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For all you Ron lovers, you might not like this chapter. Don't get me wrong I love him to death but this is a key part in the story.
Hermione and Draco sat at the teachers table waiting for everyone to file in. They were talking animatedly, and laughing, occasionally talking to professor Snape. Everyone was anxious for the school year to start; having their own hopes and wishes for what the year ahead of them would hold. Especially Hermione, her fathers warning was quite odd, and it scared her a little bit, but she'd ask him about it at their next training session. She was proud with her progress, She could almost do all the skills, going back in time she still had some problems but the rest of the powers she almost had down. She smiled at Draco as she saw the first of the students to come piling in.
"Here we go" she whispered.
"They probably don't even know who you are yet, ya know"
"You're probably right, just imagine their faces, after they find out who I am!" They started snickering and thinking of possible reactions. Snape too joined their laughter. By the time they were done doubling over with laughter almost the whole student body was seated in the great hall, talking excitedly amongst them selves. Descriptions of summer vacations could be heard, as well as who was cute, and other such things teenagers like to talk about.
Over at the Gryffindor table, Harry and Ron were giving flabbergasted looks up at Hermione.
"What the hell is she doing, laughing with Draco… and professor Snape?" Ron asked as he nudged Harry in the ribs.
"I have no clue, I suppose she's supposed to get along with Draco since they're both heads, although I never thought I'd see them laughing together."
"We'll have to talk to her, what if he has her under a spell?"
"Honestly, Ron. Stop jumping to conclusions, maybe they're laughing at a joke someone said"
"Well it must have been really funny to make them laugh together like they're old chums, even Snape is laughing." Their conversation carried on somewhat like this, thinking of possible reasons for the situation.
Back up at the heads table, Hermione and Draco were looking at a woman who they thought would be their new DADA teacher. She had very tan skin, and brownish-reddish hair it had faint waves in it and went down to her shoulders. She had piercing blue eyes, and she looked like she would be very short, because she was very petite. They noticed Snape kept on looking up at her, she was sitting 3 seats away from Snape. Hermione smiled brightly, and whispered into Dracos ear.
"There's the woman for Snape" he smirked, and looked at the woman.
"Ya, I think your right Hermione. We'll have to get started on getting them to like each other soon."
"YES! I love being matchmaker." Draco just gave her a weird look.
"Girls are so weird, meddlesome creatures they are."
"Oh shut up! Let's go introduce our selves." They got up, and she pulled him over, until they were right next to her.
"Hi" Hermione said brightly "Are you our new DADA teacher?" the woman looked up at Draco and Hermione.
"Yes I am, my name is professor Honeycut" she extended her hand and they both shook it.
"My name is Hermione Granger, I'm from Gryffindor and I'm head girl. And this is…" Draco cut her off, he wanted to introduce himself.
"I'm Draco Malfoy, Slytherin, head boy" He looked very proud as he said the last part, looking down at his head badge.
"Well nice to meet you too, you can call me Callista out side of class since you are the heads." Hermione and Draco waved as they went back to their seats.
"Operation Cupid has begun" Draco chocked back laughter as she said this.
"What? I think it's a cute name. anyway" she looked at Professor Snape "Have you met Professor Honeycut professor Snape?" he looked over at her.
"Huh… oh yes, all the teachers met her briefly."
"She's a very nice lady, Me and Hermione just met her." Draco could hear Hermione correcting him under her breath ' Hermione and I' he snorted and rolled his eyes.
"Yes, she does seem nice, her quarters are by mine." Hermione perked up.
"You should go visit her tonight after the feast, make her feel at home"
"Ya" chimed in Draco. He held a mischievous grin on his face, and Hermione shot him one back. However they couldn't continue their conversation because a hush fell over the great hall as Dumbledore stood up, to announce that the first years had arrived to be sorted. This years Sorting ceremony seemed to take longer than ever, but Draco made it interesting throwing in random comments about each first year. Like
"My gosh, those kids ears are huge" "She looks like the walking dead… Damn she's in slytherin" Besides that she politely clapped, and clapped a little louder when the hat yelled out Gryffindor. At the end of the sorting, Dumbledore stood yet again, this time to make his speech. Draco was looking longingly at his plate, hoping that food would appear.
