Draco and Hermione: Lust or Love
..Need to Keep Safe..
AN: Again, if you get confused with the people go to the bottom of this chapter and look who the person is.
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Hermione opened her eyes and looked around realizing that she was in the Infirmary. What happened? She looked beside her and seen Dominic in the bed beside her own. Then it came flashing back. Dom thrashing around, trying to fight Voldemort in his body, Voldemort in Dom's body trying to control her own. The pain, there was so much pain. It felt as if her body was getting ripped open, piece by piece. Voldemort's voice in her head, him encouraging her to give in and let him take her body as well.
Hermione shook her head, trying to clear it.
"Dominic?" Hermione croaked, instantly raising a hand to her throat. Her throat hurt when she tried to talk. Hermione swallowed and slowly swung her feet over the side off the bed.
Hermione walked over to the side of his bed and looked down at him. He was much worse than she was. You could tell there were broken bones. But how? Was it when Voldemort was trying to take over his body and broke bones to add on to the pain? Or when Voldemort fully took over his body?
Hermione reached for his hand. It was cold. She frowned and gently touched his face. It too, was cold.
"Miss. Granger?" came the nurse's voice. Hermione spun around and looked at her. "How are you feeling, dear?"
Hermione shrugged her shoulders. Nothing hurt or she would have felt the pain already. Only her throat hurt.
"Would you like something to eat?" Hermione shook her head and the nurse came over to check on Dominic. She seen the worry in Hermione's eyes and reassuringly told her that Dominic would be all right.
"You can have today off and if you want to go back to class tomorrow, it's alright with me."
Hermione tried to say thanks but her voice was hoarse and it hurt a lot.
"You poor dear. I'll get you something to help your throat." The nurse left and Hermione once again she turned back to Dominic. He didn't look injured in any way but why was he still here then?
"Here we are," the nurse said to herself more than to Hermione. "This will help a little." She handed Hermione a glass filled with brown stuff in it. Hermione frowned at it but gulped it down. It didn't taste as bad as she would have guessed. Hermione handed the glass back to the nurse and thanked her with a nod and a smile.
Hermione's throat didn't feel any different right away. It was still itchy and it hurt to swallow.
"If you like, you can leave. You can go on up to your common room and take a nap. Lunch will be starting in about an hour if you're hunger by then."
Hermione smiled and with one last look and Dominic, she turned and headed to the common room. Halfway there, Hermione decided that she wasn't tired at all so instead of going to the common room she went to the library. Hermione grabbed a book about potions and sat down by the fire. Hermione opened the book and started to read. Getting bored of the book, Hermione set it aside and looked for one about dark spells.
Hermione scanned the index and looked for something about switching bodies or changing people.
She found a section like it but it gave her no information about the spell.
Again, Hermione set the book aside and looked for another book. She found a book by the title of: Switching of the demons body's. She grabbed the book and scanned through it also. Again, nothing she found helped but there was a place in the back that showed book that were related to the same topic. Hermione read the list. 'The dammed, Body switching, Taking over the body, Spells to confuse the body. Whoa! What was that one? Taking over the body?' Hermione stood up and looked for the book.
She founded the book and sat down but the fire again. She opened the book and started to read about how the spell worked. It was to be told that this spell was actually never seen done before; only heard about. It was said that it was very painful to have someone come into your body. The person doing the spell, Voldemort, had to be in full concentration. His mind had to be focused on the thoughts of the taking over the body of whom he had chosen.
Hermione frowned and read on. It was said that the body of the victim, was slowly taken over by the power of the one doing the spell. That victim could be able to hear what the person was saying. Hermione thought about that. She had heard Voldemort voice in her head, Dominic was mumbling words . . .
The book went on about the pain, saying it was horrible as if the body was being ripped apart. Oh, how true that was.
People started to come in the library so Hermione kept the book with her and put the other ones away. She looked at her watch and realized that it was almost time for Lunch. Had she been here that long? Hermione stood up and walked down to the great hall for lunch even though she wasn't that hungry.
As she walked into the great hall people stared at her, others smiled but all talked about her.
She sat down at the table with Draco, Kyle, and Hillary.
"Hey, Hermione!" Hillary smiled. "How are you doing?"
