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Hermione woke up feeling rested, she had not slept this good in a while. She couldn't remember the last time she didn't have nightmares. She kept her eyes close hoping she could fall back asleep, that is until she felt a presence beside her. Her eyes shot open, she tried reaching for her wand on the bedside table… only there wasn't a table there. She started to panic noticing this wasn't her cabin at all. She turned around to see who the person was and saw the back of a head full of white blond hair.

"MALFOY!" She screamed, as she started to remember the last nights events.

"Ugh?" He turned around so that he was now facing her. "Oh. Right." He got up. "You were unresponsive last night and my lungs are not functioning when we're apart, and I was tired. I brought you back here and laid you down on the bed. You fell asleep right away."

She looked down to see she was still wearing the clothes she had put on when leaving her cabin. "I have to use the washroom." She said. She spotted her wand on the dresser, grabbed it, and started making her way to the washroom. The more she was approaching the door, the harder it was for her to breathe. Malfoy got up from bed and ran towards her. He was only wearing his boxer briefs. Hermione was staring. He stopped in front of her, "I couldn't breathe." She hadn't noticed she could breathe normally now, as she had stopped breathing for entirely different reasons.

"Tell you what. You get inside, and I'll stand on this side of the door. We should be fine."

"What is going on?" Hermione whispered more to herself. "What about my privacy?!" She then exclaimed.

"Seriously." He said, exasperated. "You ever heard of a Silencio before?" He rolled his eyes at the witch.

Draco Malfoy sat down behind the door as he heard her cast the spell. He held his head in between his hands. What was going on? What was that magic he sensed the night before? Why couldn't he breathe without Hermione? Was it going to go away on its own? How could they get rid of it?

As much as he was pondering all these questions in is head a little part of him was happy that it would permit him to be closer to her without questions.

The door swung open, and he fell backwards onto his back. "I'm done." Draco was looking up at Hermione from the floor. She had a towel wrapped around her and her hair was dripping wet over her shoulders. "Got a change of clothes I could use until i can get my own?" She asked. "Sure." He stood up and grabbed her some Jogging pants and a white t-shirt. "Mind if I take a shower before we head out?" She went back into the washroom, changed, and came back out. "Sure." And she sat down behind the door.

Hermione wished she had her beaded bag with her. She wanted desperately to start a list of everything that was going on. She started the list in her head anyways.

Can't breathe when apart from Malfoy. Start noticing after 1m. Limit distance: unknown.

Strong magic field woke her up at around 1 am.

Location: Imprecise. Atlantic Ocean.

Can I only breathe only around Malfoy, or any witches or wizards?

Her thoughts were interrupted as Malfoy came back out.

"Alright. So here is what I'm thinking. We can't really solve this while we're on this boat. So let's get you changed. We can grab a coffee, and we'll go watch the sunrise." Hermione didn't object. Coffee was bound to help her get her ideas and thoughts in order.

When they got to her cabin, Malfoy was shocked to see how her cabin was much smaller than his and so very simple. He didn't say anything. She changed clothes, grabbed her beaded bag and headed out to get a coffee. They started making their way up to the upper deck. Her mind was racing with ideas, possibilities, solutions, reasonings, she wasn't noticing Malfoy was talking to her.

"...is it saying? Granger? Hear that? Never heard it before? Weird muggle music?..." He was going on and on. That's when she heard a faint sound, or maybe it was music? She couldn't tell, it was barely audible. As they were approaching the deck, the voices/music was growing louder and louder.

"... ever heard that before? Was there a special event on the boat today?..." Malfoy was still rambling on. He took a look around the deck "I don't think the muggles can hear it. The few ones here are not paying any attention to it."

"Quiet." She said. "I think I've heard something similar to this before." Hermione leaned over the railing and was looking down at the water. "Merpeople." Draco shot her a look. "What?"

"I've heard this sound when Harry had his egg for the second task during the triwizard tournament. It was the voices of Merpeople, although we could only hear it when our head was submerged in water…" she started rumbling through her beaded bag, her arm disappearing inside.

"What the hell?" Malfoy was looking at her. "Ever heard of an expandable charm?" Making fun of him for his previous behavior that morning. She pulled out a book.

"So what? You have your library in there?"

"Yes." She simply answered. "Figures." He mumbled.

She opened the booked and laid it on the railing, her finger going down though the table of contents. "Page 201." She mumbled to herself. Malfoy peaked over. "Mermish?" He asked. "Well aren't you curious to know why we can hear it when we are above water?" She bent back over her book.

"I'm really more curious to know exactly what its saying." He bent back over the railing to listen. "Something about the sea? I keep hearing the word protection? Attraction?"

Hermione took out a pen and paper and gave it to Malfoy. "Here. Write it down." He eagerly started writing down anything he could hear. Hermione put her book down for the time being and tried to help him listen in.

As time went by, it was getting difficult to make out the voices. Passengers of the ship were now everywhere on the upper deck, taking advantage of the sun that was now pretty high in the sky.

"Alright. I can't hear anything anymore." Hermione stated, putting her beaded bag on her shoulder.

"Let's go back to my cabin and sort through what we've got. I don't know if this got anything to do with our breathing situation but it sure is curious."

She nodded and started walking towards the stairs. Malfoy ran up to her and grabbed her hand. "Can't have you running off and let me die of suffocation!" She pulled her hand out of his. "Sorry, i forgot." She grabbed his elbow. "Well come on then!"

Malfoy smiled to himself, this was weird, but this trip was turning out to be quite the adventure!