It Wasn't His Fault

"How is she father?"

"Asleep. Shall we?"

"You-you're leaving? Lucius, you said that you wanted to be here for her, when she awoke."

"And she has my dear. She will wake up again and I will come see her tomorrow, whether she'll be awake or not, I know not, but she'll be alive."

"Yes. She is out of the critical stage."

"Father am I returning home with you and mother or back to Hogwarts?"

"You shall be returning home with us. We have much to discuss."

"But father. What could there be to discuss? I am aware of my sister, that she is safe and alive now, what else could there be to discuss?"

"Are you questioning me?"

"I-no."

"Good, for a second it sounded like it. Now, let's go, I'm tired and am anxious to get home."

"Yes sir."

9:23am

Summa said that I should read what she's written in our book and write back. I don't even know if I have the energy to do it, hopefully , this won't be too draining.

To my dearest Nymphadora-

I know how you hate sappy notes and what not but I just can't imagine what other kind of note I could leave you in our journal. Right now you're through the doors here at St. Mungo's fighting for your life and I'm out here sitting with the oddest assortment of people. Imagine how stunned I was when I was called down to the Ministry to help Kingsley locate you when you were missing and Lucius Malfoy came through the floo. It shocked me silly, really it did. Of course you had informed me that he was your biological father but I honestly didn't know he would respond that if something happened and he did. You should've seen how worried he's been. The entire time since we found out about you, I believe that the man really cares about you-or well as much as one can that's just found out he's a father of a 20-something year old. I know how much you detest hearing your age, I mean I would if I were old like you. Just kidding my love. Now, on to what I'm really writing about. This should be no surprise to you, I've been seeing that guy you know, Thomas Lowell, well guess what, I think it's really getting serious. I wanted to tell you in person but I didn't want you to have to go through that whole high pitched shrieking thing that I do when I get really excited, in the hospital and in front of all those people. But yea, anyways, he wants me to move in with him. I told him that I'd have to think about it, I mean, it's only been a year since we've been dating and we've known him since Hogwarts. Anyways yeah, that's my big news. Haha.

I am so happy that you are able to read this. I really do love you and you are such a big part of my life that if anything happened to you I'd be destroyed, I think that my life would really be over. Seriously. And don't you roll your eyes at that, it's true. Now, I'm sure that you're tired from reading this so I'll wrap it up. I love you my dear and I can't wait until you're back in my life causing havoc and being the naturally amazing wrecking ball you are. I love you and get well my dear.

Yours truly,

Summa

PS: You had better write me back!

"Oh Summa…" I won't write her back, not now. I think I'll rest now.

11:00am

"You're awake."

"Hmm?"

"You're awake."

"Oh yeah… I just got my potion fix until I go to sleep tonight."

"I'm glad to hear that. I enjoyed being allowed to meet with you yesterday."

"Yes it was… pleasant."

"Yes…"

"Thank you for the note, that was nice of you to leave it for me. I really didn't know what had happened until I read it." This is slightly awkward, we're awkward. This whole thing is awkward.

"You're welcome. Has the doctor given you an update on your condition?"

"No. He just came in and came out after giving me some potions."

"Ah."

"Yeah…"

"…" I don't really know what to say to her. This will be a hard path for us, for me. I really just don't know where to begin. How to be a father to her. She's already been raised, by her mother.

"Um, did you come with your son?"

"No. Why do you ask?"

"Because he's standing outside the window."

"He's what? Hmm." Interesting. "Is it alright if I wave him in?"

"Sure." Why the hell would I care?

"Draco, is there a reason why you're here?"

"I-um… I wanted to see how she was doing."

"I see. Well it's about time I've left, my lunch break is over. Miss Tonks I-"

"Tonks. Just Tonks."

"Yes, well Tonks, I shall return tomorrow, same time work?"

"I'll still be laying here if that's what you mean."

"Yes. Then I'll be back at eleven tomorrow. Have a good day and I hope that you're starting to feel better."

"Thank you."

"Draco, I'll see you when you return home."

"Yes father."

And then he was gone. Was he scared off by Draco's arrival? Weird. "So are you gonna stand there and stare at me or are you gonna sit down and talk?"

"I-uh… How are you?"

"My body has been to the veil and back but my brain is working just fine. Oh and I'm held captive here in this damn hospital. How are you?"

"I don't know."

"You don't know?"

"Well I'm fine. I-This is all just so weird, I mean I have a sister and-and I just don't really know where I stand and where we stand and yeah. That's about it. I'm confused, I guess that's it."

"I think I know how you feel, a little bit. Ha." That's for sure. "Really that's an understatement."

"Yeah."

"So you wanted to talk then? To get to know one another?"

"Yes. If that's alright with you, I mean-if you want to know one another; that is if you want to."

"I think that we could work something out."

"Really? I'm relieved to hear that to be honest, I-uh-I thought that maybe you might not want to."

"Well I suppose that's a reasonable thought. But I'm open to see if we can have a relationship of sorts. But I'm really tired all of a sudden so maybe you could come back later and we can talk more."

"Yeah sure, tonight, maybe I can bring you something to eat?"

"That would be cool, the food here sucks."

"Yeah. So I'll see you around five then?"

"Five it is. And bring whatever you like, I eat pretty much everything."

"Alright. See you later."

"Later." What a strange boy. He totally wanted to say more, ask me something else. Strange boy. Stranger family. Just a strange situation. And now I'm exhausted, but at least I'm getting a free meal out of this. Ha. Wonder what he'll bring me to eat, hopefully it'll be delicious.