CHAPTER FOUR:

AWAY

Hermione walked down the separate hall once every five steps she would look behind herself. She knew Draco wasn't there, but she watched, hoping and wishing that he was there. She sighed as she watched her feet as she walked.

She turned down into the stairs and then turned around the corner into the great hall. Across the room she saw Draco sitting at the Slytherin table, but she looked back and just kept her eyes on her feet. She walked down and past older and younger Gryffindors. She took a seat next to Ginny and sighed.

"Something wrong Hermione?" Ginny asked; she was currently holding hands with Harry.

"Nothing Ginny… I'm just a little upset with someone." She snipped and her eyes gleamed at Harry with hatred.

"Harry… what did you do now?" Ginny asked, rolling her eyes.

"Absolutely nothing" Harry said in a low and relaxed voice.

Hermione only rolled her eyes as she looked to the head table for a minute; she fixed her eyes on each of the teachers that were in a conversation with each other. Hermione looked back at Ginny and sighed.

"He was in my room last night; he broke in through my window. I was told that." She sighed, looking at her lap as she fiddled with her shirt.

"Who told you that?" Ginny asked as Harry stuck his nose in the air.

"Mal-" she stopped and covered her mouth. Ginny gave her a confused look and turned to Harry.

"Why were you in Hermione's room?" Ginny asked, setting her hands on her hips. Harry just looked at her.

"I heard fighting and all the doors were locked so I took my broom and went through her window when everything got quite. I landed in and found Malfoy half naked and sleeping in her bed." He paused "with her." Ginny's mouth opened in amazement.

"You're dating Malfoy?" she asked as Hermione turned a red color that matched her scarf identically.

"Draco… his name is Draco." She blushed more as Ginny started smiling in happiness.

"That's so cute!" she laughed, Harry gave Ginny a disappointed look.

"Ginny! He's. Our. Enemy." He said, giving a pause between each word.

"He's changed!" Hermione protested and smiled. "I love him." She said in a peaceful and soft tone.

"You love Mal-. I mean Draco?" Ginny asked with a smile. "How adorable." She giggled after Hermione gave her a nod.

"I can't believe this." Harry mumbled and looked around to get his mind off the subject. "Where's Ron?" he wondered, it was at least something else besides Malfoy.

"In detention." Ginny giggled "He accidentally turned Professor Snape into a toad during his make – up lessons." She giggled.

"Figures," Hermione giggled and Harry gave her a glare. She looked to him with a frown and she looked at the mark on his lip from slapping him. She sighed. "Look Harry, I'm sorry but I figured you'd be happy for me." She sighed.

"I am, but why Malfoy?" He whispered, so only Ginny and Hermione heard him. Hermione gave him a smile.

"That's what I wondered, but he… he is so different this year. I couldn't help but fall for him. The reason why you heard the sounds last night is because I thought he was tricking me or something… but I don't think he is." She frowned, looking out the window in a deep thought.

"When did you start dating him?" Ginny asked silently.

"Last night." Hermione laughed, "It's horrid that this is happening so soon but I couldn't help it. He's just so…" she stopped as she turned around and saw Draco at the Slytherin table. "Dreamy."

Hermione smiled and on the other side of the hall Draco noticed she was looking at him. He picked his head up slowly and moved his lips, not saying anything. Hermione watched as she could clearly read his lips. She turned around with a wide smile on her face.

"What did he say?" Ginny asked, not seeing all his words. Hermione smiled.

"He said 'I love you.'" Hermione said and everyone laughed.

"… Attention…" Dumbledore started as everyone turned their heads as he walked to the podium before they served breakfast. "Those people who were chosen I need them to come up with one activity by tomorrow at breakfast. You all must agree on one activity and must have everything planned." Dumbledore had a friendly smile on is face. "Good luck and now let's eat!" he laughed.

He cast his hands up and the tables filled with food. People dug in Hermione twirled her fork in her fingers. Harry looked up to her as she started to play with her food. Ginny blinked and looked up as well.

"Ok Hermione, I'm sick of you being depressed all the time, what's wrong?" Ginny asked with a frown on her face.

"Nothing." Hermione sighed and took a sip of her pumpkin juice. Ginny and Harry looked at each other.

"Denial…" Harry and Ginny said in unison and rolled their eyes at her.

"I am not in denial! I am just thinking." Hermione said in a low tone as she stared at her lap, like usually. Ginny sighed.

"Hermione," Ginny sighed again. "If you are thinking about Draco, you will be able to see him later." She smiled, but that wasn't what was troubling her.

"No, it's not Draco." She sighed. "Well it is but, it's our relationship. I'm worried what other people will say if they found out." She sighed, looking over back at the Slytherin table to see Draco staring at her.

"I don't know, but I doubt it would be good." Ginny sighed as she saw Draco's worry face look at Hermione's sad face.

