Thank you to all the people who've read this and favorited it :) I'm glad that you like it. So I present to you, Chapter two!

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Chapter 2

"Hermione? Hermione wake up!" I heard a voice from over my head; I opened my eyes and saw Ginny's worried face above me. I also saw Professor McGonagall over me as well. She must have apparated from the platform to where I was.

"What happened?" I asked them? They looked at each other nervously and back at me.

"You fainted 'Mione. Don't you remember?" Ginny told me. I fainted? When? I tried to recall from my memory, but I just didn't remember. And then it hit me, Professor McGonagall had announced who my husband was to be.

Draco Malfoy.

"Ms. Granger are you all right?" Professor McGonagall asked me. I could see that she really was worried about me. Everything made sense now! Professor McGonagall was right, we weren't compatible. But how had their system come up with the conclusion that we could love each other? I didn't know, but I didn't want to cause a major scene. Then again, I guess I had already caused one, what with my fainting.

"Yeah, I'm ok." I replied. I could tell that they still didn't believe me, so I tried to right myself. As soon as I tried to move, I felt my head start to feel dizzy of all a sudden, and I slumped back down.

"She must've hit her head pretty hard Professor McGonagall." Ginny said.

"I'm still here you know Ginny." I reminded here. She looked down and blushed, embarrassed that I had to remind her, and I was the victim!

"Sorry Hermione." she apologized to me. If I wasn't in such a serious situation, I would've laughed. I loved Ginny like that, but I could see that she thought I had really offended her.

"It's alright Ginny." I assured her. She sighed with relief when she found out I wasn't mad.

"Just help me up." I asked. She nodded as she helped to pull me up off the cold, marble floor. I looked around and saw that the entire crowd was looking at me. I felt myself blush. This was really embarrassing.

"Ms. Granger, could you please walk towards the guards. I'll send Mr. Malfoy over in a few minutes." I nodded. I started to walk over to where the guards were. I could feel the crowd's stares bore into my back, but I kept my back straight and my chin high as I exited the main floor of the ministry. As I reached the guards, the opened the doors for me and ushered me out, out of the corner of my eye, I saw one of the guards give me an encouraging nod. I gave him a nod that showed my thanks. As soon as I was out of the main room, I walked towards the wall and completely broke down. I fell to the floor and the sobs came. I felt the tears roll down my face in a rush, a constant stream. I felt my legs buckle underneath me as I sank to the floor. I heard my own sobs echo throughout the corridor. I couldn't even think about anything, I just sat there and cried and cried. As I was crying, I heard the door open. I looked up and wanted to die.

Draco Malfoy

It was bad enough that he and I had to live with each other, but I didn't want him to see me weak. Ever since we were kids, I had sworn to myself that I would never, ever, let Draco Malfoy see me cry. It would just be another thing for him to add to his list for reasons to hate me. The look on his face was so horrible, it made me want to flinch. His face was a mix of hatred, disgust, revulsion and another emotion that I had no name for.

"Get up." he said to me. It felt like he had slapped me, only much more painful. I slowly lifted myself off the floor, dusted myself off and dried my eyes. I looked up and saw Draco standing there, looking at me, like I was retarded. He nodded at me then we started to walk down the corridor. None of us made a sound as we walked. I was thinking about what would happen next. We would have to get married of course, then what? Where would we live? What would happen next? Would we live together? That was stupid, of course we would. We would be married. Ugh, what a horrible thought, I Hermione Granger would have to marry Draco Malfoy. I was so deep in my thoughts that I had no idea that Draco had stopped walking, that I bumped straight into him.

"Jesus Granger!" he exclaimed as he righted himself. I looked down and saw him pull his arms back from around my waist. What were they doing there? They must have gotten mixed up when I bumped into him.

"Will you watch where you're going?" he scolded me. I kept my head down, too embarrassed to look at him. If he didn't think I was stupid before, I'm sure he thought I was now.

"You nearly knocked me over!" he continued. I looked back up at him, his eyes full of revulsion.

"Sorry" I mumbled. He snorted and turned back to face the wall, only it wasn't just a wall. I turned to face his direction and saw why he had stopped. There was a door with a sign that said "Department for Newlyweds under Operation Rebirth" and just under that, it said "Surnames from H-M". We both stared at the door. This was it, this was the place where we found out what was going to happen next.

"Well come on then!" an irritated voice said, jolting me out of my thoughts. It was Draco again. He opened the door and walked in. I took a deep breath and followed him inside.


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