The Hufflepuff and the Slytherin

Chapter 26- The Other Side

~Lucius' Point of View~

Lucius was very much looking forward to working with you on the rose garden at the Manor. He adored the memories you two shared and he wanted to bring it back to life again, much like your love had come back to him in such an amazing way.

With his mother finally back in France, Lucius really felt like he could start to make the Manor his own, bring you with him to make sure that you felt as if you belonged there. He planned on having no one else for the rest of his life by his side, and he wanted you to one day be the Lady of the Manor. One day soon he hoped. Just the thought of it made him smile softly and his skin to tingle. He adored you oh so much.

You both hadn't set a time to meet at the Manor, but he knew you were extremely excited to get started, and so as if you both were on one wavelength, he knew if he went to the Manor first that you'd be there soon as well, almost as if you two were magnets that always knew where the other was.

Changing into one of his iconic all black outfits, Lucius apparated straight to the Manor. All was quiet and seemingly in order and Lucius walked out into the gardens first to just make sure you weren't already there working on them without him. Seeing that you hadn't arrived yet, Lucius made his way back inside and made sure to tell the elves to prepare a nice, romantic lunch for the two of you that you could enjoy together outside in one of the many ornate greenhouse pavilions. He smiled knowing you would love to have a lunch surrounded by so many plants and flowers. Making you happy was all he wanted.

Lucius wandered into the library, knowing that was the other room that you both adored, and he sat down at one of the desks and waited for you to arrive. On the desk was a random book titled 'Magical Creatures of Scotland,' and so he took it in his hands and began to read it as he waited for you. He was only half paying attention to what he was actually reading, he was mainly just waiting to see your beautiful face once again.

After a bit, Lucius' concentration from the book was fully broken when he heard the light sounds of footsteps walking down one of the halls towards where he was sitting. That was odd...he hadn't heard anyone come in from the main entrance hall downstairs.

Surely it had to be you though, Lucius had made sure you were the only other person who could enter the Manor from all of the protective charms that surrounded it. He couldn't think that his Mother would have allowed anyone else to be able to enter the Manor, she was very strict as it was, even with him it seemed since last time he had come to the Manor, she had had the house elves report to her that he had been back.

Lucius stood up, expecting your beautiful face to appear in the entrance to the library, he already had his classic smirk on his face as he anticipated you, but the smirk was immediately wiped off his face when he saw that the person who had entered the Manor was in fact not you at all.

Lucius stared at the intruder, a small woman with pointed features, her icy stare looking at Lucius like he was a prey of some sort. She had a smirk on her face ironically as she stalked into the room. At first Lucius had no idea who she was, but then as she came closer, he began to recognize her. Ophelia. She had been about his age, but had been a daughter of one of his Mother's friends in France; one of the most pure blooded Wizarding families in all of France to be exact. His parents had had Lucius and the young witch mingle many times before, in the hopes that they would like each other and become a couple; securing the power of their pure blood families. Lucius had of course never been interested. Even when he had been younger, before you and him had become a couple at Hogwarts, he had never been interested. To him, this person had always just been the daughter of his parents' friends...nothing to him. He had given her as much attention as he would have a fallen leaf on the ground; which is why it took him so long to remember he had indeed seen this person before.