"I hope no one from his house finds out." Harry said as Hermione turned around.

"I hope." Hermione sighed as she looked around. She leaned in closed to Harry and Ginny. She sighed "Guy, do not tell Ron!" She whispered. "You know he'd go bizarre." She sighed and Harry and Ginny nodded. Hermione returned to her breakfast.

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After breakfast, Harry and Hermione had a class of Divination, Hermione's worst class. She walked up the tower with Harry, quietly talking about Draco and what she was going to do. Harry was clueless and Hermione was furious by the time they reached Professor Trelawney's room.

"I wonder what the old bats doing today." Ron said behind Hermione and Harry, both of them jumped a little. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you." Ron laughed.

"It's ok." Harry said as they walked in and took their seats at the front round table.

"This isn't going to be fun." Hermione snipped and slammed her books down on the table in front of her.

"Nope." Harry and Ron spoke in unison as they set their books softly on the table and Hermione sighed.

"Welcome students." The teacher started "I am Professor Trelawney and this year we are going into the past a little. We are first going to keep a journal. So now take one of these books and sit back in your seats." Everyone took a book and then sat back in their seats.

Professor Trelawney was an odd teacher. She wore clothes like an actual fortune teller's clothing, like in fairy tales. This life actually was a fairy tale. Her hair was wacky and stuck out like a gray afro. She was covered in beads that made a soft jingle when she walked.

Her glasses sat lightly on her nose, they were big. When you looked at her, it was like her eyes were being magnified or zoomed in. Hermione sneered at her every time she turned and when she turned to face her, Hermione would smile an innocent smile.

"Dear, what is the worst thing that happened in your past?" Professor Trelawney asked Harry as her magnified eyes staggered to him. "You're aura is pulsing." She gripped some of her beads that hung from her neck.

"Probably that my parents were killed by Voldemort." Harry spoke in a low tone and a sad face upon him. Trelawney pushed against the table with a scream.

"Do not say his name!" Her eyes gleamed at him in horror. "He who must not be named still lives!" she screeched. Harry blinked. "Class Dismissed." She said with an awkward gleam at Harry.

"But class just started." A girl protested and Hermione turned around to face her.

"Don't remind her!" she snipped.

As the students piled out of the Astronomy Tower, Harry, Ron and Hermione silently talked about what went on in their pasts. Hermione desperately wanted to talk to Harry about Draco but she couldn't, after all Ron was there.

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They walked along the dungeons to Harry's worst class, Potions. Harry didn't mind the course he just had a big detest towards his Professor. Snape was a high strong person who loved taking points from the Gryffindor house.

Harry and Hermione took a seat as the limping man with greasy black hair walked in. Bowl shaped haircut and dressed in nothing but black, he walked in with an evil smirk across his face and a humorous walk.

"Open your books to eight hundred and eighty seven..." he paused and then yelled "NOW!"

The students did so. Hermione opened hers first. There on her page was a picture of ogres and giants. Hermione waited for the teacher to speak. Harry and Ron were at the table behind her, talking about how their friend Hagrid was half giant.

"Professor," Hermione started "Are giants really dangerous?" She asked, reading some of the words n the page.

"Yes, Miss. Granger." He started with an evil smirk. "You would know all about it too, wouldn't you?" He snipped. Hermione gave him a confused look. "Well it was only last year where you had to watch a real giant." He snipped.

"Hagrid's brother." Harry whispered to her and Hermione gave Snape a innocent smile.

"Quiet." Snape snipped at Harry and return to his desk. "Now, let me return to my teaching, IF. YOU. DON'T. MIND." He started, pausing between each word with a gruesome grit of his teeth.

Everyone stayed quiet as Snape wrote words upon the chalkboard. They were directions, to make a potion that could heal you. He wrote the ingredients carefully on the board and turned on his heel. He gleamed at the students.

"First you add bat's wing, then dragonfly wing, then tooth of wolf, then prostrial." He gleamed. "Prostrial sits in front of you, it's an ingredient found in the poison tail of a serpent. It's deadly stuff, if you don't put it in last, your entire potion will be deadly." He gave a glare at Harry. "You got that Mr. Potter?" He snipped.

"Yes, Sir." He said demanding voice. Snape just stared at him and then to the rest of the class.

"Begin." He snipped.

"Umm professor, what does this potion have to do with giants?" Hermione asked.

"Quiet, if you get hurt and you need help that's where this potion comes in now ten points from Gryffindor for asking a question without permission." Snape sneered. Hermione only rolled her eyes.

Harry added everything in the right order, quite usual for he usually screws up things. Hermione, like always, made it perfectly. Ron on the other hand, did everything exactly opposite, but his potion wasn't deadly.

Ron added the poison first, then the tooth, then the dragonfly wing, and then the bat's wing. His cauldron began spewing out a bright pink misty smoke. Ron looked at it with a scared face on. Snape walked over with a limp and a sneer.

