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Chapter 10 Umbridge the Quidditch Star

Valentine's Day was only a few days away, and Kat was determined to make it the night that she and Draco finally slept together. She made reservations at a hotel that he wouldn't turn his nose up to, kept Rita Skeeter out of her hair by telling her that she was going to a restaurant in Paris instead, and only had one thing left to do.

"Hey Snape, how's it goin'?" Kat plastered a fake smile on her face as she waltzed into his shop. Just act like it's nothing, she thought. This is the only place Rita wouldn't dare to follow you into.

The permanent scowl on Snape's face didn't waver. "What do you want, Potter?"

Kat forced her smile wider. "Nothing. Nothing. Just a potion…"

Snape raised his eyebrows. She knew that look. He was getting ready to insult her intelligence. "Unless it is on the counter, Potter, you're going to have to tell me. Or have you already forgotten the reason you've decided to grace me with your presence?"

"Right…" Kat scanned the counter, but none of the bottles were labeled. Great. She was hoping to point, so Snape could just ring her up, and she could escape. "I would like… some contraception because I don't know if Draco has magical Veela sperm that will make mine not work."

Snape stared, and Kat knew he was trying his hardest not to pull the you're just like your father card somehow. She probably shouldn't have said 'magical Veela sperm.' The dungeon bat knew that Draco was half Veela, so he'd get her an appropriate potion if it was necessary. "Sometimes, Potter, I wonder how you managed to complete your Hogwarts education."

Kat forced herself to laugh. That was a joke, right? She was a decent student, not Ravenclaw worthy, but she did well enough. "Hermione."

"Of course. How could I have forgotten?" Snape turned away from her and pulled a few small vials from the shelf behind him. "Take one right before… the act. If you forget, take two within 72 hours. For twenty five galleons, I'll make you a month's supply."

"Awesome." Trying not to look at him, Kat scribbled the amount on a scrap of parchment and signed it so Snape could take it to Gringotts. "If Remus stops by, you didn't see me."

Snape took the parchment and handed her the vials. "Potter, why would I willingly strike up a conversation with Lupin?"

Kat opened her mouth to make a joke about Snape being lonely but thought better of it and quickly shut it. "No idea, Snape. Thanks for the potions. For some reason, Remus said you overcharge."

"I do. But I believe you are doing me a favor by making sure the Potter line is not continued," Snape drawled.

Kat wrinkled her nose. She was hoping that Snape would mellow out after showing her all those memories. Maybe he was angry with her for telling Hermione to use the anti-venom. At the time, she wanted to interrogate Snape in case Voldemort went into hiding because he had so few horcruxes left. There was nothing she could do about it now. "Thanks, Snape. It's good to know you're always on my side."

Because she didn't want Sirius to see her tight black dress, Kat shivered on the steps of Grimmauld waiting for Draco on the big day. Then fifteen minutes went by. Then half an hour. Then an hour. Kat gave up when her teeth started to chatter.

"What the bloody hell are you wearing?" Sirius yelled when Kat stomped in and threw off her cloak.

"Kat pretty!" Teddy grinned and then turned back to his Quidditch action figures.

"Thanks Teddy Bear. At least someone in this house is a gentleman," Kat muttered before throwing herself on the couch. "Break out the ice cream, Padfoot. I've been stood up."

"Don't you think it's a bit odd?" Remus snapped his book shut and put it on the coffee table before Sirius could try to lock her up in a convent. "I don't think Draco would just decide not to show up."

"Yeah, I guess." Kat didn't want to say that she knew that Narcissa and Lucius didn't like her. For all she knew, they asked Draco not to come. But they wouldn't do that because they're Veela… "I'm just annoyed!"

Remus smiled. "It's not his fault you dressed like that and sat in the snow for an hour. It's probably an emergency."

Kat shrugged and headed for the floo while Sirius yelled at Remus for encouraging her to go. This "emergency" better not be something work related.

She should have brought her coat. A Sirius-like voice in her head added that she shouldn't have chosen such a short, low cut dress to begin with. Narcissa was the first one to find her after she slowly climbed out of the fireplace in her black high heels.

Draco's mother seemed worried out of her mind but stopped in her tracks at the sight of her. Her eyes popped out of her head, and it took her a moment to recover. "Kat-Katherine! I was just going to find you. Draco said you were waiting for him."

"For an hour," Kat said grumpily.

Mrs. Malfoy glared at her. "I'm sorry, Katherine. Believe it or not, Draco didn't get charged with murder to simply inconvenience you."

