Hermione sat on her bed staring out the window. How could Tiffany betray her like that? She turned around quickly as she heard the door bang open. Tiffany walked in and sat down next to her.

"I finally found you! I looked for you everywhere. Why aren't you outside?"

"Leave me alone, you double-crosser!" cried Hermione.

"What do you mean?"

"How could you tell him? I thought you were my friend!"

"What...Oh! You saw me? But you don't even know what I told him! He threatened me! He said he'd fail me if I didn't tell him what's up with you!"

"And I'm supposed to believe my sworn enemy cares about what's wrong with me?"

"You've got you! I told him what you saw and I know it was wrong but it looked as if he knew something. He said something about deliberate amnesia, whatever that means."

"Amnesia is when you forget something due to shock, injury, psychological disturbance, or medical disorder," Hermione replied. Even though her Hogwart days were long gone, she was still the brain of the class.

"Oh," replied Tiffany. "But what does that have to do with you?" she asked.

"May I answer that?" said a shadowy figure from the doorway. Draco stepped in. Hermione got up ready to leave, but Draco pushed her back down.

"Stay," he demanded. Hermione sent him a glare, but obeyed.

"So what do you have to say for yourself?" Hermione demanded. "And why are you here in a muggle orphanage?"

"All of a sudden interested, Granger? Maybe Ms. Tiffany here has a point. Haven't you ever wondered why this orphanage wanted you so badly? Haven't you wondered why Ms. Meepin hated it when you remembered the past?"

"Not really," she replied honestly.

"How I got here is quite interesting." He pulled up his shirt sleeve to reveal the Dark Mark. Hermione gasped and backed away. "I did join him, and I don't regret it. But I heard about the raid on your family. I went to see what happened. I saw everything. But as to what I saw, I'll leave that for your dreams to reveal. Has your dream ever enclosed to you what your father said?"

"No. It always stops before there."

"Interesting."

"Why are you here?"

"You'll have to figure out." He got up and left the room.

Hermione had pondered what Draco had said all day. During her second period of French, she barely paid attention at all. But she paid enough attention so Draco couldn't catch her with a wrong answer. She walked back upstairs and sat down for a while. She would figure out everything soon. She promised to herself that she would.

She woke up the next morning and ran to Draco's room. She walked in without knocking and started tearing apart the room looking for something.

"What on Earth do you think your doing Granger?" he asked angrily. He got up and picked her up, placing her on his bed. She struggled to get free but he held her arms tightly together. "Explain."

"Do you have a quill and owl?"

"Why?"

"Because I want to write a letter."

"To whom?"

"None of your concern." He gripped her tighter and she bit her lower lip on pain. "To anyone in the wizarding who might want to know about a loose Death Eater." This caused him to pause. He smirked.

"Blackmailing me, are we, Granger?" he whispered.

"Tell me about my past and I won't say anything!"

"Why do you think someone would believe you when everyone believes your dead? You should've seen the look on Weasley's face." He laughed and Hermione slapped him. "Pity. You slap like a sissy. Nothing compared to Pansy."

"Why are you here?"

"Why do you think, Hermione?" She winced at the sound of her name. Most said the name in vain. But Hermione heard a sound of remorse behind his ice cold voice. She glanced up into his eyes. And she saw what she thought she would never see. Behind his icy gaze was a twinkle. Not a happy Dumbledore twinkle, but a sad twinkle.

"Please tell me," she pleaded. He looked away at the window and sighed.

"Your parents died that night. But it had nothing to do with the Death Eaters. I saw what happened and I guess it softened me up a bit. I knew where you were going to be sent, but I decided not to follow you yet. I guess after a couple years I decided there are better things in life then world domination." Hermione looked once more in his eyes. He looked away and she left the room. He sighed and placed his hands behind his head, leaning against the pale wall. Then he felt a burning feeling on his arm. He quickly got up and dissapparated.

"You have done well, Draco," hissed a very familiar and dark voice. Draco stepped into the circle of Death Eaters and bowed his head.

"Thank you, my lord," he replied.

"You are doing well not telling the girl her past. Keep her trust, we will need it soon. Do you understand?"

"Yes, my lord."

"Then you may leave." With a swish of his cloak, Draco reappeared on his bed. He dressed and headed for breakfast.

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He walked in and looked around, but Hermione wasn't there. He didn't have her today, so he wouldn't have to deal with the dramatized girl. He sat down and began to eat.

He was heading back to his room after lunch when he ran into her again. She was sitting in his room, reading. He eyed the book suspiciously before yanking it out of her hand.

"What is the matter with you?" she asked.

"May I ask what you're doing in MY room?"

"Your locks were simple so I decided to do some reading."

"That's what the library is for. Anyway, why were you reading this book?" Draco held the book up so she could see it. The title read So you want to be a Death Eater, Well too bad! It isn't easy!

"All the other books seemed duller. Except for the spell book. But it was locked!"

"That isn't for your eyes. Now out of my room!"

"No! Tell me what happened to my parents, please." Draco eyed her warily before sitting down on his bed. He couldn't. He just mustn't tell her. But how was he going to get out of this. He eyed her again. He looked her up and down. And he blinked. The Hermione he knew was gone. There was no know- it-all smile upon her face, there wasn't even a smile tugging on her lips. Her eyes didn't hold the wide-eyed innocence her eyes used to have. They held remorse, trouble. He sighed deeply. He would tell.

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