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A/N: Hahaha! I made it out by the date I said I would. I'm so proud. I hope you like the chapter thanks to everyone who reviewed. All my replies will be at the bottom so you can just get to the story. All right enough of my blabbering on with the story.

Chapter 8

The next morning I awoke with a renewed sense of life. Sure, I was sad that I'd been disowned by my friends but if they truly couldn't stand by me even after all we'd faced together because of their prejudices then I had to question whether they were really and truly my friends to begin with. I had Blaise, and somehow he had become my world in less than 24 hours.

With those thoughts in mind I got dressed quickly and walked down to the common room when Blaise was curled on the couch reading a book. I glided up behind him and gave him a small peck on the head. "Good morning!" I said cheerily as he pulled me over the couch so I was down next to him. I'd hoped to see him smiling back but instead he had a solemn look placed upon his face. "Perhaps it's not a good morning then?…" I smiled attempting to lighten the mood but failing miserably.

"Hermione there is something I have to tell you. But you can't tell anyone. If this gets out it would mean my death possibly yours as well…" He said. I started to feel very nervous what could he possibly tell me that could endanger our lives? I gave him a concerned look but nodded giving him the o.k. to continue. "I'm a spy…a spy for the light. Last year after my father insisted upon my getting the dark mark I went to Dumbledore to seek his council. He understood that I really had no choice in the matter so he used it to his advantage he said that Professor Snape was a spy and should anything happen to him he still needed a spy to infiltrate Voldemort's ranks. He told me that if I agreed after seventh year he would help me get away from my father and perhaps even an apprenticeship with any of the teachers at Hogwarts. It was an absolutely amazing offer so I accepted. However lately I think members of Voldemort's ranks have getting suspicious. No doubt that Malfoy is tipping them off about our relationship…"

"Blaise if your trying to tell me being with me is going to get you killed then we don't have to be together. If you died because of me I don't know what I would do. I'd never be able to forgive myself. You're all I have and if you can't be with me now I understand…I couldn't be able to sit back and watch you die because of me," I said as a silent tear rolled down my cheek. He gently reached over to brush the tear from my cheek and tenderly and let his hand linger left on my face.

"No, that's not what I'm trying to say at all. I can make this work to my advantage and say that I'm trying to seduce you into making you trust me to get information. I could never not be with you. You're my world. I have no one else, you're my family and Hogwarts is my home." He said as he gently took my hands in his and kissed them staring up at me with his intensely green eyes. I just stared back at him as the tears started to flow freely down my cheeks. He put both hands on the side of my face and wiped the tears with his thumbs and brought his head down to place a beautifully gentle kiss on my lips.

When we broke apart I hugged him and we decided to head down to breakfast. After all if we didn't show our faces it would mean they had won. So we walked into the Great Hall and went to our respective tables. But, when I would move to sit down someone would rapidly move into the place I was going to sit. When I finally found a place it was at the end of the table with the first years and absolutely no one was talking to me. It was like I didn't exist. I looked up at the Slytherin table to see if Blaise was having better luck than I. He wasn't; he too was seated all the way at the end with the first years. I gave him a small smile before turning to stare at my food and move it around a little with my fork. Was this how it was going to be for the rest of the year? I knew I had to be strong but part of me wished I could go back to the way things were.

After breakfast Blaise and I decided to have a quiet day studying in our new dorms. He knew I must have a lot to think about and with the way things had changed so fast it was more than a little overwhelming. I sighed as we walked into the portrait hole.

We gathered our books together and found a comfortable space in the room to do work. But after about ten minutes I realized that trying to concentrate on schoolwork was hopeless. My heart just wasn't into it and my mind seemed to be elsewhere. I turned to Blaise and asked the question that had been plaguing my mind all day. "Can I see it?" I said timidly. It seemed Blaise had known this question was going to come up sooner or later because he nodded and rolled up his sleeve.

There it was deep and burning black…the dark mark. "Did it hurt?" I asked knowing as soon as it left my mouth that it was a stupid question. Of course it hurt! He sat there for a minute and looked as if he was choosing his words carefully.