"What?! There's no way." Kat made to walk past her to find Draco, but then she realized she would have no idea where to look. It would take hours to check every room. "Kingsley said that wouldn't happen."

"Wrongful death." Narcissa hissed out the words as if she shouldn't dare speak them. "That is what Dolores Umbridge is suing him for."

"But she disowned Dan…" Kat was starting to feel sick. Draco was a known Death Eater, but they could never prove it with Umbridge. The toad didn't have the Mark. "She didn't give a damn about her son."

Narcissa's lip curled in disgusted. "Now there isn't a magical heir to the Umbridge fortune. Her late husband's vaults are closed to her. The money would have gone to the next magical heir, but there isn't one to be found."

"So?" Kat yelled. Narcissa finally started walking to lead the way to wherever Draco was. "I can't see her bitch Fudge letting her go hungry."

Narcissa shrugged. "She hasn't been able to get a job after the war. The problem is that Draco is still on probation. If he loses, he could go to jail along with having to pay her."

"That isn't going to happen," Kat promised as Narcissa led her into what had to be Lucius's office. Lucius was sitting behind his desk while Draco was sitting across from him as they spoke in hushed tones.

"As long as she visits, I'll be fine," Draco whispered. "They got rid of the dementors. It will only be two years."

"You are not pleading guilty!" Lucius snapped. "It was clearly self-defense. And that woman is not getting a knut out of this family!"

Without being invited to, Kat sat next to Draco, making him jump. His eyes widened at her dress, but he quickly averted his eyes. "You're not going to jail, Draco."

Draco turned away from her. "Have you seen what Skeeter's been publishing? That I've bewitched you. I'm a Death Eater, who's bewitched the savior of the wizarding world. The public will think they're doing you a favor by locking me up. I'd rather be in prison for two years than ten, Katherine."

"No!" Kat yanked at her hair, trying to think of something. This shouldn't be happening. They should be in that hotel room without a care in the world. "I-I… Fifth year! She used a Blood Quill on me!"

"She did what!" Draco yelled, way more distracted than she'd thought he'd be with his life on the line. His skin did that weird darkening scaly thing that it did when he was trying not to transform. He didn't stop until Narcissa put her hands on his shoulders and shushed him.

Kat cleared her throat, feeling a little guilty. She should have known he would do that since his emotions were running high. "So I'll threaten to press charges on her for that, and she'll panic and drop the lawsuit."

"The statute of limitations for child abuse is five years," Lucius said flatly. "It doesn't matter, Katherine. I'll take care of it. Go out with Draco… Or put a robe on."

First Snape and now this! Kat growled to herself before continuing. So Umbridge needed a magical heir so she could keep buying cat plates. That shouldn't be too much of a problem. "No. There has to be something. I'm sure Lenny or Travis has a few kids. They fuck anything that walks… There's bound to be a 'magical heir' toddling about somewhere."

"So crude," was all Lucius said as he thought it over. "And how will you get this information Katherine? The two criminals are in prison."

"Miranda." Kat was met with blanks stares. "Dan's wife, er, widow. The only problem is she doesn't leave the house. She's agoraphobic or something. And I don't know where she lives."

Narcissa shook her head. "She's not going to let her grandchildren become the heirs. Not after how her in-laws treated her and her sons."

"She will if it means getting some of that money." Kat never met Miranda, but if she loved Dan as much as he loved her, she was probably already plotting revenge. This might not go as well as she was acting like it would. "… Lou would tell me where she is."

"Absolutely not," Draco snapped instantly. "I'd rather rot in Azakaban."

Kat looked at her hands, which she was fiddling with nervously in her lap. Her voice sounded so small when she spoke. "I'd let you go with me."

"So I could get in trouble for killing someone again?" he asked coldly.

"Draco," Narcissa chastised. "This could be over a lot sooner if you—"

"You didn't see what he did to her, Mother!" he yelled. "I'm not giving him the opportunity to do it again."

"Believe it or not, he's safer than the drug dealers who work for Dan… Now Miranda." Kat bit her lip. Lucius and Narcissa were staring at her as if she were some kind of criminal. "C'mon Draco. I've been wanting to tell him that it's over anyway."

"I think that was implied," Draco growled. "When you moved out of your flat and stopped talking to him."

"I need to do this. For us. For me." Kat shrunk under Narcissa's stare. She wondered if Draco's parents would ever not be wary of her. "It'll be over before you know it."

Draco couldn't believe that he agreed to this. The only reason that he did was the promise that Katherine would never see this low life again. He'd rather go to Azkaban with dementors than let her be near him again. Unfortunately, Draco was afraid that if he didn't agree to this, she'd go by herself. There was no 'letting' her do something.

