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Chapter twenty-four
Draco's lips tingled, his mouth exploding as if on fire the moment Hermione's lips touched his.
It was euphoric.
It was electric.
It was sensational.
It was powerful.
It was magical.
She gasped out a small breath which Draco greedily swallowed, his lips softly moving against her own. His hands ran through her curls, his fingers twisting around her smooth curls, pulling her as physically close as he could manage. Her lips were sweet and slightly wet against his own, her tongue teasingly tracing against his bottom lip.
Sweet Salazar.
This is how he was going to die. By Hermione Granger's lips. The sweet, sweet irony of that.
Still, Draco pulled her closer, adding more pressure to her lips which she quickly accepted. He felt his feet move from underneath him, moving them until he felt her body hit the tower wall. He had her trapped between the old bricks and his own warm body.
The sensation was enough to send him into complete overdrive. He slid one hand from her gorgeous curls to wrap tightly around her waist, his fingers pressing gently into the dip of her hip bone, almost moaning into her mouth when she shivered against him.
Ah fuck.
Draco pulled back haphazardly, still holding onto her hip for support but releasing his death hold from her hair. He took two quick breaths before he managed to get a hold of himself.
Fucking hell, he had never gotten so hard as fast in his life.
"Just gimme a second." He breathed out, not even bothered to act embarrassed. He felt her hand slid down his chest, her small palm resting over his erratic heartbeat.
"Your heart.." Hermione whispered.
"You act surprised, Granger." Draco chuckled, finally making eye contact with her. He tried desperately to ignore her plump and swollen lips. Tried his damned hardest to push down that he was the reason as to why her beautiful lips were like that.
Oh Merlin, that kiss.
"Oh so I'm still Granger to you then am I? I would have expected us to be past last names by now." She mock told him off, her fingertips gently moving against his chest. Draco felt his heart swell.
"Old habits," Draco smirked. She laughed slightly at him, moving her hand to lightly slap his chest when he gripped her hand. Draco raised that hand to his mouth, kissing her skin softly, "Hermione."
She pulled him closer, brushing her forehead against his own. Hermione smiled up at him.
"Much better."
Draco smiled softly down at her, brushing a thumb over her forehead, moving a few stray hairs that were obscuring her vision, "So, you're not annoyed at me then?"
"Annoyed at you for what?" She asked.
"Not telling you that we are soulmates." He hesitated, the word rolling off his tongue with such ease that it even surprised himself.
"If you had asked me that a few years ago, even a few months ago, my answer would be vastly different, but no, Draco, I'm not annoyed at you." Hermione answered honestly, moving her back slightly against the wall she was still leaning against.
"I reckon if I had told you a few years ago that we were soulmates, you probably would have hexed my ass, Miss Granger." Draco laughed.
"Wouldn't have been the first time I would have thought about it."
"What? Us being soulmates?" He asked confused.
Hermione giggled, the sweet sound washing over Draco. Complete and utter bliss. He could listen to that sound for the rest of his life and die a happy man.
"No, you idiot, about hexing your ass."
"Ahh," Draco nodded, leaning down to press a chaste kiss to her button nose. He watched in delight as she crinkled it in response, a slight blush settling over her cheeks. Merlin, he couldn't believe he was the one making her blush like that. Actually, no; he couldn't believe she was even allowing him to kiss her like that.
This was real.
"It's too nice an ass to hex though." He responded, looking down at himself. He heard a roar of laughter, her chest moving against his own as she wiped her eyes slightly.
"Once a Slytherin, always a Slytherin so it seems." She remarked, running a hand through his short blonde hair. Draco instinctively leaned his head towards her hand. My god, her fingers were heaven.
Draco wasn't sure about Hermione, but he felt like his insides were getting ready to jump out from within his body. Every cell was ignited, he felt like his rib cage may shatter at any moment from the rapid beating of his heart. His hands were clammy and shaky against her hip bone, and he felt invigorated and terrified all at the same time.
"I feel like I might pass out." Draco admitted, not quite sure how to put into words how he was feeling. The spell was overbearing, and he almost felt sick from being so close to her, and touching her, but not quite how the spell wanted. He felt his raw desire for her. His animal instincts to take her against the wall was overtaking his every thought, every feeling and emotion was screaming out for her. He wanted, no he needed more of her. The kiss was merely just a tease to him right now.
"That's not quite how I would put it," Hermione spoke quietly, looking down at the hand still pressed to his chest.
Draco was going to ask what she meant but found he could not bring himself to ask her.
"I feel that if we don't leave soon and head back to the common room that in a few minutes I'll drag you into a broom cupboard and have my way with you." She spoke confidently, albeit with a bright red face.
"Fuck."
Hermione nodded and pursed her lips, twisting and untwisting her hand on his perfectly ironed shirt. He could see creases beginning to form. Draco could feel her shudder slightly every time he dug the pads of his fingers into her hipbone.
Oh, fuck no. Absolutely no way in hell was his first time with Hermione going to be in the Astronomy Tower, or in a broom cupboard, or on the same day they shared their first kiss. He had far too much respect towards her for that, and quite frankly, he was still a gentleman.
Well somewhere deep down past the spell urging him to bottom her out, he was still a gentleman.
