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A/N Adfectio Vestitus means Change clothes in Latin Just so you all know…
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Chapter One - The start of something new
"I told you we wouldn't get into trouble," the voice stated as she entered her room.
"You scared the living shit out of me!" replied Hermione
"I'm sorry" said the voice sympathetically whilst coming out from the shadows. She knew who it was but how did he get here?
"You're not supposed to be here" Hermione said in a worried tone as she looked around for a witness to catch them. "How'd you get into my room? How'd you get the password? How'd you get past the fat lady? How'd…"
A hand appeared in front of her and smothered her mouth
"Shh" The voice said "no more questions I'm here now, to spend some time with you in my arms."
"Really?" Hermione answered through her smothered mouth by the set of hands.
"Yes Hermione" he answered removing his hands from her mouth and replacing it with a tender kiss.
"I was looking for you everywhere" Hermione stated affectionately.
"It doesn't matter now" he said "I'm here with you."
They went to lie on her bed and under the covers. She lay on his chest with him stroking her long wavy brunette hair and smooth forehead gently until she fell asleep.
"She looks so peaceful when she sleeps" he said gently so as to not disturb the sleep of the Gryffindors in their dorms. After a few hours of watching Hermione sleep he went to go back to his dorm so he wouldn't be caught like he was caught the last time.
Previous day
"There you are" the voice said grabbing Hermione by the arm. "I've been looking for you Pansy! We have to get going before the passage closes!" he started dragging Hermione quickly to a wall he said a few words and the wall opened revealing a passageway. Hermione decided that it'd be best not to say anything as yet as her curiosity overwhelmed her with excitement. Where could he be taking her? Why did he grab her arm thinking she was Pansy? So many questions came to mind when she decided to speak.
"I'm not…"
"Shh, we'll be caught if we talk" he stated harshly, so no voices were heard between the two. Finally after a few long minutes of silence and walking through a slightly muddy passage Hermione found herself alone with the figure and after hearing nothing for so long the figure turned around and went to kiss her when she screamed,
"Oh my god! Gross!"
Suddenly the figure opened his eyes and realized that the girl was indeed not Pansy Parkinson but HERMIONE GRANGER!
"What on earth are you doing here? I can't believe I thought you were Pansy! Well it's too late now…"
"Too late for what?" Hermione interrupted
"Well I was about to tell you when you rudely interrupted so now I don't think I should tell you at all" the figure stated in frustration, then turned and said quietly,
"Stupid Gryffindor women."
"What did you say?" Hermione asked angrily
"You heard me" said the boy. "You are a stupid Gryffindor woman!" he said loudly "and now I can't get rid of you and I'm stuck with a useless Gryffindor like you!"
By this time Hermione was set to punch this boy in the nose and slap him silly to make him realize that maybe he should just be nice for once! Just as she was about to give him a smart remark he began to speak nicely.
"Hey are you hungry? 'Cause I know I am and I don't want to lose my reservation at Paprika's restaurant. I'll pay." He said kindly with a hungry look in his eyes.
"Ok…" Hermione replied wondering what made the boy calm down. The thought of food or loss of money. Slowly they made their way to a muggle town and into a town house that seemed to be inhabited by wizards as unusual plants were growing all over the yard hiding the house from the rest of the street. She entered with the boy and found a number of muggle outfits she could wear to dinner.
"You can wear any of them" he stated breaking the silence. "I'm just going to shower and get myself ready."
Without replying Hermione looked at the outfits that were in the living room, all on hangers but away from the bedroom and wardrobe. She chose a frilled and peasant looking long brown skirt and a dark brown singlet top with a collar as well as a dark jacket to wear just in case it became cold. She heard the water stop running from the shower the boy was taking and decided that it was time to move to another room just in case she or the boy saw something that neither wanted to see. Whilst getting dressed Hermione thought to herself,
"Why am I getting dressed up for? He did say I could wear anything. Then why am…"
Hermione found her thought process interrupted by the boy.
