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Previous Chapter: Hermione, with nothing to do, looked around the Great Hall and her eyes were immediately locked onto a pair of silver eyes locked onto hers. Draco stared lustfully at her. Disgusted Hermione turned away. She excused herself from Harry, Ron and Cho, who didn't seem to notice or mind her going away at all, and left through the big wooden doors of the Great Hall.
Seeing her leave, Draco immediately followed after her.
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~*Hogwarts' Bad Boyz*~
~*Chapter 9: The Incident*~
(For a lack of better name)
"Mr. Malfoy? Will you please come to my office with me? I have a letter to you from your father."
"From father? Okay."
Draco reluctantly followed Professor Snape to the dungeons which was where his office was located.
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Draco had just read the letter from his father saying that he was not to go home for the Christmas Holidays because apparently her had some business he had to deal with somewhere else and nobody except for the house elves would be home. He turned around the corner, heading in the direction of his common room and saw something he never thought he would see.
Adrian Pucey, a Slytherin Chaser was trying to rape Hermione, who was desperately trying to reach for her wand with was lying 5 meters away from her. Seeing this, Draco immediately acted on his first instincts.
"Get the fuck away from her Pucey!"
"Malfoy, why d'ya care? If ur a true Slytherin, then just imagine that ya'didn't seen this n' headalong to where you were gunna go."
"If you were a true Slytherin, you would know better than to mess around with other Slytherin's girl."
Draco quickly covered up for his reason for trying to save Hermione. On the outside he seemed strong and confident, but on the inside he was scolding himself for saying such an idiotic comment. Where did Granger being his girlfriend come from anyway?
Hearing this, Pucey immediately backed away from Hermione.
"Y-your girlfriend? I-I'm really sorry Malfoy. I didn't know she was…" Pucey stammered and turned around, on the verge of making a break for it.
Draco stopped him from fleeing by holding him back with an iron grip, Adrian Pucey was already considered fairly well built, but Draco still towered over him.
"If I were you, I would never mention this to anyone. Understand?" Draco said menacingly. The Slytherin Chaser nodded furiously and took off as soon as Draco released his grip on him.
Draco turned around and focused his attention on a small form huddled in the corner with her knees drawn up to her chest. Shivering slightly from fear. Draco walked over to her and kneeled down beside her.
"You okay? Come on, lets get you back to the common room."
Hermione nodded and looked up into the eyes of her savior. That was when Hermione noticed for the first time that Draco's eyes was actually dark blue with flecks of silver. The usual silver colored eyes was now a warm blue. She tried standing up on her quivering legs but failed after many tries. Seeing this, Draco scooped her up in his arms as if she was as light as a feather and together, they headed towards the prefects common room.
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Reaching the portrait to their common room, Draco whispered the password and walked into the empty room. Placing Hermione on one of the love seats. Since there was a Ravenclaw against Hufflepuff quidditch game, both of the other prefects were out at the quidditch pitch watching the game.
Draco looked at her disheveled appearance and tear stained face and a feeling of sympathy washed over him.
"Granger, why don't you go take a relaxing bath. And then if you feel up to it, you can tell me what happened."
"Okay." Hermione nodded silently and left for the prefect bathroom. Leaving Malfoy and his thoughts to himself.
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When Hermione came out from the bathroom, dressed in an overly large t-shirt that went all the way down to her knees while hugging onto her pillow, Draco was sitting on one of the couches in deep thought. Hermione walked over and sat down beside him, ready to talk about what happened since she always found talking to people about sad things made her feel better. When she sat down, Draco turned around to her, mildly surprised.
"Hey, how do you feel?" he asked softly.
"I feel okay, I guess. Anyways, thanks for saving me…"
"Do you want to talk about it? I mean, if you don't feel comfortable talking to me you can always talk to Harry or Weasley…"
"No, I think I'll talk to you since you were the one who found me." Drawing in a deep breath, Hermione started,
"I was just coming out of the common room and was heading towards the library to get some books for our Transfiguration essay and I ran into Pucey and he seemed kind of drunk from the way he slurred his words. He stopped me in my path and pushed me against the wall. I tried to run away, but he was too strong! So I reached for my wand but he saw me take it out of my robe so he threw it just out of my reach. He managed to get to third base and then you found me…" Hermione choked out. Her tears overcoming her voice.
Hermione threw herself onto Draco and a sense of security washed over her since he was the one who found her and rescued her. Surprised, Draco hugged her to him tightly, patting her head awkwardly now and then as Hermione sobbed into his shirt successfully making it soaked.
They stayed this way until Hermione drifted off to sleep. Draco whispering soothing words into her ear while rubbing her back to suppress her racking sobs. Eventually, the tears came to a stop and Draco, still cradling Hermione, carried her to her bed and covered her with the satiny folds of her yellow and red bed sheets.
Draco watched her sleep for a while and noticed her writhing around in a fitful sleep. He muttered a charm that guaranteed sweet dream. Immediately, the tangling of bed sheets stopped and he stealthily stepped out of the Hermione's bedroom.
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The next morning, Hermione woke up bright and early and well rested. She took a nice relaxing bath and padded out into the common room in her bath robes. She saw Draco sitting on his armchair reading the Daily Prophet while sipping his black coffee.
"Thanks for helping me out last night."
"Oh that? That was nothing."
"Why did you do it? You could've just left me…"
"I would've done that same thing to anyone else for that matter. I'm not as heartless as you give me credit for. I wouldn't have left anyone behind and pretend that I didn't see it."
"Then why did you say that I was…"
"Say what?"
"Oh nothing."
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Walking over to the small island situated in the middle of the small kitchen that was attached to their common room, Hermione made herself a cup of coffee with extra cream and sugar. She sat down on one of the bar stools and stirred the lukewarm liquid absent mindedly with the tip of her index finger. All the while staring at the tall blond sitting across the room obviously concentrating on something in the news. As she watched, she was subconsciously developing a crush on this epitome of masculinity.
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A/N: well, that's all for now!
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[Submitted: November, 11, 2003]