A/N: Hey guys!! Here's the next part!! Enjoy!! (Again, pleez ignore any typos or misspelled words! Hopefully my spellcheck will catch it!) Oh yes, it's PG13 b/c of their erm, convo in the bedroom. It might just be me, but I thought it was a but funny,
Disclaimer: Again, all I own (so far!) is the 'shadow'! ^_^
"Flight of a shadow"
Chapter 1
"Draco, what just happened?" asked Hermione. She was still quite shaken.
"I'm not quite sure myself" answered Draco. "It's ok. He's gone now" he continued while rocking Hermione slowly.
"I think we should tell Dumbledore" she said softly.
"Shhh…We will. Just calm down…I swear if that bastard had done something to you!" Draco suddenly exploded.
"I guess we'll go tell him now" said Hermione quietly.
"Wait." said Draco. "I think we need some clothes, don't you?" He grinned. "I mean, that wont be a very good impression, will it? You in your things called shorts that should be called barely theres and that most revealing top…" He trailed off.
"It's called a tank top" said Hermione, as she magicked herself into a nightgown. "Nice to know you care! Anyways- What about you?" she asked.
Draco looked down at his boxers. He pulled on a white T-shirt.
"Oh! Muscle man!" teased Hermione, eyeing Draco's chest under his tight shirt.
"We're going to see Dumbledore about you almost being killed and your looking at my chest? Wait, why am I complaining?" pondered Draco. "Anyways, at least your not crying anymore. Come on. Let's go." He said, taking Hermione's hand.
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"So, Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Granger, your telling me a mad shadow man broke into your room with the purpose of harming Ms. Granger?" asked Albus Dumbledore.
"Correct" said Draco.
"But why on Earth was Ms. Granger in your bedroom, Mr. Malfoy?" asked Snape, the Head of Slytherin House.
"Severus…" warned Minerva McGonnagal.
"Well, do you have an answer Mr. Malfoy?" asked Snape, once again.
"Because she's my damn girlfriend! Are you so blind you can't see it? Or is it because of all your hatred toward Gryffindors and Muggle-borns alike, that you refuse to believe it?" thundered Draco.
"I do believe that remark may have made Salazar Slytherin roll over in his grave" said Dumbledore, his blue eyes twinkling.
"Back to this. Severus, they broke no rule, so there shall be no punishments. Since everything seems to be in order, you may go back to the Slytherin House. Yes, you too Ms. Granger" added Dumbledore. "As for the shadow man, we'll just have to up the security around here a bit! We do want our students safe, don't we Severus?"
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"That was close" said Draco, once they were safely back in the hall.
"I know! It wasn't like we did anything wrong!" said Hermione.
"Oh well. C'mon. Let's go back to my room" said Draco, winking at Hermione.
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Much to Draco's dismay, Hermione had changed her mind by time they reached Draco's room. She wanted to go back to Gryffindor Tower!
"But doll! You can't! I mean, you can but I don't want you to" he said slyly.
"Oh my! Mr. Draco Malfoy, Head Boy, Slytherin Quidditch Captain, is scared?" Hermione said, pretending to be shocked.
"Well, since I have this room all to myself, just going to waste…" said Draco.
"I have my own room too you know."
"Yes, but the rest of the Gryffindors don't, do they? One might walk in! And what if the shadow man comes back to finish you off? Or even to get his revenge on poor little me!" said Draco.
"All right honey, we need to clear this up. Your not poor and, even if you were little, I wouldn't know. But since you want me to stay, I will!" said Hermione, leading Draco over to the bed and getting under the covers. She laid next to him so they could still talk a bit.
"For your information Ms. Granger, I'm not little. Large barely describes it."
Hermione snorted. "Oh, so you call it, 'it'? Figured it'd have a name by now"
"No, and what do you mean 'by now'?" asked Draco.
"Well, I figured you must have been with tons of girls."
"Finally! Hermione Granger is wrong about something! Nope, I've been with one girl. Don't like admitting it but…Anyways- didn't make it to the third date, much less third base! What about you?"
"Two" she said. "I think one was from England and one from the USA."
"Get far with them?"
"Draco! But no. Don't even think I kissed one of them. So, I guess what you're saying is, I have no one to ask about your size!" said Hermione, grinning.
"Well, I don't have to ask about you! I can clearly see that your fully developed!"
"Draco!"
"Quoting from a Muggle song I heard once: I want my name not said, but screamed" sang Draco.
"Bit desperate, are we sweetie?" asked Hermione.
"Desperate to show you how manly I am!" he said, sitting up and flexing his muscles.
Hermione leaned over and poked him the stomach. "Some other time sweetie" she said, yawning.
"You'd never guess you were almost killed an hour ago!" said Draco loudly.
"Sssh! You'll wake someone!"
"No I won't! If the door is shut and locked, which it is, nothing can be heard coming from in here. I'm guessing previous owners of this room had a bit of fun!" he said, wiggling his eyebrows.
"You expect me to believe you?" she asked.
"Yes! I tell no lies!"
"I still don't believe what you said earlier, when this conversation started" said Hermione.
"Oh, I hate to resort to this. We're not going to do anything." With that, Draco got up, lit his lamp beside his bed and pulled off his shirt.
"Getting a show am…" Hermione was at a loss for words. Draco had pulled down his boxers.
Pulling them back up and getting into bed Draco said "Good night Hermione! Sweet dreams!" Then he kissed her good night and blew out his lamp.
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"So, have a good night sleep?" asked Draco when he woke up the next morning.
"Yes" answered Hermione. "But there's something I need to ask you. Make that two things."
"What?"
"Well for one, if that's how someone, a stranger, reacts to us being together, how are our friends going to act?" asked Hermione.
"I don't know" said Draco as they were walking down to the Great Hall for breakfast. "Well, what else is bothering you?"
"Ok…Well, what did you do as a child? Eat miracle grow or something?" asled Hermione, leaning against his lean frame for a kiss before going into the Great Hall.
As Draco looked at her from those silver eyes, she momentarily thought she had said the wrong thing.
"You wish" he said, breaking into that trademark grin. Not the one everyone knew. But the one that's reserved just for her.
He leaned down to give her one more kiss before walking into the Great Hall.
Together. Arm in arm. Grinning likes fools.
A/N: So! What will everyone say about Draco and Hermione? Will they sit together? Who is the 'shadow man'? Could it be Lucius? Hmmm…..
Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns everything but the shadow man and the plot.
The songs is "Batter up" by Nelly, so I guess I can say it belongs to him!