Sleeping with Friend Or Foe- Story 2
Disclaimer: Characters, actions, words etc... taken from JKR's Harry Potter © and used in this fanfiction do not belong to me. Even though I'd love to have Draco Malfoy…..Yum LOL!
A/N: Hey everyone. Sorry for the long wait. I've finally finished my undergrad so now have a bit more time to devote to this story. Hopefully I can pump out another chapter soon Please read and review. Thanks and enjoy xoxo TBG
Chapter Recap…..
Snape sat there in shock for a moment as he absorbed what he'd read. His heart was beating loudly in his ears as he realized he'd lost Hermione again. He must've scared her off when he said he loved her. But he did understand that for her to heal she needed to be alone. Snape stood up and went over to the fire. He stood over it as he stared at the parchment reading the words over and over.
Footsteps and then a knock on his door caused Snape to turn around. There stood the one who stood in his way with Hermione. Draco came into the office and shut the door.
"I'm here for Occlumency professor." Snape said nothing and Draco stared back before he glanced at the parchment in Snape's hands. Hermione's words echoed in his mind, take care…and destroy this after you read it. Snape dropped the parchment into the fire and turned toward Draco.
"Let us begin." He said.
Chapter 19: Rolling in the Deep
Draco's eyes glanced at the parchment as it began to burn in the fire. Was it something from the Dark Lord? What had Snape just burned?
As Draco watched the parchment burn, curl into a dark ball and then into ash, Draco couldn't help but wonder if it was something about him.
While Draco had been watching the fire, Snape had removed his top flowing robes and had moved all the desks aside so they would have space to work. Snape rolled up his sleeves and then turned to Draco.
"Are you ready?" Draco nodded and then quickly held his wand in the offense position. Snape nodded and then said the spell.
Immediately Draco's mind was entered and he could see memories pass one by one. But he could also see Snape standing in front of him in the classroom. Draco quickly called a shield charm which hit Snape and caused Snape to stagger.
At this point, Draco had entered Snape's mind and he was seeing things that he believed were things Snape dreamed of. Everything was beautiful, sunny. He was walking hand in hand in the distance with a woman. Draco began to run to them, wanting to see the woman's face, but the image quickly shifted.
Suddenly Snape was in Hogwarts, walking down the corridors, a large pile of books floating beside him as Hermione walked beside him. Draco watched as they walked down the corridor toward the Head Boy and Girl dormitory. When they reached the dormitory Snape caught the books and handed them to Hermione. Suddenly he grabbed Hermione's arms and kissed her.
Draco stepped back almost as if he'd had been a physical blow. He stepped back and then concentrated and pulled himself out of the memory. He shut his eyes for a moment and then looked at Snape.
Snape was rolling up his sleeves and then met Draco's eye,
"That was very good. You were able to extricate yourself from my mind at your own will and you were able to remove me from your mind. Now see if you can stop me completely from entering your mind." Snape raised his wand but Draco put up his hand.
"Stop! Are you going to act as if I did not see what I just saw?" Snape just shrugged, since he was not in the mood to discuss Hermione.
"What you have seen does not leave this room. That was the conditions on which we started this, now if we may continue…"
"When did that happen? Are you and Hermione…together?" Draco asked. He could barely think the words let alone say them. Snape stared at the boy who held Hermione's heart unknowingly. A part of Snape wanted to be hurtful and lie but he knew that would be wrong.
"No, I have no relationship currently with Miss Granger. Now I will not speak on this subject again. If you'd like to continue then let us, if not then I say goodnight Mr. Malfoy," Snape said, his tone cold and sharp. Draco wanted to ask more questions but he knew that they would get him nowhere. He also took into account the fact that Snape said not currently. Did that mean it had happened but it was only now over? How long ago was he with her? He gritted his teeth at the thoughts.
"Are you ready to continue Mr. Malfoy or are you unable to due to your emotions?" Snape asked with a slight sneer. Draco glared at Snape and raised his wand.
"Fine, let's get on with it." They continued with their lesson, but because Draco's mind was so distracted he was unable to fight against Snape's mind again. Soon Snape lowered his wand as Draco caught himself against a chair. A layer of sweat was on his brow.
"You are no longer concentrating," Snape said. Draco glared at him.
"I am trying."
"Well you must try harder." Draco huffed and then stood again with his wand at Snape.
"Again," he whispered. Snape shook his head.
"You have not disciplined yourself enough." Draco shook his head.
"Again." Snape stared at the boy for a moment and then turned his wand at him.
