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Chapter Two
Narcissa
I wasn't sure how long I was sleeping for but when I woke up the winter sun was high up in the sky, I could hear nothing but silence and Draco, my boy was sitting holding my hands in his own as soft tears fell down his face. Albus Dumbledore sat on my other side with his face looking incredibly pensive staring into space. Everything came rushing back and I could feel every single bruise and cut on my body, I was aching all over but alive. Mostly in thanks to Bella which was even more shocking to me.
"Draco." His blonde head snapped up to my own and he went to hug me but stopped himself as he took in my injuries with a worried expression on his face. I held my arms open as an invitation to know it was ok for him to come into.
"I will not break my dragon. Please come and hug your mother." He nodded his head at me before coming and enveloping me in an embrace which I hadn't realised I needed. Ever since he was a boy he had a way of filling me to the brim with comfort and so far I haven't came across that with any other person.
I pulled back from him and wiped the stray tears that was rolling down his face, I knew he hated showing weakness in front of Albus Dumbledore of all people but it seems that actually having me in front of him was enough to make him throw caution to the wind.
"There is so much I need to tell you Draco, and I only hope you can forgive me. I have been so stupid and have put you in danger but no more ok. The lies end here." He looked confused at me for a second before I took a deep breath knowing what was at stake and knowing I might lose my son with the words I am about to utter.
"First things first, the Daily Prophet will be reporting my death this morning, I need you to make them believe it, I need you to play the grieving son and make them believe I am dead. Ok?" He nodded his head and I couldn't tell what was going on in his head but I knew that curious face, it was the same face I used to see in my dreams after I got married. The same face as his father.
"Secondly, I need you to let me speak, and don't interrupt me ok?" I took his silence for acceptance and got ready to tell a secret I had kept buried for over fifteen years. Albus Dumbledore was sitting across from us and was sitting in silence I think to allow me to talk.
"I am so sorry my boy but Lucius is not your father. Your grandparents made a marraige contract between us when I was fifteen and it was not something I wanted. We were to be married when I finished Hogwarts after turning Seventeen. I was rebelling and unsure of who I was and so I went out with your Aunt Bella three nights before the wedding and decided if I was going to be forced into a marraige I would at least lose my virginity in my own terms." He shuddered as I said this and realistically I didn't ever think I would be talking about this with him.
"I got extremely drunk and sought out someone who was kind, gentle and sweet. That person was Remus Lupin, and he does not know,you are going to have to tell him somehow without letting him know I am alive." He looked at me and a flash of betrayal echoed all across of his features before he turned to me.
"So I could have grown up with Professor Lupin instead of my fat... Lucius. How could you do this to me? How could you make me live in that house with that abusive bastard." I nodded and held hard to his hand as the tears started coming down my own face.
"I didn't know until you were born not for sure and your hair was a sandy brown and you eyes the deepest green. I cast some charms on you as a baby to hide your identity from your fa... Lucius and the world in general. He was away on business when I went into labor and didn't get here until after. Kimmy and Dobby helped deliver you." He still looked like it was difficult to accept but calmed down enough to come and sit back down.
"Draco, we both would have been slaughtered if he found out, my marriage contract practically assured he could find me no matter where I was. Last night my heart stopped and so technically the contract is null and void. I tried to protect you." He nodded his head in understanding but still looked extremely pissed off.
"So what now mother? I can't go back to that house, and neither can you. He has already nearly killed you once what is to stop him from trying again?" Albus cleared his throat before coming up to stand beside me and looked between us both.
"That is where I come in, this is a de-aging potion. That coupled with a few minor changes to her appearance and we can hide your mother in plain sight." Draco looked confused before it dawned on him exactly what the lunatic was planning.
"You expect her to hide out as a student? With all due respect Headmaster but are you insane?" I smirked at him and knew how idiotic this idea was, even my son couldn't fathom it. Dealing with hormonal teenagers and pretending I was one of them would not work.
"Albus there is no way I can pass as a teenager again, I am an old woman. I have lived what has felt like two lifetimes. How am so going to convince a school full of students that I am a young woman?" He just set the potion down in front of me and smirked, Icould see Poppy smiling from behind us as she interrupted to try and check on me now I was awake.
