[HP] Can you be gentle with me

"Luc, what's the matter?" Sensing Lucius' movements, Narcissa asked thoughtfully.

Lucius shook his head. "It's okay──It should be my illusion..."

What can happen?

Tahlia always fulfilled the Lord's orders perfectly, this time it was just another task, what could happen?

But what's the matter with this inner uneasiness?

Thinking about it, I put down the book in my hand──

Although he didn't participate in this task, maybe he should go and see...?

"I'll go and see—" Lucius said, pecking Narcissa's forehead lightly. "You must not follow..."

"Will it be okay?"

Lucius smiled. "of course not."

I hope not, he really has a very bad premonition...

Not far from the study, he ran into Bella's group who were about to leave in the hall. After seeing their distressed appearance, Lucius' inner unease was confirmed—

This mission failed.

"Malfoy, what are you doing here?" Bella saw Lucius appearing in the lobby first, and asked bluntly.

Lucius smirked. "If I remember correctly, this is Malfoy Manor, and I—just happen to be a Malfoy, I think you may have forgotten, I don't mind reminding you a few more times."

"I warn you, Malfoy - even if Cici marries you..." Bella pointed her wand at Lucius. "It doesn't mean that I will tolerate your slippery tone..."

"I never asked you to put up with it, Bella." Lucius was still smiling. "You guys should leave quickly, I don't think you need to prepare your portions for dinner today?"

"Oh, of course not—" Bella thought for a while, then put down her wand, and said triumphantly. "But I advise you to prepare a copy of that Mudblood."

Lucius' smile froze. "What do you mean?" he asked in a low voice. Tahlia should have returned to school by now──

"Literally—" Bella laughed. "She's still here..." After saying that, without waiting for Lucius to ask anything else, he reached out and grabbed the powder and threw it into the fireplace, before disappearing into the green flames.

The rest of the people also nodded politely to Lucius, and followed into the room one after another.

Lucius froze.

Bella says Tahlia is still here...

mission failed……

Tahlia is still here!

damn it!

The above two points directly formed a conclusion in his mind.

Something must have happened to Tahlia...

He called a house elf, and after confirming that the Lord had also left, he ran towards the small room where the Lord was staying before without grace...

He knocked open the door, the sudden darkness made Lucius a little uncomfortable, but it didn't prevent him from recognizing the fallen figure on the floor not far away...

"Tahlia?" he called uncertainly.

The figure moved, but didn't seem to respond.

After waiting for a while, Lucius was gradually able to see the scene in the room clearly, and he was sure that the figure was Tahlia. He approached slowly, but was instantly stunned──

She is crying.

He'd seen Tahlia cry, but he'd never seen her cry so desperately, not knowing how to react for a moment, just standing there blankly.

Then Tahlia stood up, very, very slowly, but even when she was standing, she wobbled—as if she would fall to the ground again at any moment.

"Tahlia, you—"

"Hey, Lucius." Tahlia interrupted him directly, wiped away the tears on her face with her sleeve, opened her mouth, and Lucius was greatly shocked again, he also had never heard Tahlia speak in such a weak and hoarse voice, she said to he smiles. "meet again."

Lucius was not fooled by that smile, and spoke seriously. "what happens?"

"Nothing..." Tahlia said casually. "It's just that this mission failed—and then I got the glory that others can only dream of..."

"You...you mean—" Lucius' eyes widened and his speech faltered. "He...Lord, he...marked you?"

Still smiling, Tahlia nodded. "So now we're the same, Lucius..." Lucius saw that smile as a mask, giving him the illusion that Tahlia was alienated from him again. "It's nothing." She continued. "I should be honored."

"You think I'll believe you when you say such a thing with this expression?" Lucius raised an eyebrow. "You're not well right now, Tahlia—what can I do for you?"

Pricked by Lucius' clearly concerned tone, Tahlia's tears began to roll again. "Otherwise what should I do?" She said desperately, in her heart, how she wished her other friends could say these words to her. "Lucius──I can't go back at all now, can I?"

Lucius didn't speak for a long time.

"The moment you touch the Lord, you can't go back..." After a long time, he said it with difficulty, because he──

I let them touch by myself.

"So stop dwelling on that," he said.

He didn't know how to comfort Tahlia, he had a feeling that he was probably the one who could understand her feelings best now, and his choice at the time was to continue walking, maybe Tahlia should do the same...

Tahlia wiped away her tears again and nodded. "Well, you're right..." she said. "I'm going back to school first... I think we will still see each other often in the future──" She smiled, and this time the smile seemed more natural. "Wait until I write to you... I'm still looking forward to my godson, Lucius──" he said with a forced joke, which made the corners of Lucius' mouth twitch, and his neck turned red...

"Don't worry about me." Seeing that Lucius wanted to say something to himself even though he was embarrassed by what he said, Tahlia didn't give him the chance, so he continued. "I think I'll get used to—"

Yes, it’s really nothing to think about, right?

Anyway, I can always damn get used to this...

