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: I just want to say sorry for taking ages to update. I've got exams coming up and have been up to my ears in work and revision, but here is the next chapter, hope you like it :D Oh and I'd like to say a massive thanks to everyone who's reviewed so far, thank you very much! This story is doing better than I expected it to, so thank you :) I hope you all liked the last chapter, bit of a cliff hanger :)
A Blissful Collision – Chapter 4
Everyone was too engrossed at what was happening, they didn't notice a blonde-haired boy slip into the hall and stand by the doors.
"I have to tell you this, before I lose you forever. I know it probably won't change your mind, but I need you to know." She could see the tears in his eyes, but they were refusing to fall.
"No, Harry, don't do this." Hermione pleaded, biting her lip.
He slowly leaned down towards her, "Hermione Granger, I love you." He pressed his lips to hers and the whole hall went silent.
Hermione felt Harry's arms start to slide around her waist and she shoved him back roughly, wiping her mouth, a look of pure horror on her face. She stared at him for a few seconds, processing what had happened, then saw a flash of platinum blonde hair out of the corner of her eye disappear out of the Great Hall doors. She suddenly realized Draco had seen the whole thing and she wanted to run out after him to explain, 'Shit!' "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING HARRY JAMES POTTER?! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU JUST DID THAT!"
"Hermione, look I'm sorry, just calm down." Harry finally realized that everyone had been watching the whole time. "Come with me, we can talk, I'll explain everything," he reached for her hand but Hermione flinched backwards.
She slapped him hard round the cheek, tears in her eyes and Harry flinched, but he'd been expecting a lot worse if he was honest.
"Hermione-" He started to say.
"I don't want to hear it." She turned her back on him and ran between the tables towards the door, refusing to let the tears fall from her eyes until she was out of sight. "Hermione, wait," but it was too late, she had already gone.
He needed to find her, he needed to explain everything. Harry started to walk towards the doors, keeping his head down; he could hear the entire hall whispering, feel everyone's eyes on him but he chose to ignore them.
He noticed shoes appear on the floor in front of him and looked up to see Ron's scowling face, glaring down at him. Harry really wasn't in the mood for a fight; he just needed to find Hermione. He took a step to the side and was about to walk past when Ron blocked him. He tried the other side, but once again, he was blocked.
"Ron, move."
"Never heard of manners, Potter, or do you see them as below you?"
Harry sighed loudly and gritted his teeth. "Ron, please move." He said, sarcasm evident in his voice.
"Now you're just taking the piss."
"What the hell is your problem?" Harry said, squaring his shoulders and standing to his full height, which was still a few inches shorter than Ron.
"You really wanna know?" Ron glared down at him.
"Yes."
"You're my problem. You know how much I fucking like her, you know how long I've been after her, yet you just can't resist getting a bit of her for yourself. Bet you were planning this all along, weren't you? You just want to prove that I'll always be second best to the famous Harry Potter." He clenched his fist and punched Harry hard in the face, knocking him to the floor. "Stay away from me." He spat down at Harry and strode out of the hall before anyone could say anything.
Hermione dashed down the corridors, keeping her eyes peeled for any sight of blonde hair. Eventually she heard footsteps stomping up ahead of her and she hurried after them. She skidded around the corner and saw Draco halfway along the corridor.
"Draco, wait!" She speeded up after him.
Draco heard his name being called and was about to turn before realizing he recognized the voice and quickened his pace.
"Draco! It's me, please." Hermione carried on running and eventually caught up with him. "Draco?"
"What do you want?" He didn't even bother to turn around and continued to walk.
"That thing, in the hall, it wasn't me."
Draco ignored her.
"I didn't know that was going to happen, it wasn't me honest." Hermione grabbed his arm, causing him to stop.
Draco snatched his arm away and turned round; Hermione could see the anger in is eyes. "Well who was it then, Potter wasn't snogging Ginny was he?"
"No, but…"
"It was you Hermione, he kissed you and you didn't even bother to push him away."
