Chapter 15

Hours later, when Draco had finished his first ever pot, Trisa was making him some lunch when there was a knock at the door. Trisa wiped her hands on her apron and grabbed her wand. She hid it in the pocket and tried to look at the window but couldn't see anything.

"Now who would come here in the middle of the day? Draco, do you have your wand." Draco pulled a box out of his pocket and sat it on the table. The box raddled many times and then expanded. The top opened up and spit out a wand. Draco caught it and nodded. "Well, where did you get a handy dandy little thing like that?"

"My mother gave it to me last year."

"I'll need to get one of those for myself, now come on." Trisa and Draco walked to the front door and Trisa hid Draco behind a shelf.

"Stay there and don't make a sound. If I scream do something about it because, bloody hell, I can't."

Trisa opened the door. "Hello, would you like something?" Trisa asked.

"Do you know someone named Draco Malfoy that lives around her?" a tall man's voice said.

"No, why?"

"Ma'am I think you do." Draco's breathing got heavy.

"Well I don't so good bye now." The man pushed Trisa aside and went into the house. It was his father's best friend, Lucas Vacinni. Lucas turned in the room before stopping in front of the book case. He poked at the glass vases before one fell. It uncovered Draco's hand. Lucas stepped back and then mumbled a few words. Yellow sparks flew from his wand and flew into the bookcase. The next thing Draco knew was that there was glass shattering everywhere. Trisa screamed.

Draco ran out from behind the book case and to the stairs. He ran up them, but didn't get very far. He felt a hand around his ankle and his vision became a blur as he hit one of the stairs.

When Draco woke up, he was strapped into a chair in his father's bedroom. He looked around. Trisa was right near him.

"Draco, you're awake." Lucius' voice came. Draco turned his head to his father and spat on him. Lucius looked at his shoe and then kicked Draco in the ribs.

"You can tear my body apart and no matter what, you can never stop me from loving Hermione."

"Draco, how would you like to be killed?" Trisa had tape around her mouth but was still making noise.

"Slow and painfully," Draco whispered.

"What was that? Did you say slow and painfully?"

"Drown me in your blood. Throw me off a cliff."

"No, I want Voldemort to decide what your death should be." Draco felt something sharp in his back pocket. He grabbed a cool feeling Swiss Army knife and began to cut the rope binding him. He held it together to make sure Lucius wouldn't notice.

"You could never decide for yourself could you? No wait, the only time you did was when you needed to chose which girl to rape." Lucius walked up to Draco and grabbed him by the throat and pushed him into a corner. The chair fell in between Draco's legs as he stood up to move back. Draco was now eye level with his father and that's when Lucius realized Draco wasn't in his chair.

Draco brought the knife up to Lucius' throat.

"Actually I'd prefer if you died first and then I'd die." Draco dragged the blade lightly across his father's throat and blood trickled down.

"I don't want to make this painful, father, but you know I've been sneaking around with that mudblood just for you know what and maybe I might even marry her because you married mum." Draco paused and got close up to his father's ear. "Parents after all your biggest influence." He whispered. "But maybe if you can't appreciate-" Draco slid the knife deeper into the flesh of Lucius Malfoy. "Who I love, maybe you should just get out of my life."

"How can I, Draco? I'll always be haunting you."

"Yeah, the only thing that will be haunting me is your ugly, pale, disgusting face." Lucius' clutch around Draco's neck became more and more fierce.

"Draco, I've had it up-"

"To where, that pickle in between your legs that you force into women's bodies!" Draco yelled. "I've had it around the world with you, Lucius! I think you should go down to hell and be burnt by those flames, Lucius! I hope you die!" Draco brought the knife down to Lucius' hip and pushed it in and pulled it out. Lucius fell to the ground, blood flowing everywhere.

"Men!" Lucius yelled. Vacinni and Marco Manderhow came into the room with their wands pointed at Draco. Draco threw the knife straight through Vacinni knowing that Manderhow would get down to help him. Draco ran out of the room and downstairs and out of the house. He fell in the snow about half way to the road. Tears ran down his face as ice crystals fell down. Why did he have to be pressured about loving someone?

Granger's, 4:32

Hermione arrived home and dumped all of her clothes onto her bed but then went to Trisa's. The door was opened. Hermione walked into the room and saw glass everywhere. She walked over to the stairs and saw blood. She walked up the stairs and stepped on something. She looked down and saw a necklace with the initials TMR on it. Hermione turned around and rushed down the stairs. She went to her house and ran in. Jane caught Hermione before she tripped over a shoe.

"Hermione, what's wrong."

"Mum, we have to go right now. Right now, mum." They rushed into the car without even telling Gisela and Hermione's father.

