"What are you wearing?" Tracy asked when she came out off the bathroom. She was wearing wonderful short silken black dress that flowed around her body and showed off her every curve. It was shoulder free on one side and on the other a thin ruffled fabric kept the dress together. Around her bust and the trim was a embroideries that brought the pep into the dress and made it perfect. Together with the dress she was wearing black high heels with strings that wrapped around her thighs. To fit the outfit, she had put her hair up into a loose bun and accentuated her eyes with black make-up.

"You look fantastic," her friend complimented her.

"Thanks," Tracy grinned and checked out her friend. "You look absolutely stunning," she told her friend before grinning even wider and adding, "but when ever do you not?"

Laughing at Tracy's compliment, Ash looked herself in the mirror. She was wearing a white strapless dress with rich black lace appliqués and a black cumber bun inched waist. Together with the dress she wore black high heels.

"Lets go!" Ash smiled and held out her arm for Tracy to hook into, before they walked out off their dorm room and entered the party of the school life, their graduation party!

"Ash! Tracy! Over here!" they heard a voice call from the crowd and as they looked they saw Theodore grinning and waving at them, just behind him they saw Blaise sit together with the other seventh year Slytherins.

"Hey guys!" Ash and Tracy greeted them cheerfully. Today was their last day here, none of them wanted to ruin the evening with bickering. Sitting down next to Blaise, Ash let her eyes sweep over the room. It didn't look different then any party they were on before, but somehow it seemed even more beautiful them the first time she saw it. The seaweed was slowly gliding through the water, dancing to the beat of their very own song. She knew everyone of the people that were here, being entertained by the comforting vibrations of the music they were currently listening too.

The room was illuminated by the warm green lights and a couple of floating lights that someone had magicked there. Like always one of the sofa colonies was pushed against the wall and had made space for a dance floor on which several people were already grooving to the beat of the music and ground their hips together.

Next to one of the moved sofas they had build their typical bar with beer and mead, wine and whiskey and a couple of soft drinks. Curiously, she watched as Crabbe and Goyle walked over to the bar and they each got a handful of beer. Telling the designated bar watchers to be careful that no first and second years would be able to get alcoholic drinks, they came back and handed each of them a bottle.

Smiling, she accepted the bottle of beer that was given to her and leaned onto Blaise, while listening to the musical beats. Gradually, she could feel Blaise's arm snaking around her waist, making the position more comfortable for both of them. With a content smile she closed her eyes and enjoyed the warmth of his body.

When she finished her first beer, she slowly separated from Blaise. Looking into his confused face, Ash smiled and motioned towards the dance floor. Grinning, Blaise accepted her invitation and got off the couch they had lounged on and followed his friend up to where everyone was moving to the music.

At first they started dancing like they always did, together but further apart, just dancing for themselves. But after a few more songs and one or two bottles of beer the two of them seemed to become more confident and slowly neared each other.

Sparks pulsated up and down her body every time they touched and that feeling was slowly getting addicting to both of them. Pulling her toward him, he let his arms wrap around her waist while she interlinked her fingers behind his neck.

Caught in his chocolate brown eyes, she never let her eyes stray away from him, focussing her full attention on him and him alone. The world around her not only got unimportant and blurry, but vanished fully. Nothing was there except the boy in her arms, the electricity that ran through her body and made her heart beat increase and herself, not moving to the beat of the music but to their own beat.

Step after step their bodies melted into each other, beat after beat they were sucked deeper into the bliss, movement after movement they started to move as one.

As if caught in a spell, she saw Blaise lean down to her, felt his arm travelling up her back to cup her cheek, heard nothing but his hesitant breath as the space between their faces diminished, inhaled his scent of sweet sweat and vanilla and finally tasted his full lips as they softly crashed down onto hers.

Pulling him as close as possible she kissed him passionately trying to take him in, too show him how much she wanted him, needed him. Broomsticks did looping's inside her stomach, as Blaise kissed her back just as passionately and pulled her closer towards him. Ash wished this could go on forever but as every other human being, the two of them needed to separate when they felt the light headed due to the lack of oxygen.

Slowly moving their faces away from each other they stared into each others eyes. Reality starting to slowly come back to them.

Taking the lead, Ash started to listen to the music that surrounded them and began moving her body to the beat, grinding against him in pleasure, letting the alcohol in her blood take control of her for a few minutes.

Together they moved to the beats and began moving as one again. Every little friction made her body shiver. Still entranced in his eyes, she pushed her hips against his to the rhythm that vibrated in the air around them.

