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The winter holidays had came rushing upon them before they even knew it, they had been so busy preparing for the task at the Malfoy's Yule ball. Hermione had been fidgeting with the plan the entire time, she changed her mind several times about what diversion to use and how to get Lucius' wand away from him.
Draco tho pleased that Ollivander had managed to get the wand to him on time was now worried that his father would notice the difference. The wand on inspection looked identical to his father which eased his mind slightly but they all knew that if Lucius tried to use it he would notice the difference immediately.
Kaira had spent hours and hours practicing dancing with Draco making sure that she got it right. She and Hermione often spent time tweaking her dress making it stand out. All this planning had made being near Remus hard but he was still keeping her distance from her.
The night of the ball Kaira stood in front of the bathroom mirror doing her make up, something she was always pleased the Andromeda was good at. She learned how to apply her make up properly by her cousins teachings.
She looked at herself in the mirror pleased that she looked like one of the upper class witches, her hair was in a double crown braid with loose curls hanging down randomly. She had a few pieces of jewelled pins placed around which caused a haloing effect around her head.
Hermione knocked on the bathroom door quietly asking her is she was ready to get into her dress, Kaira sighed knowing it was nearly time for them to leave. She moved from the bathroom to her bedroom catching a slight glance of Draco tying his tie in the mirror of his bedroom.
Her dress hung on a hanger against the back of her bedroom door, it was black jewelled bodice with a tan tulle floor length skirt. Kaira carefully stepped into the dress making sure not to rip it. Hermione was behind her zipping up the dress, she fixed the thin straps at the back.
"Are you ready? Once we get that book there's no going back" Hermione quietly asked as she looked at Kaira.
"There was never a going back Hermione we have to fix our future" Draco's voice drifted into the room. Hermione's cheeks pinked slightly as she took him in, his suit was completely back with his underneath shirt back as well the only bit of colour was his green tie. His hair was slicked back in his normal style.
"Well I thought since Lucius might notice a missing book on his shelf" Hermione cleared her throat as Kaira smirked at her, even she could admit that her cousin looked good. Hermione moved over to her school bag pulling a leather bound diary.
"This is the best match I could get for his diary so that Lucius wont notice it missing right away. If at all, hopefully he doesn't notice" Hermione handed Draco the diary to which he shrunk down and placed into his pants pockets.
"Let's do this kid's" Alphard's voice echoed up the stairs.
Once Alphard apparated them to the designated spot close to the Malfoy Manor. There was several carriages there and too the two young wizards they could see the Thestral's that pulled them but Alphard seemed oblivious to them.
Kaira placed her bag on her lap as she sat in the carriage it was a small bag on a silver chain and to everyone else it seemed like a normal bag but when she opened it Hermione had put an undetectable extension charm on it. This would make getting the Diary out easier.
As they rode up to the Manor Kaira rolled her eye as she took in the over done lighting of the gardens and decorations.
"Is your father trying to over compensate for something" Kaira leaned to Draco and whispered, he merely elbowed her in the rids hitting her wand which she had hidden down the side of the bodice of her dress.
Alphard moved out of the carriage as it came to a stop, he offered his hand to Kaira helping her down from the carriage. Once she had her footing in her heels she took Draco's elbow and they followed after Alphard into the ball room. Kaira snorted at the over extravagantness of the place.
There was a giant crystal chandelier hanging in the center of the room with several smaller ones hanging around it. Tables were scattered around the giant room each had over the top center pieces in the middle with the names of the families who sat at them floating above.
"Defiantly over compensating" Kaira whispered to Draco again.
"Just shut the fuck up honestly" Draco hissed at her, it was obvious that he was nervous.
"It looks like we are seated with the rest of the family then" Alphard told them as he pointed to a table, which had seated around it was Sirius, Regulus and who Kaira guessed was their parents. Her grandparents.
