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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemI was just busy with my students' recital last weekend and I took a break off from work last week right after. But here I am, back with a chapter for all of you. /em/strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemWelcoming all new readers - this is my first take on a DraMione fic and this is WIP. Unsure yet how many chapters all the longhand writing of the plot I would have - as I've said, this is a WIP kind of story as of now. /em/strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemPlease do tell me what you think and ys, I'm taking in BETA if anyone would like to Beta thist story of mine. /em/strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemForbidden Rapture - sshg which is on its way to its ending /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemBeyond the Veil - dramione and wip /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemHogwarts A Mystery - i'm not sure of the pairing but it's coming down to another dramione although Harry is a main character in that fanfic too /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemAcross the Universe - crossover of hp and marvel and is a Hermione/Loki fic./em/strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0; text-align: center;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"strongemChapter Twenty Seven/em/strong/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"There was a clink of glasses and Hermione opened her eyes./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She could hear some movements from across the room but she felt too tired to even move a finger./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Her head was heavy and she knew that headache would come sooner and seeing that her visions and her mind seemed clouded she knew that she had a tad bit more of the drinks she had meant to have./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"What has happened?/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione blinked and sighed heavily as she shifted over the comfortable place she was lying on./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She first recalled her fight with Harry and then bits and snippets of conversations with Draco Malfoy./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And then there was the image of Lucius Malfoy and how Draco had taken her out and away from his own father's grasp and distanced her as fast./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And then they had a conversation in another room./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"What did they talk about again?/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione sighed heavily and tried to recall but a voice came in and footsteps came nearer./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Hermione?"/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"It was Draco./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione moved her head to the side and realized that she had been sleeping in a very large and comfortable living room couch./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"It was so vast that it was akin to a small bed already./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Draco?" she croaked heavily trying to get up./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He rushed to her, a basin at his other hand and a mug at another./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione watched as he patiently placed the basin with a cloth by the small table near the couch where she was and pointed over the mug in his hand/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Just hot tea to ease you." Draco said pointing over the mug. "I'm not sure what to cure you normally out of this state."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Cure me?" Hermione asked as Draco moved forward to help her in a sitting position. "What happened?"/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He moved her and stopped in mid-action with her fingers around his arms as he helped her sit./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You don't remember?" he asked looking at her with a confused and slightly disappointed look over his face./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""No." Hermione said sounding alarmed looking up at him. "Did I do anything stupid?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He looked at her as if trying to figure out what she meant or if she did not remember everything that took place the previous night./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Malfoy?" Hermione called as he gently moved from her and reached for the basin and the warm cloth in it./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She looked alarmed by the moment and she forced her mind fast to recall what had happened/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You don't remember?" he asked her handing her the warm cloth and pointing over her forehead./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Obviously." Hermione snapped at him taking the cloth. "Am I going to ask if I do?"/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He nodded at her as a small smile of acceptance passed his lips./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He sat over the small table in front of the couch, staring patiently at her to recall the events./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Are you going to tell me or am I going to hex the truth out of you?" Hermione asked as she shook her head and kept blinking her eyes to keep them back on focus./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Well for one, you just got engaged." Draco slowly and reluctantly told her pointing over the ring around her finger. /span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Her eyes quickly widened./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I did – what did I – wait, what?" she asked quickly staring at her finger with the beautiful and shimmering engagement ring./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She felt her head spinning./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"How much did she drink last night?/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" "I got engaged?" she asked, her brows furrowing as her tone showcased her confusion, fear and panic./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her and knew that calculating look over her face telling him that her brains were doing a quick math and putting everything together./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She breathed heavily half knowing things already./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""To whom.." she slowly began clearing her own voice. "To whom exactly?"/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her in slight disbelief at the situation./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And though reluctant as he was, he slowly lifted his same hand with the ring finger and showed her the same ring in his hand./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Her eyes shut tightly in utter verification./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fuck." Hermione said trying to calm herself down as memories began flooding back inside her head as his answer seemed to be the gates that opened all of it. "Fuck."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Her breathing seemed to go shallow and her chest seemed to become heavy but she was suddenly recalling everything./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She soon remember that it was a mutual decision or rather something that she had forced him into anyway./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Well, no. Not yet." Draco pointed out sitting next to her. "That happens right after the wedding actually."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione looked sharply back at him and the smirk over his face was quickly wiped out in his obvious fear of being hexed right then./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Take it easy?" Draco gently offered her raising his hands up in the air in surrender./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her, unsure if it was a good idea to get close to her or if he should get some additional medical aid for her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Hermione?" he asked slowly moving to her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He watched as she lowered the warm cloth and sat back over the couch, her eyes moving around the room and then back at the rings over their fingers./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Where are we?" she asked quickly looking down at herself to check if she was in her clothes./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She was./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She was in the exact outfit she had worn over the party and she still even had her shoes on her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Can you calm down-"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""No, tell me where we are!" she wailed at him not meaning to sound unkind./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She quickly realized it and she inhaled sharply and closed her eyes, telling herself to calm down./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I'm sorry." she quickly said. "I'm just not… Can you please just tell me where we are and what has happened."