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One Unforgettable Year

Chapter 15: Slytherin Charm.

Info you need to know: "Talking."

"It was Pansy who planned on ruining your dress, Hermione." Blaise said, answering at least one of her questions. He hoped that Hermione wouldn't notice that he didn't answer the latter question. But of course she noticed, she was Hermione after all.

"And the person who knocked you unconscious? I assume that wasn't Pansy." Hermione asked, crossing her arms over her chest. Blaise didn't say anything for a few moments; Hermione sighed and leaned toward him slightly in her seat. "Look Blaise I know you don't like to be the tell-tale but right now you have to be. I have a theory on whom it was and if you don't prove me right or wrong then I'm going to assume I'm right and I'll be the tell-tale to Dumbledore." Blaise gulped. He didn't want to rat out the guy who made him unconscious, knowing that it would upset Hermione.

"Why tell Dumbledore what's done is done." Blaise said, trying to avoid the topic. Hermione could sense that and sighed and sat back in her seat.

"I'm not going to tell Dumbledore, I just thought it would help you spill. Clearly it didn't work. You don't have to spill though. I know it was Ron." There were gasps from around Hermione but she ignored them and focused only on Blaise. To see his reaction, his eyes widened surprised and she could tell she was right. She smiled weakly.

Everyone turned around to face Ron in the corner. Draco looked as if he was about ready to kill him and Hermione figured he was. Hermione got up and placed a soothing hand on Draco's shoulder. He was surprised at his touch and looked down at her. She shook her head and sighed but nodded. Then she turned to Ron and placed her arms across her chest.

"I can understand the things you say to me and the things you said in our last argument, heck I don't really blame you for what you say. But what I don't understand is why you would hurt one of my best friends and then agree to help Pansy hurt me by ruining my dress. I know it may seem pathetic to be so upset about a dress and heck I could fix it with magic but I'm not upset about the dress being ruined. I'm upset because I knew that you were the one to help Pansy do that to my dress. Kind of like you did it yourself. Why Ron? Why do you insist on being such a dick?" Hermione said, hurt. Ron had been an important person to her for the past seven years, an important friend and at one point she tried to be in love with him even though she knew she couldn't. She tried because she loved him enough to want to make him happy. Now she wasn't sure he had deserved it, seeing as he was acting so horribly to her.

"Hermione, I- can't we talk somewhere more privately?" Ron asked, Hermione felt anger flood through her.

"No, whatever you have to say to me you can say in front of everyone else. After all the people here are the people I care most about, whatever you say I'll repeat word for word to them later." Hermione snapped.

"Why do we always have to have an audience when we talk?" Ron snapped back.

"Because you make a scene Ron!" Hermione said, all but yelling. Draco put a hand on the small of her back and she immediately relaxed she took a deep breath and smiled to Draco he nodded and removed his hand. "Honestly I want people around when we talk because I don't know you anymore and that scares me. I don't know how you'll react if I say the one small thing which hurts you. Ron, you scare me." Hermione admitted. Ron looked as if he had been punched in the stomach, hard. He looked hurt, again and Hermione felt a stab of guilt for hurting him. Again. She seemed to do that a lot to him, but he hurt her a lot to. I guess you could call it even.

"'Mione, you know I would never hurt you." Ron said and took a step towards her. She took a step back, into Draco. Draco restrained himself from wrapping his arms around her. Now was not the time. Ron grew angry at that though, the way Hermione was comfortable being so close to Draco and she was so scared of him. Deep down he knew it was his own fault but Ron had been telling himself for so long that it was all Draco's fault that he had come to believe it.

"Why do you trust the most untrustworthy guy in the world over me your best friend?" Ron said, almost yelling.

"Draco's the most trustworthy guy in the world, just like Blaise and like Harry. Like you used to be. Face it Ron you're the most untrustworthy guy in the world and it bothers you. The fact that Draco has changed into a decent, good guy bothers you because all you ever known is Draco is bad, Draco is evil. You don't like change Ron and that's exactly what's happened." Hermione said and took a deep breathe to make sure she didn't shout her next words.

"What I don't like is that you've replaced me for the guy who's just waiting for you to agree to sleep with him and then leave you!" Ron yelled. Stunning everyone into silence. "If you're so sure that he won't do that why is it that every time I accuse him of it he never fucking denies it!" Hermione had to admit he had a point there. Didn't mean that Hermione doubted Draco just because of that though. She trusted Draco and she would be stupid to let Ron come in-between that, in between them. Stupid was something Hermione Granger was not.

"I don't have to deny anything you accuse me of because Hermione knows me. Knows that I would never do what you're accusing me of. When are you going to grow up, Weasley? You're the only one who hasn't." Draco snapped. Ron glared at him. Ron lunged for him and Draco pushed Hermione out of the way. He even managed to do it gently. Hermione fell to the ground with a 'thump' and looked up. Then down when she couldn't see them. Ron had tackled Draco to the ground and was punching him as he laid on top of him.

