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Chapter Six

Draco walked up behind Hermione and took her hand. He placed her robe in her clutch and then opened the window a little more to look over the castle grounds.

"You just don't know when to be serious about things."

"I can never be serious around you without feeling like an ass hole after. You're so emotional," Draco told her. He looked at her and she looked at him. His eyes were enticing.

"I know that," Hermione said.

She dropped the robe on the floor and continued ripping the note up into smaller pieces. Draco took her hand in his own and they watched the paper float away. Hermione then looked into his eyes. For the first time she felt like he was being serious about something. For the first time with out yelling.

Draco leaned in and kissed her lips softly and slowly, closing his eyes to live in the moment. Hermione felt whole again. Draco touched her face, his fingertips tingling at the softness of her cheek. It felt like how a first kiss should be between two people.

Hermione put her hand on the back of his neck, yanking lightly on his soft white hair, her other hand rested on his chest. Draco could smell the vanilla on her face as she kissed him back.

He slowly pulled away looked down at his feet, too shocked to look at her. She was gorgeous and lonely all of the time. She only had him to talk to. But he was rude and obnoxiously dumb. He only had her to tell how he felt. Two different people…two entirely different people.

Hermione looked into his eyes. "I used to get away with so much," She whispered. He finally looked at her. "But I can't get away with this. Is this really what fate is?" Draco looked at her teary eyes. He didn't know why she was going to cry.

"When two people need each other, I think that settles in the category of fate. When two people want each other enough, that's a secret no one could hide." Draco whispered.

Hermione looked down and laughed a little. "We don't need each other do we?"

"No," Draco admitted.

"Do we want each other?" She asked looking back up at him. He didn't answer though. He didn't know what he wanted. But he hugged her instead. Hermione let a tear run down her face and onto his shoulder. She was finding herself for the first time and it was with him. She felt as if she was the happiest when she was around him.

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Draco walked into the Great Hall and sat next to Blaise who seemed as high as the sky. "I'm baked, Draco. You should have been there." He smelled so bad.

Draco grabbed a cookie and shoved it in his mouth. He watched Hermione walk in with some girls in the Hufflepuff house laughing. She looked over and her smile disappeared. Draco couldn't stand to see her unhappy anymore.

"Draco, oh my God, I heard that stupid Granger girl was trying to get with that new professor." Blaise said laughing. "That really hot one. I wanna bang her like she's never been banged before. I get horny thinking about her." Blaise burst out laughing and everyone could hear him. Draco glared at him. He was so baked

Draco felt a tapping on his shoulder and turned around to see Blair Conwell. She looked at Blaise like he had five heads though. "Mr. Malfoy, could you show me where the bridges are. I seemed to have forgotten. There are so many doors." Draco nodded and followed her upstairs.

He glanced at Hermione and Hermione glanced at him. Her heart throbbed for the feeling of his lips against hers. She watched him follow her; she knew he was going to try to get with the professor.

"Hey Hermione," Ginny said sitting next to her. Hermione forced a smile, pretending like there was nothing wrong.

Draco led her to the bridges and they both stopped to look over the water. "You're so lucky to go here. I always wanted to but my parents never let me. They said it was too expensive."

"Not really," Draco said. "How old are you anyway?"

"I graduated two years ago. I worked at my old school for about a year as a Quidditch coach but then decided teaching Quidditch was too hard for me. I'm not a teacher at all. I'd rather be a caretaker. Here anyway, Australia has extremely hot conditions."

"The weather is fine here," Draco told her.

"Yeah and all of you kids are so nice." She said smiling at him.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on, I'm not a kid."

"Then what are you, a man?" She laughed.

"I'm getting there. But I'm not a kid."

"And I'm almost a little girl." Draco thought different. She was a woman. "So, what's it like to be Draco Malfoy? Head Boy with his stunning Head Girlfriend?"

"Uh, no, Granger is hardly and never will be my girlfriend."

"You don't have a girlfriend? Jeez, you're like the hottest guy around."

"You think?" Draco asked smiling.

