The Dark Lord's Daughter

Deception and Surprises Part I

"No, I'm not going to tell you so stop asking me," I said and got up.

I grabbed my bag and then left. I walked outside and then walked over to an oak tree by the lake. I sat down and leaned against the tree and started to think about what happened between Mike and me. Why did Mike have to come at all? Draco would never want to know why I dumped Mike and, I would never have had that argument with in the Common Room this morning. What I don't get is why she would do that to me. She didn't even like him and he was going out with me at the time. We had a rule that we would never go out, or flirt with a guy that one of our friends liked or were dating.

"You okay?" someone asked.

"No, Ash," I said looking up at her.

"I take it the Mike issue has been brought up by Draco," Ashley said.

"Yeah and the thing is he brought it up in front of Blaise Zabini. Who I happen to be going out with and Draco doesn't even know that," I said.

"Damn I feel bad for you since you're mad at Draco you can come and sit with my friends and me at dinner tonight," Ashley said sitting down besides me.

"Thanks."

"I noticed you walked out without even eating anything, so I brought some bread for you," Ashley said handing me some bread, "I would have gotten you something else but anything else would have made a mess in my bag."

"Well thanks for the bread anyways. Since I'm eating dinner with you, can Blaise come, too?"

"Yeah."

"Okay, I'll see you at dinner then," I said standing up, "But what should I do about Mike? He won't leave me alone."

"Leave it to me," Ashley said also standing up, "Well we better get to class."

The rest of the day went by like a blur. After dinner I went straight to my room to do my homework without being bothered. Well that didn't help anything because I could still hear the noises from the Common Room and other places. So I grabbed my bag and my homework and then went to the library to finish my homework. I had been in there for about an hour when Draco came in and sat across the table from me.

"What do you want Draco?" I asked still writing.

"For you to tell me the truth," Draco said.

"Why should I it doesn't even concern you in anyway. So drop it already because I'm not going to tell you," I said still working on my homework.

"Fine if you won't tell me now I'll just have Blaise find out for me then," Draco said.

"Okay I'll tell you but don't say anything about this to Blaise. The reason I dumped him is because he cheated on me with my best friend at Salem and I haven't talk to her since," I said looking at Draco, my homework lay completely forgotten in front of me on the table.

"I thought you were still talking to Ashley," Draco said looking confused.

"You know it amazes me that you get such good grades and you act so stupid," I said staring at him like he had lost his marbles, "How could Mike have cheated on me with Ashley if she was over here while he was cheating on me?"

"I don't know."

"It was another girl I had been friends with when Ashley still went to Salem with me. After she left I started hanging out with this girl as much as I had with Ashley. It turns out that Mike had been cheating on me with my-so-called-friend for the last month that we had been going out. I was on my duties, similar to your Prefect duties, when I heard noises in a closet and came across them in the middle of what they were doing. It happened about a week or two after I had found out that my adoptive parents had died, so I had locked myself in my room for about two weeks or so, and I only came out for meals and that wasn't all the time. My guy friends brought me my homework. They were the only ones that I would talk to since they would actually listen to me. Of course most of my friends that were girls I had kinda started to drift away from them after the deaths. So I really didn't have many friends that were girls at the time and the ones that I did were too busy with their boyfriends or their own lives," I said out of breath.

"Now I know why you won't forgive him so easily. If you want I'll take care of him for you," Draco said.

"So you're not going to tell Blaise about this are you?" I asked.

"No, I won't tell him. So what are you doing in here anyways?" Draco asked.

"I was trying to do my homework and, it was too noisy in the Common Room. I even went into my room and could still here it. So I came in here to do it," I explained.

"Okay, you do know that the curfew for the sixth years is soon, so if I were you I'd go back to the Common Room now," Draco said.

"Well why aren't you going then?"

"Because I have to do Prefect duties, so I better get going," Draco said standing up and walking away.

I gathered all my stuff together and started on my way back to the Slytherin Dormitories. When I got there I said the password (pureblood), and then walked in. Blaise wasn't in there so I went straight to my room. I felt drained from the day's events so I went to sleep.

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Dream Sequence

I was walking through what should have been an empty field but it was littered with dead bodies on the ground. It looked like the sun was setting because it was slowly starting to get darker. What in the world happened here? I continued walking through the field until it got extremely dark. I was going to light my wand but I couldn't find it. I turned around to look for it when someone grabbed me from behind.