So Draco found himself hidden under her Invisibility Cloak when they parked outside of a strip club. Katherine opened the passenger door to let him out and grabbed her purse.

"We're going in through the back," Katherine whispered, hardly moving her lips so it didn't look like she was talking to herself.

They walked in tense silence, and Draco had to make sure he didn't walk into anyone or knock over a trashcan. It was bad enough he was leaving snow prints behind him.

They went through an alleyway, and the first thing Draco noticed (besides the revolting smell) was a girl with dyed white blonde hair who couldn't be older than eighteen. A much older man was screaming in her face and had her backed against a wall. Her bloody nose told Draco that he had already hit her.

Katherine barely looked at them. Instead, she walked behind a dumpster and pulled out a wooden plank. Draco gasped when she slammed it into the man's head without hesitation. He tumbled to the ground a split second later.

"What the hell Kat?!" the girl shrieked. She sounded so young that Draco shivered. "You're going to get me in trouble!"

"I need to see Lou," Katherine said, sounding a little out of breath. "Chanel, I thought you were going to the community college I enrolled you in."

"I can't afford to pay the rent and childcare by just waitressing." The girl held up her hands. "And I'm not taking any more money from you, Kat. I just… need to save up."

Katherine looked disappointed but not surprised. After tossing the plank, she shoved her hands in the pockets of her leather jacket. "Fine. Just open the door and take me to him, 'kay? I doubt the bouncers will let me through without you."

The girl sighed, and Draco wondered how someone could sound so young and so old at the same time. "Alright. Where've you been, Kat? I needed you to babysit two weeks ago."

"Sorry," Katherine muttered before they walked in. "Lou did a number on me, and I've been licking my wounds at my dads' place ever since."

"Oh." Chanel didn't seem surprised at all. "I don't blame you."

"Thanks, 'Nel."

The more they walked through the club, the more appalled Draco became. Some of the girls looked sad as they danced for men more than twice their age. Some had emotionless stares that would put any Malfoy to shame. A few seemed content, happy even, but the general atmosphere was so miserable that Draco wondered how anyone could enjoy this. It was too cold for him.

No one looked twice at the young girl walking past with a dripping, bloody nose. Even the women she waved to didn't seemed concerned. They waved back like it was normal as they took off their clothing for their audience.

The bouncers said nothing as Chanel lead them down a hallway, although one showed Katherine that he had a gun and another cracked his knuckles at her. Chanel told them to fuck off. One shoved her but let them through anyway.

"I'll see you later, Kat." Chanel wiped her nose on her fingers. "And I am still going to school. I'm taking three classes this semester."

Katherine smiled for the first time since they had arrived. "Good luck."

"How old is her child?" Draco whispered, trying to stall once the girl ran off to do Merlin knew what.

Katherine frowned with her hand on the doorknob. "Two. It's her stepfather's. So she ran away."

Draco let that sink in as she opened the door and walked in, trying to focus on that instead of what was about to happened. He jumped when Katherine slammed the door behind him.

The Muggle was talking on a phone that was much larger than Katherine's and had a coil on it. He raised his eyebrows and slammed into its holder. "I was wondering when you'd come back."

Katherine shrugged and took a seat. "I'm not coming back. I need to speak to Miranda."

Louis smirked. "Do you now? And what makes you think I'm going to tell you where she lives?"

"Because I need you to," Katherine said honestly. "And I told you to fire Stevens. He keeps roughing up the girls."

"Don't tell me how to run my fucking business," Louis snapped. "You need me? What about when I needed you? The cops locked me up in the hospital for three days for what your dad or stepdad or whoever the fuck that was did."

"If you weren't serious, then you shouldn't have said it," Katherine muttered before looking away. Draco's blood boiled when she added, "Your boot prints were on my stomach. Did you expect me to come back?"

"Yeah!" Louis jumped out of his seat and threw his hands up in the air. "I thought you loved me!"

"I thought I did too," Katherine said so quietly that Draco wanted to grab her and apparate home. "But I don't. And I want you to know that I'm never coming back."

Louis charged at her and ripped her out of her seat. Draco almost threw the Invisibility Cloak off but hesitated when Katherine turned her head in his direction and glared at him. She struggled for a minute and eventually pushed the Muggle off.

Breathing heavily, he folded his arms over his chest. He almost sounded genuinely upset when he gasped out, "You always come back."

"Not anymore."

As Katherine turned to leave, Draco silently cast a sleeping charm on the Muggle so he wouldn't follow. He didn't even care that she didn't find out where the woman lived. He was just happy to leave.

