The Second Love
Hermione has to make a choice between two loves. Snape and Draco are both after her attention but only one can win it. Which will be the winner?
Disclaimer: I do not own any other this except for the plot. I wish I was JK so I could say I do. But I'm not so I don't.
Rating: M for later chapters
It was my first day of seventh year. I was the first one out of the carriage. I looked back to see Harry and Ginny come out holding hands. They had gotten very close over the summer and were now dating. We had lost Ron over the summer to Voldemort but were making the best of it. We missed him. I missed him more then the others since he was my first love. First and only so far but hopefully not my last. It was hard to start school without him.
I watched as Harry and Ginny gave each other a small kiss and she ran off to find some of her friends for the Ravenclaw house. He came up to me and kissed me on the cheek and smiled.
"Well shall we?" He asked holding out his hand so we could enter the school together.
"Yes that would be great. I have to find Professor Snape as soon as we get in there. We're supposed to talk about me being his apprentice. I hope he is nicer this year," I said knowing was a wasted dream. At the moment Draco came up to us.
"We should go find Snape so we can get this over with. Lets go," he said grabbing my arm. We were head boy and girl. Being Heads we had to be an apprentice to the same teacher and he wanted Snape which meant I would have to put up with him too.
"Ouch Draco your hurting me," I said cringing in pain as he was grabbing my arm very forcefully.
"Oh come off it you know you like it. Anyways were there now. You knock," he said leaning against the wall beside the door.
"You're a lazy git you know that," I said matter of factly. I knocked on the door and waited for an answer. From inside came a soft "Come in." I opened the door and Draco pushed past me and sat in front of Snape desk leaving the set next to him open. I glared at Draco as I sat next to him and waited for Snape to start talking.
"Ahh, good you two remembered to come. Now as my apprentices I will have you guys do cleaning and helping me make potions when it is needed. Now Miss Granger you will be mostly potion making since you are good at it. But I warn you that if you mess up you will be cleaning the whole year and you will have to explain to the person taking the potion why it was made wrong. Now Mr. Malfoy I actually have a job for you right now. Please both of you follow me. You might be able to help him with Miss Granger."
We went to his private lab on the other side of his chambers, (Which were all silver and green) and sat on the chairs he had offered to us.
"Ok now you two will have to get this done before they say your names at the dinner so work fast please," he said handing us a potions book and showing us the ingredients. I was glad to see it was not a very hard potion because as soon as Snape left Draco sat in a chair and did nothing the whole time.
"Well Granger get to work," he said leaning back and putting his hands behind his head.
"Lazy, stupid, basturd," I said under my breath.
"Did you say something?" Draco asked looking over at me smirking because he actually knew what I said and was just playing stupid. This is a weird thing to say because usually he doesn't have to play.
"What? No I didn't say anything. So Malfoy why did you want to be with Snape? You hate potions," I said looking over at him and blushing at the fact that he was still smiling at me.
"Well Snape is my head of house and he is the best teacher in the school after all. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking potions. After all I think he will have me cleaning most of the time," he was still watching me but I was unsure as to why. I had started work on the potion when Draco stood up and walked up so he was standing behind me. "So Hermione why did you agree to let me pick Snape when you hate him?"
To this I had no answer because I was really unsure why I didn't try to fight the fact. "I wouldn't say I really hate Snape. I dislike the way he treats Harry and me but that is just how he is. Actually I think he is a smart man," I said blushing as Draco put his hand on my arm. I finished putting all the ingredients into the potion and started to stir it. I set the timer and then turned around to face Draco. He had a weird look on his face and being overly nice to me.
"So where is your Weasel friend? I didn't see him come in with you and Pothead today," he said clearly not realizing that it was a touch subject. It was a good thing Harry wasn't there because he probably would have gone off on him.
"Umm… Ron died over the summer. Voldemort killed him," I said a tear coming to my eye. I turned so Draco couldn't see it and wiped my eye so it wouldn't go any further.
"Oh umm… That explains a lot. You guys fought Voldemort again over the summer? What are you guys crazy? You're lucky you're not all dead," he said looking over at me. I heard him start to walk away. At that second the bell starting ringing for the potion being done.
"Can you hand me the veils over there?" I asked holding out my hand. I was surprised when I actually got what I asked for but only said thank you. I started to fill the veils and finished them quickly. "Well should we get going to the Great Hall then?" I asked looking at Draco who for some reason had a sad face. "Something wrong?" I asked wondering if the emotion was real or if he was just being his normal self.
"Huh? Oh no there's nothing wrong. I was just thinking," he said not telling anymore then that. I decided not to ask. "Well lets get going, don't want to be late for our big debut now do we," he said holding out his arm for me to take.
I'm not sure why but I took his arm and we walked to the Great Hall and waited for Dumbledore to call our names and we walked in still arm in arm. He kissed me on the cheek and then walked to the other side of the hall to his table as I went to mine. "Hey sorry I'm late. Did I miss anything?" I asked Harry ignoring his funny look.
"Umm Hermione what the bloody hell was that all about? Why did he kiss you?" Harry asked sounding a lot like Ron at the moment. "Well he is kind of nice when he wants to be and he acted truly sorry when I told him Ron died," I said before I realized what I was saying. "Hermione are you CRAZY! This is Draco Malfoy were talking about here. Malfoy is never nice. He is planning something. I just wish I knew what it was," Harry said looking over his shoulder at Draco.
At the end of dinner we all went back to our dorms and me to my private room on the outside of Gryffindor Tower. It was connected to the common room so I could still go in there whenever I wanted which was nice. I even had my own password. It was nice. I fell asleep the second my head hit the pillow I was so tired.