A/N I can't really say much at this point.

Chapter 2

Hermione woke up the next day to an alarm clock. Norma was already dressed and ready for her first class.

"You'll have the room to yourself the first class so you can get ready. My tape recorder has all your classes being said as they are happening. It catches every voice in the room." Hermione sat up.

"Why can't I just go to my classes?"

"They are bewitching every reflective thing in the class. Please forgive me for last night, Hermione. I did not mean to put so much pain and anger into it."

"It's fine." Norma left her in peace and Hermione took a shower. She changed and did whatever she needed to. After she was finished she turned on the so called 'tape recorder' and listened to her first class: potions. It seemed like there was already fuss between Snape and Harry.

"Potter are you aware of the trouble you are getting yourself into?" Snape said. She wondered what Harry had done.

"No, all I did was come in with Maura, Ron and Amy and sat down." Hermione could tell that Harry was trying to keep his anger inside of him. He had already lost his temper with the Dursley's that summer and went to go stay at the Burrow. They had called his parents "useless piles of dog droppings" after Harry had gotten about 5 letters from Hermione telling him about why she had gotten in trouble; Draco had called too many times. Vernon Dursley seemed to have had enough of the owls.

"Don't be smart with me, Potter."

"I'm not smart though, I am very dumb." Hermione winced knowing how much trouble Harry was getting himself into.

"Potter, you knocked over Pansy's cauldron with-"

"Scolding coffee in it! It's not like she was going to use it! She was going to drink out of it!" Harry said angrily.

"It's going to rot the floors, Potter, and you will have to pay for it."

"Sue me, then."

"That's a week's worth detention for you, Potter."

"Hmm, I didn't see it coming." Hermione could only picture Snape's face in her mind.

"Harry shut up, were not going to have any practices if you keep it up." Ron whispered. Like Norma said, it caught every voice in the class room.

In the class room Draco sat next to Crabbe and Goyle. The only people in the house who didn't make threats to him, they were perhaps too stupid to.

Maura glared at him with her deep sea blue eyes as she passed him. Draco glared right back.

"What're you lookin' at Draco?" Crabbe asked.

"Farrell's ass." Draco said it loud enough for Maura to hear but quiet enough so that Snape and the others couldn't. He was just trying to get under her skin. Maura turned around, walked up and slapped him across the face. "Oh, she's feisty just like Hermione."

"Shut the fuck up, you ass hole." Maura whispered through clenched teeth.

Hermione heard this and didn't know what to think.

"Is that was I get? Hermione never slapped me. Well maybe she did, I just wasn't sober enough."

"Or maybe you were high like all the rest of your friends."

"Except Blaise, of course. What do you two have going on anyway?"

"We don't have anything going on, Malfoy. We're just friends."

"Did you ever go out?"

"No, he raped me in 5th year when he was drunk." She turned around but stopped when she heard Draco said the rudest thing he ever would.

"Mind if I try." Maura turned around.

"You sick piece of shit." Hermione was heart broken. "If this is what you did to Hermione, well you better stop because you know what?"

"She thinks we're in love, I know Maura. But if you give me a chance-" He looked her up and down taking more time on looking at her hips and chest. "We can probably make something of it." Draco was trying to make her as mad as possible.

"Go to hell."

Hermione went through the rest of classes calmly still trying to get over what Draco did to Maura. She had lunch with Norma. They reviewed her thoughts on growing up and how she just wanted to stay a little girl when she was 13. "Some things don't last forever, but when they end, they are creating a new, more special gift from the heavens." Hermione didn't know she actaully believed in heaven.

Around dinner, Norma let Hermione go and she went to her dormitory, not wanting to see anything of Draco. But she did. He was sitting on the studying. Hermione slammed the door while coming in and didn't look at him. He looked at her and got up. Draco grabbed her things but she didn't let go. She glared at him.

"What's wrong, beautiful?"

"Is that what you told, Maura? That she was beautiful too?"

"I didn't tell Maura anything." Hermione's eyes flooded with tears as she pulled her stuff back and went into her room. Draco followed her. "What's wrong, Hermione?"

"Go away, Malfoy." Hermione said under her breath. Hermione set her stuff down on her bed.

"Did you just call me by my last name?" She turned around.

