A.N. I've wanted to do this for quite a while now. I love the ideas I have for this story but hopefully can have a few more. I do not own any characters in this except for Lilianna Grey and any relatives or family members she may have. During this chapter, I use some content from: Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire. I have to credit J.K. Rowling for that.

This chapter is dedicated to Emma, Embrace your weirdness!

Chapter 1

"Mum?" It was almost pitch black. "Dad?" Her parents had just entered the house. "Where are you?" The kitchen, dining room and living room were deserted. "This isn't funny," She saw a shadow and then she crept to the door of the study.

"I can't believe we just did that," It was a woman. With a man.

"We had no choice in the matter, Sara. It is done,"

"What will Lilianna think of us?" The woman sobbed.

"What she doesn't know won't hurt her,"

Lilianna dared to look around the door. She stared in horror at her parents. Neither were wearing their coats or jackets and brandished on both of their left arms was…

"The Dark Mark," Lilianna stated as she turned into the room, surprised at the firmness in her voice.

She ran to the fire place, grabbed floo powder and flooed to the Ministry.

Lilianna woke up.

Strange. Why do I feel… Normal? Am I not in a mental asylum? Have I not been here for the past three years?

She sat. Sitting on the end of her bed was none other than Albus Dumbledore. She stared and then looked at her surroundings. Then back at Dumbledore. She nodded and stood. She walked for a bit and then tried to speak.

"Thank you," She said with a dry tone.

The old man smiled.

"What you did, Miss Grey was a very admirable thing. I have come to invite you to a place at Hogwarts." He got straight to it.

Lilianna smiled and nodded again. The man held out his arm, indicating side-along apparition. She grabbed it and with a crack, appeared at Diagon Alley. Dumbledore handed her a bag with money in and winked.

"I trust you know what to get, Miss Grey?" he asked and without waiting for an answer, disapparated again.

Lilianna stood for a bit and tried to get her head around the last two minutes. She had woken up, realizing she was sane again, Albus Dumbledore was sitting on her bed, she could speak again, she was offered to go to school after being in an asylum for three years and was now in Diagon Alley. She shrugged and looked down at the bag of money.

A boy with jet black hair bumped into her.

"Oh god, sorry!" He said and Lilianna looked at him. She smiled. Something she had not done in a while.

"No worries. Do you go to Hogwarts?" She asked and he nodded. He was with a girl with bushy brown hair and a boy who was a ginger. They both nodded too. "My name is Lilianna Grey. I'm going to Hogwarts too. Sorry if I seem weird by the way. I've been in a mental asylum for three years." She said as she shook hands with the three.

Oh. My. God. She is still alive? Draco pushed through the crowds and tapped on the girl's shoulder. She had blonde hair that could rival his own and big green eyes. She turned, gasped and hugged him. He smirked and hugged back. She was with Pothead, Weasley and Mudblood.

"Hey, Lils. How's it going?" He asked casually and Lilianna smiled. "Whatcha been up to? I thought you were at that asylum?"

"I was." She said. "But today I woke up and felt sane. Dumbledore."

Draco nodded.

"Any news on your mum and dad?" He asked cautiously.

"No." She said but didn't sound upset or anything. "I hope they have rotted in Azkaban. No offense to any members of your family or anything, but I hate them for what they did to me. And no, I don't mean they are crucioing to me insanity, I mean...well...Y'know."

"Yeah," Draco nodded.

Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at each other with confused looks on their faces.

"Me and Draco have been friends since we were young," Lilianna explained. "It's been three years since we saw each other. I presume from the looks on your faces that you do not get along? Well, you can't stop me being friends with him." She said and Ron looked disgusted, Hermione looked confused and Harry looked a bit angry.

"Malfoy? Friends? Your kidding me!" Ron spat. "He hasn't got the heart to do friends. He's a jerk Lily. Stay away from him."

Harry and Hermione nodded. Lilianna stood up.

"Goodbye. It was a pleasure meeting you." She walked off and Draco shot one last smirk at Harry and followed her.

"I missed you." He said once they had left the leaky cauldron and were outside. "I hate to admit it but I really did."

Lilianna smiled.

"I would have missed you, but I was insane." She said with hardly any expression in her voice.

She probably forgot how to use expression. Draco thought.

"Yeah," She said.

Draco laughed. He'd forgotten that she could read his mind. Only his mind… He never knew why.

"I can do Occlumency now, Lils." He said as he saw Lilianna grin as he closed his mind.

"Good. I felt like I was intruding sometimes because I could never really control it."

"How's your...ah...problem?" Draco asked, not sure how to fraze it as he was in public.

"If you saw the inside of my room at the asylum, you would not need to ask." She sighed. "They didn't even know about it."

They ignored her? Draco was shocked. How could they pretend not to know about that? Did they assume it was just her being a bit insane?

Lilianna started humming a song she had heard her room mate play on piano. The girl was a year older than Lilianna and had serious memory loss that couldn't be healed. Muggle or Magic ways.

