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Chapter Seven

Encounter with the Dark Prince

After Hermione received the second letter, Ginny and Hermione started hanging out together more often. They seemed to enjoy each others company and Hermione could talk about girl's stuff with Ginny. Two weeks have passed since the second letter. Ginny and Hermione were being very secretive about what the letters contain. Ron had been bugging Hermione about the letter, but she refused to tell him. Hermione was very annoyed by Ron's behavior, so she started trying to avoid him. She spent most of her in her room, the library or running with Ginny.

Ginny and Harry were sitting down by the lake. He was caressing her cheek when she reached for his lips. He backed up a little to see her close her eyes. She flung her eyes open to see him staring at her with loving eyes. She smile and kissed him lightly in the lips. He kissed her back and slid his tongue into her mouth. They were kissing so passionately, that they didn't notice that they were now lying down and she was on top of him. He pulled back and with a single movement change their position so that he was lying down on top of her. They were kissing and caressing each other. They pulled back when they heard people giggling. There were a couple of girls from one of Harry's fan clubs. Harry turned his head to see them and they just giggle, this made Ginny angry. When they saw that Ginny was getting mad because of their presence they left still giggling.

"Argh, I hate them. Every time I passed them, they just glare and start talking about how you could go out with me when there are many other girls prettier than me." Ginny told him sitting up and straightening her shirt.

"Come on Gin. I know there are many other pretty girls in the school, but to me you are the most beautiful, caring, hot tempered, enchanting, redheaded young lady I've ever met and the only one I love." Harry said and gave her a kiss in the lips. She just giggled and kissed him back.

"Come on, let's go it's getting late and I have a class after lunch." Harry said to Ginny, who just smile and took his hand in hers.

As Harry and Ginny went back to the Great Hall for lunch they met up with Hermione and Ron, and as always they were bickering.

"Please Ron it was nothing important." Hermione said.

"If it was nothing important why don't you tell me what it was?" Ron asked Hermione.

"Because I do not think it's appropriate to be snitching in your girlfriend's business. That's why." Hermione said in a defiant tone that meant 'if you ask one more time I am going to hex you Ronald' which was not a good thing.

"What's going on with you two?" Ginny asked when they arrived at the Gryffindor table.

"Ron here wants to know what the letter said!" Hermione said giving Ginny a look that said 'please help me out.'

"Why would you want to know what the letter says Ron? It's none of your business, and you can not be nosing around Hermione's or for a matter any other people's things." Ginny said glaring at Ron, who just took a seat next to Hermione. Hermione mouthed a Thank you to Ginny. They began to eat, a few seconds later they heard screams which came from the Slytherin table. It was Pansy Parkinson screaming to Theodore Nott.

"How dare you! If you want to shag someone go look for a prostitute in a bar. I AM NOT A WHORE. And keep your hands off of me." Pansy was yelling to Theodore Nott.

"Calm down Pansy. It isn't the first time someone shags you." Theodore was saying when Draco punching him right in the nose. The Great Hall went silent as Draco spoke.

"Look Nott, whether it's the first, second or the hundredth time it happens it's her business, and you are still going to respect her. She is a lady and if she wants to have sex with all the guys in Slytherin, or in Hogwarts for that matter, it's her own business and only hers, so stop bothering her ok? Or do I have to say it again?" Draco said waiting for Theodore Nott to make a move, so he could punch him again. Theodore didn't say anything; he stood up and headed to the hospital wing. The entire Great Hall was quiet, everybody was staring at Draco. He looked around the Great Hall and saw that every single person in it was looking at him in disbelief, like if it was all a dream and the incident right now didn't happened. He saw a pair of almond brown eyes watching him in disbelief; he just smile to the owner of those beautiful eyes. He stood up and made his way to the Great Hall doors. He was about to leave when…

"Hey Draco wait up" Blaise Zabini said to his friend. Draco and Blaise went out of the Great Hall and started heading towards the dungeons.

"Draco! Stop walking." Blaise uttered. Draco stopped walking.

"What do you want Blaise? I have to go." Draco said trying to evade his friend.

"Come on Draco. You know exactly what I want." Blaise replied looking his friend in the eye as if asking a silent 'Why?'