Snape cast the spell but Draco quickly countered it causing himself to enter Snape's mind once again. This time Snape was sitting at the Slytherin house table with other first years. Snape looked over at the Gryffindor table as a pretty red headed girl who looked to be a first year shook hands with the Gryffindors. She turned and looked over at Snape who smiled and waved at her.
Draco watched the exchange and then pulled himself out of the memory. He stared at Snape for a moment and then lowered his wand. Snape nodded.
"Very good. You have done well in controlling how to go into the memory and then removing yourself. I think we've done well for tonight. You may leave." Draco nodded and opened the door. Before he left he gave Snape one last glance. The recesses for Snape's mind were deep and complex and from the small bits that Draco had seen he knew that no one would be able to understand who Snape really was, not even someone like the Dark Lord.
Draco turned away and went upstairs to the Head Girl & Boy dorm. When he reached the corridor to the dorm, he could hear Hermione laughing. Draco turned the corner and noticed Hermione standing in front of the portrait with Harry & Ron. At seeing Hermione Draco couldn't help picturing her there with Snape, kissing him. He charged up to them and glared at Hermione.
"So are you fucking Snape?" Hermione's eyes widened and both Harry & Ron glanced at each other before they looked at Hermione.
"What?"
"You heard me, are you still sleeping with him? It wouldn't be the first time would it?" He took a step toward her and both Harry & Ron stepped in between and shielded Hermione. Ron held up a hand.
"Whoa there mate. You can't come at Hermione like that."
Hermione pushed both boys aside so she could face Draco. She looked at him for a moment, wondering how he'd found out. She pursed her lips briefly and then spoke.
"I did have a relationship with him, but it's over. And it was never during us, so you can relax." Hermione glanced nervously at Harry who was watching Draco. She glanced at Ron and he seemed a bit shocked but he kept that to himself and still stood beside Hermione, she was still his best mate.
"You got what you wanted, now bugger off," Ron said. Draco stared at Hermione for a moment more. His silver eyes locked with her hazel. Hermione couldn't read all the emotions there but she did read one loud and clear, hurt. He turned away from them and went into the dorm.
When he was gone, Hermione let out a breath she hadn't known she'd been holding in. Harry and Ron turned to her as well.
"Thanks guys."
"No problem Hermione, but I can't believe that you would be with a greasy git like Snape. I couldn't even believe it when it was just Malfoy," Ron said with a grin. Hermione smiled.
"He was there when I thought I was alone, but that is completely over now. I promise you." Ron nodded and both of them hugged her.
"Do you want to come back to the Gryffindor common room? I don't think it would be a good idea to be in there with Malfoy," Harry suggested. Hermione thought of that for a moment and nodded.
As Hermione made her way with Harry & Ron, she couldn't help dwelling on the hurt look she'd seen in Draco's eyes. She hadn't expected that and it had caught her off guard. She hadn't thought her actions would have affected him at all. She didn't know what to make of it.
Hermione spent the night in the Gryffindor tower as Draco paced back and forth in his dorm, going over that memory in his mind. Had he driven Hermione to Snape? He lay in bed rolling over and over, his chest aching from the pain of seeing that. He couldn't even confront Hermione about it because she had not come to the dorm. Draco hadn't expected to feel so torn up over this and he didn't know if it was the fact that Hermione wasn't with him or that she was possibly moving on from him.
He fell into a fit of sleep before he woke early the next morning to the sound of Hermione in her room shuffling around. Hermione had come back early in the morning so she could get dressed. She had just finished tucking in her shirt enough that you couldn't notice her baby bump, when she heard a knock on her door.
Hermione opened the door to see a tired and disheveled Draco standing there. He looked like he'd just fallen into bed in his clothes.
"What?" Hermione asked.
"Did you love him?" Draco asked without thinking. Hermione stared at him a moment.
"Why would you ask that?"
"It's important. Now please answer the question." Hermione looked into Draco's eyes and they seemed to be pleading so she sighed.
"No. I didn't. Happy now?" Draco didn't reply just turned and left. Hermione huffed and followed him as he went into his bedroom and began to unbutton his shirt. His back was toward the door as Hermione stood there.
"Why would you think I was in love with him? I can't move on as completely as you Draco." Draco turned his shirt completely open as he looked at Hermione.
"I never moved on. Why would you think that?"
"Well maybe all those girls you made out with and hooked up with made me think that." Draco stepped toward Hermione and stood in front of her.
"I haven't hooked up with anyone. Yes I did things with those girls and I'm sorry for that. I didn't know how to handle how I felt. And I haven't done anything with anyone since that time. I even ran away from a girl who was coming on to me because I didn't want meaningless sex. I wanted to be …" Draco stopped. He stared at Hermione whose eyes were bright with unshed tears and her lips slightly parted as she took in deep breaths. Draco reached out and stroked Hermione's cheek, causing one of the tears to fall. Draco wiped it away with his thumb.
