Ok I am sorry it took so long to update but I was suffering from a bad case of writers block, but then I got hit by the inspiration fariy! So here you go!

It has now been three days. Hermione has been at home. She called work and asked for another couple of days off. They had agreed.

She wasn't sure were to go now. The Grangers haven't tried to contact her since she confronted them. She wasn't planning on it either. Not after how things went down the last time she had seem them.

At the moment she was trying to read. Hoping it would get her mind off of her life of a while. Maybe cause her to get some more sleep. After her crazy dream she hadn't really been able to sleep. It had been haunting her. She really wanted to get ahold of Nott but was afraid that he would just laugh at her situation. In all facts this was no laughing matter. For all she knew she would end up in the middle of a dragon cage.

With a sigh she put her book down and got a piece of parchment out. She was going to do this now weather or not Nott was going to laugh at her. She was just going to have to risk it.

Nott,

I know we have never been friends at school or anything for that matter. However problems have come to light. I know this is going to be strange coming from me. But I need help. Any help really. No one understands my situation. I know it will be hard for you to understand but if you will, will you meet me at a café in Diagon alley tomorrow? I know this is short notice but I fear I am running out of time.

Hermione

She couldn't bring herself to write Granger. It wasn't her last name, not anymore. She summoned her owl and sent off the letter before she could think about it, before she could change her mind about sending it off. Now it was a waiting game. One that Hermione didn't want to play.

She looked into her fire place. For some reason it had been the only way to calm her lately. Hermione let her mind wander. Back to simpler times when she was friends with Harry and Ron, and they only got into trouble when they went into the wrong corridor. She smiled at the thought of them being terrified of Fluffy. She still wondered how Hagrid came up with that name, for it didn't suit the giant three headed dog in her opinion.

Then her thoughts went to Draco. He had changed so much. He wasn't the muggle-born hater he once was. He was helping her and she wasn't sure why. Yes he had said he had changed but how much could someone change? For all she knew he could just be putting on an act and it scared her. She wasn't sure if she could trust him, yet whenever things seem to get very dark for her, he was there to help pull her out of that hole.

'Ironic isn't it?' She thought. 'The smart, brave, friend relying, Gryffindor going to her Slytherin tormenters, the people that bullied her for years all thought out her school life, for help.' She bitterly chuckled to herself. She couldn't easily forget the past like she had hoped to. Her memories came back at random times too. She may not have shown it but their words had hurt her then and sometimes just remembering them did too. Perhaps that's why she is finding it so hard to believe that Draco had changed. Because she was afraid he would go back to his old ways.

She was brought out of her thoughts by a tapping noise. Hermione took her eyes away from the fire and they landed on her owl. Quickly she opened her window and allowed the bird in. There was a note tied to her leg.

Hermione,

We are out of school now, I, for one am past the rivalry. I don't see why I should let it continue past school. I don't like to think of the things I have done back then. I was so mean then and I don't want to do that again.

If this matter is so important then count on me to be there, I will try to be of help although I can't promise anything. I will need more information on this but that can wait until tomorrow.

See you then,

Theodore Nott.

Hermione signed of relief. Atlessed he was past judging her. He may become a good contact in the future. He could turn out to be of support if she could trust him.

She was just about to open her book again when her fire place roared and someone walked through. She recognized the blond haired man quickly. He looked at her.

''Oh thank god, I finally found your place.'' He said with a smirk.

Hermione only looked at him, from shock mostly. She couldn't say anything for a moment still trying to comprehend what just happened.

''Draco! How the! What the hell are you doing in my flat!'' She blurted out. He looked taken aback from her reaction. He looked at her. Finally calming down she cleared her throat and blushed. ''Uh, sorry, I didn't mean it like that. You just startled me. I wasn't expecting to see you, here in my flat of all places.'' He straightened his back and gave a nod.

''I'm sorry, I just have been looking for you for the past 3 days.'' He said the last part quietly but she still heard him.

''Why are you here?'' She asked tilting her head to the right slightly looking him straight in the eye.

''Well you see I have a contact in the ministry that took a look into wizarding families that have had children in the past 22 years. He sent me a list.'' He held it out to her. Hermione took it and gave it a look over, her eyes moving at a rapid pace over the said paper. Her eye brow rose.

''But most of these families are pureblood. I could still have been born to a muggle couple.'' She said quietly.

