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REAL chapter 10: Angelettes and Two Rings

Last Time: Hermione turned around to see the ambers in the fireplace dying down. Suddenly she saw a *thing* on the arm of the couch. Fear was building up quickly inside her.

The last thing she could do before she realised who it was, was to scream.

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She yelped and immediately regretted it. It wasn't the boogety monster, although some might have compared him to the devil himself.

A milky hand quickly retracted from the armrest of the leather chair.

"Merlin's Teddy Bear!!!!" Hermione yelled at the figure.

"Do you have to be so damn scared all the time?" The voice of Draco Malfoy drawled from his spot on the leather chair.

"What're you doing in the dark just sitting like that? You look like you were plotting murder, or worse doing it!" Hermione retorted.

"Just spending my Halloween in this chair aaalllll alone in a dark, scary room. Got a problem with that?" He whispered in a deathly tone that would have scared anyone to the point of backing off.

Hermione was not deterred. "Do NOT use that tone with me, Mister."

"Yes, Mum." Draco stood to his ominous full height of six foot four.

Hermione stomped up to him, clutching her present tightly in her hands. "You-You-YOU!!!!"

"Nothing better than that?" Draco lazily said, almost sounding like he was talking to his manicurist after a night of two hours sleep. Almost.

Hermione started to spout off any insult she could manage, taking away her wittieness due to her loss of self-control.

$God, 'Mione. Do you HAVE to be that cute when you're fussed up?$ Draco thought as he descended and kissed her to shut her up.

~*~*~*~*~*~Somewhere Next To Heaven~*~*~*~*~*~

"Look at how cute they are!" Heidi squealed, tossing her red hair behind her shoulders.

"Looks like someone has got the springtime love bite." Muttered Madaline as she tried to put her hair up into a bun without it falling down, but being lose at the same time.

"It's just they are getting together, look! It is dark in that room and they are all, like, fighting, and he kisses her to make her shut up. It's sooo romantic!" Heidi said, pointing at a white porclain cauldren with the gold letters 'Spy-dren 200and4' inscripted onto it.

"They are getting together already?? The packages haven't been opened. This isn't s'posed to happen. They'll... Ruin it all!" Olivia ran up to the cauldren. Starting to sweat.

"Relax, honey. We are Angelettes. Just use some magic to figure out what they are thinking. They may not even be together yet." Natalie said as she descended the stairs, black hair in a pony tail.

Bella ran to the cauldren and muttered a few choice words. Her beady black eyes stared expectantly at the Spy-dren 204. Voices were heard. "$God, 'Mione. Do you HAVE to be so cute when you're fussed up?$"

"See, he just wanted to shut her up." 'Trina said, rationally. "Now let's make them go back to their rooms and open the package before they sleep."

"Don't forget to make them both put the thing-ys on." Analise piped up from her position of working on dinner.

"Will do." Olivia replied evenly and started to fill the couple's mind with orders.

~*~*~*~Back to Present (After Kiss)~*~*~*~

Hermione's mind filled with a pretty, deep voice. *Go ahead and slap him. Go on.*

Hermione obeyed her thoughts and wacked Draco pretty hard. *Say something witty and run to your dorms.*

"You prat! Who do you think you are?" Hermione ran up her stairwell and through the portrait that led to the 6th year Gryffindor dorms.

$Draco, leave her be. Go to your room, open the gift. You know you're curious.$ A voice told him. He shrugged and trudged to his dorm. He sat on his bed and looked at the cotton-wrapped gift.

He peered out the window near his bed. The full moon shown brightly in the dark sky.

He carfully unwrapped the day-time sky decorated present. He dropped it and saw a gold banded ring with a ruby gem in the middle. He tried it on. It was a little tight, but otherwise perfect.

He stopped suddenly, a blinding ray of white light erupted from the package. It engulfed him and he was jetted back into his bed. His bed spread tightly surrounded him and he immediately dozed off into a fitfull sleep.

~*~*~*~Hermione's View~*~*~*~

Hermione, once again, obeyed her thoughts and opened up the leather packaging. She stared out at the moon while doing so.

She looked at the tiny ring inside, it was a thick silver band with a dark emerald gem in the middle. She tried it on, it was a little big, but otherwise perfect.

