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Previously. . .
"You will stop now Parkinson, I have no feelings for you, I never did. You were only one who was any good in bed. Oh and the name's Draco, or Malfoy. Preferably Malfoy to you, Parkinson." Draco said, by then they had reached the castle gates. Students were exiting the carriages to enter the school.
Draco left at a quick pace. He'd wanted to finish thinking and Parkinson had been of no help. He smiled when he though of Pansy and thinking. If she ever thought it would result in a day-long headache for her and the rest of the people in her house.
Hermione sat in her carriage, she wanted to think about what had happened between her and Malfoy. He'd gone to nice and almost kind to cruel and heartless. She frowned and sank farther into her seat. She was glad the Harry and Ron were with their girlfriends; she had told them she hadn't minded, but they still persisted. When she felt the carriage stop she exited and joined her friends as they entered Hogwarts.
The Feast and Other Happenings
Hermione walked into the hall and sat at the head of her table with her fellow housemates and looked to the Slytherin table in hopes to see the one who had tangled her finely woven life. She saw what she had been looking for and to her surprise he looked back as well, and winked at her. Hermione gasped and quickly turned her head, Draco wasn't helping her already befuddled life anymore, he was confusing her more than anyone had ever done before, it was almost like he was having a male version of PMS, kind and sweet then rude and arrogant, and not almost flirty.
Upon hearing the doors creak open she looked to the back and watched as the first years walked in to the hall, most of them stood huddled together and frightened looking there were few who stood apart and smirked at those who were frightened. Hermione didn't even have to guess that most of those would be sorted into Slytherin. The group was larger than the previous years, and she hoped that they would live to become second years-let alone seventh.
The sorting hat sang another warning of how the four houses needed to grow stronger together and now comparing them to a single stick and a bundle sticks. When it was done, McGonagall unfurled her scroll of names and started to read the names, starting with Mariah Adams (RAVENCLAW) and what seemed like hours (which only happened to be about 45 minutes or so) and ended with Dimitri Zukreich (GRYFFENDOR!) as he went and looked for an available seat, Dumbledore started to speak. Hermione offered an empty spot next to her for him and started to listen to what the headmaster was saying.
"We have several start of term notices, to the first years and those who need reminding, the Forbidden Forest is off limits unless guided there by a teacher or staff member. Hence the name forbidden. We have a returning professor who will be teaching Defense against the Dark Arts. Please give Professor Lupin your utmost respect, and he will give you his. Our Care of Magical Creatures teacher will be away for the next few weeks or possibly longer, for personal matters. Please let me say one more item before we eat. This years head boy and girl will be planning several new events as to brighten the school spirit and to brighten the mood around here, if you have an idea please give your ideas to the heads and they will see what they can do. The heads for the year are Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy. And I believe that that is all, not let us feast!" he said and clapped his hands and just as soon and he had the plates were filled with mountains of food.
Hermione sat and ate her food, however she didn't eat much. When she finished she decided to get to know her new housemate and her neighbor. Turning she saw him smiling and stuffing his mouth with food. "Hello, I'm Hermione." She told him. Dimitri looked at her and smiled.
"Hullo, names Dimitri Zukreich. My mom was a witch and well my dad is a muggle, but well he loved the idea of witches and the such existing." He said.
"Really so you are muggle born then in a sense?" she asked, and continued as he nodded. "I am too, I'm glad that there is another one I don't know many myself there are fewer each year." She said.
"Really you muggleborn? Wow? Wait, are you Hermione Granger?" he asked.
"Yes." She told him.
"You can't be muggleborn then."
"Why not my parents are muggles after all."
"My mom told me about the Grangers and well she told me things I can't tell you so never mind sorry." Dimitri said. Hermione smiled at him and stood when she saw the headmaster look her way and stand.
He led her and Draco down the halls and to the front of a large picture of what appeared to be King Arthur, Lancelet, Gwendolyn, and what appeared to be Morgain Le Faye, Arthur's half sister they were in front of a castle. Morgain looked at them and smiled kindly before asking for the password.
"The current password is Apple pie, when you wish to change it, you must have the other's consent or the password will not change, Hermione's rooms are to the right of the common room and yours Draco are to the left." Dumbledore said, before turning and leaving them to fend for themselves.
"Well Draco what do you think the password should be?" Hermione asked.
"I don't care" He said. "Look Hermione I don't really care, you just pick one and I'll go with it."
"How about Camelot? The picture is based off that so why not?"
