Dumbledore and the Insidious Plot

~Chapter nine~

At Malfoy Manor..

"Ah, Severus, what brings you here?" Voldie was ironing his pants when Severus barged in his room.

"That fucking bastard! I'm going to skin him alive!" Severus shouted as he paced before Voldie.

"Watch your tongue mister! You're not going to swear in front of my baby!" Voldie screamed back.

"Sorry, Tom, it's just that Remus is cheating on me," Severus almost sobbed but he kept himself together.

"How do you know?"

"I heard him and Lucius in the library getting it on," Severus said his voice full of loathing.

"What? I mean that how can Remus do this to you?" Voldie tried to hide his shock from Severus.

"I don't know! If I had known.."

"Don't blame yourself, Severus. It's not your fault. Remus is the one to blame here, not you," Voldie tried to comfort Severus as well as he could.

"Yeah, I know but still.."

"Hey, don't think about it now. Try to have some sleep. I'll talk to Remus and I'll try to find out if he's worthy of your love," Voldie's words were as soothing as always. No wonder why he had been able to gather all the Death Eaters around him so easily.

"Thanks, Tom and you will tell me what he said, won't you?"

"Of course and if his answer isn't what you hoped for then we are going to kick some ass," Voldie smiled evilly and Severus joined him.

***

Voldie was on his way to the library when he heard somebody crying. He saw one door a little ajar and he found Harry sitting behind it. Harry didn't notice him at first but then Voldie coughed gently.

"Oh, dad. I didn't see you.. How you.."

"Calm down, Harry and tell me, what's wrong?"

"Nothing," Harry wiped the tears away hastily.

"Don't give me that crap. You know that I'm a master of leggymency after all."

"It's legilimency, not leggymency, dad."

"Oh, whatever. Now tell me what's wrong."

"He's been lying to me all along."

"You mean Dumpty?" Voldie looked hopeful.

"No, Draco," Harry replied.

"What has Draco done this time," Voldie sighed.

"He's going to leave me," Harry sobbed.

"What on earth are you talking about? You are getting married soon. He's not going to leave you or is he?" Voldie looked doubtful for a moment.

"That's not helping dad! I know he's gonna leave me because I heard him admitting it," Harry said and almost started to cry again.

"Oh, Harry. Do you want me to kill him for you?" Voldie tried to comfort Harry as well as he good.

"No, I think I have to talk with him."

"Talking is overrated. My piece of advice is that you kill him first and ask questions later. At least that has been working for me. I'm not the Dark Lord for nothing," Voldie said proudly.

***

Now that Voldie was through with talking to Harry he was finally going to see Remus and find some answers. He arrived at the door which led into Remus' room. How could Lucius sleep with a werewolf? Snape maybe but Lucius? "Well I must find out what's going on," Voldie was muttering by himself as suddenly the door opened and

"Please come in. It's kind of pointless to talk all by yourself when I can hear you from the other side of the door."

A tired looking werewolf was looking at him with his big brown puppy eyes.

***

"Knock, knock."

"Who's there?" Severus asked.

"Your little chocolate puppy."

"Go away! I don't want to talk to you!" Severus shouted as he sulked.

"Sev, what's wrong? Has something happened?" Remus stepped inside the room and put his hand on Severus' shoulder.

"Don't touch me you filthy little lap dog!" Severus sprinted away from Remus.

"Severus! Tell me what's going on. I don't understand," Remus sounded calm but anger was bubbling inside him.

"I know what you are doing with Lucius," Severus sneered at Remus.

Remus paled and looked like he was about to faint.

"What did you say?" Remus asked weakly.

"I said that I KNOW what you and that blond bitch are doing together. How could you! You should know better. With Malfoy of all people. Oh. Merlin!" Severus rambled on.

"How did you find out? No one was supposed to know. Lucius promised that," Remus cut in.

"You should know him better by now. How much money did you get? 5000 Galleons?"

"I got usually 20 Knuts," Remus replied.

"Oh, my god! OUT!"

"But Severus please. I can explain if you just let me," Remus pleaded.

"You filthy whore! Out! Get OUT! I don't want to see you EVER AGAIN!" Severus pushed Remus out of the room and slammed the door shut.

***

A bit earlier..

Voldie stepped inside to the room and heard a soft click as the door closed.

"I know about you and Lucius," Voldie stated as he sat down on to a armchair near the fireplace.

"What? How?" Remus panicked.

"I'm not here to tell you that. I want to know how long it has been going on," Voldie answered calmly.

"Well, I and Lucius..." Remus told Voldie everything. Lucius had lured him to become a stripper to a local night club which Lucius owned. First Remus hadn't liked the idea but Lucius had paid him well so he hadn't complained. He wasn't recognized because of a skilful illusion charm. Remus had started to enjoy his work but he felt guilty nevertheless.

Voldie listened this very carefully and saw a perfect opportunity to ruin some other peoples lives. Lord Voldie the Evil maniac was back!

***

"When did you plan to tell me?" Harry asked Draco as Draco entered the room they shared together.

"Tell you what?" Draco looked confused. He was happy that finally he had found Harry. Although Harry looked like a shit.

"That you are.. leaving me," Harry fought a sob back.

"What? Where did you get an idea like that. I'm not going to leave you," Draco answered and walked next to Harry; who was sitting on the bed.

"But I heard you talking with Goyle and you said that our relationship isn't working and it doesn't heat up like it used to," Harry was crying again.

"No, no. Listen to me, Harry, babe. I was talking about a toaster. Not our relationship," Draco knelt down in front of Harry and took Harry's hands to his own.

"Really?" Harry asked sobbing.

"Really," Draco answered.