Draco just stared ahead of him. Lilianna had always been a good singer. She used to sing to him when his dad had been thoroughly abusive to him.

"Lil," Draco said once she had finished humming the song. "Do you remember the song you used to sing when we were younger?"

Lilianna smiled. "Wake me up when it's all over. When I'm wiser and I'm older." Lilianna sang. "All this time I was finding myself and I, didn't know I was lost. Of course I remember it!"

Lilianna lay staring at the stars and trying to remember a song about stars she had heard in her life. City of Stars, Reach For the stars and (BARF) Rewrite the Stars.

She wasnt getting far with all of these. She decided to sing them all. Not too loud. It was gone midnight but she had never been good at sleeping. She always lay awake in bed. That's how her and Draco met. Her parents had sent her to Malfoy Manor while they did some work abroad. Their parents were friends. She hadn't been able to sleep.

Flashback

She was nine again.

"What are you doing up?" came a young boys voice from behind her.

She didn't bother turning around. She had seen the boy around the Manor.

"Can't sleep. What's your excuse?" She asked bitterly. She was missing her parents a lot.

"I find it hard to sleep too. I come down here every night."

He sat next to her and they ended up being amazing friends with each other.

She came down the next night, and the night after and was a bit sad to leave but the Malfoys promised to invite her back.

They never did.

End Flashback.

Lilianna woke and walked into the Leaky Cauldron. She saw Ron's family.

"I don't know how I am getting to the station sir," She said to Mr Weasley. "May I come with you?"

She had practiced talking with expression in her voice for several hours last night.

"Of course, dear." The man said. "Are you the girl from the asylum? Dumbledore told me to expect you. That's why we spent the last night here in the Leaky Cauldron. Even after the commotion at the World Cup!"

Lilianna had no clue what had happened at the World Cup. The World Cup for what? Probably Quidditch. Wow. She had a lot to catch up on.

"Hey, Lils," Draco said as Lilianna came through the barrier. Then Harry, Ron and Hermione followed and Lilianna hurriedly got out of the way.

"Come on, Lily. Let's get on the train." Harry said as Ginny came through.

"Er, see you at school then, Draco!" She called behind her.

He waved. Always second to Potter.

"Hey! Dracs," It was Blaise. "You coming?"

"Yeah," He said and rushed onto the train.

"Today we have a special student," Albus Dumbledore announced to the hall as Lilianna stepped in on her own.

She would normally be embarrassed but three years in a mental asylum made sure she had more confidence around strangers. She thought of her parents before they had become Death Eaters. She thought of all the good moments with Draco. She thought of what they would want. She decided which house she wanted to be in.

"Can we all give a round of applause to Lilianna Grey. She has been in asylum for three years so make sure you help her catch up." He continued as Lilianna sat on the stool.

A hat was placed on her head.

I almost feel like just putting you in Gryffindor…

Lilianna was used to there being voices in her head. 'No' she thought.

No?

'Please put me in Slytherin'

But you are so brave already. You would benefit from being in Gryffindor.

'No I wouldn't. If I'm already so brave then I've nothing to learn from Gryffindor'

Very well then… SLYTHERIN!

The Slytherin table burst into applause and greeted her. Draco moved up to let her sit next to him so she took the seat.

A bunch of children of the age of around eleven filled the room and got sorted much the same way she had.

"Ackerly Stewart," They called.

"Ravenclaw!" The hat shouted.

Several more of these followed but with different houses.

"I have only two words to say to you," he told them, his deep voice echoing around the Hall. "Tuck in!"

The tables were soon covered with food. Lilianna gasped at the amount.

"The house-elves really make to much," She said as she put a few things on her plate. "I only got one meal every three days in the asylum. They were all scared of me I think."

Draco worredly looked at Lilianna again. She was practically a stick.

"Is that all you're eating?" He asked a while later, unable to keep a hint of worry in his voice.

"Don't worry about me," She replied while putting food in her mouth and gazing dreamily at her surroundings.

A girl on the other side of Draco snorted.

"Draco? Worry about you? Sorry to burst your bubble, hon but the only girl Dracsie ever worries about is me." She said and Lilianna gazed toward her direction.

"Shut it, Parkinson. I can worry about whoever the bloody hell I want!" Draco snapped at her as the puddings disappeared.

"So!" Said Dumbledore, smiling around at them all. "Now that we are all fed and watered, I must once more ask for your attention, while I give out a few notices.

"Mr Filch, the caretaker, has asked me to tell you that his list of objects forbidden inside this castle has been extended to include Screaming Yo-Yos, Fanged Frisbees and Ever Bashing-Boom earlings. The full list comprises some four hundred and thirty seven items, I believe, and can be viewed in Mr Filch's office, if anybody would like to check it.

"As ever, I would like to remind you that the Forest in the grounds is out-of-bounds to students, as is the village of Hogsmeade to all below third year.

