Authors Notes: Oooh! Love the reviews, keep it coming and yeah just to mention I love Ron's personality, cracks me up when I write his dialogue. Anywho, This is the chapter you were waiting for and I must warn you. Don't expect them to fall for eachother quickly. Now, go on and read. Trust me I got more instore. And to those who don't like sex scenes and stuff, don't worry about this chapter. Titles can be tricky. ;)
Chapter 5: Hidden Desires
Hermione and Ron sat in the Prefects common room waiting for Draco and Pansy to head to bed. It was already eleven o clock and she was getting tired of playing chess over and over again. Ron obviously was enjoying himself because he kept beating her at it. But her mind was somewhere else. She was worried, what if he did catch her? What if she was wrong and that Harry's dream meant something else? What if-
"I win!" Ron cheered. He was grinning as he watched his queen stab Hermione's king with her sword.
"Woohoo." Hermione said sarcastically.
"Ha. Ha. Face it, I'm just really good at this." Ron said happily. Hermione rolled her eyes and watched Draco sitting there reading a book. She was getting really angry, why hadn't he left to go to bed yet? A minute later Hermione heard Pansy walk out of the bathroom in her towel. Hermione looked at her in disgust, doesn't she have any dignity? Why on earth would she walk around half naked? As to answer her question Ron and Draco stared at Pansy's long slim legs and barely covered chest.
"Ron." Hermione said. He finally came out of his trance when Pansy ran up her staircase to her room. Draco after five minutes followed behind her and Hermione heard his door close. "Ron!" Hermione said again but louder.
"What?" Ron said a bit annoyed.
"Are you ready?" Hermione asked. Ron nodded and the two of them walked up stairs to their rooms. Hermione picked up Harry's invisibility cloak from underneath her bed and walked back out to the hall were Ron stood.
"So, you know what you have to do. Just don't get caught. And I'll keep a look out." Ron instructed. Hermione nodded and walked back down the stairs, Ron right behind her. They both came to the other stair case and Hermione took a deep breath. She slipped the cloak around her neck and instantly her body became invisible, then she placed the hood over her head and her head disappeared as well.
"Hurry up!" Ron said and sat down at the bottom of the stair case. Hermione quickly walked up the stairs and was glad she had taken her shoes off because she knew it would make noise against the wooden floor. Hermione found Draco's door which he had enchanted with his name across it. Very typical of him, Hermione thought. She slowly touched the door knob afraid that he might have hexed it but then to her luck nothing happened.
Hermione took another deep breath and opened his door slowly and poked her head in. He wasn't inside, where was he? She guessed he went to Pansy's room to have some sexual desires taken care of so she walked in. His room was similar to hers and Rons except that everything was green and silver. Also there was a portrait of a snake above his bed and there was no door that joined his room with Pansy's.
She walked around his room and felt as though he already made himself comfortable. He had Quidditch magazines, trophies from god knows where and personal books. He also had pictures of him and his mother on his night table. A young picture of him holding his mother's arm and smiling into the camera. She smiled back at him and waved at the camera. It was odd, to see Draco Malfoy actually smile. He actually looked sexier when he smiled. Sexier? Hermione shook her head, how could she think of him that way?
Suddenly she heard the door close behind her. She turned around and held her breath, Draco walked in unaware that she was there but all the while was smirking. He threw the book he was reading earlier downstairs on his drawer and began to strip off his clothes. Hermione watched as he one by one took his clothes off, as though he was purposely showing it to her. Once his cloak and tie came off, Hermione walked closer as he unbuttoned his shirt. When his shirt came off, Hermione gasped then bit her lip. Draco turned around, he looked like he heard her.
There he was standing in front of her, shirtless and confused. He actually had a fine toned body with a nicely built chest, abs and strong arms. Hermione had never seen him shirtless before and this blew her mind away, he looked good. So good that she forgot why she was here for the moment. Until she noticed the black snake on his arm, that brought her back to her senses and she began to slowly step away from him and over to the door. He had the mark? The same one? Hermione was right about it all along and with all the excitement building up she accidently hit the bookshelf with her foot.
Draco turned around and took out his wand. He looked confused and angry at the same time. He glanced around the room and then slowly a smirk came to his face.
"Show yourself." Draco said loudly. Hermione cringed, she didn't want to let him see her walk out the door and now that he knew someone was in his room she wouldn't have the chance to leave. Hermione watched him as he walked around the room pointing his wand out, shirtless.
"I said show yourself. I know someone's here." Draco said angrily. Hermione sucked in her breath, what if she stayed here until morning? What if Ron came searching for her and blow their cover? What if-
"If you don't show yourself, I'll place a defense charm which will cause a lot of pain." Draco said with a smirk. Hermione groaned inwardly, what was she suppose to do now? And knowing Draco he would actually hex her.
"I'll give you the count of ten.." Draco said turning around in circles. "...ten...nine...eight..." Hermione couldn't think, she was stuck. She could try and run through the door but then he'll catch her half way and would still be just as bad. "...seven...six...five...four..." Hermione began to shake, he was going to actually do it, she needed to tell him now and come up with a lie then get hexed. "...three...oh fuck it. Expirem-"
"-okay!" Hermione screamed. Draco stopped and smirked.
