Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns all.
Pairing: Hermione/Draco
Rating: R
Summary: Hermione's had a hard summer at home and her experiences have changed her drastically. Draco's whole life has been a mess, but he's never been able to confide in anyone. But now Hermione and Draco are Head Girl and Boy. They are forced together, but when everyone else sees disaster, they see one another for who they truly are. The first week back, they fall into each other's arms seeking comfort and simply feeding their desires.
Sorry I've been so long in updating. Read the bottom for one reason, the other is that I have just gotten settled into college, gotten a new computer, and my life has basically gone to hell moving away from my best friends I've ever had and also one of the best helps for my writing I will ever have. So I apologize before hand if this is just way off and to the moon with the story line.
Chapter 6: Surprises
Hermione and Draco sat outside by the lake in the most private place they could find, talking. Other students passed quickly, but several hung around by the lake. The pair was trying to figure out what had happened between them and why it had happened. They didn't know what to tell Harry or Ginny. It was obvious that Ginny suspected something. But it was hard to tell exactly what she knew.
"I could just talk to her and see what she thinks is going on. I think we should tell them something. Maybe not exactly what happened, but that we're attracted to each other and we're trying to find out what that means right now." Hermione tried to smile, but it was a wasted effort when she saw Draco's face. He looked as if she'd just sprouted a second head. "What's wrong?"
"I just don't understand why... oh to hell with this!" He moved toward her and kissed her soundly. He pulled away, smiled, and promptly doubled over in laughter.
"What! Why did you... Draco, I can't believe you did that! In front of all those people." Hermione glanced over at the group of Ravenclaw students standing by the shore. She blushed as the two sixth year girls quickly turned their heads away. "Damn Draco. They saw you kiss me. Hell, they saw me kissing you back. Thanks alot."
"You're welcome, babe. But so what if they saw? Does it really matter?" He reached over and placed his hand on her knee. She playfully batted it away, but when he put it back, she placed her hand over his. She moved to sit with her legs out to her side and rested her head on his shoulder. He wrapped his arm around her waist and rested his head on her's.
"I don't know. I guess not. Should it matter? I know I don't care." Her voice was soft, her words strained as if she didn't really mean them.
"Are you sure? You sound upset. What is it?"
"I'm sure and I'm not upset. I just don't know about this thing, this relationship that we have going on. What are we doing exactly, Draco? What do you want out of this?"
"I really like you Hermione. You've changed alot this summer, for the better I think. I changed alot over the summer, too. We're on the same side now, right? I want to be with you and only you. What do you want?"
"I want to be with you too. But most of all, I just want to be happy."
"Are you okay with telling people about us? I don't want our relationship to be hidden away like a dirty little secret. We'll never be happy if we have to keep hiding."
"I know. Okay. Let's do it. Let's go talk to Harry and Ginny." Hermione started to stand up, but Draco stopped her.
"Wait. You go talk to Harry and Ginny, I'll go talk to Blaise and Pansy. That way, Harry won't try to hex me ten ways to Sunday. Okay?" Draco sent Hermione a wink and a smile.
"Yeah. That's probably for the best. Meet you back in our room in an hour?"
"Okay." Draco stood and reached a hand back to help her up. He motioned her closer to him and kissed her. "You are amazing, baby. See you later."
"Bye." Hermione turned and walked toward the castle with a seductive sway in her hips. Draco watched her until she was through the door. Then he ran all the way to the Slytherin dungeons to talk to his friends. They were not going to be happy with him.
He arrived at the Slytherin commonroom and said the password ("chimera"). He burst into the room and ran up the stairs. He opened the door to the boy's dormitory and nearly fell over at the sight before him. Blaise and Pansy were locked in an embrace on Blaise's bed.
"Oh, no. No no no no no. What? How? Blaise! What the fuck is going on here?"
Meanwhile in the Gryffindor Commonroom
Hermione entered the room and searched it quickly. It was completely empty save for an overstuffed chair that had been shoved into a dark, hidden corner. She gasped when she recognized the red-haired girl. Ginny was wearing a short green mini, black knee-high boots, a black bra, and nothing else. She was also straddling someone who was also half naked sitting in the chair. That someone had one hand behind Ginny's head and the other had traveled up her skirt.
"Oh. My. God. What the hell is going on here? Ginny, what or should I say who, are you doing?" Ginny turned quickly, revealing the face of her friend. "Harry? What is going on?"
