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The match didn't last that long, but it was an intense game. Ron actually played seeker even though he's normally a keeper, Ginny and Lacey were both Chasers and Landon played keeper while his two friends were beaters. To the two Weasely's surprise, they watched as Hermione mounted the broom and clumsily flew into the air and laughed as they saw her take the position as the seeker, Hermione made an award-winning act, she had pretended to nearly " fall" off the broom twice and picked herself back up onto it, at one point Draco thought she was actually going to fall and nearly dove to her he only realised that it was an act when she frowned at him for flying towards her. However, Blaise could have sword he saw the red-haired woman knock deliberately knock into Hermione one of the time. Draco had to admit that Ron's team was pretty good, but Astoria and himself made a pretty good team in scoring goals where as Ginny and Lacey didn't really work together and just tried to score themselves, the beaters were the one's that were really talented, Astoria was grazed by the bludger that Neil had sent her way. Just when the game was on a tie, Draco called it and whistled out loud, which Blaise caught on and whistled since Hermione was further away, it was a chain reaction of whistles throughout the team, once Hermione heard it, she had stopped messing around on the broom and flew swiftly towards the snitch, zooming straight pass Ron, he was unaware that the snitch was not far behind him. Everything went fast as Hermione zoomed across the pitch and caught the snitch, she held it up in the air grinning, the children cheered loudly and the adults were clapping, including Johnson and Terry. Once they landed they noticed that Lucius was standing next to Cassie grinning proudly.
" How did you even let it happen Ron!" Ginny yells at him
" I didn't see it, I didn't know she saw it!" Ron cries back furiously
" I told you I should have gone seeker, I was the substitute for Gryffindor!" She snarls at him
" That was a good game, the lady's got some skills" Landon says shaking Draco's hand looking over at Hermione who blushes
" Yeah, thanks" Draco bites back not liking the way the man was looking at his wife
" You got lucky Hermione! If Harry was here, we would have floored you" Ginny yells at her
" Nope, just skill, and if Potter was here, the outcome would have been the same." Pansy smirks
" If Harry was here he would have caught the snitch, Hermione doesn't even know what was happening, your snitch must be faulty" Ron says
" We have the best equipment that money can buy Weasley, check it yourself" Theo snaps
" Well there's definitely something wrong with your equipment because Hermione wouldn't harve a chance" Ron huffs
" Oh that's where you're wrong Weasel. You see, Mia and Draco are our main seekers, she knew exactly what was going on" Theo says
" What are you talking about? She's never liked quidditch, for her friends, you guys don't know shit about her" Ginny says
" I didn't realise how dense the Weasley's are, does it run in the family?" Blaise raises an eyebrow looking at Hermione who shrugs in return
" She nearly fell off her broom a couple of times, I saw it!" Lacey says
" I merely slipped" Hermione waves her hand
" Are those custom-made brooms?" Partick asks trying to stop an argument before it got worse
" Yes, yes they are" Theo smiles, tilting his broom a little so they could see
" I thought I recognise that one, it looks like the Razorwind500, but yours has a different handle and has extra patterns on it" Patrick looks at it in awe, you could see the jealousy in Ron's eyes
" Yeah, I'm more comfortable with an upper grip rather than a straight broom. The patterns are actually just something I drew on" Theo shrugs making out as if it was no big deal
" Your one looks just like the Mialeap, but you can't get those any more, it was a limited edition and only 1000 were sold around the world. Only, yours has engravings too" Patrick points at Hermione's broom, Ginny wanted to scream hearing what Patrick had said, she had tried to get one of the brooms when it was released, but they were sold out before they was even made to the stores.
" Ahh, that one is designed personally just for Mia" Draco smiles putting an arm around Hermione
" Mia?" Neil questions
" Yes, Mia is a nickname that family and friends use." Hermione informs them
" What do you mean designed personally?" Landon raises an eyebrow at Draco
" Well, Mia's broom is the very first one made out of the 1000, and it's specially engraved because I wanted it to be special." He says eyeing his handy work on the broom
" You designed Mialeap?" Landon says in shock
" Draco and Theo owns M & N specialist broom corp" Blaise finally says
" Oh! This is amazing! Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Nott! It's a pleasure to meet you!" Neil jumps in front of everyone and shakes the two men's hand excitedly
" Neil here has an obsession in collecting brooms" Patrick laughs
" STOP!" They hear Ron scream, all turning to look at him who was bright red in the face next to Ginny who looked like she was going to going to blow steam from her ears
" You're lying! You cannot possibly own M & N, they're the most popular brand of brooms" Ron yells pointing at them, Cassie was going to stand up but Matalia had stopped her.
