DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS.

Voices. Though she could barely make out what any of them were saying. Struggling to pull herself out of the heavy fog that seemed to settle upon her eyes she woke up. Blinking several times to clear her mind, she looked around her and noticed first that she was in the Hospital Wing. Harry was sitting in the chair next to her, zoning off. Ron was standing at the foot of her bed, back facing her, arms crossed and she was guessing glaring at Draco, whom was leaning against the bed across from her. She pulled herself upright which caught Harry's and Draco's attention.

"'Mione!"

Ron whirled around and shoved Draco out of the way to stand on her other side. Not put off, Draco sat himself down on the edge of the bed and faced her way.

"Hey guys. What time is it?"

"Two in the afternoon, Monday."

Oh Merlin, she missed classes! She frantically searched around for Madam Pomphrey so she could be released. She really needs to go talk to her Professors about the class notes and any assignments that she surely missed from today. She stopped her search when she heard Draco chuckle.

"Relax Granger, you can copy my notes from Potions. Professor Slughorn didn't assign any homework for today."

"Her name is Hermione."

She rolled her eyes at Ron who still has yet to stop glaring at Draco.

"Ron, will you relax?"

Ron turned his glare on her.

"Why should I relax 'Mione? Since you two are supposedly dating, he can't even use your first name?"

"That is really none of your concern Ronald."

"It is my concern, you are my best friend!"

"If all you are going to be doing Mister Weasley is yell, than I must ask you to kindly remove yourself from here."

Ah Madam Pomphrey has decided to show up. The older woman pushed her way past Ron and stood over her, before waving her wand about.

"How are you feeling Miss Granger?"

"I'm feeling great. A little tired. When can I be released?"

"Let me just go get some potions for you to take."

The Mediwitch hurried off towards her officee. Hermione looked over at Harry.

"So what happened while I was sleeping?"

Harry was silent for a moment before responding.

"The entire Ravenclaw except Luna, has detention with Professor McGonagall. Apparently, after beating you unconcious, they all walked past. Nobody removed the jinx on either of the girls. Ginny was beyond furious and upset about what happened. Hermione, who did attack you?"

She stared at Harry trying to gather her thoughts. She could see several bodies standing around her but everytime she tried to see who they were, her mind would go blank.

"I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know!"

"Exactly that Ron! My mind comes up blank everytime I try to remember."

Madam Pomphrey came up than, halting the conversation between the four teens. Downing the three potions, she was released from the Hospital Wing. Both Harry and Ron followed Draco and herself back to the Head Dorms. Draco went in first and Hermione was about to follow him, when Harry laid a hand upon her arm.

"Hermione, are you sure that you don't want to spend the night in the Griffindor Tower?"

She gave him a small smile before answering.

"I'm sure Harry. I could use my own pillow and blankets tonight. I'll see you guys down at dinner?"

"Okay. Just owl us if you need anything. Even if it's rescueing from Malfoy."

"I'll do that. See you."

That said, she entered the dorm and closed the protrait behind her. Draco was coming out from the kitchen with a red apple in his hand.

"Hey, I don't mean to ditch since you just got back from the Hospital Wing but I promised Blaise that I would practice flying tonight with him."

She smiled at him.

"I understand. Go have fun. Don't worry about me."

"Are you sure? I can always owl him and cancel?"

"No no no, I don't want to keep you from your friends."

He gave her a smile that made her heart stop. Damn, was she one lucky girl or what? He came over by her and gently kissed her on her cheek. When he pulled back, she followed him and kissed him quickly on the lips. Before pulling away and walked around him.

"Have fun with Blaise."

She said over her shoulder as she went up the stairs to her room. Seconds after entering her room, she heard the protrait close, signaling that he left. Peering out into the common room, she confirmed what she heard, he wasn't there anymore. Running down the stairs, she ran up to his and opened his door. The bad thing about the Head Dorm's is that their own personal bedrooms have no locks on them. They would have to personally charm it shut. Since she has rarely been here, she didn't think that he would charm is shut. And she was right. Slowly tiptoeing into the room she scanned it. The window near his desk, was open and overlooked the lake. She stopped in the middle of the room and looked around. There was four picture frames on the nightstand next to the bed. Crossing the room, she kneeled in front of it to check the pictures out. The first one was of him with his mother, she's guessing they were standing in front of the garden at the Manor. The second was of him and Zabini dressed in the Slytherin Quidditch robes holding their brooms, near the pitch here at school. The second was of him, Zabini, Parkinson, and Spellman. She had to double look at the picture when she noticed the background, they were standing in front of the castle at Disney World at Orlando Florida. That's a muggle theme park, why was he there? Than she remembered that Spellman was a transfer student from America, so that makes sense. The last picture was of him and Spellman. They must have had some fancy thing to go to cause Draco was in a tux and Spellman was in a flowing black dress. Draco had lifted her up bridal style and her head was tossed back laughing at something that he said. She continued watching the picture as Spellman's head came forward and the two of them kissed. Hermione stood there for who knows how long until she was snapped out of her thoughts when someone spoke.