"I did pull away, I slapped him. How was I meant to know that he was going to kiss me?"
"You seemed like you were enjoying yourself, especially whilst his hands were wandering all over your waist. Have fun with him…" Hermione saw that angry tears had started to form in Draco's eyes, before he turned his face away from hers.
"Draco please, it wasn't like that! You don't understand." Hermione pleaded, tears threatening to spill from her own eyes.
"I understand perfectly. He's your best friend, why wouldn't you wanna be with him? He's been there for you all this time, never once hurt you, always stuck by you; I on the other hand went out of my way to hurt you, year after year, on purpose, causing you so much pain. It's fine, I understand, don't worry about it…" He glanced at her once and Hermione saw a tear slowly trickling down his cheek before he walked away and left her standing there, all alone.
"Draco." She whispered as the tears fell from her eyes.
"There you are." She heard an angry voice growl behind her and turned on the spot, forgetting to wipe away the tears. "Oh no, has your oh so amazing boyfriend split up with you because of your antics with Potter?" Sarcasm dripped from his voice.
"Shut up Ron. We haven't split up. Can't you just leave me alone?" She scowled at him and wiped the tears from her face.
"I sorted Harry out for you. It was completely out of order for him to just come up and kiss you, especially in front of everyone." Ron took a few steps towards her, an evil glint in his eyes.
Hermione backed away. "Yeah it was out of order of him, but you didn't need to sort him out, I can quite easily fend for myself."
"Ah yes, but he got what he deserved. So, considering you've had two out of three main boys, you may as well have me and complete the package."
"God knows why you consider yourself as a main boy for starters, plus I don't want you Ronald, I thought we'd been through this."
"No need to lie, everyone knows that you want to fuck all the guys in our year whether you like them or not. People have betted that you'd shagged over 50 percent of them already, I'm betting on over 70." He said, still moving closer towards her
"Ron what's happened to you? You've completely changed."
"You've turned into a complete whore Hermione. Everyone knows we were gonna get together, but no, you had to run of with other guys."
"I don't want you Ron, you need to get over that fact and move on." She turned her back on him, ready to walk down the corridor away.
"You're a stupid little slag." He shoved her hard in the back so she fell flat on the floor.
Before Ron even had time to turn around, he was knocked flying into a wall. Hermione looked up to see a furious Draco storming back down the corridor towards them.
"Didn't your parents ever teach you to never hit a girl Weasel?" Draco shouted, avoiding Hermione's eye as she got to her feet slowly and watched him march past her towards Ron.
Ron groaned loudly and sat up slowly. He looked up and saw a fuming Draco coming towards him. "Come to save your slag of a girlfriend then? How come you let him Hermione, thought you could fend for yourself and didn't need saving?"
Suddenly, Ron let out a loud scream as Draco aimed a powerful kick, right between his legs, causing the redhead to roll on the floor, cursing in pain.
Draco knelt down next to Ron. "If I ever hear about you bothering her again, you're dead, got it?" He whispered angrily, before punching him hard in the face, making the boy to lose consciousness.
"Thanks." Hermione spoke softly from behind him.
Draco turned, but didn't look at her. "I didn't do it for you; I did it because guys shouldn't hit girls."
"Oh I see, well thanks anyway."
He nodded, before starting to walk back down the corridor.
"Draco, can we talk, please?" Hermione took a few steps after him.
He turned. "Nothing to talk about, just… stay out of his way," he nodded behind her. "I hope you're happy with Potter," he avoided looking her in the eye. He then turned once again to walk down the corridor.
"You know I'll never be happy with anyone but you," she called after him, but he carried on and disappeared round a corner.
"And I with you." Draco murmured as he went round the corner but he was too far away for her to hear him.
The days seemed to drag by for Hermione. She seemed to spend all of her time in the library, just reading books and doing research and homework. Usually she'd be doing this in the Room of Requirements with Draco, but since their 'split', she started to spend most of her free time by herself. Occasionally she'd see Harry in the library, but he always kept his distance and seems to make a quick exit most times.
