Another Malfoy!?

Chapter 31 - Four years later

Four years later

Lucy's POV:

I sat in my window seat gazing at the wasteland I called home. I had the same view the entire year, even in spring, nothing grew. It was dead. Auntie said it reflected the side of me she'd gotten rid of in the first year I was here. I waved my wand in boredom, changing the color of my nails from Ebony to Charcoal to Raven before finally settling on a Jet Black shade. I looked at the clock, I had to be downstairs in a couple of minutes but ignored the part of me that wanted to be on time to breakfast. I entered my bathroom, fixing my necklace and tucking a few strands of hair that had fallen out of my braid behind my ear. The clock in my room chimed and I grabbed my wand, tucking it into the pocket of my dress. Yes. My dress has pockets.

"Good morning, Aunt Bella," I said, entering the dining room. 

"Sit, girl." she said coldly. I didn't have a name until I earned one for that day. Aunt Bella didn't have the same kind I saw in her when I was small. I was beginning to wonder if she had ever been kind, or if she was just feeding into the delusional mindset of happiness and purity my parents put me in. Her raven tangles on her head now seemed intimidating and a true showing of insanity. I used to look up to her as my partner in crime. Hell. We stole cookies from my mom's jar together and feasted till we couldn't get back up the stairs. Now she was a master to me—my teacher.

     I sat down eating my breakfast in silence.

"I'm sending you back to Hogwarts." she blurted shoving an elf back after she spilled Bella's drink.

     My gaze hardened. "Why?"

     The last time I was at Hogwarts was a year ago, we were there on business, and it was my first mission as a death eater. I saw him. The boy I thought I knew. The one who made me feel things a twelve-year-old couldn't understand.  But I understand now. Harry Potter was a troublemaker who looked for arm candy and a free safe pass wherever he went. He wore his title on his name tag and it got to his head. People only fed into it... everyone but my brother and his friends.

     "We need someone on the inside."

     "Draco." I said plainly. I said his name so emotionlessly it could scare a muggle. I know how muggles can be and their pathetic emotions.  His name didn't spark much in me anymore, not fear or happiness or anger or awe. I don't look up to him anymore. He's my equal.

     "You used to be close to the boy. Harry?" she took a bite of her omelet, smirking when she said his name. She knew it used to do something to me, not anymore.

      "You're not serious?" I bit.

      "Entirely." She said with a cruel smile. "You'll get close to him and lead him into our lord's trap."

      I glanced down raising my sleeve just enough to reveal my dark mark. It burnt sometimes. I'd power through it most days, but it didn't stop me from having dreams of when I'd gotten it. I was 14, I still hadn't given in to the beliefs Aunt Bella tried to beat into me. I still had hope Harry would be there waiting for me one day. I remember my mother leading me into our lord's meeting room, a dining room -one of quite a few- in the Malfoy Manor. She'd brought me there saying she wanted to bring me back to Hogwarts. I was ambushed. She grabbed my arm and held it out turning my head away. I could barely move my body. Getting the mark hurt physically. Wearing it every day hurts mentally. I'd gotten used to it though. Nowadays dark magic brought excitement into my life, crucio mainly. I'd perform it on worms during rainy seasons then birds in the spring and bunnies in the following summer. Auntie said she'd continue teaching me as long as I showed signs of loyalty towards The Cause. 

      "You leave in two days. Here is your letter." she handed a house elf a folded piece of paper and he walked over to me. He tripped over a table leg causing me to smirk. "Stupid elf." Bella said under her breath.

      I snatched my note and shoved it in my pocket. Harry Potter can eat quidditch turf for all I care.

A/N: ughhh I felt so cruel writing the chapter!! 😂