For Who They Really Are:

Author's P.O.V:

It had been exactly two weeks since "the kiss." Draco and Hermione had barely said a word to each other. It wasn't because of that incident but because they were both very busy. Hermione spent more time with the female prefects than with herself working out the stuff for Teacher's Week. Thank God it was over. Now Hermione was very busy with schoolwork and she still hadn't spoken to Harry and Ron. Right now Hermione was very confused about her life. She sat in the library buried in over a hundred books.

"Hey." Draco took a seat beside Hermione.

"Hello." She looked up from her book and then continued reading.

"Hermione, I know you are probably already done with the report for Snape besides after Christmas we'll be free students, just doing the finishing touches you know." Draco put his hand on hers. "We're supposed to be having fun. This is our last school year here."

"I know." Hermione looked at him. Her eyes were puffy and red, her hair was just a mess. "I just want to make this perfect. I'm checking all my sources just in case I left something out."

"Hermione, it's a Saturday." Draco looked at her. "You are the best student Hogwarts has ever had. You probably know more than Dumbledore himself."

"You're not convincing me." Hermione shook her head.

"Why does your work need to be absolutely perfect when it already is perfect?"

"Because." Hermione began. "I don't know. I just can't not fail."

"And you won't okay?" Draco looked her in the eye. "You'll do just fine. Come on let's go to the lake and go for a swim a lot of the students are hanging out there."

Draco put out his hand. Hermione looked up at him.

"Could we just stay in the room and sleep?" Hermione asked sweetly.

Draco paused for a moment and Hermione yawned.

"Okay." Draco took her hand and they walked to their rooms.

Hermione walked straight to her room and changed, Draco did the same.

When Draco stepped out of his room he found Hermione on the couch with her head down. Tears were flowing from her eyes.

"Hermione." Draco walked over to her.

Hermione didn't speak. In her hands was a piece of parchment paper. Her hands were shaking.

"Baby, what's wrong?" It was the first time Draco had ever called Hermione that.

He took a seat beside her. She walked over to his lap and cried even harder.

"It's." she sobbed. Draco couldn't make her words out.

Hermione shakily handed the paper to Draco.

Hermione dearest,

I need you to come home as soon as possible. There has been an accident. You're parents were on their jet to a seminar. It is to my saddest duty to inform you that the load of the aircraft was too much and they didn't make it. Your father died on impact, he was piloting the jet and your mother on the other hand suffered from internal injuries and only made it to the hospital. They died yesterday, sometime in the morning. I know you will come home as soon as you get this. I will be awaiting you arrival.

Sadly, Nana

I looked at Hermione. No one deserved this.

"I told you my life wasn't all rainbows and butterflies." She wiped her tear.

"I'll go with you." I told her. "I need to go with you."

"Draco." Hermione protested.

"I need to make sure that you'll be okay." He whispered in her ear.

Dumbledore had come into the room soon after that. He allowed Draco to accompany Hermione and they were only to be gone for that week.

"Draco." Hermione whispered as they road on the Hogwarts express back to the platform.

"Yes?"

"Thank you. I really needed you." She leaned onto his chest.

Draco's P.O.V:

I had no idea how to treat her. She was acting so fragile, so break able.

We walked out of platform 9 ¾.

"The driver should be here soon." Hermione looked down sadly.

"Miss Hermione." A firm voice walked over to us.

"Your grandmother told us to take you home to freshen up before you go to the wake." The old man said.

"Okay." Hermione whispered as she allowed the man to take her things.

"One moment ma'am." He ran to the car. Soon there was another man trailing behind him.

I knew it was a bad time to ask why she had two drivers. I knew that Hermione was well off with her parent's being successful dentists but I didn't know that she was rich.

"Sir." The younger man offered to take my stuff.

"It's okay." I began.

"Draco, it's okay." It was the first time I had seen Hermione smile in quite awhile. "Let him take it."

I took Hermione's hand as we walked to her car. To my surprise it was a long car.

"Wow! This car is long." I said in amazement.

"It's called a limousine." She giggled.

The older man opened the door and Hermione stepped in. I followed on after her.