Hermione shrugged and said "fine," her throat still a little hoarse.
"Your throat hurt?" Draco asked and Hermione nodded.
The table was quiet and Hermione was starting to feel the eyes looking at her. It wasn't that bad was it? Why where people staring at her like that? Like she was some sort of freak.
"So . . ." Draco mumbled.
"What happened yesterday?" Hillary asked. "I don't understand what was happening and with Dominic? Do you know?"
Hermione opened her mouth to talk and then swallowed, deciding she should show them the book instead.
Hermione opened the book and looked for the right page. People where looking over to their table to see what was going on, others leaned closer so they could hear what Hermione was going to say.
"So you think that Voldemort took over Dominic's body?" Kyle asked, it came out rude like he didn't care but Hermione knew he really did want to know. People looked at them when they heard Voldemort's name.
Hermione nodded and pointed to the part about how.
"It feels like the body is being ripped apart, from inside to outside," Hillary read out of the book. She looked up at Hermione with wide eyes. "Oh my god! Are you okay? Are you like, in pain?" Again Hermione shook her head.
"The victim can hear the voice of the one doing the spell," Kyle read then looked at Hermione. "You heard him? What did he say?" Kyle asked, his voice soft instead of rude like it normally is.
Hermione pointed to her throat. Draco went for his bag and got out a piece of parchment and started to write.
Hermione wrote what he had said to her. 'Don't fight me, my dear. Come into the night and become one of us.'
"What?" Draco asked.
Hermione kept on writing. 'He said that he needed me.'
"For what?" Kyle asked.
'I don't know. He said that I would be rewarded for being smart. 'Rewards for the power of your brain' is what he said.'
"You have to tell the headmaster this," Hillary said, her voice in a panic.
Hermione shook her head. 'He knows all this,' she wrote. 'What this is, I can't figure out," Hermione wrote.
The three looked at her and she pointed to her cheek. There was a scare, barely noticeable but it was there.
"What is it from?" Hillary asked and Hermione shrugged.
"When he touched your cheek he must have left that." Again Hermione shrugged. She didn't remember last night to well.
"You should go and get some sleep." Draco suggested.
He wrote down that she wasn't tired.
"Then at least try."
Draco brought her up to the common room and tucked her in.
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Hermione woke up by the sound of voices. The girls were coming into the room and started to put their bags away.
"I am so sick of potions! She never leaves me alone, the stupid witch."
"Now what happened?" Carol asked. Carol was short, pretty and had a head full of dark red hair.
"She said that I was too stupid to be in a class with second graders!" Samantha exclaimed.
"Samantha, you know that isn't true. You are the best in most other subjects." Hillary said, her voice soothing and reassuring.
"Thanks Hill," Samantha smiled.
Hermione sat up in bed and looked at the five girls. Hannah, part Veela was beautiful. Jennifer was always the one to laugh and smile, the fun one. Hillary was very smart, and always spoke nicely of everyone, never a mean thing to say. Carol was short, only about five feet tall. She had brilliant dark red hair that made Hermione a tad jealous. Samantha was very talkative and very friendly. She was one of the smartest people of the Vernard School. Hermione also noticed that most girls in this school were very pretty. There was nobody that you shouldn't say was at least pretty. Some were down right beautiful but there wasn't one girl that you could say was ugly, a few plain but lots pleasant to the eye. It was really weird.
"Oh sorry, Hermione! We didn't mean to wake you!" Samantha said.
"It's alright," Hermione mumbled and yawned, noticing that her throat didn't hurt as much.
"How are you feeling?" Hillary asked. "Any better than before lunch?"
Hermione shrugged. "At least I can talk."
"Good. Don't want to miss you voice. It's so nice. Can you sing?" Jennifer asked.
"I can. Not too good, though." Hermione replied. She got up out of her bed and went over to the bathroom. She brushed her teeth and washed her face.
"Hermione?" Samantha asked. "What happened to you and Dominic yesterday? It's scary and I wanted to know if it could . . . well happen again."
"It could," Hermione told the girls as they listened. "I don't know what was happening. I don't know what I was doing. All I could concentrate on was not letting Voldemort take over my body like he did to Dominic's. The pain was so bad and he was making my mind go foggy so it was hard to concentrate."
