a/n Thanks for the reviews. Blah, blah, blah… On with the story!

Everything eventually quieted down in the castle. Though, Draco was still in the Hospital wing because Madame Pomfery wanted to keep a close eye on him. He had after all lost a lot of blood, and she didn't trust any way of healing unless it was hers.

Personally Hermione thought he was lucky to still be in the Hospital wing, because by the time everything was back in order the whole school knew about Hermione's and Draco's relationship. Whenever Hermione walked down the hall, all of the houses glared at her, even her fellow Gryffindors. With the exception of Ginny, Harry, Ron and Neville, of course. Hermione didn't spend much time with them though, she preferred to burry herself into books most of the time. She felt completely hated by everyone.

"Don't worry about them," Harry told her one time at lunch. "Soon they all will forget about it," but he seemed to doubt his own words.

"Maybe you should dump him," Ginny said to her. Hermione laughed.

"Yeah, maybe I will," she said jokingly and Ginny started to laugh to. Neither noticed the shadowy figure in the corner move away.

Ron didn't talk much, he was always sulking. Hermione didn't even have the heart to yell at him, he just looked so pathetic absorbed in self pity.

Hermione would go and visit Draco every day after lunch, but most of the time she came he was sleeping. She began to think that he was only pretending to sleep.

One Friday she had been a little early, and as she entered the Hospital wing she saw Draco sitting up laughing with one of his Slytherin friends. A few minutes later his friend left and Hermione watched as Draco took out some of his school work lazily. Trying to test her idea that he was fake sleeping, Hermione opened the hospital wing door and shut it loud enough for him to hear it.

Suddenly Draco took his things and shoved them under his bed. After a few minutes passed he carefully opened his eyes again and sighed before taking out his school work again. Hermione left and didn't visit him that day.

Soon Hermione's visits to Draco were becoming less and less, until finally she decided just not to go. It was obvious that Draco didn't want her to visit, so why would she bother? Her stomach seemed to have twisted into a knot and she felt overwhelming sadness. But she didn't cry she wouldn't let herself.

Mean while with Draco…

Madame Pomfery was annoying Draco to death. She would always make him drink these disgusting potions that made him want to gag. Then there was the fact that everyone in the school knew about him and Hermione.

She always came to visit, and at first Draco was really happy to see her. Then something happened that made him dread her visits. He was talking to his friend Todd, who came into visit him regularly when the topic turned to Hermione.

"She has been taking a lot of crap from everyone. She never raises her hand in class anymore and she is never with her friends," Draco looked at him in confusion.

"When did this happen? Why?" Todd just looked at him bewildered.

"You haven't noticed? Everyone is against you two being together, and so everyone is shinning her. She is always sad and depressed looking. Haven't you noticed?" Draco shook his head, and became so lost in thought that he didn't notice Todd leave.

Hermione was unhappy because of him. That was the truth, plain in simple. Draco couldn't bear to think that he was the cause of her unhappiness. He had really changed since the beginning of the year.

Then another visit of Todd's brought even worse news.

"Man, I heard her talking to Weaselette, and she said she was going to dump you," Draco froze looking at him.

"Is that what she said?" He asked hoarsely.

"Yeah, Weaselette said to her 'Maybe you should dump him?' and Hermione said 'Maybe I will.' Then the started laughing about it! Girls are just evil," Draco took all this in, once again not noticing Todd's departure.

That was when Draco started pretending to sleep when he came to visit. He knew he was just prolonging the inedible, but he didn't want Hermione to brake up with him. He just couldn't handle it.

So whenever he heard the door open, he would stop whatever he was doing and pretend to sleep. Sometimes she would come in and sit down next to him. Other times she would talk to him about school and such, even though he was 'sleeping.' Each day her visits became fewer and shorter, until finally she just stopped showing up.

Draco knew it would have had to happen eventually, but he couldn't help but feel a deep sadness root itself to the bottom of his stomach. But he wouldn't cry he wouldn't let himself.

Finally, after many endless hours sitting in the Hospital wing, wondering where Hermione was, how she was doing and what she was doing, he was let out. There was a big Slytherin party and Draco was welcome back in with open arms.

Even though he was smiling and jugging down butter beer, Draco was ready to break down and cry. Though of course he wouldn't let himself cry. Instead he smiled and chugged down another butter beer, think of the one thing that was never out of his mind: Hermione.

