A/N: Okay, here's chapter 6. Hope you like it as much as the last.
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Emerald Flame
Chapter 6
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****Hermione's POV****
I walked into the Great Hall the day after the Hogsmede trip and immediately went to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to Harry.
"So how'd it go?" I asked him while I started piling food on my plate, "You didn't come back last night."
"Yes I did," Harry said, "I just didn't get back 'til eleven."
I gave a fake gasp.
"Harry James Potter!" I said, "What -have- you been up to?"
He smiled.
"Seriously, we didn't do anything!" He said, "We just took a walk around the lake after the Hogsmede trip!"
"It takes two hours to walk around the lake?" I raised an eyebrow.
He shrugged.
"Where were you anyway?" He asked, quickly changing the subject, "I knocked on your door and you didn't answer."
"I guess it was when I was taking a shower," I lied quickly. In reality I had taken Draco up to the Room of Requirement to bandage his hand (He'd refused to go to the Hospital Wing. He said Madam Pomfrey would ask questions.) and then stayed there with him until midnight. It's not like I'd stayed there as suicide watch…Actually, part of me -did- stay there for suicide watch. The other part of me just wanted to have his company. I now considered him a friend. After he'd broken down in my arms the previous night I'd grown quite an attachment to him.
My thoughts were broken when Eliza walked over and placed her arms around Harry's shoulders. She quickly pecked him on the cheek and they started to talk quietly among themselves. I quickly finished my food and got up to go to the Library so I could leave them to themselves. We didn't have classes today either, but I was going to study anyway. I didn't yesterday, I was to preoccupied with Draco. But I was intent on studying today.
I walked into the Library and immediately walked over to the Potions section. I ran my fingers over the spines of the books as I walked past them. I'd already read more than half of them. I finally found one and pulled it out from the shelf. I walked to a table in the far corner and sat down to read. Unfortunately, Terry Boot and Marie O'Connell had chosen the table next to me to share their first kiss…and their second…and third…and fourth…
I eventually got annoyed and just checked the book out and walked out of the library. I thought it over for a second before I headed towards the Room of Requirement. No one could bother me there. Amazing how wrong I was….
****Draco's POV****
I sat in the Room of Requirement, staring at the fire. I really liked this room. No one knew it was here, so no one could come in and interrupt your thinking. Well, one person could.
The door opened and I heard someone gasp slightly.
"Hey, Hermione," I said softly, smirking slightly.
"Oh, hey…" She seemed to breath a sigh of relief and collapsed in a chair next to me with a book laying on her lap.
"Who'd you think I was?" I looked sideways at her.
"Your hair looked red for a second 'cause of the fire and I thought you might be…Well, I thought you might be Ron…" She looked down at her book and started to trace the letters on the cover.
"What's the story between you two, huh?" I asked, "I've noticed you don't hang out with him anymore."
She sighed and looked over to me like she was judging whether or not she could trust me.
"Fine, I'll tell you," She said, "Ron and I dated over the summer and it didn't really…click."
"Why not?" I asked.
She shrugged.
"I really don't know…I just didn't like him that way I guess."
"Then who -do- you like?"
She looked over to me.
"Of course I'm not going to tell -you-."
"Why?" I smirked, "Am -I- the one you like?"
She rolled her eyes.
"Oh yeah Draco, I -really- fancy you," She said sarcastically.
"Aha, you finally admit it!"
"Oh please!"
She laughed and I smiled a little.
"Really though," I said, "Who d'you like?"
"No one," She said truthfully.
"No one?"
"No one."
"No one at all?"
"NO ONE!"
I moved the chair over an inch and looked at her out of the corner of my eye.
"Okay," I said slowly, "Why didn't you say so?"
She picked up the book like she was going to throw it at me, but then changed her mind and put it back down in her lap.
"You know," She said, "One day I really am going to hurt you."
"Someone's already beaten you to it," I muttered gloomily.
She opened her mouth like she was going to say something but decided against it and just stared back into the fire.
"So is Pott--Harry going out with that Ravenclaw now?" I asked her after a moment of silence.
"Eliza?" She looked towards me, "Yeah, they're dating now. Why do you ask?"
I smirked.
"Me and her used to get into verbal fights all the time," I answered, "She actually has an acid tongue, that one."
"Really?" She laughed slightly, "I've never seen her mad so I wouldn't know…"
"Yeah," I said, "It takes a lot to get her mad, but when she does get mad you need to stay out of her way."
I looked over towards her.
"She's a lot like you actually…" I said to her, a smirk forming on my face. She got up, put the book on her chair, and faced me with a slight smirk on her face.
"What're you going to do?" I asked her, leaning slightly sideways in my chair. Surprisingly, she swooped down upon me. I instinctively lifted my hands to block her, but found out a second later that all she was trying to do was tickle me. It actually worked and I forced myself out of my chair through my laughter and started to tickle her back. We fell to the ground in a heap of laughter and wrestled around for a while. She was actually quite strong for being as skinny as she was. She gained the upper hand on me a few times and was able to pin me down for a few seconds at a time, but eventually I pinned her down on the ground with my knees keeping her shoulders down and holding her wrists down beside her head.
