Hermione and Derek practiced some of the new spells for hours before stopping.

"Those are some good curses," Derek said.

"Nothing but the best fro my father," Hermione said sitting on the edge of her bed. Derek sat down next to her.

"You know Hermione; you're not exactly like what I thought the Dark Lord's daughter would be like."

"How so?"

"Well for one I imagined a girl with a face as a snake like his," Hermione smiled slightly at this, "not someone as pretty as you." Hermione stared at him as he continued talking. "When I first saw you, I thought 'Draco's a lucky guy'."

"You thought I was with Draco?" Hermione asked.

"Yes, I mean I saw Bellatrix Lestrange in you but I saw more of the Dark Lord except your eyes," he lifter a hand up and brushed some of her black hair away from her eyes and looked into them. "The colour of your eyes is so unique and… scary. But they'd look wrong on anyone but you." He leaned in slightly and whispered. "You're special Hermione," and before she knew what was happening he was kissing her.

Hermione was frozen in shock at first but she slowly began to kiss him back. It was a sweet kiss at first but started to get more intense. Then, realization hit Hermione and she broke away, breathing heavily. She turned to Derek and glared at him.

"Get out," she hissed.

Derek stared at her. "What…?"

That was totally uncalled for Derek… it was inappropriate. I am your leader, I am the Dark Mistress. I want you out of my room… now!"

Derek stood there staring at her before he slowly began to nod and walked out the room slowly. When he was finally gone Hermione groaned and lay back on her bed.

Derek was a good guy, not in the literal sense but in her books he was right for her. He knew the Dark Arts, he was evil, he was on her side and will do anything to kill off the light side. He was a good match for her but she was his Mistress, the Dark Mistress, queen of the dark side. He was her follower and it didn't seem right for her to do anything with him. At least not so close to the big attack. It was only a few weeks away; she couldn't get involved with any of her servants.

Still, she liked the guy. There was no denying the fact. In frustration she shot a spell at the dummy that still stood in the room, the one they were practicing on, and blew it to bits. Then there was a knock on the door.

"Enter," she said. Draco walked into the room, glanced over at the still smoking bits of the dummy and then to Hermione.

"Rough night?"

"You could say that,"

"I just saw Derek; he looked bummed about something,"

"Yes, that would be between him and I,"

"Alright I wasn't asking,"

"What do you need Draco?"

"You've got an owl,"

"From whom?"

"No idea," he said handing the piece of parchment over. It was blank and Hermione took her wand out and tapped it. She had an odd feeling she knew who it was from before the words even appeared. She was right.

As I'm sure you're very much aware, being the same brilliant girl you were before all of this, we are still looking for you. We've searched high and low in certain places, Malfoy Manor as I'm sure you know, and have yet to find you. We won't give up. That attack in Diagon Alley, the death of Charlie Weasley we aren't taking lightly. We have ways to find you and we will. Final warning Riddle, don't do anything stupid.

Order

"Kill the owl," Hermione said as she threw the note in the fire.

"What? Why?" Draco asked.

"Just do it," Hermione said.

"Yes Mistress," Draco muttered.

"But if you must know," Hermione said as Draco stunned the owl so it wouldn't fly away. "I think it has a trace charm on it, which would lead the order straight to me."

"Maybe you could reverse the charm and find out where they are,"

"I could but it would pointless. I know where they are,"

"So why don't we go to them?"

"Draco that would be foolish. We'll stick to the plan and attack Hogwarts and the Ministry."

"Maybe you should station a few Death Eaters as spy's?"

"I won't deny I've thought of it but no. If they were caught and killed, that's less on our side. We need all our members. I'm not as foolish as my father was on some things. Remember I know these people, know how they act, know how they duel, know their weaknesses. Molly's is her family, Harry's is Ginny, Ron's would be Harry, George I hear is dating Angelina… we'll have her killed during the attack. But as you see they are weak for each other. It should be easier this time if we plan properly."

"So you're positive we can finish where we left off?"

"Yes,"

"How can you be so sure?"

"We won't make the same mistakes we did last time. Besides, there's more of us this time."

"True,"

"Now take that bird and kill it," Draco nodded, Avada Kedavra the bird and then levitated it and threw it in the fire. The two watched it burn away.

"They'll try it again, I'm sure of it."

"Maybe they've already," Draco said, "Weasley wrote you… how do you know they didn't trace that owl?"

"Fuck!" Hermione mumbled, "You're right. They know where I am."

"Then why haven't they gone after you?"

"They're biding their time… waiting for the perfect moment to attack."

"And that will be?"

"Soon, which means we've either got to get out of here or attack sooner then planned."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Get your father; we're heading to the basement for a while."

A/N: Alright, so first of all I want to apologize for the really long wait!!! I've had this chapter written for a while but I've been to lazy to actually type it up until I realized how long it's actually been since I updated… so I will post the next chapter as well but first…

About Derek and Hermione… I asked you guys what you'd think of them getting together and I basically got a 'it wouldn't work' response from you but I had the kiss already written and I wanted to see, from you, if I could make a relationship work between them. I had up to someone knocking on her door (ending up being Draco) when I asked you guys about the Derek and Hermione idea so I don't know if I will have much of them together from here on out but… it all depends on how my writing takes (it'll take a mind of it's own sometimes lol)

Another thing, the chapter I wrote where Ginny writes to Hermione… one of my readers said it was sort of a pointless chapter but the reason I wanted to write it in was the fact that the order had traced that owl… they are trying to trick Hermione (hence the 'we will find you but don't know where you are' path) into thinking she's still safe and attack when she least expects it. Obviously Hermione realized all of it in this chapter here… so I hope you now understand that there was a reason to that chapter.

Ok, I think that's about all… I will post the next chapter I have written… just gotta type it up. Stay tuned guys and please remember to review! This ends my really long Authors note!

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