A/N: First of all I would like to say how sorry I am that I have not
updated sooner! First of all there was a slight problem with the plot so I
had to change things, then my internet isn't working properly and I
couldn't get this uploaded. So I hope you will forgive me and well . . .
read and review this chapter!! Sorry again! Also sorry about the mix up. I
upload the document but for some reason it uploaded chapter 18!
And thanks so much to: Storywritter10791 and Kara Black. Who spotted this for me, thank you, I wouldn't have spotted it!
Ah, sweet love
"Draco!? No! No, it couldn't be him could it? No, no it can't be, that is so unfair, he's lied to me all these months, I can't believe he would do something like that! It is so cowardly and low. I can't believe he tricked me into liking him! I feel so betrayed . . ." This all went through Hermione's mind in a second. She then let out a small sob of despair. This caused Draco to look up at her with a worried expression on his face. She let out another sob, choking on it, trying to keep it in.
"Hermione what's wrong, are you hurt? What's wrong" He touched her arm, and she backed away from him. "What's wrong I won't hurt you"
"How could you" Hermione began, "Being nice to me for this last month, did you plan to pretend to like me so I would like you in return? So then I would make a complete fool of myself!" She was shouting at him, tears welling up in her eyes.
Draco didn't have a clue what she was talking about and said so. She then raged on.
"My dreams! It was you wasn't it? My mysterious dream guy, I know it was you, it all makes sense. Was that all pretend in my – your – our dreams?" Hermione was crying now, "because if it was a have nothing more to say to you. You have been haunting my dreams since September and lying to me!" She broke down on the sofa tears falling down her face. Draco didn't know she had that many tears to cry.
"No, Hermione. It was nothing like that! Somehow our dreams got entwined; I swear I didn't even know I was having these dreams until after the day I got splashed by the potion! And then I didn't even realise it was you I was talking with until after you met up with Andre, it was that night in fact which I found out! You see I would have told you earlier but I had to see if you would like me first, and just to say I have never lied to you, I just couldn't tell you. And I do care about you! Please you have to believe me I didn't mean to hurt you I just couldn't tell you. Until . . ." He stopped and looked down.
"Until what?" Hermione whispered. He still didn't answer. Then he mumbled.
"Until I knew you could like me, and not hate me, I was too embarrassed to admit it but I . . . care for you, I have since the middle of 6th year. I just didn't realise until you fainted on me. And nothing I said or did was pretend you have to believe me!" He sat on the sofa beside her and finally she did believe him. It might be that maybe just knowing that someone out there did care for you, made a spark fly that leapt into flames and kindled something wonderful and new.
"I believe you" She said. His face lighted up! He brought her in for a hug and brought her face up and gently kissed her on the lips. He thought he better not go to far and gave her a nice slow gentle kiss, which she returned. Then they pulled apart. Hermione was leaning with her head on his chest and her arm round his waist and he had his arms around her while leaning his head on hers.
They sat there without moving until Draco got up to move. "No! Hermione whispered, "Stay with me!" She pleaded. So Draco stayed and that was how they were when they woke up in the morning, just holding each other. Draco was the first to stir. He gently kissed the top of Hermione's head and gently turned her around. He then kissed her on the lips, feeling the pressure on her lips she woke up.
"Good morning!" She smiled and tilted her head up to kiss him nice and slow. She then lay back down and then said, "So what are we going to do from here?"
"I don't know I mean we could go out if . . . if you wanted to" He replied hopefully. Hermione squealed, kissed him on the lips and then said, "Does that give you your answer?" He grinned broadly which meant he did.
"Ok, well I need to talk to you tonight I need to tell you something that I forgot to tell you before. Will you meet me here at the end of the day?" He looked deep into her brown eyes waiting for an answer.
"Sure" she replied and off they went to get ready without another word.
The day passed without incident. Harry and Ron were still not talking to her, but she didn't care this time, they had ignored her before especially in their 3rd year when they hadn't talked to her for a month. Hermione was waiting in the common room for Draco and she was still puzzled at about what this whole meeting was about. She went off in her own thoughts until the wall slid open and Draco walked in looking slightly annoyed. He had a stony look on his face and there was a red mark on his cheek.
