Draco found his way into one of the corridors. He had not seen Hermione for the rest of dinner that night she messed up at Potions. He had been trying to catch her all week and he never seemed lucky enough to find her. He wanted to make sure she was alright. She knew Snape had already given her another detention and he knew that she was having it rough. And especially since tonight she'd be having one of her detentions with Snape he knew he would be done with his before she anywhere near hers.
He leaned against the wall staring down the corridor. He knew that they were both very tired and where he wanted her more than anything maybe he could convince her just to lay in bed and spend some time sleeping as they had done earlier in the week. Draco frowned as he stared at the wall. What the hell was she doing? Even when he had his detentions with Snape he knew that Hermione was let go later than Snape let him go. How was she slipping past him?
Draco listened hard, he did not need to have Filch on his ass or one of the other teachers happening to be strolling through. He ran his fingers through his hair and slowly knelt down. He had been doing this for a whole week and all he could think was to move closer to the Gryffindor common room and see if he couldn't get her at their entrance. He just did not want to risk his or Hermione's way of secrecy. He knew none of their friends would approve and he knew he wasn't willing to risk anyone knowing yet.
Draco bit his lip after glancing at his own watch. It was after midnight. He gave a shake of his head and knew he'd have to try elsewhere. Hermione could not avoid him the rest of the year that was for sure.
Draco sat at the Slytherin table eating slowly his eyes glancing frequently over to the Gryffindor table. They had automatically found the fuzzy brown hair of who he had been looking for. He had barely been listening to the other Slytherins and their jokes and comments of the other students. He was missing certain bits and Pansy spoke softly to him. "What's wrong Draco?" He shook his head. "Nothing, just tired." He said with a small smile. "Just trying to get lunch down and move on and get detentions over with." Pansy ran her fingers over his arm and his eyes flew over towards Hermione.
She had stood up. She was leaving the Great Hall alone. Draco muttered something about the bathroom and stood up as well and followed after her. He looked around and saw her making her way up the steps. He quickly followed. "Hermione!" He called out to her. She did not stop. If anything it seemed to have lit a fire under her ass and she moved faster. Draco started to run towards her. "Hermione." He grabbed her arm and pulled her around. "What the hell Hermione?"
She refused to look at him. Her eyes going to the floor. "I don't have time for this I am trying to get some homework done." Draco stared at her, his grip on her arm loosening and he nearly gave up. "No, that can wait. Why the hell have you been ignoring me?" He suddenly did not care that they were out in the open, that anyone could walk by and hear them. "And why won't you look at me?" Hermione kept looking towards the ground. She stayed quiet for a good bit. "Hermione?" He spoke softly. Hermione shook her head. "I have been acting very stupid with you. We have never had anything in common and we just let our hormones get in the way of things. I don't want to act like a whore and chance anything else."
Draco stared at her unsure of how to look at her. "Hermione, you haven't acted like a whore." He said with a small laugh. "There is nothing wrong with what we have done." Hermione finally looked up at him. Her eyes brimmed with tears. She had been using Harry's cloak to make sure Draco could not find her. She had seen him several times waiting for her in the corridors and she snuck through as quietly as she could. She had made sure to stay with Ron and Harry during the days so not to give Draco a chance and without a thought she had messed up today trying to get her homework caught up.
"There is nothing we can do Draco. You and I are not meant to have this sort of relationship. Look at how things have been between us in the past years. Why now? Why do you want something from me? To humiliate me and make me look worse to people from your messed up point of views?" Hermione asked as she wiped her eyes hastily.
Draco gaped at her. It took him a moment to pull himself together and answer. "I do not know why. I do not know what draws me to you suddenly. But I know that I would never try to tarnish you anymore than I have in the past. Have you heard me say anything cruel to you or about you to anyone around me?" Hermione looked away from him again. Draco brought his hand up to her chin and raised her head so that she would look at him. "I've not done anything to you in weeks Hermione. I have been looking for you this whole week to check on you and make sure you were okay after Snape's class." Hermione shut her eyes and shook her head. Before anything else could happen Draco leaned in and pressed his lips to hers.
Hermione pulled back from him and he found himself grabbing her arms and pressing his lips to hers once more. Draco pulled her close to him and wrapped his arms around her waist. Hermione slowly wrapped her arms around his neck and he couldn't have been happier with how it was going. He pulled back slowly and ran his fingers over her cheek. "You know people can work things out faster if you let them explain things." He said softly. Hermione smiled a bit. "I just hated the idea of what was put in my head." She said quietly as Draco brushed his lips against hers.
Draco smiled at her and before he could do anything else Hermione let out a yell and Draco hit the floor grabbing his cheek in pain. "What the fuck!" He yelled out as Hermione looked towards what just happened. Ron gave a glare towards Hermione. "What the fuck is right?!" He asked her. Draco stood up pulling his wand out as Harry sat off towards the side looking awkward. Ron was seething. "Hermione what the hell are you doing kissing this snake bastard?" Hermione gaped at him. "What's it look like Weasel!"
Ron spun around towards Draco and pulled his wand out of his robe pocket. "Shut it Malfoy! Get the hell out of here before you find yourself a crying useless lump!" Hermione stepped between the two boys. "Stop it Ron!" Ron glared at her. "What?" He asked staring her down with an unnatural chill in his eyes. "I said stop it Ron! I was kissing him! I was not being forced! Now stop it before we all end up with detentions and Gryffindor loses more points!" Harry walked up behind Ron and cleared his throat a bit, unsure if he should say anything. "Ron. She has a point. We need to go" He said with a struggle. Ron turned his glare towards Harry. "So you like this? You are okay with her snogging that bastard?" Harry shook his head. "It's not up to us Ron." He said making a face.
"That's right! It's not up to anyone but me!" Hermione said in slight rage. She turned around abruptly and walked to Draco grabbing his hand and pulling him along the corridor. Draco gave a smirk over his shoulder at the rage of Ron. He squeezed Hermione's hand lightly and followed her through the corridor, getting strange looks from the small random people they were passing. Hermione pulled Draco to the room of requirement and he felt her release his hand and she started to pace. "I can't believe that little ass!" Draco smiled and watched her. She turned to him. "Are you okay?" Draco gave a small nod. "Of course I am you don't think he could hurt me do you?" He asked with a smirk and walked up to her and held her close to him. "But I think we have a bigger problem now, in about ten minutes the whole school is going to know you were making out with me. And that you were leading me through the halls by hand."
Hermione smiled a bit. "Well, it's not what I would have wanted or how I thought people would find out. But I guess it was bound to happen at some point." Draco gave a laugh and ran his fingers through her hair as she laid her head on his chest. He was not sure if he would have let people know right now either. His eyes watched the candles flicker and he kissed the top of her head. "We will work it out." He said laughing.