Chapter 20
Good Morning?
Draco woke up to find the spot next to him on the bed empty. A burst of panic filled his body, and then he looked up to see Hermione. She stood at the window smiling sweetly, she had a hand on either side of the window one knee was slightly bent on cocked somewhat to one side. She was looking outside at the snow as it beautifully coated everything it touched. It was beautiful to look at. The first trickles of sunlight shinned on her body making her glow and look like an angel. "Breathtaking." He thought. He was soon disappointed when he noticed she had gotten dressed, well sort of anyway. She was wearing the p.j. set with the garnet and marbled gold on it . He liked those the best, those and the royal purple with the white-laced borders, she didn't know that though.
"Oh you put clothes on," He tiredly groaned disappointedly. Hermione turned to look at him, still naked, covered by the sheet and comforter that was brought back to bed.
"Good morning?" Hermione asked cautiously.
"Good morning!" Draco moaned with a grin while he rubbed and patted the bed motioning for her to come back to bed.
"Good," She said happily as she crawled back into bed. He had lifted the covers for her to get under them with him, she did. He pulled her close to him and never wanted to let her go. He'd never felt this way in his life and he liked it.
"So, are you hungry?" Hermione asked.
"For more of last night." He answered smiling at her. She smiled back.
"As nice as that sounds, I mean for food." She laughed. He rolled on top of her.
"Let's just skip all of our meals and just snack out of our baskets. So why don't you just take this off and lets start to work up a good appetite. Wow your breath smells like mint." He said while he tugged at her clothes and then leaned down to kiss her.
"Well," Kiss. "Why don't we," Kiss. " Go down to breakfast now and get some good food in our tummies," Kiss. "And make an appearance so our friends don't wonder where we are and give some kind of excuse to why we won't be there for lunch or dinner." She said between kisses.
"That sounds like a good idea, I could go for it." He said with enthusiasm in his voice. He kissed her again then got up. She could not get enough of seeing him with nothing on.
"Well I have to take a shower first." She said getting out of bed.
"Sounds great. I love being in the shower with you." He said with boyish grin. He looked over to the bed. "You know I was kind of expecting there to be a little something on the bed."
"There was but I did a cleaning spell. There wasn't just a mess from me." She smiled cutely.
"Oh, woops. So about that shower, no bathing suits?" He said as he pulled her to him. He pulled her top off over her head and started to caress her body. He had her take of her bottoms because he couldn't trust himself. They headed to the shower.
"By the way how did you get into my room last night?" Hermione asked.
"Well remember yesterday when we were talking, well I was looking at your portrait when you had said the word secrets, you see your lion woke up when you said that then returned to his nap when he saw that you were just talking to me. So I figured that it was your password. So when I got home last night I just couldn't get you out of my mind, not that you are ever out of my mind. I sat there for a bit staring at your door, then I couldn't take it anymore I had to see if it was the password and to see if… well when I got there it worked the door opened and there you were laying in bed with nothing but a sheet. I shut the door loudly enough to wake you. Then you did and well, you know the rest." He explained.
"Oh." She smiled as she led him into the shower with her.
It was hard for them to keep their hands off of each other, they gave in a couple of times. They put the bench in there to good use. They finally were able to pull apart long enough to get dressed and head down to breakfast.
They headed to their separate tables and sat down in their usual places. They snuck glances at each other trying not to make it obvious. They ate quickly and even grabbed some extra food. They made up their excuses and headed back to the common room. Hermione was the first there. She ran to her room and quickly undressed and jumped into bed to wait for him. As soon as she was under the covers Draco opened her door already starting to strip himself. He dropped all of his clothes onto the chair with Hermione's and leaped onto the bed, he pulled the covers over himself. As soon as he was under Hermione rolled on top of him, this made him very excited.
After a few hours they grew very tired and hungry. They decided to eat first, and then take a nap.
"Will you go get my basket from my room?" Draco asked still trying to catch his breath.
"Sure, um what's your password?" She said as she got out of bed and put on her bathrobe.
"It's Saturate me." She walked out of her door and walked up to his as she said it she realized that it was the name of the song at the club where he had come up to the counter to order a drink where she was sitting. She had her first real feelings start there, she thinks anyway. The door opened and she walked inside to get the basket. The room was slightly different. It was the same size as hers but arranged differently. She had only seen it once before but it was back in order now. She went up to his nightstand to grab the basket. She noticed that there were a lot of tissues in the trash.
"I don't remember him having a cold." She said to herself. Then she noticed a bottle of lotion that was hers that she thought she had left at the lake over the summer. "I thought I had just bought this when I 'lost' it." She said again to herself. Looking at it now it was almost completely empty. She just raised an eyebrow.
