Phillyactress: Aw sorry you thought that! I'll try and do better next time lol. I'm not sure if this chapter will sum some things up, but maybe in a few it'll all click? Lol thanks for reviewing again and again! P.s.-in case you are wondering, yes Herbert will be back very soon! He's a favorite of mine now and I can't just let him wander the mansion when there's some Herbert work to do!

ILOVERON: Why thank you! Ron's my favorite too, so I don't think I could do anything completely horrible to him. He's such a fun character to write because he's quirky and a bowl of fun when you want him to be, but he also does the temper thing all to well if the scene calls for it lol.

Ashley: Hermione's in a situation where even if she wanted to think about that, she prolly couldn't for a long time! Lol, but we'll see what happens in later chapters (wink wink lol) Thank you for being so faithful to the story! May I mention reading Tamora Pierce?

Smurphy: Ah dear friend, of course she used broad…hello. Lol, well now, sometimes I get a little frustrated with how simple it would have been to go to the right person and it never happens…so I'm taking a stand! Glad you liked it though. By the way, NEAL is sooo my new favorite book character of Pierce's. I can't believe how behind in the books I am lol. Review again!—you know you don't have a choice lol.

Syd: I hope this wasn't too long of a wait! Awww, I'm so happy that you got choked-up about that scene…not that I want you to cry, but because I absolutely loved that scene! Actually, another favorite was the last scene between Draco and Hermione, but that's beside the point. Anyway, I'm glad you like it!

ravioli and chocolate: Thank you! I was worried there for a second on your last review that maybe something was wrong with the story…lol. But your back, so I don't have to worry too much! Lol

Emma: Hi! I'm so glad you reviewed, and I hope you don't get bored with the rest! I hope that you review again! I'll give you a head's up on the next one I'm thinking about in a couple weeks or so, so tell me what you think!

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Disclaimer: I am not J.K.Rowling, and anything that you recognize in this story is NOT mine!

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Harry sprinted to catch up with Dumbledore at the Malfoy's front door. When he got there, he saw Dumbledore trying to find a way inside; evidently, the door had a protective ward on it.

"Professor…" Harry began. Dumbledore cut him off and held a finger to his mouth to silence him. "Don't speak more than a whisper Harry," he said, "you never know who is around, who is sneaking about waiting for you to make a mistake." Dumbledore was wise beyond his years, and Harry had learned after his fifth, to always take into consideration what he was saying.

"Professor," Harry whispered, "if there is a ward on the door….can't you just apparate inside? I'm not quite sure I…"

"Harry," Dumbledore interrupted, "I understand how you want to help your friends, and I can't say I blame you. However, if we apparate, the 'pop' would surely give us away. I don't understand what spell are on these doors…but we need to find another way to get inside."

Dumbledore turned to get back to the house walls, figuring another way to get past the spells placed upon it. As Harry watched him intently, he couldn't help but think, as time slowly ticked by, how his friends were doing.

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Ron murmured in his sleep, he was dreaming of a beautiful white-dressed princess with curly brown hair. She kept calling his name as the waterfall in the background sprinkled them with mist.

'Hermione' he said as he reached out towards her, but she started drifting away. 'Hermione, wait!' he screamed and got up to run after her; he got as far as the waterfall and couldn't see her anymore.

Suddenly he woke up.

'What happened? Where am I?' he wondered. Looking around he saw a dark room filled with vials of different liquid, and then it all came back to him. Quickly he looked down at his front, lifting his shirt to see his stomach, but there was nothing. Amazingly, he came off from the curse Lucius had thrown Scott-free.

Getting up, he went off in a search for Hermione, hoping that Draco was at least taking care of her. As much as he hated it, he'd grown to appreciate how much Draco was doing for Hermione. 'He was there when nobody else could be,' he thought, 'when I couldn't be…'

As Ron walked slowly –not just from the pain, but from the fear of being caught- down the hallway, he began to think more on the topic at hand.

'She has been spending an awfully good amount of time with him. Look at her though, she may look different right now, but she's still my Hermione.' Ron remembered the way she kissed him in the library, and the way she looked with Draco in the Great Hall those past few months. Shaking his head, he put those thoughts aside and continued his search through the great Malfoy mansion for his love.

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"Draco, are you awake?" Hermione asked softly in the dark cell. They had been sitting in silence for the past hour, thinking about what they could do. Hermione's breathing was getting worse, and she feared that if they didn't leave soon…well, she didn't want to think about it.

