Authors Note: Okay so i posted this unedited because i haven't posted in 3 months (i'm so sorry) so just deal with the bad grammar and such for now , my beta is almost finished with the chapter and it should be posted by the end of the week.

Narcissa POV

I pick the letter out of the owls mouth and see the Death Eater seal. I haven't gotten one of these in the Death Eaters had gone into hiding after the fall of the Dark Lord. Thats also when i knew i wasn't going to like what was inside.

Lucius was still out so i would have to face whatever was inside alone. Although i suspect what ever was in this envelop he already knew and thats why he didn't come home last night.

As my shaky hand removes the wax seal i think of Lira and Draco, how whatever is in here could change there lives forever. Of course Lira's life was already complicated enough. I slip the piece of parchment out of the envelop and slowly open it.

It's made up of one line of pitch black ink. That read:

The Dark Lord has risen.

I read it over 20 times to make sure that my eyes weren't playing tricks on me. I mentally punch myself in the gut. I knew what it was going to say , i just wanted to make sure. Make sure that all my nightmares were actually coming true.

I crumple up the paper into a ball and throw it at the wall. I had to warn the children. I had to save them somehow. Lira had three years of life in this house , Death Eaters coming and going as they pleased. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named using our Mansion as his lair of sorts. I had to lock her in her room on the top floor to keep her hidden. He knew about her then , although her being my daughter and not lucius put her in danger and kept her safe at the same time.

We no longer had to worry about him using her for one of his games , just like he was destined to do to Draco one day. Now we had to worry about the worser one that ended with a flash of green light. The Dark Lord does not do kindly with anyone who is not a pure-blood.

So i stalked into the living room and got out my own piece of parchment. I wrote what i could, told her what i could. The only way to keep her safe is keep her as far away from this house as possible. So I gave her the real reason why she couldn't come home , but i was smart. I didn't give her the whole story , there was no way i could tell her it threw a letter.

I seal it with the Malfoy seal and clutch it too my chest. I hadn't seen my daughter in almost a year and now . . . I had to stay strong for her and for Draco. He would be upset and confused when he found out about everything. But for now our secrets had to stay secrets.

For as long as i could keep them.

Lira's POV

Dear Lira,

I'm writing to you today because you cant come might have heard the news the Dark Lord has risen. If you haven't , well now you know. I know this is sudden and confusing but you can't come back to Malfoy Manor this summer. All these years we've been keeping you from him , even when he was supposed to be dead we tried to keep you from him. But now I fear that , if he find you living in our house ,a "half-blood" he may not let you live. It pains me to not see you after not seeing you for so long. I care more about your safety than anything. And don't think i don't know what your thinking. Draco cant go with you , he is our full son so he has to be present in the house when he finally arrives. Theres too much to tell you and so little time , one day ill explain everything. For now ,I need you to trust me and stay away. Get as far away as you possible can. And don't tell draco where your going. I love you my daughter. We will meet again soon.

Narssisa Malfoy

I stand still beside my bed the morning after the 3rd task. I had been up all night tossing and turning, crying every once in while. And i though it couldn't get any worse. Thanks Mom for once again proving me wrong , like always.

So this means what Harry said was true. The dark lord was back. And he was out for blood , apparently mine included.

I crumple up the piece of parchment and throw it at the wall. I sit down on the side of the bed and stare at it for a moment. I was holding back more tears , i had cried so much i though i couldn't possible cry anymore. But my eyes betrayed me and the tears started to fall.

Why was everything in my life suddenly falling apart. What in Merlins name had I done to deserve any of this. I think i hear someone coming up the stairs so i quickly sit up and wipe my eyes.

When the door opens it was the last person i was expecting to was standing in the door way and painting as if he has run around the black lake 20 times. He looks up at me and despite everything that had happened he as smiling.

"Those stupid charms to keep the boy's out are only supposed to work if your dating someone that lives in that quarters! Dammit." He exclaims as he pulls something strange out of his white blonde hair.

I walk over to were i threw the letter and picked it up throwing it into the fire. Draco could never see what that read.

"Maybe its cause it knows that you've probably kissed every girl in the sadly that includes me." I tell him, trying to act like i hadn't just been crying.

Still smiling he walks over to my bed and sits down on it.

"Well lets try to forget about that , because i have good news." He states.

I pipe up at this. I could really use some good news right now.

"Okay, I'm listening." i say as i pull out my trunk from under the bed.

No time like the present to pack , who knows where i would be going.

"Well , i took pansy to the hospital wing and while iris wasn't looking i erased the memory of her finding out about us so , yeah. Thats one problem we wont have to worry about her telling the whole school." He says.