His hands stroked over her back and pulled her nearer, while she held onto his shoulder with one hand for support while the other gently ran down his back and hooked onto the back pocket of his pants.

They were already breathing heavily, feeling each other shiver under their touch, but they didn't feel the need to stop.

All that mattered at this moment was her body against his. His body against hers. Electricity running through every cell in their body.

A moan escaped her lips when their hips brushed against each other once more. Pulling him into another heated kiss, she tried to regain control of the situation. Slowly the kiss became less heated, less needy. It became passionate, soft and warm. Ending the kiss with butterfly kisses as they pulled apart.

Ash stared into Blaise's chocolate eyes again, memorized.

"Hey," she said softly, lacking of any other words.

Chuckling Blaise answered with a "Hey."

Tasting her lower lip, Ash tried to keep a smile from forming on her lips but failed miserably. Looking around awkwardly, Ash tried to figure out what she should do next. "I... I think I'll get a drink. Do you want one as well?" she asked quietly.

"Yes, please."

"Alright, be right back!" she said with a smile and started walking away, before turning back and giving him another small peck on the lips. "Don't move," she whispered into his ear and swiftly walked up the the bar and grabbing two bottles of beer.

"Bloody Merlin, Ash!" she heard Tracy say from behind her.

Surprised she turned to look at her friend. "Hey Trace," she answered.

"You - you and Blaise just - just kissed!" Tracy squealed in excitement, making Ash blush.

"Y-y-yeah."

"Finally! Do you know how long I waited for this?" Tracy stated looking at Blaise, who saw Ash being trapped by Tracy and had walked up to them. Slowly, as if asking for permission, he slid his arms around Ash and pulled her in front of him, placing his head on top of hers. They laughed lightly at her tone of voice while simply enjoying their company.

"Here's your beer," Ash stated and held out one of the beers for him to take.

"Thanks."

They stayed this light headed for a couple of hours, sometimes dancing but mainly sitting on the couch and talking. Every now and then they separated to talk with others, then found each again and separated again.

To be quiet honest, they had no idea what they should do now, how to react on the situation. What would happen next? Would everything be the same as always when they woke up the next morning? Would something have changed? They didn't know and without saying a word about it they decided to let it all come to them in their own time.

They had just split up again when Ash suddenly saw Draco look around suspiciously and then walked out of the common room.

Remembering the Easter holidays, her current suspicions on his person and Dumbledor's quiet order to watch him, Ash quickly glanced around herself and them swiftly raced after Draco through the wall into the corridor. To make sure he didn't hear her following him, Ash changed into her animal form and began stalking him like the predator she was.

She smelled a unexplainable fear in him, one that shook his entire being and made him clumsy and fidgety. While she watched him, she tried to remember the party. What had Draco been like? Had he already been scared and so out off character when Tracy and her had joined them? Did she miss anything?

Ash could hear a lot of things going on in the castle. Music beats reached her ears at all times, sometimes louder other times nearly not audible. Here and there she could hear a mouse hushing through the hallways and a few corridors down she heard Filch and Mrs. Norris patrol the castle. When they rushed passed a teachers office, Ash could hear a few groans and complaints about the amount of correcting they had to do. But she mainly focused on the clumsy and hurried steps of her prey.

Soon she figured out where Draco was heading towards. Like anticipated, he was heading towards the Room of Requirements.

Slowly nearing him, she hushed from shadow to shadow. Carefully placing each of her paws, watching out for everything that could stop her from reaching her objective.

Creeping up on her former boyfriend, she watched as he started pacing in front of the bare stone wall. Quietly she watched a door manifest itself in front of Draco and increased her pace of stalking when he started to open the door.

Still careful that she didn't make a sound, she tried to reach the door and slip inside before it fell shut. Just in time she got her paw in between the door and the room and silently pushed it open and stepped inside...

Everything was dark as she entered the room Draco had spend so much of his time in, only in the far end of the room could she see a light shine above the platinum blond head of Draco. Noiselessly she made her way through the cupboard like room. When she looked around herself, she saw a lot off random object littering the floor and shelves.

If she remembered correctly this would be the Room of Hidden Things that Harry and Ginny had told her about.

Casually she stalked through the shadows until she nearly reached Draco and was just outside his sphere of light.

He was standing in front of a large black cabinet that reminded her... reminded her... reminded her of the cabinet she had seen Draco look at in the winter holidays, the Vanishing Cabinet! But it wasn't the same one, she saw as she starred at it a bit longer. Same wood, same height, same way of making them, but this one had seen a lot more difficulties than the rest.