"You look very exquisite in that," he stated looking at her fascinatingly "never knew YOU could look so good in something like that."
Hermione grunted at him and turned around. She then found that he had taken her hand and was taking her out the door to… a car?
"Get in he said in a fairly kind tone. He went to the driver's door and started the car once she had gotten inside. Hermione decided to stay quiet for once instead of making a fuss and yelling at him. She decided that she was going to enjoy herself with the boy she never liked but was always curious about. They drove for a few minutes to their destination in silence. She couldn't believe that she was spending the night with HIM of all people, instead of Ron and Harry. How did she get into this situation? However she decided to try and enjoy this night away from Hogwarts no matter who she was with. Also the boy was being rather nice to her instead of his usual mean self.
The night flew by and Hermione actually enjoyed herself and found that the boy wasn't as bad and cruel as he usually was and is. The two teenagers soon discovered that the time had flown by and that they will both possibly miss the moment the passage reopened that morning. They had been out all night.
"We'll be in so much trouble!" Hermione stated worriedly.
"No we won't" he said to Hermione calmly whilst walking her from the car to the town house. They went into the house only to discover that the time was 4.15 in the morning.
"Okay" he started "we have fifteen minutes to get changed and half an hour to do whatever it is that we want to do."
"Well I don't know about you but I think it'd be wise for me to get into my robes first so that when we are leaving we won't rush."
Hermione walked to the room she left her robes in, where she got changed, she shut the door and locked it.
"That seems like a pretty good idea" he remarked and went to do the same thing but in another room of the house. Hermione was the first to be ready so she went to the fire place and started a very warm and magical fire as she didn't know any other way to start one. She sat on the lounge watching the flames, and Stared into its infinite colours as she began to think. A few moments later the Slytherin boy sat next to her on the lounge quietly and gently as to not scare or disturb Hermione. Eventually Hermione cocked her head to the side to see what was taking the boy so long to get ready when she realised he was next to her thinking like she was. She jumped slightly with fright and wondered about him.
"Malfoy?" she asked as he turned to show her that he was paying attention "I don't know how to word this but… ah… what it is that seems to be stressing you for so long? You haven't been doing your prefect duties… And well I know you LOVE your prefect duties as you pick on the first years. You've barely teased a Gryffindor since. You've missed out on all the Quidditch matches and Christmas has passed so that's basically all your matches! You hardly fight or get into trouble anymore either. The only thing that's the same is the fact that you sneer at Harry every Potions and Defence against the Dark arts classes."
"What have you been doing? Do you have some sort of magical camera following me around and creating a T.V show? The secret life of Malfoy? And the camera happens to be bugged to Goyle's ass I mean head. Cause you know they both look so alike that there's not that much of a difference!" Hermione giggled at Draco's remark as he continued "that or you've liked me for years and think I'm hot and super sexy" he said cocking his head, running his fingers through his hair and raising an eyebrow as if he was the sexiest man alive.
"I didn't mean it that way" Hermione said holding back laughter and trying to be serious "what sort of things would stop you from doing the things you love?"
Draco didn't reply and Hermione got the hint that he didn't want to talk about it so she rested her head on the lounge just listening to Draco breathe as the fire in front of them crackled. She closed her eyes and began to think about what reasons could stop THE DRACO MALFOY to do the things he loved, nothing came to mind and Hermione had slowly fallen asleep. Draco was sitting beside her when Hermione's head slowly landed on his shoulder it was then that he realised that she had fallen asleep. Eighteen minutes until the passage reopened. Slowly and eventually Malfoy too started to sleep waiting for the time to go by, listening to Hermione's Deep breaths as she slept and the crackling of the fire that was starting to die down.
As Hermione and Malfoy were sleeping, back at Hogwarts everyone was a bustle of excitement as they all went down to eat breakfast.
"The Slytherin's and the Gryffindor's have a match tomorrow!" a Ravenclaw girl said to a Hufflepuff boy.
"Apparently it's going to be the best game yet!" the Hufflepuff boy replied.