"Granger?" Draco said looking around, she was surprised he recognized her voice. Hermione took off her cloak and stared at him guiltily. "Well, well, well...what would Potty and Weasel think if they caught their mudblood in my room?" Hermione couldn't stand hearing him speak that way but she couldn't tell him about her real reason so she tried to lie.
"They don't have to know." Hermione said sternly.
"So are you telling me you came here to watch me get naked? I know I look absolutely amazing..." Draco said as he walked over to her. "...but unfortunately you won't get a taste of this." Draco said gesturing his body. Hermione rolled her eyes and felt like punching him in the face.
"Whatever." Hermione said walking over to the door but Draco put his hand out and stopped her.
"You walk into my room, uninvited, and then expect to leave? No, no. This will simply not do." Draco said smirking.
"Oh and what will?" Hermione asked putting her hands on her hips.
"Well, for one thing that invisibility cloak of yours. I've always wanted one of my own. But unfortunately couldn't get my hands on it." Draco said pointing at the invisible cloak in her hand.
"No, it's not mines." Hermione said.
"To. Fucking. Bad. I want it." Draco hissed.
"Well fuck off, you won't get it." Hermione replied. Draco raised his wand to her neck and Hermione wished she had brought her wand with her.
"If I can't have it then I'll get something else." Draco said with a sick smirk. He inched closer to Hermione causing her to slowly walk backwards until she hit the post of his bed.
"What the hell do you want?" Hermione asked annoyed.
"If I can't get the cloak, I'll get something that's personal and precious to you." Draco said leaning into her face. Hermione felt horrified, she felt disgusted and worst of all somewhere in her body wanted it, wanted whatever he was talking about. Hermione pushed Draco back away from her.
"I'm warning you to-" Hermione was interrupted by the door knocking. Draco sneered at her and turned around.
"Who is it?" Draco said angrily.
"It's Ron." Ron said. Hermione felt a sense of relief. Draco rolled his eyes and walked over to the door and opened it.
"What do you want Weasley?" Draco asked annoyed.
"I was just wondering if..." Ron began, she could tell he was worried about her but once she moved into view from behind Draco, Ron's eyes became wide open. "...Hermione!" Ron screamed noticing that she wasn't invisible any more.
"Yes, your little slut was in my room, snooping." Draco said irritated at Ron. Hermione glared at the back of Draco's head because he thought Hermione was here for some sick pleasure but then again if that's what he believed that was a good thing in a way.
"She is not a slut you fucker." Ron said angrily. Hermione walked over to Ron and brushed against Draco's side.
"You're lucky this time, mudblood. Watch were you poke your filthy nose in and stay away from my room!" Draco said and slammed the door in their face. Hermione and Ron silently walked down the staircase and Ron came to a stop in front of her once they were in the common room.
"What the hell happened?" Ron asked.
"I gave myself away and he threatened to curse me if I didn't show myself." Hermione replied. "Why did you come?"
"Because I was worried! You took too long and luckily I did make it, god knows what he would have done." Ron replied.
"Oh. Thanks." Hermione responded.
"Did you find out?" Ron asked.
"Of course, and I can't wait to tell Harry in the morning." Hermione said happily. She gave Ron a thankful hug and ran to her room to sleep. She figured that all the trouble was worth it, she found out about the mark and she knew that Draco once use to be a happy little boy. And not to mention had a great body. Hermione ignored that fact as she climbed her bed and went to a deep slumber.
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The next day, Hermione found herself being watched by Draco more then often. In potions class Hermione sat down next to Neville because she was still angry at Lavender. But no matter where she sat, Draco would find a way to sit behind her and torment her. Neville looked at her sympathetically and even tried to tell Draco to shut up but Draco wouldn't stop. Hermione was getting really pissed off and sooner or later she would explode.
"So mudblood, want to join me in my room again?" Draco hissed. Goyle, who was sitting next to him, laughed. Hermione figured that he probably told all of the Slytherins that morning. How would she live with this torture, day and night? Hermione rolled her eyes and tried to pay attention to Professor Snape as he went on with his lecture.
After class, Hermione stuffed her parchments into her bag and came upon a folded note. She opened it and remembered the threat. She walked over to Harry and Ron who were once again discussing Quidditch.
"Guys, I need to show you something." Hermione said. Harry and Ron stopped in the middle of the corridor and took the note she was holding out. They both read it silently and stared at Hermione baffled.
"Who wrote this?" Harry asked.
"Malfoy, or at least I think he did." Hermione replied. Harry nodded and reread the note once more handing it back.
"When did you get it?" Ron asked.
"Yesterday when I was in the library during my spare." Hermione answered.
"That little git really pisses me off these days." Ron said angrily.
"I know, speaking of him did you find out about the mark?" Harry asked.
"Oh yea.." Hermione said who had forgotten to mention it at breakfast because Draco kept staring at her for some odd reason. "..he has the same snake on the same left arm." Hermione finished.
