He turned to Hermione quickly, "Hermione, I know how to save you!"

Hermione turned to face Draco. "How?" she asked, clutching to the glimmer of hope she had to stay alive. It shone in her eyes, and Draco could see it.

"Madam Pomfrey can't take you off the life support charm if you're not there," Draco started explaining. He paused to see if Hermione caught on to his idea. She hadn't. For the brightest witch of her age, she sure was thick. He continued, "We steal your body!"

Hermione gaped at him, her jaw on the floor. She collected her wits quickly(or at least the part of her that controlled speech). "You want to steal my body? You can't possibly think... that couldn't work... could it? No, no. How could... well if we... no... how would that work?"

Deciding to only answer her final question, Draco elaborated, "We'll have to enlist the help of Potter and Weasley, one will create a distraction, the other will help me get you out of there. I would personally prefer to use other people, but they already know about your spirit being disconnected and it would make it a hell of a lot easier than attempting to get someone else to believe me. I don't need anyone else thinking I'm crazy. I just managed to convince people I'm sane. It's hard to explain why I spend so much time in the library to others. I don't want that slipping from my fingers again."

Hermione nodded. "Okay, but first, we need to find Harry and Ron."

Draco agreed, "Yeah. Where would they be?"

Hermione opened her mouth and closed it quickly, a small muttering could be heard.

Draco scrunched his eyebrows together. "What was that?"

Hermione spoke clearer, "I don't know."

Draco smirked, "Never thought I'd see the day that Miss Hermione I-Know-Everything Granger admits to not knowing something."

Hermione scowled at him.

Draco put his hands up in surrender. "I was just kidding. Take a joke!"

Hermione smirked, "And why would I do that?"

Draco stared at her a moment, then said slightly amazed, slightly amused, mostly shocked, "I thought my father and I were the only ones who could smirk like that!"

Hermione laughed, "Well, now you have a new competetor."

Draco couldn't help but chuckly. However, he quickly sobered himself. "We need to find Potter and Weasley."

Hermione nodded. "Come on. I'll look in the Gryffindor tower to see if they're there. If they are, we'll find a way to get the password. If we're lucky, it won't have changed since I've been in my coma."

Seeing as how Draco was a Slytherin, he didn't know how to get to the Gryffindor tower. Once the two approached the fat lady, Hermione motioned for him to wait as she walked through her portrait.

"What are you doing here?" the Fat Lady asked Draco.

Draco tried to think of something, anything that would make sense and get him out of trouble. An idea popped into his head. "I had heard rumors that you were the most beautiful portrait in the school, so I had to come see for myself, and I must say that I agree." He flashed her a winning smile.

She fanned herself and chuckled. She made small talk with the charming, platinum-haired man. He was quite handsome, who's to say that portraits can't have their fun?

Meanwhile, Hermione entered the common room to find Harry and Ron. She saw people milling around, chatting, and two couples snogging on couches. 'Disgusting,' Hermione thought to herself. 'Can't they at least go somewhere more private? People do not want to watch them snogging.' She then noticed that the males of the snogging pairs had red hair and black hair. The black-haired male was kissing a red-haired girl, and the red-haired male was kissing (more like eating her face, Hermione couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for the poor girl, this guy obviously didn't know what he was doing when it came to kissing, but this probably didn't mean much coming from a girl who had only kissed one guy in her life so far, and it wasn't even that great of a kiss) a brunette.

Hermione gasped loudly when she realized who they were. "Ron! Harry!" Hermione shrieked. "I can't believe you're doing this! I can't believe Ron's fine with Harry and Ginny making out right behind him, and in public! Against PDA my foot!"

Hermione got out of the common room as quickly as possibly because Ron's kissing of Parvati had just started to sound like someone trying to unclog a toilet. Why that girl wasn't running away from the obvious lack of kissing skill was beyond her.

Hermione saw Draco chatting with the Fat Lady. She giggled slightly because he looked rather horrified at her hitting on him. Hermione cleared her throat. Draco looked at her, relieved.

"Are they in there?" Draco asked.

"Yea," Hermione shuddered at the thought. "What they're doing is rather disturbing thought."

Draco looked at her nonplussed. What could be so bad that Hermione looked horrified at the thought.

