CHAPTER 4: I thought I saw a kitty cat!
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She didn't know how fast she was running. She just knew that her entire world was spinning. Her vision was blurred by tears and the voices calling out to her was muffled by her thoughts.
Slut. He thought she was a slut.
Now she was single.
She just kissed and punched her eight year enemy.
Professors were watching her.
It was around half past twelve. Classes would end for the day soon.
In fact, she had only two classes left: potions and transfiguration, but to hell with that!
She was having a hard day, she deserved to slack off.
Finally, her feet carried her back to the head dormitory.
Slowly she walked into the dormitory kitchen. She then went over to the fridge and grabbed a carton of feta cheese.
After shoving almost twenty of the white creamy squares into her mouth, she decided, "what the heck! I'm not leaving any for him to enjoy!"
And so, she took the container, her fork, and an extra back-up container of cheese to her room.
After a nice long scream in her pillow, she cleaned her room, muttering the entire time.
"Just who does he think he think he is? He practically consumed lavenders entire face during sixth year and now I'm the slut? Oh I'll show him! Making a fool out of me!" she said, throwing her shoes into her trunk and zipping it.
"And Malfoy! What was he thinking? Kissing me like some kind of Pansy Parkinson! I think not! He is going to rue the day he put his stupid lips near me." She said slamming her drawers.
"So fine, if they want to play dirty, this mudblood is so going to win." She flicked her wand and all her books set up neatly on the bookshelf.
"They're going to be groveling by the time that I'm through with them. Morons. Stupid Ron. Stupid freckles. Stupid narrow mind set. Stupid Malfoy. Stupid smirk. Stupid Veela- holy shit! If he kissed me and wanted to kill Parkinson for trying to kill me…. That means that I'm- I'm his- oh damn, if he thinks I'm gonna fall into his muscular stupid arms then he is sorely mistaken." Hermione said.
With an evil grin, she waved her wand once more so that the bed made itself.
DMHG
"You saw the way she looked at him harry, it was like he had her wrapped around his stupid manicured finger!"
They were in the hospital wing, and Ron was getting ready to leave.
"Ron, I know you're upset but we are not talking about this right now."
"What?"
Harry sighed at his clueless friend.
"The way you behaved today… it wasn't right … you called her a slut Ron… that's not what you call someone who gave up everything to be with you…"
"Helga Hufflepuff- I did not call her a slut! I said she was acting like one!"
"Same difference. And besides, it's not her fault that you never listened in care of magical creatures; they explained that Veela give off an attraction scent. So Hermione was under his control."
Ron gaped at harry.
"I can't believe you're taking her side!"
"And I can't believe you're not. You were supposed to be there to get her through this bollocks but you left her on her own. Alone Ron. Facing a Veela also known as Malfoy. You abandoned her. I'm not going to do that Ron. I'm with Hermione on this one."
"I'm not leaving her alone! I intend on getting her back."
"What makes you think she'll take you back? You know what; I don't even want to know. Just be at the Quidditch pitch in an hour." Harry said, turning to leave.
Ron frowned at his friend who turned the corner.
"I'll get her back. Even if I have to force Amortentia down her throat." He said, heading to his dorm.
DMHG
"Well, you know what to do now." Blaise said.
"Yeah, I least they're not together," Theo reasoned.
Draco sighed. He was completely down.
Even if Hermione did not know it, she was killing him.
Too bad for him, he didn't know that his little angel already did know.
"She's such a great kisser…"
"And here I was, thinking that Draco Malfoy didn't have feelings!"
Draco, Blaise, Crabbe, Theo and Goyle were out by their tree on the lake.
"I have no Idea if she liked it, I mean, she punched me!"
DMHG
"OH MY GOD GINNY, I SO ENJOYED THE KISS!" Hermione exclaimed pulling her hair.
Well, isn't she a charmer?
Ginny squealed grabbing her best friend's hands,
"It was disgusting!"
"I thought you enjoyed it!"
"Yeah, I did, but it was like I wasn't really there, but I was, but it felt like electricity, but the weird thing was that I really wanted to pull away, but I wanted to stay! I have no idea, but Ginny, I have read up on Veela's, I don't want a clingy, overprotective guy with wings after me!"
"Then just tell him, personally, I think it's awesome that you have him tailing you!"
"Oh Salazar."
"Hermione, please, you know he can help. And he'll help you get over Ronald!"
"I may want to embarrass him, but not use him, and I won't talk about that git until I'm ready."
"Fine… are you coming?"
"Where?"
"Tomorrow, we have the day off, and since its Friday, and the forecast is sunny,"
"We're going to Hogsmead?"
