A/N- Thankyou to all of you who have been reviewingmy story! I love you
all. I can't believe so many people reviewed :D
A special thanks to Katie(Grrbaby) Tara(Tarz) Elissa (Elbereth) and Fi (Randy Candy) for all of your support and the ideas you have given me for the story, you know that I love you all :D
FredNGeorgeRule- Thanks for pointing that out to me, I didn't realize I was doing that :D
BB-deejay- Well since you asked so nicely,yes :) please don't be offended if you get hurt though (you know what quidditch is like
Strawberry- mmm yes the bad Draco must linger at least somewhat *drool*
Amanda- Oh don't worry Ron will look like an idiot again *evil laugh*
By the way guys I don't really hate Ron, it's just fun to see him get degraded all the time
MistressDeDraco- yeah thats actually something ive been thinking hard about, don't know how to pull that one off yet *blush* :D rubberducks- dude your name rocks!
oliverwoodsgirl- yeah sorry about the shortness of the chappies, i'll try and remedy that. By the way I simply have to say you have bloody good taste. mmmmmm Oliver *drool*
Belle- :( stupid schoolwork I know what thats like
And a general huge thankyou and group hug to everyone who has reviewed my story and especially those of you who have urged me to keep writing :D aww feel the love
~Chapter 8~
The Gryffindor table was almost completely full. Hermione looked around desperately for a place to sit as her stomach growled angrily at her, threatening to start eating itself if she did not fill it with some of that delicious smelling bacon soon.
At least Ron didn't seem to be present that morning, people already seemed to be talking quite enough for Hermiones taste about what had transpired in the Gryffindor common room the evening before. All the way down to breakfast Hermione was shot looks of sympathy and odd stares. She also managed to pick up a few little snippets of coversation about the general schools view on Ron now. To sugarcoat it, Ron wasn't particulary popular.
The head girls eyes fell upon the only remaining spare seat. It was next to Harry. Oh how she longed to simply plonk down next to her one time best friend just as she had always done, despite everything that had been said last night. After all, Harry didn't know the truth when he said those painful words. She began to turn to sadly turn around and walk out of the great hall when she heard a familiar voice call her name.
Hermione spun around to see the "Boy Who Lived" beckoning her to come over.
'Perhaps there is still hope for us to be friends' Hermione thought to herself as she caughtiously walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat besides Harry.
The pair looked at each other, neither saying a word. Harry couldn't take this anymore. He took her hand in his and squeezed it gently. He opened his mouth to pour out apologies to his best friend.
"Hermione I....."
The brown haired witch cut him off with a mere shake of the head and quietly murmered "There's no need Harry"
All was forgiven.Hermione was now finally able to bend to the eager will of her stomach as she began to shovel bacon,eggs and toast into her mouth.
The two friends were now at least somewhat more contented, but Hermiones mind still seemed to be wandering to the thoughts of a beautiful blonde boy and a certain kiss from the previous night.
'No i'm not' Hermione quickly thought to herself as the image of the Slytherins lips invaded her thoughts again
'True, he helped me out a couple of times but theres no way that she,Hermione Granger was going to dismiss his oh so Slytherin and superior behaviour towards her just because of that. Especially since she was trying to thank him at the time!'
"Nothing but a bastard" mumbled grumpily to herself
Harry looked oddly at her "What was that Hermione?"
Hermione just realized that she had said that out loud
"Umm..nothing. Oh look isn't it nearly time for the match to begin?" Harry looked at his watch
"So it is, I better be off, see you after the game." With that, Harry got out of his chair and walked towards the doors.
"Bye Harry" Hermione called after him
She gobbled down the rest of her breakfast and then too headed out the door.
'I wonder where Ron is? He is never one to miss breakfast, or any meal or chance at food for that matter. He was still be brooding in his room, and that can never be good'
Hermione frowned and started walking down towards the Quidditch pitch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Gryffindor team had all mounted their brooms and kicked off into the air. They flew around in circles, generally getting warmed up as Crystal Jordan, commentator introduced the players to the eager crowds in the stands. It was the first match of the year, everyone was excited.