"I know so, Draco." She got closer to him and then licked his face. Was he dreaming? This couldn't be real. He had to have taken in some of the fumes from Blaise.

"Your sexy, Draco." She whispered. Draco's eyes widened as her hand slipped from his chest down to his belt. "You made me horny when we shook hands." She quickly undid his belt and then threw it over the bridge. He watched it fall and tried to catch it but it was gone. She giggled.

"That was an expensive belt, Conwell!"

"Oh, Draco, you're too stiff. Call me Blair."She grabbed him and pulled him over by the pants but he pulled away. "Draco you know you want to."

"No I don't Blair." He said as she pulled him closer. Was she on drugs?

"Draco, show a real woman how it's done here in England."

"No, Blair. Go find another guy, every one else thinks your hot."

"I like you most of all though." Blair said sounding sad, finally giving up. What was Draco doing? He was passing down an older, hotter woman because she threw a belt over the bridge.

"Look, this is completely wrong and you know it. We'd get caught one way or another. If you're looking for a good time, Blaise Zabini has a lot of connections. He's fun." Draco told her, leading her back into the castle. He couldn't believe he had just passed her up.

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Hermione walked to Prefect's Bathroom to meet up with Ginny Weasley. She was already there swimming in her blue bathing suit. She looked up and saw Hermione. Hermione sat on the edge of the big bath tub and let her feet float around in the water. Ginny swam to the edge and wiped her face with a towel.

"How's life?" Ginny asked.

"So confusing," Hermione couldn't tell Ginny about Draco but she wanted to.

"Why?"

"I don't know," Hermione had to think of something to say about Draco. But maybe… "I heard a rumor that you and George Hendrickson are together." Ginny's eyes widened. She hated George; he was the dumbest Slytherin in the book. No wonder he got into that house; he was so into himself.

"Gross, absolutely gross, Hermione."

"Well I meant like it was a private thing. Just a rumor."

"That's disgusting. George is so full of himself."

"Well plus I heard that you kissed him and now everyone's turning against George."

"No! That's like me saying that you and Draco Malfoy were together…secretly!"

"No way, Ginny, that's completely impossible!" Hermione lied.

"Thank God, because I heard something about you and him." Hermione's eyes widened and she looked away. "Mandy Brocklehurst said she walked by the library and saw you and Malfoy making out on the floor." Hermione looked at Ginny.

"GROSS GINNY!" Hermione kicked the water at her.

"It's what I heard."

"No, that would never work out. Everyone would kill the both of us." Ginny laughed. "You better get that damned rumor straight, Gin."

"I will." Ginny said smiling. Hermione got up and ran to the door. "Where are you going? You haven't even swum a lap."

"I just remembered I have to do that one Potions homework." Ginny nodded, cocking her brow and watching her run off.

Hermione ran to the common room and saw Draco doing his own Potions homework. Draco looked at her; she looked worried.

Hermione sat down in the chair and stared at him. "Someone saw us,"

"Who?"

"Mandy Brocklehurst, she told everyone."

"What were we doing?"

"Kissing…in the library."

"Oh, what are we gonna do?"

"I don't know, what can we do?"

"Get in a fight. We could go down to the Great Hall tomorrow morning and you could push me and threaten me with that stick of yours."

"Are you sure you'd wanna get hurt again?"

"If people buy it," He said. Hermione nodded and looked at the box on Zingers on the coffee table. She grabbed one but Draco grabbed her wrist. Her glare set upon his own. "After I finish this homework. I don't wanna feel distracted."

"I have all the answers. I can give it to you in the morning." Draco let her go and then got down on the ground. He crawled over to her on his knees and rested in front of her. She swallowed her first bite. He was so happy to see that she was eating again.

"Did anyone ever care about you?" Draco asked.

"Not that I remember, my parents are too busy in the summer with all the dental things. I hardly saw Harry last summer because I didn't go to the Burrow." She scarfed the rest of it down and looked at Draco.

"Why were you sick?"

"Because I wanted to be perfect, mirrors have a strange affect on me." He pushed himself up by putting his elbows on her legs and got eye level with her.

"I'll be your mirror from now on." Draco said.

