You grown as you open your eye and immediately close them to shield them from the blinding light that burned, for they had grown accustomed to the darkness of sleep. You wait a minute and slowly open them again and look around. You were in a all white room and Draco sat in a chair by your bed holding your hand. His breathing was slow and you knew he was asleep. You ran your hand thru his messy hair, trying not to wake him for he looked like he needed the sleep. You sat up and lean against your pillow and rubbed your neck, remembering what happened and trying to think of were you are and how you got there. The door slowly creaked open and Hermione, Ron, Inez, Harry, and Ginny quietly stepped in the room.

"Darcie! Your awake!!"

"Shh! Draco's sleeping, and it looks like he could use it." You say glancing at the sleeping Draco, hoping Draco will not stir.

"Were am I?"

"The hospital wing." Hermione answered hugging you.

"Inez! Your okay!"

"Ya, thanks to you and Draco. He's a keeper!" she winked at you.

"What are you doing hear?"

"I can answer that." Dumbledor said walking in.

"Professor! I am so, so sorry! I should have stayed! I don't know wha-"

He held up his hand to silence you. "I thought it best that your friend, Inez, would be better off here. She is now apart of this war, and now that her mother dead, she has no place to go. Now tell me one thing, Miss Riddle, What did he tell you?"

"He told me that he killed the Potters because James killed my mother."

Harry looked up shocked. "It's a bloody lie!! My father…"

"Did kill Carissa Riddle. He shot her thinking she was Voldamort. That was his job at the time. He then took Darcie home to give her to her uncle. He never got over it. When he saw he had shot her, well, he felt guilty. He was a good man, Harry, he just made a mistake."

"Sir, could you take this off me?" you ask pointing to the snake on your neck.

"I'm sorry, but like I told Draco, they can not be removed."

"But what would people think when they see it?!"

"You can cover it with a turtle neck, and as for at school, your robes will conceal it. It's low."

Your face fell. You had to live with it. "Then when can I leave this bloody bed?"

"In a weeks time."

"A week? But by then I'll miss Christmas!"

"Um, you already have, Darcie." Hermione said looking down.

"WHAT?! How long have I been out?"

"Three weeks."

"So, so school has been back in session for three days?"

"Four."

"FOUR! God, I can already hear the rumors."

"Ya, there are some wild ones. But people aren't aloud to visit you so, they have to use their imaginations."

"Not aloud?"

"Except us. And Draco has magically glued himself to that chair and refuses to leave your side!" Inez giggled, pointing to the still sleeping Draco.

"Oh and Harry and Ron have become friends with Draco."

"Aww! How sweet! Um, how did Draco and I get back…?"

"Well, Some of the order tracked you to the hotel and found your wand, and Inez's mother dead. Then we knew they had you so we scanned all the places they could have you. I'll leave you and your friends alone now." Dumbledore said walking out.

Ginny, Hermione, and Inez climbed up onto your bed and sat crossed-legged stile as Harry and Ron pulled up chairs.

"So, Inez, where are you staying here? I'm sorry I got you into this."

"Don't worry about it. I'm staying in Gryffindor tower. They even sorted me with that hat thing!"

"Oh, are you attending classes too?" you laugh,

"Yes, They thought I could learn some magic. But it is hard."

"Neville has a easier time!"

"Shut up Ron! I'm only a muggle! No really, I'm not being taught magic. But I do have lesions; Dumbledore is teaching me some things that I can do to help in this war I was sucked into. But I'm so glad your okay!"

"Ya, next time I'm a big fat jerk, don't run away! Hit me or whatever." Harry said looking over at Draco.

"Ya, I think I learned my lessen!" you say rubbing your neck again.

"Oh, well if that's what it takes th- HAY!" Ron said as you flung one of the many pillows on your bed at him. He tossed it back but you duck and it hit Draco, waking him up.

"What the bloody hell was tha- DARCIE!!"

You look at him and giggle. "Morning sleeping beauty!" He jumped up and hugged you. "Draco,-me-not-breathing!" you gasp and he lets go.

"Sorry, I just, when did you…?"

"About a half hour ago."

"Why didn't you wake me?!"

"You looked like you needed the sleep."

"Nice to see you have unglued yourself, Mr. Malfoy." Madame Pomfrey said walking in. "Miss Riddle, it's good to see you awake. But you," she said turning to your friends. "need to go. She needs her rest. Yes, Mr. Malfoy, you must go to." She pushed them out the door and turned to you, a purple potion in hand.

After you drank the discussing potion, the door opened again and Snape stepped in. "Poppy, may I have a word alone with Miss Riddle?"