"How come you have to drivers?" I looked at her.

"One's what muggles call a body guard. My family thinks I need protection I am the only grandchild of the only daughter in a family of nine, my mother's family of course. On my dad side I am the only girl plus I'm the youngest. So that's why everyone thinks I need protection most especially the people on my mother's child." She looked at me.

"Princess is in her carriage." The younger man said into what seemed to be a machine.

"Copy that." The machine said.

I looked at Hermione in confusion. "What princess? Where's the carriage?"

"They like to tease me." She shrugged. "They call me princess and any vehicle I ride is my carriage."

We got to Hermione's house. The property was really big but the house was a small size. Hermione began to cry again as we stepped out of the limo.

"It just reminds me of them so much." She cried.

"Hermione." An old lady walked out of the house. "Janson, Mike get the things into the house."

"Miss Jenkins." Hermione ran into her arms and cried.

I looked at the old woman and smiled.

"Miss Jenkins this is Draco." She looked at me. "This is Miss Jenkins. She's been my guardian since I was born. Kinda like a handmaiden. And trust me she's still a maiden." She smiled through her tears.

"Please to meet you ma'am." I put out my hand.

"Miss A." An old man stepped out of the house.

"Bradley!" Hermione smiled at him. She hugged him. "It's so good to see you all. It's been so long."

"A little over two years." He nodded his head.

She introduced us.

"I never knew you lived the life of a princess." I put one arm around her.

"They tried to make me happy." She sighed. "I lost my brother at a young age and they thought that spoiling me would do any good but don't get me wrong having almost everything is fun but there is something that the heart looks for and it's definitely not material."

I wrapped my arms around her.

"Come." She took my hand. "I want to show you my room. I stay on the second floor."

We walked up one flight of stairs. Her entire room was the entire floor.

Author's P.O.V:

Draco looked around Hermione's room in awe. She had a TV, a radio, everything a girl could ever want. Her room was a light shade of yellow. It wasn't really a typical girl's room. There were books all over the place, a computer. Her bed was big and there were couches in the middle of the room right in front of the TV.

"You're room is really big." Draco looked around.

"It hasn't changed one bit." Her eyes were welling up again. "I haven't been here in two years."

"Why?"

"I never left Mugwit the funny thing is the room Marisa and I shared was almost exactly like this." She walked over to her bed. "What?" She looked at Draco.

"I just never expected you to be this." He began.

"Rich?" Hermione asked quietly. "It isn't exactly the best thing in this world. And I didn't see why I had to fling my money around just so that everyone could see."

Draco put his head down in shame.

"Oh, no Draco. I didn't mean it like that." Hermione shook her head. "I. I'm sorry."

"Hey, the truth hurts right?" Draco shrugged.

"Not when you hurt someone who's dear to you." Hermione put her head down.

"Hey," Draco lifted her chin. "It's okay, baby."

Hermione smiled. "I love it when you call me that."

"Then it'll just have to be your pet name." He smiled at her.

Hermione asked Draco to go to his room so that he could freshen up as well. The wake of her parent's was going to be in her grandmother's house.

As they were about to leave the house the younger man, who answered to the name Mike walked behind Hermione and me.

"Okay, when we get there you'll probably be in a lot of shock. Just reminding you that I have a big extended family and I mean like really, really big." Hermione looked up at Draco.

"It's all good, baby." He put one arm around her as she relaxed.

The drive to her grandmother's house was short.

"The princess is in the queen's home." Mike laughed into what Hermione explained as the walkie-talkie.

Hermione stepped out of the vehicle followed by Draco. There were a lot of people standing outside.

"Do you know all these people?" Draco whispered in her ear.

"No." She looked up at him.

"Miss. You're grandmother would like to see you now." Mike whispered behind Hermione.

Slowly Hermione walked up the stairs leading into the large Victorian house.

Mike led them into what seemed to the living room. It was larger than usual. And in the very front of the room there were two pots with the pictures of Hermione's parent's.

Mike stopped at the entrance of the door and allowed me and Hermione to walk into the room.

"Nana." Hermione sighed and ran over to the old lady.