The pair blushed and tried to explain, but neither could find their voice. Finally Harry managed to say, "Hermione? Could we have a minute of privacy, please? If you could just sit over there." He pointed to the couch in the center of the room. Hermione nodded her consent and walked away, partially embarassed, partially angry.
Ginny and Harry stood and retrieved their shirts from the floor. Harry leaned into Ginny and whispered in her ear. Ginny reached down to take his hand and they sat down across from Hermione. Ginny gave her a weak smile and tried to explain.
"You two have some explaining to do. A few hours ago it was "nothing's going on Hermione, promise." Hermione teased in a mocking, whiny voice. "Nothing my ass. What do you call that, hmm? Nothing?"
"I guess it started a couple of days ago. We were alone by the lake and everything just seemed to fall into place. We talked for a while and ended up kissing. We had both been attracted to each other for a while. I've had a crush on Harry for the longest time, since my first year when he saved me, really. He admitted that he'd started to like me as more than a friend, more than a sister. We decided to take it slow, but I guess that we threw that out the window today. Hermione, if you hadn't caught us... I don't know how far we would have gone." She had the grace to look embarrassed and stopped talking.
"Ginny, I think there's something you should know." Hermione began.
"Hermione, can I speak with you for a minute?" Harry stood and led Hermione off into a corner. "Are you sure we ought to be telling her about that? It's going to be a big shock. I don't want to lose her, Hermione. I think I'm in love with her. I know it hasn't been long, but I'm serious. And I think she is too."
"Harry, if you love her, you will tell her, because if you don't and she finds out later, she's going to hate you for keeping it from her. Just get it over with now and tell her. I can leave if you want me to."
"No. You stay. We'll tell her together. We both did it." They walked back over to Ginny and took their seats.
"Ginny," Harry began,"I have to tell you something. I don't want you to be angry with me, but it's only fair that you know before we get any deeper into this thing."
"Harry, what is it? You're scaring me."
"I don't want to scare you, I just want you to believe me. Ginny, Hermione and I made a mistake last year. We were both really upset and turned to each other for help. Before we knew what we were doing, we ended up having sex. It wasn't something we meant to happen and afterward we realized how stupid we had been. I'm really sorry." Harry stared at Ginny, trying to gauge her reaction.
"I'm sorry Ginny. We honestly didn't intend to. It was a huge mistake and we both felt really bad about it. I'm afraid our friendship nearly didn't survive it." Hermione looked down as she spoke, not wanting her friend to be ashamed of her rash action. Little did they know just what she had done earlier that week.
"This is going to take some time to digest, but I think I'm okay with it. It isn't as if you'd cheated on me Harry, we weren't going out at the time. You have nothing to be sorry for. Just give me a little time to get used to the idea." Ginny looked Harry in his eyes and was very sincere. She didn't want to give up their relationship over last year's news. Harry gave her a weak smile.
"I'll give you all the time in the world Ginny."
"Thank you."
"Okay. I think I'll leave you two alone." Hermione stood to leave, thinking that she was going to get off the hook on this one and not have to break the news to them yet.
"Wait, wasn't there something you wanted to tell us?"
"Damn. Yeah. I thought I was going to get away without saying anything. But I guess now's as good a time as any. But for this, maybe never would be the best time. Okay guys, please don't be mad, don't yell, and whatever you do you cannot tell a soul. Draco and I are dating. Okay, so we've done more than dating. You know, the whole thing I walked in on? Pretty damn close." She braced herself for the onslaught that was to come.
"I don't understand Hermione. What's going on with you? First you turn up looking and acting completely different, then you're snogging Malfoy? I don't get you anymore." Harry was speaking without thinking and he knew he'd regret it later, but now he was just pissed. "He hasn't hurt you has he? Coz if he has..." The rest of the sentence went unspoken, but they all knew what he was thinking.
"Calm down Harry. She's told us more than she had to. Hermione, I don't understand either, really. But we'll talk later. Come by tomorrow and we'll have some good girl talk. Or maybe I should say bad girl talk. Be careful. Don't let him hurt you. And don't get in too deep."
"Thanks Ginny. Harry? We'll talk later? I think I'm going to leave for now. Tomorrow at my dorm around seven, Ginny, okay?" The redhead nodded and Hermione stood and made her way back to her room. Draco had not returned.
Back in the Slytherin commonroom
"Draco! Oh, shit. Draco." Pansy stood quickly revealing Blaise's nude body. Blaise quickly pulled the covers over himself and flopped back onto the bed, sighing. Pansy had managed to keep her undergarments on, but nothing else. Draco stared at the pair with wide eyes. "Can you give us a minute? Let us put on some clothes? We'll meet you in the commonroom in a minute.
