Hey okay so now I've realized that I haven't gone over D-Chan when he's hunting...whoopsie me! So anyway...I'll do that this chap. I'm hoping to be done with this fic before 20 chapters!!! So the end is coming!

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By the way, I'm in a good mood.

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Draco sat on the bus stop, in the exact same place where he and Hermione had waited that night.

She was still on his mind.

Draco punched his fist through the bench, the old termite eaten wood yielding to his hand with an explosion of dust and splinters.

He just couldn't stop, could he?

After a few more minutes, he stood. No one would be coming by. He would do better to walk and find someone.

So he started walking.

He almost couldn't believe his luck.

No one was around!!! And in the middle of nowhere!!!

Draco came upon a couple, a man and a woman, who were fighting rather noisily.

"You slut! YOU FUCKING BITCH!!! DON'T TALK BACK TO ME!!!"

"I should have known from the start! I should have left when my friends told me to!"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! YOU DON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS!"

"NOT ANYMORE!!! Because of YOU!"

At this point, the man wasted no more words. He struck her face hard, his knuckles slamming into her mouth.

The woman started crying, clutching her now bleeding lip.

"Why that bastard..." Draco whispered. "I'll take you down..."

Draco scaled up the building, hanging on to outcropping of rock. He decided to scare the guy before killing him.

How best to go about it?

Keep on the cloak, and jump down in front of him, then tear him open. Keep a big entrance.

Sounded good.

Draco crawled down the building, upside down, the way Matt liked to, and made sure he was just above the guy, who was still yelling at the woman.

"My, my...just what is going on here?" He said, just so they could hear. Both of them looked up, and immediately spotted Draco hanging onto the building like a spider.

The woman looked ready to run, and the guy looked scared enough to piss in his pants.

Draco launched off the wall, landing catlike on some steps. "What do you think you're doing?" He said, keeping his voice low and dangerous.

"T-This slut is leaving me for some guy!" The man stuttered out. The woman had started crying.

Draco's cloak billowed a bit as he stalked towards the man. "And did I see you hit her?"

"Well, the bitch deserved it!"

"How so?"

The man was silent, and Draco finally reached him. "I asked you, how so?"

The man was shaking and trembling, his voice making little 'eeping' noises. The woman was still crying.

"I'd say the woman deserves another man, wouldn't you?"

The guy was too stupid. "FUCK NO! THIS SLUT SHOULDN'T GET NO ONE!" He started to bully his way out. "IT AIN'T NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!!!"

Draco grabbed a handful of the man's hair, and hoisted him off the ground with it, holding him in the air. The man started thrashing and yelling.

"You should learn your manners, and how to treat a lady."

"FUCK!!! I DON'T NEED TO LEARN NOTH-"

"SHUT UP!!!" The man obeyed immediately, because Draco started to yank harder, and hold the man higher. "I wasn't finished. I don't think you deserve what you've got."

Draco paused, and grinned. His canines slid out.

The man started screaming, but it was clear what Draco whispered.

"So let's make sure you've got nothing!"

Draco's teeth latched onto the man's throat, and his yells turned into gurgles.

His fangs ripped a hole in the jugular, and blood leaked out, splattering on the sidewalk.

Meanwhile, Draco reached out a hand, plunging it straight into the man's stomach.

He could feel organs swirling about his fingers, and Draco grasped what he thought was the heart.

He squeezed.

More and more blood rushed down his throat, and dripped down his arm onto his sleeve.

Draco was lost in the rush, the blood providing a rest.

He almost didn't pull away, but in his hand, the heart suddenly convulsed horribly, and a new wave of blood rushed out, signaling death.

Draco stopped, and dropped his arm to the side, the man's body falling from his hand with a squelch.

It landed in a heap on the sidewalk.

Draco smeared the blood around his mouth, and wiped it off with his hand.

He licked his fingers like a tiger licking its paw.

He then remembered the woman.

Draco turned, and was surprised she hadn't run. She was sitting behind a trash can, trying to soften her sobs and cries and hide from him.

Draco pulled her out and up to her feet.

"Don't-don't hurt me!!! PLEASE!!!"

Draco looked her over. She had a nice face, nice body, but it was bruised like hell.

Not to mention her new split lip.

"Don't worry, love. I won't hurt you." Draco said, and pushed a stray piece of hair out of her face. She was crying very hard.