She began to sob on her shoulder.

"Now a proper young lady does not cry in public." The lady said.

Hermione clued Draco to come over.

"Nana, this is my uh. boyfriend Draco." Hermione smiled at him through her tears. "Draco this is my grandmother, everyone calls her Nana."

"Pleasure to meet you ma'am." Draco courteously kissed the old lady's hand.

"You look like a fine young man." She smiled at him.

"I'd like to see my parents, please." Hermione excused Draco and herself.

Together they walked across the room toward the two pots.

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Hermione whispered. She traced her fingers along the pictures of her parents.

"Are you okay?" Draco whispered in her ear.

He was expecting the 'I'm fine' answer but.

"No." Hermione paused. "But I will be."

Instinctively Draco put his arm around Hermione.

"Come." Hermione looked up. "I'll introduce you to all of my relatives."

Hermione introduced her relatives to Draco. One after the other all her aunts and even cousins were enchanted by Draco's charisma.

A young handsome young boy walked into the room.

"Hermione, is that really you?" He looked at his cousin.

"Jason?" She beamed. She ran over to him and began to cry.

"Hey, no tears." He smiled up at her.

"It is just so good to see you." She wiped her tears. "I'm all out of tears."

"Look at you! You're definitely not that scrawny little know-it-all." He laughed.

"Draco." She called her boyfriend (sigh?!? I wish I could say the same. Haha) Draco was talking to Hermione's grandmother and grandaunts.

"Excuse me ladies." He walked over to Hermione. "Yeah, baby?"

Jason shot Draco a look when he called Hermione baby.

"J, this is my boyfriend Draco." Hermione introduced. "Draco this is my cousin, Jason. I grew up with him. He used to live right next to us before he moved to America."

Draco put out his hand.

"Please to meet you." Jason nodded his head.

"Hermione dear, mama would like to talk to you." One of Hermione's female cousins called her.

"Be right there." She looked up at Jason. "Take care of him, won't you?"

Jason shot Hermione a look. "With pleasure."

This made Draco nervous.

"Be nice." Hermione nudged her cousin.

She walked away.

Jason studied Draco.

"I don't mean to sound rude but you're making me nervous." Draco put his head down.

"Good. I want to talk to you." He looked at Draco seriously. "Hermione is the youngest and only girl in our family and we are very protective of her. I swear if you do anything to hurt her."

"I have no plans to. I love her, a lot." Draco admitted honestly.

"What are you two talking about?" Hermione approached the two.

"You." Jason answered.

"Go on."

"Nothing really. It was nice talking to you Draco." Jason nodded his head. "And I'm glad that you feel about her that way because believe me if you didn't I know a lot of older cousins that would happily kill someone for Hermione." He kissed Hermione on the cheek. "I'll be seeing you."

"What was that all about?" Hermione looked up at her boyfriend.

"All good." Draco pulled her close and kissed her on the forehead.

'Come, let's walk around." Hermione put out her hand.

Hermione and Draco stepped out of the room and soon enough Mike was there.

"Does he always have to follow you around?" Draco asked uncomfortably.

"You get used to it after awhile. I've had him since I was about eleven." Hermione shrugged. "I want to show you something."

Draco and Hermione walked across the garden.

"I'm really tired, I think we should go home." Hermione leaned onto Draco.

"Okay. Let's go say goodbye to all your relatives." Draco walked Hermione back to the house.

They said their goodbyes and soon enough they were back home.

"Let's go up." Together they walked up to Hermione's room. "You'll be staying in my guestroom right?"

"Yes, the room behind this one." Draco nodded. Hermione leaned into her bed. "You sleep."

Draco looked down at Hermione to find that she was already fast asleep.

"I'll go." He whispered and leaned down to kiss her cheek. "Night, baby."

Draco looked at Hermione one last time and left the room.

A Lot Later that night.

Draco woke up to a muffled cry. Draco looked at the clock beside his bed. 1:00.

"Who could that be?" Draco stood up from the bed and walked to Hermione's room.

"Hermione." Draco walked over to her. "What's wrong?"
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