Chapter 1: Escapes

"Quickly, you idiot, don't you dare wake them up," Draco hissed, as they snuck around the blacked out manor.

"Like I'd want to," Harry snorted quietly.

The twins had grown. After a summer of hard work their muscles had started to really define, they were taller and their hair longer but as they snuck around the manor it showed that mentally they were, just as always, set on mischief.

That summer, Pansy Parkinson and Daphne Greengrass had been regular visitors and due to business both girls were now staying with the Malfoys until the beginning of term.

The boys weren't amused.

Blaise and Neville had tried to keep the boys sane but Neville's gran had once again whisked him away, this time visiting relatives and Blaise was still reluctant to be around Lucius.

Blaise was happy to be around his friends again but Lucius had made that old fear rise again. No amount of kindness or soothing words from the older Malfoy would ever make Blaise forget about what had happened.

At that moment the twins were trying to escape so, like it had been planned, the four Deviants could go for a run in their animagius forms to cause some mischief.

"Master Draco, Master Harry, where are yous going?" Twinky the house elf squeaked popping up from no where.

The boys looked at each other in alarm.

"Twinky leave us and return to your bed, you are not to mention this to anyone. In fact forget it ever happened," Draco said firmly.

Twinky bowed and was gone with a snap of her fingers.

"That was close," Harry murmured.

Draco nodded in agreement.

It was when they were out of the manor and off the grounds that the boys breathed easily again.

"My god, I never thought I'd have to escape my own house before," Draco muttered shaking his head.

"I can't believe we're stuck with them, they're going to be insufferable at school," Harry grumbled as they walked.

"I can't believe that Sirius left us out to dry," Draco huffed. "If he'd let us stay over there instead of telling us it was up to father we'd have been home free,"

Sirius had been proclaimed innocent and free when the Ministry had searched the memories and had the top Unspeakables see if there was anything tampered within the memories.

The first things Sirius did was buy a flat, have Remus move in and invite the Deviants over.

Of course that was before the two girls were thrust upon the twins and Neville disappeared off with his gran.

Hadrian couldn't even retort to his brother's words, he knew they were true.

"Look at it this way at least Neville managed to get away from his gran," Harry muttered as they hit the gravel road leading away from the manor.

Draco grunted in agreement and looking around to make sure there was no one watching he nodded to Harry.

Without a second thought the two of them apparated to Hogsmeade, where they were meeting with Blaise and Neville.

The twins had learnt how to illegally apparate at the beginning of the summer when they had found out rather painfully that Lucius wasn't going to let them out of the manor without him.

Knowing fighting their father on that fact would be useless they spent their times practicing on how to apparate. That way they could roam free on the odd weekends that their father wasn't home without their mother noticing they'd left the manor.

Blaise stood up from the rock he was perched on as the twins appeared.

"Took your time, you're half an hour late," he said dryly as Neville smirked from where he was still sat under a tree avoiding the heavy rain fall.

"You try and get out of that place when you have a father and two of the worst girls on earth watching your every move. We got out of there as soon as we could after the two banshees drank the sleeping potion," Harry huffed rolling his eyes.

"Banshees is a loose term for the pair of them, they're worse," Draco grunted scowling at nothing in particular.

"Has your father still not agreed to let you have some free time?" Neville winced.

The twins shook their heads together.

"The only time he agrees for the idiots to be kept away from us is when we're in the training sessions he started up for us," Draco sighed. "And this idiot here went and got himself cursed the other day because he told father that he wouldn't under any circumstances put up with them as much as he was at Hogwarts,"

Harry snickered.

"He definitely didn't like that,"

"You really do have a death wish don't you," Blaise snorted.

Harry shrugged.

"I don't like lying and when he asked me how I expected to keep Daphne occupied during Hogwarts if I wasn't going to get to know her now I told him straight. I told him that I wasn't, under any circumstances, going to spend half the amount of time, that I was right then, with Daphne at school and so it didn't matter to me to learn how to keep her occupied. He flipped and after a few curses made it so it hurt to be away from her for a few days, threatening if he got even one letter saying she felt abandoned by me then I'd feel like that constantly,"

"We need to get on with this," Neville sighed. "Gran will wake up at five and if I'm not on the sofa where she left me then I'm a goner,"

"I don't get why the bat is keeping you away from us anyway," Draco said rolling his eyes.