"Where exactly are we going?" Jane asked. Hermione looked over at her mother.

"Wiltshire, Mum." Her mother looked over at Hermione. She turned pale.

"Is that where that wretched Malfoy boy lives?" Jane yelled, stopping the car and letting it spin out. Hermione braced herself and screamed. The car finally came to a stop in the street. Everyone got out of their cars to see if Hermione and Jane were okay.

"Yes, Mum. He does and he could very well be dead right now. Don't you care? He could be getting killed by his father!" Hermione paused trying to catch her breath.

"Hermione I care but what the hell do you care about him!"

"Mum, I was with him last night. I love him and he loves me."

"Hermione, I won't stop you from loving him, but you better make sure he doesn't kill you."

"Go, Mum, go!" Hermione yelled and before any of the people worrying could get to the car, Jane sped off to Wiltshire. Hours later they arrived in the town. Jane turned off the classical music and looked at Hermione out of the corner of her eye.

"What did you do with that boy?" Hermione swallowed and didn't answer. "Tell me, Hermione."

"C'mon, Mum! You know exactly what I did with him. Don't play stupid." There was silence once again. Why does it have to be so complicated to love someone, Hermione thought.

"Where does he live?"

"What?" Hermione came out of the trance that she was in.

"Where does he live, Hermione?"

"He lives at 234 Cloutier Lane. Down the next few streets." Hermione felt tears rushing to her eyes. She didn't know why though. She felt like Draco had already left her in this cold world alone. She hoped he hadn't.

Jane drove down Cloutier Lane and stopped at a dead end in front of a small cottage. Surely this wasn't the Malfoy Manor and Hermione knew it. They stepped out into the snow covered land. Hermione walked up to the cottage and opened the door. She felt her feet rise and land in deeper snow. Jane gave a quiet yelp while landing, making a blonde head pop out of the snow. It was Draco.

Hermione ran up to him and fell on top of him. "I was so scared that you were dead, Draco. I missed you so much." She kissed him many times before leaving him to breathe. "How could I be so stupid to leave you with Trisa."

"You weren't stupid, she was nice."

"Where is she?" She kissed him again.

"Upstairs. I think I might have killed my father but there wasn't a better feeling inside me while doing it." Hermione smiled and got up. She pulled him up. Jane was sickened by the two kissing.

"We have to go get Trisa, now."

Hermione ran into the manor and up the stairs as fast as she could. She went into the room where she heard yelling and swearing. She saw a pool of blood and a man looked up from a dying man. Lucius Malfoy was trying to sit up but he could not.

"Granger, I hope your body rots in hell." Hermione took out her wand from hiding and walked up to Mr. Malfoy and stabbed it through his chest. She took it out and then someone apparated into the room. It was Cornelius Fudge. He looked at Hermione's bloody wand.

"You and your boyfriend are going to Azkaban."

Hermione was being pulled to Azkaban in tears. But she heard the always faithful Molly Weasley's voice with Ron's and Ginny's behind hers and Amy's and Maura's and of course Harry's.

"That girl is not responsible for Lucius Malfoy's death. He was responsible for his own." Molly yelled.

"Fudge, stop! You can't bring her to Azkaban prison without a hearing! You gave me two chances, why can't she have one?" Harry shouted.

"You cannot take Hermione Granger into prison for what she didn't do, Fudge!" Amy said walking right beside him.

Draco was being pushed into the same cell as Hermione. Cornelius Fudge locked the cell and the yelling was gone.

"I don't see what went wrong, Draco. Everything was going fine." Hermione said walking up to him. He kissed her cheek and pulled her into a hug.

"Hermione, some things don't always go your way unless you're with Harry Potter and hopefully he'll save our asses."

"Draco, what can he do? We killed your father and some other guy."

"We're gonna get out of this place. We just have to know how to turn into something that can go through walls." Hermione looked up at Draco. "Draco, ghosts can go through walls."

"Hermione, what the hell are you talking about! We can't turn into ghosts. And were not gonna even try because I don't wanna die without a fair case."

"Draco, we're gonna die here, unless I get pregnant or something like that!"

"Well go have a baby with the police officer because I can't have one now."

"Draco how do you know I'm not pregnant. We made love twice in a day! And this baby that could very well be in me could be yours because I haven't done it with anyone else."

"Hermione quit that crap all ready! I know you haven't, but it's time you stop acting like you have!" Hermione put her hands on Draco's face. He pulled her so close to him that she could hardly breathe.

"Draco," she whispered. He looked into her eyes and took her hands off his face. He looked at the ring finger of both and saw a ring.

"You left it on after all this time?"

"Draco, I would never take it off after you put it on."

