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Chapter 16 Hand In Hand With The EnemyA/N I know I have not updated this story in ages. I have been working on one of my other stories plus I have been really busy. But here it is and I hope you like, and I promise I will try to update a lot sooner.
Hermione's point of viewHermione waited in the Gryffindor room nervously. She had sent Harry and Ron a letter a little bit ago asking them to meet her here and she hoped against hope that even though they were mad at her, they would still come talk to her.
At that moment, she glanced up and saw Harry walking towards her.
She sighed in relief. But where was Ron?
" Hi" She said nervously.
" Hi" Harry said quietly, barely meeting her eyes.
" Look I know you must hate me and …" Hermione started, but Harry cut her off.
" I don't hate you. I just don't understand what you were thinking. What you did with Draco….I mean it's Malfoy we are talking about here. The guy who has made our lives hell for years."
" I know Harry, but he's different now."
Harry laughed. " Yeah sure he is. I bet he is really a great guy once you get to know him." Harry said sarcastically.
" He is and I want to prove it to you. "
" And just how are you planning on doing that?"
" Well that's what I wanted to talk to you about. I was thinking that maybe you and Ron could meet Draco and I tomorrow at Hogsmeade. You know and get to know him and I just know that you will see that he isn't the ass that you think he is. Please Harry….do it for me." Hermione pleaded.
Oh please Harry. Hermione thought to herself.
Harry stared at her for a few moments with an unreadable expression on his face, then finally sighed and said, " What makes you think that Malfoy will even wan to talk to us?"
"Because it was his idea."
Harry snorted but said, " Ok I'll give him a chance, but I doubt it will change my opinion on him."
At that moment Ron appeared out of thin air.
" What! You're actually going to give that git a chance?" Ron yelled, which made Hermione jump.
" Oh honestly Ron will you stop being so childish and stop hiding under the invisibility cloak." Hermione said.
" Childish! Me!" Ron yelled.
" Yes Ronald. I mean really how childish and cowardly is it to hide under an invisibility cloak instead of facing me."
Ron faced reddened, but he didn't respond to her. Instead he turned to Harry and said.
" So you're actually going to go meet that bastard?"
" Yes" Harry said simply.
" Why" Ron said even more red faced.
" Because Hermione seems to care about him and I care about Hermione so if she thinks he is worth giving Malfoy a chance then I'll give him a chance."
" But…but she lied to us and everything and" Ron started, but Harry cut him off.
" She had reason for not telling us, and as for what she did with Malfoy," Harry paused as he glanced at Hermione. " I don't understand it, but I have already lost someone I loved and I don't want to lose someone else I love over something so stupid as Malfoy."
Ron looked like he had been hit with a bucket of water. He looked at Hermione like he was seeing her for the first time.
" You know Harry your right." Ron said still looking at Hermione. " I don't want to lose Hermione over Malfoy." His expression hardened once again. " Ok I'll give Malfoy a chance tomorrow, but I can already tell you that it's not going to change my opinion of him. And as for me and you. It will take a while for things to get better between us. You know that right?"
" Yes Ron I know." Hermione said.
Ron started to turn to leave when Hermione said, " By the way for what its worth thank you for giving Draco a chance. That means the world to me." She said as she looked from Ron to Harry.
Draco's point of viewDraco was on his way to the Slytherin common room when he felt a pair of arms wrap around him.
" They said yes Draco. There coming to meet you tomorrow. There going to give you a chance." Hermione said as she pulled Draco into a passionate kiss.
When she pulled away she asked. " What's wrong? Arent you happy?"
Yeah real happy. Draco thought sarcastically. But you can't let her know that. Hurry think Draco think.
" Yes of course I'm happy. It's just…. what if they don't think I am a good guy. I mean being nice to you is one thing, but being nice to them. I mean I really don't like them all that much."
Yeah that will due for a cover up, plus it's sort of the truth.
" You don't have to like them, you just have to be civil with them."
" I'll try."
" I don't get it, this was your idea. Why do you look so upset about it?"
" I'm …I'm I'll be fine I'm just nervous I guess." He said as he pulled her into another long passionate kiss. As he explored her mouth he couldn't help but think that after tomorrow he was never going to taste that mouth again. He pulled away.
" Is Weasley's sister coming?" He asked.
" No I'll have to patch things up with her separately. I figured I should try to work out one problem at a time. Besides, Ginny wasn't really mad at me because I slept with you, she was more mad that I told Harry about what her and Dean did."
