Hermione was walking down the hall trying to hold back her tears. She picked up her pace and kept her She was on her way to tell Ron, Harry and Ginny about what was going on. She was at the breaking point.

As she went down the corridor she sharply turned the corner, and she nearly fell on top of Draco Malfoy. He grabbed he waist to stop her from falling. They looked in each other's eyes one deep everlasting moment. His cold, dark eyes twinkled with curiosity. Her eyes shone with a light so bright that he knew something was wrong. He might not have ever gotten along with her but he was worried out of his mind at that point.

She picked up her books and shoved them in her messenger bag. She tried pushing him aside, but in the process he got the opportunity to size her wrist and he took it. In her hast to get out of there she didn't realize it till he pulled her back towards him. She stopped dead in her tracks the moment she felt his finger interlace hers.

She spun on her heel to look him straight in the eye. "Yes?" she asked trying to keep her voice steady. He pulled her towards him even further and made her look him in the eye.

"What's wrong?" he said sternly to her. There was much more to his voice than there usually was, Hermione could hear it. It sounded like he cared but he was trying his hardest so she wouldn't know. But in Hermione's POV it wasn't really working.

Hermione was so busy thinking and trying to swallow the beating heart stuck in her thought that she had no idea why Draco pulled her in the room. She finally realized that he pulled her in to the Transfiguration class. Then the minuet after she realized that he had hidden them from the people coming down the hall.

" Where would he be?" Pansy screeched obviously upset. "I'm starting to worry."

"Oh! Just shut up, Pansy! Maybe you're why he's not out here." Blain complained. Then you could hear Pansy's footsteps lead right to the door. "Lets try the great hall then the library."

They walked off and the hall was once again silent. "Oh, thank God." Hermione breathed. She walked over to her desk and sat on top of it.

"HERMIONE WHATS WRONG." He had called her by her first name, not mud blood, not Grancher. She decided to give in to him and let him know.

"I'm freaking dieing and there's nothing anyone can do that what they're doing already. It's Merlin's Curse. Only cured by crushed Hungarian horntail scale. It's so hard to find there are more people over one thousand then already useable horntail scale." She was crying and chocking on her own breath at the last sentence. Draco looked as if he was about to join her but he was fighting the urge.

He came closer to her and put one hand on her neck and the other on her waist. He pulled her lips towards his and kissed her. Hermione held Draco's upper arms and refused to let go. He slowly passed her back on to the desk. He kissed her on the forehead and she turned pink.

Her heart was fighting her head on this one. And she was almost tempted to give in to her heart, instead of her head that she usually fallowed. With all her heart she wanted to be with Draco that moment in time. In her mind she kept thinking about what other people would say.

As they lied there in happiness, outside the clock struck nine. "I have to go, I've got thing to do , and thing to take care of." She got up and almost forgot she had one week to live.

He got up to say good-bye to her. He kissed he on the forehead one last time. They gave each other one last passionate goodbye kiss, which drove Draco Crazy.