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One Unforgettable Year

Chapter 18: Dangerous

Info you need to know: "Talking".

"Draco's missing." Blaise said, sounding sad and worried for his best friend. Hermione by now was fully awake. After all there was nothing that could wake Hermione up more than the news of her boyfriend being missing. It was better at waking her up than an alarm clock. Or coffee.

"What? Since when?" Hermione asked, her voice going an octave higher due to panic. Blaise and Harry straightened up and came over to them and sat on Ginny's bed.

"This morning. We woke up before him. I was walking and came across Potter. I'm certain before we left that Draco was still asleep but I came back to change and he was gone. His cover thrown off his bed and on the floor. We've looked everywhere and asked everyone who's awake but no-one's seen him and there isn't a trace of him. I hoped that for some reason he would be up here with you, Hermione." Blaise said, not bothering to keep the worry from his voice. Hermione threw her own covers off and stood up.

"No, I woke up only a little while ago. I just finished telling Lav and Gin everything before you guys came in." Hermione told Blaise, he nodded understanding what 'everything' was but Harry frowned. He still didn't know about any of it.

"What's 'everything'?" Harry asked, Hermione sighed.

"We can go into detail about it later if you want Harry, but right now I'm going to keep it short. Draco and I are going out." Harry's eyes widened at this knowledge and he was quiet for a few moments but thankfully he didn't shout at Hermione or was upset with her. She wasn't sure how Harry would react and she was glad that he didn't seem that upset about it.

"Since when?" Harry asked, Hermione shook her head and took Blaise's hand and started to drag him away.

"Later, Harry. We'll talk when I've found out where my boyfriend is and if he's okay." Harry nodded and Hermione dragged Blaise out with her. He didn't protest even though he wasn't sure where she was going all he knew was that Hermione needed him right now. Draco did too.

Hermione stormed through the castle, looking kinda of like an avenging angel. Even if she was in her pyjamas. Hermione had forgotten that she was in her pyjamas so she didn't look as serious as she could've. She wore a pink tank top and short shorts which were white with pink flowers on them. Thankfully no-one was really awake yet so she didn't get teased. Hermione was heading towards the Slytherin dungeons. More specifically the Slytherin common room. She stopped outside the portrait of the snake and turned to face Blaise.

"You've got my back right?" Hermione asked, though she knew the answer.

"Always." Blaise said, Hermione smiled her thanks and silently asked for him to say the password seeing as she didn't know what it was. "Snake's Venom." Hermione rolled her eyes at the typical Slytherin password but was just glad when the door opened with the hissing of the snake.

It was cold and dark green in the Slytherin common room. The floors and walls were cobbled stone and Hermione shivered seeing as she wasn't dressed properly (she still hadn't realised that she was in her pyjamas). The fireplace was on but it didn't give off any cosy feeling or warmth. Most of the Slytherin's were still asleep. Pansy was on the sofa in-between to Slytherin guys flirting madly with them. There were a few other Slytherin's dotted around the room. But Hermione's eyes focused on one certain flirting girl.

When the door had opened everyone (except Pansy) had looked up, the girls in the room raised their eyebrows at Hermione's outfit while the boys just looked her up and down, their eyes glued to her. She didn't take any notice rather just continued to walk straight over to Pansy. She stopped in front of her sofa and put her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes at Pansy. Pansy merely side glanced her.

"See you just got out of bed, filth. Are you that lazy that you couldn't even bothered to get change?" Pansy sneered. Hermione was confused at what she was saying then looked down to what she was wearing. Finally Hermione realised she was still in her pyjamas she blushed slightly and looked at Blaise with a 'why-didn't-you-tell-me?' glare and he just smiled apologetically. She sighed and turned back to Pansy.

"We need to talk, Pansy." Hermione demanded, Pansy just looked at her and crossed her arms over her chest. "Alone." Hermione added when she saw that the two guys that Pansy had been flirting with weren't moving. She sighed, grabbed Pansy's wrist and stormed out the room with her, Blaise following closely behind. Hermione dragged Pansy into the nearest empty room and put a silencing charm on it. Then Hermione put her arms over her chest and looked at Pansy, well glared at her.

"Now why have you dragged me here, filth?" Pansy asked irritated. Blaise narrowed his eyes at her and the horrid nickname. Pansy just raised her eyebrow at him.

"Where's Draco?" Hermione said bluntly. Pansy just raised another eyebrow at her and sat down on one of the tables and crossed her leg over the other one.

"How should I know? He's usually with you; maybe he finally got bored of little-miss-annoying." Pansy taunted, Hermione rolled her eyes used to the nastiness that came with Pansy.

"He's missing, Pansy. When I got back this morning he wasn't in his bed like he had been earlier. So if you know anything please just tell us and we'll leave you alone." Blaise asked, practically pleading. He didn't care though, after all his best friend could be in danger.

"Leave me alone now because I don't know where Draco is. He's probably just in the grounds somewhere, stop babying him he's a big boy he can be out on his own." Hermione didn't really know why other than it was a gut reaction but she pulled out her wand and pointed it at Pansy. Pansy's eyes narrowed so she looked straight at the wand and she actually looked scared. Hermione smirked; glad Pansy recognised Hermione's skills.

