Instant Inspo for this chapter help of Cicilia Orrio (sp) everyone say hi. Um, yea. I think I got about three more chapters left in this story and then I start the sequel.

It was that annoying week. The pseudo vacation. It was where the school pretended it was giving you time off but in truth you spent the whole week studying for exames. Yes, it was Spring Break at Hogwarts and not a single person in all of Slytherin house went home. Most of the Hufflepuffs did and a few Griffindors, but the Slytherins and especially the studious Ravenclaws were all glued to their books.

Thankfully there was a Hogsmeade weekend right at the end of the week giving all the book crackers an excuse to rest their weary and filled brains.

Hogsmeade was exactly where Lucius, Severus and Li, along with the rest of the population of students who had stayed, were. Lucius visibly winced as a young Hufflepuff girl frolicked around the town happy to be outdoors.

"I hate bloody Hufflepuffs," Lucius complained as he took a sip of his butterbeer.

"So damn cheerful," Li agreed.

"The worst part is they try to make the rest of the world be cheerful," Severus commented.

"Why can't they leave us to sit and drink our butterbeer in peace without their singing and skipping?" Li demanded. "I'm glad there are few Hufflepuffs in our year."

"Didn't you tell me the hat threatened to put you in Hufflepuff?" Severus teased.

"It did. It told me I needed to loosen up and I would in Hufflepuff. I threatened it with scissors and it agreed to put me in Slytherin," Li told them.

"I remember that," Lucius said. "I was wondering why that spending a long time thinking about that one cause right after you threatened it the hat called out boy was shouting threats at the hat. I think you cursed worse than I do now. I knew you would make a good Slytherin."

"I remember you threatened to dismember the hat and I remember Slytherin," Severus reminisced.

"Yea, remember we spent weeks wondering where you slept?" Lucius said.

"Took you guys a whole year to put two and two together," Li snickered.

"Not our fault. You look and act like a boy and as innocent first years," Lucius started and was interrupted by Li's snort. "Ok, more innocent than we are now and we did not suspect such things of people. We were very trusting back then." Li snorted into her butterbeer again.

"Trusting? Severus didn't trust anyone to work with him in potions cause he was afraid they would mess it up. And you Lucius would not tell anyone anything. You two would put spells on anyone you told anything to, even what you had for breakfast so it would go off if they told," Li argued.

"Oh shut up," Lucius tried to say in an annoyed tone of voice but traces of laughter were evident.

"You guys wouldn't talk to me until I pulled a prank on Potter and co," Li reminded them.

"We didn't know about you till you did," Lucius defended himself. "Anyway, the reason we met you was because switched the oils with pure water and the potion they were working on blow up in their faces. Then you were sent to the office where I was for my 'authority problems'"

"I was there because of my 'anti-social problems.' They were worried about me because I kept to myself. I swear the nurse asked if I had mental problems. She's a bloody loony," Severus remarked.

"Yea, I remember you sat by yourself and snarled at anyone who sat next to you," Li said.

"And you were the one who had a book in his hands all the time," Lucius told her.

"And you were surrounded by Crabbe and Goyle," Severus said.

"I didn't like the first few weeks of school," Li shuddered.

"Remember in the office we turned all the pictures around?" Severus asked.

"Actually Li and I did that, you just helped. Dumbledor wasn't there so we all introduced ourselves and you sulked off to a corner. Li and I started switching the pictures around and you joined in after making sure you message of sulking got through to us," Lucius laughed.

"We got in so much trouble for that. We were sent to clean out the cages of the various creatures the Care of Magical Creatures Professor had," Li commented.

"We got some pretty bad cut from that. Do you guys still have your talons?" Lucius inquired.

"Course," Severus assured him. "We spent so much time finding them, why would I lose mine?"

"I got mine here," Li told them producing the talon that was under her shirt on a chain.

"You're such a girl, wearing it as a necklace," Lucius snickered.

"You know how quickly I lose things, if I took it off I would lose it," Li protested.

"I still have a scar from trying to get those things," Lucius put in. He lifted his sleeve to reveal a mark on his arm.

"Wow, I can't believe we have only one more year," Li said.

"One more year," Severus repeated. The three sat in silence for a bit before the noise of the street reached them. The three bounded out of their seats, leaving money on the table. They quickly exited the bar. People were running everywhere, it was mass hysteria. Screams could be hear in the distance.

"What's going on?" Lucius demanded out of a random third year he had grabbed.

"Deatheaters!" the first year choked. Lucius released his grip on the boy who promptly began running again.

"What are we going to do?" Severus asked.

"We're going to join the Dark Lord," Lucius told them. He started off in the direction of the most recent scream. There weren't any deatheaters currently in sight.

"He'll kill me," Li shot back. "I might be a Slytherin but he doesn't care about such things. He only cares if you are muggle born or not and if you've forgotten I am a muggle born."

"Let's get all the Slytherin muggle borns out of here," Severus suggested. Lucius just stood there.