"Looks like you're all good to go Narcissa. The bruising should go away in a few days. Come back if you feel lightheaded or nauseated ok?" I nodded and thanked her,
before I could say anything else Minerva came into the room carrying the sorting hat. Oh sweet Salazar, no.
"Ah right on time Minerva. If you will Narcissa, down the hatch." He indicated to the potion before I shook my head and sat up on the edge of the bed. Ignoring the pain radiating all over my body. At least a I was able to stand at this point. The pain in my ankle was basically non existent but I could feel the strain on my muscles. I felt so much better than yesterday but the prospect of doing this seems impossible. I can't believe I am going to do this.
Could I pull this off? I mean they might be school children but some of them are intelligent enough to see through a Charade. FUCK IT. I lifted the glass vial up and took it in one big gulp and it was almoat instantaneous, I could feel myself change slightly. Granted I hadn't changed much but I could feel my breasts and hips shrink like before I had Draco and my face tingled letting me know something was happening there. My two toned hair grew untill it was sitting at my hips and was now fully blonde and Dracos jaw dropped as he looked at me.
"NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! Professor you cannot send my MOTHER looking like that into a cesspool of hormonal boys. It's bad enough during those parties at the manor when I have to see old men drooling but at least they don't say anything. These teenagers have no filter between their brain and their mouths." Minerva and Poppy smirked at my son being protective before Albus let out a chuckle at him and winked at me.
"Don't worry Draco, we still have to make some slight changes." I was worried before my son just nodded at him not even fazed he was his teacher and started speaking to him as if he was a peer which is something he had gotten from Lucius.
"Ugly her up a little, I really don't want to have to listen to all of the boys in my school talking about how shagable my mother is." My hair turned a deep red colour and my skin darkened slightly and as Poppy put a mirror in front of me I noticed how I looked.
"Wow. I look like someone else and yet still like me." It seemed to still displease Draco who rolled his eyes and glared at the headmaster. The white bearded man just rolled his eyes exasperated at him.
"I could sit here all day and I still couldn't make your mother ugly Mr Malfoy, deal with it." I seen Draco flinch and it seemed so did Albus. All colour drained from his features and I could see the slight fear in his eyes.
"I'm not a Malfoy, what am I? Black? Lupin? What does this make me if I am not a Malfoy?" I stood up and pulled him in for a hug before I pulled back from him.
"You are my son! Always." He nodded his head at me and hugged me back to let me know it was ok. We just stood holding each other before a soft clearing of a throat came from behind us.
"Now all that's left is for you to be sorted?" This is so fucked up. I don't know what I am nervous.
"Cassiopoeia, or Cassie I guess is the young woman's name. I have never met her, but I guess it's a Pompous Pureblood name like the LeFevres do." Albus seemed happy enough and he held the hat up and beckoned for me to come over. I loved my time in Slytherin but I knew realistically I could not go back to that house. I was too recognisable and realistically even with these modifications, Slytherin students would want to know all about me if I was put in that house. Without any other reason to delay I placed the hat on my head and felt the same sense of trepidation as I did when I was eleven.
"Ah Miss Black, back again I see. Well now, it seems you will not be able to be in your old house, not that I think it suits you any longer. Placing you in Slytherin was a long shot at the beginning of your first year anyway. You were a bit of a cunnundrum for me I will admit." Draco looked confused at the fact that I was a hatstall. I remember him retelling the story of how the hat barely touched his head before choosing Slytherin for him.
"Ravenclaw was another one too with your wit and intellect but alas it seems the years have changed you, even more than you know. You have Bravery in spades my dear." Oh shit! No, no I can't, I won't!This thing is going in the fire, I will stick out like a sore thumb as a lion.
"Its seems Gryffindor is where you are most needed and suited, your future lies in that house." Draco let out a nervous chuckle and I must have looked furious, even Minerva seemed to be beyond amused.
"Listen here you glorified tea cosy change your mind." This seemed to crack Draco up even more before Minerva handed me a small bag and as I looked inside the plain black uniform soon changed into Gryffindor colours.
