Chapter thirteen
Happy Birthday
Indigo awoke to an owl pecking on the window in between her and Mel’s beds. Its leg held a letter and a small parcel as it continued to peck even as Indie opened the window. She opened the letter written from her mother to them to find a card decorated in blue, black and silver butterflies flying around the paper.

To my dear daughters

Have a happy birthday,

Love mum xxxx

P.S I spoke with your father, he’s still unchanged, and im sorry but he doesn’t want to know.

“Mel wake up” she said shaking the figure cocooned in her quilt “Mel!” she tried again but her sister huddled deeper. Indie pulled the quilt off the bed, “Get up” she heard a groan and then a snore. Focusing all her energy on her sister she lifted her up in the air, through the bathroom door and into an empty bath surrounded by a crimson curtain “fine” said Indie she turned on the cold taps and heard a yell “WHAT THE HELL!”
Indie stood arms crossed card and gift in hand
“WHY IN MERLINS NAME AM I SOAKING WET IN A BATH AND IN MY PYJAMAS?” shouted Mel from the bath, using the curtain to pull her self up.
“You wouldn’t get up” Indie said quietly, looking at her feet.
“So you thought, ‘I know, I’ll put her in the bath and make her think she’s drowning’” Mel said, clambering out of the tub and perching on the edge “you could at least get me a towel” she looked at her shivering, her face red in subsiding anger.
“Oh yeah, sorry” she handed her one “I tried but you wouldn’t move, this was all that came to mind”
Mel wrapped her self up and huddled on the floor “What was so important?”
“This” she handed Mel the card and waited “She’s lying, she’s lying to us without even batting an eyelid, and I knew we couldn’t trust her”
“I suppose” Indie sighed looking to the floor
“You suppose what, you know just as well as I do she doesn’t want us near him and she thinks where going to stop asking about him if we think he’s some kind of murdering monster” Mel began to shiver again
“Who’s a murdering monster?” Came a voice from the doorway
“None of your business Fiona, so keep you fake nose out” Shouted Mel
There was a cry of “I had a deviated septum” and then the sounds of stomping down the stairs.
“Hey we have five more years of sharing a dorm with those three be nice” Indie got up “Here this is yours, from her” she handed her a small blue velvet pouch from out of the parcel, and held on to her own black one.

Indie sat on her bed and opened it; a silver chain fell out followed by an onyx stone set in a silver locket. Mel emptied her own pouch onto her hand a locket of the same design only with a sapphire emerged from the velvet.

“Is she trying to bribe us?” Mel flung it across the room “She’s lying and I want to know why, why does she want to keep him from us”

Indie placed her locket back in it pouch and put it into her beside draw she retrieved Mel’s and put it with her own “Im sure she had her reasons”
“REASONS, YOU WANT REASONS?” Mel shouted
“No matter how wrong she was” Indie finished, “Let’s get dressed and go downstairs” she put the card on the window sill “The guys are probably waiting for us” Mel replied grabbing a dry towel and going back into the bathroom,
“Let me have a bath myself this time” She smiled and turned on the taps and Indie walked towards the showers.
*****

They walked down stairs and met James sitting on the couch with Rose and Albus. “Are you two ok?” Said James, he had immediately picked up that something had happened and his face became etched with concern for his friends, “Nothing” Indie smiled, “Just a card from Mother dearest, peddling more lies” Mel finished plopping herself down next to Indie ,as Rose and Albus left to get breakfast.
“Well I guess he doesn’t know Malfoy’s going to visit Draco today and you plan on meeting him so tricking Anchorage worked” James replied, “so now I bet you want our presents” He grinned as Mel’s eyes lit up, “Oh yeah, we get presents today”
“That’s generally what happens” James threw a small package at Mel and gave one to Indie, saying “Kaleb and I decided to spent our money wisely and pool it together to get you something together, but since he decided to be an idiot, Im glad I got you guys something else each too”
The twins looked at each other smiled and then opened the packages.

“Wow, it’s beautiful, thank you James” Indie held in her hand a small wooden box decorated with silver embellishments of leaves and flower’s with her name on the top. Mel held up her own in the light as she admired it, “Thanks James, just you wait, I have my own supply of chocolate frogs and plan on pelting that idiot with them till he starts making sense”

“You wouldn’t’ be talking about me would you?” Kaleb grinned and sat next to James holding a large box in his hands, which he placed in his lap covering his head and torso. “It seems that if we’re going to get on I need to well stop being an idiot and well if he hurts you don’t say I didn’t warn you” he poked his head around the side of the box.

“Well thanks Kaleb, we appreciate your concern for us” Said Indie as the box was placed on the ground
“But we can take care of ourselves” Said Mel smiling “So what’s in the box?”

