"Draco, you seem surprised to see me." Lucius said to his son. "Surely I would come to check on my son since he didn't show up when I told him to, and he didn't respond to my letter. Now if I didn't, what kind of father would I be?"

Draco stammered for a second but regained himself before he noticed. "Sorry father. I had some business to attend to." Draco knew that wasn't a excuse when it came to meeting his father for a appointment.

"So other people are more important than your family?" Lucius asked his son picking up one of the expensive items on his table. Draco already knew what coming.

"No, of course not sir."

"Are you lying Draco?" He stopped playing with the small statue to stare at his son. Draco could sense that his father was going to do something.

"No father."

"ARE YOU STILL LYING TO ME!" Yelled Lucius as he threw the statue at his son. It barely missed him. It shattered on the ground next to him. That was his favorite statue. Draco knew better than to dodge his fathers throws but he was growing ready to knock him out. Draco just stood there and let his father continue. "God, Draco, what did I ever do to you but try to be a good father? I bought you everything you wanted. And I get lied too? I wanted to have a pleasant meeting with my only son. But he has better things to do. Tell me Draco, what were you doing that you had to miss meeting me?"

Draco had to think of a good reason than seeing Hermione Granger. But before he could say anything to his father, he already found out the truth.

"You went to see that filthy Mudblood?" He was turning red at the thought. "You missed our appointment to see a Mudblood? You better have a good reason why you were there." He stood there waiting for his sons reply.

"I went to try and kill her but that Potter and Weasley were there. So I didn't get to attack her without them attacking me first." He had to think of that reason with all his might. He could tell his father was looking for the truth. And if he found out that he was lying for the third time, he would pay dearly.

"Okay Draco, well then if you really were there to kill her and didn't get the chance to, then you wouldn't mind me going there to do it myself." Draco felt fear rise in him faster than light. Not for himself but for Hermione. "Well, I wanted to tell you about the plan to get rid of that Potter." Lucius spit the last word out as if he tasted something horrible. Draco couldn't take his father always having a plan to kill Potter. His had to say something.

"Father, you know what? I don't care about you and your obsession with killing Potter. To be honest, I don't want to kill him. I want to thank him for killing Voldemort. I'm happy that I don't have to make sure that he isn't behind me trying to kill me. It feels good." Draco couldn't believe that he was talking to his father like that. He knew what would happen if he didn't stop but he had to take that chance and tell his father what he had coming. By the look on Lucius face, things weren't about to look good for Draco. Lucius stood up and stuck his hand inside his robes.

"So you feel that way Draco? I thought I taught you well. Looks like I'm not done." He pulled out his wand to point it at Draco.

But Draco was faster. "Protego!" He shouted. He didn't hear the spell that his father threw but he knew it was a dark one.

"So you think you can block all of my curses? Then block this one." Draco knew what was coming to him. The unforgettable curse his father liked to use on him when he was younger. He ran behind the couch to hide from the pain. He saved himself but the couch caught fire. He put it out and apparated out of there.

Hermione was on her way out of the ministry. She got on the platform ready to apparate when a sweaty Malfoy appeared in front of her.

"Granger, we need to talk. Now." He took her by the arm and pulled her to one of the empty offices.

"Malfoy, I don't know what your doing but…"

"Shush and listen!" He used the Imperturbable Charm on the door and began. "Hermione, you have to hide. Go somewhere no one can find you. You're not safe here. My father is going to try and kill you. You need to go far away and not tell anyone were you are." Hermione didn't know what to say.

"Malfoy first, you said my name. And second why is he trying to kill me? And why are you warning me." Malfoy looked aggravated.

"Well, Hermione is your name. I told my father that I failed to get rid of you, so he's gonna do it himself."

"You tried to kill me?' Hermione looked shocked.

"No I just told him that as a cover up for visiting you."

"Yeah, and why did you come to check on me?" Hermione asked.

"God Hermione, to be smart you sure are dumb."

"I get a lot of that lately. But answer my question."

"Because I love you! I can't go more than 30 minutes without thinking about you. Ever since our last year at Hogwarts I have been mad about you." Draco couldn't believe he just told he that. But he had to just in case he never got another chance. He was disappointed by the look on her face. But her actions showed other wise. Hermione grabbed him by his face and pulled him into a kiss. He didn't do anything at first, surprised by her actions but soon returned it. Hermione was the one to pull apart.

"Draco, I Love you too." She looked up into his eyes and felt loved for the first time in a long time. The guy that spent his every minute trying to make her life worse than it already was, actually loved her. He smiled at her happy to hear the words come from her mouth. But the moment was spoiled by a certain Potter banging on the door.

"Hermione! Are you in there? I'm coming in!" he shouted. Hermione turned to Draco. She couldn't keep this from Harry but she could tell Draco didn't want to tell anyone yet.

