Once Carmilla sent out her letter she snuck back to her common room and back to bed. She tried in vain to get some sleep. All she did was toss and turn until finally she couldn't take it anymore and just got up, dressed and waited until it was time for breakfast. She went downstairs and waited for everyone to start to wake up. As she stared into the fireplace she reflected back on all the things that had happened in the past few months. So much has happened to her that it was amazing that she didn't experience a nervous breakdown yet. She had met her mother, well saved by her mother would be more accurate. Being able to get away from her father. She wondered if it would have just been easier if she had just turned evil like her father and married like he had wanted her to. She shook those thoughts out of her head, she knew that she could never be evil she just didn't have it in her to mercilessly kill people. Sure she had to suck the blood out of some people but she had to do what she had to do to survive. She couldn't live off of the blood of rats. She had been so consumed by her thoughts that she didn't hear Hermione walk into the room. She realized she was there when Hermione tapped her on the shoulder.

"I need to talk to you" Hermione said urgently.

Carmilla snapped out of her daze and came back to reality. "Sure what do you want to talk about?"

"I overheard you talking to Malfoy in the library, can you explain to me why your being so friendly to him. I can't tell you who to be friends with but I can tell you how Malfoy is. His mission in life has been to taunt me, Harry, and Ron. Who knows what he plans for you. Though he has been acting strange lately, he hasn't been his usual self lately. I'm not trying to tell you what to do, I'm just trying to warn you. He can't be trusted, no slytherin can be trusted for that matter. If Ron and Harry find out they'll have a fit." Hermione said.

"There is so much that you don't know" Carmilla said quietly.

"Like what?" Hermione asked.

"Fine you really want to know, wait here" Carmilla ran to her room and grabbed the letter that her mother had sent her the first night that she had detention."Read this it kind of explains some things" Carmilla said as a matter a factly.

As she watched Hermione read through the letter she saw her eyes start to widen. "You have to marry someone from Hogwarts" Hermione said surprisingly.

"To be exact I have to marry a certain slytherin, Draco is the one that I have to marry. I'm trying to avoid talking to him because I don't even know what to say. I mean what do you say I have no choice but to marry him or else there will be consequences. I have to talk to my mother so that she can explain to me how this is going to take place since I know that no elder will marry me to a wizard. So if you want to go run and tell Harry and Ron be my guest. But I was waiting for the right time to tell them, once I had time to figure everything out." Carmilla said exasperatedly.

"You do know that you will have to tell Harry and Ron and I know they won't take it as well as I did. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt because I seen how Malfoy was when the two of you were in the library. He actually looked like he genuinely cared, I've never seen him like that since I came to Hogwarts." Hermione said with a look of shock on her face.

"That's the thing I don't know the Malfoy your talking about, I only know him as Draco. Granted he didn't tell me about all the things that he has done in the past. I just have so much going on right now, once I get it all sorted out Harry and Ron will be the first ones to know. If you don't mind I would really appreciated if you kept this a secret until I'm ready to tell everyone." Carmilla said softly.

"No problem, just be careful with Mal- I mean Draco who knows what he might have in store for you. Those slytherins are very deceitful and sneaky." Hermione said quietly.

"Don't worry I'll watch my back" With that last comment some gryffindors started to come downstairs to the common room to leave for breakfast. "I'll catch up with you at breakfast I need to go send an owl before I can eat." Carmilla said. She left the common room quickly so that she could send someone in particular a letter while they were eating their breakfast. She scribbled a small note on a piece of parchment and tied it to an owls' foot. "Deliver to Draco Malfoy please" she left and made her way to the astronomy tower to wait.

Draco made his way lazily down to breakfast just when he was about to start eating the mail started to arrive. Not thinking anything about it he continued to eat until an owl swooped down and dropped a letter directly in front of him. No one noticed him opening the letter.

