The next morning you pulled yourself out of bed and stepped into the steamy shower. You could feel every water droplet as it hit your body as it washed away the filth from the Chambers. You step out and dry yourself with a ruff towel and rap your hair in a fluffy one. You slip into your uniform and tie the sword to your belt. Hermione walked into the bathroom as you started to brush your teeth. She stud before the full-length mirror and started brushing her fizzy brown hair, trying to make it look descent. "Darcie, Last night, what took you so long in that room?"

"There were different things, I had to find which one I needed." You said spitting out the minty past.

"Oh."

You took your hair out of the towel and started to brush it. You styled it into the usual half ponytail and slipped on your robes. Making sure that the mark on your neck was concealed. "Ready for breakfast?"

"Yes." You and Hermione made your way down to the Great Hall. Inez and the guys were already there.

"Look who's up!"

"Ya, the one day we are not the first ones up they rub it in!" you sit next to Inez and across from Harry. Ginny was next to him and Ron next to her. Hermione sat across from Ron.

"Hey, mind if I sit hear today?" Draco came up behind you.

"But you're a Slytherin! You're supposed to sit at your own table!" Ginny sneered at him.

"Ginny, shut up. Those are more like guidelines. Come on, the bench wont bite you." You said pulling him down next to you.

"Ya, but she might." Draco said pointing at Ginny.

"Why the sudden wanting to sit with us?"

"Well, the other Slytherins have finally disowned me. They wont appreciate me sitting with them because I'm a Slytherin traitor' they don't see me as a true Slytherin anymore."

"Oh, poor baby!" you say in a baby voice and messed with his hair.

"Well, look mate, your one of us now." Ron said tossing a small piece of egg at him.

"Yippy." He said tossing one of your French toast sticks at him.

"Hey! Toss your own food!"

"Sorry." He reached over and planted a kiss on your cheek. "Love you."

"Ah! Love! Get it away, get it away!! Help!!" you say in a mock scream. The others laughed.
"So, Malfoy, it's true. You have deserted us for them." Said an appalled voice behind you.

"Shut it Pansy." Draco said in a cold voice.

"I wouldn't be so shocked if it was… but POTTER and his posy? You disgust me! You put the proud name of Slytherin to disgrace!!"

"Draco can be friends with who ever he wishes, and frankly, I have to say he chose well. Shoo-shoo."

Pansy turned on her heel and stalked over to Slytherin table.

"Well, at least she's not hanging off me." Draco said taking one of your apple slices and shoving it into his mouth.

"Ya, but if you don't stop taking my food, you'd be in the hospital wing wishing she was hanging off you." You said sternly as you moved your plate away from him.

"Darcie, could I have a word with you?" Aileen said running up to you and pulling you away before you could respond.

"Don't let him touch my food!" you shout to your friends and pointing at Draco. Aileen pulled you out of the hall and looked at you. "What's wrong?"

"Sarah, she transferred to an American school last night. I'm lonely!"

"Well, you can sit with us at Gryffindor table. Draco is."

"Draco? As in Malfoy? Why?"

"Because he's my boyfriend. And the other Slytherins hate him for befriending us."

"So, he's… kind?"

"Yes, and he, Ron and Harry are such good friends you can't separate them."

"I'll give him a chance then."

"Great, come on!" you pulled her back in and sat her down. "I thought I told you to keep him away from my food!"

"Sorry."

"Oh, Inez, This is my friend Aileen. Aileen, Inez. I grew up with her and she's like a sister."
"… Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkenson, Harry Potter and Aileen Phillips, Darcie Riddle and Hermione Grainger, Ronald Wesley and Nevel Longbottom…" Snape was pairing everyone up in groups of two for that day's potion. You sit next to Hermione and take out the ingredients for the potion. It was a shrinking potion.

"Okay, so he has been slowly been getting back to normal. At least we aren't stuck with Slytherins that we hate like usual."

"Ya, But he did put Draco with Pansy."

"I feel sorry for him. She's such a wench!"

"Miss Grainger, if you had not been chatting with Miss Riddle, you would have realized that the potion is at a boil and the Dragon's blood in your hands should have been added before now." Snape scolded her. "Five points from Gryffindor."

"Yep, he's back." She said trying to fix the potion.

"Stop your chit-chatting! Ten points from Gryffindor!"

You stair at him in astonishment. He was back to being the meanest professor in the school. Hm, back to the mean old Snape, aren't you uncle?' you thought as you helped Hermione.

Snape striated and turned to look at you. "Miss Riddle, I need to have a word with you, now."

"Um, sure sir." You said confused and followed him into his office. He closed the door and turned to you.

"Why did you say that?"

"Say what?"

"You called me uncle' in front of the class, they don't need to know that…"

"I didn't. I thought it, but didn't say it."

