A Blissful Collision
Summary: Hermione Granger is late for potions class, and she's lost her essay. She's hurrying along the corridor, where she meets a certain blonde Slytherin… well when I say meets I mean runs into. Follow Hermione and Draco as they grow up and have to deal with problems that test their friendship... Maybe even love.
Disclaimer: I own the characters and everything about this story! Joke – I only own the plot, all the characters belong to the wonderful J.K Rowling :)
A/N: As you guys should all know, I recently took down all my stories and changed my name from ..Bethii to this one, MidnightEclipse2. I will be reposting the stories slowly one by one, starting with this one – A Blissful Collision. You mind find that some of the stories have plot changes, and some might be completely different. Not worked out exactly how this is going to work :P I hope you all like this story – I decided to change it from being a one-shot to a story. Pretty sure I know where I'm going with the story, might be a few changes here and now, but I'm quite happy with the plot I have come up with :D Please review at the end and let me know what you think? Thanks x
A Blissful Collision – Chapter 1
Hermione Granger was never late. So why was it; that she was standing in the middle of the Gryffindor common room, stressing about where on earth her potions essay had gone to, when she knew everyone else had left for lessons at least 10 minutes ago? She turned round, muttering to herself "Where the heck is that essay! I swear I left it on the table… unless..." She ran back over to the sofa and emptied her bag out completely for the fourth time. 'This is completely useless." She sighed loudly and sat heavily down onto the sofa. Putting her head in her hands, she groaned. "I'm never going to find this essay, it's completely disappeared. I can't believe it! Me, not being able to hand a piece of homework in. What is happening to the world?" After taking a deep breath, she continued to mutter to herself!, "I suppose I best just go and tell Snape the truth. No point trying to avoid the inevitable. Detention can't be that bad... I guess…"She sighed and stood up quickly whilst repacking her bag, hurriedly shoving everything inside. Then she walked hastily over to the portrait hole. She glanced round once more, this time a roll of parchment under a table, near to where she, Ron and Harry had sat last night caught her eye. "Got you!" She shouted and sprinted over. She picked up the parchment, her eyes gleaming with delight, only to find it wasn't her handwriting.
"Oh no! This is a disaster! My work's gone missing and I'm left with a half finished, badly spelt, plain rubbish essay to hand it Snape! He's going to go crazy" Tears started to fill her eyes as she dreaded the thought of detention with Snape. "Wait…" She looked back down at the work and realized that she recognised the handwriting. "This is..." She paused. "Ron's essay... which must mean that he has... my essay! That stupid, thieving, good for nothing redhead! I'm going to kill him!" She snatched up her bag angrily off of the chair, and stormed out of the portrait hole clutching the half-written essay. She noticed a flash of blonde hair out of the corner of her eyes going round a corner, and her heart skipped a beat. Her thoughts immediately went to a certain Slytherin.
Yes it was true, as hard as it may be to believe, Hermione Granger, the frizzy haired bookworm, had a crush on the Slytherin Prince, Draco Malfoy. Quickening her pace, she hurried around the corner, only to find herself walking into the back of Luna Lovegood, who was staring up at the ceiling. Her heart sank as quickly as it had risen.
"Oh, I'm so sorry Luna, I didn't see you there."
"Don't worry about it Hermione, I knew you were coming, the Wrackspurts told me so." She turned and grinned at Hermione.
"Oh, I see…" Hermione said, her voice trailing off, a confused look on her face.
"Aren't you meant to be in potions now? I'm pretty sure I saw Harry and Ron walking towards the dungeons about… 20 minutes ago?" She stared at Hermione.
"Umm… yeah, long story, I'll tell you later, I'm in a bit of a rush now." Hermione said as she rushed past. "I'll see you at lunch." she shouted behind her.
'Great, I'm even later then I thought I was,' she thought to herself as she ran down the corridor towards the dungeons.
With her hair flying in front of her face, she reached into her bag trying to find a mirror. Not noticing someone was in front of her, she crashed right into them.
Her bag went flying, and she fell onto the floor. She opened her eyes in a daze. Looking up from the floor, she found herself gazing into the grey orbs of none other then Draco Malfoy.
She inwardly groaned. Could today get any worse?
"You alright there Mu-Granger?" He drawled; a hint of a smile on his face.