"Oh, Draco! What happened? Are you ok?" Hermione immediately began to fuss over him. He waved her off.
"It's nothing, I'll tell you later, first of all I need to tell you something urgent, I have not told anyone this and I am only telling you because you might be in danger. Don't worry" He added at the scared look on her face, "I'll protect you!" His expression was no longer stony but he looked at her Hermione with care in his eyes.
"I suppose it all has something to do with Andre Snothyp, I will start from the beginning and tell you the story as well as I can" Draco began, "you see Andre was my best friend, we were inseparable when we were together, he was the same age as me, but he went to Durmstrang, every holiday we would spend it together. He was like a brother. Then at the beginning of our 6th year, before we were going to return back to our schools, there was an accident, we were out in the muggle world, being stupid as usual" He laughed grimly and sadly, and choked back a sob.
"We bumped into a load of drunken men, we had been drinking as well so we were almost drunk, anyway words got exchanged and a fight broke out, you see Andre can be extremely mean when he wants to. Then we got separated, I was trying to fend off all these men, we couldn't use our wands otherwise we would have been in so much trouble, we called out to each other, trying to get back together, but they kept us separated, finally I kicked one of them and managed to get back to him, he was being beaten up because he was the one who said all the words, he looked terrible, a wreck, the last time I saw him was when he was reaching for me then he got knocked to the ground, he didn't move then the guys ran. They had killed him, I went to the place he had fell, but there was no sign of him. He was gone!" Draco then leant back and closed his eyes letting the tears leak out. Hermione but a hand on his shoulder.
"But now I know that he is not dead, he wants revenge, I know it" He looked at Hermione, who was looking at him in a disbelieving sort of way, "He is after me, I have been dreaming about him, he blames me for his 'death', he is trying to kill me, it was he who made the potion explode. I saw his face in the potion, and then so did Dean, there was a whirl of colour and then it exploded" He done it!"
"What does he want with me then?" Hermione asked, "Why would he want to speak to me?" She looked at Draco confused.
"I don't know, but he's trouble, please don't see him again, promise me you won't!" He grabbed her hand and looked into her eyes. She nodded in agreement. "I promise" She told him still looking into her eyes. He sighed and smiled, then brought her in for a deep kiss, not getting too passionate, which lasted for well over a minute, finally when they had finished they parted, then Draco suddenly got up and told her to stay there. He went into his room and came out a few minutes later carrying a smallish box. Hermione looked at it in confusion.
Draco sat back down and handed it to her giving her a meaningful look and mouthing the words 'open it'. Hermione looked down at the box and with her hands quivering she undid the wrapping revealing a cream covered box, she then gently pulled the lid off and inside was a necklace. It was silver with a ruby heart and silver wings, the ruby sparkled so brightly and the silver shone. Hermione took it out of its box and looked speechlessly at Draco. What could she say it was beautiful, Draco smiled at her reaction.
"I knew you'd like it, here let me put it on for you" With gentle movement he took the necklace from her hand and fastened it round her neck, when it was secure Draco leaned back to admire at gleaming at her throat.
"Draco, I can't accept this. It is too much! Not that I don't like it" She added hastily, "Why do you want to give it to me?" She asked still stunned.
"Because, it is Valentines Day and it is my gift to you, it wouldn't look right on anybody else, just accept it, I would be offended if you didn't" He replied.
"Fine I accept it, but I will have to give you something in return . . . I know!" Hermione shuffled slowly over to him and when she was right up against him she tilted her head up and kissed him on the lips, he returned it, surprised when she deepened it by opening her mouth and touching his lips with her tongue, he responded and opened his mouth allowing her to enter it, and that was when they had their first true passionate kiss, on Valentines day. Draco's mind was spinning, he had never felt like this with anybody. Sure he had kissed loads of girls before but this was different, this one was full of . . . lust
Hermione then pulled away from him sharply breaking off their kiss. He looked a little confused. "Now, tell me how you got that red mark on your cheek" She sat there waiting for him to answer.