"Look Blaise, Pansy might be annoying but she is one of the only two friends I have. I was not going to let Nott insult her like that, besides you would have done the same thing. I saw what you were about to do when I told off the guy." Draco told Blaise.

"Yeah, well, but don't tell anybody." Blaise replied looking embarrassed.

"Sure." Draco said. They walk back to their common room in silence. Draco was thinking in the events that just happened. While Draco went to his room, Blaise stayed in the common room.

Draco took a quill and a piece of parchment and started writing. About an hour later he headed to the Owlery. He took Jupiter and sent him with a letter tied with a green silk ribbon. He went back to his common room where he found Pansy and Blaise waiting for him.

"So who is she?" Pansy asked Draco.

He looked at his two friends and then said "Who is who?"

"You know what we are talking about. Don't you try to deny it. We know perfectly that you fancy a girl because the way your acting. So spill." Pansy said looking at him with a strange glint in her eyes somewhat like sadness.

"Fine, but not here someone may hear us." Draco said looking around to see if someone was there.

"OK." Blaise and Pansy said in unison. They made their way up to the library. When they finally got there Draco directed them to the furthest table in the book-filled room.

"OK. So who is she?" Pansy asked.

"Why do you want to know?" Draco Replied.

"Because we are your friends." Pansy said.

"And because the entire house is saying that, you and I are a couple." Blaise said to his friend.

"You have got to be kidding me. You and me, gay. Come they have to give me more credit than that." Draco said. "For god's sake I'm Draco Malfoy Slytherin's sex god. Why would they say I'm gay?" he finished.

"Don't know but you have to do something about it." Draco said.

"Excuse me, but you haven't answered my question. Who is she?" Pansy asked again.

"Fine, I'm not telling you her name all I can say is that she is a 7th year Gryffindor and that she is the most beautiful woman I have seen in my entire life; and I'm in love with her since our third year." Draco said with nostalgia.

"Why haven't you told her?" Pansy asked.

"Why? Because she is a Gryffindor and I'm a Slytherin. Besides, she would never take me even if she was in love with me. Our differences are endless and her friends would never let her be with me." Draco told his friends.

"Well, I say you go for it" Blaise said. "If she says no well at least you know that you told her your feelings towards her, but if you don't you'll live in the "what could have been" stage."

"I don't know Blaise what if she thinks I'm just messing with her like I did with all those other girls." Draco said.

"Look in order to gain something you want you might need to risk things you have and you may end up losing everything, but isn't it worth it?" Pansy told him and then turned around and left.

"You know she's right man, and if you don't hurry up Weasley might even proposed to her and if that is the case you are doomed." Blaise told his friend.

"I guess you're right. Wait how did you…" Draco asked.

"Come on give me a little credit we know each other since we were little our parents might have ended their friendship because of You Know Who, but you and me are still friends and I know you very well, besides you keep staring at her every time we are in potions and in DADA. So it wasn't really hard to deduce it." Blaise said with a grin that could match Draco's.

"Do you think anyone else has notice this?" Draco asked.

"No I don't think anyone other than me has seen this they are either too busy paying attention to the professors or too thick headed to notice it." Blaise finished.

"Look, don't tell anybody about this. I got to go. I have things to do." Draco said walking out of the library.

After Draco left the library he headed down to the Slytherin common room and then to his room he took out some black robes and a green mask he had bought during the summer. It was an antique mask somewhat like the phantom of the opera mask but this one covers both eyes and part of his mouth. Anyway, he took the robes and headed out of his dorm.

Hermione was heading down to her favorite place to read, under a tree in the shores of the dark lake, when the same owl that delivered the Dark Prince's letter perched in her shoulder and extended its leg for her to take the little piece of parchment that was tied with a green silky ribbon. She took the letter and patted the owl. She continued her walk to her spot and sat under the tree's shadow.

"Hmm." She sighed. She opened the letter and started reading.

My Wonderful Hermione

Looking into your eyes I find safety and delight; therefore the admiration I feel for you grows each day. Please let me tell you all I feel for you in person. I would love to see those almond brown eyes from a better angle. That is if you let me.

I wish upon you to meet me down by the lake at 8:00 pm tonight for thy heart I wish to captivate with my humble whispers of love for you. I beg of you to do so.

