A/N- I have an excuse for taking a long time to update this time! I've been on vacation in Washington DC, and Cape Cod. I got back today, and I haven't even unpacked. Here's another chapter though, as promised.
~Recap
"OK, good," she said, grinning. "I've had enough Voldemort to last me a lifetime, however long that may be."
I grinned back at her, and we looked into each other's' eyes. We stared at each other for a few moments before leaning in, and locking lips. My hands were on her waist, and her's were trailing down my back, running through my hair. Once again, it was perfect. "You will live Hermione, your lifetime will be long, and joyful. I promise."
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"So, Draco," I said to him with a mysterious smile on my face.
"So what?" he slyly said back to me.
"You know that dance coming up? The Once Apon A Dream Dance," I said, looking him straight in the eyes.
"Yeah, I've heard about it," he told me. "Why?"
"Are you going to ask me to it?" I asked him. Draco could be so thick sometimes.
"I already have! You haven't given me an answer yet though," he told me.
"What do you mean? You never asked me!" I said, surprised at the fact that was lying.
"No, I swear I did. In a letter. I asked you if you would give me the pleasure of taking you. I sent it the night we hooked up."
"You did?" I said trying to look innocent, but at the same time remembering that he had, indeed, asked me to the dance in that letter.
"Yes I did Hermione, but you never answered. So, are you going to let me take you?"
"Oh, Draco, I'm really sorry, but I've already told Dean I'd go with him. He asked me when Parvati announced that she was going with a Ravenclaw boy in 7th year. I thought you weren't going to ask me, so I said yes. I'm sorry," I said, expressing a look of sorrow on my face.
Draco was speechless. "Wh-what? How could you? I thought we were like, you know... I thought you were my girlfriend!"
"I am your girlfriend, but I felt bad for him. I'll save you a dance though," I said, winking and grinning at him.
"You can't be serious! Dean Thomas?! I can't believe you Hermione! I asked you first! You're my girlfriend!" Draco said, outraged.
"Sorry, I forgot that you asked me," I said, trying to stifle a giggle, but it wasn't working. I was clearly snickering, loudly.
"Are you laughing? What are you laughing ab--" Draco started to ask me, but suddenly looked like something had just dawned on him. "You little,"
Whatever I was, I didn't hear. At that moment, I, laughing, had run away from Draco. After a minute, I began to get tired. Draco didn't though. He caught up to me, grabbed me, and flung me over his shoulder, smiling the whole time.
"Hey!" I exclaimed. "Let me go you big oaf!" I said giggling noisily. We were attracting a lot of attention. I was pounding my fist on his chest, not intending to hurt him though.
"I will, don't worry," he said tauntingly, as he tipped me a little lower towards the ground.
"Don't let me go! Don't let me go!" I said quickly.
Draco carried me all the way up to the Astronomy Tower, occasionally stopping for a rest. When we got in, he dropped me on a couch. I landed with a soft 'thud' on the cushion, and quickly scrambled up into a sitting position.
"Thanks for the lift," I said sarcastically.
"Your welcome," Draco said brightly, and then he grinned, and jumped on me. "You're going to pay now," he said with a mysterious grin, and he started tickling me. Not just any old tickling, this was major, big time, hard to breath tickling.
"Draco! Draco stop!" I shrieked, still laughing. "Please!"
"Not until you answer my question," he said smirking.
"What question?" I asked.
He got off me a little bit. "Will you go to the dance with me?"
"Draco! Of course I will. I am your girlfriend after all," I told him.
"Right. OK. So, when is the dance exactly?" he asked, just making conversation.
"Two weeks from yesterday," I told him. "Dam*!" I blurted out.
"What?" Draco said, full of concern.
"I need a dress," I said plainly.
"Hermione! I thought you were in trouble because you almost never swear! Don't do that again," Draco retorted.
"You worry to much," I told him.
Draco just rolled his eyes, and moved closer to me. "I just worry about you," he said.
"Aww, how sweet," I said looking him in the eyes.
"I think this is the part where we kiss," Draco said, his mouth moving closer and closer to mine.
