When I woke up, I was alone, I got up and walked over to my trunk to pick out my cloths for the day. I noticed a note left on top of it . . . ' Draco, I'm sorry I left so early this morning, but I had to go give Harry and Ron their presents. I wish you a very Happy Christmas. Meet me at 12:30pm, I would much rather spend the day with you, but I can't forget about my best friends. Love you, Hermione. P.s. Don't forget to name your snake.' When I finished reading the letter, I looked over at my new snake, I was still a little surprised she knew I would like this kind of pet. As for picking out a name I had no idea. After I dressed, I decided I would take my new little friend with me, I carefully placed him in my pocket and left my room heading for the great hall. When I arrived there, I took a seat at the end of the table with the rest of the Slytherins. I wasn't completely paying attention until I heard a sixth year kid start talking about Hermione.
" So did you hear little miss goody has been fucking around with another seventh year." He said.
I looked up at him, " No shit, she's dating that kid from Ravenclaw." I shook my head and looked back down at my food.
" Oh no, she's got someone else." I nearly dropped my fork when I heard this. " I guess that kid Brian offered her to come to his house for Christmas break and she turned it down."
" That doesn't mean anything." I shrugged my shoulders. " What was your name again?" Sad he was in my house and I probably talked to him every day but I never knew his name.
" Kyle" He held out his hand and I shook it. " But someone told me they saw her hanging all over some other guy." He looked right at me as he said it.
" Do you know who he is?" I asked him, while filling my plate up again.
" I have a very good idea, but it's not important. I can't be too sure." I thought I saw him look at me weird, but I was paranoid so I could have just been that.
" I always knew she was a slut on the inside. Someone told me Brian is starting to notice. She stops him whenever he tries something and she always has to go do Head duty work at night, even on the weekends. I think she's sleeping around." He stopped and looked down the table. " Even though she's a mudblood I would still fuck her, just look at her, I would like to bend her in all sorts of positions." He said smirking at me. He must have known something but didn't have the balls to come out and say it, and if he ever did find the guts to say anything I would be sure to kick his ass and thankfully he knew that.
I looked back up at him, " To bad she's too much of a prude to let you touch her." I smirked back at him.
" Draco I wouldn't be too sure of myself, I hear she's not really into the good boy type." He was testing me.
By now all the other Slytherins were just watching us trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Even some kids from the other houses were listening in on the news about their Head Girl. " Just who are you getting this information from." I asked because I would really like to seek this person out and hurt them.
He shrugged his shoulders, " That's not important. But apparently the guy who's fucking her must be ashamed, why else wouldn't they show off a beauty like that." Right now I wanted to rip this shit head apart, but that would have to wait until we were alone. " Well if you don't mind I have somewhere to be." I waited until he left the hall, then I got up and left as well. I needed to get some things straight with Kyle. I saw him not to far ahead of me and picked up my pace to catch up with him. The second he turned around he smirked at me. " You know if I were you I would be a little more careful other people might find out about your little secret." The moment he said this I punched him right in the face and continued until I saw blood all over my hand. When I stopped, I bent down close to his face.
" If I hear one more rumor about it, I will be sure to come and find you. Do you understand?" He nodded his head covering his nose with his hand. I stood up straight and straightened my robes, when I looked up I saw Hermione standing there.
" What the hell is going on." She asked, walking up to me and looking down at the bloody kid lying on the floor.
I grabbed her arm and pulled her back toward the common room, " I tell you when we get back to our room." I pulled her fast trying to get as far away from Kyle as possible. When we got into the common room, I headed straight far the bathroom to wash the blood off. Hermione followed me.
" You want to tell me what happened out there." She asked tapping her foot impatiently on the floor.
I looked up at her, " He knows." She looked at me confused.
" He knows about what?" She asked.
I let a long breath out, " Us." Hermione face went white.
" That's impossible, nobody could possibly know about us." She said sitting back on the counter. " I mean we are never in public."
I sat down next to her, " Well apparently we were seen. Kyle isn't going to say anything, and I'm sure he is going to warn whoever told him."
" More then one person knows." She said while standing up. " This is going to ruin everything, do you know how fast things like this spread here." She started crying, I pulled closer to me and rapped my arms around her.
" Don't worry about it. I have it under control." I told her, hugging her closer to me. She looked up at me and smiled. " So what did you have planned for today."
