To Touch A Dragons Heart
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the plot.
A/N: I just can't believe I got this finished so fast! Two days, and it's done! That has to be my record :D Please Enjoy!
Chapter 3: Dream and comfort
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Hermione sat down at her seat in the airplane. She was relaxed, she had tried to fly before. When she and her parents was on vacation, they often flew to their destination.
Draco on the other hand had never flown on anything else than a broomstick, and he had never intended to, so he was rather tense. He sat down beside Hermione, locked his seatbelt and grabbed the armrest so tight that his knuckles turned white (Whiter than his skin, that is. *lol*, I just had to add that).
Hermione looked to her right and saw Draco all tensed up. She decided that if they had to get along in two whole months, why not start now by getting him to calm down?
"Malfoy, calm down. The plane is not going to crash, if that is what you think."
"How can you ask me to calm down?!" Draco exclaimed loudly. "I don't trust muggles or their machine-things!"
"Malfoy, keep your voice down! Anyone can hear you." Hermione whispered harshly. " Do you want them to find out our secret?"
"I really don't care Granger! I don't like this at all!"
"Aww.. Little Drackie is afraid of flying." Hermione teased. She knew perfectly well that this wasn't the right time, but she just couldn't resist the urge to tease Draco a little.
"No! I'm not afraid of flying! I do it everyday practically, but on a broomstick that is. There I have the total control, here I can't control a thing of what is gonna happen to me!" Draco said truthfully.
"You can't always have control over everything, you know." Hermione said.
"Yeah, I know." Draco told her. "But I sure would like to."
After that there was silence for quite some time. Hermione was wondering what the blond boy beside her was thinking about, when a male voice interrupted her thoughts:
"Hello and Welcome onboard. This is your captain speaking. We will go in the air in a few minutes, so please put on your seatbelts and hold onto any loose items until we are in the air. That was all, have a nice trip."
Draco had relaxed a bit after his conversation with Hermione, but now he tensed up again. Hermione noticed and tried yet again to calm him down.
"Come on, this is not dangerous, why are you afraid?"
"I told you, I don't trust muggles or their inventions." Draco answered a bit annoyed that she kept babbling about the same bloody thing, but he quickly forgot that when the airplane started moving. He grabbed the armrest again and pushed back into his seat. He just couldn't figure out why muggles liked this sort of travelling: It was slow and dangerous, but the thing that annoyed him the most, was the fact that he was afraid of it. He was afraid of it, because he had no control. He was used to be in charge: He controlled his too goons, every student in the lower grades was afraid of him and most of the older were too, he always got what he wanted one or another way.
"Why the heck did McGonnagal insist that we should fly with this bloody thing?!" He exclaimed, more to himself than to Hermione, but Hermione answered it anyway:
"I don't know," Hermione said sarcastically. "Maybe because she wanted us to try and get along before we reached the school?"
"How would that work out?" Draco asked. "We've never gotten along before.."
"No, but maybe we could try." Hermione suggested.
"How?"
"We could start by making a truce.." Hermione started, but Draco cut her off.'
"What kind of truce?" He asked suspiciously.
"In public we'll be civil towards each other, we'll call each other by our first names, and not fight when somebody else is in the room. Agreed?"
"Sounds reasonably," Draco agreed. "So, um, Hermione have you ever flown with this kind of thing before?"
"Yes, actually I have. When I'm home during the holidays, I often go with my parents on vacation to another country, and then we often fly to our destination." Hermione explained. "I actually enjoy to fly. Try to look out of the window.." At this point Draco leaned over Hermione to look out of the window. Hermione could smell his cologne and was getting a little dizzy by it. The smell was spicy and fitted him perfectly. At this point she was occupied smelling his scent, that she forgot she was saying something.
"Hermione? Hermione!"
Hermione came back to reality: "Wha.. Sorry, What?" she asked looking at Draco, who was now sitting upright in his seat.
"You were saying something, and then you just stopped."
"What was I saying?" Hermione asked, slightly confused and still a bit dizzy - She couldn't remember anything at the moment.
"You wanted me to look out of the window." Draco said confused. Why was she acting like this? It wasn't like her at all, normally she would be calm and ready to defend herself if he started to insult her, but now she couldn't even remember her own name.
"Oh, yes. Now I remember. I wanted to show you how beautiful it is. The clouds and the blue sky above, I just love to fly!"
"Then why don't you?"
