Callie was up bright and early the next morning, she had made Ron promise to wait for her to go to breakfast, but that didn't mean she trusted him to. She knew he had trouble believing she wanted to be his friend, but she wasn't going to give up on him. She didn't think she could stand loosing another friend. Not after loosing Draco.

She had been so excited to come to Hogwarts, she had everything planned out. She would be with Draco, Pansy, Blaise, Greg, and Vince, and things would be as they always were. Then she saw the looks on her friend's faces when she was sorted into Gryffindor. She had asked Ron why Pansy and Blaise looked like she had just betrayed them, and wanted to laugh when he told her it was because she had in a way. No Gryffindor were ever friends with a Slytherin.

She smiled at the 6th year girl who walked out of the 6th year dorm room, she thought her name was Ginny.

"You're Calla right?" The girl asked, with a smile. "I'm Ginny, I'm dating your brother Ian." She continued without waiting for Callie to answer her. "It's funny, he told me you died."

"As you can see I didn't, I was just well hidden." Callie said with a smile, not wanting to offend the girl who had done nothing to her, but at the same time not wanting to be around one of Ron's family members who had hurt him.

"I think it only right that I warn you." The girl said lowering her voice. "Be careful around my brother. He may not act like it now, but he is evil. Was serving the Dark Lord for quite some time. In fact he and Draco Malfoy tried to lour you brothers into a trap. It didn't work though, and as I'm sure you know, You Know Who was defeated."

"Actually, I don't know who, would you mind telling me?" Callie asked, trying not to laugh when the girl got uncomfortable. She hadn't even realized they were in the common room until she heard someone snort, and saw Ron standing there.

"I don't think she can say, she really isn't brave enough." The redhead said as he walked up to her. "Shall I escort you to breakfast?" He asked as he held his elbow out to Callie.

"Why, that would be lovely." She said, imitating the girls at her old school, trying not to laugh.

They were heading down a deserted corridor when they heard raised voices.

"ALL THIS TIME YOU HAD HER. YOU PRETENDED TO LOOK FOR HER, BUT YOU WERE REALLY HIDING HER!" Callie heard a man yell, and peaked around the corner to see James yelling at her Dad.

"You really expected me to leave her in a house where she was being hit. She was only five James, and you abused her." Sirius said, not yelling, but Callie could see she was mad.

"I COULD HAVE YOU ARRESTED FOR WHAT YOU DID!" James yelled at his once friend.

"Well then your dirty little secret would get out. We weren't stupid Potter. We documented every injury. Poppy still has them on record, and we gave copies to others for safekeeping. You so much as try and put us in prison word will get out that you abused your only daughter." Said a different voice, one Callie knew belonged to her father.

"You wouldn't dare." This voice was feminine, and Callie saw it was Lily. "We would have the right to see the people who took our daughter brought to justice."

"She may be your daughter in blood, but you were never her parents. She doesn't call you mother or father, or mum or dad. No, Severus is Father, and has been since she was five. Just as I have been Dad. Did you read to her when she was little? No, I did that. Did you calm her after a nightmare? Nope, but Severus stayed up nights stroking her hair and rubbing her back so she would be able to sleep. Did you take care of her? NO, we did that." Sirius said, anger radiating off him. He had wanted to do this for years. "So now I ask you, did you love her?" Callie watched as the people who were her blood thought about the question.

"It's not something you should have to think about. Either you do or you don't. But I can tell you we do, more than anything in this world. And we will fight to keep her out of your grasp. You won't be hurting her anymore." Sirius said. "You so much as try taking her from us or having us arrested we will post the report Poppy ran right after we took her, then what will the media think? The golden Parents beating their helpless daughter?" He said the last part mockingly, but everyone could see he was serious.

"Dumbledore will see to it she is returned to us." Lily said self-righteously.

"Actually he has known where I was all along." Callie said, stepping around the corner, and standing next to her father, relaxing a bit when he put his arm around her comfortingly.

"He knew?" Lily asked sounding shocked.

"He was there that night we brought her to her new home." Severus said, "He saw the bruises and decided she was better off with us." He continued, and gave her a comforting squeeze. "Now if you'll excuse us, Sirius has to leave soon, and would like some time with our daughter." Severus said, leading his family away.

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Callie and Ron made it to breakfast, but were almost late for their first class of the day because Ian pretended he couldn't find Ron's schedule. It wasn't until Professor McGonagall came that Ian miraculously found it. Unfortunately their first class was potions and there wasn't enough time to make it there.