"What are you doing out here? You're going to get hurt," a male voice said sounding concerned.

Whoever had grabbed me started to pull me towards a building that looked like Hogwarts.

End Dream Sequence

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I woke up with a knock on my door. God damn it. I got out of bed and walked over to the door. I opened the door and saw Pansy standing there looking aloof.

"What do you want?" I asked Pansy with an air of indifference towards her.

"Just to tell you that Blaise told me to tell you that he wanted to talk to you," she said then walked away mumbling, I made out the words "stupid bitch," and "spoiled little slut."

I walked into the Common Room to pairs of eyes staring out me from most of the male population in Slytherin that were in the Common Room at the time. I spotted Blaise and walked over to him.

"You do know you could have changed out of your night clothes," Blaise said.

"Didn't feel like it, so what was you wanted to talk about?" I asked looking at him.

"I just wanted to know if tomorrow, since we don't have class, if you wanted to go for a walk on the grounds. So do you?" Blaise asked.

"Yeah. I'm going to go get ready for class now, I'll see you later," I said walking back to my room to get my school clothes.

After I had gotten my clothes I walked to the bathroom to take a shower and changed. When I was done I walked into my room to get my school bag and books. I walked up to the Great hall sat down next to Blaise and grabbed a piece of toast when we finished eating we went to Charms. I sat down next to Blaise. About two minutes before class started Draco walked in and sat down on the other side of me.

"So where were you Draco?" I asked.

"In my room getting ready," Draco said.

"Okay," I said then turned to Blaise and whispered, "I don't believe him do you?"

"No, but I don't want to get into an argument with him. So don't say anything about you not believing him, okay?" Blaise whispered back, wisps of his sandy blonde hair falling into his face.

"Okay," I said watching him closely, "meet me outside during lunch."

"Why?"

"Well you'll find out then and not now. So don't forget to meet me outside during lunch."

"But I don't think I can wait till lunch to find out what you are up to," Blaise said getting the same sad look in his eyes he had two nights before.

"Well you're going to have to or else I'll change my mind," I said, "and be quiet so I can pay attention."

The professor taught them a charm that I had learned last year at Salem halfway through it (or my fifth year there). So the professor awarded Slytherin ten points because I had "already mastered it on my first try." When Charms was over I went to Arithmancy with Draco. I noticed that throughout most of the class that Draco wasn't even trying to pay attention to the professor. Halfway through class I stepped on his foot.

"What?" Draco asked.

"Will you pay attention and stop staring into space," I said.

Draco didn't answer but continued to stare "off into space" through to the end of class. Thank God it is lunch time. I can finally see Blaise again without Draco being in the same room as us and watching every single move Blaise and I make. I walked out onto the grounds instead of walking into the Great Hall. On my way down the front steps I ran into Mike. I didn't even stop so that he could try to talk to me, I continued on my way. I heard him and the guys he was walking with start talking after I walked by. I made out some words of their conversation before I was out of earshot, which were "what did you do?", "Nice ass", and I think "what a bitch." I walked towards the oak tree over by the lake and saw Blaise sitting there waiting for me. When I sat down besides him he looked up at me.

"So why did you want to meet me out here during lunch anyways?" Blaise asked.

"So I could talk to you without Draco or any other Slytherins overhearing us. Well what did you think I asked you to come out here for?" I asked looking up at him.

"Nothing," he said, "So what did you want to talk about?"

"I don't know to tell you the truth I just wanted to spend sometime with you," I said cuddling up to Blaise.

"Well then let's just sit here," Blaise said holding onto me.

I happened to look over towards the castle doors and saw someone walk out of them and towards where Blaise and I were sitting. I moved a little away from Blaise.

"What's wrong?" Blaise asked looking over at me.

"Someone is walking over here," I said looking back over at the castle and saw that the person was getting closer.

I stood up and grabbed my bag and walked behind the tree. Blaise must have understood why I got up because not even a minute later he was standing next to me behind the tree. As the person started to walk closer to the tree I saw that it was Granger, so Blaise and me walked out from behind the tree and walked casually back up to the castle. We went into the Great Hall sat down at some empty seats. I looked up and down the table trying to see where Draco was sitting.

"Do you know where Draco is?" I asked.