"Ladies and gentlement, boys and girls, professor Snape. Welcome to the first interhouse quidditch cup match for this year!"
The crowd roared enthusiastically
"Will you please give it up for everyones favorite team of red, and no I don't just mean the Weasleys. Please welcome the Gryffindor team!"
The team, already in the air began to do some rather fancy and show off types of spins in the air as each of their names were called.
"Lets give a big hand for Gryffindors new Keeper, and the younger brother of a very sexy scotsman, James Wood!"
The crowd burst into another round of applause.many female squeals could also be heard. Oliver blushed at Crystals sexy scotsman comment. Oh yes Oliver Wood was there.He got time off from Puddlemere to see his brothers first game,and to see someone else......
"Next up we have the three Gryffindor chases.Lets hear you give it up for Dean Thomas, Melissa Bell and Ginny Weasley!"
The roars continued as the commentator moved on to introduce the two beaters
"Elissa Costigan!"
It was at about this time Oliver jumped out of his chair that happened to be next to Hermiones. He nearly knocked her over. It appears that the scotsman had enjoyed her little Jeniffer Lopez peformance from the night before and had told her so. The Gryffindor beater beamed as she saw her newly acquired boyfriend waving wildly from the stands.
"And Ron Weasley" yelled Crystal as the second chaser(Ron of course) fly around the pitch The crowd went quiet. Only a few mere claps were heard.
Ron went red with embarrassment and anger.
'I guess they all know then' he thought grimly to himself
Despite what he had done to her, Hermiones heart broke slightly for Ron, she wouldn't want anyone to go through this.
From the Slytherin change rooms Draco smirked smugly. He always did love to see Weasley degraded.
'Especially after what he did to Hermio...Granger.' The blonde thought to himself
Crystal Jordan cleared her throat uncomfortably.
"Umm..and now this years new Captain and long time Gryffindor seeker, Harry Potter!"
The silence was suddenly broken by claps and cheers from all around the stadium, well except from the Slytherins who were of course anxiously awaiting their team to fly out onto the pitch.
The announcing of the Slytherin team went pretty much the same as the Gryffindor one, except for maybe a few less claps.
Madame Hooch flew out onto the pitch. She released the bludgers and the snitch and threw the quaffle into the air. The whistle was blow. The game began. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After an hour, Slytherin was up 90 to 70. The crowd was going wild as they beheld the exciting and just a bit dangerous match.
All players were being more agressive than usual (you know how Slytherin and Gryffindor are) and the Gryffindors themselves were making it slughtly harder for themselves by all of them, bar Ginny and Harry, completely ignoring Ron. This angered the red head enormously, what made it worse were the Slytherins on the team that were congratulating him. Draco merely smirked knowingly at him.
'Oh don't you worry you slimy bastard, you'll be getting your come upance very soon' Ron thought darkly to himself
"Oh and thats a fantastic hit by Gryffindor beater Elissa Costigan!" screamed Crystal The bludger soared through the air, right in the direction of the grinning Malfoy.
Oliver jumped from his seat again
"That's right Elissa darlin' smack him in the head!" he yelled
"Wood sit down, you're nearly bowling me over here"
The sexy scotsman blushed
"Sorry Hermione"
The bludger can closer to Draco as he still attempted to psych out Ron. It was only at the last moment that he realized it was coming towards him and ducked. Unfortunately, in missing him it sailed straight into the stomach of Slytherin keeper Mercedes Eyre. The crowd gasped and all watched in shock as the girl fell from her broom and plumeted towards the ground. Madame Hooch blew the whistle. All players soared down to the ground. All except Ron. Of course though, no one noticed.
Elissa was already at the fallen girls side apologising over and over. Unfortunately for Elissa she didn't seem to realize that apologies work better when the person is concious. Madame Pomfrey made her way out onto to the pitch. After a quick check over she announced that she would be fine, all she needed was a few days in the hospital wing.
Ron was somewhat glad that the bludger had missed Malfoy, at least hestill had his chance to inflick pain on the blonde Slytherin.
Draco looked up into the sky with impatience. He wanted to win this match and win it now. As he looked he saw Ron hovering above the pitch by himself.
