SNEAK

Beta : Jhoy

A/N : I own nothing but this plot.

For the second night in a row Hermione and Harry had made their way towards the hospital wing. Draco would need Harry to be near him for a while till he regained his strength.

Hermione sat in one of the cushiest chairs she had ever tried,'Nurse Pomfery must get paid well' she thought as she glanced around the sizable office. A grandfather clock stood wedged between two large bookcases which were over-flowing with books and a filing cabinet stood to one corner. It looked small but Hermione knew it had various charms on it such as alphabetizing and enlargement spells. After all, it held the heath records for the whole school. The floor was gray linoleum, like the rest of the hospital wing, and there was a cot in the other corner where Nurse Pomfery's unconscious body now laid.

It was her fault really. She should have taken the invisibility cloak and waited for Nurse Pomfery to show up and then stop her then before she saw the boys. But how was she suppose to know that Nurse Pomfery wasn't in the her office or that she would go to look in on Draco before she made it to her office?

Hermione now sighed as she heard Harry's mumbling as it made it's way to the office. 'It wasn't that complicated,' she said to herself before leaning back into the chair and glared out of the viewing window. It took up most of the upper half of the northern facing wall, and gave her a full view of the hospital wing. Of course the curtains were still closed around Draco's bed but she wanted to glare at Harry even if he couldn't see her. It hadn't taken a lot of effort to get him to go back to Draco but she had to make sure that he understood what he had do first. Hermione smiled smugly when she heard Draco gasp, but her expression quickly turned to a frown as she heard him start to moan. No, it was not something she needed to hear she decided, so with a flick of her wrist at the curtains she placed a privacy spell around their bed.

Hermione had been flipping through the pages of Witch Weekly when she heard footsteps echoing in the corridor. She jumped from her chair and pulled her wand from her jean's pocket. She pointed it at the door to the office as the footsteps came closer. Blaise Zambini didn't have a chance.

Hermione mumbled "eneverate" only after she had locked the door. Blaise looked blearily up at her before he pulled himself into a sitting position. Julien was egging him on to attack the witch, but he wanted to know why she was here.

"Granger, I'm not use to seeing you out after curfew," he said, trying to stay civil. He glanced over to where he knew Draco to be lying, but became confused when he looked back at her and she was blushing deeply.

"I came to help Draco, and before you ask, I know Harry and him. Harry knows that he could never forgive himself for letting someone die and that in the end he couldn't be happier with someone else even if he tried," Hermione said as she rubbed her eyes. She had been researching veelas for the while now and had not gotten much sleep. She had even gotten a pass from Hagrid for the restricted section.

"Then you should know as I do, that there is nothing that can save him now," Blaise said as his voice broke slightly on the last words. Hermione felt pity well up in her chest as Blaise took on a broken look.

"It's not too late. I figured out a way,' Hermione said quietly. She made a shushing gesture and dug around in her satchel. She pulled out her advanced potions book and showed it to him. Blaise looked at it then looked at her puzzled. "Oh, sorry," she said before she turned the book to herself and mumbled something.

The simmering effect of a quick glamor spell being placed on it worked it's way across the cover of the book. She turned it to him again and she held a completely different book Sleeping Beauty Syndrome: Lesser Known Facts. Blaise felt some of his shock show on his face. It was such a Slytherin move. 'How had this girl, the epitome of light and correctness, even think of doing such a deceitful thing?' he asked himself.

"I thought that if Harry initiated the third bond, then the veela magic would be appeased and it would stop trying to kill Draco, but I knew Harry would never do this if he thought it was just a theory I came up with." Hermione had mumbled the last part feeling a little ashamed at having kinda lied to Harry, but when she looked up at Blaise's shocked face, she almost giggled. She quickly stiffened in shock when Blaise wrapped his arms around her.

"Thank you," he murmured again and again, as quiet sobs wracked his frame.

As the grandfather clock tolled midnight, Hermione pulled Blaise's arms from around her "We've got to go. Nurse Pomfery will be up soon," she said. Blaise nodded his head before they both stood. He walked out of the office and over to the door for that wing of the building. He stopped and looked back at the curtained off bed and Hermione as she walked towards it.

He watched for a few more seconds before turning to leave as she pulled back to curtains. Hermione averted her eyes she carefully poked Harry to make sure he was awake.

"Hurry up and get dressed. We have got to get back," she said as she waited to hear him get up. After she heard some rustling she turned to see how dressed he was. Harry was fully dressed and was now sitting on the bed side chair pulling on his shoes.

Hermione pulled the Invisibility cloak from her bag and waited for Harry to kiss Draco goodbye before pulling it around them both. With a last look at a sleeping and very alive Draco Malfoy, she walked a very sleepy Harry back towards their tower.

a/n: Shortish but I already have the next chapter done!! Review!! Love ya lots guys :D tell me what you think ne?