a.n. I am really sorry for not posting yesturday, I was out and didn't bring my laptop! This is the chpater I have been looking forward to! I just want to thank PunkQueen123 for writing this, it's fabulous!

Disclaimer: You get the idea by now

Chapter 38

"You ok 'Mione?" Ginny asked at breakfast the next day.

Hermione was trying (so far successfully) avoiding Harry and Ron. She wasn't ready to face them after what she had decided to call 'The Malfoy Moment'. They were her best friends and she wasn't exactly proud of her outbreak.

"Ye-" Ginny raised her eyebrow. Maybe it would be ok to tell someone. "No."

"Well what happened?" Ginny asked-she was such a bloody gossip addict.

Hermione inhales a breath. She couldn't lie to Ginny. They were best friends and Ginny wouldn't judge like the boys-well not as much anyway. She should tell Ginny, she deserved to know. Ginny was the only person in the world who Hermione could be a complete girl-giggles and all. She should tell her, right.

"D-do you remember when i went to-err...to talk to Dra-Malfoy?" Ginny nodded. "Well...we ended up in the Room of Requirement. Where there's a broken vanishing cabinet, it wasn't ready for transporting people and...well...we fell in. Only a few minutes passed for you all out here, but to us weeks passed." Hermione couldn't stop the words now that she had started.

"Where ya getting at?" Ginny looked both worry and confused.

"We ended up in a place called the house of forgiveness. We went through a lot and the goal was to make us forgive each other. And...well...w-we did."

"Did what?" Ron asked grabbing a chicken wing and plopping next to Hermione. Damn.

"Oh...uhhh…." Hermione looked at Ginny for help.

"Lady stuff." Ginny blurted out. Harry and Ron cringed slightly and didn't ask any follow up questions.

Hermione allowed her vision to trail over to a certain blond Slytherin when the others started talking about quidditch. Draco's eyes caught hers and he smirked.

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Bloody Pansy, why was she like this? She was his friend sure, but she talked so much.

"Pansy, please shut up." Draco hit his head on the table.

"-Oh...err. Ok." Pansy recoiled.

"What's up with you mate?" Blaise smirked.

'That bloody weasel knows why doesn't he.' Draco groaned internally.

"Nothing." Draco snapped. Blaise continued to smirk.

Draco's eyes met Hermione's at that moment and he grew his very own smirk. Ha, she had been looking at him. Draco subtly nodded towards the door then stood and left the hall.

A few moments later Hermione followed suit and left. Not before getting a stern 'We will talk later.' look from Ginny and nodding. Ginny should know the whole story so she could accept them.

Hermine left the hall and was just wondering where Draco was when a hand grabbed her own and tugged her into an empty classroom.

"Ah." Hermione squeaked.

"Its me." Draco smirked.

"You do know that a few days ago that would've made me even more nervous, right?"

"That was a few days ago." Draco pointed out. "Well a few weeks to us."

"Anyway what did you want to talk about?" Hermione frowned.

"Right yeah. What am I going to do? I can't let them kill my mother, but I can't let them kill you...what am I going to do?" Draco looked at their still entwined hands.

"What are WE going to do you mean. And I really don't know." Hermione looked ashamed.

"I just…" Draco sighed and with his free hand pinched the bridge of his nose. "I don't know."

Hermione let go of his hand and hugged his waist. Draco was a little shocked at first, but quickly recovered and hugged her back. Hermione removed her head from his chest, where it had been resting, and looked him in the eye.

"We'll figure it out Draco." She promised.

Suddenly Draco's lips were on hers.

Draco didn't know what he was doing. He just...he wanted to be with Hermione. He really did, but he knew he couldn't. It would put her in danger, put him in more danger and put both their friends in danger. He didn't care about Hermione's friends, but it would make her sad and well that wasn't good.

She didn't know what she was doing. Alarm bells were going off in Hermione's head, this was Draco Malfoy for Godric's sake! But he was different now. And she meant what she said: they'll figure something out. They will.

She deserved better and Draco wasn't going to let anything happen to her.

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a.n. Yes! The kiss I've been waiting for since the begining of this! I'll try and post another chapter tonight, If I don't, then I will try and post two tomorrow