Disclaimer: Okay so I know I said that I was abandoning this story but I have decided to give it another chance. As I was working on my other story Unlikely Pair, inspiration struck me, that and I also read through all of the other chapters of this story and found it in myself to continue. So I hope you enjoy and don't give up on this story like I had. Now let's see what magic I can create for this lovely pairing. Enjoy!~
Blaise dragged himself in to the library completely exhausted. He had been searching the entire castle for Hermione and had yet to find her. He had heard through the rumor mill that Pansy Parkinson had physically attacked Hermione, being who she was didn't go to the hospital wing. Blaise scoured through the library until she finally found her in the very back of the library at a secluded table surrounded by books; asleep. He approached the table slowly and took a moment to study her face. Hermione's lip was split and a dark bruise forming around her eye, making her resemble a panda. He nearly growled when he saw the red handprint on her cheek from where Parkinson had obviously slapped her. He gently disentangled Hermione from the book she had been reading before falling asleep. As he was moving her Hermione managed to get her arms around Blaise's torso and clung to him tightly; Blaise blushed and tried to remove Hermione's arms from him but she seemed determined even in her sleep to hold on.
"Just five more minutes baby." Hermione mumbled in her sleep. The arms around Blaise tightened and a small noise of contentment left Hermione's lips as she cuddled closer to the stunned Slytherin. Hermione frowned in her sleep as she felt her pillow was hard, last time she checked it was supposed to be soft. She forced her eyes open slightly and noticed that her 'pillow' was actually a person; upon noticing she quickly opened her eyes completely and looked up to see who she was clinging to. When she saw that it was Blaise she blushed but quickly smiled; before wincing as her healing lip split open again.
"Are you alright Granger?" Blaise gently ran his finger along her split lip as Hermione blushed. He sat on the table in front of her and started closing all of the books that were surrounding her.
"Yeah, I'm fine. That cow looks worse than me, have you seen her? I hope I didn't make it too hard for Madam Pomfrey to take the spells off." Hermione shrugged and sat up stretching and messaging her neck.
"Spells? What spells?" Blaise asked inquiringly as he moved a stack of books to the side.
Hermione grinned mischievously and leaned towards the table. "Now that is my little secret." She winked at Blaise who was scowling playfully at her.
"Your little secret? C'mon just tell me!" He leaned closer to Hermione who blushed a little but kept the grin on her face.
"All girls are entitled to their secrets Blaise. But I suppose if you really want to know, I might be persuaded to tell you." Hermione stood up and kissed Blaise on the cheek before walking away, swaying her hips slightly.
Blaise watched Hermione until she walked out of his view before getting up and following after her.
Hermione sighed in relief as she exited her last class for the day and headed for the Great Hall. She knew that coming back to Hogwarts after the war was going to be difficult but she didn't really realize how hard it would be. It took all she had not to break down and cry as she thought of all of those who had been lost because of Voldemort. Hermione sniffed as her eyes began to fill with unshed tears which she quickly wiped away and sped up her pace to the Great Hall. She entered the Great Hall and looked around; she saw Ginny waving to her from the Gryffindor table and waved back before scanning the rest of the hall. Draco was attempting to eat his dinner but had to fight off Pansy Parkinson with one hand while trying to eat with the other. Hermione smirked evilly when she saw that Pansy's hair was still Gryffindor red and gold and written across her cheek was "Lovin' on some lions!" Hermione gleefully made her way to the Slytherin table and plopped herself on Draco's lap causing the blonde and Pansy to stare at her in shock. "Hi Draco, have you seen Blaise around? I haven't been able to find him." She kissed his cheek and slyly winked at him so Pansy couldn't see.
He obviously got the message because he wrapped his arms around her waist and returned the kiss. "Hmm no I haven't. I would imagine that he is scouring the library looking for you. He mentioned something about a letter he found for you." He chanced a look at the girl next to him and had to fight the laughter that bubbled up when he noticed the expression on her face.
"A letter? Did he say who it was from?" Hermione leaned her head on Draco's shoulder and smiled smugly at the girl next to them who looked like she was ready to spit bullets.
Draco shook his head and gently removed her from his lap to sit next to him so that he could continue eating. "He didn't say, but he didn't seem very happy when he read who it was from." Draco shrugged and continued to ignore Pansy who was quickly losing whatever patience she had left.
"Drakey-poo!"
Both Hermione and Draco cringed at the atrocious nickname. "Drakey-poo? What the hell? He isn't a bloody puppy, why the hell would you call a human being that?" Hermione looked at Pansy in disgust as the girl flushed to almost the same exact shade of red her hair was.
"Drakey-poo is my pet name for my fiancée." Pansy answered smugly as she attached herself to Draco who had paled exponentially if that was even possible.
"Fiancée? When did that happen because I sure as bloody well don't remember proposing?" Draco tried futilely to disentangle himself from Pansy but she held on to him as tightly as Devil's Snare.
