the_debt_of_time

"What have you done that can be counted as proof that your loyalty is still with the
Order?" Harry asked.
Draco took a deep breath before turning his gaze on Hermione. "Your parents
made it to Australia," he disclosed with a smug look on his face. Hermione gasped in
response, her eyes widening; the wizards surrounding her glowered at Draco. "They weren't
supposed to, for the record. Are we done now?"
"Let him go," Hermione ordered.
Ron scowled. "Hermione, you can't be serious!"
"Do it!" she snapped.
"What's the plan?" Harry asked.
"You lot take yourselves and my mother out of here. I'll grab Greyback from the
other room and bring him in here," Draco said, pointing to Bellatrix's body. "She was
mauled. The Dark Lord doesn't need to know by what or whom. I'll summon him once
you're gone and tell him that Greyback and Scabior turned on us when Bellatrix refused to
pay them. We fought, Snatchers died, but Potter escaped because Wormtail betrayed us."
He looked to Sirius. "See? Works in our favour."
"And he'll believe you?" Hermione asked.
"I'm an excellent Occlumens," Draco boasted. "Which is why you're taking Mother
with you. She's not."
"I'm not leaving without you," Narcissa insisted.
"I'm not asking." Draco glared at her. "You're a blood-traitor now, so you stay
hidden no matter what." He turned to Sirius. "Keep her safe."
Sirius looked at the other body on the ground. "And your father?"
"Potter killed him," Draco explained. "He's already known to be quite effective at
using Sectumsempra." Harry glared daggers at him in response, but Draco ignored him. "Take
all the wands. Mother, give me yours."
"Why can't you just take back your own?" Harry asked, holding the wand in his own
hand.
"Priori Incantatem," Draco explained. "If the Dark Lord suspects me at all, he'll check
my wand and see that I was the one who killed Lucius. It's better if you disarmed me, killed
my father, and I took my mother's wand as she escaped. Speaking of escaping, take
Ollivander, the goblin, and the other two."