"I wanted you, and only you. I think I've always wanted it, but this war … everything, it makes it that much more complicated." Hermione stepped out of Draco's caress.
"So you say…" she whispered.
"It's the truth."
"Its true now, but once you have me what will happen then? I don't know if that part of you which hurt me still exists, because he cannot be in my life and I will fight until my last breath before I let him hurt me again," Hermione said. Hermione had to keep her hand from touching her stomach protectively.
"I've changed…truly. Can't we just talk about it later? Tonight…please?" Hermione thought about it and nodded and then quickly left, leaving Draco standing in his room.
He felt his chest swell and then he tumbled back onto his bed, not caring that he would be late for class.
The morning went by in a blur. Before Draco knew it, it was lunch time. He went into the Great hall with a pep in his step. He glanced over at the Gryffindors and didn't see Hermione as he'd hoped he would. He went over to his table and sat down alone.
Crabbe and Goyle walked by and scowled at him. He had shunned their party and left without a word. Draco shrugged, they would get over it.
As Draco filled his plate, he felt someone sit down beside him. He turned and scowled when he noticed Pansy.
"What do you want?" Draco asked as he turned back to his lunch. He was not in the mood for her mouth and her attitude.
"Draco I didn't come here to fight. I came to amend, I know that we had a bit of a rough patch that day in your dorm, but I can forget it if you can," she said in a near whisper. Her lips were close to his ear, and he could feel the air of her breath move over him. Her hand came and slid around the nape of his neck.
Hermione who had just walked into the Great Hall, saw this motion and turned away. She shook her head and sat down at the Gryffindor table, with her back facing the Slytherin table. Draco slapped Pansy's hand away. He couldn't believe her.
"Pansy how many times do I have to turn you down before you understand that I will never be with you? Please leave now, you are embarrassing yourself," Draco said. She frowned and stood up, glancing over at Hermione and then at Draco.
"As soon as the Dark Lord comes to power, mudbloods like you precious Granger will be dead, and then you'll come crawling back," she whispered viciously. She turned on her heels and left. Draco rolled his eyes and took a deep breath before he continued with his lunch. He looked over at Hermione, who's long hair flowed gently down her back in soft curls. He couldn't help remembering how it felt to lie next to her and press his face into her sweet smelling hair.
Draco finished his lunch and after one last fleeting look at Hermione, left the Great Hall. He was still angry about Pansy. He should've said something to her, but he hadn't cared what she had to say.
Draco went by the lake to collect his thoughts, he didn't know how to feel and he was confused within himself. He knew what side he had to be on in the battle between Voldemort, but the side he wanted to be on was another story. It was something that Draco was dreading.
Draco went through his other classes blindly until dinner. He seemed to be removing himself slowly from everyone. He walked through the Great Hall and grabbed a few bites to eat before he left. He wasn't really in the mood to eat. He ended up wandering the halls aimlessly, just lost in his thoughts.
Soon he was nearing their dorm room again when he heard voices. He was about to turn away when he heard the sweet voice of Hermione.
"I'm fine really. I guess now I can't eat certain foods. It's one of my favorite dishes but it tasted disgusting when I had it tonight," she said. Draco couldn't see who she was talking to around the corner, but he immediately recognized the long low drawl.
"Are you sure? Do you need to see Madam Pomfrey? Do you need me to assist you there?" Snape asked concern in his voice.
"No I promise you I am fine Professor."
"Ms. Granger….." Snape lowered his voice to barely more than a whisper and Draco had to strain to hear his words.
"Please know, even after everything, I still want your wellbeing especially since you are pregnant. I don't want you to think that otherwise."
As Draco heard this, his world suddenly sharpened and focused in on one word, pregnant. He stood there, his head buzzing and his ears ringing. His heart began to pound so loudly he couldn't hear Hermione and Snape. All Draco could think was, she's pregnant.
He stood against the wall, frozen for hours it seemed to him, before he was able to gain control of his body. He swooped around the corner and sprinted to the Head Boy and girl dorm. He went through the entrance and called Hermione's name.
She was sitting in an armchair in front of the fire. She poked her head out in confusion.
"Why are you yelling? I know you wanted to talk but goodness," she said as she took in Draco's sweaty forehead and breathlessness.
"Were you running?"
"Tell me the truth."
"Truth about what?"
"Are you pregnant?" Hermione's face blanched, her mouth went dry and she had to grab onto the armchair to stop herself from reeling at what Draco had asked. She turned away, her eyes frantically searching the room, almost as if for a way out, her eyes filling with tears.