"Why does he want you?" Hannah asked. Everyone looked at her. They all knew she did not like her. Hannah even told Hermione that she didn't like her. But now that she was interested, Hermione could see the good in her instead of the stuck up Veela.
"I don't-" Hermione started then got cut off by Hillary.
"You do so. He wants Hermione because she's the greatest witch of our time."
Samantha gave Hermione a bewithered look. "Are you really?"
Hermione opened her mouth but Hillary cut her off again. "Yes, she is. The headmaster at her school, Dumbledor, even said so in a book he wrote."
"Wow."
"Very cool."
"So what did it look like?" Hermione asked. "Like with me and Dominic?"
Hillary shrugged. "It was like the same for Dominic. He was the same but his eyes were all white but only a pinpoint of black for his eyes. He lifted you off the ground with some sort of spell and you were gagging like he was cutting your air supply off."
"Yeah, and you kept on saying like 'I wont' and 'no'." Samantha agreed.
"Right." Carol nodded.
"And he also said . . ." Samantha trailed off not sure whether to say it or not.
"Said what?" Hermione urged.
"He also said he'll be back for you." Hannah said. "And he stoked you cheek. But he smiled at you with . . ." She paused looking for the right word, "with like a tenderness."
The other girls nodded. "It was like you where the love of his life." Hermione looked at he girls, her head going a little spinney.
"We should go to supper," Carol announced suddenly.
"Yeah, we should."
Together the girls headed down stares to the great hall. They half separated and went to their tables.
Andrew, Kevin, Kyle, Draco, and Paul were already at the table so Hermione, Hillary, Hannah, and Jennifer sat down.
They all started to talk but Hermione. She was thinking about what the girls had said.
"Hermione?" Draco asked, waving a head in front of her face. "Are you okay?"
Hermione shook her head as if to clear it. "Yes, sorry. Just thinking."
"When are the owls gonna get here?" Paul asked, looking up at the roof of the castle.
"They come at supper time?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah. Don't yours?" he asked, shaking his head as if to say 'you're crazy'.
"No."
Right then the birds swooped in through the roof. The roof was gone and the night sky was showing. It was cloudy out, very cloudy. It looked like there was going to be a thunderstorm.
People started opening mail and reading it. Hermione had three letters. One from Harry, another from Ron and the third from Dumbledore. Hermione frowned at the one from Dumbledore. On the front it said Important in red letters.
Hermione nudged Draco with her elbow and showed him the letter.
"Are you done Hermione?" Draco asked.
"Ummm, yes." Hermione replied getting the hint that Draco wanted to read it too. "I'll see you guys later." Draco and Hermione both got up and went to the great hall door.
The roof reappeared and people started to look up. There was a big black bird up hovering by the roof. Then it let out a shriek and swooped down at Hermione.
Hermione ducked and screamed. Draco jumped and fell back as the bird hit him. Then the bird stood on the nearest table and transformed into a giant cat. It meowed and then walked towards Hermione. Hermione walked backwards and then hit the wall.
The headmaster stood up in his chair and the cat stopped dead in its tracks. Hermione backed up as the cat stared at the headmaster. The next thing that happened was the headmaster yelled something and the cat turned into a man in a cloak. The hood of the cloak covered the face. Moving its interest back to Hermione, the hooded creature moved closer to her.
Hermione closed her eyes tightly and looked away from the creature.
The headmaster was yelling something and the students in the great hall were panicking.
Hermione didn't hear any of this. All she could see was the creature. She knew it was Voldemort. He was talking to her, whispering words of encouragement in her head.
"Come with me, Hermione," Voldemort whispered out loud.
Draco looked around. He was terrified. He had no clue why but his heart was going, his body began to shake. 'Voldemort! He's coming for me! Draco, where are you?' he heard Hermione say. Draco looked around for her. He could feel how scared she was, how fast her heart was going.
Draco got up off the floor with shaky legs and looked at Voldemort and Hermione. Her eyelids started to droop, her body swayed and then they closed. Hermione fell to the floor as if she fainted. A shiver ran down Draco's back as he watched Voldemort walk slowly up to Hermione.
Suddenly Voldemort let out a loud high pitch scream. His back arched and his face tilted up.
