Started this on Ao3 **Please do not steal or copy** Hermione Granger returns back to Hogwarts to finish her last year. After everything that has happened as a result of the war, she has fallen into a major displacement. Upon entering the school that has been her second home for several years, she instantly feels drawn to one specific part of the castle in which other students are forbidden to enter. Behind her friend's back, Hermione travels into the depths of the dungeons where she is guided on pure instinct to the door of the man whose very exsistence will alter her own. Draco Malfoy, as his one and only act of kindness during his time at Hogwarts resulted in him making the ultimate sacrifice. And all for the sake of a certain brown-haired Gryffindor. He, somehow, awakens as a newly transformed vampire, who struggles to keep a handle on the creature inside of him. He can't understand how or why Hermione comes to find him inside the dungeons, but fights to keep her away. Something is happening to her. Draco can sense it. His Gryffindor princess has lost her glow.