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Raises Curtain

Chapter Two: Darkness Causes Dangerous Attractions

Over the summer things didn't go to bad for Hermione. She forgot about Malfoy most of the time and enjoyed herself as much as possible. She even got to spend time with Harry and the Weasley's at the Burrow. One can't forget the fact that Fleur was marrying Bill next summer and she was staying with them as well.

Only once, near the end of the break, did she see Malfoy. They had run into him once in Madam Malkin's and then they had followed him to Borgin and Burke's. What was more was that Hermione only went in to try and figure out if he was getting something for another girl.

Everything went by so quickly that soon they were getting ready to leave for Hogwarts. "Ginny have you seen my wand?" Hermione asked Ginny as she finished packing things up.

"Yes Hermione. It's on the table." Ginny pointed by to the bedside table. Hermione pocketed her wand and sat on the bed.

"Hermione…Are you going to just ignore Malfoy this year like normal?" Ginny asked randomly, sitting beside her. Hermione started. Sure, she had told Ginny every detail of what had happened. Even that she liked it, at first Ginny had gone mental, but she had calmed down.

"There's nothing else I can do is there? I'm just going to do what I always do," Hermione said simply. Ginny shook her head and looked down at the floor.
"I don't know Hermione. I mean things are different now. You even said it yourself, 'I'll never be the same again.' And another thing, if I were you and a guy made me feel the way he made you feel, I'd want him like mad," Ginny said casually as she stood up.

Hermione gaped at her, "Ginny! This is Malfoy we're talking about! He's been nothing but horrible to me ever since the day I met him! If you haven't forgotten we hate each other with a passion! Besides, you can't even talk! Look at you and Harry!"

Ginny's cheeks flushed and she looked at her feet. "That's different," she said quietly. "There's no chance that he likes me. I just like him. He'll never return my feelings."

Hermione felt a pang of guilt instantly as she looked at her crest fallen friend. "Ginny…. You've been making progress with him though. You've been relaxing around him and I think he's starting to notice you a lot more than before. Just remember what I told you, just be yourself around him," Hermione said as she hugged Ginny.

Ginny nodded, moved away, and stood in the doorway. "Well, here's my advice to you. Things change, people change, just follow your heart and think things over. There's always a chance that things could change." Without another word Ginny turned on her heel and left the room leaving Hermione to drown in her thoughts.

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"It's good to be back," Hermione said after she was sure all the first years were in the common room. She was about to turn to go into the common room when she saw a dark figure walking through the entrance hall. Hermione began walking quietly in pursuit and followed the dark figure out of the Entrance Hall into the cool night air.

The figure strode down towards the lake and Hermione followed, keeping a decent distance so not to be discovered. She pulled out her wand as they reached the lake and the person sat on a rock down by the water's edge. Hermione crouched down low behind a rock, hopefull to see their identity.

"I know you're there, Granger," drawled Draco Malfoy as he took his hood off. Hermione stood up straight and approached him.

"You aren't supposed to be out here after curfew. Go back to bed or I'll give you a detention," Hermione said forcefully as she looked down at Malfoy since he was sitting on a rock.

"No thanks. I'm a prefect too, remember? I'm allowed to be out, I'm patrolling. Either way, I'll just stay here... You can leave, now," he said without looking at her and shooing her away with his hand. Hermione puffed out her chest and stood her ground, she decided to ignore his comment and speak civilly to him.

"What are you doing?" she asked as she looked into his lap and saw a sketchpad and pencil. It was very odd to see Malfoy holding muggle items, and odder in fact that they seemed to belong to him. She looked at the paper and saw the outline of something that looked an awful lot like-.

"I could ask you the same thing," he said stowing away the sketchpad and standing up menacingly. "Did you see me and decided you wanted more, mudblood? If that's the case then you'd better run back up to the castle-"

"Shove it Malfoy! Like I would want to touch you! Besides, I think you're forgetting the very important fact that YOU kissed ME," Hermione said, crossing her arms and glaring at him.

"Only because I wanted to prove my point. Which I did, so enough of this nonsense and argument settled," he said as a smirk formed to his lips.

"The only thing you proved that night is your obvious attraction to me, Hermione Jane Granger," she said in her best attempt to get him to sod off. He just stood there and smirked as if he knew something that she didn't. It became a stare down and Hermione didn't want to turn away but that arrogant smirk was really starting to bother her.

