The Werewolf's Daughter

The Secret Code

Maya woke up later that evening in her bed; she hoped that what she had been told earlier wasn't real. Unfortunately, she realised it was when she rolled over and saw her dad lying in the chair next to her bed.

Maya started to sob. He was really gone; her Draco was really gone.

Remus woke up with a start when he heard someone crying. 'Maya' he whispered. 'Are you ok?'

She didn't answer him. 'Maya, I'm sorry this is happening.' He said, gently. He took her hand and soothed her until she fell back to sleep, exhausted from crying.

Remus sighed and went through to his own room. Tonks was still awake. 'Is she ok?' she asked. She had been crying too; Narcissa and Draco were her family after all.

'No. She's sleeping again though.' He said, climbing in to the bed and pulling her close to him.

'I don't even want to think what they are doing to them.' Tonks said, bitterly. She was thinking of her aunt Bella, he knew it. The woman was insane.

'Let's try to get some sleep.' He said, yawning. 'We'll be doing a lot of work over the next few days – we need it.'

Tonks nodded and slid down the bed – pulling his arms around her.

They had only been sleeping for 2 hours when they were woken up by someone screaming.

'Maya!' Remus shouted, jumping out of bed and running to his daughter's room.

She was still asleep but she was thrashing around in her sleep.

'No! Draco! Come back!' she screamed.

'Stop! Please stop hurting him!' she begged someone.

'Shhh, shhhh' Remus said, as he held her. 'Maya, you're ok. You're ok.'

'Draco!' she choked out, before she fell silent again.

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Remus POV

'Any news?' Maya asked, as she came downstairs. It was the only words she had spoken to anyone every day for the last two weeks.

Remus shook his head and watched sadly as she went back up to her room, defeated.

He walked into the kitchen, where a meeting was ongoing. They were obviously still looking for Narcissa and Draco every day, but they had found nothing so far.

'Remus, I have some news. I have been advised that Narcissa and Draco chose to go back to the deatheaters themselves; they were not kidnapped.' Dumbledore said gravely.

'No!' Remus said, 'There is no way Draco would have gone back there; you don't know him the way we do!'

'Remus, please. I am just relaying the information I have been passed. We can keep looking, but if they did go back off their own back there is nothing we can do.'

Telling Maya that piece of information was the hardest thing he had to do.

'No!' she shouted 'Draco wouldn't do that! HE WOULDN'T!'

'I know baby, I know.' He said, holding her as she wept on his shoulder.

'He wouldn't Dad, I know he wouldn't. He loves me – he wouldn't want to hurt me.'

'Sweetheart, I don't know what else to say – the Order has agreed to keep looking for him, but if it does turn out to be true, which I don't believe it is, there is nothing we can do.'

'It's not true.' She said, stubbornly. She refused to believe it.

Remus left her alone after that; she needed to cool down.