A/N: Slowly but surely yes, the truth will be out! In this chapter, you'll see the main reason of how the truth gets out later on in the fic. Its hard keeping Hermione and Draco especially in character, cause like one reviewer pointed out, J.K. never really gave them a solid character to work with *sighs* its all so frustrating, yet I think I'm doing ok…somewhat.
Warning: OotP Spoilers from now till the end of the fic!
Disclaimer: I'm tired of explaining this; Draco will do it for me, Draco if you please.
Draco: Listen all you muggle filth, this author does not own my handsome god-like self nor any of the vile riff raff that I attend school with nor my push over Professors and incredibly powerful and rich family, is that understood or are you nasty muggles to simple minded to get the message?
Slytherinz Divaz: Uh, thanks Draco…um, he basically got it down pact except for the muggle filth part…don't listen to him you know how he is, very touchy. Cause I love you guyz lol!
Credits: Uh, how about we have Hermione explain, she's a lot more polite, Hermione if you please.
Hermione: Hello everyone, all the credit for this fascinating story go to my lovely creator Ms. J.K Rowling, though at this moment in time I'm a little upset that she created gits like Malfoy and Zabini.
Slytherinz Divaz: Hermione don't lose focus!
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Chapter 10: Draco's Un-Slytherin Hope
Hermione got out of bed at 6:30 before the alarm went off. She couldn't really go back to sleep after that dream she had, but was it really a dream?
'I blanked out in detention, what happened between the time I blanked out and woke up? Oh Merlin, could he really have…' she thought horrified.
Hermione went into the bathroom and tears filled her eyes as she locked the door and leaned against it crying and slid to the floor.
'He did, the bastard did it to me. My panties half down, my hair and clothes all messed up, a bit of blood on my inner thighs…it all adds up.'
Hermione pounded her fists on the ground and then curled her knees up to her chin and rocked back and forth slightly as she cried.
'I have to go to the hospital wing; I refuse to believe this…I have to hear it from Madame Pomfrey. I won't settle for anything else…I can't settle for anything else.'
Hermione was furious with herself, how could she have let this happen? How could she have been so careless? Cause she didn't have her wand to defend herself with? Yea that was the main reason, but she should've fought harder, even though she didn't remember putting up any fight she knew she did, she must have. Cause she would NEVER willingly do anything of the sort with Blaise Zabini…but in a way she didn't, did she? He raped her, there's a difference.
'I can't tell anyone. I can't act like I know, I won't. No one must ever know what he did to me; I couldn't live with myself if they knew. I can hardly stand myself now, I feel so dirty,' she thought as she began to cry again, 'Why did this have to happen to me?'
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During breakfast Hermione had decided to visit Madame Pomfrey after she and Malfoy teach the Sex Ed. Class to the second years. She was scared, what if she was pregnant? No, for Merlin's sake her luck can't be that bad, could it?
The thought made Hermione grow pale, as her eyes began to fill with tears again, but since Harry and Ron were sitting right in front of her she held back her tears as best she could.
Harry watched Hermione stare absently into space, he noticed the moisture in her eyes as if she wanted to cry, he frowned at her, "Mione, you ok?"
Hermione moved her eyes over to Harry, "Yes, I'm alright."
Harry looked at her intently; she was lying.
"If anything is wrong you can tell us." Harry said looking at her worriedly.
Hermione managed a smirk, "I know Harry, thank you. You know I will."
'I hate lying to you.' She thought.
"So I hear you and Malfoy have to teach Sex Ed. to the second years, that'll be interesting." Ron said trying to change the topic of conversation.
Hermione sighed, "Yea. Snape backed out this year due to the fact that this lot of second years test his patience too much."
Ron grinned, "My kind of people."
Hermione managed a smile, "Yea I know. Malfoy and I worked out our lesson plan last night."
"You have a lesson plan? You're not just going to say what you know and that's it?" Ron asked curiously.
Hermione shook her head, managing to forget about her rape for a brief while, "No, I think there should be a certain way in which we go about teaching the lesson. I even added my own touch to it."
"Such as?" Harry asked curiously.
"I will be stressing the importance of keeping ones virginity until the right moment." Hermione said, her voice wavering towards the end as she was just hit with the reality that her virginity was blown away by a Slytherin who had raped her.
Tears rapidly began to fill her eyes again.
"Why on earth would you-…hey Mione, what's the matter?" Ron asked looking at her worriedly.
