A/N- My first go at a Draco-Hemionie, i've been obsessed! I love them, they are soo cute! Of course, in the books Draco is quite mean. Sigh, at least i could still dream, and put those dreams down on paper and write!
Disclaimer-I OWN NOTHING OF THE HARRY POTTER WORLD!
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IMPORTANT A/N: I re-edited this because I noticed i had spelled Hermione's name wrong! i seriously am glad i noticed before more readers got to it! Thanks so much!
Hogwarts was in it's usual bustle, students trying to get to class, a lot of chattering going on in between classes. And then there were the swooning girls, some following after a dark haired green eyed celebrity with a legendary scar. Some chasing after his best friend. And then there were the others waiting outside of potions to swoon and catch a glance at the cool, calm and extremely handsome Malfoy.
Girls were rather crazed this time of year, right after Christmas break but still before the "Most important day of the year" to them, valentines day. The pickings were slim and girls had a hard task at hand to accomplish. No matter what house, be it Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and yes even Gryffindor, all girls got catty and nasty this time of year. Their priorities were set, firstly find a love interest if they didn't already have one. Chase away and crush all competitors and challenges, and finally get the guy to fall madly in love with them, all in time to have a romantic Valentines day, full of kisses, love and of course presents, that they would brag about the next day. It was the only thing going through their heads. Of course this caused a lot of trouble for certain girls. Some more then others.
Like Cho, who had not only Harry once after her, but Cedric Diggory as well, the girls didn't like this. Ginny Weasly was another, for some girls had perceptively caught on to how she stared at Harry and at times at how Harry stared at her, however other girls were trying to get in Ginny's good graces and maybe she would put a good word in for them to one of her three older brothers, who were in the school.
But there was probably no girl who had it worse this time of year, on this slight gap, right after Christmas but before valentines day, Then Hermione Granger. Flocks and flocks of girls would berate the smart brunette. It used to be easier, two years ago, when she was frizzy haired and frail, when she had a lot more to get picked on about. But some of these angry catty girls realized that she had grown quite beautiful, they envied her so. Her once frizzy hairs were now natural bouncy curls, was that even fair?! Her brown eyes seemed bigger then ever, in a pleasant way. Her skin was fair, she needed no makeup. And her once scrawny build had developed quite nicely, her curves were soft and subtle but they were there. She was all around pretty!
And as if that wasn't enough reason to not like the Know-it-all brunette, she had one of the most coveted spots in this whole school, Boys secretly admired her for it. A spot that most girls wanted to be in and just down right hated her for it. She was part of the "Golden Trio" she was the sensible, pretty, smart part of this rebel alliance. She was best friends with Harry potter and Ron Weasly, which also meant she had links to all the Weasly brothers, even the hot once prefect Percy who had to leave some time ago. She knew secrets they only heard whispers about, she had witnessed the best gossip first hand cause she was more then likely there! she probably also always got what she desired because the fact that Harry was loaded was not a secret! She even got to be friends with Ginny Weasly, as if she needed more links to the Weasly brothers. Hell, she might as well spend summers with Harry, Ron and the Weaslys! How they loathed her!
But the hate stemmed from more, Victor Krum, knew nothing of her and picked her above everyone else to be with him at the Yule ball of last year. What a shame it was to lose out to that geek! And then there was the reason why most girls hated her, as if she didn't have enough attention From Harry and Ron, two of the most wanted Gryffindor's, she had the constant attention from the most wanted guy at school, the hot, amazing Slytherin, Draco Malfoy. He was always around her, the girls decided to ignore the fact that he was usually throwing insults at Hermionie, in their eyes she was stealing all his attentions.
Yes, she would definitely get it this time! She could be all smart and pretty and seem perfect, but she had to have her insecurities and all girls were set to find them.
Hermione was having a particularly sour morning, Snape had decided to take 20 points from Gryffindor for something Ron whispered, accurately, she may add. And a 3 girl group of Ravenclaw's would not leave her alone! They were waiting for her everywhere she went. Never confronting her face to face, but whispering to themselves about her and laughing loudly so she would know.
'Honestly, it's like this every year! Whats wrong with them?'
Hermione just couldn't understand why some girls got so vicious around her. She hadn't done a thing to them, she would even go as far as saying they owed her their life's sometimes!
She lived on, making sure to not get many girl friends who would just turn around and use her to get to Harry or Ron, or worse back stab her. No she was fine with her boys, Ron and Harry and her one girl friend, Ginny. She was perfectly fine with that.
She would just ignore the nasty girls and sit down with a good book, which was exactly what she was currently doing during her break right before one of her favorite classes, Arithmancy. She pushed to the back of her head that Snape had taken 20 points from Gryffindor just minutes before, and sat on the steps of the empty Arithmancy classroom, opened up Hogwarts:A History, and prepared to fall back on a bit of light reading. She was awed at what marvels the dungeons held, and decided that with or without permission, with a bit of help from Harry's invisibility cloak, she would go explore down there one day.
