Walking Away :Draco:

[Donovan Riddle]

Donovan wasn't sure what he was going to do about his brother's choice, he had never been so angry in his entire life hearing something like that. He wanted to be a vampire? He wanted to walk away from them? Draco was doing something, choosing to do something that Donovan couldn't even attempt to wrap his head around. Why would his brother turn his back on him like that? It made him so livid, Donovan wasn't sure how to even think straight, but he was mad, purely because of how betrayed he felt. He had thought their relationship was close, was good, now Donovan wasn't sure. He hadn't known that Bellatrix and Draco were close, he hadn't known that Draco wanted to be a vampire, but Draco knew about him. 

Was their relationship, was this brotherhood really only one-sided? Resting his head against the door frame of his room, he wished he knew what do to. Some of him wanted to just demand Draco stay here, away from that madness, but that wasn't something that could happen. Draco would surely hate him then, and that's not something the older boy wanted. Confused by the suddenness of this choice, Donovan was scared for his little brother. What had this vampire told him that made Draco choose this? 

Walking down the stairs with his heart beating so fast and loud, he was sure anyone could hear it. He headed out to the porch, the Young Lord looked both ways before he walked out of the house, in search of his little brother. Once he did spot Draco, Donovan still had no idea what to say. He was angry yes, he was scared out of his mind, but aside from that, he felt betrayed. Draco was choosing to walk away from them. Coming up behind him, Donovan spoke about a foot behind Draco, "I've come to some news. I really do hope it's not true." His voice was calm and monotone, it was the safest way for him to speak without letting out any of the emotions he was feeling. 

"Draco. Bellatrix came to me, is it true that your choosing..a vampire over us?" Donovan's wording alone would show how he felt, but his voice stayed in the monotone it was in currently. 

Draco Malfoy

[Draco Malfoy]

At the sound of Donovan's voice, Draco turned around, torn from his thoughts.
He smiled ruefully when his brother mentioned their aunt.
"I should have guessed Bella wouldn't just let this go...but...no, I'm not choosing this over you. It's something that I really want. Or wanted."
He ran his fingers through his hair.
"It...well, ever since the war, it's been....hell, really. Cooped up at home, Mother and Father getting edgy, too. I can't finish school, can't get a job, and I thought...I thought Bella was dead."
Draco shrugged.
"She was my...I really can't describe it. But she was the one I could go to with anything, she never judged, like Mother and Father did. When I met her two years ago, we got along really well instantly. She's so wonderful."
He smile, the smile quickly fading from his lips as he continued speaking.
"And I thought I had lost her, too. That was too much to bear. Then, I asked the vampire who lives with us to turn me, and she finally agreed, and told me to tie up loose ends. When I told Mother that I meant to clean up my past, she told me Bella had survived and that she was here."
Draco paused, looking unsure of himself.
"And now, I don't know what to do. Bella being alive changes a lot for me. I wanted to be out here for a bit to figure out what I want. I would have come to you and asked you what I should do before going back home. Anyway, this is not choosing anything over you. I could do you a lot of good as a vampire, I'm sure."

[Donovan Riddle]

Staring his little brother as if he had just met him, what the hell was he even talking about? Bellatrix was this amazing person. "Are you being serious right now Draco? A vampire. We used to be against all that, now your joining that? How is that not choosing them over me?" Donovan was getting angrier just by saying it out loud and questioning it, how could it be seen any other way? What reason did Draco even have to become a vampire?

"What benefit are you going to be getting? Huh? Killing your own people, what would have used to be your own people...and mother was housing a vampire? Did I just hear that?" Narrowing his eyes, that alone blew Donovan out of the water, he couldn't believe what his family was coming to. Narcissa Malfoy, his mother, the same women who raised him, was housing a bloody vampire? The same women who was about bloody purity and supported Lucius freaking Malfoy through all this bullshit, who was impregnated by the Dark Lord, is housing a vampire. "And Mother knows, of this choice your making?" Donovan wanted to laugh, he was so full of rage, that he wanted to laugh.

"I don't want a vampire. I don't want to question if I can trust you. I don't want to question your sanity. I don't want to worry about if your dead or alive. I want my little brother to be my bloody brother and stay human. You do me a lot more bad then you would do me any good being a vampire Draco." Donovan looked into his brother eyes, how could he ever let Draco think this was the path he was supposed to take? "Stay here, you don't have to go back into hiding Draco, you can stay here. I wrote mother a thousand times about you coming to stay here, she told me you were safe where you were. Maybe I should have questioned it more, but this, is not the answer your looking for."

[Draco Malfoy]

"Well, vampires aren't all bad. They are misunderstood. Maria has been living with us all my life, and she is wonderful." Draco tried lamely to convince Donovan, not sounding convinced himself. Except for Maria being wonderful, that was said with total conviction.

