Loving the Enemy
Chapter 17
Draco led Hermione to the end of the school grounds were a picnic basket laid on a deep red blanket that was spread out on the ground, Hermione looked at Draco and said
"Really? I never pictured you as the picnic type of guy, let alone trying to be romantic."
Hermione giggled."
Draco turned to her and started to say something but then stopped and then sat down on the blanket and patted the spot next to him. And started to speak again, "Well I guess I wanted to try extra hard to impress you, plus its not crowded here, no annoying people to interrupt us. It's a beautiful day and I know how much you love it outside."
Hermione turned and smiled to him, "I love it." She simply said.
Draco laughed and said, "Have I told you, that you look amazing yet, because you look amazing."
Hermione blushed a deep scarlet color and then looked over at Draco, she had been so excited she hadn't even properly looked over him. He was wearing some slightly tight light blue denim jeans, and a black muscle t-shirt, that clung to his figure quite nicely.
"You don't look to bad yourself." Hermione said shyly.
They sat there just smiling at each other for a couple of minutes. Draco started talking again, "So are you hungry?"
"Yeah I'm pretty hungry."
"Ok then, lets see what we have here then." Draco started pulling out food from the basket.
He pulled out strawberries, two medium sized sandwiches, two cokes, carrots, grapes, and two cookies.
"Wow, did you fix this yourself." Hermione asked astonished.
"Well yeah I'm friends with some of the house elf's in the kitchen, you know there friends with the house elf's at the manor and they drop by sometimes and I'm just a lot nicer to them then most people are. So they help me out every once in awhile, they let me borrow some food, they are all really quite nice down there in the kitchens."
"Your just full of surprises aren't you Draco, what are you going to shock me with next time Draco?" She asked him teasingly.
"You'd be shocked at some of the things I could tell Hermione, and yeah I am just full of plenty of surprises."
Hermione looked at him funny, "Like what?" She asked him curiously.
"Oh you wouldn't want to know trust me."
"Please" She begged.
"Maybe another time ok, or later, just not right now I don't want to ruin our date is all."
"Ok, sounds good, but I'm holding you to that." She warned him.
Hermione started munching on some carrots, while staring at Draco who ate nothing.
"Aren't you going to eat something?"
"No I brought it all for you."
"What are you trying to do, make me fat? My goodness there is no way I will be able to eat all of this."
He laughed and said "Hermione your skin in bones there's no way this will make you fat just hopefully actually help try and make you look healthy."
She protested, "I look kind of healthy. What are you talking about?"
Her gave her a look.
"Oh ok maybe I don't but still, your not supposed to tell me I don't look healthy, little rude don't you think?"
"No it's just telling the truth and your not hurt at all by it and if you say you are then I know your lying." He stated in a matter of fact tone.
She stared at him for a moment and then replied, "I suppose your right about that, so Draco an interesting point was brought up yesterday by Ginny, how did you change so quickly into biggest ass, who hated me. To someone who's incredibly sweet and actually cares about me and possibly wants to have a relationship?" She stopped and then started again before he could speak. "I mean I know about your father and stuff and you not wanting to be like him, but you were horrible to a lot of people and I don't know what made you think we could be friends or what made you care about me in the first place?"
Draco started and then paused with a thoughtful expression and then started to speak again, "Well I just saw you that day on the train I mean I hadn't planned on this happening really I didn't just decide one day out of the blue during my summer break that I was going to save you from yourself, it just happened. I saw you on the train and I saw that desperate look in your eyes, the pained expression on your face and I knew I had to help you. And once I start something I'm going to finish it no matter what, and of course I care about you it just came naturally after I decided to save you, just how it works I suppose. As for liking you well you're the cause of that."
"What do you mean, I'm the cause of that?" Hermione said taken aback by what he had said.
"Well I mean your gorgeous, incredibly smart, strong willed and independent, how could I resist such charming qualities?"
Hermione giggled, "Well I guess you would have to be crazy if you didn't consider those charming qualities."
Hermione stopped talking for a while and they sat silently basking in each other's presence. Hermione spoke again shattering the silence between them, "Draco what happened to you over the summer I mean exactly what happened, you of course know you don't have to answer but I would like to know."
"Well my father's always been cruel, but not like this, not like this summer, the Dark Lord and him had patiently awaited my answer about the dark mark, I was just bidding my time last year hoping for any sort of luck that might get me out of it, but no such luck had come. So I gave them answer and to say they were displeased would be an understatement. My father's beaten me before and pretty badly I've had to be magically healed several times because of his beatings and Severus Snape has visited a lot because of it to and that's a lot of the reason why we are so close. Well anyways once I told them, the Dark Lord dismissed me, he was obviously furious and I knew my father was going to be punished so I ran to my room and I had packed all my things the night before so I was ready to go. But my father apparated in front of me and prevented me from leaving, he grabbed my hair and dragged me down to the dungeons, were he chained me to the wall."
Draco stopped for a moment breathing deeply and running his hand through his hair, by now he looked deeply troubled his face had gone dark and looked like his eyes were full of unshed tears. Hermione touched his arm cautiously urging him to go on. It wasn't till this moment that Hermione realized how incredible Draco was at concealing his emotion she was amazed about how he kept all of this bottled up.
Draco shuttered a little and then finally continued but now his voice was smaller almost a whisper, "After he chained me to the wall he started to beat me, harder and harder, punches and kicks were coming from every direction, and the entire he was just screaming about what an insolent little git I was. How I wasn't worthy to be his son, and he would make me pay. Finally I just went limp zoned him and everything out but the pain was unbearable, I was starting to have trouble breathing I passed out. I wasn't passed out very long before I was abruptly woken up I was healed perfectly but I was till chained up, and he was furious I had been so weak to pass out. I heard I him scream crucio, for all I know it could have been minutes but it felt like hours and the pain was excruciating. At that point I didn't care anymore I screamed and screamed until I could no longer and then it stopped and the beatings went on. This went on for possibly five days I do not know; my mother brought me little scraps of food. Finally the Dark Lord was out of the house and my father had left. My mother healed me the best she could and then gave me some money, I grabbed my stuff and left, and that was that."
Draco finished his story; Hermione looked at him with tears in her eyes but was not able to speak. So she just grabbed a hold of him and pulled him into a tight embrace. And that's how they stayed, holding each other until the sun set and they went back to the castle hand in hand.
AN: You guys have been amazing, thank you for all the reviews I really appreciate the support it's wonderful so keep on reading and reviewing love to hear your thoughts on it. Oh and thank you for bearing my spelling I know sometimes it's hard to read, I'm a horrible speller I'm trying to get better.
Heidi191976- you have suggested some brilliant things and yeah I'm going to definitely out some of that into the story.
SexxiKitty- I know what you mean I always have such a hard time finding stories with him as good guy, it's a pain because I love nice Draco.