"Disgusting really, you would think she would have a shred of decency! Openly being with both Ron and Harry at the same time!"
When Hermione heard that, she knew it was about her, she knew it was the nasty Ravenclaw's who wouldn't leave her alone. She clenched the book tightly in her hands but quickly let go, not wanting to wrinkle the pages.
'Just ignore them, they have no sense at all! They're the disgusting ones, even talking like that'
"Yeah, the buck toothed little hussy goes around acting like a goody two-shoes, when in reality, she's clearly shagging* them both, add Draco in there with all the time he's around her, traitor that one!" a fit of laughter and giggles left the girls.
'Vulgar! Just vulgar! Is that really what people think of me?'
Hermione felt her face start to heat up, she kept her eyes firmly on her book. Pretending not to hear them, not about to give them the satisfaction of letting them know they were getting to her.
"But I just don't see what they can possibly see in her! She has a man body, buck toothed, her hair looks like a bird's nest! Ugh, she is just a mess!" more laughter.
Hermione felt a familiar stinging in her eyes, her face was probably red.
'I cant possibly be crying over some petty gossip! Who cares if they're mean! Who cares! This treatment is nothing new!'
Hermione tried to take a deep breath.
"She is just the epitome of disgrace. Who knows how many times she's been on her back, and her knees and on all fours, a position for each, Harry, Ron and Draco!"
The air caught in Hermione's throat. She couldn't breath, the stinging in her eyes faded and instead turned to hot wet tears rolling down her cheeks.
She tried to bury her face further in her book, hoping no one noticed her or her annoying show of weakness.
'Honestly Hermione! Crying over some pathetic girls who have nothing better to do than talk lies about you!' She reprimanded herself.
She noticed that they were laughing. She really hoped the hadn't noticed the two traitor tears that slid down her cheeks before she could control herself.
And as if things couldn't get worse, the girls started giggling loudly and acting all stupid, she looked at the direction they seemed to stare at and he was there! Her worst nightmare was strolling ,in that conceited way of his, towards her. She didn't have time to wipe away the remains of her previous tears before he bent down and analyzed her with those Dark, blue/gray eyes. she had always thought his eyes resembled a storm about to happen.
Draco strolled out of potions class, he was in a very good mood. Snape had not only given 10 points to Slytherin for every question Draco brilliantly answered correctly, but he had also taken 20 from Gryffindor when the red headed Weasel muttered something about favoritism.
He ignored the many girls that chased after him, swooning and purring his name. He didn't care for them or their silly little crushes.
'What a waste of time, these girls! Have they no dignity? Don't they see what fools they make of themselves. And can't they tell that they hold no such appeal'
His good mood was fading, annoyed he realized he would have to endure another half hour of this before Arithmancy class. Potions and Arithmancy, classes back to back with Gryffindor's. The thought made him want to both smirk and puke.
He held a deep dislike for Gryffindor's, for very obvious reasons. But he couldn't just pass up an opportunity to make their lives miserable, especially the red headed weasel, the boy who lived to be a pain in the ass, and of course the smart little mudblood.
These were his exact thoughts when he spotted her. She was sitting right outside the Aritmancy classroom.
'Perfect Granger, even waits outside of her classrooms during a free period! How sickening! I'll take her down a notch or two'
He walked closer when he noticed her face. The way her eyes stuck to one page, it wasn't the look he was used to seeing when he caught her in the library fawning over some silly new fact she didn't know about. Her eyes didn't have that eager gleam to turn the page that he was so used to seeing.
He did however notice that her eyes were shining.
'Has the little mudblood been crying?' he thought with curiosity, but not really caring for her well being or anything.
He did feel an anger, because Granger was his toy. His to make miserable, and he made sure the school knew too. He did everything he could to make it known that no one was to mess with Granger but himself. That was his mudblood, his to destroy.
And he got even more angry because, when his mood was diminishing, and he spotted her there he wanted to have a go at her. To rile her up to get him back in his earlier good spirits. But someone else got to her first. Someone else had managed to make her cry, and bury her face in her book as if she was hiding from the world.
'Who, in the bloody hell, made her cry? I never made her cry?' he mused, he realized he had never seen her cry. And it pissed him of that he wouldn't have the claim to her first tears in his presence!
He was a Malfoy, taking advantage of a situation was something that was just ingrained in his brain. However a Malfoy did NOT pick up someone's seconds! As much as he would love to go over there and completely destroy the fallen Gryffindor, he couldn't. Cause some idiot had attacked his prey first, a claimed prey! How dare they!