I try to smile , it was good news. But it still didn't help the fact that my two best friends found knows if they were still even my best friends. I try to push the memory of what happened last night away to keep myself from crying. I couldn't get there crushed expressions out of my head. Maybe i could get Draco to erase that too. He may just be in 4th year but he could do some pretty advanced spells.

I run my hands threw my hair and lift up draco's feet that were at the end of the bed and sit down, then setting them back down on my lap.

"So . . ." i say with a sigh.

"So . . ." Draco says back.

I had to tell him about the letter , there was a good chance that he got one similar.

"I got a letter from mother. . " he states.

I nod saying i got one too. He sits up propping himself up on his elbows. He looks at me for a moment.

"So where are you gonna go?" he asks me.

I could hear his voice crack at the question. I finally turn to look him in the eyes and i could finally see the fear in his eyes that he had been hiding so well. Mother must have told him enough for him to understand that i was in danger. I didn't know what to say. I had no idea. Not the faintest clue.

"Even if i knew , i couldn't tell you." i finally say.

He doesn't argue cause he knows, that would just put him in more danger. He swings his legs off my lap and stands up. A force of habit just like me , running his hand threw his hair.

"I better go start packing , make sure you come say goodbye before the ?" he asks me.

I nod smiling at him. With that he walks out the door , it closes behind him. I could faintly hear his yell and then exclaim.

"Oh come on , I'm do i have to get hexed for that."

Despite my mood , i laugh. Then i think about how much I'm really gonna miss him. Oh Draco , how ill miss that smirk of yours. Once i had calmed down enough I begin to finish packing. As I'm folding and stuffing things into my trunk a piece of parchment comes falling out of one of my robe pockets. It was wrinkly and worn from going threw the wash too many time's but you could still faintly make out what it said. I lean down and pick it up off the stone floor. It was a small white card, it had three W's on it in orange lettering.

I smile at the memory of the day this was giving to me. So many months ago. Things were simpler then. Looking at the business card an idea came to mind. It was a stupid idea , but also a . . . no it was a very stupid idea. At least this way i would find out if they really did hate my guts. I place the card on top of my cloths in my trunk and shut it tight. I had to go searching for some red-headed twins.

I had been searching for over an hour and there was no sign of the twins anywhere. I had searched almost every floor and ever hallway i could think of, plus all of the places that they normally hide out in when they skip class. I don't know if i was just looking in all the wrong places or they were avoiding me like the black plague. I was guessing the latter.

I suppose after everything that happened yesterday i wouldn't really want to run into me in the hall either. It would just have been extremely awkward. Of course just as i say that i could have sworn i heard Fred laugh down the hall.

I begin to walk toward the sound against my better judgement. I got closer to the corner and turn around it but the hall beyond was empty. I tuck my hair behind my ear and stand there for a moment confused. I could have sworn that i heard Fred. Maybe i was just imagining things.

I turn back around the corner and bump into someones chest. I look up and i think maybe i wasn't going insane after all. Fred was looking down at me with a look of shock. He had his hands on my arms to keep from falling and i was holding onto his shirt because i had almost fallen backwards. I look up at him and he looked flustered by bumping into me. My cheeks turn a bright red embarrassed and i let go of his arms quickly and take a few steps away from him.

"Oh, Its you. ." he states. My stomach drops at his statement. What i was about to ask just got even harder than it already i should tell him the whole truth before i go asking him for such a huge favour.

I open my mouth as if to say something but i just close it again looking up at him. He just looks back at me shifting his posture awkwardly. He was never normally this nervous around anyone. I must have really upset him, with everything that happened i worried maybe we would never even become friends again let alone as close as we were before.

I take a step forward again trying to build up my courage to tell him what I needed to.

"I got a letter from my mother today. . ." i say.

It wasn't what i had planned out in my head but considering it felt like there were Pixies in my stomach it was a good start. Fred give me a raised eyebrow giving off that that wasn't what he was expecting me to say either.

"I think i should explain myself . . . about everything." I continue.

Fred then shifts again and goes to walk around me. I grab his hand just as he's about to walk down the hall away from me.

"Im pretty sure your gonna want to know what it said. ." i blurt out hoping it would make him listen. Even for five minutes. I had to explain myself to some extent.

He doesn't try to pull his hand out of mine but just looks back at doesn't say anything just looks at me with those mesmerizing brown eyes.

"The Dark Lord really is back and he's out to kill me."

With those words Fred eyes bulge out and he turns back to facing me. I let go of his hand and look at the floor. When i look back up at him, his eyebrows are furrowed and he's staring intently at me.

