Chapter 10: Amortentia

Capitulo X: Amortentia

Hermione tried to concentrate in what she was reading, an Arithmancy treaty written by a greek wizard called Tales. Usually, Hermione found Arthithmancy so interesting that she was absorbed completely and make her forget about everything. But that day she felt unable to concentrate, she couldn't stop thinking in her last encounter with Malfoy, when he was near to discover how she felt about him… Malfoy should never find put that she was in love with him… it would be her doom… he hated and humiliated her because of being a mudblood and if he knew her feelings she would be a lot more vulnerable and object of his mockery.

She almost started crying when she saw Malfoy enter the library and examined the room until he found her. Hermione quickly fixed her attention to the book, forcing herself to ignore him and trying to think in something else but it was impossible as she realized that Malfoy was sitting in front of her. The Slytherin opened a book in any page, laid on the backseat of the chair and crossed his arms.

Hermione refused to look at him but in a way she felt that he had his eyes fixed on her. For a few minutes, she tried desperately to concentrate in the numbers and structures that the book exposed but she saw them and didn't understand anything. She would've had the same result if she had tried to read Chinese and she was getting nervous. And as if It wasn't enough, Malfoy started tapping his fingers against the table while with the other hand he passed the pages of the book, without sense, forward, backward… and so on. Every touch of his fingertips against the table, every change of page, made her go mad and the sounds appeared to eco in her head. When she was near to hysteria, she closed the book, picked it up and stood up abruptly. Without looking at Malfoy, she left the table and left the library with big steps and when she was completely out she started running. When she was not able to breath anymore, she stopped and rest, trying to catch some air.

She wasn't sure why but something told her that she must get away and return to the Common Room. There she would be safe of Malfoy but not of her friends that didn't stop asking her questions, worried about her sickness and mood. The library had always been her refugee when she was not in the mood to be with her friends but now it had turned into a torture every time Draco Malfoy walked trough the doors. She didn't know about a place were she was able to escape from the Slytherin. Nervous, she rubbed her face with her hands and examined the corridor over her shoulder, afraid to see someone appeared trough it. And her fears came true when Malfoy appeared threw the corridor and face her, he was following her.

Hermione panicked, and without thinking it, she started to run as if her life depended on it. When she got to the Great Hall, she took some stairs at the left, run threw the corridor and took other stairs. She looked back to be sure that Malfoy didn't follow her, and after taking a half dozen of stairs and corridors, she convinced herself that she was being paranoid. Malfoy wasn't following her, it had no sense, and probably he just went to the library to bother her and when she left, he decided to to the same. She reproach herself for acting in such a stupid way, she had run like a scared little girl.

She wandered threw the corridor completely disoriented and feeling tremendously stupid. She didn't know were she was, it seemed that in a part of the castle that she had never visited before and she had no idea how she arrived there, so she must search for a way out. At least there, wherever she was, she would have some peace, she said to herself. She tried to open some doors but half of them were fake doors and the other half was closed. At last, with any hope left, she tried to open the last door of the corridor and for her surprise she was able to open it and enter into a small and rectangular room, with torches because the proximity of night. She entered letting out a loud breath and let her book on a table near the wall. She sighed and climbed on the table, rested her back in the cold wall and hugged her knees. She closed her eyes trying to relax. First Malfoy showed up in the library, the she ran like crazy and now she was completely lost in some place of the big castle, could it be worst?

Hermione didn't know how much time she was in that position with her eyes closes and her mind thinking in too much things. All her thoughts turned around Draco Malfoy and her damns feelings for him. Why her? Why had she looked into the less reachable persons for her? The person that hate her the most. He will never return the feelings and Hermione was fine with that, because she and Malfoy couldn't be together, not matter how they felt. She had no chance, she knew that, and because of that it should be easy to forget him, she must. She was tired of crying every time he mistreat her or insulted her… she wished his insults and offenses were indifferent to her, as it had been for years. She sighed deeply and opened her eyes.

The she saw him; the object of her thoughts was there, inside the room, with the door closed behind him. Hermione gave a start, she didn't hear him enter not even close the door, she had been too concentrated to notice. But the truth was that now he was just some inches away from her and that they were alone in a room lost in the immensity of Hogwarts.

- What are you doing here? – she asked in a high pitched voice. She stood up quickly and hugged the Arithmancy book as if it was a shield that could protect her from Malfoy.

He shrugged, ignoring her question, and fixing his cold eyes on her. That ice eyes had something hypnotic that made Hermione feel completely paralyzed, altered and calmed at the same time. She looked away to avoid them and fixed her sight in the boy's neck.

