The next morning, Elvira woke up still lying in Draco's arms, her head resting against his chest. The experiences of what happened last night came rushing back to her, and made a few fresh tears form in her eyes. She lay there thinking about what had happened and what she had felt. Draco moved his hand to smooth her hair down, she looked up to see him wide awake, and smiled. He saw her look up at him, "Morning." he said giving her a little kiss.

"Morning." she said back to him.

He let go of her so that she could stand up and stretch. She saw that Blaise and Angel were starting to wake up, and the others still sleeping away. She prepared herself for the onslaught of questions that she knew she would be receiving from the two.

Blaise was the first one to see Elvira standing and launched herself at her and gave her a big hug, then giving a hug to Draco, Angel following suit. Then the questions came.

"Oh my God! Are the two of you all right?"

"What happened?"

"When did you get back?"

"Where did you go?"

"Why didn't you wake us up?"

"What is going on?"

"Why did they take you?"

"What were they doing here?"

Elvira tried to calm the two girls down, when they started crying. "What's wrong guys?", Elvira asked them concern in her voice.

Blaise and Angel launched themselves at her again, "We were so worry about the two of you. We didn't know what was going to happen." Angel told her.

"Well we're back here and ok, so please just calm down." Draco said to the two girls.

By now the other guys were awake and Draco and Elvira sat down with them and started answering all their questions the best they could, and telling them what happened in hushed voices.

"Wow, so you're like some super witch or something." Alex stated.

"I guess so in that sense." Elvira said running her hand through her hair, that was slightly tangled.

When all of the students were awake Dumbledore called for their attention. "Good morning to all. I would like to tell you all that last night we sent letters to all of your parents telling them of the incident that occurred here. We reassured them that all of you were safe and that we have placed more charms and spells on the castle to prevent this from happening again. What happened last night was a very serious thing and that things may be coming that are terrible, but known that your are all safe here now. So why don't we go back to our dormitories and get out of these costumes and eat breakfast, and I think that classes should be canceled today also." he said getting cheers from the students about the classes.

Elvira, Draco, and the rest of the gang headed back to the common room, all the way there though Elvira and Draco were pointed at and they heard whispering around them. They figured that would have happened. When they got through the common room entrance they headed up to their dormitories to change out of their costumes and into regular cloths. They all met in the common room and hung out until lunch, they ate lunch and headed out to the lake to sit by it and talk.

The autumn month passed by very quickly and changed in to winter. The colorful leaves fell off the surrounding trees and the branches were left bare. The days passed quickly for all the students and the excitement of the winter holidays could be seen in all of their faces.

The morning for the departure home, the students stood around Hogsmede Station saying goodbye to their friends that would be staying behind. Draco and Elvira boarded the train and shared a compartment with Galvin, Adrian, Alex, and Blaise. The others were staying at the castle for the break. Elvira and Blaise were hanging out the window waving goodbye to Angel, Marcus, Crabbe, and Goyle. When the train started to move and leave the station, Draco looked over at Blaise and Elvira giggling with each other. Draco could see that she was having fun, but could see the worry in her eyes about going to the manor with Lucius there.

When the Hogwarts Express pulled into Platform 9 ¾, Elvira looked out the window and saw Narcissa standing there amongst all the other parents awaiting their children. She didn't see Lucius anywhere. "Draco, didn't you say that your father always picks you up every year?", Elvira said looking back to him.

"Yea, why?" he asked.

"Because, I don't see him." Draco looked at her for a second a little confused, then got up and looked out the window. He didn't see him either, only his mother looking very patient. Why wasn't he there? Where could he be? Questions like this kept running through his head.

The train came to a silent stop and the hall outside their compartment was very noisy with students. Elvira and Blaise followed behind Draco, Galvin, Adrian and Alex, talking to each other. When they stepped off the train they gave each other a big hug. They weren't going to see each other during the summer, but they were going to owl each other. They broke free from each other and she and Galvin headed off together, Adrian and Alex went over to their parents, and Draco lead Elvira over to his mother. She gave each of the a hug and a kiss before looking them over, and smiled.

"Mom, where's dad?", Draco asked her.

Narcissa's smile faded and turned into a frown. "He left the manor dear. He went to live with them and their master. The manor is all ours now." she said to the two referring to the Deatheaters as them. There was a long silence before Narcissa broke it, "Lets get going shall we?" Together they headed over to the limo and had a silent trip home.