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""We're still at London, ofcourse." Draco said. "But at a small Muggle side of town. I didn't want to keep you at the manor so I sneaked us out of the party lastnight."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You have a house at a Muggle town?" Hermione asked slowly calming herself down as she stared at the room around her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Er… not exactly." Draco slowly answered her handing her a dry towel with a small logo and name of the place./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Why are we on a hotel?!" Hermione wailed back at him, her eyes wide and staring at him with all the consciousness and realization playing in her head. "You didn't – Malfoy, I'm telling you if you had tried-"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Relax, Granger." Draco said indignantly straightening himself up. "I didn't touch you."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I didn't say you touched me-"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You wereem thinking /emit." Draco pointed out staring at her with an offended look over his face. "You were panicking. It's so obvious. And no, I wouldn't touch you."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione suddenly and unconsciously placed her arms around herself as if she felt exposed before Draco./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He shook his head and smirked as he moved away from her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You're joking, right?" he said moving away from her. "There's breakfast in the smaller room."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione pointed over the next room that Draco was pointing out./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She watched as he moved to the other side of the room and stared at his reflection at a small dresser./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Where's your room?" she demanded at him as she realized how stupid lastnight's decision was./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""My room?" Draco asked her looking around them. "I believe we're both in it."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""We shared a room?" Hermione asked him as her eyes quickly darted to the bed. /span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her and the look over his face didn't state clearly if he was either offended or amused./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione thought it was the latter but then she felt stupid cause she woke up from the large couch instead of the bed./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Did we share a bed?" she found herself asking out loud./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fiance." Draco pointed out at her. "Engaged. Remember?" Draco asked raising his hand and pointing over his finger./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione rolled her eyes and slumped back over the couch placing her hand over her forehead./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I can't believe this is happening." Hermione said. "I mean. I know what we did and I'm quite aware of it and I know it was partly my decision but I don't understand.. why are things very fast?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her self-deprecation and the way she talked to herself./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Do you always do this?" Draco asked her. "Talking to yourself to make you feel better?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Do you always do this?" Hermione snottily said. "Being an arse when someone else is trying to think clearly?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco shook his head at her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Just relax." Draco said with a heavy sigh. "I just noticed you're talking to yourself. You always did that at school."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Don't you?" Hermione snapped back up at him. "Did you never?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I don't do it in front of anyone else. I don't do it in public." Draco pointed out with an amused look over his face./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""This isn't exactly public, Malfoy." Hermione scowled at him. "You're not helping."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""If I wasn't helping we'll be back there at the manor." Draco pointed out at her. "I whisked us away from that place because I knew that we were going to be bombarded by the press this morning."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""We were going to be what?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Press everywhere." Draco told her. "They're all over the manor right now waiting for some news and further interview. A servant just sent me an owl. I was right to bring us away from the place for a while." /span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione closed her eyes in her distress and sighed heavily./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"This wasn't something she really accounted./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Well, she knew it was a big deal but she didn't think it'll be much of a big deal./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She must find a way to talk to Harry because she knew that Harry would be dead worried by now./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And then she recalled that they weren't in good terms the last time she saw him hours ago./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I need to speak to Harry." Hermione said suddenly sitting up. "Can you find a way to get him here?"/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared back at her as if she was requesting for something very impossible or something he didn't want./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Nevertheless, he nodded at her./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""A few hours." Draco told her. "Or maybe tonight. But we must keep low for another few hours or another day. The press won't just let this go. We can't be out in the open after that announcement."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Are you telling me that I can't leave this hotel?" Hermione coldly asked him. "Are you telling me I'm stuck with you?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""We're just going to think things through." Draco pointed out at her. "That is what I'm telling you. Besides, I'm not holding you here for no reason. And unless you want to get harassed by the press, by all means you can leave. But right now, it is my money and protection of you that is saving you from being harassed by the world."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco sat up opposite her with a smirk an amused look over his face despite that worry was clear in his eyes./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He was thinking the same thing as her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"This wasn't a very well-thought out plan from lastnight./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""And my clothes?" Hermione said as if this was a top worry. "You do know it's disgusting to be wearing the same-" /span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Taken care of." Draco said pointing at a corner where at least four paper bags of clothes were. "You have everything you need in there. You're neither going to get hungry."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione's eyes turned to slits as he pointed over the kitchen over the smaller area./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I can't believe this is happening." Hermione said suspiciously eyeing him. "I'm thinking that you've thought this through way ahead."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""No." Draco defended himself. "I'm actually just a quick-thinker. Which, by the way you should be thankful off. Without my wit and intellect, you'd be out there being chased by the papers./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Excuse me?" Hermione said with a raised brow. "I could handle myself very well."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you needed happy after all the drinking you did lastnight."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I never drink beyond my limit." Hermione pointed out folding her arms over her chest./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco only glared at her and then he began to laugh at her./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""If I didn't see you lastnight, I would have believe that." Draco said. "But I did see you lastnight drinking from every tray from every servant that passed."