Madame Pomfrey pursed her lips but left to her office. Snape closed the door and sat in the Chair Draco had been in. he looked at the wall, thinking of how to say whatever it is he wanted to say.

"Are you trying to kill me? I swear you'll be the death of me!" he said sternly.

"I-I"

"You were supposed to stay in the house!"

"Sorry."

"Do you have any idea of how worried I was on my return to find you had flown off to god knows were on a old broom that never really worked right?!"

"Worried? You? That's a laugh!! You…"

"Don't say that when you don't know!!"

"You hate me!! You give me detention for dropping a quill and picking it up!! You are harder on me than anyone else!!"

"SHUT UP!! YOU DON'T KNOW!!"

"Know what?!" His face turned pail. "OH, I SEE, YOU DON'T WANT TO TELL ME. YOU ARE JUST GOING TO YELL STUPID RANDOM THINGS AT ME!! YOU HATE ME, ADMIT IT!!"

"If I hated you I wouldn't have this, now would I?!" he said pulling a paper from his robes and handing it to you.

"Adoption papers?"

"You're my niece, I love you and have carried those papers around since your mother died. I'll file them as soon as you wish me too." You look down, not knowing what to think. Snape sighed taking your hand in his. "Go inside my mind."

"What?"

"Into my memories. You will see the truth, what I know of it." He handed you your wand from the bedside table. "Go on, I wont stop you."

"Are you sure?" he nodded. "Legilimens!" you felt yourself slip into his mind…

Inside his memory. "Severus, the Potters have been Killed." A slightly younger Dombledore said.

"D-Darcie was there!"

"She is alive. See?" Dombledor gently handed the younger looking Snape a small baby.

"Shh, don't cry, Darcie! Uncle Severus is here! Don't worry. I'm going to adopt you and be your daddy!" he kisses her on the forehead gently.

"Severus, you can't adopt her now."

"Why not?! I have the papers! All I have to do is…"

"Severus, it's much to dangerous. You know Voldamort will be looking for her! He's not dead. He wants her. He'll be expecting you to have her."

Tears started falling from the young Snape's eyes. "I, I don't want to…"

"I know Severus."…

The colors swirled around and a new scene started playing before you…

Snape, looking a bit older but not yet like now walked into a room "Dumbledor?"

"Ah, I have some news for you, Severus."

His face brightened up at once as he looked at Dumbledor. "Darcie…?"

"Yes, it is concerning her."

"Can I finally…"

"No, she has grown up in the Muggle world. She is happy living with her friend Inez and her mother. It's best to leave her."

"I-I want to see her."

"I thought you would. Here is the address."…

Colors swirled again and Snape was standing outside Inez's house, looking at you and Inez playing in the yard. You were five. You had your hair in pigtails and had on a pink jumper. Your small basketball rolled to his feet and you ran to get it. He picked it up and handed it to you.

"Thank you sir!" you giggle in your high girly voice, filled with joy. He smiled and patted your head. You ran back to Inez and shot the ball into the hoop. "You see that Nezzy?! I want to fly around and do that every time I see a hoop!!"

"So, you want to be a chaser!" Snape whispered, as a group of muggle kids walked up to you.

"You want to be a witch? Hu? You want to be an ugly woman with green skin?" said a boy pulling your pigtail.

"Are you a ugly witch, Darcie?" said another.

"I'm not!"

"Only witches fly. And you want to! Witch!" He pulled your hair again.

"STOP IT TOMMY!!" you said punching him. He ran away crying. You turn and toss the ball again, making the shot.

"Inez! Darcie! Lunch!"

"YAY!!" you and Inez runs into the house, smile on your faces.

"I want you to come back so bad, but I can see you are better off here, my little Darcie." Snape said turning, a tear in his eye. "At least I will see you when you start Hogwarts. I will be your teacher. A teacher only, you're happy where you are…end

you pulled out and looked at him. A tear shined in his eye. "You see?"

"I-I do." He looked into your eyes then looked down.

"Now you know my weakness."

"Me."

"Yes."

You looked closer at the paper in your lap. If the child in question is old enough to think for his/her own self and wishes this adoption to take place, have him/her sine on the line below.' You grab a quill and sine your name, completing the adoption, all Snape had to do is get it filed in the Ministry. You handed it back to him. He had not seen you sine it and looked at you in surprise.

"You didn't have to sine this."

"I know. All I wanted is someone who loved me like... To be my father…" Tears started to fill your eyes as you smiled. "And you are. I want to call you my father." You lean over and hug him. At first he sat there shocked then raped his arms around you and kissed the top of your head.

"I have wanted this for so long!" he whispered.

You walk into Gryffindor Common room and look at the warm room. Everyone looked at you like you were a ghost.