"It is also my painful duty to inform you that the inter-house Quidditch Cup will not take place this year.

"This is due to an event that will be starting in October, and continuing throughout the school year, taking up much of the teachers' time and energy - but I am sure you will all enjoy it immensely. I have pleasure in announcing that this year at Hogwarts -"

But there was then a deafening rumble of thunder and the doors to the Hall bashed open.

A man stood. A staff in hand, which he was leaning on and was covered with a thick black cloak. Everybody's heads turned on the intruder and the lightning illuminated his face momentarily. Lilianna was not the only one to gasp at what she saw. It looked like wood carved by an alien who had little knowledge of humankind. His entire face had cuts and scars on it. Some of his nose was missing and one eye was large blue and was swiveling in its socket.

"Potter looks disgusted." Draco murmured in Liliana's ear. "Probably because someone beat him in a scar competition."

Lilianna smiled at him. Draco felt his heart swell when she laughed a bit. Her laugh was sweet and could hardly be called human if ever heard. No, it sounded like a magical song that you were upset to stop hearing. This was one of the things Draco had missed about her, she always laughed at his jokes.

The stranger plodded toward the head master who he whispered to and Dumbledore nodded.

"May I introduce our new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher," Said Dumbledore cheerily. "Professor Moody."Dumbledore cleared his throat. "As I was saying, we are to have the honour of hosting a very exciting event over the coming months, an event which has not been held for over a century. It is my very great pleasure to inform you that the Triwizard Tournament will be taking place at Hogwarts this year."

"You're JOKING!" Yelled a Weasley loudly.

Lilianna chuckled to herself a little.

"I am not joking, Mr Weasley," he said. "Though, now you mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll, a hag and a leprechaun who all go into a bar -"

A tall lady with grey hair cleared her throat.

"Er- but maybe this is not the time … No …" Dumbledore said. "Where was I? Ah yes, the Tournament … well, some of you will not know what it involves, so I hope those of you who do know will forgive me for giving a short explanation …"

Lilianna zoned out. She knew of the tournament. Her aunt had died in one while at Hogwarts. How she remembered this, she would never know. Though, she seemed to remember an awful lot of things that she knew from when she was eleven. She sorted through what she should be bothered with remembering before coming across the fact that she was still in the Great Hall.

"Bedtime! Chop chop!" She heard Dumbledore say as she dragged herself back to reality.

She stood up with Draco and he lead her to the Slytherin common room. She was too tired to speak and Draco seemed to be the same. He hadn't closed his mind to her recently so she could tell that he was going to sleep without a nightly chat too. She zoned out again until she realised she was in a room with a few girls including the girl Parkinson that had been a bit rude to her at dinner.

"May I use some of your things to clean up a bit?" Lilianna asked a brown haired girl once it was morning.

"Yeah, go ahead. Do you want some help?" She asked.

"I would very much appreciate that." Lilianna replied.

The girl's name was Daphne. Daphne helped her to cut her hair to just past her shoulders and untangle it, she helped clear up her face and then left so Lilianna could take a shower. When she came out, Daphne used a drying charm because they would be late for breakfast otherwise.

"Thank you, Daphne," Lilianna said once she had left for breakfast. Daphne always liked to get to breakfast early as it was only seven o' clock.

When Lilianna had gone into the common room, she realised that all Slytherins appeared to want to get there early. Except from one but her.

"Hey, Lils" Draco said and Lilianna turned her head to him. He'd never noticed how pretty she was…

Her blond hair fell it neat curls at the bottom and her face was pure and smooth. She had eyes greener than grass. Slytherin green, he noted. God was he glad he knew how to close his mind.

"Hey, Draco. You've grown a lot in three years. I've only just noticed" She replied. Her voice was almost back to normal expression wise but it still had a bit of a Loony Lovegood vibe to it. She smiled. Her smile was enough to make anybody's day happier. Draco had tried to visit Lilianna as often as he could but she didn't know this. He'd been told that she was likely to die anyday so that was why he was so happy when he found out she was alive two years after he'd stopped visiting.

"You'll never guess what I still have," Draco said as he pulled something on a string outside his shirt. It was a green gem with a silver metal snake circling it. "You got it for me for Christmas three years ago and I've worn it since."

Lilianna grinned and pulled out an identical one from her shirt. She knew Draco wasn't like this in front of his other friends. She had seen how he acted with them at dinner the other night. But he had always been very open with her.

"I also have this," Lilianna said and pulled out a battered brown leather book from a pocket. Some pages were curling and the spine was breaking away a bit. "From Christmas when we were nine. It's full but I keep it with me all the time."

Draco smiled at her. Yes, Draco Malfoy smiled. He barely ever smiled… it was usually a smirk of some sort. He was different with her. He then realised why. Could it be? The Slytherin Prince had a crush? No. He refused to think of her that way. They were best friends. Nothing more, nothing less.

"Shall we go to breakfast then?" Suggested Draco.