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belongs to Heather.
A/N: well, here it is, at last, it's only taken all year :P anyway, hope you like the chapter, so read and review!!
Both Heather and I would like to thank our reviewers:
Boy-Crazy Bookworm: it's finally here!! (
Cor: thanks, hope you like this chapter
Pauly-85: thanks, and I'm continuing it in my free time, which I don't get much of often.
Jessie: they're perfect for each other!!
GollumGal: thanks, finger crossed I can keep up with the idea
Till death due as part: here it is!!
Sabrein: it's not finished, at least the story's not. Thanks!!
Thanks again to everyone!!
Chapter 2
Did I do that, Hermione thought.
"Morning," Draco said sleepily.
"What exactly happened last night?" Hermione asked urgently.
Draco smirked at the memory, "You told me you loved me, we came in here to study how the lounge works and we must have fallen asleep in the middle of our studies," he replied cheekily, but looking disappointed that they had fallen asleep so soon.
Hermione got up and muttered, "I've gotta go think," and left the room. Draco noticed a tear roll down her cheek as she left, so he gave her a few minutes than followed her.
* * * * * * * *
Hermione stepped out to the cold, looking at the amazing view of the Hogwarts grounds. Everything was calm. The only sound was Hermione sobbing. She remembered that night way to well. Draco told her he loved her. As a tear fell to the ground, Hermione heard someone coming up the stairs to the Tower. She hid in a shadowy corner.
Draco came out and smirked at Hermione's not-so-great hiding place. She stepped out and leaned in as Draco kissed her.
"I love you more than anything," she told him. He chuckled. "What?" she demanded.
"The potion only lasted 6 hours from 10 yesterday and it's now 5:30 am," he replied with a smirk on his face.
Hermione's eyes welled up again, "This was all just a game to you! I HATE YOU!" she screamed at him and sprinted down the stairs to Gryffindor common room.
The smirk faded of his face, "That's not what I meant," he muttered to himself, but this time he decided that Hermione needed some time to really think. He sighed as the sun started to show from below the pink clouds.
* * * * * * * * *
Hermione was halfway through washing conditioner out of her hair when someone knocked on the door.
"Hermione?" she heard Parvarti's voice.
"Yes, what is it, Parvarti?" she asked.
"Are you Ok, 'Mione? You weren't in the dorm all night and you didn't eat last night. Were you in the Hospital Wing?" she asked, concerned.
"No, actually. I wasn't hungry last night and I fell asleep in the library studying. I guess the librarian didn't notice me," Hermione replied, half telling the truth.
"Oh, OK. Well Cho Chang asked me to remind you that you have prefect duty tonight on the second floor with Malfoy," she said.
"Great," Hermione muttered, disappointed. She had forgotten about prefect duties.
She finished up in the bathroom, grabbed her books and headed down to the Great Hall for breakfast, a few tears falling down her cheeks. She sat herself next to Harry who was eating happily with Ron.
"Hermione! What's wrong?" Ron asked her.
"Nothing, why?" she lied.
"I just thought something was wrong because you're crying," he told her. As he did so, she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.
* * * * * * * *
Draco watched Hermione silently cry all through Herbology.
After lunch they had transfiguration together.
He skipped lunch and did his Potions essay in the library.
When the bell rang for transfiguration, he happily hopped up and headed for the classroom. He saw Hermione standing with her friends; still looking upset, but slightly cheered up. They strode into the classroom for their lesson. They were changing their animals into soft toys today.
As usual, Hermione was the first one to succeed. After helping her friends pronounce the spell, Professor McGonagall called her over and requested that she help Draco Malfoy because he was having great difficulty. "Yes Professor," she replied, disappointed that she had to go help the one person who had broken her heart that very day.
"What don't you get?" she sneered at him. "All of it," he replied.
She sighed. "Just tap your animal on the head softly and say the spell," Hermione told him glumly.