"Fuck, Hermione we need to leave. The longer we are together alone, the closer we get to each other, the more I am struggling to-"
"I know. Trust me, I know."
Draco dropped his hand away from her hip, his body already screaming at him from the brief lack of contact. Salazar, now he understood why Theo and Daphne, Ginny and Harry could never keep their hands off each other, and why they barely ever saw Blaise. This was absolute torture. How the bloody hell had they lasted so long?
Pure stubbornness on both parts.
He watched as Hermione picked up the forgotten constellation. She flipped her hair over her shoulder and smiled genuinely at him. "How red is my face or are we not going to get away with this?"
Draco laughed, "Get away with it? Hermione, everyone knew about us before us."
He heard her grumble under her breath and before he could stop himself, he entangled their fingers together, brushing his thumb over and against her knuckles.
"After you, beautiful."
"Okay, they have been away for hours now. Time to call out a search party." Harry announced. Ginny rolled her eyes from the loveseat she was currently occupying. Harry had been pacing the common room for the last half an hour, glancing at the clock every few minutes like a bloody concerned father wondering why his daughter was out past curfew.
Men.
"Feel free to go look for them," Theo replied, looking up from his game of wizard chess briefly, Daphne sat to his side, her nose nestled in an enormous book, "but I'd rather not catch them shagging if I were to be perfectly honest with you." He shuddered, turning back to his game before he could catch the look Harry shot in his direction.
"Hermione wouldn't do tha-"
"Don't even finish that sentence mate, you know as well as I do what that bloody spell does when you finally kiss your soulmate." Theo interrupted, waving his hand at him as if he were a bloody idiot, not even bothering to look up from his game.
"Mhmm," Daphne agreed, flipping a page of her book, and glancing at the concerned Gryffindor over the rim of her reading glasses. "How long did you and Gin last once you realised?"
"That's different." Harry rebuffed, crossing his arms.
"Why, because you were already shagging beforehand?" Blaise remarked from the other end of the table, and like Theo, not even bothering to look up from the game.
"We weren't-"
"Shut up, Harry." Ginny interrupted, grinning at the befuddled look on his face. They were having sex before the spell, and she knew that Harry would have denied that until he was blue in the face to protect her, but this was a pointless argument, and she knew fine well by now that they were trying to push his buttons. "They will be back soon, and I'm fairly confident regardless of the spell, that Hermione has more self-control than that."
"That and Draco is a gentleman. He would never allow that to happen in the middle of a corridor or something. Especially with Hermione, he has far too much respect for her." Theo added, with a badly timed whoop as a piece flew off from the board.
"He does?" Harry asked. He wasn't sure why he asked that, he could see for himself that the stupid git was bloody in love with her, so obviously he had mountains of respect for her. Hermione was like a sister to him, family he never realised he needed, and the thought of anything bad happening to her absolutely terrified him.
He was also protective, but he would deny that if anyone pulled him up for that.
"Don't be so daft." Daphne tutted, putting down her book to give him a glare, "How could you even ask that question?"
"I'm just worried about her," Harry quipped back, not backing down, "I know Malfoy has changed, but she's my sister and I just worry." He admitted.
"You have no idea how protected that girl is now, mate." Blaise spoke.
"Draco will literally move heaven and earth for her if he had to." Theo added, looking up from the game to smirk slightly at the shock look on Harry's face. Ginny settled further back into the loveseat watching with an overwhelming sensation of love for Harry at his protectiveness and knew everything they were describing; he already did for her. She knew fine well Hermione would be looked after better than they ever could.
"Just to add," Daphne spoke, putting her glasses back on, "I'm pretty sure he would have done all those things for her before the spell too. Remember, it doesn't create feelings. Those feelings were already there, for both."
"Just buried somewhere real deep." Ginny laughed. Harry finally relented and pushed Ginny to the side a little to slide in next to her. "You know, I find it real sexy when you get all protective." She whispered to him. Ginny watched with a satisfied glee as his glasses steamed up.
"Oh yeah?" He croaked out.
"Yup" Ginny popped the p out and she stared as his eyes watched her lips make the sound. Oh, she had got him right where she wanted him, she would get laid tonight if her life depended on it. Harry began to lean in, his mouth mere inches from her own, so close it almost hurt-
"Salazar, really? Potter can't you take that somewhere more private?"
Harry looked up to see Draco and Hermione, hand in hand, at the entrance of the common room. He tried to ignore the slight flush on Draco's pale complexion and that fact that Hermione's lips looked a little bruised.
"Where? Like the Astronomy Tower?" Theo asked, twirling a chess piece around his finger with a shiteating grin on his face.
"Oh, no, wait!" Blaise added, turing to also face the new couple, "I'm pretty sure the Astronomy Tower was occupied."
"Ahh, so it was!" Theo clicked his fingers as if he was so stupid not to realise sooner, "guess Weasley and Potter will just have to use the common room then eh?"
"I mean who can blame them," Blaise spoke, wiggling his eyebrows at Draco, "once you've had that first kiss, it's very hard to resist."
"Absolutely, Zabini, very hard indeed, right Draco?" Theo grinned.
Theo and Blaise high fived and roared with laughter, Ginny sniggering from the corner with Harry and Daphne staring at the new couple in bewilderment.
"We should have just stayed in the Astronomy Tower." Hermione spoke.