Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, unfortunately.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs," sighed George, patting the heading of the map. "We owe them so much."

"Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of lawbreakers," said Fred solemnly...

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

Chapter 9- Holding Hermione

"Drakie, what happened?" Pansy wined as Draco took his seat next to her at the lunch table.

"Nothing, just a rogue broom" he shrugged

"Is Draco in need of been cheered up" she said putting her hand on the top of his thigh, Draco unconsciously looked over to where Hermione was sat with her house, not friends just house.

"Parkinson, just leave me alone" he snapped at her

"Draco?"

"Were not going out so leave it"

"But that's never stopped us before" she said reaching further into his lap. Draco turned towards her and pushed her off him

"It will never happen again, I can assure you of that"

"Drakie?"

"That's not my name. Its Malfoy to you" he stood and walked over to where Hermione was sat alone

"Hey" he said quietly

"Hey your self" she said moving along the bench and patting it. Draco took the hint and sat next to her. The whole student body was looking at the king of Slytherin sat at the Gryffindor table.

"Let them" Hermione whispered as if reading his mind because Draco was looking around. He looked at Hermione who smiled at him and he nodded

"Your not going out tonight, are you?"

"No, I think ill stay in" she said looking back at her food. She felt so sick that her so called friends would do something like that to Draco for no apparent reason that she felt like she would be happier never seeing Max and his gang ever again. Its not like there were many people she could hold a decent conversation with...Violet was a air head and a very very stupid one at that, besides she was a witch and needed to talk about witchy things and her so called friends didn't give her the opening. But on the other hand her so called magical friends wasn't speaking to her any more and certainly wouldn't be after eating lunch with Draco Malfoy at the Gryffindor table, she was sure she would be ostracized even more now. "No I just think ill stay home"

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"Night 'Mione" Draco said putting his toothbrush back under the sink and leaving the bathroom where Hermione was stood moisturizing her face.

"Yeah night Draco" she called after him.

A few minutes later Hermione left the bathroom and walked into her own warm and cozy bedroom. Sliding under the heated covers (a perk about been head girl, automatically heated or cooled covers) she picked up her book, of which she was nearly finished.

She opened the book, it was a book by her favorite muggle author JK Rowling and removed her book mark and started to read the last chapter of the brilliant book.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Draco walked into his room and slid under his heated covers and took out his magazine on new brooms and the equipment you could buy for them, but not before long he was drifting off to the land of nod. Which is exactly where he wanted to be.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Hermione finished her book and levitated it over on to her bookshelf where she kept all her books. Once it was nicely seated in between Oscar Wide and Jane Austin she smiled while yawning.

"Night Crookshanks" she mumbled putting her head down on her pillow, Crookshanks purred and batted his eyes shut, not long after Hermione did the same.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"Did you see the two of them today?" Harry asked Ron in the Gryffindor common room

"I think every one did Harry" Ron said looking into the fire with Harry

"I wish Sirius was here, he would know what to do"

"Yeah"

"Harry, come to bed, please" came a sweet little voice "Its 11pm"

"Ginny, you go to bed, ill be up later" Harry called back to his girlfriend

"Harry, I thought we planned on having a early night" she said playfully, making her brother blush and roll his eyes. Ron hated that his sister had been able to find a spell to enable her to come into the boy's bedroom. He hated it even more since she told all his friends about it and most of the time Seamus, Dean and Neville were off with their girlfriends.

"Ginny, ill be up soon love" Ginny sighed and nodded. Harry turned back to Ron, who was still red

"Its not like you don't have women in your bed waiting for you"

"But that's my sister"

"I thought you were happy for us to be together, you know the best friend and your sister" he joked, "You told me that it wouldn't be any one but me" Harry pouted

"Very funny Harry, you know I was blind drunk at the time, just go to bed" Ron laughed. Ron knew that Harry made Ginny happy and she made he equally as happy, this fact made him happy because Harry needed all the happiness he could get in his life and if he found this in Ginny then so be it.

"Should we talk to Hermione?"

