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A/N: I'm hoping this chapter gets some good reviews like the last one. Really nice reviews coming in people. And this chapter is dedicated to: (drum roll) Pstibbons(for all those funny, good ideas), BurningMist (for that Dumbledore's office comment), Quiero Queso (for the funny insanity over Christmas songs comment.). If I didn't say your name, I'm sorry. I picked the top three funniest. Try again and next chapter I might pick you! And a special one to JillianUnleashed!: Super funny review and GREAT ideas. And I give you credit for them!
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Hermione and Draco slept in the Room of Requirement the night Lavender had discovered them. They didn't make love that night, but slept uneasily in each other's arms as they thought of the day ahead of them. When they woke, they showered and dressed in silence. They left the Room of Requirement just as breakfast was starting in the Great Hall. They walked down the halls, not touching but right next to each other, and noticed that everyone they passed that wasn't at breakfast would stare and whisper to the person they were with.
Hermione's heart was in her throat as they approached the Great Hall doors. She was terrified to walk into those doors and see everybody's faces. She knew Harry, Ginny, and Blaise accepted them. But what about everybody else? Did they matter? They didn't in the grand scheme of things, but nobody liked being talked about behind their back. They stopped in front of the doors and Draco quickly grabbed Hermione's hand in his. She looked at him with a soft, nervous smile on her face.
"It'll work out, Hermione." Draco said and Hermione nodded softly to him. "You ready?" He took a big breath as Hermione nodded. Pulling her along behind him, Draco pushed through the doors and into the Great Hall.
All conversation was stopped the moment they came inside. It became quite obvious that everyone was waiting for them to come in for breakfast. Draco sneered at everyone and pulled Hermione with him. To her surprise, they headed for the Gryffindor table. The ten seats at the end of the table were empty. They sat there, right next to each other, and started eating the moment their breakfasts showed up on their plate. Nobody said anything. Then there was movement. It was then that Ginny and Harry sat across from Hermione and Draco, smiling reassuringly at them. Then Blaise and Pansy Parkinson came to sit next with them, sitting on the other side of Draco. Blaise leaned back and smiled gently at Hermione, making her smile back. Then Luna made her way down from her table to their end and sat next to Pansy Parkinson who, to the shock of everyone, started a conversation with Luna about a quirky animal. The next one to join them, sitting by Ginny, was Neville. He stumbled a little bit, but gave everyone a smile as he dug into his own breakfast.
The conversation flowed surprisingly easily over the next few minutes between them all. The conversation had started back up in the Great Hall but Hermione and Draco knew that they were still probably talking about them. It was ten minutes later when the tension in the air had considerably lightened when everything started sucking again. Lavender and Ron came to sit beside Neville.
"Hello, Hermione." Lavender said in a sickly sweet voice. Hermione looked up at her, contemplating a violent blow to Lavender's head with her goblet before she smiled at her.
"Lavender…" She said amiably. Hermione bent slightly to take another bite of her breakfast.
"So I'm just wondering…" Lavender said loud enough for everyone to hear. "How many other guys have you screwed in classrooms?" Draco actually growled at her.
"It's funny, Lavender." Hermione said with a smile on her face just after she swallowed a bite of bacon. "I was a virgin when Draco and I had sex the first time. Now, you, on the other hand, have been ridden so often and with as a wide variety of partners as the school's brooms!" There was a sudden silence after Hermione said it. Then there were a few muffled chuckles. Then it was full blown laughter. It only lasted a minute, but Harry was wiping the tears from his eyes. Draco leaned over and kissed Hermione on the cheek between his laughs.
"Nice one." He said hoarsely. Lavender was glaring hard at her.
"I've, at least, never been nasty enough to have sex on a teacher's desk." Lavender shot back, thinking she'd said something really smart. Hermione smiled and then looked over a Draco who was grinning back at her.
"It wasn't nasty at all." Hermione told her, shoving another bite in her mouth. "I was being thoroughly shagged, bent over a desk, with the smell of my man, and peppermint around me."
"Woo! That was hot!" Ginny burst out, giggling. Lavender sent her a glare and then opened her mouth to say something. But she stopped when Draco and Hermione got up.