After a few moments of silence Hermione snapped, "Could you stop the bloody smirking?" Hermione said stomping her foot down in annoyance. He chuckled and continued smirking at her. Hermione threw her arms up in the air out of aggravation.

"Draco! Stop it!" Hermione demanded as she felt her cheeks redden in anger. Instantly his smirk was wiped off his face, but not for the reason she thought.

"You said my name?" he said as if it was a question of his sanity. He also had a note of disgust and breathlessness at the same time. He was disgusted and awed at the same time because he loved the way it sounded coming from her lips.

Hermione faltered a moment then crossed her arms. "So what if I did, Draco?" she said emphasizing it to tease him.

"Go run off to Potty and Weasel. I'm surprised you're not with Potty now. Too bad about his nose. It would have been nice if the damage was permanent," Malfoy said getting back in stride, but not as cold as before, but just as arrogant.

"Why would you be surprised that I wasn't with them? What happened to Harry? What did you do?" Hermione asked quickly as she arched an eyebrow.

"Oh! He didn't tell you then? Ah, well, he was probably waiting to think up so brave heroic story to tell you. But just so you know, I stepped on his face and broke his nose after I found him sneaking around in my train compartment," he said with a grin, not a smirk and actual grin, on his face and seemed quite proud.

Hermione felt her anger swelling so fast that she thought she might explode. 'How dare he? How dare he do something like that to HARRY?' Hermione actually could see herself killing him here and now. Then suddenly she felt herself growing warm and she felt raw magic running through her veins. Something was wrong, something was very wrong.

All of a sudden something very strange began. Hermione began giving off an eerie dark, almost black, glow. She had never been so angry in her life at the fact that someone could be so horrible, so cruel. She was shaking with rage and had caused a force field of dark magic to surround her body. Her eyes slowly changed from their normal chocolate brown to blood red. She began to slowly lift off the ground but was broken from her trance when Malfoy spoke.

"Hermione!" he yelled as she hovered about 5 feet off the ground. Her eyes snapped closed and her body fell limp into Malfoy's outstretched and terrified arms.

Her eyes flung open and she shrieked, "How did I get here?" Hermione jumped out of his arms. He gaped at her dumbly like a fish out of water.

"Well? Aren't you going to say anything?" she cried. But what Hermione soon found out was that what he wanted to say could not be expressed in words. Malfoy's mouth descended upon her own and he pulled her body against him.

She responded instantly and rapt her arms around his neck and pressed herself closer against his body. He let a soft moan escape his body, making Hermione shiver with delight and allowing her tongue access to his mouth. He backed Hermione against a tree as they're tongues danced and their hands roamed.

He put one of legs between hers and rubbed his leg against her inner thighs. She moaned as she felt heat pool below her waist as he moved his mouth down her neck, playfully nipping at it softly. Hermione's eyes were fluttering open and closed. She was sure she would be driven mad by lust.

"Hermione," he whispered against her skin, his voice filled with passion. Her whole body tingled and it shocked her back into reality.

"Get off me!" she yelled, pushing him away. He staggered back and fell over from surprise because that was the first time that Draco Malfoy had been rejected. He scrambled to his feet as she spoke, "Don't ever touch me again!"

"Gladly," he said as he put his hands in his pockets. He turned on his heel and strode up to the school, leaving Hermione more lost and confused than she had ever been in her life.

Hermione took a few deep breaths, regained her composure, and made her way back to the dormitory.

"What's wrong with me?" she muttered to herself as she got into bed a half an hour later after she had changed.

"I'll just wake up tomorrow and forget this ever happened," she said as she pulled the covers up to her chin. 'Keep telling yourself that,' a voice muttered inside of her head.

"Oh shut it," Hermione mumbled as she turned over and fell asleep.

Darkness Causes Dangerous Attractions

(AN): Hey to all of my lovely readers out there in fan fiction land! I'm so sorry that it took me so long to update but I have been so unbelievably busy and the site wouldn't let me log in to update so this has really been done for over a week! From now on I will try to save a half hour a day to write so you can read and give me many lovely comments! Here is a teaser from the next chapter!

"How am I supposed to relax when you're in here with me?"

"You can trust me,"

"Alright, M-Draco. I believe you,"

" 'You think that-' he began but was cut off when Hermione placed her hands on the back of his neck and pulled him down to have his lips and hers meet in heated passion."

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