Royals (Draco Malfoy x Reader)

Chapter 72

(Name), Draco and Narcissa walk around Diagon Alley. All around them, shops sit silent, windows boarded-up or shattered. People scurry by, avoiding the faces of the witches and wizards who peer out from the wanted posters plastered to every Lamppost. Bellatrix is there: "KNOWN DEATH EATER," And Greyback: "WEREWOLF."And Lucius Malfoy: "CAUGHT."  Draco looked like a kicked puppy when he saw the photo of his father, (Name) moved her gloved hand to his and squeezed it lightly shooting him a small smile, she pulled her hood further over her head, her lips barely visible. His heart thumping louder of the feel of her hand around his own. The three-stop, looking around quickly before disappearing down an alley navigating the back streets quickly, Draco never letting go of the smaller (h/c)ed girls hand, he was scared, although he would never in his life admit it. At the end of the alley, a single shop glimmers dully: Borgin &Burkes.

 (Name), Narcissa and Draco enter, greet a stooped man. He points. Draco walks to a lacquered cabinet, plays his fingers over its glassy surface. Narcissa speaks quickly and Draco turns, finds Borgin holding the curtain to the back room aside. Draco hesitates, turning to stare at (Name) who nods, then follows his mother through, (Name) trailing after. It was a ceremony, poor Draco was to take his father's place, the boy being set up to fail. He looked absolute scared witless as a man approaches him placing his wand at the base of Draco's forearm muttering a few words and the dark mark engraved itself into his arm.

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The train ride was quiet, (Name) sat with Draco, Blaise and Pansy, the latter scolded her for roughly 20 minutes for ignoring her owls, if only she knew. It goes black quickly and the train erupts in chaos,  Then, like a thinning mist, the darkness eerily recedes, the red light of dusk returns and Draco stands quickly peering around standing at the compartment doors, As he looks on warily, students return to their seats. "what just happened?" the blonde questioned, Blaise tenses lightly "I don't know"

"Relax, boys. The lights went out is all. Come, Draco. We'll be at Hogwarts before you know it." (Name) speaks as She pats the seat beside her. Draco nods before sitting beside the girl his hand shooting to hers trying to find comfort, she begins twirling pieces of his hair through her fingers and his worries seem to fly away. "Hogwarts. What a pathetic excuse for a school. I think I'd pitch myself off the Astronomy Tower if I thought I had to continue for another two years." (name), gently twisting one of Draco's locks, stops and sends him a questioning look. "What's that supposed to mean?" Pansy pipes up "Let's just say I don't think you'll be seeing me wasting my time in Charms Class next year" the blonde laughs. Confused, Pansy glances at Blaise, who snorts derisively. "Amused, Blaise? We'll see just who's laughing in the end." Blaise shakes his head, smiling as he looks out the window at the darkness. Just then the small bag in the upper rack shifts. (name) and Draco glances up at the bag sending each other questioning looks.

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As Blaise and Pansy make to exit, Draco takes down the small bag grips the handle thoughtfully. "you two go ahead, we want to check something" (Name) spoke her voice awfully bland, Pansy wiggles her eyebrows at Draco who rolls his eyes. (Name) slides shut the door and pulls down the blinds. "Didn't mummy ever tell you its bad manners to eavesdrop, Potter? Petrificus Totalus!" Malfoy wheels and points his wand at the luggage rack. Something hits the floor with a loud thump. The invisibility cloak slips away and reveals Harry, paralyzed on the floor. Draco grins. "Oh, right, she was dead before you could wipe the drool off your chin." he laughs and (name) snaps her head to him "enough Draco! that's enough!" she shouts clearly angry with the boy's words, anger one of the few emotions she had shown lately. He is taken over with Jealousy due to the girl's concern with Harry and brings his boot down hard on Harry's face. Blood squirts from Harry's nose. Malfoy snatches up the Invisibility Cloak and pitches it over Harry. "Enjoy the ride back to London." he smirks as (Name) latches to his arm and begins to pull him off the train "that was too far Draco!" she hissed like an angry mother and he rolled his eyes fixing his tie "I never understood what you saw in him" Draco began to walk off (Name) following behind him quietly, the two disappearing into the night.

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Draco stands amidst a mountain of trunks and owl cadges (Name) standing silently beside him twirling her thumbs, watching Filch pass along security detector over a walking stick. "And what exactly would you be wanting with a walking stick?" Fitch hissed and the girl began to try come up with an excuse, "It was his father's." Snape separates from the shadows. (Name) eyes him warily, then Draco snatches the stick from Filch. "Is my father's. He's not dead." Snape watches as Draco hands it to (Name) who carefully wraps the stick in felt and lay it back inside Draco's trunk. "It's alright, Mr Filch. I can vouch for Mr Malfoy." Draco eyes Snape warily again, then begins to slouch off, catches Harry looking "Nice face, Potter." he snickers. 

{Draco's Pov}

"you've been quiet" I comment eying the girl who turns to look at me, her eyes hollow and glassy as if she wasn't even a real person, as if she was a puppet being controlled. She smiled showing her pearly whites "I'm sorry" she mutters, her smile was fake, it didn't reach her eyes, her voice was still soft yet dull. "what did they do to you" I grasp her arm and she flinches "nothing" she assured her voice cracking and I nod, she was clearly unwilling to speak about it. She didn't look as ill as she did when I originally saw her back at the Manor, she was no longer as thin as she was that night, the bags under her eyes less prominent, but she held herself more gracefully and more classily as if she was scared what would happen if she acted out of line. I scanned over her and she sent me a questioning look "I'm fine Draco, I'm not a book, stop trying to read me" she spoke rather fastidious, I couldn't help myself I grabbed her and squeezed her as if my life depended on it, because her life probably did, she was clearly at a breaking point, she looked as if she was ready to give up and I truly wondered what had happened to her. "come now, we will be late for dinner" she released herself from my grasp and began to walk quickly towards the Great Hall. I watched as she disappeared around the corner, I couldn't let her help me with this task, because if I did, I'd probably lose her completely.

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