"If you'll excuse me, Lavender, I have better things to do than sit around talking to a skeezy ho." Hermione said, smirking in a way that Draco recognized. As Hermione and Draco started to leave, Hermione looked back to smile at Lavender but saw Ron first. Ron's face was red and he looked positively livid. He sneered at Hermione in a very unlike Ron fashion and then turned to look at Lavender. Hermione, confused, just followed Draco out of the room.
Hermione and Draco got to their class, Charms with Professor Flitwick, before anybody else. But it was only a few minutes later that their friends came in. Hermione and Draco sat in the middle of the class in the middle row, giving those who wanted to avoid them for any reason plenty of space to do so. Then those who'd come to sit with them at the beginning of breakfast, minus Luna, sat around them, smiling and chattering. With Harry and Ginny in front of Hermione and Draco, that left one desk near them. It was right in front of Harry and Ginny. It was no surprise that when Lavender and Ron came in the room, they sat in front of Harry and Ginny. Within ten minutes, the entire class was full. Professor Flitwick stood on his books at the front of class and started their lecture on hair depleting charms. Hermione couldn't stop the evil grin from spreading across her face.
About halfway though Charms, when they were supposed to be practicing on the dolls in front of them, Hermione flicked her wand a bit too high. It hit Lavender in the back of her head. It was quite funny to watch her dark blond hair shrink back into her skull until there was nothing left. She didn't move at first, as not many people had made a sign that they'd seen anything. Then Lavender seemed to shiver a bit.
"Hey, is there a draft in here?" Lavender asked out loud. Several people turned to look at her and then laughed. Professor Flitwick, who'd seen Hermione do it, laughed right out loud and then slapped his hand over his mouth. Lavender went to flick her hair over her shoulder but then she realized that she didn't feel it. She reached up and touched her head. Then she screamed, tears falling from her eyes. Professor Flitwick had a hard few minutes trying to get her to stay still long enough for him to cast her hair growing charm. To everyone's surprise, her hair was a slight bit darker than before and quite curly.
"Miss Granger!" Professor Flitwick said in a reprimanding tone. "Five points from Gryffindor for using that charm on Miss Brown." When Hermione pursed her lips he smiled. "And fifteen points for such marvelous knowledge on that particular hair depleting charm."
Lavender was glaring at Hermione every chance she got for the rest of the charms class. When the bell rang, their group stood as one and gathered their things, walking out of the Charms classroom door. As they walked down the hall, Lavender in the back bitching about her hair, Madam Pomfrey saw them and hurried over and stopped Hermione with a smile on her face.
"I saw your argument in the Great Hall this morning, Miss Granger." She said with a knowing smile. "Twenty points for standing up for feminine honor." And with that she was off. Hermione smiled, she couldn't help herself.
They made it to their next class, Transfiguration, and sat down; Hermione and Draco were hand in hand. Professor McGonagall smiled at them, clearly approving of their relationship. Hermione wondered if the fact that they'd had sex on the Potion Master's desk had gotten to the teachers. She grinned a bit and opened her book, looking at the spell that they'd be doing that day.
The spell that they were doing was a simple one. They would be transfiguring their desks into a horse. It wasn't hard for Hermione. With a simple flick of her wrist and a few soft spoken words, the desk that Hermione and Draco were sitting at became a beautiful chestnut colored horse. It neighed a few times and then turned its dark brown eyes onto Hermione and Draco. They both reached up to pet it and then Hermione, smiling did the counter spell and it turned into a desk again. Draco was the next to do it and his horse was beautiful. Most of its body was black, but its mane and tail were a lovely silver color. Its eyes were a pale blue. Draco grinned when Professor McGonagall told him just how lovely it looked. Then he too did the counter spell, turning it back to a desk.
Most of the class was spent watching the students transfigure, or attempt to at least, their desk into a horse. It took some students several tries to get it right. Some students botched it completely. One student, Millicent Bulstrode, actually turned her desk into a giant alley cat that tried to take a bite out of her. Professor McGonagall got to her just in time so she wouldn't become dinner. It was during the lecture that Hermione heard what Ron was saying.
"She's probably slept with half of Slytherin." Ron said grumpily as he glanced back at Hermione. She kept her eyes down on the desk and reached over and grabbed Draco's hand as she listened. She felt him tighten his grip on her hand as Ron continued. "I bet that Malfoy lends her out to all his friends.
