Disclaimer: Draco Malfoy basically belongs to Jo. Everything else belongs to me.

Author's Note: I know no one has read this yet, but I really want this story to zip by me and be done. So, here, chapter three of Shadow Green.

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Something shone through Draco's tightly closed eyelids, causing his tired eyes to hurt. Groaning softly, cursing the light, he opened his eyes. He jumped at the face hovering above him with a wand in their hand.

The person smiled wide, leaning back as Draco struggled to sit up. Sighing and shifting so he could look at the person, Draco knew those eyes. Except when he had seen them before, they hadn't smiling like this.

"You're not exactly the hardest to scare, are you?" the brown eyed girl said excitedly, putting the light in her wand out. Draco had yet to hear the girls voice. Draco half expected her to have a high pitch, thick British accent. But hearing her lightweight American accent caused Draco to be momentarily shocked

Draco rubbed his eyes slightly, glancing at the window only to see stars dotting the light gray sky. He frowned and asked, "What time is it?"

"5:30. None of the Death Eaters are up this early," she answered, pushing a platter filled with food in between them. When Draco caught sight of the feast, his stomach growled softly. For some reason, this amused the girl.

"Go ahead. It's for you anyway" she said, picking a few grapes from the bunch.

Draco hesitated if for a second, but when the girl gave him a look that clearly stated something like "Don't you trust me?", he hungrily picked a sandwich up. By his third sandwich, he slowed down. Putting down the sandwich to take a drink from the goblet of pumpkin juice on the platter, Draco watched her.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"Nobody. I suppose if you really want to know, I'm Nicole. Nicole Plimt" she said back, smiling softly at him.

"You didn't have to do this for me"

Nicole shifted, staring at the grapes in her hand and then looking up at Draco, "I know. But...you don't deserve this cell. They do".

Draco frowned even more, and retorted , "Then why are you here? Obviously you don't want to be...right?"

Nicole laughed. The laughed echoed around the room faintly and made Draco shiver softly, "Where I want to be, and where they want me to be are two completely different things, " she paused, putting a grape in her mouth, "I'm not like you. I can't stand up to my father like you did. I gave in"

Draco's eyes widen and he scrambled up, "You're a Death Eater then?" he choked out, his voice cracking. He backed away slightly, his back hitting the cell bars. Draco gripped the medal with his fists, squeezing hard.

Nicole sighed, the smile in her eyes gone, "I'm not a Death Eater. They don't want me to be one. The others have more fun having me be something like their slave" she uttered quietly and looked up at him, "It's not me you should be afraid of"

Draco stood their, relaxing slowly. Releasing the bars, he slid back down. Draco stared at her and whispered, "Nicole, I'm sorry..."

Nicole smiled, "Eat. I'll see you again tomorrow" She put the half eaten sandwich in his hands and added small piece of parchment on top of it. Nicole stood, carrying the platter to the far corner of the cell. Taking out her wand, she tapped a cement brick and it slid up.

Putting the goblet of pumpkin juice inside the small platform the stone had uncovered, she winked at Draco with a smile. Tapping the brick above the cubby, Nicole slipped out the cell door as the stone slid down. Draco, eyebrows raised, watch Nicole until she disappeared.

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Sighing, Draco laid on his back while staring at the dark, starry night. Smiling softly, thinking of the meal he shared with Nicole, Draco figured this place wasn't completely bad. But, he thought, she shouldn't be here. She doesn't belong.

Turning his attention at the window, he saw two blue eyes and a big smile.

"Draco! How pleasant it is to see you. How's the family?"

Draco, who had believed he was seeing things, yelped and gaped at the man in front of his window.

"Bloody hell, Draco. If Pansy was here, what would she say?"

Draco paused, and slowly grinning, "Close your mouth, no one likes to eat flies" he mumbled.

The man grinned wider, "Aye, that's a good boy. Now come on, you can't exactly stay down there, can you?" the man carefully tapped the medal bars against the window and pulled them off smoothly

Draco stood up, reaching up to grab the side of the empty frame but stopped. Staring at the man, he shook his head, "I can't Evan. I'm not done here"

Evan looked perplexed, "What do you mean not done? You want to be in this hell hole!"

"Don't you see, Evan...everything we've always wished we could find out is here. This is our

chance, Evan. I can't just give it up like that"

Evan sighed, watching Draco, "Even if you could find out something, how? If the Death Eaters tell you something, they'll kill you"

Draco grinned, "Death Eaters aren't my source, Evan. There's a girl here--"

"You're married, Malfoy"

Draco scowled, "I know that, Evan. But she is forced to work with them. But she's not one of them. She can help us. She can help me"

Evan shook his head, "I don't like this idea, Malfoy"

Draco shrugged, smiling, "Tough, because I do"

Once again, Draco was all alone with the moon as his only light. But unlike before, he wasn't the least bit tired. He paced his cell, wondering exactly what Nicole could tell him. Sighing, he sat down against the wall, thinking of the people who died in the cell because of Death Eaters.

Death Eaters he could've stopped.

Looking around, he saw the green light under the door flickering and then the door opened. A shadow of a person stepped through the small opening and quickly closed the door behind them. They took a deep breath, and disappeared off towards the end of the hall leaving Draco bewildered.

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Author's Note: Before I thank you for reading, the song originally put at the beginning of this song ment something. If you really care about it, it's 'The Road I'm On' by 3 Doors Down. The concept of Draco and Nicole both growing and being from a horrible pureblood family is shone sort by that song. When they mention reading between the lines, it's like Draco should've read between the lines before thinking she was in anyway a death eater.

Anyway, thanks for reading. Thank you Serena for betaing, you rock. And like I said before, flames will be shared with and laughed at by me/other fanfiction writers/friends. Review!