Hermione added quickly, "The password is Doxy Eggs."

Draco then turned to the Fat Lady, "It's been a pleasure talking to you, but I really must meet my friends now. Doxy Eggs."

The Fat Lady, slightly startled by this interruption of her story, swung open to allow Draco in.

Draco and Hermione entered the common room, no one taking notice, which is rather odd considering the Slytherin Prince just entered the Gryffindor common room. Hermione gestured for Draco to follow her and pointed to the couch with the two snogging couples.

Draco made a disgusted face and then realized what made Hermione cringe. Weasley (male) seemed to be eating the poor girls face. Draco wondered to himself why she made no attempt to run away screaming at the poor attempt that one may be tempted to call kissing, others may call it attempted cannibalism.

Draco cleared his throat in an attempt to gain the attention of the males in the snogging couples. The couples remained oblivious to the fact that Draco was there.

He tried again, clearing his throat louder this time. Students farther away seemed to notice he was there and started whispering their guesses as to why a Slytherin was in their common room and how he got in there. However, they were smart enough not to bother him because no one had forgotten how he wasn't afraid to hurt them.

Draco them picked up a spare paper laying on the table next to the couch, rolled it up, and promply whacked the two males in the snogging couples. They seemed to notice this. They came up for air and to see who disturbed them (to give them a piece of their mind, and perhaps a whack on the head as well . When they noticed it was Draco, their anger turned into confusion.

"Weasley, Potter," Draco addressed much like a commander would address soldiers in an army. "I need to speak to you in private."

The two quickly apologized to their girlfriends and went with Draco into their room. Draco put a silencing charm on it along with an advanced locking charm which 'aloharma' wouldn't be able to open.

Draco turned to the two guys, Hermione behind him. "Tomorrow morning, I'm going to steal Hermione's body. I want your help."

Harry and Ron looked at each other, then at Draco. They burst out laughing. When seeing Draco's serious expression, they stopped.

Harry spoke first, "You're serious? We wouldn't possibly be able to do that. It wouldn't work."

Ron continued, "The Grangers are coming to give their daughter a final good-bye at 11:30. We wouldn't have the time because Madam Pomfrey makes her rounds to check on everybody at 11:15."

Draco spoke gravely, "This is our only chance. We might as well use it instead of just giving up here and now. Fifteen minutes is plenty of time. We can do it."

Harry and Ron still looked doubtful. Harry said, "You're right, it's worth a shot. Hermione deserves at least that much."

Ron added, "What's the plan?"

Draco clued them in and set to meet at 11:00 right outside the Hospital Wing.

Draco, after explaining the plan, said, "Well, I should get going. If anybody asks why I was here, tell them that I was telling you about a detention Snape gave you for 11:00 in the morning tomorrow. That way, you can get away and it doesn't seem too weird as to why I'm here. If they want a reason, that's doubtful, Snape enjoys giving detentions and deducting points too much for anyone to really think there's an actual reason. Make something up if someone really wants to know. Good night."

Draco turned towards the door.

"Wait," Ron said.

Draco turned around, curious as to why he wanted him to wait. He had explained the plan clearly several times.

"Thanks," the red-headed boy said sincerely.

Draco gave a nod as a sign of resect and understanding.

Draco and Hermione left, to spend the rest of Hermione's night talking, for if the plan didn't work, this was her last chance at any human contact.

Hermione told him, "If I don't make it, you can have my books. I know Harry and Ron won't want them, and they won't do my parents any good, and you've been so kind and-"

Draco cut her off, "You're rambling."

Hermione gave a sheepish grin. "So, do you want the books?"

Draco shook his head, "The plan will work. I promise you that. It won't be necessary, you'll be alive and able to read them. I'm sure you'll want them."

Hermione smiled, glad that Draco was so confident in the plan. It made it seem like it was going to work. 'I really hope it works,' Hermione thought to herself.

Soon, the two fell asleep, outside by the lake. Hermione woke first and the first thing she saw was Draco. 'He's changes so much since this all has happened. I'm glad he's the one that's been helping me. If it were anyone else, I'd be lost. He looks so happy right now.' Hermione mused.'I wonder what he's dreaming of.'

Draco stirred in his sleep before waking up to the sight of Hermione.

He blinked his eyes blearily and said sleepily, "Good morning."

