Yr/Tc: Hey all! I'm in a romance mood. Well later. Please enjoy!
Chapter 2: New Beginnings
Things had been going very well with Hermione and Fred. It has been two months since she left Draco. And she was getting on her own feet. She was enjoying her time with Fred. They were friends. She wasn't ready for more. She can't date after what Draco did to her. She was having trust issues. And the thing in the kitchen was an accident. He didn't mean it. No guy ever does. She was scared of love now.
One day she and Fred were redecorating the rooms to her liking, when there was a knock at the door. She looked up confused and shocked.
"Who could that be? George is doing things with WWW and Ginny is god knows were, and I don't care, and Harry and Ron can't get back for another month." Fred stated Hermione's thoughts.
"I'll get it Fred. Why don't you take a break?" She walked over to the door and Fred walked into the bathroom to wash his face. Hermione pulled it open to find Draco standing there.
"Draco, what the hell are you doing here? I left you; I'm starting over, why the hell are you back here?" Her face was a livid red.
"Svp Hermione, reviennent à moi. Ginny ment rien à moi. Je m'ennuie de vous ainsi beaucoup" He begged. He took her hand and clung to it.
"Draco, vont à Flur montrer outre de vos qualifications françaises. Draco, je n'vais pas revenir! Fred n'était pas heureux d'apprendre que vous baisiez sa soeur!" She screamed at him, pulling her hand away from his.
"Mais Mione, je t'aime puis la vie elle-même! Revenez svp à moi!" He Tried to pull her into a kiss.
"Je vous mourrais plutôt personne fithy! Cessez de tormenting moi! Veuillez me laisser seul Draco!" Draco kept trying to kiss her when Fred walked in.
"Ainsi qu'est pourquoi vous ne revenez pas à moi! Vous dormez avec Fred! Vous êtes un slut Hermione! Et il ne sait pas ce qui continue entre les deux de nous!" He was turning red. 'Hermione was with some one already?'
"No Draco, I'm not having sex with him. He is my landlord, and he is helping me move my things around to my liking. I don't Jump in the sack with every person of the opposite sex of me, like you Draco. Now if you don't mind I have work to do. Oh, I told Fred why I left you. So be careful, he's pissed at you." Draco went pale and dropped Hermione to the floor and apperated off, away from Fred.
"Um what did he say?" Fred looked at her confused. "All I heard was French."
"Oh, just he wanted me back, and that what Ginny was to him was a toy. That he loved me more the life itself. Then you walked in and he said 'this is why you do not return to me! You're sleeping with Fred! You are a slut Hermione! And he does not know what happened between the two of us'"
"That's why he came? To try to win you back then call you a slut? Wow, what a sweet man. Hermione, I'm so sorry about him."
"It's ok Fred I was an idiot to believe any one could love me." She walked off and went to her room, shutting the door behind her. Fred walked up to it and knocked.
"Mione, you are not an idiot. He is. He gave you up for nothing. And it's not dumb to love you. I know you are not going to believe me, but I meant it the other day when I said it to you. I really did. And please don't hate me because I can't help but feel this way. I would do stupid things sixth year just to get you to yell at me. You are so pretty when you yell, when you cry, when you do anything. Hermione, please don't hate me!"
He turned to leave. When he heard the door click and it slide against the carpet. He could smell her perfume of flowers, and hear her sniffling. He slowly turned to face her. Her face was slightly red, and she had tiny streams of tears on her face.
"Fred, please stay. He might come back. No he will come back. He hates losing. He won't live with losing me. He's going to hurt me. And I don't want to be here alone."
Her hand was on his arm lightly, almost as light as snow. There only for a moment, but it will be back, another time, hopefully soon.
He looked up into her cinnamon apple eyes. They were brimmed with tears. He gently reached up and wiped them away. She looked into his aquamarine eyes, getting lost in the depth, the pain, the happiness, the lust and the love. The thing that scared her the most was the most comforting in his eyes. The loved soothed her and gave her strength. It scared her and excited her. The electricity flowing from his eyes bore into hers and filled her with happiness.
His hand gently traced her face, slowly, thoughtfully. His eyes bore into hers and it filled him with fear and reassurance, happiness, hope, love, faith, and freedom. All of her was in her eyes. He loved that she wore her heart on her sleeve. He loved everything about her. The way her hair fell in her eyes, the way she balled up in a chair, the way she looked scared when she asked for help, then way she smiled after you helped her. Everything.
He leaned down to her, slowly, but with a mission. She leaned up, slowly but with a mission. They met in the middle, their missions completed when their lips met in a slow dance. There was a snapping noise, they jumped apart and looked for the source of the noise. It didn't take long to find Draco standing there staring at them.
"Not sleeping together? You were standing there kissing like there was no tomorrow! And you aren't sleeping with each other?"
"Draco, that was the first kiss, second it doesn't matter who I'm kissing, and third why are you here?"
She was filled with fear now. She had nothing to cling to. 'He is going to hurt me' was all her brain told her. Draco stepped toward Hermione, only to have Fred move in between them. He felt her grab onto his shirt and burry her face in it.
"Move aside Weasel, this is between Hermione and me. As you know she is my Fiancé."
"It's was Draco. I'm not any more. But Fred, why don't you go to my room. If I scream, come out. But Draco is right, we have to talk." She gave Fred a looks that showed it all, her fear, her love, her need for things to end with Draco.
"Fine, but one sound of Hermione getting hurt, and I'm back out here."
He stormed off and locked himself in the room she sent him to. She turned to Draco.