Hermione looked at the two in fear, she couldn't hold these tears back, "I got to go." She said as she quickly got up, grabbed her books and rapidly exited the Great Hall.
"Something's wrong, that's for sure," Ron began as he looked back at Harry, "Should we follow her?"
Harry continued looking at the Great Hall entrance, "No. We'll let her be for now, obviously she couldn't tell us what's wrong even if she wanted to."
Harry then looked over to the Slytherin table where he saw Draco looking at the Great Hall entrance as well with a somewhat curious expression.
'Could Malfoy have done something to her?' He thought angrily, 'If so, I'll kill him myself.'
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Hermione ran to nowhere. She just had to get away, she felt so dirty and lower then the lowest life form on the planet. She wanted to run and hide and never come back, once she ran to the third floor and into an abandoned hall she threw her books to the floor and banged her fists on the walls sobbing.
She slid down the wall and turned into a ball on the floor, with her hair falling over her eyes and her cheeks getting stained with tears.
Suddenly Hermione heard a noise, she looked over and saw Tonks and Lavender come around a corner, the two of them looked at her with worry and Hermione simply froze.
"Hermione? What's wrong?" Lavender said running to Hermione's side and sitting next to her.
Hermione looked at her blankly and without caring put her head on Lavender's shoulder and silently cried.
Tonks raced over and knelt in front of Hermione, "What is it Hermione?"
Hermione shook her head, "N-nothing, I-it's, n-nothing."
"Crying like that isn't caused by nothing." Tonks replied brushing away the hair that covered Hermione's face.
"You can tell us Mione." Lavender said comfortingly.
"No I can't. I'm sorry but I can't." She said lifting her head up and wiping away her tears.
Tonks checked her watch, "Class is about to start, you sure you don't want to tell me what's wrong?"
Hermione nodded, "I'm sure, but thank you for asking."
Tonks nodded, "Alright then, Lavender would you please be a sweetheart and walk with Hermione to your next class."
Lavender nodded, "Certainly."
"Thank you. I'll see you two later, and Hermione if you ever change your mind, you know where to find me." Tonks said as she got up and raced down the hall.
Just then Ginny came around the corner, "Lavender there you are, why did you-…Hermione? You ok?"
Hermione couldn't stand this, how many more people were going to turn around the bloody corner.
Ginny walked over to the two girls, "What's going on?"
Lavender looked over at Hermione, "Nothing."
Ginny looked over at Hermione, "Nothing? I don't believe you."
Hermione was too emotional to argue with Ginny, "Please Ginny, I can't argue with you."
Ginny narrowed her eyes at Hermione, "Yes you can. What's wrong? I have never seen you like this…you look like you have cried for hours."
Hermione bit her lip as she tried to hold back the tears forming in her eyes again, "P-please, Gin…don't do this."
"Yea Ginny, let's let her be." Lavender argued.
Ginny shook her head, "No. Something is very wrong here I know it and you're going to tell me what is wrong. You're worrying me."
A few tears escaped Hermione's eyes, as she looked away from Ginny, "If I tell you, promise not to say anything you two?"
Lavender and Ginny nodded, as they looked at Hermione preparing for the worst.
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In Potions class, the Gryffindors and the Slytherins were taking their test making the Dream Potion.
Lavender was seated next to Draco in this class, and next to her was Blaise. Lavender was angry and disgusted by Blaise.
'He should fall in a snake pit and stay there! Or even better he should have his manhood chopped off after what he did to poor Hermione.' She thought venomously as she then looked over at Draco who was carefully chopping up his herbs.
'You'd think Malfoy would've pulled a stunt like that, though who's to say he wouldn't.' She thought as she tried hard to concentrate on her Potion.
Hermione's hands were shaking slightly as she sprinkled her chopped Poison Oak into the cauldron, she was so scared, what if she was pregnant? What if Blaise tried to rape her again without her knowing again?
Harry saw Hermione's hands shake and he put a comforting hand on top of hers, "Hermione, relax…you sure you're ok? Did Malfoy do something to you?" he whispered.
Hermione looked at him and calmed down somewhat and simply said, "Miraculously Malfoy hasn't done a thing to me. I'm fine Harry, really."
Once the test was over, Snape instructed everyone to place a bit of their potion into their vials and then put them on his desk and then take a seat back down.
"Alright, our next Potion will be the Truth Potion or the proper name for it Veritaserum." He said smoothly as he got up from his desk.
Draco looked over at Hermione and saw her hands shaking in her lap, 'Something isn't right.' He thought, as he looked back at Snape.
