Chapter 4
(Draco pov)
Draco wiped his chin off and looked for some sign that he had cut himself. There were no cuts anywhere on his face. 'Maybe it wasn't blood' he told himself as he started to feel nauseous. He didn't even fix his hair as he managed to run to the bathroom and throw up. He was afraid to open his eyes to see if it was true. If he had drank blood there would be blood in his vomit.
Opening his eyes he was relived to find none. 'Must have bit my tongue in my sleep,' he thought, feeling better. Cleaning himself up and fixing his hair, Draco took his potions before heading down to the Great Hall. It was good to know he was just overreacting. 'Must be stress' he reassured himself, having a small meal as the paper was brought in.
Draco opened the paper and began to read while he ate. Someone sat down next to him. "Hay Malfoy did you hear?" Draco looked over to see Blaise looking him over his big eyes.
"Hear what?" Draco asked, putting his paper down to give the man more attention.
"Snape was attack by a vampire or something like one last night." Blaise said with more excitement than one should. Draco's eyes widen a bit. "He wasn't in the school, Snape had went into town to pick up something for class and on his way back he was jumped."
"Wait what do you mean a vampire or something like one?" Draco said, giving Blaise all his attention.
"He said he thought it was a Death Eater, but when it bit him he didn't know what to think," Blaise said looking around. "I overheard him talking to the Headmaster. He said it attacked like a vampire, but it couldn't have been because it was warm, its mouth was wet and he could feel its breath on his skin when it bit him. Plus now get this, whatever it was it used a binding spell on him." Blaise looked as if he might jump out of his skin with joy. "And we all know vampires don't use magic!"
"That is odd, but is Snape alright?" Draco asked and Blaise looked perplexed, saying something like 'Sounded ok to me, but what do I know?' Then he was off to spread the news of the unknown thing that attacked Snape. Draco felt a little uneasy as he tried to go back to his paper and push the thought out of his head. He just couldn't get passed how odd it was that Snape was attacked and he had blood on his chin. 'I am just worrying over nothing.' He told himself as he went to class.
(Hermione pov)
Hermione had been watching Malfoy for a little over a week now. He looked better today, he had a little color and he was moving normally. 'Maybe he is getting better,' she thought as she watched her subject working on his potion. Draco hadn't spoken to her since his little break down, but Hermione had been with him a lot over the past week.
She had seen him lean on wall after wall, breathing hard when he was alone. She had watched him sleep like he was dead. He didn't move, snort, or even talk; he just laid there like a corpse. Hermione had to check a few times just to make sure he was still breathing. The only time she had been caught off guard was when he got out of bed one morning naked and…'Gods I didn't know a guy could be that big,' she thought as she watched him bend over the table while she turned bright red.
She shook the thought out of her head as she looked down at her work. Like everyone else, she had heard about Snape being attacked by a thing last night. The man was fine just a little shaken by it. Hermione however, had a feeling she might know what the thing was.
Yesterday she had seen Malfoy sitting with a man, who definitely looked out of place. Until she heard about the attack she wasn't sure why the man didn't look right. Now she knew he was a vampire and she was guessing the vampire had chosen to sit with Malfoy because it was stocking its pray.
It probably could tell Malfoy was sick when it entered the bar. It must have sat with him to find out just when and where it could take its chance to make a meal out of him. Vampires had animal instincts; they could sniff out the weak and frail from the flock. Just like any wild animal hunter, vampires would watch its pray. The only difference really was a vampire could blend in better with the flock then a lion could.
What she didn't understand was why it had attacked Snape if it was after Malfoy. Sure, there was all this talk about it using magic and breathing, but vampires were smart. If the guy that was sitting with Malfoy really was a vampire, he was trying to live in this area as a human. It was pretty safe to say it would try and hide what it was when it attacked, as away of keeping the wizards and witches from hunting it down.
She looked back over at Malfoy one more time 'I wonder if he knew he was chatting with a vampire?' After all, he was a Malfoy. Chilling with evil was a daily thing for him. She wouldn't put it passed him to be asking the vampire for help with his illness. 'I mean he looked awful yesterday while he was talking to it and now today he looks pretty damn good.' She bit her lip, 'He said he was going to see that thing again. Called it Peter, either the vampire is drawing him out for meal time or he's setting up another dose of dark magic to help heal him self.'
Hermione finished up as class ended and went on her way thinking it over. She took a short-cut to the heads room only to find someone was sitting in the hall. The closer she got the better she could see it was Malfoy. She came up next to him and knelt down. "Hay you ok?" Malfoy sighed, nodding his head and whispering 'Just a little winded.' Hermione smiled a bit, bending down to help him up. "Holy cow you're heavily," She said as she helped him up, but they both stumbled back into the wall.
To the two people coming around the corner it looked like Malfoy had just forcefully pushed Hermione into the wall and was now holding her. Both Hermione and Draco looked down the dark hall when they heard shouts "Hay you get off her!" Potter and Weasley screamed as they came charging down the hall.
"Oh hell" Draco whispered as they came running "Granger I can't move or I'll fall!" He whispered as she felt more weight on her.
"Oh shit would be a better chose of words," Hermione whispered back as she could feel he couldn't move or he'd fall. She could also see her friends pulling out their wands as they screamed at him. "Bear with me Malfoy," Hermione whispered as she took hold of Draco's waist using all her might to spin them both so he was now pinned, but she couldn't let go. The way she was holding him looked like a loving embrace. As her friends got up to them, Hermione breathed out "It's not what it looks like, he got dizzy…Go get a teacher."
Hermione just hoped they'd do it without question. "Malfoy do you think your going to faint?"
"Granger I think I already did right on you…" Thankfully, Malfoy was quick on his feet so to speak.
"Hermione, just drop him and let's go." Ron said glaring at Malfoy.
"Ronald, stop being stupid and go get the damn teacher all ready!" Hermione snapped at Ron.
"Did you just swear?" Draco asked, making her look back at him.
"The moment called for it." She smiled at him which made him give a little laugh and smile.
"I think a stronger swear is in order, we look awfully weird right now." Draco said as they looked at one another.
"Well I must say I thought about saying fuck-n-a when you fell on me. You weigh a fucking ton." She moved him a bit "Are you two going to just stand there?"
"Oh yeah, sorry…" Harry said as he and Ron moved around them. "You going to be alright?"
"Please Harry, Malfoy isn't going to do anything, but maybe fall down," Hermione said as they left. She felt something else making her bush. "Uh…Malfoy…"
"Your rubbing all over me Granger I can't help it," Draco whispered, blushing himself. Moments later McGonagall came in and helped them out by taking Malfoy to the hospital wing. Hermione looked at her friends, "Well that was different."