Life ; Just for the Time Being

Chapter 4 : An Apprehension , Or Not .?

Author : Liz-zy-eve

A / N : I'm so.so.so sorry about updated this chapter !!! I had written it few months ago , but I just didn't have time to updated it . My teachers had been so crazy to gave me so much tests and tasks !!! I can only wrote them in Saturday evening , if I still had enough energy to not to sleep as soon as I meet my pillows . Anyway , Thank you so much for the reviewers !!! Thanx a lot ! I really happy when I read your reviews ! There's my answers under the story. My third chapter had been edited , becoz' I saw many errors in it ! please read it once more if you want . Now . please enjoy !
Chapter 4 : An Apprehension , Or Not .?
History of Magic That day felt so sustained and exhausted for Draco , he couldn't concentrate in any way . Words by words seems flew away for nothing , not one of them actually can slipped to his brain . many other visions raging inside of it ; that green snake , Granger , his pocket watch, Granger , another green snake , Granger , bitten mark .

He still couldn't understand , why her ; who for all of this time had been his foe, willing to help him? And not just for once , but twice ! Did he had loathed the wrong person for seven years of his life ? The person that always looking for everyone's attention with her know-it-all behavior ?

" What's wrong with you Drakie . ? You looked weird ! "

Said Pansy disgustingly , then trying to delighted him with her wasting- time anecdote about her vacation-plans , new beautiful dress , Christmas party that will be held at her mansion , and other boring things that made Draco sick more and more . He was tired already with all of this ; pretended to be happy and pleased when Pansy around , tried not to sewed her mouth and jostled her somewhere else far away from him . He only did that for the man that he respected and adored , no one else but his father . Mr.Parkinson had been his colleague for years in Ministry of Magic , and he didn't want to be someone that ruined it . But not this time . If he doesn't do it now , he felt like his head will exploded in instant .

And he did .

BANG !!

Without saying a word , he closed his book brusquely right in front of Pansy's nose , that locked her mouth right away . He stood from his chair , then talked harshly .

" Professor , I'm not feeling well . Can I go out now ? "

He said directly , made Professor Binns stopped right away from his monotone speech , looked at Draco with his blurry gray eyes . The class was being silent all of a sudden . Everyone looked at him , widened their eyes and dropped their jaw with disbelief . But whatever they were doing , he didn't care at all . What he wanted to do is going out from this horrible class immediately .

" Sure , Mr.Malfoy . Off you go , then . "

Professor Binns answered him with the same monotone voce , then returning his gaze to his old history book , started his speech again . Draco collected his books , then walked out through his distended Slytherin ' friends ' , thought that he was crazy . Well , none of them really wanted to choose History of Magic to be their favorite lesson , but none of them wanted to make any reasons to fool Professor Binns and sneak out from his class during the lesson either .

There's only one thing that he wanted to do now ; find out everything about that bloody snake . He stepped hurriedly to the library . There's no one there , of course . Everyone is studying in their class now , and no one from them owe their life with someone ; someone that they loathed for years .

" This is studying time , Isn't it , Mr.Malfoy . !? "

Warned Madam Pince just at the time he stepped in there . But she didn't receive any answers . Draco only past through her in silence , dropped his books on an empty table at the center of the room , then vanished behind the book shelves .

Something enormous had pushed him to find the answers , something that he himself didn't know what it is .

His gaze adventured shelf by shelf , and then he found what he was searching for ; a shelf with " dragon and snakes " label underneath it . He grabbed a full-stack of books from it , as much as he could bring in his hands .

He observes the first book one page to another . Seems like that book was never been touched by anyone since a few centuries ago . Its page has been yellowing and dusty , but looks very neat , without any very small crinkle at all . The same thing happened to the other books .

I can't understand . why Granger can stand for all of this !!

He scowled to himself , keep looking and looking , until in the end , he found it . The picture from that silvery-green snake appeared on the center page of the book .

" Silver Demesis . "

That fierce creature looping right at the bottom of 132nd page , its green shiny eyes focused its sight to his , seemed ready to eat him in instance . But Draco seemed didn't even care about it , then lift his body in an upright position , inclined it to the book . He focused his gaze to the sentences written on it , starting to read what it says ;

One of the very rare and poisoned snake . It had a very long , poisoned canine teeth . A very wild species , never pleasant to be disturbed . About its venom and antidote , no one can discovered it yet .

End point .

Finish .

That's all .

