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Chapter 8

Hermione found herself running down the all too familiar corridor again. With that same feeling as she always got, desire. But this time something was different. She also felt hope. She had a feeling and hoped it was true. Her feeling was that tonight, in this dream, she would find out what was behind the door.

She continued at a run quickening her pace, so she was now at a full pelt run. She could feel herself getting out of breath but she didn't care. She would use her last breath to find out who was behind the door if she had to.

Her heart raced as she saw the door come into view. The lights seemed to get brighter as she got closer to the door, and she knew that this time she would open it. She got to the door and put her hand on the handle, taking a few seconds to gain her breath back. She pushed the door open and was shocked at what she saw.

She saw someone completely covered in flames. They didn't seem to be in pain. They weren't screaming or running around. They were just standing there, looking at her.

She walked closer to the person, but with every step closer the flames grew bigger and thicker, until she was forced to stop.

"Why won't you let me see you?" Hermione said with desperation in her voice.

"I won't let you near me because you will be disappointed in me, and of who I am. I will do nothing but let you down. I love you too much to hurt you."

The voice sounded oddly familiar but she couldn't place it.

"Why are you covered in flames?"

The voice gave out a little laugh. "Still not figured it out? And here I was thinking you were smart" He didn't say it as an insult he said it to tease her.

"Dragon? You call your self Dragon so you conceal yourself behind the qualities that a Dragon has?"

"Yes, that explains the flames. I knew that you would eventually get to open the door that's why I have been preparing myself. That's why I had time to put the flames up. I have to go now"

"What? Why?" Hermione was getting worried, she had finally reached the door, only to be denied, again.

"I know you are very smart, and I know that you will soon figure out who I am, but I don't want to see the disappointment in your beautiful eyes when you do"

Dragon turned around and exited through a door, Hermione ran to follow but when she reached the door and walked through she was awake in her own bed.

Damn. She thought that this time she would definitely find out who was behind the door, and now, she only knows that her deepest desire is Dragon, but she doesn't know who he really is.

Hermione got out of bed, twenty minutes early and decided to take an extra long shower. She figured that it would give her time to think of whom that voice belonged too.

Draco had gotten up earlier than usual that morning, due to the fact that Hermione had nearly found out who he was. He had been smart enough to know that if Hermione was having the same kind of dream as him, they were somehow connected and that if she opened the door it would reveal him. So he put a charm on himself just as she opened the door.

He got up and took a quick shower, he figured that Hermione would have replied by now, so he got up and out of bed and headed to the Great Hall twenty minutes earlier than anyone else, he was sure that no one else would be up. That would give him time to read and maybe reply to Hermione's letter before anyone turned up.

Five minutes later he was sat at the Slytherin table reading Hermione's letter. Just as he had assumed the room was completely empty.

Dear Dragon

I agree with what you said about dreams. I am going to go to the library tomorrow during my free period; I really need to figure out my dream. I have a feeling that tonight may very well be the night that I get to open the door and find what I desire, and for that reason I can not wait to go to bed.

I am sorry that you feel the way you do, I feel like I have gotten to know you so much lately and I look forward to reading every letter from you. I am sure that I wouldn't be disappointed in you. I know the real you, it doesn't matter about anything else. I just hope that eventually you will find enough trust in me, to let me see who you are.

I was in the library the other day, doing my potions work, when I thought of you. Well I was trying to think of who you were. I had pictured every guy in my year and none of them seem as smart or witty or as philosophical as you. That's why I am thinking that you are not in my year. Maybe in the year above, but I don't know anyone in the year above. Even if you won't tell me who you are, will you at least tell me about you? What year you are in? What are you hobbies? What are you parents like? I want to know everything about you Dragon. Even if I can't know the one thing I want to know, I want to know the rest.

I can't wait for your reply

I will always be thinking of you

Hermione

Draco smiled to himself. He knew that she was trying to guess who he was by asking those questions, but he would tell her anyway. She didn't know him enough to guess who he was, not by her questions anyway.

He looked around the room and there were only a few people in there. Three Ravenclaw fourth years, who looked over at him at that moment smiled at him and turned round to giggle. There were also some Hufflepuff boys sitting at the table eating their breakfast. There were only about 5 people at the Gryffindor table and a few first year Slytherins who were sat at the other end of the table. Draco thought it was safe to write his reply so he did.

Dear Hermione

I woke up early today and thought I would see if you had replied. You had so now I am writing my reply back.