Ginny scoffed.
"As if! No! The Gryffindor's are testing something."
"And that is?..."
"Checking if the giant squid really is scary…"
"You mean swimming in the lake?"
"Yup!"
"Oh heavens no! I'll be in a costume with people and Ron and –oh hell no! No way!"
"You're scared!"
"No, embarrassed!"
"Scared!"
"Conservative!"
"Chicken!"
"Reserved!"
"Puck, puck, puck puckaw!"
"Fine, I'll go to the lake right now in my undies to prove to you that I'm not scared!"
"Do it, I dare you."
"Fine, then you're doing it too!"
"Gladly!"
Ginny walked over to Hermione's trunk.
"Mione, are you using the green or yellow"
"Yellow gin,"
"Green it is!"
Ginny said, pulling out Hermione's bikini and bra, and then grabbing the yellow costume for herself.
Oh man, oh man, she really should've thought this through…
Sighing, Hermione stripped down, put the costume on.
Way too revealing for Hermione's liking, but it really looked gorgeous on her, plus she had the figure!...
Show off!
"Gin, I really think we-"
"Chicken!"
Pulling on the rest of her clothes, grabbing her wand and two towels, Ginny hauled a fully dressed Hermione out of the room.
Finally, they were out of the castle.
DMHG
"So have you guys heard about that thing tomorrow with the Gryffindor's?" Blaise asked, tearing up the leaves on the ground.
"What thing?"
"Well, I think it had something to do with skinny dipping in the lake, apparently to test their stupid courage,"
Draco bolted upright, "wait, does that mean that Granger is gonna be butt naked in front of those bastards that they call men?" he asked frantically.
Oh Draco, sweet dumb little Draco.
Just then they heard a noise.
"- if I want to be conservative, and not show my parts to the world then nothing's wrong with that!"
Blaise looked at Draco as they all his behind the tree.
"Is that… Granger?"
Draco nodded slowly, still listening.
"-oh come on Mione! You have the body that most girls die for, the one that I have to diet to get and you won't even flaunt it?"
Draco's eyes narrowed.
"I don't like this Weasley girl. She's a bad influence." He growled.
Hermione stopped.
"Gin did you hear that?"
"What?"
"I heard…something..."
"I knew you were scared!"
"Fine!"
Hermione strutted up to the lake bed and then turned back to Ginny.
"I am not scared of a squid." She said simply.
What she did next surprised all of the boys.
She pulled off her robes, and then unbuttoned her shirt.
Crabbe was gawking.
"Get your eyes off her or I'll gouge them out myself Vincent." Draco snarled with his eyes not leaving Hermione.
Crabbe grabbed his cloak, and stuffed his face onto it.
Draco turned to the rest of the boys who looked at him promptly when each realized that they were receiving a death glare.
"Oh right!" Theo exclaimed as they all blocked their eyes.
"Hey wait a minute! Why are you peeping?"
"Because that's my future wife!" Draco said in a matter of fact tone.
Blaise uncovered his eyes and raised a brow at Draco.
"Draco, sweet Draco, you're an idiot."
"I am not an idiot."
"Yes you are! Do you honestly think that Granger would appreciate you looking at her strip down; do you want her to be all angry and unhappy with you? Because I know what its like to have a hormonal witch trying to kill me, wasn't pretty mate…"
Draco sighed.
"Fine!" he exclaimed, covering his eyes, not wanting Hermione to be any angrier with him.
"- there! I'm jumping in!"
Draco hurriedly opened his eyes.
"What the hell! She can't be serious-"
No boy, she's serious…
Just then, Hermione fell backwards.
"HOLY SHIT!" Blaise exclaimed.
Hermione came back up, and shook her hair.
"There Ginny, no squids gonna attack me, I bet it's very tame, just misunderstood." Hermione said, threading.
"Alright Mione, I'm coming-"
Just then, one long tentacle wrapped around Hermione's torso and pulled her under.
"Ginny don't come in!" Hermione screamed before being pulled under.
Draco jumped up, and without his knowledge, he had wings, blades, fangs, and obsidian eyes.
"Hermione! Don't worry! I'm coming!" Ginny exclaimed, grabbing her wand and diving in.
Draco was now at the water's edge.
He could feel something wrong with Hermione.
Veela can sense when their mate is in distress, and right now, Hermione was petrified.
And Draco was frantic.
Who in your opinion was having a worse time?
Without thinking, Draco rolled up his sleeves and jumped into the water.
Minutes later, he came up hysterically.
He couldn't find her, and by now, she was probably drowning.
Refusing to believe that she was dead, he went back under.
Five minutes later, he resurfaced, shaking with anger, tears and misery.