"What do you, I'm flying right now." Hermione was confused. What did he mean?
"Not like this, I mean on a broom."
"I don't like to fly like that. Here I feel safe, when I'm on a broom, I have to do the steering myself and I just don't know how." Hermione answered truthfully. She didn't like to admit it to Draco, not because he was her nemesis, but because she was ashamed that she, Hermione Granger, top of her year, didn't know how to do such a common thing, so she usually just told her friends that she didn't like it. To tell the truth she hadn't tried it since her 1st year, and now she was in her 6th.
"I love to fly - to feel the air in my face, see everything just pass by in a blur, feel the speed, that is just heaven." Draco breathed out with closed eyes, dreaming about flying.
Hermione didn't want to disturb him, he looked so peaceful, and so she just stayed quiet.
Half an hour Draco became present again. He looked to his left and saw that Hermione had fallen asleep. She looked so beautiful, totally relaxed, but then she started to twitch and turn uncomfortably.
*****Dream*****
Hermione was sitting the airplane beside Draco. They were talking and laughing and everything seemed perfect, just like she wanted it to be, but then it started to turn dark. The whole flight were suddenly completely dark and it started to shake, just a little to begin with, but after a little while it felt like an earthquake. Everybody in the plane started to scream around her, she turned to see Draco, but she couldn't see him, so she reached out, but he wasn't there. Where was Draco?! Hermione started to call for him, but he didn't answer.
Suddenly someone yelled that the plane was on fire and they would all die, and then Hermione could feel herself being pressed back into her seat and the floor started to move downwards. A few moments later the whole plane was laying vertical and was falling against the ground with a very high speed. Hermione looked out the window and saw the earth getting closer and closer, and then they crashed against the ground and the last thing Hermione heard was..
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Draco looked at Hermione and heard her saying: "Draco.. Draco, where are you?!" he saw her shake violently and then she started to scream. He grabbed her by her arms and shook her while calling her name. **********
... Draco's voice calling her name. She opened her eyes and looked around: She was in the airplane and it was light. She was not going to die in an air crash. She turned her head a bit and saw Draco infront of her. He was there, and she got so excited that it all had been a dream, that she threw her arms around Draco's neck and hugged him tightly.
"Draco, you're here!" She exclaimed without thinking.
Draco was surprised at first, but then he slipped his arm around her back and held her tightly. He could feel she needed the comfort and whispered in her ear: "I'm here, everything is going to be alright. It was just a dream."
When she heard him whisper in her ear, she just couldn't take it. First the dream and now this, it was too much, and she started to cry with her head against Draco's shoulder.
Draco let her cry against him. He didn't know why, but he felt like he needed to comfort her, and that she needed him in that moment, so he started to let his hand run up and down her back and kept telling her it was going to be alright. Finally she stopped crying and pulled away from him.
"I.. I'm.. I'm sorry," She stammered. "I didn't mean to.."
Draco cut her off, but placing a finger over her mouth and said:
"It's alright Hermione, it's alright. You had a nightmare and was afraid and needed someone to comfort you, and I'm glad I was the one to do it." He said.
Hermione looked at him, just looked unable to say anything, but she didn't have to. Draco took her chin between two of his fingers and leaned forward while pulling Hermione's face gently towards him. It seemed like forever before their lips met, but when they did it felt like a lightening had just struck her and a warmth spread through her whole body. Then he pulled away and looked her in the eyes. To Hermione it seemed like forever they had been sitting there, just looking at each other, when a voice interrupted the moment:
"This is your captain speaking. We'll be landing in Florida shortly, please take your seats and put your seatbelts on. I hope you enjoyed travelling with us tonight. Goodbye."
Draco and Hermione locked their seatbelts and before anyone of them could say anything the plane started to move downwards, and after a few minutes they could feel the wheels hitting the earth and the plane started slowing down. When it was standing completely still, everyone stood up and headed toward the exit. Hermione went first and Draco followed just behind her. When Hermione stepped out on the stairs, she saw Professor McGonnagal on the earth waving at them.
The two students didn't talk while they walked side by side towards McGonnagal. They just didn't know what to say. When they reached McGonnagal, she said:
"Welcome to Florida!"
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A/N: There, it's done. I wanna thank those who reviewed last chapter! Love you!
To IceLily: So, there was your snogging.. happy now? *lol*
DO if you want to make me happy, you know what you have to do.. Please review!
