The day after attending the wedding, Vanessa went to St. Mungo's early in the morning.

The hospital has been very busy recently, especially the spell injury department where she is.

She had never seen the Unforgivable Curse on such a large scale and with no regard for consequences.

These curses hit those officials of the Ministry of Magic and Judge Wizengamot who disagreed with the lord's ideas like revenge. Vanessa was busy shuttling in front of one stretcher after another, and the injured were not just these quite The wizards with status are more those who have no background and Muggle-born wizards.

Vanessa looked at the five people brought in again with a pale face. All of them were cast with extremely frequent and cruel Cruciatus Curses, and one of them was tortured to the point of losing his sanity.

Vanessa was standing in the back row. She was an intern therapist and had no access to such serious patients for the time being. She heard the attending therapist Mason shake his head and say after examining the patient, "It's not possible."

Auror Alastor Moody, who sent these wizards here, roared extremely violently, and said loudly, "Save him! He's a hero! He killed three Death Eaters! He saved a dozen seedling wizards!" You can't just give up on him!"

Vanessa stood behind, listening to Moody's desperate yell, almost unable to control her shaky body.

"Sorry, I can't do anything." Mason said with a pale face, "This, this is beyond our capabilities, I really can't do it, sorry, Alastor."

Moody couldn't calm down at all, he stood beside the dying wizard's bed and screamed and collapsed until Dumbledore appeared in the ward.

"Alastor, calm down."

Dumbledore's expression was serious. This was the first time Vanessa saw the old headmaster after graduation. As an unremarkable non-Gryffindor student, Vanessa didn't have many chances to meet Dumbledore. I haven't even been to the principal's office during my studies.

"Ori has completed his mission. I believe that he is not afraid of death at this moment. He may regret not being able to say goodbye to us." Dumbledore walked to the bedside, looking at Ori who was gradually losing consciousness with his eyes closed, He whispered, "Mason, is there a way for Ori to regain his sanity for a moment and have a few words with us?"

Therapist Mason nodded, bent down and waved his wand beside Ori, chanting a complicated incantation. At the end of his incantation, Ori opened his eyes again, looking at his former colleagues, as if returning to the light.

"I'm so proud...that I died fighting as an Auror." Ori opened his eyes wide and shouted with all his strength, "Please continue this glory, don't stop because of my death, Please inherit my will at this moment, forever..."

Vanessa stared in shock at Ori who died completely after saying a few words, looked at Moody with a sad face and Dumbledore with a solemn face, it was the first time she saw Principal Dumbledore's expression , in school, he was always kind and friendly, he never showed a dignified, harsh expression on his students, Vanessa couldn't take her eyes off his face until he turned her head and looked at her.

Vanessa was taken aback, and looked away in a panic. Dumbledore smiled at her, and then said to Moody: "I want to hear your report on this event, and we probably have to change places." He looked back at O'Hara again Li, said to the healer Mason, "Please place this hero properly."

Mason nodded cautiously and said, "We will."

Dumbledore nodded slightly, and finally paid the highest respect to Ori, and then left St. Mungo with Moody and others.

The Spell Injury Department, which was overcrowded just now, was instantly vacant. Vanessa was greeted by Mason, and she heard him say to herself: "Help this hero deal with the trauma. We hope that he will be as decent at the funeral as he was when he was alive. Isn't it?"

Vanessa nodded, drew out her wand, and carefully arranged Ori's remains.

He is a hero.

A hero who fights against demons.

That lord... No, maybe it is more appropriate to call him the Dark Lord. He will be backlashed one day for his radical eradication of dissidents. Doesn't he realize this?Or, has he lost his mind?

Compared with the past few years, he has become more and more eager for quick success, even Vanessa, a commoner, can notice, let alone those who follow him.

Lucius...

Lucius, what is he going to do.

Vanessa was really worried that the next thing she got was news that the Aurors had captured Lucius, or that the Dark Lord himself no longer trusted him and killed him.

She didn't dare to imagine Lucius Malfoy being imprisoned in Azkaban, or lying on the cold ground losing his breath. She had been busy all day, and when she returned home in the evening, she saw Sirius Sleeping on the sofa in her living room.

Before Vanessa had time to change her uniform, she stood there with her mind blank for a few seconds, then moved slightly, walked to the sofa, and sat beside him.

She stared sideways at his peaceful sleeping face, she was surprised that he could sleep so peacefully here, there seemed to be a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.He looked a little thinner than before, his face became more defined, and when he opened his eyes to look at someone, his eyes became sharper.

