Authors note: So another chapter please rate and review :D I hope you like it, sorry if it's a tad short though, and I read it over twice but you will have to excuse me if there are some spelling mistakes, after all english isn't my first language ;)

Hermione walked quickly through the enterance hall and to the first classroom she found unlocked. She went in with Ron trailing behinde and then firmly shut the door, as she had her back turned she his hands slinked around her waist and she felt his hot breath on the back of her spun round, throwing his hands off her.
"Ron, please what's going on?" She asked a little tierdly "Nothings going on, what are you talking about." Ron said sounding very defensive.
"Well it's just you keep wanting to touch me, kiss me, keep hold on me, and honestly it's getting on my nerves. You're being a little possesive." She said.
"I don't see a problem with that, you're my girlfriend this is what we're supposed to do. If you don't want that then what do you want, and why the fuck are you making a problem out of it, especially now." Ron said getting more and more annoyed.
" Because it is a problem Ron, you're getting jelous over nothing, you're being unresonable" She said, trying to remain calm but finding it increasingly difficult.
"Nothing, I'm jelouse over nothing? Take a look at yourself Hermione, I should be jelouse, just about every guy in there was giving you and the eye." He said souding angry with her.
Hermione stood there breathing hard for a second, feeling so hurt and so mistrusted she might just slap Ron.
"Well, that's not a problem is it? It's not like I'm going to be returnig the attention, Ronald. You should know better, I have done nothing to make you mistrust me so!" She felt bad about that last part because it wasn't entirerly true.
"Well what would I know, you wont let me touch you, and you do your best half the time to stay clear off me." He was standing close to her now breathing hard. "Why aren't you ready Hermione, we've been together for about 5 months now." He slipped a hand around her again and started to kiss her. She didn't like it though, it was too forced and she wasn't responding to any of it. She just stood there.
"Ron stop please." She said quietly, as she felt him toying with the zipper of her dress. He didn't though, instead he held her closer. "Ron, stop!" She was angry now. But again he ignored her, and her zipper was half way undone. She wrenched her self from him as he finished unzipping her dress. She felt it fall down, but settling on her hips. She grabbed it and quickly zipped it up as far as she could on her own. Her hair was a little more ruffled and she was felling very shaky. Ron was still standing by the door looking at her, he looked sullen and mean.
"I think we should be getting back now." Hermione said her voice a little higher than usual. She gently nudged him out of the way and walked back out into the enterance hall. She head the door shutting but she didn't hear his footsteps following. He was clearly still inside.