"Fine!" She laughed, "I give! Get off!"
I pushed off from her and leaned back against my chair while breathing heavily. She sat up and pulled her knees up, resting her chin on them and staring at me. I shook the hair out of my face and grinned at her. She smiled back at me and leaned back against the chair in the same position I was.
"Well," She said, raking a hand through her now-messy hair, "That was interesting."
I laughed slightly before we sunk into silence.
"I need to go," Hermione said after a while, standing and heading to the door, "See you later Draco."
"Bye," I said, looking back at her as she walked away. It was a full five minutes before I got up and realized she had left her book. I picked the book up and turned it over in my hands for a while. A book on Potions. I don't understand -why- she even bothered to get those kinds of books. She was the smartest witch in a century. But she really liked to study I suppose…
I got up to go back to the dorm and give the book to her, but I stopped by the kitchen to get another butterbeer. The house elves kept me up for a while and by the time I made it to the dorm it was nearly ten o' clock. Since it was a school night, everyone was already asleep (We -are- Heads you know). Still, I walked into Hermione's room without knocking. She was sleeping of course, but I could still see around the room fine (that unicorn on the wall really -was- a piece of work). I quietly snuck over to the nightstand by her bed and placed her book there. As I was turning to walk away I caught sight of her and just stood there, staring at her. When she was asleep she looked like she was at peace. Normally she was rushing off, trying to know everything and worrying about all the tests that were coming up. But now…
I shook my head to clear my mind and walked out of the room. Instead of going to my dorm I sat on the couch and drank the butterbeer I had gotten earlier. Just as I finished it, the portrait opened and Harry walked in. He caught sight of me and stopped, raising an eyebrow.
"What're you still doing up?" He asked me.
"What're -you- still doing up?" I countered.
"I had a date," He smirked slightly.
"As did I," Alright, so I lied…I think…
"Alright then," He walked over to his room and walked into it without giving me a second glance. It was a second before I realized we had talked to each other without either one of us insulting the other. I shook my head and walked to my room. I was starting to get tired and I really didn't want to oversleep and miss Potions…Snape would yell at me and that's really not a pretty thing.
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A/N: So what d'you think? Seriously, press the button at the bottom of the page and tell me. Please?
Chapter 7 to come soon. I promise, things will become more interesting…*evil cackle*…
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Emerald Flame
Chapter 6
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****Hermione's POV****
I walked into the Great Hall the day after the Hogsmede trip and immediately went to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to Harry.
"So how'd it go?" I asked him while I started piling food on my plate, "You didn't come back last night."
"Yes I did," Harry said, "I just didn't get back 'til eleven."
I gave a fake gasp.
"Harry James Potter!" I said, "What -have- you been up to?"
He smiled.
"Seriously, we didn't do anything!" He said, "We just took a walk around the lake after the Hogsmede trip!"
"It takes two hours to walk around the lake?" I raised an eyebrow.
He shrugged.
"Where were you anyway?" He asked, quickly changing the subject, "I knocked on your door and you didn't answer."
"I guess it was when I was taking a shower," I lied quickly. In reality I had taken Draco up to the Room of Requirement to bandage his hand (He'd refused to go to the Hospital Wing. He said Madam Pomfrey would ask questions.) and then stayed there with him until midnight. It's not like I'd stayed there as suicide watch…Actually, part of me -did- stay there for suicide watch. The other part of me just wanted to have his company. I now considered him a friend. After he'd broken down in my arms the previous night I'd grown quite an attachment to him.
My thoughts were broken when Eliza walked over and placed her arms around Harry's shoulders. She quickly pecked him on the cheek and they started to talk quietly among themselves. I quickly finished my food and got up to go to the Library so I could leave them to themselves. We didn't have classes today either, but I was going to study anyway. I didn't yesterday, I was to preoccupied with Draco. But I was intent on studying today.
I walked into the Library and immediately walked over to the Potions section. I ran my fingers over the spines of the books as I walked past them. I'd already read more than half of them. I finally found one and pulled it out from the shelf. I walked to a table in the far corner and sat down to read. Unfortunately, Terry Boot and Marie O'Connell had chosen the table next to me to share their first kiss…and their second…and third…and fourth…
I eventually got annoyed and just checked the book out and walked out of the library. I thought it over for a second before I headed towards the Room of Requirement. No one could bother me there. Amazing how wrong I was….
****Draco's POV****
I sat in the Room of Requirement, staring at the fire. I really liked this room. No one knew it was here, so no one could come in and interrupt your thinking. Well, one person could.
The door opened and I heard someone gasp slightly.
"Hey, Hermione," I said softly, smirking slightly.
"Oh, hey…" She seemed to breath a sigh of relief and collapsed in a chair next to me with a book laying on her lap.