Only four useless sentences written there . Draco groaned furiously , keep on looking for more information on the next page , but there was no results . He opened the first page then . And he saw what he had been predicted earlier ; Her name was written there , being the only one of the borrower of that bloody book ;

Hermione Granger

His gaze nailed down there for a while , one question echoed in his mind . It is not unusual if Hermione Granger spent her time for read this all horrible books . It was her hobby . Her life . But what about him ? Not once in his life he ever done anything like this , furthermore for this mudblood girl ; who had been his enemy for more than six years , slapped him in front of the public , and one of the biggest fans of that four-eyed- toad Harry Potter .

Is it an Apprehension . ?

Draco asked himself , that denied hastily by his mind . He sure that he only felt that he owes his life to this girl , and he will do everything to pay it , without sacrifice his life , of course . It is enough with find information about the cure , and everything will finished . A Malfoy never owes anything , furthermore to a muggle born .

For the next two hours he still searching . But what he found was exactly the same ; Poisoned , rare species , dangerous , 2-inches-canine teeth , nothing about the venom and medication .

He tossed that book angrily ; there's still one stack of books left to read . But right before he lifted his hand to grabbed it , the fracturing sound from the library entrance and the voices of heavy and quick steps taking back his awareness .

" She must be here . ! There's nowhere else could be her favorite place . "

" Yeah . but I think there's something wrong . She had never go anywhere without said anything to us . "

The dim sound from them made Draco grunted petulantly . And just a few seconds later , Harry Potter and Ron Weasley shown up from the back of the shelf , grunted back to him .

" What are you doing HERE , Malfoy !? "

Ron wrinkled his forehead to him , his hate shown out from his worried face .

" You have two BIG-BLOODY eyes , Weasley . What do you think am I doing with all of this book in front of me !? "

Draco folded his arms on his chest , leaned lower on his chair .

" No use to care 'bout him . let's go . "

Harry put his palm on Ron's shoulder , pushed him to keep on walking .

" Looking for Granger , aren't you !? "

Harry stopped suddenly , put their suspicious glare right on his face . But Ron was more than him, of course . He had taken a few steps towards Draco , ready to broke his neck .

" WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER , YOU STUPID FERRET !!! "

He shrieked heatedly , buried the corner of the desk inside of his palm , widened his eyes to him in anger .

" TEMPER , WEASLEY !! What do you think I have done ? Hexing her . ? "

Harry stepped immediately towards Ron , grabbed him in the shoulder to stop his attack . Ron let go of him with force , still widened his eyes to the blonde Slytherin .

" Just tell us where she is , Malfoy . "

For a few time there's no one is talking , they just stare at each other in anger and suspiciousness, until Draco stood up suddenly , close his book and started to take a step from his chair .

" where IS she !!? "

Said Ron once again , stepped right in front of him , blocking his direction .

" Even if I know , I don't have any reason to tell it to you . "

He said coldly right in front of Ron face , glare at him with disdain . Then he stepped ahead broadly , bump his shoulder with the red head's on his way out , without turn back just for a second . * * * * *

Draco didn't know exactly where he was going to go . Not a long time ago , when he was going back to his common room , he saw a scenery that made him turn around and change his route ; Pansy Parkinson whined and begged to Crabbe and Goyle for find him for her . So right now he made his way on one of the path of Hogwarts , and his stride took him to that place without he realized ;

The Hospital Wing .

He grip the handle of the door , it felt cold inside his palm . Then he push it downward uncertainly . And right after he showed his skull inside , The limp smile of Madam Pomfrey had greeted him right away . An old book gripped open in her hands .

" She is sleeping now . You can see her , but don't make some noise . She needs a long sleep ! "

She whispered gently , pointed her finger to a couch at the center of the room , the only one that filled there , covered with a very long white curtain . For a while , Draco looked doubtful to step his feet .

" I just want to ask you about her condition . "

She smiled . What is the reason of that smile , Draco didn't know either .

" I gave her the antidote for snake's venom . "

Her sentence reminded him back to the bottle of light purple potion init , where his blood spilled .

" I'm sorry about that , Mr.Malfoy ... "

She said again to him , looked at the scar that lied on his finger .

" Pure blood are very helped to neutralized sna--"

" Has she cured completely now !? " , He cut off her words .

Madam Pomfrey couldn't answer him for a while , a hesitation shown on her face .

" Has she ? "

Draco repeated his words , push her to speak out what it is in her mind .