Lucius didn't have time to say anything else, watching Tahlia smile and start the Portkey and disappear in front of him, for the first time, he had the urge to take back that hateful badge.

I don't know why, but the atmosphere at Hogwarts today is indescribably weird, even Snape can feel it, he always feels that many people's eyes are on him... I don't know why, the whole day Every day, he felt inexplicable irritability and anxiety in his heart, and the urge to look for Tahlia would always surge in his heart from time to time──

But why?

He didn't want to see that girl at all...

Besides, this weird atmosphere must have something to do with her—he felt strange from the moment she asked him not to go home—it felt like she was planning something, but she still didn't intend to let him know...

But it doesn't matter, he didn't want to know at all──

After the last time at the Screaming Shack, he knew something... Tahlia's secrets were always dangerous...

Snape wasn't the only one who was depressed all day──

Sirius is also out of his mind, no matter how much James and others tease him, it will have no effect──

"James, lend me the Marauder's Map... Is it at your place?" After lunch, he finally spoke, but the first thing he said was to borrow the map from James.

They quickly named this map──

"Of course... After all, we did it together──" James raised his eyebrows, and took out the Marauder's Map. "but why?"

Sirius frowned and didn't answer, but his eyes quickly scanned back and forth on the map.

"What are you looking for?" Remus also felt that Sirius was a little weird, and asked closer.

"Have you seen Tahlia in the last few days?" Sirius asked suddenly.

James was taken aback, but still answered subconsciously. "No."

Hearing Sirius mention it, the rest of them discovered that they hadn't seen Tahlia in school since the end of the duel meeting, and they searched all corners of the map, but they didn't find her name appearing on the map at all, even Not even in the principal's office...

This reminded them that they had to find a way to find out why Tahlia ran to the principal's office so frequently...

"Maybe she went home after that..." James asked uncertainly. "Didn't you say that she has a portkey?" She thought for a while. "Perhaps she used the Portkey to go home to her brothers..." Not out of the question, considering how much she valued them...

"Maybe..." Sirius murmured, but his brows showed no sign of loosening.

What is going on with this anxiety rising from the bottom of my heart?

He always felt as if something had happened, and it felt bad.

And he also had an intuition that this bad mood had something to do with the sudden absence of the Slytherins for Christmas—

This is very strange, the mother who has always known everything about Regulus is rarely evasive to Regulus... No matter how much he asked, his mother didn't tell him, and Regulus had no choice but to come and tell himself that he really couldn't figure out the answer──

Presumably Tahlia knew about this, so it was related to that person?

But in that case, she should also stay at school, shouldn't she?

Could it be that-

Sirius stopped unconsciously fiddling with his wand and straightened up in his chair.

Could it be that Tahlia left the school because of that man's orders?

Just think about it, Sirius Black──

He felt like his head had never been working so fast. If Tahlia left school to do something, and that had something to do with the Slytherins' anomalies... Come to think of it... She also had a rare dueling meeting- It seems that because of this activity, the number of people staying in the school has increased a lot. This Christmas, almost all the students in the school stayed...

She suggested that this activity must have a purpose──

Activities keep students in school...

It feels like something is being connected together in my head.

That said, Tahlia wanted students to stay in school.

But she left.

Why?

According to his previous deduction—the deduction about Tahlia’s true inner thoughts, if he is not mistaken, Tahlia’s desire for students to stay in school means that there is danger in leaving school—and that danger must have been sent to Tahlia by that person Task……

So Tahlia even held a duel meeting to attract the students to stay, and after that, she left the school to perform the task.

Can he really think so?

That's a reasonable explanation—if Tahlia really thinks that way, but he can't ask directly, he can only fret here, but he can never get the right answer.

She never speaks out what's in her heart, even if they ask... They always have to guess for themselves──

"Hey!" James yelled suddenly, sounding oddly excited.

"What?" Sirius asked casually.

James pointed excitedly at a small dot. "Look! Is this the Moody?"

Sirius frowned and looked closer.There's a dot in the principal's office that says AlastorMoody. "Moody...the Auror?" murmured.

What is an Auror doing in school?

"Do you think we will meet him in the past now?" James asked with a glowing face.

Sirius rolled his eyes. "Go to yourself—I've got things to do..."

"You've been staring at this map for so long... still looking for Tahlia?" Remus asked, putting down the book in his hand.

It was almost dinnertime now, and the Marauder's Map had been in Sirius' hands, and he was constantly staring at it. "Class starts tomorrow, there's no way Tahlia will miss class—"

Sirius didn't speak.

He still finds it weird...

After that, he still didn't see Tahlia until after dinner time. James and the others didn't bother to ask him what he was upset about. In fact, it was because he didn't know what the inexplicable emotion was...

"what!"

James and the others were startled by his scream.

"What's wrong with you──" Remus covered his ears, just now Sirius sat next to his ear and yelled, making him instantly think that something exploded...

Sirius clutched the Marauder's Map tightly.

"I saw Tahlia—"