Draco looked into her eyes. He kissed her, licking the blood off of her lip. She folded into him, and gave a sigh into his mouth.

He pulled his wand out of his pocket, and conjured a bottle.

"Give me your wrist." Draco whispered, stopping the kiss, but licking her neck.

She stuck it out, and Draco slit it with his finger nail. The blood began to fill the jar.

The woman whimpered.

"Shhh...shh..." He mumbled, kissing her once again. Since he wasn't taking the blood with his mouth, it was hurting a little. So he sucked on the woman's lip, taking just the smallest amount, but making it pleasurable.

Then the jar was full.

"I thank you, madam...for your generosity." Hopefully he had taken enough for her to forget the ordeal and what had happened to her.

"Mm-hmm..." She said, sort of dazed.

"You may go now." Draco said, and she turned, walking slowly away. She stopped, and looked at Draco one more time, confused, but soon she continued.

Now to clean up the mess.

Draco muttered a spell, and the man's body disappeared. He said another one, and the blood stains on the sidewalk sizzled and started to burn, until nothing was left.

He picked up the jar, which was still warm, and started walking back to school.

He walked with a bounce, and started humming. His voice was eerie in the dark.

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"Get up." Draco nudged Hermione. "Wake up."

"Nnng..." She moaned at him, but got up. "What?" She sounded grumpy.

"Well I guess someone isn't hungry!" He smirked at her, and held up the jar.

Hermione immediately brightened. "No! No, I'm fine, I'm hungry!!!"

Draco opened the jar and dipped in his fingers.

Hermione watched him intently, and followed the blood from the jar to his mouth with her eyes.

"Aw...I want some!!!" She scooted closer to the edge of the bed.

Draco grinned and handed it to her, but snatched it from her reach. He chuckled and gave it to her.

"Here."

Hermione grabbed it and stuck her fingers in it. She licked them clean, and put the bottle to her lips.

She gulped down the blood.

"How'd you get this?" She asked, some blood trailing down her chin. She wiped it off and licked it from her fingers.

"How else? Went out." Draco shrugged. He took off his cloak, which was sticky with blood.

There was blood smeared up his arm, too.

Hermione's eyes grew wide. "YOU LEFT ME?! ALONE?! ASLEEP?!" She started screaming.

"Yes, I did." He smiled at her, and wiiped off his arm with his cloak, then he threw it into the dirty clothes bin.

"WHAT IF I DIED?!"

Draco shrugged.

Hermione sighed and glared at him. But she continued eating.

"What happened to your arm?" She asked, in between blood.

"Tore some guy open."

"WHAT?!" She looked at him. "You eat like a pig!" She giggled, and so did he.

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Hermione had fallen asleep, then she and Draco got up, then attended classes, avoided Harry and Ron, managed to go to meals and eat, then came back up.

The day was uneventful.

Hermione arrived at the Common Room, and she took off her robes.

She sat on the couch and kicked her feet up, lying down.

Hermione had managed to push everything from her mind, from Harry and Ron, to what was in her room.

What was in her room?

No one knew.

'Crap...there goes my goal of not thinking about it...' She thought.

She turned on the television, and was disappointed that nothing was on. She flicked the button and turned it off.

She felt so...odd.

Besides having escaped death WAY too many times to count, she was on death's side!

LUDICROUS!

She felt sick to her stomach, and worst of all,

She felt lost.

Not the prissy little, 'I'm-stuck-in-the-woods-someone-find-me' kind, but the whole nine yards.

The 'I've-sunken-so-far-into-my-subconcious-to-escape-all-these-problems-that-I'm-literally-mental' one was a better fit for Hermione.

That was the kind of lost she was.

Stuck in the darkness of adolescence, and not to mention the darkness of being a vampire!

'Oh, and let's go over everything while we're at it, shall we?' Hermione thought bitterly. 'And Malfoy? Stupid bastard asshole Malfoy? Arrogant horrid shit-licker Malfoy?'

Her thoughts got steadily worse.

'Cocky little elitist Malfoy? Fearless hopeless brainy Malfoy? Sexy beautiful well-toned body Malfoy?'

Hermione stopped. See? That was how lost she was.

Lost and screwed up inside.

Screwed up inside because she can't decide whether or not she likes some boy who's teased her 6 and three-fourths years out of seven!

Why should she like him?

'Okay, Granger, list the facts already.'

1) Because he was smart.

2) He thought for himself...mostly.

3) He was...rather attractive. 'God will strike me down for this...' She told herself.