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I did –" Hermione looked red and scandalized. "I wasn't – I did-"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""After your little argument with Potter lastnight, you just started sitting on one corner and drinking in and taking every glass that passed your way. You nearly passed out, Granger. You should be thanking me that I found you first and not some bloody arsehole in the room."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione opened her mouth to argue but Draco had turned away from her and she felt that she had offended him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Her eyes warmed and she looked back to the tray of tea and water for her head./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Have you eaten?" she asked then grabbing the tea and sipping from it as she sank back over the couch./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I don't really eat breakfast." Draco simply replied looking around the room and was suddenly interested at the lamp at the end of the room. "I'm not a breakfast kind of person."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Coffee?" Hermione suggested. "Something like that?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I had one already." Draco said dryly. /span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You used to eat breakfast at school." Hermione pointed out at him. "Changes?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Things change." Draco told her looking back at her. "As like feelings, Granger."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Granger?" Hermione asked raising an eyebrow at him. "We're back in last name basis?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You were being sassy." Draco told her looking back and walking towards her. "I was trying to control the situation and you feel I'm taking advantage of you."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione stared at his breathless form./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He was right about that and thinking clearer now, she was being ungrateful./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She suddenly felt guilty realizing that Draco had just been taking good measures over the situation and she was judging him for something that he didn't even do./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I didn't say you were taking advantage of me that's why you brought me here. I'm sorry." Hermione told him lowering the cup and looking up at him. "I'm sorry if I made you to feel that way."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco looked at her for a moment and then he only nodded at her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He looked like he was too tired to argue and his eyes told her that he barely had any sleep at all./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""It's nothing." Draco simply told her. "You should change after that. We should talk about our plans and how we're going to do this."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione nodded at him, her eyes moving around the small hotel room they had for themselves./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Why was I on the couch?" she asked as her eyes fell back into it./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared back at her, a smile over his lips./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I hate when you do that." Hermione pointed out. "Rule Number One – no secrets. You have to tell me everything when I ask you."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Oh, we have rules now?" Draco drawled back at her relaxing over the opposite couch and stretching his arms out. "I can do with rules. I'll think of my own list."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione rolled her eyes./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""So why was I over the couch?" she impatiently asked him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You passed out there when we got up here." Draco said. "I didn't carry you any further to the bed."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Really?" Hermione said with a smile over her lips./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco roller his eyes back at her wondering why he had to explain everything./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I couldn't carry you any further without having to place my arms around you – like I said, I never touched you." Draco sarcastically replied to her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione stared at him then nodded and quietly went back to her tea well aware that Draco was staring at her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I hate it when you talk a lot." Draco commented after a while. "But I hate it more when you're quiet. Makes me feel uncomfortable."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Uncomfortable?" Hermione almost laughed at him. "Hermione Jean Granger gives you the creeps?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco wasn't amused, he was annoyed./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""It makes me feel you're keeping things from me. I hate it when people know things that I don't. But like you said. Rule Number One: No Secrets."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Absolute no secrets. Whatever it is we're thinking and what we know." Hermione pointed out at him. "Don't worry I don't have things that I have to keep. I should be wary of you."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Excuse me. That's not fair." Draco said standing up and walking to her. "Oh there. Rule Number Two: Trust must be there – at all times, at all costs."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Between us?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""No, between you and the couch." Draco sarcastically replied. "Ofcourse between us. What do you think?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I think that trust is earned." Hermione said plainly sitting straighter as Draco now sat beside her. "Never asked for and neither demanded."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Trust is earned?" Draco repeated at her. "I've never heard of that."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Now you do." Hermione said. "You should change that rule."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""That's not fair as I've said." Draco said in a firm tone. "Besides, in this situation we have, we should learn to trust one another. We should know everything about one another – we should be synchronized – or else this plan will fail. Don't you agree?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione didn't seem to agree to him but she did seem to consider the truth in his words./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fine."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fine what?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fine." Hermione said. "You're rule. We'll include that. I think we should enlist everything later all-"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""So you trust me?" Draco asked her/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""What?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You trust me?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I trust you on what?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""On everything." Draco said. "Rule Number Two tells us that we should trust one another – completely. No excuses, no exemptions. As with your 'No Secrets' – they should compliment one another. In other words, we should know everything about one another from now on. That's the only way we can synchronized."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione stared at him and she almost agreed immediately./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""There should be limitations." Hermione said folding her arms and crossing her legs together./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Limitations?" Draco asked him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""About some private things on our lives."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Private things?" Draco asked her, confused./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Yeah. Like who we're dating and sleep with. I don't want that business being public between the two of us."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Sleep with?" Draco almost laughed back at her. "I don't sleep around, Granger. Do you?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Ofcourse not." Hermione said going red in the face. "And don't tell me you don't sleep around. You're a Malfoy. That's way impossible."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I'm a Malfoy?" Draco asked with a tone. "What's that got to do with me sleeping around? Are you judging me Miss Hermione Jean Perfect Granger?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I'm telling you what I think."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Then I'm telling you now that what you're thinking is wrong." Draco told her. "It's not fair for you to judge what I do with my life just because I am a Malfoy. Rule Number There: NO judgements based on names."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fine." Hermione shot at him. "Then I expect that under that rule, there should be No Judgments on bloodlines."