"Draco?" She pestered again.

"Mm, what? What's going on?" Draco scooted up the wall from his, evidently restful position. "Janeia, are you ok?"

'Just try to be strong Hermione,' she thought to herself, 'just…explain calmly.' She shook her head and tried to fight back the tears, "Draco," she said, "Draco I'm not sure how much longer I can just sit here. My chest…it hurts to even breathe, we've got to get out fast, please." She pushed a strand of hair behind her ear and turned her head, so that he wouldn't see the guilty look in her eyes. "Why are you still calling me Janeia?"

Draco looked at her softly and answered, "I don't know who is here right now…and maybe some of the Death Eaters don't know that you are…well, the mudblood…no offense" he said with a crooked grin.

"Do you really think they wouldn't know? It's just that…I'd prefer it if you would call me Hermione…just in case…you know…" She slowly stopped talking and Draco cut her off.

"Jan…Hermione, don't feel bad…we'll get you out of here. All right, let's think, what if we…." He stopped.

"What is it?" Hermione asked.

Draco painfully got to his feet, and once the pain subdued, walked over to the front of the cell, placing his hands on the bars. He peered out into the darkness and stood there for a good half a minute before Hermione talked.

"Draco, what is it?" she asked again. Draco hushed her quickly and turned back to the bars. He instinctively reached for his wand…but realized that he didn't have it with him. He moved over to the left a couple feet to block Hermione's view of the room.

"Who's out there? Show yourself."

"Just like a Malfoy, full of demands, never polite questions." The figured walked up towards Draco, but Hermione couldn't see who it was.

"Weasley, thank the gods…I thought you were dead!" Draco's shoulders lowered, his tension gone. "Quick, help us get out of here. We need to get Hermione" he said the name with a whisper, "out of here fast. She's getting worse Weasley…come on."

Nodding, Ron took out his wand, which Draco looked at with a quirked eyebrow, "I'll explain later" Ron said. He raised the wand and whispered "Alohamora" clicking, the door swung open a little and Ron ran inside the cell towards Hermione.

"Hermione," he said, "dear god…look at you." He stroked her hair and cupped her cheek, "I'm sorry if I was ever the cause for this…I never meant it." Kissing her forehead he sighed and hid the tear that was starting to form in his eye.

Hermione hugged her boyfriend and said tearfully, "Ron…it was never you, it wasn't anybody. It was me; I was too stupid to realize what all I had. Instead, I was thinking of all the things I THOUGHT I needed. I had you, and Harry…and that's all that mattered." She buried her face in his neck and let her tears run down his skin as she cried, "Do not blame yourself, please"

Draco coughed in the background, "Yeah…not that I don't like this show of affection from you two, but we need to get going. Come on lovers, let's get a move on." He opened the cell door a little more and waited as Ron lifted Hermione up.

"Could you carry me?" she asked a little ashamed, "I don't think I'm strong enough to walk."

"Sure love, anything you want." Ron replied, he kissed her forehead again and walked towards the door.

"Oh for the love of god…" Draco muttered. He rolled his eyes and shut the door behind them before walking behind. "It's like a goddamn romance book gone bad. You two are horrible, I swear, who needs to read when they can listen to you guys all day long."

"Your just jealous," Ron said with a laugh, "because I have this beautiful woman who is like an entire library of knowledge, and you just have…" he said as he turned and grinned at Draco, "a pocket dictionary."

Hermione giggled despite herself, "naughty" she said.

Draco frowned, "that's great Weasley, just great. Kick me when I'm down. You know that once we get back to Hogwarts you'll pay for that comment.

"Mhm…why don't you bring…"Ron was cut off.

"Boys," Hermione said, "knock it off the both of you. Draco, where in hell's name are we? Which way is the closest way to the library?" Ron snickered until Hermione punched his shoulder, and waited for the direction.

"Um…well, we're in the basement I believe, and the library is on the main floor. We can go straight upstairs and take a right, which is the easiest way, but, I'm sure there are Death Eaters. We're going to need to go all the way upstairs so we can make a circle, we can hide out in my room on the way if there seems to be any trouble."

Slowly they walked up the stairs until they reached the main floor. Draco peered around the corner and motioned for them to quickly get to the other stairs that were across the room. They made it safely across and began to climb the beautifully crafted staircase.

