The Consequence Of Power

The Secret Room

She backed away from the door after hearing their voices, scared they would find out that she am right there. She backed up into something, quickly turning around and saw a huge mountain of random objects piled on top of one another. She looked around and saw the whole room like that. Where was she she wondered, this room was huge and filled with random furniture and collectables, she walked around, finding a whole bunch of cool things of value, to her anyway "Who just leaves all this stuff here, does Dumbledore even know about this place" She said to herself, confused how no one else ever talked about this place, she found it extraordinary. Stinging started to flood her thoughts, the stinging in her arm. She grabbed a chair from a pile of hundreds of others and sat down, lifting her sleeve, she knew this would scar, she couldn't heal scars. She only knew how to heal cuts enough to scar. She had to hide this, she couldn't tell or show anyone this, this was her battle, not theirs. She applied pressure with her sleeve to try and stop the bleeding from getting worse but blood just soaked through the fabric. She noticed she still had the diary that Lucius was so eager to have, she really wondered why exactly he wanted it so deeply. She opened it and started to flip the page and begun to read "Today I finally met Rhainnon Black, I don't know what Dumbledore was thinking by not letting her come to Hogwarts sooner, she would have been safe"  She was confused about why Severus was writing about her. She skimmed more of the writing "I heard about this girl when she was born, I knew she would be in trouble because her mother never let her know about her history or her abilities, I was fairly close with her mother, and I told her to tell Rhiannon when she was of age"  She looked up from the book "Severus knew my mother?" She questioned who Severus really was to her and how much he knew about her and her mother before she even met Severus.

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Draco tapped his slender pale fingers on his desk. He was worried sick if Rhiannon was okay and if she got his patronus in time. All of these thoughts rushed through his head about her well-being and if she still thought about him. His feelings for her never left. He still felt so much love and protectiveness for her, obsession. She never left his thoughts, day and night he thought about her, she gave him hope that one day they would meet again and start over, yeah right he scoffed as he shook his head. He would apologize for everything he did, every time he hurt her, every time he gave her a dirty look, and even for things he didn't do. He just wanted to prove to her that he wasn't the monster she saw in him. He would respect her like no other. As he was in his thoughts he heard his father storm into the house, his eyes slowly rise to the wall in front of him, his jaw clenched and he dropped the quill. He put his chair back and stood up, walking outside his bedroom door and leaning by the railing to listen "That idiot of a girl outsmarted us again, we had her" He yelled to Narcissa "It is alright sweetheart, maybe next time" She said to try and calm him down, Draco didn't know why she tried with him, he couldn't be fixed "It is not alright Narcissa, she brought up Ezra, that was her mother, it made me so angry that I had no choice, I had to do what I did to her mother" Draco was confused on what he meant, he better not of touched his Rhiannon, his precious Rhiannon. "You didn't Lucius! she's just a girl! You can't just go around hurting young girls" His mother yelled "I had to, I carved it into her skin just like I did to her mud blood mother and she got the diary, that diary was going to save all of us and help the Dark Lord" Draco wanted to storm down the stairs and kill his father for hurting her. His emotions were getting too strong. He finally had enough of his father's actions. He ran down the stairs and walked into the room, they didn't even realize he was inches away because of the arguing they were doing. His mother looked over at Draco, then his Father looked back "Why did you hurt her?" He yelled at his Father "Excuse me Draco" Lucius gulped "You heard me, why did hurt her?"
"I needed the diary, she was spying on us in Severus's office so I took her inside and did what I had to do, Draco" He walked up to his Father and got in his face "Was she struggling?" He looked down into Draco's soulless eyes "Son I recommend you back up"
"Did she struggle, answer the fucking question" He balled his hands into fists, knowing what would come next with what his Father relied "Yes, she did" Draco wanted to slit his throat
"What exactly did you carve into her skin?"
"Draco I don't have to tell you anything, last time I remember I was the adult, not you"
"I hate you, I fucking hate you, I will never see you as my father anymore, you destroy any bit of happiness I have, you have taken away her innocence by causing her so much pain and trauma, it is your fault, it is your fault I am the way I am, I bullied her and did such cruel things I regret so much because of you, I love her, there I said it, I love Rhainnon Black, and you will not stop me from loving her, Lucius." He refused to call him father from now on. He couldn't believe what he had just said to him. Lucius grabbed him by the throat "Lucius stop it" Narcissa tried to grab his hand to stop him, but he squeezed Draco's throat tighter, he tried to fight him off. Narcissa pounded on Lucius's back, begging him to stop, Lucius pushed her to the ground "You are a disgrace to this family, I will not have a son who loves our enemy who is a mud blood, you will ruin the Malfoy bloodline with that girl" He finally let go of his throat, he had tears in his eyes, hatred in his heart. All he saw was red, he built his hand into a fist again, his arm felt so heavy. Draco punched him in the face, causing him to fall onto the ground, he got on top of him and started punching him, crying and screaming in pain, not physical pain, the mental pain he felt because of the man who "raised him". So much pain, he had lived in a mental cage almost all his whole life, he finally was free. His mother sat on the floor and cried "You took everything from me" Draco yelled with each punch, each tear that leaked down his face was a reminder on how weak his father made him feel, like he was nothing. Lucius's face was so bloody from how much he punched, he gurgled and gagged on his own blood as it pooled onto the floor, he just wanted him dead. He was unrecognizable to Draco now. His mother couldn't move as she watched her own son do this to her husband. She knew how angry Draco was and how terrible of a Father he had been to him, she just never did anything about it. Draco finally stopped punching and rested his head on Lucius's chest, tears still leaking from his burning eyes, he slammed his fist down onto his chest and lifted his head, standing up "Get up, and fight me, fight me like the adult you said you were. You have no issue hurting a innocent girl, but you won't fight me!" Draco screamed at his unconscious body "That's what I thought, fuck you" He spit on him, looking over at mother who was in shock "Im sorry. I had to" She just nodded her head, understanding there was nothing she could have done, this was bound to happen someday.