Alphard guided them over to the table casting glancing back at the every so often to make sure it was okay. As they got closer the couple stood up to greet them, the womens face was surly faced as as she looked at her brother.
"Walburga darling older sister" Alphard greeted as he kissed her on both cheeks.
"I was surprised when I heard Narcissa say that you would be attending and with your daughter and one of your chargers as well" Walburga said as she begrudgingly greeted him back.
"Orion, Walburga this is my Daughter Kaira and Draco my charge" Alphard introduced them as he moved aside ushering them forward. Orion moved forward silently kissing Kaira's hand and shaking Draco's while Walburga looked Kaira up and down as of to examine her. Kaira had to bit her tongue tightly in order to stop her insulting Walburga she could do that another night.
"Well she does look like a Black, it still quiet curious as to how she isn't on the tree" Walburga talked as if Kaira wasn't event there. Kaira made to speak but was interrupted but a high pitch screech coming from the other side of the ballroom.
"Is that the new Gryffindor cousin" the voice all but bellowed above the music and all the people. Neither Kaira or Draco need to turn their heads to know who that voice belonged to. Walking at a fast pace Bellatrix was crossing the dance floor making several dance partners separated and following after was Rodolphus Lestrange.
"Ah darling Bella you look more and more beautiful every time I see you" this sounded forced as it came out of Alphard's mouth. To Kaira she looked just as deranged as she had the last time she had seen her at the battle of Hogwarts.
"Oh uncle your too kind but please let me meet my new cousin" Bellatrix squealed loudly, "I'm Bellatrix Lestrange" she extended her left hand showing of a large Dimond ring.
"Kaira Black" she inwardly cringed as she shook Bellatrix hand.
"There's been so much talk around you. The secret daughter, many people believed you where a fake but look at you, looking so much like a Black. A pity that your blood traitor mother didn't let you grow up around your own kindred"
Draco tensed as the words left Bellatrix mouth, he brought a hand up to Kaira's hand that was still through his arm and squeezed. Kaira squeezed back, she plastered a fake smile on as she looked Bellatrix up and down.
"It's a pity you know, if I had I would have been able to learn such great beauty tips from your sisters, you obviously didn't pay any attention them" Kaira continued smiling as she watched Bellatrix's face drop turning into fury.
"How dare you!" She screeched she made to moved to grab her wand but was stopped when Rodolphus placed a hand on her arm.
"Please, forgive my wife she was not made aware that your mother had recently passed" he gave her a seductive smile as he eyed Kaira this seemed to only enrage Bellatrix more.
"No" Kaira started batting her eye's giving him a flirty smile knowing it was getting to Bellatrix. "Forgive me, my mother is still a very sore subject for me"
Rodolphus gave her a dazzling smile but dropped it as a disgruntled Bellatrix pulled him away from them. Draco relaxed when Bellatrix moved out of sight knowing that was a close call for them.
This seemed to make Walburga upset with them, Kaira could remember back Sirius saying to her when she first saw the family tree how Walburga always considered Bellatrix to be the daughter she never had.
A loud noise echo'd around and everyone started taking their seats, Kaira sat in between Alphard and Draco while Sirius sat close to Draco obviously feeling better around them then this family.
Everyone's attention was at the main table that was in front of the music band long and straight like the teachers table at Hogwarts. It was then one by one those who where in the Malfoy's family came out, that being Lucius parents and then himself and Narcissa.
Lucius' father stood giving a toast about having such purity in the room which caused Kaira make a noise earning a finger jab from Draco.
As he finished the speech dinner appeared the table and everyone dug in, both Kaira and Draco still feeling too nervous to really eat anything only nibbling which caused a jab from Walburga telling Kaira need to watch her weight.
Once all the dinner and desert were done, Lucius parents stood and took to the dance floor leading out several other pureblood family's to follow suit. Alphard had left the table in search of a better drink then the wine at the table. Walburga and Orion had joined the others on the dance for doing an old fashioned dance Draco was making small talk with Sirius about Quidditch.
