A couple of reviewers have asked who Maliegha's stepmom/ Nora & Braiden's mom is adn its just easier to post it with the story than typing the same thing mutliple times. To put it short she isn't really important, I don't even think I even named her.I pictured her as one of those prissy, air-headed types, but she was infact a qualified which. I hope this answers any questions you have, though I find it ironic that you ask about something that was mostly just a filler.

Ch 8: Since I know the Truth

Two weeks had passed since anyone had seen either Maliegha or Leniera. The Headmistress had excused them both from all of their classes. When Lenie showed up to the Great Hall for breakfast it was already beginning of May. She sat on the end alone, taking a nibble of toast every five minuets. Suddenly, Delia Marsh and Leah Minkapproached her, not intentionally together, but together nonetheless. "Hey Lenie. Are you okay? No one's seen you in two weeks. You're never in our dormitory. And then Leah here said that she hadn't seen Mal lately and since the two of you have been acting oddly close, we thought we might as well…"

"I'm fine," replied Lenie in a flat tone. She stood up and walked to the doors to the entrance hall. They were closed, which was fairly unexpected but not unusual. The unusual part of it was the doors were locked.

"Leniera, dear, please," a kind voice said. "Come with me to the side chamber so we can talk. And go get Maliegha. We all need to talk."

"I'm afraid I cannot do that."

"Oh and why is that?"

"'Cause she's gone." Lenie had taken out her wand and opened the door. "I hope you're happy with what you've done, Professor Granger."

"Leniera, you will not address me in such a way. I am your mother."

"You made Mal call you that for seventeen years. It could have just as easily been me." Lenie walked away and was closely followed by Delia and Leah.

"Lenie, what did you…"

"Maliegha Malfoy and I are twins. That should explain everything."

"You're what?" Leah stammered.

"Twins, Mink, Twins. Maybe you've heard the word?"

"Do you know where she is?"

"No. I told her not to tell me. Otherwise she could be found."

"Found? You mean she's not even here? Like she's not at Hogwarts?" Delia asked.

"No. She's gone. Far, far away at this point too probably."

"Mal's gone?" A small voice asked. Heads whipped around at the sound of Braiden Malfoy. "Where is she?"

"Mal had to go away. And you might not see her for a while."

"Is she where Nora is?"

"No Nora's someplace else. But they're both okay. Or going to be," she added in an undertone.

"How do you know that?"

"Because Mal told me she had to go away and that while Nora was away getting all better again, that she wanted me to look after you. So if you need anything."

"Don't you and Mal hate each other?"

"We don't hate each other. Don't Mal and Nora get really mad at each other and have really bad fights?" Braiden nodded. "Well it's just like that with Mal and me."

"So you're like Mal's sister."

"Yeah, basically. You'll understand all of this better when you get older. But I need to go get ready for class, as I'm sure you do, as I'm sure all of you do, but if you need anything, like something you would usually go to Mal or Nora for, you can come to me okay?"

"Okay." Braiden didn't know he was just agreeing with the girl who was his half sister, but it was the same way Mal had never known she was fighting with her twin sister. Lenie smiled and the crowd slowly dispersed, until the only one left was Hermione Granger. "What have I done?"

There was a loud rapping as the disgruntled blonde awoke from his nap.

"Master," a high squeaky voice said. "Master a woman is here to see you. She say it about your daughters. She say it about all three of them. Merry is thinking you only have two daughters but the woman say it about three of them."

"Hmm. Its Granger is it? That will be all, Merry. Send her in here." A minuet later, Hermione Granger entered the grand sitting room Draco Malfoy had occupied. "What now, Granger?"

"Malie's gone."

"What do you mean gone?"

"I mean she's gone. She left Hogwarts. Lenie doesn't know where she is. They really thought about this, making sure Lenie doesn't have any information we could use to find Malie. Do you have any idea where she could have gone?"

"Home."

"Home? But isn't this your home?"

"I meant where she thinks of as home. I went to America once I got Malie. We only moved back here after my wife, Nora and Braiden's mother, died. We would have moved back here anyway just so Malie could go to Hogwarts. They just happened to fall into the same summer. I don't know if she ever forgave me for uprooting her in that time of… mourning."

"So you think she went back to America?"

"Maybe. It seems a little obvious. But she might not have thought I'd come after her."

"Are you going to?"

"No."

"No?" Hermione inquired.

"I didn't say that." Draco answered.

"I did." A mysterious voice from behind answered.

"I don't know how we got through all our N.E.W.Ts!" Delia exclaimed.

"I know seven years and too much information later," her former enemy Leah Mink answered.

"Yeah," Delia agreed. Then both looked at Leniera. "Hey Lenie, you okay?"

"Yeah, it's just an awful lot to take in.But we did it, you know?" Lenie replied.

"You're thinking about Mal."

"I'm worried about her. It's been two months. Do you know how much could happen in two months?"

"Yeah, it took her less than that to change into the type of person who'd run away from her problems."

"She had no choice, Leah. She did the only thing she could. Mal had to suffer more than I ever had to. She grew up being known as the evil Draco Malfoy's daughter. She grew up having siblings that she found out weren't really hers. She grew up thinking another woman was her mother. I didn't. All it had ever been was me and mum. I knew my father was out there somewhere. She thought her mother was gone."

"Lenie, don't blame this on yourself. It wasn't your fault," Delia soothed.

"Yeah, and Mal does as she pleases. She always has, she always will," Leah added.

"And now I have to find her and fix this. I wish she hadn't left."

