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Chapter 12

"Ron?" Hermione squeaked out and Draco moved slightly in front of her as if to

protect her. He figured that she had been through a lot and he wasn't sure

whether she could handle another confrontation with him. She hastily pushed his

arm away and instead of stepping back in front of her, he let her be. 'There's

no real dangers right now anyway. Maybe she needs to do this' he said to

himself.

"Don't tell me you would stoop so low?" Ron said, and to everyone's surprise, he

was talking directly to Draco.

"What the bloody hell are you talking about weasel?" Draco's fists clenched and

his jaw tightened with every breath.

"Oh come on now Malfoy. Arrogant, pompous pureblood slytherin prince protecting

and in the same league as dirty filthy mudblood scum...you really lowered your

standards" Ron chuckled and within seconds Draco had disarmed him and now had

his wand pointed directly at his neck.

"What was that you said about Hermione?" When Ron didn't answer Draco dug his

wand further in his neck and continued. "I think you meant brilliant beautiful

heroine of the wizarding world. So actually weasel she's way out of my league."

Hermione inwardly blushed when he uttered those words and right as Draco was

about to stun Ron, Hermione stopped him and stepped directly in between the two

men, taking Ron's wand out of Draco's hand.

"Let me handle this" she said to Draco who nodded but kept his wand in attack

mode at Ron. "Ronald Weasley. You are a disgrace to not only me and Harry, but

your family as well." She threw his wand at him and she saw Draco tense out of

the corner of her eye. She gave him a signal to calm down, and although he

nodded, she could tell he didn't calm down in the slightest. "With or without

your wand I am not afraid of you any longer. You will never treat me the way you

did Ronald, never again! You are a lying, temper mental, bloody crazy git and I

can't wait to see you rot in hell!" With a flick of her wand, Ron fell

immobilized and Draco yet again sent away his body.

"You okay?" He whispered, coming up behind her and for the first time she just

sobbed, she fell into him and allowed herself to sob uncontrollably. He scooped

her up, and carried her up the stairs. "Shh its okay, everything is okay, I'm

here" he whispered sweetly and right before he was going to put her down on her

bed she tensed and he looked down at her concerned.

"Please don't leave me in here, just don't let me go" she whispered and he

turned around and walked into his room. He slowly lowered both of them onto his

bed, not letting her go at all and kissed the top of her forehead.

When Hermione's sobs subsided, she gingerly got up out of his hold so that he

could go tell the occupants that they were free to come out. Hermione had told

him that she was going to take a shower and then meet him downstairs so he

started to play with the kids. After a little while, he heard a ring and Neville

walked in looking bored. Drace dis tangled himself from the kids and made his

way to Neville to inform him of what happened but it seemed as if Hermione had

gotten there first.

"Really it was nothing Neville, he's gone now" she said with the best fake smile

she could manage, and surprisingly Neville bought it. Neville whipped around in

Draco's direction and said

"Take her home, put protective spells up and owl Ginny about this, I'll take

care of this around here." Draco nodded and tried very hard to pull a furious

Hermione Granger close enough to him so that they could disapparate. He was

trying not to grab her wrists, or pretty much grab her at all, since he knew how

sensitive she was to that. Finally he succeeded when he stepped in front of her,

put his hands on her shoulders and slowly moved his hands to meet hers. The

moment he had a good grasp on her hands, he disapparated them both to Hermione's

flat.

"I'm not a little girl!" She screamed and stomped away from him the moment her

feet touched the ground.

"Really? Cause your acting like one" he said sarcastically and she threw a glare

at him before litterally throwing herself on the couch. He took this time in

which Hermione wouldn't talk to him anyway to casts the protective spells on her

flat. When he was done, he made his way to her couch, sat down next to her which

made her look in the complete opposite direction. He moved towards her and

cupped her chin with his hand, forcing her to look at him.

"What." She growled, but her voice wasn't as cold as it was before.

"We are not treating you like a little girl. We are protecting and as much as

you think you don't need it, you kind of do in this matter" he tried to say this

as nicely as possible, and to show that, he moved his hand down to hers and

intertwined his fingers with hers. He saw her expression soften at his touch and

he smiled at her, which was not returned.

"Well don't you think I should have a say in what happens? She asked furiously,

and Draco gave her a look causing her to throw her arms in the air in defeat.

"Of course you wouldn't" she mumbled grimly and he yet again cupped her face

forcing her to look at him.

"Hermione. You are the brightest witch of our age but you are also the most

stubborn. If we would actually take your suggestions into consideration, all

logic would go out the window and your pride would get in the way. So no I don't

think you should have a say" he said gently but she completely exploded, popping

up out of her chair.

"Are you kidding me? Its my life!" She screamed like a banshee and Draco sighed,

getting up and putting his hands on her shoulders.

"Your right. Its your life but your well being affects more than just you

Hermione." He paused and sat her back down. "For merlins sake Hermione we aren't

doing this in order to drive you crazy!"

"Really cause its working!"

"Hermione! You are the best thing that happen to this wizarding world! Not only

that, but to me! You are the reason I'm not in some cell somewhere for being a

death eater and you are the reason that Neville passed Hogwarts! You are the

reason that Harry defeated Voldemort and you are the reason that Ginny hasn't

drove him nuts! Your the reason Ron lasted as long as he did and most

importantly you are the reason the order is still functioning! YOUR ARE

IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE HERMIONE GRANGER! YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO ME! SO I'm GOING TO

PISS YOU OFF AS MUCH AS IT TAKES FOR ME TO KNOW THAT I CAN HOLD YOU WHEN ITS ALL

OVER!" Hermione was in complete shock for a split second and her only response

she could think of was a kiss.

She leaned down slowly and gave him the softest yet most passionate kiss that

she had ever giving someone and he responded all too willingly with the same

passion in return. He snaked his arms around her waist and she threw her arms

around his neck. As the kiss was getting more passionate, he pressed his tongue

against her lips, silently asking for access. She parted her lips and when his

tongue started to search her mouth she let out a moan of pleasure. He quickly

flipped them over, allowing himself to be on top and let her tongue search his

mouth. Even Draco couldn't suppress the moan he let out when her tongue was

searching. Her hands yet again found the bottom of his shirt and this time, he

allowed her to take it off.

She smiled and started to kiss his well toned abs but he got greedy and quickly

pulled her face to meet his. She moaned as he kissed her neck and he slipped his

hands under her blouse. He paused a second and looked at her, he did not want to

cross and boundaries that she was not ready for but Hermione nodded and started

kissing his throat. He moaned in response and started to slowly shimmy her shirt

off. Once her shirt was off, his eager hands search every part of her newly

revealed skin and to his surprise, she reach for his belt buckle. He pulled back

slightly, making sure she knew what she was doing but she pulled him back down

to her, letting him kiss her neck while she unbuttoned his pants. Before she

could get his pants of his muscular body, a bird pecked at the window and Draco

cursed slowly getting up and opening the window.

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