"Well, lots of girls never washed their hands after they were with me, but you are different Hermione. You can take a shower for an hour after me and never worry about it either." Hermione pressed her head against his chest.

"Rings are different though, their like getting married and having kids and.............getting out of prison." Hermione looked up.

Harry walked right beside Fudge with fury in his eyes. "You can't do this to 16 year olds!" he yelled.

"But I can Harry. I almost did it to you."

"When you hated me," Harry mumbled.

"Harry, I never hated you, I just thought you were a bad kid and could be better."

"Fudge, you never had faith in any of us kids. We were like dogs to you!" Maura yelled pushing him from the back.

"Security," Wizards took Maura by the arms and she struggled to get out of their clutch. "Take her to the mental part of the prison please." Maura thrashed about as hard as she could and finally she could not take anymore of it. Her womanly hands turned into paws of anger and claws like daggers. Her torso became long and a tail sprouted. Her face turned into a viscous black jaguar's. Harry backed away from the animal he thought was Maura.

"Shit," Harry yelled as Maura pounced onto Fudge's back. She ripped the flesh off of his body and took his head into her mouth and whipped the big man across the hall. Ron and Harry grabbed Maura by the skin of her neck and held her back from attacking more. Amy watched Maura being controlled and decided to take the matter into her own paws as well. She became a tiger and ran up to Fudge. It seemed like she was gracefully playing with the man but she was ripping him to pieces.

Ron looked around him and knew that Amy was attacking a very important man. Molly ran up to Maura and took her from the boys. "Go get Amy away from that man." Harry and Ron tackled the creature and pushed her into an open cell. They shut the door and got their breathing back.

"It's a fucking jungle in here." Harry said.

"I know, I didn't think or even know that Amy did that." Ron said.

"Well get to know your girlfriend better then, Ron, instead of always getting her in bed. I mean yeah, she's nice looking and all but I think she has a lot of secrets to tell."

"Yeah, I s'pose you're right, Harry."

On the other side of the door was Amy breathing. She just killed someone. The rush and adrenaline was crazy.

Hermione and Draco were lying on the floor next to each other. Hermione found herself crying once again and her head against Draco's chest.

"Hermione, it wasn't our fault."

"But it was, Draco! It was more than our fault. We shouldn't have even kissed that one time because it was all leading up to this, Draco!" Hermione sat up and paused catching her breath. "Draco, do you even love me?" Draco sat up.

"Hermione, you know I do. Do you remember why I killed that man? The answer lies in you, Hermione." Draco said.

"I don't believe you, Draco. Sometimes I wonder why men always say 'I love you' to women while they're making love? Maybe they don't mean it and just are saying it because they are giving the men what they want."

"Hermione, you give me everything I need and I wanna spend the rest of my life with you. I'm amazed that you haven't even told me that because you have told me you loved me for a very long time Hermione and I was convinced that you were the one for me." Hermione giggled. "What?"

"You were convinced that I was ready to be your bitch."

"Will you be my bitch, Hermione?" Hermione smiled and laughed.

"Of course, but you'd have to be my dog." Hermione and Draco leaned in for a kiss but the door opened loudly. They looked over and saw Percy Weasley. Hermione hadn't seen him in a year or two it seemed. He hadn't changed his looks much, but there was a wedding band on his finger.

"You and your friends are going to the court; I am now the Minister of Magic and I'll make the calls with you two."

Hermione's head was sweating as she approached the stand. A new witch who looked very mean and demanding was asking questions. Harry had told Hermione and Ron everything about court but he didn't mention this tan brunette. She had a Spanish accent.

"Ms. Granger is it true, that Mr. Malfoy told you in the past that you were a filthy mudblood." Hermione nodded. "And is it true that he forbid Draco Malfoy to prolong with seeing you?" Hermione nodded. "Did you stab the man with this knife?" She held up a bag and saw a bloody knife inside. Hermione glanced at Draco.

"No, I did not."

"Did you stab him with your wand Ms. Granger?" She held up a larger bag containing her wand. It was almost like Hermione could hear Draco's thoughts. 'Say yes, Hermione. We're in this together.'

"Yes, ma'am, I-"

"And Ms. Granger, was this an accident?"

"No,"

"Please explain,"

"He told me that he hoped that my body would rot in hell. I walked up to him and stabbed him in the chest with my wand."

"And the night before do you know what Mr. Malfoy's son did to Mr. Malfoy."

"I believe that Draco beat his father up. And may I have a few words to myself for a few moments please." The woman nodded. "Let me remind you, if Draco and I didn't kill that man first, he would have killed the both of us. It would have been two deaths instead of one. Mr. Malfoy deserved to die. Why can't we all just marry the ones we first fell in love with? Will you answer that question for me, please?" The woman had no comments. Hermione had proved her point. "If we cannot proceed to love the ones we fell in love with because of prejudice, there is no hope for the human race and we are all humans. Wizards are their own species. Witches are their own species, ma'am. You don't have a big mole on your nose, we're not mean, and we don't go around on Halloween and steal little kid's candy."