He did so and it worked. She was about to turn to leave when he spoke.
"I'm sorry about this morning, I didn't mean for you to think it was a joke. I was just happy that you finally felt the same way for me that I have of you since our third year," Draco said, desperately trying to reconcile with her. Just then the bell rang to tell class was over.
"Come on, 'Mione!" Ron called.
"Just give me a second," she called back.
"I'll talk to you at 8:30 for prefect duty," she whispered to Draco and left.
* * * * * * * *
Hermione was early, as usual. When Draco arrived at 8:35, she told him off because she'd been waiting for twenty minutes.
"Calm down, Hermione, I need to talk to you. I'm really really sorry about this morning..."
They talked all the way through their shift, Draco looked at his watch and said, "Wow, its 11 pm, we've been here an hour since our shift ended."
"Well, we better get back to our studies in the library," Hermione said, smirking. Draco winked, took her hand and they headed for the 24 hour prefect library.
* * * * * * * *
Hermione woke up the next morning, her head resting on Draco's chest. She got up and looked at Draco's watch. It was 7:30.
"Draco, wake up! We're going to be late for class," Hermione whispered, shaking him slightly. He groaned, opened one eye then quickly shut it. He then snapped both open and sat up.
"We better go to breakfast, we have Charms at eight," he stated.
They both stood up, Draco took Hermione's hand and was walking back to the door when Hermione tugged his arm.
"Um, what are you doing?" she asked him.
"Don't you love me?" he asked her, pouting slightly.
"Of course I love you, but don't you think it would be odd if two prefects who supposedly hate each other started walking around, hand-in-hand, and kissing every now and then?" she replied.
"You're right," Draco said, "But when will we be able to kiss and hold hands and stuff?" he asked her.
"Every five days we'll pretend to fall asleep in the prefect library. We'll meet here at 8:30 every five nights. Other then that, we'll see each other around school, and have to pretend we hate each other, OK?" Hermione asked Draco. He thought for a minute.
"OK," he agreed. They then kissed each other softly on the lips and headed for the Great Hall, going separate ways.
* * * * * * * *
"Morning Ron," Hermione said cheerfully as she took a seat beside him.
"Hey 'Mione. Where were you last night? You missed it!"
"Missed what?"
"Harry finally asked Gin out! They just went to get their books. Harry was going to wait for you, but you weren't back by midnight, so we figured you were in the library."
"Yeah, I did, I fell asleep there. We'd better get going, class starts in ten minutes and I haven't got my books yet!"
They both stood and left to get their Charms books.
* * * * * * * *
"Well, that was fun," Harry said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"I know. I can't believe they made us spend two-and-a-half hours bewitching clocks so it changes three minutes every minute! What a waste of time!" Hermione complained.
When she noticed both Harry and Ron were glued to the ground and jaws dropped, she put on the most innocent tone she could and asked, "What?"
"Who are you and what have you done with Hermione?" Ron demanded.
Hermione just laughed a little before realizing he was dead serious.
"I am Hermione. You know, one of your best friends since you saved me from a mountain troll in first year?" she replied.
"Bull! The real Hermione would never say any class was a waste of time!" Harry stated.
"Harry, I think she's telling the truth. Hermione, are you alright?" Ron asked her.
"Oh, just because I've had perfect grades for the last five years and been made a prefect for the last two, I'm not allowed to insult a class!" Hermione yelled.
She then turned and headed for the prefect library to do some private studies because she had a free period.
* * * * * * * *
"What just happened?" Harry asked Ron, hoping it was just a dream.
"Hermione just went off at us because we were surprised that she called Charms a waste of time," Ron answered, "Well, we have a free period, its either study or visit Hagrid, and we'll find 'Mione at lunch."
The boys turned and started walking towards Hagrid's hut.
"Hello," Hagrid greeted them with a smile which faded when he saw the twin sad looks on Harry and Ron's faces.
