Chapter 10

Back to Snape Manor

Christmas holidays were quickly approaching and everyone was looking forward to the break. Harry was taking the news as a bit of a shock about him and Kali being cousins but he seemed to be dealing with it. He had told Hermione and Ron about it and they were as shocked as he was.

Kali ended up telling Draco about Harry the same day as she told Harry and he didn't seem very shocked. "Did you already know?"

"Well…"

"Draco Malfoy!" she yelled at him in the busy corridor. "How could you not tell me this?"

"I couldn't," he said lowering his voice to a whisper. "The Dark Lord told me not to; he said that either your father or himself were going to be the ones to tell you."

Kali crossed her arms across her chest. How could he not tell her this? She was considering giving him the cold shoulder like she was doing with her father.

He took her hands in his. "Please don't be mad at me." He leaned into her neck and started to kiss it.

Kali started to melt. He knew she couldn't stay mad at him when he did that. "Okay, okay, not in public." Draco pulled away and smiled. "I guess I forgive you, you can't really go against him, of all people."

Draco nodded in agreement.

The night before the train would be leaving Kali stayed up packing her trunk. She had been looking forward to the holidays but she was still upset that she would not get to see Draco.

She was almost done packing when Millicent came in. "Kali, Professor Snape wants you."

Kali let out a heavy sigh. She wasn't really in the mood to be talking to her father after everything that had happened in the last few weeks. She put the last thing in her trunk and set it on the ground and left her dorm to go down to the common room. Her father was waiting by the door to the common room.

"What do you want?" she asked as she reached him at the door.

"Come with me," he said. It was more of an order then a request. She followed him out of the common room and they walked down the corridor a ways when he stopped. "Do you still wish for Draco to stay with us for the holidays?"

Kali was shocked at her father's question. "Umm... yeah."

"Well I'll tell you something right now. You two are not to be left alone in the same room together. Not for a single second. If I catch him with his filthy hands on you I swear I will kill him before the Dark Lord gets a chance to. Got it?"

"Yes, sir," she said happily. She couldn't wait to tell Draco that he wouldn't be stuck at home for the holidays with his father.

She hurried back to the common room and up the stairs to the boys' dormitory. She saw Draco packing his trunk and she snuck up behind him and started to kiss on his neck. He whipped around with a book in his hand. She jumped back a little.

"What the hell do you think your doing?" she yelled at him. "Trying to put me in the infirmary for another week?"

"I'm sorry," he said going over to her and hugging her. "I thought you were Pansy."

Kali pushed him away a little. "Has Pansy come up behind you and started kissing you on your neck lately?" she asked hotly.

"Just once," Draco said like it was nothing.

"That bitch," she said starting toward the common room. "I'll kill her."

Draco pulled her back into his arms. "I don't think so," Draco said turning her around to face him. "I don't want the next time I see you to be behind the bars in Azkaban."

"She has no right to be…"

"I know," Draco said cutting her off. "And trust me; I would never go out with her in a million year. Especially since I have you."

Kali smiled. She couldn't help it. Draco was so sweet. And she still hadn't given him her good news. "I have good news."

"What is it?" he asked as he continued packing.

"My dad gave into you coming to stay with us for the holidays," she said happily.

He turned back around to face her. "Really?" he asked with a big smile on his face.

"Yup," she said. "He just told me. But-"

"But what?"

"We have to be good," she said grinning. He smirked back at her and walked towards her pulling her closing to him and started kissing on her neck again. "And that is not being good," she said giggling.

"I promise to be good," he said after pulling away a little.

Kali explained to him exactly what her father had said. "That's a little weird."

"What is?" she asked in confusion.

"Your dad never gives in like that," he said racking his brain for an answer. "It's just weird."

"Yeah I noticed that too," she said. "It's probably just because I got hurt and he felt guilty for it and he wanted to make it up to me."

"Yeah maybe… or…"

Draco didn't get to finish his sentence because Crabbe came in at that moment. "Malfoy have you seen my… Oh Kali. Sorry," he said before leaving.