"Oh, that. Well I went to the Slytherin common room, just to see some people and I met Pansy in the hall way, I hadn't spoken to her for ages, and so she started coming onto me, then I remembered she had a tattoo on her leg, of a devil and angel embracing, ("Oh like the prophesy" Hermione said) right . . ." Draco looked a bit stunned that Hermione would automatically think of the prophesy, and without realising it he quickly rubbed his arm. "Well turns out that she had got it a couple of years ago at her uncle's, when they went into the muggle world she had it done at a tattoo parlour. I then said 'thank God!' and she asked why and I said because she was ugly and I would hate for her to be my soul mate! She then slapped me" he ended happily.
"Ok then. Well that explains that. And thanks again for the necklace Draco its lovely" She then leaned over and gave him a quick kiss. She got up and reminded him it was time for dinner. They went out of the common room hand in hand, forgetting that they weren't suppose to show that they liked each other.
Luckily there was no one in the corridors at the time, so they made it all the way down to the Great hall without meeting anyone. Only when they were right in front of its doors did they let go of each others hands, then with a quick kiss they went into the great hall, making it look as if they hated each other. Hermione sat down with Harry and Ron, while Draco went to sit with his usual gang.
When Hermione had put all her food on her plate, Harry and Ron began to question her.
"How come we couldn't get into your common room? We spoke the password, it just wouldn't let us in!" Ron told her.
"Yeah!" Harry put in, "we wanted to see if you were all right because" he looked darkly over at the Slytherin table, "we heard Malfoy wanting to meet you there. We were afraid he was going to try and hex or jinx you"
"Oh!" Hermione said quietly, "he just wanted to have a go at me because apparently I had left some of my junk over 'his' side of the common room. Yes, he says we have to have sides" She added at the disbelief on their faces.
Secretly she hated having to make Draco seem so mean and horrible when he wasn't. Harry and Ron asked if she'd like them to hex, him for her. She laughed and made up the excuse that she would rather, Malfoy stayed hex free than Harry and Ron being expelled. They agreed with her and got back to their dinner.
Hermione had finished hers quickly. So, she just sat looking around the Great Hall, looking at the teachers, students, the ceiling (which was dark and speckled with stars). She felt something touch her hand, and looked down to see what it was. It was a note, and it had Draco's writing on it! She opened it eagerly, making sure Harry and Ron couldn't see it. She read;
Dear Hermione,
Meet me outside our common room in 5 minutes! The other Slytherin's saw me writing this letter, I told them that I was sending you an insulting note, so turn slightly and give a hurt look at my table! See you in 5 minutes!
From Draco
Hermione done as Draco said, she turned so Harry and Ron couldn't see her, and gave a deeply hurt look in the direction of the Slytherin table. She could tell it worked because she could her malicious laughter coming from that direction. 5 minutes passed by and she made her excuse that she needed to get some homework done to Harry and Ron. She left the Hall swiftly and hurried to the wall hiding her common room.
She stayed there and waited for Draco to appear. She was waiting for 10 minutes when she felt that he wasn't going to turn up. Then finally he came round the corner and gave her an apologetic look, he told her about how all the Slytherin's had kept delaying him.
"What did you want to meet me for?" She questioned. He smirked and replied in a mischievous way.
"Do I need a reason to meet you?" He asked raising an eyebrow. Hermione smiled back at him.
"I suppose not. I was finished anyway!" He brought her in close and bent his head low.
"Well I did actually want to meet you here for a specific reason. You see I just felt that I couldn't stay away from you much longer, and since it is Valentines Day I would say that gives us a good excuse to keep kissing. So, I am going to kiss you . . ." Before he said 'now' He pulled her even more closer and put his lips on hers, whereupon contact Hermione put her arms round his neck. They were completely in bliss. Hermione felt like she as in heaven. Just being near him made her tingle all over and want to stay with him.
Draco pulled away sharply, Hermione looked at him confused. He cocked his head to one side and listened. Hermione heard it too. Someone was coming round the corner! Hermione and Draco quickly stumbled to the common room door and said the password. Once inside the pushed the door shut and laughed. That had been close. But as Hermione reminded herself going out with a Malfoy would be dangerous and fun!
