Disclaimer: Harry Potter is not mine. If it were mine, certain people would not be dead and certain people would not be evil.

In the Moonlight

Chapter 3: Alone Time

They students were seated and eating. Hermione stared at her plate; she could feel people watching her. So many times she'd been asked how she was. Every time she put on a fake smile and answer that she was fine. But she knew it was lie. She wasn't fine. She was sad, confused and angry.

Finally dinner was over and they went to their dormitories. The common room was loud with people talking about their summer holiday. "I'm going to bed," Hermione mumbled and slipped up to the girl's dormitories. She didn't want to be up when the other girls came in so she immediately but on her pajamas and laid down in bed. It wasn't long before Parvati and Lavender came in talking loudly. Hermione pretended to be asleep.

"Shhh!" said Lavender suddenly, "She's already asleep."

"Well I don't blame her," Parvati whispered, "News travels fast; just about everyone knows about her being a vampire."

A while later, Hermione heard nothing but their soft breathing which told her that they were asleep. Quietly, she slipped out of her bed and went out to the common room. It was empty, everyone was tired after the train ride. She sat down by the fire and stared at it, deep in thought.

"Hermione?" She jumped and turned to see Harry. "What are you doing up?" He asked.

She shrugged, "I just couldn't sleep."

Harry sat down next to her, "Do you wanna talk?"

Hermione sighed, she wanted to be alone. She hadn't been able to be alone to think since she got back from Malfoy Manor. "Harry, I just want some time alone to think."

Harry nodded, "Alright, goodnight." He hesitated before leaning in to kiss her on the cheek and leaving before either of them could say anything.

Slytherin Common Room, 12:00 a.m.

Draco sat in theSlytherin common room nodding off, he was trying to decide whether or not it was safe for him to sleep in the same room with a bunch of death eater's sons. Finally he decided he wanted some time to think, but the Slytherin common room was not the place to do. He didn't belong there anymore. He sighed and got up from the couch and slipped out quietly.

He walked silently through the school, avoiding Mrs. Norris and Filch. After a few close calls, he decided that he wouldn't find a decent place to think inside the school so he snuck outside.

Gryffindor Common Room, 12:15 a.m.

Hermione hated that Harry did that. It only confused her feelings and emotions more. If it had been before the summer that Harry kissed her she probably been so happy but now she hated it. Sighing, she got up and left the common room.

She didn't know where she was going, she just wandered around the school aimlessly. She was about to turn back when she heard Ginny's voice behind her.

"What are you doing?" Ginny asked.

Hermione jumped and turned to glare at her, she didn't appreciate people sneaking up on her, "I just wanted to go for a walk. What are you doing?"

Ginny shrugged, "I saw you leave and I followed you." Hermione didn't like being followed. Ginny asked the question so many people had asked her, "Are you alright?"

Hermione hesitated, knowing that she should just put on her fake smile and answer that she was fine but it didn't come out like that. Instead she said, "Harry kissed me, just on the cheek before he went to bed."

"Is that a good thing?"

"I don't know," Hermione whispered and turned away, "Draco kissed me too but on the lips."

"Is that a good thing?"

Hermione looked back at her with tears rolling down her cheeks, "I don't know Ginny, I just don't know."

The Forbidden Forest, 12:30 a.m.

Draco had foolishly wandered into the forest. He wasn't too far that he couldn't see the lights from the Castle. He felt that the forest was the only place he would be alone to think. But he should have known that you could never be completely alone in the forest.

He wasn't sitting there for five minutes before he heard a rustling behind him. He jumped up from the rock he was sitting on and looked behind him. It seemed that there was nothing there but he didn't feel safe anymore. He began walking towards the castle. He heard noises around him and walked faster. He heard something coming up behind him and broke into a run. When he turned to see what it was something jumped at him. He blacked out before he could tell what it was.