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We Belong Together

Chapter 5: No Escape

Hermione was standing there; rage practically written all over her face and all Draco could do was lean against the wall and smirk. He loved seeing her wind up like this, after a long day and his grumpy mood that she had caused earlier that morning, he wanted nothing more than a good argument to get her angry.

"You heard me Granger" he said, enjoying seeing her face screw up and her eyes narrow. Pure hatred, just the way it should be. He let slip a small smile, before covering it up into a smirk once more.

"Un-believable!" she said through gritted teeth, emphasizing the first part of the word. "You are… unbelievable! I can't, I just… I can't believe you!" she continued trying to remain calm. She was too tired, and she just wanted to relax. She'd already missed the first day of school and she was eager to catch up.

"Being quite repetitive and quite annoying, aren't we? What's wrong Granger? Forgotten how to speak? That's got to be a first."

"Just shut up, Malfoy!" she spat, her eyes were blazing, and it took all of her effort just to stop herself from lunging on the idiot and choking him to death.

"Make me"

"What are you? A five year old?" she asked, annoyed at his childish behavior, but before he could say another word, she sighed heavily, threw her hands up in the air, gave a loud cry of anger and stormed up her stairs.

She sat on her bed for a long time, replaying in her head the events that had just taken place, trying to make sense of everything that had happened since she had come back to Hogwarts. First he's weird, then he's nice and then he's a complete jerk!

'Why the hell does he have to be so bloody confusing!' she mentally screamed. She was sick of him already and it was only her second night with the git. She didn't want to think of the upcoming days, so she got up and went in for a hot bath, sure that it would help relieve her stress. As she walked to the bathroom door, she stopped when she saw the small red box at the foot of her bed. She walked over to it, quickly peered inside to make sure its contents were still there, snapped it shut and dropped it into her trunk.

Draco sat on the couch in the common room, trying to work on the Potions essay he had received as homework earlier that afternoon, but he couldn't focus. His mind kept coming back to a certain brunette, and no matter how hard he tried to shake her out of his head, he couldn't. It was quite annoying really, and as he looked up at the clock, something in his head clicked.

'Damnit!' he exclaimed, jumping up from the seat rather quickly. 'It's already 9:45, and we were supposed to start patrolling the halls at 9!' Draco already had one foot out in the hallway when he remembered something else. 'Shit! Things can't get worse can they? How am I going to get Granger to come with me? We're supposed to do it together.' But as he looked up at Hermione's door, and back at his watch, he didn't want to risk getting into another argument and missing the chance to give students detention. He was already put off that he missed 45 minutes, so he made up his mind to forget about Granger and go by himself.

Hermione walked out of the bathroom and into her room, more happy now than she had been just over 2 hours ago. She heard the portrait swing open and close, but didn't think much of it. She then changed into her pajamas, grabbed a book from the library section of the common room and settled herself in front of the burning fire.

Hermione had been reading for not more than 10 minutes when she started to wonder where Draco had disappeared off to. He wasn't anywhere in the common room, she didn't see him on the balcony and she didn't hear anyone in the bathroom, but she decided to check anyway. So she pulled herself off the couch, walked up the stairs and knocked twice on the bathroom door. No answer. She knocked again. Still no answer, so she opened it slowly and saw that it was deserted.

She was just about to walk back out when his door caught her eye and she decided to check in there. Once again, Hermione pulled her fist up and knocked lightly on the door. Nothing. This time, she decided to just open it up instead of knocking again. Cautiously, she pushed open the door and saw no one. Not that she had expected anyone because no matter how mad Draco was, he would still answer to a knock on the door. She was certain.

Before the Gryffindor realized what she was doing, her feet had walked her into the room and she was now standing beside his bed, looking around the room. She was right; it did look exactly like her room, but in green and silver with black here and there. She noticed he was very well organized, which surprised her greatly. The only boys' rooms she had ever been in before were those of her best friends and the twins back at the burrow and they had all been messy and it had annoyed her.

Just as she was about to leave his room, still wondering where in the world he had gone, she looked at the clock on his bedside table. It read 10:32 and as she stared at it for a few more minutes the answer she had been searching for finally dawned on her.

Hermione grabbed her wand as fast as she could and ran out of the dormitory and into the halls. She flew down a couple flights of stairs and ran into something at full speed causing her to stumble and fall over backwards with a thump. She looked up slowly and met the smirk of Draco Malfoy.

'Great' she thought to herself. 'Just fabulous'

"Glad to see you remembered" Draco said, extending an arm to help her up but he quickly withdrew it as he saw the puzzled look on Hermione's face and the confusion in his head was more recognizable to him.

"Umm… yeah… well I'm not stupid you know"

"No… but you are late" he smirked.

"Look, I just have a lot on my mind, okay? So don't push me Malfoy because one argument a day is good enough for me."

"Clearly…"

"Ugh! I'm going on patrol duty, so whatever. You can stand there and argue with yourself for all I care."