"Why are you here? Why can't you let me move on? You cut me deep Draco. Sleeping with my best friend? What the hell were you thinking! We were getting married! She was the Maid of Honor! Why Draco why?" Hermione sank down to the couch. Old wounds opening again.
"Because, you would have sex with me, I was desperate! And she came in wearing a see through top! What was I supposed to do?"
"How often?" Her icy eyes bore into his sad eyes. Her hatred for him pouring into his.
"Ever weekend, and twice during the week. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays."
"And I should come back why?"
"Because I love you."
"If you loved me you wouldn't have been cheating on me. Please leave my house now." She stood up and walked to the door to open it, when she felt this pressure on the back of her head then it all went black.
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"She suffered quite a blow to her head, but she'll be ok." Hermione heard that voice and it sounded warm, sweet, worried, and familiar. She wanted to look for that voice but she couldn't see.
"Fred, don't worry. Hermione won't let this stop her."
"I let him hit her! I walked out of the room! If I had stayed Hermione wouldn't be here!"
"No you did what she asked. It's Draco's fault she's here. Don't blame yourself"
"Fred…. George….Harry….Ron?" She tried to sit up only to have a few hands push her back into bed then had her bed tilted so she was in the sitting position. Her vision started to clear up and she could see what was going on around her. "Harry…Ron, you two have another month on your mission! What are you doing here?"
"Mione, you have been out for a month and a half. Harry and Ron just got back and we were filling them in on what happened."
"I was out for how long?"
"A month and a half." George answered.
"What happened?" Hermione was Frantic. A month and a half was missing. How?
"Well, you got up to let Draco back out, he took a staff like the one his dad had, and hit it to you in the nape of your neck and you went out. I heard you collapse to the floor and I came running out and Draco had left, but the staff was still in your head. He left you to die."
Hermione started to bawl her head off. She brought her knees up and cried into them. Every one stood around wile Hermione sorted things out in her head. After about thirty minutes she sat up and looked at all of them in they eyes.
"What have I missed? What about my job? What happened to my house? What about the progress I was making in getting over that ass?"
Fred was watching her and smiling. He didn't want her to forget her times with him. They were, as bazaar as it is coming from a wizard, magical. His eyes glittered as he smiled at her. 'She must remember the kiss! She has to!' He just hoped that she did. He didn't want to be the only one that remembered the current, the passion. He looked into her eyes and she smiled and nodded. 'She remembers. She remembers!' He was jumping for joy on the inside. He wanted to pick her up and hug her, spinning around, but he couldn't. Not wile she was in the hospital. He just stared at her smiling.
"Fred, earth to Fred! By god wake up!" Fred looked up to see George, Harry and Ron giving him odd looks. He blinked a few times before he responded.
"What's going on?" He was confused, very confused, like a monkey with two bananas.
"You were staring at Hermione and grinning like an idiot. Is there something you want to tell us?" George stated and gave his brother the 'tell or die' look.
"Fred, are you having guilty thoughts about our little Hermione?" Harry questioned knowingly
"My brother, and my best friend, no. That would never happen!" Ron practically screamed.
"Little Hermione? Um Hello, I'm 24 damn it! I'm not little any more!" She shot Harry a look of death.
"Sorry Hermione." Harry stuttered.
He was visiblely shaking, and you can't blame him. You never want to piss Hermione off. When Fred had slid a snake in her shoe, he couldn't walk for a month because she put a curse on his "little friend" and was causing atrocious pain. She didn't undo the curse until he begged for forgiveness. She was not too pleased when she undid it. It amused her to watch Fred spaz like that. It was so funny; she recorded every moment of it. Harry didn't want that to happen to him.
"Can I go home please? I don't want to sit here in his bed. It's itchy, and unfamiliar. Please?" Hermione was begging them. Hermione, beg? Wow. That's a first. Hermione begging for something. Her eyes bore into Fred's and sent shivers down his spine.
"I'll go ask for you Mione. Just, wait here." Fred stood up and walked out of the room to go find a nurse.
Soon he found one. She looked familiar. He walked closer, close enough to talk to her, to get her attention. He wanted to make Hermione's wishes to come home true.
"Excuse me, ma'am." He lightly tapped her shoulder.
"Yes Fred?" She turned around and he looked down at her name tag.
'Katie Bell' Whoa! Katie Bell his ex girlfriend? Katie Bell, the chaser of the year? Why is she a nurse, let alone Hermione's nurse? This is so confusing.
"How did you know I wasn't George?"
"I can tell it was you, the way you smell, the way you talk, and your gentleness. May I help you Fred?"
"Hermione wants to go home, is she allowed to yet?"
"No she's still unconscious. She can't go home till she wakes up."
"She is up! That's why she asked me to find out if she can go home!"
"Why didn't she ask Draco? She's engaged to him. That's why we got together remember? You were mooning after Hermione; then she told every one that she was getting married, to Draco."
"He cheated on her. She's now living in the spare apartment about George and me. He attacked her. She's here now because of him. She wants to go home. Can she?"
"Wait, Draco cheated on her? With who? Doing what?"
"With Ginny and having sex. Now please answer my question. Can Hermione come home or not?"
"Yeah. I bet you two have hooked up now."
He turned and started to walk off; then he stopped and turned around. "Not yet Katie. She's still single. I'm still single. I'm waiting for her to get over the pain of what happened to Draco. Then I'll ask her to be my girlfriend. But not that it matters to you." With that he turned back to get Hermione and taking her home.
Yr/Tc: Well I've updated all my stories. Well later!