All this information sounded old. She knew about all of this! But how? Why did it seem so familiar?

Confused, she continued watching Draco as he starred at the watch and began chanting, "Harmonia Nectere Passus, Harmonia Nectere Passus, Harmonia Nectere Passus."

Suddenly there was a swooshing sound and shaking with anticipation Draco opened the cabinet door. To her horror, a human being stepped out off the cabinet, looking a little bit dazed when they saw Draco smiling at them.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, Aunt Bellatrix," he said and helped the women out of the cabinet.

"You really did it Draco, such a good boy!" she snickered evilly and took his hand in hers as she climbed out the cabinet and he closed the door again, getting ready to assist the next Death Eater into Hogwarts.

Frozen stiff with fear, Ash starred as the Death Eaters emerged one after the other, invading her school.

Flashes of the night her parents died and another forgotten night rushing back at her.

Sweat was running down her fathers face and the hand with which he was holding his wand was shaking uncontrollably. In front of him three cloaked men stood looking down at him.

Draco's guilt ridden face was staring down at her now, he was biting his lower lip, a trickle of blood flowing down his chin.

A green light ripped through her vision, blinding her.

The face she'd seen before replaced with the grinning face of Patrick.

Her mother lying in the floor dead.

The wall rushing at her in high speed as she is thrown against the stones.

Draco as he walked through the door and in the direction of the dorms.

A bat that flew at her with hypothesizing eyes.

Ash couldn't help but gasp as the memories of the night returned to her. She had confronted Draco and he had thrown her through the common room. She remembered the horror she had gone through and the pain that had run through her body.

Whimpering she tried to turn the memories off again, but she had only made it worse. One of the Death Eaters had heard her gasped and whimper in the shadows and threw a voiceless stunning spell at her.

"We have a spy," he said quietly and illuminated his wand, walking over to his victim. "A wolf?" he asked confused as he saw the stiff creature lying under the table.

Ash saw Draco's head snap around and rush over to them. Wide eyed he stared at her. "No, no, that's just some stuffed animal that has been here for a while," he said with a gulp, hoping his fellow Death Eaters would believe him.

"A stuffed animal, huh?" the other Death Eater said and started sniffing at her. "Smells pretty alive to me if you ask..." he sneered and destupefied her again. Ash tried to stay as stiff as possible but seemingly she did make a move because the Death Eater ripped her out from under the table and held her by the neck.

Growling in defence she tried to snap at him, but he was faster. "Avada Ke-" he started but Draco tore his arm away.

"No, don't! There has to be another way! Please don't kill her!" he begged and stood in front of her, saving her life once again.

The already invaded Death Eaters turned to look at Draco and the panting wolf behind him.

"What is that animal to you, Draco?" Bellatrix asked with a glare in her voice.

"Aunt Bellatrix, that is Ash Weasley. My former girlfriend," he told and lowered his head.

"What is she doing here?"

"I - I don't know," he answered truthfully and hung his head before looking at her. "What are you doing here?"

Glancing around the Death Eaters again and with a quick darting of her eyes towards the door, Ash knew he was trapped. Hanging her head she changed back to her former form and bit her lip. "I was following you," she admitted.

"Why?"

"B- Because I thought you were up to something... and I was right! How could you let the Death Eaters into Hogwarts?" Ash said disbelievingly.

Before Draco could answer, the Death Eaters - lead by Bellatrix - laughed at her. "Oh you stupid child, it was only a matter of time before we would enter here!" she screeched. "Now come on everyone, lets get started! Fenrir, take the girl but don't harm her. She seems to mean a lot to our little Draco here."

The man who had found her picked her up and threw her over his shoulder, holding onto her legs tightly so that she couldn't escape. She tried kicking and hitting him with all her might, but all her tries only seemed to humour him. With tears running down her eyes she watched the Death Eaters walk out of the Room of Hidden Things and created chaos and havoc in her beloved school.

"Draco go search for Dumbledore," Draco's aunt ordered and while Draco turned away into the direction of the headmasters office, the others turned into the direction of the Great Hall.

Tears flowing freely, she watched Draco leave her in the hands of these monsters and tried calling out to him, "Dra-!" but she never got to finish his name because Fenrir ripped her off his shoulder and slammed her against the wall only holding her up by her neck.

"Don't utter a single 'nother word, understood?" Struggling for air Ash tried nodding her head. Satisfied the animal like man threw her over his shoulder again and muttered, "good girl," before following the others again.

