AN: CHAPTER 10! I can't believe I already wrote that much! Fun fact, on Thursday my story got 1k hits so that was super exciting (even though I only got like 5 reviews GRRR! ) so that was exciting! Anyways soon we're going to start getting more action and stuff but this chapter is a little more fluffy that the last (haha no kidding the last one was pretty horrible with all the torturing and stuff. I want to give a massive shout out to my favorite anonymous reviewer 't' that always has the nicest/most helpful reviews which really keep the story going so thanks!

"Ron I can't do this anymore!" Astoria whined "Your friends HATE me!"

Ron hugged the distressed girl tightly to his chest as he smoothed her hair.

"They just don't know you..."

She looked up at him quirking a brow.

"I think they hate me..."

"They don't sweetheart I swear, you'll grow on them just give it time."

The girl looked at him with an incredulous expression on her face, letting out a sarcastic laugh she said:

"And why would they I'm just some death eater's spawn to them!"

Ron looked shocked at Astoria's depreciative words

"No you aren't! You're my girlfriend!" He said.

Astoria's head shot up, her eyes wide and mouth open in shock.

"What?"

When Ron realized what he just said, his first impulse was to apologize profusely for assuming that she was his girlfriend but he quickly decided against it. Pulling the flabbergasted girl to him he whispered.

"Yeah...My girlfriend"

He couldn't believe his own words but they felt right, they felt like it was meant to be.

"Kat that's not how you hold a Quaffle!"

Blaise said exasperatedly. It had been about a week since the occupation of Hogwarts and school had not resumed yet. Since all of their parents were 'busy' all of the Slytherins had decided to stay at Malfoy Manor where Narcissa welcomed them with open arms, happy to have girls to talk with. Over the last few days, Draco and Blaise had started trying to teach Kat Quidditch because Blaise kept on arguing that she had a 'good build to be a Chaser." Unfortunately for the Slytherin team, Kat was not making much progress and she didn't expect to be part of the team any time soon to the great despair of Draco who needed to replace one of his chasers and would be oh so happy to share a locker room with Kat.

"Hold your own damn Quaffle!" Kat huffed in exasperation throwing the red leather ball at her friend's face. Daphne and Pansy erupted in a fit of giggles when the ball collided with the dark skinned boy's nose.

"Hey that was a much better throw!" Draco said from behind her "Next time aim at the hoop and imagine it's Zabini's face!"

Kat glared at him for a second trying her best to scowl at him and repress her smile but failing miserably. Draco smirked at her:

"I know I'm just so hilarious"

She rolled her eyes at him and was pleased to notice that every single girl in the audience was doing exactly the same thing.

"You have a very weird definition of hilarious Drakey-Poo!" Pansy said while snatching the quaffle from his hands.

"Yeepee! Let's play Girls against boys!" Daphne said throwing her hands up in the hair with glee and making Kat cringe at the idea of letting go of her own broom that way.

"Hey not fair!" Crabbe said "There's no way we'll win!Ceph won't touch Tracye or Kat and will punch anyone who does and same goes for Draco with Kat and Theo with Daphne...How are we expected to win?"

The guys seemed to contemplate the idea for a second until Theo said

"You can hurt Daphne as much as you want" with a wink to his girlfriend he turned his broom towards the hoops and started flying around them. Draco nodded his agreement and said "As long as you don't ruin her pretty face!" which earned him a kick from Ceph and middle finger from Kat.

"Classy Dolohov, classy..." he said "I didn't know your goody two shoes self would know about such a rude gesture..."

Kat decided not to start arguing with him, it was a lost cause instead she said.

"Well I guess I'll be a chaser!"

The game was a harsh one, the boys didn't take it slow at all and none of them went easy on the girls. At some point the game degenerated when Greg and Millie started arguing because he flung a bludger her way and " Almost hurt her!" but the problem was easily fixed when frail little Tracey took the beater's club from a flabbergasted Crabbe and swung a bludger in the direction of the bickering couple successfully ending the fight. Kat used the ongoing confusion and laughter to score for the first time ever. In the mean time, Draco had caught the snitch that Daphne was supposed to be looking for but she was too busy blowing kisses at her boyfriend in order to distract him to notice...

