Chapter 37
"Hermione! Hermione!" Draco shook Hermione furiously, trying to wake her up to get her to stop screaming. He was getting desperate, he pulled out his wand and filled a glass with ice cold water before pouring it over her face. Hermione gasped as the cold water hit her. Her eyes opened and began searching the area around, unable to truly register completely what was going on.
"Where am I?" Hermione whispered.
"You're in the common room." Draco leaned over so that his head was directly above hers, so she could see his face completely. Hermione's eyes then swiveled to focus completely on Draco.
"Draco?" Hermione voice was so soft that Draco could barely hear her.
"Hermione, it's alright. It's me. You just had a—"
"Stay away from me!" Hermione pushed Draco so that he hit the other side of the couch. Hermione quickly scrambled up and began searching through her robes for her wand.
"Hermione, what are you doing?" Draco stood up from the couch his hands up and took a step toward her.
"I said stay away from me!"
"Hermione please just tell me what's going on? You were asleep!" Draco tried to calm Hermione down as she finally found her wand and pointed it directly at his chest.
"I was asleep? You killed Draco!"
"Hermione, I'm right here."
"Likely story Lucius, why should I believe that you're Draco?"
"BECAUSE YOU WERE ASLEEP!" Draco yelled, startling Hermione and himself.
"Prove it, tell me something that only Draco would know." Hermione kept her wand pointed directly at Draco's chest.
"Ok, um, let me think. Oh, remember the time when Snape paired us up in class in January? Remember how we pretended to argue throughout class but each of really had made up different meanings for all the mean things that we used call each other? We had spent hours the previous night laughing making up the list." Hermione lowered her wand to her side.
"I was asleep?" Hermione asked her cheeks becoming fairly flushed.
"Yes," Draco breathed, "Hermione what did you dream that could have possibly made you act like this?"
"Draco it was so terrifying." Hermione looked down to the floor as tears began to well up in her eyes. Draco quickly moved towards her and wrapped his arms around her, letting Hermione cry on his chest.
"Shhh, it's alright. None of it happened."
"Draco he killed you then impersonated you to kill me. It could happen though."
"Relax; it won't happen we are much to smart to ever let that happen, alright? Listen to me; nothing can ever take me away from you." Draco picked up her chin and planted a kiss on her forehead. Hermione closed her eyes and nodded, earning her a quick peck on the lips from Draco. "Do you feel up to patrolling tonight or do you want me to go alone?"
"No, I'll come with you; I don't want to be alone at the moment." Hermione looked into Draco's eyes, hoping that he would agree.
"If you're sure. We ought to leave now though; we won't be early like we always are however."
"Oh! We needed to go like fifteen minutes ago! Why didn't you wake me up sooner?"
"Maybe because you looked so beautiful while you slept, until you started screaming. One question, what was happening in your dream before all the scary stuff happened?"
"We were leaving to go out patrolling. Why?" A slight blush crept across Hermione's cheeks as she remembered what she was actually doing with the fake Draco.
"No reason, I was just wondering why you were moaning my name." Draco smirked and laughed as he pulled Hermione to the door with a look of embarrassment across her face.
"I was talking in my sleep?" Hermione asked as Draco helped her jump to the ground.
"Oh yes, it's always very entertaining to watch you sleep." Draco laughed, his hand still entwined with Hermione's.
"I talk in my sleep often?" The pink tint that was across her face only moments before was now the hue of a ripe tomato. Draco nodded and Hermione looked down at the ground mortified. "What do I normally say?"
"Usually it's incoherent, but sometimes I get other very funny things to hear, wild fantasies and such."
"Oh Merlin." Hermione muttered as she and Draco turned around the corner, heading towards McGonagall's office.
"Don't worry, your secrets are safe with me." Draco pulled her closer to him so that he could wrap his arm around her shoulders and kiss the top of her head.