Vanessa was being watched by these eyes at the moment.

"You're finally back." Realizing that it was Vanessa, Sirius' eyes softened unconsciously, he stretched his waist, his shirt was pulled up a little by the stretching of his arms, revealing a white and thin abdomen, Vanessa glanced and quickly turned away.

"Is there anything to eat? I've been hungry all day, and my chest is stuck to my back." He covered his heart and wailed exaggeratedly, "Even if I angered the difficult elders at home, I didn't get hungry. It’s been so bad.” Back then he could always find a way to eat something, but unlike here, he couldn’t understand Vanessa’s house, or, he didn’t want to understand it on purpose, and just waited for her to come back and sell it badly .

Apparently, his act of selling miserably was more successful, and Vanessa immediately got up and prepared food for him, although she still looked preoccupied.

Sirius got up from the sofa, walked to the kitchen, watched her busy figure from behind and said, "Did something happen? Your expression tells me that something terrible happened to you today."

Vanessa paused and quickly resumed her busy work, but it took a while before she spoke.

"When I was at work today, I sorted out the remains of a sacrificed Auror."

Sirius' incoherent expression immediately became more serious, he took a few steps forward and asked her, "Who is it?"

Vanessa looked at him and said, "It's Ori, I don't know them, I don't know who those Aurors are, but he...he's great, he's a hero. He killed three Death Eaters, Saved more than a dozen bitch wizards." She kept remembering Moody's words, and said with tight lips, "He deserves everyone's respect."

So even Dumbledore paid tribute to him.

Sirius was silent for a long time before he nodded and said, "You are right. After I graduate, I want to become such an Auror."

Vanessa always felt that his words sounded unlucky, so she disagreed: "I have no problem with you becoming an Auror, but don't make such an analogy."

Sirius raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong with this analogy?"

Vanessa was so calm that she was almost indifferent: "I will never arrange your remains on St. Mungo's hospital bed."

Sirius was stunned for a moment, and then said after a while: "...But if it is for justice, if someone has to sacrifice, I still have a duty to do it, and I will definitely not hesitate."

Vanessa stared at him: "Then what do you mean?" She frowned and said angrily, "Then I might as well starve you to death now, so as to save myself from being hit like that again when the time comes, what do you say? Have you ever thought about how your family, your friends would feel?"

Sirius didn't expect her to react so violently, he tried his best to calm down and said: "...my friends will understand me, as for my family..." He curled his lips in disdain, "They probably want me to die sooner."

Vanessa clenched her fist, pushed him away and left.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Sirius caught up, "Why don't you talk, are you angry? Why are you angry, we are just talking about ideals, aren't we?"

"Damn talking about ideals!" Vanessa turned around and stared at Sirius, "Why must someone be sacrificed to uphold justice? Even if someone has to be sacrificed, that person should definitely not be you! You think your friends will understand Do you? No, at least I don't understand, of course, the premise is that you regard me as your friend."

It was the first time that Vanessa got angry with Sirius in a real sense. Sirius was stunned, looked at her in surprise, and said after a long time, "Are you worried about me?"

Vanessa sneered and said, "Ah, I'm so glad you finally figured it out. I thought you'd never find out in your life."

Sirius slowly raised a smile on his face, and the roots of his ears were still a little suspiciously red.

"Well, I was wrong, I promise you, no matter what happens in the future, I will try my best to protect myself." He stepped forward, grabbed Vanessa's hand despite her objection, and said seriously, "Listen, Vanessa, believe me, I'm very powerful, I'm not that easy to defeat, I know a lot of powerful magic, although you are a few years older than me, you are not my opponent, do you believe it?"

"I don't want to discuss who is the best with you." Vanessa was still very upset.

"Then just remember, I won't put myself in danger. If I take a step back, even if I become disabled one day, I will drag my injured leg to St. Mungo's to find you and ask you to heal me."

Sirius was smiling when he said this, as if he wasn't the one who might be disabled in his words.

Vanessa couldn't get angry at all with his frank and upright words and character. She looked at him with a headache, helpless.

"I went to cook."

She finally gave up discussing this topic with him, because she knew that the two of them would not discuss any good results. After all, Sirius was the only Gryffindor that the Black family had seen in a hundred years, and she was a Slytherin.

The two of them have fundamentally different views on many things.

