Earning Trust (Abraxas/Percy)

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Title: Earning Trust
Characters/Pairing: Abraxas/Percy
Word Count: 297
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Challenge: Day 5
Author's Notes: For snapesgirl and her prompt: Financial report. Hope you enjoy, love. Not beta-ed. My porn muse seems to have taken off for the Highlands. But there's still time to wraggle his ass back for the rest of the month.

"Come along, Weasley. It doesn't do to keep a Malfoy waiting, especially if you are to take over these accounts. I'm putting my trust in Potter's recommendation of you."

"Yes, Mr Shaw."

Percy followed the solicitor into the manor, trying not to gawk at the opulence. It was slightly tarnished but still grand nonetheless, considering the history of the place. With Lucius in prison and Draco in exile for the next five years, it had fallen to Narcissa to take up the family's mantle.

He was surprised though to see not the elegant woman waiting for them but an older version of Lucius.

"Abraxas."

"Robert, you've brought the reports."

Shaw gestured to Percy.

Percy flipped open the case he held. "Your fiscal itemizations for the past ten years, sir."

Abraxas pinned Percy with a look then narrowed his eyes. "A Weasley, Robert? Well, I suppose if anyone can pinch a Knut til it bleeds then it would be one of them. Sit down, boy, and let us see if we can't undermine this latest unpleasantness that my son has entrenched the family."

"Yes, sir," Percy murmured, not certain if he should be insulted at the back handed statement, and took out the first bit of parchment. "Mr Shaw and I have ordered up a new business plan that should recoup the... losses incurred the previous year."

Abraxas snorted. "Polite way to put it, Weasley. Give us your name then, boy, if I am to crawl into bed with your family."

"Percy, sir," he blushed as Abraxas stared at him.

Finally, Abraxas cleared his throat and turned his attention to the parchment Percy had passed him. "Continue, young Percy."

Percy breathed a sigh of relief then started on the next stage of reinstating the Malfoy name and fortunes.