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"You did. I won't say I told you so, but you know it's true. Everybody who has two eyes can see. And now turn around."

"Sirius?"

They locked eyes. She was afraid to see denial there, but she couldn't look away, merizmised by grey eyes. She heard Narcissa speak. "I think I'll be gone. I have the feeling I'm not wanted here." The blonde chuckled when neither of them replied, both if them still transfixed to the other's gaze.

Finally, Hermione turned away. Maybe minutes had passed, perhaps it were just seconds. She went to the window, stared out onto the grey streets of London. It was raining again, just like the last days. The rain didn't disturb them here too much. What's good weather in a house which you aren't allowed to leave?

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean for you to hear that. I know…"

She stopped when strong arms spin her around. Those eyes, again, she couldn't bear to look at him, fearing that he'll break it off. She was afraid that this was just closure for him, that he had only gotten rid of the ghost of somebody who'd haunted him for all those years.

"Did you mean it?"

She nodded curtly and tried to turn away.

"Good, because you jut made me very, very happy and because I love you, too."

She couldn't believe it. Why would he be in love with her? He couldn't have really meant it. But when he kissed her she knew that he had meant. They broke apart some time later and he smiled down at her. "By the way- you are beautiful. Don't you forget."

She laughed. "Well, who'd I be to disagree with you?" She became more serious again. "I was so afraid, you didn't love me back and that I wasn't like you expected and remembered to be."

"Well, that's true. You're much better than I remember. Cleverer, more beautiful, more gorgeous and wonderful."

She laughed. "Are you trying to make me blush?"

"No. I'm not trying. If I look at you, it's definitely working."

She smiled. "We owe Narcissa massive. Let's do something nice for her."

"Are you trying to change the subject? I prefer to talk about you blushing. It makes your face go all nice and rosy- that looks good with your hair." He teased. "Well, if you really don't want to discuss this highly interesting theme, then doing something good for Cissy is a great idea. Any suggestions?"

Hermione thought for a moment. "I think I might have something. Let me research a bit then I'll tell you. You are going to have to visit the ministry though."

"Anything for you, Ma'am." He saluted her playfully. "Can I kiss my clever, little witch now?"

She melted into his kiss, all other thoughts leaving her mind.

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Narcissa left the library. She was happy for both of them, but there was also a hint of jealousy in her eyes. She'd never experienced a love like that, and it was something she always wanted, though she never admitted it. Even back then to her closest friends, Lily and Mya, she never said a word about it; though she was sure they'd known. Both of them had known her far too well.

"Mrs Malfoy?" Ginny's voice interrupted her thoughts. "Have you seen Sirius or Hermione?"

"They are in the library."

Ginny threw a long look at the older woman. "If you were a friend of Harry's mother, then you knew her as well. Did she tell you?"

"Yes." She was surprised, not that Mya, no Hermione, had confided, in the girl, but that she had figured that out and been so sure that Hermione would tell her, Narcissa. She could have given a secret away.

"Good. I'll go get them."

Narcissa shifted under the young woman's gaze. She didn't want the girl bursting in their, since she wasn't sure how much Ginny knew. "I'm not sure if you should go there. They are discussing something."

Ginny looked surprised, but the slightly confused expression on her face disappeared. "You mean they're snogging after declaring their undying love?"

The blonde was utterly and completely shocked. How the bloody hell did the girl figure that out? "How did you know?"

Ginny stared at her. "I knew they were together, but did they really declare their love?"

Narcissa nodded and Ginny smiled. "Wonderful! How the hell did they manage that? I mean, it's bloody obvious for everyone else who knows, but they seemed convinced they don't deserve each other."

The other woman laughed. "Well, I kind of got Hermione to admit it when Sirius had entered the room. But she didn't know he was there."

Ginny grinned and, in a dramatic voice, announced. "I'll never say a word against Slytherins again. That was brilliant. Come down now, they want you at the meeting."

They entered the kitchen, where the Order member sat. Dumbeldore smiled. "Why don't you sit, Narcissa? We have decided to grant the Order's protection." She could have kicked him. That man was almost as full of himself as her husband.

The headmaster continued. "The most secure place for you to be at the moment is Hogwarts. Only there can we guarantee your safety."

She knew what this meant- he wanted to watch her.

"We have therefore decided that you will work as a co-professor for Severus. He will have more time to concentrate on his job as a spy."

She scowled. She'd never liked Snape, though Lily had often talked to him for some reason and had tried to make them be at least civil too each other.

Snape scowled back at her. "I didn't volunteer for this and I expect you to do your work properly."

Dumbeldore gave a false smile. "Well, now we've got that cleared we can end this meeting." He swept out of the room without another word, followed by the potions professor. As the other Order members cleared out, Ginny approached Narcissa. "Come along, we've got to get up the library."