" What did they do?" Draco asked curiously.
" Never mind." Hermione said. " Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow then" Hermione said.
" No wait" This going to be the last night I ever spend with you and… " Can we go to the room of requirement tonight?"
Hermione smirked.
" Why Draco are you having naughty thoughts?" Hermione teased.
Draco just smirked before pulling her into another kiss.
The next day at Hogsmeade Draco said good bye to his friends and headed towards the shrieking shack to meet Hermione, Potter, and Weasley.
On the way there he thought surely his legs would give way. His knees felt weak and were shaking violently.
He remembered last night with Hermione…
FlashbackDraco laid Hermione down on the bed in the room of requirement.
He moaned as he felt her body press against his.
His started to strip off her clothes, eventually leaving her completely naked.
She was so beautiful.
She stripped off his clothes as well and then he explored her mouth as well as her body memorizing it, remembering every detail, every curve, how her skin felt against his, the way she smelt.
Her soft moan when their bodies entered each other.
The way she called out his name when she hit full ecstasy.
Remembering the way he felt when he did, how it had felt better with her than any other girl.
His thoughts were interrupted when he reached the shrieking shack.
He sighed. Here goes.
When he walked inside, Hermione, Potter, and Weasley were already there.
Hermione ran over and hugged him " Hey you." She said playfully.
" Hey." He said before he turned his attention to Potter and Weasley who looked disgusted at that sight of them hugging.
" Hello Potter, Weasley." Said Draco as he acknowledged their presence.
They just nodded at him.
Draco sighed. " Look I know you guys don't like me very much and hell I know I haven't given you any reason too, and I would be lying if I said that I liked you too"
" Ahem" He heard Hermione say next to him.
" But, I do like Hermione. No actually I love her. And since you two mean a lot to her and Hermione means a lot to us, I guess that means that we all have to get to along. So I'm willing if you guys are willing." Draco said.
" Alright Malfoy we'll try." Said Potter. " But I have just one question."
" And what's that?" Draco asked as he cocked his eye brawl.
" Why do you love Hermione?" Harry asked seriously.
Draco was very aware that all eyes were now on him, waiting for an answer.
To Draco's surprise he didn't even think about his answer, it just came out.
" The way she tries to be good at everything, the way she thinks about things, how she surprises me, just when I think I got her figured out she goes and does something completely unexpected." Draco said looking at Hermione. " I have been with a lot of other girls, but none of them made me feel even close to the way I feel about her. She excites me, she is the only girl I have ever been nervous around, she's the only girl I never felt good enough for, and the way that she loves me, It's so unreal…" Draco stopped, he couldn't continue. Not after he knew what was to come.
But she didn't. He thought as he looked into her eyes that were now slowly filling with tears.
He found he couldn't look at her any longer. He turned to look at Potter and Weasley.
Weasley was starring at him with his mouth hanging open, with an expression on his face as if he had just seen Snape say that he wanted to adopt Harry.
Potter who looked equally as shocked walked up to Draco, held his hand out and smiled.
" I remember our first year here you held out your hand to me and offered your friendship and I declined it, but after what I just heard you say you are not that same person who held his hand out to me that day, so now I hold my hand out to you, offering what I wouldn't exactly call friendship, but at least a chance at it."
All Draco could do was stare at the boy who he had hated for years holding his hand out to him, willing to forgive him for all the terrible things he had done to him in the past.
A lump started to form in his throat as guilt surged through him, but still he brought his hand to his enemy of the past six years and shook it.
At that exact moment there was a whoosh and two hooded figures appeared.
NO . Draco thought horrified as he felt cold sweat roll down his body. No.
One of the figures let his hood down revealing Lucius Malfoy, who simply looked at Draco and smiled.
Harry who still had his hand joined with Draco's just starred at him, and Draco could see out of the corner of his Hermione and Ron's eyes on him as well.
There was a long moment of silence, which was only broken when a high pitched voice came from the other figure.
" Well done Draco."
Draco paled as he watched as the figure throw back his hood revealing, Lord Voldemort.
A/N So what did you guys think? Please please review and let me know what you think. Also thank you to those of you who did review, you're the reason I even continued this story. I promise if I get pretty many reviews I will make it a point to update this story as quickly as possible, I will even go out of my way to do so.
Also while you are waiting for my next update if you like this story you might want to check out my other story I wrote, it's called I'm am listening, my love. It's a Draco/Hermione fic too. And in my opinion its better than this one.