"You thought it?"

"Yes." Hm, I wonder…" Can you hear me Darcie?'

Yes.'

"You have a rare gift that your mother had, same as I."

"What?"

"You can talk to people thru thought."

"How?"

"You think directly toward them."

"But what I had said is true. Your back to being a tough teacher."

"Ya, well I got over my excitement and thought I should act the way I used to." He opened the door and you sat next to Hermione who had managed to fix the potion.

"What was that about?"

"Nothing."

I'll tell you later, okay Hermione?' at hearing your voice in her head, she jumped and almost dropped the bottle of rat fur powder. Yes, it's me. Snape herd me thinking about him and he wanted to talk to me about it. Apparently it's a trait that runs on my mother's side of the family.'

"He knew your mother?"

Oh, um I didn't tell you did I? That was Harry that knows. Okay hear goes, Snape is my uncle. My mother was his sister.' She looked at you, her eyes wide. "What?" you ask.

"He's your uncle? But… and I'm your best friend, and you didn't tell me?" she said in a low voice.

"Fascinating though your social life undoubtedly is, Miss Granger, I must ask you not to discuss it in my class. Ten points from Gryffindor."

You ignored Snape and continued. I'm sorry, here, I'll tell you something that no one else knows.' She raised an eyebrow. Okay, remember we are still in class and Snape is back to normal. And this is going to make you want to scream out, can you handle it and be quiet?'

"Of coarse I can." She whispered.

Okay, Snape is my legal guardian, and he adopted me, which is why he was so happy for a wile.'

She gasped loudly.

"Miss Grainger?"

"Sorry professor, I-I burnt my finger on the caldron." She said acting as if she had.

"Be more careful, five points."

After class. You and Hermione were walking down the corridor. "Darcie, how did it happen? When…?"

"The adoption papers were completed and filed the day I awoke in the hospital wing."

"So, you…?"

"I signed the papers. Yes."

"But… WHY?"

you shrug. "It's complicated."

"But he, no he couldn't have… wanted it."

"But he did, he carried the papers around ever since my mother died. Dumbledore was the reason I wasn't adopted earlier. First it was of safety then it's because I was happy."

"Happy about what?" Harry asked catching up to you, Ron, Aileen and Draco weren't far behind.

"You two left in a rush."

"Oh, erm, sorry."

"We were in a girl talk."

"Which means they were talking about us boys." Ron said leaning towards Draco.

"Not in the least!"

"What makes you think we were talking about boys."

"Specially YOU."

"Well, thanks."

"Hate to break it to you, but we don't always think about you guys. This was about MPH!"

You had covered Hermione's mouth before she spilled about the adoption. "We were talking about Homework, right Hermione?"

"Oh, erm yes."

"Somehow we're not convinced."

"Come on, I'm hungry." You said and you and Hermione ran towards the great hall for lunch.

"Wh- Wait for us!!"
The next day. "Did you guys hear? There is going to be another Ball!" Aileen squealed running up to Gryffindor table waving a paper in her hand.

"It's in a week!"

"We know! We already have dates!" Hermione smiled, her cheeks turning pink.

"Who?"

"Well, I'm going with Ron." Hermione boasted. He had asked her, with a little nudge from you.

"I asked Ginny." Said Harry.

"I'm going with Darcie, of coarse."

"Why Draco, you should have said something before! I thought I was going with Ted from Hufflepuff!" you said jokingly and he tossed an olive at you.

"I-I was asked by that Neville kid." Inez said shyly.

The day of the Ball. "Inez, could you hand me my shoes?"

"Ya. Here." She tossed Hermione her shoes and ran to the bathroom to do her hair.

"Um, Nezzy we can do your hair faster since we have to meet the guys in five minutes." Ginny said.

"How?" you took out your wand and muttered a spell making her hair make it's self beautiful. "Thanks."

You finished getting ready; making sure that your sword was concealed in your skirts, and ran down to the common room to meet Harry, Ron, and Neville. Fast forward to the Ball. Draco held you close to him as you danced to the slow beat of the orchestra.

"I love you."

"I know, I love you too."

"I don't want anything to happen to you, you know?"

"I know. But with, you know what and who, that wish will probably never come true."

"Want to go for a walk?"

"Okay."

You hook your arm in his and he leads you out to the garden. Ron, Harry, Hermione and Ginny were there. "Hey, guys!"

"Hey."

"Harry, I'm going to re-powder my nose." Ginny said.

"Er, okay?"

Ginny ran into the castle. "What was that about?"

"I don't know."

"Well, well. Look at this, they are all together, like sitting ducks!" said a cold voice, you turn to see Lucius and a large group of hooded death eaters.

Inez's point of view. I-you had seen I-Your friends go out to the gardens. "Neville, want to go for a walk?"

