Draco groaned loudly while rubbing his head, slowly he opened his eyes to find himself in a foreign room. Leaning up slightly on his elbows he saw the walls were covered in wallpaper that suggested it had once belonged to a wealthy owner but was now poorly taken care of. Across the room there was another bed that looked like it hadn't been slept in but the room did appear to have girl's clothes strewn about. Now he was even more confused. A shooting pain ran up his leg as he tried to get up, he yelled out in surprise.

"Are you okay?"

Draco looked up to find Hermione Granger coming towards the bed, "fine"

"Here, lay down" she put her hand on his shoulder lightly and used the other to carefully push his leg back to the safety of the bed. Draco was a bit put off by the casual touches. "You got a pretty nasty cut on your leg" She sat down on a chair next to the bed.

"What's going on" He rubbed his head again, the last thing he remembered was being in the midst of the battle

"We're at grimmauld place. Snape brought you here last night"

"Potter's place?" Hermione nodded in response "Great. So where's my god father now"

"No idea. He left after he put you down on my bed"

Draco shifted slightly, "this is your bed?"

Hermione bit on her lip lightly, "yes"

"I don't want to be a burden"

"After what you did..."

Her voice was soft, it forced Draco to look up and meet her honey eyes "don't mention it" he gave her a slight smile

Hermione leaned her head against the wall behind her, "sorry I'm still quite tired"

"You should rest too"

She was a little put off at the sincerity of his words, "would you mind if I took a quick nap in Ginny's Bed? If I try sleeping on the couch someone is bound to wake me"

"As long as you don't snore"

Hermione laughed lightly, "I'll try not to"

Draco watched as she pulled herself out of the chair and walked to the other side of the room only to fall on the bed heavily and close her eyes. It didn't take long for Draco to see she had fallen asleep. Her mouth was open slightly as she breathed evenly causing her chest to rise and fall. From this angle she looked rather cute. Draco furrowed his brows at this thought but it was true. Even though she did look exhausted she still had a golden glow about her. The mass of curls fell over her shoulders and spilled onto her chest. A dainty hand rested against her stomach as the other served as a pillow for her face. Her face. All those years he had thought she was indecent, now he realized she was closer to a goddess. He forced himself to look away before thoughts of her plump lips drove him insane.

Hermione did not arise from her slumber until the next morning. She slowly let her eyes adjust to the light that was pouring into the room. Her eyes immediately fell on the empty bed across the room, she panicked and jumped out of the bed.

"Malfoy?!"

The bathroom door opened, Draco popped his head out "what?"

Her heart was still pounding in her chest "what are you doing out of bed?"

"Showering..." he opened the door more to show that he had a towel wrapped around his waist "...Obviously"

Hermione's eyes quickly ran over his body and felt a blush rush to her cheeks "sorry" she turned around quickly

"No need to be embarrassed I am covered up" he was obviously amused

"You don't have a shirt on" she explained

"I didn't know you were that prude Granger" he laughed now

Hermione whipped around, walked quickly towards him and slapped his bare chest "I'm not prude"

Draco looked mortified as he rubbed his chest that now had a red hand mark on it "I was kidding jeez"

"Put some clothes on and get in bed" she looked down his body "I'll probably have to change your bandages now"

Draco felt his body tingle in anticipation of the contact, "you should shower, and I'll change"

Hermione nodded and went into the bathroom. Draco quickly went to his bed where a fresh pair of pajamas awaited him. His leg was aching now from all the movement, obviously Hermione was right about the resting thing. But he wasn't going to tell her that. When she came out of the shower, Hermione ignored Draco and went straight to her dresser and pulled out some clothes then quickly went back into the bathroom. He barely got to admire her bare legs peeking out from under the towel that covered her body.

"Okay take your pants off"

"Excuse me?" Draco was caught off guard

"I have to change your bandages" she held out the medical supplies in her hand

He started to reach for the bottom of the pants "can't I just roll up my pajamas?"

Hermione shook her head, "not when the wound is on your thigh. Don't tell me you're getting shy now" Draco narrowed his eyes and pulled off his pants. "Thank you" she looked down and tried to hold back a blush "Did you take off your old ones?"

"Well you did say you were going to change them" he shrugged

"You're not a very good patient Malfoy" Hermione began to clean up the wound that was irritated from his activity. She looked up as she bandaged him and saw his eyes closed. "Are you okay?"

"Mhm" he opened them and met her gaze while giving a lazy smile "I like your touches"

"Oh" Hermione looked down not sure how else to respond

Draco realized what he had said and quickly changed the subject, "I'm starving"

"What would you like?" Hermione started to head towards the door. Draco got the feeling she couldn't wait to leave.

Draco was pulling his pants back on "I don't really care as long as it's warm"

The stairs squeaked angrily as Hermione ran down them without care. From the living room Ginny and Harry watched as she quickly made her way to the kitchen. Ginny looked from the hall to her boyfriend for some type of explanation. Harry could only shrug.

