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Chapter 2

"But why does he have to stay in your room?" Ron asked.

"Because I need to keep an eye on him when Severus is not around." Hermione replied absentmindedly as she made her bed.

"Oh Severus is it." Ron retorted angrily. Hermione knew better then to use Snape's first name around Ron, he always got angry.

"Ron will you please relax!" Hermione said.

"Relax! How can I relax Hermione? The girl I love is falling for my worst enemy." Ron practically yelled at her.

"I'm doing him a favor Ron." Hermione said impatiently.

"Right a favor" Ron said rolling his eyes.

"Well you can just get the hell out of my room if you are going to be an ass Ronald." Hermione yelled pointing towards the door.

"I'm sorry Hermione" Ron said hugging her. He tried to kiss her but she pulled away.

"Things aren't the way they used to be." Hermione said shaking her head.

"Why not? Why can't they be?" He pleaded.

"Because I don't love you Ron. Why do we have to do this again? I tell you the same thing every time, why can't you just accept it? You are making us both miserable."

"I can't just stop loving you Hermione."

"Leave…Get Out…NOW!" Hermione sat on her bed and buried her face in her hands, then started to cry. Then she felt someone sit on the bed next to her and put an arm around her.

"I told you to leave Ron." She said not wanting to look at him.

"And I do believe I told you not to call me that again." Draco said. Hermione looked up at him.

"I'm sorry; me and Ron just had another fight." She said.

"It's alright. When you are ready we can talk about it." He said, then put his hand on her shoulder and pulled her close to him and hugged her. A new wave of tears rushed over her. Some time later she had stopped crying.

"I am sorry Draco this isn't any of your problem" She said wiping tears from her eyes.

"Nonsense, I'm your roommate now, you can tell me anything." Draco replied with a smile. Hermione smiled back.

"I just don't know what his problem is. I told him a thousand times that I don't love him and I don't want to be with him. If he keeps this up it is going to ruin our friendship. And that is the last thing I want." Hermione said then lay back on her bed.

"Yea I know what you mean." Draco said thoughtfully then lay back on the bed next to Hermione.

"Really?" Hermione said in surprise.

"Yea, you can't imagine the trouble I had when I had to tell Blaise that I wasn't into him." Draco said.

Hermione turned her head to look at him but he was already looking at her with a big grin on his face. Then they both broke into hysterical laughter. They laughed until they cried and were light-headed. Then finally Hermione managed to say "You aren't half bad."

"Yea your not that bad yourself." Draco said.

"This roommate thing could work out."

"Yea friends even." Draco said then looked at Hermione.

""Yea friends" She said then put her hand out for him to shake it. He took it and shook her hand. They both smiled.

***

"So how are things going with Draco?" "Snape asked.

"Really well, he has settled in as you can see." Pointing to his bed, then sat on her own. "Where have you been lately, you have been gone more then usual?"

"With the Dark Lord. I will discuss it at the meeting." Snape said.

"I should probably go wake Ron if there is a meeting." Hermione said.

"No don't worry about it, Draco is waking him." Snape said with a smile.

"Why?"

"Draco said he wanted a word with him." Snape said "About what happened."

"Oh" Hermione said felling a little better about the situation. "Me and Draco are going to Diagon Alley today. Do you want to come with us?" Hermione said hopefully.

"I would love to, but I can't there are other things that need tending to." Snape said, then seeing the sad look on Hermione's face "But I will go with you on Saturday. I promise." He said then went to kiss the top of her head but at the same time she looked up causing their lips to touch. "Snape pulled back but then looked at Hermione; her eyes weren't angry or surprised, but loving and happy. He continued to kiss her.

***

At the same time Draco walked into Ron's room, pointed his wand at the lump on the bed, muttered a spell and water shot from his wand and landed on the lump. Ron yelped and jumped out of bed. Draco laughed. "You should defiantly consider wearing pants to bed." Draco was pointing at Ron's boxers. They were hot pink with little yellow rubber ducks on them.

"What are you doing Malfoy?"

"Meeting twenty minutes."

"Where's Hermione?"

"After what happened last time you talked to her I thought it best that you have as little opportunity as possible to torture her." Draco snarled.

"I don't torture her." Ron spat back.

"Really that's odd because I vividly remember her crying on my shoulder after you were through with her." Draco yelled.

"Yea well if she would stop acting like she doesn't love me then we wouldn't be having this problem." Ron yelled back.

Draco took his wand and put it to Ron's neck and his face was less then an inch from Ron's.

"If you don't stop fucking with Hermione and leave her alone then there won't be anything left of you for her to love." Draco threatened.