"Ms. Granger, I believe you proved your point, but killing someone isn't always the way to solve things." The woman said. Hermione's bubble had burst.

"We can't come to you guys! Do you know what goes on in our every day lives? If we told the law enforcement, we'd be at the bottom of the food chain in our school! It's hard enough the breathe there already ma'am. We can't go to our parents and say 'oh we got raped' or 'someone is gonna kill us.' We're kids, we don't have the self confidence and self esteem and stuff like that to go up to our parents and tell them that. Yeah they wipe away our tears and get rid of the monsters under our beds, but that doesn't mean we can go up and tell them that the monster's back under the bed."

"Did you hate Mr. Malfoy?"

"Hated every last piece of him." The trial was over, Hermione and Draco would get to go back to school, only because Hermione had proved her point. But she only wanted to go back to that school to see what everyone had to say about her and Draco.

Maura and Amy were different stories though. They were on probation for three years and had to serve 2 weeks in Azkaban.

Maura looked at Amy smiling. "It's so funny, Ames how we can be such bitches and get away with almost everything we do."

"This was definitely one of those things I guess." Amy walked into her cell with spells locking her hands and feet together.

When school started up again, Hermione went about her regular day until lunch when Kyan sat down next to her. He looked at her and grinned.

"What do you want, Kyan?" she asked.

"Was it fun killing someone, Hermione?" she looked at him. She took an apple and got up. Walking away, Kyan pulled her arm and it made her come back to him. "Because you're killing me." He let go and Hermione walked away with tears in her eyes. She felt her shoulder nudge somebody else's.

"Fuck you, Granger. Why don't you go kill some more dads instead of trying to kill me with your big ass shoulder?" Pansy Parkinson said. Hermione took out the one object she loved the most in the wizardring world, her wand.

"Because, Parkinson, Draco would have to help me with that and then tell me he loved me after." Pansy stopped in her tracks and turned around to look at Hermione.

"I'd drop dead if he said that to you."

"Well then drop dead." Hermione said. Pansy looked at her posse and laughed. She pulled out her wand.

"Parkinson!" a young man's voice came. Hermione was sure it was Draco's but when she turned around it wasn't. It was Brad. "Get out of here, you loser."

"I'm only going if you meet me tonight."

"Yeah, sure, whatever." Brad took Hermione by the arm and pushed her into a corner making sure no one was watching. "Hermione, why didn't I know that-"

"Oh you haven't heard that I killed Lucius Malfoy yet. Score!" Hermione said.

"No I heard, but why didn't I hear about Amy and Ron going out?" Hermione was shocked that he didn't know this.

"I thought everyone knew."

"No, no one ever told me. I had something for her."

"Brad, God, I'm sorry." Hermione put her hands on his face. He took them off slowly.

"It's not your fault, Hermione."

"You should have been told though, Brad. If you had something for her, she should have been yours first."

"I had something for you too, Hermione, but you liked Kyan."

"I should have gone with you, that way, none of this would have ever happened." Hermione said, knowing she would regret it but she knew it was true.

"Yeah, well we all make mistakes in our life. My mistake was ever believing that she would change her ways with boys."

"You know mine already, but tonight, who are you going to the Ball with?"

"No one now,"

"Well I'm sure Casper won't mind that we dance together tonight." Brad smiled.

"Casper isn't coming so she won't be jealous of how beautiful you are gonna look." Hermione grinned and put her hands back on his face. "I'm sure I can find a date before tonight though."

"No, Brad, you're coming with me and Draco and you're dancing with me at the last song. If I wasn't with Draco, I'd be in love with you and you would be my prince charming."

"Don't say that, Hermione, because you'll regret it." Hermione looked into his eyes with a grin. He looked back and smiled at her.

"I won't and I promise," she promised moving closer to him. Brad felt his forehead touch hers and he felt her smile against his. "We shouldn't be doing this," she said but she stayed there.

"Hermione?" Draco's voice echoed through out the hall. Hermione looked to her left and so did Brad. They saw Draco standing there with a confused look on his face. He looked at the placement of Brad's hands which were on Hermione's lower back. "Is this your revenge for me kissing that girl on accident?"

"No, Draco, I can explain, really, I-"

"Why do people say they can explain if they can't even get the words out of their mouths? Hermione, I gave you so much in life and I turn my back on you for one second and this is what you do? Hermione, I can't trust you with anything." Draco turned around and walked away. Hermione tried to chase after him, but Brad held her back.