"I definitely agr--," I started to say, but was cut off by Draco. We were at it again. Up there, in the Astronomy Tower, no one there to bug us. I had gotten used to these kisses. They came so often. Not that I'm complaining, Draco was an excellent kisser. We just kissed so often now, it barely seemed special. I missed that special feeling I used to get when we kissed.
As if Draco could read my thoughts, he started to deepen the kiss. His tongue slowly crept into my mouth, as if unwelcome. I opened my mouth wider, allowing him to deepen the kiss.
Seconds quickly turned to minutes as we kept snogging. Draco finally broke apart from me. "I reckon we should go back down to the common rooms."
"Probably," I said, looking flushed.
"Say, Hermione. Is Pansy acting a bit, well, excessive in the way she acts around you?" Draco asked.
"Well, she kind of smirks at me when I see her in the halls or something. Like she knows something I don't," I told him. Come to think of it, Pansy had been acting a little strange around me. Grinning evilly in the halls. As a matter of fact, Blaise had too. Then again, you hardly ever saw those two separated. "Why?" I asked curiously.
"No reason," was Draco's quick reply.
I looked at him, disbelieving. "You expect me to believe that?" I said to him antagonistically. "I thought there were no secrets between us," I said, giving him a puppy dog face.
"Not the face! All right, I'll tell you, but no telling anyone else,"
"Me? Tell anyone else a secret? Never. I keep the secrets I'm told," I told him.
"I know. OK. Pansy has been, well, warming up to me," Draco said, anxiously.
"Warming up? What do you mean? I thought she was with Blaise," I said, astonished. I thought Pansy was definitely over Draco. She had Blaise now. Didn't she understand Draco didn't want her?
"No, not in a romantic way. Friendly, almost. She talks to me in the common room, and she's the only one who will."
"What does she talk about?" I questioned.
"School stuff. Classes, mostly."
"That's all? Nothing ever came up about me or Voldemort? Not just me, any other students?"
"Well, other students. Not any of the Gryffindor 6th years though. Well, occasionally some gossip on who's going out with who, who hooked up last night, you know. That sort of thing," he told me looking innocently.
I just looked at him, with a piercing stare.
"What? I'm telling the truth. I don't get it. She's being so, so, regular. She said I looked lonely every time in the common room. She said I seemed embarrassed about not being with anyone. I think you know why that is though," he added with a sly grin.
I blushed, knowing he had been red because he was flushed from out nights up here in the tower.
"I believe you," I said, sighing.
"No you don't," he said. He saw right through my lie.
"Come on Draco! This isn't exactly a normal way for Pansy to act. She's supposed to hate us! Not be nice, and friendly. You don't know how weird it is to hear the words 'Pansy' and 'friendly' in the same sentence!"
Draco started to smile, probably at my little criticism, but then saw the look on my face, and withdrew the smile from his face. "Look, Hermione. I wouldn't worry about it. I can handle her."
"Like you handled her that night I had some studying to do," I retorted back. "Pansy's cunning, and deceitful. You, of all people, should know that."
"I made a mistake that night! Everybody makes mistakes! It's inhuman not to!" Draco replied back to me. I started to say something back to him, but was interrupted. "Lets not fight over this OK? Not with the dance so close, and Pansy being the way she is."
"You're right. We've been acting like children. We'll worry about Pansy later, when I'm not tired," I said, yawning.
"Let's go to bed," Draco said, as he got up. "My legs are asleep."
"Wake them up then, I'm tired," I said smiling.
"All right, All right, they're awake, they're awake," Draco said to me, stifling a big yawn.
We dragged ourselves down the stairs, and to my prefect dorm. Draco waved his hand, gave me a kiss, and left. I didn't blame him in the slightest though, we were both tired. I looked at the clock on the wall, and saw that it read 11:47 p.m.. I flopped onto the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.
*Draco's POV*
I left Hermione quickly, anxious to get into bed. I staggered along the corridor, and ran into something very solid.
"Draco? Are you OK? Your eyes are half-closed, and you look drunk. Are you drunk?" I heard Pansy's high voice ask.
"What? Drunk? No," I said sounding drunk, but only because I was almost asleep.