"I told you, Ronnie-kins. She's the real slut." Lavender said in a sweet tone as she kept cleaning under her nails with a clean quill. Professor McGonagall turned to berate Lavender and Ron for talking about Hermione like that, but then she saw Hermione's face. Hermione's eyes narrowed and she pulled her wand out. She pointed it at Ron's head and muttered a spell. Suddenly his ears got longer and darker, sprouting grayish red hair. Hermione giggled as the class realized that Ron Weasley sprouted donkey ears. Professor McGonagall would have loved to have her straight, stern face as she usually had. But the sight of Ron pulling on the giant ears that had sprouted from his head to get them off and squealing quite girlishly couldn't stop the smile from spreading over her own face and the laugh from leaving her mouth.
"Ten points to Gryffindor for excellent transfiguration, Miss Granger." Professor McGonagall said though her laughs. Ron and Lavender looked up to try to see if she was joking. She wasn't. "But do refrain from giving Mr. Weasley donkey ears next time, unless you're giving them to Miss Brown as well."
Lavender looked scandalized when Professor McGonagall said that. The Professor sent Ron to the hospital wing to get the ears removed. Unlike the hair depleting charm, ears had to be reversed by the nurse. The bell ran just a moment after Ron left the room, dismissing the class.
Lunch was hectic for Hermione. She had to eat quickly and then dash to the library. She had wanted to return the book that she'd checked out before it was over due and she didn't think she would have time to do that if she didn't do it at lunch. And by the time she'd finished her meal and turned the book in, it was time for the last class of the day: Potions. Hermione wasn't sure if she should be dreading it or not. Since the day before, Professor Snape didn't seem so absolutely horrible to her. He'd given her points for kicking Lavender in the jaw for Merlin's sake!
Hermione walked into the potions classroom and scanned it for Draco. He turned as she just walked into the room and saw her. His smile lit up and made Hermione turn red as she started walking over to sit with him. Her friends were sitting at the tables around the table that Draco was sitting at. And Lavender was sitting alone at the table in the very front of the room, practically on fire from her anger. Hermione smirked as she sat down at the table next to Draco.
Then Professor Snape walked into the room and headed to the front of the classroom. He picked up a pile of graded papers and handed them to Seamus, instructing him to pass them out. He was up at the board, writing something down when he suddenly stopped and turned to look out at the class with narrowed eyes.
"Where is Mr. Weasley?" He asked, his eyes scanning the room a second time. Hermione grinned and Snape raised an eyebrow at her.
"That would be my fault he's not here, Professor." She spoke up quietly. Snape crossed his arms and waited for an explanation. "I gave him donkey ears in Transfiguration and he had to go to the hospital wing to get them removed." Snape watched her for a second longer and then he smirked, his eyes showing real mirth.
"Thirty points to Gryffindor, Miss Granger, for giving me a blessed Weasley free lesson!" He told her before he turned and continued with his lesson.
After Potions, Hermione, Draco, and their group spent time in the Room of Requirement, finding and inviting Luna before they got there. It was one of Hermione's best afternoons. They spent all the time playing cards and eating snacks that Dobby brought them. Ron and Lavender weren't there thankfully. And when dinner time hit, they weren't ready to leave.
"Why don't we all go to Hogsmede for dinner tomorrow night?" Harry asked. He counted the people. "We have enough people for a… quadruple date!" Everyone looked around. It was true, eight people, four boys and four girls. Blaise suddenly cleared his throat.
"Luna, would you like
to be my date for dinner tomorrow night?" Blaise asked, smiling at
Luna. She smiled back in that airy way that she did.
"Of
course, Blaise! I was afraid that the Kurkle would have tried to
make you not ask me." Luna told him, smiling and playing softly
with a lock of her hair.
"Neville, you'll be my date!" Pansy told him sternly, smiling. Neville looked a bit surprised and afraid, but nodded, doing his best to smile. "Well let's go people, I'm hungry!" At Pansy's sudden order, the group laughed and filed out of the room to get some dinner.
Once everybody had sat down in the Great Hall, Hermione started noticing something. The tables didn't seem so separated. Sure, the majority still sat at their own tables. But there were a few Gryffindors and a few Slytherins sitting at the Ravenclaw table. It was like that all over. Groups were starting to be made. It was strange to see so many colors mixed together and so many happy faces. Sure, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were pretty good at getting along and they got along pretty well with Gryffindors. But it was surprising to see green mixed in with the red, blue, and yellow. It seemed like many people had wanted to get along but didn't have the courage to before the new inter-house relationship of Hermione and Draco became public. And from the sight of the teachers, they were happy that things were turning out like this.