Malfoy stood in the dark passage watching her. She stood alone in the entrance hall, looking a little lost. He noticed that her hair was a little messy and the zipper on her res wasn't zipped up. He had been hoping her and Weasley could have broken up right then and there, but apparently not. He fingerd the extendable ear in his trouser pocket. He didn't know why he had brought it but he had just had a feeling. He watched as Hermione spun around and quickly walked up the marble stair case and through the door on the left. Leaving Ron and the ball behinde. Draco, naturally decided to follow her. It took some searching but he spotted her a little way away, sitting in the middle of another smaller marble staircase leading up to the third floor. She looked up as she heard him approaching but neither of them said anything as he sat down beside her.
"Why are you here, Malfoy?" Hermione said sounding very tierd. Draco looked at her, stared at her until she finally looked at him. Then he said tentatively "Because, Granger you looked so good I couldn't help myself following you." She just sighed deeply, not in an 'you're so romantic way' but in a 'don't lie' sort of way.
"You cutting it off with the Wealsle then?" He asked looking ahead down the corridoor. She stood up instantly.
"Now listen to me Draco Malfoy, I..." He girpped her hand and pulled her down again.
"Sit down, and calm down. I'm only curious." She sat back down, examinig her hands in her lap. As she looked down he examined her face. She was wearing make up, up close you could tell, but it was really subtle. Her cheeks were rosy and her eyelashes longer and fuller looking than usual, also her lips were painted a dark red but her skin was it's usual flawless self.
"Why are you here, Draco?" She asked. He felt a chill go through him, at first he didn't realise what it was, but then he did. Draco? She had cleed him Draco, he decided it would be best if he didn't point it out to her as she had obviously done it accidentaly and if he pointed it out she would start doing her best not to use his first name.
"I, well because you're here I suppose." He said, feeling immeansley vunreable. He wasn't sure what, but something about her always made him feel unprotected.
"Did you notice, about Ron?" She asked tentatively.
"Yes. I think every one did" He answeard simply.
"I should go." She said standing up and walking a few steps further up the staircase.
"Please don't" He said, she was a head taller than him, standing there in her heels even a few steps further up than him. He walked up until they were almost level, he being a little talled than she, in her heels. She didn't say anything, just puresed her lips slightly. Then she kept walking, Draco decided not to follow, instead he sat down again. Then he heard them, he teansed up and before he could decide what to do they were there. Goyale and Blaise, still in their school stuff having skipped the ball. Draco supposed they were sneaking off to the kitchens to get the house elfs to make them something.
"Well hello, traitor." Blaise said looking down at him. Both of them had their wands pointed at him. Draco didn't say anything.
"What, are you frightend little Draco" Goyale said cackling. "Now that your weak, pathetic good for nothing excuse for a father is being hunted down, you've gone soft?" Draco stood, and quickly ducked the hex Blaise sent at him. Then Goyale sent another which Malfoy managed to block with a sheild charm.
"That's right, hide behinde a spell Draco! We all now that you're too much of a cowar..." Blaise's mouth filled with pink froathy bubbles and he couldn't speak, hell he was having trouble breathing. Another hit Goyale and he shrieked and ran off clutching his face, leaving Blaise stumbling behinde him. Malfoy spun around looking for his savior, not knowing wather to be happy or more afraid. Hermione stood at the top of the staircase, a rather funny look on her face. Draco sped up to meet her. She backed away before he got to close and said looking at him, her eyes piercing.
"Was it them, then? The ones that beat you up?" She said her hands corssed.
"Yeah, it was." He said and then added. "You can't tell anyone though, I swear to god Granger..."
"I won't, but you should tell McGonngal, you can just say to her not to publicly annonce why they are getting expelled." She looked up at him and Draco hated what he saw in tohes eyes, pity.
"Yeah, whatever. I can take care of myself you know, I don't need anyone." He said annoyed that she had found him like this, twice.
"Fine I'll go then." She said turning around to go.
"No, don't please. I would like you to stay." He said and as he did so he slid down the wall sitting down on the stone floor. He patted the space beside him and to his suprise she sat down next to him. She sighed.
"Where is your mark?" She asked quietly, obviously afraid of asking such a personal question. He was quiet for a while examinig her shoes, with no particualr intrest.
"I don't know, about a week afer the war it started to fade, and in a month it was gone. Completely. Not every ones did though." He answeard looking at her. She was looking down obviously in deep thought.
"Okay, my turn. Why are you here?" He asked repeating her quetion from earlier on.
"Because, well. Because you wanted me to stay, and I really don't want to return to the ball and I don't want to return to the dormitory's early either." She said sounding a little sad. She ran her fingers through the material of her dress. Draco grabbed them, he examined the braclet around her wrist, it was plain and gold. But it had a tiny gold plack on it with her name on it and a little heart danglig from it. He kept hold of her hand twining their fingers together and placing them on the stone floor between them. She scoothed a little closer to him and rested her head against his shoulder. His heart picked up as he heard her breathing, and smelled her floral perfume.
"My turn, what clogne do you use?" She said inhailing deeply and breathing out in a gush, content.
"It's Italian, I get it shipped over and it's my favorite." He said smiling at the change of subject. He looked down at her and then thought of something, he quietly slid his arm around her waist tucking her under it so they were cuddled up quite close. Then he said in a low voice.
"Oh, and thank you for saving me. I don't really know how to repay you." She giggled a little.
" I bet you can though, I know you Malfoy and if you're the man I think you are you are thinkging of some crude senario right now" She giggled again and the sound made Draco's stomach lurch.
"Busted" He whisperd as he took her chin in his hand and placed his head a little over hers, hovering so their noses brushed. She blinked, and her lips parted slightly. He captured them in a kiss. They sat there for what, seconds? Minutes? Hours? Neither of them knew. They whisperd to each other held each other and kissed. And it was nice. Draco needed her, she brought him back, made him feel stable again. Made him forget, all the god awfull thing's he had done in the past. After a while they sat, their arms around each other, their foreheads pressed together. Then they heard clapping and people filing out of the enterance hall, people coming their way. Hermione wriggled free and they both stood up.
"I have to go, we can't... I want to..." She mumbled, but she couldn't seem to make a coheasive scentance.
"It's okay, I'll see you soon!" He said and he kissed her on the forehead.