"DARCIE!!" Hermione, Ginny and Inez ran up to you and hugged you.

"HI! I'm out!"

"Really? I would have never guessed!" laughed Inez.

"Were are the guys?"

"Down at Hagred's. Are you going to attend classes tomorrow?"

"DU!!" You walk with them up to the girls dorm.

"Oh ya, you still have to open your Christmas gifts!"

"OPEN!!"

You smile at your friends and grab a red box off the top.

The next day at breakfast. "What class do you have first today, Darcie?" it was just you, Harry, and Ron.

"Potions."

"Us to. Come on we don't want to be late."

You sat at your usual table, the class had the usual murmur that stopped as Snape walked in. but something was different, Snape was almost skipping and he had a small smile that was barely there. "Good morning class. Today we will be mixing a health potion, please start."

You lean over to Harry "Harry, is it just me or is Snape, happy, and, and kind?"

"He's been like that since the day after you woke up. At first we thought he was sick, then we thought he hit his head on something…"

"Hermione thinks he's in love with some poor woman." Ron said cutting Harry off.

"Oh," Boy, he must be happy about my signing the adoption papers!

"Sorry I'm late professor!" Hermione said running into the room.

"That's all right, Miss Grainger."

"Okay! Now I really want to know what's wrong!" She whispered to Ron as she sat down. "He loves to take points off Gryffindors!" You couldn't hold back a small smile.

"Guess who!" you say covering Draco's eyes. You were in the Library after your last class of the day. It had been a week since you had gotten out of the hospital wing.

"Pansy?"

"Oh, oh! That is low, Draco Malfoy! That is low!"

"Sorry." He gave you a hug and a small peck on the lips. "Forgive me?"

"I guess." You said reaching up and giving him a kiss and rapping your arms around his neck. His hands rested on your hips as he deepened the kiss.

"AHEM!!" you break apart and look at Snape. "Miss Riddle, may I have a word?"

"Er, ya." You follow him to a privet corner.

"So, you have decided to be a normal pain?"

you giggle. "And you have become a normal father."

"So, how long have you and Mr. Malfoy…"

"Not three weeks in and your already this protective? Draco and I have been together for quite a wile."

He nodded. "I had thought you had a crush on Mr. Potter."

"NO! He's just a friend!"

"Well, I'll be watching you."

"Yes sir." You walk back to Draco who was reading a book.

"So, what was that about?"

"Hu? Oh, nothing."

"You know, he glared at me when he asked to speak to you. He's been acting odd lately."

"Ya, he has." You shrug sitting across from him and pulling out your Herboligy book and notes.

That weekend. you stepped out into the streets of Hogsmade and ran across the street and into the three broomsticks to meet Hermione and Inez. You were the first one there but soon they stepped in the door. "Hey, I ordered us a few Butterbeers!"

"What's a Butterbeer?" asked Inez sitting down.

"This, taste it!" you said sliding one towards her.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, Dumbledor wants you two, Harry, Draco, Ron and I to meet him when we get back to the castle." Inez said before taking a sip. "I already told the guys, this is good! What did you call it? Butterbeer?"

In Dumbledor's office. Dumbledor peered over his half moon spectacles at the six of you sitting a crossed from him. "You are probably wondering why you are hear." He said finally and you all nod. "Voldamort is not taking the fact that you, Miss Riddle, are not at his side. I am afraid that Hogwarts is no longer safe for you."

"But sir,"

"But I have done research and have found a power hidden deep within these walls. One that you can wield, if you Acknowledge the blood in your veins."

"What do you mean, sir?"

"You are a Slytherin air, Miss Riddle. If you can Acknowledge your Slytherin blood, your father's blood, you can find and weald this power."

"Were is this power?"

"Deep within the Chamber of Secrets." Harry, Hermione, Ron and Draco stiffened. "You must reopen it and find this power. It alone can help you, and in doing so, it will help Harry in fulfilling his prophecy."

Draco spoke up, "Sir! No one knows were the entrance lays!"

"Harry and I do. We have been inside it, to save Ginny." Ron said.

"It will be dangerous, that is why I want you all to go with her."

"Um, Snape isn't going to like this idea." You say slowly. You hadn't told your friends about the adoption.

"Yes, I am aware that you have sinned that paper. But he has no say in this matter."

You six stand and leave his office. "So, Darcie, why would you care what Snape thought?"

"And why would he care?"

"And what papers?"

"GUYS!! Stop bombarding me with questions! Where is this chamber thing?"

"This way." Ron said grabbing your sleeve and pulling you. He and Harry lead you and the others to a girl's bathroom.

"Um, that's a GIRLS bathroom!" Draco said.

"That's Moaning Murtle's bathroom! I don't want to face her! She is so depressing!!"

