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Chapter 5

Hermione snorted and quickly put down her cartoon of muggle orange juice her mum had sent her that morning (as a home comfort) before she snorted it out of her nose.

"Alright Granger, calm down." Draco grinned as he put his cartoon back on the floor, deciding he really didn't like muggle drinks.

"You should have seen yourself! It was hilarious, oh my god your nose just wrinkled right up, I thought you were going to throw it up seriously!" Hermione laughed hysterically, leaning back on the soft cushions the room of requirement had prepared for them.

Draco rolled his eyes and pushed the carton away from him moodily.

"What is the appeal anyway? Who would want to drink something so bright?" Hermione tried to stop herself from laughing anymore, as Draco sighed and leant back, looking up at the starry night sky above them.

"I'm so glad we found this place." He grinned, as Hermione smiled back.

"It's perfect, especially seeing as there are certain people who wouldn't want to see us hanging around together." She muttered, trying to push him from her thoughts. Draco sighed.

"Are we just not going to talk about this? Hermione you have to finish it. I know he hasn't hit you for days, but you can't just not speak to him forever." He said quietly as Hermione felt her eyes beginning to tear up.

"I know Draco I just" He smiled sadly and slung his arm around her, pulling her into a hug as they looked up at the sky together.

"You don't have to think about it right now if you don't want. It'll be ok, I won't let him hurt you again." She smiled and wiped her tears away, grinning at him.

"Thanks. I can't believe I'm friends with Draco Malfoy." She laughed slightly as he smiled sadly back at her.

"I'm sorry I was such an idiot to you for all those years. You don't know how much I hate the person I used to be." He said quietly.

"You've said that a thousand times Draco." She laughed again, a small tinkle of happiness in the darkened world they were living in.

He looked at her, his mercury eyes perfectly serious as he toyed with a strand of her hair.

"And I'll never be able to say it enough." He said quietly, and suddenly, his lips were on hers, softly at first, tender and gentle, and then when she kissed him back it was rougher with more urgency, as though his life depended on it.

It was him who broke apart first, much to Hermione's annoyance.

"Hermione," He whispered, holding her so her nose was just touching his.

"We don't have to do anything you don't want to, you know that"

Hermione smiled and pulled him close.

"I didn't say stop, now did I." She whispered sweetly in his ear, as he laughed and pulled her back into him, as they kissed passionately under the stars.

It had been three weeks since Hermione had gotten out of the hospital wing, and she and Draco had been hanging out together as much as they could.

She'd been avoiding Ginny for a bit, especially after she had to lie and say she and Ron were on a little break after he promised not to cheat again.

She'd successfully managed to keep up this charade as her and Ron hadn't spoken in weeks, she hadn't asked him if it was over and just assumed they were finished.

She had to admit, she missed her old Ron, her best friend who'd been there for her through everything. But she realised with a smile that morning as she brushed her slightly tangled mane of hair, that she had someone else in her life to be there for her through it all.

"I just don't understand, how will we be together?!" Hermione jolted when she recognised the distressed wails of her best friend Ginny.

She dropped her hairbrush and ran out of the bathroom back into the dormitory, at the same moment, Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil came in, hugging and comforting a sobbing Ginny in between them. Hermione's jaw dropped as she immediately ran to her friend's side.

"Gin! Oh Merlin is everything ok?!" She hugged her best friend close as the girl shook with sobs.

"No, no it's not oh Hermione I can't believe it!" Hermione looked at the other two girls questioningly as they shrugged sadly.

"It's Harry." Hermione almost had to sit down. She grasped at the nearest bed post and gasped, looking towards the other girls once more for an explanation.

"He's ok, Hermione, he um, well he was offered a permanent job at the Auror office after he did that internship a while back. He talked with Dumbledore, and they decided that he wouldn't get a job offer that great again, and, well,"

"He's moving to London next week." Sobbed Ginny as she flung herself at Hermione, while the other girl tried not to smile.

"But that's great! Ginny think about this, he'll have job security and money for the rest of his life now, what's the problem?" Ginny sat back and sniffled a few times before sighing and leaning back on the mattress.

"What if he gets there and realises he doesn't need me anymore?" She whispered, wiping her eyes sadly as she looked up at the ceiling. Hermione couldn't help but laugh at this as she hugged her best friend close.

"Harry asked you to marry him after the war, you were both each other's firsts, he saved your life, Gin there's so much history and love there, and do you honestly think he'd leave you after all that?"

Ginny smiled through her tears a little, and nodded.

"You're right, oh God Hermione how could I have been so stupid?! I shouted at him, probably scared him half to death, Hermione I have to go and find him, you're ok right? Lavender said a couple of girls had been sick the past few days?" Hermione waved her hand, getting up and following her friend to the door, trying to push the small niggling worry that was chewing at the edge of her subconscious.

"I'm fine Gin don't worry, go find Harry and just talk it out, you'll be fine." She smiled, waving as Ginny rushed downstairs hoping to catch Harry if he was still in the common room.

Hermione grabbed her wand with a sigh and headed to her trunk thinking about the million and one things she had to get done that evening.

She decided to strike the most terrifying one off her list.

As Hermione and what seemed to be half of the entire students population (minus all the Slytherins of course) showed up the following afternoon to see Harry off to London, she scoured the crowd, smiling as she spotted familiar faces, and new one obsessively trying to get a look at the boy who lived.

