Two chapters this week, hope you enjoy!

I own nothing from Harry Potter. All the rights of the character are held my J.K. Rowling.

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream." ― Edgar Allan Poe

"Leave it to you two to pick mates that are thick headed." Snape smacked the back of Draco and Blaise's heads. He was the same as Hermione remembered him from the other night, it all came back to her. The black wolf, dinner, Blaise and Draco biting her.

"You're dead!" Pansy was screaming. Hermione could see Pansy was starting to hyperventilate, she grabbed her as she fainted.

"Good job." Hermione sneered up at Snape.

"I don't remember either of you being invited." Snape glared at her. "Wake the chit up so we can all talk, now!"

"I'm trying, it is a shock to see somebody that you buried up and walking again." Hermione closed her eyes for a moment. Neville had said the mark looked Vampiric. The books on the supernatural and Neville giving her purple Verbena every day for the last few weeks. Neville knew, he knew what was going on. She was going to have a talk with him Monday. "We didn't bury you, you went missing. I know what you are, what you all are." She looked up at Snape and then at Draco; he wouldn't look her in the eyes.

"Ten points for Gryffindor but I would have thought it would have taken you less time so I will take fifty points for being lazy." Snape smirked.

"You can't take points I'm not a student anymore." Hermione wanted to hex his ass into next week.

"Hermione." She heard a small voice under her as she turned to Pansy.

"Hey you ok?" Pansy nodded as Hermione helped her up off the flour.

"When did you two become friends?" Blaise was growling.

"When you both thought it would be fun to drive us insane." Pansy snapped still holding on to Hermione. Blaise growling got louder as Hermione and Pansy moved away from him.

"Let her go!" Blaise's two long pointed teeth were starting to show.

Snape move between them. "Enough, if you can't calm down I will send you out of the room. Do you understand?" Draco grabbed Blaise, Blaise nodded. Snape turned to Hermione and Pansy. "Do you see what you did?"

"What did we do?" Hermione was shocked. "We want answers, we think we are losing our minds."

"Hermione." Draco moved closer as Hermione backed up.

"Don't Hermione me." She snapped.

"ENOUGH!" The whole room jumped at Snape's voice. "Blaise and Draco on one side of the table, Hermione and Pansy have seat on the other side. Keep your wands in your hands in case Blaise or Draco lunge." Both girls nodded their heads as they sat next to each other. "Let's start with why are you both here."

"Hermione and I are friends, we have been since the war ended." Pansy looked over at Hermione and smiled as Hermione rolled her eyes. "Shut it, you like me and you know it." Pansy pushed Hermione's shoulder.

"You have grown on me, that's as far as I'm taking it." Hermione tried to hide her grin. Draco and Blaise's face were twisted in confusion.

"In school you hated each other." Draco was shaking his head.

"The war changes things, in more ways than one." Pansy folded her arms as she glared at Blaise.

"OK fine, you two are now blood sister or some shit. Why are you here?" Blaise snapped.

"She was getting to that before Draco interrupted her." Hermione snapped back. "I invited Pansy over after getting some hair potion. We started talking about how we can't sleep, the strange dreams we were having and these lovely purple marks we seem to have." Hermione pointed to her neck as Pansy nodded her head in agreement. "There was only one place I couldn't remember, only one place that might have answers we needed."

Hermione and Pansy looked at each other and turned as they both said. "Here."

"This is sickening." Blaise shook his head.

Pansy smirked. "Your turn, explain everything now or so help me Blaise Zambini I will kill you."

"I'm already dead, dear."

"I figured that much out with the teeth, I was thinking a stake through your heart or maybe cut both your heads off."

"You wouldn't." Blaise hissed.

Pansy leaned forward. "Try me." She growled some.

Snape put his hand up as Blaise leaned back. "Ms. Parkinson, enough. This is bad as teaching. I will explain everything, if that is expectable to both of you." He sneered as the both nodded their heads. "It happened when as you put it, Ms. Granger, I was dead. I almost bleed to death in that shack, that's when I met him." Snape stopped and clapped his hands as Rolf popped in. "Bring us all something to drink, tea for the ladies." Rolf nodded and popped out and back with three goblets and two tea cups. "Where was I?"

"A him." Hermione took the cup from Rolf.

"Oh yes, it seems the forbidden forest houses a vampire, or did house a vampire. His name was Michael DiVolina"

"What happened to him?"

"He moved on." Snape smiled as he placed the goblet to his mouth. "That's not important right now what is, is that he turned me."

"Why?" Pansy looked over her cup.

"He told me he was lonely and he couldn't watch the death anymore. He said I deserved better. He had only turned a few years before that. When I woke up a few days later I was lying in a cave."

"With purple pillows." Hermione looked at him as he nodded.

"And purple fabric on the walls." Pansy closed her eyes.

"Your 'dreams' as you both put it, correct."

"But how did Draco and Blaise get to be this way. When I saw Draco he was running to the forest but he was alive." Hermione saw the pain on Draco's face. She wanted to hold him but she didn't dare move from that spot.

