Ch 10 - The End
Recap - Three hours later, all was right in the world again. No one was crying or in the Hospital Wing. If your not getting this: Ron was now awake and no long in the Wing.
When Ron came in the Common Room, Hermione was sitting at one of the many workbenches, in perfect view of the portrait hole. When she saw him, she jolted up and ran to him. "Ron! Oh my gosh! I was so worried!"
He stared at her blankly as she back away. "What is it, Ron? What's wrong?"
He blinked "....Who...are you?"
[End Recap]
Hermione looked at him for a minute, then she smiled "Good one, Ron."
Ron grinned "Dang! You saw through it!" Then he hugged her
"But really, I was really worried about you, you know?"
His grin faded into a weak smile "Sorry."
Now it was her turn to grin "Its alright. Just...don't do it again."
"Alright......I'll try."
She stood on her tiptoes and kissed him quickly and they walked over to the couch. He sat, leaning against the arm of the big, comfy, red couch while she sat next to him, legs curled next to her, leaning into his chest, both of them smiling.
At this precise moment, Lori, Melanie, and Harry decided to make themselves present, as they all three came down to the Common Room at the same time. "Hey, Mione, what's going on?" Lori asked before her cousin was in view.
When she had finally made her way to the couch she saw him "He's awake?"
"Uh-huh." Hermione answered.
"And you didn't tell me?"
"Well...he just came in...and.....well...yeah."
She shrugged "Oh well....I'll let it go but, next time when one of my many, many cousins is knocked out, and you find out they have awoken, at least tell me, k?"
"Alright."
Melanie and Harry had been standing on either side of Lori at this point, but Lori and Melanie turned to each other and nodded and went back to their room.
Once they were there, Mel closed the door, made sure no one else was in the room, and locked the door.
Lori raised an eyebrow at her best friend "What's this about?"
"I wanted to talk to you."
"Yeah but....security....to this extent? What's up?"
"Nothing really...I just think that...I'm starting to like......"
Lori's eyes widened "Let it not be who I'm thinking it is."
"Well...that all depends on who you think it is...Who do you think it is?"
Lori stared at her without answering for a moment, then said "Its not–no! Mel! You don't like–Malfoy!" She said the last name at the exact moment Melanie chose to say "Draco." This made Lori stop thinking of how to de-corrupt her friend and stare at her "Draco? Your on a first name basis?"
"Well...he is tutoring me in Potions, you know."
"Yeah but....Draco?" She shuddered "Scary to ever think of any of us ever calling him anything other than Malfoy."
"Well...I like him...." Melanie braced herself for her best friends reaction.
Lori sighed, wide eyed, sat on her bed and shook her head "I can't believe this...Oh well."
Melanie looked shocked "Wait...you don't....care?"
She shrugged "Not really, its not me, so...no."
"Well....this is certainly not the way I had expected this to go...Thought you would go completely nuts or something..."
"Naw."
"....Think I should tell anyone else?"
"No! Are you mental?"
"Well, there's sure no question there, yeah." She said sarcastically.
"No! I'm serious! I mean, I don't care and 'Mione and Ginny probably wouldn't care too much but....to just think of what Ron, Harry, or both of them might do to you is pretty scary."
"Your serious?"
"No....but Siriusly!"
They both laughed.
"So...Mel? Want me to see if I can figure out if he likes you or something?"
"Your gonna help me with this?"
She shrugged "If its what you think'll make ya happy and junk, yeah."
Melanie sat down and smiled "And you say I'm the mental one."
Lori grinned "I guess it's a family thing."
"So...how exactly do you suppose your gonna get anything outta Dra–I mean–Malfoy?"
"Call him whatever you want girl and....I was thinking that, ok. I have this friend in Ravenclaw who has a friend in Hufflepuff who has a sister that got into Slytherin, right?"
"Uh-huh...aaaand?"
"Well, I was thinking ask her to ask her friend to ask her sister to either do it herself or get someone else to talk to him about stuff....private stuff...private stuff no one's supposed to know about, and record it. And if not, just record a conversation with him and...say....Blaise?"
Mel nodded "I guess...its worth a shot....right?"
"Yep!"
~*~*~
The next morning at breakfast Lori was talking to Rebecca, the Ravenclaw girl and then Beth, Rebecca's Hufflepuff friend and she had explained everything to her...except she had used herself rather than Mel for who wanted to know.
"So...will you try and convince her?" Lori was saying.
"Sure."
