Chapter 8

Do I Sense a Lover Moment?

Draco and Blaise were out of class for the next few days, apparently "Getting over the shock." of the attack.

I was busy brewing a Potion with Ivy the Friday after the Hippogriff incident when Draco and Blaise walked into the classroom, both of them wearing slings.

I rolled my eyes and returned to my work as Pansy's shrill voice shrieked "Dracie! Does it still hurt?"

I nearly gagged. Damn Pansy and her clingy bull crap.

"It comes and it goes." Draco said, plopping himself in his seat "I'd consider myself lucky. If not for Madam Pomfrey, another minute or two and I would have lost my arm."

I ground my teeth and returned to my conversation with Ivy, over how whiny Blaise and Draco were being over the Hippogriff incident.

"Boys are like trees, V." I pointed out, grinding a root and dumping it into the Potion "They take twenty five years to mature!"

Ivy and I shared a laugh and high fived each other as Professor Snape swept over to the two of us.

"Potter, Duff, it seems Mr Malfoy and Mr Zabini would like to exchange partners until their arms completely heal."

I hid a smirk. Karma, Ivy I thought This is what you get for not letting me be Draco's partner!

"Shut up!" Ivy hissed before Snape continued to speak.

"Duff, you will stay here and wait for Mr Zabini to come and assist you. Potter, you will move next to Mr Malfoy." Snape ordered, pointing over to the two boys, smirking triumphantly at each other.

"Yes, sir." Ivy and I said together, in two completely different tones. Mine was enthusiastic and preppy, Ivy's cold and miserable.

I grabbed hold of my book bag and my dagger and walked over to the other side of the room, waving to Blaise as we passed each other.

I grabbed my black scrunchie and pulled my hair back before sitting in Blaise's old seat.

"Hello again." I said to Draco as I started getting the Potion started.

"Hi." Draco said, giving me a gentle punch on the shoulder.

"How was the hospital wing?" I asked, smirking as I did so.

"Oh same old, same old. Pomfrey fussing over everyone, crappy food, you know the norm."

I laughed as I ground up a root "Well, I hope you enjoyed your rest, because now you're way behind in classes." I pointed out.

"You're right…" Draco drawled as he handed me some spider legs.

"My top prowess." I smirked as I threw a couple of the legs into the cauldron and starting to cut some caterpillars. "Minus my impeccable ability to sing in a cappella, my astonishing talent to memorize many things that I read, and most importantly my impeachable ability to-"

"Use big complicating words? Seriously, Han. Speak English."

"That is English, Draco." I pointed out stirring the navy blue Potion "Very complex, scholastic and potentially confusing English, but it's still English."

"Well, Han, not all of us speak your English, so do us a favour and save your Hannah language for scholars, and speak regular people English." Draco pleaded, gripping onto his dagger.

"I'll take that." I said, wrenching the dagger out of Draco's hand "The last thing we need is you getting cut again and missing more classes."

"Well, maybe I'll need a little help catching up." Draco said, smirking as I let him grind some anaconda fangs "Maybe you could help me?"

I rolled my eyes and took the ground up fangs and dumped them into the cauldron "Maybe…maybe not." I said, mirroring Draco's smirk "You'll have to ask me nicely."

"You and your damn nicely." Draco growled before taking the stirring rod out of my hands "Hannah, will you please help me catch up in my lessons?" Draco asked, pulling my signature "puppy dog pout."

I smiled "If you promise me never to pull my pout again, then sure." I said, spooning some of the finished Potion into a vial and marking Draco's and my names on it. "Library after dinner?" I asked, getting up and handing the vial to Snape.

"No," Draco said, following very close behind me "I was thinking more along the lines of…" he leaned in close to my ear "The Forest…after curfew."

I blushed and nodded as I grabbed my book bag.

"Good." Draco said, smirking as the bell rang "See you in the clearing tonight. And don't forget."

Later that night, I shoved some books into my bag and grabbed my Invisibility Cloak from out of my trunk and started to pull it on when Pansy walked into the dorm from the bathroom.

"Hey, Han." Pansy said, throwing herself on her bed. "Where're you off to?"