- Why don't you leave me alone Malfoy? – she answered starting to get angry. He followed her there but apparently he didn't have the intention to talk or do something more than observe her – haven't you bothered me enough in the owlery? Why have you followed me?

The girl observed with attention waiting for his answer or any reaction, but he did absolutely nothing, he note ven blinked, he just stood there watching her.

What do you want from me? – she cried containing herself from throwing him the book on his blonde hair.

Hermione thought that she will go mad if he continue ignoring her, she wish to throw him Ginny's Bat-bogey Hex or a Cruciatus… yes, but instead of that she decide to get out of there. She passed by Malfoy's side and opened the door ready to leave but, when she was about to go out, the Slytherin put his hand on the door and closes it fiercely in Hermione's nose. With his hand still in the door, he turned his face and looked a Hermione seriously, to seriously that Hermione was scared.

Who are you in love with, Granger? – he asked.

For a few seconds Hermione was to stupefied to answer, then she frown and looked at him furiously.

- Why does it matter to you? – she replied.

- I've got my motives – he answered enigmatically.

- I will never tell you – she answered embarrassed, she felt her cheeks hot for the rage. How does he dare to ask her that? – you less than anyone.

To her surprise, Malfoy reacted to the girls rage showing a smirk of satisfaction and self security.

Why Granger? Because maybe it's me?

Hermione thought that her heart had stopped when she heard those words and she realized that she was holding her breath. Malfoy was still smiling, sure that he had uncovered the secret and obviously quite satisfied with himself and Hermione was full of rage, rage that was brought by fear. He had discovered her… now everything will be hell for her, well, a worst hell that it already was… she looked at him with fury and in that instant she hated him.

Almost unconsciously, her free hand raised in the air before touching the Slytherin's face. Malfoy's pale face turned and his platinum hair fall to his eyes.

Hermione watch him scared by what she had done and then he raised his face, his hair fall to the sides revealing his cold eyes burning in rage.

The scared girl moved back a few steps but he approached her abruptly and grabbed her strongly by the shoulders. He pulled her into him and kissed her roughly; with to much force that Hermione felt pain. At first he took possession of her mouth, forcing her to separate her lips to deepen his tongue, taking what he wish, showing her mixed feelings, giving free rein to his desire repressed to much time. He kissed her with rage, cruelty, for what she had caused, wanting to release in her mouth all his past frustration, wanting to revenge for what she made him feel… but the sweetness and shyness with which the girl answered left him unarmed and vulnerable to the caress of their lips and their tongues. And he abandoned himself completely into the kiss, enjoying every soft and slow movement, drinking every drop of nectar that she docilely offered him, enjoying her mouth at last. He grabbed her strongly by her waist, attracting her to him while she rest in the boy's chest, trapping the robes between her fingers as if her balance depend on it. Their bodies were completely glued by their longing mouths.

Hermione was lost in other world; she had lost any sense of time or space and was only conscious of Draco's kisses and the sensations they provoke her, but her weakened mind heard a near voice.

Where are they Mrs. Norris? You feel them don't you? Young students violating rules, right? Lead me to them…

It took her some time to realize what was going on and understand that Filch was near. Using all her will, she pushed the boy slightly to move him apart and whispered:

Filch…

Mmm? – murmured the boy before he kissed her again. When she felt his wet lips on hers and his tongue seeking hers, Hermione surrender to the kiss forgetting that Filch was near and he could find them any minute.

Are they there Mrs. Norris? Do you smell them? – Filch's voice sounded closer now.

This time, both, Draco and Hermione reacted and broke apart slowly to look at each other for a few seconds. They both knew that if Filch found themn, consequences will be terrible, the must run.

Come – murmured the boy taking her wrist to make her follow him, but she didn't move. Draco saw her angrily and was about to ask her what the hell was going on when he saw the girl pulled out her wand and pointed the door. Without a word, showing a perfect use of non-verbal spells, Hermione sealed the door with a spell. In that same instant the both saw how someone tried to open the door from the other side.

Holly Ghosts! – spit Filch's familiar voice – this door is locked, no one could've enter here Mrs. Norris… lest keep searching, they mustn't escape…

Neither of them moved, not even breath, until the caretaker's steps were lost in the corridors. After that, they both stared at each other, the fear had disappeared and now they were alone again… after kissing. Hermione watch the boy completely blushed and twisted her hands nervously; she still trembled at the idea of what they've done and was uncertain of his reaction.