What they care about is not exactly the same, what is most important to Vanessa, may be sacrificed in Sirius' view.

While Vanessa was cooking, Sirius measured the size of the house with his feet in the living room. Although he didn't dislike this Muggle house, he was born in a noble family and felt that it was too small. He was working hard When there was a knock on the window, he looked up and saw an owl.

Sirius looked back at Vanessa, who was busy in the kitchen and didn't hear her, so he went to the window, opened the window for the owl, prepared food, and took down the letter at its feet.

"I have your letter."

Sirius didn't know who sent it, he didn't open the envelope, and the most common owl delivered the letter.

Vanessa freed her hand and reached out to him: "Thank you." She took the envelope from him.

After a little hesitation, Vanessa opened the letter in front of Sirius. The content of the letter was not long, but it came from someone she thought would never be in touch again. She stared at the letter about her mother in a daze. news, silence.

Sirius didn't want to peek at her letter, but she didn't carry his back at all, and he didn't need much effort to glance at the content, especially the very personal characteristic at the end of the letter - L·M.

"He still writes to you?" Sirius frowned, looking displeased, "I didn't even know Lucius Malfoy was such a thick-skinned guy, he was always very arrogant. "

Vanessa said with an ugly expression: "Don't say that, Sirius, it's just news about my mother, nothing else."

Sirius was startled: "Your mother?" He asked in surprise, "What does your mother have to do with him?"

Vanessa thought for a while, but didn't hide anything from him, and said truthfully: "My mother lives in his house, she... doesn't really want to be with me anymore... I mean..." She glanced at her The house, said awkwardly, "It's really a bit shabby here, isn't it? She accepted Mr. Malfoy's relief, and probably doesn't want to go back to living a poor life again." She took a breath, "I wrote her a letter not long ago , I hope she can come and live with me, but she still hasn’t replied to me, I think she is avoiding. Lou...Mr. Malfoy wrote to me and told me that he would help me try to persuade my mother, Time to bring her back."

The words are so clear, Sirius would be a fool if he didn't understand.

Men know men best, and he can almost guess why Lucius wants to help her mother without Vanessa explaining.

That was simply a shackle for Vanessa, so that even at this moment, Lucius could still use the other party to contact and even get close to Vanessa.He didn't believe that Lucius' claim that he would send Vanessa's mother back in due time was 100% false.

"Can you let me try?" Sirius suddenly asked, "Maybe I can convince Mrs. Wilson."

Vanessa asked in surprise, "You?"

"Of course, my eloquence has always been very good, and there are very few female elders who don't like me." After a short pause, he twitched his lips and said, "Of course, my mother and her distinguished 'friends' are not included."

Vanessa's expression changed, she didn't speak for a while, Sirius insisted: "Let me try it once, just this once, if Mrs. Wilson still disagrees, I won't mention it again."

This matter has troubled Vanessa for a long time, and she was really desperate, so at this moment, she thought about turning a dead horse into a living horse doctor, so she nodded and agreed.

"Can I ask her out for a meeting? Just go to the place where she lives. You don't have to go there, you can go to work, and I will meet her alone." Sirius suggested, "Accounting her in your name means that you have a new boyfriend." I hope I can have an interview with her." He pointed to the fireplace and said, "Open the fireplace for a day, and then turn it off when it is used up, and I will go through the Floo network." His gray eyes kept rolling, just as he was preparing to play a prank at school. They were exactly the same when they were classmates. Vanessa couldn't laugh or cry, but since she had agreed to him, she didn't object.

However, Vanessa did not expect that her simple and hopeless attempt would succeed.

At the end of July, Sirius ran away from Black's house and met Roxy through her fireplace.Not long after the meeting, Roxie wrote to Vanessa, telling her that she would come to live with her and no longer live with Lucius.

Vanessa looked at the letter paper, feeling extremely excited. The relaxed feeling that she could finally clear up the relationship with the past made her almost unable to believe everything in front of her.

But after this excitement, the sense of loss that there was no reason to be involved with Lucius in the future quickly swept through her brain.

She held her head and squatted in the living room without moving for a long time.

She thought that this was the biggest negative emotion she was about to bear.

But she was obviously too naive.

When my mother wrote to her, besides saying that she would move in with her, she also said that she would go to Diagon Alley to do some shopping first.

Vanessa didn't think too much about it, as a woman, it is necessary to buy some things. After moving to Vanessa's place, Roxie didn't know if she was in the mood to go to Diagon Alley. She might start to be autistic again, so She chose to go to Diagon Alley before coming, and Vanessa could understand.

