Well I found that I needed a little motivation for this chapter so I found this quote that kind of suit this chapter. I didn't write it I just found it on Xanga.

"I'm not gonna give a fuck anymore. If you hurt me, I'm going to hurt you. That's how it's going to be from now on."

Chapter 7-Drunken Words

Draco and Hermione had spent some time together since their last talk. Hermione was slowly forgiving him, but that was all about to come crashing down.

Hermione walked up to Draco's door to walk to dinner with him when she heard him talking to someone.

"Nott you can't be doing this type of thing. Voldemort's dead, there's no reason to follow in his path anymore."

"Come on Malfoy, we've talked to Zabini, Crabbe, and Goyle, they all said they would help us."

"What made you think I would help you?"

"Your father was the Dark Lord's right-hand-man. You were his heir Draco, and now it's time for you to act on that."

Hermione ran away from Draco's door and into her own room. 'How could even be considering doing this.' What Hermione didn't hear could have made all the difference in the world.

"Look Nott I'm no the same Malfoy who did all that. I don't want to help you; I don't even want this mark. I never did. I want you to leave. You really should think a lot about this Nott, you could get yourself killed it's not worth it, it never was."

"What Malfoy, do you think you're too good for us now?"

"As a matter of fact, I am too good for you and for what you're trying to do. You won't succeed. Now get out of this castle." Draco started walking towards Nott and he ran off.

He looked at his watch and saw it was time for dinner. He put on his robes and walked over to Hermione's room to take her to dinner. He heard a slight sniffle when he knocked.

"Leave Malfoy."

'Malfoy?' "Hermione what's the matter?"

The sudden opening of the door surprised Draco; "You know exactly what the matter is. You're still a Death Eater. How could you Draco I thought you were on our side..on my side! I never thought you would do such, I always trusted you when it came to that and now..."

Hermione kept on yelling as Draco realized what happened. She had heard him and Nott talking about the Death Eaters coming back.

"...I hate you Draco Malfoy, how could ever even think to do something like that."

"Hermione, shut up! I told him..."

"How dare you tell me to shut up! How dare you!"

"Hermione look I didn't agree to anything he..."

"Don't Hermione me, Draco. You stupid prat."

She then proceeded to slam the door in his face and called Harry through the fire.

"Well good evening Hermione."

"Maybe for you. Look Harry I really need to talk to you when I can I come by?"

"Well umm.. Ginny'sbeenstayinghereforafewdays and, oh I guess you could come by anyways."

"Wait..Ginny's with you?"

"Yes."

"Oh well, I'll be there later tonight then."

Draco retreated back to his thinking about how bad that had just gone. Just hours ago Hermione was fine, and trusted. Now she wouldn't even give him a chance. "Fuck."

Scene Change...haha Harry's house

"It's good to see you Hermione."

"You too Harry, and you Ginny."

The younger red head hugged Hermione; "It's been a while."

"Yes it has. So you two seem to be rather close?"

Harry blushed, "Yeah we started dating months ago, sorry I didn't tell you."

"Well I probably wouldn't have even realized it if you did. There's been so much going on lately, you know? Well hold on, I think I do remember Ron saying something about you two." She shrugged.

"So Hermione what did you want to talk about?"

"Well before dinner tonight I went to Draco's room to walk with him and Theodore Nott was with him. You know the kind of short kid in Slytherin with him," Harry nodded, "well he started telling Draco about all these Death Eaters trying to get back together and Draco was actually listening to him. Nott said that Draco was Voldemort's heir. His fucking heir Harry! He came to my room later and tried to talk to me, but I wouldn't let him. I kind of slammed the door in his face."

Harry shook his head, "What did he say?"

"I heard something along the lines of 'I didn't agree,' or something."

"So you didn't let him talk." It was Ginny this time.

"No, I was yelling at him and nothing he was saying was registering except when he told me to shut up, and now I remember what he was trying to say."

"Hermione do you really think Draco would work with the Death Eaters again? After everything he went through with us, with you."

"I don't know, I still find it hard to trust him."

