How long has it been?! I am so sorry! I have started University as a nurse so I literally have no free time! I am going to try and update at least once a month from now on if people continue to read and review!

Chapter 4 – Vanishing Cabinet

"The potion goes to Harry Potter! This is by far the best potion of I have ever seen. One drop could kill us all' professor Slughorn said as he presented Harry with the vial of Felix Felicis.

'Perfect Potter' Malfoy thought. 'He has it so easy, what with being the CHOSEN one'.

Draco was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't relaise that everyone was beginning to pack their things up ready for morning break. Draco quickly said to work tidying up as he didn't want to be left alone in the room with this idiot of a potions teacher. He was just beginning to clean the cauldron when he was aware that Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle had all left without him.

"Charming!" Malfoy muttered.

"Sorry?" A voice said from behind him.

Draco turned around to become face to face with Hermione.

"I didn't say anything" He spat

"Sorry I thought I heard something" she replied as she put her advanced potions book back into her bag and began to leave the room. As she got to the doorway she turned to look at Draco and saw that he had sat back down on his stool, was squinting his eyes and was rubbing his forehead with his left hand. She opened her mouth to say something but after the outburst on the stairs she thought against it and quietly left the room as to not make it apparent that she had spied on him.

'He looks like this has the weight of the world on his shoulders' Hermione thought as she ascended the stairs from the Dungeons to the Ground Floor. Was this compassion for Draco that she was feeling?

Draco sat at his potions desk for a minute or two trying to massage his forehead to get rid of the headache that he could feel coming on. He was aware that the mudblood was watching him but he couldn't understand why. He was going to snap as her but decided against it. He had already lost too many friends already and this was only the first day of lessons. If he continued like this then there would be nobody left to talk to. He had never felt so alone. He heard her try to quickly slip away before he noticed her. He glanced up just to see her frizzier than usual hair disappear up the spiral case opposite the potions classroom door. He breathed a sigh and started to gather his books up into his bag. Once everything was cleaned, put away and packed into his bag he got up and took the same path Hermione had just taken.

He came to the top of the stairs where he was greeted with the sight of Pansy Parkinson flirting with a final student. He rolled his eyes are walked past them. He was aware that Pansy stopped flirting to look at him for a few seconds before continuing to flirt with the boy who looked like he couldn't care less about her.

'Is she trying to make me jealous?' he thought to himself. 'I don't know when she will understand that I actually do not have even the slightest bit of emotion for her. Well other than hate and annoyance but I think she is finally picking up on that.

He continued to his next lesson. The day seemed to drag the worse the headache got and he was tired of watching Pansy practically flirting with every boy she saw. It dawned on him then that she was flirting with Half-Bloods. He smirked. He could use that on her later. That night as he was descending the staircase from 2nd floor he glanced out the window and saw what appeared to be 3 separate tunnels of black smoke attempt to enter the castle. They ricocheted off an unseen force and disappeared into the distance as if giving up.

'Deatheaters' he thought to himself as he felt a lump rise in his thought. He actually began to feel anxious about what the coming months had to offer. He decided that he needed to get back to the dormitories. It was the only place in the castle that he felt remotely safe.

As he entered the common room he saw Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle sitting on the sofa. They all appeared to be talking but stopped suddenly when they saw his enter. He decided that he didn't have the energy for an argument tonight so he continued upstairs to his dorm. As he entered the room he was aware of his owl sitting on the windowsill by his bed. What the owl saw Draco he began tapping on the window with his beak. Draco sighed and walked over the open the window to let him in. The bird flew in and landed on his bed. Draco noticed that there was a scroll tied to his leg.

'What you go for me boy?' Draco asked. He liked owls, they were the one thing in his life that didn't judge him or make him feel worthless. He untied the scroll from leg and read.