" What do you think M and N stand for?" Astoria asks politely
Ron pauses to try and think of something by Ginny was already there.
" Wow, I was kidding about the dense thing but I'm actually surprised my own joke turns out to be true" Blaise mutters to Pansy making her chuckle
" Malfoy and Nott..." She says, Astoria nods at the woman
" It was nice to meet you all, but we should get back to our family" Draco says the three men that was bombarding him and Theo with questions
" Feel free to drop and owl if you want to know more about our brooms" Theo smiles shaking their hand again
" Hermione!" Ginny calls, stopping them all from moving
" Yes?" She says turning round to the red-head woman, Ginny had strolled up to her and leaned forward to whisper in her ear, placing her hand on her shoulders
" I'd be careful with Draco Hermione, he's never been a one woman man" She hears Ginny say
Then Ginny claws her hand off her shoulders violently causing her to yelp out
" What the hell do you think you're doing?" Draco yells at her, Pansy had pushed her away from Hermione
" I was just telling your wife something, my hand 'slipped' she is taller than me" Ginny replies smirking then walking off dragging Ron by the arm with him who was protesting but neither of them really cared what he was saying, Lacey running along after them and Landon and his friends apparated away.
" I'm fine, it was just a scratch." Hermione says rubbing her shoulders and walking towards the others who were sitting down. As the men pack away the quidditch equipment and brooms, the girls all sat down with the children, who were chattering away about the game they just had.
Harry arrived back to Grimmauld place to a very loud cursing Ron and a furious Ginny who sat there with a frown on her face but looking like she was in her own thoughts rather than listening to her brother. Rubbing his forehead on the scar, out of habit he sighs.
" What happened now?" He asks, the two snap their heads at him not realising he had even arrived.
" Hermione isn't Hermione!" Ron states furiously
" Excuse me?" Harry says looking confused at him
" I mean, it either isn't her or they definitely have done something to her, I still think its imperio" Ron says dropping himself in an arm-chair
" What?" He asks again confused
" We had a quidditch game with them at Oblick Park and Hermione was seeker" Ginny growls
" Oh okay..." Harry still confused
" We went the park cause Lacey wanted to show her brother and his two friends around and Hermione and those snakes where there" Ron says snapping at every word
" And...quidditch?" Harry asks raising an eyebrow at him
" That was Landon's doing" Ginny said harrumphing
" Okay, so how has this got something to do with Hermione not being Hermione?" He asks the two
" Didn't you hear? She was seeker, Hermione can't fly, let alone play the game. They must have someone polyjuicing her or something, but I still believe its imperio" Ron says trying to come up with excuses. Harry couldn't help but found it funny that Ron had mentioned Polyjuice as it triggered him to remembering what Hermione had said when he saw the picture of her flying.
" Maybe she learnt to fly" Harry shrugs
" Hermione flying? She wouldn't even go near a broom when I was with her." Ron shouts
" Well, maybe she got over her fear" Harry sighs
" She's too much of a wimp to get over her fears" Ginny mumbles
" So...I guess you lost the game, that's why you're both pissed?" Harry said moving on from the subject on Hermione flying, Ginny glares at him with rage while Ron mumbles something along the lines off " got lucky"
" And why where Johnson and Boot with them?" Ron snarls at him, Harry frowns at his question.
" They're on duty" He replies firmly
" Why?" Ron asks again
" Because I told them to" He was getting frustrated with Ron now
" But what are they on duty for?" Ron stands up close to him
" That's none of your business Ron" He says pushing past him to head towards the kitchen
" He has a right to know Harry, he's an Auror too" Ginny says defending her brother
" Not if he's not on the case, it's none of his concern." Harry shouts out
" Are you yelling at me?" Ginny cries out
" No!...No I'm not Gin, I'm just trying to explain that just because he's an Auror doesn't mean he's got to know everything" Harry sighs
" Stop talking as if I'm not here!" Ron yells
" Then stop acting like a git" Harry snaps back at him and walks off
" I got something that will help me" Ginny speaks in a quiet tone to her brother
" What is it?" Ron looks at his sister
" Never you mind about that. I don't think Malfoy would warm up to me any time soon so I've come up with something else. When we drop the kids off for Hogwarts, you have a chance to grab Hermione and apparate, it's crowded and easy to get her away from the others" Ginny says
" Are you insane? You just said it's crowded and there's a lot of people, how do you expect me to get her away without anyone noticing? This is your big plan?" Ron snorts
" It'll be easy to get her away because everyone will have their attention on the kids." Ginny whispers harshly
" Where do you even expect me to apparate to?" Ron asks her
" I don't care where you apparate to, just get her off the platform" Ginny snaps
" People will know she's missing" He said to her
" Just do it! I will handle the rest" She growls and walks off to find her husband before Ron could reply.