"Don't be silly Drakey; you know very well that we were promised to each other when we were babies." Pansy smiled dreamily as she said this and Draco looked to Hermione, who was trying not to laugh, for help. Draco almost cried when she shook her head, grinning at him as she enjoyed his misery.
Hermione sighed softly as Draco started to pout, she decided to help him out of his little predicament but she also had to try and embarrass him. "Damn you're engaged Draco? Now I have to go find Rayne and tell her that you are taken…she is going be so heartbroken. Oh well at least she still has her Draco Malfoy fan club." Hermione shrugged and tried not to laugh outright at the look on Draco's face.
"Rayne? Who the hell is Rayne? And why did she make a fan club about me?" Draco winced as Pansy shrieked and tightened her grip on him. He glared at Hermione who snickered behind her hand as everyone in the Great Hall turned to see what was going on at the Slytherin table.
"Rayne is one of my best girlfriends and right now she is with Ginny using Colin's camera to take snap shots of everything that is going on." Hermione smiled at the shocked looks on Draco and Pansy's face as they looked for the girl in question.
Sure enough there was a loud click and a flash as the flash bulb went off, a giggle following right after. "That is the best candid shot I've gotten all day! Thanks Mione for making it possible." A girl with dark brown hair with red highlights ran up to Hermione and gave her a hug almost hitting the bookworm on the head with the enormous camera in her grip. She turned her reddish brown eyes on the Slytherins that were staring at them in shock and flushed slightly.
Hermione laughed at the girl's exuberance. "It's not a problem Rayne, anything to put Draco in the spot light. Oh! And look at that very adorable flush on his face." Hermione grinned maliciously as Draco flushed even more.
"Sod off Granger! A Malfoy doesn't blush like some addled minded nitwit." Draco focused his gaze on the girl in front of him who was smiling slightly. "I'm sorry, you are?" He swatted at Pansy's hand that was slowly moving towards his groin and raised an eyebrow at the girl.
"Oh! I'm Rayne Stonewell; it's so nice to finally meet you." Rayne smiled and tucked some hair behind her ear and looked at Draco from under her lashes.
Hermione grinned mischievously as she watched the exchange. "I was just telling Draco about your fan club. He actually seemed genuinely surprised by that little tidbit of information."
"It's not really a fan club. It's more like…. a social group that just discusses one thing." Rayne smiled sheepishly as Draco smirked at her and Hermione tried not to laugh.
"Well I think that you and I should discuss that sometime, to add something new to the conversation." Draco offered as Pansy huffed in indignation.
"Really? You would do that?" Rayne blushed slightly and looked down at her hands.
"Sure it's not that big of a deal." Draco shrugged Pansy off of his arm again.
"DRAKEY!"
All eyes in the Great Hall turned their focus onto Pansy and proceeded to burst out laughing as they noticed her face and hair. Pansy blushed scarlet and glared daggers at Hermione and Rayne before stomping out of the Great Hall.
"Well I will take that as my cue to leave." Hermione started to walk away.
"Aren't you going to eat anything Mione?" Rayne asked as she balanced the giant camera on her hip.
"I'll just go whip something up in my common room." Hermione shrugged.
"You have your own kitchen?!" Rayne exclaimed with glee in her eyes.
"Yea it's amazing Granger gets everything. Now are you just going to stand there or are you going to join me for dinner?" Draco stated exasperatedly.
"Draco Malfoy was that an invitation or an order?" Rayne asked in a mocked shocked tone.
Hermione grinned as she exited the hall and the conversation became inaudible. She made her way through the castle until she approached the portrait of Albus Dumbledore.
"Good evening Professor."
"Why Miss Granger how is your first week of classes going? Well I presume."
"Yes actually they are going really well, a lot of work but that is to be expected."
"Good very good. The password if you would be so kind."
"Freedom."
"Ah the prize of war."
The portrait swung open and Hermione walked in smiling softly but it slowly disappeared when she entered the common room and saw Blaise pacing back and forth muttering under his breath while reading a letter. She flinched when he hit his foot on the coffee table but he didn't seem to notice and kept pacing, his muttering getting a little more heated.
"Blaise?" Hermione spoke tentatively not really loud enough to be heard but it seemed to do the trick as he quickly looked up and scowled at her. "Are you alright? Draco said that you were looking for me, something about a letter?"
"Yeah this letter!" He stalked up to Hermione and waved the letter in her face; brandishing it like a banner.
"You read my letter?! What gives you the right to read my letter?" Hermione snatched the letter from his hand and turned to go up to her room but his hand on her arm quickly stopped her.
"Well it wasn't really meant for you! Look at the intended recipient!" Blaise shouted and twirled her around to face him.
Hermione glared at him and looked down at the letter and her jaw dropped, eyes widening in disbelief.
"To the guy who's going to shag Hermione Granger?!" Hermione took a second to skim through the letter and the blood drained from her face. "Who would write such things about me? Who did I piss off so bad?" Hermione's eyes began to fill with tears and Blaise's anger quickly left him.