"You can join him another day. You're house is more important than you blood," Li reminded him. Lucius made a decision.

"Ok, let's go," he said. The three took off down the street in different directions. Everyone they found they herded toward the carriages. Li, Severus and Lucius raced behind the frightened people. The students were running on fear and could not tell much difference between three rumored to be cruel and dark Slytherins and the death eaters. The three herded the people like cattle toward the carriages.

"You get these!" Lucius shouted at them. "I'll get those ones!" Lucius pointed to a group who had started running in the wrong direction. Li nodded as she and Severus began pushing the students closer in toward the carriages. Some refused to move for they had been petrified in their fright. Li and Severus lit their wands to make them look more threatening to non-moving people.

"Go to Hogwarts!" Li shouted as she closed to the door to a carriage that contained several muggle born Slytherins.

"Li! You have to get out of here yourself," Severus yelled at her as he sent off another carriage.

"I can't, I have to get all of them. I won't see someone die," Li protested.

"You're too softhearted to be a Slytherin. Go now before I tell Lucius."

"Where is he?" Li shouted.

"I think he's trying to divert the death eaters from other Slytherins," Severus called back. The wind picked up and a cloud passed over the sun. The dark mark, a skull with a snake coming out of it's mouth, rose up over the town in green lights.

"You have to go now!" Severus insisted. He attempted to shove Li into a carriage.

"We have to get Lucius out of here. He could be killed for helping mudbloods."

"He'll be fine just go." As he said this several long hooded figures emerged from behind the corner. Li gasped in surprise. She had though they would go to the town first and not try to get the students. In this moment Severus pushed Li into the carriage and slammed the door shut. The carriage took off. Several death eaters shot spells at the carriage but all missed. Li banged on the door yelling as the image of Severus being held at wand point came into her mind.

They would kill him. They would kill both of them. Somehow they had known she was muggle born and they were going to kill Lucius and Severus for it. Li watched as the carriage drove away from Hogsmeade. Why had Severus done that? Why had he sacrificed himself that way? It didn't matter; all that mattered now was to tell Dumbledore what was happening.

The carriage screeched to a halt and Li vaulted out of it and scrambled toward the office. She pounded on the door to McGonagol's office until the door opened.

"What is going on?" McGonagol demanded.

"Attack on Hogsmeade," Li panted.

"Are you sure?" McGonagol asked. She wasn't ready to believe a Slytherin when they told her a story like that. Li nodded impatiently. A younger student that Li had shoved into the carriage earlier ran up to them.

"Deatheaters are in Hogemeade," the girl told the professor. McGonagol's face changed instantly. She grabbed both Li and the girl and dragged them toward Dumbeldore's office.

"Salt water Taffy," she told the gargoyle. The Gargoyle promptly moved so they could get through. "There's been an attack on…" she trailed off. The office was completely empty. There was a note on the desk. McGonagol turned pale as she read it. Li peeked at the words over her shoulder.

Minerva,

Went out to fight Deatheaters. Be back in time for tea.

Albus Dumbledore

"He makes it sound as if he was going to the movies or something," McGonagol mumbled. She then noticed Li and the girl were still there. "Well get going." Li and the girl went outside. They turned in their opposite directions and began to walk off.

"Excuse me, Evans," the girl called back. Li stopped where she was but didn't turn around. "Thanks for saving my life today. If it weren't for you I would still be back there. People told me that you should be avoided at all costs and you would kill me if you got the chance, but thank you for saving me."

"Forget it," Li snapped back. "I thought you were somebody else. If you want to be all emotional I'll send you flying." Li heard the girl's footsteps retreating quickly away. Li walked purposefully toward her common room.

"Wingardium," she told the portrait. It swung open to reveal Lucius and Severus sitting on the couch talking amiably. She ran toward them and pounced effectively knocking them off the couch.

"You don't have to go and be all emotional," Lucius told her. "Not like we were in any trouble."

"What happened?" Li asked.

"Nothing much," Lucius shrugged.

"What happened?" Li asked more forcefully.

"Had a chat with the deatheaters. Quite nice blokes, they want me to be a deatheater when I leave Hogwarts," Lucius replied calmly.

"Yes, they asked if I wanted to as well," Severus said conversationally.

"They gave me a demonstration on some spiders of some curses and such."

"They said they had heard about my potions skills."

"You two sound like you're talking about the weather," Li snorted. Indeed their tone of voice suggested they were talking about nothing of great importance and certainly not about an encounter with deatheaters.

"What, you weren't worried or anything were you?" Lucius teased in a light voice. His voice was one of an older brother teasing his sister about her latest crush.

"Course not. It would just be a bit quiet here without you two sods. Probably be a bit more sensible too," she argued. The three of them got into a polite toned argument about whether or not Li was worried. Each laughed and joked about what had happened that day, but each was thinking about how close they had come to losing their life.

Bad ending, but I'm moving closer to my goal. My mum wants me to clean my room so I'd better go. Thanks for the ideas. Bye.