Ron, back with normal ears, and Lavender were sitting farther down the table. Hermione had been surprised that Lavender hadn't insisted that they sit down at the table with them. But to say that she was thankful was an understatement. And the meal was going really well. It was, until suddenly Lavender stood up, throwing her napkin at Ron.
"It's over Ron Weasley!" Lavender said, walking briskly down the row between the tables. Hermione could have sworn she winked as she passed them, but brushed it off as her imagination. It was only a few minutes later when Ron came to sit next to Hermione, his head hung low.
"I'm sorry, Ronald." Hermione told him, feeling bad. Public break ups Hermione wouldn't wish on anyone. He looked up at Hermione with his big brown eyes.
"I'm sorry, too, 'Mione." Ron said as Hermione hugged him. He hugged her back fiercely, tightening his grip. Hermione chuckled and pat him on the back a few times before she pulled back and started talking again. She had the strangest feeling… but she wasn't sure how to explain it, so she kept it to herself.
That night, Draco brought Hermione into his dorm. He closed the curtains and set a silencing charm with wards to keep it closed. They lay there that night, making love until they were both nearly dead with exhaustion. Then they fell asleep with their arms wrapped around each other. Neither knew of the threat that loomed in their future.
Hermione and Draco didn't resurface until just before lunch. They left the dungeons and made it up to the Great Hall just as everybody was sitting down to eat. Hermione came to sit next to Ginny with Draco sitting on her right. Ron looked surprisingly happy. Hermione wasn't really paying attention to anything, except to Draco who was telling a joke. But Harry noticed something strange about Ron. He was staring strangely at Hermione, an odd, far off look on his face.
"Ron…" Harry
whispered as he leaned over to him. Ron seemed to snap out of
something and looked at him. "Are you feeling alright? You look
kind of… strange."
"I'm fine Harry, it's nothing."
Ron said quickly. He quickly shoved the rest of his eggs in his
mouth. "I have to get going." And before he said anything else
or anybody could ask him what was going on, he was gone.
The group arrived in Hogsmede a short time later in full force. While it wasn't surprising to see Harry and Ginny walking down the street holding hands, it was only mildly surprising to see Hermione and Draco doing the same. But the real shocker was to see Blaise holding Luna's hand and to see Pansy looping arms with Neville who looked positively mortified but still slightly happy.
They spent the afternoon going from shop to shop. As the hours passed, things seemed to be lightening up so much. Luna and Blaise were getting along pretty well. Blaise was actually listening to Luna talk about the creatures she believed were out there. And Blaise was listening with genuine interest. Pansy was talking to Neville about how she was a late bloomer with her magic as well. They were swapping stories about things they did just after they discovered their magic, slightly enhanced because of it coming late. It was strange to see how well everyone was getting along. And nobody noticed the flashes of red hair in the bushes or the occasional ankle that would slip out of nowhere.
The group decided to eat dinner at The Hog's Head. The pub didn't have a table big enough for the entire group, so they pushed two tables together and sat around, couple by couple. Dinner went well. The conversation was lively and usually filled with laughter. Nobody noticed the new feeling between the couples. With Harry and Ginny it was obviously love; they'd been in love since before they even really knew each other. As people around the group watched they saw Hermione and Draco. Even though they were completely oblivious to it, they were in love. It was plain on their faces. It wasn't so much that the other two couples, Pansy and Neville, Blaise and Luna, were in love. It was more that they were in like. Something that could quickly grow to love if cultivated and given the proper attention. Neville noticed this. Knowing about all plants rather well, Neville knew that he like Pansy and it could be more.
Dinner passed more quickly than the group wanted it too. And all the while, Hermione had the feeling that she was being watched. She'd glance around and notice that a lot of people were watching them with odd looks on their faces. Hermione tried to smile at them and go back to the conversation. She knew that people were watching them. But her feeling felt like somebody was watching them… menacingly. After the whole group finished dinner, and a few large desserts, they left the warmth of the Hog's Head and headed back out into the lightly falling snow. Spring was approaching. Hermione just wished it would hurry up. She loved the snow and the cold but she couldn't wait to see the flowers.