Draco laughed a little.

"Well I guess I'm gonna go to bed," she said as she let out a yawn. "I want to get a good night sleep before the train ride tomorrow."

Draco nodded and they kissed for a moment before releasing and Kali returned to her dorm. She plopped down on her bed and pulled herself under the covers and fell into a deep sleep.

Dream Sequence

"Kali, I'm afraid he's just not trustworthy anymore," Voldemort said. "What do you think we should do about it?"

Kali was sitting opposite of Voldemort in Riddle house. He seemed upset about something but she didn't know what. The house had also looked a bit different. A little brighter, and the windows poured in warm sunlight so she figured it was around spring time. She noticed Voldemort looking at her for an answer. "Umm… I don't know. What do you think should be done?" She asked trying to figure out what was going on.

"I don't think your going to like what we have to do," he said sadly.

"What is it?"

"After what you told me you heard your father discussing. It is obvious to me that he has betrayed us both. I feel I have no choice but to ban him. I can't have him spying on us anymore and I certainly can't have him putting you in harm," Voldemort said.

Kali nodded. He knew that her father was a spy. But not her. But he said that I told him. I wouldn't tell him anything, Kali thought. "You're just going to ban him?"

"Yes," he said with authority. "I think that is what I will do."

"So you're not going to kill him, right?" she asked a little upset.

"No, of course not Kali," he said standing up and placing a hand on her shoulder. "He may have betrayed us but he is still your father."

Kali nodded. "Why would he betray us?"

Voldemort sat closer to her ready to tell her.

End Dream Sequence

"Kali get up," Pansy yelled. "Ugh, she is such a slacker. She can't even get up on time."

Kali sat up groggily and looked around. It was just a dream. She looked at her watch and it showed that she had an hour before the train left. She jumped out of bed and grabbed some clean clothes and ran to the shower.

She showered and got dressed, did her hair, and put a light touch of make up on. She hurried to her dorm to get her trunk. "Wingardium Leviosa," she said swishing and flicking her wand. Her trunk floated into the air and she guided it along the corridors until she reached the train.

She walked along the train until she came to the compartment that held Draco, Zabini, and Nott. She didn't like Nott much but she never had a problem with Blaise so she didn't mind the arrangement too much. She was happy as long as she wasn't stuck with Pansy, Crabbe, and Goyle. Kali sat next to Draco and he put his arm around her. The boys began to talk about Quidditch.

She must had fallen asleep because the next thing she remembered was Draco lightly shaking her telling her that they were there and they had to get off the train. Kali sat up groggily and followed Draco off the train. She saw her father waiting for them when they got off the train.

"Are you both ready then?" he asked as they came over. They both nodded and followed Snape outside to the awaiting Limo.

They all climbed in and Kali leaned over to take another nap. The ride home wasn't long but she had felt like she didn't get any sleep from the night before.

"Are you okay?" Draco asked worriedly.

"Yeah I'm fine, why?" she asked sitting up.

"You slept the whole way home and you still look exhausted," Draco stated.

"Did you get any sleep last night?" Snape asked as worried as Draco was.

"Yeah. I just had a weird dream. But I don't know why I'm so tired. I slept through the whole night," she said resting her head on Draco's lap again.

Snape seemed to be thinking about something. "What was the dream about?"

"It was nothing. Just your ordinary dream," Kali said not wanting to talk about it. Especially to her father.

Snape didn't believe her but he decided to let it go and question her about it only if the dream continued. I hope she doesn't start what Potter was doing. Although I don't think that is possible. Potter and the Dark Lord have a connection and he has no connections with Kali at all besides the Dark Mark.

Snape continued to think about it until they reached Snape Manor. It was very big. Almost as big as Malfoy Manor. Kali liked the size perfectly. She didn't like Malfoy Manor since she had gotten lost in it so many times.

They climbed out of the limo and headed toward the house. When they walked in there was a very large foyer with two curved staircases on both side leading to the 2nd floor of the house. As they entered many house elves came bustling in to get their cloaks.