~The Charmed One
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the plot.
A/N: I just can't believe I got this finished so fast! Two days, and it's done! That has to be my record :D Please Enjoy!
Chapter 3: Dream and comfort
**********
Hermione sat down at her seat in the airplane. She was relaxed, she had tried to fly before. When she and her parents was on vacation, they often flew to their destination.
Draco on the other hand had never flown on anything else than a broomstick, and he had never intended to, so he was rather tense. He sat down beside Hermione, locked his seatbelt and grabbed the armrest so tight that his knuckles turned white (Whiter than his skin, that is. *lol*, I just had to add that).
Hermione looked to her right and saw Draco all tensed up. She decided that if they had to get along in two whole months, why not start now by getting him to calm down?
"Malfoy, calm down. The plane is not going to crash, if that is what you think."
"How can you ask me to calm down?!" Draco exclaimed loudly. "I don't trust muggles or their machine-things!"
"Malfoy, keep your voice down! Anyone can hear you." Hermione whispered harshly. " Do you want them to find out our secret?"
"I really don't care Granger! I don't like this at all!"
"Aww.. Little Drackie is afraid of flying." Hermione teased. She knew perfectly well that this wasn't the right time, but she just couldn't resist the urge to tease Draco a little.
"No! I'm not afraid of flying! I do it everyday practically, but on a broomstick that is. There I have the total control, here I can't control a thing of what is gonna happen to me!" Draco said truthfully.
"You can't always have control over everything, you know." Hermione said.
"Yeah, I know." Draco told her. "But I sure would like to."
After that there was silence for quite some time. Hermione was wondering what the blond boy beside her was thinking about, when a male voice interrupted her thoughts:
"Hello and Welcome onboard. This is your captain speaking. We will go in the air in a few minutes, so please put on your seatbelts and hold onto any loose items until we are in the air. That was all, have a nice trip."
Draco had relaxed a bit after his conversation with Hermione, but now he tensed up again. Hermione noticed and tried yet again to calm him down.
"Come on, this is not dangerous, why are you afraid?"
"I told you, I don't trust muggles or their inventions." Draco answered a bit annoyed that she kept babbling about the same bloody thing, but he quickly forgot that when the airplane started moving. He grabbed the armrest again and pushed back into his seat. He just couldn't figure out why muggles liked this sort of travelling: It was slow and dangerous, but the thing that annoyed him the most, was the fact that he was afraid of it. He was afraid of it, because he had no control. He was used to be in charge: He controlled his too goons, every student in the lower grades was afraid of him and most of the older were too, he always got what he wanted one or another way.
"Why the heck did McGonnagal insist that we should fly with this bloody thing?!" He exclaimed, more to himself than to Hermione, but Hermione answered it anyway:
"I don't know," Hermione said sarcastically. "Maybe because she wanted us to try and get along before we reached the school?"
"How would that work out?" Draco asked. "We've never gotten along before.."
"No, but maybe we could try." Hermione suggested.
"How?"
"We could start by making a truce.." Hermione started, but Draco cut her off.'
"What kind of truce?" He asked suspiciously.
"In public we'll be civil towards each other, we'll call each other by our first names, and not fight when somebody else is in the room. Agreed?"
"Sounds reasonably," Draco agreed. "So, um, Hermione have you ever flown with this kind of thing before?"
"Yes, actually I have. When I'm home during the holidays, I often go with my parents on vacation to another country, and then we often fly to our destination." Hermione explained. "I actually enjoy to fly. Try to look out of the window.." At this point Draco leaned over Hermione to look out of the window. Hermione could smell his cologne and was getting a little dizzy by it. The smell was spicy and fitted him perfectly. At this point she was occupied smelling his scent, that she forgot she was saying something.
"Hermione? Hermione!"
Hermione came back to reality: "Wha.. Sorry, What?" she asked looking at Draco, who was now sitting upright in his seat.
"You were saying something, and then you just stopped."
"What was I saying?" Hermione asked, slightly confused and still a bit dizzy - She couldn't remember anything at the moment.
"You wanted me to look out of the window." Draco said confused. Why was she acting like this? It wasn't like her at all, normally she would be calm and ready to defend herself if he started to insult her, but now she couldn't even remember her own name.
"Oh, yes. Now I remember. I wanted to show you how beautiful it is. The clouds and the blue sky above, I just love to fly!"
"Then why don't you?"