She picked up the basket and was getting ready to turn around when she noticed a picture hanging out from under his pillow. She pulled the rest of it out, revealing a picture of herself dancing at Club Innocence. That was the first night her cousin Victoria took her there and in fact that was one of the first dances she had finally let loose a little. "Victoria was right, I did look pretty good." She laughed as she thought about the moment. She took the picture with her and headed back to her room.
"So saturate me huh," She said smiling at him. "Oh and I didn't go through you things this was mostly sticking out from under your pillow, I could tell it was me. So why do you have a picture of me?" She sat the basket down on the bed next to hers.
"Well don't freak out okay?" He asked not really waiting for a response. He put on his boxers, jumped up, and ran to his room.
He returned with a box and sat down on the bed next to her. He opened the box and showed her what was inside. It was full of pictures of her with her family, at work and various other places she had been, even at school. She sat there in shock for a little bit.
"You're not mad are you? He asked cautiously.
"No, it's just wow… I mean I know that you have been following me, but wow." She said still in shock as she looked through the pictures.
"I told you I am a little obsessed with you."
"Wow, I can't believe you are this obsessed with me. It's both so strange and kind of cute." She said with a sweet smile then kissed him. She did find it a little strange and maybe if she wasn't so used to it, it might have freaked her out, but really she wasn't surprised.
"I glad you're not freaking out and throwing me out of 'our' room?" He said smiling.
"I might throw you on something but never out of our room." She returned the smile. She then looked at a picture of her parents giving her a hug squashing her between them as they often did.
"Your parents really love you." He said as he looked at the picture with her. "They would do anything for you and they accept you for who you are and they love it. One day I got to your house before you did. They had the windows open because of the weather and I over heard them talking about you. They were saying how perfect you are, how proud of you they are and how much they love you. They talked about all the wonderful things that you had showed them and taught them. You are really lucky. See, I know that my dad is proud to have me as his son but he shows it weirdly. He would do practically anything for me, that is, if I keep being the son he wants me to be. But I come fourth on his list. And my mum, I know that she loves me and that I am number one on hers, but the way she has to go about it is strange. I am quite spoiled though, they do give me everything; well at least they think they do. I know that my mum isn't as nasty as she puts on I can see it in her eyes sometimes. Especially when I got this letter from my dad last year on Christmas holiday to meet him in the woods somewhere, my mum knew what it was about. She went from going to see a therapist once a month to once or more a week. She didn't say anything but I knew she didn't want that for me you could see hurt and fear in her eyes when I told her last June about… well you know." He said as he looked at the pictures. He wasn't quite sure why he was telling her all that but he felt at ease with her and he knew he could trust her. He looked back up to her and she was just smiling. Not a pity smile but a different kind of smile. No one had ever looked at him like that. He didn't want anyone else to, only her. She looked back down and picked up another picture.
"This is a picture of me getting my butt kicked playing quidditch at Ron and Ginny's house. You were there? So you knew that I was head girl already?"
"Yeah, it was kind of funny when he sang Hermione is our Queen, you know with me making up the original and all." She lightly punched his arm as he laughed. "No really if you want, I can teach you and you can beat the crap out of your friends."
"I bet you would love to see that now wouldn't you. Well it is an idea, I will consider it."
"Good." He said as he took the box of pictures and set them on the desk.
"So why did you take all of those pictures?" Hermione asked as she pulled the baskets closer so they could eat.
"Well it was like an escape for me, to get away from my reality. Being around you seemed to help me even if I wasn't with you. The more I followed you around, the closer I was to you, and it sparked something in me. I don't want this life," He said as he held out his arm with the dark mark. "I have no choice. Even if I would say something, who knows what would happen to me. I have to live with it. So I take pictures of you and your life to remind me of what I long for… you and all you have, besides photography is sort of a hobby of mine."
Hermione was speechless. All she could do was gently caress his face and kiss him, letting him know that she was there.
After they ate he sat the baskets on the desk as well. Draco then stripped himself of his boxers and pounced on Hermione, undid her robe, then took it off and threw it. He moved her under the covers and had his way.
The day had passed and they had a great time getting to know each other in more that one way. They took another shower and got ready for bed. They both fell asleep in each other arms in Hermione's room, that they now call theirs.
A/N: Hey sorry it took so long for me to get this up, been busy with father's day and some other things. Well I do hope you liked it, this was a transition chapter things are going to move in a different direction for the new long time waiting couple. So stay tuned and find out what goes on and remember this is a story of their romance. I do hope you guys get the tissue thing now if not think about it real hard and if still noting let me know, lol.
HippiechicSMEB- Thank you so much I am glad that you feel that way! I didn't want to make things to descriptive for this particular story. And yes it does make it more special. Thanks again!
Mary- Blaise Zabini is a character in JK's books, he is a fellow Slytherin. I will check out your stuff thanks!
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