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After a few more minutes of rolling around on the floor in hysterical laughter, both got up, trying to stifle their laughs. They slowly made their way down to the dungeons for their meeting with professor Snape, neither one of them had much balance, and they kept on running into eachother, seeing as neither of them could walk in a straight line at the moment. As their destination got closer, their giggles and laughs died down more, but both were still red in the face. Draco had a cramp in his mouth from smiling so much, and Hermione felt like she just had the best abs work out ever. As their thoughts became more serious however, they found that they were very troubled with the thought that they just had a good 10 minute long laugh with their so-called enemy. Not just that though, it was more the fact that they were starting to like eachother in general, and were spending unnecessary time together, and liking it.
This still felt like a dream for both of them, but it was turning out to be a very good dream. They had found a unique friendship in eachother although neither of them was ever going to admit it. Hermione was better at accepting it than Draco though. Hermione was dwelling on the fact that after 6 years of insults and torture from this guy, she could find him decent at all, it was a bit confusing. But she tried to shrug it off telling herself that he didn't know any better. Draco was plagued with the thoughts that she used to be a mudblood to him, but he was starting to see how cool she was. He wondered if even if she wasn't a pureblood, if he'd still start to have those feelings for her after hanging out with her for awhile. He was starting to see the lies in that prejudice, his father was very wrong, muggleborns were just as good as everybody else, and he was starting to realize that, although it was scaring him a bit. Trying to forget a life time of teachings was a pretty hard task, but he was trying, and each moment spent with her made it that much easier. And Hermione she was trying to forget all those nasty words from previous years, and she found it was easier to forget, each time a nice word came out of his mouth. It was a beautiful thing, this blossoming of their friendship. Both of them filled with awe and wonder, which would soon eat through the wall of denial they had placed up.
When they reached Professor Snapes office both had huge dumb grins on their face. Professor Snape didn't know what they had been doing, but he had a pretty good guess. Who would have thought that they would ever start going out. He gave a faint smile to them.
"Look at the happy couple" he said in an unusually high voice. Draco and Hermione looked at each other, with baffled expressions.
"What are you talking about professor?" asked Draco. Snape looked taken aback for a moment, and finally thought that they must want to keep it secret. But the poor man really was clueless, but any one might have guessed, seeing as they both looked so giddy.
"Oh, nevermind, don't worry I'll keep it secret" he gave them a mischievous grin and ushered them into his office. Hermione looked over at Draco who was making the crazy signal, and almost burst out laughing. She walked over to Draco, and nudged him.
"He thinks we're going out" she whispered. Draco stifled a laugh to the best of his ability but it came out as a snort instead. Hermione crinkled her nose, thinking it sounded like pig.
"I know" he snickered.
They took their usual seats, and before Snape began, he looked at them with mushy eyes, and then looked off into space as if he were remembering something. Draco looked over at Hermione, she was fidgeting a lot and turning red, shaking with silent laughter. As for himself he didn't know if he thought this was funny or scary. If you listened hard enough you could almost hear him squealing with delight. Not everyone got to see this side of the potions master, he guessed he should consider himself lucky… maybe. In any case it's good for blackmail if he ever didn't wanna do an assignment. Snape soon came out of his happy moment and began, without giving them one more meaningful glance. They did some more, trust exercises and practiced resisting truth potion. While doing the trust exercises where one of them had to fall backward and be caught. Snape kept giving them suggestive eyes, raising an eyebrow everyonce in awhile. Draco swore he saw him give him thumbs up once. When Hermione fell into his arms he whispered something in her ear.
"Okay, that's it. We need to find Snape a woman." Hermione laughed out loud this time, causing Draco to lose his balance, ending with Hermione on top of Draco on the floor. This only earned them more raised eyebrows from Snape. Hermione was about to roll off of Draco, when all of a sudden both Draco and Snape started screaming grabbing their arms. Hermione knew immediately what was happening. She rolled off of him quickly, and Draco walked over to Snape, snape whispered a few words of caution to Draco before flooing to the hogs head so they could apparate.
"Be careful" she called after them. Draco looked back at her, and gave her the biggest smile he could muster and waved.