Hermione had felt much better in the evening, the quidditch match actually released some of her stress, with the two Aurors around all the time, she felt more reassured. Draco had insisted on hiring extra security guards for her but Hermione had dismissed it saying that with Johnson and Terry around was enough, and with more people around Cassie, she was afraid that it would make their daughter more uncomfortable. They had settled on having them taking turns on guarding her at night, with one of them standing outside Cassie's bedroom, with her door open ajar, while the other one would rest for a few hours. Lucius had been called to an emergency meeting in the middle of dinner and hadn't returned home yet. It was getting nearer bed time for the children, Matalia and Narcissa was helping Scorpius pack his trunk for Hogwarts, much like Hermione with organizing, he wanted to do it sooner than later so that he'd have more time on Sunday with his family. Cassie was busy playing with Johnson as she had dragged him into a pretend duel. Draco and Hermione was about to head downstairs to get them all some tea and coffee, when they heard a scream from Cassie's room. Draco ran straight to her room with Hermione right behind him, they saw Johnson carrying Cassie while she was crying into him and Terry had his back to them looking at something. Matalia and Narcissa was holding Scorpius back in the door way.
Johnson gave Cassie to Hermione who hung onto her mother in tears, Draco walked over to where Terry was with Johnson. As soon as Draco stepped forward they were faced in front of Cassie's doll house, inside in one of the tiny rooms was a bloodied hand that had been cut off. Draco paled feeling dizzy, nearly lost his footing as he swayed but Terry was fast to hold him up, Hermione couldn't tell what it was they saw but didn't want the children to see any more as they just witnessed their father looking ill. Cassie was crying so much that she didn't know what to do, Matalia could see her surrogate daughter was torn in what to decide, waving her to hand Cassie over, Hermione nods and instructs them to stay in Scorpius's room and to not come out until they said so. Once the door closed she walks over to Draco and puts a hand on his back and then sees the hand, gasping out loud and feeling dizzy, Draco holds on to her while she points at it, suddenly she turns her head and wasn't able to hold in her dizziness any more and threw up.
" Draco, Hermione you need to step back, we need to call Harry and the forensics in" Terry says gently ushering them back to the bed as Draco hands his wife a handkerchief
" Its...its..." Hermione tries to speak with the handkerchief covering her mouth, but her tears was restraining her
" It's my father's hand..." Draco says, the two Aurors breath hitched at the words
" How can you tell?" Johnson asked him
" That's Lucius's ring. That's his wedding ring" Hermione cries into her husbands shoulders
The two Auror's got the couple out of the room and Terry went to floo Harry, while Johnson stood outside the door. Draco and Hermione went to get Narcissa and made the children stay with Matalia. Narcissa passed out as soon as she heard what it was that got Cassie so upset, Draco took her straight to St Mungo's and had sent Blaise and Theo a patronus. Johnson made the others go down to the sitting room where he found to be more safe, where they waited for Harry and the forensics to arrive. At the sound of the floo, they all turn and saw Blaise coming in and straight behind him Theo stumbled. As soon as Blaise saw Hermione in tears with Cassie on her lap he rushed over to her and places himself next to her on the sofa, pulling them both into a hug. Matalia had glossy eyes as she was holding onto Scorpius who had silent tears streaming down his face. Theo quietly asked Johnson what had happened and the Auror didn't know if he was to say anything but Hermione spoke before Johnson could reply.
" There's been...an incident, Lucius is in danger" She says quietly.
Matalia came over and picked up Cassie and took her and Scorpius in the far corner in an arm-chair knowing that the children shouldn't have to hear the explanation.
" What do you mean he's in danger?" Theo asks kneeling down in front of her, she started sobbing into Blaise's chest as she strokes her hear.