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Meaning?" Draco shot back at her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Meaning you can't judge me for being.. for being a Mu-Muggle Born." Hermione flat out told him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her and he immediately understood her reference./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fine." Draco agreed. "But as you know, I've already forgotten all that judging habits on bloodlines."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Silence passed between them for a while that Hermione broke indefinitely./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""So. Who was the last person you slept with?" she asked finishing her tea and looking away from him pretending to be interested with the design on her cup./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco slowly looked back at her with a smirk over her face./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You're using the rules to know about my sex life, Granger." Draco said. "Now I understand what you want limits."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione's eyes widened but before she can completely react, Draco stopped him and continued to speak./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Well, for your information, I haven't been sleeping around. And I don't do that. But it's been a while." Draco said staring closely at her and moving closer to her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione shifted her legs and moved away from him indicating to Draco that she was suddenly uncomfortable with her own questions./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""And you?" Draco asked her. "When was your last time?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I think you're going over our limits." Hermione said looking away from him. "But just so you know, I don't sleep around either."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Don't sleep around or never slept before?" Draco asked shifting over the couch and moving himself closer and closer to her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Excuse me?" Hermione shot at him again. "What are you trying to say?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Are you a virgin?" Draco asked unable to hide his curiosity and amusement. "I mean, really?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""No." Hermione quickly replied very red in the face. "I'm not a virgin."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her and he was managing badly how to hide his smirk and smile./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Who was the last person you've slept with then?" Draco asked her, quick at his wits at knowing that this was throwing her off her balance./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I don't remember." Hermione said red in the face still./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You don't remember?" Draco asked slowly. "But you don't sleep around?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione stared viciously back at him unsure of what to say next./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He smiled at her with a very amused look over his facial features./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You're lying." Draco said. "You would only not remember if you've slept with atleast twenty people. But even I, if I have ever done that, would remember every single one. So it's either you sleep around – which you already claimed that you don't – or you have never slept with anyone else."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione was silenced and she was struggling with her own words./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco looked satisfied./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Well?" Draco asked her. "I answered you. It is only fair that you follow the same rules. Besides, don't you trust me?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione gave a defeated sigh at him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco smiled further as he waited for her answer./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I've slept with Harry." Hermione admitted with the words coming fast out of her mouth./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Harry?" he asked questioningly. "Harry? Like Harry?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Like who else do you think Harry?" Hermione asked him in a very irritated tone. "Is there any other Harry James Potter?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco shook his head and she noticed that he backed away a little and though he's unlikely to admit it, she could have sworn that she saw something different passed his eyes./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Well that's not a surprise." Draco said in an undertone. "It's not like you weren't an item in school."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""We weren't." Hermione told him and she wasn't sure why she was even explaning at him. "People just assumed."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""And I'm assuming their 'assuming' led from one thing to another." Draco said and he looked back at her and the smirk was back over his face. "That wasn't so hard, was it"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Which?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Telling me who you've slept with." Draco told her. "It's not like I didn't see that coming. Ofcourse. Potter."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione stared at him and for some reason, she felt that he was talking more to himself now./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"There was the cold touch over his face again and his tone was different./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Are you alright?" Hermione slowly asked him. "You don't look… good."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I'm fine." Draco said sighing heavily and standing up from the couch. "I don't even know why we're having this conversations about your first."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione looked back at him, unsure how to react on his term./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She didn't say anything./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She watched him turn away with a different stout and air about him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Where are you going?" she asked seeing him stride towards the other end of the rom./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I need a drink." Draco coldly said./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""A drink?" Hermione asked him back staring as he grabbed his suit from the other couch and began wearing it./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Yeah." Draco replied. "There's a bar downstairs."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""A drink in the morning?" Hermione asked him back feeling all weird at his behavior./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Yeah." Draco answered her as he turned towards the door. "I mean, I know you're my fiancé and all but I'm assuming I can still drink where and when I want. Right?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Right.." Hermione slowly said biting her lower lip as she observed his movements./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Right." Draco coldly said opening the door. "Do whatever you want. There are places to see within this building. You have the spare key over the counter. Just don't leave this goddamn hotel. I'll have someone get your 'first's' arse back here in a few hours so you two can go talk and smooch."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And before Hermione could even react on that, Draco walked out of the room and shut the door very loudly behind him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione wasn't sure why but the silence that Draco had left felt very wrong./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She suddenly felt like a part of her was different and his departure from the room made her feel more uncomfortable than when he was around./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She knew they were just playing this game but something felt wrong and different with the way things were going on between them./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"The room felt familiar and home for some reason but now Draco was out of it, she felt weird./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"There was a vague feeling of déjà vu about what had just happened between the two of them./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And sitting alone on that hotel couch made her feel very alone in a very long time./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemI'm back! /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemI haven't abandoned this. /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemI was just busy with my students' recital last weekend and I took a break off from work last week right after. But here I am, back with a chapter for all of you. /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemWork is back to its regular schedule and basis