"I wish summer would never end," Draco said. It was late August, and we were sitting on the mouth of the lake down the street from his house, mansion, actually.

"Me too," I said, putting my head on his shoulder. But it was for a very different reason. When we were home (yeah, my family lives with his. My dad needs to be close to his for death eater stuff), things were a lot better. He wasn't as stressed out, and we weren't around other guys, which really helped his stress. Draco was easily jealous.

"i think we should head back," he said. "We have to be home in 10 minutes."

"ok," i nodded. We would be more than grounded if we were late to a meeting. Our parents and Voldemort (and bellatrix) insisted that we attend meetings, since of course, we would one day become death eaters.

Back at the manner, the new house elf, Lilly, greeted us. It was Voldemort who insisted the Malfoys get a new house elf, can you believe it? God forbid he didn't have someone to shine his shoes while he walked. I mean, they have this Wormtail guy there, helping out, but Voldemort hates him. I knew Wormtail was down in the basement; he always is doing something down there.

My dad and Lucius were getting everything ready for the meeting, with a few early arrivers. Bellatrix had just left them in anger, and i could sense a storm brewing. She walked over to Narcissa, who was standing alone, and started to quietly screaming at her.

Narcissa saw Draco and me and looked grateful. "Draco, Fiona. Fiona, can you come help Bellatrix? Draco, will you help your father?"

I tried to repress a smile. I'm only 17, but everyone tries to push me on Bellatrix. i'm the only one she never really gets mad at, so they try to keep her in a good mood. When she broke out of Azkaban, she was at the manner a lot during the summer, when I came here with my dad and sister Claire to meet with the Dark Lord. She ended up treating me like a daughter. Sometimes I wish she had a daughter; I wanted a better sister than Claire.

"Nothing, ask your dad if he..never mind, just sit down and rest," she said, with a smile. "If he's going to be stubborn and doesn't want help from women, he can do everything by himself. So, what were you doing today?"

We were sitting on the couch, watching the men running around like crazy, trying to get everything ready for the Dark lord. "Just hung out with Draco..We were at the lake. So, what's the meeting about today?" I was really hoping to get out of it. Bellatrix knows I hate it, but she also loves the Dark lord.

"It's supposed to be very exciting, there's a special treat, you'll see," she said excitedly. "You might want to sit next to me," she added.

Great, I thought. I may not be innocent and sweet, but Bellatrix knows I'm not as..malicious..as her, and the meetings are kind of..I'll admit it, frightening, for me and Draco a lot. I don't get why people are afraid of her - ok, well, I do, but to me she's always sweet and overprotective. Just then, we all had to head to the Malfoy's great dinning because God forbid we keep the Dark Lord waiting.

"So, is everything all set?" Bellatrix said to my father in a deadly whisper. He ignored her and found a seat. Bellatrix motioned to me, and we sat down, me in between Bellatrix and my dad. Yay, that's not an awkward moment..

You can almost feel the change in atmosphere when He arrives. Everything grows silent, deadly silent. He came in, with Lucius and Narcissa. They scurried to their seats, and after Voldemort greeted us, he took his usual seat at the head of the table.

After the conversations had begun and I had begun to already tune everything out, Voldemort made an announcement. "We have a very special guest with us this evening." He flicked his wand, and the sound of whimpering filled the air. Everyone's heads turned to the ceiling. I let my eyes wander up there, and felt my stomach give a jolt. I recognized the petrified face of the woman staring above me. She was the Muggles studies teacher from Hogwarts. "but let's leave her be for now. On with business."

I kept staring at her. Down the table, I noticed Draco just as scared as I was. Did she recognize us? We had, of course, never taken a muggles studies class before, but we had seen her around. Would she notice our age, and realize we were Hogwarts students? What would happen if she did? Would she tell someone? What would happen if she did? As soon as the thoughts entered my head, I knew she never would. Those thoughts were in Voldermort's head, too, and even if it wasn't, she would never be able to tell anyone what she saw.

Just then someone entered the room, and the twitch from Bellatrix's arm already told me that it was Snape.

"Why, Severus," Voldermort said, "I'm glad to see you didn't get lost. You're right in time to greet our guest. Severus, I'm sure you know her." He flicked his wand and she floated down, a few inches above the table. She was right in front of Draco and Severus. "This foul woman teaches Muggle studies at Hogwarts." He used his wand to make her float closer to himself, and she was right in front of me and Bellatrix. I couldn't hear Voldemort anymore, couldn't see anything but her in front of me. I put my head on Bellatrix's shoulder and closed my eyes, to block out the image, but Bellatrix tapped me, and made me pay attention.

I had to watch as she whimpered...had to watch as Voldemort took her out, effortlessly, with the killing curse..watch as he instructed his snake to enjoy...