" Sorellina?" Blaise says gently
" Cassie and Johnson was playing in her room and they came across Lucius's hand in her doll house" She cried more as she said, both Blaise and Theo gasped and was still hearing her words.
" Are you sure it's his hand...a real hand?" Blaise asks holding her more tightly feeling slightly queasy on the thought
" Yes...it's his wedding ring" She replies between sobs
" It could be a duplicate" Theo says hopefully
" No...it's a Malfoy wedding ring, like mine, it's not duplicate-able, it connects with the other half, which Narcissa has, the two can connect and contact each other through it." She replies,
Both men felt sick at the explanation and was unable to speak, Blaise was trying to calm her down by rocking her in his arms, while Theo leaned his back on the bottom of the couch with his head in his hands. Another ring sounded from the floo and Harry steps in with Terry and two men and a women wearing white bodysuits. He sees the others all looking distraught and walks straight to Johnson who was standing by the door, after speaking to the Auror quietly he walks back over to Hermione, kneeling down on the space Theo once was.
" Hermione?" He says gently, she looks up at him with red puffy eyes, tears still falling down on her blotchy face.
" I'm sorry about what happened Hermione, we have to close off Cassie's room for examination." He said to her, she nods back without speaking knowing it wasn't a request
" We will need to talk to the adults to get a statement, Johnson has told me that Draco had to take Narcissa to St Mungo's. Scorpius will need to be spoken to, Cassie however doesn't have to go through with it because Johnson was with her at the time and he's willing to give the statement on her behalf" He explains, she nods again without answering, with him sighing silently he gets up and heads out the room with Terry and the forensics.
She was grateful that Johnson had taken it upon himself to give a statement to not put Cassie through the pain, she was already distraught as she is. Once Harry had left the forensics to their job in Cassie's room, he heads back down with Terry. Draco hadn't come back from St Mungo's yet and Hermione didn't want to speak without him being there, so Harry had let Theo and Johnson take Scorpius and Cassie to Nott Manor for the time being. Matalia was now sat next to Hermione, cradling her in her arms while Blaise was on sitting on Hermione's other side staring blankly at the fireplace. Harry sat in an arm-chair next to them deep in thought. They waited silently par from the silent sobs and sniffles from Hermione, as soon as Draco stepped out the fireplace, Harry could see that the blonde-haired man had been crying, his eyes were bloodshot and his hair was mangled, he shirt was crumpled everywhere and he looked just as bad as Hermione. Hermione flung herself to Draco as soon as he came back, weeping into her husbands chest as he held onto her tightly with his face buried in her hair on the side of her neck.
" How's Cissa doing?" Matalia asks weakly
" She was out for a while, but when she woke she was in hysterics and was screaming so they had to force calming draught and a sleeping draught down her. She won't wake till the morning" Draco says quietly but everyone heard him.
Harry stood up to speak but Terry had stopped him and shook his head, Harry wasn't sure why he had done this, but watched as Terry walked over the couple.
" Hey, I know this is extremely hard and I understand that you both want to curse and yell, but we really need the statements before Harry can leave, I promise you both that we will get to the bottom of this" Terry says gently putting each hand on both their backs.
At that moment, Harry realised that Terry was doing him a favour, with Harry no longer as Hermione's friend, it was better to have Terry speak to them, seeing as Draco and Terry were also on okay terms. A sudden guilt washed over him as he felt out-of-place, everyone in the room par from Matalia knew each other on a first name basis, even though Harry still calls Hermione by her first name, he knew that they were no longer on that level off friendship. The couple had nodded at Terry's request and took the Auror's into kitchen to talk, leaving Blaise comforting his mother.
Harry had found that both Hermione and Draco was answering every question without hesitation or anger, they held hands the whole time, he knew that they both just wanted to get it done as quick as possible and he didn't want to keep them any longer, he was never good at handling people crying and there was two right in front of him. He was thankful that Terry had held it together and asked most of the questions while he took notes. It wasn't until he mentioned that they will have to question Scorpius after Matalia that Draco had shown anger in his voice.
