A/N: I do not own anything Harry Potter related.

Hermione grabbed Marcus by his tie and lead him into the house and up the stairs. He was not sure what to think about this development in their relationship. He was surprised to say the least but he was not going to stop her at this point, so he let her drag him up the stairs and into her room. Once there though Hermione started to kiss him with a passion he never thought she would have for him. He grabbed her around her waist and pulled her to him, he angled his head to deepen the kiss and pushed her up against the wall, and she wrapped her arms around his neck and started to play with the tiny hairs at the base of his neck, which brought goose bumps to Marcus' skin. Marcus moved his hands from her waist to her back, down to her bottom and lifted her up. As he did this she wrapped her legs around his waist and brought her hands around front, where she started to work on the buttons at the front of his shirt. Once all the buttons where undone, she then un-tucked his shirt from his pants and pushed it off of his shoulders. Marcus still had his hands under her bottom and his mouth had moved to the spot just under her ear, he could hear Hermione making little purring noises and moaning. He spun them around and made his way to the bed, where he proceed to lay her down on the bed and rolled her over, so he could unzip the back of her dress, once that was done he rolled her over again and lowered her dress off her body. When it got to her hips she tilted them up just a little so he could get the dress down and off. He took a while to just look at the girl laid out on the bed before him; she was wearing a pair of green lace undies with a matching strapless bra and looked amazing. She was the definition of beautiful, he could not believe that she was here with him at this moment and he wanted this to be right, not just the heat of the moment thing or something similar, he wanted this to mean something, so he did something that he has never done, he got off the bed and walked across the room.

"Marcus is everything OK. Why did you stop? I thought you wanted this! Did I do something wrong?" Hermione asked him, she had scooted up to the head board and covered herself with the blankets.

"No, you didn't do anything wrong. I really want to, but I think that we should do this when it means something. I really like you and I don't want to mess this up. I think that we should just slow down and take it easy. I want this to work between us, I mean I just stopped being your professor and here I am snogging you!" Marcus ran his hand through his hair in frustration. This was not at all how he thought tonight would go!

"Thank you." Hermione said. "Not many men would stop or let alone tell a girl they want to take it slow. I really appreciate it. But if it's not too much trouble, just for tonight, could you stay and sleep with me. I don't want to be alone right now." Hermione asked him.

"Yes, I would like that very much!" Marcus slipped out of his pants and was standing in only his boxer briefs as he walked to the bed and climbed in next to Hermione.

"Hey Superstar think you could grab me your shirt to wear to bed?" Hermione asked Marcus, who laughed and grabbed his shirt.

Hermione pulled the shirt on and took off her bra, crawled under the covers and laid down next to Marcus. He rolled over on to his side and pulled Hermione to him, he wrapped one arm around her waist and the other he tucked under her head. Hermione scooted her bottom back into Marcus and rolled over one her side facing away from him. So that they were spooning, she put one hand over his arm around her waist and the other she linked with his hand under her head. Marcus softly hummed to her as she fell asleep; he watched her sleep until he finally drifted off himself.

"WHAT THE HELL? GET UP AND GET OUT OF HER BED, MARCUS! NOW!"

Both Hermione and Marcus jumped up at the screaming coming from her doorway, they looked over to see who was yelling and to their surprise it was Draco.

"Draco, why are you so mad, mate. I thought you would be happy for us." Marcus was confused, Draco had told him he should go for it with Hermione and now he was mad at finding them in bed together.

"Yeah, I told you to tell her how you feel not sleep with her. She is by best mate and I don't want her to get hurt! Treat her right or you will have to deal with me. Got it!" Draco spat at Marcus, he thought of Hermione as a little sister and no one was going to hurt her anymore then she had already by her so called friends and he knew how Marcus was with girls. He just did not want him to treat her the way he treats all the other girls.

"Draco, its find. Nothing happened between us. I mean it almost happened, but Marcus stopped it before it went too far. We just slept, that was it." Hermione tried to explain to Draco. She did not want Draco to hurt Marcus, he was like her big brother and since the fight with Harry and Ron, and he was really protective of her.

"Nothing happened; you're not lying to me. You can tell me if something happened, if it did Marcus is a dead man." Draco reached out and touched Hermione check in a soft brother caress. "I don't want to see you get hurt. Please for my sake be careful, Mi My."

"I will be. No one can take your place in my heart or life, My Ferret." Hermione told Draco using her nickname for him. Draco had started calling her Mi My and she called him ferret. His nickname used to be an insult to him as he was once turned into one, but the way Hermione said it was in no way an insult.

"Alright, well since we are all up, by the way Daph is waiting downstairs for us; we need to figure out what we are going to do today!" Draco informed them.

"Well, I have to get to work. I need to go check in and get started with the team. I will see you Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and the day before you go back to school. I will make sure that I can get you access to Quidditch practices and the occasional game." Marcus informed them, he could not wait to show Hermione off to his team mates. He got off the bed, got dressed, gave Hermione a kiss and flooed to his house.

Draco had climbed into bed with Hermione the minute Marcus had left, he proceeded to crawl under the covers and Hermione had laid her head on his chest. They stayed that way for a while, just sitting there in the quiet, enjoying each other; unfortunately they ended up falling asleep. Daphne after waiting a good half hour for Draco to wake up Hermione could not take it anymore and headed on up to Hermione's room and that was how she found them, curled up under the covers together. She was furious, Hermione was supposed to be her friend and Draco was supposed to be her boyfriend, how could they do this to her. So being the person she was, she walked over to the bed and slapped Draco across the face.

"Owww... what the hell!" Draco started as he felt something hit is face and it hurt. He looked up and there was Daphne, her eyes were blazing with fire and she was angry. "Daph, what was that for?"

"How could you and with my best friend. I thought that you were different Draco, I thought I could trust you." At this point Daphne broke down and started to cry.

"Ferret, what is all the noise, I want to go back to sleep." Hermione said in a sleepy soft voice as she snuggled closer to Draco.

"Mi My, I think you should wake up so we can explain to Daphne why we are sleeping in the same bed all snuggled together." Draco shook Hermione awake.

"Ferret, what do you mean. I thought... Oh crap... Daph, it's not what you think. Marcus had just left and Ferret came and sat on the bed so we could talk, but we ended up falling asleep. Nothing happened. I spent the night with Marcus and you should know me, let alone Draco better than that. Plus he is the brother I never had. Trust me it is purely platonic." Hermione quickly explained to Daphne.

"Oh thank Merlin. I thought I was going to have to hex you two and then I would be out a boyfriend and a best friend." Daphne laughed at herself and climbed into bed with the two of them. They all ended up falling asleep again and that is what their day consisted of, sleeping and laying in Hermione's bed all day. A couple of days later found them in Diagon Alley and it was not a nice day, as they ran into three people that they were not hoping to see until school started again.

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