On Christmas Eve, something felt wrong and Draco was missing from the room. A creepy tension came over her, floating in the air, thickening the atmosphere. Voices broke the eerie silence. Serenity followed where it was coming from.

"What?" Draco's voice drawled from a room a little down the hallway from their room.

"The Dark Lord has a mission for you," Lucius said.

There was a loud pop. "It won't be easy for you, but you must. Unfortunately," he started with fake sadness in his voice. "I want no one competing with me as master of life and death."

"Excuse me, Master, but what are you getting at?"

"My point is, it turns out, my muggle father and his lover had a child. The wife did not want it because she was growing old and she had more than enough children - five to be exact. So, she gave the baby girl to an orphanage. Not much later, that girl was adopted by two parents by the surname of Gooding. They then named her, Serenity, of whom I knew was your little girlfriend. I read your father's mind," he explained to the two very confused Malfoy men. "So, Serenity happens to be my half sister. As I said before, I do not want any one competing with me. Potter is enough of a threat as it is. She must be disposed of."

"No! You can't!" Draco yelled.

"Are you questioning your master?"

"I'm sorry, but what if she takes a vow to never come between you and your title. She doesn't even know of her accidental relation, anyway, I'm sure of it! Does she really have to die? I'm sorry, Master, but I couldn't bear it."

"Yes, she must, for some vows can be easily broken. She must die," Voldemort explained to Draco.

"But, my Lord-"

"I'm sorry. You have a choice. Save her and I will kill you and she shall not be spared, or kill her yourself and live."

Draco started to tear up at the fact that she would be gone either way.

"Excuse me, but I have other businesses to attend to. Make your decision, young Draco. Farewell." There was another loud pop and he was gone. Serenity scrambled back into her room before anyone caught her.

Draco entered soon after. Serenity pretended that she had just woken up. "What's wrong?"

He started to cry as he looked at her. She plastered a look of worry on her face.

"It's nothing," he said crawling into the bed and wiping the tears away. (They sleep in the same room, but nothing has happened between them.) "You should get back to sleep."

Draco couldn't get any rest. When he thought that she was asleep, he rolled over on his other side to face her. He put his arm around her and pulled her closer to him and let all the tears fall. "Don't worry, I'll think of a way to save us both," he whispered to her, even though she was asleep. "Just you wait. Just you wait."

Little did he know, she was still awake thinking of her past and near future, thinking she would not last very long. When she heard that he would try to defy the Dark Lord, she knew that he would always be there for her. She opened her eyes a fraction and saw that he was asleep. She smiled at him and put her hand on his arm to keep it there. She dearly loved him, and he obviously did too.

"Nothing will come between us," she thought.

Boy was she wrong, or was she?