Draco woke up to the sound of Alexander's annoyed voice sharply telling him to wake up.

"I don't wanna go to school Mummy," Draco joked. (A/N: I just HAD to put that! Lol!)

"School?" Alexander echoed questioningly. Obviously these people didn't get education.

Draco sat up and rubbed his eyes. He was about to get his clothes when he remembered that he wasn't in his dorm in Hogwarts, but in a family's house that he didn't know very well. He had dreamt of Hogwarts that night and found that he missed the wrecked old place a great deal, like a snail misses its shell.

"You have been sleeping for too long. It is 9 o'clock already, and yet you would not wake up!" Alexander exclaimed angrily.

"Well, I usually get up at ten or eleven when I stay awake until three in the morning," Draco explained. He was usually a morning person. If he went to sleep at midnight, he would wake up at eight, fully refreshed. But he went to sleep much later the night before and had been sleeping like a baby, and would still be if there wasn't for that brat.

"Well get downstairs and have some breakfast already." Alexander left the room. Draco yawned and followed.

Downstairs was a bowl on the table with what looked like gruel. Draco wrinkled his nose and started eating with a wooden spoon that rested by his bowl. In came Jennifer and smiled at him. "Morning sleepyhead," she said.

"Where's Virginia?" Draco asked.

"I was about to ask you the same thing, actually," Jennifer said.

Draco dropped his spoon into the bowl. "She's gone?"

"I have not seen her all morning," Jennifer said candidly, but the panic was showing clearly in her eyes.

Draco stood up and headed for the door. "Where are you going?" Jennifer asked.

"I'm gonna look for her in the garden," he replied.

Ginny wasn't in the garden. Draco looked at the trees. There was a nymph looking at him with a smirk in there. He walked over to it.

"Where's Virginia?" he asked.

"Who on earth is Virginia?" the nymph asked.

"Have you seen a girl with fiery red hair and freckles?" he asked.

The nymph pointed a finger at him. "Ah, yes. She was in our Glory and we took her as a prisoner. We shall probably make her one of us," said the nymph. Glory was what they called their place where they lived. Trespassers weren't very welcome in their Glory.

"You're going to make a vampire a nymph? That's an odd combination, don't you think?" Draco asked.

The nymph was shocked beyond words. Nymphs hated vampires, and feared them more than death himself. "But why has she not turned to dust yet, seeing as the sun is up?"

"She's half. All strengths but no weaknesses. She has half her own blood in her veins," Draco explained in a cold, evil voice. "Take me to her," he said.

The nymph smiled knowingly. "No. She has not tried anything yet and we will keep her to make sure you do your task. Cheerio." And with that, the nymph disappeared.

*****

"Let me go!" Ginny ordered as the nymphs proceeded to tie her up in ropes of their own making. They were very strong, and vampire or no, she could not break them. She struggled and kicked all she could but the ropes were far out of her league.

There weren't very many nymphs, just about twenty, and Ginny would have expected more, but there wasn't. There were nymphs with brown hair, golden hair, light blonde hair, soft brown hair, and a few with red hair. Ginny feared them.

"My dear girl, you must stay still, or it will be far more painful than we intend," said one of the nymphs who was tying her left arm.

They had provided clothes for her and she was wearing a dark green dress made out of silk that reached her knees and had slits up to her waist. The straps of her dress were broad and huddled together, making big and dark wrinkles. They circled her neck and the bottom went down to her chest and created more deep wrinkles. The back of the dress left her back bare but covered her rear end comfortably.

The dress was beautiful, she had to admit, but she couldn't admire it in this situation. There was a nymph with pure white hair about twenty feet away from her with a knife in hand and was playing with it like a baby would do with its doll.

Ginny breathed heavily as the nymphs finished tying her to the tree and she looked at the sharp knife in fear. "What will you do to me? What do you want from me?!" she asked.

The nymph with the knife stepped closer and the other ones made way. "We are running low of our kind, and we need more. Not many people pass through these woods due to people never returning. We need only one more in our group for a complete pack. The reason is because we are originally sea nymphs. Our Father, Nereus the Sea God, commanded us to go to land and find another to live amongst us, giving us the body and habitat of wood nymphs, and we were not allowed to return to our beloved sea before we find someone. We have been here for many years and have found none suitable for a nymph, until now," the nymph said.

It stepped closer. "You want to turn me into a nymph? Don't you think it's a bit too. . .much for a 16 year old?" Ginny asked desperately.

The nymph laughed. "I am Megana, the leader of my group, and I am transforming you," the nymph said, not bothering to answer her unnecessary question.

Ginny swallowed. She certainly didn't like this. Suddenly, a nymph came running towards Megana and whispered something in her leader's ear. Megana's pink eyes widened. She looked over at the trembling Ginny and smirked.

"You are a vampire I hear," she said. Ginny nodded. "Half. I cannot transform you, consider yourself lucky. But we do have use for you. A silver haired man came here last night and we commanded him to find other men for us to feed on. Only then he would be free."

"Draco-" Ginny breathed.

"Oh, you know that man? Well, since you admit it, we will keep you here until he does his job, and then we will set you free," Megana said.

"At least don't keep me tied to this tree," Ginny pleaded.

"I am sorry that cannot be arranged, vampire," she said and walked away.

*****

Draco was furious with the nymphs. If he was going to get back to his time he'd have to get all the men and turn them in. But it would be hard to convince them to go into that forest because of the rumours that it was haunted, so he thought against it. He had to remember the spell against nymphs.

He spent the next few days in his room trying to remember the spell. Writing down some suggestions and trying them on rocks etc. etc. He only remembered the DADA teacher saying that if you try a spell on a rock and it turned blue, then melted, it would work on a nymph.

He tried so many spells that he lost count. Forty? Fifty? He didn't know. He sat once again in his room and thought about it.

He tried the Avada Kedavra, Cruciatus, EVERYTHING!!! But the rocks stayed the same, if it didn't explode or vibrate. He had nearly given up when there was a knock on the door.

"Come in," Draco said. The door opened and Jennifer stepped in.

"Come and eat, you have not eaten all day. It is dawn already," she beseeched. Draco shook his head. He wasn't feeling hungry at all. Jennifer sat down beside him and cupped his face with her hands, forcing him to look at her.

"She will be alright, I swear it. Alexander and Orlando are out looking for her," she assured him and removed her hands very slowly. Draco's head didn't move. "You really do love her don't you?"

This startled Draco. "I don't-"

"Ssh. I see the way you've been acting and the way you looked at her when you two entered the house. I can see it in your eyes." Draco looked away and found a new interest in his hands. He didn't know that Ginny had had the very same talk with the very same woman just a few days before.

"What does love feel like?" he asked. The question surprised him more than it surprised Jennifer, who smiled.

"You feel like you have wings on your ankles, you are happy when the person you love enters the room. Your heart aches whenever your love exits the room. You feel responsible for them and want to do whatever you can to keep them safe-" she paused when she realised that she had been blabbing on like a five year old would about a Barbie.

Jennifer left him to think about what she had just said and she smiled. "Teenagers. They never know when the love bug bites them."

A/N: OK that chapter's over and done with. Have I been long? I'm sorry I keep thinking it's been a short time when it's been a week! I'm really sorry! I've been tired! : (

Ok please review cos I luv them!!! *hint hint* ; ) ok toodles! : DeHe