"Well, heres a start to another wonderful year I'm sure at Hogwarts. Welcome everybody. I'd like to remind you all that the forbidden forest is still forbidden, and that if you go in there, the punishment you get from the creatures will be far worse than anything Filch could do." A few first years looked horrified at this. " Harry Potter will still be teaching DADA lessons in the room of requirements for anyone who wants extra practice. And your real DADA professor is professor Honeycut" she stood up as he said this and the great hall burst out with applause, she sat back down and he continued. "Prefects, if you will, after dinner show everyone to the dorms, and give out the password, you should have retrieved it on the train. This years head boy is Draco Malfoy" He stood and waited for Dumbledore to continue. He was so anxious he thought he'd collapse, and Hermione was shaking a little in her seat focusing on playing with her hands. "This years Head girl will be Hermione Granger" she stood up next to Draco and he gave her a small reassuring smile. There was a gasp from the student body, before they broke out into wild applause, and whispering amongst themselves. When they sat back down, Draco grabbed her hand underneath the table and squeezed it. She looked at him, a little flushed.
"That was funny, they all gasped at the same time!" she started laughing, and he joined. He himself expected more, but come to think of it the look on all their faces was priceless. He however stopped laughing as soon as the food appeared on his face, he looked at with joy, and started shoveling it down his throat. Hermione didn't have a pillow, so she let it go and ate her food. Making small talk with Hagrid, because she hated talking to Draco when he was eating. The feast went by relatively quickly, Hermione and Draco decided to head up to their dorms before the crowd of people left the great hall. They both wanted to freshen up a bit before they had to patrol the halls to make sure everyone got to their dorms. So they left the teachers table, and were walking by the Gryffindor table, and they were almost out, but Parvati and Lavender came rushing up behind Hermione and grabbed her. A very startled Hermione turned around to face them, Draco was watching the whole thing with amusement.
"Oh my gosh! You have to tell us what makeup charms you used"
"I had no idea, makeup could do that much"
"Did you get it done professionally? Your hair is just fabulous."
"Ooh yes, who did it for you, I don't think even you could change your whole face."
"GUYS" she yelled "Calm down, I didn't do anything, it's kind of a long story about why I changed, and I'm not really supposed to tell, but if it ever slips out on accident I'll explain to you all about it" Parvati and Lavender looked a little disappointed.
"Well you look great anyway, even if you aren't going to share the wealth!" with that they walked away, sticking their noses in the air. Hermione grabbed Dracos arm and pulled him out of the hall as fast as possible, as soon as they were out, they both burst out in laughter.
"That was great!!" she cried!
"And you didn't even notice potter and weasely, they were totally giving me the evil eye, and looking at you like you abandoned them" they had to keep on going, so they laughed while they walked, running into things along the way.
When it was about time for the rest of the school to be dismissed they went to go on patrol duty. Soon a flood of people came walking her way giving her odd looks. She kept walking for a while longer and was finally satisfied, everyone had gone to their dorms. But she was wrong, suddenly a hand grabbed her arm, and pulled her into another hall, It was Harry and Ron. She jumped on each of them giving them hugs, but she noticed Ron looked angry.
"What the hell are you doing talking with Malfoy" she had prepared for this moment but hoped it would never happen.
"Well, he was staying here over the summer too, and Dumbledore said that it would be a good idea if we worked our issues out with each other because he said if we were fighting as head girl and boy he'd take our positions away. So we apologized and all that crap, and now we're friends. Dumbledore made us do a trust course and everything, and I know Draco wasn't lying about his apology because we were both under truth potion." Hermione smiled at herself and congratulated herself for her lie, she thought it sounded very convincing. They have her skeptical looks.
"Okay, well there's just one less enemy, maybe he'll stop making fun of us" said Harry. Ron scowled.
"I still don't know how you could be friends with him, but you were under truth potion there's no way he could have lied. But still" Ron shuttered.
"You guys sure don't forget grudges very easily, anyway I'm gonna go and take a bath, see you boys later." She hugged both of them goodbye and practically skipped to her room.