"Well how do I look right now?"

"Per-" Draco didn't finish his sentence, he was too busy leaning in to kiss her soft lips. Draco ran his hand up her leg, up her the side of her waist, and to her chest. She giggled and slapped his hand away. He pressed his smile against hers and laughed. Maybe he didn't want to be hurt by her tomorrow morning…

"Get away from me Malfoy!" Hermione screamed in front of the whole student body. He grabbed her arm and she whipped out her wand pointing it at his throat.

"Abicio abeo!" Hermione yelled. Draco fell on the floor, a loud thump coming from where his shoulder landed. He spun in spirals across the floor. Hermione wanted to wince for him but knew it would send off a sign.

Draco got up in pain and got out his own wand. He pointed it at her but it fell from his clutch. His arm was now week and everyone could tell. He picked it back up but Blair Conwell walked up from behind him and pushed him away. McGonagall walked up behind Hermione and grabbed her arms from the back. She took Hermione's wand and the professors led them to Dumbledore's office.

"Good job, Granger. Now were gonna get demoted from Head Boy and Girl."

"Yeah well you should have never been made Head Boy!" Hermione yelled. Draco wanted to explode with laughter.

"Well you should have never come to this school you stupid mud blood!" Draco yelled back. Hermione's heart raced with the words. She wanted to slap him.

The professors put the students in chairs across from Dumbledore and they both faced the other way. "These two have just made a fool of themselves in the Great Hall. Draco can't even pick up his wand off the ground now and Hermione pulled the spell that you're only supposed to use when you're doing some kind of cool hair do!" Blair said. "Like with a winter ball! Not when you're going to hurt some!"

"He started it," Hermione said.

"He started it," Draco mumbled in a mock voice, cross his arms.

"Shut up, Malfoy, you know you did!"

"Whatever the case was, I don't need anymore explanatory. Both of you get a weeks worth of detention, no make that 2 weeks!" Dumbledore said.

"WHAT!" Draco and Hermione said in unison. They hadn't thought of detention.

"What about Quidditch?" Draco said.

"And what about-"

"What? The reading club, Granger? Not like you have anything important going on." Draco said.

"No, Malfoy, I was going to ask about duties. You know those things where you're supposed to help out the school, those things you never do. Yeah remember those?" Draco glared at her.

"QUIET!" Dumbledore yelled. "You will start next week due to the Quidditch match this weekend. You may be on your way now." Draco got up as well as Hermione. They left the office laughing.

"Good performance, Malfoy. I really actually thought you were mad."

"Well you know, I try."

"Shit," Hermione whispered. Draco looked at her, confused. "I never gave you the potions homework did I?"

"No, I'll just skip today. I have it first. He'll think we were still in the office."

"Well then I'll skip too. I'd be getting in more trouble then you would be."

"True, but we better book it before anyone sees us. You go down the main stair case. I'll go down the back way."

"Make it a race, Malfoy. I'll kick your ass at that too." Draco smiled and stared at her for a second. He leaned in a little and she did too. But he ran off before their lips were even close.

Hermione sprinted down the stair case passing Harry and Ron and everyone else; they were all asking questions but she was too excited to stop and listen. She ran into the common room and saw it was empty. "Yes!" Hermione squealed. But then felt hands on her hips pushing her towards; Draco was trying to stop but it didn't work so well seeing that they fell on the floor, Draco on top of her.

"You worm!" Hermione yelled under him. She pushed him off and there was that same shoulder thump. He flinched in pain. "Are you okay, Malfoy?"

"Yeah, yeah." He said in a raspy voice, sitting up and trying to reach up to his shoulder.

"God, your definitely not okay, Malfoy. Take off your cloak." Draco glared at her.

"Why should I?"

"Just do it, Malfoy!" Hermione snapped. He took off his cloak at her harsh tone and she got behind him.