"Who is Moaning Murtle?" asked Draco.

"The ghost girl."

"The door is in here, come on!"

"But, what if someone SEES us?"

"Oh, don't worry Draco, no one uses this bathroom because of Murtle." You step in and heard Murtle's sobbing.

"This is a GIRL'S bathroom, you boys nee… HARRY!! So good to see you again!" she said coming down to great him.

"Um, hi Murtle."

You role your eyes, "Ron, where is this so called door?"

"That sink." He said pointing. "Just say open' in parsaltong."

"Open." Nothing happened, then you noticed a small hole that's shape looked like a keyhole. You grab your mother's Pendant out from your robes; at the end of the heart was a small key-like-thing. You pressed it into the hole and said, "Open" it worked, the door' opened.

"You're not going back in there are you?" asked Murtle

"Yup!!" Said Ron jumping in, the rest of you followed.
You slid down what felt like miles of pipes and finally land in a damp chamber. Harry took the lead and walked down a corridor to a room with a snakeskin in it. It looked like there was a cave in. Ron and Harry started laughing.

"What?!"

"This is where Lockhart tried to take Harry's and my memory away, the wand backfired." Ron giggled.

"Come on!" You followed Harry through halls and rooms. You got to one ware giant snake bones lay. Harry shuttered.

"What's wrong Harry?"

"This is ware I fought the Basilisk."

"That's the Basilisk? It's HUGE!!" Ron said in awe.

"Ya, I've never been past this room, this is where I found Ginny."

"Well then, I guess we will be going into the next room together." You step into the next room and follow the hall. You come to five doors.

"What one do we take?" Hermione asked.

You study the doors, they are all identical. But then one catches your eye; it had a small engraving of a snake. "This one. I'll go in alone." You say walking to the fourth door and placing your hand on the handle and turning it.

"Are you sure?"

"No." you take a deep breath and step in.

"I'm coming with you!" Draco said following you. The door closed behind him.

A single door with no handle stud before you. "Open." You said in parciltongue. It opened to a room lit by torches. Four objects sat on a table. "One of these things is what Dumbledor meant for me to get."

"What one?"

"I don't know, but he did say I needed to acknowledge my blood line." You looked closer at the objects. A sword, a book on dragons, a potion, and a ring.

"The potion?"

"I don't know, and we can only take one." You stand for what seemed like hours looking at them. "What did he mean by acknowledging my blood line?"

"I don't know."

"I don't know if this will work but, I'll try it… I am Darcie Anne Riddle, daughter of Carissa Snape and Tom Riddle, who has been calling himself Lord Voldamort. I am a true Slytherin air." Nothing happened. "Well, I guess tha- wait! Do you see that?"

"No."

the sword started glowing. You walk up to it and grab the green handle and pick it up. The dim light caught the silver blade as you swung it. It fit perfectly in your hand.

"GREAT! Now let's go!!"

you placed the sword in it's sheath and tied it to your belt. "Okay."

You and Draco walk back out and Join your friends. "What took you so bloody long?"

"She did." Draco said pointing at you.

"Let's just get out of this place!"

you get to the room with the dead Basilisk and felt the ground shake. The flesh grew back on the bones and it looked at you.

"DON'T LOOK INTO IT'S EYES!" Hermione shouted.

It hisses and got ready for a strike. You grabbed your sword and held it before you. A green light shined from its blade and looked like snakes slithering around you in the air. The Basilisk stopped. "Leave us!" you hiss at it. It turned and slithered away.

"How do we get up?" asked Inez looking up the pipe you had slid down.

"How did you get up in second year?"

"Phox. He flew us up."

"Ron, Harry, Draco. Are your brooms in a open place?"

"Yes." They all said together.

"Good, call them to you, I'll call mine to."

Using acco' you all summon your brooms and after about fifteen minuets they whizzed to you. You mounted your brooms, Hermione got on the back of Ron's and Inez got on with you. Once you got back up in the bathroom you closed the door' and relocked it.

"Harry! You're alive!" Murtle said surprised.

"Sorry to disappoint you again."
"Do you have it?" Dumbledor asked when you stepped into his office.

You held up the sword. "Yes."

"Are you sure that's it?"

"Yes, when we walked by the Basilisk Harry killed, it came to life and she controlled it. There was these green snakes slithering in the air around her!" Inez said.

"It came back to life?"

"Yes. I locked the door to the chamber again so it wont hurt anyone."

"I want you to carry the sword everywhere with you. Hide it under your robes."

"Yes sir."

"Now, it is one in the morning, I suggest you get to bed. Here are passes in case you run into a teacher."

"Thank you sir."

You left to go to your dorms.