" He's only 11, he's gone through enough in one day, can't you wait till tomorrow to ask him questions" Draco yells
" Malfoy, I know it's difficult, it needs to be done" Harry replies calmly
"DIFFICULT? How would you feel if you found out one of your relatives are in danger and you don't know whether he's alive or not, merlin knows where he is and to top it off, one of his limbs is in your house still bloodied" He yells at Harry, Harry didn't know how to answer that, he hadn't been in Draco's position before, he may not have his parents, but if it was someone like Arthur Weasley that had been kidnapped and chopped off a limb he wouldn't know how to hold in his anger that long, he was actually surprised that it took this long for Draco to burst.
" Draco, it's best if we do this tonight while it's fresh on Scorpius's memory, you can be there the whole time, if he really can't answer anything, we'll leave it for the next day, we wouldn't want to make it any worse for him. It's a lot fewer questions than we asked you, we just need to know what he was doing at the time and if he heard anything or seen anyone earlier, nothing else. As soon as it is over, he doesn't have to be involved any more, there will be no need to bring him into this." Terry says gently, Draco doesn't respond but stands up and turns his back to them, once again Harry watched as Terry went round the table and spoked to the man in a hushed tone giving him a pat on the shouler, Draco sighed and nodded at him, running a hand through his hair.
Once again he felt bad for not being able to do his job properly, Terry had done more in the last few hours for the case than he had done, his colleague had managed to calm the victims down and asked most of the difficult questions, and then also getting them to agree in letting their son being questioned. Hermione hadn't moved from her seat, she was staring blankly at her lap after answering the questions, it wasn't until Draco had gently picked her up from her seat, she instantly moved into his embrace leaning into him as he carried her back to the living room. Placing her in Blaises arms before leaving to get Scorpius, while Terry took Matalia to the kitchens for her questions.
Hermione wasn't crying no more, just silent, she let Blaise hold her and stroke her hair. Draco came back holding Scorpius's hand, Hermione jumps off the couch and rushes over to her son, pulling him into a hug. Scorpius gave her a weak smile and told her it was going to be okay, making fresh tears fill into her eyes. Crouching down to look at Scorpius, Draco and Hermione both talk to him.
" Scorpy, the Auror's just need to ask you a couple of questions about tonight. Just tell the truth, you don't need to be scared okay honey?" Hermione says
" I'm not scared, I'll answer what I can" He replies nodding
" You don't have to worry, I'll be there the whole time okay champ?" Draco gently speaks
" Okay dad" Scorpius replies bravely, Draco smiles at his son and hugs him with Hermione.
" How's Cassie?" Hermione asks Draco standing up
" Storie managed to put a little bit of calming drought in her juice for her, don't worry, Storie says that a little bit won't harm her. She's asleep now, and Storie hasn't left her side, they're sleeping in Parkers room" Draco tells her, Hermione sighed in relieve that her daughter was okay and at least getting some rest.
Terry walks back in with Matalia at that moment and nods to Draco who nods back. Hermione sits herself back with Blaise who had sat silently on the couch having not moved. Taking his son's hand, Draco and Scorpius heads out of the room with Terry to the kitchen where Harry was waiting patiently.
" Mamma, why don't you go back the manor to rest, I'll stay with Mia" Blaise spoke quietly
" No, io restare qui con tua sorella" Matalia says shaking her head
" It's okay mamma, please get some rest, I'll be fine" Hermione says looking at her
" You need rest too bambino" Matalia says giving her a sad look
" Sto bene, prometto" Hermione said giving her a small smile, Matalia cups Hermione's face and kisses her on her forehead and stands sighing
" Let me know if you need anything okay? Prenditi cura di tua sorella Blaise" She says before taking the floo back to Blaise and Pansy's place
Hermione slumps her head on her brother's shoulder, while he had his arm around her. Blaise knew she was exhausted, within a few minute he could hear her breathing even out softly. Draco and Scorpius came back in a few minutes after, Terry was telling the truth that they only asked him a couple of questions. Draco looked over and saw Blaise put a finger to his lips, then pointing at Hermione who was sleeping.
" I've already arranged with Theo that we'll be staying over at his place tonight, Cassie has already fallen asleep and I know Mia won't want her waking up without her there, and I don't think she'd want to stay here tonight" Draco spoke softly to Blaise sitting down on the other side of Hermione
" Yeah, I was going to offer you to stay at our place but with Cassie already asleep it's best if you went to Theo's" Blaise nods at him, he gently eases Hermione over into Draco's arms
Harry had gone to see if the forensics were finished while Theo offered to take Scorpius back to Nott Manor, Draco instantly felt a bit better having his wife in his arms, the three waited for Harry to come back down.
