She was so embarrassed the next morning. As she walked down stairs she was greeted by a grinning Narcissia. Hermione was confused at first then she remembered what happened.

Draco followed soon after her. He took hold of Hermione's arm as he walked her to the kitchen. When they got to the ther she pulled her arm swiftly away from him. Lucius walked in first which gave them a little time to talk.

"What are you doing?" Hermione asked "And what were you and your father talking about?"

"So nosy," he replied before kissing her nose and following his father. Hermione skulked in there after a few minutes of thought.

She sunk into her chair as she poured herself some orange juice and bit bitterly into her chocolate biscuit. Draco only smirked at her. She sat there after she finished her breakfast not in a pleasant mood.

When she left she was soon followed by Draco. She could hear his footsteps and tried to ignore them but she had no luck.

"What do you want?" she asked exasperated as she turned to face him.

He walked closer and wrapped one hand around her waist and placed the other one behind her head. He swiftly kissed her with passion.

When he pulled apart he replied "I want to finish what we started last night." He smirked at her and raised an eyebrow.

She laughed for a second at him. "Draco," she said to him as if he were a child which only made him angier.

"We just started to get along lastnight,No" she said to him. She started to pull herself from him.

"I didn't ask if you wanted to," he said bitterly as he gained his grip back on her.

She was shocked by his sudden burst of childishness. "Don't you dare talk to me that way!And I am not your slave girl." After that he just glarred at her for a moment she detangled herself from him and left.

She stomped down the hall and down stairs. As she reached the door to go take a walk she heard glass shatter against a wall, she assumed it came from up stairs. So to retailate she slammed the door as hard as she could. She walked towards the lake and when she got there she sat on the bay.

She let her fingers dance across the water. She sat there trying to relieve some of her stress.

Suddenly she was grabbed from behind and her mouth was covered. She wiggled and squirmed trying to get of the grip.The person dragged her into the forestry behind the lake and placed her in front of the tree. She could tell it was a male but still couldn't see his face because he was cloaked.

"I'm not here to harm you ,Hermione," he whispered to her "Now please whatever you do don't scream."

'Don't scream,' she thought 'Is he mad?'

So naturally when her mouth was realised she remand quite. She breathed deeply trying not to show her fear. Her hands were sweaty and nasty. She could feel all the stress from this past week building up and she knew the bridge was about to break.

"Are you okay?" he asked and before she knew it everything went black.

"Hermione," he yelled as she fell to the floor. He wasn't sure what to do so he picked her up and carried her to his camp sit about a mile or so deep into the forest.

Draco started to get worried about Hermione. He hadn't seen since eight that morning and that was about tweleve hours ago. He paced his room in frustration. He knew she could leave because the ports and all transportation routes were covered so she couldn't leave.

"Damn it!' he yelled to himslef "I shouldn't have even let her out of the house!"

"Draco," Narcissa called throught the door.

"Ma'am," he replied turning his attention to the closed door. "Super will be ready soon, why don't you and Hermione come on down."

"Umm, Mum," he hesitated "Err...well we aren't really hungry."

He hated lying to his mother but he also hated being punished.

"Are you sure," his mother asked skeptically.

"Yeah," he said as he listened to the door. Not long after he could hear her footsteps heading down the hall.

"Hermione, once I get my hands on you," he cursed to himself as he looked out the window.

Hermione woke up slightly distraught. She found herself on a soft but small cot bed. She looked around the room. Her head quickly turned to the door as she saw the door slowly open. She pushed herself against the wall. Though, once she saw the figure she squealed with joy.

"Ron," she said getting up and giving him a huge hug! "How dare you scare me like that!"

"I didn't mean to scare you, it was the only way I could talk to you," he replied.

She couldn't help it she kissed him on the cheeks many times over and over. "I miss you so much! I wish had seen you yesterday, wait..." she paused for a second.

"If you're still here, does that mean so is Harry," she asked. "Yes he's still here Hermione, but Malfoy's charm still worked, perfectly I might add."

"What do you mean?" she questioned warily.

"No Harry thinks you two were barely friends," she took this hard. She walked back over to the bed and sat down.

Her eyes started to water. She looked up at him solemnly. "He's always asking why we even came in the first place," Ron added apparently not noticing how much this was hurting her.

"You know," she said as she started to confess her feelings "I figured he would be this way, but I never really thought it would be this bad.I never expected that he would actually stop loving me..." She paused for a brief moment trying not to cry. " So why did y'all stay here?"

She tried to compose herself and he could tell. He had always thought they would last forever and apparently so did she.

"We stayed so we could bring you back home," Ron said.

"That would never work Ron, and you know it," she said as she got up and walked towards the door.

"Hermione, please," Ron said "For the fate of Good and Evil rest in your hands."

"And," she said "Harry will never love me, why should I even try. I may hate Draco but at least he cares for me."

"Does he really, " Ron questioned "The only reason Harry doesn't love you is because of Malfoy."

"I know that Ron," she said sadly.

"What?" Ron asked getting angry with her stubborness "Do you love him ?"

She turned back to him , her eyes full of anger and disbelief.

"How dare you even think that I could ever love Draco," she said seethingly.

"Well you've started calling him by his first name." Ron accused.

"Well if you haven't noticed," she said flicking her ring finger up him showing her ring "I can't really call him Malfoy anymore!"

He felt bad now for making her angry. "Hermione, I'm sorry," he said trying to make her fell better.

"No , Ron I am," she said "For being so stupid to let all this happen!"

"It's not your fault," He said hugging her "You couldn't have helped this if you wanted to."

