I'd like to thank Yomiko Clone, Missing Fairy, Crutches the magic hippie, Mistress-of-the-dragon, mysterious charm, TigerLilly1889, sarahbuggs, Riality, and breezie for reviewing Chapter 4. All of your reviews kept me going, thank you.

Now for Chapter 5, I've been writing and rewriting this chapter for a while and I'm finally happy with it's outcome so enjoy.

Chapter 5

The tapping continued for a few moments more before Draco crawled out of the bed and opened the window, allowing the large owl into the room. Hermione sat motionless, looking at the owl as though it may sprout fangs and devour them all.

Draco shoving all worry aside, reached over and detached the note from the owl's leg. Immediately the owl took off, most likely told to not stay around for a reply.

"What does it say Draco?" Hermione asked climbing from her spot to stand next to him. She looked at him expectantly, waiting for something, anything.

He opened the note, read it and with a surprised look, stuffed it into his pocket. He ran for his bag and started putting all of his stuff in it haphazardly.

"What's going on?" she asked him impatiently. When he didn't respond she tried again, "DRACO! WHAT IS GOING ON!" she yelled exemplifying every syllable.

He stopped and seemed to be snapped out of a daze of some sort, "My…my father knows…where I am, we have to get out of here. We have to get out of here NOW!" he said almost desperately. He pulled the note back out of his pocket and threw it on the bed and returned to packing everything up. Hermione picked up the piece of folded parchment and opened it up.

Mr. Malfoy and Miss Granger,

It is vital that you get out of there immediately. I have just received news from Severus that Lucius knows where Draco is and is not to happy. He's on his way there now. Get out of The Leaky Cauldron and meet Severus inside the entrance to Diagon Alley, he's waiting.

Albus Dumbledore

Hermione ran to the door and peered out only to hear a very angry Lucius Malfoy yelling at what was most likely Tom.

"WHERE IS HE!"

"I wont tell you anything LUCIUS!" Tom growled.

"YOU HAD BETTER TELL ME WHERE MY GOOD FOR NOTHING SON IS OR I SHALL.." He was cut off however by Tom.

"Are you going to hurt me Lucius? There is a room full of people here and you can try if you want but I'm still not telling you anything. I refuse to put that boy into your hands. By now he'll have been smart enough to take that secret door in the floor boards of his room and be gone." He said pointedly with a smile.

Hermione smiled, "Your bloody brilliant Tom." she whispered shutting the door and placing several locking charms on it before running across the room, searching the floor for anything . She looked at the foot of the bed where a trunk sat that was used for extra storage. She pushed it out of the way and found the door in question. Flipping the small trap door out of the way, she looked down and noticed the ladder leaving off from the opening.

"DRACO, WHEREVER YOU ARE, I WILL FIND YOU! YOU CANT RUN FOREVER AND WHEN I FIND YOU, YOU'LL REGRET BEING BORN!" The voice rang out through the small pub. He was opening doors and pounding on others.

"I already regret it" Draco said going over to Hermione with all of the stuff in hand. "Wow, I didn't know there was a trap door in here. How'd you know about it anyway?"

"Tom."

"Tom? But how? We haven't seen him since this morning."

"Lets just say he left a clue. Come on I'll tell you about it later." Hermione put her backpack on and started climbing down the ladder. "When you come through, shut it." She continued her way down through the small dark bricked in area. The door above her could be heard being busted open. She quickly pointed her wand up which caused the door to be hidden from those she didn't want to see it

"Shit" she heard Draco say as he quickened his decline.

At the end she hopped off of the ladder and looked around as Draco emerged behind her. They were in a long narrow hall where ladders from each room ended. The room was dimly lit and completely quit aside for their hard breathing.

"How do we get out of here?" Draco asked looking around.

"We have to go to the end of this hall" Hermione stated matter-of-factly and headed for the opposite end of it.

Once they reached the end of the hall there sat a door. Draco quickly opened it and stepped through with Hermione. They found themselves on the side of the pub, in an alleyway.

"How are we supposed to get into Diagon Alley without going back in there?" Soon Hermione's question was answered as The door to the pub slammed open and both of them pushed themselves tightly against the brick wall.

"When I find that boy, I'm going to take him straight to The Dark Lord and leave him to torture Draco. How dare he take off the week before he's supposed to get the dark mark? He's known about it his entire life and was talking excitedly about it to his mother not but two weeks ago." Lucius said as if it was common knowledge.

After a few more ramblings, Lucius disappeared with a loud pop. Hermione released her breath as she had been holding it for a few minutes.

They walked cautiously out of the alley and looked over to see Tom standing in the doorway to The Leaky Cauldron looking at them with a smile on his face. "I knew you would figure it out Hermione."

"Wait, how did you…" She said but was cut off.

"It's my pub dear girl, I know everything that goes on in it. I know where everyone is and what they 're doing all the time. So I knew you were listening ….Well now, why don't you come back in and I'll make you some tea." Tom said ushering them back inside.

"We'd love to but we have to get out of here. Professor Snape is waiting for us on the other side of Diagon Alley." Draco said politely.

"But I'm already here Mr. Malfoy." They turned and Professor Snape was standing right behind them. "Yes, when you didn't get out here, I knew something was wrong so I looked in just as Lucius was slamming out of the front entrance. Of course Tom knew I was here as he ushered me in and gave me some tea." He held up his cup of tea. "and told me all about it. Told me that you two would most likely be hiding in the alley."

Tom came over and handed both of them a hot cup of tea. They finally took the time to notice that the room was completely empty except for a couple of patrons who were also drinking some of Tom's lovely tea.

They all took a seat at a table, including Tom and reflectively drank their tea in silence. Professor Snape was the first to finish his. "Well when we're all done here, Albus would like me to bring you two back to Hogwarts." He turned his attention to Tom. "Thank you very much for helping them. I feel the need on behalf of Albus to pay you something."

Tom waved it off, "I would not take anything from any of you for this. It was the right thing to do, besides I hate Lucius and I loved to see how angry he got when he couldn't simply hurt me to get what he wanted." Both him and Severus started laughing at this. "Well, we must be going."

"Very well, I'll see you all again I'm sure." Tom said bowing them out to the brick entrance into Diagon Alley.

Twenty minutes later the walked into The Entrance hall of Hogwarts. "Hello Miss Granger, Mr. Malfoy. Welcome back to Hogwarts." They looked up into the twinkling eyes of Albus Dumbledore.