A Starbucks Love
Chapter 3 - Owning up
Draco woke up at the sound of a knock on the door and turned to see the clock. He had to rub his eyes again to see the time and he heard arguing out in the hall. Draco groaned and stood, checking on his mother, whose hair needed washing to remove the horrid blood from it, and opened the door.
"That bloody git won't ever change! Mark my words, 'Mione. When he does, I'll be throwing snowballs in hell!" he said and Hermione glared at him. Harry seemed troubled. But why? Shouldn't he have been cussing and putting up a fight too? "Hey, what's all this? A welcoming party?" Draco said, smirking. Harry looked at him as though he was having second thoughts about murdering him in his sleep, or something similar. "Bloody git." Said Ron and Hermione glared at him. "Shut it up Ron! Leave him alone!" she said and he had to admire the way she had them wrapped around her little finger."You know, I was only joking." he said and let them inside.
Ron almost ran to the bathroom when he saw Narcissa there, her hair strawberry blonde because of the blood. Harry looked at Hermione, who had her wand out again, acting calmly. "So, Malfoy, what now? Are we to be bosom friends? Because if you thought that after all these years of your actions, you have another thing coming." said Harry, angerly. Hermione's glare just rebounded off of him. "Harry, everyone deserves a second chance. Siri believed in it and -" She said until Harry interrupted her. "Don't talk about Sirius like that!" he said, his temper exploding. "He knew about it too, that's why you said that you were 'dogging' my footsteps, isn't that right Malfoy, you foul git!" he yelled and Hermione growled. "Stop it! These people are injured Harry! There is no need - " she began to say until Harry pushed her over. Draco saw it and reached down quickly to help her up, Hermione in tears.
"Mione, are you alright?" he asked and glared at Harry. "Yeah, I'm fine." She said and he walked closer to Harry until he was nearly nose to nose with him. "Potter, I've quit serving the dark lord! I had no choice but to go with Snape - he left me in a damned cave and I had to cut myself to get out -" he began to explain when Harry looked at him strangely. "There was a boat there too, right? A lake that was unnaturally still? Did you see the inferni?" he asked. Draco stared at him.
"H-how did you know?" he asked. Harry just shook his head. "Dumbledore and I went to retrieve a horcrux there." He said. "The night that you got the death eaters into the school - " he said when Ron, who had been quiet, spoke loudly. "The night you brought that bastard into Hogwarts and caused my brother to have wolfish qualities. If it had been a full moon, he'd be a werewolf now!" he said, incensed.
Draco groaned. It was far too early for this. "If I had not have done it, Weasley, then I would have been killed by the dark lord himself. Simple truth. I didn't want Greyback to be there, but he came anyway. So I didn't have control over that." Ron snorted. "Yeah I'll bet." He said and Draco shook his head. "Believe it or not Weasley." He said. Hermione's face got quite red, and she growled. "Stop it all of you! Can't you see he's changed? He's even tried to warn us about danger before!" she yelled.
Draco was impressed. Maybe she hadn't gotten it back when they were younger, but she had gotten it now! Ron snorted. "Come on Hermione, he's a fraud. When did he ever warn us of danger or anything?" he said and Harry nodded. "Yeah, 'Mione, when?" Harry asked and Hermione answered. "Remember the Quidditch World Cup? He told me to keep my head down, unless I wanted to be hoisted up into the air like the rest of the muggles, remember?" she said and Harry did look somewhat impressed that she even remembered Malfoy's words. "And then he was trying to WARN us about Sirius, not flaunt it like you thought." He said and sighed. Malfoy was looking at her in a different light now. "Jeez Granger, I didn't think you memorized my words too." He said.
Harry looked hard at Malfoy and came up with a decision. "Alright Hermione, you win. But I want you to know Malfoy, that I don't trust you. At all. And if you break Hermione's trust, then you will be very sorry." he said with sharp venom. Draco nodded. "You were there, weren't you? Hidden by that cloak of yours? When Dumbledore was killed? Is that the reason your going to trust me now?" he asked and Harry nodded. "One chance Malfoy - one." He said and Ron was left speechless. "Come on guys, lets go grab some of our school supplies." He said.
"I can't just yet." said Hermione. "I need to stay here and do some things, then we'll meet you." she said and Harry gave her a look that said 'have you went completely mental?' and left. As soon as the door was shut, Hermione drew her wand and created a small fountain and some bottles. Narcissa was still asleep as Hermione put a water repellent spell on the bed she was on and on her clothes before she tapped her wand on the head of the bed and created a place to put Narcissa's neck on while she washed her hair. She lovingly put shampoo in it, then rinsing it out, she put a conditioner into her hair to get the tangles out, rinsed it out and then dried her hair with a drying spell. Vanishing the little fountain, she conjured a small vanity with everything she needed for her hair as Draco watched, sitting on the bed. First she took a soft brush to it, making it straight and silky feeling, then warming up a curling iron instantly with a touch of her wand, she put Narcissa's hair up in spirals.
Once she was done with her hair, she looked at her outfit, which was soaked in blood, and tapped her wand on her arm. Narcissa had a pale green suit on, which matched her grey eyes with low heels. "So, what do you think?" she asked Draco. His mother looked transformed. "Very nice." He said. She did the same for everyone, changing thier clothes to similar things they were wearing, but clean, and warm new clothes. "You know, I don't think I would go back to Malfoy Manor if I were you." Said Hermione and Draco started.
"What? But it's my home!" he cried. "Seriously, whoever done this could do the same thing to you, and then what would you do? You couldn't call for help. They could kill you before you could do so. Mmm . . . I'll see about you and your mother staying at Grimmaulds Place." She said and smiled. "Well, everyone is ready. The potion should wear off around . . . four or five o' clock. That leaves us enough time to catch up with Ron and Harry." She said and took his hand, pulling him along with her.