"Your either gonna have to take off your shirt or I'm gonna have to rip it." She looked at the white shirt and noticed why he had chosen to wear his cloak on such a hot day. There were blood stains on it from when he had cut her. "Screw it, Malfoy. Your never gonna get these stains out." Hermione grabbed the collar and fiercely ripped it down the middle. Draco choked as his tie got tighter but tore that off soon after she was done along with his shirt. Hermione hesitated to touch his taught back but did anyway. Chills ran up Draco's spine. Hermione looked at his muscle; feeling around and noticed there was a huge knot.

"It's nothing serious, just a huge knot." Hermione told him as she leaned over his shoulder to look at him. He glared at her for no reason.

He sat there for a few seconds. "Well, aren't you going to do anything about it? I obviously can't."

"Make me do everything," Hermione mumbled embarrassed. She touched the knot, goose bumps spreading on her arm as fast as the Influenza did. She slowly started caressing his shoulder. Soon she was done and he stretched around.

"Feels way better," He said turning around to face her.

"You should stretch before you play."

"Who would help me?"

"Ask your dad, get him interested. Probably too busy getting a prostituted to suck him off." Hermione blurted out. Draco glared at her but then bit his lip and looked down.

"You're probably right, that old bastard needs more help then I do." Draco eyes died back the day he came home from Crabbe's house in the summer only to hear his mother's scream…

Draco ran up the stairs and busted into his parent's bedroom only to see Lucius on his wife, holding her down and mumbling swears.

"Go, Draco!" His mother screamed as tears ran down her face. Lucius turned around and got off his wife. Narcissa got off the bed and ran into the bathroom, locking the door.

Lucius walked up to Draco, blood leaking from his lip. He grabbed Draco by the collar, push him up against the wall and hit him in the jaw. Draco remembered crying for the first time in his life that day. He remembered hurting emotionally for the first time in his life that day. He remembered wanting to kill his father for the first of many times in his life that day…

Draco got up with his hand in a fist. He walked over to the wall and slammed his hell bearing fist into it. Hermione blinked at the loud noise. She got up with her heart racing.

"I hate him, I hope he burns."

"Draco, don't say that." Hermione said. She knew his name was comforting when it came from her voice.

"Why shouldn't I! He's sick!" Hermione stood there looking at the back of him waiting for the moment of silence to pass. She wanted to relieve him but didn't know what to do.

Draco pounded the wall a little and then turned around to look at the girl. "Wanna play doctor?" Draco asked. Hermione blushed and smirked.

Draco leaned over her and ran his hand up her leg and to the brim of her skirt she giggled with her eyes close. Draco smiled as he touched her thigh. She smacked his hand away propping herself up with one elbow and looking. He looked at her laughing. "These aren't the rules, Malfoy! Have you ever played doctor?" Hermione yelled looking at him.

"No, I'm not even an EMP yet!" Hermione laughed at him as he got frustrated.

"You mean EMT?"

"Yeah, whatever. How do you play?"

"I'm obviously the patient-"

"And the patient is hurting and I've got to rescue her and I don't care! I'm making up my own rules!" Draco yelled. Hermione laughed and Draco got on top of her taking out his wand. "Now, I've got to slice you open and take out your heart." He pretended to cut her open down the middle.

"How do you expect to know what's going on if my shirt is on!" Hermione said. Draco became wide eyed and then grabbed her shirt. She grabbed his hands and burst out laughing. "I was kidding, Malfoy!" Draco laughed as she sat up and put her hands around his neck. They were so close, but not kissing yet; their noses were touching. Draco wrapped his arms around her, looking into her eyes. Was he really beginning to get caught up in corny romantic moments?

Hermione finally kissed him, soaking in the moment, loving his lips. Draco fell back, kissing her even more passionately. Hermione pulled away and looked at her watch. "We don't have a lot of time left."

"Well we can make time."

"We can't skip any more classes today, Malfoy." She rolled off of him and stared up at the ceiling.

"Why not? We were just getting to the good part, Granger."

"I feel bad…about skipping classes."

"Lovers know no shame." Draco whispered into her ear. She smiled, warmth filling her cheeks, butterflies inching their way into her stomach. Her knees got weak.

Author's Note: A little rushed, but its good right? Things with Blair will get better; in fact she will play a very big part in this story. Leave three reviews and I'll get back to you!

-Steph