"Okay , I'm listening." He tells me.

With that i began to explain to him from the beginning. How I was Narssisa daughter but not Lucius's. How Lucius had blood-adopted me when i was 11 so that if something like what happened last night happened he could make people believe that I was his that was only a last resort. Plus he only did it because of Draco and i had been keeping this secret our whole lives , that all that we had ever been told was that if it ever got out bad things would follow. Lastly I told him about the letter. How my mother told me i had to run and hide. That if the Dark Lord found me living in Malfoy Manor he would most likely kill me because of my blood status. What i didn't tell him was that she didn't know that Pansy had found out. I did tell him that Draco had erased Pansy's memory , so him and George where the only ones who knew. And Blaise but he didn't seem like a threat at the moment.

Once i was done my story it was late into the afternoon and we had made our way to the Astronomy were sitting on the edge, our feet dangling over. I look over at him once I'm done and he just looks off into the distance. Probably thinking about all the information i just threw at him.I clutch the railing and lift myself up from the edge. Whipping off my kilt and standing up to stretch ,Fred comes out of his daze and stands up as well. I lean on the railing now trying not to look him in the eyes.

"Look , i don't want you to think I'm trying to get your pity. I just wanted you to know the whole story. Why I did what i did , why i didn't tell you.I couldn't stand you hating me for the wrong reasons." I tell him.

He then leans on the railing beside me but not as close as he used to.

"I . . . I want to thank you for telling me.I know it must not have been easy telling me all of that after keeping it in for so long." He says.

I glance over at him and he's looking at me. I blush slightly.

"Well I'm glad you heard me out. I know you may never forgive me. But i feel better knowing that you know everything."

I push off the railing and go to walk away when now he grabs my robe.I don't dare look back at him.

"Where will you go?" He asks.

I just look at me feet.

"No idea , i'll figure something out."

He then lets go of my robe and i look over at him. He looks like he thinking hard about something , trying to analyze a long red hair blowing slightly from the wind and his brown eyes bright with thought. Finally he speaks up.

"Well I'll have to owl mother but I'm sure once she hears the whole story she wouldn't a little convincing that is."

I blink a few times trying to process what he just said. Did he just basically say i could stay with them , at the burrow? My eyes light up slightly.

"Wait, are you saying what I think your saying."

Looks like i wouldn't have to ask after all.

"Yes, I mean i haven't totally forgiven you yet. But what kind of friend would i be if I let you be homeless."He says with a smirk.

It felt like i hadn't seen him smile in ages. I internally smile. Maybe this meant that i hadn't totally lost him , of course i have no idea what George is going to say about this.

"What about George?" I ask. He just shrugs.

"I'll tell him everything that you told me. After that . . . I don't know.I cant make him forgive you."

He smiles at me to make me feel a little better about the situation. I smile at him trying not to cry. I wanted to hug him , but i couldn't do that. Not yet anyway.

"Thank you Fred, for everything." He just nods and I turn to leave the tower. Just before i walk threw the door i turn back to him.

"One more thing. . ."

"Yes?"

"No one can know that I'm staying with you.I could put anyone who doesn't live in that house in danger."

He just nods and i turn my back to him and walk threw the door. Well that went different than i imagined. At least now i had a chance to get back my best the though made me feel a little better about the whole situation. I look at the clock hanging on the wall and realize that its only an hour from when the train leaves. I've got to find Draco and say goodbye.

I make my way down the many the flights of stairs leading to the Slytherin dorms.

You'd think that last 6 years running up and down these stairs would get me into shape but no. I reach the bottom and a shiver runs up my spine. It was deserted down here. There wasn't a student or prefect in site. Hopefully Draco had waited for me down here so i could say goodbye.

I walk further in to the dungeon and i think i can hear someone laughing and whispering. Once again being the curious person i am , i stick my nose where it doesn't belong.I follow the sound to a far corridor that no one every goes too and i begin to realize where its leading me. This was the same way that Draco had led me when we were tricking Blaise and he kissed me. Not that I really wanted to remember that day right now.

I pass the entrance to the dorm and keep walking. I reach the turn in the hall and just as I'm about to turn around it i hear my bothers voice. I stop dead and that when i realize that i really shouldn't have followed the sound. I was too close now if i walked away to fast they would hear me.

You think you've been in awkward situation before , well i think i just beat everyone in existence. Ok maybe not everyone but pretty close. I was about to walk in on my brother doing who knows what. Just turn around and walk away, just forget about it and move on. But i couldn't , this could be the mystery girl that he was keep from Blaise. I needed to know who it was.

