Chapter 2: Scared to Death
AN: This chapter is by Seagoddes
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"We now lay him down to rest for his final time. His purpose here on earth is done and he has served his master
well."
Draco watched as six death eaters brought over the jet black coffin that inside held his grandfather.
He had been fighting in a war against Dumbledore when he had been killed by aurors.
Draco could not say that he was very close to his grandfather but the fact that he had been killed in the battle hit him hard. All his life his father had said that when he came to a certain age he too would get the mark that made him, as his father described, a member of their family.
He looked over at his mother who was standing straight across from him and saw the all too common neutral face that seemed to be stapled on there for all occasions. She was holding fathers had and Draco looked at his face. Again there was something that made him think that his father went through many funerals as to the way he choose not to show any emotion.
Not only that but his father was freshly broken out of Azkaban and his eyes were even more sunken in then they had been before.
Draco watched as they lowered the coffin into the ground and began filling it in with dirt.
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Draco threw aside the only letter that he had gotten all summer ,which had been from Severus Snape asking him to be a teachers assistant the following year for the classes when he taught the first years.
He smirked at this knowing that he would have just as much fun tormenting the first years as Snape did. Taking off his black jacket and tie he began wondering about exactly just how may funerals his father had seen and been through. Although Draco did not let it show he did not like the idea of dying.
He opened the door to his room and began making his way towards the kitchen when he heard the all to familiar sound of his fathers voice echoing off the bare walls of the hall.
He stopped when he grew closer to his parent room and held his breath in order to hear what they were saying.
"I don't know how much longer we are going to be able to wait Narcissa", he heard his fathers voice say
in a somewhat quiet voice.
"Now of all times, they have to want him ?""he heard his mother reply."
"We are losing greatly in the war. Master refuses to say such things but I know they are true, thousands of our allies are dying everyday"
"I have no dought about that but we must be able to get more. We should not have to resort to this so early on" Narcissa said to her husband.
Draco listened intently not knowing at the time what they were talking about other than something to do with Voldmort and the war.
"But there aren't anymore. We have talked to all that would be our allies and the rest Dumbledore has already gotten to and it looks like they are more likely to go with them than with master" Lucious said pitifully.
"There must be."., Narcissa started.
"There is no other way! We must get everyone that we can in order to win. You do like the life you live right. If
we lose this war you can say bye to everything we know and hello to a cell in Azkaban!"
Draco heard what seemed to be the sound of his mother `s soft sobs but other than that the room was quiet.
"It seems the only way. Draco will have to get the dark mark and start fighting at the end of this school year. At the last meeting, master made it clear that this is what we would be doing. He already doesn like the idea that we are losing but also that we are losing so badly. Recently intelligence learned that they no have vampires on their side".
"But don't we have them on our side as well?" he heard his mother ask dryly.
"Yes, but we don't want them on their side. They were suppose to be our last resort, they are such a great advantage that we would surely win but now we do not know how many are spying for Dumbledore."
"I see" Narcissa said.
"Basically all we can do is tell Draco that he will be getting the mark much sooner than planned. I know that he is still unsure about getting it but he is my son and he will not disgrace this family"
Draco did not stick around to hear anything more; he now knew that what they had been talking about. They were sending
him into danger at the end of the school year. He did not understand every detail about what they had been talking
about but he had figured out most of it.
His father had always told him that they were the one that would defeat Dumbledore and Harry Potter but the way it
seemed now was that it was very much the opposite. Not only were they losing but thousands were dying all the time
because of it.
Draco went to the kitchen but realized that he was no longer hungry so instead turned and went down one of the halls that contained the library.
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It had been an hour since he had entered the library and he could still not find a book that had anything to do with immortality.
The library at his house was not much different from the one that was at Hogwarts only that there was a much larger restricted section that contained everything from the potions on how to change plants into people to how to perform the perfect killing curse.
There were at least twenty books surrounding Draco as he sat at one of the tables flipping through the pages looking for anything that would help him.
So far he had been lucky as to not be disturbed but he did not know how much longer that could last. If he was right his father would soon be looking for him in order to tell him that he was going to have to get the mark at the end of the school year.
Just as he was looking at all the ways to cause muggle pain he heard the door of the library creak open. He stopped moving as he heard the foot steps comes closer to where he was seated.
"Draco there you are" it was no use his father had found him.
"Hello father" Draco said bitterly.
"I have been looking for you, I have something very important to discuss with you".
"What is that? Draco said trying to sound at least half interested.
"Well as you may or may not know the war against Voldmort is not going to well and I must say that we are losing
numbers everyday"
He stopped and looked at Draco with a face that said you better shut up and not say a word until I am done now.
"So the last time we had a meeting we decided that our younger to be members would now be joining our ranks. So I must tell you that at the end of this school year you will be joining the Death-eaters."
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