"In order to do this potion you will need a partner, for it is a very complex potion and at this stage in your lives you cannot manage to make it alone. So I have already made out a list of who will work together, you are in pairs of twos and this project should only take about three weeks which is the length of time it will take to make the potion." He said coolly as he grabbed a parchment from his desk.
"Potter, Parkinson."
Harry turned white, 'Gods Snape does this on purpose I think, first in detention and now this.'
"Weasely, Zabini."
Ron looked over at Blaise, 'I hate that stupid git. What a lousy three weeks this'll be.'
"Granger, Bullstrode."
Hermione looked over at Millicent who seemed to be scribbling on some parchment, 'I can live with that.'
"Malfoy, Brown."
Draco looked at the brunette sitting next to him, 'Pretty little thing isn't she? But alas no…she's missing something. When will a Professor do me an honest service in this bloody school?'
Once Snape was done the bell rang, "You know your partners, I expect a vial of the Potion handed in from each group in three weeks. The instructions to make the Veritaserum are located in chapter 3 of your Potions book. Now get out."
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Hermione walked out rather relieved that she didn't get paired with Zabini, she was afraid that she'd probably have to say to Snape what Zabini had done to her if that was the case. She was very grateful that it didn't come down to that.
'Sex Ed. Class is now…drat…I wish to go to the hospital wing already, though another hour isn't going to make much of a bloody difference anyway.' She thought coldly as she walked towards the classroom.
Draco came up from behind her, "Boo."
Hermione jumped and dropped her books and in some sort of internal reaction she turned around and slapped Draco right across the face, when she realized what she had done she put her hands over her mouth, 'Oh no, what did I do? I must have thought he was Zabini.'
Draco slowly turned his head to face her, flames raged in his eyes.
He suddenly grabbed her by the arms and pinned her up against the wall, Hermione was in total fear, Blaise did this to her right before he raped her; "Stop! Let me go please!"
Draco hardly heard her, "Never strike my face again mudblood you hear me!?"
Hermione nodded furiously, "Yes, anything just let me go, please! I thought you were someone else."
Draco looked at the fear in her eyes, 'She never shows fear to me? Why's she shaking? What is up with her? Who did she think I was?' he thought as his silver eyes searched her brown.
He slowly lifted his hands off her and she raced to pick up her books with a shaky hand.
Draco looked down at her and for some reason unknown to him he knelt down beside her and helped her with her books, "Here." He said dryly as he placed the books on top of her others.
Hermione looked at him, "Why'd you do that?"
Draco looked at her blankly, "A 'Thank you' was more of what I was expecting. Though I don't think I care for one from you." He said harshly as he stood up and headed towards the class.
Hermione looked away from him and lifted her pile of books, she felt miserable…Malfoy snapped on her, then insulted her…she felt such a sharp pain in her heart as if she could endure nothing else. But she wasn't going to give in; she wasn't going to be a victim. With a deep sigh to push back her immense sorrow she walked towards the class, Malfoy opened the door and the two of them walked in to see a bunch of second years throwing paper balls at each other.
None of the students seemed to notice their presence, since they weren't Professors.
"This is chaos. No wonder Snape bailed." Draco said looking at the second years in disbelief.
"Can everyone please stop." Hermione said, yet no one heard her.
"Let me handle this Granger," Draco said as he then shouted, "Hey you little rodents, shut the bloody hell up and sit your little asses down right now!"
Amazingly everyone looked at Draco with slight fear as they all immediately ceased throwing paper balls and all sat quietly in their seats.
Draco felt a huge sense of authority and power, and he grinned, "Much more like it."
Hermione a little shocked at the obedience displayed by the class finally found her voice, "I'm your Head Girl Hermione Granger of Gryffindor House and this is Draco Malfoy your Head Boy of Slytherin House. We're going to teach you all about Sexual Education."
Draco grew bored with the way Hermione was handling the situation, "Allow me Granger," Draco began as suddenly a few of the girls began looking at him all dreamy eyed, "In this class we're going to tell you guys the purpose of your penis and how to make the most of them and for the ladies-"
"Stop it! Just stop, that is not how we are going to go about this!" Hermione interrupted appalled at Draco's boldness, she looked at the students who all had faces of surprise and interest, "What we'll be teaching you is, how your sexual organs work and what they do."
Draco sighed, "What a boring way to put it. I don't think they even understand you much." Draco whispered.
