Draco had been laying awake all night just staring at the ceiling as though he was studying it with great interest. When in reality, he was trying to figure out a subject for him and Tru to just TRY and talk about without fighting. Rubbing his head he remembered the day of the snowball ambush. He still was a tad bit angry about that but he was still trying to let it pass. Halloween wasn't exactly enjoyable for him. He knew Tru was sitting awake next to his bed probably just trying to ignore his very presence.

He turned his head to the side and looked upon her. She was looking above her as though entranced. Her eyes were wide and staring. Those piercing green eyes...Her hair was tousled about her pillow and her mouth was slightly parted, breathing in small breaths, savoring every single one. She was quiet, as though in the deepest of contemplations. Draco sat up a little and she closed her eyes. He tilted his head...shook it violently and lay back.

He closed his eyes and thought for a second before being snapped out of it by the sound of a door crashing open. Harry, Ron, and Hermione all walked in with a large basket of candy and treats, for Tru it seemed. He covered his face with the pillow as they approached and heard them talking.

"Hello Tru, I hope you're well?" Harry said sitting on the edge of the bed. Tru sat up and gave him a weak hug and a smile. "I'm doing better than I WAS if you know what I mean." she said softly. Draco's ears pricked up. "We were so worried!" Hermione said "What with you and-" She stopped and inaudible whispers were heard. Possibly Tru was telling them not to say anything because HE was there.

Harry, Ron and Hermione all looked over at the bed. "You have to spend your Halloween with THAT git?" Ron shouted in disgust. Hermione hissed. Harry's eyes just remained on the pillow. "Harry?" Tru touched Harry's shoulder but he got up and swiped the pillow off of his face. Draco recoiled and did a pathetic wave to him. "Well erm...HEY Potter..."

Ron, Hermione, and Tru's eyes widened. Draco seemed to be afraid of Harry. "I want to talk to you" said Harry in a strange voice. As though he was questioning Draco's very existence to the very last hair on his head. "Harry has he done something to you that we need to know about?" Tru said. "Yah he did." Harry said. Draco nodded a no feverishly and tugged Harry's sleeve. "He saved me from having my face smashed in by a bludger." he said.

Draco sank back into the pillow. "At the match, remember Ron? Hermione? You saw him fly in front of me. Did you actually INTEND to save my skin?" Harry said striking his gaze back down upon Draco.

Draco looked up and sat up on his elbows looking at Harry. Then Ron, Hermione, and Tru. He sighed a short time and eyed them all. "Yes Potter. I did it to save you. I just thought I'd turn myself around for once. Perhaps even...try to make ammends for the past 5 years of horrible insults I bestowed unto you four. I knew those Slytherins were going to beat you senseless if Gryffindor won the match. That was why I asked you to let me take the snitch instead. But instead you had to think of me how I WAS before. And I don't blame you because the way I was is something horrible. But like I said, I'd like to make ammends."

He stuck out his hand and Harry looked into his eyes. The look in them to him was something of a deeply hidden pain, but a sincere look nonetheless. Harry was about to put up his hand to shake but Ron took his wrist. "Harry, I bet you he had that all planned and he's going to do something to us if we 'make ammends. Don't shake!" "Oh Ron stop and sit down." Hermione dragged him down by the sleeve and Harry shook Draco's hand. "Draco." Harry nodded. Draco gulped and said "Harry." nodding back.

Harry turned and smiled at the others. "Just give him a chance. They say there's some good in everyone don't they?" Ron and Hermione and Tru trusted Harry with all their hearts. And they figured he was right. So they all shook Draco's hand and they spoke to one another for quite some time before Harry,Ron,and Hermione left the Hospital Wing.

Tru and Draco were suspended in an awkward silence for at least a half an hour before one decided to speak. "Listen...erm...Draco." Tru said. Draco's head snapped up to look at her. "I'm sorry for being a bit difficult when I know you tried to be nice and civil with me. But I must admit that...and don't be offended please...your ego seems to be trying to get the better of you." Draco snorted. "I know that much. I try not to let it but somehow I always do. And if I do while we ATTEMPT to be civil at the present time...I apologize in advance."

