A/N: Well it's certainly been a very long time since I've written anything. Well…that's not true, I've been writing off and on but it has been ages since I've written anything for this story. I had to reread it all to remember everything I had planned out and I noticed all these little mistakes I've made. I know I should edit them before writing more but I can't contain myself! I'm so excited to finish this story. I'm not sure how often the updates will be, but I'll do my best to be finished by the end of the summer at least.

Warning: Slight sexual content.

Time Back:

"Nothing like a fairy tale kiss to make your stomach churn," Severus said with a quirk of the mouth. Grinning, Elizabeth returned his version of a smile tiredly; it felt as if she had been asleep for a year.

"It feels like I've been asleep for a year," she yawned. Poppy ran her wand along Elizabeth's body to complete the scan, though the girl was still in perfect health, except now in a conscious state. She said this aloud and Snape and herself excused themselves from the room after the girl gave them a tired 'thank you'.

"Well, Elizabeth," Albus let out a sigh of relief as he moved to the side of her bed, "you never cease to amaze me. Tell me, what happened after you were stolen from us?" Worry lines creased his already aged face like that of a grandfather seeing his granddaughter with a scraped knee.

"Well…I woke up hanging by my hands in some room, I don't really know where as I wasn't conscious arriving or leaving, but there were some Death Eaters and Voldemort there," she paused to look at the two younger boys as they let in an intake of breath. "Being near him kind of…triggered my memory I guess you'd say, and I relived the night he came and killed my parents."

"So you remember everything now?" Dumbledore raised his eyebrows.

Elizabeth opened her mouth to respond but instead she let out another yawn, "Not everything, but everything about that night, and a bit about…the Estel Saiqa Clan." She noticed the older man's eyes sharpen and started to relay the night to the three attentive people in the room, including everything about the Clan power being passed to her, the ring, tiara, and design.

When she lifted her hand to her face, Draco shook his head, "It kind of disappeared with the ring being put on your finger and the…uh…kiss," he smiled shyly. She smiled at him before continuing.

"To be honest," she looked at Dumbledore specifically, "I was hoping that getting the ring back would bring my memories back, but I can't think of anything new. Oh! I just remembered! You didn't…poof my clothes out of existence did you?" She sat up anxiously.

Harry laughed lightly at her hand movement with the 'poof' she said, while waving her hands up like a cloud of dust but rushed off to grab her tattered, but now dry clothes. He handed the remains to her and she dug around in the fabric for a few moments before she fished out a small wooden box about the size of a matchbox. She then leaned over the bed and placed it by the bed before enlarging it in front of Albus.

He leaned over to have a better look but she shook her head, her red curls bouncing slightly, "It's locked magically and physically, and probably something special having to do with the Clan," she rolled her eyes.

Dumbledore's puzzled eyes lifted from the chest back to the girl, "I think I may know how to get your memories back. I'll need to do some research of course, but I'll keep you posted. But before I'm off, would you mind telling us the rest of what happened to you before you plummeted into our lake?"

She nodded and told them about waking back up from the dream and about using the shield spell but was stopped again by Dumbledore, "What did you say the spell was again?" She said the words and then described the movements and effects it had and the man nodded, stroking his snowy-white beard, "Alright, continue."

Next was about how she had woken up in her destroyed house and how she had rummaged through debris, found the chest, found the design on her face, and then wandered through the forest before making the broom and passing out on and off until she arrived at Hogwarts. The story made the listeners weary just thinking about it, and Draco ran his fingers along her hair, tucking it behind her ear.

Everyone was silent for a moment and then Albus picked himself up and waved his wand, making the chair he had been occupying disappearing into the air. "Well, I do believe you need to rest, and I see no reason why you shouldn't return to your rooms. I've placed strong wards on it, as well as more on the main boundaries of this property. I will research and let you know as soon as possible. It is Tuesday tomorrow but I think it would be alright if you took time off school, under the circumstances," he gave her a little smile. "I'm very glad you're back safe."

"Thank you," she said before Draco and Harry helped her sit up as the Headmaster left the room. She stifled another yawn and turned to shrink the chest but Harry was faster and did it for her, not wanting her to use her magic again so soon. She smiled and placed it in the pocket of her pajama bottoms. "Do you both want to stay in my room tonight?" She asked as they moved out of the echo-y hospital wing.

"That'd be great, I don't think I could leave your side if I tried," Draco said with a grin, proving his point by raising their still entwined fingers. She smiled and then turned to Harry, who was on her other side, not holding her up but there to catch her if she needed it.

