Misunderstood | Draco Malfoy ✓

36 | Lightning Has Struck

The three of us leave and meet up with the rest; Lupin, Arthur, Molly, Fred, George, Percy, and Kingsley Shacklebolt. "Madeline dear! It's so good to see you." Molly embraces me tight causing me to hiss. "Are you okay?" She asks worried. "Yes and no. I still have some wounds that are healing." I tell her making her raise an eyebrow and others listen in. "They happened after you got caught helping the three escape, right? " Percy speaks up so I nod my head. "Yes, Bellatrix wasn't so happy with me. Not only for helping but for lying to her and running off." I force a smile. "What did she do to you?" Lupin bends down in front of me grabbing my hands. I let go of his hands to take my jacket off to pull my sleeve up. Everyone gasps getting a good look at it before I turn around raising the back of my shirt to show them my back. "For a week or something, three times each day Bellatrix would do the same routine on me. Grab my hair drag me to the middle of the room and slam my head down. Use her dagger on me and carve deeper over what she already did, mostly her initials. Kick me whenever I curled into a ball. Tricked me with food and when I would try to take it she would whip on my back. Of course can't forget the Cruciatus Curse."

They were all speechless and lost for words. "How are you doing so well?" Arthur is the first to speak. "I don't know but I think it's because I'm fighting for something. I went through all of that for Harry." I start to tear up. "I'm just glad you are alive." Remus carefully hugs me kissing the top of my head. "Your mother would have been and is so proud of you." I hug him back before the others give me a hug too. "Those will be wicked scars and when you have kids in the future one hell of a story." Fred kisses my forehead. "They will know how badass and strong their mom is." George kisses my forehead now. "You're both right." I hug them tight making a small group hug.

As I sat alone while everyone was talking about things I had no clue about Remus comes to sit next to me. "Don't you have business to attend to?" I ask watching everyone. "I wanted to check up on you while no one was around. How are you really doing, deep down?" He asks making me turn to him. "Honestly, terrible. Everytime someone gets close to me I wanna flich or back away. I still don't wanna eat because I'm scared it's a trick. I hate that everything on me will scar up and remind me what I went through. I had no energy in me to get even cry on the last day. Remus, I was so close to begging her to just end it and kill me." I let it out. "I can't imagine what you went through and how it felt. I'm just so happy you didn't give in to wanting to die. Your mother would have gave it to me whenever I die. Your father too but mostly me because I promised to watch after you once you were born. She knew your aunt Sophia wouldn't want Snape around. Not trying to talk bad about him, but being honest I still don't understand what she saw in your father."

That got me thinking, don't understand what she saw in your father. I guess I'm like my mother a lot but with Draco... People don't understand what I see in him because I know deep down. "She saw how he was deep down and fell for that side of him. My dad told me and showed me that memory of her explaining to him that she loved him for who he was. He's shown me many memories actually; You guys bullying him, him meeting my mother, falling in love with who she was, finding the truth about her, his love for Lily Potter, all his choices and the meanings behind them." I explain to him. "You said you knew my mom before Lily... How did you?" I ask thinking back making him smile. "It was during my thirteenth birthday. My mother took me out to see a movie and she ran into an old friend. Who happened to be your aunt Sophia's mother and both her and your mother were with her. I'm sure you know Sophia had a crush on me." I nod my head agreeing to that.

"Well I never saw her that way and she got super mad when I talked to your mother the whole time when we all went out to eat. I ended up learning a lot about your mother and developed a small crush on her. During breaks and the summer, I would meet up with your mother to hangout." He starts to smile more looking at the floor. "Hangout..." I say watching him laugh. "Yeah, hanging out turn into small dates here and there." I chuckle, "You dated my mom?" He nods his head laughing. "I sure did. Thirteen to Seventeen." My eyes widen, "Four years?" He laughs, "Yep, she broke up with me because she was falling for someone else, your father. She was falling out of love with me and didn't want to cause too much pain for me." I tilt my head"How did you take that?" I ask curious.