And with that she looked over at the Slytherin table, nodding at her sister. The two, although in separate houses, were quite close so Amanda, Beth's sister, came over since she was the only Slytherin at breakfast at 6 am.
"Yeah, Beth?"
"Just wondering....are you friends...er...whatever they call 'em...with Malfoy?"
"Draco? Yeah...why?"
"How close? I mean, would he tell you who he liked?"
"No...probably not....but why?"
"Just wondering cause we wanna know who he likes....just out of curiosity, ya know?"
"Yeah...of course its basic knowledge in the Slytherin Common Room who he likes so...I could just tell ya, right?"
Beth nodded. "Sure."
"Its that Zardou girl...what's her name?"
"Melanie?" Lori supplied.
"Yeah! That's her!"
"Soo....he likes her?"
"Yep! Is that all ya needed?"
"Yeah." Beth answered.
"Later then." And with that, Amanda left the Great Hall.
"Well...there's your answer...sorry."
Lori smiled "Its cool."
"Later...I guess?"
Lori nodded "Yeah, see ya around."
She left the Great Hall and met Melanie in the hallway, "Mel!" She ran over to her.
"Yeah, Lori?"
"I got an answer!"
"Really?"
"Yep. Apparently its well known in the Slytherin Common Room who he likes."
"And that would be...."
"You."
~*~*~
In all of his classes he had with the Gryffindors, Draco felt as if someone were watching him. Although, he didn't know why they would, or who for that matter. Currently, he was in Potions, happy to be in the last class of the day...unless you counted the study session he had with Melanie later.
Melanie....Zardou....I wanna know how she got so hot over the summer......oh well....hmm...wonder if....no! What am I thinking? I'm a Slytherin! Slytherin's don't date Gryffindors!....but... He trailed off his own thoughts as he had the feeling someone was staring at him again. He turned around and saw the five there behind him, Melanie looking at him, blinked and tore her eyes away and he turned back around, frowning a little bit. What is she looking at? That was weird....oh well....wait...what if she likes me? He smiled inwardly. Damn, if that was true, I'd be the luckiest guy ever.
~*~
Melanie was sitting in her Potions class with the Slytherins, staring at Draco, when he turned and saw her but turned back around. I wonder if he saw me staring at him? Wonder what he's thinking? What is he thinking about me? What does he think I was thinking when I was staring at him? And what if he's thinking right? Aahhhh! My life is so freakin' screwy!
~*~*~
After Snape dismissed the class, Melanie gathered her things and as she headed towards the door, ran directly into Draco. They collided at the last second possible, both of them falling onto their butts.
"Oooowwwww!" Melanie exclaimed.
Draco stood and gave Melanie his hand, as if to......*help* her up?
She took his hand and he pulled her up as she said "Are you ok?"
"Yeah...why?" He asked, letting go of her hand.
"Well...you just like....helped me."
"Oh..that...yeah..well–er–umm..."
"Ok, I don't know *what* it is but *something* is *defiantly* wrong with you."
"Why? What now?"
"You were stuttering."
"Oh...that...uhh...yeah.."
"See? Your doing it again!"
"I'm leaving now." And he did just that.
When he got out of the room and in the hallways above the dungeons, he went into the shadows and took out a piece of parchment and a quill and wrote something. He then put the quill away and tore part of the parchment off and put the rest up.
He came out of the shadows, just in time to collide with Melanie again, dropping the paper next to her. He didn't notice and just stood and walked off towards his Common Room, thinking he still had the paper. Melanie frowned and picked up the parchment piece he had dropped. As she walked on to the Tower, she unfolded the paper and read:
Meet me in the Great Hall tonight at midnight.
Well...I don't know who this was for but I'm gonna find out, I'm gonna go tonight and see what's going on. She thought as she entered the portrait hole after giving the password.
~*~*~
After the study session with Melanie, Draco was in his dorm and he realized that he didn't have the piece of torn off parchment anywhere. Not in his bag, shirt or pants pocket, nowhere. After he had torn apart his part of the dormitory just to find it, he realized "No! It must have fell when we collided the second time! And she probably picked it up! Knowing her, she probably read it...of course she read it...but knowing her she's gonna show up tonight!" His mind was yelling That's what you wanted you great prat!
~*~*~
At midnight, Melanie crept down to the Great Hall and when she entered she saw Draco. Sitting at the Slytherin table. Alone. She frowned. He was supposed to meet someone here–err–wasn't he? She shrugged and walked over to him "What are you doing?"
