DISCALIMER: I do not own any of this.

A/N: I have to say a huge hello to Slithering Slytherin who is helping me with my upbooting and my editing. A thousand thank you's young slytherin.

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"Hermione, come with me"

Hermione was shocked, she honestly did not know what to say to him. Here was Draco, standing in her back yard (which was weird enough as

it was) and he was asking her to run away with him. She would be lying to herself if she had said that she didn't want to go with him, but this was

crazy.

"Are you insane?" Hermione replied in a loud whisper.

"I don't think so" Draco replied "Come with me" He repeated.

"I can't run away with you, my parents would never let me go." Hermione began

"Asking permission usually defies the purpose of running away...come on be spontaneous" Draco teased lightly.

"But is that really such a good idea, I mean, where would we go, what would we do?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know...but I am going to admit that I need you" He replied

"You need me...the great all powerful Malfoy needs me" She asked sarcastically. In the limited moonlight, Hermione could swear that she saw him

blushing.

"Come on Granger, you know that I would not last a minute alone in the Muggle world...and I can risk going back to the magic world, my father may

still be looking for me" Draco informed her.

"Oh...so you just want me to look after you?" Hermione asked, she couldn't hide the disappointment in her voice.

"And...you mean more to me as well" He replied, Hermione grinned

"So, will you come?" Draco asked after a little bit of a pause in conversation. 'Why the hell not' Hermione screamed at herself. She was sick of

being the perfect daughter and the perfect student, she wanted to take the time to be a teenager and do some thing that she should not be doing.

"Gee... I don't know, I was planning on washing my hair" Hermione replied, almost laughing.

"Is that your silly muggle way of saying yes?" He asked. An excited grin spread across his face.

"Give me a couple of minutes to get some stuff" She smiled and then moved to pack some of the more important things that she would need to

take with her. She would occasionally move back to the window and smile down at Draco, who had taken a seat under the large tree in the back

yard. As she was packing, her thoughts kept moving to her parents. What would they do when they woke up in the morning and realized she was

gone? Would they be angry? Sad? Would they try and track down Draco?

Hermione hated doing this to her parents, her parents loved her, but she needed to do this. She needed to go out into the big bad world and

experience things for herself. She needed to take this opportunity to be free, to go out there, with a guy that she cared about, and who hope fully

cared about her, and experience things.

Hermione wanted to understand her reasons, because she knew that they would not be that bad if they knew all of the reasons why she had run

away. After packing her things she picked up  a piece of parchment and a pen and began writing.

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The stairs creaked under her light footfalls and Hermione silently cursed them, she needed to leave the house quietly, because she knew that if

her parents were to wake up now. She would cave in and go back to her room, and stay in the house forever.

Clutched in her hand was the parchment. The parchment that she was planning on leaving on the dining room table, so that tomorrow morning

when her dad went to read the paper, he would see it first. She was confident in what she had said in the letter, which explained her need to be

free from the miss conception her parents had of her.

The shadows in the kitchen were dark as she approached the table. She could see out the back door and into the back yard. Draco had begun to

pace the yard. His silver blonde hair glistening in the moon light. For the first time since she had  made the decision to go with him, she realized that

 she was running away with the sexiest guy at Hogwarts...

"I knew he would come back for you" The voice cut through the eerie silence of the house.

"Dad?" Hermione squinted into the darkness. A small light shone through the window and highlighted her fathers gray hair.

"I knew he would come back for you?" He repeated "And I knew you would go with him"

"Dad" Hermione began, but was cut off by her father.

"No, Hermione, let me finish...I knew you would go with him."

"I am going with him, you cant stop me" Hermione boldly cut in.

"I know, and I know that I can't stop you. I can try, and mark my words, I WILL try to stop you, but I know that I wont be able to" Mr. Granger said.

"Dad, you need to understand that this is some thing that I need to do. I am 16 years old, and I have hardly ever been in trouble. I have not even

been at home long enough in the last 6 years to properly rebel against you and mum..." Hermione began

"So this is some sort of teenage rebellion?" He father asked calmly.

"Yes...I am rebelling, but I also want to learn things. You know I am always willing to learn new things...some things can not be learnt in a

classroom or from a book. I need this experience" Hermione explained. Mr. Granger nodded.

"And him?"

"Him...Draco....Well, I would be lying if I said that I was not attracted to him in some way." Hermione smiled

"So, you have made up your mind then?...I guess no amounts of 'You don't know what you are doing' and 'you are making a big mistake, young

lady' will make you change your mind." He said sadly.

"Dad, I am sorry" Hermione smiled

"I am not...you said you need this, and I agree, you can not learn every thing from a book." Mr. granger agreed.

"You are letting me go?" She asked, shocked

"I am letting you go...I give my blessing, But I have a few conditions" He replied.

"Any thing, what?" Hermine asked quickly.

"One, Look after yourself. Two, I will see you at platform 9 and three quarters on September 1st no exceptions. Third, If you need anything, either

of you, you come right back here. Four, if her hurts you in any way, I want you back her so fast and last...I want you to take this" He smiled as he

pushed a bulging envelope across the table. Hermione picked it up, it was full of money.

"Daddy, no, I can't accept this" hermione began

"I insist...you were going to get it any way. Your mother and I were saving to send you to Harvard, but then you got your Hogwarts letter" he began

but Hermione just rushed to his side and hugged him.

"Thank you Daddy, thank you for understanding" She grinned and kissed his cheek.

"I guess it would be wrong of me to go and lecture Draco then?" he asked jokingly.

"Don't you dare" Hermione replied then hugged him again.

"I love you Hermione, and there isn't a day that you don't make me proud"

"I love you to daddy" She smiled "i should go"

"yeah...good luck, and if either of you ever need any thing" Mr. Granger smiled

"I will come back, I understand" She hugged him yet again. She moved toward the back door, swinging her bag over her shoulder.

"What are you going to tell mum?" She asked, turning back.

"I'll think of some thing, off you go, I think Draco is getting impatient" Mr. Granger smiled, Hermione nodded.

Mr. Granger watched as his daughter ran across the back yard and captured Draco in a light hug. After one last look at the house, Draco and

Hermione disappeared onto the dark street.