Draco sat uncomfortably in the common room the whole time Ron was upstairs with Hermione. It was to quiet, but she said she would be ok, and he was dumb enough to believe her. He saw Ron walk out of her room looking satisfied, but she did not follow. He watched Ron walk to the door, and turn around and smile at him. This prat had the nerve to smile at him, Draco had the nerve to jump upright then and punch him in his nose, but he kept his cool, and watched him walk hotly out of the room. Draco sat by the fire for 15 minutes waiting for Hermione to come down, but she never came. He wondered what she was doing.

Hermione laid on her bed and cried, and then got up and saw the blood on the sheets. She couldn't believe he had went through with it. He had raped her; she put her head in her hands and sobbed. Finally getting the strength she got up and walked into the bathroom. She had to get the filth off of her. She heard Draco knocking on her bedroom door, but she didn't care, no one could take the pain away. She scrubbed her body, but the memory wouldn't fade it was playing over and over in her head. The knocking stopped; he must have gave up, just like she was giving up on herself. She wept; the one moment she was waiting for was taken from her.

Draco walked into her room deciding that he was coming in whether she liked it or not. When he saw the scene in front of him he freaked out. There was blood on her bed. He heard the bathtub running and ran in not caring if she was undressed. "Hermione are you ok, there is blood on your bed what the hell is going on?" he yelled franticly.

She looked up at him still crying and finally decided it was time to tell, if not the whole secret at least some of it. "He…He….He raped me. Ron raped me." She uttered looking away, all of a sudden she felt worthless, unworthy of help.

"WHAT??? I AM GOING TO KILL HIM!!!" Draco screamed. "Hermione you have to tell Dumbledore."

"I can't you don't understand he knows things about me, that no one else can know. If I disobey him he will tell everybody, and kill me." She retorted still protecting her secret.

"I promise you he will never touch you again. I put my life on that and if he does I will hurt him ten times worse. Now please tell me what happened." Draco said softly leaning down to run his fingers through her wet hair.

"Can I get dressed first please Draco?" she asked still avoiding his eyes.

"Of course, I'll be in my room, come in there when you're done." He replied and left the bathroom. He sat in his room waiting seconds seemed like hours. He glanced at the clock; it had only been five minutes since he left. Finally he heard the door creak open, and there stood Hermione wearing pink pajama pants and brown loose t shirt. She looked beautiful still. She walked over and sat tensely beside him on the bed. "Will you open up to me, and please tell me what happened?" he asked gently.

That's all she wanted to do and she did, she broke down. She turned to him and let him wrap his arms around her and cried while telling everything that had happened the last couple of months. She left out her secret it was still too soon to talk about that. But everything else spilled out, and when she had told him everything she cried in his arms. She didn't know how long she laid there but she knew he never stopped rubbing her back, and he gave her all the time she needed to compose herself.

Draco gently pulled her up to where he could see into her eyes, "Hermione this may not be the best time to tell you this but….I love you, and I want to protect you, will you let me?" he asked nervous to how she would respond.

"She looked shocked. Draco Malfoy love her and then before even thinking she said the words that had been dying to come out, "I love you too." And then she fell back into his arms and let sleep overcome her. She didn't know how she would face Ron tomorrow but that didn't matter, all that mattered was that for this one moment she was safe, even if she wasn't tomorrow. She let the feeling overtake her and maybe for just a moment she remembered how to feel again.

***********I know it's a super short chapter but if it makes up for it a lot happens in it. Don't worry it's not going to be a story where someone hurts Hermione, Draco comes to her rescue and then the next it seems like nothing ever happened it's going to take awhile for Hermione she get over what just happened to her so stay tuned and see what is going to happen next. There are some twists coming up so get ready for it. Please review and tell me what u think of this chapter, and once again I'm sorry it's so short*************