The last two weeks had crawled for Lucius. He had come home from the meeting with Voldemort to find Hermione gone. It didn't surprise him, she had probably gone back to her own room.

When he had caught up with her the next day in the hallway, she had given him a evil, cold look that made Draco look like a sweetheart.

"Stay away from me." she had hissed at him, backing away from his touch.

Lucius was stunned at first, and felt his heart fill with a pain he couldn't begin to name. He opened his mouth to ask her was had happened, what he did wrong, and what he could do to fix it. But he shut his mouth quickly. How dare this girl make him feel this way? Who did she think she was to cause him all this unwanted emotio?

"Don't worry about it mudblood I don't want to be anywhere near you. Thanks again for last night love, it was fun. Not the best, but not to bad." he drawled, his voice cold and harsh again. He flinched at his words. He was lying. She had been the best, there had been something there he hadn't felt before.

Hermione drew her breath as his words slashed through her. She fought those damn tears as she spun on her heels and ran from him quickly, not stopping till she was alone in her room.

Now, two weeks later, Lucius was sitting at the teachers table pushing food around on his plate, as he watched her eating with her friends. She was smiling and talking to Weasly. She kept slapping his shoulder gently with her hand, causing Ron's face to light up.

Lucius wasn't blind. The kid was in love with Hermione, it was written all over his face. This made Lucius jealous for some reason. He played over the last conversation in his head again, he had been so evil, exactly what she had been afraid of. He quickly dismissed himself from the table and returned to his chambers and his bottle of fire-whiskey.

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Hermione laughed at the stupid joke Ron told, but she noticed Lucius leaving the room. She couldn't quit watching him everyday, although she had tried to forget. The cruel things he had said to proved her fears to be true, he had been using her for his whore that night.

Before she could sink any further into her self pity, Hermione noticed a flurry of movement at the staff table. Snape and Dumbledore raised quickly, followed by the rest of the teachers and began to leave the great hall. Snape stopped in front of Hermione and Harry.

"Ron, Ginny, Harry and Hermione, please follow us to Dumbledore's office." he barked at them before continuing out of the hall.

Hermione exchanged a quick look with her friends, before taking Ginny's hand and following Harry out. She knew something big was happening. All the training for the war was beginning to kick in, she could feel her blood pounding in her ears.

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Lucius jumped as he felt the mark on his arm began to burn. He sighed and lowered his glass of whiskey. The burning increased, and Lucius realized that whatever was going on, it was important. He quickly jumped up and prepared to meet up with Voldemort.