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Revenge

Hermione shot up from the couch, her eyes wide in horror. Ginny slowly eased herself up from off of the couch's ledge and stared at Lavender in shock. "Wh- what are you doing here?" Hermione asked.

"I got done eating and I um," Lavender shut her eyes and took in a deep breath and looked back at Hermione, "decided to come and do my homework early when I heard voices down here. I thought maybe it was Ron…"

"Were you listening?" Ginny asked in disgust, and crossed her arms.

"By accident!" Lavender's eyes flickered over to Hermione. "I cannot believe it, you and Draco Malfoy." She frowned.

"Lavender, you can't-" Hermione took a step closer to her and Lavender backed up as if she had a disease she could catch.

"Sleeping with him, lying to everyone!" Lavender shook her head. "Oh this- this is good!"

"What are you talking about?" Ginny snapped.

"It's called revenge, my friends." Lavender snapped back.

"Revenge for what!" Ginny stepped towards Lavender. "If anything Hermione should get revenge on you!"

"Wrong!" She yelled at her.

"What did I do to you?" Hermione asked, defensively.

"You think I don't know?" Lavender said in disgust.

"Don't know what?" Ginny said.

"I know it was you!" Lavender pointed at Hermione. "Why my necklace is missing, I know you did something to it! And this story only helps me believe it even more."

"What?" Ginny said. "Why would you even think she would do that?"

"Because I know!" Hermione gulped and took a step back from Lavender.

"You have no proof!" Ginny yelled at her.

"I don't need it," Lavender's eyes flickered wildly from the lit fire in the fireplace, looking devilish, "I just know she did it. And I can get my revenge."

"What do you plan to do with this new information?" Ginny scowled at her.

"Tell everyone," Lavender smirked.

"You wouldn't," Ginny said, Hermione watched them. She couldn't seem to get her lips to move.

"Watch me," Lavender said, as she and Ginny began a staring contest.

"Lavender," Hermione squeaked, when she finally found her voice. Lavender looked over at her. "Please, if you tell everyone first everything with Draco and I will be so much harder than it already is."

"You should have thought about that before you touched my necklace!" Lavender shook her head.

"Please," Hermione said, as Lavender began to head for the picture frame. "Don't-"

"Oh I will," She said back to them.

"Lavender!" Ginny called to her. "Nobody will believe you!" Ginny tried, she only got a snicker back in response.

Hermione could not let this happen. She could not let Lavender walk out. Everything that she and Draco could have would be ruined. Any chance they got shattered by the likes of her. She was not going to let Lavender Brown mess with her life anymore.

In one fluid motion, Hermione reached into her pocket and pulled out her wand. She outreached it to Lavender and shouted, "Stupefy!" Hermione flicked her wrist and they watched Lavender freeze mid-walk and fall flat on the ground with a thud. They both stared at Lavender from where they stood, taking in everything that had just happened. Hermione slowly lowered her wand, breathing heavily; she exchanged a look of relief with Ginny, and hurried over to Lavender.

"What now?" Ginny asked above them as Hermione kneeled down beside Lavender.

"I could not let her walk out of here, Gin." She frowned at Lavender. "Any chance I have with Draco could have been ruined because of her." She looked back up at her friend.

"I know," Hermione pushed up from off the ground. "So did you do it?"

"Do what?" She asked Ginny, pointing her wand back at Lavender.

"Well did you do something to her necklace?"

"Oh," Hermione glanced at Ginny then refocused her attention on Lavender. "Yeah, I flushed it down the toilet." Ginny stared at her friend before busting out laughing.

"That's brilliant!"

"Thanks," Hermione said, trying to focus. "I think I've got a plan." Hermione took in a breath, "Mobilicorpus," They watched Lavender's body slowly drift from off of the ground and float in the air. Hermione looked over at Ginny. "I'm going to take her upstairs."

"And when she wakes up?" Hermione shrugged.

"Make we can make her think everything was just a dream?" Ginny raised an eyebrow at her. "That's all I've got!" Hermione led Lavender's floating body up the stairs and onto her bed, Ginny following suit. Hermione slipped her wand back into her robe and faced Ginny.

"One of us will have to be here when she wakes up." Ginny nodded.

"I will,"

"I have to go find Draco," Hermione told her.