"Sure." He and I-you walk out to the gardens. After walking for a wile I-you saw I-you're friends surrounded by the hooded death eaters I-you had seen shortly after finding out that Darcie could do magic. There was a loud popping noise and the whole group, including I-your friends was gone. Neville was stiff. "Come on! We have to tell Dumbledore!!" I-you grabbed his arm and ran in the great hall to tell the headmaster. End POV.

"Darcie, it's good to have you back, and you have brought Potter along with you." Voldamort said walking up to you. You were huddled with your friends. "There are two extra?"

"Yes, my Lord, Potter's friend and his Mudblood girlfriend."

"Get my daughter and young Malfoy away from the others. I can see that they need more training."

Two death eaters grabbed you and Draco and pulled you away from Harry, Ron and Hermione.

"Well, I'm not going to waste time with chit-chatting, so I'll just kill you now."

"Nooo!!" there was a loud pop and Snape appeared between Voldamort's raised wand and Harry, Ron and Hermione.

"Severus, You think you can stop me? I have no problem killing a traitor like you."

"SNAPE!!" You elbowed the Death eater that had a hold of you in the gut and ran to Snape, Hugging him; he hugged you back asking if you were okay.

"Get your filthy little hands off my daughter!"

"She's MY niece!! I am her legal guardian!"

Voldamort sneered. "How could you be a legal guardian when I'm still alive? You can't. She's in my care now."

Snape and you exchanged smiles. "Oh, it is quite possible, you see, I have legally adopted her and therefore she is my daughter. When the father is a criminal, then he gets no say in the matter." He pulled out a copy of the adoption papers.

Voldamort's face paled but anger glowed in his eyes. You knew he was about to attack and kill your uncle. You searched for your wand but remembered you left it in your dorm room. You started to panic but then remembered something. You reach into your skirts and pull out the sword you had concealed there. You pull it out and put it at ready. "I'll kill you if you touch him!"

"A sword?" Voldamort laughed "You come at me with a weapon muggles used early last century?" As he spoke the glowing green snakes slithered around you and the blade glowed. "It can't be, were did you get that?! I had searched the secret chamber at Hogwarts and never found it! Give it to me!"

"No." two death eaters started coming at you ready to take it. "Stun!!" you said pointing to the men and a snake slithered at incredible speed and hit him in the chest. He fell to the ground stunned.

"Accio Sword!" it didn't even budge from your grasp. You smirk at this. You see Draco struggling from his father's grasp.

"Petrify!" you said pointing at Lucius. Again a snake shot at him but this time it turned to ropes and bound Lucius. Draco kicked his father in the gut and ran to join your group. "I've had enough of this place, everyone, touch in some way so this will work." Everyone did as you said. "Transport!!" you shouted thinking of Dumbldor's office. The snakes multiplied and formed a bubble around you and when they disappeared you and everyone else were standing in Dumbldor's office.

You put the sword away.

"How did you know to do that?" asked Hermione in awe.

"I don't know."

Snape started walking to the door when Dumbledor stepped in.

"I am glad to see that you all are here safely."

Snape was clenching his teeth together. "I need to speak with you, headmaster." He said sternly. The two professors stepped out of the room.

"Darcie, when Snape Disapparated, you hugged him?" Ron asked.

"And he said he adopted you! I only knew he was your uncle!" Harry added.

"I didn't even know he was your uncle!" Ron put in. "Did you Hermione? Draco?"

"No, I didn't." Draco said looking at you.

"I did. I knew about the adoption too."

"What?! So, you tell her everything and not us?"

"Well, Hermione IS my best friend."

"So, when did it happen?"

"Um the adoption was completed on the day I awoke in the hospital wing, I told Hermione the Day Snape started acting normal again."

"But you HUGGED him!"

"So? I also signed the adoption papers."

"But he's Snape!"

"So? He's better than Voldamort."

"Well, he is the better of two evils, I guess."

"And he HUGGED you!"

"Ron! Stop with the hugging thing!"

"But you two HUGGED!!!"

"And why, Mr. Wesley, can't I hug her?" Snape asked from behind Ron. Ron jumped.

"N-n-nothing p-p-professor, sir!"

"Guys, I know this is a shock, but…"

"Shock? That's putting it lightly! I mean no offence professor, but you are a hart-less git!!"

"Ron!! I'm surprised at you!!" Hermione said horrified that he had said that to his face.

Snape chuckled a bit. "But he's right. I have acted like a hart-less git when being the teacher and you the students." Everyone looked at him wide eyed. "Harry, Voldamort has lost this battle, but we have not won the war. It's up to you to end it. Remember the prophecy. We have reason to believe that Voldamort has given upon Darcie and Draco, but he will not give up on trying to kill you. It's up to you…"

THE END.