Hermione woke drowsily the next morning, and reached over to pull off her covers, when something 'woke up' in her.
She was unable to get out of bed because of an arm draped across her waist. When she had moved the grip had tightened, and its owner had emitted a groan. Hermione cautiously turned over and saw that the arm belonged to none other than Draco Malfoy, and groaned. Just because she was his fiancé didn't mean that she actually wanted to be near him.
She moved back to her original position, and waited impatiently for him to wake up. As she lay in the bed, Malfoy began to have nightmares. Hermione smirked at the thought that even the 'mightiest of us all' still had bad dreams.
"I won't let you take her," he breathed, clutching her even tighter than before, "I'm not like you, don't you ever say that!" Hermione struggled in the now uncomfortable grip, and tried frantically to wake him up before he tore her in half.
After many struggles, he finally woke up, and Hermione was furious. "What the heck do you think you're doing in MY bed? This isn't your private property, it's MINE. Also, get your filthy mugs off me!" She practically fell off the bed in her haste to get away from him, and he stared at her in shock.
"What do you mean YOUR bed, this is MY bed, and what are you doing in it?" he demanded, and Hermione looked around in just as much shock as Malfoy had. Sure enough, it was his room, although it was hard to tell because the colors were the same.
"Wha, wha, What the heck!" Hermione stuttered before fleeing the room. She ran her fingers through her tumble-down hair and tried to figure out how it was that she had ended up in his room. Sure, they had to get married, but she had no intention of EVER sleeping with him, even if it was just actually sleeping.
When she had reached her room, she through on the first clothes she could find from her trunk and ran down to the Gryffindor Common Room to go over the situation with Ron and Harry.
Hermione hadn't really been able to talk to Ron and Harry in months, since last school year to be precise, and she was dying to be able to finally talk to them.
While she was thinking of what she should say to them, after having 'ignored' their letters all summer, her feet lead her to the Fat Lady, a destination that had had to be programmed in them after years of reading on her way back to the dorms.
She climbed inside the portrait hole, after giving the Fat Lady the password, and walked in on a very unexpected scene. The Common Room was empty! Now this was unheard of, for even at the oddest hours of the night, someone was in the room.
She walked around the empty room cautiously, and then traveled up the stairway that led to the dorms. As soon as the common room was out of sight, she heard noises downstairs, and she turned around and went back to the room she had just checked.
A welcome sight reached her as she saw the room filling with all its usual inhabitants. Hermione ran down the last remaining stairs and flung herself at Harry and Ron. The crowd began to cheer when they saw her descend, and she was so happy she started to cry.
"Hermione, what's up? Aren't you happy to finally see us? And we planned this awesome Head Girl party!" Ron asked, unnerved by his friend's sudden change of emotion.
"Ron, this is the first nice thing anyone has done for me all summer, and I guess I'm just overwhelmed," Hermione said through happy tears as her friends crowded around her, wondering what she had been doing and what she planned to do, and what she was going to do about Malfoy.
She shook off most of their questions with ease, but she knew that Ron and Harry could see that she was uncomfortable with their questions. They would let it go for now, but as soon as they were alone they would want answers.
Hermione looked up for a moment, and saw a certain little redhead sneak out through the portrait hole. She looked around and saw that no one else had seen her go, and knowing that this was probably her intent, decided that she needed to go after the little trouble maker.
After telling everyone that she had to leave the party early for some head stuff, Hermione took off down the halls, following the bobbing red hair in front of her. She put an illusion charm on herself so that Ginny wouldn't recognize her, and was then able to follow her at a leisurely pace.
Hermione was just about to catch up to her when she saw another figure approach her first. His robes betrayed him as Slytherin, and he held Ginny's arm and moved her into a darker section of the hall where they proceeded to have a small conversation. Hermione was tempted to intrude, not knowing if Ginny was in danger or if she wanted to be with him. She was stopped, however, when she saw him lean in and kiss her.
Hermione immediately took off down the hall, not wanting to know anymore than she did. She walked back to the head dorm, and thought about how she was going to confront the poor girl.
Malfoy was lounging on one of the plush couches reading a book, and Hermione began sneaking to her room, hoping that he wouldn't notice that she had come in.
"You can't slip away from me," Malfoy said from behind his book. Hermione stopped and walked back over to him.
"And why would you want me now, oh mighty one?" she did a fake bow, "What does my lord want me for?"
"Would you shut up?" Malfoy said with a grimace, "It's time we started your lessons."
"Lessons?"
"Yes, you need to know how to act like a couple, and not just a any old couple you would see on the street, but a proper Malfoy couple," he looked up at her and put his book down, "You need to know what is appropriate and what is not, what will be expected of you, and the image that you need to portray."
"This sounds like a load of garbage. I will act any old way I please, and nobody is going to make me act any different for you."
"Well, you'll have to tell our new teacher that," Malfoy said with a sigh.
"You got a teacher for this! What a stupid waste of money!"
"Not just any teacher my dear, but the one and only Professor Zabini. Oh, by the way, he's expected to be hear in ten minutes and I expect for you to be on your best behavior!" Malfoy said with a sneer.
So what do you think? I know it's been along time, but I had final and all that Jazz. Whoohoo! My longest chappy yet! I know you'll all be proud, after all, you guys were the ones that wanted me to go longer, so here you go!
By the way, Jessi and I are expecting to have a new chapter in our joint fic, Uncertain Roads, and we hope you will enjoy all our fics as much as we enjoy making them!