But their conversation stopped as Sirius' eye widened as someone walked up behind Kaira and Draco's back. Kaira flinched as she turned her head to see who was pulling Alphard's chair out beside her.
A very young looking Antonin Dolohov sat in the seat beside her tho, he was a couple of years older then her, compared to when she had watched him kill Remus he looked much younger.
"What are you doing here Dolohov?" Sirius snarled across from him.
"I've come to ask you cousin to dance, not that that's any of your business Black" Antonin sounded the exact same as he had that night which caused a shiver to run down Kaira's spin.
"She's not interested" Sirius snarled again.
"It's fine Sirius" Kaira told him often in a monotone voice, she stood stiffly cringing inwardly as she let Dolohov lead her to the dance floor.
"Why would she do that?" Sirius was seething as he looked after her.
"You don't understand mate" Draco merely muttered his heart going out to his cousin as he imagined how hard this much have been for her. He watched her as she danced with Dolohov how stiffly she was with him and every time he made to get closer to her she moved back.
"She obviously didn't want to why would she?"
"Its something you wont understand right now but one day you will" Draco told him as he watch another man come up and interrupt Kaira and Dolohov's dance tho by the looks Kaira wasn't too pleased with this dance partner as well but she put on a smile.
"You act like she's making some big sacrifice she has a right to say no" Sirius was becoming more and more angry with the situation.
"Right now she doesn't" Draco told Sirius annoyed that he wouldn't drop it, Draco watched as a double of Sirius walked up and interrupted Kaira's third dance partner.
Kaira was surprised when she came face to face with Regulus, one of the people she was willing to do anything to save for had come and rescued her from an uncomfortable dance. He placed his hand on her hip and took her other hand in his as they started to dance.
"You weren't comfortable with those dance partners?" Regulus asked as they slowly moved to the music.
"I haven't been around many people like this" Kaira told him softly, "They've caught me off guard with there openness to want to be with me. I don't like it"
"Most of them are under a lot a pressure to marry a pureblood girl and most pure blood family's have boys so it gets hard" Regulus explained tho it wasn't like she didn't already know this, evening in her time it was still the case Andromeda had received several marriage requests when she was young from pure blood family's.
"Does that mean its hard for you?"
"Mum and dad haven't started let but I imagine they will start on Sirius soon because he'll be of age next year. But then again I doubt he will he'll probably marry a muggle born" Regulus reasoned Kaira nearly snorted knowing he was way off the mark with that one.
"Your not completely like them, you know. Just because its what they want for you doesn't meant you have to want it too. You don't have to pretend to be something your not Regulus" Kaira whispered as she leaned forward closer to his ear.
"Who says I'm pretending?"
"Because, I know you more then you realise. Don't let this pretending become the reason you end up getting hurt or worse" she told him as she moved away from him, heading to where Draco stood at the edge of the dance floor.
She was almost at him when someone grabbed her by the upper arm, it was Rodolphus.
"I haven't had a chance to dance yet" Rodolphus told her he pulled her back toward the middle of the floor, Draco made a move towards her but she softly shook her head.
"Of course forgive me, tho will Bellatrix be fine with you dancing with me?" Kaira questioned innocently but really knowing full well it would only piss Bellatrix off more.
"Oh I believe she will be fine soon" his smirk made her uneasy.
"What make you say that?" Kaira questioned tilting her head slightly as she looked at him.
"May people know that my wife's heart lie else where even if those feelings aren't reciprocated but she will be happy when he arrives" Rodolphus was dodging the question but Kaira took a few seconds to but soon she realised that Bellatrix's heart lied with Voldemort. As this new information processed she tried keeping her face blank but fear was pumping through her.