The Order of the Phoenix was sitting in the kitchen table at Grimmauld Place, debating loudly on the best course of action.

"Harry you have to hide! You cannot go out there anymore!" Molly pleaded as Harry let everyone know that he was planning on destroying the horcruxes.

"Molly there is no other way!" Harry said "I have to do it! Dumbledore wanted me to!"

"Dumbledore made mistakes Harry, trusting Snape for one!" Lupin said.

The room fell silent as everybody remembered Snape betrayal when he had started cursing some of his students and blasted the door of Hogwarts open letting the Death Eaters in.

"By the way what is she doing here?" Molly asked eyeing the girl sitting next to her son warily.

No one had mentioned Astoria yet and the young girl cringed as she noticed the hostile look that half of the people around the room were shooting her way.

"She is my girlfriend and is totally trustworthy!" Ron said putting a protective arm around Astoria's waist. She smiled up at him, she still couldn't believe it everytime he said these words. But her happy expression quickly faded when she remembered why she was here in the first place.

"I have nowhere else to go..." she whispered, tears welling up in her eyes realizing it might be years before she would get to see Daphne again.

Understandment seemed to wash over Molly's feature as she got closer to the girl and hugged her.

"Sweetheart don't think about it! Here at the order we believe in second chances, you'll be alright!"

Astoria smiled weakly and returned the hug.

"Anyways Harry you aren't going." Molly said firmly.

Once again Ron interrupted

"Mom he is and I'm going with him!"

"Me too!" Ginny said not wanting to be left out.

Molly was about to open her mouth when Arthur motioned her to sit down.

"Molly this is not your decision, if Ginny and Ron wish to follow Harry you should be proud of them for acting like real Gryffindors!"

Whispers of agreement circulated around the room broken by Astoria's voice.

"I'm going too then!"

No one reacted to the news but a few nodded their approval at the slytherin's courage before resuming their conversation on other strategic actions to be taken.

Ron turned towards her with wide eyes.

"You are?!"

"Yes where you go I'll go, I don't have any reason to stay around here with strangers..."

"But its dangerous!" He whispered to her so as not to interrupt the ongoing conversation.

"Well why should I be afraid I have three brave Gryffindor with me..." she said with a smirk "Beside you might do with a little more brains since granger is not here!"

"What are you talking about Greengrass?" He said in mock anger "I am very proficient in ancient runes and arithmancy!"

Astoria scoffed at his obvious lie.

"Did Theo tell you anything about what happened during the battle?"

Millie asked while painting her toe nails a bold pink. It had been days since the battle but none of the boys had mentioned anything since then.

"No he doesn't want to mention it, he always says that its better if I don't know..." Daphne answered while applying a generous layer of 'Super volume wicked witch's mascara' to her top lashes.

"I looove these new products!" Tracey said in a sing-song voice walking into the room her arms filled with lipgloss, lotions and self-applying makeup palettes. She stopped skipping as soon as she noticed her friend's serious faces.

"Oh are we talking about why I think we're talking about?"

"What do you think we're talking about?"

"Well the DLFW!" Tracey said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"What the hell is that?" Kat asked getting out of the bathroom

"DLFW? Dark Lord Fighting Witches!" Tracey "Duh!"

"You're not being serious..." Pansy said from the bed "If we're actually doing this we're not referring to it as DLFW!"

Tracey seemed to ponder her remark for a few second before her face lit up again

"What about "Attractive Dark Lord Fighting Womanly Witches? ADLFWW?"

"God Tracey it's not funny!" Daphne huffed

"You're right..."Tracey said her face darkening "Things are getting worse every day!"

The girls nodded in agreement.

"Ceph told me about it" She whispered breaking the silence once again "It was horrible!"

The girls turned to her wide eyed.

"You have to tell us Trace!" Millie said sitting next to her friend

"It's bad girls!" Tracey whispered "Ceph was shocked. They...they tortured every single student for information and when none could give it to them... they tortured them some more. And the girls...the rape them!" She collapsed sobbing " I was friend with some of these girls! What if that happened to Padma? Or that girl that sat next to me in potion?"