"Of course it will" interrupted Laura Li a girl in her fifth year in Slytherin at Hogwarts she was soon accompanied by Levan Malfoy. Draco's younger brother that looks up to Draco so much that he looks, dresses and acts like him too.
"It's my brother against Potter!" Levan exclaimed lacing his hand with Laura's as they made their way to the great hall for breakfast.
In the meantime Harry and Ginny were in the Gryffindor common room waiting for Hermione, but to their surprise Hermione wasn't in her dorm.
"She must have gone down already" said Harry in a confused way.
"She wouldn't have" Ginny replied giving Harry a kiss on the cheek "I always walk past her room and this morning, I don't think she was in there. I usually hear her humming or walking or even turning pages of her study notes but she wasn't this morning."
Indeed Hermione was not in her room so Harry consulted the Marauders map to find out where she was.
"The map says that Ron is already stuffing his face with food" remarked Harry "you and I are here and well Hermione is nowhere to be seen!"
"Malfoy isn't even on the map!" Ginny exclaimed "could he have done something to her?" she questioned loudly.
"Shh" replied Harry "I honestly don't know…"
The two finally made their way down to the great hall still worried about Hermione but hoping that she was still alright.
Back at the town house, Malfoy woke to find his arm around Hermione and her hugging into his chest. If he hadn't have spent the night with her at Paprika's then he would have pushed her to the ground, but instead he left her there as she looked so peaceful. After a while Hermione awoke to find herself sleeping on Draco's chest.
"Good evening" he said as she started to pull herself away.
Hermione sighed, yawned and then finally realised. "Good evening?"
"Yep" Malfoy replied
"But the passageway" she remarked
"Yep"
"How are we going to get back?"
"Yep"
"Isn't it closed now? Or can we still go through now?"
"Yep and No" Draco said quickly.
"Well then how exactly does it work?" Hermione asked "I know you kind of explained it last night but I didn't understand and there were too many muggles around. Well that's what you said at least."
"Yea well… The passageway?" he said looking back at Hermione whilst raising a brow. "Umm… Ah… Well it kinda works like…" he stopped and then looked at Hermione. "Just promise you won't tell anyone especially Potter, Weasley and my little brother."
"Ok" Hermione said without hesitation.
"Anyway, basically it works like this… at a certain time during the twenty-four hour period the passageway opens and with the correct words you can travel through to this town, but there's a catch. You can only travel with one other person and at three certain times." Hermione listened as Draco went on "the opening times are nine pm, five am and five pm. It takes ten minutes to travel through and well ten minutes after five or nine it is closed so you have to walk quickly or you WILL get caught."
"Ok then" Hermione said finally understanding the passageway thing. "Another point" Hermione started "How do I look like Pansy?"
"Well you were standing where she waits for me and also I was in a bit of a rush. So I wasn't really paying too much attention. I think I may have knocked a professor into a wall" Malfoy declared sniggering.
Time flew by when Hermione and Draco discovered that it was ten to five. Quickly they got up and got ready to leave. The two made their way to the passageway in their Slytherin and Gryffindor robes.
"Ready?" asked Malfoy as Hermione nodded "ok now, let's go, don't make too much noise" he remarked as he started through the passage. After a long nine and a half minutes they came back to the door in Hogwarts.
"Have you ever been caught going through with Pansy?" Hermione queried.
"Not really, but there was this one time when…" Malfoy started when all of a sudden Harry, Ginny, Ron and Amanda Grint, Ron's girlfriend in her fifth year at Hogwarts, from Ravenclaw appeared around the corner in search for Hermione.
"There she is!" Ginny called.
"Bloody Mudblood, following me like a puppy!" Malfoy stated quickly to cover up their little outing but just as he left he gave Hermione a smile and winked to assure her that he was only covering things up so Hermione decided to play along.
"Stupid Malfoy, always thinking that I'm following him" she stated as Ginny caught up to Hermione.
"Are you ok?" Ginny asked, "You WERE kidnapped by Malfoy!"
