"Oh hello Edward, glad you can make it." Mrs. Rivera said as she greeted the man who walked through the door late. "Sorry i'm late professor." He said with a sad laugh. He must have felt hermione staring at him because he quickly glanced at her before focusing back on Mrs. Rivera. It was only an instant but she saw it. He was absolutely stunning if Hermione was being honest with herself. He was tall, as tall as george, with hair a brown so deep it looked red in the fluorescent light of the classroom. His face was made up of sharp angles with a body that looked as if it was chiseled from marble by some greek artist a thousand years dead. But his eyes is what made her muscles tense up and her heart race as it did in literature. Another one She thought as her hand slowly inched toward her wand before she remembered that she had left it on the vanity with the boxes of jewelry.

"Just make sure it doesn't become a habit young man." Mrs. Rivera said mockingly "Please take your seat so we can began." Hermione kept her eyes trained on the whiteboard as he took the only empty seat left in the room. He didn't acknowledge her as he sat instead he placed his backpack on the floor and took out the class textbook and waited. Hermione quietly gathered herself, taking deep breaths in and out. She was determined not to run away like she did earlier, just thinking about how she had reacted made her angry. She'd been through a lot she was tougher than that. No need to panic, she told herself but it was easier said than done. If worst comes to worst I can kill him before he finishes me.

There won't be any need for that, Her heart stopped. The voice was in her head but she hadn't thought it. She looked out her periphery at the vampire seated next to her but he was focused on front of the classroom seemingly paying attention but she wasn't convinced. During one of their trips into the restricted section of the library back at Hogwarts Hermione snuck out a fascinating book entitled A Complete History of The Dark Creatures That Roam The Earth, it was slightly biased, it was written by a pro-wizard pureblood three hundred years ago, it detailed creatures like centaurs and giants as brutal savages something she knew first hand wasn't the case. But she distinctly remembered reading a passage on vampires that claimed that when someone was turned a small percentage developed magical abilities. These abilities ranged in form and she couldn't figure out why mental invasion couldn't be one of them.

Hermione looked out the side of her eye as she placed walls around her mind closing it off to the outside, Edward frowned but didn't take his attention off of Mrs. Rivera. Two can play at this game she thought before silently casting Legilimency. If you ever reach into my thoughts again i'll kill you and every other vampire at this school. Edward's head snapped to her quicker than she thought possible, his eyes wide in shock. She could feel him trying to push against the barrier that shielded her mind and forcefully pushed him away. Last warning. He nodded slightly and the prying stopped. The rest of the class went by uneventful. Mrs. Rivera forced Hermione to introduce herself to the class even going as far to suggest that if she needed help with anything to just ask Edward. "It wasn't too long ago that Mr. Cullen was the new kid around here." Edward groaned "Oh you be quiet."Hermione decided she liked her. After that she handed out the class syllabus which she said need to be signed by their parents but she figured Wendell and Monica Wikins was out of the question. Nothing a quick forgery spell won't fix however. Mr. Rivera was in the middle of writing down formulas when Hermione felt the pushing again. It wasn't as forcefully like it was the first time, actually it wasn't so much pushing as it was well… knocking. A consistent soft thud on the outside of her consciousness. Hermione balled up her fist hard enough to crack her pencil in half. Then the ball rang and the thuds stopped and she was out the door.

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"An army?"

Blaise shrugged his shoulders and drank from one of the glasses he had summoned after he had told him. "If it walks like a duck."

"When you say an army, just how many-"

"Draco." Blaise put his glass down on the desk. "Leave my house." And there it was, there was a common understanding amongst Slytherins. You never pry. Ever. When you're apart of a house where all the members are apart of the underworld in some way you needed a rule like this. Draco stood, he didn't know why he thought it would be any different. Blaise actually gave him more than he should have. If the tables were turned Draco wasn't sure if he would have even gave that much.

He drowned his glass of whiskey and slammed it on the desk. "Easy." Blaise said lazily. Draco walked out the office and rested along the railing. Rayssa was looking through one of the bookshelves that lined the walls of the lobby below. Merlin there's book everywhere. "Where is Potter?"

"He left. Do you think Blaise will be mad if I took this book home with me?"

"Yes!" Blaise yelled from the room behind him.

"What do you mean he just left."

"Come on Blaise, I always bring them back!"

"I do not care."

"Rayssa." Draco said trying to get her attention on him.

"But you won't even read this one, it's a sappy Veela novela!"

"That's my mother's then, you gonna have to take it up with her."

"Sounds like you just gave me permission Blasie!"

"I swear I'm going to Jinx you."

"Demi loves me, she's not going to say no. Why are you making me jump through quidditch hoops just let me-" Rayssa shielded the stun he sent at her effortlessly. "What is your problem Malfoy!" Rayssa screamed as she stormed up the stairs after him.

"You are you fucking child!" Draco could see that she was angry but he stood his ground.

"Don't you call me a fucking child. So Potter left so what? I'm no ones fucking babysitter, I don't know where he is you want him you go find him!" When she reached him she gave him a hard shove. He used the railing to steady himself. By the time he was focused on Rayssa again to was too late to react to her wand being pointed at him. The stun sent him into the railing again and he fell to the ground, knocking all the air out of him.

By this time Blaise came out of the office and stood between them. "Calm down Ray, go ahead take the book if you want."

"Keep your damn book." Was the last thing she said before she disapperated.

Blaise helped his friend off the ground "I'm curious, just how long have you known Ray?"

"My whole life." Draco said wiping blood from his lip.

"And how many times have you beaten her in a dual?"

"Zero."

"Okay, now you're starting to realize how stupid you were to attack her right?"

"All I realize is that she has anger issues" he replied, while holding his stomach.

"Glad you think this is funny mate. You know she wasn't done right? If I hadn't stepped in between you guys she would have kept going and do you know how hard it is to get blood stains out of wood."

"Yeah, yeah." Draco rested his shoulder on the wall.

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