"You said that I think that we're in love. You wanted to rape Maura! That's what you said! I heard every little bit of your conversation with Norma's tape recorder, Malfoy!"

"Hermione, stop."

"No, Malfoy, you stop. If you were really in love with me, you wouldn't have said those things." Hermione exited her room and went into Draco's room. She took the picture of herself and him off of his bedside table and threw it at the wall. Glass fell to the floor.

"Your wrong about it Hermione, see I was-"

"No, Malfoy, you're wrong. You may have been trying to get on her nerves, but you tore the soul out of me!" Hermione left and went to dinner with tears streaming down her face. Draco put his hands on his head and tried to breathe.

Hermione entered the Great Hall and sat next to Amy and Ron. Harry and Maura weren't there surprisingly.

"'Mione, what's wrong?" Ron asked.

"Did you hear what he said to Maura?"

"What do you mean? Who are you talking about?" Ron asked.

"She told me. She and Harry and getting some things together for their potions project together. They'll be down soon." Amy said, putting her arms around Hermione's shoulders.

"What'd who say?" Ron asked.

"Remember, in potions?"

"Oh yeah, that dirty bastard. I saved his life, want me to go kill him?"

"I'd rather watch Brad, Kyan and Matt kill him."

"Did, Maura tell you that her and Matt broke up?" Hermione raised her head and looked at Amy. "She didn't wanna hold him back from the world. He's moving to America with his brother."

"Why?"

"They are staying there for four years to help out the ministry down there."

"What's...what's Kyan doing?"

"He's in the Control of Magical Creatures department." Hermione never knew that Kyan was good at anything.

"And Brad?"

"He's in the Department of Mysteries. He's actually quiet good in things like that." Maura and Harry came in smiling and laughing with many books. They sat down opposite from the other three.

"Hermione, I have so much to tell you and its not-"

"I already know." Hermione said.

"I'm sorry."

"Maura, don't be. It's not your fault." It was silent until Hermione had the courage to ask a question. "Did Blaise really..." Hermione's sentence drifted off. Maura looked up from the book she was skimming through.

"Yes, but then we became friends."

"Nothing more, right?"

"Nothing more,"

After dinner Hermione went down to the lake. She saw someone in a black cloak throwing rocks into the water. Hermione slowly approached the lake. She coughed trying to make the person turn around. Surely they did, but the shadows made it impossible to see a face. They pulled down their hood. Hermione ran up to the person and wrapped her arms around them and then her legs around their waist. It was Brad Harrison.

"Brad, oh my God, I was just talking about you with Amy." Brad wrapped his arms around her waist. Hermione kissed him a couple times and then smiled. He smiled revealing that he had gotten his braces off.

"I was hoping that you would find me before I had to find you."

"I'm head girl."

"I suspect Draco's head boy."

"You mean Malfoy?"

"What happened?"

"He said some stupid things to Maura thinking I wouldn't find out somehow. Do you want to go inside?"

"I'd thought you would never ask." They walked inside and Brad greeted all of the younger Ravenclaws. Hermione walked him up to the dormitory and to her surprise Draco was gone. Getting Maura.

"So, this is the head girl and boy dorms. Nicer then what we had, of course this place would have looked better in blue and bronze." Hermione summoned some tea on the coffee table where all of Draco's books had been. She sat down and Brad sat next to her. They drank their tea and stared silently at the fire.

Hermione put her cup down and grabbed Brad's warm hand. He looked at her hand and then into her honey eyes. He put his cup down and leaned over to Hermione. They didn't kiss, only stared at each other's eyes. Hermione filled in the existing space and put her free hand on the side of his face. Brad put his hands on her back before falling on top of her. She took her other hand and put it on the back of his neck. He put his hand on hers. Brad returned the kiss many times before he snuck his tongue into her mouth.

Hermione felt his hand come off hers and go up the side of her body, he was resisting going under her clothes but she let him anyway.

Draco stomped through the halls looking for Maura. He finally found her talking to one of her Hufflepuff friends who left before Draco could reach them. Draco took her by the wrists and brought her into an empty classroom nearby.

"What the fuck did you tell her, Maura?"

"I didn't tell her anything, Draco." He pinned her against the wall and breathed into her ear, chills running down her spine.

"I know you told her something."

"Why do you care so much if you don't love her?"