"Who'd you think I was?" I looked sideways at her.
"Your hair looked red for a second 'cause of the fire and I thought you might be…Well, I thought you might be Ron…" She looked down at her book and started to trace the letters on the cover.
"What's the story between you two, huh?" I asked, "I've noticed you don't hang out with him anymore."
She sighed and looked over to me like she was judging whether or not she could trust me.
"Fine, I'll tell you," She said, "Ron and I dated over the summer and it didn't really…click."
"Why not?" I asked.
She shrugged.
"I really don't know…I just didn't like him that way I guess."
"Then who -do- you like?"
She looked over to me.
"Of course I'm not going to tell -you-."
"Why?" I smirked, "Am -I- the one you like?"
She rolled her eyes.
"Oh yeah Draco, I -really- fancy you," She said sarcastically.
"Aha, you finally admit it!"
"Oh please!"
She laughed and I smiled a little.
"Really though," I said, "Who d'you like?"
"No one," She said truthfully.
"No one?"
"No one."
"No one at all?"
"NO ONE!"
I moved the chair over an inch and looked at her out of the corner of my eye.
"Okay," I said slowly, "Why didn't you say so?"
She picked up the book like she was going to throw it at me, but then changed her mind and put it back down in her lap.
"You know," She said, "One day I really am going to hurt you."
"Someone's already beaten you to it," I muttered gloomily.
She opened her mouth like she was going to say something but decided against it and just stared back into the fire.
"So is Pott--Harry going out with that Ravenclaw now?" I asked her after a moment of silence.
"Eliza?" She looked towards me, "Yeah, they're dating now. Why do you ask?"
I smirked.
"Me and her used to get into verbal fights all the time," I answered, "She actually has an acid tongue, that one."
"Really?" She laughed slightly, "I've never seen her mad so I wouldn't know…"
"Yeah," I said, "It takes a lot to get her mad, but when she does get mad you need to stay out of her way."
I looked over towards her.
"She's a lot like you actually…" I said to her, a smirk forming on my face. She got up, put the book on her chair, and faced me with a slight smirk on her face.
"What're you going to do?" I asked her, leaning slightly sideways in my chair. Surprisingly, she swooped down upon me. I instinctively lifted my hands to block her, but found out a second later that all she was trying to do was tickle me. It actually worked and I forced myself out of my chair through my laughter and started to tickle her back. We fell to the ground in a heap of laughter and wrestled around for a while. She was actually quite strong for being as skinny as she was. She gained the upper hand on me a few times and was able to pin me down for a few seconds at a time, but eventually I pinned her down on the ground with my knees keeping her shoulders down and holding her wrists down beside her head.
"Fine!" She laughed, "I give! Get off!"
I pushed off from her and leaned back against my chair while breathing heavily. She sat up and pulled her knees up, resting her chin on them and staring at me. I shook the hair out of my face and grinned at her. She smiled back at me and leaned back against the chair in the same position I was.
"Well," She said, raking a hand through her now-messy hair, "That was interesting."
I laughed slightly before we sunk into silence.
"I need to go," Hermione said after a while, standing and heading to the door, "See you later Draco."
"Bye," I said, looking back at her as she walked away. It was a full five minutes before I got up and realized she had left her book. I picked the book up and turned it over in my hands for a while. A book on Potions. I don't understand -why- she even bothered to get those kinds of books. She was the smartest witch in a century. But she really liked to study I suppose…
I got up to go back to the dorm and give the book to her, but I stopped by the kitchen to get another butterbeer. The house elves kept me up for a while and by the time I made it to the dorm it was nearly ten o' clock. Since it was a school night, everyone was already asleep (We -are- Heads you know). Still, I walked into Hermione's room without knocking. She was sleeping of course, but I could still see around the room fine (that unicorn on the wall really -was- a piece of work). I quietly snuck over to the nightstand by her bed and placed her book there. As I was turning to walk away I caught sight of her and just stood there, staring at her. When she was asleep she looked like she was at peace. Normally she was rushing off, trying to know everything and worrying about all the tests that were coming up. But now…
I shook my head to clear my mind and walked out of the room. Instead of going to my dorm I sat on the couch and drank the butterbeer I had gotten earlier. Just as I finished it, the portrait opened and Harry walked in. He caught sight of me and stopped, raising an eyebrow.
"What're you still doing up?" He asked me.
"What're -you- still doing up?" I countered.
"I had a date," He smirked slightly.
"As did I," Alright, so I lied…I think…
"Alright then," He walked over to his room and walked into it without giving me a second glance. It was a second before I realized we had talked to each other without either one of us insulting the other. I shook my head and walked to my room. I was starting to get tired and I really didn't want to oversleep and miss Potions…Snape would yell at me and that's really not a pretty thing.
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A/N: So what d'you think? Seriously, press the button at the bottom of the page and tell me. Please?
Chapter 7 to come soon. I promise, things will become more interesting…*evil cackle*…