"I believe he will love you which will greatly upset Bella. So pure and young he was so happy to hear that you existed tho surprised like many of us where. No body honestly thought Alphard would have children but here you are"
Rodolphus was babbling now and Kaira couldn't hear a word of it. Her brain was struggling to process this, Voldemort was going to be at this ball while they where trying to steal the diary from Lucius. Alarms where going off in her head as she thought everything over. She didn't realise that the song had ended until heard Rodolphus calling her name softly in her ear.
"You where off somewhere"
"I… I'm nervous, I've never met him before" She told him as he walked her to the edge of he dance floor.
"Of course most people would be but don't worry your perfect" Rodolphus says as he sweeps down quickly giving her a peck on the cheek and leaving her.
"Getting a bit too close" Draco said to her as he walked over to her, as she turned her him she could tell by the look in her eyes something was wrong.
"He's coming to this"
"What who?"
"Voldemort"
Draco's eyes went wide with alarm, he looked around looking for somewhere they could talk with a little bit of privacy. He took her hand and pulled her towards a bit of wall underneath a large window. He place both his hands on her shoulders getting her to look at him.
"What did Rodolphus say?"
"He said that Bellatrix would be happy because someone who she loves will be here soon. But that she would be angry because he's actually more interested in me then her. That I'm young and pure. Draco the only person Bellatrix loved was Voldemort"
"Stop saying his name"
"For Merlin sake Draco we have a bigger problem then his god damn name. If he's coming here he will be able to sense that we have the diary in the room. He's going to kill us before we have a chance to make a difference"
"Then we leave as soon as we have it get out of here before he gets here" Draco told her, "We need to do this now"
Kaira nodded in agreement, taking a few seconds to compose herself. She put up her fake smile again linking arms with Draco doing just as they talked about. They approached the Malfoy table together slowly making sure that both Lucius and Narcissa where there. As they got closer they both silently cheered as Lucius noticed them and stood leaving his cane and wand behind.
Narcissa made to stand up but Lucius placed a soft kiss on her head and whispered something to her which made her sit back down. Lucius made towards them offering his hand first to Draco before taking Kaira's hand and kissing it.
"Welcome to our party, I hope you both are enjoying yourself" Kaira was taken a back by this, she had never know Lucius to be like this but when Draco tensed she guess that he never actually was.
"Its all every fitting" Draco said slightly stiffly.
"Oh yes, its all so lovely" Kaira said quickly digging her nails in to Draco's hand. "But, I was hoping if it wasn't any trouble of course my I have a dance with you"
"My dear, I am the one who should be asking you, but I would be over joyed" Lucius smiled and it was a smile she had seen before one that she had seen when he was up to something, one that Draco shared.
"I was just about to ask if your wife would care to dance but it looks as tho Alphard had beaten me to it"
While it hadn't been apart of the plan having Alphard take Narcissa to dance made it somewhat easier for Draco to snatch the wand and switch them. Kaira smiled as she removed her hand from Draco's and took Lucius outstretched hand.
It seemed that almost everyone's attention was on herself and Lucius as they walked on to the dance floor. The song that started playing by the band was defiantly a extremely slow song and as Kaira and Lucius started dancing her eyes kept darting to Draco.
"Have you been enjoying yourself?" Lucius asked as he twirled her causing her to lose sight of Draco.
"Very much so, it all so beautiful"
"I'm glad you have been enjoying yourself, there have been many people waiting to meet you"
"So I've seen"
"We also have a guest arriving shortly that would very much like to meet you" Lucius smirked which only made Kaira more uneasy. As they moved around the dance floor she was constantly looking for Draco taking it as a good sigh that she couldn't find him anywhere.
"Why is he so eager to meet me?" Kaira asked and she was fairly genuine about the question.
"You're the daughter of a black, a pure blood and the fact that your still pure makes him even more interested, so untainted" Lucius told her.
Kaira wanted to snort, he wanted her because he thought she was a virgin that was laughable. She hadn't been a virgin since her sixth year when she had been with Fred for one night. Which had caused issues with Remus when he smelt the Weasley on her.