"Because she thinks you're leading me down a path of chaos and failure," Neville snickered. "On the bright side though she said she was proud of me for my exam results before she went on another rant,"

"I wonder what she'd say if she knew you're a fourteen year old animagius who's nearly the size of a muggle car when he's transformed?" Blaise said sarcastically.

"Come on then, lets get this party started," Harry smirked with a grin.

Hours later found the twins stumbling into the manor with huge grins on their faces.

"That was epic!" Draco laughed. "It so has to be repeated,"

"Boys,"

The twins stiffened and stood straight looking at the one person they would have done anything to avoid at that moment.

"Imagine my surprise when I awake at four thirty and find that my sons beds are empty and completely untouched. Also imagine my surprise when I find that our guest are under deep sleeping potion and then imagine my surprise when just as I'm heading to see if they're in the manor I catch my sons walking in the front door looking like they've been out all night without a care in the world," Lucius said, his tone edging on threatening as he went along. "I want an explanation now, and it better be good,"

"Why? Its not as if you're going to like it anyway," Draco muttered.

At the same time Harry responded. "We don't get what we want so I don't see why you should get what you want,"

Lucius' rage seemed to make him grow ten feet and the twins winced knowing they really shouldn't have provoked him.

A moment later they were on the floor trembling in agony.

That surprised Lucius, he'd never had anyone that didn't scream under his cruciatus curse.

How had his sons become resilient to it?

He lifted the curse, curiosity running through his veins.

"Connexio," he snarled at the both.

Harry winced, having felt this curse at its prime only a few days ago.

"That will stay until I am satisfied with your behaviour towards those girls. If I find out you have stepped one foot outside of this manor, even just onto the grounds, without mine or your mother's permission then I will lock you in your rooms until after the Quidditch Cup. Am I been clear?" Lucius demanded.

The boys nodded, wincing at the further restrictions that had just been put on them.

Harry felt his anger spike.

"You don't just get to do this! We should have a say in who we marry and who we stay around!" he snapped.

"I agree, I think this is been taken too far, father. We'll marry them, hell we don't have a choice, but you can't possibly think it's alright to make us spend every waking hour with them," Draco added shaking his head.

"Been around them, especially both of them, is like been stuck in a room with a dementor and a banshee," Harry spat.

"Then I have the perfect resolution," Lucius said in a deadly calm voice that made the boys pale in fear at his anger. "You will stay away from each other and spend quality time with your future wives,"

"What!" the twins erupted. "You can't do that!"

"I can and have, you will stay in your own rooms and you will not come out of them. I'm tired of your disobedience boys and I'm tired of you building on each other's defiance. Until we go to the Quidditch World Cup you will not lay eyes on each other," Lucius snapped before dragging them both up the stairs by their arms.

As soon as they were over the threshold of their rooms the doors and windows glowed blue telling them of the restrictions now in place.

Not only would they ache if their future 'wives' didn't spend a sufficient amount of time with them but they also were restricted to their bedrooms and forbidden to see each other.

The twins knew there and then their father was on his last straw of patience with them.

Sirius winced as he read his godson's outraged letter.

"Lucius giving him a hard time again?" Remus asked tiredly from where he was laid on the couch as he read a book.

"The twins ran off late last night and Lucius' punishment doesn't sit well with him. I'm surprised the boy knows so much language, some of this is new to even me," Sirius snorted.

"Can you blame him for punishing them though? Last night was the full moon they could have been in danger," Remus stated wincing.

"They're animagius, Remus, they're not stupid enough not to transform in that situation,"

"Malfoy doesn't know that and from the sounds of it the boys are starting to get out of control, the amount of illegal doings they're getting away with is unheard of," Remus muttered.

Sirius rolled his eyes knowing his friend had no idea just what the boys got up to.

"They'll escape one way or another and they'll make it known to Lucius one way or another that they refuse to be locked up. They always do," Sirius shrugged before going to respond to his godson's letter.

He shook his head wondering just how low Lucius would stoop to keep the two boys under control and in line.

AN: Well what do you think of the first chapter? The boys are already getting into trouble and Lucius is at the end of his tether with them. The question is will the boys confinement get them into more trouble or will Lucius' punishment put them back into line? :)