But then again Callie had been inside the school exploring when she was little, so knew of a secret passage that would get them to their class with time to spare. Sure enough they beat almost everyone else there. They weren't the firsts though. Draco was already seated, reading over something in the book, not even looking up.

Sighing Callie grabbed Ron's hand and pulled him to the front of the classroom. They both sat at the table in the front, but no sooner had she sat than she felt as though someone was watching her. Looking around she saw there was no one else in the room, and Draco was still reading his book.

Draco saw Callie walk into the potions classroom, but tried to ignore her. Try as he might though he couldn't help staring at her. He wanted nothing more than to beg for her forgiveness for the way he acted, but knew she would never forgive him. Besides it wouldn't do him any good. He would never get to be with her like he wanted. He wasn't good enough, and wouldn't be able to support her. After all, no one would hire the person to betrayed the boys who lived. This was why when he saw her looking around, and quickly turned back to his book, trying to act more interested in it than he was in her.

Ron saw how Draco looked at his new friend, and also knew what Callie had told him about the friendship the two had when they were little. Callie had told him that the blond had moved on, but he wasn't so sure. If anything he had fallen into something to deep to pull himself out of. He was almost positive Draco Malfoy was in love with his new friend, and he could see she loved the blond back. Now he just had to decide what to do with this new information.

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Ron knew what he had to do, so he asked Callie if he could borrow a certain item and left her studying in the library so he could try to track down the blond Slytherin. First he had to see if he was right and if the blond was in love with her. Well, that would be easy enough, all he would have to do is tell the boy some of the things the other Gryffindor boys had said about the girl, and if he got a reaction he might just get his answers.

He may not like the blond, but he liked Callie. She was the only person other than his brothers to be nice to him, and he was going to do everything in his power to make his friend happy. Even put up with Malfoy.

He found out that Draco was working with Hagrid this year as a way to pay for school. Apparently when his parents disowned him they froze any vaults Draco had access to, and now the blond was working to stay in school. For this reason he wasn't surprised when he found the blond outside feeding some of Hagrid's bea…pets.

"Hey, Malfoy." He called, and was going to rethink his plan when the other boy turned and glared at him. He then thought about Callie, and how nice she had been to him and steeled his courage and approached his classmate.

"It's not Malfoy anymore." The blond said before turning back to his work. "What do you want Weasley?"

"Callie asked me to return this to you." He said holding up the locket. "She doesn't need it anymore. I mean, what with all the boys interested in her in Gryffindor." He took note of how the blond tensed, but knew he would have to take it a little further. "You should hear the things the guys are saying about her. Ian even started a pool as to who could get her to agree to a date with them first. Most of the money is on Finnegan." He wasn't lying either, Ian had started a pool as to who would be the first to have the honor of dating their sister. There was even talk of having an auction for the privilege. It all just made Ron want to puke.

That got a reaction, it was well known that Seamus dated women until he slept with them, and then would dump them. This was enough to get a reaction out of Draco, and the blond spun and punched Ron square in the nose, causing it to break.

"I didn't say I was taking part in it." Ron spat as he held his nose.

"Yeah, well if someone hurts her I swear I will take it out on you." Draco said as he held his hand out. When Ron looked at him funny he elaborated, "the locket, you said she wanted me to have it back."

"Oh, right." Ron said, he wasn't actually counting on Draco taking it back.

"Good." Draco said as he slipped the locket into his pocket. "Well, I think we are done now. Just remember what I said." With that he turned and returned to his work, contemplating what he would do to anyone who made his princess cry, or hurt her in anyway.

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"Ron, where's my locket?" Callie asked when she saw her friend again.

"Bout that…" He trailed off, not sure what he was going to tell his friend. He didn't just want to tell her he had lost it. But he also couldn't tell her what happened with Draco. Luckily there was something to distract her.

"What happened to you nose?" She asked when she saw how swollen it was.

"Well, someone tried to take your locket, and when I didn't want to give it to them they punched me. Then made off with it." He lied, and prayed she bought it.

"Well did you see who it was?" Callie asked, wanting to know who took her locket. She wanted it back.

"No, sorry, the corridor was dark and I couldn't see his face." Ron lied again.

"Well, lets get you to the hospital wing." Callie said, trying not to think of her locket. She knew she was sure to cry if she did, and she didn't want Ron to feel bad, it wasn't his fault.