"Did I wake you up?" He asked in a soft voice.
"No..." That was all she could say
They looked deep into each others eyes, past the fakeness each put up. Hermione looked away. Draco feeling a sense of new found energy, stood up. Hermione stood up too. She began to walk out to leave Draco to get cleaned up and changed but he grabbed her arm. She spun around and faced him. For a mere second she looked back into his eyes. She looked to the floor like she found something interesting. Draco lifted his hand and grasped her chin. Her eyes darted around the room, anywhere but his eyes. " Hermione.." He said as he leaned closer to her face.
Hermione looked into his eyes. They were calm and gentle. Draco could see a mix of fear and uncertainty in her brown eyes. He let go of her chin as he let a inward tear fall down his face. Hermione let a small breath of air rush over her. Draco moved over to lean on the wall. Hermione stood up and looked out the window in a corner of the room. She walked slowly over to the cold glass frame. She ran her hand over the glass to get rid of the light frost that covered it. Small rays of light came through and hit the walls. The barren land was white with snow and only a few foot prints were etched into the solid ground. A figure moved along the ground, in a black cloak. What struck Hermione was that the figure was in black and was totally visible. She looked intently out the window and to the figure. Draco called her name and she was startled out of her concentration .
"Yea.." she wasn't sure what he said but "yea" could just about go with anything.
"So you will sleep with me?"
"WHAT!"
"You just said "yea"." Draco said with a slight smirk and doing a imitation of Hermione's voice.
"I did not say such a thing." She was outraged.
"Im kidding. I asked you what you were looking at. You were focusing hard on something."
"Umm…nothing." Hermione said whirling around to face Draco.
Draco could sense a unwanted presence somewhere around the castle and he knew that Hermione had just seen it.
"Well then, im going to leave and let you get cleaned up and changed." Hermione shook her head in agreement with what she just said.
With that she walked out the door and shut it. She walked into the kitchen area to sit down and think about what she saw.
" Ok it doesn't make much sense to wear a black cloak when its all white outside. What ever it was seemed to be gliding. Its not a demntor. I wonder if its Voldmort….or worse Lucius." Hermione was still lightly tapping the pencil she had found of the floor by crookshanks. She looked at the clock.
"11:10 am. Shower time." she walked to her bathroom. As she went to turn the knob on the shower she had just touched when she saw blood coming out of the faucet. She screamed in terror. Poor Draco came limping over clutching his side. He saw Hermione screaming but he wasn't sure why.
"Hermione? What's wrong?" He was standing next to her he was missing something.
"Bl…blood." She said transfixed on the water.
"Where? Where is the blood?" He asked getting panicked.
"There, right there." Hermione said pointing to the water.
What they didn't see was the black shadow behind them.