"Maybe you should go to bed," she said, looking at me like I would attack her at any second.
"Probably," I said, and drooped on her shoulder.
"Wake up!" I have to get to bed too, you know," Pansy shrieked as she thrusted my head back up.
"Why the rush?" I asked, but found out why. A figure was slowly emerging from the room across from us.
"What's going on?" asked the deep voice I recognized as Blaise Zabani's.
"Nothing, nothing honey. Draco's just lost his way," Pansy told Blaise.
"OK, well, get him to bed," Blaise said.
"I am, but he just fell asleep on my shoulder," Pansy explained.
"I'll help him get a move on then," Blaise said, and pushed me up. "Get up, and get going," he yelled at me.
"Hold up, I'm going, I'm going," and I started to leave. In the distance, I could hear Pansy and Blaise arguing.
"He was half-asleep Blaise! He didn't suspect anything," Pansy sneered at him.
"How do you know? He could have been lying!" Blaise retorted back.
"He couldn't even see right, let alone realize what we were doing!"
"That's what you say."
"You could have at least been a little bit nicer to him, you know the plan," Pansy said mindfully to him.
"I guess, but I was mad. Creeping around, he'll get his pay back!. Do you think this has ever happened to him before?"
"I don't know, but lets get out of here if you're going to talk about this. We could be overheard," Pansy said to Blaise.
"All right," was the last I heard of them and then they were gone. That was weird. I was awake now. What plan? Why was she supposed to be nice to me? And, what were they doing in the room? 'Probably something I don't want to know about' I convinced myself.
"Filibuster Fireworks" I said when I got to my dorm door. The door opened, and I was greeted with my bed being all made up, ready for me climb in them, which is exactly what I did.
It took me a quarter of an hour to get sleepy again, mainly because I was thinking about Pansy and Blaises' conversation. It was getting to me. I grunted. Pansy caused me so much stress. I sighed, closed my eyes, and fell into a dream-filled sleep.
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I think that the Once Apon A Dream dance will be in chapter 17. I think one part may be in one chapter, and then the other and a different chapter. Next chapter Hermione will get her dress though, I'm sure of that. Hope you liked this chapter!
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~Recap
"OK, good," she said, grinning. "I've had enough Voldemort to last me a lifetime, however long that may be."
I grinned back at her, and we looked into each other's' eyes. We stared at each other for a few moments before leaning in, and locking lips. My hands were on her waist, and her's were trailing down my back, running through my hair. Once again, it was perfect. "You will live Hermione, your lifetime will be long, and joyful. I promise."
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"So, Draco," I said to him with a mysterious smile on my face.
"So what?" he slyly said back to me.
"You know that dance coming up? The Once Apon A Dream Dance," I said, looking him straight in the eyes.
"Yeah, I've heard about it," he told me. "Why?"
"Are you going to ask me to it?" I asked him. Draco could be so thick sometimes.
"I already have! You haven't given me an answer yet though," he told me.
"What do you mean? You never asked me!" I said, surprised at the fact that was lying.
"No, I swear I did. In a letter. I asked you if you would give me the pleasure of taking you. I sent it the night we hooked up."
"You did?" I said trying to look innocent, but at the same time remembering that he had, indeed, asked me to the dance in that letter.
"Yes I did Hermione, but you never answered. So, are you going to let me take you?"
"Oh, Draco, I'm really sorry, but I've already told Dean I'd go with him. He asked me when Parvati announced that she was going with a Ravenclaw boy in 7th year. I thought you weren't going to ask me, so I said yes. I'm sorry," I said, expressing a look of sorrow on my face.
Draco was speechless. "Wh-what? How could you? I thought we were like, you know... I thought you were my girlfriend!"
"I am your girlfriend, but I felt bad for him. I'll save you a dance though," I said, winking and grinning at him.
"You can't be serious! Dean Thomas?! I can't believe you Hermione! I asked you first! You're my girlfriend!" Draco said, outraged.
"Sorry, I forgot that you asked me," I said, trying to stifle a giggle, but it wasn't working. I was clearly snickering, loudly.
