AN: Just another chapter. Screw the last AN, I had an idea but it didn't fit into my story. Hope you like it anyway.

Chp.5

Safe

Paige sat at the Gryffindor table eating lunch with Hermione, Ron and Harry. She was thinking about what happened in her dorm 3 weeks ago.

xXFlashbackXx

He tilted her chin up and looked her straight in the eyes and then...... the phone rang. They pulled away from each other, Draco looking rather confused. Paige started fumbling with one of her sisters bags and took out a small grey cell-phone.

"Hello, Phoebe?"
"Darryl?"
"Paige? I thought you were in England?"
"I am, what's going on, isn't early morning back home?"
"Yeah, but that's beside the point. Were are your sisters?"
"Talking to my Headmaster, why?"
"There was a murder last night, a weird one. Not like any of the other Demon attacks. She just had a bruise on the left side of her chest. Right over the heart. There was a sign carved into a nearby tree. A skull or something. Do you"
"The Dark Mark." She said breathlessly.
"The what?"
She looked over at Draco. He was starring at her. 'Oh no, he heard what I said.'
"Darryl, I have to go. We'll call you back later."
"No, Paige if you know anything you have"
Beep.
She hung up.

"What was that about?" His eyes were piercing through her.
"What do you mean? I was just talking to a friend of mine."
"About Voldemort and the Death Eaters?"
"Listen I can't explain it to you, okay. I can't."
"Whatever it is you were talking about, you shouldn't. You shouldn't get involved with the Death Eaters. You shouldn't try to find out what their up to. It's not safe."
"I know what I'm doing Draco. It's something I've been doing for a while already."
"What is?"
"Don't start with me, please. Just leave it."
And he did. He left, literally, he walked out of the Dorm without another word.
'SHIT!'

xXEndFlashbackXx

Paige snapped back to reality when Hermione started waving her hand in-front of her face.

"What?" she looked around confused.

"We were wondering if you were okay. You've been weird lately. Ever since you had to go talk to Dumbeldore. What was that about anyway?"

"Huh? Oh, that. Nothing really. He was just wondering if I wanted more normal class days. I said I'd think about it. Since I don't know all the stuff you already know." She hated lying to them. 'Damn!'

"Well that's reasonable. It would be pretty weird huh?" Hermione stated.

"Yeah." She saw Draco leave the Great Hall. "You guys, I'll see you in class okay?"

Before they even answered she was out of the Hall.

"Draco!" she called down the empty hallway. 'Jeez, were are you?'

She turned the corner hoping to find him. She saw him turn left in the end of the corridor. She ran after him.

"Draco, please. I need to talk to you!"

He stopped and turned around. She walked up to him.

"Hi…" she was trying to catch her breath. 'God, he walks fast.'

"Hi" he said flatly.

"Listen, I'm sorry about what happened. That call, the stuff I talked about. I wish I could tell you, I want too." She stopped and held her hand up in-front of him to stop him from saying anything. "And don't say I could just tell you if I want, 'cos I can't, okay? Please don't be mad at me because of it." She took a deep breath and looked at him for some kind of reaction.

"……"

She sighed "I'll se you in class." She said and walked down the hall.

Half way to the DADA classroom she was pushed up against the wall by a pair of strong arms.

"What the hell?"

"Shut up!" the person hissed. "Thought you could fool me, huh? I know what you are, for sure. And I won't hesitate to tell everyone."

"I don't know what you're talking about, so BACK OFF!" she yelled.

He grabbed her throat.

"I know what you are. You can't hide. I know what you are."

"Your sick." She managed to say through his tight grip. "Let me go!"

"The Dark Lord will be pleased by this. Very pleased."

Tears were starting to well up in her eyes.

"Let me go." She sobbed

She was starting to feel faint. He was still chocking her. Her eyes were blackening. The last thing she remembered was a tall person pulling him of her.

She slowly started waking up. Her vision was blurry. All she saw were the contours of several people standing over her

"Paige! Paige, oh, we were so worried about you!" Hermione squealed.

"Are you alright." Harry asked concerned. "Pomphrey said not to get out of bed."

"Oh, we were so worried!" Hermione said again.

"We'll kill Zabini next time!" Ron was so overprotective some times.

"You should not worry about Mr.Zabini, Mr.Weasly. I've already handled that matter." A new voice said which she immediately recognized as Dumbeldores.

"What's going on?" her voice was groggy and tiered.

"Don't you remember? Zabini almost killed you!" Ron seemed really angry.

"Ohh……So what happened?"

"Well, we were hoping you would give us that information Ms.Halliwell."

"All I remember was being pushed against the wall, chocked and someone pulling him off of me."

"Malfoy." Harry hissed lowly. "He's the one who brought you here."

"Where is he now? I need to talk to him."

"We don't know. He brought you here, and got us. Then he left." Hermione informed her.

"Yeah, nice fellow that one." Ron said sarcasticly.

"He is." She whispered.

"Well, I do belive we should leave Ms.Halliwell, and let her get some rest. You can all speak to her in the morning." They did what Dumbeldore said and left.

"He knows. That's why he tried to kill me. He's sure. He'll tell Voldemort. God, what's going to happen?!" She was totally frantic. Scared to death.

"Do not worry Ms.Halliwell. Mr.Zabini has had no chance to inform Lord Voldemort. He is under strict supervision by the Ministry. Do not worry yourself about this now. You must rest, or I'm afraid Madame Pomphrey will be very dis-pleased."

She nodded and Dumbeldore left the Hospital Wing.

"Paige, Paige." Someone was whispering her name, Shacking her slightly out of her sleep.

"Huh? Who is it?" she whispered back.

It was late. Probaly around eleven o'clock. Pomphrey would be pissed if someone was in her after hours.

"It's Draco."

"Draco? What are you doing in here?" she hissed.

"I needed to know how you were doing. Potter, Weasley and Granger wouldn't tell me. So thought I'd see you."

"Ever thought about doing that during daylight hours? I'm tiered." She said and yawned.

"Jeez, Paige! A guy just tried to kill you!"

"You'd be amazed how many times that's happened before." She whispered.

"Listen, I don't know what your doing, but you shouldn't be doing it. Blaise Zabini is a Death Eater, you shouldn't mess with him. Whatever it is you've gotten yourself into, you need to get out of it!"

"When will you get it! I can't get out of it. I made my choice, it's my life! I'm doing something I have to do, but nobody is willing to except it, nobody even knows, because that's the way it has to be! I would tell everyone if I could, but that's not my decision! I'm just doing what I have to…." By now she had tears falling down her cheeks, blurring the little she could see in the dark.

He didn't say anything to her. He felt guilty for pushing her to tell him. She leaned into his chest and he held her tightly, wiping her tears away.

"Thanks for saving me." She whispered before drifting into a peacefull sleep.

AN: What a short chapter.
Hope you all liked it anyways.

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