This chapter and the character Rabastan (Stan) is dedicated to Tori Stevens due to his cunning mind and sneaky plans which she so happens to find attractive in a man. Plus i've fashioned Stan purely for her. Hope you enjoy the chapter Tori.

A single figure stood in an empty room, no windows meant no light as a result the room was as dark as the night outside. The figure stood leaning against a desk her shoulders shaking, tears dripped solemnly from her eyes creating tiny pools on the shinny wooden top. Tip tap tip tap they seemed to say as one by one they fell, guilt as painful as jinxes crashed like waves against her heart. Her breathes came in short sharp rasps. A tiny object no thicker than a sheet of paper lay inches from her fingertips stains like rust covered it, yes the implement had been used recently but did she care, no not really she'd seen no other way to stop the smarting pound of guilt that coursed through her veins. And for once the blade had not helped, she cut and sliced at her exposed limbs the blood had flowed but so had the tears both fluids had leaked nothing had steamed them she hadn't wanted to. The tracks of blood had dried finally but the tears hadn't, they continued. She had barely moved in four hours not daring to venture outside her room for fear of meeting the two people at the moment she couldn't bare to lay eyes on. She'd done this she'd brought this on herself she was a horrid person she deserved to bleed every drop signified each word she'd said that caused pain to either one of them.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm so sorry" she cried each word broke with emotion. Pounding at her door made her scrunch up her eyes placing her blood streaked hands over her ears as a voice began to call out to her

"Bella open up Bella, Bella it's me open the door, please open up BELLA" she howled as she woman's voice resounded off her bedroom walls filling her head

"No, go away" she sobbed not wanting to see the person on the other side if the door. Hermiones heart pounded as no-one answered the door what Stan had just told her had made her blood run cold, it had never crossed her mind that Bella was self harming, had she been so blind not to notice when Bella had covered her arms straight after they had slept together, never had she seen Bellas bare arms in daylight. Just the mere thought of Bella hurting was making her panicky.

"Bella please open up, it's me it's Hermione, please open up" she said this last bit without thinking, on the other side of the door Bella stopped crying Hermione? She didn't know a Hermione, that was Katys voice she was sure of it. Stepping forward on shaky legs she removed the locking spell she'd placed on the door to stop anyone entering and opened it,

"What do you mean by it's me Hermione?" Hermione mentally kicked herself for letting her emotions take control for once she didn't have an answer,

"I err I meant to say Katy" it was a pretty terrible excuse but it was the first one that popped into her head.

"No you said Hermione, why did you refer to yourself as Hermione when you told me your name was Katy Croy?" Confusion covered every word Bella spoke, Hermione swallowed she had just dug herself a very deep hole whihc would take ages to climb out of.

"My name isn't Katy Croy, it's Hermione, Hermione Granger and I don't live in Ireland, I live in Gloucestershire." Bella stared at the shadowy form of the person before her

"So you lied to me?" her tone had become flat,

"You don't understand why I lied, I had to I can't explain it so please don't ask me to, but yes everything you think you know about me isn't true." Hermione gabbled this bit, Bellas mind couldn't take this information in she had to get away from this girl who she had fallen for, given herself to time and again, she backed away and began to shut the door Hermione stopped her "Bella it's still me, I've still got the same personality, I've not changed at all."

"On the contrary Katy, or Hermione whoever you are, you are a completely different person and I'm not sure I can associate myself with someone who is willing enough to lie about everything to me," anger was building inside her as reality sunk in, this person had lied to her face, for weeks she had lied about everything, her identity, her family hell maybe she had even lied about her emotions.

"What Bella no honestly it's still me, you can trust me I'm just called something different where I come from" shit she'd done it again given another piece of information away.

"Trust you, trust you no I don't think so somehow, and what do you mean by where I come from, what are you some sort of time traveller?" Hermione stiffened, Bella stopped mouth agape "NO, don't you even think of trying to make out that you're a time traveller to cover up for your stinking lies!"

"Bella you don't understand I am a time traveller I was sent here from the future to stop something, please believe me I'm not lying to you." Bella laughed and for a moment the eccentric sound of her future self flashed through the atmosphere

"Why should I believe you Hermione, for all I know you could have lied to me about lying, I can't ever trust you again, now leave me alone" once more she tried to slam the door but Hermione shoved her foot against it

"Not until you listen to me, Bella calm down and let me explain, please, PLEASE!" Relishing her grip on the door Bella swung round and stormed into the centre of her room

"Fine you have 60 seconds starting now" crossing her arms over her heaving chest she glared at Hermione, panic filled Hermione as she found herself cornered this time she really didn't want to lie to get herself out of the situation but it was her only option she daren't risk the mission more than she already had.

