Draco was sitting by Harry with his head in his hands thinking about what just happened.

"Are you okay?"Harry asked him.

"She pushed me away.She told me not to touch her."

"Man she didn't mean it, she's just going through some stuff, and she thinks we wont understand.You just gotta show her we can help her out no matter what."

Draco nodded then saw Willow coming through the doors.

"Well?" Draco asked staying still.

"Can I speak to just Madame Pompfry?"

Madame Pompfry got up and followed Willow inside.

"It has to be bad?"Ginny said.

"Don't say that Gin, you don't know."Ron said.

Buffy,Angel,Spike, and Connor came around the corner just then and Draco stood up quick, but Harry was quicker to hold him back.

"Is she okay?" Buffy asked.

"We don't know yet. Willow just took Madame Pompfry in. What's he doing here?"Draco asked pointing to Connor.

"I just wanted to see if she was okay too. I'm just concerned."Connor said.

"Yeah. I bet." Draco said sarcastically.

"Chill boys. This about Hermione not your little testosterone fest." Buffy said standing between them.

Madame Pompfry came out then with Willow.

"Well?"Everyone asked.

"She'll be able to leave tomorrow maybe if she can stand up properly without getting dizzy."Madame Pompfry said.

"Well what happened to her?" Buffy asked.

"I can't say. It's patient privacy. I can't say anything without her say so."Madame Pompfry then went back to Hermione's side

"Well if she's able to leave tomorrow then it can't be as bad as any of us thought."Harry said. "Right?"

Draco shrugged his shoulders and left.Buffy and the others went in to see Hermione before lunch so she wouldn't feel alone.


Buffy and Faith were sparing that night alone when they got into a deep conversation.

"Hey B, Do you think Draco was right about Connor?"Faith asked blocking the punches coming at her.

"I don't know. I don't think Angel would have brought him if he was dangerous. I trust Angel."

"Maybe he didn't know. I mean anything could've happened to Connor. Like Draco said maybe the first is controlling him."

Faith did a round house kick towards Buffy who blocked and then kicked Faith back.

"I think Draco just feels a little competition between Connor for Hermione's affection."

"But B Hermione was attacked. We still have to find out by who."

"We will. I just don't see how she didn't feel it coming. I mean anytime we get attacked I can tell before it happens.She should've been able to protect herself."

Faith stopped fighting for a second "Maybe she was caught off guard. Maybe the First found a way to stop the slayer line finally, and the spell that Willow did before to bring the Slayers out is gone now or something."

"Faith that doesn't make any sense. To reverse the spell that Willow did the person would need to get a hold of the Scythe...Have you checked on the Scythe lately?"

"No. I thought Giles had it?"

"No I think he gave it to..."

"To who B?"

"Angel."

Faith and Buffy looked at each other then ran all the way down the corridor to their room knocking kids out of their way as they ran.

Buffy rushed into the common room everyone giving her a weird look, Faith came in behind her and looked at Angel.

"Where's the Scythe?"

"In my room. Why?"Angel asked.

"Has anyone had it lately?" Buffy asked.

"No I keep it locked in a trunk."

Buffy breathed a sigh of relief, but Faith didn't.

"Does Connor have access to it?"Faith asked.

"I guess so. We all do."

Buffy, and Faith rushed into Angel's room him following behind. They took the key off him, and openned the trunk.


Draco sat outside by himself watching the squid in the lake tease Fang. All he could think about was Hermione and what might've happened to her.

"I promised to protect her. Some job I'm doing."He said to himself.

"Don't worry son Malfoy's aren't suppose to care about Mudbloods, and yet you call yourself a Malfoy.

Draco turned and was face to face with his father.

"Your dead. I know your the first, and you can't scare me."

"Scare you. I feel enough fear from you to know that I am."

"Why don't you face me in your true form or are you scared to face us yourself?"

"Foolish boy. The end will be here soon, and your precious mudblood will die with you."

Then he vanished into thin air.


Hermione sat staring into the nothingness of her hospital room. Everyone left her awhile ago and all she could do was look at herself in the mirror.She had a black eye ,a cut on her forehead, bruises all over her face and body she could honestly say she looked horrid. Tomorrow everyone would see her and she knew questions would be asked as well as rumor's started.


Willow was in Dumbledore's office telling him what all she saw in Hermione's mind and what happened.

"He needs to be dealt with." Willow said "He's dangerous."

"Trust me Miss.Rosenburg things will be handled. Miss Summers is dealing with it, you need not worry."Willow nodded then left his office to find Buffy.


Draco made his way to the hospital wing, and he looked through the glass at Hermione. He didn't know if he wanted to go in yet, but he wanted to check on her. She was staring at the wall infront of her, and could tell she'd been crying.The more he looked at her face the more he wanted to get the person who did this to her.

"Isn't peeping illegal?"

Draco knew that voice so he didn't even have to look at the owner.

"Don't you have somewhere else to be?"

"No. I wanted to see Hermione."

Draco turned sharply at this. "You go near her and I'll kill you."

"Thats not very nice."

"Connor you may fool some people, but not me. I know you did this to her, I just have to prove it and then your finished."

"If I did this don't you think Dumbledore would have me in his office right now?"

"You have people fooled. Again I'm telling you I know your responsible, and I will have your head if you are."Draco said picking him up by the neck of his shirt and throwing him into a wall.


"So this is why Hermione couldn't fight him off?" Willow asked Buffy and Faith.

"It has to be. She should have Slayer strength even getting caught off guard she'd still be able to fight her attacker off."Faith said.

"So what do we do?"Willow asked.

"We need to find the scythe. Fast." Buffy said "If we don't this just may be the end of us as we know it."

"Let's get the gang together and split up. We can cover more ground that way." Giles said.

Buffy, Willow, and Faith nodded.

"By the way Red what did happen to Hermione?"

"I can't say."Willow then left the room to find Xander, Andrew, Spike,Angel, and the hogwarts gang, and tell them what to look for.