Wow feel like I haven't updated this in ages. And it was really annoying because I spent ages writing this without saving then I accidently clicked a button and fanfiction closed. Not impressed by this.

Chapter 11: Confession

"Where should we go first?" Hermione asked when she and Draco stepped out of the door from their Charms class. The teacher had been asleep, so it was pretty easy to sneak past him. They had to find Pansy, neither of them had seen her and Daphne had told Draco something about them sorting her out. Which was obviously, quite worrying.

"I say we split up." Draco said. "You go that way." he pointed down one end of the corridor. "And I'll go this way. If one of us is caught, it's better than being caught together." he was true about that. The whole school assumed they were dating, though since Gryfferin had ended the rumours had stopped spreading and things seemed to be returning to normal.

"Okay then, we'll meet here near the end of Charms class, so about an hour from now. Deal?" Hermione asked him.

"Deal." Draco nodded, then both bolted down either side of the corridor.

Draco found himself in the library not too long afterwards. It wasn't easy, a class were well, having a class in there. Draco had to sneak around the piles of books, or hide in the different bookshelves in order not to be caught. He worried about Hermione, had she been caught yet? Had she found Pansy yet? Should Draco head back now? How long had it been since they split up?

Draco glanced at the clock, about ten minutes ago. Maybe another ten minutes, just to be sure. Though, this was the library. Truth be told Pansy was quite a geek about books, almost as much as Hermione though she hadn't read the dictionary or anything which Draco guessed Hermione had done. He wouldn't be surprised if she admitted it to him. Either way, would Pansy be in the library? Surely if Daphne had taken care of her and dumped her in the library someone would have found her by now? "Now, this book is very fragile make sure you take extra care in handling it." Draoc rolled his eyes and whatever the first years were learning. The texture of books it seemed.

Focus Draco! He told himself. You have to find Pansy, the sooner you find her, the sooner you can find Hermione. Hermione and Draco were friends, formally. Though Draco didn't want to confess to himself, or her that there were some feelings there porbably shared feelings for each other. "Draco?" He jumped when Astoria GreenGrass came from around the corner of one of the bookshelves. Astoria was Daphne's older sister. She worked at Hogwarts as a nurse (A/N: She works for the MoM, but you'll see why I had to change it. She and Draco were Canon btw...) and to watch out for Daphne in her last year at the school. "Long time, no see." Clearly she was oblivious to the fact that Draco was skipping a lesson, to find someone who had been taken care of by Astoria's sister.

"Yeah, long time. Certainly." He nodded awkwardly.

"Definitely." Why did it feel like she was correcting him? Of course then she made it even worse by trying to walk up to him flirtatiously. She rested her hand on his shoulder and whispered in his ear: "Let's be naughty." Draco shrugged her off, stepped backwards and pointed his wand at her. She stared at him and shouted: "Mr Draco Malfoy, why are you out of your lesson?"

She actually sent him up to Charms class. Draco felt annoyed, really annoyed. She told him that she'd get Filch looking out for him now. Great, that's just what he needed right now. He was about to step into Charms class, when he heard a scream.

Hermione's scream.

Hermione found herself going up a lot of stairs. It didn't help that they moved, leaving her abandoned sometimes in corridors. Where was Pansy? Was she anywhere? Had Draco already found her? No, the direction he went in was to the library. She doubted that Pansy would have been left there. Hermione stepped on another flight of stairs, which to her surprise moved instantly. Facing the corridor Hermione should have guessed Pansy was in.

Se ran into it immediately, and headed towards the Girl's bathroom, she could already hear Moaning Myrtle doing what she does best, moaning. "Pansy!" She shrieked, jumping in the bathroom.

"Hermione?" A voice came from one of the toilets, Pansy's voice. Hermione checked each stall to find her, chained to a pipe. "You came to save me?" Hermione nodded and started pulling at the chains.

"Our Charms class teacher fell asleep, me and Draco went to find you. He's gone to the library. I've been trying to find you everywhere." Hermione continued to try and undo the chains, but nothing was working.

"Face it." Pansy shouted at her while Hermione was still rattling the chains. "It won't budge, you can use magic but I don't think there's a spell for this. I'm going to die here." hermione stepped back from Pansy. She was right, there was no spell for this.

"I'll go tell someone." Hermione said, admittedly thinking about Draco than finding a teacher. "They'll undo it."

"You could try a teacher. " Hermione nodded as though that was her plan. "Though I doubt they'd believe you. The amount of things Daph said to them in order for all of us to skive lessons." Daph was obviously Daphne's nickname. Were Daphne and Pansy friends? Hadn't Daphne been the one to do this to her? "Though Daph's been a bit more of a bitch lately." Pansy shrugged, as if hearing Hermione's thoughts. "For example this." She rattled the chains which were tied around the pipes and her hands. "Is her way of getting me back. In first year it would have probably been stealing food off my plate or something. Second and third year, she used several potions. Fourth and fifth year was sort of like a truce for us. Then when Draco started blanking everyone in sixth year she blamed me again. I'd wake up in random places around the school. She's never gone to this extent." She shook the chains again and cussed at them.

"Should I go get the teacher then?" Hermione asked, Pansy shook her head. Hermione nodded and again tried to move the chains off her wrist. She tried one on its own, it budged slightly but then got caught again. Hermione put her strength into it and it actually came loose.

"Well done." Hermione nodded, as she started on the next one. "And by the way, thanks for not killing Draco." Hermione paused for a moment and stared at Pansy. The girl didn't have short hair like she did in the first few years at Hogwarts. She wore her long hair loose, she'd also dyed it to a light brown. "A lot of people think I used to be interested in him. Please, he's so not my type. No, he had no siblings and neither did I and we just clicked. He's the closest thing I have to a brother." Hermione nodded awkwardly and began to pull at the chain again. "What I mean is Hermione, I'm happy for you and Draco. I only told you before because I know what he's like. Though he seems to be happy around you too." Hermione shook her head.

"We're not dating." Pansy laughed.

"Yeah right." Hermione shook her head. "Right, well you will date. Trust me by the end of this year you'll be in love with Draco Malfoy." Hermione blushed slightly so let her hair fall over her face. "You like him don't you? Don't worry it's not that obvious, only when you hide your face from me." Hermione giggled.

"Fine, but don't tell him I said that. He'll only be up in my face about it." Hermione expected Pansy to laugh at this, but the girl's scream was soon echoed by Hermione's.

Ooooh cliff-hanger alert. What do you think happened? please review/favourite/whatever else.