Kaira pretended to look embarrassed, looking away from Lucius making him think he was able to see right through her. It was at this time she spotted Draco coming back into the room she felt a lot more relaxed now. He gave her a small nod as he tapped under his arm. He moved quickly to Lucius table in order to change the wands.
It was at this moment when the entire room went silent as the doors at the entrance of the ball room burst open. Everyone turned to see who was coming and soon people started kneeling down.
Kaira was confused the man who stood up at the top of the stair was a man who looked to be in his Sixties with black hair and black eyes. He was dressed in an old suit and long black robes around him.
Her confusion was made worse when she felt Lucius grab ahold of her upper arm and tug her down in a bow before making her stand up straight again. Kaira watched as Lucius parents walked forward to the man greeting him with a bow. They were having a conversation and soon Lucius father was pointing in her direction. Lucius's grip got tighter on her arm as he moved closer to the man.
"My Lord. Welcome" Lucius started which caused Kaira to jerk, this was Voldemort. But he looked nothing like the Voldemort from her time, how was this possible where was the snake like appearance he had when she had first seen him back in her fifth year at the Ministry of Magic.
"Lucius, this isn't your lovely wife" Voldemort said as he looked Kaira over. She kept her eyes unfocused as she avoided making eye contact with him.
"No My Lord. This is Kaira Black, Alphard Black's daughter"
"Ah" was all he said as his hand come to touch the side of her cheek with the back of his hand. She could feel a lump lodge in her throat, she didn't want this thing touching her, she wanted to be sick.
"My Lord" She mumbled out as softly when she felt Lucius squeeze her arm tightly.
"What a pretty, young thing you are" he told her as he continued to move his cold hand against her cheek. "So pure as well, you will be very useful to our cause in years to come"
Kaira wished she was in the right place to tell him just how much she was going to fuck up his cause but she knew this wasn't the time, not when the odd were stacked so heavily against her. Voldemort started saying something to Lucius which caused him to finally let go of her arm, she bowed her head in order to keep herself composed.
"It was very nice to meet you Miss Black" she heard Voldemort say to her as he moved away from her with Lucius and a few of his other Death Eaters moving closely behind. She jumped when a hand came down on her should, turning her found Alphard looking at her with worried eyes.
"Come lets get you a seat" Alphard as he led her over to their table. Most of the Black family where there seeming watching her closely as she walked up once she was seats Alphard told her that he would grab her a drink and Draco draped an arm around her.
"You must be so excited, Kaira. Having the Dark Lord so interested in you" Walburga said she looked almost excited.
"Of course" Kaira gave a smile but it was fake. She just wanted to leave now, she had just had the man who caused her and so many other people pain touching her she wanted to be sick and kill something all at the same time.
"How can you be?" Sirius nearly yelled, Kaira cringed as she heard the disappointment in his voice.
"It's a true honour" Kaira said robotically her face was vacant and her eyes held pain. Each word she spoke caused actual pain. Alphard returned placing a small glass in front of her with a amber liquid in it, she shot it down quickly placing the cup upside down on the table when she had finished.
"I think its time he head off. Too much excitement for one night I think" Alphard said as he put a hand again on Kaira's shoulder.
"Walburga if Sirius or Regulus wish I can bring them back to my house for the night, allow yourself and Orion to have a night out" Alphard wanted to get his nephews away from this place he knew that with Voldemort there something terrible was bound to start happening.
"I'm not staying here" Sirius said defiantly. Walburga merely rolled her eyes at Sirius knowing her son hadn't want to be here anyway. Regulus opted to stay with his parents to which Alphard sighed, he kept himself close to Kaira as they made their way out of the ball room.
It had cooled down considerably since they had come and Draco took of his suit coat and helped Kaira into it. She took this as an opportunity to move the diary from the jacket pocket into her bag hearing it drop all they way to the bottom with a satisfying thud.