"I wouldn't kill my own people, I'd kill the ones in your way, Donovan! I will always be on your side, no matter if I'm a vampire or not. Benefits...I could get out, I wouldn't be stuck in the house. I'd be nearly immortal. Life would be much, much easier."
He paused. "On the other hand, I'd have to watch people I love grow old and die...no, I could change them, too."
Draco looked surprised. "I thought you knew about Maria living with us, she's been there forever. And hasn't aged a day, she's truly stunning."

An uncomfortable expression crossed his face. "No, I didn't tell Mother. She doesn't have to know everything. I am of age, I don't have to ask her about my decisions."

Draco's expression softened. "I'll always be loyal to you, you can always trust me. If I did this, I would do it for you, to help you."

He sighed. "But if you're against me changing, and Bella is against it as well, I guess I should just stay what I am and hope my life gets better somehow."

He perked up. "Stay here? But...I can't leave Mother alone...that's probably why she never mentioned that you had offered to let me stay. I would really love to, get out of hiding. I'll stay for a few days and see how it goes."
Draco paused, looking at his brother.
"I bet you were glad when Bella showed up...must be great to have someone so devoted to the cause here, with all the young guys just learning. She taught me so much, it was amazing. And you know that she is the most loyal you'll ever find. The Dark Lord did have his reasons to make her his closest."

[Donovan Riddle]

"If you leave with her, don't come back here. I...I don't want to see you like that." Donovan finally said after long pause, he loved his little brother, but he wouldn't want to see him like that. Donovan wanted to die seeing him just as he was, seeing that change, it would be more than the older male could even think about handling. Growing up with the pureblood ideals, he wouldn't be able to take the change and go along with it. "I don't know what mother will do, but I won't have you here. If you leave though...Well, I don't know Draco. But I won't watch you do that to yourself."

Wrinkling his nose, there was no way Donovan was willing going to become anything of a sort. He wasn't a vampire, he was a wizard, he will always be a wizard, if it is in his power to stop from such a change he will stop it. "You will have to talk to them about it. I will not be joining you or whomever you choose to victimize in your new path." Donovan was trying to use reverse knowledge on his brother, but in the end, he really didn't know what he could say.

Raising an eyebrow, as if to say 'really?' "You think I would have let a vampire live if I had known there was one staying with you and Mother? I'm surprised Lucius let it happen." Donovan narrowed his eyes, did Lucius really allow that to happen? Did he really let a vampire live in their household without killing the dreadful thing?! "You don't need permission, no, but you obviously need some type of guidance. As for aunt Bella no, I don't want her on my team. I don't her near this place. Having someone as unstable as that women puts me on edge. Having you trusting her, puts even more on edge."

Frowning, yes, there was reason that Bellatrix was closest to his father. But she wasn't close with him, Donovan didn't want the woman around him. Or around his home. She didn't intimidate him, but she made him question what she was really doing here. It wasn't to follow him, she's made it quiet clear. "She's not loyal to me Draco, she's not even loyal to my father. I would have been glad, I think, if she was... If I could trust her, but unlike you, I don't. With you coming up with choices like this, how do I even know I can trust you Draco? A vampire? This is what were are fighting again, how can turning into one help me at all? My brother, my blood, a vampire while I try to get rid of the world's questionable wizards." Donovan didn't understand how Draco saw this as helping. This was only going to make things worse.

"Yes Draco, stay here. Damn it, all, mother let a vampire near you?" Donovan protected Draco as much as he could, and that was a lot, even with the situations Donovan couldn't get Draco out of. "Bloody hell, why are we even having this conversation?! You want to be a vampire so you get out and live a normal life? Does that even make sense? You'll be mocked, you'll be hunted and hated. You'll be the out cast of casts. You think that you're in bad shoes now, what do you think will happen when you're a blood sucking, red eyed, monster walking around London?"

[Draco Malfoy]

Draco stared hard at his brother.
"You know, for someone who has werewolves working for him, you judge vampires very harshly. At least a vampire is in control of himself once he is accustomed to what he is, unlike a werewolf, who is a killing machine at every full moon." he said quietly.

"And as for Aunt Bella, yes, she is unstable. She spent fourteen fucking years in that hell, Azkaban, who wouldn't be unstable after that? Supporting Voldemort is what put her in that place, but did she sway? No, she remained loyal, to the man and to the cause. Who are you to judge her loyalty, upon seeing her a few days? You judge because she lives and your father doesn't. You weren't there in that battle, you didn't see who fought for the cause. You mistrust her, who stayed and gave her life, but trust my parents and me, who fled.
And if you don't want her on your side, you should just tell her. I would say you are a fool, but it is your decision."

Draco paused.
"As for staying here, I'll think about it."

[Donovan Riddle]

Glaring, taken back, Donovan turned to look at the ground, he didn't really have a response to that. "They're not going to be around much longer, I needed them for the time being, now, they've caused me more issues than I should have allowed." He tried doing what his father had done, he tried using as much of his father's method's, but there was just a point that he should just accept, he's not the Dark Lord. "Doesn't really matter what I say now does it?" Donovan looked back to meet the younger brother's eyes, what could he even say then? Why bother?