"Go," Ginny smiled at her friend.

"Will you be okay?"

"Yeah," Ginny sat down on her bed.

"Just tell Lavender that she fell asleep doing homework." Ginny nodded.

"Don't worry; now go to your man!" She smiled.

"Thank you," Hermione gave her a genuine smile back before heading over to the door.

"Oh and Hermione?" Ginny called to her. Hermione grabbed the door handle and looked at Ginny over her shoulder. "You're going to have to tell them soon."

"I know," Hermione put a hand on the door and sighed, "I know." She opened the door and slipped out.

Ginny lay back in her bed and blew out an exasperated breath. Her eyes flickered over to Lavender and she threw her a disgusted look. How dare she almost ruin the life of her best friend. She wanted to chuck something at Lavender, being the state she was in she could not block it. She waited a while for Lavender to wake, letting everything Hermione had said to her sink in.

It was beyond weird for her to think of Draco and Hermione together. She almost could not believe it without seeing it… then again she did not really want to see it. She just could not believe that Hermione had been sleeping with Malfoy for a month and she did not know. Then again Hermione was not really in a good place to tell anybody about it. She wanted to be mad at her friend, but the last thing Hermione needed right now was for somebody to be mad at her. She was sure Harry and Ron would do fine for that.

She did have to admit that she did not think her and Draco's relationship was very healthy. Even if the sex was never included, it was just wrong for them to be together. She really did only picture Hermione with Ron, but that was her brother to blame for that, not Hermione.

She sat up in bed quickly as Lavender finally began to stir. She reached for a book and pretended to read it, keeping an eye on Lavender as she sat up and looked around at her surroundings. "Wh-" She looked over at Ginny. Ginny quickly looked down at her book, pretending to not know Lavender had awoken. "What's going on?" She demanded. Ginny looked up, faking surprise and closed her book.

"You're awake," Ginny stated.

"Yes," Lavender gave her a look, "what's going on?"

"Nothing," She put her book down. "I came up here to read and found you asleep. I guess you fell asleep doing your homework." She watched Lavender look down at the parchments and books on her bed. Lavender looked back up at her.

"But what about Hermione and Draco?" Ginny shook her head.

"Excuse me?"

"That's it! Their relationship together!" Lavender said, bouncing a little in her spot on the bed.

"What are you… oh!" Ginny laughed.

"What?" Lavender asked defensively.

"That's what you were talking about!"

"Huh?"

"You kept mumbling in your sleep about Hermione and Draco being together."

"In my sleep?" Lavender frowned, staring down at her bed. "Like it was just a dream?"

"I guess so, I mean come on," Lavender looked back at Ginny, "Draco and Hermione together? That is so crazy it's funny!" Ginny laughed again. She watched as a slow smile appeared on Lavender's face.

"Yeah I guess that would be pretty crazy, huh?"

"Very," Ginny stood up from the bed. "I'm going now." She gave an awkward smile to Lavender and quickly stepped out, before Lavender could say anything else.

Hermione and Draco had promised each other that they would meet up at eight-thirty at night by the lake, where they usually did in the mornings. Hermione wrapped her arms around herself and shivered as the wind whipped her hair back wildly. They really needed to find a new place, it was beginning to become freezing out and it would start snowing soon.

Hermione fast walked to the lake, wanting to see Draco. When she got closer she could see him sitting on the rock he was on earlier, waiting for her. "Draco," she called to him, coming up behind him. He looked back behind his shoulder to see her. "Lavender knows," she said to him when her legs touched the rock he was sitting on. "Ginny knows too."

"What?" He stood up and faced her.

"I told Ginny everything; well actually she came up to me and told me she knew about us. Well are feelings for one another."

"How?" The wind rustled the trees by them and they both shivered. "Fuck, its cold." He pulled his coat tighter around him.

"She figured it out, that's another story. But listen, Harry and Ron know something is up between us."

"Well is she going to tell them?" Hermione shook her head,

"No, and Ginny well we really did not get time to discuss it since Lavender over heard us, but I think she is okay with us."

"And about that Brown girl?"

"I knocked her out and when she wakes up Ginny is going to try to pull it off as a dream."

"Potter and Weasley? What about them?"

"I don't know," Hermione frowned.