She shrugged her shoulders, " I don't know, I just wanted to spend time with you. After last night I thought it would be a good idea." She said pulling away and grabbing my hands. Just as she did that I felt a sharp pain run through my arm.
" Shit." I said, rubbing my arm as the pain started making my arm throb. " I have to go." I ran from the room and into my bedroom throwing on my black robe with the mask stuffed into the pocket. I went quickly to the dungeons to find Professor Snape. As I ran into him, he grabbed my arm and with a loud crack we were gone. When I looked around, I saw we were in some kind of grave yard.
Professor Snape roughly grabbed my arm, " Your in trouble Draco." He said, weaving us through the head stones.
" What did I do?" I asked starting to panic. The only thing that came to mind is that he must know about Hermione.
Snape sighed deeply, " You should have known better then to have dragged her into this." He stopped walking. " The Lord already doesn't like her and on top of being a mudblood, she is Potter's friend. She helps to fight against him, so when he hears she's messing around with one of his followers . . . It only gives him more of a reason to go after her. Now prepare yourself, because it's going to hurt." We walked through a woody area and when we came out on the other side, we found about 40 Death Eaters standing around talking. My farther walked right up to me, stared at me for a moment and then smacked me right across the face.
" How could you do such a stupid thing?" He hit me again harder. I was used to this so I took it without even flinching. " You are ruining the Malfoy name by fucking a filthy mudblood." Once again he hit me. " That better be all it is." He paused, only to finally punch me knocking me to the ground.
" Yes." I said trying to get back up, I felt blood dripping down from my nose and into my mouth I tried spitting it out but it was no good. " I was stupid, I only did it for some fun. That's all I swear."
My father glared at me, " It ends now." Just as he said that, I saw him look behind me and back away bowing slightly. I knew that could only mean one thing. I turned around and bowed my head, I need to impress him as much as possible.
" You did a very bad thing Draco." I figure wearing the hooded cloak came closer to me. " Sleeping with a muggle born. Want to tell me what you were thinking."
I said the first thing that came to mind, " Hogwarts is not a place to be picky, when you come across a decent looking girl it's hard to pass up. I knew she was a mudblood, and it somewhat made it more exciting knowing it was Potter's best friend. I swear it meant nothing. She's nothing to me, just a good screw every once in a while."
The figure nodded its head, " I see. But you could have made a better choice. You're smarter then that." I saw him lift his wand and before I could do anything I was hit by an unforgivable, which left me withering on the ground. When the curse ended I didn't have the strength to get up. I blocked everything out, and soon the pain was gone.
I didn't wake up until the next day, I was in a large room that was definitely not mine. I got up and walked to the next room. Professor Snape was sitting talking with the Head Master.
" Ahh here he is." As I walked through the room I passed a mirror and saw my horrible reflection, I looked like shit. " Come sit here. We need to talk." I walked over to them and sat in a chair across from them. " This should tell you how you need to be more careful Draco. They are not a group of people you mess around with." I nodded my head. " And as for you and Hermione . . . "
Crap I knew he was going to say something about that, so I cut him off. " I know I'm sorry I just . . . "
" ... You need to patrol tonight. I know it wasn't your turn but there is no one else." He smiled at me with that twinkle in his eye. I looked at him confused and nodded my head. " Now how about you go back to your room and get and fix yourself up." I stood up and walked toward the door. I went straight for my room when I got back. I needed to lie down. I opened my door to my room and found Hermione sleeping on my bed. She must have been waiting for me. I walked over and shook her. She immediately sat straight up and looked me over.
" Oh my god Draco are you all right." I nodded my head climbing over her to lie down. " Let me clean you up." She ran out of the room, only to come back moments later with a towel and hot water. She kneeled down next to the me on the bed and told me to sit up. I tried but could find the strength, just the walk back here made my muscle throb in pain. I felt her hand unbuttoning my robes and pulling them out from under me, as much as I tried to help I couldn't. She gently pulled off my tee shirt and started washing the blood off me. " Why did they do this to you?"
I didn't want to tell her. She didn't need to know it would only scare her, so I lied. " I refused to do something Voldermont asked me to do." She nodded her head understanding. When she finished, she put the towel down.
" At least you're here now." She said laying next to me.