Chapter 7

~Chimera~

He could wait all he wanted, I sure as hell would never even think of touching him with a five foot pole, never mind otherwise. I once again resented myself for being what I was, but it was useless to dwell on it, for I could change nothing.

The thing that nagged me the most was the fact that I knew he would eventually have his way… again.

Adrian was as supportive as ever, but in the end, I could see his calmness slipping away. I could see fear written all over his face.

'I'm not going to say yes. He'll back down'

'Hermione…' he pleaded 'this is Malfoy we're talking about, do you really believe what you're saying?'

No I didn't and he knew it. It was a rhetorical question.

When he started pleading with me to take the bastard up on his offer I half snapped and almost left him as well. I went up to my room alone that night and spent it looking at my ceiling and analysing my options… I had none.

The next morning I did my very best to look good, but things just kept going wrong. Nothing fell into place. Culminating with the fact that the despicable creature decided not to show his face in the exact night I had decided to compromise. It had been like a slap to the face that I would never forget. To this day I wonder how he could have known I would give in that night, for I was sure his absence was planed.

He was there the next day, surrounded by young girls who were trying to get a piece of him. I never could understand if it was because of his social status or his looks. Neither appealed to me at that time.

I watched him from the opposite corner, trying to gather my courage; I had been a Gryffindor after all. None came to me at that moment. It was so peculiar that I had been able to face the Dark Lord himself but I couldn't fathom the courage to march up to a ferret.

He eventually caught my eyes and smirked devilishly. I wasn't surprised, I had always known where this would lead to.

'Anything you wish to say to me, Granger?'

His breath smelled of whisky, not fire whisky, but the Muggle kind. I found it so ironic.

'You know what I have to say, Malfoy. You always did, it's not like I ever had a chance, you made sure of that'

He twirled one of my locks around his finger. 'Indeed. Regardless, I would like to hear you say it'

'And I would like to be a free person, but we can't all have what we want, now can we? Are you going to take it or leave it.'

'You know I could wait a little bit longer, Granger, and you'd cave. But frankly I'm bored and I don't have the guarantee that you'd still be alive 'till then if you don't say yes, so I'm going to look past it this time'

'Oh, how gracious of you' I sarcastically replied.

'You know, Granger, I always hated that tongue of yours, let's hope we could put it to better use.'

I shuddered at the thought, somehow it hadn't seemed real until that moment. I wanted to back down, I wanted to just give up, but I couldn't, not after the war, not after others died so some of us could still live.

a/n: so, I'm severely sleep deprived, but I just got to that point where I can't sleep even when I want to. I haven't partied or anything, I've just been too tired to sleep (I'm sure someone else out there knows that feeling...)

decided to post a new chapter, even though it's the middle of the night over here. I noticed that the middle of the day (my country time) is the time when a lot of you are reading fanfiction, so I usually try to post chapters then. But, since for some unexplained reason I seem to forget EVERYTHING, i decided to put it up now. fyi, I've been meaning to post this for a COUPLE OF WEEKS now. Yes, that's how scatter-brained I am lately.

Random fact no.1: listening obsessively to this song: smile by uncle kracker (huh, weird name)

Random fact no.2: another thing that I've been meaning to tell you guys is that in one of my none-draco malfoy/tom felton-related surfing the internet moments I funnily found the utube channel of his "son". The kid's hilarious. Plus, I adore his video in which he talks about the premiere, because he says that he was sure no one was going to know who he was, and as a fanfiction writer and reader I found it so funny, because there are so many Rose/Scoripius stories out there and even though we use older actors to portray an older scorpius, I for one was really curious to see the last scene with the kids, I think that particular scene leaves room for more, even though I'm sure they won't continue the story, hope dies last (movie wise). Bla bla bla, google bertie gilbert

Random fact no.3: who else is drooling over Tom's pictures for various magazines?

Random fact no4 (not really, just a question) I received some feed back on the way I see Hermione and draco, if you'd like me to expand on that, or talk about my views on other characters… depending on the demand I shall see.

*Aaaaaaaah, stop talking! You're not even being coherent* yes yes, you are right oh strange voice talking inside my head. And since you are right I am going to go ahead and plead forgiveness in advance for any mistakes I might have made and then… let's see, what else is on the list… "stop talking". Huh, forgot that was there.