"Listen Granger," She did not know how she felt about Draco still sometimes calling her by her last name. Must be a habit, she guessed. "You're the one that doesn't want them knowing."

"I know," Hermione shook her head. "But it would have been wrong if they found out from Lavender." She realized that they were beginning to raise their voices to be heard over the strong winds.

"What are you waiting for?" Draco asked.

"I just don't know how to tell them!" The wind whipped their hair in their faces. "How are you going to tell your friends and family?"

"My family is a different story, Granger. My friends will have to deal with it." Hermione stared at him, she wished she could just tell Harry and Ron that but she knew them far too well for them to accept that answer and move on. "Don't tell me this isn't what you thought it was going to be like?" He yelled over the wind.

"What?" Hermione said.

"I said," Draco yelled, getting closer to her, "Don't tell me this isn't what you thought it was going to be?" The trees above them swayed in the wind and crackled.

"No, of course not!" She shouted. "I'm just afraid at how they will react!" A tree branch cracked above them and they both looked up. Draco looked back down at her.

"If you don't want to do this, we don't have to." Hermione looked back at him, squinting through the pieces of hair in her eyes.

"Tell them you mean?" The branch cracked again.

"No I mean," Draco looked up and his eyes widened. "Shit!" He grabbed Hermione's arms and threw her towards the lake.

"Ah!" She yelled as she hit the ground and began to roll down the small hill. Draco fell to the ground too from the toss and turned his head around to watch as the branch right above Hermione broke off and hit the ground, just where she was standing. Hermione finally stopped rolling, and looked up from the ground. Her eyes went to Malfoy, who lay on the ground too, then scanned over to the giant branch that now occupied the spot she was just standing. He saved me, she thought. The wind gusted again and Hermione shut her eyes and tilted her head down, as leaves and sticks flew around her.

"Hermione!" She heard Draco call to her. She looked up and saw him running over to her and grabbed at her arm. "Let's go inside!" He yelled. Draco helped her up and they both took off to the castle, them being stopped twice as Hermione stumbled to the side from the wind.

Once they reached the castle and ran inside, they both stopped and breathed heavily. She looked over at Draco, his hair disheveled. She looked around, they were alone. "Holy fuck," He said, she looked back at him. "The wind!" He looked back outside to the tree branches swaying widely, many of them threatening to break too.

"Thank you," she said breathlessly to him, leaning against the wall. "You saved me." Draco looked at her. He frowned and reached his hand out to her cheek. She felt his finger rub at her cheek and pull back.

"Dirt," he told her. Hermione smiled at him.

"I love you," she said.

"Prove it," a playful smile appeared on his face and he raised a suggestive eyebrow. She laughed and reached her hand out and put it on the back of his head. In response, he slipped his arms around her waist and she put her other hand on his neck as their lips met full force.

"Maybe," Hermione said coming up for a second to speak then meeting his lips again. "We," she pecked his lips again, "should,"

"Hmm?" He asked, pulling his head back so she could speak.

"Go somewhere?" She said breathlessly. "You know a little more private." She looked around at where they were standing then met his eyes again. She tugged on his robe and cocked an eyebrow.

"No," he dropped his arms and took a step back from her. Hermione frowned at him.

"Why not?"

"Not now, Hermione." He told her, pulling a small leave out of her hair and flicking it to the ground. "I think we need to get some things settled out first."

"What did you mean?"

"Well telling our friends-"

"No I get that, surprised you'd be willing to wait, quite romantic actually. But what I meant was when you said outside, if you don't want to do this, we don't have to?" She asked.

"Oh," Draco sighed. "Us being together, if it's too hard for you."

"Stop it, Draco." Hermione shook her head. "We've been through this. I want us to work. I want to be with you and I will do what it takes. I won't back down from this relationship, because if I do then what else am I hear to fight for?" In that moment, all Draco wanted to do was pick her up and kiss her and tell every single person in the school personally that he was in love with Hermione Granger, but he held back. He had never known someone to fight for him in the way she was doing. "Do you get that?" She crossed her arms. "I don't want to hear that again from you."

"Okay," he said to her, wanting to say something as meaningful to her as she did to him. "You are the best thing that has ever happened to me, Granger." Score, he thought to himself as a huge smile broke across Hermione's face. "Now come here," he pulled her to him again and kissed her. "I love you too." He said and she smiled.

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