A/N: I am so, so, so sorry that this took so long to get up! Well there was a mix up and some of my chapters were muddled up, but it is sorted now! Hope you liked it! It might get a bit more dramatic soon!! But I am not going to tell you anything. You will have to find out by reading all my chapters! And reviewing them of course! ( Thank you every one who reviewed! I feel so loved!! Water Demon
And thanks so much to: Storywritter10791 and Kara Black. Who spotted this for me, thank you, I wouldn't have spotted it!
Ah, sweet love
"Draco!? No! No, it couldn't be him could it? No, no it can't be, that is so unfair, he's lied to me all these months, I can't believe he would do something like that! It is so cowardly and low. I can't believe he tricked me into liking him! I feel so betrayed . . ." This all went through Hermione's mind in a second. She then let out a small sob of despair. This caused Draco to look up at her with a worried expression on his face. She let out another sob, choking on it, trying to keep it in.
"Hermione what's wrong, are you hurt? What's wrong" He touched her arm, and she backed away from him. "What's wrong I won't hurt you"
"How could you" Hermione began, "Being nice to me for this last month, did you plan to pretend to like me so I would like you in return? So then I would make a complete fool of myself!" She was shouting at him, tears welling up in her eyes.
Draco didn't have a clue what she was talking about and said so. She then raged on.
"My dreams! It was you wasn't it? My mysterious dream guy, I know it was you, it all makes sense. Was that all pretend in my – your – our dreams?" Hermione was crying now, "because if it was a have nothing more to say to you. You have been haunting my dreams since September and lying to me!" She broke down on the sofa tears falling down her face. Draco didn't know she had that many tears to cry.
"No, Hermione. It was nothing like that! Somehow our dreams got entwined; I swear I didn't even know I was having these dreams until after the day I got splashed by the potion! And then I didn't even realise it was you I was talking with until after you met up with Andre, it was that night in fact which I found out! You see I would have told you earlier but I had to see if you would like me first, and just to say I have never lied to you, I just couldn't tell you. And I do care about you! Please you have to believe me I didn't mean to hurt you I just couldn't tell you. Until . . ." He stopped and looked down.
"Until what?" Hermione whispered. He still didn't answer. Then he mumbled.
"Until I knew you could like me, and not hate me, I was too embarrassed to admit it but I . . . care for you, I have since the middle of 6th year. I just didn't realise until you fainted on me. And nothing I said or did was pretend you have to believe me!" He sat on the sofa beside her and finally she did believe him. It might be that maybe just knowing that someone out there did care for you, made a spark fly that leapt into flames and kindled something wonderful and new.
"I believe you" She said. His face lighted up! He brought her in for a hug and brought her face up and gently kissed her on the lips. He thought he better not go to far and gave her a nice slow gentle kiss, which she returned. Then they pulled apart. Hermione was leaning with her head on his chest and her arm round his waist and he had his arms around her while leaning his head on hers.
They sat there without moving until Draco got up to move. "No! Hermione whispered, "Stay with me!" She pleaded. So Draco stayed and that was how they were when they woke up in the morning, just holding each other. Draco was the first to stir. He gently kissed the top of Hermione's head and gently turned her around. He then kissed her on the lips, feeling the pressure on her lips she woke up.
"Good morning!" She smiled and tilted her head up to kiss him nice and slow. She then lay back down and then said, "So what are we going to do from here?"
"I don't know I mean we could go out if . . . if you wanted to" He replied hopefully. Hermione squealed, kissed him on the lips and then said, "Does that give you your answer?" He grinned broadly which meant he did.
"Ok, well I need to talk to you tonight I need to tell you something that I forgot to tell you before. Will you meet me here at the end of the day?" He looked deep into her brown eyes waiting for an answer.
"Sure" she replied and off they went to get ready without another word.
The day passed without incident. Harry and Ron were still not talking to her, but she didn't care this time, they had ignored her before especially in their 3rd year when they hadn't talked to her for a month. Hermione was waiting in the common room for Draco and she was still puzzled at about what this whole meeting was about. She went off in her own thoughts until the wall slid open and Draco walked in looking slightly annoyed. He had a stony look on his face and there was a red mark on his cheek.
"Oh, Draco! What happened? Are you ok?" Hermione immediately began to fuss over him. He waved her off.