Ginny hugged Hermione, "I think you should let him talk, even just for a minute. You may have jumped to conclusions Hermione."

"Yeah, I think so too."

"Maybe, but he has just hurt me so much. Sometimes I just want to hurt him back you know, give him just a smidge of what he's done to me."

Hermione sighed and hugged them both again and then changed the subject, "So how are you two doing?"

"We're great. Ron wasn't too happy about it, especially after you turned him down, but he's coming around. Have you talked to him lately?"

"No, I supposed I should at least owl him though, it's been months. Ginny you really should come visit me sometime."

Ginny nodded,"How has Hogwarts been to you Hermione."

"Excellent. The students are really working hard. It's a lot better than I expected."

"That's good."

"What about you Harry, how is being an Auror?"

"It's great. Ron and me just finished training. I think I should tell the ministry about these Death Eaters though. You know before it becomes too big a problem."

"Yeah, that's a good idea. And how's the bank Ginny?"

"Oh it's wonderful. Sometimes it gets a little hard with the little buggers running around everywhere. They give you such bad looks. But it's a fun job."

"Are you two living together now?'

"Well I've been here for a few weeks; Ron has been a horrible housemate since that day."

"I can only imagine, I'm sorry."

"Well it's not your fault, well yes it is!"

They all laughed at Ginny. They all caught up with each other until late that night when Hermione finally decided to get back to Hogwarts. She said goodbye and apparated to Hogsmeade. She passed by the Three Broomsticks and saw Draco, sitting with Blaise. She shook her head and went inside to get him.

"Draco I need to speak with you."

When he opened his mouth she could smell the alcohol on his breath, "Heythere beautiful." He took her around the waist, "What you would you like to talk about?"

Hermione slapped him and then pulled him out of the bar and into an alley where she preceded to punch him.

"Damn Hermione, is all that really necessary."

"Look at this I come to tell you I'm sorry for over reacting and your drunk off your ass talking to one of the Death Eaters."

"I swear I was tellingto stop babe, I really was."

"Yeah, uh huh. Well Draco I think it's time for you to go back to the school, come on I'll walk you back."

They both walked out of Hogsmeade village and started up the path to Hogwarts. Draco's arm was draped over Hermione shoulders, and she was barley supporting his weight.

"Draco why are you so drunk?"

"I needed to (burp) clear my head."

"I see. Why is that?"

"I can never do anything right with you, you know? I always do something and I wish I knew why."

Hermione smiled at him. When they reached the castle she had to help him up the stairs to the staff common room and into his room. "I'm going to get you some water just stay put." Hermione went the bathroom and filled a class with water and then pulled two tiny pills out of her bag.

"Take this Draco, it will help with the headache."

He took it and immediately regretted it, "Shit, Hermione what was that?"

'"It's a Muggle medicine called aspirin, it' s helps with headaches."

Draco stuck out his tongue and gave a dirty face, "Nasty."

Hermione sat in his room with him for a while before he started falling asleep, "Well goodnight Draco. If you have a headache in the morning just come and see me."

He mumbled something she couldn't hear, so she started to walk away. He took her wrist before she was too far and pulled her on top of him with a gasp.

He kissed her hard on the mouth, "Thank you Hermione. You know, I love you. Really I do."

Hermione stayed there staring at him for moment. He had already fallen asleep and looked extremely, peaceful. She smiled at him and then left the room contemplating the nights events.

A/N: please forgive me for the wait. Exams have been hectic and now there over and done with. I get two off from school, well because they siad I could. So I started writing. I hope it's good for you guys. I will try and have another chapter up soon. I put Harry in here for some of my reviwers like Krizue, and Avchocaholic. I would also like to send a special thanks to Caricatureofintimacy for reviewing like 6 times and for reading Family matters and my One-shot.

Oh and by the way, I know the way Draco talks when she finds him in the bar is wrong, but he was drunk, I wrote it like was slurring words and junk like that. So believe me my grammer isn't that bad. Please don't forget to read and review! Oh yeah about that one-shot, It's a brand new story called Lovers and Liars. go Read! Thank you guys so much!

Missez Malfoy