Hermione flooed straight into her muggle apartment in middle London. She was still traumatised by the events that occurred at Malfoy Manor.

She had hated, absolutely hated house elf slavery that was the whole point of S.P.E.W and that was the least of her worries. Some pure blood families killed them for glory and trophies. How sick.

She had never been so scared in her life ever!

What worried her more was that Malfoy saved her and comforted her and in that moment she saw a part of him she liked and wanted. He even kissed her. And she kissed him back. It may have lasted only 10 seconds but she liked it.

She had only ever been in 2 relationships one with Viktor Krum and one with her best friend Ron. In both cases she never experienced the feeling she had felt with Draco's touch and kiss. But at the same time she hated it. She hated him. He may have saved her but he was still the egotistic maniac who bullied people.

Besides what would her friends say? He was a death eater and the death eaters killed her parents. It wasn't right. Besides she hated him and he hated her. She punched him in 3rd year and slapped him a few days ago and kneed him earlier today. That was surely enough to show she hated him. And he called her every name in the book so surely he hated her.

Hermione entered her flat and had a shower. She put on her nighties; Gryffindor red shorts and a white sleeve less baggy top. She tied her curls into a messy bun.

She drank some water and walked to her bed room when she heard her fire place roar to life and then quieten down.

She turned and saw a blonde tall figure in her sitting room.

"Drac- Malfoy… what are you doing here" he must have noticed her words slip because he smiled, not smirk but smiled. This made her want to smile because his smile blew her away. His silvery orbs lightened up even more and a crease appeared on end of his eyes. But she couldn't think this way hes an arse Hermione hes probably just here to rub it in you're face.

"I just wanted to make sure you were ok… plus i needed to say something".

He actually sounds like he cares but whats he going to say!

"Umm… I'm fine just tired". She watched him carefully waiting for the insults to start pouring out. She was expecting him to boast about how irresistible he was to her and how scared she got.

"Are you sure you're fine" ok just start being a prick already.

He was not going to be one.

"Yes Malfoy I'm fine" she yawned, and rubbed her eyes in voluntary she didn't notice exactly know how tired she was.

"Well "

"Good night" it slipped out. She pushed her hand to her mouth regretting it. He wanted to say something but she wanted him out of her home.

He had seen.

He raised a brow.

She just stared at him embarrassed.

"Dra- Malfoy" She sighed at her jumbling of words that bought another smile to his face. "You said We needed to-"

"It's why i flooed here, you were upset and vulnerable and i think we both seemed to have been a bit oblivious to what had in fact happened" he didnt even know what he was saying anymore.

"Talk" . She stared at him. "Don't be surprised Granger Most girls tend to be quite flushed and excited by my charms towards them but I suppose your not most girls and what you want to say is 'it was a mistake' or maybe ' I wasn't thinking right' 'it didn't mean anything' or perhaps all of them' either way we both agree". Hermione was taken aback she had no idea what he was saying. He said it so fast , he showed no emotion on his face not even anger. He just waited with patience for her reply but she didn't know what to say. She looked at him and just nodded.

He didn't speak further he just turned and apparated home.

He behaved as though he was used to being hurt. Who said he was hurt though, he was just cursing himself for speaking total crap that didnt make one ounce of sense. they kissed and he had made it sound as though they slept together.

He was so confused with his feelings at the moment. He actually like mud blood Granger but it was a spur of the moment. The only reason he flooed to her house was because he needed to clear the air. The kiss had in fact meant a lot to him, it was the first kiss he gave where the girl didn't expect to get into his pants. This was weird they hated each other about 10 hours ago. And they still did. She seemed more confused than he did.

He walked straight for his room when he heard his father from behind.

"Draco"

"Father"

"I need to talk to you"

"What is it"

"Its about miss Granger". Draco rolled his eyes.

"What about her".

"She wasn't really sick was she" .

Draco hated the new Lucius, he liked to pry into Dracos business. And this was not good.

"No father she was not, she stumbled across your store room and it scared the living day lights out of her especially since your so called banshee tried to kill her… I lied to her friends so she could be excused without questions".

Lucius grew a smirk.

"And am I to believe you saved her"

"No father I left her there to die" Draco rolled his eyes and walked into his shower room.

"Don't take that tone with me" His father followed him and scolded him.

"NO father, I can speak to you however I wish I am no longer a child who you can bully"

"I did Not bully you Draco and even if I did it was because I loved you… and anyway you weren't any old child you were MINE"

"Whatever father I don't understand you any more… whatever plan you have in mind –"

His father cut him off with a laugh.

"Oohhh Draco you don't know anything about my plans" he grew a sly grin. "But i can assure you they include nothing evil"

Draco scowled "So you DO have plans"

"Of course my boy what do you expect… I need regrow my reputation back to the top where it used to be and I cant exactly do that now without a plan now can I".

"Well what does this plan involve" fuck sake Merlin why does this man always have a plan, why can he never be normal.

"That Draco is a secret but I can tell you it won't involve violence" He looked extremely proud of himself.

"Just leave me out of them"

"I'm afraid that's impossible, you see Draco you are the most vital part of this plan"

Draco just gave his father a dirty look. He couldn't believe this man.

"What are you going to do, turn me in to Vol-" Draco shouted with an evil grin but Lucius stopped him half way.

His father held his arm and pulled him back pushing him down with his wand directly at Dracos throat.

But he let go. Lucius Malfoy had a temper and when he got angry he became a predator. But he had just let his prey go.

Draco however was not. He grabbed his father's cane from his hand threw it and punched him square in the nose.

thank-you for reading i'm so sorry i've changed chapters 7 & 8... i hope you like the changes i've made ... thankyou for reading really appreciate it xxxxxx

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i'd just like to say read Turncoat by Elizaye = its the best ff i've read for Dramione. its amazing ... FANTASTIC