Well that was a bit of a long wait, but I had exams to study for. Im supposed to be studying right now but I decided to post insted, so be happy. In this chapter theres a bit of forshadowing, so pay attention, but its pretty obvious really...
Chapter 11:
After Hermione had her very 'interesting' visit with Harry, she had no idea where to go. It was too soon to go to dinner and she didn't feel like going to the common room.
She decided on roaming the halls, thinking of things to do. While she was walking past the charms room she ran into Victoria. Victoria was walking around the halls looking for something.
"What are you looking for?" Hermione asked politely.
"Umm… nothing." Victoria said in a way Hermione thought was suspicious.
"Are you sure, because it looked like you were."
"Have you seen Draco?" Victoria asked, changing the subject.
"Ya, he just went to his common room. Why?" Hermione said, eyeing her suspiciously.
"No reason! Um listen, is he seeing anyone?" Victoria asked quietly.
"Y- Wait! How should I know?" Hermione said, suddenly realizing that she wasn't supposed to be his friend.
"Well, you seemed friendly enough to him before in the library"
"What year are you in?" Hermione asked realizing that she didn't know anything about her.
"7th. I'm in Ravenclaw" Victoria said quietly, as if it were a secret.
"Than why haven't I seen you before?"
"I just started a week ago" she said uncertainly. "I-I should go." She than hurried off down the corridor at a quick pace.
'That was strange' Hermione said to herself, deciding that she didn't like that girl; there was something funny about her.
Hermione wandered around the school for a while before deciding to go and visit Draco. 'I haven't seen him for ages!' Hermione thought guiltily.
She walked into the big white room, and immediately saw Draco laying on his bed like he had been for quite some time now. She walked over to him, pulled up a chair and stared at him. She reached out and grabbed his hand. She sat and thought about the last 2 weeks, how she had been with Draco thinking it was Harry, liking Draco as a boyfriend better than Harry. But the thing that plagued her mind most was how Draco had saved her, and the three little words he had said. Where they real? She had longed for those words to come out of Harry for ages when they were going out. But than Draco said it to her without her even knowing it was him.
She held his hand until Madam Pomfry told her that she had 15 minutes.
"Oh Draco…" she said to him, "please wake up." She squeezed his hand, then grabbed her bag and turned to leave when she heard it. A voice.
"Hermione?" She heard it again. Now she was sure that she wasn't imagining things.
She turned around slowly afraid it would disappear.
Hermione looked to see Draco staring at the ceiling with his eyes open, not moving.
She leaped onto him, smothering him in kisses, until he resembled Harry at the library. "Oh Draco! You're awake!"
Once she stopped and Draco could breathe again Draco said "Ow!"
"What's wrong?" She gasped. "Did I hurt you?"
"No I'm just sore. I haven't used my muscles for ages" Draco moaned.
"Its all my fault! If I hadn't fallen off that tower you never would have had to save me!"
"No, no, it's not your fault!" Draco said trying to comfort the now very emotional Hermione
"IT IS SO!" She blubbered, bursting into tears.
"No its not. Besides, I'm better now, so what does it matter?" Draco said, trying to sound carefree and happy
She sniffled "I- guess. I'm just so happy that you're back! I thought I'd never have my Draco back ever again!" She gave him another bone-breaking hug
"Wait! How did you know I'm Draco?" Draco said realizing that she had been calling him that the whole time.
"Harry told me"
"And you're not mad at me?"
"How could I be mad at you? You saved my life and you said…" She looked down "Did you mean it?"
Draco who barely remembered anything about that night had no idea what she was talking about "What did I say? That night is still kind of foggy to me"
"You said-you said that-that" she dropped her voice to a whisper "that you loved me."
Draco, suddenly remembering, started to feel a bit tense "I, um, you see, well, um…" He started to stammer, looking down at the floor "Ya, I guess… Butitsstupid'cusIknowyoudon'tfeelthesameI'lljustbackoffand" he started to slur his words together.
"Draco. It's ok. I don't know how I fell about you." She looked out the window at the captivating pink and orange sunset. "Its been nice being with you. Even if I didn't know it was you."
Draco blushed a bit at this "But I bet you want Potter back don't you?"
Hermione laughed "Do you want to know a secret?" Hermione leaned closer to him. "You're a better boyfriend than Harry was." Draco smirked. "Plus," she started to whisper, looking around to make sure there were no eavesdroppers, "He's gay"
Draco laughed out loud, loud enough to wake up a bear. "I knew that he wasn't normal! Ever since I walked in on him and Weasly"
"Harry was cheating on me!" Hermione screeched, her face going red. She stood up looking out the door "I'll kill him!"
"I was just kidding! I made that up!" He said pulling her back onto her chair "But he always did strike me as weird."
They started to have a conversation about Harry when Madam Pomfrey burst into the room.
"HARRY YOU'RE AWAKE!" She ran over to him, pushed Hermione off her chair to examine him. "I was starting to get worried. We haven't had anyone in a coma that long since about 20 years ago. He was in a coma for a month, I think. What was his name? Ahh, yes, it was Professor Snape! James Potter had stolen his Teddy bear when they where in 6th year. Severus was chasing him and tripped over his own two feet, fell down 7 flights of stairs, knocked 14 portraits off the walls, than flew out the front door right into the Womping Willow! It would have been tragic if it hadn't been so funny!" Madam Pomfrey stifled a laugh as Hermione and Draco laughed, Hermione almost falling over.
After Madam Pomfrey had done several tests and after tons of pleading, she let Draco go to the dinner feast.
They headed off to the feast laughing about Snape having a Teddy bear.
"You can just see him in flannel pj's, holding a big teddy and sucking on his thumb" Hermione said, imagining the very hilarious picture.
They walked into the great hall holding hands whispering to each other about Snape having a 'Care Bear' teddy.
As they walked into the great hall Hermione noticed that Dumbledore was staring at them with a strange look. A look she had never seen him wearing; was it a look of happiness? She looked for a bit longer, until she realized it was the same look she had seen the death eater use as she killed Sirius in the department of mysteries years ago. But as soon as it was there, it flashed back to his usual smile. Hermione stared at him a bit longer before she heard Draco say something to her.
"Huh what?" She mumbled not knowing what he had said.
"I said pass the potatoes." Draco said, looking worried. "Are you ok?"
"Ya, I'm fine."
Draco gave her another worried glance, as he scooped potatoes onto his plate. 'She's not telling me something.' he thought, as she glanced back at the teachers table.
There. I think this was an ok chapter... but im not to sure. so tell me what you think. the more reviews I get the sooner Ill update! Any guesses whats wrong with Dumbledore? Anyone? Tell me your guesses! Please...
