Moons, stars, Truths and Anger

Hermione and Draco were inseparable when they were together. Literally they were stuck together like glue. When they came in from their last lesson they would sit together on the sofa and do nothing but kiss. Hermione was defiantly in love, but she wasn't sure if Draco felt the same way. Yes, he made her feel special and was there for her, but he had never said it once, he never said I love you. Hermione had thought about saying it many times but decided not to. I mean they hadn't been out for long.

Hermione was just totally infatuated with Draco, she just couldn't get enough of him. They were still sitting together in the same lessons and occasionally Hermione would feel something at the bottom of her leg, and she would look down and see Draco's foot. Usually she would nudge his foot back and look at him, and when he looked back at her, she saw passion in his eyes and he would give her a sexy smile, which he only used when looking at her.

So Hermione and Draco were happy. Harry and Ron were happy. They didn't know of Hermione and Draco's secret relationship, and Hermione was glad about that because she wasn't sure how they would react. Harry and Ron had noticed a change in Hermione and they frequently asked her what was making her so happy, but she would just simply smile at them and talk about something else. Harry and Ron had noticed the necklace at her throat and asked her when she got it and who gave it to her. She shrugged at them and told them that it had appeared on valentines day, but there was no note saying who it was from.

Harry and Ron believed that story and they didn't ask her about it, but they had some suspicions and without telling Hermione they would ask some of the Gryffindor lads if they had sent it. Every one of them truthfully said no, but Harry and Ron thought there was something funny going on but they didn't know what.

Actually, there was something funny going on. Hermione was going out with Draco, which since they were from rival houses meant that their going out was a bit weird. But they didn't care in the slightest and just continued to spend most of their time together. Hermione and Draco were sitting together on a sofa snuggled up together when Hermione asked Draco a question.

"Draco?" Hermione whispered to him as he replied sleepily with a small "hmm- hmm"

"Draco? Do you think that we would ever be able to tell anyone about . . . what we have?" Hermione looked up at him with her large chocolate brown eyes. Draco turned his head to look at her.

"What's brought this on?" He asked, "I thought you were ok with this being a secret?" Hermione nodded at him but sighed.

"Yeah I am ok with it but . . . I just don't like lying to Harry and Ron and making it look like you're this fierce ogre when you're not!" She stared at him and snuggled closer.

"It will be hard but we will be able to tell them sometime! Cheer up, what could you want better than to be sitting here and hugging me?" He smiled at her in his cheeky arrogant way.

"Erm . . . well I can think of a number of things but at the moment . . ." She grabbed the pillow behind her, "I want a pillow fight!" And she whacked him as hard as she could round the head. She sprang up from the sofa and giggled.

"Hermione Granger . . . you are in for it now" He gave a mock glare and tackled her, bringer her to the floor. At which point he sat on top of her with her arms beneath him. She was gasping and he was chuckling.

"Do you want to know what your punishment is?" He asked, a smile playing round his mouth. She shook her head. Mischief shone out from his eyes.

"Miss Hermione Granger you are now sentenced to . . . endless tickling!" At which point his hands leapt to her sides as she began to laugh uncontrollably. Draco knew just where to tickle her and it worked a treat, she was crying with laughter.

"Draco! No . . . stop" She gasped between laughs and gasps. "Draco . . . I mean it stop!! If you don't stop I'll . . . I'll"

"You'll what?" He cut in, he had stopped tickling her and looked at her in a mischievous way.

"I'll never kiss you again!" She smiled at him triumphantly as he bent his head down so they were forehead to forehead.

"I'll kiss you instead" He laughed at her and she looked at him.

"I'll bite you!" And she made to bite his nose. He jumped off her in mock terror and backed away to the other side of the room.

"Ok, down girl!" He said in a mock frightened voice. She advanced on him and then when she was just a few centimetres away he jumped back on to the sofa and then held up his hand in peace and conjured a white handkerchief to wave around.

She sighed and gave in. She settled back down onto the sofa and they snuggled up together once more. Her questions completely forgotten.

Hermione and Draco had been going out for a couple of weeks and they were pleased with themselves that no one had noticed. Even though in lessons they slipped and almost called each other by their first names. Even potions was becoming bearable, well for Hermione anyway since she had Draco, but the other Gryffindor's weren't as happy. Snape was still as evil and bad tempered as ever and was picking on Harry and Ron more than normal.

