~*~ Chapter 7 ~*~
"What about Voldemort? How do you intend to fix that as well?" Draco said in an exasperated voice.
"What does he have to do with this?" She exclaimed in horror.
"He was the real reason I was born…"
Hermione felt the room grow colder, as if to show Draco's mood. She shivered a little and Draco took of his robes. He had a long slave white shirt and black jeans on. Throwing her the robe, he awaited her questions.
"Muggle clothes?" She said and raised an eyebrow.
Draco shrugged. "They looked good on me. So I bought some. I have a leather jacket up in my room too."
Hermione laughed for a minute. It was actually nice to hear his over-confident drawl for once. She calmed herself down and thought seriously about the situation as she wrapped his robe around her. "Draco, in order to help you I need to hear the whole story from the beginning."
"I don't want to involve you in this. You're one of the few people I don't want to die in this world."
Hermione shook her head. "You involved me in this already. I'm not afraid. Now tell me."
Draco chuckled. "Now I can see how Potter and Weasley made it through everything. They had you."
Hermione smiled at the flattery. "Enough stalling Draco. Let's hear it."
"Very well miss Gryffindor," he said and made his skin turn back to its white color. "My race of dragons began well before all the others. It was during the ice age and well before humans knew of magic. We were very violent and very territorial. It's amazing that we even reproduced enough to keep the race going.
"The ice age ended and we fled to the Antarctic. During the early history of man, we figured out magic and how to use it to take the shapes of other things. The ice dragons also found out how to control the cold with only their bodies, as well as making ice and water appear. When the wizards came to be, some tried raising us. We couldn't be raised in any other climate but down there and we killed the other dragons.
So the ministry decided to kill us. Because we took vengeance and refused to be controlled. Few of us would even talk to humans and most of us learned to take human form. That's always how we escaped. The ministry killed every dragon and every egg they found. I don't know how my egg survived, seeing as this happened a hundred years ago."
"The ministry tried to wipe out an entire species?" Hermione was shocked.
"It shouldn't have been such a shock to you. I hear the muggles try and do it all the time," Draco said and continued his story. "Lucious was sent out on an errand for Voldemort. The dark wizard knew of the ice dragons and wanted one for his rise to power. It turns out, the Malfoy's were the only family that could train ice dragons. We have a small establishment in the Antarctic where I was born. They forced me to transform into a human before I could even tell when I was." He paused again and the room became colder.
"Last summer, I was forced to transform in the manor. Lucious held out this stone to me and I… I killed my mother!" Draco didn't cry but turned away from Hermione. His mind filled with the vision again.
'He was in the basement of the manor again. His mother was curled up in a ball, bleeding to death slowly next to him. He had just awoken from passing out, or so he thought. Kneeling beside her, he tried to move her away from the cold wall. Draco noticed his hands were silver colored and were in the shape of dragon claws. "Mother! Are you still alive? Mother!" He started screaming and trying to get a response from her. Her blood was almost black in the darkness and it dripped out slowly. After a few more minutes, it stopped coming out at all. Lucious emerged from the darkness. "Father! Who did this?"
Lucious only shook his head. "How could you Draco? You killed your mother." Draco froze in shock as his father continued. "You monster. Dragon of bad faith! I will be sure to punish you," he said and picked Draco up by the arm.'
Draco collapsed on the ground. "I didn't mean to do it. I didn't even remember anything I did the first time I transformed."
Hermione walked over to his slumped form and kneeled down. "That doesn't explain your personality change recently."
He didn't look up from the ground. "I always have a wall around myself. The only time I've ever really been myself is around my mother and recently… around you…" Draco's blue eyes rose from the floor and stared at the girl who effected him so.
'That explains the change in your eye color… to some extent,' she thought and hugged Draco. "I'm so sorry. If I had known I'd…"
"You'd have probably run away. Dragons aren't something anyone likes to be with, especially my kind. You're right though. I am a Slytherin in body and heart."
Hermione rose from the ground and ran over to the cabinet. She started to file all the bottles again as fast as she could. Draco watched her in awe and stayed on the ground. "Now isn't the time to feel sorry for yourself you know. Besides, Snape should be back any minute. We can talk more about this later!"
Draco got up slowly and his eyes started to flicker back to gray. Hermione noticed and ran over to him. She pressed her lips to his forcefully and drew away after she watched them turn back to blue. "I don't want you to take the coward's way out. You are going to stay yourself from now on. Or else, we may lose this fight."
"You are right. But are you sure you still want to help me?"
"Of course Draco! Now hurry up!" She said as they heard Snape walking down the stairs to the room.
(Ps - Is this good???? I know Hermione is kinda heartless.... but oh well. In their common room... stuff is gonna happen.. maybe... we might get to the R stuff in the next chapter. So I warn you now. (For those of you who have been waiting for the sex... it might happen))