"Sure. Fine. Great." Draco fairly vaulted the stairs and sat, huddled into a corner on the couch. "Is everyone going mad? Blaise and Pansy? Why? Oh my eyes!"
Pansy and Blaise finished up and got dressed in matching black silk bathrobes and came downstairs. Draco looked up from his crouched position, his eyes still round as saucers.
"Hey Draco. How are you?" Blaise tried not to seem embarrassed and sat down in a chair with Pansy in his lap.
"How am I? I come down here to talk to you, and I find you having sex with Pansy? How am I? Shocked. Embarrassed. Terrified. Amazed. But most of all, curious. What is going on?" Draco's expression had finally settled on bewilderment as he stared Blaise down.
"Pansy, you tell him. I don't know how to explain it. Whatever it is."
"You think I know? Well, I'll try. Draco, Blaise and I are sort of dating. Nothing official, yet, but I guess that us sleeping together is pretty serious, though. So I guess we are dating and well, that's it."
"Oh. Okay. That's okay. I can handle that. So, what now?"
"Didn't you say you had something to tell us?"
"Yeah, Blaise, I did. I guess after what you just told me, it isn't so bad. I'm not real sure how to tell you guys, but Hermione Granger and I have been talking."
"What's so big about that?"
"Talking about going out. We've actually done more than talk. We, umm, yeah."
"You and Granger? Draco, what were you thinking? Sleeping with the mudblood? What would your father think?"
"Don't call her that. And I don't give a shit what my father would think. I hate him and what he stands for. He's evil and I don't want any part of it. If you were smart, you would get out now too. Both of you. I better go. We'll talk later." Draco stood and stormed out the door, up the stairs, and into his room where Hermione was waiting.
Well, okay so that was really, like, "what the hell was she thinking?" kinda material, huh? Sorry I really don't know what i was thinking writing this. I've gotten to the point in this one where i don't know where to go with it and could really use some HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please don't just review, please give me somewhere to go? I'm so lost... I need directions. Shit. That's not good. When i get lost, i tend to go off on tangents. Which accounts for the other, oh three fanfictions, i have begun to try to get more ideas for this one. I'm dyin here. And the fic's dyin with me.
Pairing: Hermione/Draco
Rating: R
Summary: Hermione's had a hard summer at home and her experiences have changed her drastically. Draco's whole life has been a mess, but he's never been able to confide in anyone. But now Hermione and Draco are Head Girl and Boy. They are forced together, but when everyone else sees disaster, they see one another for who they truly are. The first week back, they fall into each other's arms seeking comfort and simply feeding their desires.
Sorry I've been so long in updating. Read the bottom for one reason, the other is that I have just gotten settled into college, gotten a new computer, and my life has basically gone to hell moving away from my best friends I've ever had and also one of the best helps for my writing I will ever have. So I apologize before hand if this is just way off and to the moon with the story line.
Chapter 6: Surprises
Hermione and Draco sat outside by the lake in the most private place they could find, talking. Other students passed quickly, but several hung around by the lake. The pair was trying to figure out what had happened between them and why it had happened. They didn't know what to tell Harry or Ginny. It was obvious that Ginny suspected something. But it was hard to tell exactly what she knew.
"I could just talk to her and see what she thinks is going on. I think we should tell them something. Maybe not exactly what happened, but that we're attracted to each other and we're trying to find out what that means right now." Hermione tried to smile, but it was a wasted effort when she saw Draco's face. He looked as if she'd just sprouted a second head. "What's wrong?"
"I just don't understand why... oh to hell with this!" He moved toward her and kissed her soundly. He pulled away, smiled, and promptly doubled over in laughter.
"What! Why did you... Draco, I can't believe you did that! In front of all those people." Hermione glanced over at the group of Ravenclaw students standing by the shore. She blushed as the two sixth year girls quickly turned their heads away. "Damn Draco. They saw you kiss me. Hell, they saw me kissing you back. Thanks alot."
"You're welcome, babe. But so what if they saw? Does it really matter?" He reached over and placed his hand on her knee. She playfully batted it away, but when he put it back, she placed her hand over his. She moved to sit with her legs out to her side and rested her head on his shoulder. He wrapped his arm around her waist and rested his head on her's.
"I don't know. I guess not. Should it matter? I know I don't care." Her voice was soft, her words strained as if she didn't really mean them.
"Are you sure? You sound upset. What is it?"
