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"So how'd your date go?" Raine asked Sirius the next morning.

"Pretty well." Sirius said.

"Think you'll be going on any more dates with Rachel?" Peter asked. He was sitting between Raine and Sirius.

"No, not really. Don't like her that much."

Raine yawned. It was the first weekend in ages that she hadn't slept late, and this caused her to feel very tired. She lay down across Peter's legs, so her head was on Sirius's legs. She smiled up at Sirius. Neither of them said anything.

When she woke up that morning, Lorraine had actually started to call herself 'Raine.' She had no idea what persuaded her to call herself that. When she sat alone at breakfast, she had decided that she needed a reason, just in case anyone asked. So, she decided that her new name came along with her new hair, that her new hair didn't like her old name at all.

Raine lifted her head as much as possible so she could kiss Sirius's cheek lightly. She smiled. She loved having him as a friend.

"They planned the first Quidditch game to be the day before Halloween." Sirius said.

"Gryffindor vs. Slytherin?"

"Yup. Wanna go with me?"

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Knew it would happen,
But it still came as a surprise.
Not a bad thing at all,
But I still can't open my eyes.
Don't want to wake up,
It's the middle of the day.
Don't want to get out,
I won't know what to say.
It was predictable,
But I was still shocked.
I saw it coming,
But now my eyes are locked.
They're not going to open,
You can't make them.
They're staying closed,
Until only I know when.

Raine didn't want to get out of bed. She felt strange. She had known that this would happen eventually, and had no idea why she had been so surprised.

And it wasn't a bad thing at all. It would just make her job easier. Of course, right now, that was the only reason she had agreed to go to the Quidditch game with Sirius. If she weren't on a mission, she would have definitely turned him down. She didn't like him as more than a good friend. He didn't seem like the type of guy that she would date… Well, to her, nobody seemed like the type of guy that she would date.

She lay there for a while, wondering if Lily was in the common room and wanted her to come up. Luckily, she hadn't fallen asleep yet, because that would have really disappointed her.

She forced herself to go back into the common room. Raine really wished that she hadn't told Sirius that she would go with him.

Why was she making a big deal of this? Raine forced a realistic smile onto her face as she saw Lily talking to James, Sirius talking to Remus and Peter talking to one of Lily's friends. She hadn't been their friend that long, but she was already used to seeing their faces. She was doing a good job on her mission so far. Honestly, if she had really wanted to kill them, they could've been dead already.

Although she looked cheerful to them, inside she was really wishing she were drowning in the lake at the moment. If she died, then they wouldn't have to die for a while. But of course, she wasn't going to go kill herself just so her friends would live.

Raine sat down between Remus and Peter. "Hey guys."

"Hey Raine." Peter said cheerfully, looking at her for a few seconds, then looking back at Lily's friend.

Sirius grinned at Raine. "Hi."

"Hello Sirius." Just don't think about the date. Don't think about it and you'll be able to relax.

Sirius reached over Remus's legs to kiss Raine's lips, but she turned her head so he kissed her somewhere between her cheek and her lips instead. She really didn't know why she had done that but it seemed more right than letting him kissing her.

Sirius either didn't think her actions were strange, or was hiding it, because he just went back to his conversation casually. Raine smiled brightly. This time the smile was partly real.

Never before did she realize what a good actor she was.

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It was an average week, just like the next week. Raine and Sirius didn't show anything that would let people guess about their date coming up the day before Halloween. It wasn't that they were keeping it a secret; If someone had asked, they would've told, but they just didn't feel like spreading the word.

Raine had started to realize that she had a great fear of rumors spreading. That was her reason for not talking about her date. Not even Lily knew yet.

If rumors would start spreading, then any student who were also Death Eaters would definitely think that she wasn't doing her mission, that if she was going to start dating Sirius, then she wouldn't have the courage to kill him. But so far, she didn't like him enough to spare his life. In fact, she still only liked him as a friend.

James was spending a lot of time outside, on his broom. The game coming up was really making him panic. The team had almost lost to Slytherin the year before, but they managed to get the snitch first.

The Death Eater mark didn't start burning anytime that week, counting the weekend. Raine supposed it was because there was nothing involving her going on.

Since she really didn't know whom she was working for, Raine decided to start getting the Daily Prophet and see if she saw his name anywhere in there. If he were that bad, then it certainly would be. With all the homework she was getting, she kept forgetting to subscribe, but Sunday night, she managed to remember.

On Monday morning, she slept through breakfast and didn't get the paper, and on Tuesday she was too busy doing homework in her dormitory to go to breakfast, but on Wednesday, she did go to breakfast.

After paying the owl, she started to skim the paper for Voldemort's name. She could not see it anywhere. Where was it?

"Hey, Lily. Do you know who Voldemort is?"

Lily nearly choked on her bagel. "You okay?" Raine asked.

"Yeah… It's just that most people don't say his name."

"Why not? Who is he?"

"He calls himself the Dark Lord. He wants to kill all the muggles and muggle borns. Of course, just about everyone is against him, except for these horrible gits that decide to help him. They're called-"

"Death Eaters." Raine finished quietly.

"How do you know?"

"I… I've heard of them before."

"Well, they're really bad people. I can't believe you never knew who Voldemort is." Lily said before finishing her bagel.

"No one really ever told me these things before."

So this was whom she was working for? How horrible. She was working for some evil guy who wanted to kill muggles and muggle borns.

Right then, more than ever, she wanted to just break down and cry.

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