'What a perfect opportunity to take a stab at him' thought Draco as he mounted his broom and flew up to the red head
Hermione saw what was going on 'Oh dear....this can't be good'
"Whats wrong Weasle. Don't want to go near the unconcious girl? Think you might accidently ravage her too?" Draco smirked and flew off to the other side of the pitch Ron fumed.
"I'm going to kill you, you some of a bitch" he screamed
Ron looked frantically around for one of the bludgers.he saw one flying past one of the goals. he flew over there faster than he had ever flown before and managed to grab hold of it. Draco was still flying around enjoying his little comment. Ron was only about ten meters away from the Slytherin.
'Time for a close range shot'
Ron threw the bludger into the air and swung his bat back to hit it straight into Draco's head. Hermione watched in terror as she realized what he was about to do. Everyone else was too caught up watching the unconcious Mercedes.
"Draco watched out!" she screamed
Her voice echoed throughout the stands. Everyone looked around to see what she was raving on about. Draco heard the call and spun around on his broom quickly, only having enough time to see what was about to happen. "What the F..."
Impact.
Draco Malfoy had been hit point blank with a bludger and like the Slytherin girl Mercedes, was falling towards the ground. It wasn't a pretty site.
Hermione dashed down towards the pitch in a rage.
Ron flew down behind him, ready to imflict another blow. As he did, Harry grabbed him from behind.
"Let me go Harry!" the red head fumed
"Not until you settle the hell down! We'll be disqualified for this you selfish bastard. And I don't think this is going to do much for your already tainted reputation"
This shut ron up quick smart.
Hermione was already running towards the fallen Slytherin who was currently being attended to by the already present Madame Pomfrey.
"Is he going to be alright?" Hermione ased as she arrived, quite out of breath Draco groaned slightly in pain
'Why are there seven Hermiones?' Draco quietly questioned himself
"Oh yes i'm sure he'll be fine dear. Nothing that good bed rest and a bit of chocolate won't cure."
Hermione sighed with relief
'But only because I don't like to see people get hurt' Hermione quickly reassured herself
"We should get him to the hospital wing then!" exclaimed the head girl
"I'm afraid not dear. All the beds are taken. It seems that Mr. Longbottoms exploding cauldrom from yesterdays potions lesson had more of an impact on the students in the class than we thought. Mr. Crabbe even grew a tail last night. Young Malfoy will do just fine in his own bed. if you'll be so kind to take him up there, i'll attend to Miss Eyre here."
"Of course" replied Hermione
"I'll help you if you like Hermione" Offered Harry
"No that's ok Harry, I think you have enough of a problem to deal with right there" She spat as she glared absolute daggers at Ron.
The red haired Gryffindor looked down in shame. Not that he regretted smashing Malfoy though of course.
Hermione picked up Draco's broom and somehow managed to pull the fallen blonde onto it in front of her. She shot one last glare at Ron and kicked off into the air.
Hermione wasn't a particulary brilliant flyer, but she wasn't too bad. Thankfully she managed to make through Draco's bedroom window without him or herself falling off.
Draco merely groaned and muttered about the "bloody Weasleys" and how he didn't understand how everyone managed to morph into ten people each.
With some effort and patience, Hermione managed to get Draco into bed. She left the room to retrieve a cool cloth from the bathroom.
'God not even Malfoy deserved that from Ron, what a bastard' Hermione thought angrily to herself "Hmmm i really shouldn't say that. But everytime I think of Draco lying there. Hmm lying. What did I just say!'
Hermione quickly banished all thoughts from her head as she she re-entered the room and began to run the cold cloth over the blondes forehead.
Draco had gone somewhat numb due to his delerium, plus those pain killing spells of Madame Pomfreys were always a big help. 'Hermione looks really pretty, I wonder where the other six of her went?' Draco thought pleasantly to himself
He was starting at least to make a bit more sense. Seeing only one of a person is always a good sign. Hermione wet the cloth again and gently rubbed it against one of his cheeks.