"What's the matter with you two? Looks likes someone died." Hagrid's face showed real concern.
"We're just worried about Hermione. She called our charms lesson a waste of time and when we asked her if she's alright she went off at us!" Harry explained.
* * * * * * *
Hermione sat on the ledge of the Astronomy Tower, tears rolling down pale cheeks. She saw a blonde figure heading for the castle and not to long after, two people which she assumed were Harry and Ron left Hagrid's hut.
"Everyone thinks they know me. Mudblood, bookworm, Gryffindor prefect – "
"Everything that makes you perfect," Draco's voice was soft as he stopped the flood of Hermione's thoughts of herself.
Hermione jumped in shock. She lost her balance and fell of the ledge. Draco ran to where she had been sitting and looked over. To his relief, Hermione was safe for the moment, dangling off the edge, both hands gripped onto the railing.
"Hermione!" Draco yelled over the wind, "Hermione, take my hand!" He put one of his hands over the ledge.
"I can't reach!" she yelled back, now crying worse than before.
Draco then climbed over the ledge, balancing his feet on the bottom of the small fence on the window ledge. He wrapped one hand around the rails and held the other one down next to Hermione. She took his hand and he heaved her up next to him. He climbed back inside and helped Hermione do the same.
"Thank you sooo much!! You saved my life!" Hermione said, flinging her arms around his neck.
"I won't let you forget it," he replied, a smirk on his face. His facial expression softened as he bent down to kiss Hermione.
They stood there, lips locked together until the bell rang for lunch.
"Well, we'd better go to lunch," Draco said, some what sorrowfully, as they finally broke apart.
"Yeah," Hermione's voice had the same hint of sadness in it, "Meet back up here after lunch?" she asked hopefully.
"But we have class," Draco's voice still held hope that Hermione would miss class and spend the time with him.
"We could always say that we're sick or something..." Hermione's voice to held hope that he'd stay.
Draco's trademark smirk appeared, but slowly turned into a grin, "Alright. At 1:30 we'll meet back here."
With that Hermione kissed Draco's cheek and went down to lunch.
* * * * * * *
"Hey guys," Hermione greeted her two friends cheerfully.
"Hermione, look we're sorry 'bout earlier, we didn't mean to upset you," Ron apologised.
"It's alright, I think I may have overreacted," Hermione told them.
Right then Draco walked up to Gryffindor table, holding a wand.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry asked coldly.
"Mind your own business, Potter. Hermione, you dropped wand," Draco handed Hermione her wand, and winked at her.
"Thanks, Draco. See you later," Hermione smiled up at him.
Draco walked away and Hermione turned back to face her angry best friends.
"What the hell is wrong with you, 'Mione!" Ron yelled at her.
"He saved my life, less than an hour ago! What do you expect me to do? We've been great friends for the last hour and I'm not about to hurt him just because you don't like him! He's a great guy and I'm not about to loose such a great friend for no reason!" Hermione was near yelling by the end.
"So you'd rather loose us?" Harry said.
Hermione's eyes filled with painful tears.
"I can't believe your making me choose between my love and my friends!" she said without thinking.
She then got up and ran to her room. She had twenty minutes before she had to meet Draco, so she had time to cool down.
* * * * * * *
"Hey, are you alright?" asked a very concerned Draco as Hermione walked into the Astronomy Tower.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. It's just that there's something eating away at the back of my mind," she answered.
"May I ask what it is?"
"Umm, it's kind off personal."
"You don't trust me?" Draco pouted a little.
"Off course I trust you!" Hermione defended herself, but seeing Draco still pouting she gave in. "Alright, I'll tell you." A big smile appeared on Draco's face.
"It's just that, well, umm, Draco, I think I'm in love with you," Hermione said sadly, and looked at her feet when the smile was washed off Draco's face, "I'm sorry," she mumbled.
Draco took a step closer to her and whispered, "Don't be."
Just as his warm breath reached her face she leaned in and kissed him.