"It's nothing, I'll tell you later, first of all I need to tell you something urgent, I have not told anyone this and I am only telling you because you might be in danger. Don't worry" He added at the scared look on her face, "I'll protect you!" His expression was no longer stony but he looked at her Hermione with care in his eyes.
"I suppose it all has something to do with Andre Snothyp, I will start from the beginning and tell you the story as well as I can" Draco began, "you see Andre was my best friend, we were inseparable when we were together, he was the same age as me, but he went to Durmstrang, every holiday we would spend it together. He was like a brother. Then at the beginning of our 6th year, before we were going to return back to our schools, there was an accident, we were out in the muggle world, being stupid as usual" He laughed grimly and sadly, and choked back a sob.
"We bumped into a load of drunken men, we had been drinking as well so we were almost drunk, anyway words got exchanged and a fight broke out, you see Andre can be extremely mean when he wants to. Then we got separated, I was trying to fend off all these men, we couldn't use our wands otherwise we would have been in so much trouble, we called out to each other, trying to get back together, but they kept us separated, finally I kicked one of them and managed to get back to him, he was being beaten up because he was the one who said all the words, he looked terrible, a wreck, the last time I saw him was when he was reaching for me then he got knocked to the ground, he didn't move then the guys ran. They had killed him, I went to the place he had fell, but there was no sign of him. He was gone!" Draco then leant back and closed his eyes letting the tears leak out. Hermione but a hand on his shoulder.
"But now I know that he is not dead, he wants revenge, I know it" He looked at Hermione, who was looking at him in a disbelieving sort of way, "He is after me, I have been dreaming about him, he blames me for his 'death', he is trying to kill me, it was he who made the potion explode. I saw his face in the potion, and then so did Dean, there was a whirl of colour and then it exploded" He done it!"
"What does he want with me then?" Hermione asked, "Why would he want to speak to me?" She looked at Draco confused.
"I don't know, but he's trouble, please don't see him again, promise me you won't!" He grabbed her hand and looked into her eyes. She nodded in agreement. "I promise" She told him still looking into her eyes. He sighed and smiled, then brought her in for a deep kiss, not getting too passionate, which lasted for well over a minute, finally when they had finished they parted, then Draco suddenly got up and told her to stay there. He went into his room and came out a few minutes later carrying a smallish box. Hermione looked at it in confusion.
Draco sat back down and handed it to her giving her a meaningful look and mouthing the words 'open it'. Hermione looked down at the box and with her hands quivering she undid the wrapping revealing a cream covered box, she then gently pulled the lid off and inside was a necklace. It was silver with a ruby heart and silver wings, the ruby sparkled so brightly and the silver shone. Hermione took it out of its box and looked speechlessly at Draco. What could she say it was beautiful, Draco smiled at her reaction.
"I knew you'd like it, here let me put it on for you" With gentle movement he took the necklace from her hand and fastened it round her neck, when it was secure Draco leaned back to admire at gleaming at her throat.
"Draco, I can't accept this. It is too much! Not that I don't like it" She added hastily, "Why do you want to give it to me?" She asked still stunned.
"Because, it is Valentines Day and it is my gift to you, it wouldn't look right on anybody else, just accept it, I would be offended if you didn't" He replied.
"Fine I accept it, but I will have to give you something in return . . . I know!" Hermione shuffled slowly over to him and when she was right up against him she tilted her head up and kissed him on the lips, he returned it, surprised when she deepened it by opening her mouth and touching his lips with her tongue, he responded and opened his mouth allowing her to enter it, and that was when they had their first true passionate kiss, on Valentines day. Draco's mind was spinning, he had never felt like this with anybody. Sure he had kissed loads of girls before but this was different, this one was full of . . . lust
Hermione then pulled away from him sharply breaking off their kiss. He looked a little confused. "Now, tell me how you got that red mark on your cheek" She sat there waiting for him to answer.
"Oh, that. Well I went to the Slytherin common room, just to see some people and I met Pansy in the hall way, I hadn't spoken to her for ages, and so she started coming onto me, then I remembered she had a tattoo on her leg, of a devil and angel embracing, ("Oh like the prophesy" Hermione said) right . . ." Draco looked a bit stunned that Hermione would automatically think of the prophesy, and without realising it he quickly rubbed his arm. "Well turns out that she had got it a couple of years ago at her uncle's, when they went into the muggle world she had it done at a tattoo parlour. I then said 'thank God!' and she asked why and I said because she was ugly and I would hate for her to be my soul mate! She then slapped me" he ended happily.