She made her way out a moment later, followed by the blonde. When they arrived upstairs, Ginny knocked. "Stop snogging, we're having a meeting."

She entered quickly and threw one look at the couple. "Rule number one for a secret relationship", she commented, pulling out her wand, "no hickeys." She waved it over Hermione's neck, making several marks disappear.

"I take it you two really admitted it, finally, I must add and I'm not allowed to say anything bad about Slytherins anymore." She pulled a grimace, but further discussion of the topic was stopped since Harry, Ron, Neville, Luna, Susan, Draco, Remus and Tonks entered the room. Narcissa was very confused. The Order had just had a meeting, right? What the hell was this now?

Before she could ask Harry had sealed the doors and cast several charms she didn't recognise, all of that without his wand. Narcissa was astounded. She could do a little bit of wandless magic, like summoning her wand, but nothing like this.

Everybody else sat down, so she took a place, as well. Harry smiled at her before he started speaking. "Okay, welcome to the meeting, and all that stuff. Most important, Draco, do you have anything for us?"

The other boy nodded. "Yes, mainly there are two things. The good news is that Blaise managed to be the one to throw me out. The Dark Lord is very pleased with her. (AN: This story is only complaint with canon until OoP and there is no mention of Blaise not being a girl there). The bad news is that he'll attack Hogwarts at the end of the year. There might be an attack on Hogsmeade first, to make everybody think that the battle is over, but he's planning something massive for after the NEWTs."

Hermione unconsciously moved a bit closer to Sirius who sat next to her; he wrapped a comforting arm around her- just a friendly gesture to most others, of course. Ginny stood up and started pacing. Harry joined her, while the others stared at them worriedly.

Narcissa was still in shock. She wasn't sure what to make of this meeting yet. But it was certainly surprising at the least, especially her son's role in it all.

Several minutes after that Harry sat down again, pulling Ginny with him. "We'll get to this later", Harry commented. "First of all, we have some other points of business. We need to introduce Mrs Malfoy and Sirius and there are several other things as well."

He looked at the others. "I'm sure you're quite surprised, Mrs Malfoy, Sirius. Let me start at the beginning. We formed the DA, Dumbeldore's Army, in our fifth year. You know about that, Sirius.

He continued. "Well, after some of the things this Order did, like not telling me that I have to kill Voldermort or die trying, we decided we would take things into our own hands."

Narcissa stared at the boy flabbergasted. "You mean they didn't tell you what's in the prophecy?"

It was his turn to look amazed. "You know about it?"

"Lily told me before they went into hiding. Don't worry, nobody found out anything about its content from me. I trained Occlumency for years."

She felt a probing at her mind as soon as she had finished the sentence. Her "visitor" didn't seem interested in her thoughts; he just seemed to test her walls. When he retreated from her mind, Harry nodded at her. "My compliment, Ma'am, you have an excellent protection.

Well, to continue on, we revived the DA, but we changed it. We're trained now, organized in squads and with leaders. At the moment we have about hundred students, a bit more, trained at Auror level, or so Tonks says, all of them were fourth year and above last year.

Of the younger students about fifty are trained so that they can fire a pretty good Expelliarmus, produce a strong shield and some of them even get mist during a Patronus charm.

"What you guys see here is the inner circle of the DA. All of us have been training a lot and when the time comes everybody except Ron and me will lead a squad. Ron is our general, he'll be giving commands to the squad leader and I'll be fighting Voldermort."

Sirius and Narcissa started at the others in shock. Sirius recovered first. "Are you guys meaning to tell me that in one year you trained an entire army while the old man down there has about thirty people, not even half of them on Auror level?"

Ginny responded. "That's why we did it. When Tom attacks, Dumbeldore will get everybody to Hogwarts and hope for the best."

Narcissa was astounded to hear the Dark Lord called "Tom". It sounded so…personal. She wasn't sure.

The redhead caught the older woman's gaze and gave a sarcastic smile. "If you'd spent a year with him in your head, you'd call him by his first name, too."

Hermione cleared her throat. "We might want to get back to business, they'll get suspicious soon."

Harry nodded. "Yes, well Narcissa, Sirius we want you to join us. Remus and Tonks are already with us and have helped greatly with the training."

Sirius agreed immediately. "I'm in. As long as we do something and not sit around listening to Snape talk about what a wonderful spy he is, I'm completely your man."

Harry then turned to Narcissa. "What about you, Mrs Malfoy?"

"Please Harry, call me Narcissa. Mrs Malfoy makes me feel as if I were my mother-in-law."

Draco started laughing. At the questioning gaze of the others he explained. "Grandma is at least a hundred years old, ugly and an awful bitch."

Narcissa continued. "Why are you asking me, Harry? You seem to be well-organized, you already have several teachers on your side and you don't know if you can trust me."