"Damn, so it's true then. I was just reliving his moment?" Harry said disappointedly.
"We still need to look into it further." Hermione replied.
"Not another research!" Ron whined.
"Ron, honestly you're beginning to get on my nerves more then Malfoy." Hermione said. Ron narrowed his eyes at her and gave her what-did-you-say look.
"Excuse me?" Ron said.
"Would you two stop fighting! Shit, we got class to get to." Harry said sternly and began walking off without them. Hermione and Ron quickly caught up but none of them spoke. They entered Defense Against the Dark Arts room and waited for the new professor to show up. Every year it seemed that they had a new professor but wasn't mentioned by the Head Master at the ceremony. When they all sat down together, a group of Slytherins walked in, Draco being the head of them. He gave Hermione a long hard look before sitting all the way in the back.
After a minute, the door slammed open and Professor Snape walked in. He closed all the curtains and then stared at the class with a satisfied smirk.
"It seems class that we are having a temporary problem. So for the rest of this term I will be teaching you this class." He announced.
Hermione, Ron and Harry all groaned at the same time, along with half the class. The Slytherins seemed to be happy about this, which meant more torment for Harry Potter. She felt bad for him, this was his favorite class and to have the worst professor teach it was a drag. But luckily it was only for the first term.
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During lunch break, Hermione excused herself from her friends to use the bathroom. They both nodded and started to talk to Seamus and Dean Thomas. Hermione walked out of the Great Hall and down the corridors. Hermione was so busy looking down that she hadn't noticed that Draco was walking towards her. Hermione once again bumped into him accidently.
"Didn't I tell you to watch where you're going, Granger?" Draco said coldly. Hermione decided not to argue with him and simply nodded. Draco arched his eye brow at her in bewilderment as she tried to pass by him but he firmly grabbed her wrist. The same wrist that was still bruised.
"What?" Hermione asked.
"You didn't argue with me." Draco stated.
"So? Isn't that what you want? To win a stupid argument." Hermione said annoyed.
"Obviously but I enjoy a good fight." Draco hissed. Hermione pulled her wrist away from him and stared at him confused. Draco was acting odd and she didn't like it one bit.
"I don't care, I don't want to fight." Hermione said.
"Well I owe you." Draco said calmly walking closer to her. Hermione ended up against the wall and she wasn't liking this situation at all.
"Owe me what?" Hermione asked confused once more.
"For knocking me out cold." Draco hissed. Hermione rolled her eyes at him, why hadn't she figured that out? All this time he annoyed her was just to get back at her.
"If you weren't acting like jerk, that wouldn't have happened." Hermione retorted.
"That's not all you did. You also invaded my privacy not to mention caused me a detention on the first day. That doesn't look good on my record." Draco sneered.
"Oh, so suddenly it's important to you that you're a Prefect. If you accepted my truce then that wouldn't have happened." Hermione replied back.
"Ha! Like I said before, I don't make truce with-"
"-a mudblood." Hermione finished. "I know, please tell me something I don't know." She said irritated.
"Well, if I walked closer like this..." Draco said inching closer to her that once again he was invading her space. "...I can do something to you that will make your skin crawl." Hermione swallowed her saliva, what was he trying to do? She didn't want to be touched by him.
"Yeah, make my skin crawl in disgust." Hermione spat.
"No, wrong. Make your skin crawl in lust." Draco said planting one hand on her waist. The sudden contact made heat climb her body. Hermione tried to move away but he was too strong and felt like she was trapped. Draco then took his other hand and pressed it against the wall near her head making her now completely trapped. "What a predicament we're in." Draco said with a evil smirk.
"Hands off!" Hermione said sternly slapping his hand from her waist but his hand didn't move.
"Don't you dare slap me, mudblood." Draco said angrily clawing his fingers into her waist.
"Ow!" Hermione winced. This guy was a definite abuser and she didn't want him any closer to her then he already was. "You stupid git! That hurt."
"Of course it did." Draco said clawing dipper into her waist. Hermione winced again and raised her hand to slap him but once again Draco grabbed her wrist. This time just holding it there. "Do you always solve your problems with a slap?"
"Get off me." Hermione hissed.
"Or what?" Draco said coldly. He dipped his head closer to hers and made eye contact. His grey eyes were not only cold but was full of lust, lust she was not interested in.
"Please, just let me go." Hermione said. He didn't reply back as his head inched closer to her face. Hermione eyes widen with shock, he was trying to kiss her. Not unless she did something to him first. Hermione raised her right knee and hit him in the groin. Draco stepped back in pain and glared at her in anger.
"Oh fuck!" Draco said slamming his fist against the wall while his other hand held his groin.
"Serves you right!" Hermione said angrily and walked off before he could try anything else. Hermione realized she was half holding her breath. She tried to not think about how she actually enjoyed his closeness and how she anticipated for the kiss he was going to give her. She never wanted her first kiss to be with him, or in that kind of situation. Hermione always expected that someday prince charming will sweep her off her feet and Draco was definitely not that kind of prince. Hermione headed back to the Great Hall angrily, how in the world could she enjoy that closeness? Where was her mind going?