"Ok then. Well that explains that. And thanks again for the necklace Draco its lovely" She then leaned over and gave him a quick kiss. She got up and reminded him it was time for dinner. They went out of the common room hand in hand, forgetting that they weren't suppose to show that they liked each other.
Luckily there was no one in the corridors at the time, so they made it all the way down to the Great hall without meeting anyone. Only when they were right in front of its doors did they let go of each others hands, then with a quick kiss they went into the great hall, making it look as if they hated each other. Hermione sat down with Harry and Ron, while Draco went to sit with his usual gang.
When Hermione had put all her food on her plate, Harry and Ron began to question her.
"How come we couldn't get into your common room? We spoke the password, it just wouldn't let us in!" Ron told her.
"Yeah!" Harry put in, "we wanted to see if you were all right because" he looked darkly over at the Slytherin table, "we heard Malfoy wanting to meet you there. We were afraid he was going to try and hex or jinx you"
"Oh!" Hermione said quietly, "he just wanted to have a go at me because apparently I had left some of my junk over 'his' side of the common room. Yes, he says we have to have sides" She added at the disbelief on their faces.
Secretly she hated having to make Draco seem so mean and horrible when he wasn't. Harry and Ron asked if she'd like them to hex, him for her. She laughed and made up the excuse that she would rather, Malfoy stayed hex free than Harry and Ron being expelled. They agreed with her and got back to their dinner.
Hermione had finished hers quickly. So, she just sat looking around the Great Hall, looking at the teachers, students, the ceiling (which was dark and speckled with stars). She felt something touch her hand, and looked down to see what it was. It was a note, and it had Draco's writing on it! She opened it eagerly, making sure Harry and Ron couldn't see it. She read;
Dear Hermione,
Meet me outside our common room in 5 minutes! The other Slytherin's saw me writing this letter, I told them that I was sending you an insulting note, so turn slightly and give a hurt look at my table! See you in 5 minutes!
From Draco
Hermione done as Draco said, she turned so Harry and Ron couldn't see her, and gave a deeply hurt look in the direction of the Slytherin table. She could tell it worked because she could her malicious laughter coming from that direction. 5 minutes passed by and she made her excuse that she needed to get some homework done to Harry and Ron. She left the Hall swiftly and hurried to the wall hiding her common room.
She stayed there and waited for Draco to appear. She was waiting for 10 minutes when she felt that he wasn't going to turn up. Then finally he came round the corner and gave her an apologetic look, he told her about how all the Slytherin's had kept delaying him.
"What did you want to meet me for?" She questioned. He smirked and replied in a mischievous way.
"Do I need a reason to meet you?" He asked raising an eyebrow. Hermione smiled back at him.
"I suppose not. I was finished anyway!" He brought her in close and bent his head low.
"Well I did actually want to meet you here for a specific reason. You see I just felt that I couldn't stay away from you much longer, and since it is Valentines Day I would say that gives us a good excuse to keep kissing. So, I am going to kiss you . . ." Before he said 'now' He pulled her even more closer and put his lips on hers, whereupon contact Hermione put her arms round his neck. They were completely in bliss. Hermione felt like she as in heaven. Just being near him made her tingle all over and want to stay with him.
Draco pulled away sharply, Hermione looked at him confused. He cocked his head to one side and listened. Hermione heard it too. Someone was coming round the corner! Hermione and Draco quickly stumbled to the common room door and said the password. Once inside the pushed the door shut and laughed. That had been close. But as Hermione reminded herself going out with a Malfoy would be dangerous and fun!
A/N: I am so, so, so sorry that this took so long to get up! Well there was a mix up and some of my chapters were muddled up, but it is sorted now! Hope you liked it! It might get a bit more dramatic soon!! But I am not going to tell you anything. You will have to find out by reading all my chapters! And reviewing them of course! ( Thank you every one who reviewed! I feel so loved!! Water Demon