Falling For The Ravenclaw Girl - A Draco Malfoy Fanfic

Ch-32-Defeated

The dark lord had taken over the Malfoy manor as his frequent den. The place had become creepy, eerie and a hangout spot for all dark and evil creatures. They kept people hostages in the basement as well. Draco was home for holidays but he wished he didn't come. All of it seemed too much. He sighed at the way things had become recently, he never wanted these people to kidnap Lovegood. It was so bad, the day he got to know that, was the day he started handling the in-house dungeons, secretly passing the two inmates, Mr. Ollivander, the wandmaker and Luna Lovegood, his schoolmate, food.
From the past three days, he had woken up with a bad icy burn on his wrist. At first he thought it was the winter cold but he woke up with a start to realise, his watch, the one that was a twin to Mayrah's necklace, had gone icy cold. He was scared, Mayrah was in danger, what could have happened. He wanted to know. Luna might have known it before she came here, he had to talk to her.

He checked if everything was okay, if no one was around, and moved to the dungeons.
"Luna? Mr. Ollivander?", he asked as they emerged from a dimly lit corner.
"Here. Food.", he said putting down two plates with a sorry smile.
"Thank you Malfoy.", Luna said with her scarred face yet dreamy smile.
"Sorry Lovegood. I can't do anything better.", he said with a sorry face.
"This is enough, really. The choices you make even at a later stage show how you are willing to make it all fine, you are not bad Malfoy.", she said as the inmates sat down with the plate of food.
"Luna, How.. umm.. I wanted to ..", he started hesitantly to ask about Mayrah, not knowing how Luna would react after what all had happened between them.
"How is Mayrah you ask?", she asked looking at his grey eyes in the dark, searching for the love she knew was in there somewhere.
"Yeah. How is May holding up? How is she doing? Don't know anything in months...", he said standing next to her.
"Oh. This means you don't know.", she said in realisation.
"What is it Luna? What happened to my May?", he asked kneeling next to her, in alarm.
"The Carrows cursed her repeatedly. Cruciatus.", she replied looking down.

Draco staggered against a wall slowly and sank down on the ground. Tears brimmed his hollow and otherwise cold eyes. He looked scared, he looked defeated. He couldn't save his May from harm. He couldn't, he had failed.
"I...Is she okay?", he managed to ask in a trembling voice.
"I don't know.", Luna replied in a sad tone. He looked at her confused.
"Mayrah passed out and hadn't woken up, till the time I was brought here. Madam Pomfrey said she would survive only if she woke up. I hope she is alive. I really hope.", Luna said as a lone tear slipped her cheek.

"No. Please.", Draco said shutting his ears with his palms not wanting to hear this, "Please be alive. Be alive May. I want to see you, seek forgiveness for hurting you. I want to hold you in my arms again May. Don't be dead, please.", he said a sort of prayer, out loud, like she could hear him, he sat on his knees as he and Luna cried in silence for a few minutes.

What scared him the most, Luna was someone who never lost hope, what could have gone wrong enough for her to cry? He side hugged her and patted her head to calm her down, in a brotherly affection, consoling her it was going to be okay.

"I have to go now. I will be back, okay?", he said consoling her.
"Yeah."
"Do not loose hope. I can see if you can be taken out. I promise.", he said.
"Malfoy. Why are you still here? On the dark side?", she asked.
"My mum. I...If someone can assure me my mum is going to be safe, they aren't going to harm her for my father's or my mistakes. I can't risk my mom. Now definitely not. May is at stake already, I won't risk my mother as well.", he admitted, shaking his head at all the mess he had caused.
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"Don't be dead. PLEASE!", he pleaded to a picture they took two Christmas ago, he often talked to that picture like it was her, the only way he was able to keep his May smiling was that picture in the past. They looked so happy. So content. Just smiling into the camera.
"I ruined it all May. I thought I could keep you safe but all of this happening is just so big, so much bigger than us. I just hope you are alive. I love you. I really do. I am not what I show you to be, we deserved a together. Our story deserves a happy ending.", He said with his thumb lightly touching her face in the photo, as if he could touch her.
"Draco! Come here at once!", Auntie Bellatrix shouted across the rooms, from the hall. He sighed with frustration and went to see what was it about, after hiding her photo back to secrecy ofcourse.
He went there to see a couple of snatchers, the usual, but the people they had caught was clearly, Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley. Bellatrix was in a corner, pointing a wand at someone.

"Draco. Come here.", Lucius said catching a hold of him roughly by the neck, "Identify who this is. If we hand Potter over to the dark lord. Everything will be better. We will be rewarded. Come on Draco.", he said gripping the neck tightly.
Draco's breathe hitched. Harry was sure his nemesis, but handing him to Voldemort could do no one good. Draco realised, Harry was his only hope, to take Luna out of the mess. And so, he would have to play carefully.
He kneeled down to see a face that was twice or thrice the human head size, "What happened to this one's face?", he asked wincing.
"Something he caught in the jungle.", one of the snatchers said.
"Come near Draco, don't be shy. Come on tell us, who it is before we call the dark lord.", Bellatrix said in a dark tone.
"I...I don't know.", he said quietly. Harry looked up in subtle surprise, not to give his cover away. Had Malfoy actually forgotten how he looked like in these months or the egoistic, bully, who loved to annoy him and his friends, just spare him for mercy?
"Draco. Come on.", Narcissa made him stand up and pulled him out of the scene.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!", Bellatrix shouted pointing at a snatcher.
"Found it with these three."
"How dare these three steal this sword from my vault? HOW DID THEY GET IN MY VAULT!?", Bellatrix snarled.
"Cissy.", she called out to Narcissa, "Take the boys to the dungeons, I will have a talk with this one, girl to girl!", she said holding Hermione roughly.
Narcissa just obeyed, she didn't want Draco to face her crazy sister's wrath.

Now that they were captured in the dungeons, and Narcissa held back Draco in a corner, Lucius, glaring at them.

Bellatrix pinned down Hermione and tortured her, Hermione's screams moved Draco's heart, he could not handle it, he had to help her. He moved a step ahead when Narcissa waved her cane to stop him. Bellatrix was a crazy serial killer, she could have killed him in the process and fanatic devotion to the dark lord. Draco looked at her with pleading eyes, as Bellatrix slashed the word 'mudblood' onto Hermione's wrist. Draco swore to himself, never to call anyone that insult again. His own voice when he shouted that word to Mayrah, he felt so torn right now.

As Bellatrix was questioning the Goblin for the sword of Gryfinndor, suddenly they heard a thud and Harry and Ron cane up from the dungeons, started shooting spells. Narcissa duelling with Ron, Draco jumped in to save his mom, duelling with Harry, careful not to hurt anyone, just deflecting spells. Dobby appeared out of the thin air and apparated the trio and the goblin away.
"NOOOOO! We had already summoned the dark lord!", Bellatrix screamed in horror.

This couldn't be good, Draco gulped. The winds got cold, and the atmosphere of his own home got creepy, as the red eyed, slit nosed man apparated in.
"Where is the boy?!", he hissed.
"We missed him my lord, the stupid house elf apparated with them.", Bellatrix said in a devotional sorry tone.
"We aren't even sure if it was actually the boy. Draco doesn't think so.", Lucius said quickly.
"Really? Is that so Draco?", Voldemort hissed in a calm voice, the tone that sent chills down Draco's spine.
"Yes my lord. It wasn't them.", he said looking down.
Voldemort smirked and decided he knew how to get Draco talking. He pointed the wand right at Draco.
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