'Waking up to the sight of her face is really pleasant. Maybe I'll be able to do that again,' Draco thought but didn't seem to acknowledge it because his mind was still foggy with sleep.

"What time is it?" Draco asked.

Hermione looked at the watch he was wearing. "About 10:50."

Draco's eyes widened at this. "Oh shit! Come on! We have to go!"

They quickly got to their feet and sprinted towards the Hospital Wing. When they got there, both were panting.

Draco checked his watch. "Oh good, it's only 10:57."

Draco leaned his head against the cool wall. At the sound of footsteps, Draco lifted his head.

"Good, you're on time," Draco addressed. "Okay, once Madam Pomfrey finishes her rounds, Ron, create the distraction."

Ron nodded, and the three boys watched throught the window when Madam Pomfrey started checking on all the patients. When she went to check on Hermione's body, Draco saw that she looked disappointed in herself. She had almost always saved all of them, there were so few that didin't make it.

Once Madam Pomfrey finished Ron ran inside trying to look desprate.

"Someone's going to jump off the Astronomey Tower!" he shouted.

Madam Pomfrey looked at him and shock and quickly grabbed his arm and dragged him off to the Astronomey Tower. Ron really hoped that someone was there so he wouldn't get in loads of trouble.

Right after Ron and Madam Pomfrey left, Harry and Draco rushed in and went inside the curtains to Hermione's body.

Hermione, remembering something of vast importance, gasped.

Draco turned to her. "What's wrong?" he asked urgently.

"I just remembered that you have to renew the charm!" Hermione nearly shouted.

Draco blinked twice. "What?"

Hermione looked ready to start sobbing, "The charm that acts as life support has to be renewed every twenty-four hours! You can't take it off, it just wears off!"

Draco shouted many explectives.

Harry, completely bewildered as to what made Draco get so upset, decided to break Draco out of his cursing fit. "Malfoy! We need to move Hermione's body!"

Draco looked at Harry and quickly told him, "The charm keeping her alive wears off every twenty-four hours! She's still going to die at noon!"

Harry made an 'O' with his mouth in understanding. Then, Harry had an idea (an excellent one to the standards of bookworms everywhere) "We can look it up in the library after we take Hermione's body!"

Draco nodded. He flung open the curtains. He started wheeling Hermione's body out with the help of Harry. They made it to the door when it was flung open by a fuming Madam Pomfrey dragging Ron by the ear.

Madam Pomfrey, shocked at the fact that Harry and Draco were wheeling out the body of Hermione Granger, quickly started yelling to release some of her anger, "WHERE THE HELL DO YOU TWO THINK YOU'RE TAKING MISS GRANGER'S BODY! IT WAS HER PARENTS DECISION TO TAKE HER OFF THE LIFE-SUPPORT CHARM AND DAMMIT IT'S GOING TO STAY THAT WAY!"

The clock struck noon in the Hospital Wing. Draco looked confused. His watch read 11:26. 'Oh shit,' Draco thought to himself. 'The Hospital Wing clock is fast!'

Hermione's spirit started fading. "Draco, it's too late. I'm sorry it didn't work. Thank you for trying."

It flickered back to normal, but started fading again.

"NO!" Draco shouted. "She can't die! She'll make it!"

Tears started streaming down his face. He looked up at Hermione's fading spirit, then down at her face. He kissed her right on the lips.

Hermione's spirit put her fingers up to her lips. She could feel the warmth of Draco. Her spirit completely faded.

Draco looked up at Hermione, but she was gone. He started muttering, "No, no, no. She can't die. Hermione, you can't die."

Draco was looking at Hermione's lifeless body. He saw her chest move. Hermione's eyes fluttered open.

"Where am I?" Hermione asked softly.

Draco smiled, "The Hospital Wing. Hermione, you're alive."

He leaned over and hugged here.

Hermione, confused, asked, "Malfoy, have you lost your mind? Do you realize who you're hugging? Get off me!"

Draco looked at her, bewildered to why she was doing this.

Hermione looked to Harry. "Harry, why is Malfoy being like," she made wild hand gestures to Malfoy, "that."

Draco looked crestfallen. "You don't remember, do you?"

Hermione looked at him as if he lost his mind, "Remember what?"