"Granger-"

"And I see we're back on last names. That's great Malfoy. I just don't bloody well understand why you're so damn confusing!"

"Granger-"

"No no, I don't want to hear any lame excuses. I shouldn't have expected anything to change. You were just acting nice, and you led me to believe that you could be different. But what was I thinking? You're a bloody Slytherin, and one that hated me from the very beginning. Nothing could change and I don't know why I thought-"

"GRANGER!" he exclaimed.

"What!" she said, her hands clenched tightly by her side and her face turning red again. There was no way to escape each other and the arguments that awaited them, no matter how hard they tried.

"Look, woman! I was only going to say, that we need to patrol together. That's the rule. But now that you've been ranting on about everything else I might as well get that cleared up as well since I want to get some decent sleep tonight! First of all, I was, am and always will be confusing. No one can bloody figure me out, not even Pansy and Blaise and sometimes, not even myself! Second, I have changed and I wasn't acting or leading you to any misconceptions. Third, you're right. I am a Slytherin, and I did despise you, but I wasn't alone in that. You and your two damned bodyguards hated me as much as I hated everyone. And lastly, things can change, they already have Granger, you just don't know what's been going on in my life and I just don't know how to deal with it. It's like you said yourself, I just have a lot on my mind, okay?"

Hermione just stood there with her mouth hanging open. She didn't know what to do or say and for the second time that day she had lost all of her brains due to the Slytherin Prince, and it was unnerving.

"Come on, let's just go!" Draco said, annoyed at the silence that surrounded them and he started walking off down the corridor with Hermione trailing behind.

"I'm… well…" Hermione sighed deeply and stopped. Draco has stopped walking too, but he kept his back to Hermione. She continued "I don't know what to say. I was just… you just made me so angry earlier on today! I mean, I thought things were starting to look good this year and then you had to go and say something degrading, something awful and just ruin my whole bloody night! And-"

"I'm sorry…" he whispered shakily.

"W-what?"

"I said I'm sorry" he spoke louder, but his voice was quivering and his fists were held tightly by his side.

Hermione sighed again and walked towards him. She couldn't believe what she was doing, or what she was about to do, but she couldn't stop herself. It was just natural of her. She put her hand on his shoulder, and surprisingly, he didn't shake it off or make any rude remarks. He just let her touch him.

"Malfoy, I don't know what's going on. But I just wish you'd make up your mind as to what you think of me this year, because with everything else I have to deal with, I can't sit for ages and figure out why you're acting the way you're acting. I have too much going on, and I don't need anything else making this year worse. So…" she paused and stepped back from him before continuing "make up your mind now. Do we call a truce and try to work together? Or do we make each other's lives a living hell, just like the past 6 years."

Draco turned around slowly on the spot, his face emotionless. It bothered Hermione that there was no trace of a smirk or anything and she didn't know what his decision was going to be, but before she could think long and hard about it, he spoke up. It was soft, but crystal clear.

"You're not so bad Granger" he stated, and at the raised eyebrow of Hermione's, he went on. "Mind if we carry on this conversation else where? Say perhaps… our dormitory? I have something I want to tell you."

"But what about-"

"We should've been done half an hour ago. Come on," he said smiling slightly, as he grabbed Hermione's hand and led them back to their Common Room.

a/n - 5th chapter. Hope you all liked, and if not then please be my guest and critisize. It's not fair to only hear the good and not the bad, how does anyone expect to learn? So yeah, please keep reading and reviewing. I rely on you guys to get me through this fic and for all my faithfuls out there, thank you daaalings ever so much! Now for a few individual shout-outs.

yelowtulips1026 - I'm glad you like the cliff-hangers because I'm big on those. It just makes everything so much better! heehee. The twins on twins thing was what my best friend and I always wanted to do because we looked like twins and we used to pretend we were when we were younger and it was always cute. Everything with Herms and Draco will get cleared up in the next chapter, if not both of their problems at least one. And I put the Ron/Herms thing in there, because I'm also a R/Hr shipper and things just wouldn't be right without some mention of their relationship. Anyhoo, thanks so much and I hope you like this chapter!

CS June - Thanks for your review and I was happy to hear about your concerns. I didn't think much at the time about the amount of muggle wear, but after you pointed it out, I do see that I did mention a lot. But then again, Hermione is muggle-born so in the summers she does spend her time with muggle contraptions. But thanks, and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Touch of the Wind - I am so sorry to hear about your mother, but what you said has really encouraged me to move on from what has happened and the death that has taken place. So thank you for that, and also thanks for the review and I'm so happy you liked the last chapter. The truth about Hermione is still a secret and will either be uncovered in the next chapter, or the one after that, but Draco's secret you will definately find out in the next chapter. It has already been mentioned here and there. Thanks again SO much and I hope you like this chapter!

MrsGabriellaMalfoy - Thanks for pointing out that Ravenclaw was a girl too. I've changed that and I'm glad you like the story so far. Happy reading and hope this chapter was good enough.

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