She stopped suddenly as the wind blew out the roaring fire in the fireplace. She looked around; there weren't any open windows to let the breeze in. A blue light shot out of the package. Hermione was thrown into her bed, the covers wrapping around her snuggly.

She immediately fell asleep.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

What neither of them noticed, though, was that both their left arms were covered in a black and white rose tattoo. The thing started at their rings and crawled all the way up their arms and stopped two inches from their shoulders.

(AN: I thought that little paragraph was not just Herm's POV)

~*~*~*~Dream~*~*~*~(They both have this dream)

Hermione was sitting under the dark, midnight sky. Her hair was up in a lose french twist and seemed to not tangle. The stars sparkled and she sat on a field covered with white roses every few feet.

She turned around, and saw Draco. He was on the other side of some invisible barrier, in which it was broad daylight on his side. He was sitting under a willow tree, its branches were mysteriously held back just so he could see her and she could see him.

He smiled at her, none of that smirking business, an actual smile. He appeared to have been watching her as she was him. Suddenly they both got up and walked towards each other synonomously.

They met at the invisible line. They each took a step onto the other's side, but stopped before bringing their other foot over. They turned towards each other and kissed.

The worlds around them blurred from sight and eventually made up a sky of glowing purple, a half sun/half moon, stars, and a light green, grassy meadow with yellow roses covering every few feet.

"I-" Hermione began.

"-Love-" Draco said.

"-you." They finished together.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Hermione woke up in a cold sweat. She blinked to get adjusted to the light and found herself surrounded by the whole girl population in Gryffindor.

"Why's-" She began.

"Herms, you were screaming for bloody murder! You thrashed out in your sleep. You started to tell us all to get you some Crystal Dragon Water and then started to hit anyone close enough to you." Lavender explained.

"Oh." Hermione swallowed visibly. "I'm sorry...uh, nightmares. You know how those can get."

The girls cleared out and Ginny looked at Hermione with worry evident on her face. "Dragon Water?" She whispered and ran out the door.

Hermione got up and took her shower. She came back into the room in a towel.

"Where's your tattoo?" Parvati asked.

"Tattoo? I would never get something that permanent. The ink goes to your brain." Hermione said.

"B-but, you had one all over your left arm. Roses. I swear." Parvati said as she tried not to look worried and busied herself with her hair.

"Hmm." Was the reply Hermione barely choked out.

~*~*~*~*~ (AN: Let's just say Draco did the exact same thing, but asked for a "mud pie" and then threatened anyone who saw him after he woke up. No one wanted to cross him and they pretended nothing happened.)

At Potions, Hermione found herself struggling to get her ring off.

"Harry! My mum got me this! I can't get frog eye all over it, I think it may be expensive!!!" She frantically whispered.

"Here's the plan." Harry whispered in her ear.

She stuck her arm out straight and Harry stood as far as he could and started to tug at it. He heaved and pulled.

Finally he said, "Let's get Ron. He's better at arm strength than I am."

Harry whispered in Ron's ear and Ron came over to Hermione. "Hold on." He said.

Hermione braced herself. He started to pull really hard, and she held onto the desk for support. Harry took hold of Hermione as she started to get pulled to Ron along with the desk.

Their was a small knuckle crack and Hermione gasped. Ron continued to pull, how Snape never noticed was a miracle.

Two minutes later their was a loud CRACK! and Ron fell to the ground as he lost grip.

Hermione yelled out in pain. "Aaa! Ron, my arm!" She screamed.

"Pray tell what is going on?" Snape's icy voice drawled, as he was at their table on the spot.

"Well, Professor. My mum just gave me this really nice ring and I didn't want to get it dirty or anything. So I tried to get it off. I even used lotion! It wouldn't come off, so Harry pulled at it. Then he said Ron is stronger, so Ron came over. And for the past four minutes he has been trying to pull it off. And now...we're here." Hermione's face was bright red and she had tears falling freely as she clutched her left arm with her right.

"I see. Let's have a look." Hermione struggled to take baby steps to Snape.

"Give your arm here." He ordered. She let go of the arm and nothing happened. "C'mon, Miss Granger. I have neither the patience nor the time for childish games like this. Put your arm into my hand!"

"I-I can't." Hermione said. Snape looked flabbergasted.

"Mister Weasley is not that strong. Now stop playing with me, Miss Granger. Give me your arm." Snape looked cool and collected on the outside but was worried on the inside. Why would a good student try to smite him? Maybe this was real?