"ENOUGH!" Hermione shouted, stunning Ron enough to stop him from punching Draco. Hermione pushed Ron off Draco and helped him up then she turned back to Ron. "Enough, Ron. I'm sick and tired of all this stupid fighting. The reason I wanted to unite with Slytherin was because I was sick and tired of the fighting between all of us and Draco. Now I'm sick and tired of you fighting against all of us, it's just you Ron. Yeah, not everyone is happy with the uniting thing but they either don't let it get to them or just ignore it. Why can't you do that?" Hermione said, sadness filling her now.

"I wouldn't care about the uniting thing if it didn't involve Malfoy and you so close, Hermione. I see the way you look at each other, the way you act around each other. There's something going on and I don't like. You're always be mine, Hermione. I love you and I always will so why can't you please try and love me back." Ron said, pouring his emotions out in front of everyone. Right now he was pretending it was only him and Hermione. Hermione took a step towards him.

"Ron, I was never yours. Not really. Sure at one point we were going out but that didn't mean I belonged to you. I don't belong to anyone and I won't until I marry and I'm sorry but I know you're not going to be the one I marry. You have to forget your love for me, Ron. Before it destroys any chance we have of being in each other lives. Before it destroys you. You know I love you, Ron but you also know it's not the way you love me. It never was and it never will be. Please can't you stop this fighting with Draco and all of us?" Hermione said, softly. She didn't want to hurt him but she also knew she had to.

"I'm sorry, Hermione. I can't be civil towards Malfoy; I can't pretend that I don't hate him." Ron said, quietly. Ron then looked at Draco, hatred burning in his eyes. "I may have been able to forgive you for the past over time but there is one thing I can never forgive you for. You took Hermione away from me. For that I'll forever hate you." Ron vowed and shoved past Draco and went up to his room and slammed the door. Hermione winced and fell to her knees, everyone jumped up worriedly. But they also didn't dare go near her.

"Hermione? You alright?" Lavender and Ginny asked. Hermione shook her head.

"I'm just… so tired… of the fighting." Hermione said slowly and then she fainted. Before she could do real damage and knock her head, Harry who was the closest caught her.

"Ron's exhausted her. I think he's actually taken all of the fight and spirit out of her." Ginny said sadly and moved the hair away from Hermione's face. Harry had sat down so that Hermione's head laid in his lap. Draco felt a surge of jealously but ignored it. Now was not the time.

"I think I'm to blame too. I'm the one who pushed Weasley to what he is now. If I had stayed away from you guys, kept on being my old hateful, prick, self then Ron wouldn't have gone like this and Hermione wouldn't have been affected like she is now." Draco said, just as sad as Ginny. Blaise sighed and shook his head.

"Look at you guys, stop having a pity party you guys. We could all go around playing the blame game but it's going to get us nowhere, just end up hurting Hermione more. Right now the only thing Hermione needs is her friends. She needs us to try and stop the fighting with Weasley even if he's the one to start it. Which means, Draco no retaliating. No matter what Weasley says just walk away because if you don't then the fight and spirit won't come back to Hermione." Blaise said, in another one of his wisdom speeches. They all looked at him, slightly stunned at how wise and insightful he sounded. He rolled his eyes at them but said nothing more. Mainly because Hermione began to stir.

Five heads bent down to look at her, concern filled in their eyes. Hermione opened her eyes and saw her friends in a circle around her, looking at her worriedly. She sighed and sat up with the help of Harry. She knew what happened, she had fainted because the stress had all just got too much for her. The stress of Ron and the fighting. She got up, not saying anything to anyone and just gloomily went to her room. Ginny and Lavender followed her.

"Hermione? You okay?" Ginny asked, entering her room. Lavender followed and the girls saw Hermione curled up in a ball on her bed. They heard movement behind them and saw Harry coming in.

"'Mione? Come on, don't turn away from us." Harry said and went over to her. He placed an arm on her shoulder but she shrugged it away.

"Leave me alone, Harry." She saw the hurt in his eyes and immediately felt bad. She sighed. "You know I love you guys, you're my best friends but right now I want to be alone, so please just go." She told them. They sighed and nodded then walked back out of the room.

They headed back down to the common room and Draco and Blaise looked up at them, hopefully. They shook their heads and Blaise and Draco sighed, sadly. Blaise clapped his hands together and got up then motioned Draco to follow him. The other three watched as they headed to the staircase that led up to Hermione's room.

"Where are you going?" Harry asked.

"Well, her Gryffindor friends couldn't cheer her up. Guess she needs some Slytherin charm." Blaise said and winked at them, they shook their head but let him go. Knowing that when it came to friends, Blaise really knew his stuff. Blaise knocked on the door once but entered anyway, Draco following closely behind. Blaise then conjured up a chair and sat one side of Hermione's bed, Draco followed suit and sat on the other side of her bed.

"Mione? Wakey wake." Blaise said, softly. Hermione had gone into hiding under her covers.

