Always / Draco Malfoy

Chapter 46

Aurora's POV:

The morning after seemed to be a peaceful one as we all sat gathered around the kitchen table hot drinks in hand talking about all the things that had happened in the past few months apart. Pecking at the window drew all our attention to an owl but no ordinary owl my family owl it had flown from Bulgaria carrying a letter in its grasp. I jumped out of my chair opening the window and taking the letter in response the owl flew away hurridly and I sat back in my seat.

"Your father's sent you a letter?" Fred wondered out loud to which I nodded just as confused as he was. I ripped own the wax seal and pulled out the parchment.

Dearest Aurora,

I hope this letter finds you quickly and I'm sure that it comes as a great surprise due to our unfrequent correspondences. I will be straight to the point I desperately need you to come home there have been rumors that Death Eaters are coming for me as Milan's father is one of them and has been trying to recruit me. The last thing I will ever do is join them your mother did not die in vain but I know if they find me and I refuse I will be killed so I ask you to apparate home so that we can discuss various things before I go into hiding.

Regards,

Stephan x

" I need to go home I won't be long maybe a day or two but I have to go home if you move from this location find a way to contact me okay?" I stuttered out quickly as I ran to grab my jacket from its hook on the wall.

"I'll come with you," Fred mumbled getting up from his seat.

"No Freddie stay here I'll be okay," I smiled walking up to him and giving him a hug I turned around to give Hermione and Luna one too before apparating to my house.

I apparated to the porch using my key to enter as my father charmed the building so people couldn't apparate into it and found my father sitting there reading a book he jumped upon my arrival picking up his wand protectively before lowering it upon realizing that it was me. He smiled patting the space next to him on the couch moving to pour me a cup of tea and I gratefully accepted it as I took a seat next to him.

"I wanted to get a few things straight with you in case the worst happens...I want to say sorry for not being a real father to you I know that those words will mean nothing and there is little I can do now but I loved your mother. She was my other half and when she died so did half of me I felt like half the man I was and you began to grow so much like her it hurt me to see you here and for her to be unable to see you here."

"It's okay it made me who I am today and yes it makes it harder on me when people leave me but I'm a better person now because of it," I sighed.

"I heard about you and Draco I must admit it's a shame he really seemed nothing like his father," He spoke softly.

"He wasn't he still isn't he keeps protecting me even now that we aren't together," I smiled.

"But you are seeing someone else I see," He motioned to my neck to which I gasped completely forgetting about the love bites littered on my neck.

"N-yes no...it's complicated," I replied in a rushed manner absentmindedly playing with the rings still at home on my finger," Fred confessed his love for me and it's been very complicated since."

"You still love Draco?" I nodded in response," But you love Fred too in a different way?" I nodded again." My dear love is a strange concept one I think no one ever truly figures out and I can imagine you are confused that you feel such different forms of love for these two men but it's okay to love both of them. The reason why it isn't clear who you really desire is because you haven't fully found yourself but one day when you do it will be clear who you truly love and who you want but you better hope that when it hits you that boy still loves you too." My father gently squeezed my hand reassuringly.

"Thank you father that means the world to me I appreciat-" before I could finish my sentence we heard a loud banging at the front door we both turned to look at each other startled as we stood up.

"That's them you need to go out the back entrance now and apparate away do you understand?" He yelled.

"Father no what about you?!" I replied, at that moment the door swung open revealing Grayback and two other Death Eaters. 

"Aurora GO!" He screamed pushing me slightly as I began running through the long winding corridors to get to the back entrance, I looked over my shoulder and I see Grayback catching up to me in my stupidity I miss the entrance to the doorway and slam into a wall. As I try to scramble on my feet Grayback grabs me by the hair muttering under his breath as he walks us out the building apparating us to to the Malfoy manor.