"I'm fine" Hermione stated as she walked off with the group.
Once Malfoy had left he had found himself with a smile on his face when all of a sudden he felt someone grab his hand, spin him around and plant a huge kiss on his lips. Thinking that it was Hermione he went to run his fingers through her hair only to find that the girls' hair was a lot shorter than Hermione's he opened his eyes and found that it was Pansy. He pulled away ending the kiss and acted as if he had to leave urgently.
"I have to see Snape urgently" he stated to pansy. She looked at him curiously and shrugged then let him go. Quickly Malfoy ran to Snape's potions classroom to speak to him about what had happened. He found him at his desk writing what looked like an assessment for his next class.
"Severus" Malfoy started, the professor looked up and gave Malfoy the worst look.
"Don't call me that again Malfoy, next time it's Professor Snape," Professor Snape said grimly "now what is it?"
"Well professor, I wasn't in my classes all day yesterday and neither was a friend of mine."
"You were doing errands I suppose? And the 'friend' caught you so you had to explain?"
"Something like that" Malfoy stated looking at the assessment left on the table.
"And now I suppose you want me to cover up for you?"
"Yes if you could professor. Oh and my 'friend' too?"
"Fine" Professor Snape answered agitatedly "Now leave my office" he roared.
Malfoy left quickly and quietly to go back to his dorm. It was now six o'clock when he arrived at the Slytherin Portrait.
"Goose bubble" he said as the portrait began to open. He walked inside to find the place empty and everyone down eating in the great hall.
"Should I tell her?" Malfoy thought "what would she say? What would she do? She'd probably kill me... maybe I shouldn't tell her right now. I'll wait."
All of a sudden the portrait door opened and Pansy walked in.
"Are you ok?" she asked in a worried tone.
"I'm fine" he replied "Just too many errands"
"I hope you get better" she answered tenderly "but Dumbledore wants to see you ad Granger at seven thirty in his office so straight after dinner in the great hall. I don't know why he wants to see Granger too. Do you know why?"
"No, I don't" he said kindly "He wants to see me to punish me, but Snape is covering it up. He probably wants to see Hermione to award her for something, so that after he punishes me he'll be a lot happier." Malfoy chuckled at his imaginative cover up.
Pansy giggled unsurely at the thought and obtained Malfoy's hand and took him to the Great Hall. Hermione looked up to see Malfoy and Pansy walking into the Great Hall for dinner. Hermione gave Pansy the worst look and thought to herself,
"That should be me stupid Bitch!" Ginny looked at Hermione,
"Who is that look for Pansy or Malfoy?" Ginny asked.
Hermione finally realising that she had been caught quickly covered things up. "Both of the slimey snakes" she answered.
"Oooookkkkk" replied Ginny unsurely whilst going back to her food. As Malfoy walked in he saw Hermione's face and realised that Pansy was gripping onto him like she was a kitten and he was the ball of yarn. He quickly found a note in his pocket written for Pansy saying 'I need to talk to you after this' it was the same note he gave to Pansy when he told her about his 'errands'. As he and Pansy walked past he dropped the note next to Hermione's lap. She saw it, read it and quickly pocketed it.
After dinner Hermione saw Malfoy walking towards the door and instead of turning right towards his dorm he went left towards the library, without Pansy Crabbe or Goyle. Hermione took the hint and said goodnight to the boys and Ginny.
"Are you going to see Dumbledore now?" Ginny asked.
"Yeah better early, than late."
"But it's only quarter to seven!"
Hermione shrugged and left. Ginny turned to Harry.
"Something's going on…" Harry nodded and the two left for the dorm. Ron on the other hand went to the Ravenclaw table and escorted Amanda to her dorm.
"What's going on with Harry Ginny and Hermione? Not to mention Malfoy and Pansy or should I say Malfoy and Hermione?" Amanda asked Ron. Ron gave her a quizzical look which told her to continue "I saw Malfoy drop something next to Hermione when you guys weren't looking she picked it up, read it looked around and put it in her pocket."