It was then that she spotted a particularly familiar face in the crowd, she smiled slightly as she realised not all the Slytherins had decided to avoid this particular event.

She'd almost immediately noticed the ruffled shiny blonde hair, the slightly mocking smile that accentuated his sharp features as he laughed with his friends.

His friends.

Hermione marvelled at this revelation, noting not only Blaise Zabini, who normally tagged along with his friend as one of the nicer ones, but a few other who normally tried to stay away from anything Gryffindor.

She flashed him a flirtatious smile as he looked her way, and he gave her his trademark smirk, accompanied with a cheeky wink, before turning back to his friends in the crowd.

"Did you see that? Nott you saw that right?! I don't believe it, Malfoy's only gone and shagged the sexy mudblood!" Blaise grinned, clapping his friend on the back as Malfoy frowned slightly, turning away from Hermione and their flirty brief exchange and gave Blaise a look.

"Oh right, yeah, sorry about the 'M' word… But seriously, did you bang her?!" Draco gave him a dark look as Blaise's grin returned and he punched Draco on the shoulder.

"Damn, you did didn't you! Ah you sneaky little fucker I was going to go after that one." He winked as Draco smirked slightly, nodding his head in slight acknowledgement of his 'success'.

"Well Blaise, I'm hardly going to deny the truth but"

"I knew it!" His best friend grinned, letting his rather filthy imagination go wild. "Ah, was she good? How long did she go? I bet you did some pretty nasty stuff with that pretty little,"

Draco let Blaise's vulgar ramblings run along in his ears like background music, as he watched her laughing with the Weasley girl in the far corner.

"What are you staring at ate? You look like a love sick," Blaise cut off his own sentence as he followed Draco's line of sight, and his jaw dropped.

"You're not, you don't actually, do you have feelings for Granger?!" He exclaimed, causing Draco to spin around and clap a hand over his mouth.

"Watch your mouth Zabini you idiot, and no of course I don't!" He snapped, releasing his hand as Blaise looked at him in shock.

"Oh my god, you're really into her, aren't you? You actually care about this chick!"

Draco practically growled as he glared at his best friend.

"Just shut up Zabini, it's only about sex, you know I'm only ever about the sex." He hissed, desperately trying to force his hand back over his laughing friend's mouth.

"Oh sure, you tell yourself that mate." He grinned, rolling his eyes as Draco shot him a death stare and spun around, just in time to see Potter saying his goodbyes to Ginny and Hermione, smiling and hugging them each in turn.

Draco couldn't help but smile as Hermione's eyes sparkled with happy tears as she waved off her best friend.

His small smile quickly disappeared when he spotted Ron putting an arm around Hermione as they waved goodbye to Harry.

His lips tightened and his jaw clenched, as he shot a clear look of warning in Hermione's direction as the three of them began to leave with the rest of the school.

Hermione knew what it meant.

He saw her making excuses to the two Weasleys, and practically had to shove Ron away from her to hang back and wait for him.

Draco stood idly by one of the marble pillars a few feet away, waiting until the courtyard was clear, and the two came to meet in the middle.

"Draco, I really don't want to argue about this." Hermione sighed, rubbing her temples as she looked away from his stony expression.

"Argue about what? The fact that you and Weasley re still together? Despite the fact he beat you black and blue and you've been shagging me for weeks?" He snapped as Hermione glared at him.

"Don't you dare try and blame this on me you know I've tried to sort it out with him before,"

"Well what else can I do Hermione, there's no one else to blame. He hurt you, you've moved on, you don't even love him anymore, what else are you waiting for?" He shouted over her, ignoring the darkening sky and the slight tell-tale patter of rain on the old roof tiles.

"I thought we were already split, we hadn't spoken in weeks how was I supposed to know we were just taking a break?!" She snapped.

"Do you know how close I am to just going to McGonagal about all of this right now? I know you wanted to reason with him about it, save what was left of your best friend but Hermione, if he's still in the picture, still hurting you, what else can I do?!" He muttered sadly, turning away as the silvery tears began to run down her cheeks and the first splatters of rain began to hit home.

"Draco I can't, I just can't talk to him, you don't understand!"

"What? Please tell me what I don't understand, because I've been here supporting you the whole fucking time, I tried to save my own mother tell me please dear Merlin, what I couldn't possibly understand?!" He roared, glaring at her as his tears began to mingle with the now steady droplets of rain falling from the darkening sky.

She looked up at him, and he couldn't tell if she was sobbing or if the rain was becoming a downpour.

She locked eyes with him, chocolate meets mercury.

"I'm pregnant."

ooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh lil bit of a DRAMATIC ENDING :D

Hope you liked, it's getting serious guys rly.

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NikkiHeat2000 - Hm, sorry there wasn't much of that in this chapter (as you can tell, with things hotting up there is DEFINITLY going to be some paiiin in store!) I hope you liked it anyways, and thanks so much for the review, it means a lot :)

dutch potterfan: I know that dick -.- the only reason there wasn't justice in this chap or a face down, is because of some of the issues touched on here, Hermione really didn't want to admit Ron was all bad, in truth she still loves him as a friend, a brother. And now, obviously, she has much bigger things to worry about!

Claire: Ahhhh I loved that bit! Writing about the Slytherin boys was just so much fun for me, I'm glad you liked it :)

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