False Security

by Sasha Warren


She giggled and leaned towards him. They were so close they were laughing nose to nose.
Suddenly someone grabbed hold on Draco from behind and broke the two apart.
Lucious Malfoy had waken up........

"Draco!" hissed Lucious, his voice ice cold.
Draco's courage seemed to disenegrate as he cowered in his father's deadly shadow.
"I-uh...."
"Run!" screamed Hermione. She began to dash, but Lucious grabbed her and held her back. Suddenly Lucious Malfoy released his grip and with a look of intense pain on his face, gripped his shoulder. With an utter look of hatred towards his son, he disapeared.
"Hermione?"
"Yes?"
"Are you ok."
"Yeah."
"Oh"
"Why are you suddenly being so nice?"
"I'm not sure...kind of random, huh?"
Hermione giggled softly, and then leaned her forehead against his. Suddenly she burst out in a fit of giggles.
"What?" asked Draco
"When I'm so close...you look like a cyclops!"
Draco looked at her strangely.
"I'm sorry-"
"For what?"
"For what my father did to you."
"I-I" stuttered Hermione. She burst into tears and sobbed in Draco's arms spilling out all the feelings she had hidden away. He stroked her hair looking quite lost indeed.
"We should a-" said Draco as he motioned towards the castle.
"Uh yeah..." said Hermione. The two walked towards the castle. Hermione who was usually sensible, did a very stupid thing just then. She chose to tell the teachers she had run away and had not been encountered by anyone. She looked sad as Dumbledore took two hundred points from Gryfindor.

~*~*~

The next few weeks were not of happiness for Hermione. Harry and Ron were angry at her for losing two hundred point, along with the rest of Gryfindor. The worst was that, Draco had totally ignored the things that happened in the forest. He was back to calling her mudblood. She was totally puzzled.
"Mudblood!" called Malfoy
Hermione had enough of it. She slapped him across the face and slammed him into a wall. As he stood there looking puzzled, Hermione's hands still on his shoulder.
"Why...that was bit out of charachter..." said Malfoy angrily
"Look Malfoy! I want YOU TO TELL ME WHY YOU HAVE TOTALLY FORGOTTON WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FOREST!" she screamed
The milling students stopped abruptly and looked at the two. Malfoy pushed Hermione into an empty classroom.
"Look Granger!" he shouted
"The name is HERMIONE!" she screamed
"Hermione, Hermione, Hermione!!" she sobbed
She looked down. Suddenly Draco put his strong hands on her chin and tilted it up. Cupping her face in his hands, he leaned in kissed her. He began to wipe away her tears.
"Draco..." she trailed off as he turned and walked out of the classroom.

~*~*~

"Oh Ginny!" cried Hermione that night.
"He's so confusing!"
"Oh Mione'" soothed Ginny "He just doesn't know what he wants!"
"I hope your right!" she said softly.
Ginny gave Hermione a soft kiss on the cheek and pulled her blue sheets over her.
"Night,"
"Night gin!"