Complicated

Chapter 53: Malfoy Manor

M A L F O Y   M A N O R

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Mal's POV

I was born in a messed up century
my favorite flavored sweets are raspberry amphetamines
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"DAMN IT!" I slammed my fists on the headmistress' table, making all the papers, maps, and plans fall to the ground. Even the headmistress herself fought not to jump back at my unexpected reaction.

Harry placed a hand on my shoulder, making Draco immediately stiffen. "Mal, calm—"

"Harold James Potter I swear to fucking Merlin if you tell me to calm down right now I'll make you throw up slugs for the rest of your fucking life and unlike Ron, I won't fail." I warned him, shaking him off me and pacing the room.

We didn't find them. We looked everywhere and they were nowhere to be found, not in diagon alley, or hogsmeade, or the department of mysteries, nowhere.

Just then, Damon and Roxy stormed inside the office, tears streaking both of their cheeks. George and Luna rushed over to each of their children, hugging them tightly.

"What happened?" They asked them.

"Someone took her. Kathy." Damon cried against Luna's shoulder.

My body went rigid.

My youngest daughter. My baby.

I felt my knees buckle and Draco place a hand on my waist to steady me, though his hand shook as well.

"She... they're going to be okay Mal. We're going to find them." Mione tried to console me.

"Okay. Let's regroup, we have to look at this from another perspective, Pancakes." George picked up one of the maps and lists of places we wrote down from the ground. "Malfoy, where did your father feel comfortable? Did he have somewhere he always went to?"

Draco shrugged. "Every time he'd go out he'd never tell me. Barely even spoke to me unless it was to chastise me about some bullshit. If he wasn't out he was in his study."

"Didn't we sell Malfoy Manor?" I asked him.

"Yes." He confirmed.

Luna stepped up to us, still holding her crying son. "Who'd you sell it to?"

I shrugged. "A realtor or something. No family really." I sighed and stepped away from Draco to the doors of the office, needing to lean on them for support as I took some deep breaths.

That's when I heard something.

"Baby, we'll find—" Draco started to rub my back but I covered his mouth with my hand.

Everybody went quiet and we held our wands at our sides, already hearing the slight shuffling of feet on the other side.

I opened the door and we all held our wands up, ready for anything. Ginny and my eyes widened at seeing who it was, we thought she'd been locked up in Azkaban already or dead.

Alecto Carrow.

My wand was at her neck in an instant and I dragged her inside by the back of her neck, Draco shutting the door closed behind me.

"Carrow? Seriously?" I scoffed as I dropped her on the ground. All of us formed a circle around her, holding our wands threateningly at her. "Aren't you tired of running errands for Malfoy? I thought that was over in 1998."

She looked at me with rage in her eyes. "He's paying good money for you. I intend to get that money." She started to take her wand out but Ginny stepped on her hand, making her wince. Harry took Alecto's wand and shoved it in his back pocket, never moving his wand down. Ginny finally let her hand go when she heard a small crack and saw her wince.