"I can't, sorry," he said with a sullen face, "Hermione and Ron will be frantic, and I'll need to calm them down. But how about I bring them over tomorrow for a visit?" He grinned as they reached her portrait.

"That sounds great," Elizabeth grinned at him before starting when Eliza began yelling at her.

"Oh dear, you're alright! I was just frantic when you didn't show up for over a week, Dumbledore came to explain things to me but still, I'm so glad you're okay. Know that if I had a body I'd be hugging you to death right about now," she said before swinging open the portrait.

"Night Lizzie, night Malfoy," Harry said, only using Draco's last name for fun. Elizabeth smiled and hugged him tightly before allowing Draco to help her through the portrait as it closed behind them.

Just then, Elizabeth burst out into a fit of giggles and Draco quirked an eyebrow at her. Eventually she calmed herself down and explained, "I just realized that I walked through half the school in pajamas. I should have gone to the Great Hall to get some food while I was at it!" She started laughing again and the idea and Draco joined her.

Finally they had calmed themselves down enough to get ready for bed and soon they were both tucked into the large four-poster bed, Draco in conjured pajamas and Elizabeth still in the hospital ones. Elizabeth tucked her head on the Slytherin's chest, comforted by the steady rise and fall of his breath, "Things are so different now."

She felt strong arms lift her up so that she was level with Draco's eyes, "How so?"

"Well," she licked her lips, "everyone is trying to kill me, and us, and I just found out I'm some powerful…witch thing from some magical clan that people want the power of and, I was so scared when I was taken. I thought…I thought I'd never see you again, or that something might happen to you."

The blond traced the edges of Elizabeth's face for a few minutes to calm her before he spoke, "Well apparently people have been trying to kill you for a while, and you've always survived… more like kicked ass actually," he smiled when she giggled lightly. "And we'll figure everything out about your heritage soon, Dumbledore's probably in his office right now, looking up a million things, and as you can see, I'm perfectly fine."

"I'm glad," she said quietly and Draco leaned forward slightly to capture her lips with his. Oh how he had missed this. What he first meant to be a simple kiss of reassurance soon deepened into one more passionate and he felt his body shifting so that he was overtop of the girl while holding his weight up on both his hands, which were placed on either side of Elizabeth.

They continued kissing for what seemed like forever and mere seconds at the same time, but when they had to surface for air, Draco immediately began making butterfly kisses along the girl's jaw line and neck, smiling when he felt her shiver underneath him. Elizabeth raised her arms to wrap around his neck, but as he continued to kiss her sensitive skin, she couldn't help but drag her fingernails along his shirt-clad back.

She had never felt anything like this before, she was sure of this even though most of her memories were still missing in action. It was as if every nerve in her body was on fire and she couldn't get enough of it. She wanted it to go on forever, but her traitorous body forced another yawn from her mouth, and Draco noticed, 'Curses!'

He smiled before kissing her once more on the mouth and then rolling off of her. She pouted prettily; she didn't want it to be over, though she was amazed at the boy's self control. "You need rest Lizzie, and you know you do," he added when she glared at him. "Besides," he kissed her cheek, "we don't have any protection."

"Witches and wizards haven't gotten past that problem?" her eyebrows arched mockingly and Draco laughed.

"Who says they haven't? There's a charm you can buy, almost like a tiny necklace or something that works the same way. I haven't seen it but I've read about it. What?" he said when he saw her stare. "No, I haven't slept with anyone before!" He turned slightly pink, though it was hard to see in the dim light of the room.

"Really? Someone as good looking as you?" Elizabeth looked genuinely shocked and she giggled when she finally noticed the pink on his normally ivory cheeks. "Well, I'm a virgin too…as far as I know," she furrowed her eyebrows for a moment but Draco laughed.

"It doesn't matter Lizzie, I love you and will no matter what, but I think we should wait until we have protection and we're both not sleep deprived," he quirked his lips into a smirk.

She returned the smirk before giving him a quick kiss on the lips and then returning to her place on his chest, "I love you too, Draco." With that, they both dropped off into dreamland with smiles on their faces.

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"Awww! That is so adorable!" Hermione squeaked when they had opened the bedroom door, spilling sunlight onto the couple with Elizabeth still tucked onto Draco's chest with his arm holding her tightly. Elizabeth blinked a few times at the sudden light but quickly fell back to sleep. Draco never even stirred.