"Blaise and I will leave you alone now, Pansy." Hermione said sickly sweet, then her gaze hardened and she looked incredibly angry. Not to mention scary. "But if I find out that you did know any information of Draco's whereabouts and was withholding it from me, I'll hex you into oblivion. Okay?" Pansy gulped and nodded, knowing that in this mood Hermione's threat wasn't empty. Hermione looked at her for a few more moments and then withdrew her wand form Pansy's face and straightened up.

Hermione then left without a second glance at Pansy, Blaise followed her out and they headed back to the prefect common room. Harry, Ginny and Lavender were waiting for them anxiously. They looked up hopefully, wishing that Draco was following them when they saw that he was nowhere in sight they sighed sadly. Hermione nodded to them but otherwise walked past them and up into a room.

A few minutes later Hermione came back down, properly dressed. She was wearing jeans and a T-shirt of Draco's that he had let her borrow a few weeks ago. Her hair wise tied up in a messy pony tail and she looked just about ready to seriously do some damage. The others were glad to know it wasn't going to be them at the receiving end.

"Where'd you guys go?" Harry asked, curious when Hermione sat down on the sofa next to Ginny and Lavender. Harry and Blaise took the two armchairs in the room.

"To try and get some answers." Hermione said vaguely. The girls and Harry frowned at that.

"From who?" Ginny asked, quietly.

"Doesn't matter, I didn't get any answers. Draco's still missing and no-one has a clue where he could be!" Hermione said, annoyed with herself for not knowing who would want to kidnap her boyfriend. She should know all his enemies; she used to be one of them. But Hermione couldn't think of anybody who was Draco's enemy right now, sure Ron hated him but wouldn't kidnap him would he? Other than that there was no-one else Hermione could think of that Draco mentioned to look out for. That was dangerous.

Dangerous. Why was the word now repeating over and over in Hermione's mind? She tuned out of the conversation the others were having on who could know about what happened to Draco and focused on that one word. Dangerous, why did that seem so familiar? Like she's talked about that one word a lot? She frowned confused, she tried to match the word dangerous with a person but she didn't know anyone dangerous did she?

Suddenly as if a light bulb clicked on above Hermione's head she realised that she did know someone dangerous. Someone very dangerous. She was stupid to not think of it before. It was staring them right in their faces. She leaped up and left the common room. She knew who had Draco but she needed to know if there was one person who could confirm it. She ignored her friends calling her name and instead ran.

She found herself by the lake and hope filled her as she spotted the person she needed to talk to. She marched over to him and he turned around. He was sitting by a tree near the lake and he looked up at her when he heard her footsteps. His eyes widened surprised she had come to see him. After all Hermione had made it pretty clear that she didn't want to see him at all these days.

"Do you know where Draco is, Ron?" Ron was surprised by her words and a flash of guilt went across his eyes before he hid it. But Hermione had seen it, her suspicion rose.

"No. Why would I?" Ron said, trying to sound casual but Hermione picked up the subtle hint of panic.

"Please, Ron. If you know anything about where Draco could be then please just tell me. I have my hunches and I want to make sure they're right before I go and put my life at risk and find out he's not there." Ron's eyes widened again, knowing where she was talking about.

"No, Hermione you can't go there! You'll get killed!" Ron cried and stood up. Hermione took a step back from him. A flash of hurt crossed his face but Hermione pretended not to notice. Now wasn't the time.

"I won't go there if I have no reasons to! Ron, just tell me what you know! I can tell you know something, I can see it in your eyes." Ron sighed and slumped down the tree.

"Alright. I saw Lucious Malfoy drag him out of Hogwarts and apparate." Ron said, quietly. Hermione's suspicions were confirmed and she hugged Ron tight.

"Thank you." she whispered and began to walk away.

"Hermione wait!" Ron called after her and she stopped and turned around to face him again. "You're not seriously going to follow them are you?" she nodded.

"Of course I am. There's no other option, I have to make sure Draco is okay. I have to bring him back." Ron took a step towards her and she didn't bother to move away, there was still a large gap between them.

"Tell Dumbledore, or McGonagall. Heck tell any Professor they can go and get Malfoy." He pleaded her to stay. He didn't want her to go and put her life in danger. Especially not for Malfoy. Hermione smiled sadly at him and shook her head.

"I'm sorry, Ron. But I have to go." She said softly.

"Why?" he asked just as softly. Hermione smiled a weak smile at him and turned to walk away. Before she was out of his ear shot she turned her head around to speak over to her shoulder to him.

"Because I love him." The words hung in the air as she waved a short wave goodbye and ran back to the common room. Hermione realised it now, she didn't just like Draco. No, her feelings were more than that. She loved him. She was about to risk her life for him but knew she needed help otherwise she would get killed the moment she set foot into the place. She was no use to Draco dead. Hopefully by the time Hermione got reinforcements and got to that place Draco wasn't dead. Hopefully she wasn't too late.

A/N: N'aww so Hermione's finally realised that she loves Draco. But don't get too excited she's happy to admit it to herself and to Ron but not necessarily Draco. Or is she? Hehe anyway you get to see what's happening with Draco next chapter. Hope you liked this one, please leave me a review with your thoughts on this chapter. Thanks :3

Until next time - Tilda