LLL- I'm so sorry I've been so late. But there's school and I live on the east coast of Virginia so I've had to deal with the earthquake and hurricane issues. So how about we get this started as soon as possible. Enjoy.

*Snape's POV*

I shift in the bed and notice that Hermione is gone. I inhale deeply and thoughts enter my head. I just needed to take a walk. I'll see you later. I love you. Hermione. She's using the quill I gave her to let me know she's OK.

*Hermione's POV*

The morning air is damp and cool as I look beyond the gates. The scar on my arm stings as I think of Vanessa and the magic I did last night. It was dark but it felt good. I should be ashamed of myself, but it's worse than having chicken pocks. No matter how much it itches, you can't scratch. The sun rises. I have to get to my classes, but I think I have more important things to do. I just wish I knew exactly what those things were. I walk back up the school and into the clock tower. Clouds flow through the sky as I look upon the school grounds.

My heart burn kicks in and I grab my chest. You'd think this would be something I'd get used to, but it just gets worse every time. I feel different. Ever since I lost and regained my memory, nothing has felt the same. I feel like I've stolen Harry's problems, gained Bellatrix's magic, and reformed my entire personality. I'm a Sirian and there's nothing I can do about it except control it.

I leave the clock tower and walk into the forbidden forest. I get comfortably far enough into the woods and take a deep breath. I use my teeth and bite a small whole into my finger. I hold my hands up and the tips of my fingers mimic a blackish-purple smoke. The forest around me ices over. Even the air becomes unbelievably cold. Ice manipulation, fire manipulation, and blood manipulation is what I've learned. There were many more techniques that I read about but I wasn't able to test out because of my environment. But now, I'm near trees. I concentrate the magic on my hand and tap the nearest branch. It glows the same blackish-purple as my hand. I move my hand and the branch swings wildly, smacking me in my face and scratching my cheek.

The blood leaks warmly out of the cut down my face. I wipe the blood off instead of using the blood manipulation. I think it's a little too early to experiment with anything other than my hands at this point. I move both of my hands very slowly this time and the branch eases away from me. I smile and touch another branch. They both follow my movement. Leaves behind me crunch and I drop the branch, swiveling around.

Standing in front of me is a tall muscular centaur. It's lower half is dark brown and phases into a tan human body as you get higher.

"It's been a while since I've felt magic like that," he states slowly.

"Uhm... Thank you?"

"It's no compliment. That's black magic. You're not welcome here."

"Not welcome? Half this forest is black magic."

"Yes, but you are in my people's territory." He pulls out a bow and arrow. "I would hate to hurt a little girl, but I'm only going to say this one more time. You're not welcome here."

You know what to do. You know how to do it. Now show him whose boss and claim your reward.

I smile. Immediately, he senses danger from this and fires a bow in my direction. I'm quicker than him and duck, biting a hole into a finger on each of my hands. Blood flows out and I whip the next arrow out of the air in mid-flight. I flip with agility that I didn't even know I had and whip his leg. He bucks highly into the air lunges towards me. My hands glow and I shoot flares of magic at the four nearest tree branches. They spring to life and I levitate into the air, carefully maneuvering the branches to trap the strong centaur. He grunts as I approach him.

"My brothers will be here and you will be dead." I clench my fist and the branches tighten around his body. The half-blood gasps for air and more dark thoughts flood my mind.

You know what to do. You know how to do it. Finish him!

I place one of my hands over is heart and bring my mouth to his. He struggles to get free but fails. I'm only a millimeter from touching his lips and inhale. My lips feel cold and he begins to suffocate. His memories invade my mind. The things he has seen. Everything he has learned. The people he's watched die and killed. Even his guilt. All of it comes at once. Finally what looks like a star floats out of his mouth and into mine.

The world around me explodes. It's the most intense thing I've ever experienced. I practically feel it flow to my heart. I gain energy that I lost trying to fight and much more. My heart burn disappears as if it was never there and I am prepared for battle since I hear hooves coming my way from all directions. Before I can even move, an arrow shots straight through my hand and secures me to a tree. A second traps my other hand and centaurs gallop about.

Some surround their black, limp brother and others surround me. Maybe I should have thought this through. Bows are pointed at me and before another is fired. Someone says, "he has a pulse." Everyone looks at the dead body then back at the centaur that made the unobvious announcement.