Meet me in the astronomy tower after you get this letter immediately...

sincerely

Red

He looked around the great hall and noticed that she wasn't at the gryffindor table eating breakfast. He noticed Hermione staring at him but just shrugged it off. He quickly gathered his things he didn't even bother to tell anyone where he was going it was none of their business. He practically ran to the astronomy tower, he stopped at the beginning of the stairs to catch his breath. No need for him to look like he ran here when in fact he did though. When he ascended the stairs he came to the top of the astonomy tower what he saw made his breath get caught in his throat. Carmilla's back was to him and her upper torso was leaned on the balcony of the tower.

"It's about time that you showed"Carmilla said coldly.

"Well I was in the middle of eating breakfast you know, what did you want to see me about"

"I just had an interesting chat with Hermione, she un beknownst to us she overheard our entire conversation in the library. So of course she warned me about you and questioned me so I had to give her an explanation. After I did that I asked her to keep it a secret until I was ready to tell everyone. The thing that intrigues me the most is how you could be so cruel to Harry, Ron, and Hermione. But yet so nice to me and that is what worries me because I've already dealt with a traiterous little pureblood in the past. Let's just say that the experience wasn't too pleasant, well at least for the pureblood it wasn't." Carmilla said menacingly.

"Why are you acting like this towards me I never did anything to you" Draco protested.

"That's the whole thing you haven't done anything yet. Which makes me wonder how long before you stab me in the back. From what I've learned its more honorable to be stabbed through the heart than in the back, at least in the heart you can look into your killers eyes." Carmilla said coolly

"I don't know why your treating me like this I haven't done anything, you can't punish all purebloods for one mistake that happened a long time ago." Draco said defensively.

"Oh yes you can" Carmilla replied.

"What happened to you that could be so bad?" Draco asked.

"Do you want to know what its like to have somone who claims to be your best friend turn on you and try to kill you. Judging by the look on your face I'm guessing not."

"You mind telling me what made you have so much animosity towards purebloods?" Draco asked politely.

"When I was ten I had this friend we did everything together, you name it we did it. She knew her parents didn't like me because I was a vampire. But she ignored them and chose to be friends with me. My father hated the fact that I was best friends with a pureblood. But you know I didn't listen to him in some ways I wished I had it would have saved a very painful memory. Well to make a long story short her family finally got to her and she turned on me. One night we were having a sleepover and I fell asleep before her. When I woke up I was tied up and gagged, her entire family surrounded me and taunted me. They burned me with crosses and they dripped holy water on my legs. The only thing that saved me was my dad because he just had a feeling that something was wrong. That night I saw just how powerful my dad was and in another way after that night I never trusted a pureblood again. Because if brainwashed enough they'll turn on their own mother. After that is when my dad got a little bit how shall I put this loony. I think that's what sent him over the edge was seeing his daugher almost killed at the hands of a pureblood family. So that is why until I fell that your intentions are genuine and I've been able to talk to my mother I think it best if we didn't speak until after I have everything figured out. I'm sorry you can understand why I can't trust you, I never knew how badly you treated my friends. Plus from past experience I just can't trust you I don't have it in me." After saying what she needed to get off her chest she left Draco standing at the astronomy tower all alone with his mouth hanging open. She ran down the stairs at record speed and down the hall to the great hall, she just needed to get away. Well mostly get away from him because it broke her heart to see the hurt look on his face when she spilled her guts and told him that they should stay away from each other. When she made it to the huge double doors that lead into the great hall. She stopped to catch her breath and then proceeded to enter. Once she entered she quickly took a seat beside Hermione and started to eat.

"Is everything all right" Hermione whispered under her breath.

"Just freakin peachy" Carmilla replied. At that very moment Draco stomped into the great hall and he didn't look happy, he shot a glare at the gryffindor table.

"Geez Malfoy looks like he's fit to be tied, I wonder what crawled up his ass and died" Harry said.

"Hey Malfoy whatever crawled up your ass and died try pulling it out, you'll feel much better" Ron said while trying to contain his laughter.

Malfoy was about to open his mouth with a comeback but once he saw the look in Carmilla's eyes he shut his mouth quick. Everyone at the gryffindor table was in shock who was able to get inside the slytherin prince's head so bad that he couldn't even think of a witty comeback.