True Feelings
Chapter 4
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"What must I do?" said Hermione, staring into those dark, cruel eyes.
Snape strode over to Hermione, getting inches in front of her face and whispered, "You know what I want, Ms. Granger... or do I need to show that tape again?"
"What!" Draco stood up. That had pushed him over his limit. "What are you talking about Professor! You must be out of your mind! She's only 17! Professor, thats against the law! Do you know what kind of trouble you could get into if you do this?"
"It's only a problem if she doesn't agree with it." Said Snape, returning to his desk.
"And what makes you think that I would ever agree to have sex with you!" screamed Hermione, standing up beside Draco.
Snape walked over to the T.V., took the tape out, and threw it across the desk towards Hermione, sat back down, pointed to the tape, and said, "That. Or does the great Ms. Granger want to be expelled from Hogwarts for her disobience of the school and its rules? Didn't think so." He added after seeing Hermione shake her head in a small no.
"Well, as I can see it, you have two choices. One- you can say no to my proposition, and I can show this tape to the headmaster, and you WILL be expelled from Hogwarts, or two- you can say yes to my proposition, do what needs to be done for me not to show to tape to the headmaster, stay in school, and then forget this little incident after happened. Take your pick." He got up and walked to the doorway, pushed it open and then turned back and said to Hermione, "I'll give you 5 minutes to discuss your answer with Mr. Malfoy." He then turned around and walked out of the doorway. Draco walked with him, and shut the door tightly behind him. He muttered an incantation and the door automatically locked. He came back over and started to speak, "Hermione, I'm not sure about all of thi-"
"Wait!" she turned back to the doorway, pointed her want towards it and muttered, "Muffliato." She turned back and motioned for Draco to continue.
"Hermione... what was that you just did?"
"Oh, it was just a spell that Harry taught me last year... It's supposed to fill the person, or object in this case, with unidentifiable buzzing to prevent anyone from overhearing a conversation."
"Oh... I see. Well, as I was saying before... I don't think that you should do this... I mean... for one, it's really not safe, and two... I just don't want you to... I mean, so what if we get expelled? You can come live with me. I'll take care of you, Hermione... I promise... I mean, we can get married, have children... and if your really concerned about not being able to finish school here, you could go to Beauxbatons Academy and finish up your schooling... just please don't do this! Please..." He looked at her, tears in his eyes... knowing what would lie ahead if she would take this risk.
"Draco... Hogwarts is my home... the only place where I feel like I'm normal, where I can be myself. If I lose that... then I lose everything. I know some people here don't think I belong here because of what I am, then maybe this will help prove that I do belong here... I just don't want to lose everything. And if this is what I have to do, then I will do it." She stood up and walked to the door.
"Hermione, even if you do this people aren't going to think any differently about you... it might just make everything worse... one of the things that attracted me to you was because you were independent and you weren't going to let other people tell you what you were going to do. If you do this, then you'll be letting Snape win, and he'll know that your his too and... and I just want you to be mine." Draco walked up beside Hermione, put her hand in his, and looking her square in the eye, he said, "Hermione, I love you. I love you more than anything in the world, you mean everything to me and so much more. But if this is a step that you think that you need to take in your life, then I will be right beside you the entire way... to make sure that your safe. Just remember Hermione- I love you, and I always will... no matter what happens."
She smiled at him, and they walked out of the door, hand in hand.
When they found Snape, he was sitting in the Potions classroom, leaning over a cauldron and looking into an ingredients book. He looked up when he heard them come in. "Ah... the two love birds have returned. Hand in hand.. how sweet, I bet they won't walk out that way. 'he snickers to himself' Well, do you have an answer for me?" He looked Hermione straight in the eyes.
She paused... like she was trying to think over her answer throughly before making her final decision. She had alot to loose on both sides. If she says yes the tape will never be shown to anyone, but she might lose Draco... if she says no she'll be kicked out of Hogwarts, but she'll still have Draco. She slightly nods her head, knowing she made the right chose.
"Hurry up Ms. Granger! I don't have all day." Said Snape, starting to get alittle angry.
"I accept your proposition, Professor. I'll do whatever needs to be done... on one condition." Said Hermione, waiting for his response.
Snape stood up and walked over to Hermione, who took afew steps back, "I want Draco to stay with me, where ever we go." She looked at Snape, then to Draco who gave her a look of encouragement. She nodded back to him, took a more confident stance, and walked back up to Snape and added, "to make sure you don't get out of line, Professor."