Kaleb’s grin stretched to his ears, “well since you have a lot going on, we thought we’d throw a party, and this is just some of the stuff we got hold of until tonight, keep in mind this is all very dangerous stuff” He handed over the box as Mel eagerly pulled off the lid. The twins both began to laugh “Chocolate!”
“Like I said, its extremely dangerous stuff, all those weapons for you to throw at us I might end up confined to the hospital wing” Kaleb laughed, “oh and there are other things as well”

Indie stuck her hand in reaching for something round “Badges?” she held it up as it flashed ‘Birthday girl’ in blue, black and silver, “You have to wear them or you won’t get the party”
They pined them on there tops thanked the boys and headed down to breakfast.

“Are you nervous?” Asked James as Indie shovelled down pancakes “Only I’ve never seen you eat so fast in the year and I halve I’ve known you”
She nodded looking remarkably like a hamster or a squirrel, her cheeks filled with pancakes.
“Well we should be, though I can’t wait for noon, what time is it?” Mel poked Kaleb with a spoon as she tried to look at his watch abandoning her full bowl of porridge, “Its ten o’clock” Said Kaleb restarting his conversation with Francis again..

“Two hours, how can I wait two more hours?” Mel sighed nearly putting her face in her bowl, just as Scorpius came over. “Happy birthday, you two”
“Thanks” They smiled
“Aren’t you worried about what the other Slytherin’s say when they see you talking to four Gryffindor’s” Sneered Kaleb, “You have the Malfoy reputation to uphold don’t you”
“Shut up Kaleb, please for everyone’s sake you need to get over it” Said James and glared at him as did the twins. Kaleb muttered something indistinctly and turned back to talk to Francis again.
“Well since were related they can think what they like” He placed a small leather book on the table, “I got a book out from the library and made this for you, it’s not much but anyway happy birthday” He smiled and walked out of the hall.
Mel opened to the first page and Indie let out a gasp, it opened out to a large piece of parchment and became a family tree with them on, right back to the first Malfoy’s, intertwined with the Blacks, Weasley’s and other pure blood and none pure blood families.

*****

As eleven approached the foursome sat in the boy’s dorm avoiding anyone else. Indie had been pacing anxiously and both James and Mel had given up trying to make her stop and calm down over the last half hour.
The three sat on the floor not talking about what was going to unfold in an hour and how they would finally meet there dad, after thirteen years of not knowing.

Mel was sat down quietly fidgeting with her hair, then the badge, then her bracelet and going back to her hair nearly pulling it out in angst. “Calm down, Mel, it’s going to be fine” Said James smiling reassuringly to the both of them while Kaleb looked on,
“I am calm, im just nervous, I mean what if he doesn’t like us, or…or” Stuttered Mel, surprisingly lost for words,
“Or what, sis it’s going to be fine” Smiled Indie coming to a halt,
“Then, why are YOU pacing up and down the room?” Mel grinned
“Just ignore me, you know I do this to help me think” She smiled in return and began to pace.
“Do you want us to come with you?” Said Kaleb looking at the floor and avoiding there surprised gazes
“We’ll be ok, Scorpius will be there too remember” Mel smiled as he looked up when she said his name, “He is our brother after all” Kaleb nodded in reply and began to stare out of the window from were he was sitting.
“Is it odd, now you know your Malfoy’s” asked James hoping that by talking to them they might both sit still, Mel stopped fidgeting again and stared at him deep in thought, whilst Indie continued to pace.
“I guess” Said Mel now smiling “With these powers as well, it’s a lot to take in but I think we managed ok”
Indie began to laugh still walking up and down the room, “I think I was more ok with it then you were Mel, I mean I never exploded in rage like you did, I gained control over our new powers faster then you did and best of all my school work never suffered”
Mel smiled “Well you have all ways been more efficient then me, I can’t concentrate when something big happens I don’t know how you do it”
“You must do ok, because if I had said that before you would have attacked me with your wand or worse that large supply of chocolate frogs you have”

They all began to laugh and Indie sat down, relaxing a little more while Kaleb seemed still more distracted.

The time slowly wore away as quarter to twelve became closer, and they decided to head off to the classroom leaving the boy’s, much to there dismay, in the common room telling them to “wait for us here” reassuring them they would be ok with Scorpius.

*****

They met him in the corridor to the once forbidden corridor of the third floor and made there way up to the classroom. The girls stood silently outside while Scorpius knocked and entered.

Two minutes later there was the sound of “What?” and a sigh, when a door burst open down the corridor and a man in navy blue robes approached, his eyes confused, his black hair neatly tied aback and a woman looking livid next to him.