Hey hey hey. I am sooooooo sorry that this took so long, but I have been busy with Tafe and though it has been so awesome I haven't had time for much else, but today I checked my emails and had like 30 emails just about favourites and follows and reviews for this story so I made the effort to get this chapter done, I will really try to do some more soon, and I really mean soon this time ;), but within the week I hope to be done with chapter 9 so with some luck I will manage that hahaha so on with the show

Chapter 8:

Draco was the first one brave enough to ask.

"Why did... how did your back get like that if you can heal like that?"

"It's simply that while there I wasn't able to feed. I hadn't drunk blood since the stone incident and while with my relatives they got angry at me and decided to lock me away. Without being able to hunt and being whipped and beaten constantly I wasn't able to heal quickly enough and by the time school came around I was too weak to do anything other than a repellent charm that would make me pass out if I tried to attack a human."

"Does Dumbledore know that you are a Vampire? When did this happen?" Madame Pomfry

"No the Headmaster doesn't know about my condition, and I would prefer to keep it that way. My turning occurred many many years ago, it was several years before the disappearance of Salazar Slytherin that I was turned."

"WHAT?!" Draco and Severus yelled, although Severus was more composed about it.

"Yes, I went to school with the ghosts of Slytherin and Ravenclaw."

"You went to school with the Baron and Grey Lady?" Severus almost whispered curiosity practically glowing in his eyes.

"How old are you then?" Neville plucked up the courage to ask.

"About 950 give or take. Time wasn't as toughly kept back then and as you go on years don't mean as much to you. The Baron and Grey Lady went by their real names Callicus and Helena. We got on quite well, Helena was the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw and being a Ravenclaw myself at the time it was quite interesting, although even then she had her fair share of jealousy for her mother's talent. Callicus was a Slytherin, but even then my best friend was a dark man who rarely spoke in the presence of people he wasn't particularly acquainted with. Secerus Slytherin, youngest son of Salazar, was my best friend and sire." I explain still somewhat coldly. The room becomes silent the awkward stillness as the youngest of us assembled seemed to realize that they had really made a mistake.

"So does this mean that you are talking to me again?" I ask not quite accusing, but they had abandoned me and deserved to feel bad about it at least for a little while. I will forgive them, they are young, but that doesn't mean that they are off the hook just yet.

Immediately the two start spouting out apologies and I knew that everything will turn out for the better. Smiling me suddenly noticed that Severus had managed to sneak out from the room while I was distracted. He is already embracing the gifts of a night walker it makes me want to laugh.

The rest of my stay in the hospital wing was a lot better than it had started. I gained my strength back quickly not to mention that I was no longer in constant pain. I didn't want to attack everything that moved and I even had people visiting me now. I know before the twins were coming to see me every now and again, but now I also had Draco and Neville coming to see me. Severus came by every now and then to make sure I was alright but he didn't come to speak to me. He just watched silently from his place in the shadows, but he never approached. I had already decided that I was going to see him when I get out, so that I can teach him and explain... everything really. That is something that I am going to need to prepare myself for. I am currently in the body of a 12 year old boy, so the knowledge of my intention mark isn't going to go down too well, but with the spell that I used I will age faster than people around me, so soon enough the magic will start to wear thin and I will age more quickly that I should. By then I should already have established my place in this war, which I am going to side with and that Severus knows what I want from him. I just hope that he doesn't figure out about the intention mark from someone else, because that will only make him angry.

Finally a week after I have managed to regain my strength I was allowed out of the hospital wing and back into the freedom of school, note that there was sarcasm there. There is no freedom in school, let alone when your headmaster is a man such as Dumbledore. I have watched him and noticed that he favoured Gryffindor's much more than any other house. I heard that Slytherin was supposed to win the house cup last year, but at the last minute he awarded points to Griffins for useless things. He changed the results during the feast and hurt those young Slytherins who'd thought they had won. Even my abuse. I have often been sent to a squib Arrabella Figg who is employed by Dumbledore too keep an eye on me, so he must have known at least some of what was going on in that house and yet he was fine with letting his saviour stay at that house with those people. He was not as good or as infallible as he would like people to believe.

Voldemort I know on the other hand, I don't know enough about to make a judgement. He is the Dark Lord and killed the last of the Potter line, the last of my brother's descendants. But he did give Lily the choice to stand aside, that he only wanted to kill me and that she would live if she stood aside. Three times he warned her and she chose to die instead of standing aside. If nothing else that shows that he was willing to let her go, to show some mercy... Maybe there is more to the Dark Lord.

Still until I am sure I will stay neutral, though I know I will have to choose.

I did it I did it I wrote another chapter: D please let me know what you think, though I can't help but feel like this is a bit of filler ha-ha

BTW! I wanted to give a special note to all those people who reviewed/favourite/followed this story that I really appreciate your dedication to me even though I sometimes take forever to get another chapter up, it really makes me feel good so thankyou X)