The sun's last descending light disappeared at last and they finally arrived at King's Cross. Draco gazed vividly out of the window up at the stars. He looked out onto the platform, for the first time in his life, his family was gone from it. He smiled and looked out at Professor Lupin, wearing normal muggle clothing awaiting the time they got there. Miss McGonnagall stood at his side, her hand in his, smiling gleefully as the train pulled to a stop. Draco smiled at this. Perhaps Tru would obtain a mother this summer?

The train slowly came to it's halt and blew steam all over the platform. The whistle echoed through the night and Draco turned to Tru and shook her awake. She smiled at him and they all got off of the train. They all hugged one another in farewell and promised many letters of events sure to happen that summer. The summer before their last year of Hogwarts. Tru ran over to her father as though she hadn't seen him in years. When it had only been a few hours. Remus smiled down at her and kissed her on her forehead. Draco stood there awkwardly. His father had never shown that kind of love to him, and he was afraid that Professor Lupin wouldn't do so either.

But to Draco's surprise, Remus opened his arms to him and Draco came to him in a hug. Draco could have smiled all night because he finally felt welcome on that platform. He looked around uneasily, worried that SOMEONE from his family would be there. But he saw no one. He knew somehow none of them would be there. He smiled again, faintly and they all walked through the barrier together.

"Who's up for a big dinner of steak and kidney pie when we get home? Maybe some roast beef as well?" Remus asked them all, putting his arms around Tru and Ellina. Tru and Draco smiled at one another and Draco winked at her. "That sounds wonderful Professor!" Draco said with much enthusiasm. He couldn't have meant anything more. Together they took the underground Train toward the further sides of London and then used a Portkey in the form of an old candy cane to reappear at the far end of Hogsmeade, walked a little further about three miles out of the town itself to a small house on the outskirts of the village.

At the door, Remus turned to Draco and Tru, who were staring into one another's eyes, smiling. Remus looked at Ellina and Ellina just smiled. When they entered the house, Draco couldn't help but gasp at how wonderful it looked. He looked at Remus and Remus said in a silent happy voice "I've had your bedroom done for a while now, you can go up and look at it if you wish."

Draco barely let him finish his sentence when he had bolted straight toward the stairs and up them. He turned to the first door on the left and somehow he just knew this was his room. He opened the door cautiously and peered into the room. A lamp was brightly lit on the mahogony bedside table. The bed itself had high bed posts that were only so many feet from the ceiling. The bedspread was dark blue with matching pillows and the wood was dark and sleek. The carpet was dark grey and looked absolutely perfect, there was a bookshelf, yet to be filled with books, a walk in closet and a desk made of the same wood as the bed and bedside table. Complete with a chair that spun around, leather.

Draco couldn't believe how nice this room was. His back at home was so full of his FATHER's stuff it was incredible and dull. But now he could do whatever he wanted with this room. He sat down at the desk and looked at it with greatest gratitude. He couldn't help but just smile. He opened every drawer until he came to the bottom, inside of it was a large bag of money. He thought perhaps in Professor Lupin's search for a desk he got one where someone was testing the drawers or something and he took it downstairs.

"Professor, I think someone left this in the drawer when you purchased my desk. Should we take it back?" he asked. Remus and Ellina smiled at him and Tru chuckled. "Draco, that's for you, to purchase books um..items to your liking. A new broom even. Anything you want, you can get with that money, I'm allowing you and Tru to go for a little shopping in Hogsmeade tomorrow morning if you'd-" before he could even finish, Draco had let out a joyous WHOOP! and was running around hugging everyone he could get to. When he reached Tru he held her tight and without thinking, kissed her cheek. When they realized what had just happened, he blushed and looked away.

"This is all so wonderful! Thank you SO much!" Draco beamed at Remus, Ellina and Tru. "Consider us your family Draco. Friends, family whatever. We'll treat you with the utmost respect you deserve." Remus said, placing a hand on Draco's shoulder. Draco was at a loss of words. All he could do was sputter his thanks.

Dinner that night was probably the most delicious Draco had ever tasted. The laughter and regular talk at the table couldn't be better. It was better, though, than the usually silent and forbidding dinners at his old house. They spoke of things that happened throughout the year at Hogwarts. How Remus and Ellina met. How Tru and Draco became friends. Reliving memories of happiness and good times as opposed to the things that were bad and weighed out the back of their minds.

