Chapter 1

Hermione looked across the ballroom observing the people moving about in its grandeur. Her chocolate eyes swept over familiar faces as they talked, laughed, and danced enjoying themselves. Most not knowing the secret going ons right under their noses. The lies and affairs, the backstabbing and heart breaking, but she knew because she watched, that's what she did. She knew who was sleeping with whom, who was stealing, and who was plotting. This is the world she had grown up in and she was good at picking up on the signs of others behavior. There were women looking at their lovers while their husbands talked business, and business partners making plans to under mind the other. Hermione shook her head as she watched the people in her life. The only decent people she really knew where her four close friends who just happened to be unable to attend the gala her cousin had her throw. She didn't want to throw it but she did because he had asked her and her cousin had done many things for her in the past. Unable to stand the mindless chatter about her anymore she crossed the ballroom, her green silk dress brushing the floor as her heels clacked again the marble floor. She was heading towards the library. She slipped out of the ballroom and into the library unnoticed except for one pair of silver eyes.

Hermione closed the door behind her and walked into the dark silent library. She may have grown up privileged but that didn't mean that she liked her life. Yes she was grateful, but everything about her world made her sick. The people in it were shallow and selfish and that wasn't who she was. She walked around the edge of the library running her fingers over the volumes of books finding comfort in the worn edges. She stopped in front of a large window that let in the moonlight from eh night sky. She looked up at the full moon and let her mind wonder not noticing that someone was watching her from the shadows.

"Escaping the fun are we?" A voice asked. Hermione turned around quickly to see Draco Malfoy walking across the room towards her. A man she had never liked with his womanizing ways and his snide remarks. He had always acted as though he was better than every one else and that they should all bow to him, and Hermione GRanger never bowed to anyone.

"It get's tiresome, don't you think?" She said stepping away from the window and walking in his direction. Draco Malfoy was perfection, with his soft platinum hair and silver eyes and a body the Greek gods would be jealous of. Any woman would find him attractive. As it was though neither Hermione nor Draco had ever been able to stand each other. She thought he was an insufferable ass and he thought she was a stuck up know it all. Unfortunate for them as well it didn't stop the physically attraction they held for each other. Draco had always been intrigued by Hermione's deep chocolate pools for eyes, they always seemed like they could look straight into your soul, her body was perfect with curves in all the right places, and her lustrous brown hair that fell in soft curls down her back had always made him want to fist his hands in them. Of course his status as an elite member of society that had come from years of money and careful breeding wouldn't allow him to admit that he found someone who had come into money off the kindness of family members. "And what brings you away from the party this evening. I would think Pansy would be more then willing to keep your attention, or perhaps the Greengrass girl?" Hermione said picking up a ball from the pool table where she was now standing and examining it pretending to be disinterested in his presence. Hermione knew that he was playing both girls and a few others for that matter not caring if they became attached to him or not.

"Why would I seek them out when it seems the hostess of the party this evening is sneaking off to dark rooms? Seems much more interesting then listening htem talk about the latest fashions or fawning over me, wouldn't you agree?" He returned leaning against the table.

"Careful Malfoy or I may think you are stalking me." Hermione said tossing the ball back on the table. Draco smirked at her comment.

"One only stalks prey they wish to kill Granger." He replied coming closer to her.

"Then that must be what you mean to do with me then." Hermione said looking at him through her thick lashes.

"Not quite yet." He whispered into her ear running his hands down her arms. Hermione suppressed a shudder that ran down her spin. Draco had never been this close to her before. They really tried to avoid each other as much as possible and she was intrigued by his actions this evening.

"Then what do you plan on doing with me? Perhaps you have come to demean me some more?" Hermione asked deciding to play along sitting herself on the edge of the pool table and wrapping her legs around him as her arms snaked under his jacket and dress shirt. Draco placed his hands on her smooth legs and pressed her dress further up.

"Oh I have so many things I would like to do with you Granger. Things that would make you blush" He said brushing his lips against her neck causing her breathing to hitch.