"I have no idea" Ron answered very confused about his friends and his enemy getting that little too close to each other.
"I'll find out" Amanda assured Ron.
Hermione finally caught up with Malfoy who was walking quite quickly.
"Draco" she said
"Shh" he answered grabbing her wrist and pulling her into a dark corner as Snape and Dumbledore walked past. "We're not supposed to be here." He started "but I wanted to talk to you. I think well that ah… I'm falling for you?" he stated shyly.
"Really?" Hermione asked her eyes gleaming.
"Yea…" Malfoy replied and went to kiss Hermione.
Hermione pulled away "Pansy" she said.
"I'm going to break up with her tomorrow. You saw her clinging to me like she was a kitten and I was her ball of Yarn!"
"Yeah" Hermione giggled "exactly what I was thinking" Draco then pulled Hermione towards him and his dark corner and kissed her tenderly.
"Would you?" Malfoy started
"Go out with you?" Hermione finished
"Yeah" he smiled
"Of course" she answered "We have to split up to go to Dumbledore's office though."
"One of us should be there earlier. I'll do that then, I'll go in first." Malfoy offered.
"Ok" She agreed.
They both split up and left in different directions to Dumbledore's office. Malfoy was the first to arrive, just as they had planned. It was about seven pm when he got there. The moment he arrived, Dumbledore's office door opened revealing the old and witty headmaster with a glint in his eyes. Malfoy began to wonder.
"Had Snape already spoken to him or is the glint in his eyes telling me that he is about to punish me severely for taking the best witch ever known in Hogwarts with me."
"Please come in Draco" Dumbledore beamed with a smile.
"Why is he smiling at me that way?" Malfoy thought.
A few long moments passed when,
"I'm sorry headmaster I didn't mean to leave to do…" Malfoy started interrupting the silence when he was interrupted.
"Some errands for Professor Snape I believe?" Dumbledore finished.
"Yes, he asked me to…"
"Take Miss Granger with you, I suppose?"
"Yes… Has Professor Snape spoken with you?"
"Possibly, you may leave now Malfoy" Dumbledore replied with a nod.
Malfoy couldn't believe how quickly the meeting started and ended it seemed like five minutes but then again he took a while to engage the conversation. When he left he saw Hermione waiting patiently. As he walked towards her she looked up and Malfoy gave her a wink to relieve the confusion she replied with a nervous smile.
"Don't worry" he said walking towards the stairs.
As he left Dumbledore's office door shut magically leaving Hermione waiting for her turn whilst Draco made his way to the Gryffindor common room. Before arriving Draco found the spell to change his robes to look like that of the Gryffindors.
"Adfectio Vestitus" He said pointing his wand to his robes.
Quietly and quickly Malfoy made his way to the portrait of the fat lady only to find Neville Longbottom telling her the password.
"Orpheus" Neville said fairly loudly as the portrait opened revealing a fairly empty Gryffindor common room. Malfoy walked towards the Fat Lady in the portrait with his head down looking at the ground.
"Orpheus" Malfoy said trying to hide his uneasiness. As the fat lady opened illustrating the empty Gryffindor common room to him.
Hermione was still left outside of Dumbledore's office. She had been there for no less than an hour and she was starting to get impatient.
"What's taking so long!" Hermione exclaimed in her thoughts whilst holding back the urge of terrorizing the knight in shining armor standing near Dumbledore's office door, when finally as she was about to kick it, it moved away revealing the headmaster that she had been waiting for.
"Miss Hermione Granger, your no longer needed. Unless there is something you want to talk about?" Dumbledore asked calmly.
"That's it?" Hermione thought as she waved and smiled at the headmaster bidding him farewell. "I was left waiting there for an hour while he sat in his office!" she couldn't believe what the headmaster had just done to her. She quickly and quietly left the office down the stairs towards Gryffindor tower unaware of any more surprises.