"My mother trusted you, as did Sirius and Remus. Furthermore, Ginny just informed me that she also believed you were on our side. And Dumbeldore doesn't like you." He laughed. "And that's a big point for you in my opinion."

Narcissa smiled. She was surprised that somebody whose trust had been betrayed so often still put so much faith in those around him. But if she thought about it, it wasn't that unrealistic. The way he and the Weasley girl looked at each other made her quite sure that she wouldn't betray him. And neither would Sirius or Remus. They'd always been loyal friends. And if all of them had decided to trust her, she could see why it was enough for him.

The blonde knew that she owed Harry for everything he'd done for her and her son. "What do you want me to do?"

"Well, it's likely that you have information about the Dark Lord's forces. We know that you probably have things you don't want to talk about and we won't pry, but anything you know will help us greatly.

Second, we'd like you to keep an eye on Snape. You'll be working closely together with him. And while Dumbeldore might trust him, we don't. Furthermore, 'Mione is working on some potions we don't want the headmaster to know about. Your time will be limited, but maybe you could assist her once in a while."

He'd convinced her. Narcissa Malfoy wasn't stupid and while everybody might believe that she just went to Slytherin because she was a good pureblood-girl, the Sorting Hat had told her a different story.

"Another of you Blacks. You're brave, you'd make a fine Gryffindor, oh and loyal to those who earn your respect. Hard-working as well. Maybe I should put you in Hufflepuff. And there's intelligence, Ravenclaw would do you good. But no, that's all wrong. I see it down there, deep inside you know. Sly and cunning, nobody sees it yet, though it will come out. When the time comes, you'll be a SLYTHERIN."

And she'd been a Slytherin all right. After her sisters left, she'd ruled the house. If she stayed out late, because she'd been with Lily and Mya, no one dared to ask a question or report her. The Blacks were on of the oldest, most-respected families and no one would have been stupid enough to do anything against Lucius Malfoy's girlfriend and the little sister of Bellatrix Lestrange. And Narcissa knew that and she used it- like a good Slytherin."

And a Slytherin knew a good plan when she saw one. She wanted to see the Dark Lord fall and Potter's way seemed a lot better than Dumbeldore's. "Okay. I agree to become a member of your army and to the things you asked me for."

He smiled at her. It was a true smile and she knew he wanted to trust her. She held his gaze for a moment. He studied d her eyes intensely and though he didn't use legillemency on her she had the feeling he read more in her eyes than she knew.

Finally he broke away from her gaze and looked into the room. "Next point of order. I want to convert Slytherin house."

Everybody started at him in shock. Draco was the first to speak. "Does Slytherin house know that yet? They believe the Dark Lord if you hadn't noticed.

He was surprised when his mother interrupted him. "Nonsense. Most of Slytherin house has always been neutral and we aren't stupid." She turned to Harry. "I presume you have enough spies to keep the Death Eaters at school under control?"

When he nodded, she continued. "Good. Draco, once you announce that you're on Harry's side, make it clear that you not fighting for Albus, but for Harry and against the Dark Lord. People will start to question you. Give your explanations. How many Death Eaters are there?

Draco answered her immediately: "We have ten who are marked, all in sixth and seventh year, but three of them are spies. About twenty are clear sympathizers with Voldermort, most of the others are neutral, but tend to be prejudiced."

She smiled at her son. "You know your numbers. Well, I think you can get at least half of the neutrals onto your side once Draco openly declares his allegiances."

Ginny laughed and Sirius dryly commented. "Well, Cissy, it seems there are true Slytherins in this family."

"Well, of course. The good genes had to go somewhere", she laughed.

The meeting took some longer and Narcissa was impressed by the efficiency those young people showed. At the end of the meeting Hermione smiled at her: "We might be young, but this is our war, too."

"I understand that now. Now, maybe you should go console my poor cousin who looks awfully angry at me for taking you away from him."

Hermione laughed before making her way over to the man she now was so sure he laughed. And when he smiled at her, she was truly happy for the first time in these last weeks.

AN: So that's it for now. And they confessed their love, finally. I'm sorry if this chapter was a bit longwinded and boring, but I had to give you guys the information. The next chapter will center on Narcissa again, but don't worry; we'll get back to Sirius and Hermione.

Thank you so much to all my reviewers: amrawo, pstibbons, Slytherin-Lycan, ctc, Nymphie07, MrsZacEfron1889, daytimedrama and googlibear. Your reviews help me sooo much.

Now, to everybody please, please review and I wish you all a wonderful Christmas. I'll probably update between the years again.

And a little spoiler line for the next chapter (it might change though, no guarantee):

Miss Black receives custody over all children of this marriage.

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"Cissy…it says children here."