"Malfoy," Ron whispered, "which door is your room. Just in case…"

Draco nodded in an understanding, "it's the third door on the right, you need a password –I got it so that father wouldn't barge in- place your hand on the flower carving towards the middle and say "Pansy's a dog."

Ron looked at Draco as they kept climbing the stairs, and quirked his eyebrows. "What?" Draco asked, "I never said I liked her did I?" Ron silently chuckled, "fair enough."

Soon they reached the top of the stairway and stopped for breath, realizing too late how tough it would be to walk far with their injuries.

Hermione had somehow fallen asleep as they walked, and Ron wished silently that he would never have to wake her up, she looked so peaceful.

Silently, Draco and Ron walked down the hallway, Ron looking every which direction at the photographs on the wall. Many of them saw Draco and waved enthusiastically as they walked by. Before they knew it, they found the next stairway. Ron looked at Draco, as if saying 'now what?'

Understanding, Draco whispered, "When you get to the bottom, take a right, and it's the last door on the left side." Ron nodded in agreement and headed towards the bottom. Halfway down, they heard some voices upstairs. Ron figured they were about where Draco's room was by their volume, but they still had to hurry. They picked up the pace and turned right just as soon as the voices reached the top of the stairway.

Draco ran and opened the library door, locking it behind him. Ron glided quickly towards the back of the room, where Hermione's potion was and set her down behind the stacks of books. "Hermione, wake up." He ordered softly.

Hermione looked up and saw Ron a smile spread to her face. "Is it time?" she asked hopefully.

"Yeah love, it's time. Take the potion, and then spread this," he handed her a small circular container, "over your chest." Hermione looked up at him skeptically, and sniffed the contents.

Ron blushed and rubbed the back of his neck, "I looked up on the topic one night…you know, just in case." Hermione nodded and whispered all she could, "thank you."

Ron rocked back and forth for a second on the balls of his feet, "well," he said, "Malfoy and I will just be over there waiting. Come get us when you're done." And with that, he walked away.

Hermione grinned and picked up the book that Draco had left, with the potion information inside. She took the small cup that was in his bag and dipped it in the yellow liquid. Closing her eyes, she drank it and immediately her stomach felt warm. It would take a couple minutes for the full effect to take place, so she unbuttoned her shirt to spread the gel on her chest. She was thankful the boys had walked away, and leaned against the books to wait for the potion to work.

While she was waiting by the books, Ron and Draco found a hidden corner to wait for Hermione, and that was out of site from anybody who decided to barge in.

"So Weasley, are we going to be…different when we get back to Hogwarts?" Draco asked his face with no expression. He didn't expect much, but he wanted to at least be able to spend time with Hermione, without there being any hurt feelings…besides his own.

"Listen Malfoy, I'm not stupid, I know how you feel about Hermione." Ron looked at Draco sternly, but without anger. "It's only natural I guess," he said, "I mean, you two spent a whole lot of time together. So just come out and tell me."

Ron waited for a reply as Draco sat there and thought for a minute, even though he still had dislike for Weasley…he loved Hermione, and that meant that he would do whatever it took to make her happy. He decided what he was going to do once and for all.

"Weasley," he started, "yeah ok…at one time I liked Hermione, I'll admit." Ron glared.

"But," Draco continued, "That's long gone. I'm just a friend, who wants to spend time with her when we get back." He waited for Ron's response, which came a little more than a minute later.

"You swear?" Ron asked.

Draco looked at Ron and sighed, "I swear." Draco decided to change the topic as quick as possible. "So, where'd you get the wand, I thought father took yours away?" Ron looked at Draco and laughed, "I borrowed it from Neville…now I'm going to have to replace it."

"Not that it'd matter right?" Draco laughed, and Ron joined him in their silent joke, "Yeah," Ron said, "Probably not." The laugher died down as an uncomfortable silence found them, "So now what?" Ron asked.

"Well," Draco responded, "I guess we decide to be civil to each other…as much as we can without blowing our covers," he glanced over, "but for now…I guess we wait."

Ron looked off to the distance and thought, 'now we wait.' Both boys sat in silence for the next couple minutes as they waited for Hermione. They both knew that in a few minutes, they would really have to work hard to get out of here. But for the time being, they sat and appreciated the needed quiet of the night.

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A/N: Ok, that was a little longer than I usually write, but for some reason I just couldn't stop with the conversations between Ron and Draco! Lol. Review!