He then heard a distant giggling, from where he stood it was faint. But he heard the words being spoken, feeling a flare of anger as he realized his name was in the conversation.
"She is just the epitome of disgrace. Who knows how many times she's been on her back, and her knees and on all fours, a position for each, Harry, Ron and Draco!"
He heard more mutters of "Man body" and "Birds nest for hair" even some "Buck tooth"
He gave Granger a good once over, he liked what he saw, hell if she wasn't a mudblood he might even call her appealing. 'Not bad at all, is she really crying over this, yeah she's not the prettiest of the lot, but it's a bit clear the Ravenclaw's are just jealous' he though exasperatedly. It was barely fair that this is what she would cry over when he spent days trying!
He marched over to her, Merlin,she was stupid for such a smart girl.
He bent down and studied her face, she looked a bit bewildered as he took in all of her face.
"What's wrong with you Granger?" He asked with distaste.
"None of your concern Malfoy" she spoke with as much distaste as he did.
He smirked, at least she hadn't completely crumbled.
He leaned against the wall next to her. Wisps of his blonde hair fell over his eyes and he could almost hear girls start to giggle. He ignored his hair and reached down, he tightened a hand around the mudblood's arm, not liking the fact that he had to touch her, and easily yanked her up to her feet. Her book falling on the floor.
"Hey!" she protested, as he pushed her to his side, then turned his face at an angle to stare at her.
"Five years, Granger, five" he informed at her, his lips curving in a sneer of disapproval.
"Five years of what?" She spit back, throwing him a glare of her own, and quickly picking her book from the floor.
"Making you miserable, calling you, weasel and Potter names. And not once, Granger. Not once! Honestly it's not fair. If you owed anyone it was me. How stupid can you get? Really, over this?" He continued, glaring at her nastily.
"I'm sorry. I don't speak snake, so please be a bit more clear!" She retorted, not understanding what he meant.
"You were crying, Granger." He accused, as if it was some sort of unforgivable sin.
She lifted her chin higher but didn't answer him.
"Why? Why were you wasting tears over such stupid comments. Really Granger, I've said much worse in hopes that one day they would sink in! And all those years of work, and you cry over something so stupid?!" Draco was outraged! Those tears belonged to him!
"You have no idea what they said, and sorry, my emotions aren't exactly something I can control! Further more, are you really fighting with me over this?" Hermione was completely confused. This was just odd in her book!
He looked at her hard "I heard what they said, petty bunch of words if you ask me. Certainly not something to blubber about"
she glared at him, he noticed her eyes had that shiny look in them again.
'Oh for the love of Merlin! It's no fun breaking her down if she's already broken! It wont be my handy work'
No, Draco Malfoy would not have that.
"Granger, Let me get this straight. So you were sniveling about, let me see if I got their words correctly" he thought back.
They had called her a 'Buck toothed, plain, frizzy haired, geeky, whore'
"They talked about your teeth, which are perfect right now if I may add, so that can't be it" Draco was not complimenting the mudblood, never! He was just being Honest, it would be more fun when he pointed out her true flaws.
"And because your hair is curly and you don't feel the need to burn it straight? Oh, and let's not forget the oh so insulting fact that you're smart! And ah yes, they seem to think you have Potter, weasel and I in your slutty little clutches, what a laugh, insulting, indeed. A Must to cry about" He snapped at her irritably. .
Hermione knew she should be upset, his words were said in such a snarky way it seemed insulting. But she quickly realized that it wasn't. He was actually making her feel better.
The shock overrode everything else, was Draco Malfoy, comforting her. Had the world gone mad?
"If you ask me you could be worse off, you could be morbidly obese, like the blonde Ravenclaw" He said very loudly, pointing at one of the nasty girls in the group. Who in turn gasped and seemed to suck in her stomach which, Hermione had to admit, was larger then average, she could tell even through her winter robes.
"Of course she could always lose weight and maybe look like a human instead of a ogre, but look at that red head's face! You cant fix ugly" He continued, pointing at another girl in the mean girl group.
Hermione's eyes widened, comforting her and defending her! Something was definitely wrong, cause this just wasn't normal!
"Sweet heart, do come around to the Malfoy manor once in a while. We would gladly make donations for the face surgery" He yelled after the red head and blonde, who scurried away, heads hung.
And then there was another blonde, the last girl in the Ravenclaw group, smirking, waiting to be told of the physical flaws she knew she didn't have. She was real pretty, Hermione had to admit.
"Or" Draco smirked, he recognized this Ravenclaw girl, it was useful not to tune out Pansy all the time. "You could end up alone, like this miserable bitch here" he pointed at the seemingly perfect blonde.
Her eyes widened, and her smirk slipped from her face.
"Cedric Diggory looked like he was having a great time snogging Cho's face off" was all he said, before the girl burst into tears and ran after her mean friends.