"Of course he does," a deep voice states, walking up to me. This centaur is different from the others and has a white stallion bottom. "He is soulless. Not dead." I try my best not to show weakness despite the two arrows impaled through both of my hands.

"What are we waiting for? Let's kill it?" shouts a centaur in the back. Multiple others agree and the white stallion puts one hand up.

"This is a Hogwarts student and not just any Hogwarts student. This is Hermione Granger. A Gryffindor."

"How do you know me?" I growl. He burrows his eyebrows at me.

"You have no right to speak, but if you must know. I am close friends of Dumbledore's and he may have talked about you once or twice. Not to mention you've been here once or twice before." He looks down at my bag reaches down for something. He is holding my quill and parchment. Obviously he knows what it is and how it works.

I'm so screwed, but I could care less for some odd reason.

*Snape's POV*

I stand in front of a class of uninterested students as the read pages from their textbooks. I must eye them constantly or they will veer off track and do something stupid like draw.

"Severus," whispers Dumbledore from the door. "May I have a word?" I send one more warning glare to the students and step out the door. "Is something wrong headmaster?" I ask, honestly not caring at the moment.

"Hermione was not in her first class. She isn't in the current one and she is nowhere to be found in school. Please tell me she's with you."

"No she's not. She left before I could wake up." I try to think where she'd go but she is so smart, class is the only thing I think of right now. I hit the wall and Dumbledore puts his fingers on his temples. My mind shifts a little and my thoughts change.

In our territory. Come get her now or I will be forced to kill her.

I tell Dumbledore and he knows immediately where to go. We trail into the forbidden forest. After trailing deeper, the temperature drops and we approach a crowd of centaur. I see a blue and black centaur tied hanging from what looks like vines. I know all too well what has happened to him. The crowd clears a little and what I see brings tears to my eyes. Hermione's hands a bound to a tree with arrows through them. She looks up at me and I know she has absorbed a soul. The whites of her eyes are black and her pupils are green. She hangs on the tree and when she sees my face, she begins crying hysterically.

"Sev I'm sorry. Please. Something came over me. I don't know what it was, but I couldn't control it. Please leave. I don't want you to see me like this. I know what I am and I can't live like this. Just let them kill me!" I run up to her and put my hands on her face.

"I don't care what the hell you are. I don't ever want to hear you say that again. I could never wish you dead. Do you understand me?" She nods as tears flow down her cheek. I could only imagine how much pain she's in. I stand up and try to find a way to undo the arrow painlessly. I find myself face to face with a sword.

"Yes, we called you here to alert you of her being here, assuming you didn't know, but she still holds the life of one of our brothers and I only think one in return is a valuable enough trade. Preferably hers."

"Peace," Dumbledore says. "We can get the soul of your brother back."

"But doesn't that involve killing the Sirian that has taken it."

"It some cases, but the Sirian responsible can also return the soul, but it is very rare and uncommon, therefore, unheard of."

The white stallion steps up and motions for the others to leave. They comply unwillingly. After not too long, the four of us are alone. He removes the arrows from Hermione's with as much care as possible, which is still as painful as it looked. Her hands bleed uncontrollably. She looks at us regretfully and her hands glow blackish-purple. The blood slowly seeps back into the gashes but it doesn't heal.

The centaur's eyebrows raise. "Albus, I've known you for having many things in that school of yours, but a Sirian with such dark magic and capabilities is not something I'd imagine."

"You know yourself this is not what miss Granger is, but we ran into a bad situation that we are trying to tame."

The centaur looks back at the soulless body. "I don't that is working out the way you might have planned. I hope you are aware this is not her first time in here."

"No I wasn't but thank you for informing me."

"The pleasure is mine."

"I will, have your friend restored soon. We just need time to help her control her power."

"She can control it perfectly. Control isn't the problem. It's how she uses this black magic."

"Of course. Well Kaname. I will see you in due time my old friend. Thank you for alerting me." He nods and gallops off. I hold onto Hermione as we exit the forest.

"The first thing we are going to do is take her to the hospital wing. Soon she will become tired and the blood manipulation will die out because of how weak she will become."

LLL- Hope everyone liked. The hurricane knocked down alot of trees, but nothing as serious as hurricane katryna. And school is in 8 days so yay. Homework. Anyways, please reveiw. Thanks a million!