Author`s note: There we go, the first chapter!!! I really did not know up to now if I can really do it, but here it goes. I hope you like it. It is dedicated to my Beta-reader LuSa, not only because she reads all the crazy stuff I write. No, because now a person she really loves enters the scene: Draco Malfoy! Oh and by the way, what I wanted to add, did I tell you how awesome Alan Rickman looks when he is playing an Angel. I urge you to watch Dogma. Don`t miss that one, he is soooo cute! ( I know I am crazy*g*)

Disclaimer: Guess what? Yeah you`re right, it`s J.K.R !!!!

Chapter 1: Trustworthy beginnings???

It was dark outside. He loved the darkness, he feeled comfortable and unobserved in it. There where no questions, only silence. He could almost see the questioning glances of his collegues, students or whomever else. What did they know? His face hardened while thinking of it. Infact he has been alone ever since he could remember. Even during his childhood he has always been regarded as an outcast which strangely did not matter to him though everybody thought that was why he had joined the dark forces in the first place. It was so easy to refer to ones past….but things are never that simple. A discovery Severus Snape, potion master of Hogwarts, had already made several times. He observed a raven who was sitting on a tree not far away. Somehow he was like that bird, dark and alone, but there was one thing why he envied the raven: He was free, something he would never accomplish. Not now or ever in his whole life.

The sunlight came through her window and enlightened her face. No, she would not consider herself beautiful, but people who get to know her really know that there is something about her. Something which makes her special. On the surface she is the ambitious, wise woman, but there was more. Those who limited her to her brains did not know her really and she realized that there were far too many who did so. *breath* She told herself and with that she inhaled the smells of a new day that has just begun. Suddenly she felt all overwhelmed and lost herself in this moment when she finally noticed that it was already half past seven. Time, she told herself, runs by far too fast. Already in her schoolyears when she had a time turner for a short while, Hermione Granger had the feeling that she had not enough of it. Not enough time…..

"Late Granger?" Hermione stopped at an instance. Could that be? Oh no, she told herself, this can`t be Draco Malfoy, sitting there in front of her office, staring at her. She pulled herself together. " I don`t know if that is any of your business Mr Malfoy but since you delight me with you presence, pray tell me why you`re here and then get the hell out of here" Wow!! He thought, that was not the girl he remembered from his school days. Well, she always had been the shadow of Potter and Weasley, that`s why he never really had noticed her at all. Maybe he had to evaluate his opinion of her….maybe she wasn`t that kind of a Griffindor-know-it-all anylonger. No, he told himself, she will always stay Griffindor, but……there was a little but which he could not yet pronounce and he was glad for it. This crazy thinking began to scare the hell out of him. "Well, I thought you wanted to know any news about the fate of Virginia Weasley, but since you seem to be rather busy, I won`t …" "Ginny? What do you know?" Suddenly all her bad feelings about Draco Malfoy vanished in an instance. Ginny was missing since Christmas, now it was early May and while the search for her has not stopped yet, nearly nobody thought she was still living. There were rumors that she had been captured by Death Eaters and that they had tortured her, raped her, she did not even want to think about it. The last months she had spent on research with Harry and Ron, who where Aurors by now. Harry has never been the same again since her mysterious dissapearence. Somehow he thought that it was all is fault because he broke up with her only an hour before no one has ever seen her again. Hermione was quite sure that that was not the case and that Ginny has been captured by the dark forces only could she not guess why. Why for heaven sake Virginia Weasley? She did almost forget that she was still standing in front of her office and that Draco Malfoy still glared at her. "I think it might be more appropriate if we can discuss that in your office." He sneered. She was catched totally off-guard. "Of-co-course. Please, would you come in". Hell, she was behaving friendly towards that Malfoy git, she wondered what has happened that made her so, so, so, …..she could not find a word for it. Nevermind, now she was sitting here in her office opposite to Draco Malfoy, who`s father is a Death Eater after all. Could she trust him?

"Ten points from Griffindor" He did not know how often the halls from Hogwarts have heard him say these words, not that it did matter to him anyway. This night was, compared to some he had endured in his past, rather quiet. A couple of Griffindors out at night was nothing unusual after all. He just came from the headmaster`s office who brought him the news that Albus did not want him to spy anylonger, or if he insisted then he must accept some help in potions.He hated it. All he wanted was to be left alone, so that he could do his job. After all it was not only for his sake but also for their sake he grumbled while he stroled down to the dungeons. If it was not for Albus he would never have accepted to such an offer. Now all he hoped was that the person he had to work with was someone who did NOT insist on his company. But,he thought who would want the company of a greasy old git like he was. He reflected on that one while he strode through the dungeons. As he came to his chambers he came to a conclusion: Absolutley no one. And with that he closed the door to his chambers and to his heart behind him.

Dragonfly: Thank you very much, hope you liked the sequel!!!

LuSa: Thx a lot. Yeah, we must talk about the co-pro very soon. Oh, and tell me, what you think about Draco, after all, you`re the expert!*g*