DMHG
Ginny swam under, creating a bubble charm around her head.
She looked around for her friend.
"Hermione!" she screamed, tears running down her face.
She swam deeper. For the first time ever, she realized just how deep the lake was, it seemed bottomless.
"Hermione!" she screamed as her voice began to crack.
Just then, she saw something large move, and then she saw Hermione, looking blue from holding her breath.
Ginny gasped and cast an air bubble around Hermione who inhaled sharply.
"Ginny! Get out of here!" Hermione yelled as the squid began to move towards her friend.
"No! I'll get you out of this Mione!" Ginny said, pointing her wand towards the squid.
The giant squid looked impassive… well as impassive as a monster without out a face could look…
It then reached out a long tentacle and grabbed Ginny who squeaked.
It then preceded further down into the lake.
"Where's it taking us?" Ginny whined as she looked at Hermione.
She couldn't use her wand as the squid had put its tentacle around her upper body, leaving the wand in her hand useless.
"I don't know… I think it was hugging me!" Hermione said, wriggling.
Suddenly, all they water around her began to irritate her.
It was horrible.
Being wet.
She hated it.
It was like something mushy like a worm was on you… but everywhere!
Hermione suddenly became very anxious to get out.
DMHG
"She cannot be dead. She is not dead." Draco said. He was literally shaking.
"Mate, calm down-"
"Don't you dare. Don't even tell me that."
Draco's eyes were pure black. There was not a drop of white.
He was so pale that the men around him were surprised that he was not transparent yet.
Just then, something weird began to happen.
The veins under Draco's skin became pitch black, and showed through his pale skin.
Theo looked at Draco, horrified.
"Draco, look at your arm!" he yelled
Draco looked at his arms and they all watched silently as his veins began to blacken and travel up to his hands, under the dark mark on his left hand and up to his wrists.
And then, his hands were on fire. Literally.
Blaise was wracking his brains. Draco was becoming increasingly angry.
"I have to go back in there!" Draco suddenly said.
"Draco no! That thing will kill you!"
"If I don't it'll kill her!"
DMHG
Hermione began to breathe exceedingly fast.
"Ginny! I have to get out of here!" she said hysterically.
Ginny couldn't see Hermione but she knew something was terribly wrong.
"Hermione-"
"GET ME OUT OF HERE-AAAAAHHHH!" Hermione screamed.
Something weird was happening to her.
Her head was constantly having fits of pain that spread throughout her entire body.
Kind of like crucio.
Suddenly, Hermione wasn't thinking anymore, she had to get out of there and she was going to do anything to carry out the task.
Without contemplating her next move, Hermione bit the squid.
Really, really hard.
Feisty one aint she?
It made the squid let go of her but caused the bubble to burst.
DMHG
Draco had no idea what was happening. He couldn't breathe, but he still tried to get to Hermione.
But, yes there's always a but, he was being stupefied, petrified, heck even Expelliarmus - ed!
"I have to get down there!" He yelled miserably.
Blaise didn't know what to do. He knew there was no way that two girls under water with a gigantic squid could survive, and again, but, if he even suggested that Hermione was dead, Draco would rip his head off faster than he could scream deceased.
If they went down there, he knew that like Hermione and Ginny, they'd be as good as dead.
"Something's wrong! I can't let her die! I can't! If she dies, I won't be able to live with myself!"
"Shit!" Blaise exclaimed.
"What?!" Theo asked
"If she dies so does Draco!"
DMHG
The monster let go of Ginny who quickly reformed a bubble around her friends head.
It was so dark down here that Ginny could not see Hermione properly, just an outline of her figure.
Ginny grabbed her best friends arm and shot a spell so that they could get to the surface quickly.
In seconds they were flying ten feet above the water, and then they began to come flying down to land.
Ginny was ahead of Hermione, she was falling first but at that moment in time, she couldn't think of a spell to cushion their fall.
Then, something happened.
With one arm, Hermione grabbed Ginny.
And in a very odd way, Hermione turned her own entire body around so that she would fall face first, quickly, she tucked Ginny under her arm and put one hand forward to break the fall which never came.
Slowly, Hermione opened her eyes.
She was no longer holding Ginny.
She was aware of something holding her...
She looked up, only to see black eyes looking back at her.
"Malfoy?" she whispered.
"Yes, now… what the hell were you doing?!" Draco shouted at her.
Gingerly she pushed herself up and became aware of her attire.
She was on the brink of saying something but she stopped.
Draco was once again in Veela form.
And unknowingly, she was in her own special form…
"What the hell?!" Draco said, staring at her.
