Do you wanna have a bad time?
Remus POV
“What, what are you talking about? Did you just get possessed?!” Remus started working himself up as he stared at the blond. At the mention of possession Draco’s eyes flashed red for a second, and that caused Remus to bring up his wand. He could see Sirius get ready to fight the child should need be, but he really didn’t want to hurt his student. He watched the boy’s eyes flash red again and stay red this time.
“Woah, teacher man no need to wave the stick at me.” The creature possessing Draco Malfoy laughed. Their posture was more confident and cockier than the royal elegant pose that Draco normally had. “I mean I am possessing Frisk, but it’s more of a consensual possession.”
“Who’s Frisk?” he knew that Draco had just asked him to call him that name, but he wasn’t sure if that was another being possessing the boy, there were six floating heart things before and now they’re gone so, he didn’t know who was possessing the child and how many there were.
“Frisk is the kid that’s been going around as Draco Malfoy the past thirteen years. You know the kid you followed into the forest?” Now the ghost was looking at him like he was stupid.
“I followed Draco Malfoy into the forest.”
The thing smiled at him like he was a child, he thought he heard Draco call the thing Chara. Was that who he was speaking to now?
“That’s Frisk, Draco is Frisk. Frisk is Draco. They are the same person.” Chara? Held both hands up when they mentioned the names before bringing them together.
“Who are you then?” Remus took a step closer to the child, it didn’t seem like he was in danger currently and if they weren’t lying than neither was the boy.
“I’m Chara, Frisk’s better half!” Chara beamed from Draco’s? Frisk’s? body. Remus lowered his wand but didn’t but it away entirely unsure what was going to happen now. Sirius stayed on guard, but he seemed less likely to pounce on the teen. “Look you probably have questions, but they’ll have to wait. Frisk uh, Frisk needs to see something.” With that the eyes flashed once again to the silvery blue Remus had come to know was a staple of the Black family.
Draco gave the older man a small smile before they turned around and marched into the clearing a determined look on their face. Remus shared a look with Sirius before following the kid. The was thicker inside the clearing, but it wasn’t impossible to see anything. He could make out figures, like statures standing if different poses inside the fog, and he watched as Draco came to stop in front of one of them. He heard the other boy let out a heart shattering gasp and he rushed to catch up to the boy to see what was wrong.
Draco had his hands covering his mouth and he was shaking, his eyes were wet wish unshed tears, but he was staring at the statue in front of him in despair. Remus turned to study the statue to see what caused the other boy this reaction. It was a figure of a goat like creature wearing a lilac robe with a weird symbol on it. It had it’s hand out like it was trying to stop something, and their eyes were furrowed and troubled as they stared blankly ahead.
Remus turned back to Draco to see that the boy was crying now, silent sobs racked the poor boys body.
“No, No, no no no no no no. NO Please!” Draco whimpered as he stared at the statue. “NO!” he screamed out, and his eyes flashed red again, before he fell to his knees and then suddenly the fog was gone. Remus could see that they were surrounded by statues, but given the reaction the boy was having he wasn’t so sure these were statues.
Remus turned to comfort Draco when suddenly the boy jumped up and started running to some of the statues.
“Undyne!” he ran to a fish like creature hold a spear looking battle ready.
“Alphys!” he ran to a yellow dinosaur? Wearing a labcoat looking to be trying to lead the other statues away.
“Mettatron!” This time he fell to his knees in front of what looks like a heap of what used to be a robot, and he reached a shaking hand out but didn’t touch it. With a gasp his eyes flew to the other statues before landing on two that were standing by the front of the clearing.
“Asgore! Papyrus!” Draco dashed over to the other two, they seemed to like the first one trying to keep the peace between them and whoever showed up. “MK!” he shouted when he saw another little dinosaur creature hiding behind the skeleton and the goat creature.
With every statue he ran to Remus got a deeper feeling that they weren’t always statures. His heart suddenly went out for the boy, obviously he knew these creatures but he didn’t know when this had happened. Remus looked down at Sirius who was now lying on the ground with his head in his paws watching the thirteen-year-old darting around and whimpering with every heartbreaking cry.
“Wait!” Draco cried before spinning in a circle looking at the ground, “where is he?” when he didn’t see the person he was looking for he cupped his hand over his mouth and started calling out. “Asriel! Asriel! Flowey!” When there wasn’t a reply he started to sob again. This time Remus did walk up to the boy. He reached out and laid a hand on the blond’s shoulder. The boy let out another sob before he launched himself at Remus and started sobbing into his chest. Remus could feel the tears soaking his shirt, but he didn’t mind. Sirius got up and walked over to the pair. He then started rubbing his head against Draco’s side whimpering in a way that showed he was trying to comfort the boy.