but I do have a handful of time to write again and do other things. /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /strongemHow is everyone else? /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /strongemThank you for being patient into reading through this story. /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemWelcoming all new readers - this is my first take on a DraMione fic and this is WIP. Unsure yet how many chapters all the longhand writing of the plot I would have - as I've said, this is a WIP kind of story as of now. /em/strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemPlease do tell me what you think and ys, I'm taking in BETA if anyone would like to Beta thist story of mine. /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /strongemI also have other stories /em/strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemForbidden Rapture - sshg which is on its way to its ending /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemBeyond the Veil - dramione and wip /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemHogwarts A Mystery - i'm not sure of the pairing but it's coming down to another dramione although Harry is a main character in that fanfic too /em/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemAcross the Universe - crossover of hp and marvel and is a Hermione/Loki fic./em/strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"strongemThat's all I guess. br /Well, here's the story. /em/strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0; text-align: center;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"strongemChapter Twenty Seven/em/strong/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"There was a clink of glasses and Hermione opened her eyes./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She could hear some movements from across the room but she felt too tired to even move a finger./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Her head was heavy and she knew that headache would come sooner and seeing that her visions and her mind seemed clouded she knew that she had a tad bit more of the drinks she had meant to have./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"What has happened?/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione blinked and sighed heavily as she shifted over the comfortable place she was lying on./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She first recalled her fight with Harry and then bits and snippets of conversations with Draco Malfoy./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And then there was the image of Lucius Malfoy and how Draco had taken her out and away from his own father's grasp and distanced her as fast./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And then they had a conversation in another room./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"What did they talk about again?/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione sighed heavily and tried to recall but a voice came in and footsteps came nearer./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Hermione?"/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"It was Draco./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione moved her head to the side and realized that she had been sleeping in a very large and comfortable living room couch./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"It was so vast that it was akin to a small bed already./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Draco?" she croaked heavily trying to get up./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He rushed to her, a basin at his other hand and a mug at another./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione watched as he patiently placed the basin with a cloth by the small table near the couch where she was and pointed over the mug in his hand/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Just hot tea to ease you." Draco said pointing over the mug. "I'm not sure what to cure you normally out of this state."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Cure me?" Hermione asked as Draco moved forward to help her in a sitting position. "What happened?"/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He moved her and stopped in mid-action with her fingers around his arms as he helped her sit./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You don't remember?" he asked looking at her with a confused and slightly disappointed look over his face./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""No." Hermione said sounding alarmed looking up at him. "Did I do anything stupid?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He looked at her as if trying to figure out what she meant or if she did not remember everything that took place the previous night./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Malfoy?" Hermione called as he gently moved from her and reached for the basin and the warm cloth in it./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She looked alarmed by the moment and she forced her mind fast to recall what had happened/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You don't remember?" he asked her handing her the warm cloth and pointing over her forehead./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Obviously." Hermione snapped at him taking the cloth. "Am I going to ask if I do?"/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He nodded at her as a small smile of acceptance passed his lips./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He sat over the small table in front of the couch, staring patiently at her to recall the events./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Are you going to tell me or am I going to hex the truth out of you?" Hermione asked as she shook her head and kept blinking her eyes to keep them back on focus./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Well for one, you just got engaged." Draco slowly and reluctantly told her pointing over the ring around her finger. /span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Her eyes quickly widened./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I did – what did I – wait, what?" she asked quickly staring at her finger with the beautiful and shimmering engagement ring./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She felt her head spinning./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"How much did she drink last night?/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;" "I got engaged?" she asked, her brows furrowing as her tone showcased her confusion, fear and panic./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her and knew that calculating look over her face telling him that her brains were doing a quick math and putting everything together./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She breathed heavily half knowing things already./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""To whom.." she slowly began clearing her own voice. "To whom exactly?"/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her in slight disbelief at the situation./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And though reluctant as he was, he slowly lifted his same hand with the ring finger and showed her the same ring in his hand./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Her eyes shut tightly in utter verification./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fuck." Hermione said trying to calm herself down as memories began flooding back inside her head as his answer seemed to be the gates that opened all of it. "Fuck."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Her breathing seemed to go shallow and her chest seemed to become heavy but she was suddenly recalling everything./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She soon remember that it was a mutual decision or rather something that she had forced him into anyway./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Well, no. Not yet." Draco pointed out sitting next to her. "That happens right after the wedding actually."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione looked sharply back at him and the smirk over his face was quickly wiped out in his obvious fear of being hexed right then./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Take it easy?" Draco gently offered her raising his hands up in the air in surrender./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her, unsure if it was a good idea to get close to her or if he should get some additional medical aid for her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"br /span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Hermione?" he asked slowly moving to her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He watched as she lowered the warm cloth and sat back over the couch, her eyes moving around the room and then back at the rings over their fingers./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Where are we?" she asked quickly looking down at herself to check if she was in her clothes./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She was./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She was in the exact outfit she had worn over the party and she still even had her shoes on her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Can you calm down-"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""No, tell me where we are!" she wailed at him not meaning to sound unkind./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She quickly realized it and she inhaled sharply and closed her eyes, telling herself to calm down./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I'm sorry." she quickly said. "I'm just not… Can you please just tell me where we are and what has happened."