"You'll only get hurt more if you go after the one you love the most." Brad hadn't seen the tears running down her cheeks though.

"Brad, let me go." She pushed forward out of his clutch, but he took her back and pushed her against the wall.

"Hermione, listen to me, if you go after him, he's never going to forgive you."

"I can at least try, Brad." Hermione had anger in her eyes and said her words with fury.

"It wouldn't be worth trying if you are just going to get heartbroken and cut yourself again!" Brad yelled. Hermione fell down to the ground and sobbed. Brad crouched down in front of her. He hugged her tightly.

"Yeah, Granger, go be the stupid fuck that you are and cut yourself to death that way Draco doesn't have to deal with your stupid shit." Audrey Millers said. Brad turned around to look at his ex-girlfriend with that blonde perfectly straight hair and those fake blue eyes. She had used some type of spells to make her boobs bigger too. Audrey had DS lips too because all the guys knew she was famous for giving head.

"Shut up, Audrey. Why don't you go be the slut that you are and go suck a three incher!" Brad said furiously.

"If I'm such a slut, why did you go out with me?"

"We were 12 and you had just moved here. I thought you were prettier with your bushy hair. And you were nice but you turned into a Pansy Parkinson slut!"

"You only think Pansy is a slut because she has sucked on you, yet, Brad. But she's waiting for Draco to come around and forget about that mudblood Granger back there." Hermione got up as fast as she could and took Audrey by the neck and pushed her into the wall.

"Don't you ever, ever call me a mudblood again, you stupid, ugly cunt full of Novocain or I swear to God I will kill you like I killed Lucius Malfoy! Got that, bitch?" Hermione asked. Audrey couldn't even speak because Hermione was holding her throat as hard as she could. "And Draco will hardly forget me, because I will make sure that he is still in love with me as much as I love him, you dirty whore." Hermione let her go and watched her slide down the wall. Mascara tears ran down her face.

"I hope you die, you slut." Audrey said looking up.

"I'm glad you feel that way about me, but if you ever talk about me that way again and I find out, you are going to be dead, bitch." Hermione turned around and started walking away but then she stopped and looked back at her. "Oh yeah, and if I was any guy, I'd rather eat dragon shit than have your gross DSL on me."

Brad pushed Hermione along laughing.

"Hermione, never become a drug addict." He told her taking a turn.

"What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" They made another turn.

"Because she could use that cunt full of Novocain against you."

"I'd never put drugs in my vagina!" Hermione yelled. "I'd never even use drugs." Everyone in the hall looked at Hermione and started whispering. They were mostly Ravenclaws. Brad began to blush. Brad pushed faster into her back. Hermione heard one of the whispers.

"The brain of the school uses drugs." It was Padma Patil. Hermione whipped out her middle finger and put it up as high as it could go.

"You know, Brad, for such a smart and cool and hot person, you really are in a house full of assholes." Brad started running out of the hall, pushing Hermione faster.

"What is your problem, Hermione? I don't want to be hated by the people in my house!"

"It's not my fault they hate me, Brad. You saw me with Audrey, I'm not going to sit back and watch people call me the brain and mudblood and whatever else they call me. I'm not even going to have house elves call me a mudblood."

Gryffindor Common Room, 3:10

Ron rubbed his face and Harry looked at him with concern in his eyes. "This is going to be the worst ball ever." Ron said.

"Why is that? Because you don't have Amy?"

"Obviously yes, I mean she was going to wear a dark blue dress that she could have easily got in and out of." Harry looked at Ron like he had been rolling in dog poop.

"That's not what I meant! We were going to go sledding outside after! But now that she killed Fudge, she has to stay....." Ron's sentence drifted off. "Why couldn't she have gotten out yesterday instead of tomorrow?"

"Matt went to the Swiss Alps and Maura was going to go with me but whatever. Ginny would probably want to go with me; Maura left her ball dress here and wouldn't mind Ginny wearing it. Also they have the same body structures." Ron looked at Harry like he had just blown up The Burrow. "What?"

"You're going to go with my sister and you're leaving me without a date?"

"Go with Parvati, she didn't even make it onto the council."

"Hermione would shoot me if I went with her."

"Then go with Mandy Brocklehurst, I heard she doesn't have a date and she got pretty over the summer. She used to never brush her hair and do anything to her face. Come on, Ron, you have to admit she looks pretty." Ron shook his head.

"I'm gonna be faithful to Amy."

"It's not like your going to make out with her or anything. And she's popular. You guys would match by the way; you both have flaming red hair."

"Oh, please, Harry!"

"Please go ask her? I will then, Ron. And I know exactly where she is. On Tuesday afternoons, she's always staying after class with Trelawney trying to figure out if she'll ever meet Krum again." Harry got up and left the room.