Draco smiled slightly
"That feels nice" he whispered
Hermione blushed
"Are you feeling any better?" she asked softly
Draco slowly nodded, still only somewhat coming to his senses
"Yes, because you're here"
He placed his hand over the one Hermione was using to wash his face.
Hermione closed her eyes
'No, no, no musn't give in. He is just selirious, it's nothing, it's nothing' Her frantic thoughts yelled
Draco removed his hand from hers and gently raised it to her hair and stroked it.
'Such pretty hair' he thought
'Breath hermione breath' she commanded herself
Slowly Draco raised himself up and placed his warm lips upon hers.
"Oh.My.God. This is not happening. this kiss is not happening, this bloody wonderful kiss is not happening' The head girl thought
She then procedded to return the kiss
Several very long moments passed. Both the head boy and girl deepened the kiss 'This is so nice' thought Draco
'So nice kissing Hermione' 'Wait! Kissing Hermione. This isn't good. Well it's GOOD but not good.'
Unfortunately Draco had come to his senses. He broke the kiss.Hermione gasped slightly
'Oh god what have I done?' thought the head girl
'Oh god what have I done?' thought the head boy
"I think I better be going" Hermione said quietly, eyes cast down
"yeah" muttered Draco in reply
With that, Hermione hurried out of the room and headed towards her own. As soon as she closed her own door she flung herself on the bed and began to cry bitterly.
'But only cause i'm embarrassed. I am NOT falling for Draco Malfoy' 'Oh god...I am' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As soon as she had left the room, Draco turned to one side and sighed.
'But not because I like her she is nothing but a mud...a know it all.'
'Oh christ, I can't even call her THAT anymore. What's happening to me. I cant like a muggle, it's completely out of characters. And it's not like she likes me anyway, she was probably just obliging me cause she tought I was delerious....I mean because I WAS delerious. Dear god i've fallen for a muggle.' Draco turned over again, this time to look at the green and silver swirled ceiling.
'Now what do I do? pretend it never happened? Act on it and shock the whole wizarding world? God damn I sound like a pansy. This is not me. '
"Shit" he muttered to no one in particular
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A/N- Hurrah! another chappier finished.Please rememer to review *winks* and tell me what ya think love you all :D
A special thanks to Katie(Grrbaby) Tara(Tarz) Elissa (Elbereth) and Fi (Randy Candy) for all of your support and the ideas you have given me for the story, you know that I love you all :D
FredNGeorgeRule- Thanks for pointing that out to me, I didn't realize I was doing that :D
BB-deejay- Well since you asked so nicely,yes :) please don't be offended if you get hurt though (you know what quidditch is like
Strawberry- mmm yes the bad Draco must linger at least somewhat *drool*
Amanda- Oh don't worry Ron will look like an idiot again *evil laugh*
By the way guys I don't really hate Ron, it's just fun to see him get degraded all the time
MistressDeDraco- yeah thats actually something ive been thinking hard about, don't know how to pull that one off yet *blush* :D rubberducks- dude your name rocks!
oliverwoodsgirl- yeah sorry about the shortness of the chappies, i'll try and remedy that. By the way I simply have to say you have bloody good taste. mmmmmm Oliver *drool*
Belle- :( stupid schoolwork I know what thats like
And a general huge thankyou and group hug to everyone who has reviewed my story and especially those of you who have urged me to keep writing :D aww feel the love
~Chapter 8~
The Gryffindor table was almost completely full. Hermione looked around desperately for a place to sit as her stomach growled angrily at her, threatening to start eating itself if she did not fill it with some of that delicious smelling bacon soon.
At least Ron didn't seem to be present that morning, people already seemed to be talking quite enough for Hermiones taste about what had transpired in the Gryffindor common room the evening before. All the way down to breakfast Hermione was shot looks of sympathy and odd stares. She also managed to pick up a few little snippets of coversation about the general schools view on Ron now. To sugarcoat it, Ron wasn't particulary popular.
The head girls eyes fell upon the only remaining spare seat. It was next to Harry. Oh how she longed to simply plonk down next to her one time best friend just as she had always done, despite everything that had been said last night. After all, Harry didn't know the truth when he said those painful words. She began to turn to sadly turn around and walk out of the great hall when she heard a familiar voice call her name.
