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Author's Note: Hey guys! K so I have been way to evil with the cliff hangers, so I will be nice on this chapter and end it in a nice way that doesn't leave ya hanging. I hope this will make you guys very happy! I feel that this chapter is going to be long, on account of it is one am, and I just got home a little bit ago from work (at blockbuster yummy!) and I'm in the mood to write and I was going to watch The Two Towers again, but well, I felt that too many cliff hangers were making things complicated! So without further ado, the next chapter!
Plans and Promises
*~ Fear crept over Hermione as she looked up and waited for the shadowy figure to step into the light~*
The figure began to slowly enter the square of light, first a shoe, then the lower part of a leg making its way up to a knee. All the while Hermione's heart was rampantly threatening to brake free from its hold in her rib cage. The man was now in the light up to his waist, as beads of sweat began forming on Hermione's forehead and the back of her next.
A little further; she could now see his abdomen, which was followed closely by a muscular torso. A cool stream chilled Hermione's neck one bead broke free and fell. Terror was written all over her face. Any moment now she would look upon the face of her killer; and she was held too tightly by fear to even make a minute noise let alone do anything to save her life.
One more step was all it would take- and here it was. The final fatal step, Hermione looked up to meet the face of her murderer and to her shock it was-
"Draco?" the sound luckily came out only slightly above a whisper as she slumped back on her bed and waited for her body to calm down.
Draco crossed the rest of the room quickly and sat on the edge of the girl's bed. "Shh! Don't speak loudly, it is dangerous. Hermione I have to say something, and it's not going to be easy, and I know that you probably have things to say too, but I want you to let me speak until I have said every thing I have to say alright.
Hermione nodded. So torturous her need to see Draco had been, but now that he was here with her, it was not quite like she planned it. In her mind Draco had come up to her caring a single long stemmed red rose which he placed in her hands when he realized she was sleeping. Then he would sit slowly on the bed careful not to wake her quite yet. And ever so gently he would bend over and gradually bring his lips less than a centimeter away from her own. He would pause here to first breathe in the essence that sounded her before he completed his decent and touched his lips to hers, thus waking her from her deep slumber.
Then their eyes would meet and the world would stop turning for a second and for once everything in the universe would make sense. Finally his hand would move up to her hair and stroke it delicately. And at last he would say to her those three words she had so longed to hear fall from his lips.
So Hermione had had a very boring and uneventful day? The important thing was that this meeting was far from romantic in any sense. But Draco began to speak and she knew it was important to listen.
"First, I am sorry for creeping up on you like that, but if I have merely startled you, you would have screamed before you knew it was me, and our cover would have been blown." This was true enough; she would have screamed and there were plenty of people around who would hear. He continued.
"Now, the important think. Hermione I'm not going dance around this. We cannot be seen together, ever. It is not safe for you." Hermione opened her mouth to protest but Draco raised a hand to her lips.
"I know what you are going to say. How you don't give up on things that easily. But neither do I Hermione. I am doing all in my power to change this, but for now, we must not take this risk. It will do no good to get killed with out even putting up a real fight, and that is what will happen if we continue our relationship. I don't want to lose you Hermione, I can't lose you," he put a hand under her chin and lifted her head which had fallen to look at the bed covers. Their gazes connected and he continued, "I love you."
Tears welled up in Hermione's eyes and she went to speak again, but was again silenced. "I'm not done yet. This last part if going to be the hardest, and you may hate me when I am through speaking." He looked down as if he was hurt by what was coming. "We must act like we did before, to kill all suspicion. Every word we exchange must be filled with hate, every look between us disgust. We must fight and carry on the abhorrence of our past six years. And we must convincingly say things we don't really mean. I know it will hurt, but we must, Hermione. We must." He looked down and whipped a tear from his eye.
Again he lifted her head and looked into her deep honey eyes, "One day Hermione, we will live in a wonderful house, we will have beautiful children, and we will have a dog that will frolic in the yard and chase the owl who brings in the morning post. We will be together and we will be happy. I make this promise to you now. This will happen, and what we are about to undergo will have all been worth it. But you must promise me now that you will not so much glance at me softly until the time comes"
Draco now waited for Hermione's reply. She looked down at the bed, taking in fully his every word. Finally, she looked up and into Draco's eyes.
