A/N: This chapter's a bit longer than the others....I'm not very sure about it yet... :S If anyone's wondering, I got the dates from a website: .com

Disclaimer: Again I don't own anything except Jack and the plot....the characters still all belong to the amazing J.K. Rowling. The song lyrics are by Colbie Caillat (again!) and the song is "Fallin' For You"

Draco lay beside Hermione for a while longer then got off the bed and made his way back to the living room. He suddenly realised that he had no clothes for the next day so he took off his shirt and jeans and lay down on Hermione's sofa with a blanket over him. He lay quietly for about an hour, suddenly wide-awake. He began to hum the tune that he had composed earlier for Hermione and began to build on it. Just as he was beginning to fall asleep, he heard a scream. "DRACO!!!!" he heard Hermione sob. He ran to her bedroom and found her ashen faced, tears streaming down her face. He dashed to the bed and pulled her into his arms. "Shhh, it's ok, it was just a dream...." Hermione clung to Draco as though he was a lifeline. Draco sang under his breath to her until she was asleep. When she finally fell asleep, her head was on his chest, her arms tightly locked. Draco moved slightly and she gripped him more tightly. Draco looked down at Hermione's sleeping form, sighed slightly and went to sleep.

The next morning, Hermione woke up really early. She could feel something warm and heavy draped across her back. She slowly opened her eyes and saw a bare chest. Her eyes wandered up and found the face of a sleeping Draco Malfoy. She smiled and snuggled in under the blankets. She peeked out at Draco and watched him sleep. When he began to show signs of beginning to wake up, she hurriedly pretended she was still asleep. She could feel his eyes on her and pretended to wake up. She smiled up at Draco and after a moment he returned it with a dazzling one of his own. "Hermione?" he asked. "Do you mind if I used your shower? It's just I want a quick freshen up..."

"That's fine, Dray. I'll go and get you a towel..." She hopped out if bed and made her way to the bathroom. She quickly made sure that were fresh towels out. She wandered back to her bedroom, where Draco was standing with his clothes. He beamed at her and went into the bathroom. He got into the shower and let the hot water relieve the tension in his muscles. His head was spinning. He went to France for the Ministry when he left school because he wasn't sure about his feelings towards Hermione and he come back to find her like this. He remembered the way his stomach had jumped when she had clung to him the night before and the way that he couldn't help but smile back at her when he had woken up. Draco decided that he needed to see Harry and Ron and ask them to fill him in on what exactly had happened. He stepped out of the shower having decided that was what he was going to do. He got dressed and decided to let his hair dry without using magic as he wasn't in any rush. He could smell coffee, bacon, eggs and toast when he stepped out of the shower. He walked through to the kitchen and Hermione offered him a huge plate filled with breakfast. He smiled appreciatively and asked "Did you sleep alright? Do you want to tell me what your nightmare was about?" To Draco's surprise, Hermione blushed slightly. "It was nothing, honestly, just a bad dream....I'm fine now. Draco, can I just say thank you?"

"What for?"

"Last night. I don't think I would have got home if you hadn't found me...."

"Hermione," Draco said cutting her off, "It was nothing! I have to go now but if you want anything just ask..."

"If it's not too rude.....umm.....would you come round again tonight? Just to make sure that I get home ok, you know? I could make dinner for you as well, if you want...."

Draco looked at her. His heart had quickened slightly. "Of course I will," he said beaming at her. "I'll be here for about 7? That ok?"

Hermione nodded and Draco gave her a hug. "Thanks for breakfast! I'll see you tonight..." He walked out into the street and apparated to 12 Grimmauld Place. There he found, as he had predicted, Harry and Ginny (now married) and Ron. To his surprise he also found Pansy Parkinson seated beside Ron, holding hands with him. He greeted his old friends warmly and asked if he could talk to Harry alone. Everyone gave them quizzical looks but all left. Harry smiled at Draco and then saw the worried look on his face. "What is it? What's happened?"

"Well, nothing really.....yet....It's Hermione. I'm worried about her."

"Why? What's wrong?"

"Yesterday I found her in The Leaky Cauldron. I watched swallow 4 Fire Whiskey's one after another and then for no apparent reason. I brought her back to her place and got her calmed down – not before she cried into my shoulder for about an hour though – and she told me that she was engaged to this bloke Jack? And she found out yesterday that he cheated on her and he apparently got married two weeks ago to some model...I was just wondering if you knew anything about this?" From the look on Harry's face, it was pretty obvious that Harry didn't know.

"I knew that she was engaged, yeah, and I know that I didn't think that it was a very wise match, but what you've just told me, didn't have a clue...." Harry trailed off. They sat in silence for a minute then Harry said: "How's she coping with it?" Draco pulled a face. "I stayed at hers last night – she asked me to, and even though she had taken some sleeping pills she woke up screaming....she won't tell me what the dream was about but I presume it had something to do with Jack..."

7pm, Hermione's house.

Hermione dashed round the house, checking that everything was alright. In the kitchen, the pasta that was cooking with the bolognaise sauce smelt great. She heard a light knocking on the front door and ran to answer it. Draco was standing there looking gorgeous – "Wait!" she thought to herself, "Why am I thinking that about Draco Malfoy of all people?? He's one of my best friends!" He smiled down at her and walked into the house. He sniffed and grinned. "Spaghetti Bolognaise! How did you know that it's one of my favourite dishes?!" Hermione smiled, glad that she had made him so happy. She dished up and they sat at the table and talked about everything and anything. Eventually they began to talk about Harry, Ginny and Ron.

"I take it that things didn't work out between you and Ron in the end then?" Draco said. "Seeing as he's seeing Pansy now."

Hermione nodded. "They are so good for one another!" Draco looked at her his eyebrows raised slightly over his blue grey eyes. Hermione noticing asked "What??"

"I just didn't think you and Pansy were that close..."

"We're a lot closer now..."

The talked for a while longer and then they decided to get some sleep. Draco was sleeping on the sofa again and Hermione came in to say goodnight on her way back to her bedroom. When she entered the room, Draco had his notebook out. All Hermione could see at the top of the page was a date – 1st November 1998 – their last year at Hogwarts. When Draco heard her, he quickly closed the notebook and gave her a hug. Hermione closed the door on her way out and when she reached her bedroom, she dashed over to her old Hogwarts trunk. In it, she found the diary that she had kept over 1997-2000. She flicked through it until she found 1st September 1998. She read all the entries up until the 4th November. As far as she could see, nothing had happened that Draco would have kept a record of. Over the 1st few months of that school year, she had become very close to Draco and the 1st of November was the first time she had enjoyed a conversation alone with him. He hadn't insulted her once so it was quite a well marked page in the diary but Hermione couldn't think why Draco would have made a note of it...

At the same time, in the living room.

Draco sighed. He was looking over some of the best songs that he had ever written - the ones that meant the most to him. He had a habit of dating the top of the page and on the page that had been open when Hermione had come in was a very special song in Draco's opinion. He and Hermione had talked for a few hours and she had seemed genuinely happy to be spending time with him. He had gone to the Room of Requirement that night and written this song:

I don't know but I think I maybe
Fallin' for you
Dropping so quickly
Maybe I should
Keep this to myself
Wait until I
Know you better
And I'm trying
Not to tell you
But I want to
I'm scared of what you'll say
So I'm hiding what I'm feeling
But I'm tired of
Holding this inside my head
I've been spending all my time
Just thinking about you
I don't know where to
I think I'm fallin' for you
I've been waiting all my life
And now I found you
I don't know where to
I think I'm fallin' for you
I'm fallin' for you

Draco didn't know if he still felt the same way about Hermione.