Genre: Horror/Romance
Rating: R (just to be safe)
Summary: Draco impregnated Hermione with the aim of using that child to be Voldemort's next heir, in which would be their winning item. But Hermione didn't want it to happen, and thus, to save the world, she killed herself and the child inside her womb. Before she died, she said to Draco, "I'll come back. I'll haunt you someday and make you regret everything that you've done." With that, she took the knife in Harry's hand and stabbed herself repeatedly.
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Chapter 4: The beginning"Draco," a soft voice trailed off. "Draco."
But the boy in question was sleeping, and so did not answer.
"Draco!" the voice became slightly louder, but still he did not wake up.
Then, the curtains at the window seemed to open by itself before closing back again. But how was it possible that a wind could come about since Draco's room was at the dungeons and that there was no real window? The window at which the curtains were at had only a blank wall on the other side.
A cold feeling suddenly descended on Draco and he woke up from his dreamless sleep made by drinking the Dreamless sleep potion, as he did not want to have horrifying memories about his past revived into nightmares. But as he looked around his room finding the source of draftiness, he could only find nothing.
Strange, wasn't it?
He sauntered into the Great Hall for lunch, but never really ate his food as a queasy feeling came upon him making him feel that if he ate, he would vomit everything out. As Draco sat there, a pug-liked girl suddenly flounced herself unto his lap and started cooing heavily, "Lil' Drakie poo…why are you not eating? Come, I'll feed you." She took up a piece of venison with her fingers and tried to feed Draco, but he would have none of it and pushed her off none too gently.
"Get away from me you brat," spat Draco, disgusted.
Pansy, who was on the floor, started whining, "I was trying to feed you. Why are you so uptight about it?"
But when Draco started to answer her, something suddenly appeared out of thin air and dropped right in front of Draco. The object was glowing, demanding his attention. Pansy sat at another Slytherin's lap and that Slytherin was more than welcomed to her advances. Draco reached for the glowing object and looked up. A ghost was floating above him, sneering at him, "Something for you Lord Malfoy. I bet you're going to go all wussy when you see it."
"Oh shut it, the oh so mighty Bloody Baron," Draco glared, before returning his attention to the object in his hands.
He tore away the purple wrapper and flipped open the cover of the small box. What he saw inside made him gasped quietly in shock. He closed the box in a hurry and ran to the safety of his private room, ignoring the stares coming from the students who remained in the Great Hall.
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A locket was hidden beneath the many wrappings within the box. As Draco took it out and inspected it, he bit his lips in agony.
"Why?" he cried out, "Why must of all things this come out now?!"
He nearly threw the locket into the box and hurled it far far away from him, but something was stopping him from doing just that. Like an invisible hand clamped onto his wrist, never letting him throw it away. Was it just his imagination and emotions? Or was there something else too? Eventually, he placed the locket back inside the box and laid on his bed, thinking…
Flashback
It was Christmas, and people were going about wishing everyone a Happy Merry Christmas plus opening up their presents too. These actions were not absent in the room of Draco Malfoy. A box, carefully wrapped with golden paper and maroon ribbon, resided quietly at the bottom of a pillow.
Draco was already awaked, waiting for his girlfriend to wake up and find her present. This was the first time ever in his whole life that he gave a present to somebody during Christmas and not to suck up to that particular person, but because he really wanted to give it to her. Slowly, the girl with brown tresses woke up and felt an unusual object beneath her pillow. She flipped her pillow around and saw the box. She picked it up.
"What is this Draco?" she asked, while observing the box.
Draco pulled the girl into his arms and said into her hair, "This, Hermione, is a present for you from me for Christmas."
Hermione smiled gratefully and quickly pulled out a present wrapped in silver and gold paper. She handed it to Draco saying, "I never thought that you would give me a present, but here is mine for you."
"Why don't we open our present together?" Draco asked, excited that Hermione bought something for him and hoping that the girl would love his present.
"Sure," she smiled, "On the count of three…One…Two…Three!"
Both of them tore away the paper surrounding their gifts and looked in awe at their own in silence. Hermione was the one who broke it saying, "This is so beautiful Draco. Thanks so much! I love it!" Then she rushed over to give her boyfriend a kiss on the lips.
After breaking the kiss, Draco said to her, "I love your gift as well. Thank you for giving it to me."
Hermione had given Draco a snitch that had the whole Quidditch league seekers autographs on it. Of course, the signatures were minimized so that it matched the size of the snitch but one could clearly see autographs still.
Draco Malfoy had given a locket to Hermione. But that was no simple locket; it was a charmed one, albeit dark. And Draco saw the need to explain it to Hermione.
"Dear, this is not just a simple locket you know. It has been charmed to show its contents to only the both of us. Memories of us have been installed inside for our use. It will also record automatically the things we do together in reality," Draco explained, "And I really don't want you to lose it."
"I will not," Hermione replied, "Definitely not."
End Flashback
"Of course," Draco snorted, "that promise was not kept. Hermione lost it over the summer when she was staying together with Pothead and Weasel."
'But shouldn't this locket be missing? How come it returned here?' Draco thought on further, 'did somebody found it? Bloody Baron should know, since he brought it to me. Yeah, maybe I should go ask him about this.'
He walked out of his room after placing the locket into his pocket. Immediately when he turned at a corner nearing the Slytherin common room, he bumped into the ghost. Well, since it was a ghost, he ran right through it and he felt numb and cold as he passed.
"Well, well…what do we have here?" mused the Bloody Baron out loud.
"How come you have this locket?" Draco demanded, holding the object in question up. "Shouldn't this be missing?"
The ghost just chuckled darkly, "Why don't you ask the dearest Gryffindor then?"
"What are you talking about?" Draco spat out angrily, frustrated with the ghost's obvious lack of sense. "Hermione's gone. Dead. How can I ask her?"
"Are you sure about that Mr Malfoy?" The Bloody Baron smirked, "Are you sure she's gone?"
"What do you mean by that? Of course she's gone. Didn't you see her funeral?" Draco said.
"Oh yes, I did."
"Then what do you mean by 'are you sure she's gone'?"
"That is for me to know, and for you to find out," the ghost said before floating away chuckling heavily. Draco tried to call it back, but was ignored.
Feeling exasperated, Draco retired to his room again to a pleasant surprise.
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A/N: A HUGE APOLOGY! SORRY! I couldn't update sooner as I had gone through a major writer's block and also had other complications as well. Well, here is the 4th chapter and I hope you guys are satisfied with it. I know, I'm really really bad for leaving you guys with another cliffhanger, but bear with me and I promise in the later chapters more will be explained.
Anyway, I am going to re-write the 1st 3 chapters so that it is more developed than the beginning, so there may be changes here and there.
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