Once they were outside, Katherine laughed in relief and took something out of her pocket. It looked a lot like her phone, but it was black instead of gray. "I nicked it when he grabbed me! Didn't think I'd forget about you, did I?"

Draco checked to make sure no one was around before taking off the Cloak. "Never scare me like that again."

Katherine ignored him and started pressing buttons on the phone. "Let's see. Melissa… Michelle… Here we go. Miranda."

Draco frowned as she started talking in the device to arrange a meeting. Hopefully this will end smoothly.

They drove to an upper class section of Muggle London. Kat couldn't believe how relieved she felt when she told Lou that she was never coming back. Draco didn't understand, but at least he let her without taking off the Cloak and hurting him. She needed to do this herself.

Kat parked and took a deep breath. "Here goes nothing."

Draco rang the doorbell, and a Muggle servant opened the door. She looked them over. "Katherine?" Katherine nodded. "We aren't going to search you. But be aware of the consequences if you decide to harm Mrs. Stefano."

That made Katherine frown, but she went in so Draco followed. They were led to a sitting room where they met a sickly looking woman in her mid-fifties. Draco couldn't shake off the feeling that her days were numbered.

"So you're the one who did it." Miranda was so pale and frail that Draco wouldn't picture her with the ape-like Daniel. She had dark eyes and maybe once had dark hair, but it was now a dark grey, white in some places. "I didn't want Dan to watch me die, but you didn't do me a favor by killing him."

"I'm sorry." Draco didn't feel sorry until now. She looked so weak, so defeated. And now her entire family was gone.

She smiled, but it didn't reach her eyes. Katherine grabbed his hand and squeezed. "I'll get you back before I die… So, Katherine tells me that my dearest mother-in-law is after you. I'd like to get her back before I die too."

Katherine gulped before speaking. "No one ever said you were sick."

"Dan couldn't bear to talk about it." Miranda leaned back in her cream colored sofa. "Besides, we'd have to lie anyway… Muggles don't live to old age when they are infected with lycanthropy. The only reason I've made it this long is because Dan sold drugs to make sure he had the money to keep me going. I can't exactly go to a hospital with this."

Katherine squeezed Draco's hand tighter, making him wonder if she was thinking about Lupin. "What happened?"

Miranda laughed bitterly. "Dolores. Lucky you. If not, I'd be able to focus all of my energy on killing the two of you."

"I don't understand," Katherine said slowly.

With a look of anguish, Miranda shifted to try to make her brittle bones comfortable. A servant hurried over to her with a pillow for her back and a potion. She didn't speak until she drank it. "I meet Dan when I was sixteen. He had just graduated from Hogwarts and was partying with his friends… He went to my father's bar and… We didn't fall in love instantly, but we slept together. And then I didn't hear from him for about three months."

Miranda sighed in relief as the potion started working. "By the time he came back to the bar to see me again, I was three months pregnant with our first son. We barely knew each other, but it was nearly forty years ago, so my father made us marry."

Draco started becoming hopeful. From their files, he knew that Lenny and Travis were in their early thirties. "So your first son has magic?"

Miranda shook her head. "No. He abandoned us for a military career. I haven't heard from Drew since he was eighteen. It's a miracle he survived… Because Dolores tried to get rid of me by sending Fenrir Greyback to get rid of his son's wife. She didn't expect me to live. And she didn't expect her son to turn his back on his family for a half dead Muggle werewolf who was six months pregnant." She paused as she broke out into a coughing fit. "I guess Dan was already starting to fall in love with me."

Katherine gaped. "That's why she hates werewolves? Because of you?"

Miranda shrugged. Draco could tell that she wasn't entirely sure what Katherine meant, but she didn't care either. "Anyway, Drew isn't as much of an upstanding citizen as he leads everyone to believe. He got a girl pregnant when he was fourteen. I made them give the baby up because I wanted him to finish his education. That's why he doesn't talk to the family. He and his girlfriend wanted that baby."

"Do you know where it is?" Katherine asked hopefully.

Miranda nodded, and for a moment, Draco saw some life in her. She hated Umbridge with every fiber of her being. "Unlike Drew and Dolores, I don't abandon my family. Dan had the baby tested, and he had magic. So we gave him to a family that would send him to Durmstrang."

"What's his name?" Katherine asked eagerly.

Miranda smiled. Clearly, she couldn't wait to ruin Umbridge's life. She hated her mother in-law more than the people who took her husband and children away. Most likely because she figured she'd be reunited Dan soon enough. "He was adopted, so I don't know if he knows. But surely you've heard of him. His name is Viktor Krum."

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