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Ch.25

Hermione sat down on a bed in the infirmary, holding her head as she tried to process what had just happened. Shaking her head she drew her thoughts in order and decided to first find Ron. Walking briskly down the corridor towards the Gryffindor common room she met Ginny who looked at her curiously.

"Hey Mione what happened? You look horrible," Ginny asked, her voice full of concern.

"Gin, Ron kissed me, and it caused Draco to suffer a heart attack and now he blames me," Hermione said, her eyes brimming with emotions she couldn't hide.

Ginny rushed towards her and pulled her into her arms, "Oh Mione I'm so sorry, I should have expected he would do something like that, but what are you wasting time here for? You should be explaining this to Ferret."

"I have to have a certain talk with your brother, involving my fist and his nose again," Hermione said, her voice taking on a dangerous tone as she clenched her hands into fists.

Ginny grabbed her and turned her towards the direction of the Heads dormitories, "don't worry Mione, Harry and I will sort him out, you go and explain all this to the Ferret," Ginny said, pushing Hermione lightly.

"Okay, okay I'm going, thanks Gin," Hermione said quickly, as she was pushed towards her dorm by her insistent friend.

Draco sunk into his soft bed and wrapped himself in his emerald silk sheets, sighing he reached for the glass of water on his bedside table and he took a long refreshing gulp before looking at his friend. He had never seen Blaise this worried before so he took the liberty of explaining the whole story to him. By the time he had reached the ending Blaise stood at the end of his bed, shaking his head.

"Spit it out mate," Draco said, growing impatient at his friends silence.

Sighing, Blaise said, " I see why she wanted to make you jealous but the one thing I don't understand is why she would kiss that Weasel. Because trust me Malfoy, when I saw her she looked heart broken and I don't think it's because of him."

Draco became angry at his friend's words, " she admitted she wanted to make me jealous and while her methods were excessive it was still her plan, so she obviously did plan the kiss with that filthy blood traitor," his voice betraying his hurt at the kiss.

Blaise shook his head once more, "no mate, you didn't see how she looked, I did and if the kiss was intentional why did the Weasel have a bitten lip and a budding black eye?"

Draco sat with a look of sheer confusion for a few minutes before he pieced together everything and Blaise watched in amusement as realisation dawned on his face before he jumped out of the bed and ran into the common room, running towards the portrait to find Hermione and apologise.

Hermione had just walked into the entrance when she was hit with an object which had been hurtling at a fast speed. Falling down, she rubbed her head, which had been knocked on impact. Glaring she stood up only to be confronted with a pair of molten eyes and platinum blond hair. He offered her a hand up which to the surprise of both of them was actually taken. Draco pulled her up and they both made their way to the couch in front of the fire and sat down, staring at the roaring fire.

Draco had been leaving the common room to set off to try and find Hermione when he collided with a soft, delicious smelling object. Stiffening in surprise he looked down, meeting warm hazel eyes, he simply stood there for a few moment memorising the way they looked at him in concern before he noticed the situation and reached out a hand to pull her up. Reaching up, he watched as she took it and used it to pull herself up, neither of them acknowledging that he had held her hand for a few more minutes before letting it go and they both made their way to the couch in front of the fire.

After a few moment the silence became unbearable and Draco decided to speak, " Hermione I'm uh.. apologise for the comment I made earlier." Only to find that she too had decided to speak at that exact moment, making both their sentences get jumbled. They both looked at each other in silence for a few more minutes before they both broke out into laughter.

The two of them sat there laughing for a short period and then stopped, the awkward silence emerging once again. Hermione started fidgeting with her hands before Draco had enough and grabbed onto both of them and rubbed them together. Blushing Hermione decided to speak again, "Draco, I'm sorry, I didn't plan for you to get hurt and I didn't plan for that kiss, I just wanted to get back at you," she said, becoming ashamed.

She was shocked when Draco squeezed her hands and said, "Hermione I truly am sorry for the comment I made to you earlier."

With his words Hermione felt his remorse through the bond the two shared. "I can't pretend that I'm fine with it, or that I can forget all the years of torment but I'm willing to try if you are because I prefer neither of us to die," she added, so as not to sound too forward.

Draco felt elated that his mate was offering a truce and decided to voice his happiness at her statement, " Sure Mione, let's start with being friends, okay?"

Hermione threw him a shocked looked, " what did you call me?" she asked.

Draco looked sheepish at the use of her nickname, " sorry I thought that since we were friend I could call you that, I guess not," he said, casting his eyes downwards.

He watched in triumph as Hermione's face portrayed her emotions of guilt at causing their new friendship discomfort already. Shaking her head, she said, " we're friend of course you can, why do you looking so sad?"

Hermione was shocked when Draco called her by her nickname and then by the fact that he got sad when she called him out on it. Guiltily she said, " we're friend of course you can, why do you looking so sad?"

Draco said, " my Veela feelings are influencing my own causing me to feel its sadness at your rejection, you could make me feel better with a kiss," he smiled deviously, narrowing his eyes towards her direction.

Hermione sat shocked for a few moments before reaching for a cushion from the side of the and couch, hitting him on the head with it, saying, " you sly little ferret, you had me worried there and you were just playing," before hitting him again on the head.

Draco shielded his face and said, " watch my face woman, I had to atleast give it a try," before managing to pull the pillow away from her and then beginning to tickle her.

Squealing Hermione fell flat on the couch and pulled Draco with her, both of them staring at the other in silence. Draco leaned forward slowly, giving Hermione a chance to move away if she wanted to, before setting his lips on hers. It was slow at first gradually becoming a battle of tongues as one tried to dominate over the other. Draco devoured her mouth, trying to get more of the delicious flavour of her mouth while she threaded her fingers through his silky hair, pulling his head closer to hers. They were so engrossed with their battle that they failed to notice when they began to roll off the couch resulting in a flushed Hermione and a very self-satisfied Draco. They both stared at each other in wonder before laughing again.

Blaise had heard all the commotion down stairs and was chuckling to himself after he saw what the two had been up too. He had let himself out and was thinking to himself, "my oh my, I can't wait to see how this ends."

Okay so end of this chapter, I'll post another later.

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