A/N: I don't own Harry Potter! J.K. Rowling does! Please don't sue me!

Chapter 2

Granger Acceptence

Draco hesitently followed Hermione as she led him to her house.

"Malfoy, I think I deserve an explination on what happened, I am trusting you, you know," said Hermione after a little while.

"Why should I feel comfort in a filthy Mudblood's trust? I'm not telling you anything!" replied Draco with his old, snobby habits kicking in.

"Because, Malfoy, I will just leave you here if I decide you aren't trust worthy and if you call me a Mudbl…that word, one more time, I swear I'll just ditch you and not even think twice about it! Now, do you agree you will show me respect and earn my trust? Or would you rather me leave you here to die?" asked Hermione.

Draco, seeing defeat, just gave a brief nod of his head. "What on Earth am I thinking! The Dark Lord would have killed me for sure if she left me here. I can't fail this task he gave me to make up for my last failure! Besides, if I call her a Mudblood again I'll have to hear another annoying Granger speech. Still, I can't believe she acctually trusts me! I mean come on, she acctually fell for that scared act! I thought she was supposed to be smart! Pathetic. I'll bet she…"

"We're here," said Hermione, interupting Draco's thoughts. She opened the door of the split-level they had arrived to and peeked inside. "Mom? Dad? I'm home and I, uh, brought some company." Mr. and Mrs. Granger entered the room with curious expressions wondering who their daughter was talking about. Mrs. Granger gave Hermione a questioning look while Mr. Granger gave a stern look to Draco. "Mom, Dad," continued Hermione, "This is Draco, a, erm, friend from school. His parents, uh, abused him and he ran away," Hermione winked at Draco as she said this, "He has no where to go right now and do you think he could stay with us for a little while?"

Mrs. Granger looked somber as she watched Draco stare at the floor, but Mr. Granger bore a scowl. He had seen the wink his daughter exchanged with that boy. He decided he will have to have a little chat with him, no boy can hurt his baby girl and he wanted to make sure this Draco won't be the first one to hurt her. (A/N: Hermione obviously didn't tell him about Ron!)

Draco noticed Mr. Granger's expression and grimaced. "I sure hope Mr. Granger isn't like my father, though, I can't imagine Granger being abused," he thought.

"You can stay in the downstairs guestroom until you go back to school." Draco looked up to see that Mrs. Granger was talking to him. Trying to be as polite as possible so they didn't suspect anything, Draco said, "Thank you so much Mrs. and Mr. Granger, I don't know what I could have done without your hospitality." Mrs. Granger blushed at the kind comment and preceded Draco to the basement to show him where he would be staying. Hermione started to follow but her dad held her back. "Oh great, here comes the questions!" she thought.

"Seriously, who is this boy?" asked Mr. Granger.

"I told you he's just my friend from school," replied Hermione.

"Not anything more than a friend?"

"Nope, just a friend."

"Is he nice to you?"

"Well if he wasn't nice to me he wouldn't be a friend now would he?" Hermione hastily replied getting nervous.

"Fine, but if he is rude in anyway or upsets you in anyway, lets just get this clear that he gets kicked out of this house and I'll personally make sure I never see his face again!" Hermione sighed at her father's over-protectiveness and nodded her head. Mr. Granger let go of her shoulder and she proceeded down to the basement to catch up with her mom and Draco. Mrs. Granger was asking Draco about school and how old he was and just the normal topics of conversation. To Hermione's relief, Draco was politely replying to everything, no showing a hint of his normal arrogance. "I guess he finally realized how much I'm putting at stake for him," thought Hermione. Mrs. Granger left to get some fresh sheets to put on Draco's bed and Draco turned his attention back to Hermione.

"Happy Granger? I'm respecting you and your family. I must admit they're not that bad. I always believed Muggles to be slimy and cruel creatures, but I suppose I was mistaken," said Draco.

"Funny, I felt the same way about a certain pureblood nearby," she replied with a look of satisfaction on her face.

"Well we'll just see about that now won't we Granger?" he said with a smirk on his face. He was actually impressed by her come back, it was almost Slytherin-ish. Mrs. Granger walked in and proceeded to start setting up Draco's bed. "Allow me, Mrs. Granger," he said and he just waved his want and the sheets magically made themselves on the bed. Mrs. Granger was stunned, she had never seen magic up close before, Hermione had not been allowed to do it out of Hogwarts and Mrs. Granger never went there. She realized that she had remained motionless and thanked him and announced she would just go upstairs to start dinner. Draco smirked at Mrs. Granger's reaction and pulled out a book from the bookshelf in the room and plopped down on his bed.

"I guess it would be a little too late to say 'make yourself at home'," commented Hermione with a grin as she proceeded to follow her mother and help her with dinner. Draco had almost forgotten she was there and just got wrapped up in the story he was reading. Funny enough, it was about the Salem Witch Trials.

A/N: I based Mr. Granger on my father and step-dad! I'm sure many girls my age (13) and older experience this over-protectiveness that annoys us all so much! Hey they just don't want us to get hurt, but must they embarrass us so! Oh, well, I'll update soon!