Sweet Dreams

DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything from the Potter canon. Anything copyrighted to the name of JK Rowling or and of her publishers have simply been borrowed. I make no money from this story or any of my others. The song belongs to Tori Amos, from the ‘best of’ album, Tales of a Librarian.

A/N: I would never normally use a Tori song as a fic, but this girl got down on her knees and begged. I would never say no to a girl on her knees.


~~\"Lie, lie, lies everywhere\", said the father to the son~~

Lucius’ rich baritone voice rang out against the walls of the cold stone room. “Draco Lucius Malfoy, you must understand that this family has certain rules. And children of this family, most especially the only son and heir as you are, you must follow those rules. One of them is joining the Death Eaters at the age of eighteen. I believe your birthday is next week, Draco.”

~~Your peppermint breath gonna choke \'em to death,~~

“Father. I want to wait until I can decide for myself. I don’t want to join the Death Eaters until I know exactly what being one entails.” Draco was unsure.

~~Daddy watch your little black sheep run ~~

“Draco, I refuse to have this ridiculous conversation with you. I have better things to waste my time on. You will join the Death Eaters. And you will do it at the meeting in two weeks time. All is arranged. The Dark Lord is expecting you.”

~~He got knives in his back ev\'ry time he opens up~~

Dear Harry,
God, he won’t drop it. Why can’t he just leave me be? Why can’t he understand? A part of me wants to do this, wants to give in and live my life like Snape has, as a Death Eater spy, join the Order and the Death Eaters and work for both. I just don’t know if I’m strong enough.

Draco.

~~You say, \"He got be strong if he wanna be a man\"~~

Dear Draco,
If you join the Death Eaters, the Order won’t have you, it has destroyed Snape enough. There is no way they’d let that kind of damage happen to you too.

Harry.

~~Mister I don\'t know how you can have~~

Draco curled up in bed that night, shivering with fear. He knew he could do nothing about the events which were coming to him. He thought he must be the first young man ever to dread turning eighteen.

~~Sweet dreams, sweet dreams~~

~~(Who’s your daddy?)~~

~~Land, land of liberty~~

Draco had no idea how he was going to get out of this one.

~~We\'re run by a constipated man~~

Maybe Harry could help him. Harry had escaped from horrible situations before.

~~When you live in the past~~

“Draco.” his father’s voice summoned him from the lobby of Malfoy Manor.

~~You refuse to see when your~~

Draco realised he had no hope.

~~Daughter come home nine months pregnant~~

No bloody hope at all.

~~With five billion points of light~~

He was destined to become a Death Eater.

~~Gonna shine \'em on the face of your friends~~

“Come, Draco. We’re going to a meeting. You have been cordially invited by the Dark Lord himself. He is most looking forwards to meeting the next generation of Malfoy evil.”

~~They got the earth in a sling~~

Malfoy took a pinch of the floo powder and disappeared into the fire, saying ‘the Riddle Mansion’ as he disappeared.

~~They got the world on her knees~~

He heard a silvery soft voice the moment he landed in the fireplace

~~They even got your zipper between their teeth~~

“Good evening Mr. Malfoy. It is good to finally meet you. I have heard so much about you.”

~~Sweet dreams, sweet dreams~~

Draco said nothing. He simply bowed low, the way his father had taught him.

~~You say, you say, you say that you have \'em~~

“My, my Mr. Malfoy. You have been trained well. I trust your father has explained the Death Eater initiation test?”

Draco shook his head once, “No, Sir.”

“Luicius!” called Voldemort. Draco’s father appeared from the fireplace, cementing Draco’s suspicions that he had been waiting until called. He bowed low as he entered the room. It galled Draco to the core seeing his father, the man he had always looked up to and respected, bowing to this creature.

~~I say that you\'re a liar~~

“Why does your son not know what he will have to do to be accepted as one of our kind?”

“I…I didn’t want to…to…spoil your pleasure of delivering the news Master.”

“Liar, Malfoy. Don’t think I cannot see the fear in your eyes. Crucio.”

Lucius fell to the floor, writhing in pain. Draco stunned himself by feeling absolutely nothing, no remorse, nothing.

~~Sweet dreams, sweet dreams~~

It was at that moment Draco knew he couldn’t do it.

~~Go on, go on, go on and dream~~

“To be accepted as a Death Eater, Draco, you have to prove competence in Unforgivable Curses. All three of them.”

~~Your house is on fire~~

Draco nodded at the Dark Lord. “Excellent. Permission to take my disgusting excuse for a father home, Master?” he asked, trying to mask his fear and apprehension.

~~Come along now~~

“Permission granted Draco. Have a wonderful birthday. I expect you to return next week for your marking, and for the test. Remember, if you cannot complete the test, there will be consequences.”

~~Well, well, summer wind been catching up with me~~

Dear Harry,
I’m so completely and totally fucked. Next week, after my birthday, I have to demonstrate to Voldemort and the Death Eaters my capability in the three Unforgivable curses. Then they’ll brand me, like some animal. That’s all they are anyway. Animals. Help me, Harry, I’m totally fucked.
Draco.

~~\"Elephant mind, missy you don\'t have~~

Dear Draco,
Are you a wizard or not? Get out now. Come here if you need to. Go to Snape. Millions of wizards will take you in if you say you are running from forced enrolment into the Death Eaters.
Harry.

~~You forgettin\' to fly,~~

Dear Harry,
I will be at yours at seven pm tomorrow.
Draco.

~~Darlin\', when d’you sleep\"~~

Draco banged hard on Harry’s front door.

“Happy birthday Draco.” Harry enveloped the blonde in a bone-crushing hug. “I’m so proud of you. Now get the fuck inside. Hiding you is going to be nigh on impossible.”

~~I got a hazy, lazy susan~~

Draco collapsed onto the sofa in Harry’s lounge. “What the fuck are we going to do Harry? There must be somewhere I can go that only we could know about.”

~~Takin turns all over my dreams~~

“I don’t think there is.” Harry walked up to Draco and stood in front of him. He then leant forwards and kissed him gently.

“No fair Harry. I thought we’d decided that wouldn’t work.”

“Actually, I think you decided it wouldn’t work Draco.”

~~I got lizards and snakes runnin\' through my body.~~

The boys had always slept well curled up together. It was about three in the morning when Harry was awoken by Draco’s screams.

“Draco. DRACO. Wake the hell up.” He slapped Draco’s face.

“Oh my god…where am I…Harry, God. Is it OK? Am I OK?”

~~Funny how they all have my face~~

“You’re with me, and you’re staying here, it’s fine. Sleep.”

~~Sweet dreams, sweet dreams~~
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Lily xxxxxxx

PS Thanks and love always to my amazing and untiring beta tashasaphi who even beta’s at silly o’clock in the morning. An inspiration to us all. (She also writes rather good fiction.)