"I'm going to go see if she's alright" Ginny managed to pull herself away from Harry although he grumbled with annoyance. Her steps were quick but light, peering around the doorway she found Hermione bracing herself against the counter. "You okay?" she continued on into the room as she spoke

Hermione looked at her friend and smiled, "yea I just had to see Malfoy with his pants off again"

Ginny giggled, "Moving along that quick huh?"

Hermione's eyes widened slightly "what's that supposed to mean"

"Just saying, he's not that hard to look at and he did save you" Ginny hopped onto the counter and watched as Hermione pulled flour from the cabinets to make pancakes.

She eyed her friend "that doesn't change the fact that we hate each other"

Ginny tapped her cheek in mock thought "and yet here you are cooking for him all because he took a curse for you"

"He hasn't been all that unpleasant" Hermione stirred her batter slowly, Ginny raised a brow in response "don't give me that Gin and don't say anything to Harry he doesn't even want Malfoy here"

"Of course not" she hopped off the counter and walked down the hall with a smile on her face

Draco eyed the pile of pancakes in front of him; he hadn't expected her to go that far. "Honestly Granger I was expecting a bagel"

She looked over at him from where she sat on the bed "Would you rather have that?"

"No, I just meant..." he shrugged "thanks"

Hermione smiled softly, "you're welcome"

He had that tingly feeling in his body again when she smiled, he mentally slapped himself for letting her get to him so much. His gaze fell back to the pancakes as he began to eat it greedily. Hermione began to stand up, Draco stopped eating for a moment "where are you off to?"

She looked a bit startled "I was going to go downstairs"

"Oh" he put his fork down "I thought you might keep me company today"

"I didn't think you would want me to" Hermione sat back down

"You are making me stay in bed, the least you could do is play a game of cards with me" he smiled boyishly

Hermione laughed lightly, "I'll go find a deck, and you finish up"

By the time Hermione returned Draco was leaning back in her bed with his eyes closed. She took a moment to admire his fine aristocratic features, the platinum locks that fell around his face softened them.

"Was the breakfast good?"

He opened a single eye, "Great, I didn't know you cooked"

She shrugged, "pancakes are easy"

"Well it was good either way" Draco straightened up as she sat on the end of the bed. "Did you get the cards?"

"Yea" she started to shuffle the cards in her hand. They played in silence for a few minutes, till Hermione couldn't bear the silence anymore. "You never really had friends at school did you?" Hermione picked up another card and looked at her deck thoughtfully

Draco picked up another card as well "I had plenty of friends"

"People that worshipped you like crabbe and goyle did don't count as friends Malfoy"

Draco laughed lightly, "Well by those qualifications then I supposed I didn't have any real friends" Draco looked up at her now "Mostly people just liked that I had a lot of money"

Feeling his eyes on her she looked up as well "I'm sure you have plenty of good qualities though"

"Like my dashing good looks?" he smirked

Hermione rolled her eyes, "I meant your personality, I've been spending time with you and I'm not completely miserable. And it's not because of money or looks"

Draco raised a single brow "are you sure it's not my good looks?"

"Quite sure" Hermione looked back down at her deck and grinned. Draco was smiling too. He couldn't remember the last time he had smile so much. What was he going to do when he got better and Hermione ditched him? He had to push the thought out of his head. "Are you okay? You look sad"

Draco shook his head as if to physically clear his mind, "I'm fine" By the look in her eye he could tell that she didn't believe him. Without thinking he reached out and ran his knuckles over her cheek to offer some comfort. It mainly aroused a blush to that pretty face of hers, Draco chuckled.

"Don't make fun of me" the skin on her cheeks turned darker before she could cover them up with her hands so he couldn't tell

Draco's voice was barely above a whisper "I wasn't laughing at you, its endearing to know a simple touch can cause such an effect over you"

Hermione let her hands fall away from her face but her eyes couldn't leave his, she was captivated by his grey eyes that she wanted to believe were glowing for her. Draco too was caught up in the moment, he slowly leaned forward and began to feel his heart beating heavily in his chest. Not only was Hermione not pulling away but she was actually leaning in, anticipating a kiss.

There was a loud knock on the door, they both nearly jumped out of their skins.

Draco was at least pleased to see Hermione looked disappointed by the interruption.

"Hermione?" Ginny entered "can I bother you to help me make lunch"

She stood from the bed and smoothed out her jeans "sure" Her eyes moved back to Draco "I'll bring some up to you when it's done" and with that she was out the door, leaving Draco to his thoughts once more.

Ever since the start of the war he hadn't known what the future held for him, even now he didn't know what the next day had in store for him. Not even the next few moments. Draco didn't know what was going to happen in the rest of his life. All he knew was that he wanted Hermione to be part of it.