"Get out Malfoy, I will handle my woman anyway I choose." Ron said trying not to sound scared though his voice shook noticeably.

"She is not your woman Weasley." Draco snarled then jabbed his wand a little harder into Ron's neck then left.

***

Twenty minutes later the meeting started, and it was the most awkward meeting Hermione had ever attended. Draco sat to her left and Ron to her right, both boys fuming. Hermione leaned over and asked Draco what was wrong "Nothing" he replied then pointed to Snape who had just stood up to speak. Hermione and Snape locked eyes and Snape looked as if he had been momentarily confounded a full ten seconds passed before he found words.

"We are here to discuss what the Dark Lord is planning to do about Draco's disappearance."

The rest of the meeting went smoothly considering Ron and Draco were constantly shooting nasty looks at each other behind Hermione's back, and Snape seemed to falter every time his eyes meet with Hermione's.

What Voldemort was planning to do was rather simple, he was going to completely ignore Draco's disappearance, act like he didn't even exist.

After the meeting had finished Hermione and Draco went up to their room to get their things for their trip to Diagon Alley. Hermione who had packed all her things the night before only had to grab her bag and decided to head down to the kitchen to wait for Draco. Halfway down the stairs though Ron pinned her against the wall.

"What is going on with you and Malfoy?"

"Ron you're hurting me."

"Why don't you love me anymore?"

"Ron let go of me."

"You and Malfoy are dating behind my back aren't you, wait till I tell Harry, he'll go bizerk."

"You got it all wrong it's not like that."

"Don't lie to me Hermione, know you two are together. And after everything I did for you. This is how you repay me!" Ron yelled, then felt a wand being stabbed into his back.

"I thought I told you to leave her alone." Draco said in he deadliest voice.

"Shut up you stupid ferret." Ron retorted.

"Very clever Weasley, now leave."

"Whatever go on your little date, we can talk when you get back, ok Hermione." Ron said then walked away.

"You okay?" Draco asked Hermione once Ron had left.

"Yea" she said felling a little upset. Draco hugged her.

"Don't let him spoil your day, let's just go and forget about him for now." Draco said then took her hand and led her outside.

Me and Draco dating that absurd Hermione thought to herself, he is like a brother, he's my best friend. Then she looked at Draco.

"Draco do you have feelings for me?"

He stopped mid stride.

"Hermione you are my best friend, that's all." Then he smiled and continued to head outside. Once they made it to the garden they apperated to the Leaky Cauldron.

***

They returned to the Burrow around mid night, Hermione had convinced Draco to go to a muggle theatre and watch a movie with her. When they entered the house it was silent, they assumed everyone had gone to bed when they heard a noise coming from the far end of the kitchen table.

"I wanted to make sure that the two of you made it back safely." Snape said from the shadows.

"Yea we are fine" Draco said "We went to a muggle theatre and watched a late movie."

"Draco why don't you go upstairs, I want a word with Hermione." Snape said.

Draco said good night then disappeared up the stairs.

"What do you want to talk about Severus?" Hermione asked. Snape looked uncomfortable.

"I wanted to ask you if you felt the same way about me as do about you." He said. Hermione got extremely close to Snape and said "That depends, how do you feel about me?"

Snape gulped "I think I am falling in love with you, not in love but falling" He said sounding unusually self conscious. "I can't stop thinking about you. I" Hermione put a finger to his lips to silence him.

"Yes I feel the same way you do Severus." Snape took her in his arms and kissed her. After a minute Hermione ended the kiss. "I need to get upstairs so I can get some rest. Don't want to be tired for our date tomorrow." Snape smiled at her and kissed her one more time then let her go. He watched her walk away and wondered why he hadn't felt this way sooner. They could have had so much more time together.

When Hermione arrived in her room she quickly undresses and put on a t-shirt to sleep in. She had long ago stopped caring if Draco saw her change. They were friends and only friends she told herself.

She hopped into bed to discover Draco already there wearing only his boxers. She thought nothing of it. They had taken to sharing a bed lately. It filled the void they both felt from being separated from their family for so long.

"So you and Severus, huh?" Draco said.

"Yea I guess so" Hermione replied. Draco rolled over to face her; he put an arm around her and hugged her. "I'm happy for you." He said then kissed her forehead to show that he meant it.

"You know Snape is like a father to me, so if you are dating him then that makes you like my mother." Draco looked at Hermione. They both laughed.

"Night Draco"

"Night Mum"

They both laughed again.

"Night Hermione" Draco said, then they both fell asleep.

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