w00t, I feel loved. I got a comment from a girl from Argentina, so its all good. Now for chapter 6. After this chapter, I'm going to have to give my head a rest, I can't keep writing a chapter a day without writer's block. Anyways, if any of you want to beta for me, just tell me, I don't really care about having one, its just that sometimes its better to confirm that what you're saying makes sense to other people too. Besides the ones in your head that is.
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Hermione was almost shocked that he had shown up, let alone ontime. He glanced down at his watch.
"Damn, I'm early. But hey, it's all good, right?"
"Y-yeah, I guess so," she managed to stutter after he had taken a seat across from her.
"Ha ha, what, did you not expect me? You know this Malfoy never breaks his promises. Ever. So how have you been in these last six years? You've definatly gotten a lot hotter since the last time I met you."
"Yeah, thats what your other self said too. But who was that, if it really wasn't you? Because I can't think of anyone who would want to do anything to hurt Ron like that. You do know as much as what happened to Ron, right?"
"Yeah, yeah, I do. I'm not that under informed. As for who it was, I have no idea. But lets not talk about it right now, I'm tired from running from everyone who thinks I actually did it."
"Put it off? But we can't do that, we need to talk about it to get everything sorted out. If we put it off, then we won't be able to cover everything."
"Hermione, smartest witch of our age, why don't you think about our destination? The train trip is over two and a half days, plus 2 eight hour stops in the middle, as well as the shorter ones. Then we also have the week long stay and the trip back. We have plenty of time to talk it over." He was right, she realized. They really would have a lot of time. But wait...
"When did I agree to staying with you for the week? All I agreed to was taking the train trip with you."
"True, but I was hoping you would. It would be nice to sit down and talk with someone that's not going to try to send me to the aurors immediatly, even seeing as you are one. Right now, I ask that we take the train trip as freinds, not as a business thing." She thought over what he was saying, than asked,
"So your saying that if I put off work for around a week and a half, then we'll talk about it then, and until then we can take a trip as old freinds?"
"Exactly."
"But why should I belive you? If it turns out that you just want to get away for a couple weeks and have your ass covered until we part, not to mention that you probably have gotten a little lonely in your jumping around and running from the aurors."
"I thought you might say that. So, as a treat, I have invited a freind of mine to join us at the Paris stop, which is conveiniently at night. She is an old, 'old' freind of the family."
"Don't tell me you're planning on bringing a -"
"Damn straight I'm planning on bringing a vampire onto this train. And it just so happens that she was the one I was with the night your Ron got attacked. And if you don't belive me, then you can give both of us Veritaserum. We won't object. Undoubtably you have some with you."
"Yes, I do. All aurors are required to carry some with them in the event of an emergency need. But wait, if you have been with vampires, then the obvious question is-"
"No, I'm not a halfling. No Malfoy has ever been a vampire, we have just had them as next to servant like aquaintences. My 4 times great grandmother showed them how to stay alive in the day, so they have been in servitude to us since."
"So she's the one that nearly caused a collapse in the entirty of human society."
"Ahh, yes, and she took much pride in it. So now, anyone that I, being the last Malfoy, say not to hurt, they will not touch, due to a blood signed contract by Dracula's daughter, Ayantara. And she didn't like giving up the blood to sign it, she told me herself."
"So I'm assuming that she is the one joining us?"
"That is correct."
"So what have you been doing since-" There was a knock on the door, followed by a voice that was the condutor asking for tickets. They opened the door and he quickly punched holes in their tickets, then left again.
"So," Malfoy said as he stood up and walked over to a cabinet Hermione had missed early. As she expected, it had liqour in it. " You want anything to drink?" he asked.
"You know, I do. But first, was this train set up for an extended trip? Because there is a bathroom in the compartments, as well as a private liqour cabinet, and the compartments are larger."
"Ah yes, it is. This train is exclusivly for minimum two day trips. Its an executive train, which my family owns, but its held under a name of some muggle trasport company."
"You mean, Amtrak?"
"Yeah, that sounds right. Theres a small trap door most people never notice thats right," he bent down and opened a door in the floor," here. But it's only in the first of a set of ten compartments, aka, this one. I've checked, and theres no other companies in this car, so we are set for a nice journey. Its a steep staircase, so watch out. There's four seperate rooms to sleep in, as well as a lounge down here, so make yourself at home."
It was only five in the afternoon, but Hermione felt like she had been on her feet all day already.
"Malfoy, I'm going to turn in for a while. DON'T come in, and try not to wake me."
"Ok, but call me Draco alright? We're freinds here."
"Ok, M--Draco." It was going to take some getting used to calling him Draco instead of Malfoy. "Either way, don't come in and don't wake me up. I'll come out when I'm ready. Accio trunk," she muttered the spell under her breath, and her bag came down the stairs and landed by her feet, where she picked it up and carried it into the room she picked out. Before she went into the room, though, she noticed that there was a bathroom in between her compartment and the next. Hermione sat her bag next to the wall, than collapsed onto the bed after locking the door with a couple spells. No matter what he said, she still couldn't bring herself to trust him yet. She quickly fell into an exahusted sleep, and as she did so, she thought she heard the mirror on the wall say, "Sleep well, little one."