"Go away, Blaise." Came the muffled reply, muffled of course by the duvet. The words of course didn't dishearten Blaise. Nothing much could.

"I'll use force to get you out of under there. Force which Draco wouldn't like then probably punch me. You could avoid Draco abusing me by coming out of there by yourself." Blaise said in a sing-song voice. Hermione sighed but pulled the covers off her head and sat up; she gave Blaise the most coldest and evilest glare she could muster.

"I hate you." she said but he knew she didn't mean it. Blaise grinned at her.

"Now now, no need to be mean. Think of it this way if I wasn't such a nosy bastard then you probably would've suffocated under there." He said and she rolled her eyes at him.

"Gee, thanks. That makes me feel so much better." Hermione said sarcastically.

"Anytime. Now, I demand you stop being mopey and get your ass out of bed so we can do some magic and fix your dress." Blaise ordered, she raised her eyebrow at him and crossed her arms over her chest.

"I don't feel like going." Blaise looked at her like she was crazy.

"Draco, talk some sense into your girl." Blaise said and got up and jumped on the bed next to Hermione's, which was Ginny's. Hermione glared at him but Draco gently took her head in his hands so she would look at him. Her gaze immediately softened.

"Why don't you want to go? You and Girl Weasley have been excited about this since Dumbledore announced it. So spill and we're not leaving until you do." Hermione sighed and muttered under her breathe about 'boyfriends and best friends ganging up on me, stupid idiots won't stop pestering me'. Blaise and Draco heard it all and grinned.

"That's why you love us. We bug you until you feel better." Blaise said, cheerfully. Hermione glared at him again and he put his hands up as if surrendering.

"I don't feel like going because I've got a dress that has been torn apart and an idiot ex-boyfriend/ex-best friend who is bound to start something and I don't want to be there when he does because I'm sick and tired of handling him." Hermione said, quickly all in one breathe and she gasped afterwards and took a deep breathe.

"Blaise leave us alone." Draco muttered.

"Do I have to?" Blaise asked, excited. Draco rolled his eyes and so did Hermione.

"No, as long as you don't repeat anything you see or hear to anyone." Hermione said sweetly then turned to look at him. Well more like glare at him, but then she smiled sweetly at him. "If you do then you won't be able to say or hear anything anymore, okay?" he gulped and nodded and just sat there quietly. Draco pouted.

"Why does he have to stay?" Draco complained quietly. Hermione rolled her eyes.

"Because he would bug us about the details if he didn't and I don't want Blaise bugging me more than he is already because I might just do something I regret." She looked at Blaise in the corner of her eye and he gulped, Draco chuckled.

"You're sexy when you're angry." Draco said, quietly. Hoping Blaise wouldn't hear but he did, however he kept his promise and stayed quietly. Mainly because he was frightened of Hermione.

"Thank you and your sexy always." He smirked and winked at that but he just earned an eye roll at that. "Now what did you want to say to me that Blaise couldn't hear?" Draco sighed but climbed on her bed. He wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him and she immediately relaxed, her head resting on his shoulder.

"You're dress can be fixed, Hermione. You look just as beautiful as you would have before it got ruined and as for the idiot ex if he starts something then we'll just walk away. Don't not go to the Ball just because of him, he's a prick and I know you cared for him and sort of still do but don't let him get to you. So you're going to this goddamn Ball and you're going to have an amazing night, okay?" he all but ordered the last bit and she nodded. She looked up at him and he moved his arm to gently cup her head and leaned down to kiss her.

It was a sweet kiss but still passionate, no tongues. Mainly because Blaise was there but also they were happy without them, after all they didn't need their tongues stuck down one another's throat to show how much they cared. Draco's other hand roamed freely down Hermione body and Blaise raised his eyebrow at that. Surprised Hermione wasn't slapping him away. Draco's hand stayed at her butt but he moved her so she was sitting on his lap, not breaking the kiss during any point.

Draco's hand then went back up her and tugged at her hem of her top. She broke the kiss off and shook her head; Draco pouted but didn't push her. She saw that and giggled and leaned in to whisper in his ear.

"Not while we have company, Draco." She said and Draco turned to glare at Blaise, he raised his eyebrow then, wondering what he had done.

"Why did you let him stay?" Draco asked, gently banging his head against her head board.

"Hey, I wouldn't have minded if you guys went further. Just as long as you wouldn't have minded if I couldn't help but 'accidentally' see something." Blaise said and winked at Hermione, she rolled her eyes at him.

"On second thought I'm glad you stopped when you did. You're not going to accidentally or purposely see anything of Hermione. She's my girl and you've got your own." Draco said and wound his arms around Hermione's waist protectively. She was still sitting on his lap and they were both content with that.

"You mean Lav? She's not my girl." He grinned. "Not yet, anyway."

A/N: Love's brewing all around, first with Draco and Hermione and now Blaise and Lavender! Hehe so next chapter is the long awaited Halloween Ball! Hope you guys liked this chapter, please leave me a review with your thoughts! Thanks :)

Until next time – Tilda.