SOOOOOO sorry it took this long but I just moved. N/E wayz enjoy!!!
Disclaimer: DER DE DER DER!!! You know I don't own HP and its characters (although I do wish I owned Draco!!). And if I did would I be writing this stuff??? NO! I would be rolling in the dough so therefore all this pretty much belongs to J.K.R. (except Jessica!!).
Chapter One---------
"Last call for Hogwarts!" the wizard in blue yelled.
With that said I quickly boarded the train to Hogwarts, school of witchcraft and wizardry. It was nothing new to me of course. I mean had I not been attending Durmstrang for the past six years. Hogwarts would be a breeze. I had transferred to Hogwarts for my seventh year. It's quite simple why, too.
My family and I had lived in Romania when I attended Durmstrang. When my summer break came I would have a serious shock. My father had broken the news to me about Hogwarts almost immediately. He said we were to move to London before the new semester. I asked why, but he simply looked at my right arm. I knew that look and what it meant. Acerbus Opertet Evalesco*. It meant another mission.
I still though don't understand why I must attend a school that allows Mudbloods. Not to say I'm pureblooded either but I do come from a wizardring background. You could say I was inter-breeded. My father was a wizard, my mother…a vampire. But nonetheless I was not Muggle born.
Once I was on the train I quickly looked for seat, hopefully alone or with someone decent enough. Luckily, I found an empty compartment that I thought I would have all to myself. Not likely.
I was listening to my walkman, when I felt the presence of three. When I looked up there stood two guys and a girl, a red head, a brunette, and a black haired boy who was unmistakably Harry Potter.
"Can I help you three?" I simply asked.
Potter spoke first, "Do you mind if we join you? All the other seats are taken."
I nodded my head and the three sat down.
"Hi, I'm Ron Weasley." the red head said sticking his arm out to shake my hand.
I decided to use my last name instead of my first.
"Crow." I said shaking Weasley's hand.
Then the girl spoke, "Crow? That's a strange name, but who am I to say? Anyways I'm Hermione Granger."
She thought my name was weird. PLEASE! That name had more syllables then my whole name put together! Then it dawned on me. Wasn't this Krum's ex?
"I haven't seen you around here before, but you're too old to be a first year." Potter said.
"Well Potter if you must know, I'm a seventh year transfer from Durmstrang. Oh yes, next time introduce yourself first…its called being polite." I answered.
"Forgive him." A different voice said. "Because of that little scar of his he's forgotten his manners. But allow me to introduce myself: Malfoy, Draco Malfoy."
I looked up to meet two cold gray eyes. There stood the most handsome guy I had ever seen. He had silvery blonde hair that was slicked back, aligned facial features, gorgeous eyes. But that wasn't all. He was wearing a black ribbed shirt that showed off his sculpted chest and some black jeans. Right on his ear he had a piercing on the cartilage which adorned a small silver hoop.
"Pleasure to meet you Draco. I'm Jessica Crow." I said forgetting only to use my last name.
Draco began ran a finger through my black hair all the way down to the red tip. I shuddered a bit. He was making a move on me… but then again I was letting him.
"Leave her alone Malfoy!" Potter shouted at him.
"Now, now Pothead. I was acquainting myself." Draco replied resting his hand on my shoulder.
"Well acquaint yourself somewhere else." Potter said.
Draco took his hand off my shoulder and looked as if h was going to strike Potter.
"So I see Potter has another crush other than Granger." Draco said. Granger blushed slightly at this. "I'll back off but lets leave the decision up to Crow."
Now it was up to me. Should I stay or should I go? As much as I wanted to leave I forced myself to stay. I had to stay.
"I'll catch up with you later Draco." I said.
Draco looked at me with a cold entrancing stare. I couldn't break contact until he finally spoke.
"Very well Crow. I'll leave you with Pothead's gang. You'll soon find out they're not worth being around with." he said.
"Well that'll be for me to decide." I said.
With that he left. If it hadn't been for my mission I would've gladly left. The mission was why I was here. I didn't even know all the details, yet. The most I knew was that it dealt with Potter.
Then Weasley spoke, "How I would like to break his neck!!"