"I could ask you the same thing."
"I found this." She took out the note and held it between her index and middle finger "When we collided and decided to come see who you were meeting. But then...I realized the person probably didn't get it, right? Oh well...I said, let's go anyhow."
"Why?"
She shrugged and sat down on the opposite side of him.
"Well...you were the one that was supposed to get the note anyways."
She blinked "Me? What for?"
"I wanted talk to you..."
"Ok...is this about Potions?"
"I wish...it'd be *loads* easier than this...but...no..."
"Well then...what is it?"
"Well....I wanted to know if....if you would...." The last of it was mumbled, but Melanie heard every word of it.
"You wanted to know if I would go out with you?" She said, shocked.
"...Err....Yeah..."
After a few moments of thought for Melanie and deathly silence to Draco, she answered "Yes."
He looked up at her, confused "What?"
"Yes Draco. I will go out with you."
He blinked "Are you–Really?"
She nodded "But...lets not tell anyone, k? They'd go nuts!"
"I know...that's what I was worried about..."
"Worried? Draco Malfoy can–" She gasped extra dramatically "Worry?!"
He shook his head "Your mental, you know that?"
She nodded and grinned "Yep!"
There was a little silence but Draco disrupted it "...What are we going to do if someone finds out?"
She shrugged "I guess...if we still want it to be....they'll just...have to get over it!"
"Now that's a determined woman."
She grinned again "Yep! That's me!"
~*~*~
The End...
A/N - What? Your ending it like that?!? How could you!
Ok, I know...that's a horrible ending, right? Well, you don't have to worry! I'm working on a sequel right now! So don't worry! It should be up soon....its gonna be called....ummm....well...actually...I dunno what its gonna be called....if ya have an idea, tell me in your review.. I need to add for my own safety cause...ya see... my sis actually likes this...cause...well...like I've said b4 Mel is her character and well...she'll kill me if I don't continue....
Review....please? .................*crickets* I'll give you pixies!! .......................................*more crickets*
..............I know you want to! LOL! ANTYways, I really hope that if you liked it, you'll review and (if you have any ideas) tell me what you think the next story should be called.
Thanks! ^_^ *glomps all reviewers!*
Recap - Three hours later, all was right in the world again. No one was crying or in the Hospital Wing. If your not getting this: Ron was now awake and no long in the Wing.
When Ron came in the Common Room, Hermione was sitting at one of the many workbenches, in perfect view of the portrait hole. When she saw him, she jolted up and ran to him. "Ron! Oh my gosh! I was so worried!"
He stared at her blankly as she back away. "What is it, Ron? What's wrong?"
He blinked "....Who...are you?"
[End Recap]
Hermione looked at him for a minute, then she smiled "Good one, Ron."
Ron grinned "Dang! You saw through it!" Then he hugged her
"But really, I was really worried about you, you know?"
His grin faded into a weak smile "Sorry."
Now it was her turn to grin "Its alright. Just...don't do it again."
"Alright......I'll try."
She stood on her tiptoes and kissed him quickly and they walked over to the couch. He sat, leaning against the arm of the big, comfy, red couch while she sat next to him, legs curled next to her, leaning into his chest, both of them smiling.
At this precise moment, Lori, Melanie, and Harry decided to make themselves present, as they all three came down to the Common Room at the same time. "Hey, Mione, what's going on?" Lori asked before her cousin was in view.
When she had finally made her way to the couch she saw him "He's awake?"
"Uh-huh." Hermione answered.
"And you didn't tell me?"
"Well...he just came in...and.....well...yeah."
She shrugged "Oh well....I'll let it go but, next time when one of my many, many cousins is knocked out, and you find out they have awoken, at least tell me, k?"
"Alright."
Melanie and Harry had been standing on either side of Lori at this point, but Lori and Melanie turned to each other and nodded and went back to their room.
Once they were there, Mel closed the door, made sure no one else was in the room, and locked the door.
Lori raised an eyebrow at her best friend "What's this about?"
"I wanted to talk to you."
"Yeah but....security....to this extent? What's up?"
"Nothing really...I just think that...I'm starting to like......"
Lori's eyes widened "Let it not be who I'm thinking it is."
"Well...that all depends on who you think it is...Who do you think it is?"
Lori stared at her without answering for a moment, then said "Its not–no! Mel! You don't like–Malfoy!" She said the last name at the exact moment Melanie chose to say "Draco." This made Lori stop thinking of how to de-corrupt her friend and stare at her "Draco? Your on a first name basis?"