Farwell my love

Yours truly,

The Dark Prince

Hermione reread the letter twice before putting it inside her schoolbag. She took a book out of her bag and opened it to a page that had the corner folded. She was reading her favorite muggle book. Romeo & Juliet. She loved Shakespeare's plays. She owned most of them. Her parents had given her one book each time she got a good grade in school.

She couldn't concentrate so she closed the book and put it back in her bag. She lay back on the trunk of the tree and closed her brown eyes. In minutes she dozed off to sleep. She woke up an hour later, startled by the sound of the giant squid. She checked her watch and saw that it was 6:30pm and headed up to the castle.

She entered the great hall and the first thing she saw was Ron fussing all over her.

"Where have you been? We looked all over the castle for you." Ron said.

"Sorry, I went for a walk and I fell asleep under a tree when I sat down to read." Hermione replied.

"Why didn't you tell us where you were headed? At least why didn't you tell me?" Ron asked. Hermione turned to look at him in disbelief

"Wrong thing to say mate." Harry said. "But are you ok 'mione?"

"Yes Harry, and for your information Ronald I might be your girlfriend, but you do not own me I don't have to give you explanations of where or why I went somewhere unless it concerns you. It's that it or do you have anything else to say?" she asked but no one said anything. "Good, now if you excuse me I need to talk to Ginny in private."

"Ok. Well let's go to the library, I was heading that way anyways." Ginny commented.

Ginny and Hermione headed to the library. Once they where out of Ron and Harry's sight Hermione took out the letter and Ginny understood.

"When did you receive it?" Ginny asked while reading the letter.

"Just before I came back to the castle." Hermione replied.

"Are you going?" the red-headed ask.

"I don't know. I want to know who the dark prince is, but at the same time I don't want to lie to Ron." Hermione said in a low tone.

"Well, I love my brother dearly, but if you want to go I'll keep your secret. Don't worry about Ron; he has to understand that you were curious to know who sent you the letters. Besides I'm dying to know who this mysterious poet of yours is." Ginny said while hugging Hermione.

"I guess you are right. I'll go see him tonight" Hermione finished.

That night Hermione went to the lake to meet her Dark Prince. She reached the lake five minutes before eight and he was already there. He was dressed in black robes, and ad the hood on, but what got her attention was the emerald green mask he was wearing. The mask covered up his eyes and a part of his mouth (kind of like the phantom of the opera's mask).

When the Dark Prince turned around he saw Hermione coming. He could not believe his eyes. Hermione had come, she'd come even though her boyfriend is a jealous prat.

Hermione approached the boy in the black lake's shore she was nervous as hell, because she did not know what to expect fro her Dark Prince. She wasn't even sure why she'd agreed too come, but Ginny had convinced her to do so. The reason being that they both wanted to know who the Dark Prince was, not that it really matter. It was just to satisfy their curiosity. There's nothing wrong with that, Right?

"I thought you weren't going to come" the Dark Prince said.

"Me too." Hermione said. "I'm not really sure why I'm here I have a boyfriend and I feel bad about lying to him"

"Well, I just wanted you to know how I feel about you." He replied.

"Then. Why all this secrecy? Why not tell me without the pseudonym and the mask?" Hermione said raising her voice a bit.

"Because, if I had done it like that you wouldn't have given me the time to tell you about my feelings for you. Not that it really matters now that you have a boyfriend, but I needed to get it out of my system. To get it out in the open, to tell you the woman I love that…I love you and that there's nobody else like you" the Dark Prince said.

"Do you really think you love me?" she paused. "Don't get me wrong I'm flattered, but I don't think you love me."

"Believe me, I do love you." The Prince said.

"You don't even know me… I don't even know you. How do I know you're not playing a prank on me?"

"I'm not playing any pranks, and I do know you. You are the smartest witch of our age, and you are the most beautiful girl in the world. You are kind hearted woman and that's why I love you." The Prince said. Hermione just stood there mouth hanging open, because nobody had ever said those things to her before not even Viktor, or Ron or that matter.

To be continued...

A/N: sorry i know it's been a while! but i promise i'll update chapter 8 soon!!! enjoy!!!