Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Harry Potter. That all belongs to…. Yep! U guessed it! JK Rowling!!!!!!

A/n: Yah I kno! Past couple chappies have been really short… I'm working on it!

Chapter 10

*…Fight! Fight! Fight!…*

As Draco walked forward he saw that the person that was yelling at Harry was none other than…David!

"Craig! You better watch out! Don't act smart with me!"

"Potter, you dumbass! I'm not acting smart. What the hell are you talking about? I don't walk around like I'm the king of anything!"

"yes you do! Walking around with Hermione like that! Putting your arms around her waist… and maybe she didn't notice, but as you were coming here I saw you trying to slip your hands up her shirt. Good thing I stopped you in time!"

Draco heard a tiny, but audible gasp to the right. He turned and saw Hermione standing a couple feet away, clearly in shock, he made sure not to let her see him, though.

"Listen Potter, it's none of your business what I do with Hermione! As long as she is happy, we can do anything!"

"you wanna bet?"

"you wanna bet that I can't do anything I want with Hermione? That's insane! Why on earth wouldn't I be able to do anything I want with her?"

"because you wont be alive to do it!" Harry yelled and then ran headfirst at David kicking, punching, biting, pulling, pinching or doing anything he could think of to hurt him.

"no! stop!" Hermione shouted "someone do something before they hurt each other!"

But no one seemed to want to help. Instead, they either took a step away or started cheering "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"

Hermione took a deep breath and then said "Fine! Don't help! Leave them to kill each other! I'll just have to do t myself!"

Draco wanted to be one of the ones that left… or even one of the ones who were cheering, but he just stood there debated what he should do. He knew he couldn't let Hermione go in there and try to stop them. Who knew what Harry might do? He might start fighting with her the same way he was doing to David right now… ouch! That looked like it hurt! But time was running out… Draco had to decide. Was he going to leave and pretend he never saw anything, or was he going to try to break up the fight?

Well, if he chose the second choice there was an up side and a down side. The up side was that he would be majorly helping out Hermione. She wouldn't be able to stop this thing without him. The down side was that he would also be helping out… David. And that was the last thing he wanted to do. And if he chose the first choice…well, the up side was that David, who was a major threat, might be seriously hurt, or lets just say… he might stop being a threat at all. The down side was that if he didn't stop this, Hermione might, and probably would be hurt.

By the time Draco had gotten all this thinking done, Hermione had reached the two and was apparently trying to figure out what to do, or where to start. She tried sticking her hand in between them but then they moved and her hand was almost squished.

Draco didn't know what else to do. He had to help her… he couldn't just watch as she tried to do this alone. Draco closed his eyes and tried to stop himself from thinking that he was only helping Hermione and David to be together. Draco opened his eyes and started running.

Hermione looked up, "Draco! Draco! Thank God you're here! Please help me!"

Draco stopped for a second and saw that she was crying. He gave her a reassuring smile and then jumped in, grabbed Harry's collar, and pulled him back with his strong arms. (A/N: haha sorry I just had to add that in… about the strong arms… makes him seem sexier!) He squirmed and tried to get away from Draco but he couldn't. David tried to get up and Draco saw that he looked a lot worse when Harry wasn't on top of him. His face was bleeding. He couldn't seem to get himself up and bruises were already showing up all around his face. Draco stopped looking at him and turned back to Harry.

"Potter, I really don't think you should go around attacking people who you don't know very well." Draco said fiercely, still holding his collar.

"You can't tell me who I can or cant attack, Malfoy" Harry spat back, breaking loose of Draco's grasp. Then he turned to Hermione, "Hermione, you're not to see this boy again, do you understand?"

"You're not her father, Potter. But wait a second, you wouldn't know anything about fathers, would you? You've never had one" Malfoy said coolly, but with complete loathing in his eyes.

Once again, Harry attacked. Draco was too quick for him, though. He pulled out his wand and yelled "stupify!"

Harry froze and then fell to the ground. Draco turned around to see what had happened with Hermione and saw her on the floor next to him hugging him and brushing her fingers over where Harry had punched him. The blood was gone, though. Well, of course it was gone, Hermione was just about the smartest student at Hogwarts, how could she not know how to get rid of some blood?

She looked up and saw that Harry was on the floor and Draco was standing there looking at her.

"Draco! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much!" She said as she was running over to him and then gave him a huge hug. He pulled away and looked down at her face. She was still crying, and shaking. He pulled her back close to him and closed his eyes. 'I wish we could stay this way forever, Hermione… you don't know how much it's hurting me to see you with David'

"look, Hermione, don't worry about this. It's over, ok? Forget about it."

"I wish I could Draco.. But, you saw him… he was like a monster… I couldn't stop him. I don't know what happened. He used to be so kind and gentle…" she trailed off

They stood there for a minute hugging each other in silence then she moved away and said, "I better go, I have to see what I can do for David.."

"yeah… David… k, bye"

"bye Draco" and as she left, she gave him a little kiss on his cheek…

A/N: Okay/…/ this one was a lil bit longer right? It should still probly be longer… but this one was a little bit better! Ok, well plz review! Have FuN!!!!!

~~~~Rita