"Ron! How many times have I told you that violence only leads to more violence?" Granger said.
They began to argue when Potter spoke to me.
"Are you alright?"
"Why wouldn't I be?" I replied.
"Listen," he started " you don't wanna get mixed up with Malfoy and his gang. They're cold, bitter, arrogant, first degree pain in the asses."
"I can take care of myself." I said.
"I just want you to-"
"Who in the hell made you my caretaker!?" I cut off.
Now the compartment was completely silent. Granger and Weasley had now stopped arguing and the three of were looking at me. I scoffed, reached into my book bag and pulled out my journal.
It was my best friend in the world. It was a charcoal and it had a tribal insignia made of real silver. This made it quite heavy. I had an expensive calligraphy pen to go with it, too. This journal itself had so many spells on it; it wasn't likely an intruder would get easily.
I opened the lock carefully and took and began to write in ancient Latin. To most it was a dead language, to the vampire kind it was always spoken. I spoke and wrote it fluently as well as all the others of my vampiric ancestry.
As I was writing I found myself writing about Draco. Was I falling for him? I don't know. I was interrupted when that nosy Mudblood spoke.
"What are you writing?"
I rolled my eyes and said coldly "Nothing that concerns you."
"I was just asking!" she replied.
"What for? Are you that interested about my personal life? Do you wanna invade my privacy?" I yelled
"It was just a simple question!" she replied.
"Cut it out you two!" Weasley said.
"Maybe I should go join Malfoy." I said.
"No, don't! I know were a bit inquisitive, but we just want you to be aware of what's ahead of you at Hogwarts. We just wanna be your friends." Potter said.
"You sure are doing one hell of a job!" I said sarcastically.
Granger spoke again, "Let her go Harry! Its obvious she doesn't want anything to do with us and she fits more into Malfoy's group!"
"That may be so, and I would be more than happy to leave. And then I realized:'Why should I leave? This was my compartment before they got here. Maybe they should go." I replied.
"You're such a bitch!" she said.
At this remark I could feel my thirst for blood grow. It was common for me to become bloodthirsty when I was angry.
Even though I was only half of what my mother was I still had the thirst. At times I could control it; other times it was inevitable. I still needed the blood to survive.
I hissed at Granger, bearing fangs, ready to feed. She, Potter, and Weasley hunched back in fear. I regained strength over myself and began to laugh. They looked like mice trapped in a corner by a cat.
"What the bloody hell are you?" Weasley stuttered.
I laughed a bit more and shook my head.
"There you go again." I said. "Wanting to know everything about me. If I told you, I would be breaking age-old secrets. But lets just say its not as bad as being a Mudblood, eh Granger."
"What? How did you-" she began.
"Krum told all of us at Durmstrang. He also said you were quite the 'kinky' one. Am I right boys?" I finished.
"Go to hell!" she said getting up.
"Oh don't worry, I will. After all I am Damned." I chuckled.
"You wench!"
I got up as well and was almost about to tear a hole in her neck when Potter held me back. Weasley held back Granger.
"Get a grip you two!" Potter said.
"God Hermione!! And you talk about me and violence!" Weasley said.
"You guys haven't known each other for more than an hour and you're already at each others throats!" Potter finished.
I shook his grip off, grabbed my bag, and walked out of the compartment. 'Screw them' I thought to myself 'Screw my so called duties.'
I was looking for somewhere to sit, but there wasn't an empty seat in sight. I kept searching, and then I spotted Draco. Of course I didn't ask for a seat I knew he would ask me first.
I pretended not to see him, and just as I predicted, he saw me.
"Crow!" Draco called.
I turned to face him and greeted him nonchalantly.
"Had enough of Pothead, Mudblood, and Ginger Pubes?" he asked.
"Actually I had enough of Granger. Nosy little Mudblood she is." I said.
"Well, you're welcome to join us." he said scooting over a bit.
"Thank you." I said sitting down.
"This is Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy." Draco said pointing at two goon and a pug faced girl. "Everyone, this is Jessica Crow."
They really didn't seem to care who I was or even notice my presence because they continued with their business.