"Does it really matter Granger? I mean obviously they are out of their right mind." He slowly and subtly tried to hide the envelope for the letter behind his back but Hermione saw what he was doing and quickly grabbed it from his hand. She looked down at the return address on the letter and almost fainted when she saw the name.
Ronald Weasely.
Hermione's face turned red from anger and her hair began to frizz and emit blue sparks as she quickly made her way to the fireplace, with the crumpled letter clenched in her fist. She threw a fistful of Floo powder into the fireplace before stepping in and shouting, "The Burrow."
Blaise stood there in confusion as she disappeared, when she vanished from view he let out a long sigh. "Well I would hate to be Ron Weasely right about now." He grabbed a book from a shelf and sat down on the sofa to wait for Hermione to return.
Hermione gracefully stepped out of the fireplace at the Burrow to see almost the entire Weasely family plus Harry staring at her in shock. Coincidently the one red head she was searching for was missing; she glared at everyone in the room.
"Where is he?!"
Everyone obviously knew who she was looking for because they all pointed up the stairs. Nobody said a word as she stormed up the stairs and said,"Avis" as she went up. Silence followed for a few minutes before a loud bang was heard and then "Oppugno!" They continued to stay silent until a frantic Ron came stumbling down the stairs being attacked by bright yellow birds that Hermione had conjured. Hermione was following him slowly down the stairs with an eerily calm expression on her face but the blue sparks flying off of her hair gave away her true emotions.
"Oi! Gerroffeme!" Ron swatted uselessly at the birds that continued to attack him and seemed like they would never stop. Harry jumped off of the couch where George was attempting to hide his laughter, and ran over to Hermione who continued to silently watch the birds attack Ron.
"Mione what the bloody hell is going on?!" Harry grabbed Hermione's wand arm that she was raising towards Ron. He quickly vanished the birds that were attacking Ron and stared in shock as Ron tried to catch his breath.
Hermione said nothing, just raised the letter that was clenched in her hand and smirked when Ron's face drain of color. She released her hold on the letter and Harry took it, taking a few moments to read through it. Hermione turned her head and looked at him as his face flooded red and his greens eyes sparked.
Harry turned to Ron who had been watching him in fear and was about to speak when Hermione quietly interrupted him by raising the envelope to his eye level. He took it and read the name of the intended recipient.
"To the guy who's going to shag Hermione Granger?! Ron are you serious?! How could you do this to Hermione?! We've been friends since we were eleven and this is how you treat her?" Harry stalked towards Ron who was steadily getting redder as his family looked at him with disgust and disappointment.
"Easily, the slag wouldn't go out with me but she will climb into bed with a Slytherin!" Ron started to approach Hermione but was stopped by Harry who pushed Ron back and away from her.
"What Slytherin?!" Harry was yelling now looking back and forth between Ron and Hermione. He turned towards Ron and was about to ask again when he was interrupted by Hermione.
"Who told you that?! I haven't climbed into anyone's bed, just because I didn't want to go out with you that doesn't mean that I'm sleeping around you insufferable prat!" Hermione screamed as sparks flew from her head and those watching were looking back and forth like they were watching a tennis match.
"Oh yeah? Then why wouldn't you want to go out with me?! You're mine, we are supposed to be together!" Ron moved to pull Hermione in his arms when she pulled away and moved behind Harry.
"I am not something that you can own, and I only like you as a friend or a brother…nothing more!" Hermione clung to Harry as Ron continued to get redder and redder. He looked like he was about to hit Hermione but came to stand beside him and placed a placating hand on his arm.
"Now Ronniekins I'm sure this is all just a big misunderstanding, we all know that you and Hermione are meant to be together. It's just going to take her sometime to realize it for herself, but then she will be yours," She turned to Hermione who was staring at her in shock and anger, "isn't that right dear?"
"No it's not right! I will never belong to Ron, I don't love him; in fact I happen to have feelings for someone else but that doesn't mean that I have slept around." She glared at the red heads before walking towards the fireplace, she paused and turned back to Harry, "See you around Harry, you are welcome to visit anytime you want. Ron I don't want to see you at all anymore, you have damaged our friendship more than I can even express. Goodbye." She threw in a fistful of Floo powder and was gone.
Hermione exited the fireplace in her dorm and stopped when she noticed Blaise asleep on the couch with a book still clenched in his hand. She smiled gently and moved towards him, carefully removing the book from his grasp. Hermione summoned a blanket from his room and covered him with it, she sighed and took a seat on the floor near his head and watched him sleep peacefully. She brushed some hair out of her face and brushed her fingers softly down his cheek so she wouldn't wake him and nearly swooned when he smiled in his sleep and moved closer to her touch. She laid her head on the couch near him and watched him as she slowly fell into a deep slumber.
Okay so that is it for this chapter, I hope to still continue with this story. I think this is my longest chapter to date, I am going to try and write longer chapters so that no one gets bored. I hope you enjoyed it. Please review, it makes me smile and want to write more!