The first week of school passed by as normal as It could be considering the circumstances. Hermione got several questions a day and told them each the same thing, and soon people got bored of her explanation, and made up their own. By the end of the week their rumors flying around, that she had plastic surgery done, or that it wasn't really Hermione at all, it was someone playing her because Dumbledore didn't want people to know that she was dead by Voldemort and other random things like that. Which I assure you, gave Draco and Hermione plenty to laugh about. Ron and Harry were still confused as to why Hermione wanted to be friends with him, but let it go, just because they were glad to hang out with her again. The rest of the Slytherins just thought he was keeping her around because she was a good fuck, but no one told him that. He was too respected among the slytherins to be questioned by them. Although Hermione found that Pansy was being really bitchy to her lately. For the most part, it went exactly how Draco thought it would go, but he would never have imagined what happened to Hermione one day.
It was the first Saturday of the school year, Draco was at quidditch practice, and Hermione was in the common room doing some homework. There was a knock on the portrait so she went to answer it. Ron was standing at the door, looking down at the floor, and fidgeting.
"Hi Ron! Where's Harry?" she let him in.
"He's with Sarah (Harrys GF)"
"Oh, well why aren't you with Vicky? (Rons GF)
"Well that's what I came to talk to you about" he sat down on the couch and she sat in the chair across from him. "She dumped me"
"Oh Ron I'm sorry"
"No don't be, because it got me thinking and well… Hermione I was a big idiot when I cheated on you. I didn't know how much I lost, until it was gone. I want you back Hermione, I know I don't deserve it, but please. I need you" Hermione didn't know what to say, she started playing with her hands. She was still a little mad at Ron for all that, she didn't see any reason why she should take him back.
"Well Ron, I'm flattered. Bbu but you ccant have me" she stuttered.
"Why not?" he was getting angry
"Well, I just don't want to be your girlfriend again. You hurt me a lot, and you broke our trust it could never be the same."
"Bull shit! There's someone else isn't there?"
"No!" she cried. She was getting a little scared by his temper.
"Stop lying. It's Malfoy isn't it. You're probably fucking him every night."
"No Ron, stop it! Your jumping to conclusions."
"You stop it. I know your lying! Probably the only reason you guys can tolerate each other now is because you're having great sex!"
"Ron" she tried to reason with him but he was yelling now and he couldn't hear her.
"You always told me you wanted to wait! How come you can fuck him but you can't fuck me? Huh? I'm sick of it. If he can have you I can too." By this point Hermione was starting to head toward the door, but he threw a spell at her, that made it so her legs couldn't move. She fell over.
"Ron stop it! What are you doing?" she yelled. She was so scared tears were rolling down her face. Ron towered over her and started tearing her clothes off. She tried punching at his chest, but nothing worked he wouldn't get off of her.
"STOP! RON!" her shirt and skirt were off, and he was working on her bra. She was clawing at his chest, and waiting for the moment when her legs would unfreeze so she could kick some sense into him. Her bra was off and he ripped her thong and threw it to the side. she was sobbing and shaking uncontrollably still yelling at the top of her lungs. As his hands traveled up and down her body, and his tongue explored, she was just praying with everything she had that someone would hear her and come help her, or just that it would be over soon. But as far as Ron was concerned it hadn't even begun. He thrust into her causing her to scream even louder from a mixture of horror and pain.
"Ron" She cried through tears "think about what you're doing, stop it!" her face was all wet from tears.
"I know what I'm doing, and I like it so shut up." He hit her across the face. He kept on thrusting in and out.
Draco was dragging his feet up to his room, he couldn't wait till he could just sit, practice that morning had been brutal. Happiness flew threw him as he reached the portrait, and said the password. Screaming greeted his ears, and he looked over at the corner, and saw the 2 having sex. Not wanting to have to watch, he turned around to walk out. Grangers a screamer, interesting he thought. But he snapped out of it, because that didn't seem right, he turned around to see the situation better. Hermione was punching at his chest, and tears streaked her cheeks. Anger surged through him as he realized what was going on. He walked towards Ron and threw him off of Hermione.
"What the fuck are you doing Weasley? When a girl says no she means no you dipshit. Hermione was obviously not enjoying this!!" Hermione was laying on the floor trying to cover herself up, she was shaking with tears.
"GET OUT WEASELY!" Draco pointed his wand at him threatening to hex him. Ron pulled on his pants and ran out of the room. Draco grabbed a blanket off the couch and wrapped Hermione it, he then picked her up and carried her to her room, he found a pair of pajamas lying on the bed and turned around as she put them on, she got in bed still crying, he went and sat down next to her.
