Chapter 4
Disclaimer: we are but three small lassies from small english villages, not small imp-like clones of JK Rowling, cos shes amazing...
A/N: Just to keep you updated, its me again Lucy (the best) and this is my fabtabulous new chapter, i hope the filling in between my marvelous chapters was alright, but dont worry, now we're back onto the good stuff! I'm only joking, but you should all be mad at how long it took janine 2 write hers! a day it took me! whoooo ok so on with the show... (p.s. im dedicating this chapter to jess's new swollen hand, which could have been my new swollen face! and the factturd burlgarneeds no visa! whoop whoop)
Draco woke with a start. He had a sharp pain in his head, almost like someone was pulling his hair…
"Oww!" he yelled.
"Oh shut up, meant to be the Slytherin King, you're not so tough. I only need a few hairs!" Draco's captor snapped back at him. Whilst he was sleeping she had bound him using a spell that caused ropes to wind round him like snakes.
"What on earth do you need my hair for, you oddity." Draco moaned. His mouth dry, stabbing pains in his back and neck and the biggest head ache he'd ever had in his life, Draco was not in the mood to be messed about, again.
"Do you know what this is Malfoy?" His captor asked him in a malicious tone. "This, " she carried on not waiting for his answer, "is a polyjuice potion. Now have you any idea what one could do with a polyjuice potion and a few of your beautiful golden hairs?" She said with a sly smirk on her face. Draco's face went blank, 'Bollocks', was his first thought.
"What are you going to do, Why are you doing this, messing with my life, I've never done anything to you." Draco replied, although it was lacking the pleading his captor wanted from him. He still had his dignity if nothing else.
"Poor, poor Draco, you're so hard done to. I know you've done nothing, you are merely a scapegoat in this rather large plot of mine." She laughed manically. " I plan to show your face today, people are starting to notice you've gone and its rather more funny to see them get mad at you to your face, than continue to curse you behind your back. Although come to think of it, not everyone seems to believe you're the culprit behind all of this."
Draco's eyes lit up at this concept, 'Hermione' he thought, but he couldn't let their relationship slip, he couldn't afford her to be dragged into this mess also.
"Yeah, I'm sure. Everyone's always dying to have a dig at me, something mysterious happening, of course my name's going to be dragged up. That's what you were relying on wasn't it?" Draco inquired, suddenly realising. "Ha, I gave you less credit than you deserved. You have thought this through." He was slightly in awe to his captor, but not totally, still fuming at his bad luck to be in this position. He was trying to sweeten up the stalker, in light of getting information from her.
She smiled thoughtfully, "If I didn't know better Malfoy, I'd say you were trying to charm me."
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Hermione was pacing her Prefects Quarters, angry and quietly sad for Draco's hasty departure without so much as a note. She thought, 'if it was his mum… then perhaps he was in a hurry. This just doesn't sound like Draco!' She sat down at her desk and pulled out a piece of parchment. 'I'll write to him, see if he's ok, nothing too serious.' She frowned, not understanding anything happening of late. Sighing, Hermione began her letter to Draco.
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"And what if I am?" Draco answered in his most sultry tone. His captor had her back to him, placing his hairs into the vile of potion she had brought.
"You're very flirtatious Draco, one day that could backfire on you." She turned round and with a smirk swallowed the potion whole. Dropping to the floor, the glass smashing Draco watched as the girl before him changed into…him. Because the stalker had been wearing baggy clothes before, the new Draco had no problem fitting into them. 'Draco' clambered to his feet and took a small mirror from his pocket. Smirking he turned to the Draco currently bound on the floor.
"Aren't I pretty?" Draco was finding it hard to place his emotions, furious at the thought of having a clone, and also very humoured that he suddenly spoke with a very feminine voice.
"So much so, that if I weren't tied up, I'd take you right now." Draco jested; after all, he was very handsome.
"Well," said Draco's clone in a very sly voice, "if that's what you want." Draco's eyes widened as his other self approached him with a determined look in his eye. Closing in on Draco, the stalker bent their head down and kissed him, trying to force his tongue down Draco's throat.
"ARGGH GET OFF!" Draco screamed a disgusted look on his face.
"Why Draco, what's the matter? I told you your flirting would get you into trouble." The stalker smiled and evil smile and placed a body bind on Draco from the neck down. Then releasing the rope charm, she started to pull at Draco's robes.
"What do you think you are doing!" A startled Draco gasped.
"Well I can't very well go to school in my robes can I?" smirked the impostor. Standing and pointed his wand at his throat the second Draco muttered a spell. "Better?" This time Draco's ordinary voice spoken out from the fake and a smile crept back onto his face. "Yes, much." Turning around he said, "Be seeing you Draco, don't wear yourself out too much banging into the door." Then the fraud left the hut and locked it again, just as Draco's body bind wore off, jumping up he smashed into the door. But too late, he could hear himself laughing outside the door, cursing, he began on the small amounts of food brought for him.
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The con Draco made his way up to the school, deciding to head straight up to the hospital wing, as he knew his time as 'Draco' was limited. Before he reached the entrance hall an owl flew up to him and stood his leg out mid-air, offering the letter attached to it. Taking the letter, unfurling it and reading it, Draco laughed out loud. "Stupid bird," he muttered as he put the letter in a pocket under his robes. Unfortunately he met Pansy Parkinson along the way.
"Drakey!" a shrill voice rang through the corridor. "Drakey where have you been?" Before Draco could do anything Pansy leapt onto him and would not let go. Trying to push her off, Draco realised that perhaps things were to not go as smoothly as planned.
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Ron sat over Harry's bed, Ginny had left not long ago to get them both some food from the hall, it nearly being dinner. They were both famished and yet both too stubborn to leave Harry's side.
