"Severus, may I come in?" Snape slowly opened the door to Dumbledore, yawning widely and wondering if a 'Peaceful Sleep', really did exist or was it just a figment of his imagination,

"What can I do for you, Professor?" The headmaster stepped into the dimly lit room and settled himself down on the sofa,

"Please, have a seat." He offered kindly. Severus looked at him grudgingly,

"Thank you."

"Not at all. Right, you are aware, of course, that Miss Granger and her friends took young Draco to Hogsmeade with them this afternoon." Snape nodded slowly, wondering where this was heading and liking the conclusion he was reaching at all. "Apparently, whilst they were consuming numerous quantities of butter-beer, they, shall we say, ran into Lucius." Severus looked very much inclined to being sick,

"Oh…" He managed to get out, "And, umm…what-what happened? Or don't I want to know?" Dumbledore patted him on the arm,

"You needn't worry, Severus, Draco is down in my office, alive and…well, not exactly happy, but near enough. The point is he is perfectly safe. For now, at the very least."

"What do you mean, for now?" Snape enquired nervously, "What happened?"

"He said he'd be back." Dumbledore replied, the usual twinkle in his old eyes fading slightly, "Lucius knows for sure where Draco is now and who is involved. And, although I am loath to admit it, Hogwarts isn't a safe place for either Draco or Miss Granger."

"So what is your plan?" Severus demanded, leaning back in his hair, arms folded almost defensively across his chest, "I assume you do have one." Albus looked shocked at the young man's implication,

"Of course I have a plan! Really Severus, you have so little faith in me. I was thinking, that maybe the best place to go would be Number twelve." The potion's master narrowed his eyes,

"Grimmauld Place?"

"The very same."

"Do you really think it a good idea to put Draco, a death-eater's son, in the same house as cranky exe-auror, a were-wolf and a convicted murderer?"

"Yes." The old man replied simply. Severus sighed and put a hand up to his head. He could feel a very bad migraine coming on, "His cousin will be there too, and I'm sure Molly won't let anything happen to him…"

"I think you might be forgetting that Nymphadora is the daughter of a disgraced aunt, there is no certainty that Draco will get along with her and as for Mrs.Weasley, you know what Draco has grown up believing!"

"Like I said before, you have so little faith in me. Just trust me Severus, I know what I am doing. And besides, Miss Granger will be there to look after him, as will the boy's Aengel. I assume he does have one? The circumstances are right for her to appear." Snape frowned,

"Umm, Yes…She's in that room over there, sleeping."

"Good, good. Well, that's settled then. I shall inform Sirius that you will be arriving tomorrow, shall I?"

"Yes, sure…How is Draco by the way? How does he feel about this? You have told him, haven't you?" Dumbledore waved his hand around,

"Of course!" He replied airily, "The poor boy's slightly traumatised by his unfortunate encounter, but he seemed perfectly fine with my proposal" He observed Severus' expression amusedly, "I'm sure Sirius will be fine with him. You will try to get along with him, won't you?"

"Naturally." Snape replied with a grimace.

Hello! My deepest apologies for such a short chapter but i can't do long one all the time. Lol! Ah well...c'est la vie! Yay! Nearly at 300!

Chocolate covered waffles to...

thinb4uspeak, I Estel vinta amarbarenna lomeo A Duath, Irite4uall, TimaMage0955, Phantom Starlight, lollenk, Mikki's Evil DoppelGanger, PerfectPureblood, Hogaboom. Thank you all, and if i haven't put you down my sincerest apologies, sometimes they don't show up right away.

btw, timemage0955 said this- But remember Lucius, Draco is a Malfoy too and he doesn't want to go with you! SO THERE! I bet everyone will be wanting an explanation.

All i'm saying to this is thatthe statement will come up again...heh heh heh!

Lots o' love, Lilyxxx