" Everything is cleared, we've taken the hand, and they've scanned the room for prints. We should get some result in tomorrow. I will let you know as soon as we find out anything. I suggest you not to stay tonight here until we figure out how the person got in" Harry says walking in with the forensics, not noticing Hermione was asleep
" That's fine, I don't want to stay here tonight anyway" Hermione says yawning, getting up from Draco's lap
" You okay? Did we wake you?" Draco frowns at Harry for speaking too loud, but speaks gently to Hermione, putting an arm around her
" I just want to see Cassie" She says leaning on his shoulder
" We will be needing the Malfoy's Corporations address to ask some people some questions, he was called to a meeting there earlier" Harry adds, Draco stands and walks to the side table and pulls out a piece of paper and scribbles down some details, he eyes the man using a ball point pen instead of a quill, he guesses that he shouldn't be so surprised seeing as Draco was married to Hermione who is muggleborn. Not failing to notice the look on Harry's face, Draco chose to ignore it and hands the paper to him.
" This is the address, you should also speak to Keith Waltz, he's my fathers personal assistant for the company" Draco says
" I will contact you as soon as I get any information" Harry says nodding at him
" Do you have a phone Harry" Hermione says, making the three men look at her
" Er...not a house phone..." Harry replies
" A mobile, a cell phone Potter" Blaise says rolling his eyes
" Oh, er yes I do, why?" He replies sheepishly
" Draco give him our numbers so he can call us, it'll be faster" Hermione said
" Yeah, good idea" Draco agreed, snatching the paper out of his Harry's hand and scribbling down their numbers
" Right, okay, we'll leave you all to rest for tonight" Harry said nodding at them before leaving with the forensics.
Scorpius and Cassie had slept in Parkers room for the night while Hermione and Draco had the guest room opposite them, but it didn't stop Hermione checking on the children a few times in the middle of the night, eventually Draco had to coerce her away from the door way so that she'd get a few hours sleep. When morning came Hermione had made sure that Cassie was around an adult at all times, before dashing off to 's to visit Narcissa with Draco. Cassie had however no intention of leaving Johnson's side, and either followed him where ever he went or made sure he was with her everywhere she went, even though she stayed in Nott Manor with her brother. Scorpius was still distraught but hid it well, he wanted to protect his sister but not knowing how, he did the next best thing, which was to try to make her smile and forget the night before. When arriving at St Mungo's Hermione thought she saw a black dot that was latched to the door of Narcissa's room, but thought nothing off it as she wanted to see her mother in law. The woman in the bed had awoken and was staring into space, seeing the couple walk in she had quickly sat upright and firing questions at them.
" Is everyone all right? Have you heard from Lucius? Is he alive? Is he okay? Was it really his hand? Do they know who it was?" She pleaded every question with worry etched all over her face, within one night, she look more pale than she already did. Noticing the food on the tray that hadn't been touched, Draco frowned and ignored his mothers questions
" You need to eat mum" He says pushing the tray towards her
" I'm not hungry, now tell me something" Narcissa turned her nose at the food angrily
" I won't tell you anything until you've eaten mother" Draco replied strictly
" Mia? Will you answer me?" She ignored her son and turned to Hermione with a pleading look, Hermione looked at her husband who had a frown on his face, knowing full well that he would have a fit if she answered her at the moment, she sighs.
" Cissa, we will answer all your questions as soon as you start eat something, you don't have to finish everything, just have something to fill your stomach, okay?" She replies softly, Narcissa frowns at her and looks at the tray of food, a few minutes of silence passed, failing the battle of silence she pulled the tray forward and ate slowly, Draco and Hermione let out a sigh of relieve watching.
" Stupid bug!" They hear someone yell from outside, looking at the direction of the door, Harry walks in with two other Auror's that they hadn't met before. Draco stood up quickly and marched over to the Auror's to stop them from coming any further.
" My mother hasn't eaten yet, let her finish and then you can ask your questions" He says firmly, Harry tilts his body to the side to see Narcissa staring at them, with a tray still filled with food, he could see that Narcissa was looking frail and more paler than usual, her hair was still a mess and she looked positively ill, most likely due from stress, he looks back at Draco and nods.
" We'll wait in the waiting room" He sighs before leaving with the other two.
