It was February 12th at night Draco called a house elf into his room. *CRACK* “Yes Master Draco” the house elf said bowing to the floor. “Could you make three cupcakes, only three, with blue frosting on top and bring them to me tomorrow without anyone knowing?” “Yes, Master.” “Good and make sure that no one will find out understand?” “Yes, Master” the elf croaked and then went away. Draco stood in his room wondering if he was going to get caught. He really hoped he wouldn’t. The next in the morning Draco's aunt Bellatrix waltzed into his room and joyfully said “Draco, come to auntie, I heard it’s a special day!” “Special Day? What's so special about today?” He asked “Well I heard it's her birthday! Birthdays are special, don’t you think? Why don’t we go say happy birthday mhh?” and out his aunt went with him following. He knew what she meant, what she was going to do, and hoped that for once, he was wrong. Of course though, He wasn’t. They walked down to the cellar where Ollivander and Luna Lovegood were, Their prisoners. The Dark Lords prisoners. “Hello dearie! I hope you don’t mind, I heard it was your birthday today, is that right?” Bellatrix stopped where Luna was sitting. “Yes, that’s right I’m seventeen today.” “OOO Seventeen!! That is a special one you know. Well Draco and I have come down to wish you a happy birthday.” Luna looked over at Draco who looked at her and mouthed ‘I’m sorry’. “Well,” Bellatrix rang out happily “why don’t we start by singing happy birthday yea? Happy Birthday to you~ happy birthday to you~ happy birthday dear Loony~ happy birthday to you~ Yay!!! That was good, and that’s not all of course you can’t have a birthday without a present! I got you one, it's my favorite to give you know.” Draco knew what was coming and Luna could tell by the look on his face that it was not a normal gift. Bellatrix's voice changed, it was menacing and cold, she yelled out “CRUCIO” and Luna screamed and writhed in pain “CRUCIO CRUCIO CRUCIO” Luna was on the floor in excruciating pain, pain like she had never felt before. Bellatrix was dancing over her singing with joy. Which just made it all worse. “Dear nephew, you knew her at school of course! You’ve got to give her a present as well! Well go on, you know the spell. Crucio.” Bellatrix walked over to Draco and stood behind him for a better view whilst egging him on. Draco slowly raised his wand and mouthed again ‘I’m Sorry’ Luna knew what coming and knew that he did not want to do this but with his aunt there was no choice, she closed her eyes and waited for the pain to come. “Cruico” he said in near a whisper, the girl on the floor screamed and rolled around in pain she started to cry. “Yes, yes again Draco, again.” Draco looked back at his aunt and she just said “You’ve really got to mean it Draco again!” Again, Draco raised his wand, wishing that at any point his mother or father would call him up, then said “Crucio”. And again, Luna, the girl he knew from school screamed out in pain. It went on for hours Bellatrix got so caught up in the moment that she started kicking the girl instead of using spells like she typically does. Afterwards Luna was barely able to stay awake but Bellatrix was impressed nonetheless, not many could withstand her torture so easily. Draco said to his aunt “Its lunch time, why don’t we go have food?” and they went upstairs to eat and thankfully never went back down that day for more fun.
At the table Bella started saying that they had had a wonderful day, her and Draco. They just came up from saying happy birthday to that lovely girl they had locked downstairs. Narcissa and Lucious both seemed fairly proud of him but said nothing and continued to eat. After eating Draco went to his room and stayed there, reading, until dinner. He spent most of the time reading, remembering what happened just hours before. He felt sick, he could barely eat, but not eating would make his parents and especially his aunt suspicious, so he went downstairs again around 6:30 for dinner. Dinner was as uneventful as lunch had been and he just went back to his room afterwards. He waited until it was eleven at night and called the house elf who had been in his room the night before. *CRACK*. “Yes Master” “I need those cupcakes quickly!” “Yes Master, I will bring them immediately.” The house elf took a minute before returning with the three cupcakes frosted with a deep blue buttercream. Draco thanked the elf and told him to return to whatever he had been doing prior. He opened the door and silently went downstairs to the cellar. He was slow and took his time opening the gate so as not to make any noise. “Lumos” he whispered at once light came out of his wand and lit up the room, he moved forward and walked over to where Luna was sitting against the wall, with her was Ollivander telling her that even in dark situations like this, it was still her 17th birthday and that was important. Draco walked over to the two who looked up at him wearily. “Happy Birthday, Luna.” He said softly whilst sitting next to her and handed her and Ollivander a cupcake. They took the cupcakes but didn’t eat them, instead they looked at him with confusion on their faces. “I asked an elf to make them. Blue for Ravenclaw.” Draco simply said before eating the cupcake he still held, “I’m sorry about earlier. My aunt can be a bit overzealous sometimes.” “That’s quite alright, I know you didn’t want to, I could see it in your eyes.” Lunas soft voice said back to him. They three of them sat in silence eating their cupcakes until Ollivander said that Draco should go back, “You don’t want to get caught now.” Draco nodded and left, leaving the two in darkness in the back of the cellar that his family owned, where they stayed a little longer as prisoners of the Malfoy family.