"Are you laughing? What are you laughing ab--" Draco started to ask me, but suddenly looked like something had just dawned on him. "You little,"
Whatever I was, I didn't hear. At that moment, I, laughing, had run away from Draco. After a minute, I began to get tired. Draco didn't though. He caught up to me, grabbed me, and flung me over his shoulder, smiling the whole time.
"Hey!" I exclaimed. "Let me go you big oaf!" I said giggling noisily. We were attracting a lot of attention. I was pounding my fist on his chest, not intending to hurt him though.
"I will, don't worry," he said tauntingly, as he tipped me a little lower towards the ground.
"Don't let me go! Don't let me go!" I said quickly.
Draco carried me all the way up to the Astronomy Tower, occasionally stopping for a rest. When we got in, he dropped me on a couch. I landed with a soft 'thud' on the cushion, and quickly scrambled up into a sitting position.
"Thanks for the lift," I said sarcastically.
"Your welcome," Draco said brightly, and then he grinned, and jumped on me. "You're going to pay now," he said with a mysterious grin, and he started tickling me. Not just any old tickling, this was major, big time, hard to breath tickling.
"Draco! Draco stop!" I shrieked, still laughing. "Please!"
"Not until you answer my question," he said smirking.
"What question?" I asked.
He got off me a little bit. "Will you go to the dance with me?"
"Draco! Of course I will. I am your girlfriend after all," I told him.
"Right. OK. So, when is the dance exactly?" he asked, just making conversation.
"Two weeks from yesterday," I told him. "Dam*!" I blurted out.
"What?" Draco said, full of concern.
"I need a dress," I said plainly.
"Hermione! I thought you were in trouble because you almost never swear! Don't do that again," Draco retorted.
"You worry to much," I told him.
Draco just rolled his eyes, and moved closer to me. "I just worry about you," he said.
"Aww, how sweet," I said looking him in the eyes.
"I think this is the part where we kiss," Draco said, his mouth moving closer and closer to mine.
"I definitely agr--," I started to say, but was cut off by Draco. We were at it again. Up there, in the Astronomy Tower, no one there to bug us. I had gotten used to these kisses. They came so often. Not that I'm complaining, Draco was an excellent kisser. We just kissed so often now, it barely seemed special. I missed that special feeling I used to get when we kissed.
As if Draco could read my thoughts, he started to deepen the kiss. His tongue slowly crept into my mouth, as if unwelcome. I opened my mouth wider, allowing him to deepen the kiss.
Seconds quickly turned to minutes as we kept snogging. Draco finally broke apart from me. "I reckon we should go back down to the common rooms."
"Probably," I said, looking flushed.
"Say, Hermione. Is Pansy acting a bit, well, excessive in the way she acts around you?" Draco asked.
"Well, she kind of smirks at me when I see her in the halls or something. Like she knows something I don't," I told him. Come to think of it, Pansy had been acting a little strange around me. Grinning evilly in the halls. As a matter of fact, Blaise had too. Then again, you hardly ever saw those two separated. "Why?" I asked curiously.
"No reason," was Draco's quick reply.
I looked at him, disbelieving. "You expect me to believe that?" I said to him antagonistically. "I thought there were no secrets between us," I said, giving him a puppy dog face.
"Not the face! All right, I'll tell you, but no telling anyone else,"
"Me? Tell anyone else a secret? Never. I keep the secrets I'm told," I told him.
"I know. OK. Pansy has been, well, warming up to me," Draco said, anxiously.
"Warming up? What do you mean? I thought she was with Blaise," I said, astonished. I thought Pansy was definitely over Draco. She had Blaise now. Didn't she understand Draco didn't want her?
"No, not in a romantic way. Friendly, almost. She talks to me in the common room, and she's the only one who will."
"What does she talk about?" I questioned.
"School stuff. Classes, mostly."
"That's all? Nothing ever came up about me or Voldemort? Not just me, any other students?"
"Well, other students. Not any of the Gryffindor 6th years though. Well, occasionally some gossip on who's going out with who, who hooked up last night, you know. That sort of thing," he told me looking innocently.
I just looked at him, with a piercing stare.