Hermione narrowed his eyes at him, ignoring the comment.
"Alright, so let's begin shall we?"
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After half an hour Draco and Hermione told the students about the boring basics, about puberty and the best ways to adapt to it. They spoke about why you would start to find the opposite sex attractive and they were just getting into sexual reproduction.
"Alright, now comes the part of the class were we shall talk about sexual intercourse and reproduction, basically we're going to explain to you all how you came into being." Hermione said.
Draco couldn't believe how Hermione was making this so formal and boring, "Yes, and I'll be explaining this all to you." He blurted.
Hermione looked sharply over at Draco, but she couldn't snap on him and she knew he knew that by the devious smirk he gave her.
"One day, who knows how many years from now…your going to have sex. Sex is a good thing, a very very good thing, something you will all enjoy trust me." He said with a grin.
Hermione couldn't have this, "Yes," she began with an interruption, Draco glanced at her, "Sex is what created all of you, it's a very special and very amazing thing. The men have what is called semen, which passes into the women when their bodies join and they swim towards the egg, which is the other half necessary for a child to be created. When a sperm joins and egg, a child is made. Understand?"
The class was so silent you could hear crickets chirp if you tried to listen hard enough.
Draco rolled his eyes, "Well yes that is one purpose for sex, procreation which is all fine and good. But the real importance of sex is-"
"Love." Hermione interrupted.
Draco gave her a confused look.
"Never have sex, unless you are very much in love with the other person. For right now you are all virgins, but once you have sex you lose your virginity and you can never get it back. And you never want to live in regret over such a thing. For what if you get pregnant cause of it? What happens then? You must think about these things." Hermione said as her expression grew slightly sad.
Draco noticed but didn't decide to dwell on the fact for now wasn't the time, "Yes, but sex is also a very good way to de-stress and it does wonders for the body. Now to make sure you get the best out of it you must-"
"Make sure you love the other person. Otherwise it could be the most horrible experience you could ever have. Please don't forget that, especially the young ladies, don't ever give yourselves up if you are not in love." Hermione said interrupting Draco yet again and he simply waved his arms up in defeat.
Just then the bell rang.
All the second years left the room looking confused, intrigued, scared and horrified.
"I'm never doing that bloody shit again. In fact I think that went better then our course did." Draco said with heated sarcasm.
"You are impossible to work with Malfoy. Trying to make them think sex is just a recreational thing with no true meaning or value behind it. You make me sick." Hermione said as she collected her books from the desk.
"Oh please…and look at you, with all your little speeches about being in love and the value of virginity and all that, do you know how ridiculous you sound?" Draco said in protest.
Hermione sighed, "Its not ridiculous. I'm sure you don't understand me cause you have never loved any girl you've been with. You threw your virginity away probably in the same way like you do with your used hair combs. So do I expect you to understand me, and how I feel? Not at all. My virginity meant something to me, unlike yours to you and unlike you I have to live with that thought forever."
Draco never saw Hermione speak so passionately about anything before, he didn't even have anything to say back to her. She then turned away and ran out the classroom. Draco stood there, as her words replayed in his mind over and over again, and a very heavy and unbearable feeling entered his chest.
'Who cares what she says? I did what I did and I became the entire better lover for it. I have no shame, and I'll keep on doing what I do. Her words mean nothing to me.' He forcefully thought to himself.
"But was it just my imagination or did she say, 'my virginity meant something to me'?" He said to himself as he got his book from the desk and started to walk out.
'Doubtful, she'll wait till the bitter end before giving it up.' He thought.
He then bumped into someone who had been passing by, "Watch it you little-"
"Oh shut up Malfoy! Go look at yourself in a mirror." Came the voice of Ginny Weasely.
Draco glared at her, "And while I'm at that you could work on a potion to remove some of those freckles, I could play connect the dots for hours on your face."
"Oh shut up! Can't you think of something new to say?" Ginny retorted.
Draco scoffed, "You sure you want to spend the rest of the day locked in your room crying?"
Ginny was silent, Draco sneered and walked away.
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Hermione raced towards the hospital wing.
When she arrived she walked to Madame Pomfrey who smiled at her, "Hello deary, what is it I can do for you?"
Hermione hesitated a moment before she said, "I need you to tell me if I'm pregnant."
After Hermione gave a drop of her blood to Madame Pomfrey who placed it into a Pregnancy Detection Syrum, the color went from clear to blue.
"Well there's your answer deary…you're not pregnant."