"My mother ladies and gentlemen, a Gryffindor. Granger is going to be furious when you start passing her in her classes." I glared at him and held my finger out to him, my son was becoming a little too complacent with me.
"Don't think you are safe Draco, even in this body I am still your elder and I have a lot of embarrassing stories I can share... Cousin." It seemed he caught on to start calling me cousin and get used to it.
"Minerva if you could please ask the Fifth Year Gryffindor prefect to come down please." She nodded her head and walked away to fetch whoever it was and I set everything down.
"This is your school books also, we could not get clothes at this time but we will ok." I nodded my head and Draco handed me a small pile of clothing. It seems Minerva had transfigured them into acceptable clothes that fit.I pulled out a black dress which sat to my knees and a grey cardigan as well as a simple pair of black panties and a black lacey bra to wear also. I was barefoot and I could see a pair of black shoes to put on also.
"Thank You, umm give me a second to get sorted." I ducked around the curtain to change and the other two left me to my own devices. No one spoke and I could see a door into the bathroom and I decided I needed a shower. I scrubbed and cleaned myself and it had only caught up to me what had happened as the water took the blood and dirt from my body. If it wasn't for Bella I would be dead and Draco would be alone in this.
It was another ten minutes before I finished washing myself and dressed in the clothes Draco gave me, I dried my hair and took a good look at my reflection, I could still see some of myself under all of the modifications, including the birthmark I had, we learnt in Third year charms class that things like birthmarks cannot be glamoured.
Just at my ribs, where my bra strap was, sat a birthmark, it looked almost like a constellation inside it and I knew I couldn't glamour it but I had to keep it covered. It was too recognisable. Just as I added small curls to my hair like Bellas I couldn't help the nerves that filled my body, walking back into the room again my heart kept hammering in my chest.
"Ah Miss Granger. Thank You for coming." I heard coming into the room and I was still hidden behind the screen but her steps faltered, I could see through a small gap she noticed Draco.
"Sir, am I in trouble?" I heard him chuckle at the nervous girl for a second before he tried to reassure her. According to Draco this young woman was exceptionally smart and a extraordinary over achiever.
"Of course not Miss Granger, we have a new transfer student in your year and she has been sorted into Gryffindor. I was hoping you could show her to the dorm and introduce her to your dorm mates." There was only a second delay to allow her to let out a sigh of relief.
" Of course Professor, it would be my pleasure." Deciding to make my presence known I came out from behind the curtain and her eyes directed toward me. I could see her eyes trail from my toes up my half exposed legs and up to my face.
" Ah Cassie, this is Hermione Granger, she is going to show you to your room. Cassie is transferring from Beauxbatons." She nodded as I lifted up the small schoolbag with my uniforms and schoolbooks that Minerva gave to me.
"Professor can I have a second?" Draco held onto my arm before I could move and it made Miss Grangers eyes fly up to her hairline. Albus ushered her away to give us a bit of privacy before my son turned to look at me.
"I won't be able to talk to you, stupid house politics but I will be around ok? Come to me if you need people me." I nodded and he pressed a soft kiss to my head before turning behind my head and looked Miss Granger straight in the face.
"Look after my cousin Granger. Make sure those Lions take care of her." She turned shocked at us before nodding her head at him and I gave him a hug, a harder one than I thought.
"I will get Albus to set up a meeting between Remus and yourself, we will go from there." He nodded and gave me a soft kiss on the cheek before whispering in my ear.
"I love you mother." He walked away with a final nod to Albus and Miss Granger he left.
"Ok Cassie, you are in good hands. If you need me feel free to come to my office." I nodded at him and he left thanking Hermione once more leaving me with a young woman who according to Draco is more intelligent than anyone gives her credit for.
"So, I am Hermione, welcome to Hogwarts." I only nodded at her and she didn't say anything but did take in all my bruises which were still there, we slowly made our way up to parts of the castle I hardly ever went to. It didn't take us long to get to the common room and she looked at her watch and stopped abruptly outside the portrait.