Hermione wathced him practically bounce down the staircase. She thought he knew what he was feeling though, because she felt it too. It was, right. She felt bad, but not about cheating on Ron again, but she felt bad for not feeling bad bout sheating on Ron agian. She was very confused. She decided to stay put in this corridoor as the people from the ball going to Gryffindoor tower would all probably pass by her. She waited but didn't see him, after most people had passed her, Dean Thomas asking her if she had seen Lavender she saw Harry and Ginny, trailing behind holding hadns.
"Hey you guys don't know where Ron is?" Hemrione asked feeling a little guilty now about kissing Malfoy, she couldn't look Harry in the eye.
"No we haven't we thought he left with you. We saw you two leaving together earlier this night." Ginny said sounding a little worried.
"Yes we did, and we were going to come back, but we had this fight and after that I really wasn't in any ball sort of mood." Hermione said, but as she thought about it, maybe Ron had never left the classroom. He would have had to pass by her in that staricase to get to the Gryfindor tower, so it would explain why Ginny hadn't seen him at the ball too.
"I'll see you guys upstairs in a bit, I think I know where he is.

She walked quickly across the enterance hall and up to the class room door. There she took a deep breath. You can do this, she thought. She felt a little sad at what she was about to do though, after all she thought that the two of them would be together forever. Everything had started off so well. Without thinking she opend the door wide and took a few confident strides in before fully taking in what she was seeing. There was Ron standing by a desk, his arms wrapped aroung Lavender Brown. She was sitting on the desk, her legs bare and around Rons waist, dress unzipped and bra on the floor. Her back was turned to Hermione though, thankfully. But that also meant that Ron was truned to Hermione, although it took a couple of seconds for him to fully realise she was there. He jumped back from Lavender, his hand flying to his crotch. Only then did Hermione fully understand the situation. She seemed to get her self together than, so she shut the door. She strode over to Lavender who was cluthcing her dress up to try and conceal her self. Hermione grabbed her bra of the floor and threw it at her.
"You OUT!" She screamed at her. Lavender hopped of the desk looking at Ron, Ron didn't say anything thoug.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Get, the fuck, OUT!" Hermione screamed again. Lavender splutterd a little then grabbed her shoes of the floor and hurried of, trying to make some sort of silent comunication to Ron but failing, as she was carrying so many things in her hands. Once the door was shut, Hermione whipped her head round at a very red faced Ron, who had a rather noticable bulge in his dress trousers.
"Hermione, I'm so so so sorry, I don't know what came over me, I just, she just came in and started saying stuff and one moment, and I wasn't sure if we had broken up, and I mean I don't..."
Ron seemed extreamly fluster, and Hermione had to give it to him sinsearly sorry.
"It's okay Ron." She said not looking at him.
"It... WHAT?" Ron shouted.
"It's okay, I'm not mad, well I am a little, but I have no right to be." She put a hand up as he tried to interrupt her, and carried on.
"I, Ron, I kissed Malfoy."
"What the FUCK?" Ron shouted. He was raging.
"Why would you? Malfoy? You? That... We were still together! He's the enemy Hermione! THE ENEMY!" He screamed at her, getting very close to her, spit was flying in all direction, a lot of it unfortunatley landing on Hermione. She didn't say anything for a while, just stood and watched as he knocked things over and swore at the top of his lungs. She was glad that she had thought to put on muffliarto just after Lavender left.
"Ron, may I remind you that I just caught you having sex with Lavender Brown, and Malfoy has changed you know. It might be hard to understand, but he's diffrent. His smarks gone and he is trying to be a better person." Hermione said getting a little angry over how much of a hypocrit Ron was actually being. Ron just swore again.
"Ron, we both knew this was about to happen, I just think neither of us wanted it too. But it's over. Deep down we both know that." She said looking at him a little sadly. Again Ron swore.
"Are you sorry thogh? Do you even feel bad about kissing him?" Ron asked, after about 30 very deep breaths he was finally getting a little calmer.
"No, I don't think I am. I know that's bad, but with Malfoy it feels right, you know?" Hermione said regretting her words at once.
"No, I don't" Ron said scowling. Then he added "But yeah, I s'ppose you're right, it's over inn'it?"
"Yes, it is Ron. And if you wouldn't mind please don't tell anyone about me and Malfoy. I'll do it in my own time, if there's anything to talk about.
Ron grunted.
"And , I won't say anything about you and lavender either" Hermione added. and Ron groaned.
"Why did it have to be her? She's not going to be easy to get rid of is she?"

Hermion smirked to herslef as she exited the classroom. She was a little sad yes, but in the end, why make yourself 'stick it out' if it's just going to make you unhappy? She was on the third floor and suddenly someone stepped out of a doorway, standing in the middle of the corridoor, waiting for she approched the figure spoke.

"So, is it over?" Hermione clearly heard that Malfoy was trying to keep his voice steady, there was a note of glee in it.