During break on a particularly gorgeous summery day, Hermione was found curled up in her favourite chair, at the back of the library, close to a window so she could see across the grounds and the lake. She was sat quietly, just reading.
"Hey Hermione." A high pitched voice startled Hermione from her little daze.
"Oh, hey Luna, what's up?" Hermione said, sitting up properly.
"How come you aren't outside? The weathers perfect for Wrackspurts."
Hermione raised her eyebrow slightly. "Just thought I'd stay in reading. I've got a few pieces of homework due in you see."
"Ohhhh." Luna went quiet and she seemed to be staring off into space.
"So Luna, was there anything in particular that you wanted to talk to me about?"
Luna shook her head so her blonde curls fell over her shoulders. "Do you want to go Hogsmeade sometime? We could even have a look for dresses for the end of year ball."
Hermione groaned loudly, the ball. She'd completely forgotten. Since she and Draco were hardly on speaking terms, she doubted that she'd be going with him unless they made up in the next few weeks and if they didn't make up, she wasn't going to go, so no need to get a dress.
"But wait, how come you are coming? You're the year below."
A slight blush overtook Luna's normally pale cheeks. "Neville asked me." She grinned.
"Aww Luna, that's great. You two make a good couple."
"Thank-you. Ginny was asked by Dean so she is coming as well."
Yeah, I can come and help you pick a dress if you like." Hermione smiled up at the girl.
"And you of course, you need a dress as well. How about you, me and Ginny meet up next weekend?"
"I don't need a dress, I'm not coming to the ball, but next weekend sounds good. It will be good to get away from this school, even just for the day."
"Why aren't you coming?" Luna looked slightly confused.
"Oh, err." Hermione bit her lip as she tried to think of an excuse.
"Is something wrong Hermione?" Luna sat down in the chair next to her.
Hermione looked at her friend and then the whole story just came pouring out, how she and Draco were in love, how Harry and Ron were both jealous, how Draco said they could go to the ball together, but now they weren't talking, so she didn't want to go to the ball. By the end of it, Hermione was in tears and Luna had her arms around, comforting her friend.
"I really don't want to go to the ball. What if he's found someone else? What if he doesn't want me anymore?" Hermione wiped her eyes on her sleeve and looked at Luna.
"If he's in love with you as he said he was, he's probably in the same situation you are right now."
"I doubt it. He's probably moved on already, I mean I'm not that great. He could get any girl he wanted."
"Hermione, come on. I still think you should come. It is your graduation ball after all. I mean, you won't get another one of these, so may as well make the most of it; you don't really want to miss it." She handed the crying girl some tissues.
Hermione wiped her eyes using the tissues. "Yeah I suppose, I just can't stand to think about him dancing with other girls."
"It will be fine Hermione, me and Ginny will be there."
"Thank-you Luna," she gave the girl a hug.
The bell rang and Hermione stopped writing. She packed up her parchment and quills into her bag and left the Ancient Runes classroom, walking quickly even though she was dreading the next class she had. Potions. The only reason she was walking quick was because she didn't want to be late and get detention.
Eventually she got to the room, just as Snape arrived. She walked in and took her seat at the back of the classroom, next to Draco. As soon as she sat down, Draco shuffled his chair to the edge of his table. Hermione sighed loudly and got out her equipment. 'It's just like old times, but worse,' she thought to herself.
"As a special treat, because its Friday last lesson, you will be writing a 12 inch essay on the properties of the Draught of Living Death and how you make it. You may start." Snape drawled from the front of the dungeon classroom. "And no talking."
A groan erupted round the classroom, as students got out parchments and quill. Hermione had already started the essay before most of the class had got their equipment out.
After about 15 minutes into the essay, Hermione had already written about 5 inches, whilst most of the class were still struggling with the opening paragraph, especially Ron. Even Neville had done more than him. Whilst Hermione was writing frantically, she accidentally elbowed Draco.
"Watch what you are doing Granger." He muttered under his breath.