Hermione was being told by Harry and Ron how evil Snape was and he wasn't any nicer even when it was the end of a school week and (as they kept telling her) Friday was the best day of the week. They were just telling her what they would like to do to him if he wasn't a teacher, when Draco came over. He gave Harry and Ron a cold glare and his gaze softened on Hermione for a second.

"Granger just so you know" He drawled. "You have to meet me outside MY common room to discuss our potions essay and Granger be there on time in five minutes" He said it all rather stiffly as it was becoming harder to act nasty to Hermione. At least he hadn't called her by her first name. She nodded her head in acknowledgement and turned back to talking to Harry and Ron ignoring him, but she gave him a quick half smile, to show that she knew he was acting. He turned on his heel and left.

"Ok what was that about?" Harry asked, gazing at Hermione.

"What was what about?" She replied confused, then Ron chipped in: "You know that thing with Malfoy! Was it just me or did he seem less insulting?" Hermione chuckled weakly.

"No just your imagination Ron, he still gave you that cold glare he reserves just for you." Hermione sighed, "Anyway I guess I better be going, I don't want to be late for Malfoy's exciting news about the essay!" She said in sarcasm.

"Ok. Remember if he hurts or insults you, we will get him back!" Harry added and they both waved as Hermione walked down the corridor and to her common room.

She arrived just outside of the portrait and as usual he wasn't there, so she waited for him to show. Then she decided that she would wait inside, so she turned to the wall and was about to speak the password but at that moment a hand fell on to her mouth and an arm slunk round her waist! She screamed and was about to bite the hand until she caught a glimpse of white blonde hair out of the corner of her eye. She stopped screaming and she let herself be spun around so she could gaze into the eyes of her attacker.

There he was an eyebrow raised, an amusing smile playing on his lips and his eyes dancing with happiness. His hands still lingered on her mouth and waist. Draco put his finger to his lips and began to creep along the corridor his hand now in Hermione's. She was about to ask where they were going until they stopped in front of a wall. She recognised it was the wall where the room of requirement appeared and looked quizzically at Draco.

He gave her a mischievous grin and paced back and forth until a door appeared then with a quick look around he held out his hand to her and whispered "Do you trust me?" She nodded and he went behind her and put his hands over her eyes. She let him steer her and she heard a door being opened and she felt his breath on her hair and how gentle he was being.

"Don't look!" He said, "I'm going to remove my hands but don't look!" Hermione nodded and felt him move away. She heard a door closing and spoke out. "Draco? Are you still here?" She asked panicking slightly. "I'm here" He whispered and took hold of her hands.

"Now open your eyes!" He whispered. And she did. What a sight met her eyes. She was standing on a hillside overlooking the forbidden forest and a beautiful full moon was out bathing everything in a silvery light. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and she could see all the stars.

She spun around to Draco, breathless from the view and she smiled at him and finally she managed to say "Draco . . . you done this all for me?" he nodded and she threw herself to him, wrapping him up in a warm embrace and kissing him all over his face. She started to cry.

"Hey? What's wrong? I . . . I thought you'd like it!" Draco told her stunned.

"I do! I love it, that's why I am crying, it is just so romantic!" She hugged and kissed him again. She pulled back "Just one question though, how are we here and how come it is all dark and stuff when it's like just gone 4:00pm?"

"I don't know I just seem to be able to do stuff like this, it's going to be just like this tonight . . . I just hurried things along a bit in my requirement for the room, and anyway, it would be giving away my secret if I told you everything!" He smiled at her gleefully and took her hand and led her to a little bench that quickly appeared, where they sat together and watched the bright full moon.

"Look! This is the first full moon of this month. It's supposed to be the moon of romance. I knew we had to look at this moon together. I care about you so much! It's my way of showing you how much I care for you!" Draco told her turning to look at her with (if he knew it) love and care in his eyes.

"Oh Draco thank you so much this is just so nice! No one has ever done anything like this for me before! How did you know the moon and the stars were my favourite things?" He smiled at her and kissed her hair and just murmured that he knew these things, but if she was able to see his face she would have seen how glad he was that she had loved his little surprise.

They sat there for a little longer just leaning on each other, and keeping one another warm, until Hermione remembered that she was supposed to be meeting Harry and Ron for dinner. She really hated to go but if she was gone to long then they would automatically think of Draco had done something to her and she would hate it if they thought of hurting him. They slowly got up and walked hand in hand to the door that had remained there and with a final passionate kiss they stepped through the door and into Hogwarts. They stood and watched the door fade and then began a slow walk back to their common room.