Obviously, Draco didn't know what the hell to say or do and that fill him with rage, he felt stupid, standing there, just observing her and trying not to look those lips moistened by him. He couldn't stop thinking of her mouth and in how much he wanted to kiss her again… but, it was Granger! What the hell was he thinking! He had kissed a mudblood!

- What have you done? – he spitted suddenly.

- What? – she asked confused.

- Yes! – he yelled grabbing her by the shoulders – what have you done to me?!

- I don't understand you… - she murmured nervously.

- You are a bookworm, don't you? I'm sure that you could've done a love potion perfectly, because if is not that is impossible that I've… - he interrupted himself, aware of what he had almost said.

- That you what? – she asked looking into his eyes.

- You know how love potions work! – he cried letting her go and watching her angrily.

- I haven't used a love potion with you Malfoy – she answered dryly, she started to get offended. How he dare to accuse her of that, when he was the one who kissed her!

- Common Granger – he said smirking – admit it, is understandable… after all you're not the first nor the last that falls for me…

- You're a spoiled brat! – she cried completely angry because he didn't believe her. He appeared to be ready to find an excuse to the fact that he had kissed her and he accused her of using a spell on him.

- You like that, don't you? – he asked with a suggestive tone, approaching her without breaking eye contact. Hermione affected by the boys proximity, backed up, his smell and the heat his body released make her evoke his kisses and that make her blush. She almost let out a scream when she reached the wall and Malfoy rest his both arms, one at each side of Hermione's face. He reached her face, stopping just a few inches away from her mouth and whispered: - Tell me, Hermione… - his breath tickled her lips – how did you make me drink the potion?

- I don't… - she started angrily but Draco interrupt her by sealing her lips with his, unarming her completely. Few seconds later, he broke apart and look into her eyes.

- I will ask you again; do you put the potion into my food? How did you do it? – he steal a quick kiss and continue – well?

She observed him for a while, aware of what the boy wanted. It doesn't matter how pleasant his kisses were, she'll never recognized something she hadn't done and that denigrate her. Furious, he pushed the boy away from her and fix her eyes on his.

- I hadn't throw anything to your food Malfoy – she spit – I wouldn't stoop so low and specially not for you… - in that moment she hate him – so you have two options; to continue thinking that I bewitched you, which logically isn't true, or, ask to yourself why have you kissed me… grow up a little and stop blaming other people for your actions, Malfoy – she ended with rage and without losing anytime she opened the door with an "Alohomora" and disappeared.

Draco stood in the same position he had been since Hermione pushed him away and continue to look at the door were she had disappeared. His first reaction was to curse her. First he felt furious because she had yelled him those things, the he got scared when he remembered the way he had kissed her. He felt many kinds of things and realities he didn't want to hear on his head, ready to show him he was an idiot. But he didn't want to think. He didn't want to remember what had happened, in the same way he hated the sensation he still had in his mouth, as if in some way he was still kissing her. He run out from the room without knowing were he was going, he only knew he wanted to get out of that place were he had made something that had no name. He didn't wanted to analyze his thoughts because he was afraid of what he could discover, but in the same way he knew that until he didn't do it, he was not going to be able to rest. The love potion was a possibility but even though he didn't recognize it in front of the Gryffindor, he knew it had no sense. It was almost impossible that she had put a potion into his drink or food, their tables were far apart and she was never near his.

And that demonstrate him that he hadn't kissed her because a magic reason, that meant he kissed her because of him, with plain conscious and will. But, to be honest, he didn't remember wanting to kiss her, he just did it and couldn't stop. He remembered Hermione's words: "ask yourself why have you kissed me"… why had he done it?

She was a mudblood, an inferior being for a Malfoy, she must be as important as a cockroach in his shoe. She must make him feel disgust, revulsion…

But he hadn't experiment none of those feelings when he kissed her, he didn't know exactly what he had felt but, sure enough it had nothing to do with disgust or revulsion. Whatever it had been… he liked it.

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Hey!

This chapter is one of my favorites. =D Hermione left very pissed of (what I found normal after what he did) and Draco without knowing, said and let her see many things… what will happen now? Cham cham… (tension)

Thank you very much!

Kisses!

Dry ;)

SORRY!!! I'm REALLY really sorry I didn't update quickly… it have been more than a motnh =S I'm deeply sorry but with work, college and homework I can barely breath. But in a week I'm going to have one month of vacations and that means I'm going to update sooner. Hope you'll review!! =D… and I apologize for my terrible grammar lol