"Mione…" Hermione wrapped her arms around herself.
"Where did you hear that?" she whispered.
"It doesn't matter. What matters is if it's the true or not." Hermione shut her eyes as she heard Draco move to stand behind her. He put his hands on her shoulders and turned her around.
"Hermione please tell me the truth. Are you pregnant?" Hermione sighed.
"Yes ." Draco let go of Hermione and looked down.
"And its Snape's?" he whispered.
"What?" Draco looked at Hermione and took her hands.
"I don't care if it's Snape's. I love you too much to let something like that come between us. I want you, and if that means having to raise this child with you that's fine. I'll do anything you need me to do as long as it means I can be with you."
"Draco, no."
"Will you never be able to be with me again?"
"No, I mean the baby is yours, not Snape's." Draco froze and he stared at Hermione. She looked almost confused at Draco's suggestion of it being Snape's.
"It is?" She nodded.
"I took a pregnancy test and it is yours. I got pregnant that night you came back from your week away. The night we didn't use any protection." Hermione watched as a big happy smile filled Draco's face. He immediately caught her in his arms and spun her around. Hermione in shock, just gripped onto Draco as he spun her.
"Put me down Draco." Hermione hadn't expected that Draco would react this way. He set her down and then he wrapped her in his arms and hugged her.
"Draco, I'm sorry I didn't tell you before. I was afraid of your reaction," Hermione whispered. Draco squeezed his eyes tightly as he thought about how he'd made Hermione afraid of him. He still loved her desperately and now with the knowledge of the baby, he could slowly rebuild his relationship with her again.
"I'm not the same as I was. I'm the man you fell in love with before and I promise as long as I live and can, I won't hurt you again and I will do everything to protect you." Hermione gulped because her heart was beating hard, she wanted to believe him and she could feel the baby kicking up a storm.
"What about Pansy?" Draco pulled away from Hermione and looked into her eyes.
"What about Pansy?" Draco asked confused.
"I saw you two at lunch today." Draco thought for a moment and then shook his head with a smile.
"Pansy is just desperate. She wants to be with me but I keep turning her down because I'm still in love with you. I don't want her, only you."
And with that Draco pulled Hermione close and pressed his lips to hers. Hermione was caught off guard but then she melted into his arms as he kissed her. Their lips smoothed and played against each other softly and then Hermione, who had slid her hands up around Draco's neck, pulled herself as close as possible and gripped the strands of hair at his nape.
Draco couldn't get close enough so he slid his hands down her back and lifted her up. Hermione instinctively wrapped her legs around his waist as he took control of the kiss. He slid his tongue across her bottom lip and Hermione moaned out.
Draco took this moment to slide his tongue into her mouth. He pressed her into the back of the armchair for support and his tongue caressed hers softly and then aggressively as his body began to react to her.
How long they kissed for, neither knew or cared, but when Draco and Hermione finally pulled back for breath Hermione's eyes were bright and Draco's cheeks glistened with tears. Hermione stared for a moment and then wiped them away.
"I love you so desperately Hermione and I never want to lose you again. And I am sorry I hurt you. It eats me up inside every day." Hermione ran her thumb over Draco's bottom lip and smiled. She pressed her forehead to his.
"I see that now. And I love you too Draco." He sighed in relief and then kissed her again. This time Draco walked to his room with Hermione wrapped around him and lay her on the bed gently. He stood back and looked at Hermione laying on the bed, willing and beautiful. She opened her arms to him and he moved into them and lay his head against her chest.
"The nights I thought about just having you beside me are too many to count Hermione. Now I have you here and all I want to do is hold you," Draco whispered. Hermione smiled and since the baby was still kicking, Hermione took Draco's hand and laid it across her slightly rounded belly.
Draco immediately reacted and sat up, staring at his hand in shock. Hermione watched and he leaned closer and smiled as he felt the baby. He smiled at Hermione.
"That's incredible. We made that." He stared at Hermione for a moment and then moved beside her. She snuggled against him, and lay her head against his chest.
"Sleep Mione," he whispered as he stroked her hair. She snuggled deeper into his chest, taking a deep breath of Draco's scent and knowing that this was her Draco, the one who wouldn't hurt her and who she loved. Hermione easily fell asleep.
Sometime in the night Draco got up and went into the bathroom. He smiled at himself in the mirror. Things were finally starting to look up.
Suddenly a crash was heard, that shook the castle around him. Draco's eyes widened and he ran out to the common room. The whole entrance wall had been blow away and there was a gaping hole in its place.
A group of dark robed, masked wizards stood in the common room. One pulled off their mask and smiled evilly at Draco.
"Surprise." Bellatrix said.