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Noli Me Tangere 2
The door to the bedroom opened and Vee emerged, wand in hand.
"Lucius? In Merlin's name what happened to you? You look like you got rode hard and put away wet!"
"Why thank you my dear. Tactful as ever," I said with a glare.
"I see no reason to dance around the truth with you, my love. Which is more than I can say for you since I notice that you didn't answer my question," she continued. She raised one eyebrow at me as she said this, an expression she stole from me when we first started dating. I sank into the nearest chair and propped my feet on the table, trying to look relaxed rather than ready to collapse. From the look on Vee's face I didn't succeed as well as I should have liked.
She disappeared into the kitchen. "Well? Talk," she ordered.
I laughed and immediately regretted it as my ribs protested. "Voldemort wants Draco to join us. I disagreed."
"And you didn't think that it might not be a good idea to do so out loud?" Vee came back with a mug of steaming soup. "Drink this and then I'll patch up your wounds. If I think you deserve it I'll get you a drink when I've finished."
"When did you become my mother?" I asked, frustratedly.
"When did you start needing one?" she said as she perched on the arm of the chair, waiting for me to follow her instructions.
"Touché! All right, I'll drink the damn soup. But then we need to talk." She sat there silently as I drank the soup, her hand on my shoulder. One of the things I most enjoy about my relationship with Vee is out ability to sit together in companionable silence without it becoming oppressive. I would miss moments like this.
I put the cup aside and ran my fingertips along her arm, "Vee..."
"Later, Lucius. I'll fix you injuries first, and then we'll talk. If it's as serious as it sounds I might not want to fix them later." She drew her wand and started to undo my robes. She ran her hands gently over my torso, pausing whenever I winced and using her wand to heal my injuries. When she had finished she poured us both a glass of scotch and curled up on the sofa.
I took a sip of the drink while I tried to get my thoughts in order.
"I'm leaving the Death Eaters, Vee."
She opened her mouth to say something but I cut her off. I wasn't going to be able to do this if she kept interrupting.
"Vee, please, just let me say this and then you can start yelling at me!" I snapped. She glared at me but shut her mouth again. I got the feeling I was probably going to regret losing my temper but I was not having the best day of my life here.
"I am not letting that psychopath get his claws into my son! So I'm going to go to the Ministry and offer them information in return for help to protect Draco. If I go back home after showing my hand I'm a dead man so I'll have to disappear. They'll come here looking for me so you'll probably have to leave too. I'm sorry about putting you in danger but I can't risk Draco. I'm warning you so you have time to come up with a plan."
Vee stared at me for a moment before saying incredulously, "That's your plan? Lucius Malfoy, devious, manipulative schemer, former golden boy of Slytherin house and current Death Eater. You've survived 15 years as a Death Eater while still being a pillar of the community, not to mention nearly 20 years of marriage to Narcissa, and that was the best plan you could come up with? You might as well go and pick yourself out a cosy little cell in Azkaban now if you intend to go through with this idiocy. Of all the moronic, dumb ass — Did your brain dribble out your ears and run away recently?"
When she paused for breath I jumped in. I figured that if I waited for her to actually stop I'd still be there in a month's time.
"I know it's not the greatest plan ever, Vee, but what am I supposed to do? I can hardly expect Draco to make a decision I'm too scared to make. If I want him to turn his back on the Death Eaters then I have to do the same."
"That bit of the plan is fine. Leaving the Death Eaters is the best idea you've had in decades, but handing yourself over to the Ministry on a platter is not. Look, I have some contacts I can talk to. I think I can come up with a better plan but it'll take a while. I suggest you try and get some sleep while I go and do my thing."
Now it was my turn to stare at her, "How is it you have contacts at the Ministry?"
She smiled mysteriously, "I'll tell you tomorrow. They're not at the Ministry exactly but they will be able to help us."
I didn't know what to say. I hadn't come here expecting Vee to help and now it looked like she was going to be able to come up with a solution far better than anything I had planned.
She stood up and took my empty glass, "Take a hot shower, it'll make you feel better and then try and sleep, love. I'll be back as soon as I can."
She walked over to the fireplace and grabbed the jar of Floo Powder. I noticed that she waited for me to close the bathroom door before sing it though. She obviously didn't want me to know where she was going. It probably should have made me nervous but even a Malfoy has to trust someone else at some point and I decided she was unlikely to stab me in the back.
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