Memories of the Past, Secrets Revealed

Chapter 5: Strange meetings

By Babmidnight

Disclaimer: By far they are not mine. :( I'll live somehow but in the mean time I'll just have to borrow them. Lol :)

Rating: PG-PG-13

Author's Note: Sorry it's been awhile since I've updated. School and work took over. Now no school for a month at least!!!!!!!! 'text' are thoughts

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Hermione looked up at Draco. 'I can't believe he just helped me. Am I dreaming?'

"Are you ok?"

Hermione looked up to see Draco holding out his hand towards her. He looked human, like he cared.

"I think so. My head hurts a bit from slamming into the wall." Hermione took Draco's hand and stood up, starring at him in awe in the dark corridor.

"No one is in the Slytherin Common room, if you would like to come in, we'll make sure you're ok, we just won't tell anyone you were here."

'Why am I being so nice to her all of a sudden? Because you may hate her but your not cold like your father. No one deserves to be raped as she almost was' thought Draco.

"I would like that. I didn't realize how close to the dungeons I was."

Draco nodded at Hermione's response. They walked down towards the entrance to the Slytherin common room.

"Malfoy?" asked Hermione.

"Draco, call me Draco" said Draco.

"Ma…Draco, how did you know I was in danger?"

"I was a ways behind you heading towards the dungeons when you left the library. I saw him pull you suddenly unwilling and I followed."

Draco whispered the password to his common room loud enough for the door to hear, but loud enough for Hermione not to know the password.

"Go ahead sit down." Draco stood as he watched Hermione take a sit on one of the green silk couches.

"Do you know why he attacked you Hermione?"

"No I don't"

"Why did he call you Hermione Corbett?"

Hermione looked at Draco with a puzzled look.

"Why are you asking?"

"I'm just curious. That's the same last name as my dad's best friend Kenneth Corbett."

"He's my father. I just learned today when I got a letter from my mother telling me this, including that our fathers are best friends."

'Why is it so easy to talk to him so easily? We're not even friends! Were supposed to be enemies! But he knows of my father. Maybe this is right. Do I want Ron and Harry to know yet?' thought Hermione.

Hermione looked around the common room. "Your common room isn't as bad as I thought it would be" commented Hermione. Draco smirked at this.

"Surprisingly they repainted the walls and gave us new chairs over the summer."

Hermione looked around the common room once more, getting a jumpy if she thought she heard a noise.

"Well I'll be leaving now. I'm going to head off to my own common room before anyone comes here."

"Why are you too scared to be in my presence?"

"Why of course not, but I have better things to do then to sit around and do nothing. And besides wouldn't want a Ron or Harry chasing after you if they found out I was in your common room. They might think you forced me in here and hurt me."

"HA! Like they could hurt me! They are overprotective of you. Doesn't that get annoying sometimes?"

"Yes it does, especially Ron with his temper."

Hermione turned around back towards Draco.

"Why aren't you in the prefect common room?"

Draco smirked at Hermione, laughing to himself.

"What I can't visit my house mates?"

Hermione blushed and quickly turned around and walked out of the Slytherin Common room walking down the hall slowly up to the Gryffindor Tower not sure what just happened but liking it.

As Hermione disappeared in the darkness, Draco watched her walk down the hall way suddenly strangely worried that someone may attack her again. 'What are you thinking?! She's a mudblood! No she just told you her father is Kenneth Corbett; she has to be at least a half blood, not a mudblood!!' Draco turned in his tracks and headed up to his room only to fall into a restless sleep.