No he didn't trust Bellatrix, she was unstable and she did without thinking. She acted first and ran from trouble, Donovan couldn't be drawing that kind of attention right now. That's all Bellatrix was, she was trouble. But Donovan didn't even try to think of a way to tell that to Draco, whom had built a better relationship with the women. "You're my brother. Of course I trust you." The words came out angry, why was that even brought up? Why did that need to be said? "But obviously you don't trust me, because I've done what to you? Have I ever turned your word into anything other than what it was? You could have come to me, but you choose her. Don't spit trust at me like I'm the one who...Forget it." Donovan rubbed his eyes, this was more than a lost cause. Draco was going to be a vampire, his mother was housing vampires, his father..dead.

He's was starting to fight now, for revenge, not for the sake of his family. Nodding, his face hardening, even though it was killing him. Draco was choosing a vampire over him, not just over him, but over everything he was trying to do. His entire point of even being here. "I wouldn't want to keep you from what you obviously want. When you leave, I won't look for you, hunt for you, but Draco...don't let me find you."

I don't want to see my baby brother a monster.

Turning to leave, "As for Bellatrix, if you leave, take her with you. If you do this...if you don't.. tell mother, tell Narcissa, that if she sends another letter here, I'll send back it's ashes." Donovan didn't even look towards Draco when he spoke, she let this monster around his little brother, around her son. She pretty much pushed him towards this, he wanted nothing to do with the women, but he didn't want to tell her. Angry and betrayed, that was still his mother, he still loved her, but he wasn't going to forgive her.

[Draco Malfoy]

Draco looked at his brother as if he had lost his head.

"Why would you think I don't trust you? I always have, you've never given me any reason not to. And if I didn't trust you, I wouldn't be talking to you about any of this, neither of Maria, nor of Bella. But I guess we'd better leave Bella out of this. I don't know what your problem is with her, but I doubt I'd understand."

Draco pasued. "I really don't understand you, you know. Did you even listen to anything I said?" He felt exasperated. Either Donovan was under a lot of stress and wasn't coping, or he really was going mad. But then, he should get along quite fine with Bellatrix.

[Donovan Riddle]

"I listened to consider being a vampire. I listened to you tell me about how you trusted someone of your brother. I listened to how mother allowed the damn creature into your house, which your supposed to be safe in. Obviously I put way too much trust into the women. I would have thought she would have more sense then allow this, you actually believe turning into a blood sucking, uncontrolled, monster, and you see nothing bloody wrong with that?" Donovan whipped back, stepping up to Draco's personal space. His eyes narrowed and pissed off, how could he even think that this was something he could do? Something Donovan would support?

"And if Bellatrix was even a friction as loyal as you claim she is, she sure we hell wouldn't be pulling that whatever makes you happy crap. I want you to be happy, but this...this is not the way to do." Donovan took a pause, to breath, in order to calm himself. "Trust me? I feel it, seriously. Because you spoke with you know your dear aunt about training, you went to her. Who the fuck am I? Surely the person who's been nothing but...damn it!" Donovan turned away again, he was trying so damn hard to keep himself intact, but here he was loosing it again. His little brother wanted to be a vampire, his 'followers' never listened, the most insane witch he has ever met is back, and he still need to make sure everyone is able to attack when needed, which means, he's getting nowhere.

Rubbing his eyes, his head towards the ground, "Damn it Draco. Trust has nothing to do with you telling me. You know if you left without me or mother knowing what the fuck was going on, I'd go out looking for you. As for Maria and Bellatrix, they..Bellatrix isn't a threat, she's just a bothersome. Maria on the other hand, she will be found if she's not hiding very very well." The thread was obvious, he didn't care if the vampire was immortal technically, everything had it's way of dying. He'd just have to figure it out.

"So what are you going to do? You make a choice now Draco, walk away from here and don't come back. Or come inside, and I forget this was ever talked about. Tell Bellatrix your still human..and you'll stay that way. Or I'll be sure to send her after you." Donovan didn't want a heart to heart, he didn't want to beg Draco to stay, but he didn't want him to leave either. So he gave Draco the option, if he left, it would kill him, but he would have no choice to accept it.

[Draco Malfoy]

Draco laughed. "I know she didn't mean it. She never wanted me to be a vampire, and she would have done whatever she could to make me stop. She is loyal."

At the mention of sending Bellatix after him, Draco paled visibly. "That would be a way to have her prove her loyalty. She would kill me if you ordered her to...if I was lucky, she'd show me the mercy of not torturing me before." He swallowed.
As an afterthought he added: "Me being afraid of her should tell you something about her loyalty."

He studied his brother for a moment. Donovan seemed desperate. No wonder, really. His followers were going haywire, he didn't trust the woman who could be his right hand, and probably wanted to be, and he, Draco, seemed to be slipping away.

"I'll stay," he said softly. "I want to support you, Donovan. I don't want to give you grief, I'm sorry."