Chapter 16: Ah shit...
Hermione dreamed about every moment she had had with Draco, most of them were bad, but the good ones were so...special.
Opening her eyes slowly Hermione looked around, it was still dark. She was tired, yes, but she couldn't sleep.
Her dreams were haunting her, forcing her to relieve the memories of Draco that she didn't want to remember, she only wanted to rememer him as a good person.
But that was just it, he wasn't a good person, he was a deatheater.
'Shut up!' Hermione screamed in her head, closing her eyes and rolling over so that her face was in her pillow.
But no matter how she tried she couldn't stop the image of the dark mark on Draco's arm going through her head.
She let out a small cry and sat up.
Flinging her legs over the side of the bed she rubbed her eyes and squinted in the dark to see around her dormitory.
Towards the left side of the room was Parvati's bed. It's hangings were partly open revealing Parvati, hair sprawled all over her pillow, snoring way too loudly.
On the other side of Parvati's bed was Lavander's bed. You couldn't hear or see Lavander which was quite unusual since her snores usually filled the dormitory at night.
Becoming curious Hermione got up and went to make sure that -god-forbid- Lavander had died in her sleep.
Pulling back the curtains of the four-poster bed she found it to be...empty.
Frowning in confusion Hermione looked in at Parvati to make sure it really was her. It ovbiously was.
She looked around the common room once more before deciding to head down to the common room.
Walking down the stairs she started to hear Fred's soft snoring.
Trying hard to smile at how cute it would have sounded if she hadn't been head over heals for a deatheater she walked down the last steps and into the common room.
"Wh-"
Lavander was sitting beside the couch Fred was sleeping on, looking at him adoringly while running a hand along his cheek and lips.
"Wh-what do you think you are doing!" Hermione said, dangerously calm.
Lavander spun around so fast that her manicured nail dug into Fred's lip, causing him to sit up at an amazing speed.
"Hermione!" Lavander exclaimed in pure horror.
"Hermione!" Fred said, running over to the girl and sweeping her up into his arms.
"Hermione where have you been? How did you get back?" Fred asked, holding onto the girl as if he were never going to see her again.
Hermione for the time being ignored him.
"What do you think you were doing?" Hermione asked Lavander.
"N-nothing" Lavander said.
"The hell you weren't" Hermione snarled.
"What's going on?" Fred asked, confused as hell.
"You're going out with someone! And I'm going out with Fred!" Hermione said, her voice raising slightly.
"So? It's not like that has ever mattered to you!"Lavander spat back.
"What?" Hermione asked, she couldn't know, could she?
"Don't think I don't know about you and Draco in the hospital wing" She hissed victoriously.
"What's she talking about Hermione..." Fred asked.
"Oh, didn't she tell you how she was kissing Draco in the hospital wing last night?" Lavander said, sneering at Hermione in a rather Slytherin-ish way. (a/n: duh she didn't tell, she was kinda knocked out and thrown into the forbidden forest right after :P)
"You're lying" Fred said, his temper rising.
"No, go ask Pansy, she's been telling all her friends about what she saw, and I just happen to have one or two friends in slytherin" Lavander said.
Fred snorted, "Oh yes, because I'm definatly going to take your advice and go ask the slytherins"
Lavander looked taken aback for a second, "Fine, ask her then" Lavander said, pointing at Hermione.
Fred sighed, "Hermione?" he said.
Hermione stood there, too shocked to answer.
"Hermione?" Fred said, his tone now curious.
Hermione looked at him, her eyes wide.
"What's wrong Hermione?" Lavander said triumphantly.
Fred's eyes suddenly widened.
"It's not true is it?" he asked.
Hermione looked at him, she couldn't lie to him, but then again she couldn't tell the truth, she couldn't say anything, so she dropped his gaze and stared at the floor.
"It's t-true?" Fred barely whispered, stepping away from Hermione.
She nodded, trying desperatly to hold back the tears that threatened to spill.
"So all this time, even the beginning of the year..." Fred said, still stepping backards.
"NO!" Hermione said, spinning around, "That was real, I hated him at the beginning of the year"
"So even after all those things..."
"He's changed!" Hermione blurted out before covering her mouth with her hand in shock, she had pretty much admitted thatshe liked Draco.
Fred turned his head away from Hermione so he was looking out of the window at the dark grounds.
"Fred please! I never meant it to happen and I planned on telling you, you have to understand!" Hermione said, tears now spilling freely from her eyes.
"Understand what exactly? That my girlfriend is some lying, cheating..." He broke off, and continued to stare out of the window and onto the grounds where it was beginning to light up as the first bit of sun appeared.
Hermione looked at him, his face was angry and he was determined not to look at her, where-as his eyes (or at least the eyes she could see) were full of sadness.
"Look at me..." she whispered.
He didn't.
She couldn't stand it anymore, she turned around and ran out of the common room.
She didn't know where she was going but she didn't care.
Soon enough it became apparant that she was running towards the dungeons.
As soon as she reached the known portrait to the Slytherin common room and started hammering her fist on it.
"Draco!" she yelled.
The portrait flew open to reveal Pansy.
"What do you want!" she said.
"I'm want to see Draco" Hermione said.
"Are you...crying?"
"Just get Draco"
"I'm sorry, he's not here"
Hermione balled her fists and looked at the floor.
"Pansy..." she said warningly.
Pansy looked at her fists and quickly grabbed her wand and pointed it at her.
"Put it away" Hermione said, not worried in the slightest.
"And why would I do that?" Pansy sneered.
"Beacuse there is two of us and one of you"
Pansy spun around to see Draco standing there.
"Draco..."
"Go to your dormitory Pansy" Draco said, shoving past her and out of the portrait hole where he grabbed Hermione's hand and walked.
He pulled her into a classroom and checked to make sure Pansy hadn't followed followed them before closing the door and casting a simple silencing charm on the door.
"What is it?" he asked her.
"Fred knows" Hermione said simply, more tears pouring out of her eyes.
"He...knows? How?" Draco asked.
"Pansy's been telling people about that night in the hospital wing" Hermione cried.
Draco looked at the girl crying before him before pulling her into a hug.
"Shh, don't worry about it, at least now we don't have to sneak around" Draco said comfortingly.
"You don't get it Draco, the point was I was sneaking around!" Hermione said.
Draco nodded and held her close.
"And we live school tomorrow, how amI ever going to get him to talk to me again?" Hermione said.
Draco looked atfor a second, "I'll talk to him"
"No! That'll make things worse!"
"No it won't,I'll make sure it doesn't"
"Draco please don't..."
"How can things get worse?"
Hermione thoughtabout this for a moment before sighing in defeat.
"Good, nowI want you to go down to the great hall, breakfast is only half an hour away"
Hermione nodded as she wiped tears away from her face andhugging Draco...with maybe a small kiss...she left him there, thinking about howhe was going to confront Fred.
A/n: Ok, don't you love me, i FINALLY put another chapter up! and at the same trime hate me, I broke Fred's heart :(:(:(
ah well, i can fix that :D
Won't take too long to update.
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