" Arghhhh!" The three inside the room heard the same voice
" It's just a bug man" Another voice says laughing
" I hate beetles" They hear the man mutter too loudly
" It's gone, you've probably scared it away. What kind of Auror is afraid of bugs!" The other man laughs again, their voices growing distant as they chatter.
Draco turns back to his mother and gives her a glare and she carries on eating. Hermione sits down on the only chair that was at the bedside while Draco stands behind her with one hand on her shoulder. Happy that the woman had eaten some of her food, Draco started answering her questions to his best knowledge, unhappy with most of the answers Narcissa starts crying again. Hermione scoots herself onto the bed next to her and holds onto her mother in-laws hands, trying to comfort her, being unsuccessful as she didn't really know what to say, they hadn't heard from him and they didn't know who it was that was behind it.
" He's a strong man Cissa, he will be okay" Hermione says softly, not fully believing in her own words
" We don't know that...the hand...it was his wand hand..." Narcissa cries, Hermione starts tearing as she heard this, she forgotten that Lucius was left-handed, they had taken his hand that held the wand.
Hermione couldn't help but cry but she also felt anger, anger for the people who did this to her and her family, anger that someone threatened her daughter, anger that they had tried to hurt Blaise and anger that those sick bastards had gone and taken a limb off her father in law, vowing to herself that she would not cower, she would not show fear, she was after all a Gryffindor.
Moments later Harry Potter popped his head in the doors asking if it was okay to talk yet, Narcissa nodded despite Draco trying to stop them, he didn't want his mother to go through more grief, but Narcissa was adamant that she was fine. It was the same questions that they had ask Matalia, they had let Hermione and Draco stay with Narcissa during the questioning. Harry also had let them know that the forensics were still working on the prints and the hand, and promised to contact them once he got the report, he left once the healer arrived to give Narcissa a check up.
" You're doing well but I still want to keep you in just for tonight, your stress level has caused your blood pressure to be quite high, hopefully it'll go back to normal tomorrow, if so, you should be out by tomorrow afternoon" The man in the white coat says, the three of them nod their thanks to the healer, as he opens the door he looks back at the three.
" I should let you know that there are a load of people from the media outside the building, we've warded the place off, but I suggest you either go to the apparation point on 5th or use the floo connections on 3rd floor, the 1st floor floo is blocked off" He says before heading out.
" Well at least none of them can get to you" Draco sighs
" The last thing we need is the press printing a load of bull...Oh SHIT" Hermione trails off to a cry
Draco and Narcissa both looked at her with a puzzled expression.
" Hermione! Language" Narcissa frowns, Hermione ignores her and Draco could see Hermione deep in thought, her wheels were turning and they were turning fast.
" I need to contact Blaise...NOW!" She says, as neither of them understood she yells out.
Standing up she frantically walks around the room, she was in a fluster and couldn't think straight.
" Caro, you can text him you know?" Draco says softly, not knowing what was going on he didn't want his wife in rage against him, she looked like she was ready to bite someone's head off
" Drake! You're a genuis! I completely forgot..." She trails off again pulling her phone out her bag and tapping on it with speed, hearing her call him Drake made him feel better knowing that she wasn't angry with him.
" Mia, is something wrong?" Narcissa asks from her bed
" Draco go check outside for a beetle!" She says not looking up from her phone, he eyes her curiously
" NOW Draco!" She says looking up to see he hadn't moved, hearing the sound of her tone he bolts out the door and scans the area.
" There's no bug outside, now can you tell us what's wrong?" He asks closing the door gently
" Skeeter!" She bites
" Shit!" Draco yells suddenly realising what was happening
" Can someone tell me what's happening?" Narcissa yells getting impatient
" Skeeter's animagus form is a beetle" Draco says pacing the room
" Okay...?" His mother replies
" The Auror's that came with Potter, they were talking about a beetle earlier" He explains, running a hand through his blonde locks, Narcissa face paled once again, not knowing what to say or do, her hands start fidgeting in her lap.
" Don't worry Cissa, I'm going to stop whatever she's going to do before she can even say Merlin" Hermione places her hands on Narcissa's
" Don't stress! You heard what the healer said, trust me, I will get this sorted" Hermione carries on
" What are you going to do?" Draco asks coming to a halt from his pacing.
" What I do best" Hermione smirks at him
No, io restare qui con tua sorella – No, I will stay here with your sister
Prenditi cura di tua sorella – Look after your sister