"I'm sure and I'm not upset. I just don't know about this thing, this relationship that we have going on. What are we doing exactly, Draco? What do you want out of this?"
"I really like you Hermione. You've changed alot this summer, for the better I think. I changed alot over the summer, too. We're on the same side now, right? I want to be with you and only you. What do you want?"
"I want to be with you too. But most of all, I just want to be happy."
"Are you okay with telling people about us? I don't want our relationship to be hidden away like a dirty little secret. We'll never be happy if we have to keep hiding."
"I know. Okay. Let's do it. Let's go talk to Harry and Ginny." Hermione started to stand up, but Draco stopped her.
"Wait. You go talk to Harry and Ginny, I'll go talk to Blaise and Pansy. That way, Harry won't try to hex me ten ways to Sunday. Okay?" Draco sent Hermione a wink and a smile.
"Yeah. That's probably for the best. Meet you back in our room in an hour?"
"Okay." Draco stood and reached a hand back to help her up. He motioned her closer to him and kissed her. "You are amazing, baby. See you later."
"Bye." Hermione turned and walked toward the castle with a seductive sway in her hips. Draco watched her until she was through the door. Then he ran all the way to the Slytherin dungeons to talk to his friends. They were not going to be happy with him.
He arrived at the Slytherin commonroom and said the password ("chimera"). He burst into the room and ran up the stairs. He opened the door to the boy's dormitory and nearly fell over at the sight before him. Blaise and Pansy were locked in an embrace on Blaise's bed.
"Oh, no. No no no no no. What? How? Blaise! What the fuck is going on here?"
Meanwhile in the Gryffindor Commonroom
Hermione entered the room and searched it quickly. It was completely empty save for an overstuffed chair that had been shoved into a dark, hidden corner. She gasped when she recognized the red-haired girl. Ginny was wearing a short green mini, black knee-high boots, a black bra, and nothing else. She was also straddling someone who was also half naked sitting in the chair. That someone had one hand behind Ginny's head and the other had traveled up her skirt.
"Oh. My. God. What the hell is going on here? Ginny, what or should I say who, are you doing?" Ginny turned quickly, revealing the face of her friend. "Harry? What is going on?"
The pair blushed and tried to explain, but neither could find their voice. Finally Harry managed to say, "Hermione? Could we have a minute of privacy, please? If you could just sit over there." He pointed to the couch in the center of the room. Hermione nodded her consent and walked away, partially embarassed, partially angry.
Ginny and Harry stood and retrieved their shirts from the floor. Harry leaned into Ginny and whispered in her ear. Ginny reached down to take his hand and they sat down across from Hermione. Ginny gave her a weak smile and tried to explain.
"You two have some explaining to do. A few hours ago it was "nothing's going on Hermione, promise." Hermione teased in a mocking, whiny voice. "Nothing my ass. What do you call that, hmm? Nothing?"
"I guess it started a couple of days ago. We were alone by the lake and everything just seemed to fall into place. We talked for a while and ended up kissing. We had both been attracted to each other for a while. I've had a crush on Harry for the longest time, since my first year when he saved me, really. He admitted that he'd started to like me as more than a friend, more than a sister. We decided to take it slow, but I guess that we threw that out the window today. Hermione, if you hadn't caught us... I don't know how far we would have gone." She had the grace to look embarrassed and stopped talking.
"Ginny, I think there's something you should know." Hermione began.
"Hermione, can I speak with you for a minute?" Harry stood and led Hermione off into a corner. "Are you sure we ought to be telling her about that? It's going to be a big shock. I don't want to lose her, Hermione. I think I'm in love with her. I know it hasn't been long, but I'm serious. And I think she is too."
"Harry, if you love her, you will tell her, because if you don't and she finds out later, she's going to hate you for keeping it from her. Just get it over with now and tell her. I can leave if you want me to."
"No. You stay. We'll tell her together. We both did it." They walked back over to Ginny and took their seats.
"Ginny," Harry began,"I have to tell you something. I don't want you to be angry with me, but it's only fair that you know before we get any deeper into this thing."
"Harry, what is it? You're scaring me."
"I don't want to scare you, I just want you to believe me. Ginny, Hermione and I made a mistake last year. We were both really upset and turned to each other for help. Before we knew what we were doing, we ended up having sex. It wasn't something we meant to happen and afterward we realized how stupid we had been. I'm really sorry." Harry stared at Ginny, trying to gauge her reaction.