"Well...he is tutoring me in Potions, you know."
"Yeah but....Draco?" She shuddered "Scary to ever think of any of us ever calling him anything other than Malfoy."
"Well...I like him...." Melanie braced herself for her best friends reaction.
Lori sighed, wide eyed, sat on her bed and shook her head "I can't believe this...Oh well."
Melanie looked shocked "Wait...you don't....care?"
She shrugged "Not really, its not me, so...no."
"Well....this is certainly not the way I had expected this to go...Thought you would go completely nuts or something..."
"Naw."
"....Think I should tell anyone else?"
"No! Are you mental?"
"Well, there's sure no question there, yeah." She said sarcastically.
"No! I'm serious! I mean, I don't care and 'Mione and Ginny probably wouldn't care too much but....to just think of what Ron, Harry, or both of them might do to you is pretty scary."
"Your serious?"
"No....but Siriusly!"
They both laughed.
"So...Mel? Want me to see if I can figure out if he likes you or something?"
"Your gonna help me with this?"
She shrugged "If its what you think'll make ya happy and junk, yeah."
Melanie sat down and smiled "And you say I'm the mental one."
Lori grinned "I guess it's a family thing."
"So...how exactly do you suppose your gonna get anything outta Dra–I mean–Malfoy?"
"Call him whatever you want girl and....I was thinking that, ok. I have this friend in Ravenclaw who has a friend in Hufflepuff who has a sister that got into Slytherin, right?"
"Uh-huh...aaaand?"
"Well, I was thinking ask her to ask her friend to ask her sister to either do it herself or get someone else to talk to him about stuff....private stuff...private stuff no one's supposed to know about, and record it. And if not, just record a conversation with him and...say....Blaise?"
Mel nodded "I guess...its worth a shot....right?"
"Yep!"
~*~*~
The next morning at breakfast Lori was talking to Rebecca, the Ravenclaw girl and then Beth, Rebecca's Hufflepuff friend and she had explained everything to her...except she had used herself rather than Mel for who wanted to know.
"So...will you try and convince her?" Lori was saying.
"Sure."
And with that she looked over at the Slytherin table, nodding at her sister. The two, although in separate houses, were quite close so Amanda, Beth's sister, came over since she was the only Slytherin at breakfast at 6 am.
"Yeah, Beth?"
"Just wondering....are you friends...er...whatever they call 'em...with Malfoy?"
"Draco? Yeah...why?"
"How close? I mean, would he tell you who he liked?"
"No...probably not....but why?"
"Just wondering cause we wanna know who he likes....just out of curiosity, ya know?"
"Yeah...of course its basic knowledge in the Slytherin Common Room who he likes so...I could just tell ya, right?"
Beth nodded. "Sure."
"Its that Zardou girl...what's her name?"
"Melanie?" Lori supplied.
"Yeah! That's her!"
"Soo....he likes her?"
"Yep! Is that all ya needed?"
"Yeah." Beth answered.
"Later then." And with that, Amanda left the Great Hall.
"Well...there's your answer...sorry."
Lori smiled "Its cool."
"Later...I guess?"
Lori nodded "Yeah, see ya around."
She left the Great Hall and met Melanie in the hallway, "Mel!" She ran over to her.
"Yeah, Lori?"
"I got an answer!"
"Really?"
"Yep. Apparently its well known in the Slytherin Common Room who he likes."
"And that would be...."
"You."
~*~*~
In all of his classes he had with the Gryffindors, Draco felt as if someone were watching him. Although, he didn't know why they would, or who for that matter. Currently, he was in Potions, happy to be in the last class of the day...unless you counted the study session he had with Melanie later.
Melanie....Zardou....I wanna know how she got so hot over the summer......oh well....hmm...wonder if....no! What am I thinking? I'm a Slytherin! Slytherin's don't date Gryffindors!....but... He trailed off his own thoughts as he had the feeling someone was staring at him again. He turned around and saw the five there behind him, Melanie looking at him, blinked and tore her eyes away and he turned back around, frowning a little bit. What is she looking at? That was weird....oh well....wait...what if she likes me? He smiled inwardly. Damn, if that was true, I'd be the luckiest guy ever.