"Some student could guess that easily, with the picture's theme and such." Draco said.
"Yes Draco like a student will walk all this way just to get to class? I highly doubt that however why don't you come up with a password?" she said.
"Alright. Why not ?" He asked.
"Sure, why not Daemonorops draco." Hermione said.
"Alright then, The password is Daemonorops draco." Draco said.
"Your new Password is Daemonorops draco, do well to remember it and give it to few, or none. You may enter your new quarters." Lancelet said, the picture opened to reveal a large common room, with a couch in front of it and a hardwood table for them to rest their things on. To the side of the fireplace there was a closet that Hermione found to contain blankets. Draco found a picture of a salad and looked at it, Hermione walked over and poked a tomato, the portrait opened to reveal a staircase that led downward.
" I'll guess that leads to the kitchens, no need to go there now." Hermione said. She walked by and started to look at a bookshelf. Looking at the titles she picked up a book and leafed through the pages. She set the book back and walked into her rooms where she intended on taking a bath and going to sleep. She looked at her bed and saw her pajama's laying on her bed neatly folded and ready to be put on. Hermione picked them up and walked into the bathroom and found the bathtub to me a smaller version of the one in the prefect's bathroom. She turned the water on and found a spice scented faucet that she liked and after taking her cloths off she let herself soak in the tub. She rested her head back and closed her eyes, relaxing.
Draco looked around the room amazed that it didn't have a thing to do with the two houses; instead it was a lovely looking room that seemed to fit whatever the mood the person occupying it wanted. Draco looked around and finally decided that he would look around his room for a while before taking a brief shower. He entered and looked at a book shelf, upon finding a book that looked interesting to him he picked it up and started to read.
Before Draco knew it half an hour then an hour passed. He found a bookmark and set the book next to his bed and after stripping down to his boxers he walked into the bathroom he shared with Hermione,
He entered just in time to see his fellow heads' head sink under the water in the bath, he darted over and pulled Hermione out before she could drown, and to his fright saw that she was not breathing and that of course she had no clothing on her.
He didn't have time to grab his wand instead he did something he had heard some of the muggle studies students talking about; CPR..
Draco did his best to do what he could remember and soon he heard her coughing and he turned her to her side, away from him.
Hermione was in a room, it was just she and a man dressed in something that resembled King Arthur. She looked at her own clothing and saw it resembled Gwendolyn's Dress in the picture in front of the entrance to the heads rooms.
The man looked at her and walked over to her, however he had a mask on and she was unable to see who it was. He took her hands and guided her in several dances, then he slowly leant in and was about to kiss her, she felt his soft lips touch her own lips and opened her eyes.
Looking around her she saw that she was back in the bathroom, and she was aware of a presence behind her. She looked at the floor and saw water around her, then saw her own uncovered flesh and realized that she had no clothing on. "Malf-Draco get out!" she yelled. She saw him walk out and toss a towel at her. She picked it up and quickly found her clothing, and after putting her pajama's on she put on a bathrobe and went in search of Draco.
Draco looked at Hermione's back while she was waking up, it was covered with scars, scabs (old, new, infected, and uninfected.) as well as several bruises that appeared new and to be as large as they were painful. He looked at her with concern. He was so astonished that he just walked out when Hermione told him, just barely remembering to give her a towel.
He changed his mind on a shower and decided he would take one when morning came. He went to his bed and lay down, only to moments later have Hermione walk in and start talking to him. About his walking in on her.
"Dr-Malfoy why did you go into the bathroom? And then pull me out of the tub?" she asked, her voice slightly raising.
"I was planning on taking a shower and well you were in there and when I was about to turn and leave I saw your head sink in the water and well you didn't come out so I figured that well I should at least try to save you." Draco said. Hermione looked at him confused.
"What is your problem? I mean one moment you're kind and nice then the next you're the Malfoy everyone loves to hate with a passion then your saving my life, what's up?" she asked.
"I've been rethinking things and well I don't agree with my fathers way of dealing with his beliefs or what he's done to show his beliefs. I had time to rethink that since he spent most of his time away from my mother and I this year. However I don't want him to find this out, for several reasons that you don't need to know Hermione." Draco stated.
"Ok... so when no one's around you're a gentlemen but as soon as someone more importantly a fellow Syltherin is around you, you become the arrogant prick that everyone loves to hate? Am I right or am I missing something?" Hermione asked.
