Cassie and Lyssa: Rise of Audentia

Cassie bit her lip to stop herself laughing, he looked embarrased and awkward and Cassie was finding it amusing. "Ok, well I can teach you how to diguise your voice and stuff that can help when not in battle as well as when in it." She smiled again and pulled her hair out from behind her ears.

Draco nodded at her, fighting a smile. He had never really smiled around people, didn't plan on starting to either. But, honestly, being around the other people of Audentia was changing him, for the better.

Cassie smiled amused as Draco fought a smile, he was a heck of alot different then he had been at school, she supposed it had something to do with being on the same side as each other instead of oposite ones as they had been through their school life and being in Gryffindor and Slytherin didn't really help much because they were in the rival houses. Even though Lyssa was a Gryffindor it didn't really help Draco's view of them.

"So, when do you think we can start on it?" Draco asked. He was rather impatient about it, since there was no telling when he would need to duel someone again. Any advantages he could gain would help to make sure nothing happened to him, and that he could help other people if they needed it. Draco blinked. Where had that thought come from?

"Whenever you want to." Cassie said then frowned as a thought came to her. "Are you okay Draco? You havn't even asked me how your sister is, you seem slightly distracted..." She frowned again.

Draco shook his head. "I don't even know," he answered. Then he shook his head again. "Can we start with the teaching stuff now?" he asked, not so casually diverting the subject. "I want start as soon as possible if you don't mind." He was biting the inside of his lip.

Cassie smiled amusedly. "Sure, I'm just going to cheak on some things then I'm free to help you practice. I'll find you when I'm ready." She smiled slightly again and continued to the kitchen where Hermione was still talking to the new girl She was a Slytherin but Cassie didn't hold that against her.

Draco watched her as she walked away. With a sigh he walked the other way. As he passed the door to the cellar he slowed. It wouldn't hurt anyone if he just went in to see Lyss. He pulled up the hood to the cloak and walked to the door. He easily explained to the Ravenclaw outside the door that Cassie had said he could see his sister, and the guy let him in. Lyssa had turned to look when the door opened. Draco walked over to where she was sitting and knelt down. Not caring that he hadn't learned to disguise his voice yet he said, "Hey…" Lyssa stared at him for a moment. "Draco…" she said softly. He nodded at her, figuring there was no point in trying to hide it, and pushed back the hood. She stared at him a moment longer and the hugged him –wincing when she moved her still hurting ankle wrong- not caring that they were on different sides. It was just great to see him again. She hadn't since that day at Hogwarts right after the battle.

Cassie had cheaked over what she wanted and went to find Draco, not being able to find him anywhere she went down to the cellar. "Jo, have you seen Draco?" He looked confused. "He told me you had let him see his sister." Cassie growled in frustration, put her hood on and disguised her voice. She opened the door and walked in. "You stupid idiot," She snapped wacking Draco on the back of the head. "What the hell are you thinking?" She glared at him. She knew he'd told Lyssa it was him, having his hood down proved that. She grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the cellar and into the kitchen. "Didn't it occur to you that telling Lyssa it's you could damage Audentia? You're in a war Draco, you need to think not just act." She was glad that the Cellar was soundproof so that the Death Eaters and Lyssa in it couldn't hear her cause she was pretty sure they would be able to without the sound proofness.

Lyssa broke free from her's and Draco's hug when she heard the door opening again. The person came in the room and promptly smacked Draco on the back of the head, while calling him an idiot. Both of the Malfoys scowled. Then they pulled Draco from the room, which caused Lyssa to scowl more. She hadn't seen him in ages, and someone was already pulling him away. It almost hurt her to think about why.
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"I don't care!" Draco snapped angrily as soon as Cassie stopped ranting at him, his hands clenching into fists. "I'm fed up with this fucking war! I'd rather have my family all together again and dammit if I have the chance to see any of them I'm going to take it Audentia be damned!"

"Draco you can see Lyssa all you fricken want," Cassie snapped. "But don't see her as an Audentia member. You can't fricken waltz around doing what the hell you bloody want. I know what it's like to miss your family Draco, I havn't seen any of mine since the year started and Lyssa was like a sister to me aswell. But if you want to end this war and have your family back together you can't make stupid mistakes like that."