"That picture was taken at her junior prom."

She jumped nearly a foot in the air when he spoke. Turning she faced him and smiled guiltily at him.

"I'm sorry, I know that I shouldn't have came in here without permission. I just couldn't,"

Draco entered into the bedroom shaking his head as he picked up the picture and stared at it for a second before putting it back down.

"You don't need to apologize, if I didn't want you to enter, you wouldn't have been able to get in."

"That still doesn't excuse my snooping."

He looked at her and raised an eyebrow.

"You haven't touch anything, so you really weren't snooping."

"How do you know?"

"The same way that I knew that you entered my room."

So he did have some charms up! Sneaky Slytherin! She looked back at the picture just as the two of them kissed. She looked back up to see him looking at her.

"Can I ask you a personal question Draco? If you don't mind?"

"I don't mind."

"How long have you two known each other?"

"I'm assuming you mean Victoria?"

She nodded and he looked back down at the picture almost fondly as he thought about his answer.

"We have known each other our entire lives. Her family used to live here in England, but moved to America when the Dark Lord first rose to power. We used to floo each other letters all the time. Every summer my family and I would go visit, spend a month or two depending on how our mother's were getting along. Blaise came along one year, his family was going through a crisis with his mother, him and Victoria got along great. Pansy followed the next year. Her and Victoria fought for the first week until Victoria hexed her with a bat bogey hex just before first year, they became best friends after that."

She didn't know how to respond so she kept quiet. Draco continued talking.

"I just want to let you know, that even though Victoria and I broke up, we will always be best friends. I will always be there for her if she needs me. I need to know now, if you will have any problems with that."

He stared at her as she thought. She was torn into two. They knew each other their entire lives, who was she to say that they couldn't be friends anymore? Than again, was she really comfortable with that? Knowing that her boyfriend would hang out with a former girlfriend, who he has so much history with? Knowing that Spellman could possibly be the first girl who the Slytherin Sex God has slept with? Draco seemed to hear her thoughts.

"Just to clear the air, Victoria and I have never had sex. We have shared a bed but never went further than that. Her father would kill me."

Well that cleared that up.

"She doesn't seem to like me."

Draco started laughing and she narrowed her eyes at him.

"What's so funny?"

"Granger, you are my new girl, of course she won't like you at first. Her and Daphne didn't get along at first."

Daphne. Daphne. Why does that name raise an alarm in her head?

"You used to date Daphne?"

Draco shook his head.

"Heavens no! We got drunk one night and made out. Blaise being the tattletale he was, owled Victoria, who had Pansy hex all of Daphne's clothes bright pink with yellow polka dots, and I mysteriously lost all my hair gel."

She stared at him before laughing.

"So that's why during third year, you never wore your hair slicked back?"

"Yup."

She continued laughing harder until he tackled her onto his bed. She promptly stopped laughing as he crawled over her so that he was straddling her.

"What are yo-"

He kissed her. Not know what to do at first, she soon caught on and mimicked his movements. He gently bit down on her lower lip causing her to gasp in shock. Taking the opportunity, his tongue slide in. As she was busy keeping up dueling with his tongue, she didn't notice his hand creeping up under her shirt until it was resting just below her bra. His other hand ran up her thigh and brought it up over his back. They continued on for who knows how long (if you were making out with a hot guy, would you keep track of time?).

"Okay, I defiantely did not need to see that."

Than a male voice spoke up.

"See what?"

Draco pulled away from her and the both of them looked towards the open bedroom door. Standing there was Spellman and Zabini. Spellman had her arms crossed and looked slightly grossed out while Zabini had a grin on his face.

"When you two are done, will you please come down to the common area?"

