Author's Note: Okay so I didn't like where the story was headed and decided to change it. So to those who read my previews chapter 2 I apologize but I really didn't know how to go on with the story and some parts were annoying me. So some events have changed but Hopefully the stories body will remain the same. And sorry for not updating sooner.

Chapter 1

September 19, 1997

The thunder storm began at six p.m. ruining the rest of the day for the youngest person in the Granger household.

A eighteen year old Hermione sat by the window hoping that the storm would be come to an end soon.

She looked up at the sky and saw the rain pour become even more violent and sighed,

' Great, like I really needed something worse to happen on my birthday !'

Hermione reflected that her life totally and completely sucked. Besides the fact that 'Merlin' hated her, her best friends were mad at her and that the Fates were playing a horrible trick on her; it was raining on her birthday.

Her parents were at work so she was unable to share with them the shock or intrigue that was occurring in her mind as she read and reread the letter that she had received no more than five minutes ago from Draco Malfoy.

Granger,

I know it that the context of this letter will surprise you the same way it surprised me. I never though that you and I would have anything in common but it seems we have million of things in common.

It might seem odd that I sent you this letter to ask for a meeting at my home yet know that I mean you no harm and that what I need to show you is of the utmost importance. If the thought of coming to my home makes you uncomfortable please let me know so that another location may be decided on.

The information I have for you is very important and I have hope that the childhood rivalry and hatred may be over or at least put aside for what I have to show you. Please send back your response as soon as possible or come to my home tonight if you are able.

Please Granger, the information will change your perspective on many things.

Draco Malfoy.

Hermione held the offending piece of paper in her hand and once again wondered if it was a joke or if Malfoy truly wanted her over. With her recent luck he probably wanted to have her in his home and then bury her in one of the many rooms of the Malfoy Manor to be found some two hundred years later by a blond brat who would be mad to have a "mudblood" at its home. She snorted and wonder if she should tell Harry and Ron about Malfoy but decided against it. They were pissed at her enough and if she told them that she was considering it they would probably never speak again. She could already see how the conversation would go.

Ron would say she was crazy for even thinking of going to the ferrets home, she would tell him to grow up, Harry would stand by the side looking back and forth between his two friends almost dislocating his neck from the rapid movement as insults flew, and finally the conversation would end with Ronald saying something about her being a know-it-all and she would stomp away angrily while Harry tried to figure out who's side to take

And Harry being Harry would take Ron's side which would end up making her even more angry and lead her to stop talking to either of them. And after yesterdays fight about Viktor sending her a letter she had enough.

" I mean really as if he should have a say on who I happen to talk or not! Really Crooks, that shipped sailed a long time ago for Ron and apparently it took his brain as well!" Hermione complained to Crookshanks as he meowed from his basket near the fireplace.

" And I really need to stop talking to myself Crooks, people will think that I'm going loony," she thought for a moment and said " which reminds me I should probably talk to Luna and Ginny about it, after all they aren't my friend for anything. Ugh, Crooks I really don't know why Ron doesn't figure out that Luna is head over heals in love with him. I mean sure he has the emotional range of a tea spoon but really the poor girl practically glows each time she seems him!" she sat down forcefully in her dad's recliner smelling the cocoa she always remember from her childhood when her dad would tell her stories and read to her before dinner.

She smiled as she looked around the room and looked down to the letter she was still clutching and decided, what the hell! She was a Gryffindor for Merlin's sake and she wasn't about to wimp out because of her memories of Malfoy manner.

She shivered at the thought of Bellatrix Lestrange and hoped that the Ministry would finally put the remaining Death Eaters behind bars. She looked at the clock and out the window to the pouring rain and made her decision.

She wrote a quick note to her parents letting them know where she was and that she would be back soon, or so she hoped. She grabbed her cloak and her wand. Took one last look at her parents living room, grabbed a handful of floo powder and called out Malfoy Manor disappearing into the flames.

Draco Malfoy sat at his fathers study overlooking his homes ground from the massive window that sat at the back of his fathers desk. He watched as the rain fell and cover the Malfoy land enjoying the relative peace he was experiencing for the first time since the Final Battle when he and his parents switched sides helping Potter in his role in bringing Voldemort down.

He smirked without humor since becoming a traitor had made no difference as his parents were in Azkaban and the only reason he wasn't behind where many people wanted him was because he had been under the legal age when he had received his mark. But he felt no peace at not being in Azkaban like his parents knowing deep inside him that the only peace would come when his parents were free and the Malfoy family had redeemed itself.

He looked down at his lap where an old diary sat and wondered if Granger would show up. He smirked once again as he though about the know-it-all and how she would be unable to resist learning something new no matter how untrustworthy she believed him to be.

The Floo network suddenly lit up and a hesitant Hermione Granger step into the Malfoy Manor looking up and meeting the gray eyes of one Draco Malfoy.

Draco remained seated and in a calm voice said, "Come in Granger, we need to talk!"

Hermione took a deep breath and walked out of the fireplace taking note of the enormous study and the walls lined with precious books.

"Well Malfoy, what do you need to tell?" and she walked with her head held high and sat across from him crossing her long legs like she there was nothing extremely serious going on.

John and Jean Granger arrived from their dentistry business at nine thirty while the rain storm continued on. Jean walked inside her home and was greeted by the hallway that held over a hundred pictures as Hermione grew from a baby to an eighteen year old women. All the pictures were muggle since the Grangers did not wish to explain to their friends and neighbors how the pictures were moving. The coats were left at the first home closet and the couple walked into the living room noticing that their daughter was missing. Jean walked toward the center piece in her living room picking up a note from Hermione. It read,

' Dear mom and dad,

I received a letter from Draco Malfoy who had something important to say to me. I'll probably be back soon, so don't worry. If I'm not home by twelve send a note to Harry or Ron. Love you guys.

Hermione.'

Jean put the note down and looked at John who was sitting in his recliner like he had sat for the last twenty five years of their marriage and she fought back tears as the look of terror appeared in their faces as they though what Draco Malfoy would tell Hermione.

"Oh John, what is he going to tell her? I told you we should have told her she was adop…….." the sentence was interrupted as their homes fireplace came to life bringing in a furious Hermione. Her long curly brown hair cracked with power and anger as her hazel eyes glowed with hurt and her next sentence was screamed at the same time that a bolt of thunder shocked the house.

" Why didn't you tell me I was adopted?"

Author's Note: So chapter 2 is up I know it's short but I don't want to go all into it so bare with me. Please review and tell me if you liked it or not. Constructive criticism is appreciated.