Myths and Dreams
By LaA*
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters just the plot!
Summery: Draco and Hermione are forced to search their past lives to find answers for the mysterious visions that plague them.
Hermione woke up breathing heavily. " Oh god not again!" It was that dream. The one where she was running, hard and fast, then tripping, falling, crying out, and then feeling strong emotions, fear followed by pain and grief, tearing at her heart. She always woke up to find herself crying and feeling like her chest was on fire.
Hermione took a few deep breaths and calmed her self to gather her composure. She looked over to her digital clock whose bright red numbers glared at her. It was midnight.
Hermione flopped back onto her pillows and thought about the dream. What could it mean? Why was it haunting her? And why did she always wake up crying? She rolled onto her side, a million thoughts running through her head. Then a something burst into her head shattering other thoughts into oblivion. How was she going to cope at Hogwarts? Her roommates were bound to notice her crying in her sleep.
Hermione closed her eyes. " Oh please let these dreams stop!" she whispered in her mind as a silent tear rolled down her cheek.
Not very far away Draco woke up with pain searing across his chest. " Damn it not again!" he threw his legs over the side of silk covered bed and swung his feet to the floor. He stumbled to his en suite and washed his face with cold water. That dream. Again. He looked into the gigantic mirror hung above the basin. His features were drawn tight and he looked paler than usual. He stared into the silver eyes staring back at him, as if the answers he sought lay hidden within their depths. But no answers came. He was left with a feeling of utter desolation and confusion. " Why me?" Like he didn't have enough to deal with already! What with his father and going back to Hogwarts again. Damn Potter and his smartarse friends!'
He thought menacingly as he turned abruptly away from his reflection. Tomorrow he would go from one hellhole to another.
" Harry!" Hermione yelled as she ran into the waiting arms of her long time friend Harry Potter. She hugged him tightly and then stepped back to look at the face of her joyful companion. " How was your summer? Were the Dursley's really awful?"
" Na, they were actually sorta nice to me this summer."
" The Dursley's? Nice?" Hermione stared at him with her mouth open.
"God you should see your face! It was the same as always. But they did let me eat dessert once!" He grinned cheekily.
" Oh it's so great to see you again!" Hermione cried as she hugged him again.
Girls in the vicinity all glanced wistfully in Hermione's direction. Harry not only was Griffindor's captain of the Quidditch tem but one of the most lusted after boys in school. But despite all this, Harry and Hermione had always been friends and never thought of changing that. Sure there arose the few problems and fights but it always ended in laughter.
"Did you happen to see Ron during the holidays?" Harry asked as Hermione released him.
" No. But I got a heap of letters! Pig was looking very tired when Ron sent the last one. Gosh I don't know why he sent me so many!"
" Lucky you! I haven't really heard from him at all. What did he say to you?"
" Nothing! That's the thing! It was all meaningless bits of crap!"
"Like what?"
" Oh well he did send me a letter explaining in detail the time he found a gnome in his bedroom! Like come on, why would I want to know?"
Harry grinned.
"What?" Hermione demanded.
"Oh nothing." Harry replied as his grin grew wider and he turned to walk toward the train.
" You can't do that!" Hermione yelled as she ran after him and caught his arm.
" Do what?"
" You can't grin like that and then tell me nothing. That was a knowing grin Harry so obviously you know something I don't so spill!" Hermione put her weight on one hip and waited for Harry's explanation with folded arms and a menacing glare.
Harry laughed after holding her gaze for a few seconds. " You know for someone so smart, you can be really daft sometimes."
" Daft? Me? Never!"
" Well piece two and two together! Have you considered that Ron might like you?"
" Of course Ron likes me. He's my friend. He has to like me!" Hermione said thoroughly confused.
" More than friends?" Harry prompted
" What! NO! Never! Ewww! He's like my brother!"
" Yeah I know. I was kinda shocked when I found out too." Harry said softly " I mean, we've all been friends for so long I can't imagine us in any other way."
" What am I going to tell him?" Harry and Hermione walked slowly to the train.
" I don't know. I've never been blown off before!" Harry grinned devilishly. That comment earned him a shove from Hermione as she grinned and laughed at her friends self centerment.
They reached the train door and proceeded to find an empty compartment. Once they had settled in they talked about their summer.
Just before the train was due to leave Ron came bustling onboard.
" Hey guys! Sorry I'm late!" Ron shut the compartment door behind him as he fell into the chair opposite Harry and Hermione. " Though it looks like you two didn't seem too fussed!"
" Of course not." Hermione joked. " What took you so long anyway?"
" Ginny s damn cat went up into the attic again, and wouldn't come out, so we had to wait until she coaxed it out with cat bits." Ron cursed. " That cat is"
" Is what Ron?" They all turned towards the threatening voice coming from the doorway.
Ron turned and faced his sister who had her hands clasped to a snowy white cat who was waving it's bottlebrush tail from side to side. It's eyes glared wickedly at Ron as if challenging him to say anything harsh against her.
" Ahhh.. very clever?" He replied sheepishly.
" Thought so." Ginny turned from her brother and smiled at Hermione and Harry. " How was your summer guys?"
" Good. " Harry replied
" Excellent!" Hermione replied enthusiastically. " And since when did you get a cat?"