" Honestly , I don't really know . The poison of that snake is very difficult to recognized . Let's just pray that she will be okay ... "

Draco stunned . So ... there's no certainty at all ? How if she was really didn't cured yet ? That debt will be exist as long as that poison still clung itself inside of her body . And for that , he must keep on searching for the repay . All of this started to make him sick . Why it should be her ; A mudblood that save his life , one in a million people all over this world ?

" O , GOD !! "

Madam pomfrey cried , then arranged her desk hurriedly , walk towards the door .

" Professor Dumbledore asked me to meet him now . Please stay here before I come back , Mr.Malfoy ... ! "

She said without asking his agreement at all , then vanished behind the closed door .

His steps started to make a path towards the white long curtain , where Hermione lied in it . He stunned at the side of it for a moment , then snatched it aside gently , shown what sleep behind them . He looked down to her ; Her face still looked pale , but her breath was slow and frequent , what a very peaceful sleep . Her face seemed pure and soft , very angelic-look . But a glint of gleam catch his eyes , a glint from a bottle that lied on a small desk right beside her couch ; where his blood stayed . He lifted it up towards the window . Moonlight made it shone brightly , waved softly .

How ironic . Right before this , he always called her mudblood-dirty blood . But now , his blood-pureblood flew right inside of her veins and heart , blended with her own . He put down that bottle slowly , but not too slow to kept that girl sleeping .

She's stirred , opened her eyes very slowly .

Draco startled , widened his eyes to her .Somethig that he never want to happen is happening now ; Hermione awakened and knows about his secret visit .

Her gaze still blurred and unstable . But then the figure of that boy started to formed . His tall and full-shouldered body covered in a very thick black robe , his arms folded in front of his chest . His blonde hair shone by the dim moonlight , his gray eyes looked down at her in horror .

" I'm not died yet ... sorry to disappointed you ... "

She said weakly , then gathered all of her energy to lift her body in sit position , leaned low to her couch , she sighed from her weakness , a heavy smoke runs out from her mouth . He didn't answer her , just looked straight at her , how powerless is that girl now . She had always been a strong , stiff and stubborn girl . He had never saw her like this ; feeble and fragile .

" Your friends has been looking for you everywhere . "

Hermione's expression changed suddenly . Her eyes widened , looked very shocked and worried.

" And ... ? You tell them that I - "

" No . "

She sighed relievedly . For the first time of her life , she was thankfulness to him .

" I'm not that stupid . If I tell your two bodyguards that a snake had bitten you , they will curse me at the same time , and I will ended just right there , beside you . " He lied , then eyed Hermione who not looked back at him . He followed her gaze . The first snow had fell down gently , started to covered Hogwarts with its softness . They just stay in silence there , stared to the outside of window , sheltered by a weird calm feelings , that bring peacefulness to their heart without they realized .

Hermione smiled then . She herself didn't understand why , smiled to herself like a fool . Then she turned her gaze to Draco , who's still looked outside . His expression was unreadable , His eyes looked very calm now , almost gentle . She never imagine that kind of expression could appeared in A Malfoy's face . They always curling their lips , smirking all the time , raising their chin as high as they king to other people . But now he looks very-very far from them ; gentle , deep , a perfect person to trust at .

But it didn't last for a long time . Draco caught her gaze , awareness came back to his face . His gorgeous gray eyes point their penetrating gaze at her , made her looked away immediately .

And right after that , the door swung open , Madam pomfrey walk inside slowly , towards draco .

" Thank you , Mr.Malfoy . You can go if you had finished . "

She whispered softly to him .

And without any command at all , Draco nodded , then after a quick glance at Hermione , he turned and left , without even saying ' goodbye ' .

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A / N : Aaah !! At last I finished it ! and for the reviewers , this is my answers :

RoBi darkO cOrNeLio RoSa :

First of all , I think there's something about your name they're make me so curious . I tried to combined the capitel letters , but I didn't see the meaning of it Sorry to be so stupid . About Hermione , I have thought 'bout it once , but when I thought 'bout her once more , I think she's a type of 'quite polite girl' , and when she was 17 , she wouldn't waste her energy to cursing Draco . And beside that ... I Luv Draco too much ! ^ ^ But I will use it later . GIRL POWER !! Keep on read and review my story ! ( One more thing : You post your review twice ^ ^ . ! )

Dark Vampire : Humm . Actually , I never really like a triangle love in my story . I always focus to the main couple . But I still don't know I will use it later or not . I will look for your story . Just wait for my review , OK ? Becoz' I don't have a lot of time lately , with all of those tests.*_* Anyway , keep on read and review my story !