"Oh I'm not that hideous Malfoy!"
"Not that, you look like a-like a-a-a"
Just then, Hermione became animalistic.
Before she knew what the hell was happening she was on the ground on all fours, with her spine arching outward as she yelled:
"WATER!GET IT OFF ME!"
Ginny who was a few feet from Hermione looked at her friend.
"What the fuck!"
"Ginny Weasley!" Hermione hissed.
"Hermione! What happened to you!?"
"Water, its everywhere!"
"No! You look like a-"
Hermione suddenly snapped her head towards a dumbfounded Draco.
"bird." She said.
Draco's eyes grew wide as he looked at his soaked form and huge wings and then back to Hermione.
"I know how this looked Granger but-"
"Bird."
"No! Bad granger!" Draco said as if instructing a pet.
"Edible."
"No granger, I'm not-"
Hermione tilted her head, and licked her teeth.
And it was then, that she realized something was not right.
Her teeth felt… sharper?
Gasping, she stood up and shook her head.
Well, wild mane…
She flexed her fingers and they felt different.
She looked at them.
They were thinner. Her nails were longer. Her hands actually looked like some kind of gorgeous model hands. Her nails were silver. Very shiny silver. It was like polished. She could actually see her reflection.
"What the-"
Then again, she stopped.
Her hearing, she noticed, was louder.
And where she heard from, seemed not to come from the side of her head.
She reached up to touch the top of her head and she felt two soft furry ears in the middle.
"Are these…ears?" she asked incredulously.
Ginny gulped and nodded.
Hermione reached up and touched a finger to her sharp teeth.
Her finger immediately got pricked and began to bleed.
"Oh my god." Hermione whispered.
She looked around and saw everyone staring at her in horror.
"Alright," she whispered.
"I'm some kind of creature. Ginny, what am I?" she asked slowly.
Ginny looked at her as Draco gawked along with everyone else.
Wow, a gawking Draco.
How the mighty have fallen, well for the third time.
"Well Mione, you look like a… kitty cat…"
Hermione's eyes widened.
"Judging by how your pupils are now slits, I say you're an angry one…" Blaise said shrugging.
"And here I was thinking, my first normal year at Hogwarts." Hermione said before collapsing but being caught by Draco.
"Wow…" Ginny sighed.
"Yeah, I can't believe she wanted to eat Draco… if you know what I mean!" Blaise said before everyone burst out laughing.
"No not that! She has the perfect manicure! "Ginny said grabbing Hermione's hands.
Draco rolled his eyes as he stood with the girl in his arms.
"And just where do you think you're going with her?" Ginny exclaimed.
Draco turned and raised a brow at Ginny.
"You got a better idea weaselette? I'd love to see how that works out since this was your idea." Draco said coldly. Silently he wondered how she wasn't all love-struck like earlier in the day.
Yeah, he's sadistic and he knows it.
"oh piss off, I know you're the Veela, it's obvious she's your mate, and I wouldn't put it past you to lock her up in a dungeon until she says, 'oh yeah sure Malfoy, we'll shag and I'll be yours forever more!', no thanks, Mione is not going anywhere alone with you." Ginny said sharply.
"Ooh, weasels got a mouth!" Goyle said arrogantly.
"Yeah, and I've got a foot too, so unless you want it twisted up your fat arse, shut the hell up."
Oooh, you go girl!
Draco scowled at Ginny. At the moment he was feeling very protective of his mate. There were no words that could actually describe the misery he felt when he thought she was dead.
He felt a lot better now that he knew that she was safely in his arms. He was not going to let her get away because some witch said so.
And so, tightening his grip, he ground out:
"I need to get her to the hospital wing. As you may see, something is terribly wrong with her right now. I don't suppose you could carry her, given your stature, and, I have no intention whatsoever of letting her out of my sight ever again, so if you wish it, you may follow, but I am not leaving her alone with you." He said smugly, as he turned and walked towards the castle.
The sun was almost set.
Ginny hurriedly grabbed her clothes and Hermione's and quickly hurried after Draco.
DMHG
"Great practice session guys take a half hour break!" Harry called to his team.
And so, groaning like zombies, they took off towards the Quidditch showers.
"Urgh!" harry moaned, falling back onto the grass.
Ron just walked into the shower room, clearly sore with him.
Sigh, boys and their monthlies.
Harry ran his hand through his hair,
'Maybe a fly around the school will help' he thought, getting on his Firebolt.
So predictably, he gazed over to the lake.
Squinting slightly, he saw some kind of angel thing carrying a girl being tailed by a redhead and four other guys.
"Wait a second; I'd know that shade of red anywhere… Ginny? What are you doing in your bathing suit?" he spoke softly to himself.
