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Chapter 5

Hermione walked through Malfoy manor slowly exploring all the rooms around, the secret rooms, the trapdoors, the portrait of past battles between muggleborn and wizards, vampires and werewolves. To Hermione Malfoy manor was everything that magic was to her before she had been told so kindly by a certain letter that she was in fact a witch, and was to attend a school designed for kids from around the country just like her. To learn magic under the guidance of one Albus Dumbledore. The manor had made magic for the first time in twelve years magic to her again.

It was one of the biggest buildings she had ever been to in her life even bigger than Hogwarts, but this mansion didn't share the comfortable and happy feeling he always had while at Hogwarts this place was rich with dark history and magic that made Hermione feel even more excited, for magic used to be the devils work when she was eleven, evil and something that many muggles were frightened of even if they had never even seen a real witch or wizard in their life before.

The manor being the house of a muggle hater was obviously filled to the teeth with portraits of some of the most infamous deatheaters and muggle haters that were hung around the house. They stared at her in hatred as she walked past them, the sometimes even told her to leave the mansion as 'mudbloods aren't welcome here' and even an old woman told her that if she was still alive that she would have her head on a plate unless she left.

He looked for at least three hours for the only place that she cared about in any building of such a size, library. She walked in and she felt her jaw hit the floor. It was bigger than the one at Hogwarts almost four times bigger, three times bigger than her own home in Hertfordshire, (her house was small but half of it was a library,) this one was filled with thousands of different categories for everything from anatomy to Zelda-the Vampire soulress.

Her eye fell upon the last category and She felt instantly attracted to the Zelda soulress especially due to the situation that she had found herself in at the moment, living in the house of a vampire. Hermione hadn't known much about vampire history, the only information that she had on them was by phony Lockhart and books from diagon alley and Hogwarts that only showed vampires as blood sucking daemons and never showed the fact that some vampire have still got a thread of humanity that seemed to pour out of Malfoy at times.

And so she went over to the section and took out the first book she saw The Truth about Zelda. All that she knew about Zelda was that she was basically like one of Dracula's brides, but in reality Silas's soulress, the story of Dracula (she was told) was very much based on Silas and the three soulresses that he lived with him in a Transylvanian fortress that still stood isolated looking down upon the village of Transylvania.

On the book there was a picture of a young woman with long glossy black hair that came to about her waist dancing with a young handsome man whom she guessed was Silas.

Hermione smiled as she watched them dance together, from the picture he didn't seem as bad as legend had it, she had seen more evil man than the one on that page locked up in Azkaban.

She looked at Zelda's beautiful face which was smiling and laughing she looked like she was on top of the world and there was no trouble on her mind, they were the only two people alive, Zelda and her vampiric lover.

In Hermione's view she was one of the most beautiful women Hermione had ever seen, she had never seen anyone quite like her not even a veela could compare to this woman Hermione rubbed her thumb across the image of Zelda and her lover, she slid her fingers over the covers, and when she opened the book she was so shocked by the picture she let out a tiny scream.

It was another picture of Zelda, but this time she was lying on the ground with a bite mark at her throat with blood pouring out of it, she wasn't moving and her skin that was once so bright and vibrant was pale and deathlike.

Hermione continued to stare at the picture in shock and horror, when from the shadows a man began creeped into the image it was Silas again but this time he looked very different. He wasn't the young handsome man from before, so full of life holding the woman of any man's dreams in his arms spinning her around in complete joy and ecstasy, but the pale and evil vampire that Draco had been numerous time in front of her.

Hermione watched in horror as the man lay over the woman's barely living body kissing her chest, up her neck and kissed her lips and lifted his wrist to her mouth pouring his blood into it, Zelda began to shiver and twitch and then turned toward Hermione and opened her eyes so suddenly that Hermione let out another scream and shut the book as quick as she could.

She threw the book on the floor and looked upon the dancing couple again waltzing in circles around on the front cover 'what a contrast life and death.' Hermione forced herself to get over her shock and she opened the book again.

She skimmed through the book looking at pictures and paintings of the other brides, Silas, their fortress and a magnificent painting of the four vampires swooping down into the village of Transylvania, she turned back to the front of the book and began to read about who Zelda had been before she had been a vampire

The first of Silas's soulresses was one Zelda Rominov whose existence as a muggle was almost next to nothing in a world, which class meant everything. She was the daughter of one of the poorest families in the village who were goat herders whom lived off their livestock.

As a child Zelda had been abused by many of the men in the village who had raped her and the female members of the Rominov family who were deemed as whores by their fellow villagers and it was therefore ok for them to treat them in such a way.

But not everyone in Transylvania was as simple minded, ignorant and as repulsive as the rest of the villagers had been, for at the age of sixteen Zelda found love with the youngest son of a boron no less, whom had protected her and her family for a while against the evil wraith of the village. With such a connection Zelda and her family would be saved and she would ultimately save them from depression by marring the baron's son and the family could live in well deserved prosperity.