"Don't tell him okay. I'll be at your house. Stay safe." He whispered to her. But before Hermione could kiss him he was gone. She turned to see Harry standing there.

"Hermione, what are you doing in here?" He asked. "Me and Ron were so worried about you. We went to your flat but it was destroyed" Hermione almost stopped breathing at the news. What Draco said was true. He wasn't lying about his father. Oh god. Hermione had to leave and leave soon.

"Harry, I have to leave. I have to go away. Soon." Harry just looked at her like she was crazy.

"Hermione what are you talking about?"

"Dra… someone told me that there is someone out there trying to kill me. Why, I don't know. But I need to go away." She said as she went back to the platform.

"Hermione, who is trying to kill you?"

"Lucius!" Hermione saw the tall long haired man look straight at her. He pointed his wand at her ready to strike. Harry saw what was about to happen and he wouldn't let it. He jumped in front of Hermione and pointed his wand at him. There wasn't anyone in the lobby to witness what was happening. Hermione pulled out her wand ready to fight but Harry wouldn't have it.
'Hermione! Go hide quick!" Hermione just stared at Lucius. She didn't know why all of a sudden she was on top of the his death list. "Hermione GO!" Yelled Harry. She ran to hide behind the desk at the info center. She heard Lucius talking to Harry. She didn't know what to do. The smartest witch of her time didn't know what to do. She just listened to the conversation.

"Potter. Good to see you again." Said Lucius.

"To bad I can't say the same." He still had his wand pointed at him.

"Now Potter, surely Dumbledore taught you all about manners. He would be so disappointed to see his favorite being so rude to his elders."

"Don't talk to me about rude Malfoy. You tried to kill Hermione. If that's not rude then I don't know what is." Harry could hear footsteps coming to the lobby. So did Lucius.

"We'll deal with this some other time Potter." And then he apparated right before the rest of the Auror team came followed by Moody.

"Potter! What is going on down here?" He asked but Harry wasn't worried with telling him what happened.

"Hermione, you okay?" He asked looking over the counter down at his best friend. Hermione looked up happy to see him.

'Yeah."

"Granger? Potter! What is going on here!" Harry got tried of hearing is voice.

'Hermione almost got killed!" Moody stopped and let them go to the platform without anymore questions. He sent a team of Aurors to search the place. He watched as Hermione and Harry apparated to her house.

Hermione was shocked to see what had happened to her house. She went to the back room to find a teary eyed Draco staring up at her. Harry came in to check on her but forgot the reason entirely.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Harry yelled and pointed his wand at Draco.

"Hermione! What took you so long? I was so worried." Draco rushed to Hermione at the sight of her. He grabbed her in a hug. "I thought my father got to you first."

Hermione wiped the tears away from his eyes. "Draco I thought you came here after our last meeting."

"No I went back to my house to see how bad my father messed up my flat. when I saw that he didn't do anything then I came here to find your place a wreck. I thought I lost you already."

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" Yelled Harry. Looking at Hermione and Draco back and forth. He never put his wand down.

"Sorry Harry. I forgot you didn't know." Hermione pulled away from Draco. "Can you put your wand down please?"

"No. Not with him right there."

"Potter put the damn wand down. I'm not going to hurt you."

"It's not me that I'm worried about. Your father just tried to attack Hermione. How do I know your not behind this?" Harry asked Draco.

"Because I love her and I would never want to hurt her. You know that Potter." Draco said calmly.

"Your lying!"

"Harry. It's true. You said so yourself. Draco is in love with me and I'm in love with him." Hermione said stepping in front of Harry's wand. Harry put it down.

"Hermione are you sure? I mean he did try to torture and make fun of you for seven years. Are you sure this isn't a trick?'

"Potter. You're the best one at Legilimency. You used it on me early today. You saw the truth. Is this questioning really necessary?" Draco asked Harry.

"Whatever." Harry walked out of the room to try a straighten up the place a little bit. Hermione turned around to face Draco.

"Well, he sure didn't take it well." Said Draco.

"He'll get over it. He needs to understand that I love you and you love me and you would never do anything to hurt me."

"I wouldn't dare do anything to you. I wouldn't want Potter on my back." Draco joked. He pulled Hermione into a hug. "Tell me what happened at the ministry.'

'Well after you left Harry came in to tell me that someone had attacked my house. Where's Crookshanks? Anyway, I told him what you told me and I was walking to the platform to come back here then I saw your father aim his wand at me. I don't understand. Why is your father trying to kill me all of a sudden?" Draco looked down at her and took a deep breath.

"Because of me. He found out that I'm in love with you a few years back. I managed to convince him that I don't so that he would leave you alone. Then I think Pansy might have had something to do with it too before she tried to kidnapped you. But continue."

"Harry told me to go hid and that's what I did. They didn't do anything. Harry and your father. They just talked. I was to afraid to get up so I just listened. He said that it wasn't over and they would meet again. I'm so scared."