So against every cell in my body that was telling me to walk away i look around the corner. My brother was standing facing the wall with a girl. She had her back up against the wall and i couldn't see her face but i could most defiantly tell that Draco was kissing her.

I bring my hand up to my mouth in surprise. What for? Im not sure because i knew what i was going to find.

He pulls away from her and her features begin to come into view, her long brown hair and fair skin. Her gold necklace shinning in the light. My eyes go wide as Draco shadow moves away from her face and i see none other than Hermione Granger.

My best friend was snogging my brother!?

I take a step back in shock. So all this time it had been her , Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy. No one ever saw that coming.

I look to the ground and see that their ties were laying there forgotten on the stone floor. He leans in and kisses her forehead and whispers something in her ear and she laughs. I think i wanted to die from the cuteness and also hurl.

My brother was dating Hermione , the girl he had hated since first year. Well now i had to figure out what i was gonna do with this information. I think ill keep to myself for now. Ill let them tell everyone on there own which should be very entertaining.

I take few steps back slowly so they don't here me and go back up the surface. I was smiling the whole way. Not only did i have something to hold over Draco head but i was also extremely happy. He had finally gotten over that stupid blood status rubbish that his father had taught him. I wonder if he was every planning on telling me himself. I guess ill just have to pretend i don't know. For now anyway.

I make my way to the great hall and grab my things that I had left with Ginny to watch while i went to find Draco. Fred had already told her what had happened and that I would be staying with them this summer. She didn't take the news that i was Draco's half sister very hard. Ginny was the type of person that if she liked you , she liked you and who your parents were or your blood-status didn't matter to her. Thats one of the many reasons why i liked her.

I sit down at the table with her and she looks up from the potions book she was reading.

"Hey, did you find Draco?" she asks. I just smirk and smile at her. She looks at me strangely for a moment.

"Lira , your scaring me."

"Oh i found him , but ill have to say goodbye to him later." She closes her book at this comment and leans across the table.

"Okay, did something happen cause now I'm interested?" she asks.

I smirk again and lean across the table. I couldn't out right tell her about Draco and hermione but i could help her figure it out for herself. Of course we were both Hermione's best friends. We had to have some kinda dirt on her.

"Lets just say he was a little busy when i found him." I whisper to her. She then laughs quietly and lean back.

"So you found out. . . " she says. I turn my head around to look at her and she smiling now too.

"Oh come one Lira. I figured it out weeks ago. She had been spending a bunch of time with him since the beginning of the year. It was bound to happen." My jaw drops. She figured it out before me.

"No way , you she tell you?"

"No , i caught them in the broom closet during exams."

"Wait so they know you know."

"Of course not , i saw them coming out of the broom closet together. I wasn't hard to put two and two together."

After that we then start gossiping about our best friend and my brother. We stay like that for a while until we had to make our way to the train station. When we get there its full of students hugging and exchanging gifts and heartfelt goodbyes. I would be doing the same with my friends right now if i weren't living with them this summer. The only person i had to worry about saying goodbye to was my brother.

I follow ginny onto the train and we get a compartment with harry, hermione and ron. We had just settled in when fred and geroge come walking by, Fred stops and goes to open the door when geroge just walks right by not even making eye contact with any of us. I sigh and look at fred. He looks to his side watching geroge walk down the corridor. My stomach drops. I guess fred telling him the whole story hadn't really gives me a sympathetic look and shrugs following his twin.

I look over at harry, hermione and ron sitting across from me. They all look extremely confused. I just remember that i hadn't told them yet. I look towards ginny and she raises her eyebrows at me. Giving me a look saying "Your gonna have to tell them sooner or later." My stomach drops even more at the thought.

I mean geroge's reaction was bad enough what was i gonna do if they hated me too. I doubted Hermione would considering she was just recently snogging my brother. Harry i wasn't too sure what his reaction would be. Ron , god knows what stupid thing would come out of his mouth. So evidently i guess there was no time like the present.

"So , umm i should probably tell you why George is giving me the cold shoulder." I state.

Harry kinda looks between both his friends and then looks back at me.

"That would be helpful." He says back.

Ginny just leans back in her seat and smirks. She was enjoying this way too much.

"Well , you see there something that i haven't really told you all. And it seems that George isn't going to be forgiving me about it anytime soon." I say.

I take a deep breath trying to calm my nerves.

"So I'm just gonna come right out and say this cause there no way to avoid it. Draco Malfoy is my . . ." i began when suddenly Draco flings open the sliding door and steps inside taking a seat beside me.

"Hey , sis. So how'd they all take it." I sigh and place my head in my hands. What an idiot.