"I can't, Professor. I'm trying really hard, I am." Hermione sobbed out.

Professor Snape was over to her in an instant. He looked at her arm. "It seems Mr. Weasley is, in fact, stronger than I thought. You have dislocated your arm, Miss Granger."

He bent down and looked at her finger. His beady eyes went wide. "It seems your ring finger has been dislocated as well."

Hermione nodded solemnly. "Go to the Infirmary now. I will see to it that Misters Potter and Weasley will be punished for disturbing class and hurting another student."

"Really, Professor, it won't be necessary-" Hermione began to defend Ron and Harry.

"Nonsense. They have disrupted my class, even if you wish not to blame them for your injuries. Off to the nurse, NOW!" Snape glided back to his desk as Hermione left. "Class, please get back to your duties."

Ron and Harry shared a look, but continued to prepare the Depressant Potion.

Meanwhile, Professor Snape was having a nuclear meltdown. He waited a few minutes so nothing would look suspicious, and announced, "I will be right back, class. I need to attain something for the next class which I left in my office. I will be back in less than ten minutes, so please do not wreck havoc in my classroom."

He scurried out the door as the class launched into whispers. The Slytherins kept taking loudly of why 'POTTER AND WEASLEY DIDN'T GET DETENTION YET', while the Gryffindors just talked of random things. Lavender and Parvati were on about Oliver Wood, who had graduated and was going to either play Quidditch professionally or take over for Madam Hooch next year. (AN: Sorry, a little bit of Sean Biggerstaff makes my world go 'round. ::sighs:: )

~*~*~*~In Snape's Office~*~*~*~

"Albus, I have never seen a ring like it. Except on Analiselast year when she was going out with that Ravenclaw...even though her ring was white and sapphire." Snape said frantically to the fire.

"Well, it was Slytherin colors, was it? Well, there we have it. We have the girl narrowed down to Miss Granger, and the boy is in your house. That leaves Misters Malfoy and Zambini." Dumbledore replied calmly.

"What about Cr-" Snape started.

"They, I am afraid Misters Crabbe and Goyle would stand no chance to be near in love with someone so intelligent." Dumbledore stated.

"I see. I'll look into this...ring binding business. See if Mr. Malfoy or Mr. Zambini have one. They might be wearing it around their necks, though. It'll be hard to find it without looking odd."

"On the contrary, if Miss Granger could not get it off, it has already been bound. So either boy will have it on their ring finger."

"Well, I must be getting back to class. They'll be suspicious. Good day, Albus." Snape ran out of his office and back to his classroom without waiting for a reply from Dumbledore.

~*~*~*~*~*~(AN: I could leave it there, I'll just keep it to the classroom and end it)

Professor Snape had just came into the classroom, looking angrier than before. (Which was a lot, considering his usual mad self.)

"SILENCE!!" Snape sat down and began to sort through papers. "I will have you try these potions. First, go to the back and get out your Cheering Potion viles which will have your name on it. Next take four tablespoons of your Depressant Potion. Drink the Depressant. If you have done it correctly, you will be needing the Cheering Potion which will balance it out. If you are finished leave. It might take you a while, as some of you have not finished the Depressant and there is ½ an hour left in this class period. Begin."

He started to pile his papers and sort them. "Mister Malfoy, Mister Zambini please come to me."

The boys both looked queasy to be going up to a very moody Professor Snape. "Yes?" Malfoy drawled, not really believing the professor could possibly be mad at him.

"Take out your hands and lay them on the table." Snape said tiredly with a sigh. The boys both did as told, Malfoy being reluctant.

Snape saw a thick gold banded ring with a ruby on Draco's left ring finger. "WHERE DID YOU GET THAT???!!!!" Snape shouted with fluster.

"My mother gave it to me. Said it was very important, sir." Draco visibly shrank.

"I see. Please be seated." Professor Snape stated and began to write hastily on a parchment.

He wrote: "Albus-

Mr. D. Malfoy has the Gryffindor like ring. We are all doomed. There cannot be love between two enemies!

-Severus."

His black crow took off out the window. Severus sighed and rubbed his eyes. There was a loud explosion. "Longbottom!" He threatened and ran off to reprimand the student.

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AN: That was long. 2,538 words!!! I think I'll begin the next chapter. I'm bored and on a writing roll! TTFN.

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