"Harry, no!" Ron yelled. But Harry was already out of the room and going to find Mandy. He knew that Ron thought she was pretty, but he didn't want Amy to find out. He was stupid like that. Amy had cheated on all the rest of her boyfriends before and could take a little heart break from Ron considering that he was only dancing with Mandy Brocklehurst.

Harry, rushing own the stairs, didn't even look in front of him and bumped right into Hermione. They fell onto the stairs and Hermione laughed before vomiting.

"What's wrong with her, she looks like shit?" Harry asked Brad who was helping her up.

"She's been acting like it too." Brad said. Hermione looked up and whacked Brad across the face.

"I have not. Just because I was mad and then sad and then mad again and then I was happy when you said that I had a big butt does not mean I have been acting like shit. It means I feel like shit though."

"Well why the hell are you barfing?" Harry asked.

"I have had nothing to eat today, Harry, and when I had an apple I dropped it while Parkinson practically knocked me over with her dumb looking shoulder. I mean, did you see all the bruises on it with the off the shoulder shirt on her? She had a green 'S' in sparklies on it!" Hermione said wiping her mouth. "God, whoever has been doing it with her must have been a little rough."

"Hermione, have you ever heard the rumor that Draco threw her across the room by the boobs before going to your house?" Brad asked.

"No, why, is that how she got them?"

"That's what everybody says."

"Well then why the hell would you wear a shirt showing your bruises when everybody knows how you got them?"

"She's saying that you were pushing her into a corner when she said that you and Draco made a cute couple." Hermione laughed and walked up the stairs a little more.

"Hermione, I'll be up in a bit." Harry said and he walked down to go talk to Mandy.

Brad walked her up to the Fat Lady's portrait but then realized that she was crying. The Fat Lady looked at her with her eyebrows raised.

"Password by any chance dear?"

"Shut up." Hermione snapped.

"Hermione, what's wrong?"

"I can't do anything right anymore, Brad. I'm supposed to by going with Draco and he doesn't love me anymore and it took him so long for him to say 'I love you'."

"Hermione, go get ready and forget about it. I'll be here to pick you up in a bit." Hermione went inside the common room and up to her dorm where she heard the giggling of Maura and Amy. What the hell was going on?

Hermione ran into the bathroom where she saw Maura and Amy twirling around in snow white and ice blue dresses. Hermione's eyes widened.

"What are you guys doing back? You were supposed to serve 2 whole weeks and got out tomorrow."

"We told him it was the Ball today and he let us out after we kissed him on the cheek a few times." Maura said smiling. Her lips were glossy and she had white glitter on her eye lids. She looked so beautiful and natural. Her hair was twirled back to the top of her head and it curled lightly down her back.

"He's kinda nice," Amy said. Her long chocolate hair was the traditional muggle prom hair style: that special bun. Her dress was floor length and it was a light blue color that had diamonds sewn onto a flowy fabric covering the silk part of her dress.

"What color is your dress, Hermione?"

"Oh, it's uhm, a pale pink color."

Maura tied the back of Hermione's dress and watched the ties fall gently onto Hermione's milky skin. Hermione turned around to face Maura. Her dress flowed softly on the air and sparkled vibrantly. The dress hugged Hermione's curves and showed off her beautiful shoulders.

"We look like fairies, except without the wings." Amy said, spinning in her dress. Hermione sat down and let Maura put pink sparkles all over her face.

"Does Ron know you're here yet?" Hermione asked.

"No, I'm going to surprise him. Hopefully he hasn't found another date."

"Hopefully Harry hasn't either." Maura said. She had cast a spell that was curling Hermione's hair and pulling the front locks into the back.

"You're going with Draco, right?" Amy asked. She was putting diamond earrings in.

"No, I'm going with Brad." Maura stood up straight and Amy turned around. Amy gulped before her mouth fell open. She blinked and Hermione could sense the jealousy in her. Maura seemed surprised that Hermione wasn't going with her well known lover.

"Well, who's Draco going with and why aren't you going with him?" Amy asked with a little bit of anger in her voice.

"He's probably going with some Slytherin slut. I was hugging Brad because he never got the 411 on you and Ron going out and was planning on asking you to the Ball." Amy bit her lower lip. "And Draco thought we were doing something else and got all mad at us so now we're going together."

"Why didn't you tell us this sooner?" Amy asked.

"Because I was trying to forget about it, Amy."