When they finally got to the wall Hermione was about to say the password when Draco took hold of her arm and looked at her in a pleading way. She stopped and looked at him, while he brought her into his embrace and where his lips made a light contact with hers. So light that Hermione could barely feel it but still all his emotion was there and she shivered at the true passion of the kiss.

They deepened it and clung to each other as if something bad would happen if they let go. Hermione didn't know why he was being so emotional but she didn't care she was to wrapped up in the heat of the moment, she could feel all of his emotion on his lips and he was even more gentle and tender than what he was like underneath the moon, he seemed venerable some how as if his emotions were taking control of him and he couldn't stop it.

Hermione was a little disappointed that he hadn't been able to say what his eyes showed and his kisses meant, he couldn't say he loved her. And for the time being that was ok for Hermione as his emotions were enough. She was just so moved from the kiss that she started to feel breathless and the room seemed to be spinning, she could hear fireworks going off and her whole body was tingling with his touches as he stroked her hair and as she stroked his neck. The kiss was lasting forever and they didn't seem to be able to pull apart it just kept going on and on. They were kissing harsher now as the passion started leading them, Draco was moving his hands more frantically and he started to go up her shirt slightly, but Hermione didn't care she wanted what ever would happen next.

Since they were so involved with each other they did not hear or notice two people walk round the corner and stop in shock at the scene before them. They did not know anyone was there until they spoke out.

"Hermione!? What are you doing . . ? Malfoy . . . ?Get off her you filthy ferret!" Hermione suddenly felt Draco being yanked away from her. She opened her eyes and stood shocked at what had just happened. She was in complete bliss and now her arms were empty. Harry and Ron were now on top of Draco and punching every bit of him they could get in contact with. His wand was on the floor out of his reach, and his arms were pinned underneath his back. He couldn't defend himself!

"NOOOOOO!!!" Hermione screamed. "Get off him . . . I SAID GET OFF HIM! . . . Draco!!!" Harry and Ron did not hear her or notice her in any way. Malfoy was looking slightly bad now, his face was beginning to bruise and he was no longer making sounds of pain he seemed to be losing consciousness, Hermione knew she needed to do something. She pulled out her wand and cried "Impedimenta" She did the freezing charm and immediately Harry and Ron were motionless. Hermione could see their eyes open in surprise. She slowly walked towards them and pulled them both off Draco, where they lay motionless on the floor looking at her with hurt eyes. Hermione bent over Draco and examined him. She cast a simple healing spell on him and all of his bruises vanished. He opened his eyes and looked at her and smiled his gratitude she smiled back while helping him so sit up she turned around to face Harry and Ron who were able to move again. Draco placed a protective hand on her shoulder which she grasped for confidence. They just looked at her.

"Say something" She urged. They looked at her in disgust and asked her the obvious question.

"Are you seeing Malfoy?" Ron hissed, venom and anger filling his words.

"I am not 'seeing Malfoy'. I am going out with Draco!" They looked at her stunned.

"So that's why you didn't want us in your common room or hexing him. All those times you said that he wouldn't allow us in there . . . it was you who didn't want us in there! We have nothing to say to you. No friend of ours would 'go out with' our sworn enemy" Harry told her quietly, anger filling his face.

"You are no longer our friend . . . we have no friend called Hermione Granger . . . Do not expect to have any sort of contact with us" Ron hissed in anger speaking each word slowly. They both turned away, not looking back. As they did so Hermione put her face in her hands and cried. Draco put his arm round her for comfort. Hermione Granger had just lost the two only true friends she had had since their first year. The Dream Team were no more!

A/N: First of all I am so sorry that I haven't updated in a while! My computer keeps acting weird and well it's hard for me to get it up!! I have finally written the mushiest chapter in my story so far! So what did you think? Well just review and tell me. I can't believe I've written 20 chappies!! I never thought that I would write this much when I first started this story! This may be bad news, it may be good news in a way buuuuuuttt . . . this story is drawing to a close! It might be finished in the next 5 or so chapters! I hope you think that this is a good story and who knows perhaps I'll make it to 100 reviews!!! Well Thank you for reading and reviewing luv Water Demon