"Umm so classes are out for the day and we will more than likely run into the whole of the house in the common room. Not too spook you but you will probably be like a shiny penny to most of them. Don't be offended at their stupidity, you're beautiful and someone they haven't seen go through puberty so some of the boys will be a bit foolish." I nodded my head again not really sure why she was telling me this but realistically as soon as she stepped through the portrait and into the main common room all conversation slowly trickled down till it was so silent you could hear a pindrop.
" Everyone this is Cassie LeFevre, she is a transfer from Beuxbatons and was sorted into Gryffindor." Everyone was silent again before Harry Potter rolled his eyes at everyone and came over to shake my hand followed by Ronald Weasley of all people.
"Nice to meet you, welcome to Gryffindor." I thanked them both and Hermione just looked around the room and muttered 'Honestly.' under her breath before directing me toward the stairs and down a corridor until she came to a heav wooden door.
"So it looks like you are sharing with us. Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil and Fay Dunbar will be in here with us. This is your one. I will give you a bit to get sorted ok?" She looked furious and was no doubt going to go downstairs and rip into everyone. I nodded my head at her and went to the only bed with no knick knacks, teddies or pillows on it.
Hermione Granger was being kind to me, that was going to take some getting used to. Bella was going to pay for this, the prospect of doing school again didn't bother me but the idea of trying to deal with hormonal teenage boys is a whole different thing altogether. All I could do at this point was crawl into bed and hope I didn't regret my decision to do this.
Hermione
As I left that terrified girl in our dorm I couldn't help but stomp my feet downstairs to where everyone was. They were slowly starting to draw back to conversation until I walked into the room and they looked back up the stairs expectantly, once they realised she wasn't going to come down behind me their shoulders slumped.
"Ok, you all are idiots! That poor girl has lost her home, her family and every single item she had. You all make her welcome by ogling her like some pervy exhibit in a museum." They at least had the decency to look ashamed at that before Harry piped up.
"So she has nothing?" I could just nod at my friend whom I knew would feel bad for her. He looked contemplative for a second.
"Nothing but her uniform and books and that outfit she has on. So please be a little bit kinder." Harry whispered into Rons ear who just ran up to the boys dorm and returned not two minutes later.
"Since she has nothing then lets help her out. Lets make her a welcome to Gryffindor present. She will get enough crap from Umbridge so lets show her we can in fact be welcome. Everyone has to contribute something, a book, a dress, jeans, t-shirt anything, ok go to your dorms and get her something." Everyone scattered and I smiled and hugged Harry and Ron before going up to my own dorm.
As I followed Lavender, Parvati and Fay in I noticed the curtains were closed around her bed and knew from her still heavy bruises she needed sleep. I grabbed a spare soft fluffy robe for her to keep warm in the winter as well as my copy of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Coming back downstairs it was nice to see everyone putting something in, some chocolate, shoes, clothes, books and even a pillow and soft cuddly toy. Harry had that smug smile on his face and it filled me with happiness to see him happier considering what had happened recently.
We sat for another while before dinner at six, I decided to go and wake Cassie up and everyone agreed that her dorm mates would give the box to her as a sort of Olive Branch instead of them all pouncing on her.
Noticing her curtains were still closed I crept forward with Lavender Parvati and Fay standing behind me, I softly rapped my knuckles on the bed post knowing she would hear it. If I tried to speak through the curtains she, wouldn't hear me thanks to the silencing charms that Tonks had showed me and I applied to all of the beds. Her head creeped softly through the curtains as she swung her legs over the edge and it was there I noticed she really was stunning. Any wonder the boys were all drooling over her.
"Hey, its almost dinner and well everyone felt really bad about being weird so, Harry decided to make you a care basket sort of. It's not much but will tie you over until you get your own things." I placed the box down on the end of the bed and she looked confused for a second before opening it up to the dressing gown at the top.
"This is from me, the castle gets cold in the winter and all us girls have one, this one I have never worn. Each item has a little note attatched you will see." She smiled and softly stroked the fake fur on the front of it.
"Anyway have a look through it later, lets go to dinner, if it makes you feel any better we can talk only in French to discourage people talking to you?" She softly nodded and stood before putting her shoes back on and tucked her wand into what looked like a holster on her wrist.