"Weasley, what have you done?" He snipped, Ron only shrugged. "Detention, and that's twenty points from Gryffindor." He sneered.

"For making a mistake?" Ron snipped and rolled his eyes.

"Ten more points for talking back, and detention for not following the directions." He glared an evil glare down at the red headed boy. "Everyone else's looks fine, class dismissed." He sneered and everyone quickly piled out of the dungeon room.

When they reached the normal floor finally, Harry started giggling and Ron gave him a confused look. Hermione was chuckling under her breath as they walked down the hall. Ron merely rolled his eyes.

"It's not funny." He sighed.

"Yes it was, usually its Harry making a fool of him self." Hermione chuckled and Harry gave a nod.

"Yeah but, I just lost Gryffindor thirty points in five minutes." He sighed.

"So, Hermione lost ten as well and it's happened before, and you shouldn't talk back to a teacher." Harry said, still laughing under his breath.

Hermione, Harry and Ron were walking down the halls, just wandering. They approached the door to the selected people's common room. Harry slowly opened the door and Ron kept walking down the hall.

"Bye guys." Ron said, walking for the Gryffindor common room and whistling while he was walking.

"Bye." Hermione and Harry said in unison before walking into the common room. Harry walked into his own room and Hermione walked into her own. She didn't bother closing the door.

She just walked in and outside to her balcony. It was getting late and the sun was setting. The sky filled with streaks of orange and pink. She stared into it as she sighed. She loved watching the sunset, but now it was different.

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She watched, closely and she would occasionally look to the people below, in the courtyard. She watched them having fun and would watch them run. She smiled as they played their first year games, and would chow down on the creepy candy that Hogwarts supplied.

"Hey." A dark voice said behind her as she jumped and turned around. "Sorry didn't mean to scare you." He laughed as he leaned against the door way of her balcony. She smiled.

"Don't do that Draco." She set a hand on her throat, panting a little and she smiled.

"Have a good day?" he asked and then let out a sigh. "Or a bad day, you seem pretty down today." He sighed.

"I'm fine Draco," she smiled and rolled her eyes. "Thanks for asking though." She laughed and he laughed with her.

She walked inside past him, and closed the door that entered the common room. She sighed and sat on her bed, picking up a book from her class. She sighed and wondered.

"I wonder what we are doing this year in transformation." She asked herself, and Draco overheard. She opened her book and began reading, Draco started laughing. "What's so funny?" she wondered.

"You are out of class, and you still read." He laughed. "I knew you did but I didn't expect you to on the second day of Hogwarts." He laughed and she smiled.

"Well actually, I usually do it before I even go to classes on the first day." She laughed "But I was tied up with you last night." She giggled.

"Well don't I feel special." He laughed and walked over and sat in front of her. She laughed and he smiled.

"You should." She smiled with a flirtatious voice and he leaned forward, kissing her on the lips lightly. She slowly kissed him back.

"So, how was your day?" he smiled, "You didn't answer my question." He laughed.

"My day was fine, I'm just glad I don't have Divination as much as last year." She laughed and Draco rolled his eyes.

"The dreaded old hag of the future." He rolled his eyes again and she laughed with a nod.

"Nope, she's from the past now." She rolled her eyes.

"She's still a dreaded old hag." He laughed. She nodded.

"And your day was?" she wondered as she looked out her window quickly.

"Fine, but today at breakfast you looked sad." He frowned. "Was something wrong?" he asked and she shook her head.

"I was talking with Harry about what happened last night. I was afraid that he would tell people and then we would be mocked for the rest of our lives probably." She sighed and laid down on her bed, she set her head on her pillow and twirled her finger around one of her braids.

"Even if we do, I wouldn't change how I feel." He smiled and she blushed. "You look beautiful today." She put her hand over his mouth.

"I doubt that." She rolled her eyes and removed her hand as she looked out the window.

Draco bent down to her, giving a couple kisses on her neck. She moved her cheek against his with a smile. Draco began to whisper lightly, even she could barely hear.

"I'm not lying." He whispered and she put a wide smile across her face as he moved and laid him self down on the bed next to her. She turned and laid on her side, resting her head upon her hand.

"You are just so sweet." She smiled as she felt his arm reach across and rest on her waist. She smiled and she laid her head on the pillow again. She sighed.

"I know." He joked and watched her sigh. "Is something wrong now?" he asked with a gentle smile and she shook her head.

"I feel like flying because I'm so happy right now." She laughed.

"Flying? Flying where?" he asked with a confused look on her face.

Hermione shrugged and pushed herself against him as she wrapped her arms around his neck. She smiled as she kissed him on his lips and then his cheek. She rubbed her cheek gently against him as his eyes closed tightly. She whispered lightly.

"Away."

Author's Note:

I was informed that my chapters were too short so I fixed them to make then a little longer, I hope you enjoy!

Airalynn