A/N: well, here it is, at last, it's only taken all year :P anyway, hope you like the chapter, so read and review!!
Both Heather and I would like to thank our reviewers:
Boy-Crazy Bookworm: it's finally here!! (
Cor: thanks, hope you like this chapter
Pauly-85: thanks, and I'm continuing it in my free time, which I don't get much of often.
Jessie: they're perfect for each other!!
GollumGal: thanks, finger crossed I can keep up with the idea
Till death due as part: here it is!!
Sabrein: it's not finished, at least the story's not. Thanks!!
Thanks again to everyone!!
Chapter 2
Did I do that, Hermione thought.
"Morning," Draco said sleepily.
"What exactly happened last night?" Hermione asked urgently.
Draco smirked at the memory, "You told me you loved me, we came in here to study how the lounge works and we must have fallen asleep in the middle of our studies," he replied cheekily, but looking disappointed that they had fallen asleep so soon.
Hermione got up and muttered, "I've gotta go think," and left the room. Draco noticed a tear roll down her cheek as she left, so he gave her a few minutes than followed her.
* * * * * * * *
Hermione stepped out to the cold, looking at the amazing view of the Hogwarts grounds. Everything was calm. The only sound was Hermione sobbing. She remembered that night way to well. Draco told her he loved her. As a tear fell to the ground, Hermione heard someone coming up the stairs to the Tower. She hid in a shadowy corner.
Draco came out and smirked at Hermione's not-so-great hiding place. She stepped out and leaned in as Draco kissed her.
"I love you more than anything," she told him. He chuckled. "What?" she demanded.
"The potion only lasted 6 hours from 10 yesterday and it's now 5:30 am," he replied with a smirk on his face.
Hermione's eyes welled up again, "This was all just a game to you! I HATE YOU!" she screamed at him and sprinted down the stairs to Gryffindor common room.
The smirk faded of his face, "That's not what I meant," he muttered to himself, but this time he decided that Hermione needed some time to really think. He sighed as the sun started to show from below the pink clouds.
* * * * * * * * *
Hermione was halfway through washing conditioner out of her hair when someone knocked on the door.
"Hermione?" she heard Parvarti's voice.
"Yes, what is it, Parvarti?" she asked.
"Are you Ok, 'Mione? You weren't in the dorm all night and you didn't eat last night. Were you in the Hospital Wing?" she asked, concerned.
"No, actually. I wasn't hungry last night and I fell asleep in the library studying. I guess the librarian didn't notice me," Hermione replied, half telling the truth.
"Oh, OK. Well Cho Chang asked me to remind you that you have prefect duty tonight on the second floor with Malfoy," she said.
"Great," Hermione muttered, disappointed. She had forgotten about prefect duties.
She finished up in the bathroom, grabbed her books and headed down to the Great Hall for breakfast, a few tears falling down her cheeks. She sat herself next to Harry who was eating happily with Ron.
"Hermione! What's wrong?" Ron asked her.
"Nothing, why?" she lied.
"I just thought something was wrong because you're crying," he told her. As he did so, she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.
* * * * * * * *
Draco watched Hermione silently cry all through Herbology.
After lunch they had transfiguration together.
He skipped lunch and did his Potions essay in the library.
When the bell rang for transfiguration, he happily hopped up and headed for the classroom. He saw Hermione standing with her friends; still looking upset, but slightly cheered up. They strode into the classroom for their lesson. They were changing their animals into soft toys today.
As usual, Hermione was the first one to succeed. After helping her friends pronounce the spell, Professor McGonagall called her over and requested that she help Draco Malfoy because he was having great difficulty. "Yes Professor," she replied, disappointed that she had to go help the one person who had broken her heart that very day.
"What don't you get?" she sneered at him. "All of it," he replied.
She sighed. "Just tap your animal on the head softly and say the spell," Hermione told him glumly.
He did so and it worked. She was about to turn to leave when he spoke.