"Oh," Maura got back to doing Hermione's make up and Amy stared at Hermione with envious eyes. "I'll be right back, I left a hair spray bottle in the bathroom." She said. Amy walked into the bathroom and cast a sound proof spell around the lavatory. She went up to a wall and kicked it as hard as she could. It left a dent in the wall. Amy went over to the mirror and stared at herself. Why was she so angry? Because Hermione was going with a boy that she really did like. She punched the mirror breaking the glass.

Blood trickled down her hand and she licked it up. Shivers ran down her arms and she smiled. Amy looked at the wall that had the mirror and cast a spell to put it back together. When it was done, it showed Amy smiling with those four fangs of hers.

Amy grabbed a bottle of lotion and left the bathroom. Hermione and Maura were laughing about something. When Amy came in they smiled.

"Maura, you left your lotion in the bathroom." Amy handed it to her and Maura saw blood on her knuckles.

"Amy, what the hell. You're not a cat." Maura said, taking Amy by the wrist and taking her into the bathroom. She washed out the cuts and blew on them.

"I can be a cat though."

"You're not one though." Hermione listened from the outside of the bathroom. Amy seemed somewhat insane to Hermione sometimes.

"Yes, I am, Maura, let me go." Hermione heard a smacking sound. "Oh my God, Maura, I am so sorry." Amy came out of her insane trance.

Hermione went back to her wardrobe and found a pair of diamond earrings. She put them on so that when Maura and Amy came out they wouldn't think that she had been eavesdropping. She found her amethyst necklace and placed it around her neck.

The girls talked for a bit until they walked downstairs. Amy saw Harry adjusting Ron's robes and smiled. Maura grinned and giggled a little bit. But Hermione rushed down and out into the halls. She saw Brad in black robes. He had a little black box waiting for her. He handed it to her. She grinned and opened it up. It was a gold ring with a ruby in the center of it.

"It was my mother's, but she passed away a while back." Hermione felt like crying, but instead she hugged Brad.

"It's beautiful." Brad took the ring and placed the wolf ring onto her thumb and the other one on her ring finger.

"Shall we go, my fair lady?" Hermione laughed as they went down to the Great Hall where many students were talking. The doors opened and there was music blasting and echoing in the hall. Brad led her in and intertwined his fingers with hers as they went to the crowd of lively Gryffindors. Hermione looked back at the doors every now and then. She watched for Draco and finally when he came, he was with Millicent Bullstrode.

A slow song came on and Brad became very close to Hermione. She felt him breathing on her shoulder and she nuzzled her face into his neck. The lyrics of the song made her want to cry. 'Your still the one' repeating over and over again. She looked up and saw Draco standing at the refreshment table. Brad looked at her.

"I'm glad I came with you, Hermione." She looked over and smiled.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because you look beautiful tonight and Casper would be mighty jealous of you if she saw you." Hermione blushed.

"Well I'm glad I came with you, because your truly charming, Brad." He smiled, showing his braces. This attracted Hermione for some reason because her parents wanted her to get braces. He looked away and Draco looked at them. Hermione locked lips with Brad quickly.

"Figures she'd do something like that." Draco said to himself. He turned to someone tapping on his shoulder. It was Mandy Brocklehurst.

"Draco, I don't have a date, will you dance with me?"

"I can't, I'm with Millicent."

"Oh, that's alright, maybe next time." She left him alone so he could get back to watching his lover make out with one of his friends. They were gone though.

Hermione and Brad had forced each other to a wall. Brad kissed her with passion and he was a very good kisser too. They were on the floor together and Brad's legs were on either side of Hermione's. His hands were caring with her face, one vigilantly supporting her neck and the other touching and caressing her face. Hermione was grabbing his shirt under his robes, pulling him closer to her. She figured this was going to turn out to a romantic relationship.

Brad started sweating so he took off his robes and threw them aside. He ran his hand through Hermione's hair and then pulled away, smiling.

"That was fun." He said.

"It was fun and you look kinda sexy without those heavy robes." Brad smiled and nibbled her on the cheek. She laughed as his lips drifted down to her neck, tickling her.

"Okay, Brad, stop." Hermione said in between laughs. Draco heard her voice and walked over to the two. She pushed him away laughing but Draco's instincts told him that she was crying when she wasn't.

Draco went over to Brad and ripped him off the girl. She looked at Draco and didn't know what to think. Brad looked up at Draco like he was crazy. He got up.

"What the hell, Draco!" Brad yelled.

"What the hell is right, Brad. If she told you to stop you should have stopped!"

"She was laughing! Do you see tears on her face?" Brad asked. "No, no you don't, Draco. And if you didn't want to come with her, why are standing up for her?"

"Because she was never yours, Brad! She was always mine." Draco said looking at Hermione. This painted such a lovely picture in Hermione's mind, but she knew something bad would come out of this.