Not even noticing the name change, Hermione scowled. "I was until you got in my way and sent me crashing to the floor. I mean, why didn't you say something, or at least move?!" She snapped back, standing to her feet and dusting herself down.
He took one step closer towards her. "Maybe you should watch where you going, instead of trying to make yourself look presentable." Taking another step forward towards her, he said, "Who is it for this time, Weaselbee, or Scarhead, or maybe even Longbottom."
Hermione was now level with a door frame; the darkness of the broom closet was licking at her back. "It's none of your business Malfoy." She said, glaring, moving backwards away from him as he kept moving closer. 'Oh god, why does he have to be so gorgeous, he has such beautiful eyes and I love it when he lets his hair hang freely.'
"Having a good stare are we Granger?" He winked at her, still moving closer.
"Yeah, I was thinking how someone could be so unattractive." She smirked, he scowled. Wondering why she couldn't feel the solidness of the wall behind her, she took her eyes off him for the first time since they collided. She looked round and realised she was standing in the middle of a tiny broom closest, with Draco Malfoy now leaning against a closed door.
"This better not be one of your stupid jokes Malfoy. What the hell are you doing?" Hermione said, beginning to panic slightly.
"This." He took a step towards her and leant down to capture her soft lips with his own.
"Wonder where Hermione is. I haven't seen her at all this morning." Harry whispered to Ron, whilst Snape was writing instructions on the board.
"I don't know, it's not like her to miss a lesson, even if it is with Snape. But, wherever she is, I hope she doesn't mind I took her essay." Ron said, laughing quietly under his breath.
"You shouldn't have done that. She's going to kill you when she gets here; you're going to be in big trouble mate."
"Yeah-"
"When Mr. Potter and Weasley have finished their little chat, we can start. Everyone get into partners.
"I'll go with you mat-?" Ron started to say to Harry, but Snape interrupted.
"I don't think so Weasley. You can work with Miss Parkinson" Ron groaned. "Potter, you go with Zabini, and when they arrive, Mr. Malfoy and Miss Granger can go together."
Harry rolled his eyes and begrudgingly moved himself to where Zabini was sitting.
"Draco, we're going to be in so much trouble." She breathed against his lips, her back touching the wall.
"I don't care. I've waited for this moment for a long time and I'm not letting you get away this easily." He grinned, pressing his body against hers and kissing her again, more passionately.
Ten minutes after being sorted into their pairs, everyone had settled down to work, everyone except Ron. He kept glancing towards the door at the back of the classroom and jumped when he thought he heard it move. He put his head in his hands on the desk and sighed quietly. "Oh, where could she be?" he muttered under his breath, not expecting anyone to hear, unfortunately his partner did.
"For god sake Weaselbee, everyone knows you fancy the Mudblood, but would you just stop whining for two seconds about where she is. I don't want to fail potions just because you're lusting after some frizzy-haired bucktooth." Parkinson spat loudly, so the rest of the class heard.
Ron's face went from white to red to beetroot faster than you could say Granger and his hands clenched on the table, his knuckles slowly turning white... "Shut up" he muttered angrily, while sinking down in his seat.
Hermione leaned back against the wall, looked at her watch and groaned. "Draco, we really should go to potions."
Draco carried on planting light kisses along her neck and jaw line. "And why would we want to do that. I'd much rather stay here with you."
"You know I'd much rather stay with you too, but you know what Snape's like. I don't want to get into trouble." She looked at Draco and pouted.
"Mmm, Well… I suppose we could go back." Draco said, making it sound like a real effort as he moved his body off of hers. "I need to get my bag anyway. Snape made me leave it, when he sent me to look for you."
Hermione moved away from the wall and ran her hand through her hair. "Why did Snape send you to look for me? How come he didn't send Harry or Ron?"
"He thought you were probably in the library, so he sent me to check." He said with a smirk. "He didn't want to send Potter or Weaselbee because he thought you'd probably go off on another adventure, like you usually end up doing when you three are together." He turned away from her, and pretended to be interested in the room they were in, with some little attempt to hide the sadness in his voice.
"Is someone a little jealous?" Hermione said, an evident hint of mockery snaked its way into her words, a smirk on her face.
"No. Of course not. Why would I be? There's no reason to be." he replied, a little too quickly and turned back to face her.