"Don't try to kill me," Voldemort spat out, his face turned to look at the headmaster as he walked up to him.
The headmaster took out his wand and started to chant. Voldemort started to spin on the spot. Faster and faster. Draco didn't know what to do so he ran to Hermione, grabbed her hand and peering down into her face. He gently put a loose piece of her hair behind her ear.
"Hermione?" he whispered. "Come on, wake up," he whispered.
Another high pitch scream and Draco's head jerked up. The candles all over the great hall went out and the great hall was deadly silent, incredibly silent.
The headmaster said a spell and the candles went back on. Voldemort was nowhere to be seen.
"Draco?" came Hermione's drowsy voice. Draco looked down into Hermione's face.
"Are you okay?" Draco asked. Hermione nodded and closed her eyes again, lightly squeezing Draco's hand.
"Everyone stay in the great hall. Don't panic and just . . . just stay calm." the headmaster looked around and sighed.
"What do we do now, headmaster?" one of the teachers asked.
"We will all stay in the other great hall until I figure that out. Until then, I would like for the students to finish eating and stay as calm as possible."
The students were too scared to even try and finish eating. When they were done, they were told to go to the other great hall and play games or talk.
As the night went on, students started to ask what was going on. The headmaster told them they'd be going someplace else tomorrow and would have to stay the night in the great hall.
The headmaster put a spell on the great hall so nothing could get in. Half the people where in sleeping bags by eight o clock.
"This is one helluva night." Draco commented as he and Hermione sat up against a wall.
"Yeah. I'm so tired that I could fall right asleep."
Draco grabbed a sleeping bag for himself and another for Hermione. She slid in hers and was asleep right away. Draco zipped himself up and pulled Hermione's sleeping bag closer to his own as if to keep her safe. Draco whispered goodnight and closed his eyes.
He didn't fall asleep for a while and when the headmaster turned the lights out, Draco's mind wouldn't shut down. His mind raced about how this could stop. If Voldemort wanted Hermione, than Draco could ask his father to ask Voldemort if he could find some other person. Draco sighed knowing that his plan was crazy. His father would beat him to death if he found out that Draco was trying to keep a mudblood alive, let alone trying not to fall in love with her.
Draco stroked Hermione's cheek and traced his finger over the scar.
"I need to keep you safe, Hermione. I don't want anything bad to happen to you."
Draco laid his head down close to Hermione's and tried to think of a way to keep her safe.
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Hey. I'm sorry this chapter took so long. I hope you like it and please tell what you thought by reviewing. Thanks for reading and I hoped you enjoyed it.
Chebetta.
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(Names of people)
Hillary- Vernard School, 7th year girl. Smart, pretty, very deep.
Hannah- Vernard School, 7th year girl. Long blonde hair, part veela.
Jennifer- Vernard School, 7th year girl. Fun, always the one to laugh and smile.
Carol- Vernard School, 7th year girl. Short, pretty, dark red hair.
Samantha -Vernard School, 7th year girl. Talks a lot, very friendly, very smart.
Hermione Granger- Gryffindor, 7th year girl.
Faith Malito -Slytherin, 4th year girl. Beautiful, bad attitude, "badass".
Melissa Creed -Ravenclaw, 3rd year girl. Small, pretty, shy.
Sydney Lindall -Hufflepuff, 5th year girl. Loud, fun, talks a lot.
Leslie Bowne -Gryffindor, 6th year girl. Gorgeous, smart.
Andrew- Vernard School, 7th year boy.
Kevin- Vernard School, 7th year boy. Reddish hair, quiet.
Dominic Johansson- Vernard School, 7th year boy. Distant, quite.
Kyle- Vernard School, 7th year boy. Mean, don't-give-a-shit attitude.
Paul- Vernard school, 7th year boy. Shaggy brown hair, punk looking.
Draco Malfoy-Slytherin, 7th year boy.
Devin Sheldon -Slytherin, 5th year boy. Cute, rule breaker.
Landon Richmond -Ravenclaw, 6th year boy. "Hot", fun.
Jeremy Darrell -Hufflepuff, 3rd year boy. Cute, shy.
Aiden Carwin-Gryffindor, 4thyear boy. "hot", always happy, dare full.