But this understanding does not mean that she can accept her mother dying in Knockturn Alley when she is about to return.

Vanessa passed out when she saw her mother's body in St. Mungo's.

Before she passed out, her mind was full of Lucius's face.

is it him?

Did he do it? ?

Why is this happening?

Why did Merlin bring her boundless despair when she finally saw hope?

Roxy's death certainly had nothing to do with Lucius.

No, to be precise, he is responsible for poor regulation.

Lucius got the news not much faster than Vanessa, and he even knew that Roxy had left later than Vanessa.

After getting married, Lucius became more and more important to Voldemort. During this period of time, he was running around with the Riddle House and was discussing a new plan with Voldemort at the Riddle House. During the discussion, someone suddenly came in and reported a piece of news to Voldemort. , is the news of Roxy's death.

"Lucius, what a happy news, isn't it." Voldemort's face was very different from the past, with blood-red eyes, no nose, and dry lips, which couldn't match the handsome and picturesque him in the past.

But even though his face was so disfigured, he still had a cold and intimidating aura as he sat there.

"Parkinson told me some time ago that this woman used to show off and socialize outside under your banner. A dirty pure-blood traitor, did you think that you could wash off the filth from your body by separating from the mudblood? How is it possible?" Voldemort said contemptuously. Said, "Without blood, they will never learn to see reality. She tarnished your reputation, Lucius, how could I allow someone to insult my most loyal companion? So I sent someone to deal with her for you , although it took a long time, but the result is not bad, isn't it?"

He showed an unfathomable smile, his red vertical pupils stared thoughtfully at Lucius' pale face, and said in a different tone, "Parkinson has always been dissatisfied with me reusing you, Lucius, I didn't Take his sowing words to heart, but don't allow any rumors to threaten our plan at this juncture. You and that woman don't have the unclear relationship she announced, right? "

Lucius clearly felt a force invade his brain, it was Legilimency.

As the heir of the Malfoy family, he has practiced Occlumency since he was a child, and he can handle even this level of Legilimency.

The Dark Lord kept saying that he trusted him and solved his troubles for him, but he didn't tell him immediately after Parkinson reported the news about Roxie. doubtful.

He became less and less able to fully trust anyone but himself, and Voldemort tried to design and control everything, and it worked.His powerful magic power and years of accumulating prestige made it impossible for anyone to refuse him.

Lucius quickly hid all the content in his brain that could not be known by the Dark Lord, and all he was shown was content that was beneficial to him, as if he and Roxie had only met once, and Roxie was following him He paid a lot of money to rent an inconspicuous house under his name, and used his name to bluff and cheat, and he didn't know the other party at all.

When the force was withdrawn, Lucius' face was as pale as paper, and his shirt was almost drenched in cold sweat.

"Very good. I think so too. You, who were educated as heirs of pure-blood nobles since childhood, would be contaminated with such a filthy and vain woman? She said that she has an unresolved kinship with you, and I really can't figure out why. "

Voldemort's words sounded like trusting him, but the lines between the lines were still traps. Lucius had no doubt that if he showed a slight flaw, he would immediately get a Cruciatus Curse, although he thought that the Dark Lord would not Kill him, but he will never give up torturing him and the Malfoy family.

"Of course, my lord." Lucius raised his chin slightly and said with lowered eyelids, "How could I have anything to do with such a person? If I hadn't been busy working on your plan recently, I would have heard the news in time. Then deal with it in the first place, so as not to leave Parkinson such a ridiculous excuse." Lucius pretended to be contemptuous, "That woman is just a lunatic talking nonsense, trying to have a new life after being abandoned by Muggles. However, she will choose Malfoy, so it should be said that she has good vision. In fact, she was expelled by the Wilson family as early as when she married that Muggle. They will all look after you. But they are too weak, they are not worth mentioning at all, and they are useless, and I will find new help for you to help you achieve what you want, my lord."

Even at this time, he tried his best to make the Dark Lord no longer doubt any surviving Wilson, because Vanessa was also included in it.He didn't know how much courage he had used to say such words in front of the Dark Lord.

Fortunately, his words satisfied Voldemort, or maybe the lord had expectations for the "new assistance" he mentioned, anyway, he let him go.

When Lucius walked out of the Riddle Mansion, the shirt and coat under the black robe were soaked with sweat.