I know that you saw me last night, in your dream, because you were in mine too. I know that you are disappointed that I wouldn't let you see me, but I hope that you appreciate that I am too scared. That is not normally something I would normally admit, but when it comes to you. I'm nothing but scared and in love. I am scared of what you will say or do when you eventually find out who I am.

I will answer your questions only because I have disappointed you enough the past few days.

I am in the 6th year, your year. I love to read; mainly literature and I love to fly. It makes me feel free, it makes everything else in the world seem pointless. Where do I start with my parents? My mother died recently. Her death hit me hard. She was the only one who cared about me, the only one who loved me and now I feel like I have no one. I never talk to my father now. I see him in a different light since my mother's death, he somehow changed. I used to love my father. He meant everything to me but now? I hate him. I now see things in him I only ever thought were in nightmares.

Now you now some things about me that no one else does and I hope it will stay that way.

I do love you. I want you to know that, I really do. I think about you constantly I smile whenever I feel you near; I smile when I know you sense my stare.

Although I am scared of what will happen when you find out who I am. I am also happy. I am happy at the thought of you feeling the same way as me, I imagine us walking to classes together holding hands, and I imagine kissing your soft lips every time we see each other. I just hope that one day we can have that.

I hope to talk soon

Love you always

Dragon

When Draco looked up he saw that the room had started to get full so he slipped out of his chair into the Entrance Hall and put the letter next to the Slytherin hour glass and headed to his dorm to get his bag.

Hermione didn't think that Dragon would have replied so soon. It was just on pure chance that she noticed the letter. As she was heading to get breakfast she glanced over at the hourglasses to see who was winning and she saw the letter there. Her heart skipped a beat as she read it.

He had the dream too? They must be connected somehow. Maybe they were soul mates; it wasn't uncommon for soul mates to share thoughts or dreams.

Hermione headed to the library to find the book that she needed to decipher her dream, maybe Draco had returned it.

She had found that he had. She was flicking through the pages and found the chapter she needed.

It told her all about how to decipher her dream by looking at what was in her dream more than what her dream was about. She turned the page to see a list of objects and their meanings she looked for corridors first. It had basically told her what she already knew. That it shows something she desired or that it represented her life and that every time there was a turn in the corridor a turn would happen in her life.

She continued to look and then she found flames. There were many meanings for this but none that could help her.

She put the book back in a very bad mood. A book had never let her down before. She had waited a long time to find out what her dream meant and the book told her what she already knew nothing more.

She headed to Care of Magical Creatures; she knew that they were going to learn about Dragons today, she had asked Hagrid.

When she got there she was sat down on a log next Harry and Ron, when she felt the stare. She turned around to see Draco. She shrugged it of thinking that Draco was heading her way to torment her. When he didn't, she was a little shocked.

Hagrid starting to talk to the class about the different types of dragons there were when Hermione heard Draco telling Crabbe to stop annoying him she started to think.

His voice, she knew that voice it was the voice in her dreams, but how? Her mind was running through a lot of things at once.

Why had she felt the stare when Draco was there? That was the feeling she got when Dragon was staring at her not when Draco did.

She HAD bumped into Draco when she was looking for Dragons reply, and soon after her reply was there. Did he know about the letters? Draco's mother was dead, as was Dragons but maybe that was just a coincidence. Dragon did say that the dream book would be back in the library and it was, and Draco DID have the book before her, and wasn't Draco Latin for Dragon?

Oh my god. Is Draco Dragon? No he can't be. She couldn't be in love with Draco she just can't be.

Hermione stood up and ran she ignored the calls from Harry, Ron and Hagrid and ran as fast as she could. She got to lake and sat down.

"Ok Hermione lets think about this" Hermione was talking to herself "It can't be him. I would have noticed before. Oh my god it is him. All the clues are there. The notes being behind the Slytherin hour glass, Draco being by the hour glasses all the time, the fact that he got angry when she told him to get off her, when she bumped into him. The fact that he held her close and the fact that she felt safe in his arms"

Hermione couldn't believe she had missed all of the signs. How had she not recognised his voice in the dream? How had she been so stupid?

Just then she heard a rustle behind her.

"So finally realised it was me then?"

A/N: Sorry to leave it there but I felt I had too. This chapter also turned out to be longer than i intented, but i guess when you start writting and get so into the storythat you can't stop, it tends to get long. lol.I hope you all liked this chapter.

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random91: Hermione never felt weird around Draco because her past feelings for him clouded her present feelings for him. She only felt the hatred that she normally feels for him and not the love she feels for Dragon. I hope this has cleared that up for you a little bit.

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