Hermione seemed shocked. Why didn't he shout it out that she'd elbowed him, before everything that happened, he would have done anything to get her in trouble and because they weren't talking, she assumed that he had gone back to his old ways.
"Sorry." She said back.
"Is there a problem Miss Granger?" Snape sneered, looking up from his desk.
"No sir." Hermione answered back.
"Then why are you talking?"
"It's my fault sir," Draco cut in. "I was asking He-Granger if I could borrow some ink because I've run out."
"I see. Well I suggest you get yourself some more ink Malfoy."
"I will do sir."
Snape carried on with the work he was doing at the front of the classroom. Hermione decided it wasn't safe to ask Draco why he'd covered up for her during this lesson, so she was going to wait until after.
Hermione and Draco both finished the essay with about 10 minutes left. Hermione ripped off a piece of small parchment and wrote a small note on it, 'How come you covered up for me?' She pushed it over to Draco's side and watched as he read it and started to reply. He pushed the note over to her and she read it. 'It wasn't your fault you were talking and Snape would have given you detention or something, whereas as he wouldn't do anything to me.' Hermione smiled slightly and replied 'Oh I see, well thanks.' She had to wait a minute or two before Draco replied. 'I've missed you Hermione, I'm sorry for the way I acted. It was just seeing another boy kissing you, it made me so jealous. I know it wasn't your fault and I just want to apologize.'
"Times up." Snape waved his wand and the various lengths of parchments off peoples desks flew to the front of the classroom. "You may go."
Hermione looked at Draco and nodded, before packing her stuff away and leaving the classroom. Draco followed shortly behind her, but not close so it wasn't obvious.
Hermione turned off into one of the classrooms she passed and Draco entered it a few minutes later. As soon as the door closed, Hermione's lips were on Draco's and her arms were around his neck. Draco wrapped his arms around her slim waist and kissed her back passionately. After a few minutes, they both pulled away panting slightly, a smile on both their lips.
"I've missed you."
"I've missed you too." Draco leaned his forehead against her own. "I shouldn't have over reacted, I'm sorry."
"It's okay, I should have stopped Harry before he kissed me; I was just in shock."
"Its okay baby. Let's just forget about it?" He smiled hopefully.
"Sounds good to me." She grinned back, before leaning forward and pressing her lips softly to his.
"Hermione get up!" Ginny hit her best friend round the head with the pillow once again.
"Mrghhhh get offfff." Hermione groaned and rolled back over trying to get away from Ginny.
"No noo, time to get up! We're going shopping." Ginny put the pillow down and grabbed the duvet and pulled.
"Mmm laterrr. 5 more minutes." Hermione mumbled, holding onto the duvet tightly.
"Hermione Jean Granger! Get up this instance!" Ginny put on her best Mrs Weasley voice and Hermione sat straight up in bed. She scowled when she saw it was only Ginny.
"That's not fair Ginny, I'm tired." Hermione groaned loudly, but she slowly got out of bed.
"Stay out late with Draco again? " Hermione raised her eyebrow at this and was about to question how Ginny knew, when Ginny said, "oh yeah Luna told me all about it. I'm happy for you two, you make a cute couple." Ginny smiled.
"Thanks Ginny, it means a lot to have your support." She hugged her best friend.
"Yeah yeah, now come on, get dressed, we have shopping to do!
Four hours and five dress shops later, Hermione was started to get rather annoyed. She must have tried on over 100 dresses, yet she hated every single one of them. Either too short, too long, too tight, too detailed, too bright, too dull, etc. This is why, she hated shopping for dresses. Hers needed to be perfect, so she looked good for Draco of course. Ginny and Luna had both found gorgeous dresses, in the first 2 shops they looked in. Ginny's dress was a deep, bottle green, strapless, floor length dress. It had a cut which started at the knee and flowed to the end. Luna's dress was eccentric; the skirt was made up of layers of gathered materials in different shades of oranges and reds so that she looked like a wild flower. Yet Hermione hadn't seen anything that she liked, not at all.