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""We're still at London, ofcourse." Draco said. "But at a small Muggle side of town. I didn't want to keep you at the manor so I sneaked us out of the party lastnight."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You have a house at a Muggle town?" Hermione asked slowly calming herself down as she stared at the room around her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Er… not exactly." Draco slowly answered her handing her a dry towel with a small logo and name of the place./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Why are we on a hotel?!" Hermione wailed back at him, her eyes wide and staring at him with all the consciousness and realization playing in her head. "You didn't – Malfoy, I'm telling you if you had tried-"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Relax, Granger." Draco said indignantly straightening himself up. "I didn't touch you."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I didn't say you touched me-"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You wereem thinking /emit." Draco pointed out staring at her with an offended look over his face. "You were panicking. It's so obvious. And no, I wouldn't touch you."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione suddenly and unconsciously placed her arms around herself as if she felt exposed before Draco./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He shook his head and smirked as he moved away from her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You're joking, right?" he said moving away from her. "There's breakfast in the smaller room."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione pointed over the next room that Draco was pointing out./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She watched as he moved to the other side of the room and stared at his reflection at a small dresser./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Where's your room?" she demanded at him as she realized how stupid lastnight's decision was./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""My room?" Draco asked her looking around them. "I believe we're both in it."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""We shared a room?" Hermione asked him as her eyes quickly darted to the bed. /span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her and the look over his face didn't state clearly if he was either offended or amused./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione thought it was the latter but then she felt stupid cause she woke up from the large couch instead of the bed./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Did we share a bed?" she found herself asking out loud./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fiance." Draco pointed out at her. "Engaged. Remember?" Draco asked raising his hand and pointing over his finger./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione rolled her eyes and slumped back over the couch placing her hand over her forehead./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I can't believe this is happening." Hermione said. "I mean. I know what we did and I'm quite aware of it and I know it was partly my decision but I don't understand.. why are things very fast?"/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her self-deprecation and the way she talked to herself./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Do you always do this?" Draco asked her. "Talking to yourself to make you feel better?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Do you always do this?" Hermione snottily said. "Being an arse when someone else is trying to think clearly?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco shook his head at her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Just relax." Draco said with a heavy sigh. "I just noticed you're talking to yourself. You always did that at school."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Don't you?" Hermione snapped back up at him. "Did you never?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I don't do it in front of anyone else. I don't do it in public." Draco pointed out with an amused look over his face./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""This isn't exactly public, Malfoy." Hermione scowled at him. "You're not helping."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""If I wasn't helping we'll be back there at the manor." Draco pointed out at her. "I whisked us away from that place because I knew that we were going to be bombarded by the press this morning."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""We were going to be what?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Press everywhere." Draco told her. "They're all over the manor right now waiting for some news and further interview. A servant just sent me an owl. I was right to bring us away from the place for a while." /span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione closed her eyes in her distress and sighed heavily./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"This wasn't something she really accounted./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Well, she knew it was a big deal but she didn't think it'll be much of a big deal./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She must find a way to talk to Harry because she knew that Harry would be dead worried by now./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And then she recalled that they weren't in good terms the last time she saw him hours ago./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I need to speak to Harry." Hermione said suddenly sitting up. "Can you find a way to get him here?"/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared back at her as if she was requesting for something very impossible or something he didn't want./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Nevertheless, he nodded at her./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""A few hours." Draco told her. "Or maybe tonight. But we must keep low for another few hours or another day. The press won't just let this go. We can't be out in the open after that announcement."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Are you telling me that I can't leave this hotel?" Hermione coldly asked him. "Are you telling me I'm stuck with you?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""We're just going to think things through." Draco pointed out at her. "That is what I'm telling you. Besides, I'm not holding you here for no reason. And unless you want to get harassed by the press, by all means you can leave. But right now, it is my money and protection of you that is saving you from being harassed by the world."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco sat up opposite her with a smirk an amused look over his face despite that worry was clear in his eyes./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He was thinking the same thing as her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"This wasn't a very well-thought out plan from lastnight./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""And my clothes?" Hermione said as if this was a top worry. "You do know it's disgusting to be wearing the same-" /span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Taken care of." Draco said pointing at a corner where at least four paper bags of clothes were. "You have everything you need in there. You're neither going to get hungry."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione's eyes turned to slits as he pointed over the kitchen over the smaller area./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I can't believe this is happening." Hermione said suspiciously eyeing him. "I'm thinking that you've thought this through way ahead."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""No." Draco defended himself. "I'm actually just a quick-thinker. Which, by the way you should be thankful off. Without my wit and intellect, you'd be out there being chased by the papers./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Excuse me?" Hermione said with a raised brow. "I could handle myself very well."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you needed happy after all the drinking you did lastnight."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I never drink beyond my limit." Hermione pointed out folding her arms over her chest./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco only glared at her and then he began to laugh at her./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""If I didn't see you lastnight, I would have believe that." Draco said. "But I did see you lastnight drinking from every tray from every servant that passed."