Chapter 8
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, songs etc. except for the plot line. Uncle Snape was an idea borrowed from Slytherin Girl and I have permission to use it.
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"Granger, what in the hell am I supposed to do with this?" Draco shouted through the door of the filing room, waving a manila folder in the air.
"Malfoy, you should know that everything is categorized, than in alphabetical order and from there in chronological order." She shouted back from where she was cleaning up her office.
"Could you have made it any more complicated? I mean what if it fits under more than 1 category? What do you do than?"
"I could've, that almost never happens and if it does it goes in the Misc. section. Make sense? Good" Hermione turned back to her cleaning.
She hadn't talked to Ginny and Padma in over two weeks, she had been going through hell at work with Malfoy around and yet, oddly, she was the happiest she had been in years.
She had taken over her Uncle's manor while he was away at Hogwarts and she was starting to feel at home. But she didn't intend to make it her home. While it would always be like home, something would always be missing.
Her only problem was she still had no clue what the something was. She had never really noticed it before but she couldn't remember the last time that she had been left totally alone. She was always around someone and she had never been able to think totally clear with people around her.
Not about anything that concerned her anyway. She had always just done homework and worried about other peoples problems. Now that she looked back, she totally regretted that. She should have worried more about herself and less about others.
Though, it was to late now to worry about it. Cant change the past now. She turned around to find Malfoy starring at her with a far off look in his eyes. The look that he had always gotten when he was totally lost in thought.
She chuckled to herself, amazed that she still recalled this. The first time that she had seen this, she had went up to him and hit him on the arm to get him to listen and he had had an amazingly quick reaction. Before she could really even do much he had pinned her to the ground and was tickling her to the point that she was laughing so hard she was crying.
"Granger what the hell are you laughing at?" Draco asked suddenly realizing that he had done it again. He had got lost in thought. Old memories that he wished to remember forever, yet more than anything wanted them to forget.
"Nothing" was her lame answer. She sighed and turned back to her desk to grab the rest of the files for him to put away. She hated this. She had no idea was the boss had specified that she and Draco do all this work. Wasn't there people that he had hired for this?
Minutes later, Draco came back into the office, sighing as he sat in one of the chairs that she had placed in her office. He was tired and hungry. An odd and dangerous combination, especially for him. When he got this way he let his guard down. And right now he could not in away way afford to do this.
Especially when he was dying to ask what was wrong with Granger. It had been bugging him since the day after he had caught her muttering to herself. He had seen a drastic change in her. Not even a smirk could be forced out of her. The first sign that she even felt happiness anymore.
"Hey, I'm going to order in and out of the kindness of my heart I thought that I would place an order for you" he said, rolling his eyes just to show that he was at least a little sarcastic with that statement.
"If you get from the pizza/Chinese place sure"
"Where else would I order from? I mean it's the only place that can get in here"
"True. In that case I'll take sweet-n-sour pork, lemon chicken, ginger beef."
"Chicken fried rice, beef and broccoli and a single ham, pineapple and mushroom pizza" Draco finished off for her, not realizing that he had even done it until he was done. He cleared his throat, "uh, yeah. That's what you want right?"
"Um, yeah. Thanks" Hermione answered suddenly feeling awkward.
Draco quickly turned around and left so that he could go and place the order. His mind was reeling, he couldn't believe he had just done that. He had slipped and that was dangerous. He was just glad that no one had heard him say that.
He knew that Hermione would never say anything, she would be to embarrassed and besides, she knew that her life, as well as his, would be in danger if she did. She cared for him on some level, he knew that too. Just as he cared for her.
Hermione slumped down in her desk chair, suddenly feeling very dizzy and confused. She couldn't believe that he remembered that. She couldn't believe that SHE remembered that. She hadn't ordered that since her seventh year. She had never really wanted too.
They decided to eat in her office before they started to organize his filing room and his office. After that they would still have to do the bosses and than the rest of the work the Gringots had sent to them.
Hermione could've sworn that this was all planned. She had only been supposed to spend that week alone with him but after the boss had been back for 2days his wife went into labour with their second child and he had taken month off, and only called in to leave orders and check on everything once or twice a week.
About four hours later both Hermione and Draco walked out of the office doors and locked up before leaveing. They had worked none stop that entire day and didn't even realize that they had left together like this.
"Tomorrow" was all that was said before there was a 'pop' heard. Hermione opened her eyes a moment later to find herself in her old apartment, right in the middle of the living room.
She looked around and saw Ginny and Padma there with eyes huge with surprise. She glared at them for a moment then got ready to apparate out when she felt a hand on her arm.
She looked up to find herself looking straight into Ginny's radiant eyes. "Mia please don't leave" her friend pleaded with her.
"I'm sorry but do I know you? I mean you look familiar but you know nothing comes to mind" Hermione told her coldly.