“It’s alright, let’s get out of here.” Remus whispered, running a hand through the boy’s hair. He felt rather than saw the boy nod, and he began maneuvering them out of the clearing. Draco had his head down and his shoulder were still shaking, but he wasn’t making any noises that someone would associate with how hard the tears were falling down his face. Remus realized that someone had to have told this child that he had to hide the fact that he was crying in order for this to happen, because it takes a lot of practice to perfect the silent sob.
On the way out Remus heard something crack underneath his foot. When he looked down he saw what appeared to be a bone. He heard Draco gasp and he looked over to see him staring at the bone with a look of horror on his face.
“This wouldn’t have happened if he was here. He promised me he wouldn’t watch anymore. So where…” Draco trailed off and his head started darting off in random directions again. Sirius moved over to sniff at the bone, trying to see what about it had the boy so worked up, Remus supposed. When suddenly the boy took off like a shot running in the direction of the back of the clearing. Remus followed as did Sirius, although Sirius caught up faster.
Draco had some to a stop in front of another skeleton. This one was shorter than the other one. It had one hand up the other in the pocket of its blue jacket. One of the eye sockets were completely blank while the other burned with a blue and yellow flame. It made for a terrifying sight in all honesty. Draco obviously didn’t think so because he took a step closer to the skeleton and reached an arm out until his hand grabbed a handful of the jacked and clenched it.
“Sans…” the boy whimpered, and his shoulders started shaking again, but this time Remus knew it was rage instead of sadness. “Whoever did this…is going to BURN IN HELL!” Draco growled out his eyes flashing red again, and Remus was unsure if every time the eyes flashed it was Chara’s influence. “Sorry about this, buddy.” He said quieter before he started taking the jacket off.
When the jacket was completely off, Draco threw off his robe and replaced it with the skeletons coat instead. Draco turned to face Remus and smiled sadly at the man. He couldn’t work up the energy to smile back at the boy, anything other than the concerned look he gave him would be a lie.
“Let’s get out of here professor.” Draco shrugged and stuck his hands in the jackets pocket. He paused and then pulled something out of it. A dark look crossed over Draco’s face, and not even Remus could hold back a gasp when he saw what the blond held in his hands. “Thanks, buddy, this will help a skele-ton.” Draco whispered at he clutched the item in his hand. What Draco had pulled out was an Unspeakable’s Mask.
The walk back to the school was silent. Draco had switched between staring angrily down at the mask in his hand and glaring at the air in front of him. Sirius trailed beside the blond staring at the kid worriedly, but neither he nor Remus moved to comfort the other boy fearing it would be unwelcome. When they reached the edge of the Forbidden Forest Remus could tell that they had both spent longer in the forest than they had meant to because it looked like classes for the day had already rapped up.
“Can I keep the dog?” Remus jumped at the boy’s voice and looked over to see him petting Sirius on the head. He watched the boy scratch behind the dog’s ears and sighed. He didn’t know what to do with Padfoot, if he was after Harry like the papers said it would be a mistake to let him into the castle, hell it would be a mistake to not report him now, but Draco seemed calmer while petting Sirius. Remus wasn’t even sure he believed that Sirius could betray James much less would he.
“As long as you keep an eye on him and take care of him, I’ll let you keep him.” Draco looked up at Remus and nodded his head. His face was still blank, and his eyes were dulled but at least the boy tried for a smile. Draco stood up from his crouched position and turned to face Sirius fully.
“Sirius Black, I will help you clear your name with the Ministry.” Was all the boy said before he turned and started walking towards the castle. Remus froze at the mention of Padfoot’s real name.
“How, did you?” Remus trailed off watching the boy turn around only to find his eyes bright red once again, but he knew that it wasn’t’ Chara this time.
“I can see his soul.” When Remus went to open his mouth again Draco continued. “Before, you ask how I know it’s Sirius and how I know he needs to get his name cleared well… He’s the only one I know of that has a reason to be an Animagus at the moment, and someone who tried to comfort a crying kid because their family has turned into lifeless husks, is not someone who deserved to be in Azkaban.” Draco then turned and left, Sirius trailed after him, and they left Remus standing at the edge of the forest with a lot to think over.