Mismatched Love
Chapter 5, Part Two: When Two Worlds Collide
(A/N: Hey all, ok I'm sorry if the last chappie was angsty, but the I was very angry, I was going thorough an almost exact situation with my dad, without the being first part… yup, okies but anyway I promise to make this chappie lighter and I definitely guarantee that Hermione and Draco will meet. I promise!! Ok, end rant. :P)
Hermione looked at her surroundings and realised that she was not at home but on her bed at Hogwarts. She dried her tears and sniffling a little, she decided to take a walk, maybe it might clear her mind.
She got up and quietly putting on her Hogwarts robe over her baby blue cami, she placed her wand in the right pocket and left.
As she stepped out of the Common Room, she somehow felt better. "Maybe taking a walk was a good idea after all." She thought, smiling slightly.
A cool breeze blew and she shivered slightly, wrapping her robe around her tighter and continued walking. The dungeons were rather dark and although she was used to the darkness, she felt relieved when the light from her wand illuminated the place considerably.
She walked on, not knowing where she was heading for, she just knew that she badly needed that stroll. She walked up a staircase she had never seen before but she wasn't too concerned where she was going.
As she walked on, she thought she heard something, but dismissed it, it could be just Peeves causing mischief at night. She walked on, feeling considerably lighter she paused for a while and leaned on the wall for a while and took the time to look at her surroundings.
Somewhere in the castle, she heard the chiming of a clock and she slowly counted the number of chimes, three.
"Wow, surprisingly I'm actually up so early, at home I'd never be ably to do that." She said and realising what she said, let out a bitter laugh, she never did like staying at home anyway, her father was always too busy and when he was finally free, he'd used whatever time her had to pick on her and her mother did nothing at all.
She sighed and decided to head back to her dormitory when she heard a voice.
"Mrs Norris, we wouldn't want to catch no students out of bed do we, love?"
There was a soft meow in return and Hermione tensed. It was Filch and his cat, Mrs Norris.
"Damn!! How do they do it, why do they have to be so good at their job?" Hermione cursed silently and realising that the light from her wand was probably the cause of the problem, she quickly put out the light and suddenly everything plunged into darkness.
She couldn't see anything, her eyes had become too accustomed to the soft glow of the light from her wand. "Damn!!" She thought. There was a probability that she would back into Filch in the dark and get caught and sent to Snape's office and that would be the end of her.
She cursed inwardly and not knowing which way to go, headed left and ran as fast as she could, trying to leave Filch and Mrs Norris as far as possible.
She ran and ran, not knowing where she was going and just when she thought she had left Filch behind, she heard the soft footsteps of someone. Who was it?
Panicking, Hermione ran around blindly for a while, she was very tempted to use her wand, but she knew that would only cause more trouble. How?
Just then she heard the footsteps coming closer and closer, she didn't know which way they were coming from. Hermione started to pray silently, "Please don't let me get caught, please don't let me get caught!!"
She was getting more and more nervous by the minute, her breaths were now coming out quick and uneven. The footsteps were getting closer and closer and suddenly, she felt herself knock into someone. She heard the person curse and she braced herself for the evil cackle of Filch and waited for his usual cry of, "Ah ha! Out for a stroll eh? Well, we'll soon fix that!"
However, that speech never came! Hermione was surprised. She then realised that she was lying on top of that person!
"Sorry, are you alright?" She quickly asked.
No reply came and Hermione got scared. What if she had accidently killed that person when she knocked into him??
"I knew I shouldn't have stuffed myself with all those food, I must be the size of a troll so that means I could have killed him!!" Hermione panicked as thoughts of her snacking on chocolate frogs the night before haunted her.
Realising, she was still atop the person, she blushed and quickly got up.
"Hey, hey, are you awake?" She gently tapped the person on the cheek, no response.
She gently shook the person on the shoulders. "Hey, you gotta wake up, Filch is coming soon!! Wake up!!" She hissed. Luckily at that moment, the person seemed to come around. "Guess 'Filch' must be the magic word..." Hermione grinned bemusedly at the person.
"Wha…" The person said curiously and rather loudly.
"Shhhh!!! Do you want to get into trouble?? Filch is coming!!" She hissed under her breath.
Lucky the person wasn't stupid, Hermione felt a hand on hers and the person quickly grabbed her and led her down a dark hallway and up a flight of stairs and in front of a wall.
Hermione who's hand had finally been let go by the person, stopped to catch her breath. She looked around, it was still rather dark but after being so long in the dark she had got somewhat accustomed and squinting slightly.
She saw that the person had took out his or her wand, Hermione panicked a little and reaching for her own, half expecting the person to tackle her when she heard the person mutter something towards what seemed like a wall!?
The person then led her into a dark room and walked in and shut the door. Hermione heaved a sigh of relief as she stood to face the person.
"Thank yo… DRACO MALFOY!!" Hermione screamed as the lights finally came on.
Hermione was in shock, she had just been rescued by the mudblood!! Damn!! Why of all people did it have to be him!! She saw a green pillow lying at her foot and grabbing it, screamed into it.
"Why does my life have to be so miserable!!!" Hermione groaned and proceeded to band her head on the wall behind her.
"Stop that! Stop banging your head on the wall!!" Draco said slightly nervous, although slightly bemused. He too wasn't too happy about who he helped but he couldn't do anything about that could he?
"Damn damn damn!" Hermione cursed, emphasizing each word with every bang.
Finally looking up from the wall, her head aching, "Look here, Malfoy much as I appreciate your "rescuing me", I despise you!!" Hermione shouted at the surprised Draco who stood across the room.
"I don't know what your problem is, but I just helped you escape from Filch and I can jolly well, send you back out there!" Draco pointed out.
Hermione then saw that he had a Prefect's badge on his robe. 'Damn! He has to be so perfect!" Hermione thought, but she just couldn't leave him insulting her like that.
"My problem?? My problem!! You want to know my problem?? Well, guess what, you don't even know half of my problems!" Hermione retorted, anger building up inside, "I hate and despise you, it's all your fault!! Everything's your fault! Why did you have to make my life so miserable! It's all your fault!! Damn you! I hate you!" Hermione screamed.
Draco stood there and fought back the urge to slap her, when he realised something, she was crying? "What, how can she be crying?" Draco thought, confused.
Hermione continued screaming and shouting, she knew she was crying but she didn't care, she just continued screaming, when she finally broke down and cried.
Draco watched as Hermione fell to her knees and started crying, he was hesistant at first, but watching her cry reminded him of the times when his younger sister cried and his brotherly instinct took over and he walked over towards her.
Hermione just cried and cried as she thought of her parents treatment towards her and how miserable she had always been when suddenly, a pair of strong arms engulfed her in a warm hug, so filled with sadness that she without thinking just hugged Draco back and cried on his shoulder.
Finally exhausted from crying, she fell asleep.
(A/N: Okay, not exactly fluff or anything, but you've gotta give them time right? Tell me what you think about it! Ciao!!)