"I'm going to need more than 60 seconds Bella, it's a bit more complex than you seem to realise, you see I was sent here because, because …." she thought hard straining every part of her brain for a believable excuse then she found one "I was sent here to join forces with the Dark Lord, there is something that he will make a grave mistake on in the future and I need to warn him but I have to bide my time so he can trust me. You see he becomes almost all powerful but he makes one little error and it leads to his down fall and I must warn him about it." She waited unsure of the response she might get, for all she knew Bella might already be a Death Eater and then again she might not.

"You know about the Dark Lord?" Bella asked uncertainly, she only knew of two other people at school who wanted to become one of his alliances and they were the twins.

"Yes, of course I know about him, nobody knows more about him than a few very important people in the future I happen to be one of them. He is famous in the future Bella, his power is unimaginable but he is evil pure evil and will stop at nothing to get what he wants but for him to do that he will need my help." Bella eyed her unsure about weather or not she was telling the truth, this sounded extremely truthful to her but she still wasn't convinced,

"Prove it, if you can." Hermione sighed she had been afraid that she would be asked to prove that she was from the future,

"Fine, but don't interrupt, because it is very complex and you'll need to listen, can I sit down?" Bella flicked her head at the bed, turned and went to sit down on it, Hermione followed her slowly, as she made herself more comfortable Bella watched her and thought about the last time they had been on this bed together, it had been weeks. "Right ok, my time is 1996 that is when I left to come here, I was sent by one of my ex teachers, I used to or will do depending on how you look at it go to school here. I'm the best academic student Hogwarts has had in year, I don't mean to sound bigheaded but I am. Lord Voldemort as he is called in the future will end up being classified to a great amount of people a murderer but to people like me who follow him devoutly," she had to stop herself from cringing as she said this, follow Lord Voldemort jut the thought was sickening. "He will try and kill a baby boy by the name of Harry Potter, but will almost kill himself in the process, the boys mother will put a powerful spell over the baby to stop him from harm this spell is love and that is something Lord voldemort can never feel. The two will grow and fight, hate and hunt each other, I was sent here to warn him that he must not try to kill Harry Potter because he knows not what is in store if he does." Hermione finished she wasn't lying as such, technically she was here to stop Voldemort just indirectly, she looked at the undistinguished form of Bella in front of her and waited.

"You're telling the truth aren't you, you're not lying to me, you swear?" There was a kind of desperation in her voice now, she reached out of grasped Hermiones hand "Katy, I mean Hermione promise me you're telling the truth." Hermione gripped Bellas hand in hers

"Bella I swear I'm not lying to you, I would never lie to you, but you must understand I'm a dangerous person to be around, please believe me when I say I care about you but the thing we had we can no longer have that, I need to do this as a single person I can't involve you emotionally. She couldn't help but smile then she sounded so much like Harry always did, she was thankful Bella couldn't see the tears that had begun to fall and the sad wistful smile on her lips.

"I understand, but please tell me one thing before we stop our whole charade, did you lie about," ahe faultered "about, us?" Hermione stiffened again

"No, never" she whispered almost to herself, Bella breathed out slowly,

"Katy?"

"Yes, and it's Hermione Bella but go on"

"Oh, yes that's going to take some getting use to, ummm does anyone else know about all of this?"

"No no-one apart from you, Bella you must promise me you wont tell anyone not even the twins, I can't risk them changing the future I've already altered it hugely by tell you what I'm here for, you mustn't utter a word to either of them."

"I promise" Bella whispered.