As we walked down to the common room I was glad it was almost empty except for Ron, Harry, Ginny and Neville who waited for us. I introduced her to everyone and as she finished with Harry she didn't fangirl or even react and just nodded at him.
"Thank You for the care package." He only nodded at her and gave her a small hug.I noticed it was the first time she had properly spoken since we left the hospital wing.
"Welcome to Hogwarts." We all slowly made our way out of the common room and down towards the Great Hall. Some students from all different houses had spotted the Gryffindors newest edition and were staring at her like she was some sort of three headed dog.I gently took her hand in my own and she flinched slightly but relaxed as soon as she felt Ginny on the other side hold her other hand and we walked into the Great Hall with her flanked on all sides.
As she slowly walked in she glanced over to see Draco and upon landing on his face he smirked slightly before she rolled her eyes and came to sit down with us. Before we could get tucked into the food Professor Dumbledore stood up to address us all.
"Sorry to interrupt your dinner but we have a new student joining us from Beauxbatons and I hope you will join me in welcoming her to the fold. Cassie." He lifted his goblet and tilted it to her to which she nodded politely and continued to look at her plate. Dinner passed in polite conversation and everyone was making an effort toward her which I was thankful for, some of the other houses even introduced themselves and welcomed her to Hogwarts.
Just before we got ready to leave Professor McGonagall came down and gave her a class schedule before wishing us goodnight. Knowing she probably just wanted to be left alone everyone let her pass through the common room and up to her dorm peacefully with some saying a quick goodnight.
I decided to give her some privacy and it was nearly eleven before I went to bed, I could see her curtains closed on every side except for the side facing my own bed. I don't know why but it made me smile that I was welcome to talk to her.As I came around to lift my Pjs from under my pillow I saw her sitting reading one of her Potions texts. Upon seeing me she smiled for the first time and I could see the bruising on her neck was almost gone but the bite mark on her shoulder was still visable. I hadn't wanted to ask what happened and realistically it didn't matter.
"Hey I thought you would be sleeping." Every move she made was slow and methodical and there was a mask all over her face which was I assumed supposed to keep her at arms length but her smile was genuine.
"I wanted to thank you Miss Granger, its been difficult adjusting so thank you for making it a little bit better." I sat at my own bed across from her before smiling and shaking my head.
"Call me Hermione, I found it hard to make friends when I first came here, most people found me annoying so if I can make it easier for you then thats good." I could see what looked like a war going on in her head. She was the most reserved sixteen year old I have ever seen, she had this intensity that surrounds her, the only other person I had came across like that was Draco Malfoy. I guess it makes sense, they are related, even if she was so much prettier than him.
"I have never been very good at having friends. Its an entirely rare concept and girls in my past were not exactly welcoming. They found me cold and stuck up. Which I suppose I am in a way." I came over and sat down on the edge of her bed.
"Well, let's be each others friend then. If you want." A small smirk appeared on her face and I noticed she was wearing a grey tank top with black Mickey mouse ears and a pair of skinny bottoms, I seen Fay throw them in the box. She wore over the top but open in the front the fluffy robe I gave her.
I could see little small things collected on her bedside cabinet from the box she received. A tiny snow globe sat beside a hand painted picture of the Hogwarts skyline amongst other Nik naks. She had a small trunk perched under her bed and her books collected above her bed with a bag lying off to the side.
"Let me see your schedule." She handed it to me and I noticed we had all of our classes together, she must have been smart enough because she was talking the same amount of Classes as me.
"If you want we can walk down to breakfast together, I can help get you to your classes." She smiled again and I noticed how breathtaking she is, I jumped up from her bed as if it had burnt me and went to get changed for bed.
As I came back to the room all dressed in my pjs I saw the book was now resting on the bedside table and her curtains were drawn down. How can I feel a connection like this so quickly? I barely know her and yet I can't stop thinking about her.Why? Surely there must be an explanation, am I gay? Am I attracted to her? All sorts of things ran through my head and in all honesty I didn't have all the answers but I knew I wasn't going to stop being her friend.Yeah friends.
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