4) He smelled yummy.

5) He looked yummy.

6) He was sexy.

7) That body...

"CRRRAAAAAP!" Hermione screamed. Okay...so the last four didn't really count. That made...three.

Next list: Why should she hate him?

1) He was a self centered.

2) Potential Death-Eater.

3) His attitude overall!

4) His parents...

5) His upbringing...

Yeah, that was all she troubled herself to think of. Still, that was five.

Hermione smashed her head into her pillow, and started to scream. She thrashed around of the couch, filling her lungs with air and yelling into the pillow.

She didn't hear the Portrait Hole open, or Draco step over to her.

She was yelling to loudly, and the muffled noises could still be heard through the pillow.

Draco put his hand on her shoulder, and her screaming got higher, and she looked up at him, clearly freaked out.

"Don't DO THAT!" She yelled, frightened out of her wits.

"Sorry!" He said teasingly.

Hermione moaned and put her face in the pillow again. She looked back up suddenly.

"Where'd you get that?" She asked him.

He was sporting a black eye and several bruises, and his knuckles were bleeding.

"Why not ask Golden Boy and the Measles?"

Hermione sneered at him indignantly. "Don't call them that." She said, out of habit.

"I can call them whatever I want." Draco replied, taken aback by her defending them.

"Then I can call you whatever I want!" She said, sitting up. "You intolerable fuck-head!"

Draco gave her a deadly look. "And what are you? A slut?" His voice was low and menacing.

"Of course I'm not. But you obviously have no respect for others!" Hermione yelled.

"Why does Potter need more respect? When he has people groveling to him?"

"Why does he? Because he deserves it!"

"Why are you even standing up for him? And Weasley? What's the point?" Draco asked her angrily.

"Because we've been friends longer than anything, but I wouldn't expect you to understand that!" Hermione screeched, standing up. "It's not like Mr. Pompous Draco Malfoy would know the true love of FRIENDSHIP!!!"

"WHY WOULDN'T I?! You're as wrong as ever, you Mudblood!"

"Oh, I'm sorry. I am wrong. Draco Malfoy would know ANY kind of love, even if it danced up to him and told him what it was!" Hermione poked her finger forcefully into his chest.

"What?! Do you think that I know NOTHING about LOVE?!" He said, pushing her hand off of his chest and grabbing her wrist. "Do you think I know nothing about PASSION?! About COMMITMENT, OR AFFECTION, OR ADORATION?!"

Hermione struggled to get away, but he pulled her back to him and she almost crashed into the table.

He grabbed her forcefully by her jaw, and tilted her head up to look at him.

"Let go." She hissed through her teeth.

Draco laughed, cruel and harsh. "No. You...really, is that what you think? Do YOU know as much about 'love' as you think you do?"

Hermione was silent, so he continued. "Are you so sure in your actions around your friends? Confident that they love you as much as you love them?!"

She stared at him. "Yes. I am." She whispered.

"How? How would you know?!" Draco asked her.

"When someone loves someone else, it shows. In their actions... their movements...manners." Then Hermione had a sort of...epiphany. It horrified her. "It's in their eyes." She stated, quivering.

Draco looked amused. "And what do you see? In my eyes?"

Hermione looked down, but his hand pushed her head back up. Reluctantly she looked at him.

"What do you see?"

She didn't answer. His eyes were so wise...too wise for one his age. The gray seemed dull, but close up it bounced with reflections of colors and of specks of blue and violet. It also bounced with emotion.

Hermione stiffened. Why even start the conversation? Damn his eyes.

Damn him.

She gave a sigh and closed her own eyes.

"What do you see?" He asked quietly. She opened her eyes again. She began in a monotonous voice.

As she started, she felt him push closer to her, and faltered a little. She gulped.

"Fear, color, hopelessness, hatred, worthlessness...lo-"

Draco put a hand on her waist and brought his lips to hers, and wrapped her sentence up in a searing kiss.

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MUAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Am I evil? Damn straight!

Okay well the end was boring...but haha! Left all you pointless sex mongers out there hanging! It looks like I need to employ the use of The Tye again...crap I hope she's not busy...

Well notice that this chappie was just to sort of flow it along...more interesting stuff later. I hope there are no mistakes...been really sick and really busy lately...

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Hey V: Sorry I couldn't do the bear thing...Colin was just so fucked up C wouldn't let me near him...but yeah...
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