"Will this make you feel any better?" She said, walking towards him, leaned up and brushed her lips softly against his.
He put his arms around her waist, and pulled her body close to him. The longer the kiss lasted the more passionate it got and cautiously his tongue found its way into her mouth.
Hermione put her arms around his neck and ran her fingers through his silky blonde hair. After all these years of dreaming of kissing Draco Malfoy and running her finger through his hair, she was finally doing it and it was even better than she had imagined.
After a few minutes, they finally drew apart, both gasping for air.
Draco leaned his forehead against Hermione's and gazed into her eyes. "Stupid oxygen ruins the perfect moment" He said with a smile on his face, not a smirk, a true smile. He leaned in for another kiss but Hermione stopped him and he let out a moan of unfulfilled pleasure.
"We really better go back now Draco." She said sadly.
"Just one more please." he begged, pouting and giving her the old 'puppy dog eyes'.
"You'll have to catch me first." With that, she bolted to the door and ran from the room.
Ten minutes later, the two breathless teenagers reached the potions door, after many stops for… well I think you know why they stopped.
After one more passionate kiss, they opened the door and stepped into the classroom. Everyone turned round to see who it was.
"Hermione! Finally, where have you been? And why is your shirt untucked…and why are you with… him?" Ron asked, looking quite bewildered and shocked at the sight of Hermione with his worst enemy.
"Ah Mr. Malfoy, I see you found Miss. Granger." Snape said, turning around from the board.
"Yes Professor," Draco said, tucking his shirt back in and sorting his tie out. "Peeves was attacking her on the 3rd floor and stole her tie, and it took me quite a while to get him to go away." Hermione was standing behind him, desperately trying to flatten her hair, as well as trying not to laugh.
"Very well Draco." Snape drawled slowly. "Now if you would so kindly take you seats." Hermione started to make her way over to where Harry was sitting. "No Granger, you'll be working with Draco. Now hurry up, you only have 15 minutes left; the instructions are on the board."
"But sir, why do I have to work with her? Can't I work with Blaise or someone?" Draco groaned, though inside he was as happy as anything.
"No Malfoy, Zabini is working with Potter, now hurry up and stop complaining."
Draco turned round to face Hermione and gave her a cheeky smile, before turning round and heading to his seat.
Hermione sighed loudly, trying to hide the big grin which was begging to be shown, as she pretended to be disappointed at the partner assignments and Harry sent her a sympathetic look. She shrugged at him and walked slowly to the back of the classroom towards where Draco had already sat down.
"Come on Granger, I haven't got all day to wait for you to sort yourself out." Malfoy spat, glaring at her and if Hermione hadn't of known he really felt about her, she would have just thought 'typical prick-like Malfoy'.
She scowled at him half-heartedly and plonked herself down on the stool next to him, getting her stuff out of her bag. Malfoy had already set up the equipment, got the ingredients and the potion was already brewing by the time she'd done that. He leaned over to get something from her side of the desk and she heard him whisper "I'm sorry" ever so quietly. She smiled to show him that she'd heard and understood before catching Ron's eye as he was staring at her. He looked questioningly at her and she rolled her eyes before shrugging again and got back to writing some notes.
Whilst everyone was trying to work out how to make the potion without blowing themselves up, Snape stood up, cleared his throat and folded his arms. "I shall be expecting the homework to be handed to me at the end of the lesson. No excuses." He glared round at his students and sat back down behind his desk.
Hermione suddenly tensed up and Draco felt it against him. "What's wrong?" he whispered quietly so only she could hear.
"The homework. That's the reason I was late, Ron had stolen mine so now I've got nothing to hand in." Hermione's voice was beginning to break and she could feel tears forming.
"No, shh, it's going to be okay. Look, watch this." Draco picked up his wand quietly and muttered, "Accio Hermione's homework." Hermione watched closely as she saw her essay leave Ron's bag, slide across the floor and landed at her feet. Luckily no-one noticed as they were too busy panicking because time was almost up. She bent down quickly and picked it up, placing it on her desk and flattening it out. "Thank you," she whispered, smiling.
"Anything for you." He mumbled quietly as Snape snarled, "Times up!"