My eyes widened. I knew Pansy didn't like the fact that Draco would use to act like a boyfriend to me until she asked him out. So…I did what any sane girl would've done in that situation.

I lied.

"Oh, I'm just going down to the Gryffindor common room." I said starting for the door "I have to talk to Harry about something. Don't bother waiting up, I'm gonna be there a while."

"Oh…" Pansy said suspiciously "Ok, have fun!"

I threw my Cloak on and ran out the door once the words were out of Pansy's mouth.

I know it was wrong of me to lie and say I was going to be with Harry when I was really going to help out Draco. But…Pansy was becoming creeper stalker, and she'd kill me if I told her that her boyfriend asked me to study with him in private.

I creaked open the door to the grounds and walked out quietly into the Forest, pulling out my wand as I did so.

"Lumos Maxima." I whispered, clutching my Cloak tightly to my chest.

I snuck deeper into the Forest, jumping at the snap of a twig.

"D-Draco?" I whispered, lowering my hood "Is that you?"

"Wait a second!" Draco hissed in the bushes.

I ripped off my Cloak and tucked it in my book bag and sat on one of the old stumps that littered the forest floor.

After a few minutes, I started wondering if Draco had left a while before. I started to get up and head back for the castle when:

"Ok! Come here!" Draco whispered through the bushes, knocking every ounce of doubt I had out of my mind. I pulled out my wand and headed into the clearing. My eyes widened at the welcome I received.

Draco was lying across a dark green blanket, with a bowl of…Oreo cookies at his side.

"Oh, hey, Oreo." Draco said, turning to me and smirking "I thought we could start getting me caught up with Astronomy."

I rolled my eyes "Draco Malfoy, you are the most unbelievable…" I said before getting down on the blanket and pulling out my Astronomy book.

"Ok, so last lesson Professor Sinistra had us drawing maps of the constellations. So, I managed to get Orion the Warrior and- wait a second." I said, eyeing the bowl of Oreo cookies in between Draco and I "Were you into my junk food stash again?" I asked, giving the blond to my left an inquisitive look.

"Maybe…maybe not." Draco said, smirking as he took a cookie.

"My Skinner, Draco Malfoy…" I sighed, taking a cookie and taking a bite. "you and your incessant need to get into my Oreos."

"Oh, you still have loads." Draco said, looking up into the stars "Be grateful I didn't have Crabbe and Goyle go in, then you wouldn't have any cookies left."

I laughed and turned the page in the textbook, keeping my wand light on it "Yeah, that's a good point. Now anyways, back to constellations-"

"Hey, Han. Look up at that one." Draco said, pointing up to a familiar constellation I watched since I was a little girl.

"Orion the Warrior." I said, reaching my arms around my head "You know, the legend says that Orion was a hunting giant, and the son of the king of the seas, Poseidon. They say when he was killed by Artemis, he became that same constellation we see today."

"You're a know it all, aren't you?" Draco asked, wrapping an arm around me as if he wasn't dating Pansy but he was dating…me.

"Well," I said, biting my lip at the comfortable sensation of having Draco's arm around my shoulders "I know a lot about Greek mythology. I learned it all in Muggle school."

Draco groaned "Why is it all the stuff you know you learned in a Muggle school?" he asked, pulling me tighter into him.

"I didn't know you then, so I didn't think that I'd be boring a wizard with this knowledge." I explained, giving up on the crusade to study and wrapping a free arm across Draco's chest. Pansy was forgotten.

It felt kind of…sweet, being held that way. But one thought still ran through my mind.

What if Pansy found out about this?

STOP THINKING SO MUCH! I scolded myself. Why think about Pansy? Right now…all you should care about is the fact that Draco Malfoy is finally holding you.

I cuddled closer to Draco and shut my eyes. I felt so…rebellious, going behind Pansy's back and doing this with Draco.

We both gradually ate our way through the bowl of Oreos and simply lied there, watching the stars.

Draco pulled me closer to him once more and I placed my head on his chest as his other hand started to play with my hair.

My eyes drifted closed and Draco brushed my bangs out of my eyes. I wound up drifting off to sleep a few minutes later.

The perfect end to a perfect night.

Just as Professor Trelawny predicted!