Hermione woke late on a lovely Saturday morning in November, only to the sounds coming from outside the walls of her warm bedroom. Below she could hear the other students having fun out on the grounds or relaxing under a tree by the black lake. Hermione was drifting off into a dreamland of memories and fantasies when she heard the door into the common room shut, she then jumped out of bed and ran down the stairs.

"Draco," Hermione cried joyously and ran over to hug him.

"Morning love, did you just wake up?" Draco asked sweetly.

"Yeah, I was so tired, I was up late doing schoolwork," She responded.

"Well I was just down at the Great Hall getting breakfast, are you hungry?"

"Just a little, but I think I'm going to go say hi to some of the Gryffindor's today, I'll see you later," Hermione and Draco kissed and then she left.

Flashback

Hermione woke up in the middle of the night (early morning), with a curious sensation in her stomach. She tried to figure out why and then remembered what had happened earlier that night. She instantly remembered, Draco's father Lucius kidnapped her and Draco rescued her from his grasp. She then remembered the question that Lucius had asked, did she love Draco? For an hour she lay awake struggling for an answer before she realized that there was only one way to find out.

Hermione got up out of her bed and walked soundlessly to Draco's room, opened the door, she then walked to his bed and sat down.

"Draco," she said nudging him awake, "Draco, wake up."

"Hermione?" He asked looking at her in a confused glaze. "What do you want, is there something the matter?"

"Yes, there is something I have to know," without anymore word she bent over him and kissed him, he kissed her back.

Instantly there were fireworks, Hermione almost cried of joy she broke the kiss and looked passionately at Draco.

"Draco," she began, "I love you."

"What, do you really mean, but then what do you have to know? And what did kissing me have to do with it?" He questioned, so puzzled by Hermione's actions.

"For the past hour I have been lying in bed trying to figure out if I loved you, I knew that I would know the answer only if I kissed you, and when I did I saw fireworks and I knew that it was right. Draco Lucius Malfoy, I do love you, goodnight." Hermione then crawled into his bed with him and they soon fell asleep in each other's arms.

For the next two month Hermione and Draco began to develop a serious relationship but they decided that for now that their love lives should be kept secret and no one could find out who Draco was deep inside.

End Flashback

Hermione walked up the grand staircase to the seventh floor, and was at the portrait of the fat lady when a wave of sickness overcame her. She ran to the nearest bathroom, just in time to vomit up just about all of her stomach contents. This was the fourth time in the past two days she had gotten sick, she decided she had better go to the hospital wing to find out what was wrong with her.

Once she reached the hospital Madame Pomfrey came over and made a fuss about her.

"Oh dear, what's wrong, you seem to be running a fever, come lie down immediately," Madame Pomfrey said while shoving her onto a bed and magically taking her temperature. "Oh my, your running a fever 101 degrees, I'm going to have to run some test though, so that I can figure out what is wrong, it seems to me to be just a bad flu."

Madame Pomfrey began to fun many magical test on Hermione, as she laid there extremely puzzled and curious as can be.

"Ah ha!" Madame Pomfrey exclaimed, " I think I've found out what is the matter with you dear, just one more test to make sure."

Wow, Hermione thought, all this just to find out if I have the flu or what! She said an incantation and pointed her wand at Hermione's stomach, a minute later a piece of parchment appeared in mid air, Madame Pomfrey grabbed it and read, once she finished she let out a highly audible gasp of shock and/or surprise.