"I'm sorry Ginny. We honestly didn't intend to. It was a huge mistake and we both felt really bad about it. I'm afraid our friendship nearly didn't survive it." Hermione looked down as she spoke, not wanting her friend to be ashamed of her rash action. Little did they know just what she had done earlier that week.
"This is going to take some time to digest, but I think I'm okay with it. It isn't as if you'd cheated on me Harry, we weren't going out at the time. You have nothing to be sorry for. Just give me a little time to get used to the idea." Ginny looked Harry in his eyes and was very sincere. She didn't want to give up their relationship over last year's news. Harry gave her a weak smile.
"I'll give you all the time in the world Ginny."
"Thank you."
"Okay. I think I'll leave you two alone." Hermione stood to leave, thinking that she was going to get off the hook on this one and not have to break the news to them yet.
"Wait, wasn't there something you wanted to tell us?"
"Damn. Yeah. I thought I was going to get away without saying anything. But I guess now's as good a time as any. But for this, maybe never would be the best time. Okay guys, please don't be mad, don't yell, and whatever you do you cannot tell a soul. Draco and I are dating. Okay, so we've done more than dating. You know, the whole thing I walked in on? Pretty damn close." She braced herself for the onslaught that was to come.
"I don't understand Hermione. What's going on with you? First you turn up looking and acting completely different, then you're snogging Malfoy? I don't get you anymore." Harry was speaking without thinking and he knew he'd regret it later, but now he was just pissed. "He hasn't hurt you has he? Coz if he has..." The rest of the sentence went unspoken, but they all knew what he was thinking.
"Calm down Harry. She's told us more than she had to. Hermione, I don't understand either, really. But we'll talk later. Come by tomorrow and we'll have some good girl talk. Or maybe I should say bad girl talk. Be careful. Don't let him hurt you. And don't get in too deep."
"Thanks Ginny. Harry? We'll talk later? I think I'm going to leave for now. Tomorrow at my dorm around seven, Ginny, okay?" The redhead nodded and Hermione stood and made her way back to her room. Draco had not returned.
Back in the Slytherin commonroom
"Draco! Oh, shit. Draco." Pansy stood quickly revealing Blaise's nude body. Blaise quickly pulled the covers over himself and flopped back onto the bed, sighing. Pansy had managed to keep her undergarments on, but nothing else. Draco stared at the pair with wide eyes. "Can you give us a minute? Let us put on some clothes? We'll meet you in the commonroom in a minute.
"Sure. Fine. Great." Draco fairly vaulted the stairs and sat, huddled into a corner on the couch. "Is everyone going mad? Blaise and Pansy? Why? Oh my eyes!"
Pansy and Blaise finished up and got dressed in matching black silk bathrobes and came downstairs. Draco looked up from his crouched position, his eyes still round as saucers.
"Hey Draco. How are you?" Blaise tried not to seem embarrassed and sat down in a chair with Pansy in his lap.
"How am I? I come down here to talk to you, and I find you having sex with Pansy? How am I? Shocked. Embarrassed. Terrified. Amazed. But most of all, curious. What is going on?" Draco's expression had finally settled on bewilderment as he stared Blaise down.
"Pansy, you tell him. I don't know how to explain it. Whatever it is."
"You think I know? Well, I'll try. Draco, Blaise and I are sort of dating. Nothing official, yet, but I guess that us sleeping together is pretty serious, though. So I guess we are dating and well, that's it."
"Oh. Okay. That's okay. I can handle that. So, what now?"
"Didn't you say you had something to tell us?"
"Yeah, Blaise, I did. I guess after what you just told me, it isn't so bad. I'm not real sure how to tell you guys, but Hermione Granger and I have been talking."
"What's so big about that?"
"Talking about going out. We've actually done more than talk. We, umm, yeah."
"You and Granger? Draco, what were you thinking? Sleeping with the mudblood? What would your father think?"
"Don't call her that. And I don't give a shit what my father would think. I hate him and what he stands for. He's evil and I don't want any part of it. If you were smart, you would get out now too. Both of you. I better go. We'll talk later." Draco stood and stormed out the door, up the stairs, and into his room where Hermione was waiting.
Well, okay so that was really, like, "what the hell was she thinking?" kinda material, huh? Sorry I really don't know what i was thinking writing this. I've gotten to the point in this one where i don't know where to go with it and could really use some HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please don't just review, please give me somewhere to go? I'm so lost... I need directions. Shit. That's not good. When i get lost, i tend to go off on tangents. Which accounts for the other, oh three fanfictions, i have begun to try to get more ideas for this one. I'm dyin here. And the fic's dyin with me.