I just realized I don't remember ever using a disclaimer. Of course you all know I don't own Harry Potter, or sadly for that matter Draco Malfoy. So, yeah..here goes...

Chapter 6- How it Happened

After much arguing with himself Ron Weasley finally came to the conclusion that once again Draco Malfoy and ruined his chances with Hermione. But he had no worries; he was going to take care of Draco just as he had when Draco and Hermione were engaged.

"Now look Lavender, I just need you to do this for me."

"But Ron, isn't Hermione like your best friend?"

"Yes, but come on this is Malfoy, he's evil and he is straight up bad for her."

"All right, all right. What do I get out of this?"

"A night with Draco Malfoy, Slytherin Sex God."

"As tempting as it sounds Ron, I want more than that."

"All right we'll talk payment after the deed is done. Agreed." He stuck out his hand to her.

"Agreed."

Ron smiled at Lavender and they started setting out the plan. Ron had been watching Draco for two weeks now and he knew exactly where and when he needed to strike. Every Wednesday night Draco and Blaise left work early and went to The Three Broomsticks for a couple of drinks. There he would put the imperious curse on Malfoy. Sure it was very extreme measures, but it was the only sure way to get Hermione back, and oh how he needed her back.

Then Ron was going to tell Malfoy to watch Lavender. Then as she walked towards him, Draco felt himself, for some reason, finding her attractive. She asked him to dance and he said yes, on Ron's orders. Blaise was completely confused by the matter. There was his best friend, who was very much engaged, dancing with Lavender Brown, one of the well-known whores of Hogwarts back in their day.

Draco himself was slightly confused, but the fact that he had drunk 5 bottles of fire whiskey didn't help his mind to focus any. Ron was sitting in the very corner of the Three Broomsticks very amused while he watched this scene unfold. It surprised him a lot that Draco hadn't realized he was under the Imperious Curse; he was the son of a Death Eater. Right now though, Ron was just happy that everything was going according to plan, and by tomorrow Hermione would be his again.

Draco and Lavender were still dancing, quite freakish to say the least, but now it was time to get some work done. "Ask Lavender to go home with you." Draco's mind told him that and he obeyed thinking that the fire whiskey sure was working a number on him this week. "Hermione's not home, it will be okay." Draco saw that Blaise had already left and he took the cue as to walk out the Three Broomsticks quietly so no one would notice that he was leaving with Lavender Brown. Anyone who read the Daily Prophet knew of the engagement between him and Hermione so if anyone saw him leave with another woman, well let's just say it wouldn't be pretty.

Draco led Lavender outside to where they could apparate to Malfoy Mansion. In the back of his mind he heard himself saying how wrong this was, but for some reason he couldn't stop it. Someone must have slipped something in his fire whiskey, but still Draco led Lavender up to his room and they started fooling around on his and Hermione's bed. "Go ahead Malfoy sleep with her." So Draco obeyed even with that voice in the back of his telling him this wasn't right. He started undressing Lavender and kept kissing his neck, his weakness. When Lavender was fully unclothed she started taking of Draco's pants.

That's when he heard the sound of gasp. He looked behind Lavender and saw his Fiancee with tears in her eyes. She soon ran out of the room and that look on Hermione's face snapped Draco out of the curse and he threw an amused Lavender off him and he took off running after her.

"Hermione. Hermione wait!"

He was chasing her down the stairs and finally caught up with her when she tripped on the last step. He took hold of her and tried to calm her down. She started to claw him away and he let go of her and watched her run away from him and hide.

It had been two days before he saw her again. She was composed and held her head high as he watched her walked down the stairs. "Draco go shower and get dressed we have to have to hold a press conference."

"For what?"

"So we can call off our engagement publicly. I will not have my personal life become slandered by Rita Skeeter or any other of those terrible tabloid writers. We will just tell them that we are...too different."

He looked up at her and she turned away, "Hurry please the press will be here soon." Draco walked up to their room and showered and dressed as she had said. He saw himself in the mirror and saw the bags under his eyes. He combed his head and took a deep breath before heading downstairs.