The atmosphere was excruciatingly tense the next few days Bella was unsure on how to approach Hermione on simple things like family, she wanted to get to know this new and almost scary person. Luckily the boys hadn't noticed the strained friendship between them, obviously Rod was being more observant but even he couldn't see that there was a growing barrier between the girls. More than once Hermione caught Bella watching her deep in thought, she wished that she'd kept her mouth shut about herself, about everything. She now had just endangered everyone she'd ever cared about, her future may now have been altered severely, and she wasn't only worried about her loved ones in the future but surprisingly for Bella too. Over the course of this term she had become emotionally attached to Bella, she hadn't wanted to, if she honestly looked deep down inside herself she had battled with her emotions from the moment she met Bella. The first touch was so powerful that she could barely resist the urge to give in, their first kiss was electric and as for the sex well that had made he so confused. She'd begged her heart to stop beating for her, she wanted all the feelings to go away, she hadn't wanted to be sexually attracted to a girl. But she had been, and each time they had slept together she'd given a part of herself to Bella, Bella possessed Hermione like no-one had ever done before. And she liked it. She knew it was wrong and she kept telling herself to remember Ron to remember he was waiting for her back home, that she didn't belong here, this was a game an act almost, it was like a play that would last for years, scenes that went on for months at a time. She had a goal and she'd got distracted from the preparation for it, she was meant to get cosy with a man, not a woman, actually the more she'd thought about it Lupin had said you must find someone to marry so you can stop as many Death Eaters as possible, he hadn't defined the sex they had to be. Sadly now Bella knew her true identity the possibility of her being her partner was out of the question, she posed too much of a threat to the mission if she allowed herself to become so involved with the girl Bella could be used to Voldemorts advantage. No, she couldn't allow that to happen strangely enough she found she was caring by trying not to care, by releasing Bella from their high flying romantic fling she was saving her from more heart ache, at least she thought she was. If she was truthful Bella was special to her, if she was really truthful she would willingly have an open relationship with her but she couldn't be truthful to herself. Her primary focus now was stopping as many Death Eaters as possible to fake her feelings and to forget about any romantic daydreams involving her and Bellatrix Lestrange.

Stans eyes followed Katys backside as she walked down the isle between the desk to hand in her essay to Professor Slughorn, things had not been going as well as he'd hoped, he'd thought that by this time she would have come to him and accepted his offer to go out with him, but she hadn't in fact she seemed to be avoiding both him and Rod. There was a good side to this though and that was both Bella and Katy seemed to be in a tiff with each other so they were spending less time with each other of course they still sat next to each other in classes but they weren't with each other 24/7 like they used to be. Perhaps he could get on Katys good side so he could sway her into going out with him, it was almost obsessive how much time he spent thinking of ways to get her to be his girlfriend but this was merely because she had in thrilled him. It was four days until the end of term and he was preparing himself for a good few weeks at Bellas, he loved Bellas house, loved the building itself, the fact that he was in one of the most powerful families presence, he loved the rules and regulations, he loved everything. He's been going there for at least one holiday every year, the Blacks were like his second family he loved them just as much as he loved his own parents. He wasn't stupid he know that both parties were expecting either Rod or himself to form a bond between the two families in the form of marriage, but he just didn't feel attracted to any of them like that, Rod did and he made it perfectly clear so he would just leave the bonding of bloodlines to his little brother. Hermione swept past him and settled herself back into her seat next to a misty eyed Bella, Bella was resting her chin on her hand and staring absent minded at Hermione, she wasn't focusing on her at all more staring straight through her. He watched Katy snap her fingers just in front of Bellas face, she jumped a little at the noise then blushed as she realised what she'd been doing. Stan watched this with a mixture of curiosity and wonder, the girls seemed to be so close yet so parted and he wanted to know why, the only way he was going to be able to do that would be to somehow get Bella to invite Katy to her house for Christmas too that way he could observe then in a close proximity with each other and everyone else. Yes he though that would be the way to go about things. Twenty minuets later he put his plan into action,

"Hay Bells can I talk to you about something?" Bella slowed to let Stan catch up he was panting slightly from running to catch up,

"Yeah Stan what's up?"

"Well I was wondering if it might be a good idea if you invited Katy to spend Christmas with us all, you know like really show her we are all best friends blah blah blah" he finished a bit lamely not looking at her in the face, she eyes him suspiciously

"I'm not sure that's such a good idea Stan," He looked at her

"Really, why?" Bella blushed

"Uhrm, well, I don't, I'll ask her but I'm pretty sure she'd told me she has something planned" and with that she hurried off leaving Stan grinning behind her. Faze one complete he muttered as he strode off towards the Great Hall for some lunch.

Hope you all like it, bit delayed but that's only due to my work amount at college next chapter will be coming soon. Promise.