I look back up and my friends sitting across from me and they all have different expressions on their faces. Hermione's was more of a " I've been snogging my best friends brother and he didn't even tell me" look. Harry's was more of a shocked expression with a hint of realization. And ron face was just blank.

Finally with a deep breath i finish my sentence.

". . . half-brother."

Ginny just continues smiling beside me loving the situation that was unfolding around her. Harry then speaks.

"Oh , well that explains a lot."

I go to respond when i realize that Draco is still sitting beside me. I glare at him and he smiles nervously.

"Okay , well ill be going now." He stands up quickly and i notice that he gives hermione a glance and then leaves the compartment.

"So yeah , George found out in a not so truthful way and now he's not speaking to me.I understand if you are upset and you also want to give me the cold shoulder." I say jokingly but also being kind of serious. Harry and Hermione just smile. Ron then all of a sudden seems uninterested.

"Well you do kinda look like him , i mean I've only met the man i few times and I kinda hate his guts but it makes sense."

"Wait him? You mean Lucius? I'm not his daughter I'm Narssissa's."

Harry looks confused for a second and then says.

"Oh well never mind then." I just give him a strange look and then turn to Hermione and Ron.

"So you guys don't hate me?"

"Of course not Lira. Your our friend and nothing can change that." Ron nods agreeing.

"Oh and one other thing to tell you mostly Ron , but i guess you all ought to know. I'm going to be living with the Weasley's for the summer."

Finally Ron pipes up. "And why is that?"

I look over at ginny and she smirks again. I then turn back and look at them all once more.

"Now that gonna take a little more explaining." I say. With that i began to tell them the whole story.

Once I was done explaining everything to them and they had asked me all the questions they wanted i bid them goodbye saying that i had to say goodbye to Draco. When i told them all about why the secret had to be kept and why i wasn't going back to malfoy manor this summer they all seemed to really understand my situation. They even told me that given the facts of the situation George was being a total ass. Ron words not mine.

Anyway i was making my way threw the train to find Draco when suddenly a compartment was opened behind me and a hand reached out and pulled me in. I flopped onto the bench and looked across at my brother.

"What was that for?" I ask.

"I wanted to say goodbye. And i cant very well do that if everyone is watching."He tells me.

My face softens a bit and i go to say something when he's got his arms wrapped around me and his head on my shoulder.

"Are you sure your cant come home? Not even for a day. Mother would love to see you I'm sure." He says.

I bring my hand up and bring him into a hug as well.

"You know i cant." I can feel him nod into my shoulder. This was the side of Draco that no one every really saw. He never really let it out. He always made it seem like he was some heartless pure that was far from the case.

"It feels like Christmas all over again but worse." He says quietly.

I frown. I was surly going to miss him the most. I mean i miss mother everyday but i knew that she could handle herself. Draco may act all strong and tough but we needed each other. We were never apart, yet now because of who i was i had to leave him behind for his own safely and mine.

"You can write to me once its safe. I just cant write back until mother says it safe for me only for 2 months and then well be back at school and everything will be normal again."I say , trying to make him feel better.

I was lying to myself if i thought everything was going to be the same. I knew it wasn't , not in a long shot.

"Stop lying Lira, i know your good at it but you cant lie to me." I sigh and move away slightly so i could look him in the eyes.

"It may not be the same , but everything is going to be not right now, but it will be."

He just nods and then hugs me again. Before i could say anything else he moves away and sits down on the bench across from me again and i sit down as well. He looks at me smiling with one side of his mouth and his hair falling in his eyes. I reach over and run my fingers threw it and sigh.

"I never did end up giving you that hair cut." i say.

He just laughs and stand up opening up the door.

"You tell anyone about this and ill end you." He says as he pulls his tie out slightly. I look down and i see that he is wearing a red and gold tie. Merlins Beard he must have accidentally switched ties with hermione when . . . Oh dear. Should i tell him?

"Are you getting changed soon?"

"Yeah , i was going to right now before i went back to my compartment."

"Alright well, ill see you at kings cross then?" He smiles and nods and then he's gone down the hall way.

I smirk to myself. Well little brother thats what you get for not telling your sister that you've been snogging her best friend. He'll be getting a surprise when he gets home and mother finds that in his luggage. He was always awful at hiding things. Im such and awful sister aren't i? With that note I get up and walk back to my compartment. I wonder if anyone had noticed the change of house Hermione had made as well?

Authors Note: So i know it had been literally forever (3 months) and i am so sorry but im back now i hope you all will blast me with reviews and theorys and all that. So happy to be back. Once again once my Beta send me the editted version i will fix it but for now just deal with my awful grammer and spelling. Okay, see you guys in another 3 months jk jk