Hermione sat on the dungeon floor for a good hour worrying half to death about her boys. She smirked once she analyzed what she said, she was becoming possessive. She had really started to have a respect for Professor Snape, he was a very intelligent man, and funny, awkward as that sounds. He had this sense of humor like no one else's with a lot of dry wit and sarcasm. And Draco, she didn't want him to get hurt, she didn't know what she would do if that happened, Draco had become a friend to her. Her eyes widened as she realized the thought she was trying to block the whole day just slipped out. She had tried to ignore her feelings the whole day, because it would never be accepted, and this used to be her enemy it just wasn't right. But it turns out, that she would have to forget about all that, and break all the rules, because she did care for Draco now, and now that it was out to her she couldn't just forget It. Hermione's the type of girl to fight for what she wants, and she wanted to be Draco's friend, no matter what. Even if he had tortured her relentlessly for 6 years. That was then this is now. Everyone matures, she figured, and I was just lucky enough to meet this new Draco. Hermione shivered, and decided she would wait for Draco in the common room. She walked up to the common room feeling a little better, now that she wasn't trying to fight her heart. However still a little confused about this whole ordeal.
Draco felt like his heart was beating a mile a minute, he was trying hard not to tremble. This was his first meeting since the raid at Hermione's house. Hermione… He hoped she wasn't worrying to much. Snape put a hand on Draco's shoulder, and they apparated to the meeting. Snape was relieved to find that they weren't the last to arrive. They walked over to Lucius. Please oh please, don't screw up thought Draco he was concentrating hard on everything Snape had taught him. He looked at Snape and noticed he looked as calm as ever, this reminded Draco. He quickly grabbed a hold of his emotions, and put on a smug grin, and started his respective strut the rest of the way to Lucius.
"Father."
"Draco, Severus. Good to see you both. How is Draco doing as your apprentice."
"Wonderfully, he's got pure talent." Draco tried to widen his grin, to show his pride.
"Very well then" Draco put his hood up, as the others did signaling that Voldemort was entering the room. Draco was trying to clear his head of all thoughts that would be dangerous for people to find out. He was grateful for the hood covering his face, he stared into the black material waiting for it to be over, trying not to cringe at some of Voldemorts words. By the end of the meeting he felt like he was going to burst with rage, he needed to find Snape so they could leave. He didn't know how Snape could stand there through every meeting; it was hard, and draining. It took all of his strength to not go up and kill him that bastard they called their lord. He stared around the room gritting his teeth, and took off his hood, so he could see better. That was a mistake. Pansy came rushing from across the room and latched onto his arm.
"Drakey" she purred.
"Pansy" he tried to shrug her off his arm.
"Do you want to come over tonight?" he pulled himself out of her death grip.
"Pansy, go away. I have to find Professor Snape."
"But Drakey, you'd have much more fun with me."
"Yes, I'm sure" he snorted, and his face contorted with disgust. "But I really have business to attend to" he quickly walked away, so he wouldn't have to argue with the brick wall he called Pansy. Ugh where is Snape?? He passed several deatheaters who were drinking heavily; he noticed one of them to be his dad. He finally stopped to ask someone, and they pointed him to where Snape was standing. Draco walked over, and said hello. He listened to the man rant and tried to look interested. When he finally stopped talking, Draco pulled Snape away.
"Can we go now?"
"Yes, you just have to make sure to mingle a little bit otherwise it looks suspicious."
"Right, right" he grumbled "Let's go" They were just about to apparate, when Lucius stammered up, obviously drunk.
"Draco, I want you to come to the manor for a minute, Ineedtotalktoyou" he slurred his last few words together. Draco tried not to roll his eyes, as he said goodbye to Snape. He hated it when his father was drunk, he always found some excuse to beat Draco when he was drunk, Draco was his own personal punching bag. Lucius seemed to get some sick pleasure out of it. he apparated to the manor, with Lucius seconds behind. Draco sat down on his favorite couch, waiting for what was to come. He heard his father walk into the room, and he stood up.
"Come hereboy" Draco could smell the alcohol on his breath, and quickly followed his father careful not to set him off again. They reached the dungeons and Lucius pushed Draco into a wall, and started ranting to himself Draco couldn't understand anything he was saying. All he knew was that he didn't like the whip that He was holding. Lucius pushed Draco down to the ground, and kicked him until Draco rolled over. What did I do to deserve this he thought? Lucius brought the whip above his head, and cracked it back until it connected to flesh, Draco cried out in pain. Lucius repeated this over and over again. Occasionally rambling about how Draco was a bad boy, and misbehaved. When Lucius tired of the whip, he moved on instead to punching, Draco heard one of his ribs crack from contact of Lucius's fist. Draco was just hoping that he would die so it would be over. But at that moment Hermione's face flashed in his mind, and he knew that he had to make it through this for her. So he flexed and waited for it to be over. After a few more punches and a blow of crucio, Lucius finally passed out. Draco slowly limped his way up the stairs to find the nearest fireplace so he could floo home.