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I did –" Hermione looked red and scandalized. "I wasn't – I did-"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""After your little argument with Potter lastnight, you just started sitting on one corner and drinking in and taking every glass that passed your way. You nearly passed out, Granger. You should be thanking me that I found you first and not some bloody arsehole in the room."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione opened her mouth to argue but Draco had turned away from her and she felt that she had offended him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Her eyes warmed and she looked back to the tray of tea and water for her head./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Have you eaten?" she asked then grabbing the tea and sipping from it as she sank back over the couch./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I don't really eat breakfast." Draco simply replied looking around the room and was suddenly interested at the lamp at the end of the room. "I'm not a breakfast kind of person."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Coffee?" Hermione suggested. "Something like that?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I had one already." Draco said dryly. /span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You used to eat breakfast at school." Hermione pointed out at him. "Changes?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Things change." Draco told her looking back at her. "As like feelings, Granger."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Granger?" Hermione asked raising an eyebrow at him. "We're back in last name basis?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You were being sassy." Draco told her looking back and walking towards her. "I was trying to control the situation and you feel I'm taking advantage of you."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione stared at his breathless form./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He was right about that and thinking clearer now, she was being ungrateful./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She suddenly felt guilty realizing that Draco had just been taking good measures over the situation and she was judging him for something that he didn't even do./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I didn't say you were taking advantage of me that's why you brought me here. I'm sorry." Hermione told him lowering the cup and looking up at him. "I'm sorry if I made you to feel that way."/span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco looked at her for a moment and then he only nodded at her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He looked like he was too tired to argue and his eyes told her that he barely had any sleep at all./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""It's nothing." Draco simply told her. "You should change after that. We should talk about our plans and how we're going to do this."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione nodded at him, her eyes moving around the small hotel room they had for themselves./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Why was I on the couch?" she asked as her eyes fell back into it./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared back at her, a smile over his lips./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I hate when you do that." Hermione pointed out. "Rule Number One – no secrets. You have to tell me everything when I ask you."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Oh, we have rules now?" Draco drawled back at her relaxing over the opposite couch and stretching his arms out. "I can do with rules. I'll think of my own list."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione rolled her eyes./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""So why was I over the couch?" she impatiently asked him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You passed out there when we got up here." Draco said. "I didn't carry you any further to the bed."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Really?" Hermione said with a smile over her lips./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco roller his eyes back at her wondering why he had to explain everything./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I couldn't carry you any further without having to place my arms around you – like I said, I never touched you." Draco sarcastically replied to her./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione stared at him then nodded and quietly went back to her tea well aware that Draco was staring at her./span/p
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p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I hate it when you talk a lot." Draco commented after a while. "But I hate it more when you're quiet. Makes me feel uncomfortable."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Uncomfortable?" Hermione almost laughed at him. "Hermione Jean Granger gives you the creeps?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco wasn't amused, he was annoyed./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""It makes me feel you're keeping things from me. I hate it when people know things that I don't. But like you said. Rule Number One: No Secrets."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Absolute no secrets. Whatever it is we're thinking and what we know." Hermione pointed out at him. "Don't worry I don't have things that I have to keep. I should be wary of you."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Excuse me. That's not fair." Draco said standing up and walking to her. "Oh there. Rule Number Two: Trust must be there – at all times, at all costs."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Between us?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""No, between you and the couch." Draco sarcastically replied. "Ofcourse between us. What do you think?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I think that trust is earned." Hermione said plainly sitting straighter as Draco now sat beside her. "Never asked for and neither demanded."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Trust is earned?" Draco repeated at her. "I've never heard of that."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Now you do." Hermione said. "You should change that rule."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""That's not fair as I've said." Draco said in a firm tone. "Besides, in this situation we have, we should learn to trust one another. We should know everything about one another – we should be synchronized – or else this plan will fail. Don't you agree?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione didn't seem to agree to him but she did seem to consider the truth in his words./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fine."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fine what?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fine." Hermione said. "You're rule. We'll include that. I think we should enlist everything later all-"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""So you trust me?" Draco asked her/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""What?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You trust me?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I trust you on what?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""On everything." Draco said. "Rule Number Two tells us that we should trust one another – completely. No excuses, no exemptions. As with your 'No Secrets' – they should compliment one another. In other words, we should know everything about one another from now on. That's the only way we can synchronized."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione stared at him and she almost agreed immediately./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""There should be limitations." Hermione said folding her arms and crossing her legs together./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Limitations?" Draco asked him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""About some private things on our lives."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Private things?" Draco asked her, confused./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Yeah. Like who we're dating and sleep with. I don't want that business being public between the two of us."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Sleep with?" Draco almost laughed back at her. "I don't sleep around, Granger. Do you?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Ofcourse not." Hermione said going red in the face. "And don't tell me you don't sleep around. You're a Malfoy. That's way impossible."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I'm a Malfoy?" Draco asked with a tone. "What's that got to do with me sleeping around? Are you judging me Miss Hermione Jean Perfect Granger?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I'm telling you what I think."