Hermione felt like jumping for joy but she managed to stop herself, "Out of curiosity what color would it have turned if I had been pregnant?"
"Red." She replied.
"Can we keep this matter between us?" Hermione asked before leaving.
Madame Pomfrey nodded, "Of course deary, I won't say a word. After all, sadly, you're not the first to come to me over this."
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Four days later, when the ball was just two days away Lavender and Millicent came to Draco and Hermione's room to work on the Veritaserum project.
Draco and Lavender were working on one end of the room and Millicent and Hermione were working on the other end.
Lavender had been worried about Hermione ever since Hermione told her what Blaise had done. Every once in a while she would see the redness in Hermione's eyes from her crying, but lately it wasn't there that much anymore which made her feel a bit more at ease.
"Brown look at what you're doing before you ruin the whole potion and then I'll have to kill you now instead of later." Draco shouted right before Lavender had a chance to absently toss in the wrong ingredient.
"Oh sorry." Lavender said as she quickly dropped the herb she had been holding back on the table.
"Don't speak, just work." He replied harshly.
Lavender glared at him…"I can't imagine how Hermione puts up with you."
Draco looked over at her, "Didn't I just say, 'don't speak'?"
Lavender ignored him, partially cause she still had something to say and also cause she didn't realize that Draco was ready to put a Silencing Spell on her.
"Do you make her cry?" Lavender asked absently as she put in an ingredient.
Draco was ready to take out his wand when he then realized what Lavender had just asked, "Do I make her cry? No, she's managed to become bloody immune to all insults lately. She only seems to cry in her dreams."
Lavender remembered what Hermione had said about dreaming about what Blaise had done to her for the past week, she knew that must be why she cries in her dreams.
Lavender kept being nosy, "Does it bother you, when she cries?"
Draco looked at the girl in disbelief, "Bother me?" he began, but then stopped, did it bother him? Had it been bothering him? It bothered him the first night, and every night after. He wasn't used to seeing Hermione become so unglued like that and it made him feel almost worried for her. A part of him wished he knew why she cried another part of him didn't care. Cause isn't this what he had always wanted? Didn't he want to see her cry and be miserable?
"Does it bother you?" Lavender repeated.
Draco looked over at her then at Hermione, who was measuring one of her ingredients. Hermione wasn't crying, or shaking, her eyes weren't red for once… and her hair was pulled back to keep out of her eyes as she worked even though a few strands of hair fell out in front of her face, he realized how nice she really did look when she was just her normal irritating and obnoxious self. Zabini was right to be attracted to her. He had to admire her passion for saving herself for the right man too, he knew no other girl who thought that way and it intrigued him somewhat. In a very bizarre and un-Slytherin way, he hoped she got her wish at least before he killed her as he knew he might one day. But he was never going to admit to any of that, he was going to stay the asshole she and everyone else knew him to be, leaving his thoughts where they belonged…locked away in his mind and eventually erased and forgotten with time or with a spell if he wanted to forget sooner.
He then looked at Brown who had been waiting for his answer, "Stop being a nosy little prat and focus on the work will you?"
Lavender frowned, "You're such an asshole."
Draco proceeded to put in a few more ingredients into the cauldron as he said, "Never think different."
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The next day after classes Hermione and Draco and all the prefects headed down to the Great Hall to practice for the opening of the year's first Ball which was scheduled to take place tomorrow.
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A/N: This has been my longest chapter ever. A lot of crap had to be put into this chapter cause it needed to get out already lol enough stalling lol. You guys see where I'm going with this yet? A lot of important stuff happened in this chapter. Anyhow, Hermione's personality is having some very un-Slytherin like effect on Draco who is keeping it a pure secret. But what about Hermione, she still feels the same towards Draco, but that will all change my friends that will all change, very very soon. So after this chapter what do you think Draco would do if he finds out Blaise raped Hermione? How will rehearsals go? Who's going to be dates for the ball?
Now let me explain a few things that you might be thinking right now also give you a few ideas as to what will eventually happen:
-What was the purpose of having them teach Sex Ed. Class? To put it simply, wasn't Draco a little amazed at Hermione's passion for saving herself till she's in love?
-The reason Draco hasn't realized that Hermione started crying a lot and acting all strange after Detention is because he isn't allowing himself to care enough to bother analyzing the situation, what should it matter to him?
I do EVERYTHING for a reason muahahahahaha! Everyone mentioned in this fic, plays huge roles remember that, no one is here just for show! ^_^ Read, review and BYE!