Chapter 4: Hiding Secrets.
Hermione woke up, finding herself back in the girls' dormitory, in her bed.
Everyone was beginning to stir, which meant it was morning.
She got up and got ready, as she did, she went over everything that happened last night.
Now that she was back to her normal self, she began to wonder, why the hell did she hug Draco Malfoy, since when had she cared?
Then she remembered the tears, she had never seen him cry such tears, in fact, she had never seen him show any type of emotion that lead to sadness, or happiness, he was just a lost boy who didn't know what he wanted.
Hermione shook her head out of the little thought, and headed out of the dorms, meeting up with Harry and Ron, going to breakfast.
"How are you Hermione?" Harry asked.
"Oh, I'm fine, and you?" Hermione asked them, hoping they wouldn't go into too many questions.
"Great, are you going to talk to us today?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I?" Hermione asked.
"Well, you were kinda zoned out yesterday, hopefully today is a new day." Ron said.
"Yes, today is a new day." Hermione said, and let her smile out as they went off to breakfast.
Sadly today, the three had to split up and go to seperate classes.
Harry had flying lessons, Ron had tranfiguration with Professor Lupin, and she had Professor Slughorn again, and as she suspected, Draco was there to.
He sat alone, as everyone else was in a group.
Hermione sighed, she couldn't try to be friends with him.
But then, that little picture of him actually showing sadness, came into her mind, she sighed again and moved over to an empty seat next to him.
She ignored the fact that she was sitting next to the person she had hated for almost seven years, and tried to focus on their lesson.
"Alright class, today I will be teaching you, how to make your very own, Liquid Luck." Professor Slughorn said.
Hermione heard all the silent 'Yes' and 'aww.'s
"Open up your book to page 55, and there is your recipe." Slughorn said.
Everyone began to get out their books.
Hermione pulled out her hand bag, that held almost anything in there, her heart sunk and panic filled her when she couldn't find her book, she thought back, she left it at the dorm room.
"Is there a problem miss Granger? Do you have your book?" Slughorn asked.
Hermione slowly shook her head.
"No worries my dear, there are some books over there on that shelf." Slughorn said, pointing at it.
"There's no need sir, she can look off mine."
Hermione was surprised to hear Draco offering the book.
She looked over at him.
"Thank you Mr. Malfoy." Slughorn said, and went off to tend to other students.
"Why are you doing this?" Hermione asked.
"Do I have to have a reason? You should just be glad that I was nice enough to lend this to you." Draco said.
"Sorry, um, thanks." Hermione said.
Draco opened the book to the right page, and they began to get to work.
"Listen, um, I want you to keep our little visit a secret." Draco said, as he was taking the ingredients out of Hermione's hand to put them in the pot.
"I have to agree. Harry will probably kill me if he finds out about the dark mark." Hermione said, keeping her voice down.
"I'm talking about our friendship, our starting friendship." Draco said, looking at her.
"Who ever said we were friends? All you're doing is helping me, then when it's over we're just going to go right back to hating eachother." Hermione said.
"Do you really want to start this again? Listen, this dark mark has changed me, not the bad way, but it's made me realize, that it was just my loneliness." Draco said.
Hermione was surprised, she was actually having a slight normal conversation with him.
"I just want to know, can we trust eachother?" Draco asked.
"Yes, as long as I can trust you, then you can trust me." Hermione said.
Draco nodded, and they went back to their project.
When the class ended, they had made it, perfectly well.
"Congragulations. Now, I will put this in two vials, and you may take them with you." Slughorn said.
Others weren't the best, and wouldn't be safe for testing.
"Nice job." Hermione said, considering Draco did most of the work.
"mmm, I learned it from a certain slytherin professor." Draco said.
"Snape." Hermione said aloud and Draco nodded.
Everyone left, and Slughorn handed Draco and Hermione their vials.
When Hermione grabbed hers, she all of a sudden felt light-headed.
The little glass slipped from her hands, and she almost collapsed to the ground.
She was caught in a pair of strong arms, though she wasn't sure who though, the room was blurry, and her head was hurting.
"Take her to the hospital wing." An elder's voice said, in an echoish voice.
She was lifted off the ground, and that was all she remembered before she blacked out.
...
Draco looked behind him to make sure that Slughorn wasn't following, when the coast was clear, he slipped into the abandoned bathroom that Myrtle lived in.
He set her down gently.
He knew what had caused her to act like this, he had experienced it as well when he was new to the whole thing.
He hated to do this, but he had to be sure.
Slowly, he moved her on her side, and lifted her shirt up where sure enough the dark mark was slowly slithering on her back.
He knew, Voldemort was testing her body, to make sure if he could control it.
"Draco, what are you doing?" A male voice asked.
A/N: DUN DUN DUN! Who do you think it is?
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