1A/N: Thank you to the following reviewers:

LizSnape- I hope something along the lines of this will happen. What I do want to happen is for Snape to reveal himself and why he did what he did. There's more of Bellatrix, but I can't guarantee her playing a major part in the story. BTW, thanks for reviewing on The Snake Unveiled! I don't think you're stalking me...lol.. Thanks for your review, and enjoy!

Angela Dawne - I'm glad you liked it. Really, really glad. Here's the update, hope you really, really like this one! Thanks for your review, and enjoy!

Joebob64 - Nice to find someone else who still trusts Snape. There are thousands of theories on why he did what he did, but this is one of them, and I'm glad we agree on it. Here's the next chapter. Thanks for your review, and enjoy!

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Don't go where the path may lead you. Go instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Draco was lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling as if it held some secret of the universe.

"Why is Mother so upset about my choice to be a Deatheater?" he muttered to himself.

Draco's thoughts went back to that night he had fled Hogwarts.

Flashback

"Draco, Draco, you are not a killer."

"How do you know that? You don't know what I'm capable of! You don't know what I've done!"

"Oh yes, I do," Dumbledore had said mildly. "You almost killed Kaiti Bell and Ronald Weasley. You have been trying, with increasing desperation, to kill me all year. Forgive me, Draco, but they have been feeble attempts...so feeble, to be honest, that I wondered whether your heart has been really in it."

End Flashback

As much as he hated to admit it, the old fool had been right. Draco sighed. Now, there was no turning back. Nobody, not his mother, father, or Snape could get him out of this one. Snape. Who's side was he really on? Draco had never known Snape was a double agent. And how dare he? How dare he try and get all the glory for himself? Draco was angry now. He would make Professor Snape pay.

Snape, Narcissay, and Bellatrix were all sitting at the four-legged table, each thinking to one's own content.

Why is Narcissa so keen to get Draco out of the Deatheater group? She, herself was in the Inner Circle, and had almost as much devotion to the Dark Lord as Lucius did. Does she regret her descion? Well, everyone believed at one point whether the descion they made was the right one or not, Snape mused. Yet, he had himself had been like Draco. There was no other paths that life had to offer. Joining the Dark Lord would make him great. Give him power. Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

So. Snape did kill Dumbledore. About time to, Bellatrix thought nastily. But back to the matter at hand. Her dear sister, after so foolishly exclaiming that Draco couldn't stay with the Deatheaters, had finally given in. Good. The boy must have some use, no? Besides, what could Narcissa do? Defy the Greatest Wizard alive? Bellatrix's thoughts went back to Snape. She still couldn't trust him. The Dark Lord, after all, could be wrong.

Whatever her sister might think, Narcissa hadn't given into defeat. She was not going to sit down quietly and watch her only son's life be ruined. When Lucius got out of Azkaban, she would talk to him. He would approach the Dark Lord. Of course her Master wouldn't be so sympathetic to Lucius at the moment. But it was not only his fault about what happened at the Ministry.

While Voldemort's three of the few Deatheaters were doing mind excercises, Voldemort himself was doing a little cartwheels himself. He was almost content. The fool Dumbledore, who he had fought for so long was gone. Finally. Voldemort was pratically sure he could trust Snape again. But of course, he could trust no one. Dumbledore, without a doubt, had found out about his Horcruxes. Potter, probably, knew about them too. They should have been quicker to kill Dumbledore. But alas, the dead are the dead. He would make sure no one but himself knew where the Horcruxes were. Lord Voldemort was not a fool. And he did not intend to become to become one.

The flashback Draco has, is from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, US Version, page 585.

The quote in Snape's thought's is from Garth Nix.

Thank you.