"Last time I saw him he said that he would be working on some homework in the library during lunch," Blaise said grabbing some fish and chips.

For some reason I don't think that Draco is working on homework in the library and what was Granger doing outside without her body guards Potter and Weasley with her? She must be up to something, but what? I didn't eat anything for lunch and later on in the day I wish I had. Nothing really happened the next week except some review going on in the classes. I happened to be walking back to the Slytherin Common Room after breakfast on the second Saturday of school when I heard an argument on the staircase. I looked up the staircase to see who was arguing and was surprised to see that it was the Golden Trio, Potter and Weasley were both taking turns at yelling at Granger.

"So where have you been running off to this past week, Ron told me that it has had nothing to do with Perfect duties, so where have you been going?" Potter yelled at her.

"Is it any of your business where the bloody hell I go?" she yelled back just as loud as Potter had.

"Yes it is," Weasley said.

I saw Blaise standing at the end of the hallway waiting for me so I left and started to walk towards him.

"What are they arguing about?" Blaise asked.

"I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention, although it kinda of surprised me that they were yelling at her, because aren't they supposed to be the best of friends?" I asked.

"Well you're right they are supposed to be," Blaise said, "Come on let's get back to the Common Room, before something drastic happens and we get blamed for it."

"Okay," I said following him.

When we got to the Slytherin Common Room Draco walked over to us and asked, "What was this week's Potions essay on?"

"I already finished mine, I'll go get it for you," I said walking to my room and grabbing it off my desk.

On my way back I ran into Pansy. She stood right in front of me and blocked my way.

"Move, Pansy," I said nicely even though I was ready to hit her.

"No."

"Pansy get the fuck out of my way right now or else I'll..."

Pansy cut me off, "You do anything and the whole school will know about those rumors about you from Salem and the real reason why you dumped Mike," Pansy said.

"You wouldn't."

"Yes I would, because I don't like you. If this is the only chance I get to turn the whole school against you then I'm going to take it. Even if it means spreading untrue rumors about your slutty little ass," Pansy said looking at me with such hate that if looks could kill there would be no remains of my body to find.

"Pansy if anybody is the slut around here it's you not me. So shut the fuck up and get the hell out of my way Bitch," I yelled at her, "Maybe if I push you off of a tower then, I wouldn't have to worry about you spreading rumors about me."

"You do know you will be the only suspect if you do push me off a tower," Pansy said.

"No, I won't, because I'm not the only one who hates your guts. So I won't be the only suspect," I said.

"Well..."

"Speechless are we now? Since you're not going to talk anymore get out of my way," I said pushing past her. When I got back to the Common Room, Blaise asked what had taken so long. I told him and Draco that it was Pansy and that she wouldn't get out of my way. I gave Draco my Potions essay and then said that I had to go to the library to get a book for another class assignment. On my way out of the Common Room I ran into Mike and the guys he was walking with the day I met Blaise at the tree by the lake during lunch.

"Look who we have here," one of them said.

I continued walking but Mike grabbed me.

"If you don't let me go right now, I swear I will kill you," I said trying to get free.

"I had a little chat with Pansy yesterday," at that I stopped struggling and listened to him, "and I found out something."

"What?"

"That you were making out with..." for the third time he was unable to finish having a conversation with me due to being stunned.

I looked up and saw Blaise standing there with Draco. I hope he didn't hear what Mike had said.

But against my luck he had heard, "What does he mean that you were making out with someone? And who was it?"

"I have no idea what he was babbling on about. So I couldn't tell you and I'm not even dating anyone so there would be no reason for me to make out with anyone," I said denying it.

What had Mike told Pansy and what did she tell him? What rumors was she talking about anyways? I just hope Mike didn't tell anyone else about anything. After about two weeks or so it was mainly just Blaise making sure Mike didn't try anything. After dinner one night I had noticed that Draco hadn't come to dinner at all and then remembered that he had been spending a lot of time lately in the library. I told Blaise to go ahead and wait for me in the Common Room since Mike hadn't tried to bother me. I had to go and talk to Draco about the little plan we had made. When I got to the library I didn't find Draco at any of the tables in the front so I started to walk down the aisles to find him. I found him alright and he wasn't alone. I was kinda of surprised, but not because he was with someone, it was who he was with. I thought he hated her.

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