Parkinson came here at this time and passed him by.

Lucius looked back at the other party, and without a sound, Parkinson was shocked and almost fell down.

"You!..." Parkinson turned his head and said angrily, "Lucius, are you crazy? You actually cast a curse on me?!"

Lucius looked at him contemptuously, and said indifferently: "Do you think you can take my place by running in front of the Duke of Darkness and making some unfounded guesses?"

Parkinson immediately realized that he already knew everything, he hesitated for a moment, then changed his gentle expression and said: "Lucius, I don't mean anything else, I just want to help you, you don't even know what I'm listening to Talk about how worried you were when you got involved with a pure-blood traitor, but you haven't been able to see you recently, so I..."

"So you told the Duke of Darkness that you have caught me, and you can use this to attack the Malfoy family."

Lucius didn't listen to his sophistry at all, walked a few steps, hooked his cane around the other's neck, stared at him and paused, "Parkinson, you don't know how much trouble you've caused."

Parkinson looked at Lucius in horror, but couldn't move, let alone struggle.

"I'll make you pay, soon. Take it easy, old friend."

Retracting his cane, Lucius disapparated expressionlessly.

Parkinson's legs were weak and he fell to the ground, recalling Lucius' last expression, he couldn't help but tremble all over.

Lucius returns to Malfoy Manor.

Didn't see Narcissa, didn't look for her.

He went to the study, checked the letters, and found the news he wanted in the sealed letter box.

Roxie and Vanessa had several correspondences, and they seemed to have met each other. Roxie opened the fireplace leading to Vanessa's house, and immediately closed it after using it.

She had decided then to leave the shelter he had provided.

After that, she went shopping in Diagon Alley, completely unaware of the danger, with obvious results.

She was dragged into Knockturn Alley and tortured to death.

If, if she hadn't left that house, what followed would never have happened.Those idiots sent by the Dark Lord couldn't have broken his protective magic, and Roxy would have been safe if she hadn't been stupid enough to want to leave.

With trembling hands, Lucius closed the correspondence between Roxy and Vanessa.

really.

Sure enough.

Lucius closed his eyes in despair, even though he knew it was best not to see Vanessa at this time, but...

But, he thought, he had to see her.

He had to at least justify himself.

Just when he stood up and wanted to find Vanessa, Yeda suddenly appeared in front of him, staring at him with big eyes and said: "Master! Miss Wilson wants to break into the manor! Yeda knows her, Yeda knows her Regarding the relationship with the master, Yeda doesn't know whether to stop her!"

Lucius stood there in a daze, before saying, "Bring her to me."

Jeda bowed respectfully, and after disappearing, just a moment later, Vanessa, who was in a mess and wearing a St. Mungo's uniform, appeared in front of Lucius.

"I finally saw you."

Vanessa rushed up with red eyes, grabbed Lucius by the collar, breathlessly said: "Is it you? Did you do it? She just wants to live with me, how can you do that, you how come!……"

Although he had long been mentally prepared to be wronged and questioned, when he was really treated like this, Lucius was still somewhat incapable of accepting it.

"I thought you would at least have doubts." Lucius looked at her sadly, "at least you would have some meager trust in your heart, but now it seems that I have fantasized about our mutual feelings too much. Wonderful."

Vanessa loosened his grip on his collar. Lucius didn't speak. He broke free from Vanessa's restraint and pulled out his wand. Vanessa froze all over and immediately pulled out her wand to face him. Lucius After a pause, he slowly placed his wand on his temple.

He stared at her intently, his gray-blue eyes were icy cold, he thought that he had been injured to the point where it was impossible to suffer any more, but she always had a way to destroy all his dignity with an easy move and completely crush him.

Like, thinking he's going to hurt her, so pointing his wand at him.

Smiling sarcastically, Lucius pulled out his memories, then grabbed Vanessa's wrist, pulled her to the Pensieve in his study, and said coldly: "I think no matter what I say, You won't believe it anymore, so I'll let you see for yourself."

He poured his memories of securing Roxy's house, of sending house elves to take care of her, of protecting her, of facing Voldemort and Parkinson at the Riddle House, into the Pensieve, and holding Fanny Sha's head, forcing her to bury her head in.

The author has something to say: simple and rude, the heroine's mother is written to death, swish

ps: In fact, the heroine is not abused, it is just to promote the downfall of the Dark Lord. I feel that Lucius is the one who is abused. Cough, I really love him

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