He began to take a slow stroll round the classroom, sneering down at everyone's potions. Neville had managed to cause an explosion in his cauldron; Goyle's was on fire whilst most others had gotten the completely wrong shade. As he went past desks, he took in people's essays, giving almost half the class detention. He stopped at Ron and Pansy's desk. Pansy leaned over and handed Snape a neatly written essay, whilst grinning at him, obviously trying to impress him. He nodded slightly before looking at Ron.
"Homework, Weasley, or will this be another week of detention?"
"I've done it sir." Ron bent down and picked his bag up and started searching through it.
Snape started to tap his foot impatiently, scowling. "Why don't I just give you detention to make things easier, instead of you pretending that you've actually done it? And how about 10 points from Gryffindor for lying to a teacher. " He walked away towards the back table, smirking, with Ron still muttering that he had done it and that this wasn't fair.
When he reached Hermione and Draco's desk, he looked surprised when he saw their potion bubbling away in the cauldron. Their potion was perfectly finished, exactly how it was meant to be done, in about half the time. He scowled at them both and held his hand out for their homework. Ron turned round to see if Hermione got given detention and opened his mouth in disbelief when he saw her hand in an essay which looked exactly like the one he had stolen from her. She caught his eye and scowled, before packing her things away.
Snape walked back to the front of the class and said "Class dismissed. Detention will be tomorrow after dinner down here for those who have it."
The classroom was filled with the sounds of stools scraping against the stone floor and people hurrying out of the dungeon classroom. Hermione was packing her books away when she felt something being slid into her pocket. When she looked up to see who had done that, she saw a flash of blonde before it disappeared out into the corridor. With a small smile on her lips, she packed the rest of her books away and met Harry and Ron outside the door.
"I swear Snape gets worse every lesson we have with him." Ron started to grumble, just as he did after every potions lesson.
Hermione turned round to face him, "Maybe you should start doing your own homework, instead of nicking someone else's." She scowled at him and turned to Harry. "I'll see you at lunch." With that, she stomped off down the corridor.
"She is right mate; you do need to start doing your own work." Harry said understandingly, patting Ron on the shoulder.
"Yeah, I know I do." He grumbled, "come on, we better get to divination." He started to walk down the corridor, Harry trailing after him.
Hermione walked out of the girl's bathroom, where she'd been having a stress about how big a jerk Ron was. She knew he liked her, I mean it was pretty damn obvious, but he certainly wasn't going about the right way of getting her. She was walking down the corridor towards Arithmancy, before remembering that Draco had slipped something into her pocket in potions. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a short slip of parchment. Written in neat handwriting was; "Meet me up the Astronomy tower after dinner. We need to talk. D x" She smiled and slipped it back into her pocket. She turned the corner and for the second time that day, walked straight into Draco Malfoy.
"Can't get enough of me today, can you Granger?" He smirked then looked carefully at her. "Are you okay? Your eyes are red, what's happened?" His voice had softened and his eyes showed concern.
"Nothing, I'm fine. Just Ron being an idiot." She sniffed quietly, wiping her eyes on her sleeve.
"Well, we all know Weasels a fool." He wrapped his arms around Hermione and pulled her close against him.
"I mean, I know he likes me and everything." Draco stiffened and scowled at this, "but if he wanted me, he's certainly not showing it very well, especially by stealing my homework." "
Well, I'm sorry, but he's not allowed you. You're mine and no-one else's now. Anyway, I need to get to class, so I'll see you at the Astronomy tower after dinner?" He kissed her lightly on the lips, leaving her wanting more and started to walk away.
"Yeah, I'll be there." Hermione shouted after him, licking her lips slightly, before walking quickly down the corridor to class.
Hermione wondered into the Great Hall for dinner and her eyes immediately caught the grey ones of a certain Slytherin. She smiled, gaining a small smile in return, before she headed over to the Gryffindor table where Harry and Ron were already stuffing their faces.
She sat down; rolling her eyes at the amount of food they could fit onto the normal sized plates. Ron had enough to feed about three starving men and Harry wasn't far off. Harry looked up and smiled at her, she grinned back. Hermione had placed some chicken; vegetables ad made herself a drink before Ron had acknowledged her presence.
"Oh hi Hermione, decided to show your face?" He looked up and said through a mouthful of food. Harry elbowed him hard in the ribs and he winced.
"What's that meant to mean Ron?" Hermione raised her eyebrow and started to eat a mouthful of chicken.