"Hermione do you need to go see madam pomphrey?" she shook her head.
"Do you need anything at all?" she shrugged
"Sorry, Draco I'm just feeling bitter towards any walking thing with a dick."
"Well, then I wont be Draco." He made his voice higher to imitate a girl. "I'm Dracina" Hermione eyed him.
"Why are you doing this?" Draco remembered Hermione told him that friends care.
"Because friends care, darling. Now talk to me girlfriend" he was still talking like a girl. Hermione cracked a little smile through her tears but remained silent. "Ya, know that Ron Weasely is a celf centered Prick anyway! Don't worry about him! I'll hex him into the next century. But Draco, now theres a good man, oh and he's so cute! He would never do anything like that. And that Harry Potter he's pretty cute too" Draco couldn't believe he was doing this but he wanted to reach her. "He has that I'm sexy but don't know it attitude, he is such a heartbreaker." Draco paused to sigh "ooh ooh remember that Oliver wood!" he tried to giggle like a girl, he remembered hearing some girls talk about him once. " he was so graceful on his broomstick… I wonder what he'd be like in bed? although I think Draco would be the best, sexy beast he is." Draco felt really dumb, so of course he had to talk about himself, and beside Hermione had stopped crying and was smiling.
"Who do you think is cute?" without thinking Hermione answered.
"You are" the words came out before she could stop them and she blushed, and covered her mouth looking downwards. Draco smiled at her. Still talking like a girl he said.
"Oh well I think your gorgeous, and I'm flattered but I don't go to that side of the rainbow." Hermione was still looking downward. He grabbed her chin, and turned her head so she was looking at him. They were searching each others eyes, and Draco came a little closer to her. He wasn't sure what to do, because she was still shaken up and she didn't want to ruin what he had just formed, but she too moved her head a little closer until finally their lips touched. It was like a jolt of electricity went through them, their body tingling everywhere. They could both hear the booms of fireworks going off in their heads. Hermione separated her lips, and Draco let his tongue slip through to meet hers. After a few moments of that blissful kiss Draco tore away, not wanting to lose her trust. Wanting to break the awkward silence he spoke up still in his girly voice.
"Does that make us lesbians?" Hermione giggled and pulled him into a hug. "Can I stop talking like a girl now Hermione?"
"Yes" she pulled away from his hug, but he kept one arm around her shoulders, so she snuggled into his chest.
"Should we do a pregnancy test or anything?" he asked
"He never got that far" she said with her hate filled voice.
"Oh, that's good then. Doing okay?"
"I'm a little sore. That was my first time" tears began flowing from her eyes again. "Oh Draco! I always wanted my first time to be special. I never thought I was actually gonna save myself for marriage, but I always wanted my first time to be with someone special, and now it's ruined because of that dumb bastard." He pulled her closer, and wiped a tear off her cheek with his thumb, and then kissed the place where the tear fell.
"It'll be alright" Draco didn't know how that kiss they shared happened, but he knew that he liked Hermione now for sure, and he didn't want to feel like he was taking advantage of her but he needed to get his feelings out.
"Hermione, I like you. When I saw you lying there helplessly, I got so angry, because if you're hurting I'm hurting. I care about you so much now, and I know that you probably hate all men right now, but I want you to know. I want you to be my Girlfriend, so I can try to save you from any pain, and fill the old pain with good memories. You don't have to answer now, whenever your ready." Hermione looked up at him and thought for a moment.
"I don't know how you do it Draco Malfoy. Right now I'm about ready to kill any man that crosses my path, except for you. and its not even because you were pretending to be a girl even though I guess that helped, because I knew it was you underneath that. But you stayed and you cared for me and you helped me when no one else could have gotten through to me. I don't know what I'd do without you, I want you to be my boyfriend. So yes, I'll be your girlfriend." One of Draco's rare mega-watt smiles appeared on his face, and he pulled her into a passionate kiss. At that moment all walls either of them had built came crashing down under the intensity of the long desired kiss.
Yay! They finally kissed! Sorry if you think its corny, but I thought it was cute! Please review and tell me what you're thinking.