"Thanks Ron," She said sniffling. She looked outside and realised how late it was.

"Oh Ron, I hate to go but I've been gone for a while and I'm sure Draco is about ready to kill me," she said heading for the door.

"Wait, are you not coming with us," he asked sadly.

"Ron, if they caught us trying to leaving the would kill everyone." She said somberly. "And I can't let that happen."

She kissed him swiftly on cheek before leaving and walking ou the door. She was amazed at how well she knew this area. She found her way back to the castle about half an hour later.

When she reached the big oak doors she found Draco. He looked extremly pissed! HE grabbed her by the fore arm and dragged her up stairs. Which she didn't take very well. When they got into the room she noticed the wall was stained with alcohol from where he had thrown the glass and still hadn't cleaned it up.

She walked over to it and slowly started to pick up the pieces of glass up. He just watched her confused she picked up a sharp piece and before he knew she had cut herself.

He walked over t her kneeing down and grabbing her hand. "I never said you had to clean this up"he said as he wiped the blood away from her cut.

"Well it didn't look like you were going to do anything about it and besides someone could get hurt," she retorted.

"Like you," he smirked as he pulled out his wand and casted a spell.

It stung for a bit but the bleeding did stop. "Thanks," she said quitely "Sorry I was late."

"Yeah, well I ahd to make excuses over and over to mother why you weren't around." he said angrily.

"Well its not like it was my fault!" she retorted.

He looked at her quizically for a moment. She quickly covered her mouth though realising what she had just said.

"What do you mean it wasn't your fault," he said advancing on her. "Nothing," she said quickly as she stepped away.

Her stomach growled loudly. She had only had one choclate biscuit all day. "Fine then if you won't tell me, I won't let you eat anything until you do," he said triumphantly.

"Its nothing," she said "I just got lost in the forest."

"Liar," he said "If you had gotten lost you wouldn't have hesitated."

"It was nothing," she said getting frustrated as she went to the closet. She pulled out a night gown and headed for the bathroom but he quickly stopped the door from closing.

"Don't lie to me Hermione," he said "You saw someone didn't you?"

"It was no one," she said trying to go get dressed again.

"So there was someone?"

"Yes, but he , he...he just wanted to talk." she said getting shaky.

Draco let the door go so she could change, but once she was changed he continue asking questions.

When she came out he was in bed reading a book and she walked and got on the other side. She layed on her side and turned her back towards him.

'Now,' he thought to himself.

"Hermione, " Draco said.

"Uh-huh" she said sleepily.

"Who was the man you saw today," he asked.

"No one," she lied "Don't worry about it Draco."

She turned to look at him. "Why can't you just believe me for once," she asked trying to sound hurt.

"Hermione, don't play with me I know you're lying. And I know you either saw Ron or Harry. I'm not stupid, our people have been watching them all day and night. Now tell which one was it."

"Ron," she said quitely.

"What happened," he asked curiously because it was kind of odd for them just to "talk" for most of the day.

"Nothing," she said " I was just sitting at the lake and he came out of no where. It scared me and I blacked out for sometime, and I woke up, and we talked."

"Did you see Harry?"

"No," she said "but I wish I did."

This hurt Draco, but he knew it didn't matter. Harry would never love her again. He could tell it hurt her though and that she had obviously found out about Harry.

"So I guess my charm worked," Draco smriked at her.

"Shut up," she said turning her back to him once more.

He placed his hand on her uncovered shoulder which sent shivers up her spine. "Stop he said jerking her shoulder away. He kissed it lightly. She hated that it was him being in this close but his warm breath felt so pleasant. "Night," he whispered huskily in her ear.

She wanted to pull all of her hair out. She loved it when he talked like that but hated him.

She could tell he wasn't asleep, he was waiting for her to sleep. She wasn't tired though, she had been practically asleep for most of the day.

"Draco," she said quietly.

"hmm," was his reply as he turned back to her.

"I can't sleep," she said exasperate. "Well I'm sure I could think of something we could do," he said cheekily.

"Draco, is that all you think about," she said sternly.

"Read a book then," he said turning back around.

"I would but that would just keep me up even later. Why can't you sleep?" she asked him.

"I don't know, I always have trouble sleeping," he said.

"I'm sorry," she said pulling him to where he was on his back and wrapping her arm around his.

She kissed his arm feeling bad for him. That must be terrible, always havng leeping problems.

"I'm sorry you can't to sleep," she repeated.

"It's ok, Its not like its your fault."

When he wrapped his arms around her she suddenly fell asleep. Though Draco had to just lay there, sleepless.

The next morning when she woke up Draco was already out of bed. She looked around and figured he was in the bathroom.

She rolled back over and tried to go back to sleep but no such luck. Her stomach growled even louder than it did last night. She groaned into the pillow. The door to the bathroom and Draco came out.

Steam came out with him and he was soaking wet. All he had was a towel on. His blonde hair was sticking to his face and water ran down his chest.

She turned around though as he smirked at her.

"Liked what you see," he asked "Cause I do,"

"Oh get over yourself," she said getting up. She put on her robe and went to the door to leave.

As she was about to leave she stopped "Oh and I was wondering, did you ever get to sleep?"

"Yeah," he lied to her. He rather her think he did than get worried over him.

A/N: Hay! I know I know, I said like 3 weeks ago that I'd update but here's the story.I was going to update, thenI got grounded for a week. Well after that week I got really lazy and haven'ttill today!I feel so bad for making y'all wait! I know its not as long as Ch.7 but I hope you like!

Oh and thanks for all the reviews from theAuthor's Note it really helped with making this chapter!

Love Patricia