"What? I'm telling the truth. I don't get it. She's being so, so, regular. She said I looked lonely every time in the common room. She said I seemed embarrassed about not being with anyone. I think you know why that is though," he added with a sly grin.
I blushed, knowing he had been red because he was flushed from out nights up here in the tower.
"I believe you," I said, sighing.
"No you don't," he said. He saw right through my lie.
"Come on Draco! This isn't exactly a normal way for Pansy to act. She's supposed to hate us! Not be nice, and friendly. You don't know how weird it is to hear the words 'Pansy' and 'friendly' in the same sentence!"
Draco started to smile, probably at my little criticism, but then saw the look on my face, and withdrew the smile from his face. "Look, Hermione. I wouldn't worry about it. I can handle her."
"Like you handled her that night I had some studying to do," I retorted back. "Pansy's cunning, and deceitful. You, of all people, should know that."
"I made a mistake that night! Everybody makes mistakes! It's inhuman not to!" Draco replied back to me. I started to say something back to him, but was interrupted. "Lets not fight over this OK? Not with the dance so close, and Pansy being the way she is."
"You're right. We've been acting like children. We'll worry about Pansy later, when I'm not tired," I said, yawning.
"Let's go to bed," Draco said, as he got up. "My legs are asleep."
"Wake them up then, I'm tired," I said smiling.
"All right, All right, they're awake, they're awake," Draco said to me, stifling a big yawn.
We dragged ourselves down the stairs, and to my prefect dorm. Draco waved his hand, gave me a kiss, and left. I didn't blame him in the slightest though, we were both tired. I looked at the clock on the wall, and saw that it read 11:47 p.m.. I flopped onto the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.
*Draco's POV*
I left Hermione quickly, anxious to get into bed. I staggered along the corridor, and ran into something very solid.
"Draco? Are you OK? Your eyes are half-closed, and you look drunk. Are you drunk?" I heard Pansy's high voice ask.
"What? Drunk? No," I said sounding drunk, but only because I was almost asleep.
"Maybe you should go to bed," she said, looking at me like I would attack her at any second.
"Probably," I said, and drooped on her shoulder.
"Wake up!" I have to get to bed too, you know," Pansy shrieked as she thrusted my head back up.
"Why the rush?" I asked, but found out why. A figure was slowly emerging from the room across from us.
"What's going on?" asked the deep voice I recognized as Blaise Zabani's.
"Nothing, nothing honey. Draco's just lost his way," Pansy told Blaise.
"OK, well, get him to bed," Blaise said.
"I am, but he just fell asleep on my shoulder," Pansy explained.
"I'll help him get a move on then," Blaise said, and pushed me up. "Get up, and get going," he yelled at me.
"Hold up, I'm going, I'm going," and I started to leave. In the distance, I could hear Pansy and Blaise arguing.
"He was half-asleep Blaise! He didn't suspect anything," Pansy sneered at him.
"How do you know? He could have been lying!" Blaise retorted back.
"He couldn't even see right, let alone realize what we were doing!"
"That's what you say."
"You could have at least been a little bit nicer to him, you know the plan," Pansy said mindfully to him.
"I guess, but I was mad. Creeping around, he'll get his pay back!. Do you think this has ever happened to him before?"
"I don't know, but lets get out of here if you're going to talk about this. We could be overheard," Pansy said to Blaise.
"All right," was the last I heard of them and then they were gone. That was weird. I was awake now. What plan? Why was she supposed to be nice to me? And, what were they doing in the room? 'Probably something I don't want to know about' I convinced myself.
"Filibuster Fireworks" I said when I got to my dorm door. The door opened, and I was greeted with my bed being all made up, ready for me climb in them, which is exactly what I did.
It took me a quarter of an hour to get sleepy again, mainly because I was thinking about Pansy and Blaises' conversation. It was getting to me. I grunted. Pansy caused me so much stress. I sighed, closed my eyes, and fell into a dream-filled sleep.
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I think that the Once Apon A Dream dance will be in chapter 17. I think one part may be in one chapter, and then the other and a different chapter. Next chapter Hermione will get her dress though, I'm sure of that. Hope you liked this chapter!
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