Spellman stepped away from the door, and pulling Zabini behind her, walked away from the door. She knew that her face has got to be the brightest shade of red, and adjusted her shirt when Draco stood up. He waited until she was ready before leading the way out of the bedroom and into the pit where two vemonous snakes were waiting. Once downstairs, she saw that she was wrong, there was three snakes, not two. Even better. Gathering the courage her house was so famous for, she sat down on the loveseat across from them. Spellman stared at her with a blank expression as Draco sat down next to her. She tossed her black hair over her shoulder before speaking.

"I just wanted to offer my sympathies towards what happen to you Miss Granger. You simply can never know with people these days."

Hermione stared before responding.

"So you had nothing to do with it?"

Spellman looked shocked at the thought.

"Why on Earth would I want a fellow student let alone Head Girl attacked?"

"Oh I don't know, maybe because I am dating your recently ex boyfriend?"

Spellman sat back and smiled at her before looking at Draco.

"Draco can date whomever he so chooses. Besides, it would be petty of me to do such a thing."

Hermione narrowed her eyes at the black haired witch before her.

"So what were you doing at the Ravenclaw Tower?"

Spellman looked at her confused as did the other three Slytherins. Draco spoke for Spellman.

"Granger, Victoria wasn't near the Ravenclaw Tower last night. She was with the four of us, in the Common Room."

She shook her head.

"No I remember her walking out of the Common Room with Pansy and Cho Chang."

"Miss Granger, I swear to you that I wasn't near the Ravenclaw Tower last night."

She looked at Draco who nodded.

"If she was Granger, I'm sure Weaselette and Lovegood would have said something already."

Knowing that they wouldn't have admitted anything right now, she dropped the whole thing.

"So what are you guys doing here?"

Zabini spoke for the two girls.

"We are extending an olive branch. Since you are dating our best friend, we figured the least we could do is be nice and civil towards you."

She stared at the three of them in shock before gathering enough wits to answer them.

"Okay, I accept. It would be nice not having to be taunting daily by the Slytherins."

The three Slytherins all smiled before Zabini extended his hand. She reached out and shook it. Parkinson soon did the same. Spellman was the last one. Hermione reached out and as she was shaking her hand, the ring on Spellman's hand caught her attention. It was a crest of some sort. They quickly shook hands before Spellman leaned back.

"Draco, your mother owled me earlier. Is Christmas break still on?"

"We always celebrate Christmas together, why would this year be any different?"

Spellman's eyes shifted and pointed at Hermione before focusing back at Draco, who fell silent.

"What?"

Hermione looked at Draco who appeared indifferent.

"We go to an exclusive resort over in Italy for Christmas break."

"Oh?"

Parkinson spoke up.

"It's just for Purebloods."

The conversation never really picked up after that. Hermione was lost in her own thoughts and followed the four Slytherins down to the Great Hall for dinner. She went to the Griffindor table and sat down next to Harry and Ron, both of whom stopped eating when she did.

"'Mione is everything all right?"

She smiled and nodded at the two of them before getting a plate together for herself. Dessert came about and she was still going over everything that happened that afternoon that she didnt pay any attention until Ron almost dropped the fork for his apple pie ala mode. She didnt bother to ask since she looked up and the saw Draco, Zabini, Parkinson, and Spellman make their way over and sit across from them. Draco smiled at her as did Zabini. Spellman and Parkinson nodded their greetings. Spellman helped herself to a piece of apple pie and was reaching over for the cream when one of the bracelets hanging from her wrist, got caught on Ron's fork when he rashly reached out to hand her the bowl with the hand that was holding his fork. He stammered as he fiddled with it until the bracelet broke. The charms that were hanging from it went everywhere. Ron completely forgetting that he was a wizard and could simply summon the charms, started gathering them. Meanwhile, the other three Slytherins stopped eating their dessert and was staring at Spellman, who had her eyes closed and seemed to be trying to calm herself down. Draco placed a hand on her lower arm before speaking to Ron.

"Weasley, you do know that you are a wizard and could simply summon the charms?"

Ron went red, all the way to the tip of his ears. Parkinson stood up and came over by Spellman, who now had her eyes opened and was staring at the broken bracelet on the wooden table. Not saying a word, Spellman waved her hand, and the missing charms came soaring towards her. Holding her hand out palm up, the charms landed and made a pile in the middle of her palm. Closing the hand, she reached out and picked up the broken bracelet before looking at Draco.

"I'll see you later. Have a good evening Miss Granger, Mister Potter, Weasley."

That said, she stood up and left the Great Hall followed by Parkinson. The stillness at the table broke when Harry commented.

"That went well."