A/N: Chapter 10 is up, sorry but I was too busy to update yesturday. Mainly sitting in Starbucks with friends, drinking a Vanilla Frap and eating 'Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans' and the earwax are yummy might I add, dirt and earthworm, not so much. Then today and tomorrow, I'm making 'Butterbeer' and maybe other Harry Potter goodies.

Disclaimer: Not this time.

Expect the Unexpected

Chapter 10: Crushed

Hermione woke next morning in a strange place, her neck was hurting from the position she was in when she woke. It had just popped into her mind what she almost did he previous night, feeling a little embarrassed, she couldn't see Draco at all. He must have left to save himself the humiliation of being curled up to her.

Pushing the blanket off herself and standing up, she stretched before looking around for her bag and shoes, finding them, she began to put them on.

"Leaving?" It was Blaise.

"Where is Draco?"

"Oh he'll be here in a moment, DRAKE!" He smiled, leaning against the wall he was just looking at Hermione. She felt very uncomfortable with his staring, until he smacked on the back of the head, where it fell forward.

"Put your eyes back in you head and get to work, your late"

"Yeah but Drake, you don't mind"

"Get to work or I'll lower your pay"

"Draco, we're like brothers, you wouldn't do that"

"Just watch me" Zabini walked off in a mood, preparing for work. Draco smiled at her.

"Just ignore him, You up for breakfast?" She smiled back and nodded. He exited the room and she followed slowly. They ended in a small dining room, where one side sat two plates of food and two cups of coffee. They sat and ate in comfortable silence and after finishing Hermione decided it was time to go home, it was already past 11 and Jazzie would be wondering where she got to, plus Draco had work to do. They both walked to the fireplace and Hermione turned to look at Draco who bent down and kissed her sweetly on the lips, he pulled back to see a blushing Hermione smiling up at him.

"Want to come to mine later, I'll could make some dinner and we could maybe go for a walk in the park?"

"Sure, I finish work at 6 so I'll come straight from there" She nodded and he pecked her on the lips, she walked into the fireplace and flooed back home.

Hermione almost skipped out of the fireplace, she was so happy, who would have thought she'd be so happy with Draco Malfoy. She was stopped in her tracks, finding Harry and Ron sitting on her sofa, faces pale and tired. They had obviously had a hard night. They looked up at the sound of the fire place to see a smiling Hermione, he features slowly dropped as it dawned on her something bad had happened. Jazzie walked in with two cups of coffee and handed them to the boys.

"Hermione, we need to talk" Harry had stood by now.

"What's going on?"

"We've been trying to reach you all night, where have you been?"

"I was round Dr...a friends, I went out last night and was too tired to come back. What is it?"

"You should sit down?" He offered her his seat but she shook her head, looking at Jazzie whose eyes were red a puffy, she had obviously been crying.

"What is it?"

"Your parents..." It was Harry that spoke again, Ron had stood from his seat, he wanted to go over to her and tell her everything was going to be OK but he didn't know how to, he was still shocked himself. Her breath got stuck in her throat, Harry had rushed out yesterday morning, was it because of her parents? Were they dead?

"Are they dead?" A tear streaked down her face and she was frozen.

"No, just badly injured, they're at St. Mungos, unconscious." She nodded and took a deep breath, staring into Harry's eyes.

"Who attacked them?"

"Hermione, you're in shock" this time it was Ron that spoke, he walked towards her and placed his arm around her shoulder, walking her towards the chair. "Come and sit down and have a drink, then we can take you to your parents." She pushed his hand away.

"No, I want to know who did it, who attacked my parents?"

"We don't know for sure but..."

"But you think you know? Harry if you have any lead, I need to know, I need to know who has done this?"

"Malfoy"

"What?" Hermione was shocked. They didn't mean Draco did they? Surely there had to be another person. Had his father escaped Azkaban? Was it his mother?

"We think it's Draco Malfoy."

Hermione couldn't believe her ears, she sank to the floor and sat there, Harry and Ron darted forward to help her up.

"I'm OK, just let me sit here for a moment, I need to take this in"

"Hermione, we have been tracking you and your family." There was no response from Hermione so Harry continued. "We knew you were the biggest target and so we've had enchantments in and around this town and Malfoy has been tracked to have been in this area for a while, we're not sure exactly where in town, but we know it was close to both yours and your parents house. We think he's had it planned for a while. Last night your parents went out of town, Malfoy's track was no where to be seen. He must have followed them."

Hermione's head snapped up, it couldn't have been Draco, she was with him all last night.

A/N: So what do you think so this little change in events. Know who attacked her parents?

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