" Oh I got her at the beginning of the holidays! Her name's Ophelia! She's a pure bred Persian! Isn't my darling gorgeous!" Ginny gushed.
" She's perfect!"
" I know."
" You know I have been thinking of getting another cat." Hermione said as she got up to pat the snowy white bundle.
" Hmmm. . Poor Crookshanks. He never saw it coming!" Hermiones friend sympathized with her friend's unfortunate loss of her beloved cat that had been unfortunately run over by a passing car last holidays.
" I know." Hermione went silent as a fleeting trace of sadness glanced across her features. " Well if I do get a new cat which one should I get? And what will its name be?"
Harry smiled as he watched the two girls fuss over breeds of cats and possible names. He turned to Ron and they started up their usual conversation on Quidditch teams and new plays they could try with the team.
When the lady with the cart filled with goodies turned up harry and Hermione shouted Ron and Ginny to chilled pumpkin juice and chocolate frogs.
"That was excellent!" Ron sighed as he lay back on the chair and patted his stomach. " Thanks you two!"
" No probs. How long till we arrive at Hogwarts?" Hermione asked
Harry checked his watch and replied " Oh well would you look at that!" He looked up at everyone." We only have five minutes until we are there."
" Oh my God! Five minutes? Really? Oh shit!" Hermione started panicking and she jumped up and started running around the cabin looking for her robes.
" Plenty of time!" Ron said smiling and proceeded to watch as Hermione grabbed her robes and ran to get changed. Two seconds later Ginny followed her out after she had placed down Ophelia and grabbed her robes from the above compartment.
" So, How long is it really?" Ron asked his grinning friend.
" An hour!" Ron and Harry cracked themselves laughing.
Hermione poked her head back into the compartment when she realized that Harry was joking and threw hers and Ginny's robes at them.
"Very funny Harry." Hermione said darkly as a mean grin spread across her face.
" O oh, I know that look! That's not a good look. Ah, Ron? Help?" Harry said as he saw Hermione coming towards him.
" You're on your own mate!" Ron said as he sat back to watch the action. Hermione came right up to Harry and then launched her self on him to crash tackle him. The two wrestled on the floor until Hermione managed to get her knee into Harry's stomach.
" Ouch!"
" You deserved it!" Hermione said as she sat up and stuck her tongue put at him cheekily.
" Oh really?" Harry replied as he regained his breath. Then he got up and tickled her mercilessly.
" Stop it you two!" Ron called half-heartedly.
" Mercy?" Harry asked Hermione who was in peals of laughter.
" Mercy! Mercy Mercy!" Hermione panted between gasping for her breath and laughing.
"You sure?"
" Yes, yes please I can't breathe!!" Harry helped Hermione up and collapsed on the chair, the two where still laughing breathlessly. Eventually the need for air quelled the urge to giggle and Harry and Hermione stopped to catch their breath.
" I'm going to see where Ginny got to." Hermione said as she walked out of the cabin after regaining her breath also. She was just walking down the aisle when she heard giggling coming from the cabin a few doors up. Curious, Hermione approached the cabin door cautiously. Inside she heard giggling. When she opened the door to the cabin a site met her eyes. Ginny was enfolded in Blaise Zabini's lap and they were making out furiously. Hermione's jaw dropped and closed the door.
" Well that's not something you see everyday!" Hermione said to herself as she walked in a stunned stupor down the hall.
Draco saw Granger look into Blaise's cabin and come out looking like a fish.
" I wonder what our little mudblood saw?" Draco thought to himself. Curious he followed her down the hall, always keeping a distance between them. Draco saw Hermione then turn into the empty cabin at the end of the hall. He followed her in.
Hermione looked up sharply as she heard the cabin door open.
" Oh it's you." She said as Draco entered.
" You were expecting someone else?" He answered
" No actually I wasn't expecting anyone. Why are you here?" She asked testily as she eyed him with distrust.
" I was just wandering the aisle and saw you peek into Blaises's cabin. What did you see in there? You came out looking like a fish so I guessed it was something worth hearing." He explained as he lent lazily against the cabin wall.
" What makes you think I would tell you?"
" Well if you don't tell me I'm afraid I'll have to force it out of you."
" You don't scare me Malfoy!" Hermione was starting to look slightly scared. She was sitting on the chair along the opposite wall Draco was leaning on. She gripped the seat, her fingers nervously playing with the fabric.
" Scare you?" Draco laughed and stalked over to where she was sitting and put his hands on either side of her against the back of the chair. " Of course I scare you. I can practically smell the fear pouring out of you. You know, you really ought not to lie. It can get you into a lot of trouble." He said softly but dangerously as he leaned towards her. Though scared for her life, Hermione noticed the enticing cologne scent that wafted around him.
He smells wonderful! WAIT where the hell did that come from?? Hermione thought wildly. Well he does don't deny it. A little voice whispered in her head.
As Draco leaned closer to her he caught the sweet scent of her shampoo a curiosity came over him. He had never felt this stirring emotion uncurling from within him. He watched her face as conflicting emotions an across them, She's so beautiful! How come I have never noticed that before. Wait what am I doing? This is Granger! Mudblood Granger! What would your father say if he heard you thinking these thoughts??
Draco shook his head and stared at the girl he had pined in between his arms. A feeling rather alike a feather tickling the brain came over him. He dropped to the floor as he passed out.