"Then why don't you man up and do them? Or is it that Pansy has finally cut your balls off and put them in a jar?" she asked looking into his silver eyes. Draco stood back abruptly and looked at her for a moment with hate burning in his eyes for the woman before him. She always knew how to push his buttons and questioning his manhood was one of them. Draco grabbed her face and pressed his lips to her crushing them together. Hermione was shocked by his actions never did she think this man would be kissing her. He had always been into girls who were nothing but a pretty empty box or rocks. Hermione's arms dropped from his back and went around his neck playing with his hair. Draco had moved from her face and were now fisting in her soft curls and he pulled on them causing Hermione to gasp opening her mouth to him as his tongue plunged in caressing hers. Hermione welcomed the aggression and pushed her body into his feeling his manhood hard against her core making her body warm all over. Draco's hands moved from her hair and pushed down the thin straps that had been holding up her dress and pushed it down revealing her breast to him. He took them roughly in his hands and caressed them moving his mouth over her neck and down her chest taking a nipple in his mouth and sucking on it causing Hermione to moan as she leaned her head back. No man had ever made her feel the things he was making her feel this quickly. She knew she should be pushing him away, she knew what they were doing was wrong, but so long had she watched as those around her conducted affairs and she wanted a taste of the forbidden and Draco Malfoy was definitely forbidden fruit. Hermione pushed his jacket off his shoulder and worked to undo the buttons of his dress shirt revealing his toned muscular chest to her. She ran her hands down his cool skin working to his belt which she undid quickly along with his zipper plunging her hand into his pants and stroking his long cock. Draco stopped his assault on her breast and pushed her dress up as she pushed his boxers down, he ripped the thin material of her knickers before plunging into her and Hermione cried out from the intrusion. Draco cursed and stilled himself not realizing that she had been a virgin. He would have thought at twenty three years of age someone would have gotten into her panties but it didn't seem so. She was so tight around him that he knew if he moved to soon that he would lose it and embarrass himself. He looked into Hermione's eyes and saw the pain there and he cursed himself for getting himself into this situation but the prospect of getting her alone had been too great for him to resist, he was sure in the mornign he would blame it on the alcohol he had that night even though it was hardly an amount that would cause him to act like this but he could never admit that he had wanted to feel Hermione like this for along time now. He moved slightly and she moaned her eyes closing and he knew there was no going back from this. He pulled out further and thrust back into her loving the feeling of her around him. Never had a woman felt so amazing. He captured her mouth again as he began to move in and out of her at a slow pace enjoying each moment. Soon she too was moving her hips against him. He moved them further back onto the pool table so he was completely on top of her and wrapped her legs tighter around them. Hermione arched her hips up wanting more of him. She would admit that at first it was painful but soon turned to a pleasure she had never experienced before and she wanted more of it. They continued to move together there mouths fighting for dominance over the kisses as their hands roamed each others bodies. Hermione began to feel a tightening in her stomach and moaned louder urging Draco on. Hermione was soon digging her nails into Draco's shoulder blades drawing blood as she climaxed. Feeling Hermione's walls clench around him sent Draco over the edge and after a few more thrust he spent himself inside of her. Draco looked at Hermione and thought that she had never looked so beautiful then she did now in the after glows of sex light by the pale moon. Her chest rising and falling as she panted for air as he was doing. Draco rolled of her and lay next to her as they both tried to catch their breaths but Hermione wasted no time in getting up and righting herself quickly.

"This changes nothing. I still can't stand you." She said before she fled from the library leaving Draco in a state of wonderment. He cursed into the night air knowing he was royally screwed because he knew that one night with Hermione Granger was never going to satisfy him and that would not go over well with the plans others had for him.

Pansy Parkinson was not as dumb as everyone thought she was. She knew when to plot and she knew when to sit there and look pretty but seeing Hermione Granger come out of the Library out of sorts and seeing Draco Malfoy soon follow out afterwards the something had happened between the two of them and she didn't like that thought at all. She watched the both for the rest of the night and noticed how Draco's gaze kept going to the brunette and how the brunette made extra effort to avoid him the rest of the evening.

Hermione sat in her room that night after the party thinking back on the events that had conspired in the library. She had never felt so alive than she had in those few moments with Draco. How could someone she hates so much make her feel so wonderful? Sighing she stood up from the chair she was sitting in and began to wander the dark halls of the home where she was staying. She was walking past her cousin's office when she noticed a light coming from the room. She peeked in through the cracked door to see her cousin Blaise Zabini talking with an old classmate of his Theodore Nott. Hermione had always found Theodore Nott to be an attractive man and had always treated her with kindness when other's didn't. They were whispering to each other but Hermione couldn't make out what they were saying. She leaned closer to the door and the floor creaked causing Theo to turn towards the door. Hermione moved away and tried to make it look like she was simply passing by and hadn't noticed them. Theo opened the door and leaned against the frame crossing his arms over his chest and smirked at her. Her cousin was soon standing in the door way looking at her.

"Hermione what are you doing up so late?" He asked.

"Oh you know me. Always wondering about. Sorry if I disturbed you." Hermione said trying to keep things light.

"Oh it's no problem Theo here was just leaving." Blaise said. Theo looked at her cousin and nodded before turning to Hermione smiling at her and turning to leave.

"I hope everything is all right." Hermione said watching Theo go and turning her gaze back to her cousin before once Theo was out of sight.

"Of course everything is alright." Blaise said smiling at his cousin. Not many people believed that they were cousins since he was a pure bred Italian and was raised there when he was young until Hermione's parent's died and his family moved to England where she came to live with them. But his mother and her father had half siblings sharing different fathers.

"Well then I am going to head back to bed." Hermione said kissing her cousin on the cheek and heading back to her room.