~*~
Melanie was sitting in her Potions class with the Slytherins, staring at Draco, when he turned and saw her but turned back around. I wonder if he saw me staring at him? Wonder what he's thinking? What is he thinking about me? What does he think I was thinking when I was staring at him? And what if he's thinking right? Aahhhh! My life is so freakin' screwy!
~*~*~
After Snape dismissed the class, Melanie gathered her things and as she headed towards the door, ran directly into Draco. They collided at the last second possible, both of them falling onto their butts.
"Oooowwwww!" Melanie exclaimed.
Draco stood and gave Melanie his hand, as if to......*help* her up?
She took his hand and he pulled her up as she said "Are you ok?"
"Yeah...why?" He asked, letting go of her hand.
"Well...you just like....helped me."
"Oh..that...yeah..well–er–umm..."
"Ok, I don't know *what* it is but *something* is *defiantly* wrong with you."
"Why? What now?"
"You were stuttering."
"Oh...that...uhh...yeah.."
"See? Your doing it again!"
"I'm leaving now." And he did just that.
When he got out of the room and in the hallways above the dungeons, he went into the shadows and took out a piece of parchment and a quill and wrote something. He then put the quill away and tore part of the parchment off and put the rest up.
He came out of the shadows, just in time to collide with Melanie again, dropping the paper next to her. He didn't notice and just stood and walked off towards his Common Room, thinking he still had the paper. Melanie frowned and picked up the parchment piece he had dropped. As she walked on to the Tower, she unfolded the paper and read:
Meet me in the Great Hall tonight at midnight.
Well...I don't know who this was for but I'm gonna find out, I'm gonna go tonight and see what's going on. She thought as she entered the portrait hole after giving the password.
~*~*~
After the study session with Melanie, Draco was in his dorm and he realized that he didn't have the piece of torn off parchment anywhere. Not in his bag, shirt or pants pocket, nowhere. After he had torn apart his part of the dormitory just to find it, he realized "No! It must have fell when we collided the second time! And she probably picked it up! Knowing her, she probably read it...of course she read it...but knowing her she's gonna show up tonight!" His mind was yelling That's what you wanted you great prat!
~*~*~
At midnight, Melanie crept down to the Great Hall and when she entered she saw Draco. Sitting at the Slytherin table. Alone. She frowned. He was supposed to meet someone here–err–wasn't he? She shrugged and walked over to him "What are you doing?"
"I could ask you the same thing."
"I found this." She took out the note and held it between her index and middle finger "When we collided and decided to come see who you were meeting. But then...I realized the person probably didn't get it, right? Oh well...I said, let's go anyhow."
"Why?"
She shrugged and sat down on the opposite side of him.
"Well...you were the one that was supposed to get the note anyways."
She blinked "Me? What for?"
"I wanted talk to you..."
"Ok...is this about Potions?"
"I wish...it'd be *loads* easier than this...but...no..."
"Well then...what is it?"
"Well....I wanted to know if....if you would...." The last of it was mumbled, but Melanie heard every word of it.
"You wanted to know if I would go out with you?" She said, shocked.
"...Err....Yeah..."
After a few moments of thought for Melanie and deathly silence to Draco, she answered "Yes."
He looked up at her, confused "What?"
"Yes Draco. I will go out with you."
He blinked "Are you–Really?"
She nodded "But...lets not tell anyone, k? They'd go nuts!"
"I know...that's what I was worried about..."
"Worried? Draco Malfoy can–" She gasped extra dramatically "Worry?!"
He shook his head "Your mental, you know that?"
She nodded and grinned "Yep!"
There was a little silence but Draco disrupted it "...What are we going to do if someone finds out?"
She shrugged "I guess...if we still want it to be....they'll just...have to get over it!"
"Now that's a determined woman."
She grinned again "Yep! That's me!"
~*~*~
The End...
A/N - What? Your ending it like that?!? How could you!
Ok, I know...that's a horrible ending, right? Well, you don't have to worry! I'm working on a sequel right now! So don't worry! It should be up soon....its gonna be called....ummm....well...actually...I dunno what its gonna be called....if ya have an idea, tell me in your review.. I need to add for my own safety cause...ya see... my sis actually likes this...cause...well...like I've said b4 Mel is her character and well...she'll kill me if I don't continue....
Review....please? .................*crickets* I'll give you pixies!! .......................................*more crickets*
..............I know you want to! LOL! ANTYways, I really hope that if you liked it, you'll review and (if you have any ideas) tell me what you think the next story should be called.
Thanks! ^_^ *glomps all reviewers!*