"Because," Draco ran one of his hands up her shirt. "What did you tell her, you dirty little bitch?"

"I already told you, nothing!" Maura was being extremely calm and Draco hated it.

"I know your lying, you bitch." Draco took her by the wrists once again and led her to the dormitory. He whispered the password and went in. He and Maura saw Hermione taking off someone's shirt. He was muscular and tall...and he was familiar. Draco was shocked and somewhat heart broken that the two hadn't noticed Maura and Draco come in. Maura was smiling.

Draco walked out of the room with Maura who was giggling.

"Shut it you bitch."

"Bitch is an old word, would you stop using it? Where are you taking me anyway?" Pretty soon, Draco was sitting at the lakes age watching Maura try to skip rocks in the water. She wasn't that great. Draco was sick of seeing her screw it up so her got up and picked a rock up and successfully skipped it. Maura looked at him. He walked over to her and showed her where to put her fingers.

"You know, Malfoy, if you hadn't screwed up saying those things to me, you would probably be banging her right now."

"Shut up," He skipped another rock and then watched her try to skip one. It skipped thrice before sinking into the water. She picked up another larger rock, backed up and then threw it and it went pretty far until the squid came up from the water and caught it in its mouth.

"You have a good arm." Draco said.

"My dad taught me how to throw." She was full of bliss looking at the grass. "He taught me how to play that muggle baseball game that all the Americans are crazy about."

"What happened to him?"

"Did I say anything happened to him?"

"No, but it just sounds like something did. Sorry," Maura sat down and watched him. It was silent for a few minutes; just the sound of crickets and the splish-splash of rocks skimming across the water.

"It happened in a car cash when I was seven. But every time I look at Matt I see him. And every time I think of how Matt and I were together, I see my parents." Draco looked at Maura. "He's in America, helping the ministry down there." Even though Maura was talking about sad things, the bliss still glowed inside of her. Draco knew that the girl was strong and would never give up hope for anything. It was easy to tell that she wanted to work at St. Mungo's or something with kids.

"Well you didn't exactly kill your dad and then screw a relationship up." Draco muttered to himself.

"What?"

"Nothing," Draco lied. "Who do you think that was with Hermione?"

"It was Brad Harrison of course." Draco chucked another rock at the water. "I'm sure you didn't mean those things and didn't mean to break Hermione's heart." Maura said out of the blue. Draco turned around.

"I didn't, but I did break her heart and now all she's calling me is Malfoy. I just wanted to make you pissed off." Maura rolled her eyes.

"Well you did." Maura paused. "Do I look cute when I'm mad?" She asked jokingly. Draco sat down next to her.

"Yeah, but not as cute as Hermione." Maura grasped Draco's forearm and squeezed it.

"She'll be back for more of you." Maura said. Draco put his hand on hers.

"I hope so 'cuz I really do love her a lot but I'm just so sick of everyone in my house telling me that I'm the sorriest excuse for a Slytherin."

Common Room

Brad looked into Hermione's eyes and smiled. Hermione grinned.

"We shouldn't be doing this" Brad said still smiling.

"Doing what?" Hermione asked.

"Lying on top of each other, making out without shirts on. I don't even know if I'm aloud here. I'm sure you have more important things to do" Hermione remembered right then that she had to go to Occlumency.

"Speaking of which, I have to go to Occlumency which means you have to leave." Brad sat up and got off of her. Hermione put her shirt back on.

"Occluwhat?"

"Nothing, you just have to leave because if Draco gets back he will for surely try to kill you." Brad got up and put his shirt and cloak back on. Hermione grabbed her wand and looked at Brad. She put her hand on his cheek and caressed it with her thumb.

"I wish we could spend more time together. Write me," Their lips met for one final kiss and Hermione left to go to Occlumency.

She entered the classroom of bored professors: Snape, Dumbledore, Honnete and Trelawney. They stared at her with a little bit of anger in their eyes.

"Ms. Granger you are a half an hour late." Snape said. Hermione rolled her eyes.

"I was doing homework." Hermione lied.

"Cheating were you?" Honnete asked. Hermione stopped and glared. There was the tape recorder on the table.

"I do all my homework by myself, Norma, and I also do other people's homework because they threaten my friends and me."

