This was requested by my best friend Laura, aka lauralikesllamas . The OC is very slightly based on her and is a Death Eater. However, she, like Draco and Regulus Black, does not want to be a Death Eater. This is the story of Circe Darkwood and is set just after the battle in the Ministry. Enjoy!

Note: this story doesn't exactly follow the storyline of the Harry Potter books, but has the same basic plot at the start.

Circe Darkwood. Student at Hogwarts. Top of the class in Defence Against the Dark Arts. Sixteen years old. And a Death Eater.

This had only happened once before - to her best friend Draco Malfoy. She'd known him for years, their parents had known each other even longer. However, she'd been sent to Durmstrang, and he to Hogwarts - and then, Voldemort had returned.

Straightaway she'd been taken out of school. Made to be a spy for the Death Eaters. But her parents had been killed in the battle that followed, at the Ministry of Magic. And now, she and Draco had been given a job.

To kill Albus Dumbledore.

The Malfoys had paid for her transferral to Hogwarts. She'd been there for a while now, helping Draco fix the Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement. There was nobody at school she trusted enough to talk to or tell them what she was doing - except Draco.

One day the pair of them went to Hogsmede. Draco had been told to Imperius someone, to take a cursed amulet to Dumbledore.

"You want me to do it?" Circe asked. Draco was holding the parcel in his gloved hands. "You know I'm better at curses."

He rolled his eyes. "Sure you are." He handed her the parcel and she held it gingerly. She pulled her rosewood wand from her pocket and pulled her muffler higher over her face, so only her blue-grey eyes showed. She tugged her hat further over her chocolate hair and stepped inside the Three Broomsticks.

They found a table right next to the back rooms, near the bar. Draco ordered some Butterbeer and placed it on the table. They both took sips, making no eye contact. They were too nervous.

A pair of students from the year above went into the toilets, just a couple metres away. Circe gulped and pulled up her muffler. She slid the amulet in her pocket and stood, her knuckles white around her wand.

She casually followed them into the bathroom. Slipping behind the door she aimed her wand at the first person she saw wearing Hogwarts colours, aimed and-

Dropped the amulet. It made a muffled clunk as it hit the ground. People turned but nobody really noticed. She lifted a foot and smashed it to pieces with a boot. Then she mumbled "Wingardium leviosa," waved her wand and the now misshapen parcel floated up into her gloved hands.

She walked out of the bathroom. Without looking anywhere but the floor she dropped the broken bundle on Draco's table and whispered, "I'm sorry." And stepped out of the door.

The cold wind bit at the top of her cheeks. Soft snow laced her eyelashes as she squinted against the wind. Tears slipped under her fur muffler and froze. Voldemort would kill her without a second thought. Unless...

She noticed a pair of girls walking back to the castle. Barely thinking, she unclipped the locket from around her neck, an old one from Borgin and Burke's, and carefully levitated it. Directed by her wand it floated silently towards them, dropping at their feet. She pointed at the nearest one and muttered, "Imperio."

Immediately the girl picked it up. Katie Bell of the Gryffindor quidditch team. Then she aimed a curse at her, knowing it could be mistaken as a curse from the amulet. And ran.

Suddenly Circe felt a hand on her shoulder. She spun and came face to face with Draco Malfoy.

"Circe, are you okay?" She rubbed the tears from her cheeks.

"I'm fine."

"You're not. What happened?"

"Nothing."

"You know it wasn't nothing. You smashed up the amulet." His silvery eyes met her blue ones.

"I'm sorry, I can't do this anymore. He's going to kill me."

"Not if I can help it." He smiled at her and pulled down her scarf. She smiled back weakly.

"You can't do anything."

"No. But I can stay with you. Until the very end."

He leaned towards her. His arms wrapped around her and brought her closer. She raised herself on her tiptoes and kissed him.

They eventually pulled away. Circe's hand found his and she tugged her muffler up over her nose. They stepped into the street.

Someone behind them wolf-whistled. "Ooh, Malfoy's got himself a girlfriend!" She turned around and shot a curse at him. They both smirked as they watched him fall over. Then they turned away and walked back to Hogwarts. Together.

Hope you enjoyed this oneshot!! I did enjoy writing it, me and Laura are both massive Potterheads (well, she more than me. She can practically recite the whole series word-for-word) so I loved writing it, and I hope you all liked reading it!! Go show her and her book some support!!

I really want to do a JimboxDolph oneshot so expect that in the future (@cazofthetrash thanks for introducing me to this ship it's beautiful) but requests are still open!! Thanks for reading!!