Chapter10
(Hermione)
It was now Halloween at Hogwarts which meant that Hermione and Draco were busy as hell. It also meant they didn't get much time together or with their friends either. Hermione sighed as she sat down, looking up at her enchanted pumpkins. She had one hour before the big celebration and instead of thinking about how hard she worked on it, her mind was filled with thoughts of Draco and Harry.
Draco was in the kitchen with the house elves making sure dinner was made just right. 'Unless he was still in town picking up the food coloring for the big moon cake', she thought. She wished he was there with her. Their friendship hadn't changed any over the weeks. They kissed often and on rare occasions they cuddled, but it never went any farther. Most of their time together was spent trying to find anything helpful about Draco's condition.
What they found was jack shit; no one knew a damn thing really. The only thing anyone agreed on was that the person with the illness should be locked up—for their own good. The only problem with that was: if you locked the person with the illness up they tended to die with in a few weeks. Hermione had to reassure Draco over and over again she wouldn't turn him in. She told him she wanted to help him and watching him suffer for a few weeks until he died was not going to do it.
It was driving her crazy how one book would say blood from his vampire father would help; then, in another, it would say that the blood of his vampire father would make him a blood thirty beast that wouldn't stop hunting till it got its fix. She watched over him every night, trying to find what had made him go out hunting the first two times, but nothing was showing up. In other words the two of them had hit a big brick wall.
Then there was Harry, who was acting kind of odd. She noticed it the day she told him Hedwig had died. He was upset, but it wasn't for the reason he should have been. He kept glaring at her when no one was looking; except her. He barely spoke to her, and when she asked if something was wrong he'd say a sort sharp 'no'.
The only time Harry didn't seem pissed off with her was when they would talk about Draco. She gathered it was because he was busy being angry with Draco or thinking of how much he hated Draco. The only reason she could think of for Harry to be mad at her was that he might blame her for his pet's death. She never thought Harry would do that, but nothing else was making itself known.
'What a pain in the ass those two are' she thought, getting up to finish her work. The doors to the hall opened as Lilly Sharp, a Slythein six year, walked in with her friends. She put on a big fake smile as she walked up to Hermione.
"Excuse me Granger" She was batting her eye lashes at Hermione as if flirting. "I was wondering if you could tell me where I could find Draco" Hermione had seen that look through the years. It was the 'I got the hot's for him and need to tell him' look.
"Draco Malfoy would be in the kitchen, in less he hasn't gotten back from town yet" Hermione said plainly to the girl. She wasn't upset with the idea that Lilly was after Draco. After all, he was her friend and nothing more. She saw Lilly and her friend start to head that way without so much as a thanks. Hermione sighed, stopping the girls "I'm sorry Ms. Sharp you can't go into the kitchen at this time, but if you'd like I can deliver a massage to Mr. Malfoy for you"
Lilly made a sour face before rolling her eyes. "Fine tell Draco that I need him tonight" Hermione raise a brow at the word need.
"And what do you need him for Ms. Sharp?" Hermione asked in a long drawled out tone. After all, if she could help Lilly with her problem there was no need to have Draco do it. He was still sick and didn't have a lot of energy to spare. Hermione would be doing him a favor.
Lilly gave Hermione a dark look; she could see the girl didn't want to tell her. Which meant it wasn't schoolwork she needed Draco's help with. "Malfoy and I are very busy Ms. Sharp. If I can help you now with your problem it would help Malfoy in the long run." Lilly let out a sharp laugh.
"There is no way you could help me" Hermione prepared herself for the old mud-blood defense. Needless to say she was a bit thrown off by what Lilly said. "Only a man can help me with my problem. Draco's a single man, known to do this kind of thing." She gave a big smile "So when I said I need him tonight Granger, what I was saying is a really need him tonight catch my drift?"
"All too clearly" Hermione said as she made a grossed-out face "I'll pass it a long as long as you promise never to tell me about your needs again" Lilly shrugged before leaving with her friends. Once alone, Hermione kicked a table. 'I thought he didn't have the energy to do that!' She angrily finished her work before finding Draco in the kitchen. "Hay I got a message for you" She said sharply as she walked up to him. He looked up from the cook book he was reading.