"Do not address your professor like that." Snape said. Hermione felt anger welling up inside her.

She sat down with a mirror in front of her faced down and sighed.

"Now, when we pick this mirror up and you look into it, Hermione we are all going to put piercing and heartbreaking visions into it and see how much pain you can handle until you..." Honnete's sentence drifted on.

"Well until you go unconscious." Dumbledore said.

"Un-unconscious? Are you out of your mind? That is absurd and not to mention dangerous!" The mirror suddenly stood up and Hermione said Maura, Draco, Harry and Ron being whipped and falling onto the floor, bleeding. Hermione's lip trembled. The visions entered her mind and she held onto the table with pain invading her body. She looked at Snape and knew that he was giving the one of Harry. She breathed harshly and looked at Norma. She had Draco. Hermione closed her eyes at the pain as she fell to the ground. She screamed.

"Stop!" Hermione yelled. Hermione's mind was going feral as she felt fangs growing in her mouth. Fur started to grow and she was a wolf once again. The visions still stayed there but they were less painful. The professor got up and backed away from the wolf they knew as Hermione; the animagus. Hermione swallowed the aroma of Honnete. She smelt exactly like Draco and Hermione hated it.

"Severus we need to stop or else she could go mad." Dumbledore said.

"She won't learn anything, Albus." Hermione felt a sensation go through her body as she stared straight into Snape's eyes. The vision of Harry was gone. Then she stared at Honnete, the vision of Draco was gone. Trelawney; Maura was gone. And Dumbledore; Ron was gone.

Hermione collapsed on the floor as herself in pain.

"She caught on," Snape said.

"Hermione, you can go for tonight." Dumbledore said. Hermione got up, grabbed her wand and left with an aching mind and body.

She went into the hall and felt a tingle run through her hands, wanting some sort of weapon to kill someone. This was unusual. She blinked as the aching got worse and finally she saw a picture of Blaise Zabini in her mind.

There was sniggering going on somewhere, but Hermione didn't know where. She looked around and saw Blaise Zabini coming up from behind her.

"It's you." Hermione whispered through clenched teeth. "You're doing this to me." Blaise walked up to her and put his hands on her shoulders.

"Think what you want. It's not me, but I can feel the pain coming off of you. Everyone can. You're like a ghost, Hermione. You're glowing with that pain."

"Shut up,"

"I can offer you something that will make the pain go away. You won't glow so much. I can give you everything and anything you want. For a price."

"What's the price?"

"Accept first." Hermione knew she could get out of this is she had to.

"I accept."

"You know those visions you've been having with your friends being tortured and killed, well have you ever thought that may be you?"

"Those aren't my visions."

"I think not my friend, anyhow, you make that your future and I can give you anything you want." Hermione slapped him. Blaise took her by the wrists and pushed her against the wall.

"I won't kill them for you." Blaise licked her cheek and put one of his hands on her stomach.

"You will, you will do what I say now. You accepted." His hand ran up to her breasts.

"That wasn't part of the deal." Hermione raised her knee and it hit him in the crotch.

"Oh, shit." Hermione ran down the hall and bumped into Harry and Ron. Harry caught her in his arms.

"Hermione, what's wrong?"

"I can't stay here, in this school. I need to get out."

"Come with us, we're going to Hagrid's." Ron said. Harry, Hermione and Ron walked outside into the light rain but there was still sun. They walked to Hagrid's which smelt of tea. Hermione sat down around the table.

"'Ello, 'Ermione. 'Aven't seen you in a while."

"I've been busy. Listen, Hagrid, do you think you could show us a spell to make people leave us alone."

"Well I could but it's against the school rules. So no, I can't. Why, who's bothering you?"

"It's Blaise Zabini."

"I'll make him into a bug and then squash him for you, Hermione." Ron said and laughed. Hermione grinned.

"What 'bout that map 'Arry has? Can't you use that? That way you'll know where he is and he can't bother you."

"Well if Harry would let me."

"I hardly ever see you anymore!" Harry said looking at Hagrid as he poured a cup of tea for them.

"Well, I'll come back to the Common Room with you and get it then." Hermione insisted.

"Who said you could?" Harry said. Harry took his cup of tea forgetting that Hagrid's culinary arts weren't all that great. He stood up and ran to the window and then spit the tea out.