"Then why did you throw her out, Draco! We were only hugging and you left her there crying and you didn't ever give her a chance to say anything!" Brad yelled.

"Oh, shut the fuck up, because you know you would have done the same thing!" Draco yelled. Hermione felt tears fill her eyes. Hermione remembered the conversations that Brad and she had; he always was looking out for the hopeless girl. But then Draco and hers almost fully crashed down on her and Brad's.

They fought and fought until Draco pushed Brad. Hermione stood up. "Stop, just stop it! If you both are going to fight over me, there is going to be no use in this stupid ball, so I'm going to back to my dorm!" Hermione yelled. Hermione walked up to the doors. Brad followed her but Draco was no where to be found, for he was being held under the forces of a Death Eater. It was Vacinni.

"You thought you had killed me too, little Draco, huh?" Vacinni had his arm wrapped around Draco's neck and a muggle gun at his head.

"No, there's such magic out there that can heal you in the wink of an eye, Vacinni."

"Good thinking Draco! Everyone should be as smart as you, don't you think."

"You know, fighting over a girl is stupid and she shouldn't be killed for it and nor should I or Brad."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"Oh nothing,"

Maura was getting a glass of punch when she saw Draco being threatened by a Death Eater. She walked over to Harry.

"Get your wand out and be ready for a whole lot of yelling." Harry took his wand out and followed Maura. He finally saw Draco Malfoy with a Death Eater whispering to him.

"1, 2, 3," Draco said and jumped away from Vacinni and under a table.

"Incendio!" Harry yelled and he and Maura jumped away as flames burst from Harry's wand and onto Vacinni. Many screams were screamed. The Dark Mark was cast from each corner of the Great Hall. Hermione turned around and looked from each corner as someone grabbed her by the neck and pushed her against the wall.

"Let me go!" Hermione yelled. She hit the person in the stomach. Brad looked around for Hermione and finally spotted her with a Death Eater trying to choke her

"Brad, move!" Harry yelled. Brad back away from the spot and Harry stunned the man. He fell onto Hermione. Brad went up to him and pushed him off of the girl. He hugged her and kissed her on the cheek.

Draco was found under the table by Maura. She helped him out from under it. "Welcome to death, Mr. Malfoy." She joked.

"Well let's hope it'll be easy to get out of here." Maura looked at Draco and then grabbed his hand.

"And if not, we'll at least I'll have someone to protect me." They ran to the doors together and to their surprise, they were locked in.

"Fuck, no." Draco yelled. Maura held onto his hand tightly.

A vast wind picked up in the Great Hall. Draco turned around as well as Maura and saw someone descending down a rope. "Hello, students. Aren't we having a great night?" It was Voldemort. People shrieked at the voice of Voldemort. "Yes, that's what I thought. DO you know why I'm here? I am looking for two students that are supposedly in love. Have you seen Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger by any chance?"

Hermione let go of Brad feeling her hands turn into fists and then turn into fury paws. "Holy shit," she said as she turned into a wolf. What the fuck is happening to me? Hermione asked herself. She nudged Brad's knee. He looked down and backed up into Harry.

"What the hell!" Maura heard the yell of Brad and ran over to him. She saw a wolf. Maura walked towards it and it backed away. Maura realized that this had to be Hermione and this was how Maura and Amy first changed.

"Hermione, you have to trust me on this one. I know this isn't what you expected, but you have to kill Voldemort here and now or else we'll all get killed. And I know that you didn't even know you were gonna change, but you did and we did when something important was going to happen. This is your moment to shine and show people how much you love Draco and how much you need him." Maura said. She looked at Harry. "She needs her wand." Harry summoned it. "Now you have to think very hard about becoming a human again." Hermione thought very hard and it happened.

She stood up and Harry threw her the wand. Hermione ran to the center of the Great Hall. She felt tears falling down her face and she didn't know why. "Avada Kedavra!" Hermione shouted. A jet of green light burst from her wand and up to Voldemort. He fell from the rope and onto the ground.

"I'll be damned," Padma Patil said to herself.

Hermione turned around and looked for Draco. She found him and he had his hands shoved in his pockets and was smiling. Hermione smiled and ran to him. He caught her and kissed her.

"Hermione,"

"I did it for you."

"I know,"

Ron and Amy had hugged through the whole incident. They didn't seem to wanna know what was going to happen to Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy next. But Ron asked anyway.

"I wonder what's going to happen to them next."

"I don't wanna know, but I have a feeling it's gonna be good."

A/N: Long chapter once again, got into it and man, there's a lot of crime in here and please don't flame me because I let Maura and Amy out a little too early. If you want to see where I got the ideas for Hermione, Amy and Maura's dresses, email me and I'll send them to you. Well I don't have much time, Happy Memorial Day!

Steph