We were just about 15 minutes from Hogwarts and I still hadn't gotten changed into my school uniform. I excused myself from my company and walked into a changing room. Out of my bag I grabbed the most hideous looking uniform. It was a gray vest and a white shirt with a gray pleated skirt. The robes were black. At least a Durmstrang we wore blood red robes and the finest furs ever seen.
After I slipped on the uniform, I noticed how long the skirt was and decided to twist it to my liking. I pulled out my wand, whispered an incantation and suddenly it became shorter. It almost would've become a mini skirt if I hadn't of stopped the charm in time.
I put on the black robes and sipped on my mary janes after that. I figured I should change my hair while I was ahead so once again using my wand I changed its length and colour.
It was still black but now with golden highlights. I matched perfectly with my honey coloured eyes.
Once finished, I walked back to join my company. When Draco spotted me, he called my name inquisitively.
"Crow? You're different." he said.
"Well I decide to have a fixer-upper with my hair." I replied.
"I see. Well we're bound to arrive at Hogwarts any minute now. Do you know what house you'll be in?" he asked.
"No… Dumbledore will attend to those matters." I said.
"Ugh… you'll soon find out the old man is one of the worst things that has happened at the school. Of course there always is Potter who tops the list." He said. I smirked a bit at this.
"Hmm… well in your opinion which house would you recommend?" I asked.
"Slytherin." he responded almost immediately. "But then again I can't choose for you. That's the Sorting Hat's job." he said.
The train came to an abrupt stop and the doors slid open. Everyone began to board off and so I started to do the same.
"I'll see you later." I told Draco as I made my way out.
I began to look for some sort of direction seeing that I had no idea of where to go. Just then a burly man began calling out to the new students.
"Firs' yers' over here!" he called.
"Excuse me," I said to him. " I'm from Durmstrang-"
"Righ' here Ms. Crow." He said. "I'm Hagrid, your Care For Magical Creatures professor."
"Hello." I replied.
"Follow me!" he directed to everyone.
I looked around and noticed I was much taller than most of these students. But then again I was older. We got into some boats and rowed to a castle on the other side of the lake. Once we got on shore, we got off the boats and walked up a staircase. Inside an old witch greeted us.
" I am professor Mc Gonagall. Welcome to Hogwarts. If you'll follow me into the Great Hall please." she said.
"Ms. Crow, if ye'll follow me." Hagrid said.
I followed him to a statue of a gargoyle where he said 'Fizzing Whizbees'. The statue then turned into a spiraling staircase. He told me to walk on in a see Professor Dumbledore. I did as I was told and I walked up. I stepped into an office where an elderly man with a white beard and half mooned spectacles greeted me.
"Hello Professor." I said.
"Ah, hello Jessica. Welcome to Hogwarts. I truly hope you enjoy your stay here." Dumbledore said.
"Thank you Professor."
"Well, then. Lets get down to business. If you would please put on the sorting hat, lets see which house it has in mind for you." he said.
I put on a raggedy old hat from with seams up the ying-yang. From a long seam on the front of the wizards' hat came a voice.
"Durmstrang, eh, where to put you? Where to put you? Ah, yes, Slytherin will do nicely. Yes, Slytherin it is!" it said.
"Ah, Slytherin. I wish you good luck." Dumbledore said.
"Thank you professor." I replied once again.
I began to walk out when he stopped me.
"Oh, Jessica, before I forget… you will need to see Madam Pomfrey every morning before classes. Professor Snape has created a serum for you…a little potion that would satisfy you throughout the day."
"Yes Professor Dumbledore." he didn't need to tell me what for because I knew. A potion that would satisfy my blood thirst. Simple enough.
" Now, shall we make our way to the Great Hall?"
I nodded my head in response and followed the old man down the corridor and into what looked like a ballroom. There were five tables set out: one for Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and a faculty and staff table. He directed me to my seat. It took my seat and began to familiarize myself with my peers. I looked up and down the table and the image of Draco Malfoy caught my eye. He had still yet failed to notice me, but why did he really need to?
Dumbledore began a speech and the sorting began. Plenty were sorted into Slytherin and Gryffindor, few in Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. Just as the sorting ceremony had finished Dumbledore began to speak again.