Hermione spun around to see the "Boy Who Lived" beckoning her to come over.
'Perhaps there is still hope for us to be friends' Hermione thought to herself as she caughtiously walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat besides Harry.
The pair looked at each other, neither saying a word. Harry couldn't take this anymore. He took her hand in his and squeezed it gently. He opened his mouth to pour out apologies to his best friend.
"Hermione I....."
The brown haired witch cut him off with a mere shake of the head and quietly murmered "There's no need Harry"
All was forgiven.Hermione was now finally able to bend to the eager will of her stomach as she began to shovel bacon,eggs and toast into her mouth.
The two friends were now at least somewhat more contented, but Hermiones mind still seemed to be wandering to the thoughts of a beautiful blonde boy and a certain kiss from the previous night.
'No i'm not' Hermione quickly thought to herself as the image of the Slytherins lips invaded her thoughts again
'True, he helped me out a couple of times but theres no way that she,Hermione Granger was going to dismiss his oh so Slytherin and superior behaviour towards her just because of that. Especially since she was trying to thank him at the time!'
"Nothing but a bastard" mumbled grumpily to herself
Harry looked oddly at her "What was that Hermione?"
Hermione just realized that she had said that out loud
"Umm..nothing. Oh look isn't it nearly time for the match to begin?" Harry looked at his watch
"So it is, I better be off, see you after the game." With that, Harry got out of his chair and walked towards the doors.
"Bye Harry" Hermione called after him
She gobbled down the rest of her breakfast and then too headed out the door.
'I wonder where Ron is? He is never one to miss breakfast, or any meal or chance at food for that matter. He was still be brooding in his room, and that can never be good'
Hermione frowned and started walking down towards the Quidditch pitch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Gryffindor team had all mounted their brooms and kicked off into the air. They flew around in circles, generally getting warmed up as Crystal Jordan, commentator introduced the players to the eager crowds in the stands. It was the first match of the year, everyone was excited.
"Ladies and gentlement, boys and girls, professor Snape. Welcome to the first interhouse quidditch cup match for this year!"
The crowd roared enthusiastically
"Will you please give it up for everyones favorite team of red, and no I don't just mean the Weasleys. Please welcome the Gryffindor team!"
The team, already in the air began to do some rather fancy and show off types of spins in the air as each of their names were called.
"Lets give a big hand for Gryffindors new Keeper, and the younger brother of a very sexy scotsman, James Wood!"
The crowd burst into another round of applause.many female squeals could also be heard. Oliver blushed at Crystals sexy scotsman comment. Oh yes Oliver Wood was there.He got time off from Puddlemere to see his brothers first game,and to see someone else......
"Next up we have the three Gryffindor chases.Lets hear you give it up for Dean Thomas, Melissa Bell and Ginny Weasley!"
The roars continued as the commentator moved on to introduce the two beaters
"Elissa Costigan!"
It was at about this time Oliver jumped out of his chair that happened to be next to Hermiones. He nearly knocked her over. It appears that the scotsman had enjoyed her little Jeniffer Lopez peformance from the night before and had told her so. The Gryffindor beater beamed as she saw her newly acquired boyfriend waving wildly from the stands.
"And Ron Weasley" yelled Crystal as the second chaser(Ron of course) fly around the pitch The crowd went quiet. Only a few mere claps were heard.
Ron went red with embarrassment and anger.
'I guess they all know then' he thought grimly to himself
Despite what he had done to her, Hermiones heart broke slightly for Ron, she wouldn't want anyone to go through this.
From the Slytherin change rooms Draco smirked smugly. He always did love to see Weasley degraded.
'Especially after what he did to Hermio...Granger.' The blonde thought to himself
Crystal Jordan cleared her throat uncomfortably.
"Umm..and now this years new Captain and long time Gryffindor seeker, Harry Potter!"
The silence was suddenly broken by claps and cheers from all around the stadium, well except from the Slytherins who were of course anxiously awaiting their team to fly out onto the pitch.
The announcing of the Slytherin team went pretty much the same as the Gryffindor one, except for maybe a few less claps.