"Mia come on. Don't do this. We miss you ok. And we couldn't be more sorry, we know that we should've came and talked to you but we were frustrated. Now please, just stay and talk with us. We don't want to lose you after all this time"
"You should've thought about what you wanted before you guys went behind my back. You screwed this up, so don't you ever dare to blame me for any of this. I never told you that you couldn't see your brother or anything like this. I just expected honesty. But apparently that's to hard for you two to handle. Now if that's all, I'l be leaveing"
The next thing Ginny and Padma knew, the spot that Hermine had been standing in was just air.
"We really screwed up this time didn't we Gin?" Ginny turned to Padma, sadness written over every feature.
"Yup. I think we did Padma. And I think we've lost her"
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Finally where she had actually wanted to end up, Hermione threw off her shoes and collapsed onto the comfy couch that she had convinced her Uncle to buy. Its was grey and soft and cushy, basically everything that you would want in a couch.
Hermione reached under the table and pulled out her lap top. This was one of the very few pleasures that she had actually always kept from the muggle world. She hadn't taken it out since the end of seventh year, an when she opened it she immediately knew why.
Right there, was a picture of her and the other 5 that had been taken the day before the Grad dance.
She closed her Laptop, tears welling up in her eyes for the second time in 5years. She refused to let them fall though. It was one thing to have them there in her eyes but it was another to let them fall.
She wouldn't show that weakness. Not now, not then, not ever. It was uncalled for. Crying never got you anywhere.
Hermione took a deep breath and decided to just go to Diagon Alley for a quick inner. Take Out of course. She would never stay there for dinner anymore.
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Draco walked up the stairs to his room. On the way by Blaises room he heard his name.
He stuck his head in the door. "Yes?"
"Just wondering how your day went" Blaise asked casually.
"It went horrible, now cut it with the bull shit and tell me what you actually wanted to know"
"ok ok!" Justin held his hands up in mock defeat. "All we wanted to know was if you wanted to do anything for you know." Justin trailed off, knowing that Draco would n\know he meant the anniversy of when he first asked Hermione out.
"No. I don't want to do anything for it" Draco said his tone and features suddenly going icy. He had forgotten about it. He didn't even know what day of the week it was most of the time anymore, let alone what day of the month it was coming up on. At least that what he told himself.
He, Justin and Blaise had always had a special night on that day because it celebrated the day that they became 'The Six', though no one else knew this. But this year it seemed to hit more of a nerve. Maybe it was because he saw her basically every day, maybe it was that he had had her on his mind for lately. He had no clue.
He turned on his heel, went to his room grabbed his coat to go for a walk to get rid of some of the tension in his body that he hadn't had before.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, songs etc. except for the plot line. Uncle Snape was an idea borrowed from Slytherin Girl and I have permission to use it.
~*~*~*~
"Granger, what in the hell am I supposed to do with this?" Draco shouted through the door of the filing room, waving a manila folder in the air.
"Malfoy, you should know that everything is categorized, than in alphabetical order and from there in chronological order." She shouted back from where she was cleaning up her office.
"Could you have made it any more complicated? I mean what if it fits under more than 1 category? What do you do than?"
"I could've, that almost never happens and if it does it goes in the Misc. section. Make sense? Good" Hermione turned back to her cleaning.
She hadn't talked to Ginny and Padma in over two weeks, she had been going through hell at work with Malfoy around and yet, oddly, she was the happiest she had been in years.
She had taken over her Uncle's manor while he was away at Hogwarts and she was starting to feel at home. But she didn't intend to make it her home. While it would always be like home, something would always be missing.
Her only problem was she still had no clue what the something was. She had never really noticed it before but she couldn't remember the last time that she had been left totally alone. She was always around someone and she had never been able to think totally clear with people around her.
Not about anything that concerned her anyway. She had always just done homework and worried about other peoples problems. Now that she looked back, she totally regretted that. She should have worried more about herself and less about others.
Though, it was to late now to worry about it. Cant change the past now. She turned around to find Malfoy starring at her with a far off look in his eyes. The look that he had always gotten when he was totally lost in thought.
She chuckled to herself, amazed that she still recalled this. The first time that she had seen this, she had went up to him and hit him on the arm to get him to listen and he had had an amazingly quick reaction. Before she could really even do much he had pinned her to the ground and was tickling her to the point that she was laughing so hard she was crying.
"Granger what the hell are you laughing at?" Draco asked suddenly realizing that he had done it again. He had got lost in thought. Old memories that he wished to remember forever, yet more than anything wanted them to forget.
"Nothing" was her lame answer. She sighed and turned back to her desk to grab the rest of the files for him to put away. She hated this. She had no idea was the boss had specified that she and Draco do all this work. Wasn't there people that he had hired for this?
Minutes later, Draco came back into the office, sighing as he sat in one of the chairs that she had placed in her office. He was tired and hungry. An odd and dangerous combination, especially for him. When he got this way he let his guard down. And right now he could not in away way afford to do this.
Especially when he was dying to ask what was wrong with Granger. It had been bugging him since the day after he had caught her muttering to herself. He had seen a drastic change in her. Not even a smirk could be forced out of her. The first sign that she even felt happiness anymore.