"Well, you said you were going to see me and Harry here at lunch, but you never turned up. We even went to check in the library and down in the grounds, but we couldn't find you." He finished, swallowing his food.
"Well, unlike some people, mainly you, I actually care about getting good grades and doing my own work. I don't steal other peoples trying to get their good grade. I was in my room studying, if you must know."
Ron stared at her blankly, not knowing what to say. Harry decided to break the awkward silence, "It doesn't matter that you didn't meet us Hermione, we knew you'd be studying or something, and that's fine with us," he grinned. "Isn't it Ron?" He received a grunt in reply.
"I'm glad you understand Harry, but it seems as though others don't." She glared at Ron and he looked down in embarrassment. "I'll see you later; I'm going back to study." She stood up, grabbed her bag, waved to Harry and strode out of the Great Hall. Draco noticed her leave in a hurry and part of him wanted to rush after her, but that would have just looked suspicious, so he decided to leave it and wait.
Hermione made it up to the Astronomy tower after a slow walk, not taking any of the shortcuts. She knew Draco wouldn't be there yet, as he was still in the hall when she left. She let her bag slip off her shoulder and onto the floor then made her way over to the balcony. She climbed up onto the ledge, letting her legs dangle freely downwards and stared out across at the darkening sky, admiring how stunning it looked, with the sun just setting on the horizon.
"It's almost as beautiful as you." A soft voice whispered into her ear and she jumped slightly, but it wasn't noticeable. An unmistakable blush flooded her cheeks and she tilted her head forward slightly, letting her soft curls fall in front of her face. She felt Draco's arms wrap securely around her waist making sure the she couldn't fall. She leaned back against him and he rested his chin on her shoulder.
"It really is pretty," she muttered, smiling.
"Not as pretty as you though," Draco laughed quietly and kissed her cheek. They stayed there in that position for quite a while, watching the sun disappear slowly and they were soon engulfed by darkness and coldness started to settle in. Draco felt Hermione shiver against him. He slowly removed his arms from around her and took his jacket off, placing it around her shoulders. She slid round so that she was facing him, smiled and pulled the jacket tight around her.
"Is that better?" He asked, looking down at her.
"A little bit yeah, thank you." She smiled up at him.
Draco climbed up onto the ledge next to Hermione and leaned back against one of the pillars. "Come here," he said quietly, holding his arms out to her.
She moved carefully and leaned back against him whilst he wrapped his arms tight around her keeping them both warm. Hermione's eyes closed as she became comfortable. "I haven't been this relaxed in a long time." She sighed quietly. Draco leaned his head back against the pillar.
"I know how you feel. I love coming up here. I've done it a lot over the last few years… just to think about you."
Hermione could feel her cheeks flush red and she opened her eyes. "Draco… can I ask you something?"
"Ask away."
"How long have you actually liked me for?"
Draco thought for a moment, wondering whether to tell her the truth or whether to lie. "A long time?" He smirked, kissing her neck softly.
Hermione giggled. "Come on, you can tell me. It can't have been that long – I haven't noticed any signs.
"Well… if you must know, I thought you were cute in 1st year, but didn't feel anything else. Once I found out that you were Muggleborn, I tried my best to forget you, as my father always said Muggleborns were 'rubbish', but I couldn't. You were always there around the school, always in my mind. I thought it was a childish crush and decided to try really hard to forget you, avoiding you at all costs, being nasty to you over the years, calling you names, but nothing seemed to work. When I saw you at the Yule Ball, my heart skipped a beat. You looked so beautiful, I was so jealous that Krum had you. I spent most of the night, wishing that it was you I was dancing with. You've gone from cute to being one of the most beautiful girls I have ever seen. It was last year that I realised that…" He stopped, too embarrassed to continue, a flush of red in his pale cheeks.
Hermione had a huge grin on her face and her cheeks had a pink tinge to them, from blushing at the compliments. She turned to face him and leaned close. "That you realised what?" She asked in a whisper.
"That I am in love with you Hermione Granger."
Please Review :] Hope you liked the new updated story I'm quite proud of it too be honest. Hope it won't take me as long to update because it's the Christmas holidays sooon, and I'll be on crutches for them, perfect time to write more chapters :D Thanks guys xxxxx
