Year Ago Today

Lyssa shrugged. "Whatever you say, I'm going to bed now." Then she turned and started up the nearest staircase. "Night everyone."

"Night," Laurie and Sev said at the same time. "Night guys," Cassie said to the three kids following Lyssa up the stairs. "Come on Sev, you're coming with us." "Um," Laurie said. "I don't know where Ravenclaw's common room is."

Nic stopped as she had been headed downstairs without a word. "Go back up to the office and ask?" Then she remembered something. "Vena....we don't know the password...."

"Guess that means we have to go back to the office doesn't it?" Laurie said frowning, which was the last thing she wanted to do right now.

"Guess so," Nic said, turning to head back to it. "Although, don't we need a password to get up there as well?"

"Lovely," Laurie said with a frown. "If you were listening, you would have heard the teacher say it when she took us up there." Vena said, she turned on her foot and headed in the direction of the office.

"Well, excuse us for not thinking we would need the stupid thing," Nic muttered at the girl.

They set off, getting there Vena gave the thing the password and walked up. She knocked on the door once, getting an enter a moment later.

The three of them went back to the office where the three adults were. "Um...Vena and I need our password, and Laur sort of needs to know where to go even," Nicole said when they all stared at the teenagers.

Snape looked at the group for a moment before giving the two Slytherin's the password. He then gestured at one of the Carrows. "Show Miss Evans how to get to the Ravenclaw common room."

And so they all set out to their respective rooms.

Vena made her way to the Slytherin common room, Nicole a few feet behind her. When she got to the common room she gave the wall the password and then walked in. The common room wasn't all that different then it was in the future.

Laurie warily followed the Carrow to the Ravenclaw common room. She didn't like the look of that person. She got to the common room, got given a riddle and then answered it. Walking in anxiously. Not sure how things were going to go.

Nicole noticed a few people still hanging around in the common room, not yet having gone up to the dorms. These people included her uncle, and Nicole nearly giggled just looking at him. He was going to hate getting older...

Cassie found one of the boys in her year, introducing him to Severus. Saying that he was a cousin who had just moved to England. Because saying that he was her son from the future would be a little odd.

Laurie nervously stood at the edge of the common room until one of the girls came over and started to talk to her, asking her questions and that.

Vena looked around the common room, before sitting down in one of the empty chairs on the edge of the room. She knew questions were going to come sometime soon, but she wasn't going to speed up the fact.

Nic had also taken a seat, closing her eyes tiredly and running through the day in her mind. Maybe, if she remembered everything, she could figure out how this had all happened, but her thoughts were interrupted by a voice. "So," the person, a boy Nic thought, said, "who are you two? Haven't seen you around before."

Vena glanced up at the boy, she didn't like not knowing anyone. It was harder, as you didn't know what the people were like and what was the best way to act around them. It was like starting school again, but instead of being a first year, she was still in her seventh year. The boy was looking at the two of them waiting for one of them to talk. Let him wait Vena thought boredly twirling her wand.

Nicole cracked open one eye, to see that the person who had spoken was Draco. She was slightly surprised that she hadn't recognized his voice, but it lacked the tired tone he had as an adult. "What does it matter to you who we are, Draco?" she asked, inwardly laughing and cringing. It was funny because she knew his name and he didn't know hers, but it was weird calling her uncle by his name.

So she knows him in the future, Vena mused looking at him and then back to Nic. It took her a moment to see the resembelance in them both and supposed that they were related in some way.

Draco's brow furrowed slightly. "How do you know my name?" he asked. Nicole allowed herself to smirk, closing her eyes again. "Perhaps, it's because my name is Nicolette Malfoy?" she suggested, still smirking.

Vena smiled somewhat amused, she wasn't the only one who took advantage of their last name when they could. She looked at Draco who was frowning at the girl. "You are not a Malfoy," He said eyes narrowed. "I would recognise you if you were."

Nicole sighed, having anticipated this. "Ask your sister, or I could tell you something that only a Malfoy would know?" she said. "You can choose which one you'd prefer. I'm not picky."

Draco narrowed his eyes. "Fine," He said shortly. "Tell me."

Nicole smirked and got up from where she was sitting, going over to whisper it in his ear, since it was a family thing after all. When she stepped away she was satisfied to see that Draco looked stunned beyond belief.

Draco took the stunned look off his face still frowning at the girl. He then looked at Vena. "And you are?"" Vena who could not be bothered right then for theatrics and was also not quite sure if the students knew Tom's last name, just sat up looked at him for a breif moment. "Vena Riddle."

Apparently, they didn't as no one so much as moved, except Nicole, as she was stepping away from where Draco was sitting. "And now," she said, "I'm off to bed. It's been a long day and I'm exhausted."