"Ok...done, Ms. Granger. Shall we procede to my office again, then?" he said, getting up and walking back into his office, holding the door open for Hermione. She walked through it, and Snape slammed the door right in Draco's face as he tried to walk in behind Hermione. Snape led Hermione back into his room, after making sure to lock Draco out. Once he was out of the picture, he turned back to Hermione, carrying a glass of what looked like some of his potion he had been working on when she had interupted him. "Drink this." He said, thrusting the cup into her shaking hands.
"W-what is this?" she said looking into the murky purple-ish colored potion. She had never seen a potion that looked like this before, or had ever read about it.
"Just drink it. It's just a more powerful form of birth control. Never know what could happen, right?" he said, looking up and down Hermione, pausing to look at different places of her body.
Hermione took the glass and drank it, completely disgusted thinking about what he was wanting to do. It made her feel alittle dizzy, and she got slightly weak in the knees. She fell to the floor, feeling like she had just been poisened. "What has he done to me?" she thought as she tried to regain her strength and get back on her feet. She first thought of rape, but then when Professor Snape noticed that she had fallen down, he went over to her and helped her to her feet.
"The effects of this potion are so strong they seem to over power you until they sink in. I apologize for not telling you this little detail." He said to her while still trying to keep her steady.
"You have alot more to be apologizing for, Professor." Said Hermione, pushing Snape's hand of her shoulder and slowly moving toward the door. As she looked around the room, she noticed one thing that seemed not right. "Where is Draco?"
Professor Snape walked over to the door and pulled Hermione from it and helped her into a chair. After sitting in a chair right next to her he said, "It looks like Mr. Malfoy didn't care to see what would happen to you, Ms. Granger. I don't like much of an audience myself, but seeing from the tape, it looks like you do." He sneered at her, getting back on his feet, and transforming his office into a room suitable room for them to be in.
"What did you do to him, Professor? Draco promised me that he would never leave me. What have you done to him?" said Hermione, quickly getting to her feet and striding over to the door again. But just as quickly as she had gotten up, she came back down. She hit the ground with a small thud, and the last things she saw were Professor Snape's feet moving quickly towards her.
She woke up hours later in the hospital wing, with bandages all around her head. When she slowly opened her eyes, she saw Draco sitting right beside her bed, caressing her arm. When he saw her starting to open her eyes, he leaned in close to her and said, "Hermione? Are you awake? How are you feeling, baby?"
She inched her way up and with help from Draco she got into a sitting position in her bed. She leaned against the pillows for extra support and then said back, "I can't really complain, but I do have alittle bit of a headache, what happened?"
"Well, gosh Hermione! You should have a headache, you must have feel pretty hard." Said Draco standing up and beginning to pace in front of her bed. Back and forth, back and forth. Hermione watched him until she thought of her next question. "How did this happen?"
Draco stopped pacing and sat on the edge of her bed. "I don't really know, Hermione. Snape locked me out of the room, so I just stood there, leaning against the doorway trying to hear what was going on. That charm that you had put on the door earlier was still there, so I couldn't hear anything for a while, but then when it started to wear off, I pressed my ear against the door again, heard a thud and then Professor Snape ran out, carrying you in his arms. I told me to alert Madam Pomfrey that he was on his way. So I ran up to the hospital wing and told her that he was on his way up. Then he explained to her that you were in his room complaining about some low test score and then just fainted. Lousy git."
"The last thing that I remember was walking to the doorway, when I just fell over. It must have been that potion." She added thoughtfully. "I just can't believe that he helped me. I thought he hated me."
"Don't think of it as any good thing, Hermione. Do you know how bad it would look for him if he just left you in his office, bleeding to death? He had to do something, whether he wanted to or not." Said Draco, grabbing her hand and adding, "Don't think that he cares about you, Hermione. He had to do it, he didn't have much of a choice."
Hermione was about to response when Madam Pomfrey came in and saw Hermione was awake. "Ms. Granger, I didn't expect you to be awake for another couple of hours. I thought that I told you to alert me when she woke up, Mr. Malfoy. 'Draco dropped Hermione's hand, and got up to leave.' Never mind that now, please be on your way. Ms. Granger needs her rest."
"I was already on my way, Madam Pomfrey. I have some other things that I need to attend too." Draco drawled on, I wouldn't want to spend more time here then I have too."
He gave one last look at Hermione, and then turned on his heel and left. Madam Pomfrey watched him go out the doorway before returning to tend on Hermione. "You should probably tyr to get some rest Ms. Granger, I'm sure its been a long day." Madam Pomfrey helped her lay back down and walked back into her office.
She turned on her side and added, "You have no idea about how long of a day its been." Before going back into a deep sleep, turning the day's effects over and over inside her mind.
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Well, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Sorry its taken me SO long to update, but you wouldn't believe how busy I've been! Life has been really crazy, but it's starting to slow down, thank God! Lots of reviews, please!