Title: Back to the Future Chapter Five: Relaying the Message Author: Kitty Malfoy

K! As promised this chapter will be all about Draco and Sirius getting Serenity's message! If you like it, please review!

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Sirius Black sat bolt upright in his four-poster bed, gasping for air. His sharp brown eyes darted around searching around him and piercing through the shadows.

It had all felt so real. Her breath on his skin and her weight in his arms. He closed his eyes and instantly saw her again. Her golden hair fell across her acute features and glowed in the moonlight. A blood-red tunic of the finest silk encased her shapely body, and swirled about her with the unseen wind. Her face turned away from gazing at the stars, and her captivating sapphire eyes light up with delight.

He opened his eyes again, and there she was kneeling in front of him, pale and ethereal, and ghost-like. She leaned downwards and captured his lips. It was a cold kiss.the kiss of a ghost. Sirius closed his eyes for the merest fraction of a second, and she was gone. Disappearing back into the night where she came from.

Serenity Malfoy. His true love.

Memories of his past that he didn't have before had been crowded into his mind so suddenly. Memories of a girl that didn't exist when he was young leapt into his thoughts constantly. Deep, sapphire eyes haunted his every moment, and he was crazily in love with this girl who was probably dead now.

With a groan he swung his legs over to the side of the bed, and walked over to his closet. Grabbing an ordinary black robe he shrugged it on and strode out into the hallway, towards breakfast.

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"Yes, Draco, I know what you're dealing with, but we can't just barge into your father's home without cause!" Hermione Granger, Headmistress of Hogwarts argued.

"But he's killing her! I can feel it!"

"Draco, please!"

"'Mione! You know my father. You know what he can do!" Draco shouted, slamming his fist down on her desk.

"Yes, I do." She whispered quietly.

"And yet you still insist on hiding here behind your desk, and doing nothing?!" He growled.

Hermione sighed and nodded.

"Then I will do it alone. I have waited long enough." He said quietly and strode purposefully to the door. Hermione ran to him.

"You can't go!"

"He almost killed her once. I won't let him do it again."

Just then the door flung open, almost knocking them both over, and a man ran in.

"Who are you?" Hermione asked politely, glad for the delay in Draco's departure.

"Nic Goodwin. Conductor of the Knight Bus." He panted, clearly exhausted.

"Are you all right, would like to sit down?" Hermione asked in concern.

"No. No. I need to find Draco Malfoy and Sirius Black. Immediately!" He gasped.

Draco's head snapped up. "And why would you want to talk to those two in particular?"

"I didn't pick 'em." He said, catching his breath. "I was instructed to give them a message from a girl named Serenity Malfoy."

Draco's eyes widened in shock.

"She was in quite a spot of trouble she was, but she spoke in my head clear as day. Quite polite she was too." Hermione gave him a strange look.

"In your head, did you say?" She asked.

"Yes, ma'am. And I'm not crazy neither."

"That's Sere all right!" Draco interrupted. Then he was running out of the room, and down the hallway towards the Transfiguration room.

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Ravenclaw and Gryffindor students were totally concentrated on transfiguring a lit candle into a rabbit, when the heartthrob of many schoolgirls, Draco Malfoy, came bursting through the door.

He face was flushed, and his robes were in disarray, but many sighs went through the room, none the less. Professor Black who had been helping a student straightened quickly, and looked over at Malfoy.

"Can I-" he started.

"Serenity-" Was all Draco managed to say before Sirius was at his side, and the two ran out of the room again.

The students sat in silence for a moment before a Ravenclaw girl sighed. "Man isn't he HOT?!"

The entire room dissolved into chatter and giggles, as they abandoned their candles and rabbits, and took advantage of the lack of supervision.

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"Right then. She said Saturday, midnight, uh King's Graveyard. Does that make any sense to you?" Nic asked.

Draco buried his head in his hands. "It makes perfect sense. My father is going to make her a Death Eater." He raised his head. "We have to do something NOW, Headmistress."

Hermione took off her reading glasses and cleaned them, distractedly, with a piece of cloth. "Yes-Yes.of-of of course, naturally."

Draco started to stand, but Nic began to speak again.

"Wait! There was, uh, there was something else. What was it?" He questioned to himself. "Oh, yes! She told me to give this to Professor Black, and that he'd know what it means, 'cuz it beats me."

Nic rummaged in his pockets for a moment, while Sirius waited on in deadly impatience. Just when Sirius was thinking of the best way to roast his entrails, Nic let out a cry of triumph. "Yeah, here's the little devil."

He held out his hand to Sirius, and held in between his fingers was a plain gold band encrusted with diamonds. Sirius' breath hitched, and his stomach did a flip-flop.

His hand shook violently, as he reached out and took the ring that Nic relinquished, gratefully. Slowly his fingers curled around the ring and he brought it to his lips. Waves of memories washed over him.

Graduation. The Proposal. The Fight. And The Fall. He thought he had lost the ring, and now it felt as if a hole deep inside of him began to close, even though the ache still remained.

Hermione came up behind him and laid a hand on his shoulder. "Sirius. What does it mean?" She prodded, gently.

Sirius dropped his fist again, and looked up at her. His eyes were filled with such raw emotion, that Hermione took a step backwards. Suddenly she gasped as realization dawned on her.

"Oh god, Siri!" She exclaimed.

"What is it? What does it mean?" Draco pressed, confused.

Hermione turned to him, her eyes brimming with tears for her friend's pain. "It's an engagement ring." She replied quietly.

Draco paused for a moment processing what that meant, and then asked: "And what does that mean?"

Sirius looked up at him stonily. " She'd never give this to me unless she thought.....It means that if we don't save her on Saturday, she'll die."

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Sirius stalked along the hallway, as a distant clock chime the midnight hour. A black shape detached itself from the shadows and fell into step alongside the brooding Professor.

"Why did you leave your class in such a hurry, and leave your students UNATTENDED?!" A silky voice, growled.

Sirius bristled and said back in a grisly tone, "I got a message from Serenity. You remember her, don't you, Severus?"

Severus' face paled, and his eyes darkened. "Serenity?"

"Yeah, she had a message for me and Draco, but she didn't mention you AT ALL..She must not like you as much as you thought." Sirius growled.

Severus' lip curled in anger. "At least I didn't kill Ragna!" he shot back.

"And I didn't knock her down the stairs!" Sirius snapped back. Low blow, Sirius he thought to himself.

Severus whirled on him, and they both drew their wands.

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