A/N: Hey guys, sorry I haven't updated in so long but you know how I am, things happen in the world and I don't update for a while. I will try and get a couple of chapters up in the next few days...

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Friday (week2)

Malfoy Mansion

Lucius Malfoy brought his fingers to his temples massaging them in smallcircles, he'd now been unable to watch his son for 2 days and he was sure there was something he wouldn't approve of going on in that house, but how could he get in?

At the house

Hermione crawled out of her bed at 10 o'clock to find Draco in the kitchen with a frying pan full of bacon and eggs. She smiled at her house mate before plonking herself into a chair at the breakfast bar, Draco returned Hermione's smile and turned back to the hotplate. The two teens fell into a comfortable silence while the bacon sizzled in the pan and Draco bustled around the kitchen collecting two plates and two glasses and filling them up with food and orange juice respectively. Draco smiled at the food, proud of his efforts, considering until last week he'd never cooked a single thing in his life. He placed a plate and glass in front of Hermione who looked up at him smiled and thanked his before picking up her knife and fork and beginning her meal.

"You slept really late this morning are you ok?" Draco asked of Hermione who was usually up before him, reading the Daily Prophet, which she still managed to get her hands on.

"Yeah, I'm quite sure why I slept in, probably just coz we stayed up pretty late last night" Hermione answered.

"Maybe, but as long as you feel ok" Draco said looking at her as if trying to x-ray her to see if she was really alright.

"Actually I might go for a jog after I eat this, might help me feel better" Hermione said thoughtfully. Draco nodded in response before returning to his food. Hermione finished quickly and proceeded to feed her used dishes into the dishwasher. Emerging from her room soon after clad in her jogging gear she smiled at Draco and made for the front door.

"You have your wand, right?" Draco asked.

"Yes, I do, it's just concealed so it's not a dead giveaway" Hermione answered a laugh in her voice.

"It's not funny Hermione, you know my father, he'd do anything..." Draco trailed off.

Hermione's face became suddenly grave and she nodded, she did know, she understood he was just worried but, Lucius Malfoy was not going to stop her doing what she wanted.

"I know Draco, but I can't live in fear of what will happen, I have to live my life as usual" Hermione answered sincerely.

"I know," Draco said approaching her and kissing the top of her head, "but I still worry."

Hermione smiled and opened the front door and walked into the sunlit day, this was going to be a very comfortable jog indeed.

Malfoy Manor

"Cissy, can you come and watch the remaining cameras, please" Lucius called to his wife.

"Of course my darling" she answered walking into the room where her husband had sat for the better part of two days. She walked behind his chair and wrapped her arms around his neck resting her hands on his chest, she kissed him on the cheek before letting go and allowing him to move about the house.

Narcissa Malfoy looked at the remaining surveillance screens, and thought to herself that this was very below herself or her husband, they needn't employ muggle techniques to watch their son, he was theirs after all. Still she must applaud her son's efforts, if nothing he was resourceful. She watched the hallway and the study, trying to keep her eyes open as Draco walked past every now and again, though the mudblood seemed to be nowhere within the vicinity of these two areas. Narcissa smiled as she imagined that her son had perhaps gotten rid of her, she entertained this thought for all of ten minutes before the wretched girl came past the hall camera dripping with sweat in some ghastly form of muggle clothing. She disappeared through a door that, Narcissa assumed, lead to the bathroom, surely even that girl would have to take a shower after looking like that.

Minutes passed without any movement which was quite normal Narcissa realised, then the Granger girl emerged from the bathroom in her towel and did a mad sprint to her room, before emerging in a pair of denim ¾ shorts and a shirt with the strange words 'Led Zeppelin' printed across the front. Narcissa wrinkled her nose at this clothing choice, this girl was meant to be a witch so where her robes?

At The House

"Draco?" Hermione called.

"Outside" Draco called back.

Hermione walked down the hall, aware that the motion sensor camera was following her every move. Suddenly self conscious Hermione moved quickly down the hall and out the backdoor into the backyard where Draco was staring at the ground with a puzzled look on his face.

"Are you alright Draco?" Hermione asked stopping beside the Slytherin and looking at him bemused.

"Yeah, I'm fine but it's just that the grass is longer than it was when we got here" he stated in a slightly awed voice.

"Well, ah, yeah it does that, grass, you know it, uh, grows" Hermione said looking at Draco with the look of 'you idiot' written all over her face.

"No it doesn't, it never grows at our place, or at Hogwarts" he said with slight indignity.

"Well it must have some kind of magic on it because normal grass grows" Hermione said trying to think back to Hogwarts A History to see if there was anything on grass.

"Well how do we stop it?" Draco asked looking at it as if it might jump out of the ground and start wrestling him or something.

"We don't" Hermione said trying her hardest no to laugh at the distraught look on Draco's face.

"But, but what if it keeps growing until it looks like the Forbidden Forest?" He said looking at the ground again.

"We don't stop it growing, we just cut it to stop it getting too long" Hermione said like she was talking to a little kid.

"Jeez Granger I'm not 5 you know" Draco said looking at her in the eye.

"I know that Malfoy, but that's what you do, I'm just wondering if we have a lawn mower" she said looking around and spotting a garden shed in the corner of the yard. She started out towards it and looked in; sure enough there was a lawn mower at the front. Hermione pulled it out with great effort and no help from Draco who stayed a good 10 feet away the whole time. Hermione then proceeded to check everything was full, which it was, then she wheeled the mower to one edge of the yard and Draco followed with a renewed interest in the grass and the new machine. Hermione stopped in the corner of the yard and pulled the choke making the lawn mower roar to life, she checked everything was working and started to push the mower forward, then Draco's face paled and he just stared at the place where Hermione had just pushed the mower...

A/N: LOL Dun dun dun, what has happened to Draco?

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