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Chapter two: Discoveries.
"DEVON!" snapped a very agitated Evan for the forth time to get his friend's attention. Devon jumped in surprise and glared at Evan "What!"
"I'm going to burn all books in existence!" Huffed Evan "I was calling you for ages!"
"First of all it's not a book, it's a magazine," said Devon letting out a long sigh while rolling her eyes at her friend's stupidity and then added with a cheeky grin "Second of all I heard you all those times, but ignoring you is fun!"
"I knew it!" said Evan in mock shock-his hand covering his mouth, eyes wide "The true Slytherin emerges at last!"
"At least I'm more Slytherin than you are." Said Devon with a smirk flipping to the next page on the magazine.
"You …" said Evan in what he supposed was a voice dripping with sadness and concern "I may not be able to save you, but let's hope the Gryffindor does!"
"I'm past saving, I'll soon start making fun of your hair." Said Devon with a bored tone flipping to a new page.
"The Gryffindor is here you know!" said Skyler indignantly while buttering her toast.
"Oh great Gryffindor, save the Slytherin.. " said Evan before adding with a loud whisper "I think she's lost her sense of humor!"
Devon smacked Evans shoulder with her magazine before she joined her friends in their fit of laughter.
"Well, let's quiet down a bit people are starting to stare and I think that having you both at the Gryffindor table is a big deal as it is!" said Skyler quieting down and taking a bite out of her toast.
"It's entertaining seeing the shocked faces, you'd think after 19 years everybody would be chill with us Slytherin's and Gryffindor's hanging out." said Evan shaking his head dramatically "The blasphemy!"
"You have only been a Slytherin one day." Said Devon before adding animatedly "Hear hear, The man speaks the truth I hold no grudge against you Gryffindor why must you hate me so!"
"You guys, I think we've already burned out the Slytherin/Gryffindor jokes for today, now can I just eat my breakfast peacefully you evil serpents." Said Skyler innocently "Oops, didn't mean that."
"Ok, fine, what do we have first on our schedules?" said Devon looking through her book bag to get her timetable.
"Potions with Gryffindor." Said Evan with his mouth full of food.
"Joy!" said Devon with a smirk towards Skyler, who stuck out her tongue .
"The place is getting busier, how about we leave?" said Evan pointing his head towards a group of Gryffindor sixth years sitting extremely close, trying to subtly lean in to hear their conversation. Evan grinned at the nonstop giggles sparing a wink towards the group of girls on his way out with Devon and Skyler- who laughed at the exchange.
"Trying to look cool eh?" said Devon with an air of indifference, her eyes twinkling with silent laugher and mischief "Dear little Evan, Sky and I will never get used to girls throwing themselves at you, are they blind!"
"You're just jealous I'm better looking." Said Evan running his hand through his hair before giving her a smoldering look, his eyebrows raised suggestively.
"In your dreams." Said Devon slowly and sweetly- too sweetly.
"Okay enough, now was it right or left from this corridor, ah right!" said Skyler completely uninterested in her friends banter looking instead at the corridors and the turns to determine the right way to potions class which was in the dungeons "I'm glad mum took us around the castle in the summer, else we'd be completely clueless, right?"
"Well, look at that perfect picture of Inter-house unity" said someone snickering from behind. Skyler turned around to see the blonde witch looking condescendingly at her and her friends. She smiled sweetly at Jena Weasley and said "Jealous?"
Jena let out an amused laugh "Very, is that the best you can do?
Skyler spared a quick glance to see her accompanists and saw Jake Potter standing on Jena's right idly, hair disheveled and hands in his pockets, watching the exchange with a little smile. Jonathon stood on her left preoccupied in what seemed to be a staring contest with Evan.
"Well, considering your intellect …." Said Skyler shrugging her shoulders indifferently causing Jena to narrow her eyes in spite. Jena put on a sweet smile and walked past Skyler -a bit red in the face. Jake Potter Followed glancing at Skyler with a smirk, Jonathan breaked his – I will break you down with my stare- challenge and walked away with his sister and cousin.
"Friendly aren't they." said Evan sarcastically as he narrowed his eyes at Jonathan's back .
"What just happened, not just between you and her sky, but between you and him." asked Devon looking at Evan perplexedly.
"Well, it's a guy thing, we don't like each other.." said Evan nonchalantly.
"Yeah, guy thing.." said Devon giving Skyler a ' what a loon' look "Say, who is that girl?"