They were rushing through the school, bursting armours and cabinets and finally they reached the Great Hall. Ash watched as the Death Eaters shattered the windows. She watched as they destroyed the tables at which her friends, her family and herself had spend so much time in the last year. She watched as they ripped down the banners hanging from the wall and burned them and she watched as they shredded the last banner hanging on the ceiling, the one that said, "Congratulations Class of '98."

When they believed to have caused enough mess, the party of Death Eaters began to ascend the stairs towards the Astronomy tower.

"...don't you understand? I don't have a choice I have to kill you, otherwise he will kill me!" Ash heard Draco's shaking voice beg for forgiveness.

"Ah! Who have we hear?" Ash heard Bellatrix's voice say in glee as they reached the top of the Astronomy tower. "Good job Draco," she whispered at the boy as the others spread along the perimeter of the room. Ash couldn't see anything other then the floor and sometimes at the floor below when she gazed through the little gaps between the boards as Fenrir walked passed Draco.

"Good evening, Bellatrix," Dumbledore said calmly and started a conversation with the woman.

Ash didn't listen to their words as she stared at the floor in despair. Suddenly she had to gasped when she saw a horrified looking emerald eye behind a glass stare up at her. "Har-" she started, but couldn't finish as she was jerked off the shoulder once again and was pushed against Fenrir's chest, wand digging into her neck threateningly.

"I told you to shut up," the voice behind her growled and Ash stood stiff as a tree in fear. Lips trembling, knees frozen, tears flowing out of her eyes freely she looked up to see Dumbledore stare at her in horror.

"What is Ash doing here?" he asked shocked.

"Oh that stupid girl? She was spying out Draco. No idea why she would do something this stupid," Bellatrix said and walked up to her, stroking her wet and trembling cheek softly.

Ash stood stiff and stared at Dumbledore in fear as she saw something dawn to him.

"And Ash, don't be to hard on yourself or Draco for that matter, he's going through some troubling times," he said softly.

Confused Ash frowned at her headmaster and just before the reached the door another question jumped into her mind, making Ash look up at her Professor once again, "do you think I should keep an eye on him?" she asked quietly.

But all she received as an answer was that twinkling all-knowing smile of his as he opened the door for her and signalled a waiting Harry to enter his office. Just before he closed the door again, he nodded subtly and held up his finger to his mouth.

He had given her the order to watch Draco! She was here due to his stupid mistake. "I'm sorry Ash," he said softly. Ash didn't answer but slowly closed her eyes and gave a small nod. She knew what was about to come and who could stay mad in this situation?

"Do it!" Bellatrix screeched at Draco.

"He's a pussy, just like his father! Let me kill him, Bellatrix... my way," the man binding her said with a harsh voice.

"No! The Dark Lord wants Draco to do it," she screamed at Fenrir, before turning back to Draco. "Do it Draco! Kill him!"

"Don't do it," another voice interrupted. All heads snapped to the staircase, where they saw Snape walk up to them in no hurry at all. Still threatened by the wand in Fenrir's hand, Ash couldn't look at her professor, therefore she only saw him from the corner of her eyes.

Save us! she pleaded silently as she watched Snape stand behind Draco.

"Severus," Dumbledore said in a voice that didn't show any surprise but was drenched in defeat and plea as he said his final word, "please."

Without any hesitation, Ash heard Snape shout, "Avada Kedarvra!" A green light shot into her vision and hit her headmaster square in the chest, sending him tumbling backwards and down into the abyss.

While she saw the white man tumbling backwards, Ash lost all her strength the keep standing and nearly fell onto her knees, only the strong arms of the werewolf man were keeping her up as the Death Eaters rushed to the window to watch the corpse of a once great man fly towards the ground.

With a maniac laugh, Bellatrix threw her wand into the air and yelled, "Morsmordre," conjouring up the Dark Mark above the castle.

Like a sack, Ash didn't offer any more resistance as Fenrir heaved her over his shoulder again and the party of Death Eaters raced down the stairs again. She only glanced up once when they passed the hiding Harry. Shaking her head, she tried to tell him not to follow him not too try and avenge Dumbledore, not to follow them, to stay in hiding until they were gone. Once he was out of sight, she let her head slump down again and watched the floor they were passing.

At one time she heard a gasp from in front and when Fenrir and her passed, she saw a man lying on the floor stupefied and staring at her in horror.

As if on a high, the cloaked Death Eaters raced through the castle and out into the grounds. Passed a now burning ground keepers hut and into the forbidden forest.

Through her watery eyes Ash saw the sun rise behind the castle tainting the clouded sky in a bloody red and accentuating the horror of the Dark Mark that was floating in the sky...