"I'm sorry about this morning, I didn't mean for you to think it was a joke. I was just happy that you finally felt the same way for me that I have of you since our third year," Draco said, desperately trying to reconcile with her. Just then the bell rang to tell class was over.
"Come on, 'Mione!" Ron called.
"Just give me a second," she called back.
"I'll talk to you at 8:30 for prefect duty," she whispered to Draco and left.
* * * * * * * *
Hermione was early, as usual. When Draco arrived at 8:35, she told him off because she'd been waiting for twenty minutes.
"Calm down, Hermione, I need to talk to you. I'm really really sorry about this morning..."
They talked all the way through their shift, Draco looked at his watch and said, "Wow, its 11 pm, we've been here an hour since our shift ended."
"Well, we better get back to our studies in the library," Hermione said, smirking. Draco winked, took her hand and they headed for the 24 hour prefect library.
* * * * * * * *
Hermione woke up the next morning, her head resting on Draco's chest. She got up and looked at Draco's watch. It was 7:30.
"Draco, wake up! We're going to be late for class," Hermione whispered, shaking him slightly. He groaned, opened one eye then quickly shut it. He then snapped both open and sat up.
"We better go to breakfast, we have Charms at eight," he stated.
They both stood up, Draco took Hermione's hand and was walking back to the door when Hermione tugged his arm.
"Um, what are you doing?" she asked him.
"Don't you love me?" he asked her, pouting slightly.
"Of course I love you, but don't you think it would be odd if two prefects who supposedly hate each other started walking around, hand-in-hand, and kissing every now and then?" she replied.
"You're right," Draco said, "But when will we be able to kiss and hold hands and stuff?" he asked her.
"Every five days we'll pretend to fall asleep in the prefect library. We'll meet here at 8:30 every five nights. Other then that, we'll see each other around school, and have to pretend we hate each other, OK?" Hermione asked Draco. He thought for a minute.
"OK," he agreed. They then kissed each other softly on the lips and headed for the Great Hall, going separate ways.
* * * * * * * *
"Morning Ron," Hermione said cheerfully as she took a seat beside him.
"Hey 'Mione. Where were you last night? You missed it!"
"Missed what?"
"Harry finally asked Gin out! They just went to get their books. Harry was going to wait for you, but you weren't back by midnight, so we figured you were in the library."
"Yeah, I did, I fell asleep there. We'd better get going, class starts in ten minutes and I haven't got my books yet!"
They both stood and left to get their Charms books.
* * * * * * * *
"Well, that was fun," Harry said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"I know. I can't believe they made us spend two-and-a-half hours bewitching clocks so it changes three minutes every minute! What a waste of time!" Hermione complained.
When she noticed both Harry and Ron were glued to the ground and jaws dropped, she put on the most innocent tone she could and asked, "What?"
"Who are you and what have you done with Hermione?" Ron demanded.
Hermione just laughed a little before realizing he was dead serious.
"I am Hermione. You know, one of your best friends since you saved me from a mountain troll in first year?" she replied.
"Bull! The real Hermione would never say any class was a waste of time!" Harry stated.
"Harry, I think she's telling the truth. Hermione, are you alright?" Ron asked her.
"Oh, just because I've had perfect grades for the last five years and been made a prefect for the last two, I'm not allowed to insult a class!" Hermione yelled.
She then turned and headed for the prefect library to do some private studies because she had a free period.
* * * * * * * *
"What just happened?" Harry asked Ron, hoping it was just a dream.
"Hermione just went off at us because we were surprised that she called Charms a waste of time," Ron answered, "Well, we have a free period, its either study or visit Hagrid, and we'll find 'Mione at lunch."
The boys turned and started walking towards Hagrid's hut.
"Hello," Hagrid greeted them with a smile which faded when he saw the twin sad looks on Harry and Ron's faces.
"What's the matter with you two? Looks likes someone died." Hagrid's face showed real concern.