Madame Hooch flew out onto the pitch. She released the bludgers and the snitch and threw the quaffle into the air. The whistle was blow. The game began. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After an hour, Slytherin was up 90 to 70. The crowd was going wild as they beheld the exciting and just a bit dangerous match.
All players were being more agressive than usual (you know how Slytherin and Gryffindor are) and the Gryffindors themselves were making it slughtly harder for themselves by all of them, bar Ginny and Harry, completely ignoring Ron. This angered the red head enormously, what made it worse were the Slytherins on the team that were congratulating him. Draco merely smirked knowingly at him.
'Oh don't you worry you slimy bastard, you'll be getting your come upance very soon' Ron thought darkly to himself
"Oh and thats a fantastic hit by Gryffindor beater Elissa Costigan!" screamed Crystal The bludger soared through the air, right in the direction of the grinning Malfoy.
Oliver jumped from his seat again
"That's right Elissa darlin' smack him in the head!" he yelled
"Wood sit down, you're nearly bowling me over here"
The sexy scotsman blushed
"Sorry Hermione"
The bludger can closer to Draco as he still attempted to psych out Ron. It was only at the last moment that he realized it was coming towards him and ducked. Unfortunately, in missing him it sailed straight into the stomach of Slytherin keeper Mercedes Eyre. The crowd gasped and all watched in shock as the girl fell from her broom and plumeted towards the ground. Madame Hooch blew the whistle. All players soared down to the ground. All except Ron. Of course though, no one noticed.
Elissa was already at the fallen girls side apologising over and over. Unfortunately for Elissa she didn't seem to realize that apologies work better when the person is concious. Madame Pomfrey made her way out onto to the pitch. After a quick check over she announced that she would be fine, all she needed was a few days in the hospital wing.
Ron was somewhat glad that the bludger had missed Malfoy, at least hestill had his chance to inflick pain on the blonde Slytherin.
Draco looked up into the sky with impatience. He wanted to win this match and win it now. As he looked he saw Ron hovering above the pitch by himself.
'What a perfect opportunity to take a stab at him' thought Draco as he mounted his broom and flew up to the red head
Hermione saw what was going on 'Oh dear....this can't be good'
"Whats wrong Weasle. Don't want to go near the unconcious girl? Think you might accidently ravage her too?" Draco smirked and flew off to the other side of the pitch Ron fumed.
"I'm going to kill you, you some of a bitch" he screamed
Ron looked frantically around for one of the bludgers.he saw one flying past one of the goals. he flew over there faster than he had ever flown before and managed to grab hold of it. Draco was still flying around enjoying his little comment. Ron was only about ten meters away from the Slytherin.
'Time for a close range shot'
Ron threw the bludger into the air and swung his bat back to hit it straight into Draco's head. Hermione watched in terror as she realized what he was about to do. Everyone else was too caught up watching the unconcious Mercedes.
"Draco watched out!" she screamed
Her voice echoed throughout the stands. Everyone looked around to see what she was raving on about. Draco heard the call and spun around on his broom quickly, only having enough time to see what was about to happen. "What the F..."
Impact.
Draco Malfoy had been hit point blank with a bludger and like the Slytherin girl Mercedes, was falling towards the ground. It wasn't a pretty site.
Hermione dashed down towards the pitch in a rage.
Ron flew down behind him, ready to imflict another blow. As he did, Harry grabbed him from behind.
"Let me go Harry!" the red head fumed
"Not until you settle the hell down! We'll be disqualified for this you selfish bastard. And I don't think this is going to do much for your already tainted reputation"
This shut ron up quick smart.
Hermione was already running towards the fallen Slytherin who was currently being attended to by the already present Madame Pomfrey.
"Is he going to be alright?" Hermione ased as she arrived, quite out of breath Draco groaned slightly in pain
'Why are there seven Hermiones?' Draco quietly questioned himself
"Oh yes i'm sure he'll be fine dear. Nothing that good bed rest and a bit of chocolate won't cure."