'Draco, there is a vanishing cabinet in the room of requirements that we told you about before you started back at Hogwarts, you were told to fix it and we are still waiting for you to even look at it. What is taking so long! The Dark Lord is a patient man. Bellatrix'

Draco sat down on his bed and felt like crying. 'Can't I just have 5 minutes to myself' he thought to himself.

He decided he had better reply to his aunt before things got ugly. Well uglier than usual.

'I tried to go to the room of requirements yesterday night but I was put on prefect duty and I was paired with the mudblood granger so I didn't get chance. I am going to try again tonight. Draco'.

He rolled the parchment up and attached it to his leg. An owl with a small but of parchment on his leg drew less attention than an owl with a big letter in its beak.

"Get this back home tonight otherwise Aunt Bellatrix will have both of our heads" he said to the owl.

With that the owl flew off out the window and Draco watched him disappear into the white sky. Snow was on its way.

Draco decided he couldn't go to the Room of Requirements yet as people were still wondering the corridors. He decided to wait until tonight when everyone was back in the common rooms for the night. This gave him 3 hours to kill before he had to leave. He knew he had a ton of homework to do but this headache was killing him. He decided to have a lie down on his bed and try to get some rest.

He must have fell asleep as when he woke up it was dark outside his window. He had a moment of panic when he thought it was the next day and he had slept through the night. 'Bella is going to kill me' he thought to himself. He sat up and looked around and saw that Crabbe and Goyle still hadn't came to bed so it must just be a few hours after he fell asleep. He decided to get up and leave for the room of requirements. He grabbed an apple from his bag that he never ate at dinner and ventured down the stairs to the common room.

He didn't acknowledge anyone and made his way to the door.

"Where are you going" Pansy shouted across the common room.

Draco felt his annoyance raising for her. 'What has it got to do with her' he asked himself.

"Prefect duties" Draco simply said as he exited the room not looking back to see Pansy's reaction.

"There aren't any prefect duties tonight" he heard Crabbe say as he left the room.

'Thanks Crabbe! Much appreciated' He thought to himself.

"Maybe he's having an affair with that MudBlood" Pansy sneered.

"URGH, its disgusting to even think about" he heard Goyle reply .

He heard them start laughing at the 'joke' as he walked to the staircase to find the seventh floor.

It took him 10 minutes to get there but he eventually reached the spot where the door would appear. He stood in front of the wall, closed his eyes and thought about what he needed. He heard the wall start to crack and opened his eyes as the door appeared. He pulled the door open and entered the room. He pulled the door shut behind him and the door disappeared from sight. It was dark inside, and smelt like dust and old things. He could hear an old tune playing somewhere in the room but it kept jumping. He removed the apple from his pocket and threw it in the air a few times and caught it. He made his way deeper into the room until he saw it. A big wardrobe type silhouette covered in an old sheet. He moved towards it and pulled the sheet off. Decades of dust rose into the air. He took a moment to admire the beauty of it. He realised that at that moment, something so beautiful was about to aid something so evil.

He placed the apple inside the cabinet and closed the door. He closed his eyes and willed the apple to find its sister cabinet in Borgin and Burkes. He opened the door to see if it had worked. The apple was still in the same position he had left it. He tried a few more times before he gave up.

'It needs fixing' he sighed.

"Reparo" he said pointing his wand at the cabinet. Nothing happened. He knew it was a long shot but it was worth a try.

Draco decided to leave the cabinet for tonight and do some research in the library tomorrow on how to fix it.

'I will have to write to Bellatrix tomorrow and explain. Means I won't have to deal with her letters as much' He thought to himself.

He put the apple back in his pocket and made his way to the door. He exited the room and closed the door behind him. He turned around to see 'her' standing in front of him just observing him.

I'm sorry the chapter isn't very long but I needed to update for you. Who is 'her'? Pansy, Bellatrix, Hermione, Narcissa or somebody else? Please review and I will try to update tomorrow! But you will have 1 or 2 more chapters before Monday!

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