"Yeah?" He asked with a kind of confused look on his face. 'He looks so damn cute,' Hermione thought. 'He looks like a lost puppy looking for a new home.' That made her realize just why she was mad at him, which in turn made her blush and made butterflies start to dance in her belly. 'I'm mad because he hasn't offered to…to have sex with me?'
"Uh…yeah" She said looking down as she tried to hide her blush from him. "Lilly Sharp said she wanted you tonight…That uh she um…needs you" This was just her luck too; she finely realized she wanted to do things with him and instead of saying that; she has to talk to him about other girls that want the same thing. She also would end up having to hear him do those things, seeing as his room was right next to hers.
"Lilly Sharp needs what from me?" She looked up into his face to see he wasn't following. Hermione's stomach did a flip-flop when their eyes met "I don't understand: she wants me tonight because she needs me to…" His look intensified as he waited for her to better explain the message. Hermione stepped in closer so she could whisper in his ear.
"You know to have S…E...X with her" She pulled back to look into his gray eyes and see them fogged with ideas. "Ok, well I delivered the message" She said quickly, turning away because she didn't want to see him drool over someone else. She got enough of that over the years from the other boys she had been attracted too. She felt really upset about the whole thing. Having to tell him, having to see him get all excited, and having to know it wasn't for her. Plus, learning she wanted him that way was a bit over welling too.
When dinner came she just picked at her food, not daring to look over at him. She felt Harry and Ron sit down next to her. "Hay Hermione. Everything alright?" Ron asked making her look up at him. Her eyes couldn't help themselves as they looked behind Ron to Draco. Hermione looked back down at her plate, she felt like crying. Lilly was sitting with him and they were very close. She could tell Lilly's hand was in his lap.
"I'm tired. I'm going to bed" She said as she got up. She exited the room to head to bed. It wasn't fair how it always turned out like this. It was always some stupid pretty girl that got the guy and her heart that gets broken. 'Damn it why did I have to go and get all attracted to him?!' She tossed herself down on her bed letting the frustration and tears wash over her.
She wasn't there long when someone knocked on her door. "Just a second" She called, using a spell to get ride of signs of her tears and put her pj's on. She opened the door to find no one there. It was also darker in the room. "Hello" Hermione called, walking out of her room into the command room. The door opened, letting Draco in to the heads area. "Did you knock on my door?" She asked him as Lilly walked in behind him.
"No I just got here" He said watching her look around "Why what's going on?"
"That's what I'd like to know…I was getting ready for bed when someone knocked on my door, but when I opened it no one was there" She tried not to notice Lilly standing with Draco. "Maybe someone is joking around…" She shrugged, heading in to her room. "Good night" She said, slamming her door before Draco could say anything to her. Her room was darker then she remembered as she put her wand down to get into bed. When her hand felt the touch of someone else's hand, she let out a loud scream. Falling to the floor, she quickly reached for her wand "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!" She screamed at whoever was in her bed.
She heard Draco trying to get in, but her door was apparently locked. "Hush now. There no need to scream" came a male voice she didn't know. She also couldn't see him all to well.
"THE HELL THERE ISN'T" She screamed again before lighting the room to see a large figure cloaked in all black on the other side of her bed. "What do you what?" She asked, pointing her wand at him. She heard Draco's voice call in asking if she was ok.
"I need to borrow you for a little while" The male voice said before it lunged at her with a super speed unreal. She screamed out a spell, but her spell missed him. He, however, didn't miss her.
"LET GO OF ME!" She screamed, wildly kicking at him while she was being drug to the window. "DRACO HELP ME!" She cried out, hearing her roommate call out a spell that blew open the door. She, at that time, was gripping on to the window frame with all her might. Her attacker pulled her hard.
Draco ran to her, taking her hands and trying to pull her back in. She clung to him for dear life as she was the rope in a tug of war. She could feel that she and Draco didn't have the strength to beat her attacker. With each tug Draco came one step closer to being pulled out the window himself. Taking a deep breath, she let go of him, only to be pulled into her capture's arms. They flew to God knows where, and for God knows what reason.