"We're just worried about Hermione. She called our charms lesson a waste of time and when we asked her if she's alright she went off at us!" Harry explained.
* * * * * * *
Hermione sat on the ledge of the Astronomy Tower, tears rolling down pale cheeks. She saw a blonde figure heading for the castle and not to long after, two people which she assumed were Harry and Ron left Hagrid's hut.
"Everyone thinks they know me. Mudblood, bookworm, Gryffindor prefect – "
"Everything that makes you perfect," Draco's voice was soft as he stopped the flood of Hermione's thoughts of herself.
Hermione jumped in shock. She lost her balance and fell of the ledge. Draco ran to where she had been sitting and looked over. To his relief, Hermione was safe for the moment, dangling off the edge, both hands gripped onto the railing.
"Hermione!" Draco yelled over the wind, "Hermione, take my hand!" He put one of his hands over the ledge.
"I can't reach!" she yelled back, now crying worse than before.
Draco then climbed over the ledge, balancing his feet on the bottom of the small fence on the window ledge. He wrapped one hand around the rails and held the other one down next to Hermione. She took his hand and he heaved her up next to him. He climbed back inside and helped Hermione do the same.
"Thank you sooo much!! You saved my life!" Hermione said, flinging her arms around his neck.
"I won't let you forget it," he replied, a smirk on his face. His facial expression softened as he bent down to kiss Hermione.
They stood there, lips locked together until the bell rang for lunch.
"Well, we'd better go to lunch," Draco said, some what sorrowfully, as they finally broke apart.
"Yeah," Hermione's voice had the same hint of sadness in it, "Meet back up here after lunch?" she asked hopefully.
"But we have class," Draco's voice still held hope that Hermione would miss class and spend the time with him.
"We could always say that we're sick or something..." Hermione's voice to held hope that he'd stay.
Draco's trademark smirk appeared, but slowly turned into a grin, "Alright. At 1:30 we'll meet back here."
With that Hermione kissed Draco's cheek and went down to lunch.
* * * * * * *
"Hey guys," Hermione greeted her two friends cheerfully.
"Hermione, look we're sorry 'bout earlier, we didn't mean to upset you," Ron apologised.
"It's alright, I think I may have overreacted," Hermione told them.
Right then Draco walked up to Gryffindor table, holding a wand.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry asked coldly.
"Mind your own business, Potter. Hermione, you dropped wand," Draco handed Hermione her wand, and winked at her.
"Thanks, Draco. See you later," Hermione smiled up at him.
Draco walked away and Hermione turned back to face her angry best friends.
"What the hell is wrong with you, 'Mione!" Ron yelled at her.
"He saved my life, less than an hour ago! What do you expect me to do? We've been great friends for the last hour and I'm not about to hurt him just because you don't like him! He's a great guy and I'm not about to loose such a great friend for no reason!" Hermione was near yelling by the end.
"So you'd rather loose us?" Harry said.
Hermione's eyes filled with painful tears.
"I can't believe your making me choose between my love and my friends!" she said without thinking.
She then got up and ran to her room. She had twenty minutes before she had to meet Draco, so she had time to cool down.
* * * * * * *
"Hey, are you alright?" asked a very concerned Draco as Hermione walked into the Astronomy Tower.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. It's just that there's something eating away at the back of my mind," she answered.
"May I ask what it is?"
"Umm, it's kind off personal."
"You don't trust me?" Draco pouted a little.
"Off course I trust you!" Hermione defended herself, but seeing Draco still pouting she gave in. "Alright, I'll tell you." A big smile appeared on Draco's face.
"It's just that, well, umm, Draco, I think I'm in love with you," Hermione said sadly, and looked at her feet when the smile was washed off Draco's face, "I'm sorry," she mumbled.
Draco took a step closer to her and whispered, "Don't be."
Just as his warm breath reached her face she leaned in and kissed him.