"Kali, Draco will be staying in the East Wing. So why don't you go show him where it is?" Snape said as he started to walk away. "I'm going to owl your Aunt and see where she is?"

"Wait," she said. He stopped. "You're actually going to leave us alone?" she asked sarcastically.

"I'm sure I can leave you alone for 10-15 minutes without ending it in Mr. Malfoy's death, can't I?" Snape said just as sarcastically.

"Yes sir," they both said. Kali said happily while Draco said it in more of a disciplined tone.

Snape left them and Kali started to give him a small tour, since he had never been there, on the way to the East Wing. "The East Wing is pretty empty; I only come over here when I'm going to read since the library is this way. They passed the library and Kali let him get a good look around. Down the hall a little more was his room.

As they walked in Draco noticed it was a bit like his own room. "All the spare rooms pretty much look the same. I told my dad we need a designer to come in here and spice it up a little but he refuses."

The room had a large bed covered with a large green comforter with silver lining. There was a door that led to a bathroom, a small table with two chairs and a chess set lay out. There was a large empty walk in closet and also a large wooden dresser. A desk sat next to it with a small stack of parchment.

"The quills and ink are in the drawers. If you need an owl the owlery is on the left of here. Just keeping walking that way and you'll come to it," Kali said as they left the room to return downstairs.

"Sounds easy enough," Draco said as he looked at the portraits as they walked down the corridor.

Kali noticed this. "All of my grandma's family, the Prince family, it dates back centuries. All purebloods and a lot like your dad's family."

Draco nodded. His dad's side of the family was very strict and proud. The hated anyone who associated with muggles in any way at all and if you belonged to the family and did such a thing they would disown you. Literally, they wouldn't just take you out of the family tree like Narcissa's family. You would be removed permanently.

Kali and Draco found themselves in the dining room. They sat at the table waiting for her father to return. He returned seconds later. "They should be here any…"

With that there was a pop in the foyer and they all went in to see Katherine and Ava standing there with smiles.

"Ava!" Kali squealed. "You have your license. You're so lucky. Dad won't even let me take the practice courses until I'm 17."

Ava laughed. "That's uncle Sevvie for you." Kali hugged her happily.

"Now Katherine I thought you were going to get her out of that habit?" Severus asked Katherine through gritted teeth.

"What habit?"

"Calling me Sevvie," he said quietly so Draco wouldn't here.

Katherine giggled. "I tried Severus but you know how stubborn she is."

"Yes I here she is as bad as Kali," he said. They continued there small talk while Kali introduced Draco to her Aunt and cousin.

"Aunt Katherine, Ava, I want you to meet Draco. He's my boyfriend," she said happily.

Ava nudged her and whispered, "Cutie."

"More like fiancé," Snape said to Katherine.

"He didn't?" Katherine said talking about Voldemort.

"He did," Snape said. He had been so angry about the whole arrangement. He had nothing against Draco. He just thought it was too soon for Kali to be even thinking about marriage. "And she's also his special one."

"Oh I'm so sorry Severus," she said putting a hand on her brother's shoulder. "Do you wish for me to talk to him?"

"No," Snape said. "I don't want him to think I'm against the whole thing. He'll get to suspicious. And with Kali and Draco also spying it's more of a risk then ever to not get caught.

They're conversations continued like this for a while before dinner was served. They continued to talk about how school and work were going since September. After dinner Kali excused herself to go to bed.

"Are you sure you're okay Kali," Draco asked as she excused herself.

"Yes I'm fine, I promise," she said. "I just need to get some sleep."

"What's wrong with her?" Ava asked when Kali had left the room.

"She didn't get a lot of sleep last night for some reason and she's been dosing off all day long," Snape explained to Ava and Katherine.

"Hey Severus did you ever think that maybe…"

AN: there it is… hope you guys like it… it gets a bit confusing from here on so feel free to ask any questions…. Sorry to leave a cliffy… but they're soo much fun.. hehe