Draco and Kaira was a bit further ahead on the path to the carriages Alphard had purposely hung back and got Sirius to hang back with him allowing for Draco and Kaira to talk.
"How could she act like that? She's never acted that way at school" Sirius fumed beside his uncle, he had never fully trusted his new cousin. No body just appears out of now where in the magical world and those who do always end up causing problems.
"Sometimes Sirius things aren't always as they seem" Alphard started, "You, yourself know that people used to think you where like the rest of our family but that wasn't true"
"But she let him touch her, she just stood there and let him do it and then everyone was going on about how he was so interested in her that she would make a great bride for him, that they would make powerful babies. She can't seriously be considering any of this"
"There is a lot more to your cousin. She's told you about how her mother fought against the He Who Must Not be Named well I see a lot of her mother in her, that women could be anyone she needed to be at the time. Its actually how we met"
"I was at a party my darling mother forced me to go to in order to find a wife and there she was playing the role of a pure blood. Going along with all the pure blood rubbish but you could see it in her eyes, she was taking all the little bits of information and storing it"
Sirius stared at the backs of his cousin and her friend. "But what could she have possibly learning tonight that she could have used against Him tonight"
"Anything is a weapon if you know how to use it properly" Alphard replied vaguely as they approached the pair. Kaira and Draco had come to a stop by one of the Carriages for the rest of the time to the apparitions stop they were all quiet.
Once they apparated to the house Kaira rushed into the house and up the stairs leaving Hermione greeting the rest of them with a soft smile. It wasn't long as Alphard made tea for all of them that they heard the shower taps turn of full blast. Draco had disappeared up stairs as well giving the excuse that he wished to change into comfortable clothing saying he would grab clothes for Sirius as well.
Sirius sat down at the kitchen table which had dozen of books scattered, some open while other closed ones where stacked. There was rolls of parchment and several ink wells in front of the open book. Hermione took the seat in front of the parchments picking up a quil from one of the wells and started writing again.
It was quiet, with only the noise of Hermione's quil and the shower for a fair while. Alphard placed a cup in front of Sirius and Hermione leaving two others on the bench for Kaira and Draco.
"Alphard, would you be able to tell me about the Basilisk?" Hermione's question to Sirius seemed out of no where but Alphard her been receiving questioned like this often from Hermione.
"What are you specifically wanting to know Hermione?"
"If, say you where able to break into the Chamber of Secrets, how would you kill it?"
"The Chamber of Secrets, that's a Slytherin Myth" Sirius told Hermione who merely glanced his way.
"It's not a Myth Sirius, back when I had first started at school. It had been opened and it can only be opened by the Heir of Slytherin. Supposedly, but I imagine that if someone knew some Parseltongue then they would be able to get in" Alphard started, "When I was starting school a girl was killed by the Basilisk. I remember being in the common room when some of the older students where talking about it"
"Because you started school when Voldemort was at Hogwarts" Hermione stated as Draco walked into the dinning room he had some clothes in one arm and a black book in the other. Draco cringed as she said his name but handed the clothes to Sirius and place the book in front of Hermione.
"Yes but he went by a different name then"
"Tom Marvolo Riddle" Draco spoke softly as he grabbed his tea and took a seat next to Hermione, moving some of her books out of the way.
"Yes, even then, he seemed dangerous" Alphard shuddered at the though. "But to answer your question Hermione, I don't know it wasn't something talked about. Perhaps you should get into contact with Newt Scamander he might have some thoughts for you"
"I hadn't thought about Newt" Hermione's eyes went wide, she was excited with the prospect of being about to talk with a much younger Newt Scamander.
It was at this time the shower finally turned off. Draco had his eyes trained on the door, he knew it wouldn't be long till his cousin made her appearance and he wonder just how much crying she had done. As he was changing her wondered past the bathroom door hearing her weeping on the other side of the door.