"After I woke up I found these two unconscious in a different part of the cave. I was so hungry, Michael said he brought them so I could eat. He had found them right after bringing me to the cave." Snape closed his eyes for a moment. "I wasn't thinking when I bit into Draco's neck, I had almost all but drained him and Blaise when my mind cleared and I saw what I did. I broke down at that moment. Draco is my godson and Blaise was as close to me as Draco was. I started begging Michael for death, he looked so upset by that request. He bent down and slashed my wrist and placed it on Draco's mouth. After a few minutes of Draco drinking my blood we did the same to the other wrist and let Blaise drink."

"You turned them both." Pansy gulped some.

"Always so smart Ms. Parkinson." Snape rolled his eyes.

"I understand all of this but why five years?" Hermione brought her cup to her lip so they wouldn't hear the fear in her voice.

"Five years is how long it took for us to learn how to control the need for blood. Michael had us move away so we wouldn't be spotted by anybody we knew in our old life. We moved all over Europe with him as he taught us everything we know now."

"When you say Michael moved on what happened to him?" Pansy's hands were shaking making her cup clank on the saucer.

"Vampires are romantic fools, we have a mate. After we learn to control our need for blood we can than claim our mates. Michael's mate rejected him, she wanted no part of who he was." Snape looked down at his goblet.

"Michael died without his mate." Hermione looked in Draco's eye, they were silver again.

"Who is your mate, Professor Snape?" Pansy smiled at him. Severus started blushing and looked down at his goblet again.

Hermione started laughing, she couldn't stop. "It's not Draco visiting Lucius is it? Oh Severus you don't look like a Hyacinth Azalea." She could see anger in Severus face. "So you change in Lucius' cell to look like Draco so nobody will think it's you and you do to them what they do to me and Pansy. They forget some of what they saw." Hermione tried to calm down her laughing. "I do ask if you may please stop. I am tired of explaining there isn't a wedding."

"A wedding? Why would they think you were getting married to Lucius?" Pansy was confused.

"They think your marrying my father?!" Draco shot out of his chair causing it to fall backwards. "Hermione you are mine not his." He was growling at her.

"Sit down, ferret. They think I'm marrying you."

"Really?" Draco face changed and softened some as he moved around the table.

"Draco!" Snape stood up.

"It's ok I think." Draco knelt down by Hermione's chair. "You let them believe you are going to be my wife to take care of my father?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because I love you." Hermione bent down to give Draco a kiss. Their moment was broken by Pansy screaming and a sound a chair being moved. She opened her eyes to see Snape holding Draco by the back of his shirt off the floor. "Let him go!" Draco's teeth were exposed, his eyes were black as coals and his nails were longer.

"Ms. Granger, why it isn't safe you both you and Ms. Pansy to be here is because we haven't hunted in a few days. We were going out when you two thought of popping in for a visit. So unless you want to be turned tonight I suggest staying away from them." He let Draco down once Draco had composed himself.

"Go hunting, Hermione and I will be here when you get back." Pansy stood up and grabbed Hermione's hand.

"Really?" Blaise stood up. "This isn't freaking you out?"

"Yes it is but I would like to talk to you without being worried you are going to rip my neck off."

"See, I told you she would be ok." Blaise looked over at Draco.

"I'm not ok but I will live right now." Pansy tightened her grip on Hermione's hand. "When do you get back from hunting?"

"Around dawn." Draco smiled at her, his teeth showing.

"We will come back tomorrow night." Hermione's voice wavered.

"Why?" Snape looked confused.

"Sunlight?" Pansy almost whispered.

"The house stays dark for us, it will be fine." Draco winked at Hermione as she blushed some.

"Go, make it quick. Hermione and I don't have all night." Pansy shooed them out the door.

Once they left Pansy closed the door and looked at her. "Hermione, what the hell just happened?"

"I think we mated with vampires."

"That's what I thought, how do we feel about this?"

"We?" Hermione glared at her. "I have no idea how I feel about it."

"Me too." Pansy leaned on the closed door. "We forgot to ask if they were going to turn us to be their mates. Would we have to live together? I doubt we could keep having our lives. Do we change how we look? I mean I have to change my colors if I'm going to be that pale."

"Pansy, really?"

"Yes. I would have to change my whole wardrobe."

"What about the having to drink blood to survive?"

"I hadn't thought about that." Hermione sighed as she felt the girl was starting to get it. "I would need to make a potion that would keep the blood from staining my clothes."

"I give up Pansy." Hermione started laughing, the whole thing hit her. The worst part was listening to Pansy Parkinson going on about a potion to keep their clothes from staining from the blood they would have to drink. "Let's go to the library and wait for them to come back."

"Oh I always loved the library here." Pansy opened the door as they headed up the stairs.

"You can read?" Hermione stopped and looked at Pansy.

"Yes, I can read. I just didn't spend my life in the library at school like some of us." Pansy smirked as the headed for the library.