*This story will cover a range of dark themes*

Bellatrix stalked along the dungeon corridor at a little past six, it came to as no surprise she had adapted to Severus' dramatic stalk, it came along with living with the man for so long, years of living with the cold-hearted man that all of the students proclaimed him as had caused her to develop similar personality traits. As she passed the library she noticed the distinct glow of a lamp, it was not forbidden for a student to be out of bed after 06:00 am but it was highly unlikely that a student was that desperate to be in the library for exactly 06:15. She crept through the door of the library, she loved the element of surprise and had often as a child scared the life out of her cousin Sirius, Bellatrix saw a girl with darkish curly hair who appeared to be sleeping on one of the very back tables, completed homework scattered across the table, it was clear this girl had not been here since six, but had probably not been to bed at all.

"Excuse Me! Young Lady, I suggest you wake up on give me an excellent excuse for sleeping in the library all night." She watched as the young girl jumped a few feet off the chair she had previously occupied.

"I…I... I…I was only here for a few minutes professor, I must have been really tired" the girl mumbled in response.

"What is your name young lady? as you and I both know that is pure nonsense" Bellatrix barked she was both annoyed at the audacity of the girl to lie to her face and worried at how much the young girl was stuttering.

"Hermione Granger, Professor" Hermione's gaze was very much transfixed on the ground away from Bella.

"Well since you will not provide me with a valid excuse for your indiscretion, you will receive detention this evening with myself and Professor Snape, I suggest you return to you common room and get changed for the day, this instance, expect my owl later this morning after I confer with Professor Snape detailing the time and location of you punishment." Dumbledore had partnered all Professors up for detentions after the fiascos of the previous Defence Against the Dark Arts Professors.

"Yes, Professor" This was not the girl Sev had described to her, she had no fight or spirit, Sev had spent hours talking about the battle of wills Miss Granger created with every detention or loss of point. The girl kept her head down and gathered her school work, as Miss Granger hurried off Bellatrix noted a very distinct puddle on the chair and a wet patch on Hermione skirt, the poor girl had obviously wet herself. Bella was horrified and confused, this girl had taken on Voldemort, a Basilisk, fought a great deal of people and yet when Bella had raised her voice to wake her she wet herself, something was very wrong with this young girl.

Bella turned quickly on her heels and headed back towards Severus' classroom where she new he would be.

Severus had been up since five just after his annoyingly energetically wife left for the morning, she adored the morning whereas he was very much a night owl, he was beyond surprised when Bella stalked through the door, it startled him she appeared slightly distressed.

"Bella? Is everything ok?" Bella stood staring at him for what seemed like a lifetime before she said a sentence which he failed to understand.

"She wet herself, I barely raised my voice and she wet herself!" Bella looked distraught.

"Who? Love? who on earth are you talking about?"

"Hermione Granger, I found her asleep in the library and I asked her to explain herself, she stated she'd only just arrived and I challenged her, she didn't even look me in the eye and just agreed she scurried off before I noticed her skirt and the chair were wet Sev, she was soaked." Severus sat in complete shock, for once in his life he had no idea how to comfort his wife, he be damned if anything happened to one of his students, spy or no spy.

"Bella, Love, we need to do something, we need to find out what's happening with Miss Granger, the young lady always argues I give her anything less than an outstanding on her work and she will fight me tooth and nail, similarly to when you got an idea in that stubborn head of yours." Bellatrix looked at him slightly perplexed had he seriously just said she was stubborn.

"We'll do everything we can I have told Hermione she will have detention with us tonight, I informed her I will owl her when a time had been arranged with yourself."

"Owl her seven, I will observe her through double potions this morning and see what her behaviour is like." Severus hugged his wife before she walked out of his classroom, distressed children played on both his and his wives mind neither had experienced the best upbringing.

Hermione was terrified she thought when the new professor she hadn't even got the name of had woken her she had been in a completely different place, all she could remember from last night was writing in her journal and then everything went black until the professor woke her, Professor Snape was going to kill her in detention and it this point she would welcome death.

As Professor McGonagall handed her schedule, she cringed at the thought of double potions, followed by double defence against the dark arts, she just hoped that Professor Lupin was the Professor this morning and not the murderous looking female.

She decided to skip breakfast the last thing she needed was to be sick, as she slowly walked towards the dungeon, she realised she had not completed her summer preparation work, hadn't opened the potions text book in fact she hadn't even purchased the textbook, her grandparents had refused and her plan was to mail order them when she arrived last night and had completely forgotten to send the owl. As she opened the door she realised she was late, all of the Gryffindor and Slytherin were already seated. She kept her head and eyes focused on the floor hoping Professor Snape would not notice her late arrival.