Now, Hermione did not approve of Draco's methods, but these girls needed to be put in their place. She realized surprised that there was a full fledged smile adorning her face.
The most she could do for the nasty group of girls was not join Draco in calling them nasty names. And not pulling her wand from her pocket to throw a well earned Stupefy their way!
She was feeling high spirited, when Draco turned quickly to her. Trapping her against the wall behind her. He was mere inches away from her but not wanting to touch her.
Draco wanted no part in making bodily contact with this particular mudblood.
"You will not cry next time, Filth! Don't let them call you ugly when yo know it's not true, or a whore, and relish that they call you a geek, it means you're smart. Although I do wonder, look at you getting all misty eyed for nothing!" He snapped at her.
Hermione let her smile drop and she glowered at Malfoy.
"You've held you're own against the best" he continued infuriated, referring to himself. "And three nasty school girls was all it took to break you?! Pathetic!" he looked her over.
"Save your tears Granger" He stepped closer to her, pinning her against the wall with his body. Glad that not many people were around, not like he cared.
He did rather dislike the fact that he was making contact with such filth, thanking Merlin his clothes shielded him from any skin to skin contact, in case she had any sort of muggle disease.
She twisted her face away from his, and tried pushing him away. Except she couldn't, one of her many flaws was that she was physically weak. Although,She did pack a good punch when she wanted to. He had to at least admit that.
She pounded hard against his chest, and it rather hurt. He decided it couldn't be helped and wrapped his long fingers around her small wrists, pinning them down to her sides.
"Stop it Malfoy!" She demanded, her normally warm brown eyes coldly glaring at him.
"No, listen to me Mudblood. Save your tears for when I dispose of people like you" He leaned closer, his lips brushing against her ear "For when I destroy all you filthy Mudbloods, starting with you" He swore. His lips now fully pressed against her ear.
He didn't know what possessed him, it was probably the fact that he had caught her scent. It was a sweet, fruity sort of scent and it didn't smell like strong perfume. It smelled fresh, he realized it was her skin, his nose was pressed against the smooth skin of her cheek. He dragged it down further, not even realizing what he was doing. He stopped at the crook of her neck and inhaled deeply.
'She smells real fucking good'
His lips found her erratic pulse, underneath the soft tender skin of her throat. He smirked and pressed his lips right there, he liked how it felt.
He snapped out of his thoughts and spoke again "You can cry when I destroy your friends, when I end you, but don't degrade yourself or insult me by crying otherwise! Mudblood" He cursed, his lips dragging against her skin with every word he spoke, he slowly realized he liked the way her skin felt against his lips, all soft and warm.
He hadn't pulled away from her. He shifted himself, so his nose was once again at the crook of her neck, and he took one last deep inhale, that scent was inviting and sweet, and he wished he could taste her, he certainly would if she wasn't a dirty filthy excuse for a witch with her one redeeming quality being her smarts!.
He looked at her and realized her mouth was quickly moving, he pushed away from her and glared at her.
She had been hurling insults at him "You disgusting prat! Malfoy, get away from me, I loathe you! You just wait till Harry and Ron hear about this, They'll have your head! How dare you touch me in such a crude way! Get away from me!" She cried.
"You're making a scene Mudblood! And don't flatter yourself! As if I would ever want to touch a filthy thing like you!" He spit back defending himself.
So what if she smelled completely alluring? So what if she had felt good and soft pressed against his body?! How dare that disgusting little witch think he would want her, he was a Malfoy for crying out loud!
With a sneer thrown her way he walked away, he realized, as he turned away from her, that he rather enjoyed himself just now.
'That was a lovely shade of red on her face, My filthy little Mudblood.' he laughed to himself.
Hermione just couldn't believe it, how dare he?! What was that all even about, defending her and making her feel better?! She was more then used to the death threats, but what was bloody wrong with him being all touchy!
Her skin burned where his lips had been moving against her throat. And she felt all tingly and just weird!
'That Prat! You just wait Malfoy, Ron will rip your pretty little face off! And Harry will show you exactly how he's defeated Voldemort more then once already! Just you wait until they get their hands on you! Oh, I cant wait to see what they do with you!' she threatened in her head.
Of course she knew herself well enough to know she wouldn't go through with it, she wouldn't really want to rile Harry and Ron purposely, no matter how angry she got.
The bell rang, her free period was over, and the Arithmancy room opened on it's own accord, right on time. She walked in, delighted that she would have some time to let herself breath, and do some Arithmancy work. She walked in excitedly, waiting for Ron and Harry to join her. More than glad to put the odd memory behind her.
Alright, should i keep this a one shot, or should i make more chapters? i have a few ideas! but that depends on the response. i hope you guys found it entertaining, and can't wait to get some feedbak. :)