"I'll take that as a yes." Hermione took a sip of tea and then ran to the window as well. "Hagrid, what did you put in that! It tastes bogies!" Hermione went back to the table and wiped her mouth.

"You eat bogies?" Ron asked.

"No! I'm just- Ron have you ever had a cold before and when you don't feel like blowing your nose you...well you suck it down and you can taste it?" Hermione said pounding her fist on the table. Harry was laughing of course.

"Oh,"

"Well that's not tea! That's professor Snape's truth potion!" Hermione's eyes became wide and she was shocked out of her wits.

"What!" Hermione and Harry yelled. Ron pushed his tea ahead smiling. Although he hadn't drank any he still didn't want to take chances.

"By the way, 'Arry, what 'ave you got going on with Maura Farrell?" Harry tried to hold his mouth shut but the words came out anyway.

"We snogged and that's all!" Hermione laughed.

Once the Golden Trio had left Hagrid's Hut they went up to the Gryffindor Tower.

The Lake

Maura stood up after a long conversation about Hermione. "Well, Malfoy, I have to go. I've got homework to do."

"Yeah right and who said you could go?"

"You want me to stay?" Draco was at lost of words. It had been a very long time sense he had had a conversation with a girl that wasn't his love interest. "Well, do you or don't you?"

"Yes, Farrell, I want you to stay." Maura bent down and picked up a stone. She threw it and skipped 6 times.

"Why?"

"I'd rather be with someone then be alone." Maura stared at him. "Not like a relationship, I just want to talk to a friend I guess."

"I'm your friend? Sense when?"

"Sense I dunno! But you're the only person I've ever talked to about my love life. Ever, Farrell so you better keep your mouth quiet." Maura rolled her eyes.

"Would you stop using my last name, call me by the name my parents gave me." Maura demanded.

"Maura," He muttered. She started humming a song that soothed Draco's aching mind. "What are you humming?"

"A song."

"What song?" Draco was getting irritated.

"I'll be the embrace that keeps you warm, for you're the sun that breaks the storm. I'll be alright and I'll sleep sound, as long as you keep comin' round, oh pretty baby."

"What the hell are you singing, Maura?"

"Pretty baby, but you wouldn't know the artist because you are a pureblood and I am a mudblood. Can I please go! I'm wet and cold and I..." She didn't finish her sentence.

"You what?"

"I wanna see Harry."

"Potter?"

"He and Ron saved your life last year. You're lucky you're alive."

"I know, but of all people, you like Potter? Boy wonder, part of the Golden Trio?"

"Hermione's part of the Golden Trio."

"So, she had a wild side to her."

"I didn't realize that when she drank about 10 beers in a row last year and then we went flashing everybody." Maura said in a deep, dumb sounding voice.

"You guys flashed people? I wish I had seen it. Are you going to do it again this year?"

"Don't get your hopes up high you perv. It was Hermione's 16th birthday which you weren't there for." Maura threw another rock.

"Well it didn't really occur to me if she was or wasn't with Kyan then." Maura rolled her eyes.

"Please can we go inside? We can go to any empty classroom and talk." Draco stood up as it started to rain. He looked at Maura's shirt which was almost completely see-through now and her sports bra wasn't doing so well in keeping everything undercover.

"Why don't you take a picture?" Draco blinked and looked at her face instead. "You're a fucking loser sometimes." Draco ran over to her, grabbed her by the legs and put her over his shoulder. She yelled and punched him on the back. They fell onto the ground in the mud and started sliding into the lake.

"Draco!"

"Maura!" Draco took his shirt off and started swimming further out. Maura watched him and then went under. She swam closer to him and felt very experienced and fast because she had been in a league for swimming every summer. She grabbed his ankle and then ran her hand up his leg making him very nervous but excited at the same time. She trailed her hand up the side of his stomach and finally came up.

"I think we both might be excited now." Draco said as he pulled her closer. Draco felt her hard nipples against his chest and smiled. Maura blushed as she shivered in the cold water. It was quiet as they stared into each other's eyes. She put her hands on his cheeks and kissed him. His tongue drifted into her mouth and ran his hands up her shirt but back down to the lining of her skirt. He pulled it down a little but she pulled away.

"Come on, Maura." He pleaded.