Draco, on the other hand was already in the Gryffindor common room thanks to Neville. He had been there for quite some time but as soon as the common room became a bustle of noise Draco quietly and sneakily made his way to the girls' dormitory only to find Ginny knocking on a door.
"Hermione? Are you in there?" Ginny asked to the door. When she didn't receive a reply, she walked straight past Draco without taking the slightest notice of him, in pursuit of Harry downstairs in the common room. Draco walked to the door that Ginny had just spoken to and turned the handle. It was open, so he walked in blew all the candles out, shut the door and sat on Hermione's bed, waiting for her. He lifted his wand, pointed it towards his clothes and non-verbally muttered the counter spell to change his clothes back to look like that of a Slytherin.
Finally, Hermione arrived at the Gryffindor common room, to find Ron, Harry and Ginny sitting on Harry's lap. All three looked up seeing her.
"What happened?" Ron asked
"Why did he ask for you?" Harry queried
"I thought you had already come back," remarked Ginny
"Nothing happened, he didn't even speak to me all he said was ok you may leave and no Ginny I was left waiting for the old man for hours with god knows how many portraits, statues and amour suits staring at me. Now if you guys will excuse me I think I'm going to sleep. I'll see you in the morning!" Hermione dragged herself up the dormitory stairs wondering when she would get too passionately kiss Draco again. She opened her dorm room door and shut it.
"I told you we wouldn't get into trouble," Draco stated as she entered her room.
"You scared the living shit out of me!" replied Hermione
"I'm sorry," said Draco sympathetically whilst coming out from the shadows. She knew who it was but how did he get here?
"You're not supposed to be here," Hermione said in a worried tone as she looked around for a witness to catch them. "How'd you get into my room? How'd you get the password? How'd you get past the fat lady? How'd…"
A hand appeared in front of her and smothered her mouth
"Shh" He said, "no more questions I'm here now, to spend some time with you in my arms."
"Really?" Hermione answered through her smothered mouth by the set of hands.
"Yes Hermione" he answered removing his hands from her mouth and replacing it with a tender kiss.
"I was looking for you everywhere," Hermione stated affectionately.
"It doesn't matter now" Malfoy said, "I'm here with you."
They went to lie on her bed and under the covers. She lay on his chest with him stroking her long wavy brunette hair and smooth forehead gently until she fell asleep.
"She looks so peaceful when she sleeps" Draco said gently so as to not disturb the sleep of the Gryffindor's in their dorms. After a few hours of watching Hermione sleep, Draco went to go back to his dorm so he wouldn't be caught like he was caught the last time. Slowly but quietly Draco made his way to Slytherin's dormitory in darkness. He had escaped the clutches of Filch and Snape as he had memorised their routes around the castle at this hour, he quickly and quietly made his way to the Slytherin portrait at the dungeons.
"Goosebubble" he said as the portrait opened. Once inside Draco looked towards a leather chair only to find his little brother in it almost asleep.
"Why aren't you asleep Levan?" Draco asked waking his brother fully now.
"I… I was waiting for you I thought you had to go to Volde…" Levan started when he was interrupted,
"Yes to do some errands, I don't want the whole dorm to wake and hear us, so I think it's time for bed or I'll hex you and make your teeth grow uncontrollably!"
"I'll get Laura to fix that, you know she's good at fixing hexes that you put on me."
"BED LEVAN!" Draco said sternly and quietly.
"Not until you tell me where you've been, DRACO!" Levan mocked.
"I'll tell you tomorrow, but you can't tell anyone got it?"
"Except Laura?"
"Fine except Laura, tell her but neither she nor you can tell anyone else right!" Draco said harshly as he forced his brother to his dorm.
"Fine" Levan replied in his bed and falling asleep.
"Why does he have to be so much like me?" Draco questioned to himself.
A/N Hope you enjoyed this chapter… Chapter two will be up as soon as possible as I have to do my HSC soon… anyways PLEASE REVIEW it fills my inbox with Joy even if they are good or Bad reviews I don't mind I like to know that someone reads stories out there!
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