Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter that right belongs to the goddess of great story telling J.K. Rowling. (I only own my characters) Plus I am making no money off this.
A/N: Compliant until the end of the fourth book. But try to forget it, for a while, when you read this story. Characters will be OOC. I hope you like it.
It is the kids 6th year. Draco decides to tease Hermione but this time instead of a nasty come back he gets tears. When he follows her, she tells him about her perfect life. Draco realizes his life hasn't been so bad. Soon he finds himself falling in love with Hermione. But will he tell her before it is too late.
Chapter 1: Why do you make me cry?
Hermione Granger had become a stunning beauty over the summer before her sixth year. Her hair a rich caramel-ginner color, she had curves in all the right places, and her eyes were a spicy chocolate brown, and she was 5'9" now. But today was a crisp autumn day and it was almost Halloween, also her 16th birthday. She was walking with her two best friends Harry and Ron outside of the castle. The boys hadn't changed much except they were now both 6 feet tall. Just then Ron gave a grunt and Hermione followed his line of vision. Walking towards them was no other then Draco Malfoy. He had also changed over the years. He was the same height as Harry and Ron, he still had his platinum blond hair but it was no longer slicked back to his head. Rather it styled in a sexy messy look, combine that with his muscles and bright sky blue eyes. Yes, Draco made all the girls swoon. Well, all but one. So Draco Malfoy decided to torment the famous Golden Trio. He walked over to them with a smirk plastered on his face.
"Oh look what we have here," he started, "Potty, Weasel, and the Mud-blood."
"Wow, Malfoy," Hermione started before the guys could say anything, "After all this time you still can't think of other insults." Draco gave her a hard stare. Ginny came up and stood next to her brother and gave Draco a dirty look. Draco didn't even notice her, his eyes were focused on Hermione. Ginny noticed this and then it hit her. 'Sure they have all this hate, but as someone once said there is a fine line between love and hate. One of these days they will be fighting and the next moment they will be kissing, poor Harry.' Ginny thought to herself as she watched Hermione and Draco with amusement in her eyes.
"Well seems like you found a voice." Draco said referring to of course how Ron and Harry always seem to jump on him first.
"Whatever Malfoy," Hermione snorted, "It is a shame you can't find a spine." Draco's face started to get red with anger. He took a step closer to Hermione and stared down at her. Harry took a step forward but Ginny held him back. "What's a matter Malfoy can't think of a come back?"
"Granger you have no idea who you are messing with," Draco said giving an angry hard stare at Hermione. He expected to see fear in her eyes, normally even Potter show some fear in his eyes. But Hermione didn't waver for a second which surprised him. Instead she gave him a harsher glare of her own. After a few seconds he had to turn away somewhat because he couldn't hold her glare.
"Of course Malfoy," Hermione said, "I wouldn't want your father to come down here and try to get me kicked out of school." Her voice was full of sarcasm.
"What do you mean by that?" Draco asked her harshly.
"Oh please Malfoy, I didn't realize you were that stupid. Your father fights your battles for you in one way or other. You have never done a thing on your own. You are your father's shadow and you will be just like him someday. Oh wait, I forgot you are already a cruel heartless asshole." Draco felt himself loosing control. Everything that Hermione had just said had been right. But then she said that he would be and was just like his father. He hated his father.
"You filthy Mud-blood bitch! You have no right to say that! You think that you are all high and mighty just because you think your family is perfect. You are nothing but a dirty piece of trash. Someday you will have a man and he will treat you like the whore you are. You will belong to him and he will treat you like a house elf, which is more then you deserve!" Draco yelled. He noticed that her eyes remained the same, a board look in them, until he made the comment about her family and the stuff after. Her eyes contained so much pain at that moment that he, Draco Malfoy, was getting ready to wrap his arms around her. He felt like a complete ass. Just then Harry pushed past Ginny and Ron, his face blood red with anger, and tackled Malfoy to the ground and started punching him. Hermione saw the boys fighting, their fists, and she had a flashback.
"Stop it both of you!" She said at the top of her lungs and lighting cracked in the air. Unknown to them, Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape were rushing toward them. They had walked outside just as Harry jumped on Draco. They stopped suddenly when Hermione yelled and the lighting cracked. McGonagall and Snape looked over at Dumbledore with worry in their eyes but even he was surprised. They kept walking and Dumbledore parted the boys with a simple spell.
"What is going on here?" Dumbledore asked.
"Malfoy insulted…" Ron started to say but Hermione cut him off.
"Sir, myself and Malfoy were having heated argument and things got a bit out of control." The professors looked at her and respected her for trying not to put the blame on just Harry and Draco, even Snape was impressed.
"Very well 50 points from Gryffindor and 25 from Slytherin," Dumbledore said, "Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy, you will have a week's worth of detention." But as Dumbledore said this Draco wasn't paying attention, he was busy looking at Hermione. He saw deep pain and hurt in her eyes and then he watched as her eyes began to fill with tears.
"Dismissed." Dumbledore said pulling Draco's gaze from Hermione. They all walked back into the castle and Draco pretended to leave in another direction, then he doubled back to follow the four Gryffindors.
"Umm, guys you go ahead I am going up to the library to do some reading." Hermione said. Then after seeing the look that Ron gave her she added, "It is the weekend so there are less people there and I will get more stuff done faster." They nodded at her and headed up to the Gryffindor tower. She waited until they were out of sight and then she went in the opposite direction of the library. Draco followed her, staying in the shadows at all times. He watched as she turned around a few times and her eyes pierced the shadows making Draco freeze. He knew as she took many turns that she was trying to loosing anyone that might be following her. Then suddenly she stopped by a bare wall in a very old and unused part of the castle. He watched as she ran her index finger along the wall and she said,
"Black Roses." Then the wall seem to melt away to reveal a small doorway and she walked inside. Hermione entered her secret room that she created for herself at the end of last year. The room had soft lumpy purple and silver couches and chairs. The room had a small potions lab, a place where she keep books, a bed done again in purple and silver, a door was off to the right which was the bathroom, it also had a large fire place, and a desk with a chair. She went over to the desk and pulled out her drawing supplies and purple I-Pod, which she charmed to work at Hogwarts. She sighed and put in her ear buds and turned the volume all the way up. She pushed play and a haunting melody came on with the sound of the ocean in the back round. She walked over to the couch that sat in front of the large fire place. She stared off into space as she lost herself in the music. During this time Draco had repeated the process and said the password. He walked in and saw Hermione sitting there with a muggle contraption on her head and music was coming from it. Then he saw her shiver and he started walking toward her.
Hermione shivered the cold of the dark room finally breaking her from her trance. She flicked her hand toward the fire place and a roaring fire appeared there a second later. Then she finally let the tears fall. Draco stopped dead in his tracks and stared at Hermione his eyes were as round and as big as an owl's. Just then Hermione turned around to find Draco Malfoy staring at her with wide eyes.
"What the hell are you doing here Malfoy?" She said harshly. Draco just stood there for a few seconds and then said,
"You did wandless magic."
"No really, you think." Hermione said just has harsh. Then he noticed her tears and he felt really bad.
"Why Malfoy?" She said her voice far off like she was remembering something.
"Why what?" He asked her as she looked back up at him. There was deep sorrow, pain, and emptiness in her eyes and he was taken aback. He had never seen her like this. He saw her happy and mostly he saw her really infuriated, but never like this with so much pain. Then she said in a soft whisper,
"Why do you make me cry?"