"Maybe some other time."

"I haven't had sex in almost 2 months."

"I haven't done it in 5 months." Draco kept on trying at her skirt but she would always remove his hands.

"We can't, Draco. Maybe we can make out and you can feel me up and I can maybe give you a hand job, but we can't do it, Draco." But after this Maura kissed him again and then pulled away. "You're such a slut, Draco." But Maura had given in.

Draco pushed Maura on the bed in the Room of Requirement and then took off her shirt. She grabbed his own shirt and pulled him down on her. Draco hurriedly took off his own shirt and threw it on the floor. He kissed Maura and then ran his tongue down her neck and to the lining of her gray bra. Maura grabbed his shoulders and flipped him over. She took the straps of her bra down and teased Draco by running her fingertip down his lips.

"What you are about to see is very classified, Mr. Malfoy and the information shouldn't be sold." Maura whispered as she slowly lowered the bra.

Gryffindor Tower

"Ron just give me the map!" Hermione pleaded. He held it up high so she couldn't get it. Ron and Harry laughed at her. "Give it to me."

"So Hermione how's Malfoy?" Ron asked laughing.

"He's fruggen stupid!" Hermione said. Harry and Ron looked at each other and burst out laughing trying not to lose their balance on the couch they were standing on.

"Fruggen?" Harry asked. "What kind of word is that?"

"A mix between fuck and friggen, now give me the map! You don't want Blaise to rape me and then ask me to kill you guys do you?"

"He asked you that?" Ron asked putting his hands at his sides.

"What else would I want the map for?"

"Hermione, that's some serious shit." Ron said jumping down from the couch and handing her the map.

"It doesn't matter. I gotta go talk to Malfoy now." Hermione exited the tower and went to her dormitories to find it empty. She took out the map. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Everything and everybody appeared. She searched around for Draco and saw Maura's name under his. They were in the Room of Requirement.

Hermione ran to the Room of Requirement as fast as she could knowing that Draco was doing something horrible to Maura.

Room of Requirement

Maura kissed Draco as he held onto her hips. Maura giggled as he began to stroke her leg. She rolled on top of him and then pulled the covers over herself. She got down flat and kissed his abdomen and trailed up to his lips, biting the lower one and looking into his eyes. He rolled on top of Maura trying to regain his dominance. He licked Maura's face with his hands on her breasts and then put his tongue in her mouth.

Hermione opened the door and saw Maura rolling on top of Draco laughing. She looked behind and was shocked. Draco couldn't believe what he was seeing. He was having great sex with a girl he hardly knew and then Hermione walks in; what else could possibly go wrong?

"Maura, I thought we were best friends, but I guess not, don't try being my friend again. And Draco as for you, I never want to talk to you again."

Hermione raced down to her dorm room and cried the night away. She couldn't even believe Maura had done that. In the morning she ripped up all the letters Draco had ever given her and threw away things that Maura had given her as gifts.

She then went down to breakfast looking for Blaise Zabini. He wasn't there yet. In fact Ron and Amy were the only ones there opening mail and eating breakfast together. Hermione sat across from them. Amy looked up and smiled.

"How are you this morning, Hermione?"

"I'm fine and you two?" Ron looked at Amy.

"Listen about Maura and Draco, Maura and Harry are in a huge fight now and we just wanna tell you that we're still here for you. In fact, me and Maura are fighting too."

"Thanks you guys."

"Most of the people in the house actually hate Maura now. Even Parvati and Lavender." Ron said opening a gift from Fred and George. It was their latest creation: a pair of Quidditch gloves that controlled the broom the exact wrong way. Ron wanted to give them to Draco of course.

"I haven't spoken to those two yet. I wonder if they're trying to leave me alone or something." Later on more people started showing up and Hermione was getting more and more anxious as more of the Slytherins started to appear. Draco appeared with Pansy behind him. He looked at Hermione with guilt and sorry in his eyes. Hermione looked away. When Blaise came in, Hermione got up and walked over to him.

"We need to talk, Blaise." Draco was staring at her.

"Well, Hermione, are you taking to me?"

"I just need you to do something for me." Hermione fixed his tie looking at Draco. "Come with me to the hall." Blaise turned around before leaving to look at Draco and flick him off. Draco made fists under the table and clenched his teeth.