"We all wish she hadn't left Ms. Granger, especially now. I'm afraid I have some news," the stern voice of Minerva McGonagall said from behind the three. "If you'd please come with me."

"Of course Professor," the somber girl followed the woman she regarded as a grandmother, or maybe great grandmother at this point, away from the only two, besides her half-brother, whom she had really talked to in months. When they reached Professor McGonagall's office the two sat down.

"I will get to it Ms. Granger. Do you have any idea where Ms. Malfoy went off to?"

"I wonder if I should be regarded as Ms. Malfoy aswell."

"Leniera, you know I have always regarded you as aone of my family, having seen you grow up, and helped raise you. You know what I expect and this is a very dire situation I've gained knowledge of. However, should you really truly desire being referred to as Ms. Malfoy, I will generously oblige."

"I..." Lenie paused. "Leniera Malfoy. Leniera Granger. Leniera Narcissa Malfoy. Leniera Narcissa Granger. Hmm, I always liked that ring. Leniera Narcissa Malfoy–Granger. Leniera Narcissa Granger–Malfoy. Hmm…"

"Leniera, dear, would you like to get back to me about the name thing?"

"Oh, I'm sorry. But no, I'm Leniera Narcissa…Granger-Malfoy. But you may call me Ms… err Malfoy?" Leniera felt the foriegn name roll of her tongue, a bit unsure herself of why she'd chosen to take that surname, instead of the one she'd always known.

"Leniera Malfoy. Never did I think you'd ever go by that name. But now we have digressed enough; we must focus on the problem at hand. Now do you or do you not know where Ms. Maliegha Malfoy is?"

"No. I made her promise not to tell me. But I also promised I would find her the instant I could legally get out of this place. Which is now isn't it? I mean I've finished all my N.E.W.Ts. So I can can't I? Leave, I mean and go find her."

"Where will you look, Ms. Malfoy?"

"I don't know. Shouldn't twins have an instinct about this type of thing?"

"Well yes and no. Fred and George Weasley did. They knew what the other was thinking, saying, feeling. I'm pretty sure they also had an instinct about the other when they were apart. But another set of twins I knew, Misses Padma and Parvati Patil. They were really quite different; one was a Gryffindor and the other a Ravenclaw. But I feel that you and Maliegha are not as different as that. I mean both of you could have been sorted in Gryffindor, Ravenclaw or Slytherin, yet you both ended up together, in Slytherin, a house said to home many unique powers. If you choose to leave, it is your prerogative. But I should tell you why we need the other Ms. Malfoy and then you shall decide if venturing out to find her is… wise."

"Something's wrong isn't it? It's about my mum. Why I haven't been allowed to visit her in St. Mungo's? Or maybe it's about Nora? She's alright, isn't she? They're both alright, aren't they?"

"I'm afraid not Ms. Malfoy. I'm afraid your mother, Nora Malfoy, and Draco Malfoy have been… well, I believe captured would describe it quite perfectly."

"Captured?" Lenie demanded as she jumped to her feet. "By who?"

"We're not sure."

"Who would want to capture patients at St. Mungo's?"

"I see you do not quite understand. Your motherwas never at St. Mungo's. The Minister told me not to tell you until you were done with your N.E.W.Ts. Considering whom you are, and who your parents are, he felt that you would just jump into fixing the problem. I know you feel betrayed that all this has been kept from you, but I told you as soon as I knew it wouldn't jeopardize your future."

"I understand. But I also know I need to find Maliegha more than ever now. I promised her I would find her as soon as I could. I also told her I don't break a promis0e. If you don't mind, I'd like to go get some rest. I'll leave first thing in the morning."

"Yes, of course Ms. Malfoy. If you need any help, you have a lot of people who would be willing to help."

"Yes, of course, Professor McGonagall. If I do not see you before I leave tomorrow, good-bye." Professor McGonagall watched as the last broken soul walked out her office. She didn't know it then, but she would never see another student exit her office in such a disgruntled manner.

Leniera got up early so that no one would see her leave and make her explain where she was going. However, she was not as lucky as she had hoped. She ran into Brock Carrington, the boy she had hated forever. He was a Ravenclaw Prefect, but had always favored Maliegha.

"I heard you got Maliegha kicked out."

"I didn't. Mal left of her own accord."

"Don't you dare! You have no right to call her Mal."

"She's my twin sister or haven't you heard? I have to go." Brock mumbled something in reply, though Lenie didn't catch a word. She did catch the next thing he said though. "Where are you going at this type of hour?"

"No where that concerns you Brock."

"It must be somewhere."

"It is somewhere."

"Like where?"

"I'm don't think I'm going to tell you."

"And I don't think I'm not going to tell McGonagall."

"Do whatever you want. I don't care."

"Fine. Stupefy." Lenie fell to the floor in a heap, when she woke up, she was in the Headmistress' office. She didn't know how she got there, but she moved around to make sure she was okay. Then, Lenie gathered her belongs and flooed to her house. She only ever spent summers there, but it was her house nonetheless. She looked around her mother's office, a room she had never been allowed to set foot in before. She saw pictures of people she had never seen before. Lenie decided she would learn everything about Hermione's past, in order to find out how to look for her parents and half sister. She was so determined that she didn't even notice the silver chain that had appeared around her neck.

Lenie picked up a book, a journal by the looks of it. She opened the front cover and was shocked to find there weren't any pages. Instead there was vortex-like whole and before she could stop it, Leniera felt herself falling, and blackness engulfed her.

A/n: As always, please review. And again thank you to contagiousbeauty, Zagreb-girl, ImperialGoddess-123 who have been wonderful reviewers.

xxo Sera Evlin Thinly