"I don't know, she seemed pretty pally with Malfoy earlier"

"I think we should let her come to us"

"But she hasn't yet and where has she been while she's been missing classes, ever since she's been head girl, she seems less studious"

"Night Ron" Harry said patting him on the back and running up the stairs to where Ginny would be waiting for him

"Hey, Ron you going to bed?" Asked Seamus as he and Dean walked into the common room

"Where have you been?"

"Hufflepuff" answered Dean, smirking

"Ravenclaw" Seamus winked

"So you up?" Neville asked as he began following the boys up to the bedroom

"Nah, Ginny and Harry are in there"

"Harry always uses a silencing charm on his curtains" Neville said

"But its my sister" Ron said going red, only this time from anger.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"No, no. Please Max don't do this" came Hermione's voice "You don't have to do this, please Max, I don't want this" she begged

Hermione rolled over in her sleep and jolted herself wake, it was the nightmare that she had every now and then from the time Max raped her.

"Crookshanks, come here boy" she said reaching for the cat, which she suddenly had the urge to cuddle. Crookshanks opened a eye and hauled himself off the bed and crawled under it "Thanks boy" she said sarcastically.

Hermione looked around her room and then at her clock, 3:56am. Double history of magic awaits her at 9am and she hated that class, so she needed sleep. Going back to sleep she slept soundly.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"Don't do it" was what woke Draco up at 5am that morning, he looked around the room to see where the voice was coming from, but he was alone in his room. He groaned and looked at the time, 5:01am

"Agg, double history" he grumbled and tried to go back to sleep

"Leave him alone, Draco run" came the voice again "DRACO" he shot out of bed in one swift movement and ran for the door, he knew that voice "DRACO" came the voice again.

"Hermione" he called as he reached her room

"AAAGGGG" came a scream from inside "Help" he heard her mumbled. Draco pushed open the door and saw Hermione laid on her bed tossing and turning in her sleep; a thin layer of sweat lay on her forehead.

Draco rushed to her side and tried waking her

"Hermione, wake up. Hermione" nothing "Its only a nightmare, wake up Hermione, come on" he shook her and slowly she began to come around

"Draco" she mumbled groggily

"You had a nightmare, you screamed my name" he said

"Oh, I cant remember. What's the time?"

"5:15"

"Oh no, ill never get back to sleep" she groaned

"Neither will I"

"You can stay in here is you like" she said shyly

"Sure" Draco said sitting down on the floor, he reach up and took a pillow off her bed and set it on the floor, placing his head on it.

"Draco, I meant in my bed" she said as if all her energy was gone, she sounded very tired.

"No, it's your bed, ill be fine down here"

"In my bed with me" Draco looked up at her and she nodded and yawned

"Thanks again" he said as he got off the floor and jumped into her bed at the side of her.

"Can you do me a favor?" Hermione asked blushing

"Hum"

"Hold me, please" Draco looked down at her and saw the need to be held in her eyes, he smiled sweetly at her and cuddled up close to her, she put her hand on his chest as he put his arms around her back. Hermione buried her head into his shoulder and he placed his forehead on hers

"This is nice" he whispered. However Draco wasn't expecting the reaction she gave him.

Hermione nodded and burst into tears "Oh Draco" she cried

"Shh what's the matter?" he asked pulling her even closer

"Nothing, I'm just been silly"

"Hermione, you can tell me"

"I've never been held like this before"

"Not even by Max?"

"Never" she continued to cry

"Don't cry, and I don't think your been silly" Hermione tired her best to smile and nodded looking up at him

"Thank you Draco" she reached up and kissed him gently on the lips. When she pulled away and placed her head back on his shoulder Draco leaned down and kissed her back on the lips, harder and passionately.

"Thank you Hermione" he said when he pulled away. Hermione moved herself closer to him and she could feel his manhood growing. Draco knew she felt this and blushed, but his blush of embarrassment soon left him when he felt a little hand cup his manhood and began rubbing.

He looked at her and she smiled mischievously taking Draco's hand and running it up along her leg. Draco didn't need much more coaxing because he pulled Hermione back into the kiss he unwillingly pulled back from earlier.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Please review