The podium for the press conference was already set up and she was sitting behind it waiting for him. Rita Skeeter's writing had calmed down some over the years and she seemed to have a soft spot for the couple. Other reporters were there also. Hermione nudged Draco in his ribs and told him to start.

"Today, we have asked you here to bring you some information about our relationship. Hermione and myself have decided that we will call of our engagement." Many gasped were heard from their audience. "We have come to find that we are much too different for each other."

Hermione took over, "I would appreciate if you would not spread awful rumors about Draco and myself. We have a right to our privacy and you should be happy that you all were the first to know of this news, and I ask that you please refrain from turning this into some kind of game. Thank you."

The reporters all snapped the last few pictures of Draco and Hermione ever together, and started writing on the notepads, even Rita Skeeter was writing, without her Quick Quotes Quill. All the reporters quickly removed themselves from the mansion and Draco went up to his room. Hermione was leaving in an hour.

She had told him that she wasn't going to leave until tomorrow, but she changed her mind. He tried to talk her out of leaving when he saw her leaving with her luggage in tow. But she left, and headed straight for the Burrow, where Ron was hiding his happiness from his plan being successful. Lavender had owled him and told him what happened, and he couldn't have been happier.

Present Day...

"So you do still feel something for me?"

"Oh don't rub it in. You know I shouldn't even be talking to you. You did something horrible and you don't deserve a second chance."

Her words hit him hard and he couldn't reply.

"I don't understand why I just can't let you go. It shouldn't be this hard."

He finally spoke up, "Why do you think we fell in love in the first place?"

"Because there is a thin line between love and hate and you crossed it that night you kissed me. I was completely gone after that."

He laughed, "Me too."

"Amazing what one kiss can do."

"But it was a damn good kiss. And I knew you couldn't resist me."

"Cocky Prat."

Draco stretched and she saw some black peak from behind his sleeve of his robe.

"Why did you get that horrible thing Draco?"

He looked down at his left arm and pulled his sleeve back, "I had no choice at the time."

She started disgusted at the Dark Mark on his arm. She could remember just like yesterday when he got it. He had come back to the Head's room, telling her she was a mudblood. She had crept into his room late that night and saw it on his arm while he was sleeping. She cried herself to sleep for several nights after that.

"I wish I could get it removed." He laughed, "but I guess it's just a reminder of all my bad choices, that I'm sorry for." He looked up at her.

"Well Draco I have to go, I have some things to grade."

"Okay, I'll see around then?"

"Yeah..around." She smiled at him and then kissed him on the cheek, "I haven't forgiven you yet Draco, but just let it happen okay."

Draco watched her leave and sat back further in his chair. He was going to get her back, and nothing was going to stop him, he wasn't going to let anything happen.

"I still can't believe she said no mate."

"Ron come on that was months ago."

"I know but I thought she loved me Harry, and then that ferret had to come and ruin it all."

"Ron have you ever stopped to think that maybe you and Hermione were never meant to be?"

"That's ridiculous Harry, you know we've been meant to be since our first year."

"Ron I think she would prefer you as a friend right now."

"But Harry come on its Draco Malfoy, MAL-FOY. You can possibly believe he is better for her than me?"

"Ron I'm not sure what to think right now." Harry was torn between his two best friends. On one side Ron was right, Draco had hurt Hermione before, but Hermione loved him as much as it pained her to admit. Was Ron the better person for Hermione?

"I need another Butterbeer."

A/N: Ha, I told you all I would have another chapter up soon. I hope that it's alright. And now you know exactly what happened between them. Please don't hate me for making Ron the bad guy, but it just seems to happen that way. Again I hope you like it and thanks to all my reviewers. Blood-In-The-Stars, slytherin princess 05, tweetykitty, SexMeDracoSonny587, hpfan, MiSs JoVaNNa, Krizue.

avchocaholic- I'm glad you liked how Harry was portrayed. I figured well she needs to have someone who can understand them.