Ron looked up as someone entered the Hospital wing. His face that was full of reservation quickly turned to anger. He stood up as if to defend Harry from this new intruder.
"Weasley" the trespasser nodded towards Ron.
"Malfoy" said Ron through gritted teeth. "I was wondering when you'd turn up to stake your claim. I could perhaps understand Harry, but why Lavender?"
"Oh Weasley, You are way out of your league." Said Draco, with one of his infamous smirks. He checked his watch 'Damn Pansy, I've only got 5minutes left!' "I've heard some stupid rumours, no doubt starting here, that I'm behind all this. So I thought I'd show my face, see what I'm meant to have done."
Ron was fuming by now, that he didn't notice that Hermione and Ginny had just walked into the hospital wing.
"Malfoy! You'll Pay for this!" he roared, lunging for Draco.
"Ron! Stop that!" Yelled Hermione from across the room. She noticed Draco and was about to grill him on where he'd been when Ginny shouted.
"Malfoy! You massive git! I can't believe I listened to Hermione when she said you'd changed!" And before anyone could stop her, Ginny was pummelling Draco on the chest.
Grabbing Ginny's back and arms Ron and Hermione managed to restrain Ginny. Hermione had her eyes on Draco who had not looked her in the eyes since she entered the Hospital wing. He looked very unnerved, not like the Draco she knew, he looked quickly at his hands, then felt his hair with a look of horror and tore from the room.
"Draco, wait!" Hermione called after him. She could not run after him for fear of letting go on Ginny and her tearing after him. 'None of this is making sense!' She thought angrily, but at least Draco had returned, she could talk to him later.
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A few minutes later Hermione and Ron had successfully calmed Ginny, she was now in tears in Ron's arms. Hermione was sat on a chair, head in her hands trying to make sense of everything.
They all looked up as the door to the hospital wing swung open, and Parvati, Luna and Neville entered.
"Everything alright?" asked Neville, "thought I'd come see how Harry is, and Lavender, of course."
"Nothings changed Neville," said Hermione in a tired voice.
Parvati came up and hugged her.
"How are you?" Hermione asked Parvati.
"Oh, I'm okay." She replied. "I'm so worried about them though" she said, smiling sadly.
Hermione smiled back and looked toward Neville and Luna acknowledging their presence. She appreciated the support of the other students despite not being particularly close to either of them. So many people had visited that day many of which Hermione very rarely spoke to. Dean Thomas and Parvati's twin sister Padma Patil had left soon before Draco arrived. Even Blaise Zabini had been to see them.
"It's alright 'Mione… Ginny…Ron." Luna said hugging them each in turn, just as Ron was trying to become unstuck to her, Harry suddenly sat up in bed, eyes wide looking at them all.
"Harry!" Ginny jumped to his side, but he stared right through her.
"It's just like my dream." He said. "Just like my dream!" he hollered a little Louder, "MY DREAM!" Harry was yelling now. Then he turned to look at Ron, who had stopped fighting off Luna and was looking at Harry with huge eyes. "ARRGH!" was the last thing Harry said before collapsing back into unconsciousness again.
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Draco was waiting with baited breath until the impostor returned; he hadn't thought that Hermione might give it away when she saw him. What if his clone figured it out and had already clubbed her half to death? Suddenly ropes bound Draco and he heard the lock click in the door, his tormenter had reappeared.
"Well, well, well. Draco you dark horse, you do get around don't you. Forgot to tell me about your secret admirer I'll bet." Draco was worried, but tried to cover this up with a bewildered look. "You've received a letter! Allow me to read it to you." She said with a smile on her lips. 'Hermione, no!' He thought, terrified of what would come of this.
"Draco" she read, "Why didn't you tell me you were going? Did you not have time, or did you just not feel the need to tell me? I thought we'd reached a stable point in our relationship, perhaps not. I hope your mother gets better soon and that you see fit to reply to me, at least to let me know what's going on. HG."
Draco's expression fell, he'd hurt Hermione, she thought he didn't care, all that trust he'd earned, gone.
"Aw Draco, what have you done? She's crushed!" the stalker teased. "Now, "she continued, "I was racking my brains…HG, HG, whose initials were HG." Draco's eyes lightened, 'maybe she hasn't figured it was Hermione', he thought.
"And then, I went to the Hospital wing…" She was drawing out Draco's pain, and loving it. "You'll never guess who I saw, Hermione. Ring any bells?"
"No, there's more than one personwith the initials HG, come on give me some credit, Granger? Me, a Malfoy with a Muggle? Yeah, good one." It pained him to say such things but he hoped it would steer her off Hermione.
"It's a pity you say such things Malfoy, because by the way she was looking at me, its obvious she's foolishly falling for you. Even if she's fuming with you." Draco's heart lightened to hear Hermione's affections, but knew all too well this was not good.
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Hermione left the Hospital wing not long after Neville and Luna, head full of thoughts she just wanted to get back to bed and sleep on it. Turning a corner she tripped over a pile of robes. 'What the hell?' Picking them up, she saw clearly the Slytherin silver and blue colours embroidered on the front. Next to the Hogwarts crest was a shiny badge, a shiny new prefects badge… 'These are far too big for a girl', Hermione pondered, thinking through the male Slytherin prefects. 'Would it be crazy to think these belonged to Draco?' She lifted the robes to her face and inhaled, 'no, these are definitely Draco's.'
She knew his smell anywhere, she adored his smell, left slightly deflated and confused she carried on towards the prefects' quarters.
Hermione smiled grimly, "So, the plot thickens…"
A/N: sorry if this chapter was hard 2 understand, there are only so many words for captor/ stalker lol and i ran out alot, lso for the crazy clone business, as it got terribly confused writing it and i hope u understand, fran gave me the thumbs up, but any quieries, DON'T HESITATE TO REVIEW!