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Then I'm telling you now that what you're thinking is wrong." Draco told her. "It's not fair for you to judge what I do with my life just because I am a Malfoy. Rule Number There: NO judgements based on names."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fine." Hermione shot at him. "Then I expect that under that rule, there should be No Judgments on bloodlines."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Meaning?" Draco shot back at her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Meaning you can't judge me for being.. for being a Mu-Muggle Born." Hermione flat out told him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her and he immediately understood her reference./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Fine." Draco agreed. "But as you know, I've already forgotten all that judging habits on bloodlines."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Silence passed between them for a while that Hermione broke indefinitely./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""So. Who was the last person you slept with?" she asked finishing her tea and looking away from him pretending to be interested with the design on her cup./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco slowly looked back at her with a smirk over her face./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You're using the rules to know about my sex life, Granger." Draco said. "Now I understand what you want limits."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione's eyes widened but before she can completely react, Draco stopped him and continued to speak./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Well, for your information, I haven't been sleeping around. And I don't do that. But it's been a while." Draco said staring closely at her and moving closer to her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione shifted her legs and moved away from him indicating to Draco that she was suddenly uncomfortable with her own questions./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""And you?" Draco asked her. "When was your last time?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I think you're going over our limits." Hermione said looking away from him. "But just so you know, I don't sleep around either."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Don't sleep around or never slept before?" Draco asked shifting over the couch and moving himself closer and closer to her./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Excuse me?" Hermione shot at him again. "What are you trying to say?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Are you a virgin?" Draco asked unable to hide his curiosity and amusement. "I mean, really?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""No." Hermione quickly replied very red in the face. "I'm not a virgin."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco stared at her and he was managing badly how to hide his smirk and smile./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Who was the last person you've slept with then?" Draco asked her, quick at his wits at knowing that this was throwing her off her balance./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I don't remember." Hermione said red in the face still./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You don't remember?" Draco asked slowly. "But you don't sleep around?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione stared viciously back at him unsure of what to say next./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"He smiled at her with a very amused look over his facial features./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""You're lying." Draco said. "You would only not remember if you've slept with atleast twenty people. But even I, if I have ever done that, would remember every single one. So it's either you sleep around – which you already claimed that you don't – or you have never slept with anyone else."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione was silenced and she was struggling with her own words./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco looked satisfied./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Well?" Draco asked her. "I answered you. It is only fair that you follow the same rules. Besides, don't you trust me?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione gave a defeated sigh at him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco smiled further as he waited for her answer./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I've slept with Harry." Hermione admitted with the words coming fast out of her mouth./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Harry?" he asked questioningly. "Harry? Like Harry?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Like who else do you think Harry?" Hermione asked him in a very irritated tone. "Is there any other Harry James Potter?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Draco shook his head and she noticed that he backed away a little and though he's unlikely to admit it, she could have sworn that she saw something different passed his eyes./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Well that's not a surprise." Draco said in an undertone. "It's not like you weren't an item in school."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""We weren't." Hermione told him and she wasn't sure why she was even explaning at him. "People just assumed."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""And I'm assuming their 'assuming' led from one thing to another." Draco said and he looked back at her and the smirk was back over his face. "That wasn't so hard, was it"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Which?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Telling me who you've slept with." Draco told her. "It's not like I didn't see that coming. Ofcourse. Potter."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione stared at him and for some reason, she felt that he was talking more to himself now./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"There was the cold touch over his face again and his tone was different./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Are you alright?" Hermione slowly asked him. "You don't look… good."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I'm fine." Draco said sighing heavily and standing up from the couch. "I don't even know why we're having this conversations about your first."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione looked back at him, unsure how to react on his term./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She didn't say anything./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She watched him turn away with a different stout and air about him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Where are you going?" she asked seeing him stride towards the other end of the rom./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""I need a drink." Draco coldly said./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""A drink?" Hermione asked him back staring as he grabbed his suit from the other couch and began wearing it./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Yeah." Draco replied. "There's a bar downstairs."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""A drink in the morning?" Hermione asked him back feeling all weird at his behavior./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Yeah." Draco answered her as he turned towards the door. "I mean, I know you're my fiancé and all but I'm assuming I can still drink where and when I want. Right?"/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Right.." Hermione slowly said biting her lower lip as she observed his movements./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;""Right." Draco coldly said opening the door. "Do whatever you want. There are places to see within this building. You have the spare key over the counter. Just don't leave this goddamn hotel. I'll have someone get your 'first's' arse back here in a few hours so you two can go talk and smooch."/span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And before Hermione could even react on that, Draco walked out of the room and shut the door very loudly behind him./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"Hermione wasn't sure why but the silence that Draco had left felt very wrong./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She suddenly felt like a part of her was different and his departure from the room made her feel more uncomfortable than when he was around./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"She knew they were just playing this game but something felt wrong and different with the way things were going on between them./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"The room felt familiar and home for some reason but now Draco was out of it, she felt weird./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"There was a vague feeling of déjà vu about what had just happened between the two of them./span/p
p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #fffbf0;"span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"And sitting alone on that hotel couch made her feel very alone in a very long time./span/p
