Mission: To Fix the Past [Ace]

[Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy]

He gripped the enchanted device that the Sage had given him, closed his eyes and said his good-bye.  He didn't know when he was going to come back, but he knew he would see his family again.  He could feel it in his gut.  Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy was sucked back in time. 

The feeling was definitely weird.  It wasn't like he apparated, but it was almost as sickening as apparating was the first time.  He fell to his knees and nearly let go of the device that would help with his mission.  It would send time travelers who were brought by the stone back to their own time, while retaining only the strongest of memories.  And when everyone was sent back, his mission would be done and he would automatically be sent back himself along with the other Knights who were on the same mission and all of those Templars who were trying to fix the damage and keep some of the outcome.

Scorp shook his head and stood up.  His vision was blurred at the start, but it soon it cleared.  He just needed to know where he was.  He looked around and spotted the castle in the distance.  Hogsmeade.  That's where he had to be.  But was he in the right time?  Or had he arrived too late?

Scorp walked around the village trying to guess the year when he finally decided he would ask someone.  When he did the person looked at him like he was crazy but nonetheless supplied him with the year 1977.  Well, at least it wasn't that late.  Their operatives had calculated that people were being transported somewhere between 1994 and 1998.  He wondered where the other Knights had landed and hoped they were in the right time.  Just think if one of them ended up in prehistoric times and had to survive there until they finished their job.

[Acrecia Louise Malfoy]

Ace had been nothing short of shocked when the Sage gave her the time device.

She was going to follow Scorpius, though; he wasn't allowed to go this one alone. So she said goodbye to her children and went through the horrible, sucking feeling that she associated with apparating and damned near throws up. She doesn't know how she ends up on her knees, arms wrapped around her midsection, but that's how she ends up. Good thing that she still has the Sage's device.

She got lucky and ended up a few yards behind Scorpius (good thing, she never would have been able to find her own way anywhere). He didn't notice her, and wandered off, and she followed him because that's more or less what Ace always did. She sometimes got angry with herself for being so damn pathetic and worthless, but what's the point in being angry? She'd just forget that she was ever angry to start with in an hour or so, and then she'd get angrier with herself for that. She was always angry with herself, for the most part, but she couldn't make herself tell Scorpius any of that. He would worry about her. He worried about her a lot, she thought.

She blinks to clear the fuzziness from her eyes and stumbles after Scorpius when he started walking around. Ugh, he walked so fast and needed to slow down.

"Scorp!" she called "Wait up!"

[Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy]

Scorp's eyes widened when he heard that, oh, so, familiar voice behind him.  He didn't turn around immediately and he silently prayed to himself that it wasn't who he thought it was.  They had kids back home for Pete's sake!  Young kids, at that, who need their mother.  Slowly he turned around and saw the face of the woman he fell in love with.  He walked up quickly to her as the worry began to overtake his mind. 

"What are you doing here?" Scorpius asked lowering his voice so she could only hear him.  He was angry, and of course worried.  He didn't want her to follow him here.  It wasn't that he felt her a liability and he had to take care of her because of her memory issues, but because... well, it was partly that, because in an hour she would basically forget what happened and he would have to make sure to remind her.  But it was mostly because they could not return to their children until the quest was over. 

And that was what he cared the most about; his family.

He would be coming back, he planned on it.  But when that was, he didn't know. It could be years.  And their kids could be growing up without him, but he had thought Ace would be there and that was all that mattered.  But now she was here.  And his quest was even more pressed for time.  He didn't want their kids to grow up, even for a second, without one of them.  And each second here meant a moment they lost with their parents. 

[Acrecia Louise Malfoy]

She didn't need to be reminded that they had kids. She remembered her kids, and missed them already. She was, at that moment, fussing in her head about their youngest, but she would not hear his nonsense about them only needing one parent. They needed a father too. Look at how Ace turned out! Her father was never home!

Anyway, the Sage told her that she needed to go with Scorp, and he was the one that told her to believe the Sage.

She flinched away from him when he stormed toward her, more on instinct than anything. She didn't like people being mad at her, or being yelled at, and it looked like both of those things were happening. She wrapped her arms around herself.

"I. She told me to follow you," she admitted quietly. "And I wanted to not be useless for once."

[Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy]

Oh no.  She was upset.  He didn't like seeing her upset.  But he also didn't want to be away from their children.  He knew that they probably needed both of them... but he still had to do this.  Ace didn't.  No matter what the Sage might have said.  He trusted the Sage, but when she puts his wife in danger, they would have a problem.  And she put Ace in trouble.  So he had a problem with the Sage right now, but there wasn't anything he could do about it. 

Scorp bit his lower lip and tried to force his temper back.  If he were to lose it, he might yell.  If he yelled, she would probably cry.  If she cried he would feel like a jerk.  If he felt like a jerk... well, that was really where it stopped. 

He calmed his tone of voice.  "You are very useful, Ace."  And it was true.  Just not in these matters.  When it came to taking care of the kids or running the Knights or setting up Qudditch events, or things like that, she was much more useful than Scorp ever would be.  He was very disorganized and she organized everything for him.  Without her helping him, he was sure that when meetings came around they would take several hours longer while he tried to find his notes or something like that.  "But the kids need you right now.  If I can't be with them, then you should at least be with them."

[Acrecia Louise Malfoy]

She wanted to help Scorp for once, and she was taking his advice. She was trusting the Sage, and the Sage told her to follow him into the past. She didn't know why, or how helpful she would actually be (he'd probably have her organizing things for him again, knowing him). At any rate, the past seemed to be much nicer than the future that she'd grown up in. No fences, no random abductions, no muggleborns being killed on the street. Things that she had known as normal as a child just. Weren't. She didn't know how to handle it.

She cringed when he bit his lip. He always did that when he was mad, at least she thought that he did, and she hated it when he was mad at her. Everyone was always mad at her. She was starting to think that she deserved it. Silly Ace. Can't remember anything, of course people are going to get mad at you, she mentally scolded herself. You get mad at you, too.

She scowled when he said she was useful. She hated being patronized, like she didn't know how useless she was. She'd lived with her poor memory since she was ten years old. Uselessness was pretty much a thing that she'd grown accustomed to.

And then he brought up their kids, and she deflated. Her babies. She missed them all so much, and she found herself desperately going through the little purse she carried to make sure that the pictures of them were in there. Oh good. Yes.

"I. I'm sorry," she mumbled dejectedly. "I thought wrong again...I'm sorry."