Hermione was sitting on the couch, it had been 3 hours since Draco and Snape left. She was attempting to read a book but worried thoughts kept coming into her head. She was just about to fall asleep when she heard Draco stumble out of the fireplace, his shirt was drenched with blood, as well as his face, and the parts that weren't covered with blood were pale. He was shaky, and could barely walk she noticed that he was clutching his stomach. After she analyzed this, she ran over to him.
"Draco!" he groaned and mumbled incoherently. She needed to get him to a couch so she levitated him over to one and gently set him down. She sat down next to him and called for a few things she would need to heal him. Madam Pomphrey was gone this week because she was on vacation. She looked into his Stormy grey eyes, they were full of emotion, she had never seen them like that. She tried to use her mindreading skill to find out what was going on. It would be fairly easy because he was so emotional. She pushed her way into his thoughts, and then she heard the little voice In his head.
"Damn father. I hate you, and I hate voldemort. What did I do to deserve this. Fucking bastard." Hermione figured it out,
"Your father beat you" this seemed to stir something in Draco and brought him to her attention. She could see tears welling up in his eyes, and this confirmed what she needed to know. "Shhh, it's okay I'll take care of you." She took his shirt off careful not to hurt him again, and cleaned the blood off of him. She was horrified at what she saw, and she tried her best to heal the wounds so they wouldn't scar. She was thanking her lucky stars that she knew medi-wizardry from an extra credit project last year. She was pretty satisfied with her work, only one scar remains on Draco's back, and she fixed his broken nose. She couldn't do much about his broken rib, but she called for some of that potion that Madam Pomphry uses. He watched her the whole time, random thoughts going through his head. She noticed he was still awake, his eyes still filled with emotion. She fed him the potion.
"feeling any better" he tried to shift positions, but let out a cry of pain. Hermione calmed him. She was stroking one cheek.
"Shh, it's okay, you have a broken rib, I can't do much about, so just don't move. Your back is all healed except one scar, and your nose is fixed. You should try and get some sleep" he reached up to grab the hand that was stroking his cheek, and held it.
"Thank you" she could see it was hard for him to speak because of his rib. She gave him a small smile, and his eyes closed, bringing him into a much needed sleep where no one could hurt him. Hermione sat there the whole night watching him. Thinking about his life, her life, life in general wondering why it had to be so hard.
The next morning Draco woke up feeling much better than the night before, he noticed Hermione was still sitting on the bed in a light sleep. He watched her, she's beautiful, she stayed the whole night with me, and she cared for me. Draco was overcome with emotion. No one had ever shown him this love, not even his mother, she was always under imperius. He noticed that his rib felt a little better too, he was lucky that she knew what she was doing, otherwise he'd still be in a lot of pain. Hermione woke up suddenly, and her gaze was met by Dracos. Draco looked into her endless chocolate eyes; she looked into his alluring grey eyes. This moment felt as if they had stolen a piece of heaven for a minute. Her eyes were full of understanding and love, he felt the oddest urge to kiss her, but he couldn't move, because of his rib so instead they just gazed at eachother, Him taking in her beauty, and her taking in his emotion and mystery. The walls came crumbling down, Hermione broke the silence.
"Good morning sleepy head. Feeling better?"
"Much" he grabbed her hand "Thank you Hermione, no ones ever been there like that." Hermione nodded, her eyes now full of sympathy.
"Friends take care of each other Draco." She leaned down and kissed him on her cheek. Sudden realization hit her and she had no idea where that came from, so she quickly dismissed herself telling him she'd be back with breakfast. Draco touched his cheek gingerly, and a slow grin spread across his face. Hermione was walking through the halls down to the kitchens feeling very confused. She didn't know where that kiss came from, and that's not what bothered her, it was that it felt so right, righter than anything had ever felt before, and that scared her. Both of their emotions were swirling up to the top ready to burst, because they both knew what they felt, but in a sense it was still forbidden. But now they knew these feelings, it would be harder than ever to keep them from coming up again. A new craving was instilled in one another, a craving for the other. They would soon be inseperable.
Hey guys, well sorry I wasn't thinking I was going to end it there but I'm in a rush cuz I have to get somewhere but I wanted to get this chapter out so enjoy and please review!!! Don't you love snape in this chapter, I think he's a good guy, he just needs a woman! Lol but ya review, you have no idea how happy they make me! Luv you all!