When Hermione hound out that Draco was out, it wasn't until she saw him in class two days after the fact. It was like a punch to the stomach to see him in Potions. What was even worse was that she was partners with him. Taking a deep breath Hermione sat down next to him, making sure not to look at him.

Draco looked up to see an angel walking down the aisle in Potions. He shook his head and looked away from her; he decided that he would just ignore her. That proved difficult though, as they were both partners.

It angered Draco that she wouldn't look at him, not once would she look at him, or spare him a glance. The only time she even spoke was when she was telling him what to do, or asking him to pass something. Since she wasn't looking at him, Draco couldn't help but sneak looks at her.

"Malfoy!" She hissed angrily at him when he almost added the wrong ingredient. It was like a blow to the heart, she had said Malfoy. He was no longer Draco, just… Malfoy.

He couldn't take it anymore. Standing up Draco took his items and left the Potions room. Leaving behind a confused class and teacher and the girl he loved who wouldn't even give him a side ways glance.

Hermione looked up after Draco as he fled from the Potions room. When she said his name, something that looked like anger and sadness flashed through his eyes. Why was he mad and sad that she had used his sir name? After all, he was the one who had been avoiding her.

Everyone looked at her and Hermione looked down at the finished potion. Deciding that this rift between her and Draco was more important then the end of Potions, Hermione stood up with all her things and dashed into the hall after Draco.

Just as she rounded the corner from the Potions room she saw Draco's robes sweep around the corner. She picked up the pace and the next corner she saw Draco before he turned the corner. Again Hermione picked up her face.

"Wait up!" She yelled panting slightly and she saw Draco turn around surprised.

"What do you want?" He asked sharply and waited for Hermione.

"We-need-to-talk," she said panting and clutching her side as she stopped next to him.

"Oh really?" He asked staring at her blankly.

"Yeah," Hermione said glaring at him.

"About what exactly?" He said, he face still blank.

"Well for starters, why were you pretending to sleep every time I came to visit you?" Hermione asked her voice full of anger.

Draco looked down at Hermione; he hadn't expected her to follow him. He was also surprised that she had known that he had been pretending.

"Why did you stop visiting?" He retorted, anger showing in his voice.

"Well, I figured if you went through the trouble to pretend to sleep as to not see me, I might as well not give you the trouble," she said with equal anger.

"Yeah, well maybe I just didn't want to talk to you!" He yelled at her.

"Why not? What did I do?" She yelled back at him.

Draco just stared at her disbelievingly. How could she not know?

"What?" She asked into his silence.

"You were going to break up with me," he said slowly, looking for her reaction.

"What?" Hermione asked. "Who told you that?" She looked at him in confusion.

"Um… Todd," he said going a bit red.

"Well then, Todd told you wrong," Hermione said, and then the bell rang, before leaving them in silence.

Hermione decided that she wasn't going to just stand there in silence. "Well, bye then," she said close to tears and she turned around to leave. She would not cry she wouldn't let herself cry.

Hermione was half way down the hall way before Draco realized she wasn't standing there. Tears threatened to fall from his eyes. Go after her, he thought to himself. Go after her, you heard her. Tom heard wrong. Go after her. Finally he cracked and ran down the hallway after her.

"Hermione," he called after her. She didn't turn around, she didn't wait. She just kept walking. "Hermione!" He shouted going faster; he grabbed her arm just before she managed to say the password to Gryffindor tower.

"What?" She snapped not looking at him.

"I'm-sorry," the words came out weird, he wasn't used to saying it.

She stood there in silence, still not looking at him. He waited expectantly for her reaction, but nothing came.

"Hermione, I said…" But she cut him off.

"I know," she said still not looking at him.

"Hermione, I'm sorry, I thought you were going to break up with me and just didn't want to go through it. Hermione, I love you," at this she looked at him.

"I love you too," she said and Draco smiled in relief before bending down to kiss her.

Just then a Gryffindor walked by and knocked into Draco causing him to almost fall over. Draco's eyes flashed in anger and Hermione held onto his shoulder gingerly.

"What are we going to do about that?" He asked angrily.

"Well, I have an idea…" Hermione trailed off smiling slightly.

a/n Ok, I want feed back please! This is longer then most of my chapters too! I hope you like this chapter…. Just to warn you, my next chapter will be the last for this fiction. But I do have an idea for a sequel…. But I won't write it unless I have people tell me they want a sequel! So do you want a sequel? Yes or No?