Quickly, he zoomed down to her.
"Gin?" he asked.
Then he caught sight of Draco and… Hermione… looking like a cat?
"Malfoy! What the hell-"
"Shut up potter! Why would you organize such a stupid thing?"
"What?"
"That bravery shit, 'oh jump in to show you're brave!' what bull!"
"She didn't…" harry mumbled
"Oh yes she did! Now look at her!"
Draco gestured Hermione who was unconsciously biting his elegant finger, drawing blood with her impeccable set of sharp teeth.
"I'm not even sure if she knows that she's doing that…" Draco said.
For a moment, everyone was in a daze, just watching with hanging jaws as Draco let the unconscious witch bite him.
In a way, a really sick, demented way, he seemed to enjoy it.
In his mind, he found it cute and arousing.
Disgusting perve.
Harry walked towards Ginny, taking off his Quidditch cloak and putting it over her exposed body, she smiled at him, he smiled back and Ginny looked away blushing.
Then he turned to Draco.
"Malfoy, we need to get her to the infirmary now." Harry said, utterly confused with the situation, and so they walked up to the hospital.
Eventually when they got there.
"It's always you lot! Always!" madam Pomfrey said to the group as Draco ever so gently placed Hermione on a bed.
But, yes, the lovely but, she would not let his finger go.
Right now, his long elegant index finger was covered in blood, and little teeth marks, and damn, they really were everywhere.
He grinned and sat on the bed.
He looked up to see everyone pushed out into the waiting room.
Madam Pomfrey turned to him.
She looked at the wings, fangs, claws and eyes.
"Ah, the legendary Veela."
She looked at Hermione.
"Poor darling."
Madam Pomfrey moved around, healing the cuts and bruises on Hermione.
She studied her ears, poked her teeth.
Finally she spoke.
"It would seem,"
She began,
"That Ms. Granger, has the power to transform into something like a cat,"
She then tried to feed Hermione the medicine, but Hermione stubbornly continued to bite Draco.
Madam Pomfrey huffed.
"Mr. Malfoy, please?" she asked, handing him a small amount of a shiny smoking substance.
He looked at her questioningly.
"It's laughing draught; just get her to drink that."
Draco nodded as his Veela form began to go away.
Slowly, he put the draught on her finger and her watched as she unconsciously drank it.
"Time to wake her, Renervate."
Suddenly, Hermione's shot open, but with the laughing draught, she was not in the right mind.
She sat up.
"Awww man, who tried to kill me?" she asked sheepishly.
"A squid Ms. Granger, now I have a feeling that something bad might've happened to you so I need to do a blood test."
Hermione's eyes widened and became cat slits.
"Blood t-test?"
"Yes."
"With needles?"
"Yes?"
The room was silent.
Then, out of the blue, Hermione got up and ran, past Draco and the Mediwitch, past harry and Ginny, she just kept running. She was in a white fluffy infirmary gown.
Just then, Lavender saw her.
"Oh my god Hermione! Why do you have cat ears and eyes and teeth!?"
"Funny story," Hermione said, giggling a bit with the laughing draught.
"I jumped into the lake and the squid attacked me and Ginny, I bit it and when I got onto surface I became a cat! Funny right?" Hermione asked hysterically.
Lavender thought she was crazy, but she believed her close friend.
"Oh my god! Are you alright?"
"Nope!" Hermione said giggling.
"I'm gonna tell you a secret!" she whispered loudly, she looked around.
"They're after my blood!"
"What?" lavender asked, startled.
"They're trying to get me!" she whispered hoarsely.
At that moment, Draco skidded around the corner, Hermione turned and hissed at him. Quickly, he grabbed the girl and threw her over his shoulder, despite her kicks and punches.
"Hey! Put her down now! "lavender demanded.
"No."
"He's after my blood! My blood I tell you!" Hermione screamed as she wriggled like a five year old with a sugar rush.
"She's insane, I would never hurt her." Draco said, walking briskly to the infirmary.
DMHG
All the professors were in the staff room, talking about today's events.
"It was hilarious! She just broke his nose!" McGonagall whispered to madam Pince as the giggled quietly.
Just then, professor Trelawney began to shake
She is playing a dangerous game
Tinkering with fate
Destiny should not be messed with
But she is different; she doesn't care because she shapes her own fate
A dark power will befall her
She needs to be saved but first she needs to save
Darkness can consume you
She does not know
And right now, it's taking over her pure heart,
But she fights it
She can overcome it
But not while her heart is in her disarray…
She… the mate of the Veela…
The one who shapes her own fate…
Is destined to die.
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