair was pulled up in a bun, and a small crown sat on it. She wore a dress that changed color, each color matching one of the peacocks. In her hand was a glass full of Champagne. She raised it to me as if toasting me and took a drink.
"We do not usually invade the dreams of mortals, but I figured. What the heck?" She smiled and took another ship. "So, you're Malfoy? My son really doesn't like you."
"Your son?" I asked.
"Yes," The woman said. "I believe you are sleeping in his room at the moment."
"Potter?" I asked. "But I thought..."
"Have a seat, there is much to tell you." The women said. And chair formed behind me and as if I had no control I was made to sit.
"First. I am Hera, Queen of the gods, and unlike my son I can see you being useful. You don't want to be a Death Eater or on Dumbledore's side. So how about being on the god's side?" I raised my eyebrow as she began to tell me all about the gods and all about demigods, same stuff Drew has told the Dark Lord. And she ended with a shocker, the Dark Lord was the son of her husband Zeus king of the gods. And he wanted to kill off all the gods and become the king, that sent a shiver down my spin. She then explained where Potter was now and how he got there. She told me all his muggle friends were also children of the gods, but she wouldn't tell me which gods. And I also had a feeling she was holding a lot back. Mostly stuff about Potter. And mostly stuff Drew already told me, the things I hadn't really believed.
"So how about it?" She asked. "Whose side? You can't go back to Voldemort, he will kill you, or your father on his orders. "
"My father?" I asked. Potter's mother gave me a nod.
"So, if you don't want to be on Dumbeldore's side. How about siding with the gods." Hera said. "You'll still have to be at Phoenix headquarters, but you'll be working for us gods, or more like me and not Dumbeldore and you'll keep me posted on what he does and is up to. I don't like him and I don't trust him."
I frowned, so either I go back to the Dark Lord and have him make my father kill me or I go become one of Dumbledore's little puppets, or serve some Greek Gods. Or more like Potter's mother who happens to be the queen of gods. I frowned thinking. I looked down at my arm.
"Alright." I said. "I'll be on your side." She smiled. "But is there something you can do about this?" I showed her my mark. She looked at it with disgust, then looked thoughtful. "I can't take it off, but I'll think of something to and stop the burning. But now you must go. Sirius is trying to wake you." I suddenly woke to see Sirius standing over me. He glanced down at my arm and frowned.
"What happen to your mark?" He asked. I sat up real fast and looked to my left arm, the Dark Mark was gone, replaced by a lotus-topped staff with a peacock feather behind. I frowned. I wanted the mark gone not changed
A.N. Hope that was good, that last part with Hera and Malfoy just popped into my head when writing this chapter. I'll have to think of something good Hera can do with Malfoy now that he is on her side. Hope the other stuff was good too, and the two new glass figures on the shelf, the boar is for Clarisse, Sirius put it there since he likes her and she keeps him informed on what's happening with Harry, and the book is for Sally, it was the only thing I could think of for her, since she wanted to be a writer, I choose a book for her. I decided to post two chapters, hope you enjoy them both. The reason Draco didn't really know about Harry being a demigod or Voldemort being a son Zeus is, he just joined the Death Eaters and Voldemort doesn't let them know too much, at first. And Lucius didn't him or Narcissa, most the stuff Draco knew Drew told him, but she never brought Harry up when they talked. I hope that wasn't confusing.