None of her friends could talk they were too shocked for words.

"Ginny..." Kat whispered terrorized

"She's fine Kat, Ceph told me. If they had caught Potter's girlfriend they'd use her as a bait...we'd know about it."

"What about Luna?" Daphne asked "Vince really liked her!"

"You can't talk about it to anyone..." Tracey's voice was barely audible now "But he got her out...Vince saved her."

"This is way too horrible!" Millie whispered and the room fell silent once again.

Their thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door, swearing Tracey grabbed her wand and performed a charm to remove all traces of crying from her face.

"Come in!" Daphne shouted

Draco walked in closely followed by Theo.

"Girls are you ready to go?" He asked "Cause everybody's waiting for you!"

"Yeah we're coming" Kat said getting up.

Draco wrapped an arm around her waist and led her out of the room happily not listening to her protest about having to wait for her friends.

"God you're so hot when you're angry..." He said winking at her.

"Draco stop trying to get a rise out of me or I swear I'll retaliate!" She said as they arrived in the entrance hall. Leaning closer to her Draco smiled and whispered

"I'd love to see you try..."

Noticing that Vince,Greg and Theo were within earshot, Kat did not have to think twice about it as she exclaimed in a really shrill voice:

"Oh Drakey-poo don't worry I won't tell anyone about your gender issues, it's going to be alright!"

Greg, Vincent and Theo started laughing uncontrollably at their friend's face.

'Please. Please don't ever call me that again..." Draco said "Pansy traumatized me with that name for far too long!"

"Aww Drakey-Poo you shouldn't try to anger an adversary so much smarter than you are..." Kat said with a sly grin

"Whatever..."Draco grumbled

"He'll make one very submissive husband!" Blaise said laughing

"That's a lie." Draco said trying to keep his cool "I'll be the most dashing husband to ever walk this earth!" Kat couldn't help but smile at his indignated expression

"Nope!" Daphne chimed barging in "Theo will be the sexiest and most dashing husband to ever walk this earth !"

"Are you proposing or something?" Theo asked with a knowing smile

"Why? No! Are you?" Daphne asked looking slightly bewildered

All the girls except for Kat 'aweed' and started whispering excitedly. Kat always forgot that in the wizarding world people married very early, she always assumed that her engagement to Draco was unique when it was in fact a rather common occurrence. "They barely been going out for a couple months..."

"There's no one I would like to marry more than you sweetheart!" Theo said getting down on one knee. "Unfortunately I don't have a ring yet but will you marry me?"

Daphne looked at him for a second smirking as he waited down on one knee. Theo raised an eyebrow at her urging her to answer.

"Guess!" She said with a smile.

Theo simply got up and kissed her passionately. The guys started wolf whistling and screaming obscenities while Pansy shouted "Get a room!"

In that little moment of fun, Kat could almost forget that there was a war going on and that people were dying. Because she was surrounded by people that cared about each other and were willing to stick together no matter what. She couldn't help but smile when Daphne broke the kiss with a smile and said.

"Could we get any cuter?"

In the bathroom of Grimmauld place, Astoria was counting weeks on her fingers. One,two,three, four,five, six. Her eyes widened.

"Two weeks late..." She whispered "I'm never late..."

Covering her face with her hand she started crying.

"Shit..." she whispered "What am I going to do?"

"Mhhh. Tschich ich shhho 'ood" Greg said stuffing his mouth with Indian food.

Kat was smiling proudly, she had done the impossible and gotten her friends to go out into Muggle London and they were loving it. at first, they had been a little reluctant but a single ride on the subway had changed everything.

6h prior...

"Kat where do I put this stupid piece of paper?" Draco asked looking at his ticket.

She smiled pointing at the turnstile.

Looking confused Draco inserted the ticket and walked through carefully retrieving the ticket on the other side and examining it carefully.

"Guys act normal the muggles are starring" Tracey said, she was the one that was the most comfortable in the muggle word.

"Are you sure this is safe?" Pansy asked looking slightly worried "I mean who would shoot a giant tube through a tunnel?"

"Pansy you fly around on sticks all the time you have nothing to worry about." Kat said with a smile.

