To The Contrary!
By Emma
Chapter Ten: I Left My Heart In...
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A/N This took me forever. LoL. I hope it's okay.
TWO DAYS LATER
Hermione hadn't realized she'd fallen asleep until she was awoken by a giggling noise in the room next to hers. She could only guess that either Lavender or Parvati were having another one of their frequent innuendoes.
Thinking of that made her memory rush back to why her pillow was slightly damp. Even after talking to Ron, shortly after, her spirits had sunk again. What if he hated her? What if she'd ruined everything? What if he was off with some girl right at this very moment? A girl that wasn't afraid of giving him what he wanted?
So she'd spent the weekend cooped up in her room.
She looked at her wristwatch which read nine o clock on the dot, and looked out at the dark Hogwarts grounds.
She heard another giggle emerge from behind the wall and rolled her eyes yet again.
She really needed something - anything- to get her mind off of recent events. But she knew that it wouldn't work that way. She knew that she'd continue being miserable until she spoke to Draco.
She took a quick look at herself in the mirror and then started down the stairs and on her way to the dungeons.
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Meanwhile...
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Draco sighed and looked up at his ceiling. Crabbe and Goyle had been knocking his door down for the past two days, but it seemed that their fists had gotten bruised because they'd ceased the pounding and seemed to be gone.
Finally he had the silence to think straight! He hadn't been to classes in the past forty eight hours. He'd been to much a mess to think of leaving his room. He hadn't eaten, hadn't slept... all he'd been doing was staring at his ceiling.
*You're pathetic*, a voice said to him in his head, *You're an insignificant, foolish codfish and you'll never change. You'll never be able to give the girl you love what she deserves!*
"I don't love her." he said loudly, and then, realizing how crazy he sounded, stopped and closed his eyes.
*You have to talk to her.* it said in a singsong voice, and he grimaced. He didn't want to see her...he didn't want to watch her face...see her tears.
*So you say you don't love her? But you can't stand to even think about a tear dropping down that fragile white cheek?* it said snidely, and Draco's eyes flashed open in surprise.
Maybe he WAS crazy. But that wasn't the matter at hand.
He had to see Hermione.
He grabbed his cloak and slipped out the door.
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"Dark Lord." Hermione said loudly to the Slytherin Common Room entrance, and it slid open.
She stalked silently through the common room and ignored the surprised and angry looks from the other Slytherins that sat near the fire. She ran to Draco's room and took a breath. Then she swiftly grabbed the handle and opened it to see-
He wasn't there.
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Draco smoothed back his hair breathlessly. He'd run all the way to the entrance of the Gryffindor common room and now he was more nervous than...Mrs Norris at Halloween.
The Fat Lady looked sternly at him, "You're that Malfoy boy, aren't you? The one that always walks Miss Granger to the door at night? The one that lurks about in the shadows?"
Draco's eyebrows went up swiftly.
*I guess you're not that sneaky, Malfoy. Nonetheless, you ARE a Malfoy. ACT IT!*
He took a deep breath, "I left my heart in your common room. And I've come to claim it, please."
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*Where is he?* she thought frantically, and then turned around and bolted out the door of the common room before a gang of Slytherins could gang up on her.
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"What do you MEAN she's not here?" he nearly shouted in frustration, and the Fat Lady flinched. He guessed she was having a Sirius Black flashback.
He took yet ANOTHER deep breath (A/N I like thinking of Draco with the deep breathing. Lmao I'm so sick. Okay, I'll shaddup.)
"Alright, where did she go?"
The Fat Lady sighed, "She ran out of here about ten minutes ago."
"She ran?"
"Ran she did. She looked flustered and worried."
Draco's eyes went wide.
"I have to find her!" he exclaimed, and turned around to run straight into-
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Hermione blew her hair out of her eyes as she ran down the corridor to Gryffindor tower, "Where the hell could he-"
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"Draco!" Hermione shouted in relief as she stared into the grey eyes that she was drowning in as she lay atop their occupant on the floor.
"Hermione." he said quietly, staring at her, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I-"
She raised a finger to his lips to hush him, and brought her mouth to his in a tender lock.
Once she pulled back, he quirked his eyebrow characteristically, "So, Hermione. Um...can you forgive me?"
She grinned.
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a/N I know it's kinda short still but I have ideas for how I'm going to end this. I know it seems sorta ending-if-you-want-it-to but I still have a load of material for a good ending. So if you'll bear with me I'll finish it off, hopefully by the end of christmas break. :) thanks for reviewing, guys. Love you for being so patient.