"It didn't go well then" Hermione stated rather then asked.
"It went to plan but, he has taken an interest in Kaira. She has a lot bigger target on her back now" Draco explained and tho they knew that Alphard and Sirius could hear them they didn't care.
"Sirius I think it's time we head to bed" Alphard said as footsteps descended the stairs. He stood putting a tight grip on Sirius' shoulder guiding him out of his chair.
Alphard lead him out of the dinning room and down a corridor off to the side of the stairs where one of the several spare bedrooms where already set up.
Sirius was now more suspicious of the action of that off his cousin and her friends. Once he was sure that his Uncle was in his bed and he had heard Kaira, Hermione and Draco head into a sitting room. He changed into his dog room and made his was quietly down the corridor.
He has managed to slip into the sitting room with out alerting any of them to his presence. He crawled his way under one of the love seats that Draco was sitting on.
Kaira sat in a single chair of to his left and Hermione on the other love seat to his right and on the coffee table in font of him where two tea cups for Draco and Hermione and a in front of Kaira sat a small glass with dark amber liquid in it.
"Well we have the Diary now. Now what?" Draco said as he tossed the Diary on the coffee table. Kaira leaned forward grabbing at her glass and took a small sip.
"We can't destroy it yet" Hermione reasoned, it was logical, some of them wouldn't be born if they started destroying the Horcrux's.
"Then we need to put it somewhere so it doesn't affect us" Kaira said as she cringed at the memory of a first year Ginny Weasley being manipulated but the Diary.
"There's also what happened at the party we need to discuss Kaira" Draco said as he leaned back on his chair.
"What actually happened?" Hermione questioned as she looked between the pair.
"Voldemort has an interest in me" Kaira stated simply as she took another sip of her drink tho this time it was more like a gulp.
"Interest would be an understatement Kaira. People where talking about how good of a bride you would be for him" Draco snapped at his cousin at her off handedness.
"It's not like it's ever going to happen Draco, Merlin sake. You didn't have that piece of shit touching you so stop" Kaira snarled at him.
"Stop acting like him having an interest in you as no big deal Kaira, he just placed a massive target on your back"
"What you call a target, I call an advantage. He has no idea just how much we can fuck up his perfect little world plan. He thinks I'm some dumb pure witch who isn't going to go against him"
"That's it Kaira we can screw it up but if he finds this out that target is only going to get bigger. We should have gotten out of their the moment we heard he was going to be coming. Left the diary for another time" Draco said as he scowled.
"We have the diary, that's what matters. Its in our hands now and knowing that Voldemort is interested means that we just have to be more cautious now. I imagine many on the Slytherin house will be made it keep an eye on you Kaira, we have to watch out for this" Hermione reasoned as she looked at the Heiress.
Kaira scowled, "Your acting like I'm weak, I can handle this"
"Not saying you can't handle this Kaira but out of all of us you're more likely to do something idiotic" Hermione said softly. Kaira scowl only deepened as she downed the rest of her drink.
"I'm not an idiot, I'm not going to get myself killed for something stupid" Kaira muttered as she stormed out of the room.
Hermione and Draco sat in silence for a small while. Before Draco broke it.
"You know Lupin will be the reason she does something stupid don't you?"
"You have no idea of the bond they have Draco. It's something far beyond our knowledge, she would never do anything to hurt him and her dying would end up killing him" Hermione said with a small sigh, this perked Sirius interest not that their whole conversation didn't.
What bond did Kaira and Remus have he hadn't really seen them interact in a different why, he was vaguely aware of Hermione leaving the room and shortly followed by Draco.
Sirius was more interested in his cousin now more then he had been before and this interest more focused on his best friend. If she dies so does he, echoed around in his head as he headed back to his room and laid on his bed staring at the ceiling. Whatever bond his cousin and best friend had he wouldn't let it kill Remus. At any cost.