It was dark and getting late, so the group started the trek up to the school. Hermione through the castle looked beautiful from the distance, not that it wasn't beautiful up close. With the lights illuminating all the windows and the snow gently swirling around them and the high towers of the castle it looked amazing. With Draco's arm around her, his scent filling her nose, and the laughter of her friends around her, Hermione knew that it was the best day that she'd ever had.
"Are we going to the Room of Requirement tonight?" Draco asked, leaning down and whispering it in her ear. Hermione smiled up at him and nodded. The group never noticed the foot steps in the snow behind them, mingling with their own.
Once inside the castle, corridors quiet, the group split up, all heading their own way. Hermione and Draco started up to the seventh floor, making little noise. Hermione stopped walking, thinking that she heard foot steps behind them. Hermione turned to look behind her but saw nothing.
"What is it?" Draco asked, wrapping his arm around her waist. Hermione watched behind them for a minute more before turned to smile at Draco.
"Nothing, I just thought I heard something." She told him, leading him up to the Room of Requirement.
They arrived and hurried inside, closing the door securely behind them. Draco smirked and started stalking towards her like a predator. Hermione felt the tingling start low in her belly. She smiled at him coyly and walked forward to meet him, their clothes coming off quickly. Hermione reached out and touched his warm chest with her cold hands, making him shiver slightly. She went up on her tippy toes to kiss him softly, licking his lips with just a flick of her tongue. His hands went down over her hips to her butt where they went just below and grabbed roughly, pulling her closer. She could feel him getting hard and her breath hitched. He was so addictive, like a drug. Suddenly, he pushed her. She yelped and landed on her back on the bed. She looked up at him and he got down on his knees right in front of her, pulling her to the edge of the bed. He bent down, winding his hands around her thighs to hold her steady.
The moment that his
tongue passed her folds and touched that velvety heat, they both
moaned. Draco worked her over completely. He pushed her higher with
his skilled tongue and just before she would climax, he would pull
back, blowing cool air onto her heated skin. He did this over and
over until she was crying in frustration. He then shocked her by
picking her up and taking her over to a rocking chair that hadn't
normally been in the room.
"Prop yourself up on your elbows."
He said hoarsely. Hermione, panting heavily, did as she was told,
arching her back. Draco didn't let her legs touch the ground at
all as he positioned himself at her entrance. "Bend your knees."
She did, her ankles touching his back. Then he slammed into her.
With every bruising thrust he made the chair rock, getting deeper and deeper. She arched and cried out every single time. She was shaking with holding herself up as he pounded into her. She finally peaked, her juices soaking his member and his thighs. He hoisted her up, making her flail in shock as he pressed her against the wall roughly. She loved this side of him.
He started slowly,
pushing himself in and out of her. He used his upper body to hold
her against the wall as he stroked in and out. One hand went to her
hip to hold her steady as he started pounding more roughly into her.
His other hand went down between her body and the wall and started
stroking her clit quickly. She moaned into her own arm.
"Come
with me…Come with me Hermione!" He moaned right next to her ear.
With each stroke of his hot cock and flick of his finger against her
clit, she got closer. Until with a brutal thrust she came again,
feeling more wiped out. His thrust became so hard that Hermione was
starting to cry out with each thrust over the next few seconds. Then
he came, his thrust jagged and broken until he used both hands to
pull her all the way down onto his member as it pulsed and shot
squirt after squirt into her. Draco stumbled back onto the bed where
they both collapsed. Draco grabbed his wand where it had been thrown
on the bed and quickly cleaned them both up. He didn't bother
pulling out of her right away until he was soft and cooled down. He
kept her in his arms, cradling her. With another flick of his wand,
the covers came up and covered them up. They drifted off to sleep,
warm and sated.
Neither noticed the door opening. Neither noticed that the invisibility cloak slipped off Ron's head as he stared at them. He watched them for a few seconds, their breath rising and falling evenly.
'Hermione looks like an angel… She has all day.' He thought to himself. He sneered at Draco's sleeping form. 'She is mine.' And he turned and left the two sleeping lovers, neither any wiser to his presence or his plans.
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Endnote: Well, well well… The plot thickens! Lol. Tell me what you think!
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