Chapter 5
"Draco?"
He snapped back from his thoughts and retrieved his fork ignoring her and continued eating. She noticed her food was missing and hit the service button. Hilda came in seeing her awake and instantly her food flew in the room.
"Thank you." Hilda nodded,"The train will be at your destination in approximately 20 minutes." With that she turned on her heel and left, closing the door behind her. She watched as he devoured his steak, and grimaced.
They ate silently, Hermione not looking up until he was done eating the meat. She noticed his eyes weren't exactly focused. The light seemed to be on but with no one home.
"Draco?" She tried to gain his attention again but he was lost in his thoughts again. The twenty minutes seemed to go on forever when they felt the train stop. Draco stood up and walked off the train while Hermione followed him."So where to?"
Draco looked around,"This place is so run down I wonder if there are even any good Inn's to stay at." Hermione laughed,"There are no Inn's here Malfoy, only campgrounds, which is where we are going to walk to right now." She started walking down a long path to his left.
"Walk?"He sneered at the thought."Why can't we just apparate there?" Hermione looked at him with a,'Your a stupid ninny' look,"Oh do you know the area Malfoy, have you been here before?"She asked him smuggly."No I haven't, you know that, so what are you getting at?" He crossed his arms waiting for an answer.
"YOU of all people should know that one can not apparate somewhere they have never been! It would risk the mistake of apparating on top of someone or something."She stated matter-of-factly.
"Besides we are in a muggle territory and if you just popped out of know where in front of someone you might go and get yourself killed. Remember they don't use magic here, they use guns." She said with a worried look.
He groaned," I knew I should have pushed for reassignment, what have I got myself into."
Hermione, not wanting to hear his whining, had already started walking away from him. He hurried to catch her." And at this campsite where do you plan on us sleeping?"
"On the ground of course, that's what camping entales does it not?" She said with a smirk.
"You expect me, a MALFOY, to sleep on the ground? I think you've gone barmy Granger."
She rolled her eyes and continued on, a mile later they saw a large fire in a clearing. People were laying near the fire to stay warm. Most of which didn't have blankets or sleeping bags they were just huddle together.
Draco took the sight in and whispered to Hermione,"Granger there filthy! We can't be associated with these lowly lifeforms!"
Hermione turned to face him her nose almost touching his,"You are the only lowly lifeform I see here Malfoy, so belt up!"
He was about to tell her off when a man from the campsite came near. "Hola! Buenos Noches, Como estas ustedes?" He asked Draco and extend his hand to shake.
Draco looked at him dumbfounded,"Huh?" He backed away from the old man. Hermione jumped forward and shook the mans hand. "Buenos Noches, bien, y tu?" She asked.
"Ah bien gracias senora." He said.
"Podemos acampar nosotros aqui por la noche?"
"Si, senora."Hermione saw that Draco was still at a lost and nodded in his direction and pointed out the language barrier."Habla Ingles?"
"Yes of course, welcome to the South American rainforest.My name is Hernando. I take it you are not from around here?"
"Your correct sir, we are from Europe. My name is Hermione and this is Draco.We are researchers with a private research group. We are here to study the sporatic (sp?) weather patterns." She said, clearly having practiced the lie.
Draco's eyebrow raised as he listened to her straight lie to the man.'I would never think Miss goody two shoes would do such a thing'. He yawned drawing attention to himself. "I believe its late should we retire now?"
Hernando nodded," It is, and with your line of work you will probably be very busy tomorrow and will need a good nights rest. Espero que usted duerma bien." With that he walked back to his campmates. Hermione found a small corner to the left unoccupied. She walked over and said a few words setting a spell. She opened her magic bag and pulled out a tent.
Draco stood watching her not offering to help. She figured as much.'He'll just complain about being a Malfoy and not a servant or something and I don't need that.' She finished the tent by herself. She set another spell on the tent and stooped inside.
He followed her inside and what was bestowed upon his eyes made him gasp."What in the name of Merlin?" Hermione popped her head out of a door on the 'wall'. " Did you really think I would make us sleep on the ground Malfoy? We learned magic for the sol purpose of practicing it did we not?"
He looked around the 'tent' he had walked into. It was not like any tent he had ever seen before. There was a whole bedroom before his very eyes. To his right must have been a bathroom where Hermione had disappeared because he heard water running. She was in the shower. In front of him lay a king size bed with two small tables on either side. There was even an enchanted window that displayed the darkness of the night surrounding them.
He went to the bed and pulled over her bag, he opened it and took out some night clothes. "Women and purses...if muggle women knew about this magic bag a riot would ensue." The bag was made to carry thirty times its actual size, you could fit a horse in it if you could get it in the opening of the bag.
He undressed listening carefully that the water didn't stop. He got on a pair of loose boxer shorts and waited for her to emerge.
Hermione turned off the water, the hot water raining down on her neck had felt so good. It helped release the built up tension of the day. She opened the curtain and began towel drying herself. She cursed herself, she had forgotten her clothes in the other room and her wand was out there too. She carefully stepped out of the tub wrapping the towel snuggly around her form and opened the door.