''I suspect that he placed those on there to make it more complicated. It's just like him to do that.'' He chuckled which caused her to connect a few dots that he probably hadn't mean to place.

''It was Blaise wasn't it?'' Draco's checks flashed lightly a look of shock of being found out so soon. Like a child caught with their hand in the cookie jar. She guessed that he hadn't wanted to tell her about him yet. Oh well she knew now anyway.

''Was it that obvious?'' He asked back. Hermione couldn't help herself. She laughed and smiled. Maybe the first real smile in the last couple of days since she had found out she was adopted.

''Yeah, he was like that in school too and he was your contact so I just figured it had to be Zabini.'' Draco gave her a smile.

''Well anyway I just thought you would like to look at the list. Maybe give you an idea as to where to start.'' He said awkwardly.

Hermione looked at the list again. At all the possible families that could be hers. Some looked familiar but she didn't give them too much thought. Sooner or later the names would be crossed off.

''How well do you know Theodor Nott? Wasn't he in our year?'' Hermione asked him not looking up from the paper. She was sure he was but wanted to make sure. She didn't want to go in without some information. Hermione hadn't known him well in school and although he didn't torment her like the others he was never too far behind the ones that did.

''Yeah he was in our year; I think he came in third when it came to brains. He was a friend while in school. Although, we haven't talked much since we graduated. Only a couple of run in's at the ministry.'' He took a seat on her couch looking around. ''Why do you ask?''

''Well I think he may be of some help in finding my family so I sent him a letter earlier. He said he would some and try to help.'' She said looking up and watched as he gave a nodded.

''What do you think of the list?'' He asked her, changing the subject back to what he had come to bring her. Hermione looked it over again.

''Seems well put together. Blaise did a good job, must have taken a lot to get these names. Some of them I don't even know.'' She said shaking it in the air, as if trying to shake the answers from its pages, as if thinking that the name will just fall from the list onto the floor to be picked up.

''This is Blaise we are talking about, he likes to make sure that all the doors are unlocked so they can be opened.'' Draco pointed out.

''Yeah then that lets others steal from the expecting people inside.'' She said back. Trying to make it less awkward than it was already. It must have worked because the next thing she knew Draco was laughing lightly.

''If you are unhappy with those names I can always tell him to find more. But before I do that I just thought you would want to cross off those who are not eligible to be your parents.'' He said taking it from her looking it over. He quickly crossed off some names. Hermione tried to look over his shoulder.

''What are you doing? Who are you crossing off?'' She asked him with slight worry.

''I'm crossing off names what does it look like I'm doing?'' He asked sarcastically. ''Besides I know some of these families and would know for a fact that they didn't have children. Like I said Blaise is trying to make things difficult for us.'' He said holding it back out to her to look over again.

She rolled her eyes. ''How would you know? Do you have some kind of power that tells you if someone is lying about their family? Or perhaps the power that allows you to see ones family tree? But it that were true you would have used it on me already and saved us all this time.''

''Ha, Ha, Ha, No I just have known then since I was little and my father wouldn't have been able not so say something about it, even if it was an unbreakable vow. You see, my father was one to be quite the gossiper with mother.'' Hermione resisted the urge to laugh at that, but just barely. The all-powerful Lucius Malfoy was one to gossip? How could anyone not have known?

''So that's where you got it from!'' She said with a smile. He gave her a strange look. Hermione remember when Harry and Ron told her about how the whole time they had been in the common room Draco was just telling them what he had heard, AKA the gossip that was going around the school. Afterwards she had wished that she hadn't messed up with her potion because she would have been able to see it first-hand. Ah second year, what a great year to be Hermione. First, being turned into a cat then being petrified what great memories.

Hermione looked back at Draco who was still looking at her confused. She just shook her head. ''Never mind.'' She said as she placed the list on the table. ''Thank you for bring that to me. It will be helpful.'' She said with a smile.

''I can help you further by getting more information on those families if you like.'' He offered her. Hermione thought for a moment. 'It would be easier to cross those names off the list.' She thought.

''Ok then I guess we will be working further on this together, thank you for the help.'' She said.

''No problem, we can start tomorrow after you meet with Nott. See you then.'' Draco then stepped into back into the fire place and disappeared.

Hermione sat back down and began to read her book again. Finally answers would start to come to her questions.

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