"Kiss me."
"What?" Had she not heard any of what he had just told her?
"When you leave this room, I will act like I hate you until it is all over. But right now," tears began slipping from Hermione's eyes and her voice began to get high and shaky. "Right now, you are going to kiss me, because I love you and that love is all that I've got."
Draco lifted his hands to Hermione's face and whipped away the tears that stained her cheeks. Then he brought himself up and kissed her with a fierce wave of passion. His arms slid behind her pulling him as close as he could to his body. Hermione's own arms reached around his back and into his hair cling to her Draco as if there was no tomorrow; because this young pair of lovers knew that tomorrow may never come.
Draco stood at the clearing just inside the Forbidden Forest. What was taking so long? He had important things to do, important people to see. Well he certainly didn't have time to wait around in the bushes all day anyways!
Harry was walking across the grounds now, it took a while to shake off Ron his best friend until Ron had remembered a little rendezvous of his own to attend to. As Harry walked to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, he found himself questioning his sanity not for the first nor last time.
Just as Draco was beginning to feel stood up, a brown head and two green eyes made their way into his clearing.
"Well it's about time! What took you?"
"Sorry, I got delayed." The two boys glared at each other momentarily. Then they settled down to discuss the plan. Draco began his speech.
"As you know the main antagonist at the moment is Lucius Malfoy, as such he must be… eliminated shall we say?"
"Excuse me?"
"What?"
"You're talking murder!"
"And?"
Harry got up to leave, "If you simply want to commit patricide, you can manage without me!"
"Wait!" Draco called, and the brunette stopped in his tracks. Draco spoke to Harry's back. "Hermione will never be safe as long as Voldermort lives and his Death Eaters remain loyal."
Harry swallowed hard and turned around, "What exactly are you proposing?"
"That we also eliminate Voldermort; his faithful band won't be loyal for long after that."
"And what makes you think that two seventeen year old wizards can defeat Voldermort? I have faced him six times already, and he is still living. I will not go looking for him. I will not aid your madness."
Desperate to stop Harry from leaving once again he began to talk in a fast and unnaturally high voice for him. "Harry, how many times has he found you?"
Harry stopped; Voldermort was the one who approached Harry every time they had come to face each other. What if he were the one to approach Voldermort? To catch him off his guard?
"Do you think things would turn out differently if you found him?" It was strange to hear Draco speak his thoughts, yet it did not surprise him.
"Go on."
"I am supposed to receive the Dark Mark on Halloween. I know where the entire congregation of Death Eaters will be meeting, and that they will not be ready for an attack. I have thought this through carefully, and my plan will work. There will be two deaths that night Harry, one I myself must do, but the other, that can only be done by you."
"Tell me your plan."
Draco filled Harry in on every little detail that his mind had worked out, it all fit together in a very nice manner and as fool hearty as it was, it was plausible. Besides the fact that two barely legal wizards were about to take on the most evil dark force in centuries.
"Well, what do you think?"
"I think it is complete madness."
"You'll help then,"
"Yes."
"I want Hermione some where safe when this all takes place. The meeting is not far from here, and if things should go astray, I want her out of harms way."
Harry looked towards the castle knowing Draco meant should they fail and the Death Eaters wage war against the school. He turned back to Draco.
"Ginny goes too."
"Aren't you two over?"
"Yes, but I love her."
Draco gazed at the green eyed boy and found a sympathy for him. "Fine, we find a safe place for Hermione and Ginny. We need to start looking."
"Right. Well that's all we can do for now isn't it?"
"One more thing Harry,"
"Yes?"
"I need to teach you the dark curses I know."
Harry swallowed.
"I know that you are little Mr. Righteous, but I guarantee you that the Death Eaters will not play fair, and without knowledge of these curses, there will be no getting out alive."
Harry considered the boys words knowing their truth.
"When do we start?"
"Tomorrow."
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Alright so it's not that long, but it's not a cliff hanger is it? Nope nope nope!!
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