Lily, My Child Always

Circling the Drain

After Potions, Draco led Lillian up to his dorm. He casted a muffling spell, and locked the door, making sure no one could get in. He looked to her softly, "...I smelled you..." she looked at him confused. He turned to face her, "..in the amortentia.." he sighed, "I haven't known you for a month and I smelled you.." he was worrying. He was afraid of getting hurt, "and I don't know what that means but I can't hurt you. If we don't go through with this...we'll die..I WILL DIE!" he started crying, "I can't do that to you!"

Lillian took his hands in hers, "Draco...I smelled you too. I am stronger than you think..and we'll be okay." Draco was breaking down. Lillian sat him on his bed and sat beside him, "you'll be okay." she hugged him softly, "everything will be okay. But you and I? We don't have to happen now. We can wait and see if it changes. Just because everyone says this needs to happen doesn't mean it has to."

Draco looks at her, "I want it to.." he sniffled "but I can't hurt you.."

Lillian sighed, "we are in this together. Your mistake is my mistake. I want us to happen, but you clearly aren't ready." She reached over and grabbed him a few tissues, "we have to stop seeing each other like this.." she giggled, trying to make a bit of fun of the situation.

Draco nodded in agreement, "Absolutely" he chuckled and got up. He lead Lillian out. Standing outside was a tall, dark, pale figure that could only be identified as one professor.

The professor glared at both of them, "It's nice to see that you are finally headed to Divination. I will have you know that Professor Trelawny had brung it to my attention since you are both FIFTEEN MINUTES late. If I were you, I would fix your ties and head to class immediately." Lillian started to run that way. Before Draco could follow her, Snape grabbed his arm. "If I ever catch you two like that I will personally make sure that you both are to blame as to why Slytherin does not win the house cup. Understood?"

Draco nodded and headed to class at a run. Once in the class, Draco sat in the back next to Lillian. Trelawny looked at them, "Nice of you to join us. I can sense that something of upmost importance was the reason for your tardiness, so only 3 points each will be taken from Slytherin. I wish you well on your journey to solve your problem." She then continued teaching about the crystal balls which were in the center of every table. She had been talking specifically about the dangers of a crystal ball with the wrong person. She waved her wand and an assignment started appearing on the chalk board that was draped in many scarves. "You are to take your partner's palm and look into the ball. Predict what will happen in the future. See if you can truly harness the future!" 

Lillian turned to Draco, trying not to laugh, "She really believes in this crap? This class is ridiculous." 

Draco nodded softly, smirking "I agree there. Let's do this before we get any more points taken from Slytherin. Wait till my father hears about this lunatic teaching classes!" He held out his palm. Lillian took his palm and started to analyze it softly. She then turned to the crystal ball that had been fog-ridden before. It now stood with figures in the astronomy tower, close to the end of term.

"I can't say the truth here," she mumbled. She then went back to her normal voice "You have a family. You all live in the manor together." Draco nodded softly, knowing she had seen something about the task they were given by Voldemort. He then took her palm and analyzed it slowly. He looked to the crystal ball that had once again became foggy. He sighed, seeing a vision of Lillian in a stunning black gown, more stunning than the one he had seen her in when they met in Malfoy Manor. Her hair seemed more beautiful than before. She was glowing brightly. She was gorgeous, and he was speechless. 

Lillian looked at Draco, "what is it?" She had gotten a bit nervous with the amount of time it was taking him. 

Draco looked at her, "OH! Sorry I was a bit too focused!" he chuckled softly and looked at her. "You will be happy...a better life than you've had previous to now." Lillian smiled softly at that. Before she could say much more, Professor Trelawny had dismissed the class. Softly, both Lillian and Draco headed to the Room of Requirement where they were going to talk before they had to join everyone else for dinner in the Great Hall. 

Lillian looked at him, "I actually saw the task....it was successful" she admitted "I couldn't tell which wand it came from, but it worked." Draco nodded softly at her statement. He decided not to give her the full details. "We should start working on the necklace," Lillian admitted, "There's a Hogsmeade trip in a week. If we get it done soon, we can try the task that way...you go find the necklace. It's in my bag, the first pocket on the outside. I'll find a spell to curse it. Quickly now!" She started looking through the books that the room had given her. 

Draco walked out of the room and went to the Slytherin dormitories. He walked in their shared dorm and found the necklace. He went back to the Room of Requirement. Lillian quickly found a few dark spells she could use. 

Just like that, she could feel a better life come forward, and he old life start to disappear. 

--------------------------------------------------------

A/N

Hihi! Sorry this took so long!! I hope to update again soon!! This was quite a hard chapter to write so I hope you enjoy!