"Harry! Stop! It's okay, he's not doing anything wrong. If anything this is because of me." Hermione pleaded.

At this point Ron had raised his wand to.

"Hermione just get back and come here, he's obviously done something to you to affect your brain." Ron accused.

"He's a death eater Hermione, get away from him." Harry warned.

"Both of you just shut up, and put your wands down. I don't care what he is. He is Draco, and I think I love him. That's all that matters. He's different now."

"Hermione has changed me okay. I don't know why and I don't know how, but she makes me a better person. And there is no way I'm letting you two screw this up for me. Mine and Hermione's relationship is none of your fucking business." Draco told him.

"I don't believe you. What have you done to Hermione? Potion, spell, what? Tell me Malfoy or I swear to Merlin, I will rip you apart with my bare hands."

"Nothing Harry, Draco has used nothing. We've kind of been seeing each other, and we just decided we would try 'us' out. You wouldn't know, all you guys use me for is a human library and to do your homework!" Hermione shouted the last line.

"C'mon Hermione, don't be like this! If this is just some revenge ploy, then it's working and we're sorry. Just come with us and we won't speak of it again?" Harry tried to persuade her.

"It's not like that at all. I just needed someone to talk to, and Draco was there, and now it's grown to something more than just a friendship. So you two are just going to have to accept it." Hermione told them sternly and began to pull out her wand. "And you both better leave now, because you know for a fact I will be able to hurt you more than you can hurt me or Draco. We can talk about this later when I'm back. And don't say anything to anyone." She warned.

Reluctantly Harry and Ron lowered their wands.

"Okay but don't be long. And this isn't over Malfoy." Harry threatened.

Hermione glared at him, and he rolled his eyes. Harry and Ron slowly headed back to the castle, specifically to where they had hidden Pansy and Blaise's unconscious bodies to erase their memories of being knocked out.

"We'll that's not exactly how I wanted them to find out." Hermione said.

Draco dropped to the ground, and sat on the wet grass. He was so confused. He felt bad for Hermione, and he felt bad that this was his fault. It was his idea to come to the Great Lake, and therefore his fault that Harry and Ron had caught them. And then there was the fact they had told her he was a death eater. He had wanted to keep that part of his life separate from her. She was the light and that was the dark. It looked like he was going to need to come clean to her.

Hermione was pacing backwards and forwards in front of Draco. Her mind was all over the place. She put Harry's death eater comment to the back of her mind, as she knew he was always saying that. She didn't know how she would justify hers and Draco's relationship to them, it would of been hard enough when they were just meeting in the library innocently, but now that they were actually seeing each other she had no idea what to say.

Draco stood up again, and grabbed Hermione's hand.

"Will you come with me to my dorm? I'll sneak you in. I need to talk to you, and I'd rather we were somewhere warm." He asked Hermione.

"Yeah sure. I'll need to talk to Harry and Ron first, I promised that I would." Hermione told him.

"Okay, but if you're gone too long I'm coming to find you. Knowing our luck they will kidnap you or something." He half-joked.

"I'll be back before you know it." She promised.

Draco closed the gap between them, and held her head in his hands.

"Promise they won't destroy us. We've gone through a lot physically and emotionally to get here, and I don't want them to pull you away from me, not now. Especially since I've fallen for you."

Hermione grinned up at him. Had he actually just said that last line or was she imagining things? Did the great Draco Malfoy just admit that he had fallen for her?

"I promise, and if it's any consolation, I have fallen for you to, even if you are an annoying Slytherin ferret."

She poked her tongue out at him, as he fake swatted her with his hand. Before she knew it, his mouth was on hers, in a passionate kiss.

"Why was I such a git to you. I wish I could go back and undo it all. You didn't deserve any of it. I was clouded with hate thanks to my upbringing, and now I will live with the regret forever."

"Yeah but at least I got to punch you in the face." She laughed.

"I remember that very well thanks." He laughed back.

They walked up to the castle together, then Hermione walked to the Gryffindor common room, whilst Draco sat on a bench in an alcove not too far away and tried to remain hidden.

Hermione walked in to the Harrys dorm room with her head held high. She wasn't going to let them ruin her happiness with Draco because of their misconceptions. The minute she walked in Harry and Ron started talking over each other in protest. All she could make out from the ramblings was the words, Draco, death eater, wrong for you, and hexed.

"Slow down, and stop insulting my intelligence. I have not been hexed and nor is he wrong for me, and he's not a death eater." Hermione told them.

"I think you'll find he is Hermione." Harry told her.

"Harry, you've been saying this since the start of the year, get over it. You have no proof."

"Actually I do. He told us, well the us that just so happened to look like Blaise and Pansy."

A/N: hope you enjoyed that chapter, please review :) thanks - Danii x