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Chapter 2: Comfort in Him

Hermione went straight up to her dorm with tears coming down her face still and ignoring peoples questions and stares. How could she let Ron do this to her, to break her down to a no good crybaby? She had not acted like this since she was in the first year and it was because of Ron that she had acted like that too. Then to top it off to have Malfoy come and play around with her mind and try and take advantage of her. But in the back of her mind something was saying, 'you know this is something you wanted since you saw the boy'. She shook her head no and told herself she was just so distraught that she was going mad. Though she could not stop thinking about him she new she had too in order to keep her vow. Ron had changed her and that change was staying in order to not be hurt like this again.

At 12:00pm that day Hermione decide to go and take a walk by the lake and clear her mind of Ron and Malfoy. As she went passed the Great Hall Harry came out as he saw her, but it was not the typical happy go easy Harry it was a raging Harry that she had only seen when he was fighting last year against Voldemort. "Hello Harry. How are..." Hermione asked but was stopped as Harry came and slapped her.

"You horrible little bitch! How could you do that to Ron right after you fuck him saying he was not good enough for your taste!" Harry yelled at her.

She was sitting on the floor holding her face where he had just hit her and crying quietly, "I did no such thing Harry, in fact I think you should check your story and you'll find out that I am the one who you should be defending not that ass-hole of a friend Ron!"

"You liar! I know Ron and when he came into the dorm last night I knew something was wrong and we talked. You are the biggest Bitch of this school! How could you be so god damn Bloody EVIL! Not even Malfoy would sink this low." He yelled and Harry stormed off up the stairs leaving her on the floor crying.

She got up before the rest of the school came out the Great Hall and walked away outside to try and pull herself together. Not only had Ron killed her heart last night but now Harry thinks she was the one who mistreated Ron and to give him more he had hit her. What was the whole of Gryffandor house against her now? As she walked around the lake it became apparent to her that they were. Every person from her house that she saw did not look at her and seemed to snigger some rude comment at her as they walked passed her. Some were even so rude that they came right up and gave her their two cents. She found a big tree and went and sat behind it getting away from those things that called them self's people so she could cry in peace. Why had Ron done this? Had he not done her enough pain last night and then to go and turn all of the Gryffandors against her making her the bad person? She felt like she was ready to explode when someone stuck their head around the tree. It was Malfoy.

"Hey Granger can I sit with you?" He asked quietly. She nodded not really caring who came near her as long as they were not there to torment her. "I was just wanting to know if you are doing any better, but by looking at you, you look worse. Anything I can do to help?" He asked her as he sat next to her.

"No, not unless you can perform a memory charm strong enough to blank out the whole of Gryffandor houses memory. And really if we are going to talk we should consider being on first name basis." She told him as she sniffed a bit and wiped the remaining tears away.

"I can handle that Hermione," Him saying her name sounded so sweet and seductive, "I don't think anyone wipe that many memories clean, not even Lockhart, but still if I could I would. Wow what happened here?" Draco exclaimed as he saw where Harry had smacked her.

"Harry." She stated, "Ron has told everyone that everything is my fault and that he is the good person. So I got smacked by Harry and pushed away by everyone else. I feel so out of place and feel like I could kill all of them right now for being so thick as to believe every word he has said! Its like a rage that has been inside me that is ready to be let out finally." Hermione told him truthfully. It was like a wave of blackness that had been hiding that rushed over her and the power within her grew at that moment to no one notice.

"Well if you want to you are welcome to hang out with me and my friends if you would like. I think you would fit in just fine." He told her as he placed his hand over hers. She looked down at it and told herself to pull away but could not make herself do so. It was as if a bond held them together like something that she had never felt with Ron. Judging by the look on Draco's face he was feeling the same exact thing as she was.

"I think they might not though because I'm, let me quote this, 'A fifthly little mudblood'. I believe you have established that clearly enough to me to get it in my mind. So I think that I would be just as out of place there as in my own house." She told him as she went to stand up but was stopped by Draco grabbing her arm softly.

"Stay with me for a bit longer. I want to talk with you. I know I said some down right brutal things to you and some things that should have never left my tongue but how can I ever make it up to you if we only spend about 3 minutes together at most?" He explained to her. She gave him a small warm smile that had always gave him the shivers when he saw it. "I know that as long as you are by my side no one will judge you or do anything that will upset you while you are down there. I will make it clear that you are welcome with me as any of them are ok? It will be like you are a fellow Slytherin among us and that is saying something for a Gryffandor. Who knows you might like it there better then in your own house." And he flashed a never before seen true smile and boy did it make him look ten times sexier!

"Alright then. I'll do it, but the first time one of them saying something that I find remotely hurtful or rude toward me so help them because they will be cursed faster then you can say HAVE AT YOU!" She told him raising an eyebrow and smirking. "I feel though as if I should tell you something that I have never told anyone." She started.

"Well tell me then. I won't laugh or whatever just talk to me." Draco assured her.

"Alright then. Well when we were doing the shorting in first year and I was called up it took the shorting hat about 10 minutes before he knew were to put me. Everyone thought that it was having such a hard time picking between Ravenclaw and Gryffandor, but what I never told them was that he was really having a hard time choosing weather to put me in Gryffandor or Slytherin. I always wondered why though. I never thought of myself to be a Slytherin or have Slytherin qualities." She explained and saw that his eyes were wide with a bit of shock.

"The Shorting hat wanted to put you in Slytherin! Wow I would have never thought you to be even considered because of you being muggle-born. Mind you that some half blood witch and wizards get in but not very many. There really is something super special and secretive about you! I find it fascinating. But what I have heard from you today you could have just had the qualities hiding in you secretively or something." Draco told her. "Listen tomorrow is a hogsmeade weekend and I think it would be great if we hung out together then. What do you say?"

She sat there looking into his lovely gray eyes that seemed to hypnotize her and nodded yes, "Alright then. It sounds like a good plan. How about we meet in the entry hall at 8:00am tomorrow? Then we can ride down together."

"Brilliant! I can't wait till we meet again Hermione!" He said as he stood up lending her a hand then kissing it as they stood up. She smiled shyly and blushed a light shade of pink. "Mind if I walk you back up to the castle?" He asked.

"Sure. I would not object to the company. Besides maybe with you with me Harry won't touch me again. Mind you if he comes storming at me again I swear he will be sorry and never forget it!" She said with a look in her eye that told anyone that she meant what she said.

"Spoken like a true Slytherin!" He told her as they walked side by side up to the castle. 'This might not be too hard after all' Draco thought to himself as they went their separate ways to their dorms.

Hermione walked the rest of the trip to the dorms in a hurry as she tried to escape the torment that seemed to haunt her now because of Ron.

She went into her room and pulled out her wand and made a silver book appear in front of her. She tapped the book twice and mutter, "Recordsion" and she talked openly to the book as it sucked in all the words she spoke into the diary. She had got the idea for the diary from her 2nd year when Harry had found Riddles diary. It had served her well since then, helping her get through all her troubles and issues without having to spill her heart out to anyone. And being as she was like in love with books what a better way to confide her problems then to a book itself.

She finished her day's events and closed the book making it disappear again. She wondered why or how her life could so suddenly change. Was it because she had sex? Or maybe was it because it was time to face her true self? She new there was more to her than she knew or even her parents knew. It was something deep down that made her feel not quite complete no matter what she did. She had found comfort with Draco for god's sake! That is not something to just push aside as nothing because he had treated her like dragon dung since he met her. She was so lost at the moment and had no idea what to do about it. So she thought that she would sleep on it and sort through it tomorrow before she went to meet Draco.

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