'Shit!" Draco and Hermione turned to the door. They didn't see anyone.

""Harry? Is everything alright? Hermione asked out loud. The noise came from the den. Hermione walked inside to see Harry looking down at something. "Harry what's wrong?" He turned around to see Hermione. Sadness was in his eyes. Hermione looked down to see what he was looking at.

'Crookshanks!" Hermione rushed to her dead cat lying on the ground. She already had tears in her eyes. Draco rushed in to see why Hermione was crying.

"What happened?" Draco asked when he saw Hermione huddled over something dead.

"Crookshanks dead." Harry said walking out of the room. Draco walked over to Hermione and crouched down next to her. He put his arms around her but she pushed away from him.

"Your father killed my cat! Crookshanks was my favorite! Now he's dead!. Get out!" Draco felt a force pull him out of the room. He slammed his back against the wall outside of the room and watched the door slam shut. Harry came running down the hallway.

"What happened?" He asked looking at the now closed door.

"I don't know. Hermione was yelling, then she told me to get out and something pulled me out here."

"Hermione! It's me Harry. Open the door. Common Hermione, open the door. You're not safe in there."

"What do you mean she's not safe in there. That looks like the safest place so far." Draco said standing up to walk over to the door.

"Hermione has this hidden power ever since her parents died. She doesn't use it often but if she gets mad enough she'll let it go. Last time we saw this power she blew off the back of her parents house. She's not safe in there by herself. She has powers that matches up to mine. And that's when she's trying to hold them back. I almost killed everyone including myself when I unleashed the powers. That's what she used on you when she wanted you out of the room. Hermione open this door!" Harry yelled.

"Shut the hell up Harry!" She yelled back at him. Harry felt a force pull him back out into the living room but he resisted it.

"Hermione open this door or I'll do it myself!" Harry yelled through the door.

"Go away!' Draco and Harry felt a wave go through them. The lights turned off for a second and then turned on again. It was Draco's turn to talk to her.

"Hermione. Please open the door. I love you and I want to make sure your okay." They didn't hear anything for a while. Then the door swung open and they saw Hermione standing by the window with a note in her hands. Harry walked through the now open door. He looked around to see where Crookshanks was. He didn't see him.

"Hermione, where is Crookshanks?" Hermione turned to him with swollen eyes. The sad girl that was there wasn't there anymore. They saw a angry girl wanting revenge.

"He's gone. I put him somewhere no one can hurt him anymore." Hermione walked over to Draco. And handed him the note. "Do you like that Manor that your father owns?' She asked him.

"No not really but what does that have to do with…" Draco asked looking puzzled but didn't get a chance to finish.

"Good. You better hope he's not there when I get there". And Hermione was gone. Draco looked at Harry and then at the note. It was from his father.

Stay away from Draco or you'll suffer the same fate as your stupid cat. He doesn't need to be with a Mudblood like you.

Lucius Malfoy.

"Draco what does the note say?" Harry asked. Draco turned to him.

"You said my name."

"Yeah, well that is your name. And I see you really do care for Hermione."

"We need to get to my father's house now. Or whatever is left now."

They apparated to the middle of the hallway. At least that's what it looked like. "Hermione were are you!" Draco yelled. They heard a crash in a room to there left. Harry ran over to it. It happened to be the kitchen. Harry looked around and saw house elf's running away from Hermione. Most of them left the house completely.

"Hermione! You need to stop before you kill someone!" Harry yelled at her. Hermione turned to look at him.

"Why should I stop before I kill someone when all he does is kill for a sport." Everything started flying around Hermione. Pots and pans were now circling around the room. Draco had to duck so one wouldn't hit him in the head. "He killed tons of people and yet he's still allowed to walk the halls of the ministry. He killed my parents and now Crookshanks. Then he turned around and threatens me. Maybe if he loses something that he loves then he'll stop killing" Hermione turned to walk into another room.

"She goings into the den. We need to stop her. There's swords and things of the sort in there. She'll slice herself to pieces if she doesn't stop." They ran into the room that Hermione left to go to. She put her hands out in front of her and blew the wall off. She smashed the grandfather clock that was in the corner. She then eyed the swords on the wall. Hermione walked over and picked up one that looked the sharpest. She went to the black sofa and ripped it apart with her new weapon. She stopped after she slashed all of the things in there. She had to admit she did feel better. Hermione dropped the sword on the ground. The energy around the room was gone and things started to feel better. She turned to look at Harry and Draco. She had tears in her eyes. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she started to sway. Draco ran over to her and caught her before she could fall.

"She passed out. We better get out of her before my father gets back." He picked her up to leave but then saw the very last person he needed to see.

"Leaving so soon?" Said Lucius. He looked around his favorite room. "wow, that Mudblood has more wits than I thought." He said glancing at her lifeless form in His sons arms.