Ron merely grunted and Harry burst out laughing. Finally they moved to the left side of the bed where they were both still sleeping soundly and shook them awake. Draco jumped into wakefulness, causing Elizabeth to roll off to the right side of the bed while still half asleep, though she let out a grumble as she pushed herself into a sitting position.

"Sorry guys," Harry smiled as he threw open the drapes on the large windows in the bedroom, "but as you can see from the sun's position, you two have been asleep for the whole day. It was getting close to dinner time so we figured we'd wake you up for some food."

"That and we were worried sick about Lizzie, even though Harry assured us you were okay," Hermione said while clamoring onto the bed, hugging the other girl tightly. Elizabeth smiled and hugged her back while Ron came up and awkwardly touched the redhead's shoulder.

Finally the blond and redhead got up and got ready to head down into the masses of the Great Hall. Draco conjured an outfit from his room back in the Slytherin Dungeons, which consisted of dark green jeans and a silver t-shirt covered by the Slytherin robes. He was trying to get his hair perfect but Elizabeth swatted his hand away from his hair with a giggle as she came out of the bathroom.

She hadn't gone for style, instead opting for comfort with her dark red pajama bottoms, a loose black t-shirt and those pale flip-flops she had been wearing when she arrived here that fateful night. She had thrown some robes over herself but more like a sweater than to follow the dress code. She looked around the room, "Do you think they'll mind that I'm wearing pajamas?"

The others laughed, "I doubt it," Draco said while pulling her towards him for a quick kiss, "No one is dumb enough to complain with something so beautiful. Can it Weasley," he said when Ron made a gagging noise across the room.

"I think it'd be great if we had a pajama day, you know?" Elizabeth put a finger to her chin in thought, "Everyone show up for breakfast in them and then go to classes and everything for the day, I think it'd be great!"

Harry laughed, "You'll have to talk to Dumbledore about that," he said and then paused, "Lizzie, what happened to that bracelet you were always wearing?" Everyone looked down at the girl's wrist, including herself and they all noticed what Harry had pointed out, it was amiss, though the chain with the ring was still in place around her neck.

Everyone started feeling the wind pick up and they shared nervous glances and finally Elizabeth blurted out, "Dude! He broke my bracelet! I've had that since the time of my life I can't remember! He's so going to pay!" She glared at her wrist for a moment longer before shrugging. Everyone looked at each other for a moment and then Harry pushed open the portrait and everyone followed him out and down the halls filled with students milling about, deciding to just leave the scene a moment ago out of conversation topics.

Everyone started walking ahead, chatting about this and that, but Elizabeth slowed her pace, Draco keeping pace with her until they were alone in the hallway. He quirked an eyebrow at her as she pulled him into a small alcove, "I was just wondering…Do we have to still pretend not to be dating because of the Slytherins? Because I don't want to get you in trouble," she bit her lip.

Draco paused for a moment, he had never even thought of that since had been so relieved to just have her back in his arms, "Well…normally I'd say yes, for both of our sakes. But honestly, I think we'll both be safe enough with each other and Harry and his gang looking after us. Not to mention old Dumbles," he smiled lightly. "Besides, I don't know much about these rings we have or your Clan one, but I think they can help keep us safe too."

Elizabeth nodded, her eyebrows creased lightly as she thought, "If you start defying them…what will happen to you staying in the Slytherin place…and your father and Severus?" She tilted her head to the side, worry in her eyes.

Draco worried his lip between his teeth in a completely un-Malfoy way as he thought, "I don't know. It's hard to say what the Slytherins will do; they may still think I'm recruiting you, but sooner or later they'll hear that you defied him…"

"You could stay in my room," she suggested shyly and Malfoy nodded.

"Possibly, we could talk to Dumbledore about it, but I'm really not sure what to do about my father. Things are getting dangerous, for everyone. I think I'll talk to Severus about it after dinner and meet you back in your-our rooms. And I'll make sure the Golden Trio go with you so that you don't get lost or kidnapped on me again."

Elizabeth nodded before lacing her fingers with his again, slightly tanned mixed between ivory, as they headed towards the Great Hall. As they entered the noisy room, they're eyes widened when they saw a few new people at their spot at the end of the Hufflepuff table. From the looks of the robes, there were two Ravenclaws asking Hermione about some book they had open in front of them, and there was a Hufflepuff 4th year talking to Ginny. Ron and Harry were talking about Quidditch, completely ignoring their food but looked up when Elizabeth sat on Hermione's left and Draco on her's.