"Weasley, Jena Weasley- the enemy!" said Skyler laughing "What a loser, she might have been able to pick on Georgette, but if she's considering steering my way she's just stupid."
"And they say WE'RE the evil bad ones." Said Evan mockingly referring to Devon and himself.
"Well, Hogwarts a history sure needs a rewrite." Said Devon checking the time on her watch "Let's go, else we'll be late."
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"Is he?" Asked Hermione softly looking out the window into the distance. Her mind drifting to the darkest memories she kept hidden at the realms she dared not enter in her own mind.
She walked out of the fireplace dusting herself off. She took a deep breath and numbed her emotions. What she was about to do was going to tear her to shreds, but right now wasn't the time to worry about that. She would have forever to drown in self hatred and pain.
She was immediately greeted with a warm embrace. She relaxed into Draco's embrace breathing in his scent deeply for the last time. This would be her last embrace with him. She felt small and safe in his arms, she wished she could stay there forever, but fate was cruel and what she was about to do was crueler.
He pulled back and cupped her face "I've missed you." He said giving her a heart splitting smile before leaning in to capture her lips. She felt his warm lips on hers as his hands moved to her waist. She met his lips for only a few seconds in weakness before pushing him away and walking to the center of one of the many massive living rooms in the Malfoy manor.
A look of confusion graced Draco Malfoy's features as he stared at her back in silence. Something was wrong.
"Are you okay?" He asked walking up to where she was standing with her back to him. He wrapped his arms around her waist kissing her softly on the cheek.
She would never have those arms around her like that again. She disentangled herself from his embrace once again.
"No." she whispered, her tears already making their way across her cheeks. Draco moved to get closer to where she was with concern evident all over his face.
"You can tell me anything Hermione, you know I love you." He said worriedly.
"Don't say anything, just listen because you might just stop loving me." Said Hermione moving to stand further near the fireplace with a bit of distance between them. She had to do it, there was no backing down now.
"I'm pregnant and it's not yours." Said Hermione harshly looking him in the eyes -her tears flowing freely. She felt sick to her stomach but she had to go on "Draco, it happened when I went to France to meet with their minister of magic, there was a ball and I was drunk…"
"You expect me to believe that?" Said Draco, his fists clenching, he could feel his nails digging into his palms. His ears must have deceived him, he must have heard her wrong, this was not happening. Hermione would never cheat on him. She could not be pregnant with someone else's child. It was the most ridiculous idea ever.
This was Hermione Granger.
Impossible.
"I had to come clean Draco, if I hadn't taken the test to determine the father of the baby I wouldn't have told you- it was a mistake." Said Hermione hanging her head down in shame. Her shoulders were shaking violently.
"You're lying, you would never betray me, it's not in you." Said Draco moving to stand in front of her.
"But I was scared everything was going so fast…I got scared." Said Hermione with her head still hanging down "But, I do love you Draco, I never meant for this to happen."
Draco grabbed her chin roughly and forced her to look him in the eyes. He couldn't believe her. He wouldn't. She was lying, this couldn't be happening.
"You're lying." He said through gritted teeth. His anger level was reaching boiling points.
Tell me you're lying.
Tell me you're lying.
Tell me you're lying.
"I'm not, do you want to see the proof, because as disgusting as it is I can pull out the memory!" shrieked Hermione moving away from him "WHY WOULD I LIE TO YOU, DON'T YOU THINK THE GUILT IS KILLING ME!"
"This isn't like you, this can't be happening.." said Draco looking at his hysterical girlfriend. The love of his life.
Who just ripped his heart out.
"I'm SO sorry Draco." Said Hermione falling to the ground. Draco was looking at her in disbelief. She saw tears slowly falling leaving their tracks on his pale cheeks.
The pain was too much for him. He wanted to shake her and force her to tell him she way lying. He loved her and now she was ripping him to shreds with what she was saying.
Draco let out an agonized scream before taking all his anger and directing it to the wall. He punched it with all the power he could muster, feeling numb to the pain at first before clutching his hand when the physical pain hit him.
Hermione gasped "Oh my god, Draco!" she said approaching him- she definitely heard something crack.
"Stay there." Said Draco softly but dangerously.
"How could you do this to me. I gave you my heart." He said looking at her with menacing eyes "I wanted to be with you forever, I wanted you as my wife."
Hermione felt as if she'd been hit with an avada curse, except she was still alive. She wished to be hit with an avada curse just to stop the pain. Just to stop the hate in his eyes. Just to stop his pain. She chocked up and tried to stop her hot flowing tears.