"That's right, I don't want anyone to know that I disagree with my father because of what he'd do-"
"Your excuses won't help anything Dr-Malfoy, if your going to be immature about it and try to be so kind and nice to me when no one else is around and then so rude when others are around. Talk to me when you are going to completely change your ways Malfoy." Hermione told him before walking out of his room and into her own. She lay on her bed and let her thoughts wonder to the events of the past day. Draco had been nice to her for no apparent reason other than he disagreed with his dad.
She sighed as she slowly put on her pajamas, and walked into the bathroom to brush her teeth where she ran into Malfoy again, however she ignored him and he her. She quickly finished washing her face and brushing her teeth and walked into her room and snuggled under her silky green sheets (she loved the color green although she'd never tell any of her Gryffendor friends. Hermione however didn't fall asleep for a long while, her thoughts churning over what Draco had said. She got up and after grabbing her cd player walked into the common room to watch the fire. She wasn't stressed about classes, since the next day would be a Saturday.
She let her eyes stare into the fire whilst her mind continued to think over what Draco had told her. "Maybe he was right, I was being rash because I was upset about his walking into my while I was taking that bath, and he had saved my life I owe him some favor for that. And if his father knew that Draco was fine with muggles and muggle-borns." she said aloud, her voice startling her. She lay on the couch and slowly she felt the tug of slumber wash over her.
Draco brushed his teeth and went into his room, after pulling his covers back he found his glasses and found the book he had been reading earlier. Several hours later he heard a sputtering and looked at his candle to find that it was going to die momentarily. He marked his place and after setting the book down and his glasses atop it he fell asleep, never allowing his mind to wonder to what Hermione had said.
Draco woke up the next morning and after stretching he went into the shower to wash. After getting our of the shower he started to shave and he heard the door open and looked into the mirror to see a curly brown haired girl enter the room. "Morning Dr-Malfoy. . . Listen, after I left last night I started to think. And well you are right for you to be nice to people of whom you wouldn't normally give a second glance would arouse suspicions and that wouldn't be good. I'm sorry for not thinking last night. Secondly, thank you for saving my life." she told him.
"Your welcome, I wouldn't want my fellow head to die on me, not when her two friends might blame me and who knows who would be head girl after you, I sure hope that I never have to find out. . . imagine if it were Parkinslut. . ." Draco said.
" I thought you and Parkinson were dating if not more with the way she hangs herself all over you." Hermione said.
"Oh god no!! Never. I only took her to the Yule ball in fourth year because my dad had forced me to ask her. . . I was going to go by myself, Blaise and I had planned on doing that. But god I hate Pansy, she is too obsessed with me than humanly possible. It scares me." Draco told her.
"So your not the fearless one everyone thought you to be." Hermione said.
"You can't live with fear yet a human can't go with fear in their life it's not humanly possible, even Voldemort has his fears." Draco stated, he noted that Hermione didn't flinch when he had said the dark lords name.
"Even Voldemort? The one who wants to be the installer of fear in the human life? Wow I'd never think that. What's his fear?" Hermione asked.
"Personally I don't know I had never gone to the Death Eaters meetings, I just heard about them. But Lucius told me that he was afraid of mostly two things one unexpected the other somewhat expected." when Hermione nodded he continued. " he's afraid of betryal the he can't sense and well I don't know if you've heard of them but you most likely have being that your muggle-born. I guess he's deathly afraid of muggle clowns or mimes I don't remember which." Hermione, who had started to brush her teeth, immedietly spat out her tooth paste and laughed.
"Really Voldemort scared of either a person who's main goal in life is to make people laugh or someone who never talks and yet is excellent at entertaining people? Wow I guess strange things do happen." Hermione stated.
"Ya, Granger if you don't mind I need to change, would you mind leaving?" Draco asked.
"That's fine, oh and it's Hermione to you." she told him. Draco nodded and when Hermione had shut the door he rolled her name on his tongue. Then he proceeded to get dressed and ready for his Saturday.
"Hermione, bathroom's yours, oh and since we're doing the name thing my name is Draco, not Malfoy, so feel free to call me by my name." he said. However neither of them said something they had already agreed upon, they would act as if their new relationship of sorts had never happed around their peers. For both of their protection.
~*~ Authors note~*~
Sorry it took a bit for me to add more and that it's not as long as normal, I do try but my muse left me for a bit and well I had been our of town for a while as well, but don't worry I'll be home for a while now. thank you for you reviews and all the support. There may be sex later but I don't know how to put it in here as of yet so please be kind to me. Thanks!!
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