Oh, Shit

13

Orion was watching Tom and Draco carefully, a bit unnerved, if he was honest. He had thought that things were going to go as they normally did, and he had no reason to think otherwise either. However, it was as though some other forces were destined to prove his desire wrong...horribly so at that. Down from the moment that he had woken he figured that something would have changed. For one, his father and mother had been acting rather odd the last couple of weeks. He was not sure why, did not know that he cared enough to bother checking, but the whispered and hushed sounds behind closed doors over the loud screaming was definitely unnerving if nothing more.

He figured something would be different, and he suspected it mostly had something to do with this person that Tom seemed to be so bloody enamoured with...though Orion was not sure that enamoured was quite the right word. Something was going on between the two, though, that Orion was certain of, what it was he may have no idea and he may not have been privy to the same things that Abraxas had been but i twas not hard to see. Walburga had made a rather detrimental mistake insulting him though. It was obvious that the boy could stand up for himself when needed, although Orion had no idea how far that extended. he did intervene for Abraxas though, Orion thought numbly to himself. That has to count for something at least. Not many would have dared to do so and it is quite clear that the other knows Tom from outside of school. I have never seen him in school that is for certain. Furthermore had anyone around school been hanging around Tom we would have known it instantly, because we were the ones who were around Tom quite a bit. Orion had no idea what the situation had amassed to, nor why it was that Tom seemed so hell bent on introducing this kid to the others, but he would simply have to trust the other's judgement. He had been right about quite a few of the people he had introduced the main group to, there was no reason to believe that he was wrong about this one, to do so would insult Tom's capabilities, something Orion was quite certain none, not even Walburga with her penchant for foregoing shutting up when she should, would dare to do.

"I hope, of course, that everyone will be most amicable," Orion shrugged at the words, Abraxas nodded understandingly, and Walburga-predictably-merely rolled her eyes. She probably found the whole situation stupid. It was just lucky enough that she did not shout that to the heavens. Orion worried about what Tom would think about that, and there were times that he was truly worried that Tom would simply cut her from the group with how she acted towards him. Whilst she could be useful, there was more than one Black in the group, and Orion had more power than she did. Tom truly only needed one of them, and Orion was not going to risk his position because Walburga wanted to be stupid and thought she knew better than everyone else.

"I will ensure it, my lord," Abraxas stated smoothly, expertly diverting the attention back onto him. Orion breathed a sigh of relief. At least there will probably be no comments on Walburga's rather bad attitude. Hopefully that is. Orion could not say that Tom had not seen her do such a thing, and if he had there was bound to be a talking to later. He could only hope for the best, at the moment, though, and was grateful for Abraxas swift action. They all knew that Walburga had a bad temper, worse than even his which was quite impressive.

"Good, I would hope that everyone would be quite eager to meet our newest addition." Tom said simply, as though this information was not a rather large revelation. Even Abraxas could not quite hold in his gasp as Tom stated such. It was obvious that Tom had far more information on this Draco than they did. He knew that there was something that they were not being told, but he was not sure what it was. Orion was usually able to read Tom far better than this, but other than some surface layer smugness, it was hard to see what necessarily was going on.

There had to be some sort of...of...influence. Some sort of intimacy or something on the part of Draco. Otherwise Tom would never show favor like this. Tom had not even known the boy nearly as long as he knew them. At least, from what Orion could gather they had only known each other during the summer, during which Draco had been dropped off at the Orphanage that Tom was living in. That only equated to a few months at most, and yet he was already willing to share favor and status with him? There had to be more to the story.

"My Lord, forgive me for being presumptuous..."

"If you have to be forgiven..." The boy cut Abraxas of, leaving Walburga and Orion to stare at him with slightly opened mouths and wide yes. "Perhaps you should not say anything at all. After all, knowing what to say as well as when to say it is an art, isn't it Sir?" Draco directed the last part to Tom, the latter merely lifting his lips upwards in a smirk.

"The boy has a point, Abraxas. perhaps you should hold your tongue this time, before you say something I will make you wish you hadn't."