The ride had been one of the most enjoyable experience ever for Kat even though she had had to stop Grec and Vince from sticking their arms out to stop the train.

"Guys this isn't the Knight bus!" She whispered "Muggles are going to think you're suicidal or something!"

Once on the train, the guys had started examining everything from the fabric of the seats to the cleanliness of the windows.

"Why do you need windows if all you see is darkness?" Theo noted.

"I like it!" Cepheus said, it's more comfortable than Portkey travelling.

"But slower..." Kat noted.

"And dirtier!" Milli added pointing at a discarded bag of chips on the floor.

The group of purebloods wrinkled their noses in disgust much to the amusement of Kat.

"God sometimes you are just so fragile..." she said with a laugh "You're lucky you never walked into a public school's bathroom!"

Her friends shot her a confused look so she decided to drop it.

Deciding to take her friends to Piccadilly Circus getting of the train she pulled the friends happily onto the escalators relishing in the view of the four pureblood looking slightly taken aback by these strangely moving stairs that reminded them of hogwarts.

"How do they get stairs to move without magic?" Draco asked her wrapping an arm around her waist and resting his chin on the top of her head.

"Science." Kat said matter of factly.

"How strange Draco mumbled in her hair.

Tracey had never been a Muggle-Hater, she hadn't been a muggle lover either but she had never wished them dead or enslaved. She as merely thought of them as slightly lesser being, unable to do magic and knowing close to nothing about anything. When Tracey caught her first glimpse of Piccadilly Circus, everything changed. The flashing lights everywhere, the adds, the shops full of pretty muggle dresses and the restaurants and cafes everywhere.

"I love it!" She said squeezing Cephs hand that was looking as pleasantly surprised as he was a huge grin gracing his handsome face.

"This calls for a kiss!" Ceph said leaning down and softly pressing his lips to his girlfriends.

"This place is better than Diagon Alley!" Pansy whispered looking around at the crazy traffic and double-decked red busses.

Draco was silent looking around with wide eyes. Squeezing Kat's waist tightly, a small bewildered smile playing on his lips.

"Do you like it?" Kat asked to Draco leaning her head against his chest.

Tracey couldn't help but smile happily when the blonde answered

"I love it..."

Kat pulled Draco to her whispering a barely audible

"I'm glad"

and kissing him passionately.

Tracey looked at her own boyfriend with a pleased look and said.

"Your sister is definitely getting over the engagement isn't she?"

"I thinks so..." Ceph answered looking unsure

"That's good for them Ceph, at least they won't have a loveless marriage like most purebloods do..."

Tracey felt sad knowing that someday Ceph might marry a girl from some important pureblood family and leave her to marry a guy she'd most likely never met before. Ceph seemed to sense her change of mood as he tilted her chin up and whispered.

"I know I won't...Once this war is over, once everything is better, once we're safe I'll marry the girl I love and right now that girl is standing right in front of me..."

Tracey chewed at her lower lip.

"I still can't understand why you're interested in me..." she whispered looking around to notice that the others were all having a moment with their significant other apart from Vince that was staring into space with his hands in his pockets.

"Remember that time in your fourth year when you slapped a guy from Durmstrang because he called Millie fat? I'll always remember that..."

"Yeah but you couldn't be there you were at Durmstrang!

"Sweetheart I was a Durmstrang student I obviously came to see what we thought would be Krum's overwhelming win..."

"Well you got that one wrong." Tracey laughed

"Oh my god you guys have to taste all of this candy!" Kat said as she filled plastic cups with all kinds of colorful gummies.

She had dragged the whole group to the last floor of Hamleys and was currently trying to fit every single kind of candy in the extra large sized cup. One she was satisfied she lead everyone to pay for the food and back outside into the crowded streets towards Leicester square where there were far less tourists and a few benches next to the small park. Sitting down on one of the benches she stated pulling sweets out of her bag.

"You guys have to taste marshmallows! I can't believe you've never had them! And cupcakes god I love cupcakes!"

