"Ok spill, Draco." Hermione said as she sat beside him in the cab.

He looked bashfully at her. "Can you promise me that no matter what I tell you, you won't get mad and hate me forever?"

"No I can't."

Draco gulped and opened his mouth to speak but no words came out. He tried again. "You know this was four years ago, right?" she nodded. "Alright. I was at my house, it was summer time, and Travis had come to speak with my father."

"Let me guess to become a Death Eater?" she butted in.

He nodded. "Please don't interrupt me. Anyways, my father took him to see Voldemort who was very pleased to oblige in letting him join. Afterwards Travis came back to my place and I sat him down to have a little chat…

FLASHBACK

"Travis what are you doing?" Draco asked as he sat down in the library.

Travis shot him a confused look. "What do you mean friend?"

"Why are you joining us? You should be protecting your sister not fighting against her."

"Since when do you care about my sister, Draco? And the last I checked you were a Slytherin who didn't give a damn what happened to the Golden Trio. Besides who cares I've never met her in my life, besides when she was first brought home."

Draco stood up. "That doesn't justify anything. Why are you doing this?"

"I have my reasons." Travis stood to leave, but Draco grabbed his arm. "Let me go Draco." he demanded.

"Not until you explain yourself."

He jerked away from him. "I don't have to explain myself to you or anyone."

Draco smirked. "And what about the Dark Lord? He has ways of making you spill your darkest secrets."

"I've become immune to veritersaim." he smirked.

"Oh he has other ways trust me. So why not just tell me so I don't go to him to get my answer."

"Fine." he sat back down. "There's someone after her. Someone even more powerful than the Dark Lord."

"And what does that have to do with you joining us?" he questioned.

"I was getting to that." he paused and looked around to make sure no one was there. "I was hoping that with the Dark Lord on my side I could find the other and destroy him before he got to Hermione."

Draco laughed. "Ha the Dark Lord would never help one of his servants."

"Yes but the other may just try to defeat Voldemort once he is in power to take over what he feels is rightfully his. And we all know that the Dark Lord wouldn't want that to happen."

"Well for one the only wizard I know that is stronger than the Dark Lord is Potter, but he is friends with Granger so I don't think it would be him. Unless he is befriending her to get to her."

"No I've checked up on him and it's definitely not him trust me. This other one is much more powerful. He knows of my family and our power which kind of makes it seem like he knows us personally. I need to find him so I can get rid of him."

Draco looked at him sternly. "Tell me, Travis, how do you know so much about him if you don't know who he is?"

"I-I- What are you talking about Draco? Don't you check up on your enemies?"

"I think you're not telling me something Travis, and I don't take well to liars."

Travis stood once more to leave. "Well I'm sorry but I must be going I have a prior engagement." he said as he walked out.

END FLASHBACK

Hermione laughed. "So you don't trust him because he wouldn't tell you everything? That's hilarious."

"It's not funny. I know it sounds preposterous but I think he's working with this new enemy."

She slapped him. "How dare you accuse him of such a thing. What kind of friend are you?" she turned away from them.

"Baby," he touched her arm and she yanked it away. "Fine don't talk to me."

The cab ride to King's Cross was silent the rest of the way and when they got there Hermione rushed off to get through the barrier and on the train. She got there before Draco and found a compartment, he came in minutes later.

"Hermione, you can't keep this up forever." he hissed.

She looked up at him wiping tears from her tear streaked face. "Then what am I supposed to do? Trust you when you were there with him? Trust him because he is my brother? Cast both of you away for what happened four years ago? Let you win?"

He place his arm around her shoulder and pulled her close to him. He took a deep breath. "Hermione, I think you deserve the truth."

She looked up at him. "About what?"

"About what really happened that night."

She pulled herself away from him. "Go on." she held a look of shook, now knowing she had been lied to.

He took another deep breath. "I'm not going to ask you to promise you won't get mad because I know that if you promised it you would break that promise." he paused and looked away from her. "Travis and I weren't under the imperius curse." she gaped at him about to interrupt, but he spoke quickly. "But we still had orders from Voldemort to do it, please don't think we did it at our own free will."

More tears surfaced in her mocha eyes. "How could you?" she moved to the seat across from him trying to get away from him.

"Mione-"

"Don't call me that." she spat cutting him off. "You destroyed everything."

"Me? Your precious Travis was in on it too. Besides you didn't let me finish."

"Fine finish your fucking story and get it over with so I can get another compartment far away from you."

He frowned. "He threatened us."

"Yeah that's Voldemort for you." she snapped.

"You don't understand what he threatened us with."

"Enlighten me." she paused. "No wait, let me guess. He threatened you with taking your money away, right. And let's see Travis? He threatened him with well probably the same thing."

"No actually he threatened me with bad looks." he said sarcastically. She rolled her eyes. "No seriously. You." was all he said.

"Me? What do you mean?"

"That's what he threatened us with."

"But why would you have cared back then?"

"You want the truth?" she nodded. "I was scared for you. Just as much as Travis was. Please don't cry?" he scooted closer to her and wiped away her tears. "I'm sorry we lied to you."

She shook her head and pulled away from him again. "This is too much. Why couldn't you just tell me? It would have been much easier than lie to me from the very point he got here."

"I don't know I just didn't want you to hate me. I had let myself fall in love with you and I didn't know what to do."

"When?"

"When what?"

"When did you fall in love with me?"

He looked away. "During school. That's why he threatened me with taking you away. He saw everything and knew everything about his followers."

She touched his cheek and pulled his face back to look at her. "Why didn't you ever say anything?"

He blushed. "I figured you would have turned me away, me being your enemy and all."

She smiled. "I have to admit I was a bit skeptical about working with you knowing that you had been the hot bad guy back in school."

He smirked. "You thought I was hot? I thought I was only a little cute." She playfully pushed him. "Does this mean you're not mad at me for lying to you?"

"No it doesn't. And I think once we get back to Hogwarts I need to have a talk with Travis as well."

He frowned. "Are you going to find another compartment away from me?"

"No, but only because I love you and because you finally told me the truth."

He smiled. "From now on I promise I will always tell the truth." he saluted her.

She laughed and took his hand down before pulling him close and kissing him. "I love you Draco Malfoy."

"I love you too Hermione Chantry." he said looking into her eyes.