"Hello Draco"
Waking up with a start Draco took a minute to take in his surroundings he was in a garden encircled by a wide variety of flowering plants, in the center of which stood a wooden bench with a smiling Anna perched comfortably on it. "What are you doing here and where are we?" he asked getting up from the soft jade grass and as he stood Draco noticed some other abnormalities in the scene metal contraptions some distance away some moving on their own accord, some stationary.
"We're in your head, in your dreams to be exact, have Arianna and I taught you nothing?"
Draco rolled his eyes at her smug comment "I mean this place it's different from anything I have seen" he said motioning with a tilt of his head to the metal contraptions not far away as he moved to sit on the bench beside her.
"You need to expand your knowledge of the Muggle world. This is a place that Muggle children come to play"
"On those things they look dangerous"
" Haa… let's see for ourselves shall we?" Taking his hand she led him over to the swing set and made him sit before pushing and sitting on its twin.
"If it slows down just pump your legs like this" she demonstrated, they sat swinging in silence for a little while before Anna asked, "So Potter… how has it been?"
"Surprisingly, not that bad"
"Hmm… can't say that's not expected."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because you decided a long time ago that he was not your enemy. I don't think you ever saw him as that."
Draco just looked at her, how she could know so much about him, so much that he himself was not aware of for a long time. "Don't look at me like that it's not hard to guess, once you've been around for a couple of centuries you kind of pick up on things." Draco just nodded to this and then asked.
"Has there been any word on what Voldemort is planning".
"He's looking for something. But he's also keeping it quiet not even his closest are privy to his plans."
"That sounds like him, the paranoid dictator, the only one he used to speak to was that snake but only Potter would probably be able to translate that."
"That's not all, he's hell bent on finding Harry and Hermione, and they don't know that Ron and you are with them so I suggest that we keep it that way for the time being.'
"I agree."
"Take care of yourself Draco I have to get back now I'll keep in touch."
"I will and Anna thank you."
Anna just looked at him and smiled and nodded before disappearing. Draco's eyes snapped open and he sat up in bed. Suddenly something caught his attention, someone was moving around in the room next door.
In no time Draco was in the next room with his grip around Harry's neck holding him against the wall of Sirius' room. "Dra..co…let… me…" Draco immediately let go and stepped away
"Sorry, believe it or not you actually managed to catch me by surprise." It was then that Draco got a good look at Harry's face and the haunted gaze in his eyes.
"Harry!" Hermione and Ron choose that moment to come busting through the door "Are you ok? We heard a noise…" Harry quickly slipped the piece of paper he was holding into his pocket, which didn't escape Draco's notice, before he answered them. "I'm fine."
"Well I've made some breakfast…"
"Right behind you M'one." He smiled and encouraged them to walk out the room.
"Why didn't you tell them?" asked Draco as soon as he knew the two humans were out of earshot.
"Cause I believe you." Draco nodded back at his gaze.
They both followed Hermione out of the room and as they passed the room Draco slept the night in the name on the door caught Harry's attention. Regulus Arcturus Black, it made him pause before his mind recognized what he was looking at. 'RAB…' he whispered only loud enough for the vampire two feet away to hear him.
"What was that?", but Harry was not listening "Ron! Hermione! Get up here now!" By the time the others got up the stairs both boys were staring at the door.
"What is it Harry?" asked Ron.
"Regulus Arcturus Black, RAB!" Harry exclaimed pointing at the door.
"Sirius's brother?" Hermione whispered.
"He was a Death Eater Sirius told me."
"He spoke about him as well once in reference to the Black Family," Draco added.
"So, he stole the neckless… but that still doesn't explain where it is now."
"It was here! Ron when we were cleaning the house! I can't believe I'm remembering this now! Your mum and I found an old locket we tried to open it but couldn't so we threw it in the trash."
"And how exactly is this information supposed to help find it Granger?" asked Draco with a genuinely curious expression.
"Kreacher" replied Hermione her eyes wide "He kept stealing things that we threw out and hoarding them in his cupboard! I'll bet you a100 Galleons that he knows what happened to it"!
This led to the four allies hastily running down the stairs towards the kitchen and an old house elf whose unfailing loyalty to the House of Black had now proven to become, ironically, crucial to their monumental crusade. "Kreacher" Harry bellowed as they burst through the kitchen door and in an instant an old drooping eared, raggedly clothed creature appeared a few feet away replying
"Yes Master?"
Harry with his heart beating in his ears began, "I need to know something and I need you to tell me the truth"
"Yes Master" came the crocked reply.
"A couple of years ago, Hermione and Mrs. Weasley threw out a locket similar to this one…" Harry held out the locket for Kreature to examine "Did you steal it back"?
"The Mudblood and Blood traitor had no right to steal Master Regules locket! They come here and defile my poor Mistresses house and now this vial thing" Kreature pointed at Draco as he backed away. "This filthy monster into my poor"- Kreature didn't get the chance to finish his sentence as in a blink of an eye Draco, fangs extended, eyes the color of blood had him pinned to the side wall. "I dare you to repeat that you little rodent" his calm yet deadly his voice echoed through the room.