hi please don't hate me for taking so long to update I had mock exams at school so i had to concentrate on them but hey i have summer holidays now so i should be able to update quicker.

The past, he is like a brother to me

Draco walked calmly out of the hall mask still in place. Draco had spent many years perfecting that mask; it was now second nature to show no negative emotions. The hall seemed to go on forever he could feel all the eyes in the hall on him. When Draco finally reached the door he turned his head slightly locking eyes with Hermione granger who had on hand on her chest and was staring worriedly at Draco. Draco scanned the hall and found that Harry had taken his seat at the Gryffindor table and was looking anywhere but at Draco. Despite Draco's protest a small tear trickled down his face as he turned and left the hall.

Now where do I go I can't go back to the common room or to lessons or my own followers will turn against me. There is only one place I can go the one place that landed me into this mess.Changing his direction Draco made his way to the seventh floor. After walking past the entrance for the third time the door appeared that lead to a beautiful lunge. It was decked in green and sliver; it was not unlike the Slytherin common room bar one key thing it was empty with no judging eyes.

"Malfoy" Draco heard someone call his name just as he was about to walk through the door. Draco spun round "Granger?"

"Draco I'm alone." Hermione replied still panting as she had just ran along the hall making her bushy brown hair even bigger

"Then by all means come in." Draco said holding the door open for her. Draco had barely shut the door when Hermione flung her arms around Draco and said. "Dray are you ok? I had no idea that harry was going to do that to you." Then it was as if a switch had been flipped Draco just broke down in Hermione's arms. Silent tears ran down his face. Hermione somehow managed to move Draco over to one of the soft sofas.

Hermione was going to kill harry she had not seen Draco so broken up since the first day they had become friend.

He was curled up in a small alcove his head resting on his knees and his blond hair shielding his face from view, his whole body was shivering. Hermione was only alerted to his presence by a small whimper that had escaped Malfoy's mouth. Hermione stopped mid step to see a curled up figure shaking being the good hatred Gryffindor she was she walked over to the shaking figure and placed a reassuring hand on their shoulder and asked "hey... are you ok?" for a long time after that there was silence before she heard a small murmur "it would be you granger" and Malfoy continued to mumble something incomprehensible till it trailed of and mumbled something that sounded a lot like "nosey and do-gooding Gryffindor's"

"Malfoy?" Hermione said snatching her hand away before slowly replacing it and trying to slowly building up the courage to ask "Malfoy ... what happened?"Malfoy sat up facing away from Hermione to hide his tear stained face and said "look Granger I know you hate my guts so get it into your Gryffindor head that you do not need to save every person you see." Hermione was taken aback by what Draco had said but most of all the way in which Draco had said it, it had not been filled with hate and anger but sounded more like a plea.

So with that something inside Hermione changed towards Malfoy "look Malfoy I know you are not an evil person. You put up the pretence that you are but you are a good person when no one is looking and I can understand why you do it too" Hermione reassured Draco anyone who looked hard enough at Draco they could see that he was not as evil as he pretends to be but no one did look hard enough no one that cared. Draco surprised Hermione again by what he said next "what makes you so sure granger? I am never nice to you ... or your friends. What makes you so sure I am a good person?"

"Because through all the names and all the insults you have never done anything to seriously hurt us. You're a Slytherin by now you must have worked out all of our weaknesses and strengths and if you where evil you would have used them against us but you haven't. Look Malfoy you don't have to be my friend or anything but please tell me what wrong?" Hermione sat there for a long time in silence before getting up and making to walk away "Malfoy I hope you will be ok" Hermione began to walk away before she heard a quiet voice call after her "wait" Hermione spun round and slowly approached Malfoy and sat back down next to him again.

"He wants me to become a... deaf eater" malfoy stuttered out.

"Who? Your dad? But if thought you knew that. Why all of a sudden ...?"

"At Christmas ... this Christmas ... as soon as I get home ... he is going to be there." Draco said cutting Hermione off after he said that it hung in the air. "Merlin I don't know what to do. I hate my parents for putting me in this situation. I hate them for wanting to follow that psycho. What do they see in what him and his stupid anti mud-blood campaign. I mean what is wrong with them. If he had his way then all the people who aren't pure blood would be dead and we would be a bunch of retarded inbreeds being lead by a bloody half blood. What is the god dammed difference we are all the fucking same."

"See Malfoy ... I told you so." Hermione said confusing Malfoy a great deal.

"What? Told me what?"Malfoy asked

"That you're a good a good person." Hermione stated firmly as if trying to convince Malfoy that he is a good person.

"How can you be so trusting after all I have done to you? You're just helping me. How could you be so forgiving? If someone had treated me the way I had you then I would never... oh well I guess that my dad treats me similar and I am still speaking to him. You know he wanted me to spy on harry in the first year and them I believed everything that he told me and so I was honoured to help him." Malfoy said as if he was disused by the very thought of what he was saying. "that's why I asked harry to be my friend the first time I saw him, at the time I was so disappointed that he did not want to be my friend. Now I am just happy that harry found good friends like you and Weasley...what? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Malfoy you do realise that you just called harry potter 'harry' about five times? Is their something you want to tell me? Hermione asked in a suggestive tone.

"No! So how o you think you can help me with my dad granger? Malfoy said quickly changing the subject.

"Well clearly you cannot go home..." Hermione began hatching a plan from that point on they became great friends and Draco became like a brother to Hermione which is what they both kind of need both being only children. Draco had then finally confided in Hermione that he like harry potter.

Hermione was brought back to earth by the broken Draco in her arms asking "is it stupid that I still love the git?"

"No dray it's not he not all ways like this. do you want me to turn him into a toad for you?" Hermione joked

"Nah I kind of like him the way he is." Draco half laughed and wiped his eyes cleared his throat "thanks Hermione."

"Draco do you know how your friends reacted to what harry said?" Hermione asked growing worried.

"I think they believed harry because I didn't say anything and because I walked out. I guess I will find out later." Draco said nonchalantly

"Wait you have other options you don't have to face them I mean Theo is on your side he could get your clothes and you could stay here and..."

"Hermione!" Draco said cutting her for mid rant "look I am not running away without a reason"

"Ok Draco just don't do anything stupid" Hermione barely whispered. "I guess we best go to lunch before we are missed."

Harry was sitting in the hall with Ron eating slowly watching the door for either Draco or Hermione to come in. Evan thought he was anticipating it Harry was still surprised to see Hermione and Malfoy arrive in the hall together. Hermione came and sat down next to Ron without saying a word. "Mione where you been?" Ron asked through a mouth full of food.

"I had a headache so I when to have a nap." Hermione said shooting a death glare at Harry. Now Harry was certain that something was up and he will be asking Hermione about it.

so yeah i hoped you liked it again i am so so sorry that it took me this long to update. i am also very sorry if there are a lot of grammar mistakes just tell me and I will correct them.

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