Sign Your Name Across My Heart

Chapter Four: Sensus Novus

Proclaimer: I am still Tanith Devika, same as yesterday. I still enjoy long walks on the beach, and seeing the moon. I'm still very much nocturnal, and I still love all of my reviewers :D


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Hermione awoke the next morning feeling refreshed from her night of crying. She sighed as she thought of her reasons for crying. Really, it wasn't that bad, she had just been a bit overwhelmed. She took a deep breath and thought to herself, Today will be better.


She smiled as she got dressed, then headed out of her room to take a shower. As she neared the landing, she noticed that Draco had fallen asleep in front of the fire. A sudden 'motherly' feeling washed over her and, taking a blanket from the nearby couch, she walked over to Draco and laid it over him. Then without a backwards glance, she headed straight for the bathroom.


Draco slowly woke from a wonderful dream.. Potter had been fighting Voldemort, when Draco had said the killing curse and killed Voldemort. Potter immediately ran up to Draco to congratulate him, but a large axe came out of nowhere and beheaded Potter. Draco grinned in his sleep, watching the head fall, surprise forever etched in his features. Granger ran and caught Potter's body as he fell, and then the Weasel wrapped his arms around her. Draco frowned. Why can't I have that? he briefly remembered thinking before he felt something warm on top of him.. And was it just him, or was it... vibrating?? Draco immediately wake up, and opened his eyes to see a large cat looking straight at him. He groaned. "Great. GRANGER! Get your filthy cat off of me!"


Hermione's eyes were closed, her mouth slightly open, as she stood in the shower, her mind blissfully clear, letting the cool refreshing water wash over her, rinsing away her problems, her worries, her troubles-


"GRANGER!" she heard faintly. "GET YOUR FILTHY CAT OFF OF ME!"


Hermione sighed and rolled her eyes exasperatedly. Trust Malfoy to screw things up yet again. She poked her head out of the shower. "He's NOT filthy! Just get him off yourself!"


"HE WON'T GET OFF!" Draco was screaming back. "THE DAMN BASTARD, I'M GONNA HEX HIM TO HELL, ON THE COUNT OF THREE- ONE- TWO-"


"Oh shit," Hermione muttered, rushing out of the shower and throwing a towel around herself. She ran out of the bathroom and skidded into the common room. Draco was laying on the couch, an expression of contempt and disgust adding to his perfectly evil features. She grabbed Crookshanks off of Draco's blanketed legs, set him on the ground, and turned to go back to her warm shower-


"Granger?" Draco was saying in a tone of utmost revulsion.


"What?" she replied automatically with a sigh.


"What are you wearing?" he asked. "Or rather, what aren't you wearing? Is a skimpy towel standard attire for you? Because I must say, I'd prefer our common room to have a more appropriate dress code- as I said before, your attempts to impress me are futile. Dressed or not, you're still a Mudblood-"


"I am wearing a towel," Hermione said, whipping around to face him, her voice shaking with fury, "Because you were about to kill my cat. I do not normally walk around in bathroom linens. And as I've also said before, I would never endeavour to impress someone as cold, heartless, and evil as you-"


"You really thought I was going to kill your cat?" Draco drawled.


"I have no doubt in my mind," Hermione replied, her voice cold as ice, "that you would never hesitate to kill anything that got in your way."


Draco rolled his eyes and was about to say something, when he thought better of it and went back to the clothing subject. "Just go change, will you? It makes me sick, being in the same room as a half-dressed Mudblood," he spat, and went to his own room to change.


Hermione gaped at Draco's retreating form. He had looked as if he had been about to say something to denounce his evil ways! Maybe he wants everyone to think he enjoys torturing them... she thought, then quickly shook her head. She must have been imagining it. She hurried off to the bathroom to finish up her shower.


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The rest of the passed without consequence, as the two Heads had very little interaction with each other. However, directly after dinner, instead of going straight back to their common room, Hermione went to the library, while Draco went to Snape's office.


"Professor?" Draco said as he knocked on the office door. He heard a command from within and opened the door, quickly shutting it and locking it behind him.


Snape had been working on a potion, and had just finished it as Draco arrived, as usual, perfectly on time. He poured some of the potion into a glass vial, and quickly labelled it before setting it aside. "Draco. Good. Let's get started, shall we?"


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A/N: Thanks again for reading! Hope you enjoyed, I may get another chapter out by tomorrow; who knows.


Tiffany: Thanks! I'm really glad you think so! I hope I don't disappoint you somewhere down the road... I'm a perfectionist when it comes to writing, so if anything is wrong with my characters, either it's a mistake and I didn't notice (Heaven forbid) or it has to be that way.That, mixed with my ability to understand people, and we got 3d characters :P So even though they aren't JKR's, at least they have a reason behind their existance.


angelskates12: Haha, don't worry, I don't think we'll (my Muses and I) be quitting this so early... My Muses have decided on a system in which only one of them talks to me at a time, maybe two, and then they take a break and another set of Muses comes. So if you've ever noticed strange breaks in the chapters, it's my Muses trading places. :P Oh, and they won't fall in love so quickly, I promise. Herm starts to be attracted to him soon, but it's only natural. And Draco's simply jealous of what she has. Our little boy is growing up :P Thanks for reading, and I hope you get to see the end of the story!


Unhealthily-Obsessed: Yeah, isn't it? It's always nice seeing a perfect person when they're having a bad day. Makes them seem more down-to-earth, ya know?


Psycho Chic: Haha, you rock! Hope you liked this chapter, and I'll try to continue with updating fast.. I spend about an hour or so a day with my Muses, half an hour replying to you all, then another half an hour deciding on the name ;) But next week, school starts up again. No clue how quickly I can update then..


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DanishGirl: That's really good to hear, I'm glad you liked it! He hasn't yet asked Snape for help because he just recently found out about the initiation, so he hadn't had a chance to talk to Snape about it yet. Don't worry, he will. (Actually, I had just completely forgotten about Snape, and developed a reason after I read your review. Thanks for the idea! Yet another patch applied in the quilt of the story)


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