Chapter 6:

He didn't move he was totally shocked he thought it had been a house elf. 'What the fuck?' he thought his eyes wide with panic. Without thinking Draco reached out to see what was there, his eyes grew wider as he removed the invisibility cloak from the unconscious girl.

"Oh shit" Draco closed his eyes for a moment thinking maybe he was dreaming, he opened them slowly 'it really is her but what is she doing here, at Hogwarts never mind my dorm'. He levitated her onto his bed and went to get a cold flannel for her head.

Harry entered the Griffindor common room he was still pretty dumbstruck, rainwater dripping from his hair and the multicoloured leaves of Hogsmede clinging to his boots. Hermione bit her tongue as she remembered she wasn't talking to him 'he is so stupid, he is going to get caught' she thought, feeling more nervous than Harry appeared to be.

Harry flopped on his bed it was the fourth time he had been to Hogsmede that week. He was determined to believe she lived there wasn't just Malfoy's friend. He didn't want to believe she had travelled all the way up there just to see Malfoy. Ron had followed Harry up to the boys' dormitory; he had decided to give him a chance to attempt to get them to talk to him again.

"Harry..." Ron began but was quickly cut off

"Ron, I'm sorry. I was a complete and utter arsehole." Harry said watching his best friend's face relax "It wont happen anymore I can guarantee you, I missed talking to you both too much" Harry grinned and for the first time in ages Ron grinned back.

"Come on Harry, you still got to tell that to Hermione" the pair walked to the stairs, where a curious Hermione was just walking up.

"I'm sorry Hermione" Harry started

"Save the speech" Harry's face dropped slightly and Ron looked shocked "I just heard you give it to Ron. Once is good enough for me Harry" she beamed "Now go get changed! You make it so obvious where you've been"

"Thank god it's finally you she's telling, she's been on at me for days" Ron laughed giving his friend a dig in the arm.

"Oh yeah, I'm putting myself at risk for a girl who had simply vanished" Harry thought out loud.

"A girl?" came the simultaneous word of Ron and Hermione. Harry settled down to tell them all about it.

"Oh shitting hell," she moaned rolling onto her side shaking her throbbing head.

"Hmmm, so it lives does it?" Draco smiled.

"Agh. Shhh, Draco, my head hurts. Great wizards, what did we drink?" she asked feeling extremely hung over.

"Drink? Haha! You've got a concussion, ha!" Draco laughed and then continued on a more serious note "What are you doing here anyway? You scared me. Be..."

"Shit, Draco, Hogwarts. Oh no" she shut her eyes willing it to be a dream, she peeked out of one eye to see Draco staring at her inquisitively "Oh dear, be quiet, I'll fill you in but be quiet. Oh shit" she shook her head again.

"Becci, what's going on?" he whispered "sorry bout the concussion. Need more ice?"

"You give me concussion and then let me suffer? I know you know the spell to fix the pain at least," she pulled a pained face. Draco felt a pang of guilt, he'd just been happy to see his friend again; he had completely forgotten he could cure her concussion.

"Ooo. I'm sorry, slipped my mind" he smiled in a way that showed he was asking to be forgiven although not quite apologetic. "So why are you here? In my dormitory? Hogwarts? Or even Scotland for that matter?" she smiled a smile similar to Draco's, he sighed "Go on, I'll consider taking away your concussion once you tell me."

"God you're evil," she laughed; he knew she was joking but felt slightly hurt at the comment. She drew in a deep breath in preparation and ran her hand through her hair thinking.

"Well...um...I don't really know where to start. I've always been here, at Hogwarts I mean but I've had to be kept hidden...I can't tell you why yet, your father said I'll be able to in time" from the slight glint of fear in her eyes he knew what she meant, he frowned at the thought of his father, and decided not to push the issue "I wasn't to see you this summer because Dumbledore is finally allowing me to attend the school properly...you know like in classes with other people, he's pretending I'm a transfer student so didn't want me seen. Please don't be mad Draco, Severus only told me the day after Hogsmede, so I couldn't have told you because, well, I didn't know" she smiled at him weakly and he grinned back so she knew he believed her "so anyway I was so exited about being able to speak to you in school, I feel like we haven't talked properly in ages, well anyhow I got impatient and I've been coming to your room. I suppose I kind of wanted you to catch me so we could...I dunno...do something"

He smiled his biggest smile in ages; she was going to school at Hogwarts. A million questions began whizzing around his head at once.

"Oh and I sat in your compartment on the train, I was messing about with your trunk" she said happily, she decided to lie back down, he head was banging but she didn't care she just wanted to talk.

"So," he didn't know where to start so he threw out as many questions at her as he could "Where were you hidden? How did you move around the castle without being bumped into? How did you do on your O.W.L's then? Why'd you say your school didn't do them?" he paused as he thought "We could've stayed in all summer or just said you'd arrived earlier than expected, why didn't HE think of that?" Draco became frustrated again over the summer interruption.

"Because, Mr. Malfoy neither you nor Miss. Ridack would have actually stayed put and how would our new transfer student know you well enough to go shopping?" Draco and Becci were both surprised at the quiet arrival of the headmaster, he raised an eyebrow at them "What, however I did think of is, to remove Miss. Ridack's concussion" Draco wrinkled his nose apologetically, he'd forgotten again "and introduce her into school life tomorrow" the pair exchanged excited glances "As for you two at present, go to bed, you shall see each other in the morning" Dumbledore spoke and glanced sternly at each of them in turn.