Author's Note: So sorry to have taken for ever for this update. But school started and before it did I was emotionally drained, and when I write I put my own emotions into it. So, therefor, I could not write. But now Im better, and I have some fresh, raw ideas and emotions that I can put into my work. And I promise I'll try and update more, now that I've had a break. I still don't really know where Im going to go with this story, but maybe I'll figure it out. Thanks again for the great reviews. Okay, a few things I need to clear up. Ron isn't dumb. He just... hasn't had a large involvement, yet. Lana is Alana, and she'll mostly go by Lana, sometimes I'll call her Alana, but that'll be rare. One more thing, Im not going to introduce anymore made-ups for a -very long- time. Not until everyone is acquainted with the ones I have now. There's two more made-ups, but they'll come a lot later, I promise. Fred and George are going to have a greater involvement soon, so is Ginny, Neville, and Luna. Last thing, chapters are going to be longer, much longer. That's all for now.

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Jenny

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Draco yawned, looking over at Hermione. She'd fallen asleep sitting next to him, on the Slytherin couch with her legs plopped up, laying overtop his own. He smirked to himself, she was adorable when she slept. Everyone else had gone to bed, he noted, as he carefully moved her and stood up. He stretched his arms, then retrieved the Gryffindor blanket from the other couch, laying it overtop her. Draco yawned once more, before going up to his room.

Hermione woke up with the sun shining on her face, she blinked, realizing she was in the common room. I must have fallen asleep on the couch when I was sitting with Draco. Awe, he covered me the Gryffindor blanket. She mused, How sweet. With a yawn, she stood and tossed the blanket over the back of the couch.

"I guess I'd better go get ready." She muttered, going up to her room, as Padma came downstairs. She walked into her bedroom, gathering her uniform from the wardrobe, she headed into the bathroom. Hermione decided on a quick shower to wake her up.

Ron rolled his eyes as Luna rambled on about the latest thing in the Quibbler. Jennifer was the first to speak up, Jenn was quite testy in the morning and she did not want to deal with Luna's insanity this early in the morning.

"Luna, enough! I love ya', I do, but not now." Luna nodded, and leaned over to Ginny. The fourth years chatted, Ron and Jennifer waited for the Twins, Liz, Lana, Aiden, Harry, Dean, Neville, and, of course, Draco and Hermione.

"Bloody hell. What is taking so long?" Asked Ron, sighing in exasperation.

"I really wouldn't know, would I, Weasley?" Snapped Jenn in irritation.

"Don't start with me, Anderson." He retorted, rolling his eyes.

"If I do?"

"You'll regret it."

"Both of you, SHUT UP."Everyone looked over, to see Aiden standing on the steps of the girls dorm, glaring at them. "You two act like your married."She pointed out, making Ron blush a little. She smirked over at Ginny and Luna, who'd fallen into a fit of laughter.

"What's so funny?" Harry asked, walking into the common room. "What'd I miss?" He asked, looking at Ron in confusion. Ron shook his head.

"Nothing." Harry shrugged, muttering a good-morning to everyone else. Lana and Liz were the next to meander down to the common room, followed by Fred and George, who were busy discussing their next invention, Neville was the last to come down to the common room, muttering to himself.

"You alright, Neville?" Ginny asked, getting a vigorous nod from Neville.

Hermione examined herself in the mirror and sighed, it would do. She grabbed her bag and walked out of her bedroom. "Morning." She told the group who sat around the common room.

"Morning, 'Mione."

"Morning, Draco. Ready for breakfast?" She asked, walking towards the entrance to the Gryffindor common room.

"Mhm, just a second." He said, grabbing his bag and thwapping Justin upside the head.

"What was that for!" Justin demanded, exasperated, standing up, only to be pulled back on to the couch by Padma.

"Oh, shut up. I'm not going to put up with you two hexing each other this early in the bloody morning!" She snapped, glaring at Justin and then Draco. Both, thankfully, backed off.