The afternoon was spent that way eating sweets and laughing while telling childhood introduced everyone to the game of 'truth or dare' and was surprised to discover that Blaise's first crush happened to be Padma Patil and that he used to have a stuffed bunny named Candy. That confession causing everyone to burst out laughing. Of course everyone had their fair share of secrets to confess to and Hermione had to confess that her first crush had been Professor Lockhart causing the girls to giggle and Ceph and Draco to adopt near murderous expressions. The most shocking secret though, was Millie's confession of her own first crush: Snape. Which made her laugh nervously while a chorus of 'eww' rose from both the girls and the boys. After a while Kat decided to further the Muggle experience and take everyone in some typical teenage muggle stores.

"I want to see Muggle dresses!" Daphne chimed happily "I've never been a muggle department store.

"Oh I can take you in so many places! Topshop and Zara and H&M and my favorite: Urban Outfitters. Oh and Victoria's Secret" Kat answered enthusiastically.

"Who's secret?" Theo asked distractedly

"I want to go there!" Pansy said "It looks exciting"

"You have no idea..." Kat said feeling herself blush at being in an underwear store with all of the boys.

Of course she wasn't disappointed by their reactions, as soon as they came next to the store Draco and Blaise started commenting on how attractive the muggles that were advertising the store looked. Crabbe was literally drooling in front of the very suggestive picture of one of the Victoria Secret's angel that was gracing the facade of the store. Walking by Tracey snapped his mouth shut laughing heartily before walking in followed by the others. Quickly the girls started looking at the pretty clothes and picking stuff out to try on. Kat was surprised by how easily the girls were adapting to the muggle world. The boys were another story, they kept walking around with wide eyes mumbling amongst them and pointing at some of the sexier attire with wide eyes. She even heard Goyle comment "I'm pretty sure witches don't wear that kind of stuff..." and shooting a glance at Millie that was happily filling her little shopping basket with very ose lingerie.

"So this is like an underwear store?" Daphne said shuffling through some nightgowns. Kat was about to answer when their conversation was interrupted by the boys coming whispering amongst them

"Hey what is this..." Draco said holding up something black, lacy and very very thin.

Kat never thought she was capable of blushing that much. She felt her whole face flush.

"Um that's a thong..."

"That doesn't help me one bit." Draco answered cocking an eyebrow.

"Um...It's like a normal underwear but with less...coverage..." Kat said feeling her face turn an even deeper shade of crimson and sincerely wishing they had never walked into the store.

Draco smirked at her obviously amused by her embarrassment.

"I can't visualize it, maybe you should try it on..."

"God you are exasperating!" Kat said throwing her hands up and rolling her eyes.

As she walked past him she heard Blaise say to Pansy

"Hey maybe you should buy these!"

Jumping onto her bed Tracey sighed happily.

"This was such a good day guys!"

"Yeah I never thought muggles would be that awesome!" Daphne said toying with the new pair of earrings she got during their trip.

"Seriously though, they're not that different from us!" Pansy said going through the numerous bag of clothes and products the girls had brought back from the trip.

Meanwhile Millie and Kat were happily devouring a freshly open pack of Marshmallows.

:How are you two still hungry? I mean that Indian food we had, I literally stuffed my face!" Daphne said.

"I love Muggles..." Millie said with a smile "Their food is wonderful!"

They had no idea that in the room next door the boys were having a very similar conversation. Before turning off the light Blaise made one last comment.

"You know guys I really liked these thong thingies, very creative..."

At Grimmauld Place Astoria was still lost in thought, she'd been wondering what to do for a full day now and had made her decision. She would still go with Ron , she couldn't stay here by herself while he was running around searching for Horcruxes. She wondered what her sister was thinking right now, did she know that she was gone. Would she hate her? Slipping into bed Astoria still couldn't believe what was happening. " Me" she whispered "Such a perfect little slytherin siding up with the 'right' side no one will believe it." letting out a small laugh Astoria tried to find some sleep.

At Malfoy manor, all of the teens were cluelessly sleeping not knowing that soon very soon life would get a lot more complicated than they already were.

AN: SO? What do you think? Tell me all about it in the reviews and I'll try to get another chappie done by Wenesday but I'm not totally sure because I have to write my application article for my school's newspaper and I really really want to get in so yeah...