"I'm so sorry." She said weakly. She had to leave. She had to get out of there. She had to- before her weakness took hold of her.
You're doing this for him. You are saving his life. You are doing this for him.
Be strong.
"Leave." He said turning to give her his back "I never want to see you again."
She didn't need telling twice. She took a deep breathe before entering the fireplace.
As soon as she left Draco crumbled to the floor with a bleeding hand that didn't equal a fraction of the pain he was feeling inside. Death would hurt less.
After all these years Hermione still felt like crying at the memory. She broke his heart in the worst way possible.
Ron moved to where she stood and took her in his arms "You're crying and this time you don't have hot tea to blame it on."
Hermione chuckled in his arms wiping her tears away "It still gets to me." She whispered torturously.
"It's all in the past now." Said Ron stroking her hair "What do you plan for the future though?"
"Nothing." Said Hermione pulling back to walk to her living room.
"But-" Ron started in protest.
"Let it remain in the past. Nothing will change. It's been too long." Said Hermione sighing in frustration. They have had the same conversation over and over again "My facility for charms and potions research will be opening soon, so I will be very busy in the coming days. It's good to be back."
"How's that going by the way?" said Ron accepting her attempt to change the subject.
"It's tough as hell, but it's going to be worth it because of all the information I have accumula-" started Hermione but was interrupted with a chuckle from Ron.
"Bookworm." Said Ron smirking at her.
"Oh shut up." Said Hermione giggling. She was a bookworm and she was proud of it.
"Guess what?" said Ron in excitement, practically jumping up and down.
"What?"
"Sam no more!" said Rom happily "I finally intimidated the bloke to bugger off!"
"Ron, Georgette will murder you if you keep doing this to her!" said Hermione trying to stifle a giggle "You are horrible."
"Well who told her to grow up and start dating, she's still my little girl," said Ron skulking "Besides I know what those boys want, with those raging hormones of theirs!"
"You were one of them," she said gasping and playfully hitting him on the arm "You still are actually!"
He grinned at her, chuckling himself "Well, we'll have to wait and see who's next!"
"You enjoy this don't you?!" said Hermione shaking her head at the father her best friend came to be.
"You have no idea." Said Ron with a wolfish grin.
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"You guy's go on, I'll be right there, it's just down the hall to the left right?" Asked Devon in confirmation. Skyler nodded and walked away with Evan as she entered the Lavatory. Devon looked at her reflection in the mirror and sighed in gratitude. Hogwarts was everything she had ever dreamed of and it even exceeded her expectations.
Soon all the students would lose their aw and they would be treated normally. Soon everything would be normal again.
Soon.
She sighed once again. Glad beyond belief to be so far away from home with her friends.
She gathered her belongings and walked out the lavatory in a hurry- she might still be able to catch up with her friends.
She crashed into someone and lost her balance in the process. She was falling backwards when a strong set of arms held her back in place.
"Thank you," she said flushing in embarrassment before looking up into silver eyes. Those eyes held hers for a while before looking away in indifference.
He looked like he played Quidditch. He had the broad shoulders and built body. She felt it's hardness when she crashed into him. He was also wearing Slytherin robes. The blonde Slytherin walked away with two of his friends, not sparing another glance her way.
She couldn't forget the intensity in those silver eyes.
Devon hurried herself to the Dungeons. Going down the hall and turning right. The same direction the guy she crashed into was heading.
So, he's a seventh year as well.
She passed him and his friends without sparing them a glance and walked past the classroom's doors to see her friends seated at the back of the class, she chuckled before joining them.
"Back of the class, why am I not surprised?"
"It's the best place to pay attention and be 100% focused!" said Evan brightly.
"How can I argue when you put it that way!" said Devon rolling her eyes, a smile tugging at her lips.
"I wanted to sit at the front, but Evan practically dragged me here.." said Sky huffing and throwing a glare in Evan's direction.
"Bookworm" said both Evan and Devon at the same time- they high fived each other with massive grins.
"Oh shut up!" said Skyler rolling her eyes with a small giggle.
Out of the corner of her eye Devon saw the guy with the silver eyes pass her with his neck length blond hair swaying slightly. Those silver eyes brought back a sense of nostalgia.
Devon turned her heard to look at her friends. Skyler's eyes were pinned to something. She followed her gaze and noticed that they were pinned to someone.
The silver eyed blonde.
"That's him, Nikolai Malfoy." Whispered Skyler with an expressionless face "My brother."
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