But unfortunately young Zelda's dreams were shattered when the Barons son left Transylvania to fight against the invading Turks and the family were no longer safe, they were accused of being devil worshippers and Zelda's mother was burnt in public for apparent witchcraft that had made a lot of the villages miraculously sick, and as for their father, he was soon murdered by a group of young men at the bidding of their fathers for being the lover of a witch.

What was more heart breaking for Zelda was when she was seventeen years old, word had gotten into the village that the war had stopped between the Turks and the Christians and that the soldiers were coming home. When the news had reached the Rominov home Zelda stood by the door each and every night awaiting the arrival of her love, but each day that went by the more her heart would break until one day, someone did come to the door, but it wasn't her beloved, it was his friend with the new of the death of the baron's son.

After that day Zelda did not see what was there was left to live for, her mother and father were both murdered, her brothers and sisters had run away and the goats were beginning to die. The night she had found out Zelda wondered into the forest outside her home and pace around aimlessly, witnesses say that she was full of sorrow and heart ache and at first she sighed and then looked around to make sure that no one was their which their were and then She screamed, one of sorrow, one of hate, one of heart break, one of grief. She looked into the moonlight and prayed the help of god, help that she had asked for all of her life, of which she had never received.

Soon after, it is told that Zelda had been working in the house of the town mayor as a maid for the duration of her human life. In that way she was safe away from the men who used to rape her and the men who had killed her family, but her life in safe servitude did not seem enough for Zelda, her life lacked existence.

When she turned twenty one Zelda took another turn around the forest after she made a visit back to her home after almost six years. The goats were gone; those bastards probably stole them out of spite, knowing that they would never be touching her again, but the house had never looked so old and so unhomely. In her diary she wrote that she stood at the front door and looked out at the town. 'They were all happy drunk in their own comfortable and perfect lives, they had probably forgotten all about the Rominov family who they had destroyed.'

Hermione looked down below the bit that she had just read and saw a silvery solution below; she knew what it was straight away a pensieve, memory storage system. Hermione put her finger init and fell right through.

Hermione pulled herself off the ground and took a look around and saw Zelda she was standing at the doorstep of a very unstable looking home, Zelda didn't even see her, and she looked right through her and stared into the forest. She turned her head up it was still the middle of the night and walked right through Hermione and into the forest.

Hermione followed her and watched her as she touched everything that was close to her pulling out leaves from their branches and humming to herself a tune like a child something that she never been allowed to feel before. "Hello." Zelda and Hermione both jumped and turned around to see a man Zelda had never seen before, staring at her in a sensual way. Hermione knew exactly who he was. It was silas.

"Vat ever you vant you vill not have it. I vill not let you have my body ever again!"

Silas looked at her in complete surprise; "I vill not hurt you." He moved closer to her and Zelda and Hermione could see his handsome young face, he was at least twenty six 6ft tall for a man of the time and yet something about this man was extremely unnerving; "my name is Silas and I am at your service Madame."

Zelda scoffed and turned around; "I don't need your service, I don't even know who you are. I have never seen you in the village, vhere did you come from?"

Silas smiled; "I lived in the village a long time ago, now I live in that castle over there," he pointed at the isolated fortress.

"People have lost there lives to even make it to its gates. You're lying." She turned around to make her way back to the village when she felt him grab on to her waist and they shot up into the night's sky towards the isolated fortress.

Zelda did not scream for she was unafraid of death, she welcomed it maybe she would see her parents again and her beloved. She closed her eyes and feared for the worst, but it never came. They landed in the castle that Zelda had sometimes wish that she could escape to, to be far away from the village and this was it; "you veren't lying." Hermione floated down next to them.

"No."

"How did you fly?" she looked at him and saw no sign of any device, so he showed he and out from his back sprouted two bat wings; "you're the devil." She whispered and then thought, she had been called the devil most of her life what if this man wasn't the devil but was an angel. He put the wings away and walked towards her, she didn't move back or seem afraid but he stared at him with such admiration; "is that all you can do?" and in a second his handsome face transformed into a beast with see-through skin and red eyes and yet again she did not seem afraid even when he showed off his large fangs. Hermione screamed but Zelda did nothing.

Yet again he changed back; "are you not afraid?"

"I have nothing to lose so I have nothing to fear." She smiled at him; "what are you?"

"A vampire some people call me."

"And do you kill people vampire?"

"Yes, only because I must to live."

"Are you stronger than humans?" he nodded, she looked at him; "can you turn me into one?"

Silas suddenly brightened up he almost looked human; "yes I can, but once you me there is no turning back."

She smiled and said; "I accept."

"vhy do you vant to be like me?"

She looked to the ground; "to get my vengeance." And the castle disappeared and Hermione found herself in Malfoy' library again.

Hermione looked up 'wow' she could see why Silas liked Zelda she was a very strong character indeed, Hermione could feel great admiration boil up for her inside but then she felt a prang of sadness 'Zelda's dead.', so she turned to the last chapter The Death of Zelda. Hermione went to the very back of the chapter and read the last paragraph:

In the late 19th century the infamous religious vampire hunter and doctor Edger Smicer killed the first of Silas's soulresses in their fortress of Transylvania. Before the deaths of Zelda, Mulaska and Silas and his love Simona raged terror upon the living of Transylvania. Silas was staked but something happened that Smicer had not desired wishing to rid the world of Silas's tyranny and the pain caused by the soulresses, one of soulresses escaped from him and still dwells in the fortress today continuing the muggle traditional story of Dracula until this day.

