She turned the key in the lock and swung the door open. Good, there was no one here; maybe she was over exaggerating all this. She hung up her coat and walked into the living room about ready to collapse on the sofa.

"Hello Hermione."

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"I think she's waking up! Mom, can you hear us?"

All she could see were shapes drifting back and forth, blurry, dark shadows. Hermione's eyes focused and while it wasn't blurry anymore it was too sharp for her liking, and she yelled out.

"Ahhh! Good God! Why is it so bright in here?!" she saw her daughters face looming over her and relaxed, "Miaka! I'm ok. I just had the most terrible dream!"

Hermione stood up and immediately tensed, "Malfoy."

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Draco's POV

She looked so angelic when she was sleeping; like that time she had more than 11 years ago. For a moment she had been his.

 He snapped back from his visit to memory lane at the sound of a yell.

"Why is it so bright in here?" Hermione's eyes were open wide and panicky. But when she saw her daughter her eyes warmed with a loving joy.

 Nobody had ever looked at him like that, not even his mother. When she was free from the crutiuos curse, she looked upon him like a frightened rabbit would a wolf.

 He wanted someone to look at him like that simply because no one ever had. That made him mad, made him jealous that some one else should have those looks when he didn't. He silently fumed.

 He felt the stare and looked up to see those eyes had lost their warmth; they were now filled with an icy fury.

"Malfoy." She said his name like it was an insult. Her voice was cold and one of a thousand tiny daggers all laced with poison; a voice that sent ice down his spine.

 His father had yelled at him, but nothing could prepare him for this. He hadn't thought her capable of it. Not her. Not Hermione.

"Hermione." He tried to sound relaxed, not the least bit put off, but his voice sounded uneven, even to him. (A/N no pun intended)

She turned to the girl and her eyes were soft again but her voice was strained, "Will you excuse us?"

She painfully steered him into the kitchen, but changed her mind and pushed him toward the dining room. The doors slammed shut, and she turned on him.

"You!!! What in the heck do you think you're doing here?!?! I told you I never wanted to see your slimy head again! NEVER! Never ever! What part of that didn't you understand?!?"

He held up an envelope.

"Oh." She looked confused for a moment, but only a moment. The next second the fire was back, "Wait, How did you get that!? I'm her mother! I'm the one who raised her! She lives with me not you!"

"Hermione will you just shut it for a…"

"MAKE ME!!!"

Big mistake.

Suddenly his mouth was over hers. She gasped in surprise and his tongue got past her lips. She leaned in to the kiss and started running her hands through his hair.

Abruptly she pulled back and glared, "I hate it when you do that."

Draco smirked.

"Oh, go bang your head against a wall you self-confident git!"

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***Yay!!! Chapter 2 finished! I know that last bit was a little cliché, but what can you do?

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