"This is the last dress shop Hermione, so let's hope you find something in here." Luna said, walking down the street of Hogsmeade.
"If you don't, I'm just going to buy you something absolutely hideous and make you wear it." Ginny smirked and the other girls laughed.
"We'll see about that Ginny." Hermione forced a smile as the three girls made their way into the last shop.
It looked like the other five dress shops they'd been in, all the dresses look the same to Hermione, boring and plain, nothing special, until… that's when she saw it, right at the back of the shop. The most gorgeous dress she'd ever seen. She took it off the rail and ran to the changing room. It was a deep, royal purple, strapped knee length dress. It had black lace around the top and bottom and had a gathered waist band so the skirt part empathized her curves.
Hermione stepped out of the changing rooms and Ginny and Luna looked truly in awe. "Hermione, that dress is absolutely gorgeous."
"Yeah Hermione, it looks amazing on you. You HAVE to get it!" Ginny beamed at her.
Hermione grinned back at them both and held the bottom of the dress and did a little twirl. "I love it."
"And Draco's going to love you in it as well." Ginny winked.
Hermione had just put her dress away in her dormitory and was walking down the stairs to head to the library to do a bit of revision before dinner. She was walking down one of the corridors when she heard footsteps behind her. She looked behind her and saw Draco, who was obviously going to try and sneak up on her.
He gave her an innocent smile and caught up with her. "Hey baby," he leaned down and gave her a quick kiss."
Hermione glanced round, making sure no-one was around before smiling. "Hey, what you doing now?"
"Hmm well, I was thinking I might go to the Room of Requirements," he winked at her and smiled. "Wanna join me?"
"I like the sound of that." Hermione grinned, "I'll go there first and I'll see you in a couple of minutes?"
"Okay, see you in a few." He blew her a kiss as she hurried back down the corridor and up the stairs towards the seventh floor and the Room of Requirements.
She walked in and had just got settled on the sofa when Draco entered, grinning at her.
"I've missed you," he smiled and sat down on the sofa next to her.
"I've missed you too. Sorry I couldn't see you today, Ginny made us go dress shopping."
"Oooh, got a new dress for the ball?" Draco winked at her.
"I hope you'll like it." Hermione grinned. "It really is pretty, but you'll have to wait and see what it looks like."
"Ah, but that's mean." Draco pouted his lips, pretending he was sad.
"Aww, I'm sorry, but it's only fair to make you wait."
"Yeah I suppose so, still mean!" He laughed.
"Stop complaining." She giggled and leaned forward to kiss him. Draco captured her soft lips with his own. Hermione wrapped her arms around his neck and ran her fingers through his silky blonde hair whilst he pulled her closer to him. The kissing became more passionate and Draco slid his tongue into her mouth. Hermione pressed her body close to his and felt his hand move down her shirt. They pulled away for a short breath before continuing the kissing. Draco's hand had moved to her knee and started moving up to her thigh and slowly up her skirt, not realizing what he was doing.
Hermione broke the kiss and pushed him away roughly. "What do you think you are doing!"
"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to, I got carried away. I'm sorry, I won't do it again."
"You think that as soon as we get back together, you can get straight into my pants, well think again Malfoy." She stood up and strode out of the Room.
"Hermione wait!" Draco stood up and hurried after her. "I'm sorry!"
Hermione walked quickly down the corridor and walked straight into Harry as she turned a corner.
"Oh hey Hermione, sorry I didn't see you there."
"Oh no, it's my fault, sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going." Hermione looked down, avoiding eye contact.
"Are you okay Hermione, you're shaking. What's happened?" Harry asked, pulling her close to him for a hug.
Draco raced round the corner, to see Harry giving Hermione a hug. "Oh that's right, you always have a backup man don't you?" He shouted down the corridor.
Hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I wrote like all of it in one night, so I'm pretty proud about that :) I'll try not to leave it so long when I update this time, but cos I have exams coming up, I can't promise it will be that quick, but I'll try my best :)