"Hey, I'm going to order in and out of the kindness of my heart I thought that I would place an order for you" he said, rolling his eyes just to show that he was at least a little sarcastic with that statement.
"If you get from the pizza/Chinese place sure"
"Where else would I order from? I mean it's the only place that can get in here"
"True. In that case I'll take sweet-n-sour pork, lemon chicken, ginger beef."
"Chicken fried rice, beef and broccoli and a single ham, pineapple and mushroom pizza" Draco finished off for her, not realizing that he had even done it until he was done. He cleared his throat, "uh, yeah. That's what you want right?"
"Um, yeah. Thanks" Hermione answered suddenly feeling awkward.
Draco quickly turned around and left so that he could go and place the order. His mind was reeling, he couldn't believe he had just done that. He had slipped and that was dangerous. He was just glad that no one had heard him say that.
He knew that Hermione would never say anything, she would be to embarrassed and besides, she knew that her life, as well as his, would be in danger if she did. She cared for him on some level, he knew that too. Just as he cared for her.
Hermione slumped down in her desk chair, suddenly feeling very dizzy and confused. She couldn't believe that he remembered that. She couldn't believe that SHE remembered that. She hadn't ordered that since her seventh year. She had never really wanted too.
They decided to eat in her office before they started to organize his filing room and his office. After that they would still have to do the bosses and than the rest of the work the Gringots had sent to them.
Hermione could've sworn that this was all planned. She had only been supposed to spend that week alone with him but after the boss had been back for 2days his wife went into labour with their second child and he had taken month off, and only called in to leave orders and check on everything once or twice a week.
About four hours later both Hermione and Draco walked out of the office doors and locked up before leaveing. They had worked none stop that entire day and didn't even realize that they had left together like this.
"Tomorrow" was all that was said before there was a 'pop' heard. Hermione opened her eyes a moment later to find herself in her old apartment, right in the middle of the living room.
She looked around and saw Ginny and Padma there with eyes huge with surprise. She glared at them for a moment then got ready to apparate out when she felt a hand on her arm.
She looked up to find herself looking straight into Ginny's radiant eyes. "Mia please don't leave" her friend pleaded with her.
"I'm sorry but do I know you? I mean you look familiar but you know nothing comes to mind" Hermione told her coldly.
"Mia come on. Don't do this. We miss you ok. And we couldn't be more sorry, we know that we should've came and talked to you but we were frustrated. Now please, just stay and talk with us. We don't want to lose you after all this time"
"You should've thought about what you wanted before you guys went behind my back. You screwed this up, so don't you ever dare to blame me for any of this. I never told you that you couldn't see your brother or anything like this. I just expected honesty. But apparently that's to hard for you two to handle. Now if that's all, I'l be leaveing"
The next thing Ginny and Padma knew, the spot that Hermine had been standing in was just air.
"We really screwed up this time didn't we Gin?" Ginny turned to Padma, sadness written over every feature.
"Yup. I think we did Padma. And I think we've lost her"
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Finally where she had actually wanted to end up, Hermione threw off her shoes and collapsed onto the comfy couch that she had convinced her Uncle to buy. Its was grey and soft and cushy, basically everything that you would want in a couch.
Hermione reached under the table and pulled out her lap top. This was one of the very few pleasures that she had actually always kept from the muggle world. She hadn't taken it out since the end of seventh year, an when she opened it she immediately knew why.
Right there, was a picture of her and the other 5 that had been taken the day before the Grad dance.
She closed her Laptop, tears welling up in her eyes for the second time in 5years. She refused to let them fall though. It was one thing to have them there in her eyes but it was another to let them fall.
She wouldn't show that weakness. Not now, not then, not ever. It was uncalled for. Crying never got you anywhere.
Hermione took a deep breath and decided to just go to Diagon Alley for a quick inner. Take Out of course. She would never stay there for dinner anymore.
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Draco walked up the stairs to his room. On the way by Blaises room he heard his name.
He stuck his head in the door. "Yes?"
"Just wondering how your day went" Blaise asked casually.
"It went horrible, now cut it with the bull shit and tell me what you actually wanted to know"
"ok ok!" Justin held his hands up in mock defeat. "All we wanted to know was if you wanted to do anything for you know." Justin trailed off, knowing that Draco would n\know he meant the anniversy of when he first asked Hermione out.
"No. I don't want to do anything for it" Draco said his tone and features suddenly going icy. He had forgotten about it. He didn't even know what day of the week it was most of the time anymore, let alone what day of the month it was coming up on. At least that what he told himself.
He, Justin and Blaise had always had a special night on that day because it celebrated the day that they became 'The Six', though no one else knew this. But this year it seemed to hit more of a nerve. Maybe it was because he saw her basically every day, maybe it was that he had had her on his mind for lately. He had no clue.
He turned on his heel, went to his room grabbed his coat to go for a walk to get rid of some of the tension in his body that he hadn't had before.