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Chapter Four: Unexpected Horrors

Hermione left the common room for breakfast half an hour later, anxious to tell Ginny of her, as Hermione was now calling it, stalker. To her disappointment, Ginny was no where in sight. Hermione sat down next to Luna, who seemed considerably happier than she was.

"Guess what," she squeaked, "we had the best turn out this morning!"

Her eyes shone with enthusiasm.

"Only thing is, we missed them, oh wait you don't know do you!"

Hermione cut her off before she could continue; she couldn't stand hearing about Nimble Nicmets. "Yeah, Ginny told me."

"Oh, where is Ginny anyways?"

She was just about to tell Luna she hadn't a clue when the whole of the Gryffindor Quidditch team burst in through the doors to the great hall, dirty and bloodied. Hermione stood up in shock and ran over to Ginny who was supporting a split lip.

"Oh my god, Ginny…" but before she could finish, Ginny had one thing to tell her, "Malfoy."

That was all she needed, she rushed past Ron who's nose was bleeding like a tap and Harry who was suffering from a sever case of Jelly legs. Hermione ran as fast as she could and as soon as she reached Sir Cadogan she screamed, "sangre del fango," (Hermione had insisted that they change the password, Malfoy had refused unless he chose) and crawled through the short passage way.

"Malfoy! Where on earth are you? I know you're here twirp, you can't hide!"

She tore up the stairs and yanked the bathroom door open. Sure enough, there was Malfoy, sitting on the edge of the bath, holding a rag to his head.

"Before you even start Granger, hear me out, ok?"

She glared at him.

"I told them not to, but you know what my teams' like, they're out of control. They wouldn't listen and they left so I followed. I must have looked like one of them cause that Weasel expelliarmus-ed (A/N can't spell it, so I took a stab in the dark) me and I hit my head and lost consciousness. When I woke up it was like a full on war was raging… I'm sorry."

Hermione looked at him sceptically. Then her features soften.

"Here gimme that." She said pulling away the rag from his head. A large gash, at least 2cm wide was visible in his hair line, it looked as though Malfoy had stopped most of the bleeding. Seeing this, she was positive she didn't want to know the rest of what happened.

Malfoy flinched as Hermione dabbed the cut gently. she rolled her eyes, pointed her wand to his forehead and said, "Helam tideous." The skin pulled together slowly, leaving pinky brown tissue in place of the gash.

"Does this mean you believe me?" he asked

"No."

"So you don't?" his head fell a little.

"No."

He smiled, "thanks Hermione."

Her eyes widened and she lifted her head.

"Did you jus…"

Before she could finish Draco captured her lips with his and before Hermione could understand what had happened her hand flew up and it collided with his cheek.

"HOW DARE YOU! STAY AWAY FROM ME YOU PIG!"

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Hermione coughed in her throat, sniffed and wiped her eyes just as Ginny walked in to her room.

"Hey babe, Malfoy let me in, what's wrong?"

Hermione turned her head into her pillow at the mention of his name. She felt dirty. She had never been kissed before, not even by Victor and now the experience had been stolen from her. She felt the bed sink slightly as Ginny sat down and placed her hand on her back.

She knew she didn't have to tell Ginny, she could keep it to herself, but it would be so much easier to just give in.

Half and hour later Ginny knew it all, what she had over heard Draco rambling about the night before, all the way up to the kiss he had given her just a few hours ago.

"Wow," Ginny sighed, "that's full on. Hey, did you even stop to think that maybe Malfoy had been the one watching you this morning."

Hermione widened her eyes, and then relaxed them again.

"That's preposterous… although, this kiss. Maybe we're on to something, Ginny."

Then and there, the two of them made an oath to find out what Draco Malfoy was up to. They would stop at nothing.

A/N: ok, so that was shithouse! Oh well, I needed some thing to happen between the two to sorta kick off the story. From here on in the pace will quicken, promise. Oh I'm so exited; none of you will guess my twist! R&R.