"What do you, I'm flying right now." Hermione was confused. What did he mean?
"Not like this, I mean on a broom."
"I don't like to fly like that. Here I feel safe, when I'm on a broom, I have to do the steering myself and I just don't know how." Hermione answered truthfully. She didn't like to admit it to Draco, not because he was her nemesis, but because she was ashamed that she, Hermione Granger, top of her year, didn't know how to do such a common thing, so she usually just told her friends that she didn't like it. To tell the truth she hadn't tried it since her 1st year, and now she was in her 6th.
"I love to fly - to feel the air in my face, see everything just pass by in a blur, feel the speed, that is just heaven." Draco breathed out with closed eyes, dreaming about flying.
Hermione didn't want to disturb him, he looked so peaceful, and so she just stayed quiet.
Half an hour Draco became present again. He looked to his left and saw that Hermione had fallen asleep. She looked so beautiful, totally relaxed, but then she started to twitch and turn uncomfortably.
*****Dream*****
Hermione was sitting the airplane beside Draco. They were talking and laughing and everything seemed perfect, just like she wanted it to be, but then it started to turn dark. The whole flight were suddenly completely dark and it started to shake, just a little to begin with, but after a little while it felt like an earthquake. Everybody in the plane started to scream around her, she turned to see Draco, but she couldn't see him, so she reached out, but he wasn't there. Where was Draco?! Hermione started to call for him, but he didn't answer.
Suddenly someone yelled that the plane was on fire and they would all die, and then Hermione could feel herself being pressed back into her seat and the floor started to move downwards. A few moments later the whole plane was laying vertical and was falling against the ground with a very high speed. Hermione looked out the window and saw the earth getting closer and closer, and then they crashed against the ground and the last thing Hermione heard was..
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Draco looked at Hermione and heard her saying: "Draco.. Draco, where are you?!" he saw her shake violently and then she started to scream. He grabbed her by her arms and shook her while calling her name. **********
... Draco's voice calling her name. She opened her eyes and looked around: She was in the airplane and it was light. She was not going to die in an air crash. She turned her head a bit and saw Draco infront of her. He was there, and she got so excited that it all had been a dream, that she threw her arms around Draco's neck and hugged him tightly.
"Draco, you're here!" She exclaimed without thinking.
Draco was surprised at first, but then he slipped his arm around her back and held her tightly. He could feel she needed the comfort and whispered in her ear: "I'm here, everything is going to be alright. It was just a dream."
When she heard him whisper in her ear, she just couldn't take it. First the dream and now this, it was too much, and she started to cry with her head against Draco's shoulder.
Draco let her cry against him. He didn't know why, but he felt like he needed to comfort her, and that she needed him in that moment, so he started to let his hand run up and down her back and kept telling her it was going to be alright. Finally she stopped crying and pulled away from him.
"I.. I'm.. I'm sorry," She stammered. "I didn't mean to.."
Draco cut her off, but placing a finger over her mouth and said:
"It's alright Hermione, it's alright. You had a nightmare and was afraid and needed someone to comfort you, and I'm glad I was the one to do it." He said.
Hermione looked at him, just looked unable to say anything, but she didn't have to. Draco took her chin between two of his fingers and leaned forward while pulling Hermione's face gently towards him. It seemed like forever before their lips met, but when they did it felt like a lightening had just struck her and a warmth spread through her whole body. Then he pulled away and looked her in the eyes. To Hermione it seemed like forever they had been sitting there, just looking at each other, when a voice interrupted the moment:
"This is your captain speaking. We'll be landing in Florida shortly, please take your seats and put your seatbelts on. I hope you enjoyed travelling with us tonight. Goodbye."
Draco and Hermione locked their seatbelts and before anyone of them could say anything the plane started to move downwards, and after a few minutes they could feel the wheels hitting the earth and the plane started slowing down. When it was standing completely still, everyone stood up and headed toward the exit. Hermione went first and Draco followed just behind her. When Hermione stepped out on the stairs, she saw Professor McGonnagal on the earth waving at them.
The two students didn't talk while they walked side by side towards McGonnagal. They just didn't know what to say. When they reached McGonnagal, she said:
"Welcome to Florida!"
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A/N: There, it's done. I wanna thank those who reviewed last chapter! Love you!
To IceLily: So, there was your snogging.. happy now? *lol*
DO if you want to make me happy, you know what you have to do.. Please review!
~The Charmed One