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A/N: I would like to thank all of my reviewers thus far, and if you are reading this, please leave a review, even if its just one word, I just want to know who is reading.

Also, I'm sorry that I haven't updated in a while, but I was at CMU (Central Michigan University) visiting my sister for sibs weekend. Anyway, on with the story. This chapter is short and sweet, but I will get up chapter 5 soon, I promise.

Enjoy!

Chapter 4

Nightmares and 'Why do you care?'

The next couple of weeks went by slowly; everyone was getting into the new year. All classes were getting started and everyone was busy.

Hermione, who was taking all of the classes that her schedule would permit without a time turner, was busier than anyone else. She was keeping up, but not by much, she spent tons of time doing homework, working into the late hours of the night.

She got up one morning a couple of weeks after school had started and was surprised at how rested she was. Had she slept that well? She didn't even remember tossing and turning. Usually it was her nightmares that woke her up, she would wake up in the middle of the night not knowing where she was for the moment, and then fall back into an uneasy sleep, only to be waken up an hour or so later. She was never fully rested because of her nightmares, and she had a ton of classes. She was never fully relaxed and was stressed constantly.

This particular morning she walked down to the Great Hall for breakfast, feeling great, she had not been plagued by her nightmares. She wasn't sure if she had had a good dream, for once, or if she had just been deprived of nightmares for the night.

She sat down, smiling at her two best friends. This was the first time they had seen her truly smile since the first day of school.

"Hermione, you look good today," Ron said as she sat down.

"Yeah, what's up?" Harry asked, slightly concerned.

"Nothing, I just got a full night's sleep last night, and I feel good today."

"No nightmares?" Ron asked.

"No, at least none that I can remember, but I didn't wake up in the night at all."

"That's good, maybe you can help me with my charms homework then."

"Sure, just meet me in the commons after classes."

"Okay, where you going right now?"

"Oh, I'm going to the library," she said as she got up.

"Okay, well, see you in potions then."

"See you," she said as she exited the great hall and made her way down to the library.

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"Dude, look at Granger, she looks…normal today."

"I can see that Blaise."

"Well, Draco, why don't you go talk to her?"

"Because I cant just walk over to her table and talk to her. That would be way too suspicious."

"Well then, wait until she is alone."

"I've been waiting for the last three weeks, those two never leave her alone."

"Well, you'll get your chance."

"I hope so," Draco said as he watched her. This was the first time he had seen her smile since the first day of school, he wanted to know what was wrong with her, why she had looked so horrible in all of her classes. She looked as though she had been run over by a whole Quidditch team, he wanted to get to the bottom of this.

Just then Hermione got up from her table and kissed her slave goodbye. This was the perfect chance for Draco to talk to her. He knew that she would be going to the library.

He waited a minute or so until it would no longer be suspicious, then he excused himself from the table and made his way to the library. He found Hermione sitting at a table reading out of a book that he couldn't see the title of.

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Hermione walked into the library. She looked along the shelves.

"Dreams…dreams…dreams…where would they put a book about dreams? Ah here it is."

She grabbed a book called Translating Dreams, What Your Dreams Are Telling You. Hermione sat down at a table and started reading, hoping that she could find out just what her nightmares had been about.

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"Er…Granger, can I talk to you?" She looked up at the sound of the cold voice.

"I guess so, what about?"

"Well, I know this is odd for me to act sympathetic, but I was wondering what was wrong."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you've been looking horrible for the last couple of days, and I was wondering what it was."

"Just nightmares, why do you care?"

"I don't know, you just looked like you needed to talk to somebody about it."

"So, why would I want to talk to you about it?"

"I'm sorry if I was just trying to help."

"Well, you don't need to help me, I have Ron and Harry for that."

"Okay, well, if you need to talk to someone about it, I'm always here."

"Why are you being so nice to me."

"It's just…I don't know…you're just…."

"Please Malfoy, I haven't got all day."

"I just wanted to make sure you were all right."

"Well I am," she lied, not wanting Malfoy to know that she was in fact having horrible nightmares about him.

"Okay, just remember what I said."

"Okay, I will," she said as he walked away. Thinking of her nightmares. Were they really nightmares after all, or did she just think them nightmares?

She looked up the chapter on enemies.

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Draco walked away from the library; he was mad. Why couldn't he just say it, say that he wanted to kiss her, say anything? He had tried to show his softer side a little and it had blown up in his face.

This was going to be harder than he thought, he didn't realize that Granger hated him so much. She seemed to be somewhat over that on the train. Had he waited too long? He just wanted to get her alone, without Potter and Weasley, and what had it accomplished? Nothing.

He walked quickly back to his room to grab his stuff and headed for Potions.

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Hermione finished in the library and headed back to her room to get her stuff and headed for Potions. When she got there she went and sat down between Harry and Ron.

Love and Lemons

Brittany