Hermione sighed with relief
'But only because I don't like to see people get hurt' Hermione quickly reassured herself
"We should get him to the hospital wing then!" exclaimed the head girl
"I'm afraid not dear. All the beds are taken. It seems that Mr. Longbottoms exploding cauldrom from yesterdays potions lesson had more of an impact on the students in the class than we thought. Mr. Crabbe even grew a tail last night. Young Malfoy will do just fine in his own bed. if you'll be so kind to take him up there, i'll attend to Miss Eyre here."
"Of course" replied Hermione
"I'll help you if you like Hermione" Offered Harry
"No that's ok Harry, I think you have enough of a problem to deal with right there" She spat as she glared absolute daggers at Ron.
The red haired Gryffindor looked down in shame. Not that he regretted smashing Malfoy though of course.
Hermione picked up Draco's broom and somehow managed to pull the fallen blonde onto it in front of her. She shot one last glare at Ron and kicked off into the air.
Hermione wasn't a particulary brilliant flyer, but she wasn't too bad. Thankfully she managed to make through Draco's bedroom window without him or herself falling off.
Draco merely groaned and muttered about the "bloody Weasleys" and how he didn't understand how everyone managed to morph into ten people each.
With some effort and patience, Hermione managed to get Draco into bed. She left the room to retrieve a cool cloth from the bathroom.
'God not even Malfoy deserved that from Ron, what a bastard' Hermione thought angrily to herself "Hmmm i really shouldn't say that. But everytime I think of Draco lying there. Hmm lying. What did I just say!'
Hermione quickly banished all thoughts from her head as she she re-entered the room and began to run the cold cloth over the blondes forehead.
Draco had gone somewhat numb due to his delerium, plus those pain killing spells of Madame Pomfreys were always a big help. 'Hermione looks really pretty, I wonder where the other six of her went?' Draco thought pleasantly to himself
He was starting at least to make a bit more sense. Seeing only one of a person is always a good sign. Hermione wet the cloth again and gently rubbed it against one of his cheeks.
Draco smiled slightly
"That feels nice" he whispered
Hermione blushed
"Are you feeling any better?" she asked softly
Draco slowly nodded, still only somewhat coming to his senses
"Yes, because you're here"
He placed his hand over the one Hermione was using to wash his face.
Hermione closed her eyes
'No, no, no musn't give in. He is just selirious, it's nothing, it's nothing' Her frantic thoughts yelled
Draco removed his hand from hers and gently raised it to her hair and stroked it.
'Such pretty hair' he thought
'Breath hermione breath' she commanded herself
Slowly Draco raised himself up and placed his warm lips upon hers.
"Oh.My.God. This is not happening. this kiss is not happening, this bloody wonderful kiss is not happening' The head girl thought
She then procedded to return the kiss
Several very long moments passed. Both the head boy and girl deepened the kiss 'This is so nice' thought Draco
'So nice kissing Hermione' 'Wait! Kissing Hermione. This isn't good. Well it's GOOD but not good.'
Unfortunately Draco had come to his senses. He broke the kiss.Hermione gasped slightly
'Oh god what have I done?' thought the head girl
'Oh god what have I done?' thought the head boy
"I think I better be going" Hermione said quietly, eyes cast down
"yeah" muttered Draco in reply
With that, Hermione hurried out of the room and headed towards her own. As soon as she closed her own door she flung herself on the bed and began to cry bitterly.
'But only cause i'm embarrassed. I am NOT falling for Draco Malfoy' 'Oh god...I am' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As soon as she had left the room, Draco turned to one side and sighed.
'But not because I like her she is nothing but a mud...a know it all.'
'Oh christ, I can't even call her THAT anymore. What's happening to me. I cant like a muggle, it's completely out of characters. And it's not like she likes me anyway, she was probably just obliging me cause she tought I was delerious....I mean because I WAS delerious. Dear god i've fallen for a muggle.' Draco turned over again, this time to look at the green and silver swirled ceiling.
'Now what do I do? pretend it never happened? Act on it and shock the whole wizarding world? God damn I sound like a pansy. This is not me. '
"Shit" he muttered to no one in particular
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A/N- Hurrah! another chappier finished.Please rememer to review *winks* and tell me what ya think love you all :D