"Yeah, it hurt it felt so painful, as if a thousand knives were penetrating my skin in one spot at one time. Eventually it gets so painful that all you can see is a blinding flash of white light…and then it just stops. Like nothing ever happened except that now there is a black mark placed upon my skin which is now the only proof that it ever happened." He sat there with a far off look in his eye as my eyes drifted back to the mark. I slowly reached out to touch it but before I got to it I looked up at him for reassurance that it would be o.k. to touch it. He just nodded as I put my hand down on his marred skin. I gently brushed it with my thumb; there was no contrast between the mark and the skin. No difference except in color. I leaned down and kissed it, like a boo-boo that could only be healed with a kiss. I looked up and saw a tear trail down his face. It was such a huge burden for someone so young; it's not fair that we have to make these types of choices. I took him into my arms and he rested his head on my chest and cried. I just held him and kissed away he tears while tears slide down my cheeks as well. I never wanted to let him go. I wanted to protect him from the horrors of Voldemort from everything. I knew right then that I loved him and I never wanted to let him go. I loved him with all my heart, every fiber of my being. He was my everything.

Finally after what seemed like hours we stopped crying and found ourselves sitting on the couch watching the fire, holding each other as if our lives depended on it.

Around noon the house elves brought us lunch and it seemed as if Dumbledore really did know absolutely everything. We knew everything was going to be o.k. we had each other and it was going to be hard but we could get through anything. Just after we'd finished lunch there was a knock on our portrait. I went to answer with Blaise right behind me with his wand drawn in case it should be an unwanted visitor. I opened the portrait and saw that it was only Ginny.

"Can we talk?" She asked timidly clearly intimidated by the wand pointed at her. I motioned for Blaise to put it away.

"Sure we can go to my room." I said and led the way to my dorm. She stared in awe at the beauty of our new home. When we entered my room I sat down on my bed and she sat beside me.

"Hermione what is going on? Ron and Harry have been spreading horrible rumors about you. The keep saying you the Slytherin whore and apparently Malfoy's no better spreading almost the same rumor saying you'd sleep with anyone and that your Blaise's new sex toy. What happened because I know that can't possibly be true. You're not like that." She asked with a concerned look.

"Of course that's not true. Ginny, Blaise and I have become closer and I'm not entirely sure what our relationship could be called but I haven't slept with him. He's saved me so many times and he's really not as bad as the other Slytherins at all. He's different and Harry and Ron just don't seem to see that. I don't know what's going on with them; we've been growing apart for so long. Malfoy is just upset because Blaise punched his lights out when he called me a whore and asked if he could have a go at me. You believe me don't you Ginny? You know I'd never be anyone's whore right?" I looked pleadingly at her. She just smiled at me.

"Of course I knew it wasn't true. Neville knows it's not true to but he couldn't come, he got detention with Snape for blowing up that cauldron last week. We're still your friends even if the rest of Gryffindor decides to be jerks." She gave me a beaming smile and I gave her a hug. It meant so much to know I still had friends.

"Thank you Ginny," I said.

"Well I better be going I have Quidditch practice soon and I wouldn't want to be late." She said and I walked her back out to the common room and through the portrait hole. When I got back inside Blaise was seated on the couch again. I walked over to the couch and he pulled me over and pinned me to it.

"Hahaha! I've got you now my precious!" He said as I laughed and tried to wriggle away. He pinned both my hands over my head with one hand and started to tickle me.

I said between fits of laughter. He finally stopped and looked at me with amusement still flickering in his eyes and his hand still grasping my hands above my head.

"Hermione, will you…will you be my girlfriend?" He asked with a slightly pink tinge to his cheeks. I just gazed at him for a moment. He was so handsome, why on earth would he want someone like me? But I listened to my heart and answered him.

"Yes, of course I'll be your girlfriend." I said as I pushed myself up to capture his lips with mine. At that moment I knew that things were going to start to get better.

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