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Innocent Desire

Chapter 11: Meetings and Greetings

Hermione Rose Granger woke up feeling warmer and happier than she had felt in years.

She didn't want to spoil it so she just kept her eyes closed and snuggled closer to the warmness. Something

stirred under her, so she opened her eyes to see the sleeping form of Draco Malfoy. She thought about

screaming for a second, but her memory came flooding back and she smiled. He had been so sweet. She

thought of what she would have done to him a year or two ago and giggled. Then she snuggled back up

against him.

"If I didn't know better, I'd think you wanted to snuggle me." Draco said, yawning, which only made Hermione giggle more.

"Draco, I'm sorry I was so mean to you earlier this year. I just didn't know you could be... well, caring."

"Unlike everyone else's view of me, I am a loving, compassionate man and I happen to show it

when it needs to be shown."

Hermione snorted at his "humble" comments about himself.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing, oh humble Slytherin God." She said in a fake admiring voice before falling off the

couch in a fit of laughter. "You scare me sometimes." Draco said before pretending to fall off the couch

and landing, straddling, on top of her. "Your even scarier because of your weight.Get off of me." She

teased. "Oh Really? He said, then started to tickle her, which caused her to go into a new fit of giggles and

Draco to laugh at her squirming and laughing under him. They soon became so exhausted that they fell on

the floor next to each other, catching their breath with smiles on their faces.

"Well that was exciting. What are we going to do for the next eight hours?" Draco said, looking

into her eyes.

"We can start by going down and getting breakfast."

"We'll have to go down to the kitchen's then 'cause Breakfast has been over for a few hours."

"Oh well. I can go see Dobby and Winky."

"Did you say Dobby?"

"Yes, he used to work for...oh, for you."

"Yeah, how do you know him?"

"Uh, well Harry kind of freed him and we've seen him in the kitchens and stuff."

"Well I already knew Potty set him free. Always the hero." He said, a covetous look coming over his face for a second, before he flashed a smile at Hermione and rushed her into her room

"Draco, what are you doing?"

"Just exploring. What's in here?" he said as he started opening drawers and exploring its contents.

He went through a lot of them, till he just happened to find her panty drawer. "Ooh. Another surprise from

you, Hermione. Never though I'd see the day when Hermione Granger, the Gryffindor bookworm, wore a

shiny black thong." He said pulling it out for her to view with his famous smirk plastered devilishly on his

lips.

"Well you're not going to see me wear that in person." She said making Draco's smirk turn into a pouty lip

and he looked at her pleadingly.

"Pretty Please!!" he said back to her looking at her with his gorgeous silver-gray eyes and pouching his lip

out even more.

"Unlike any Slytherin girl, I will not be your little whore." She said smirking.

"Owch. Wait till Pansy hears that one, she'll want to bitch-slap you."

"I'm so scared. What are we going to have, a mud wrestling fight?"

"Ohhh. I'd like that."

"Shut it, you prat."

Suddenly there was a tap on the window.

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Neville Longbotham sat in Potions class feeling miserable. Apart from the usual, he was sitting in

Potions, Snape had failed him again, and he still had not had the chance to talk to Hermione. He was still

recovering from what he had saw yesterday in the Great Hall. Was he the only one that had seen her and

Malfoy? He just had to talk to her.

"Well let's see. An F again, Mr. Longbotham" Professor Snape said bring Neville back to reality.

"Ah man."

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Pansy and Blaise were depressed. First, they couldn't get into the Head common room. Then,

when they had went to Snape, he had told them to go away and to not bother him again. Now, they were in

Care for Magical Creatures class with the Gryffindors studying Bowtruckles, who kept chunking bark at

them. And last but definetely not least, Hermione and Draco were nowhere to be found. The only fun thing

today was Potions where they could torture the Gryffindors.

"Now these bowtruckles aren't that dangerous. They only have a 2X M.O.M Classification. They

are usually shy but they don't like big groups. So we're going to try and persuade them to come out with

these woodlice, so we can get some of the bark for wands and potions. OK?" Hagrid said, handing each of

them a giant leaf full of squirming woodlice.

Pansy and Blaise looked at each other.

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Hermione and Draco jumped as they saw an eagle owl tapping at the window, a letter on its leg.

They sighed, relieved nobody was knocking on the door or had heard anything they had been saying or

doing. "Kirim. Ah, I see you've got the reply." He opened the letter and read it's contents quickly, a grin

spreading across his face. "Excellent. OK Hermione, let's go get packed up for tommorrow."

"Let's? As in Let us go pack? As in we?"

"Yeah. I'm going with you. I just sort of forgot to mention that Dumbledore also gave me

permission, as your bodyguard and Head Boy, to accompany you to see your parents and your Aunt. Well

as long as it was ok with everyone and it is now. So come on, let's get packed."

"OK" was all that Hermione could say.

They got packed and were ready to go for the next day. By then they had eaten breakfast, lunch,

and dinner and had come back with their work for when they were gone. Luckily, this was only the first

week of school and they didn't have that much work to do, only a potions essay on the use of Lobalug

poison, and some forms to fill out for the Ministry if they wanted to become an Animagus for

Transfiguration. They did their work and each took a bath, separately of course, then went headed for bed.

"Goodnight, Hermione."

"Goodnight, Draco."

Hermione couldn't help but smile as he told her goodnight. For once in her life, she was feeling

happy about Draco going anywhere with her.

I never thought he could be so nice. I mean this is Malfoy, the Slytherin prat, but he's

well, changed. I can't wait till tommorrow.

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Here ends Part 1 of Meetings and Greetings. Tune in tommorrow for Pt 2. Thank you.
-SavagePrincess