Tru and Draco had decided to turn in early that night. Draco had bade everyone goodnight and went into his room. He thought of the many things he wanted in there. Books, a radio, musical tapes, a new broom, posters of his favorite quidditch teams, and so much more. He crawled into bed, the pillows and beadspread were fluffy and comfortable. Just the perfect thing for sleeping in. He lay there for almost hours just staring around the room and finally, with the anticipation for getting desired things and the fact that he was finally home, he fell into dream.

Tru tossed and turned in her bed that night. She found it rather hard to sleep and she had no idea why. The full moon wasn't for another three weeks. She finally just sat up in bed and stared around her room. Perhaps the excitement of being back home was preventing her sleep. She sighed and smiled. She couldn't help but feel happy about Draco being here with her and her family. She knew he would be absolutely and perfectly happy here.

At this thought she thought maybe she'd get some sleep and turned on her side facing the window. And at the moment her eyes caught a glimpse of the glass, she let out a small cry and jumped from her bed to the other side. A dark figure was sitting on the tree brach outside of her window. Rain splattering the window as she watched it move slightly closer. Did she dare go to the window to investigate. Whatever the thing was, it looked taller than it did as she stared at it, hunched together on the treebranch as though like some sort of giant squirrel or cat. Coiled and poised. It seemed to be staring at her.

Tru gulped and tried to muster up some courage to tip toe to the window and prove to herself that it was just a giant clump of leaves on the branch and nothing more than that. Finally, she took a few slow steps toward the window, making absolutely sure that it wouldn't move any closer by gluing her eyes to it. Her heart was pounding with fear and she decided, just in case, since she was now of age and was allowed to use magic outside of school, she would grab her wand when she reached the bedside table. She scurried over to it and grabbed the wand, pointing it at the window as though it alone was the frightening thing consuming her eyesight.

She crept closer and closer to the window and finally stopped at least a few inches away from it. She waited hesitantly, silent and breathing low and heavily, fearing it could hear every move and breath she made. A flash of lightning illuminated the outside and with a sigh of relief, she saw that it was merely a cat. Ellina's cat to be exact. She dropped her wand and saw that the cat was meowing merciless in the rain. She opened the window and beckoned the poor animal toward her. It didn't dare move. Tru decided she had no choice but to summon it with her wand and did so. She wrapped the cat in her blankets with her, it's dark grey fur sopping wet, it's blue eyes fixed on the window.

"It's ok Dodger, you're inside now." Tru whispered quietly to the cat. But Dodger didn't pay attention to her. He was staring outside the window and arched his back with a loud hiss. Tru looked to the window again and screamed with fright, seeing that someone had seemed to slapped the window with their hand and their hand slowly disappeared under the window frame. Tru thought she distinctly heard laughter as she ran from the room, the cat behind her in her wake.

Tru had gone down the hall first to her father's room, then Ellina's. Neither of them were awake. She thought perhaps Draco would let her stay with him that night. She knocked softly on his door and whispered "Draco? Draco are you awake?" Draco had walked to the door and opened it, his hair this way and that and he looked slightly curious to why she was standing there looking so frightened. "Tru? Why are you still awake?" Tru just walked in and told him to close and lock the door. She drew the shades over the window and curled up in a frightened ball on Draco's bed. "Are you feeling all right?" Draco asked, sitting on the edge of the bed.

"I think someone was trying to get into my room. I saw something out the window but it was just the cat and i let him in then I looked back and I saw someone's hand on my window and it disappeared but I'm sure they're still there trying to get in. I locked the window when i let Dodger in but I still think they'll be able to get in." Tru spoke quickly and in a quiet voice. Draco stared at his own window, fearing he would see the same thing. "Would you like me to go and check for you?" he asked. Tru shook her head. "No, just...can I..can I stay in here with you tonight? Just in case?" she looked at him imploringly, begging him silently not to let her go back to her room.

Draco nodded and they got under the covers. Tru turned over on his side and faced him. Draco had closed his eyes again, he was very tired. "Thank you Draco." she whispered to him. "Don't worry." Draco mumbled. "It'll all be ok. Just get some sleep." Soon, Tru heard Draco snoring and she turned around to the window again. She didn't see anything. But now that she felt safe, she let her eyes droop and sleep took over.