Tru smiled. She has a lovely smile...ack what?

Draco shook his head violently and made a crooked smile at her. "Can I ask you one question though?" she asked him cautiously. His smile became fixed. "Yes?"

"Why the big decision to turn yourself around?" she put it quite bluntly. Draco's smile fell to the ground and he tried to supress a sneer. "I don't need a reason do I?" his tone was low but she knew he was getting a bit offended for no apparent reason. "Well it's just...over the past years you have been-"

"I KNOW how I've been. YOU don't have to clarify that."

"All right...I'm sorry...I was just wondering." Her face was a bit hurt. And Draco sighed. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be so..."

"I know."

Tru turned toward the wall then looked back at him. He was looking at her with..was it pity? "What?" she said. "You look so pale I just realized..." Tru looked away. "So?" she snapped. "I have also wanted to ask you what you were in here for."

"What does it matter. I'm sick. Does that matter?"

"Well yes...but what do you have? Pnuemonia? A cold? What?"

"ITS NOTHING!"

Tru turned over on her side and growled in frustration. Draco shoved his body into the soft pillow beneath him before turning to say something to her. But before he could open his mouth, she began to sob uncontrollably into her pillow. Draco felt somewhat awkward. It must be something...deadly...

His breath caught in his chest...why else would she be crying if the reason she was in here was for something..Or maybe he was just jumping to conclusions a bit. He reached over and patted her shoulder gently. Tru stopped her crying and turned over to look at him. Her eyes were now red and puffy but their piercing color shined like two Christmas lights. Draco just looked at her. "I'm sorry...if it's something too personal...I shouldn't have asked."

Tru looked down at the ground and then back at him. He saw in her eyes...sorrow...a pain he thought only he had...loneliness...He gasped slightly and looked away for a second before looking back. "It's all right...Draco." she said softly. "It IS personal and...MAYBE I will tell you...but not now. I'm sorry but I still don't trust you."

Draco nodded. "I understand. And I don't mind. Mere accquaintances don't trust each other much until they know one another to the bone as friends now do they?" Tru smiled and nodded. She held her hand out to him and he took it. They shook hands and looked at one another knowingly. They smiled and then lay back into their own beds. "I apologize again Draco." Tru said closing her eyes.

"I do also apologize." Draco said.

"Good night." Tru said.

"Good night Tru."

Silence fell over the wing at this time. Both teenagers closed their eyes and turned over. The mending of their rivalry had ceased the discomfort that had hovered there for the past couple of nights as they lay there from their alements. Dreams floated down from the Heavens to grace their minds as they continued their slumber throughout the rest of the night. One never knows what such an act can do to one night.

"I'm telling you Harry, he's planning SOMETHING. And I WANT to find out what it is!"

Ron had been fuming for at least a half of an hour to Harry about shaking Malfoy's hand. "Ron why don't you just calm down and try to think of this in a calmer note?" Hermione said irritably.

"HOW CAN I! He's probably trying to find out what's wrong with Tru and who knows he might use it against her. Pretend to be her friend and then use her secret against her by telling the WHOLE school or something!"

"You're just drawing to the worst of conclusions in this case Ron." Harry noted. "I admit it's a little bit suspicious but we still shouldn't drop ourselves to a bad assumption of his intentions. Why don't we just wait and see what happens and express our judgement then."

"Harry is right Ron." Hermione said. "We just need to wait and see what happens and THEN judge him from there. I admit the past years with him were NEVER pleasent but we still shouldn't assume, after his small rescue of Harry from injury, that he wants to do something horrible. No one just does something like that for no good reason. So please just try and be calm about this."

Ron calmed himself and sat himself on a chair, staring into the fire. He didn't say another word for the rest of the night.