"Ok," Draco admitted, "I wasn't thinking on that part, but really when I went in to see her I didn't intend for her to find out. Well, subconsciously I did…but that's beside the point." Draco stopped. His mind was a jumbled mess. He couldn't seem to form a coherent thought to get his point across. Firstly, he felt he was being treated like a child that was getting trouble. Secondly, he was just so angry, at so many things. With a deep scowl he took his cloak off and said, "There, happy? I'm not wearing the cloak. So now, oh leader of everything, can I go back in there and actually talk to her this time?"

"Knock yourself out," Cassie snapped walking out of the room angrily and slamming the door behind her. She did the same with her bedroom door when she entered her bedroom. Chucking her cloak off she let it drop to the ground and sat on the edge of her bed. He didn't get it, he didn't get that his carelss actions could put Audentia in trouble. She sighed and punched the wall in annoyance. "Annoying git."

Draco gave Cassie a sarcastic smile as she walked out, slamming the door behind her. Draco turned in the direction they had come from, going back to where his sister was. He walked back in and went to her again. This time they actually did talk about things. Not the important, painful to talk about things, just random things. It actually felt rather nice.

Cassie ran a hand through her hair wondering what to do. She had to trust Draco not to tell Lyssa anything that could be troublesom for her to know, but Cassie's trust in Draco was even less then her trust in Lyssa. She sighed and lay back on her bed.

"Remember that time when...?" Draco was saying. Lyssa nodded at him, smiling lightly. "And mum was so mad afterwards," she replied. Just talking like this felt like it had lifted some sort of big weight from both their chests. It proved that nearly nothing had changed between them and that their brother-sister bond was just as close as it ever was. "Well," Draco said after a moment of quiet, "it's been a while, but I think maybe it's time for me to go, but just for now." Lyssa nodded at him.

Cassie scowled at her roof, wondering how her family was. She missed her sister but didn't want to take the chance of visiting her, she sighed and rolled onto her side wishin that the war would just end that everything could go back to how it was. That Lyssa was helping Cassie run Audentia, being the freind not the enemy. Thoughts swirled around her mind making her remember when they were kids and they didn't have any major problems except for winning the house cup.

Draco hugged his sister and stood up from where he had sat down beside her. She watched him leave with a sigh. Draco walked back to his room, where he promptly fell back on his bed in a rather undignified way. The arguement he'd had with Cassie earlier had probably butchered any plans to get her help in learning how to be a better dueler, etc. Or, at least for now it had.

Cassie sighed and swung off the bed onto her feet. She ran a hand through her hair and on a moments thought left her cloak sitting on the floor. She walked towards the cellar her mind whirling. "Cassie where's you cloak?" Jo asked when she got down there. "Jo I want to talk to Lyssa anyone asks im only a guest here for the day. Okay?" He nodded confused. "Good." Cassie pushed open the door and let it fall shut behind her. It amused her the slight difference of attitudes the Death Eaters had when she was in here as head of Audentia and when she was in here as just Cassie.

Lyssa looked over at the door as it opened again, an annoyed expression appearing on her face before she had even noticed how had walked in. Then she scowled. She was not in the mood right now. "And just what do you want?" she asked.

"Nothing," Cassie replied frowning slightly. "I came to say hi, but you obviously don't want to say hi. I could go if you want?" She suggested, she wasn't in the mood to be here if Lyssa was just going to grumble the whole time. She wanted to talk to her freind, she missed her but she wasn't going to press her presence on her if she didn't want it.

"Do whatever," Lyssa muttered looking away. "It's up to you." She didn't really want Cassie to leave, but at the same time she wasn't sure if she could deal with talking to her without the two of them getting in an argument. And after talking so lightly with Draco that was the last thing she wanted.

Cassie sighed and ignoring the other Death Eaters in the cellar sat down on the floor next to her freind. She still classified Lyssa as a freind but not how she used to. "Well..." She muttered unsure of what to say. "Hi? As that was what I came here to say." Cassie made a face at herself and shook her head. But then she couldn't really ask Lyssa how she was when it was evient she wasn't okay.

"Ummm…hi," Lyssa said back. She sighed and ran her finger around on the floor in a circle. It was quiet for a minute. Lyss sighed again. "Not that this isn't awkward but…yeah it's awkward." She ran her fingers through her hair once.

"Yeah just a bit." Cassie said with a small smile in spite of herself. "Um..How's Draco cause I saw him walking out so I presumed you talked to him." Cassie was pretending she didn't know, which was probably the smart thing to do because if she wasn't in Audentia she wouldn't know. Cassie ran a hand through her hair diciding things were more complictated then they should be and then they needed to be.