AN: okay I know I haven't updated in . . . . Uhh lets say a few months (coughs 5 months) but I have good reasons! Okay ill start from the start (note: if you don't care to read about the author of this apparently amazing fan fiction then please read the fan fiction) I'm a recently turned sixteen year old girl from Australia and where I live we have this thing for school called VCE and basically its VERY important so I have been a little bit preoccupied with that. (I really did want to update but I didn't have the time =(.) plus I had no internet and I've had a couple of nasty break ups soooo since its nearly school holidays, I've decided to pull an all nighter and bring to you, my lovely readers, THREE chapter updates! So if they start getting weird or not making any sense by the third chapter its because I'm tired. =)

Now onto thanking reviewers

To the lovely French lady =) I do not speak French so I went to Google translate to get the French words. So if you cannot understand them or they do not make any sense, just refer to Google translate =) thank you for reviewing

To the lovely lady that called me PURE GENIUS! =) Thank you. You don't know how much that meant to me =)

To everyone else that reviewed, I dedicate the next three chapters to you =) you guys are amazing!

Now on with the chapter

Disclaimer: I do not own harry potter or any of the characters involved (except the ones I make up) and if I did *sighs boy would I be a happy girl =)

Chapter 4

Hermione awoke with a start, Her heart hammering in her chest. She wiped a hand across her forehead and sighed. 'Not again' she thought as she fell back on the pillows.

As she lay there, the recent events came flooding back to her. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she thought about her friends. 'Harry, Ron, Ginny, Neville, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Neville.' The names repeated in her head as torrents of tears fell onto the duvet. 'Harry, Ron, Ginny, Neville.' The names began to taunted her, 'Harry, Ron, Ginny, Neville, its all your fault, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Neville.' Hermione grabbed the sides of her head. "Stop it!" she screamed as the names taunted on.

"Miss?" Said a tentative voice beside her, causing Hermione to fall out of bed. "Jibbly is sorry miss, please don't cry miss. Jibbly is sorry for frightening miss." The little house elf pleaded. "It's okay," Hermione said in a gentle voice, hoping to calm the little house elf down, "You didn't frighten me, just startled me. That's all." She stood up, stretched and sat back down on the bed. She took a deep breath to calm herself down and smelled something incredible. Food.

"Master told Jibbly to bring miss some food and clothes, so Jibbly did as master ordered and brought miss some breakfast and a dress." Said the house elf, whilst passing her the tray full of food. "Jibbly is going to hang up the dress in the bathroom for miss while miss eats her breakfast." Said Jibbly with a bow. Hermione frowned, "you don't have to bow to me Jibbly and call me Hermione." She said, hoping that the house elf would stop bowing. Jibbly looked at her as if she was insane and with a crack, the house elf disappeared.

Hermione sighed to herself and began to eat the food in front of her.

Once she finished eating she got out of bed and headed towards the bathroom. Hermione opened the door to the bathroom and gasped.

The bathroom was huge.

The floor consisted of white tiles whilst the walls looked like they were made of marble. There was a claw foot tub and a modern shower. All were in white. It was beautiful. Hermione stared in awe at the room around her before she had the urge to pee.

Once she finished, she jumped in the shower. It felt great. There was a range of soap to choose from so she chose the Lavender and Rose one. As she was washing herself she noticed something shiny on her arm. She washed the suds off of her arm and screamed. "That fucking bastard marked me!" she screamed in rage. She turned off the shower, grabbed a towel and stomped back into the room.

She stomped to the vanity and screamed again.

A silver serpent, no wider than her pinky, wound around her wrist. The tail of the serpent connected with a skull that situated on the middle of her wrist, in between its tail and its body. The head and the rest of its body went from her wrist to the middle of her forearm in a way that made it look like it slithered there.

Hermione shuddered; it was the dark mark but not exactly like the ones Voldemorts' followers had. She touched it, her fingertips running over the silvery ink that marred her tanned skin, and watched it move and hiss at her.

"Ahem" she heard someone say behind her. She turned and came face to face with Draco Malfoy. He gave her a once over and said with a smirk " nice tits. For a mudblood that is." Hermione realized that she was still, indeed, naked. She wrapped her arms around her privates and spat " What do you want, ferret?"

He sneered at her; "The dark lord requests you in the dining hall and asked me to take you there." He grinned evilly. Hermione scoffed and walked back to the bathroom.

"Bâtard" she mumbled as she closed the door.

There hanging on the door was the dress. Hermione touched the dress and said to herself, "I am so not wearing that!"

AN: okay that was the first chapter in my three-or-more-chapter-update-marathon but I would like to ask you, my readers, two questions because I'm completely stumped.

'Do you want Hermione to turn bad or would you prefer Voldemort turn good?' and 'Should Voldemort change his appearance to tom or stay good ole' voldie-mort?'

My dilemma is that I like both evil Hermione and good voldie and I like both tom and voldie soooo there is my dilemma

I realize I said in the first chapter that I hate it when ole voldie goes soft so let me elaborate on that.

Either he becomes good or he stays evil. I hate in between. So I'm working on injecting some evil into my Voldemort so bear with me on that.

Also I'm looking for someone who can help me on this story because sometimes I feel that I'm either not making any sense or not giving enough detail so I'm asking one of my reviewers or readers to maybe help give me some ideas and/or pointers as this is my first fan fiction and I really want to do well and practice for maybe a sequel or another fan fiction. =)

Finally after re-reading previous chapters I realized that my recommended songs I picked now make no sense to me so from now on I will be writing why I recommend them for the chapters so I not only tell you guys why I picked them, but also that I don't confuse the shit out of myself =)

Recommended song for this chapter- duality by slipknot

Okay as you maybe/probably figured out is I'm a fanatic of heavy metal (because even though it may sound like noise, the lyrics explain more about what teens go through than say pop songs) but I'm also into love songs =)

I picked this song because it explains the way Hermione feels at the start of the chapter and how she felt when she saw the tattoo.

Ohhhh and I just would like to add that the 'dark mark' that I made up would look pretty cool so I have to find a picture of it. But if I don't I will draw it =)

Onto the next chapter.

Love

Madie jane

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