There are only so many things that a Granger cannot take.

One is having such an annoying no-it-all cousin. Oh Merlin! Hermione was the most annoying muggle in the world yet she had many friends and was very popular. If they had both gone to a regular muggle school, Herm would be made fun of so much for being a smart arse. If only the tables would turn for her. As the eldest cousin of Hermione, Emily had sort of kind of been forced to attend Hogwarts after receiving the letter since her parents thought that it would do her some good. "At least you will be with people who are crazier than you are." They had said jokingly but deep down it still hurt. A lot. She had always been the loner or freak among the other muggles because of her differences.

Now she had to be forced to go to a school where people like her were not welcome. She did not even fit in between the muggles or purebloods. A halfblood, that is what she was and nothing could change that. Oh well. Anyway she had to focus on the here and now. Today she was to buy her school supplies for her seventh year courses even though this was to be her first year. Tying up her brown and white hair in a messy bun, she quickly got dressed and left the Leaky Cauldron to go over to the bookstore to collect her books. Looking around she saw that the streets were different than from what her cousin had described them as. It was dark and dank. Everything seemed to be closed up as if they didn't want anybody's business. What was going on?

Hearing footsteps behind her, she spun around to see who it was. A man with long blonde hair and ice blue eyes gazed upon her as he grew closer. His cheek bones protruded as if he had had nothing to eat for a couple of months yet it seemed to increase his startling features even more.

"What are you doing here? Nobody is supposed to be here so why is a young woman such as yourself here all alone?"

His voice was deadly yet soothing as he questioned her. Her eyes went down to the strange cane that he had with him. A silver snake adorned the head of the cane, but what really caught her eye was the snake's eyes. So green...so captivating. It was as if it was staring deep into her soul.

"Emily! Where are you?"

Her cousin with her bushy brown hair came into view beside her as she continued to stare up into the eyes of the man before her.

"Mr. Malfoy, I thought you would be off with your lord right now. Have you come to take my cousin away as well?"

Hermione asked defiantly as she stared up at him with hatred. The man merely shrugged as he continued to look upon her.

"I didn't know that she was your cousin, mudblood, but now I do know so I shall stay far away from her. Girl..."

He said as he stared right at her, ice blue eyes meeting bright emerald green eyes.

"You best be careful or else you will not be as pretty as you are now."

With that last statement, he apparated away leaving the two girls behind. Her cousin turned towards her with a questioning look but was only met with a collapsed body.

"Emily? Emily?"

No response could be had from her. She was in a deep slumber.

"Emily? EMILY! Wake up! Oh Merlin! Please wake up!"

That girl was so captivating that he could not imagine that she would even be the same as that mudblood Granger. It had only taken a glimpse and he could already see that the young woman with the emerald green eyes possessed more power than any mudblood that he knew. And her name was Emily? That was what Miss. Granger had yelled before she found them together. Hmmmm. Very interesting.

Now he wondered what the power of his eyes had done to the poor girl, but he got his response when he heard the mudblood screaming around the corner that her cousin had collapsed. What a pity. The girl had been under his thrall, but he had expected her to faint far sooner than this.

That was the price of being a vampire.

As he stared out of the alley to glimpse at the fallen girl Emily, his canines elongated and then went back to their normal size.

"First I shall feed, but then I will decide how to bring her over to me. A malfoy always gets what he wants especially I, Lucius Malfoy."