Joining Hermione at the door, Draco leaned in and muttered, "Someone hasn't had their coffee today." He smirked as she tried to suppress a giggle. The two pushed their way through the morning crowd in the common room, towards the group that centered around the Golden Child, who was in the midst of telling them about the latest horrors that Snape had put them through.

"Oh, quit your whining, Potter." Draco said, nonchalantly as he and Hermione took a seat across from Chad and Jenn. Chad looked Draco over, then gave him a nod. The nod was Chad's way of letting Draco know that he was cool with him being there. Jenn caught the nod and elbowed Chad sharply in the ribs.

"Relax, Jennifer, Im not going to leave you for Draco." He said, calmly. She scowled and rolled her eyes, turning away from him to whisper to Lana. Draco snorted, and looked at the ground, muttering something to Hermione. Ginny looked at Hermione, lifting an eyebrow at her.

"'Mione, can I talk to you for a second?" She asked, standing up from her seat next to Luna. "Over here?" She added, pointing to a spot in the corner. "And Liz, and Lana, and Jenn, and Aiden!" Ginny added, grabbing Hermione by the arm and pulling her over the corner. The rest of the girls joined Ginny and Hermione in the corner, and then Ginny began.

"Okay, Hermione, what, in the name of Merlin, is going on with you and Malfoy?" She asked accusingly. Hermione's eyes went wide and she gaped at them.

"There's nothing going on with us!" She declared, shifting under their glares. Jenn was the next to step up.

"Draco Malfoy! Are you fuckin' kidding me!" She hissed, glaring daggers at Hermione. "Merlin, 'Mione, how could you do this to us? What about Harry and Ron! What are they going to say? Did you even think about them!" Jenn continued, beginning to pace the floor with anger. Lana reached out and grabbed her best friend by the shoulders.

"Breathe. Calm yourself."She said, breathing out a sigh. Liz decided to voice her opinions now, after Jenn had finally shut up.

"Maybe Hermione could talk now." She suggested, rolling her eyes. "Before we start accusing her and Malfoy of planning to elope."

"Thank you, Liz." Hermione said, licking her dry lips. "Honestly, there's nothing going on with Draco and me. We're just friends, that's all, I swear." She told them, "And before I get any lip about that, we're both prefects. We share a tower, and we're going to have to work together. Would you rather we try and kill one another during our sleep?" She asked, lifting an eyebrow at the girls. Aiden had been unusually quiet, absorbing what she was hearing, and spoke up now.

"He's not that bad." Jenn and Lana gaped at her, she rolled her eyes and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, "Well, I mean, he could have slammed a detention on me and Harry last night," She pointed out, blushing a little at being caught half-naked by Draco Malfoy. "But he didn't, and y'all know how much he dislikes Harry." Aiden added.

Jenn and Lana gaped at her.

"Yeesh, don't look at me like I've grown a second head." Aiden said, rolling her eyes. "Which wouldn't be so bad, two heads as purdy as mine." She joked, trying to lighten the tension that had arisen since she'd defended Draco Malfoy.

"She's right," Hermione piped up, "He's really a nice guy." She told them, rolling her eyes at the, Pfft, yeah, right, she got from Jenn. "I mean it! Sure, he's got a lot of deep seated issues, but... look who his parents are." Liz, Jenn and Lana paused, seemingly thinking over what had just been said, leaving Hermione to bite her lip and hope they'd just let this go for a while.

"Okay, I don't care who his parents are. He's been a bastard to us the entire time we've been here," Lana pointed out, leaving Jenn and Liz to nod in agreement. "He's been worse to you than to us, Hermione. He's called you a 'mud-blood' Merlin knows how many times." She added, lifting an eyebrow at her, daring her to say it didn't bother her. It did, they'd seen it. "What's more, we left Harry and Ron alone with Draco." Everyone's eyes snapped wide open. Draco had been around a lot, sure, and they were slowly, slowly, getting used to it... but they've never left the boys alone together. They knew they didn't have to worry about Neville or Chad, but Ron and Harry were a different story. The boys were tired of Malfoy, but they'd all dealt with their whining and complaining, but what would they do now that they were alone with them?