"Attention students: as some of you may already know we have a special student joining us for our 7th year at Hogwarts. Please welcome Jessica Crow our Durmstrang exchange student. Slytherin… I put her in your hands." he said.
I stood up quickly and then sat back down. Everyone began to greet me and I was receiving compliments from fellow Slytherins. I simply smiled and went along with it. I looked down the table to see if Draco was still there. He wasn't. Then I was automatically taken by surprise when my hair was tucked behind my ear and a voice whispered to me.
"Congratulations Crow." he said.
I turned around to see someone I did not expect.
"Potter?!" I said. " Potter…well…umm…thanks. I guess."
Just then the one person I was waiting for appeared by my side.
"Hey Potter, you're not welcome at this table. You know that." said Draco.
"No need to get your balls in a bunch Malfoy. I was just leaving." Potter said.
"Good…leave."
Potter left after he and Draco had a row. I just stood and watched. Eventually, the teachers broke it up and they walked out on probation. Then Draco and I began to have a small chat.
"Well Malfoy… little did I know you would be in this house." I said.
"Well Jesse, now you know." he replied.
"You know, you're the first one to call me that in ages. My father did when I was younger but then he stopped. He said nicknames were childish." I told him, revealing a little piece of my history.
I smiled a bit and then started to eat. Everyone else had almost already finished his or her meals. I had little time to eat because the next thing you know the Slytherins were directed to their house dormitories. It didn't bother me one bit though. The food wasn't all the best, thus I only ate small portions of it. Once again the point was proven that Hogwarts was nothing compared to Durmstrang.
The time had now come to return to our dormitories. A Slytherin prefect (as they were called) led us to our quarters. We followed the prefect up a staircase to a stretch of bare damp stone. He spoke the words "crimson tide" and the wall split and opened. We all stepped inside a large stone room with all leather seats. A large tapestry of the Slytherin insignia was hanging over the large fireplace in the room. Up a couple of stairs was a hallway. To the right side was a sign that said girls and to the left boys.
Right when I was about to go to my dormitory a firm grip held me back. I turned quickly only to come face to face with Draco.
"So Jessica, what do you think?" he asked.
"About what?" I replied.
"About Slytherin."
"I don't know much about it but so far it seems great. After all, your in this house so how bad could it be?" I said yawning. It had been a long day and I had been tired. "I'm gonna go to sleep, 'kay."
"Well your room is up there," he said pointing up to the right, "And my room is over there." he finished pointing to a door that read HEAD BOY in big bold letters.
" And why would I wanna know that?" I asked, arms crossed.
"Well you never know." he replied with a smirk.
I hit him playfully on the shoulder and said 'good night'.
I walked up to my dormitory that I shared with three other girls. They greeted me and introduced themselves as Anne Marie Smith, Bella Montevino, and Karina Montevino. Anne Marie was tall, tan, and with amber coloured hair. Bella and Karina were twins. They were from italy and had the accent to prove it. All three seemed pretty nice and I figured these would be my new best friends for now so I had to warm up to them.
We talked a little and began to learn about each other. Soon after we fell asleep. Right when I was slowly drifting off there was a quiet rapping on my window. I opened my window and in flew a small brown owl I recognized as Fudge. He belonged to me but my family used him on occasions so I left him behind. Fudge perched himself on my shoulder and gave me a small letter. I opened it and then noticed it was from my father. It read:
Jessica,
I hope you made it to Hogwarts safely and maybe you are wondering why the Dark Lord has sent you there.
You are to get close to Potter. Spy on him and once you have him in the palm of your hand deliver him to the
Dark Lord. You will receive further information soon. Please be careful child and don't think of doing anything drastic.
Love,
Papa
So this is what I had to do. Simple enough I guess. Seduce Potter, turn him in, and receive my glory. All I needed now was a plan.
*Acerbus Opertet Evalesco= Darkness Shall Prevail (A/N: You'll get it later)
A/N: I know its long and kinda boring but it will get better. I promise. Once again sorry about the delays. Plz R/R !!! I'll give you a jolly rancher!!*holds out bag*