"Thank god no one made a big scene about me suddenly showing up," Elizabeth sighed in relief as she grabbed some chicken and rice from platters on the large oak tables. The others nodded but turned back to their food and conversations while she happily ate in peace. Suddenly she felt a bit of parchment touch her right elbow and looked down, seeing the creased paper with Hermione's writing on it.

Raising her eyebrow at the brown haired girl, she picked it up to read and nearly choked with what she saw. She looked at the girl with an expression close to 'Are you insane?' Hermione rolled her eyes and took it back for a moment, adding something more to the message before shoving it back in front of the girl. Elizabeth sent a quick glance around to make sure no one was looking before looking down.

So did you and Draco, you know, have some fun last night? ;-)

I charmed this parchment so no one else can read what we write, don't worry!

Elizabeth let out a sigh of relief after reading the added note before reaching over and stealing Hermione's quill and ink, which she had actually managed to master using in the short time she had been here. She wondered if she should feel offended at the girl asking so outright, but Hermione was a close friend of her's, her only girl friend, besides Ginny, and Elizabeth trusted her so she lowered the quill to the parchment.

Well…we kissed a bit and it started heading towards that direction, but then he stopped us before it went too far. Too bad he stopped us though :P

She finished writing and slid the paper back to the girl before taking another few bites of her dinner while she waited for the other girl to finish replying. She smiled when the paper was pushed back towards her; this was just like when she had gone to a public school. For a moment she wondered why she had ever been to a public school if she was magic, but she figured she'd figure it out with her memories returning. Placing her fork back down on her plate, she looked down to read the Gryffindor's response.

He stopped? The guy stopped?! Why??

Elizabeth burst out laughing at the underlined part. Everyone else looked at her and she covered her mouth as if she had just blurted out a secret. "Sorry, just thought of something funny." Everyone went back to what they had been doing but Hermione was also laughing beside her, the two Ravenclaws had returned to their table a little while ago.

I know!! I was like 'wow, self control in this one!' But yeah, he said we should wait until we weren't sleep deprived. Also, he said because we didn't have protection, to be honest, I didn't even think of it! –blush-

She shoved the paper back to the girl before taking another large bite of chicken and gulping down some pumpkin juice, giving Draco a wink when she noticed him rolling his eyes at her 'etiquette'. She was bubbly, overjoyed at getting to tell someone about this, and soon enough the paper prodded her elbow again. Elizabeth itched the place it had touched as she started reading over the note.

Awww!! That's so cute, and very responsible.

I know! By the way, do you know where…I could get some protection? He mentioned a charm or something? But I really don't want to ask Madame Pomfrey and I don't know where to buy one or anything…

When Hermione looked at the paper next, she stopped for a moment to think while chewing absentmindedly on an apple in her hand. Finally she bent over the page again before returning it to Elizabeth with a smile.

I know there's a place in Hogsmeade where they have healthcare products for women. If you can wait (:P) we can go get it at the next Hogsmeade trip.

Thanks, that sounds great. And yes, I think we can wait :P It can be like an experiment, 'How much self control does he have?'

Hermione snorted at the last comment, nearly choking on pumpkin juice and Elizabeth also burst out laughing. Everyone again turned to the two, "What is going on with you two?" Harry asked.

"Nothing!" They answered at the same time, shared a glance and then burst out laughing even harder. The boys rolled their eyes and eventually the two girls calmed themselves down. Just then, a great horned owl swooped down and dropped a sealed letter in Elizabeth's rice.

Shaking off most of it, the girl ran her fingernail under the wax seal and then popped the letter open. In shiny green ink there was a short message:

Come to my office after dinner,

Dumbledore

She looked up to the teacher's table and noticed that he was not at his normal place at the head of the teacher's table. She handed it around her friends and they decided that Harry would take her up while Draco went to talk to Severus, and Ron and Hermione would meet them all back in Elizabeth's rooms. Everyone got up from their seats and went their separate ways.

A/N: Well I hope that was okay for my first chapter back in over a year. When I was rereading through I noticed the timeline was a little confusing, so at the end I'm going to post a sort of time-line for people who want to see it. Also, the first few chapters were all in a few days, but now things are going to start speeding up. Also, for later chapters I'm going to up the rating to M to be safe.

Hope you enjoyed it, I'll write more soon and please review, it only takes a minute.