She became a bit tired of reading so with a yawn she shut the book, put it back in its place and walked out of the library making her way outside to see the scenery of Malfoy manor at sun set as she used to do in Hogwarts when Ron and Harry were too busy being men and playing chess ignoring the fact that she was in the room or running round school after dark.

She walked down the stair case and opened up the huge oak doors and walked into the large marble courtyard outside making her way to the lake. She sat on the bank feeling quite lonely like she usually did and watched the sun slowly disappear behind the horizon while hugging her knees and she lay back on the newly cut lawn watching the sky get darker and darker until she could feel her eyes get heavy and slowly fell to sleep.

Draco waited for the sun to set so he could be able to go outside and enjoy the evening air and think about this new situation that he was in with the last person he would have expected it to be with. He had found love in the most unlikeliest person imaginable, but what was bad was that now he knew, he had to stab her through the heart so he once more could live like everyone else and be a human once more to drink, to laugh, to feel the sun's heat on his skin but there was something that made him think if it was the right thing to do; "no matter how much I hated her I can't do it." he picked up a silver dagger and looked at the hilt 'malfoi' "bad faith," he muttered to himself; "ironic."

The sun began to slowly disappear into the lake, he watched in the shadows as the sky turned from red to black in a matter of minutes; "it's beautiful;" he muttered he wanted to cry he couldn't see it for what it really was, but he could change all of that in a matter of seconds.

He walked out his study taking his dagger with him and made his way outside. He walked around the orchards reminiscing the first night in which Hermione stayed as his hostage. He was about to bite her but when he was about to dig his teeth into her flesh his head began to spin and instantly changed back into himself, that had never ever happened before. Then the night before when he bit her arms how much it hurt him not only physically but also mentally it felt that his head was going to split into two, his eyes were bleeding and his puncture marks spilt apart spraying that strange liquid all over the room it was even as if he felt his heart break inside him, for he had the strangest of dreams of Hermione's past, of deaths, of things that he had done to her, Dumbledore' funeral and Snape dying before his eyes.

He finally admitted it to himself he had fallen in love with Hermione without wanting to and to make everything the way it always used to be he had to kill her; he grasped his dragger tighter and walked away from the orchards.

He made his way to the lake slowly and walked on the riverbank. Taking off his cloak and threw it away it added to the heavy weight on his shoulders and carried on a bit until he saw Hermione's sleeping form on the bank.

He could do it now; no one could know any different could they? No one would know, no one knows Hermione's here. He walked slowly up to her and sat next to her. She moved a bit but fell back into a peaceful sleep.

He sat down next to her picking up her head and placed it gently on his lap and began to stroke her hair softy. She smiled softly in her sleep. "I can't do it." He whispered. He looked at the dragger with tears in his eyes, "I'm going to be vampire forever," and threw the dagger into the lake and kissed her forehead softly. She stirred a bit and opened her eyes staring at him with wondering eyes. "How long have I been asleep?" she asked and yawned.

"You were asleep when I came out."

Hermione sat up and stretched out a little; "You should have seen the sunset it was so beautiful."

"I did. But I wish I was outside watching it with you rather than in the shadow and actually feel it sun's heat once more, I would die under the rays of the sun." He smiled down at her and she looked sadly at the lake.

"When you find the person you fall in love I hope you'll be able to find a loop hole."

Draco stared strangely at Hermione; "I hope so too, I know now that I wouldn't have the have the heart to kill her."

She sat up and turned to him; "You know what Malfoy your not as bad as I thought you were, you can be a bit of a tart when your wrong-"

He looked in mock surprise; "Me!"

Hermione grinned and said; "Yes you. But your alright I guess."

"Well, thank you granger." he grinned and looked out into the lake and said; "You're not too bad yourself. Funny, beautiful, smart but really really bossy"

"Cheers." Hermione grinned and stood up; "I'll help you find that loop hole Malfoy even though we were enemies once, I think that I owe it up to you."

"It's really me who should be helping you."

"Nah I don't need help with anything, life is pretty cool as it is. Anyhow there must be a loophole to this curse anyway. There is a loop hole for anything isn't there." Hermione looked out at the lake and smiled at the view; "it's beautiful at night."

"I wish I could be out here in the morning."

Hermione smiled a little bit and turned around to go back inside when Draco called out "wait!"

Hermione stopped and turned around "why what is it?"

"Next week is Halloween and I will be holding a masquerade ball for deatheaters I just want to know if you want to go."

Hermione looked at Draco curiously and then answered "of course." She gave him a smile and returned back into the house but before he did she turned round and said "hey Malfoy funny beautiful smart, that's a muggle romantic cliché."

Draco laughed and turned towards the lake and stared up at the sky, "what do I do?" he muttered and went back into the shelter of the mansion as soon as he made sure that she was gone.

AN: slowly turning into a romance YAY! Anyhow REVIEW! Tell me what you think carry on updating or ditch it?