Chapter 6

Malfoy was surveying the room with his back towards her. She noticed he was only wearing boxers and blushed. Her eyes roamed down his backside,'Nice Arse Malfoy', and down to his muscular legs.'What a wizard's robe could hide!'

Malfoy could feel he was being watched and turned around. Much to his surprise he found Hermione standing in nothing but a towel. He looked up and down, his eyes lingering at the bottom of the towel.'Oh what a tease it just covers her silky smooth thighs. Oh how I would love to touch those beautiful long legs of hers'.

She noticed he was watching her now and blushed a deeper red. "I...um...forgot to grab my clothes." She quickly grabbed her things off the bed, dropping her undergarment. Draco leaped to life and flew to pick them up.

He snickered," Black satin panties? Racy Granger, I would have never thought." Her face was about as red as a cherry as she nearly ripped her underwear out of his grasp. She darted back into the confinements of the bathroom mumbling something over her shoulder about, 'things he shouldn't be thinking,'and slammed the door shut.

About twenty or so minutes had passed and he began to think she wouldn't be coming out due to the embarrassment. Then he heard the door click. It opened slowly and she came out wearing a simple red nightgown that was not at all revealing and her wet hair pulled back into a tight ponytail. He sneered, disappointed that he would not get to peek anymore.

Hermione cleared her throat,"Now I couldn't find a spell to make twin beds but I did find one to make the largest bed available." She looked at the King size bed and nodded."I think this will do, no chance of us touching, AT ALL." She raised her eyebrows at him as if signaling him a look of ,'if you dare try anything I'll stick my wand somewhere unpleasant'.

"Good I wouldn't want to have you drooling near me."He lifted the covers and got comfortable in the bed.She hesitated a second before doing the same. She lifted a small alarm from the table and set it for the morning. She lifted her wand and pointed it to the ceiling,"lumos nighticus". Draco watched as the ceiling became a bed of stars. She turned out the light and watched the stars twinkle. A few moments later they were fast asleep.

Draco woke a couple of hours later, startled by a dream. Some monster with large hairy tentacles was choking him to death. He felt something fuzzy next to his chin and almost jumped from bed fearing it had not been a dream. He realized he couldn't move. Granger was curled up next to him, her hair loosened from its ponytail's grasp and sprawled wildly around her face.

He relaxed again and watched her chest rise and fall, she was still dead asleep. He moved a lingering piece of her hair from her face and found her lips partily open seemingly begging him to come explore their depths. He stroked her cheek with his free hand and she stirred a bit mumbling."Crookshanks leave me alone," she proceeded to swat at his hand like a fly.

'Crookshanks?' He thought for a minute and then remembered it was the name of her ugly feline friend. He glanced at the clock, only half past five, he thought about moving her and normally he would have pushed her off but her lying in his arms felt so right and so calming that he just closed his eyes and drifted back to sleep.

Hermione woke an hour later,'oh I need the loo', she tried to move but found she was pinned down. To her surprise and mortification she noticed she was lying in Draco's arms.'How in the bloody hell did this happen?' She thought to herself and tried to slip away. Draco grunted and pulled her even closer putting his other arm around her torso blocking her getaway.

'Damn and I really have to go', she thought as she tried not to squirm. She clenched her legs together fighting the urge. She didn't want him to wake and find her in his arms. She didn't need him yelling fault at her. He would probably say she gave him some kind of mudblood cooties or something.

The alarm on the table started to bounce and ring making Draco jump and become fully alert. His eyes met Hermione's for just an instant as she jumped up shut off the alarm and ran to the bathroom.'Ah saved by the bell', she thought as she closed the door. Draco lay there putting his thoughts together. He was actually missing the feeling of her in his arms.

Hermione finished her business, combed her hair back into a ponytail, brushed her teeth and finally went out into the room. Draco was gone. She quickly changed into some jeans and a tank top and popped on her shoes. She grabbed her bag and went out the 'tent' flaps almost running into Draco's chest.

He couldn't bring himself to look her in the eye after the nights event. He just muttered a quick apology and got out of her way leaning against a tree. She produced her wand with a small flick,'Illeviate', and the tent disengaged and flew into her bag. At the same time waving her wand in the air,'Illeviate', to break the cloaking spell around the tent so the others would see more than just two sleeping figures on the ground.

Hernando noticed they were awake and motioned for them to come and eat along with the rest of the camp. They walked over and were handed bowls of fruit and porriage."Thank you", they both said and settled on a log to eat. Draco was eyeing one of the native ladies. Her hair was wrapped up in a scarf high on her head, she was wearing makeshift sandles out of wood and twine. The garb she was in wrapped loosely around her body with gaping holes in parts of it.

Draco blushed as the woman raised her arms to stretch and he caught a glimpse of what lie underneath. He turned his head away in shame. Hermione had watched the scene and noticed he had an inch of decency in him to not stare any longer. They finished eating and Hermione thanked Hernando and said farewell. It was time to start the day's journey.