"Oh, shit." Jenn and Liz said at once, rushing back over. Aiden smirked at Hermione, and they nodded at Liz.

"C'mon," Hermione said, motioning for them to follow her back to the group. "Everything okay?" She asked, looking from one face to another. Harry and Ron scowled at her, she smiled sheepishly and shrugged, before looking over to Draco. He shrugged and frowned. She nodded. "We should all go, before we miss breakfast completely."

"That would be good." Ginny said, shooting Hermione a look before they all stood and filed out of the common room. Draco took this as his opportunity to ask her about they're little side-bar conversation, which they'd heard bits and pieces of while waiting for the girls to come back and save them from the uncomfortable silence.

"What did they want to talk to you about?" He asked, lifting an eyebrow at her. "Me?" He reasoned.

"You heard?" He nodded. "Yeah, they asked about you. They wanted to know if there was something going on with us. I blame you," She told him, smiling a little to himself.

"You blame me?"

"Yes."

"Why is that?"

"You're the one that made the deal."

"You're the one that taunted me into it."

"Quit nit-picking, you act like we're married."

"Point taken."Hermione smiled, Draco really was a nice guy. It was such a shame that anyone thought otherwise. Though, she didn't doubt that he had excellent reasons for acting the way he had. His father had been a death eater, not just any death eater, he was one of Voldemort's favorites, and incredibly loyal. He'd been right up there with Bellatrix Lestrange, she was dead now, though. Hermione remembered when Bellatrix had been killed, and Lucius captured. The two of them had turned on Sirius, but Lucius had seen her and decided that she should die an extremely painful death, like the 'mud-blood' that she was. It had all been happening so fast, she recalled, one minute Lucius was coming towards her, wand raised and sneering, and the next thing she knew he was on the ground. Had she killed him? No, he was only unconscious. Hermione'd looked over at Sirius, to see if he was alright. Bellatrix had been a very powerful witch. She saw him standing over her body, making sure that she was dead. She was. Hermione and Sirius hadshared a look.

"'Mione?" She looked up. Draco.

"Yeah?" She answered, quickly, giving him a sheepish smile.

"You okay?" He asked, she met his eyes to find a genuine concern for her. If only everyone could see this side of him. As quickly as this thought passed through her mind, so did another one. Maybe she was developing feelings for Draco.

"Yeah." She told him, flashing him another quick smile. "Just thinking." Hermione added.

"What about?" He asked, lifting an eye brow at her as they walked into the Great Hall behind the rest of the usual group. The Gryffindors were getting used to Draco sitting at their table, several of them were actually on speaking terms with the former Slytherin Prince. She shrugged at him.

"The, uhm, night at the Ministry. When I, er, knocked out your father." She explained, looking at the floor. "Im sorry." She wasn't quite sure why she felt the need to apologize to him for that, but she did.

"Don't be." Draco said. "My father was a controlling, manipulative bastard. I'm glad he's locked up. He needs to be. He needs to be dead, but I'll take what I can get." He added with a small shrug. "Hermione, if it wasn't for you.. I'd be a Death Eater by now..." Or worse, dead. He added, she knew he was sincere, he didn't want to talk about it. As different as he was, she couldn't get him to open up and tell her what was on his mind. Especially when it came to his parents.

"Well, you're welcome, then," She muttered to him as they took their usual seats at the table.

Author's Note: Okay, so this was the longest chapter so far, and it took me forever to write it because I had a lot of stuff going on. First school started and then I was emotionally drained, and then I had a serious emotional breakdown. But Im all good now. Im working through my depression issues and I think Im going to be fine. Woo! Go team me. Anyway, now I have the general idea of where Im going with this story, I talked some things over with my friend, Darla, and she liked them. So Im probably going to use those soon. But! In the next chapter Im going to have Snape, and I need help to write it, if anyone wants to help drop me a line on my email or any of my messengers.

Thanks a bunch,

Jenny