Too Long In The Rain
Chapter 12
Hermione looked over at the clock and rolled back over to the other side of the room and closed her eyes trying to forget.
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Oliver on the other hand was walking the halls trying to get to the Great Hall without running into Pansy. He thought of that name with disgust then wondered where Hermione was and when he thought of her name…well he didn't completely hate the sound of it. He walked into the Great Hall and sat down at the end before he realized that Hermione wasn't coming. After about 15 minutes after breakfast started he looked over and saw Pansy smirking and making kissing faces at him and he was about to stand up and leave when the Great Hall doors opened with a loud bang, he looked and smiled when he saw Hermione making her way to the staff table.
"So sorry, I didn't mean to disturb your breakfast everyone." She said smiling at some students who said hello to her as she walked up to the staff table and sat down next to Oliver. She looked at him and asked," What?"
He shook his head," Nothing." He smiled and they proceeded to eat breakfast while chatting a bit.
Hermione looked passed him once and her face fell for a second and Oliver looked to see what she was looking at and saw Malfoy looking at her meaningfully. Oliver looked back at Hermione who looked at him and smiled a bit but something was different, it was a less happy smile. Oliver smiled and looked around and saw that almost all of the students had cleared out for class or to study or something so he grabbed Hermione's hand, surprising her a lot by the way, and practically pulled her out of the Great Hall making the remaining teachers look at each other in surprise.
Oliver pretty much dragged Hermione out to the Quidditch field with her yelling at him practically the entire way.
"Oliver! I need to go and teach my class!" She protested.
"I thought you said your first class wasn't until later." He said still pulling her.
"Well yes but-" She started.
"So you have time now come on." He finished for her and started running even faster.
Finally he stopped at the Quidditch pitch and when he stopped so suddenly he made Hermione crash into him and fall onto her butt. Oliver grinned down at her and then helped the reluctant Hermione up, but not before he noticed that she winced a bit and put a hand on her hip, but once again he bit his tongue.
Hermione didn't notice that Oliver was looking at her because she was looking around and finally said with some amusement," At the Quidditch pitch? Why am I not surprised?"
Oliver snapped out of his trance and said," What do you mean by that?"
Hermione rolled her eyes," Oh come on, everyone who's known you for at least a few months knows of your true love…Quidditch, it's all you ever talked about. And anyone who wasn't into Quidditch, well they weren't talked to." She said with slight hurt in her voice.
Oliver looked at her and felt a bit guilty," Th-that's not entirely true."
Hermione nodded," Right, no it was Quidditch or beauty."
Now Oliver felt really bad because it was almost entirely true, he started to say something but stopped once he saw some of his students approach the pitch, he turned back to Hermione who said," Well, have a good class Professor Wood." She turned and started to walk away trying to keep the tears from spilling onto her cheeks.
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Hermione sat in class grading papers while her class worked on turning a frog into a feather. She looked up when she saw a hand raised and smiled calling on them," Yes Gregory?"
Gregory seemed nervous and was kind of a mini-Neville and almost always did what his friends asked him to, he was a Gryffindor and had an over-all good heart. He cleared his throat and asked," Is it true that you and the Quidditch player Viktor Krum were married?"
Hermione took a sharp intake of breath at his name but answered the question with dignity," No, Gregory, we never were married but uh, we did date for a few months." Gregory nodded and went back to his transfiguration. Hermione dismissed them and sat at her desk trying to clear her head and skipping lunch. After all of her classes Hermione walked to her room and yelled in surprise dropping her supplies. Sitting by her portrait was Viktor Krum.