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Draco:

Draco finished eating his food and decided to go to the library. He sat down in the big brown leather chair in the corner and picked up his favourite book to read at the moment. Ever since Hermione had been in the library the day Pansy was away at her parents, he had a thing about reading Hogwarts: A History. It was her favourite book and she was shocked to see it in his library. She read it even though she could probably recite it word for word without it.

He hadn't even noticed as Pansy walked into the library.

"Oh here you are, I've been looking all over."

"Hi." He muttered.

She sat on the arm of the chair and started stroking his hair.

"Come to bed Draco."

"No I'm okay, I'm gonna finish reading this."

"Okay suit yourself." She snaps, angrily.

He rubs his temples as she stalks out of the room. She really was hard work.

'He walks hand in hand with Hermione along the beach, her belly swollen. She motions for him to touch her belly. As he does, the baby kicks exactly where he places his hand. His eyes light up in amazement as he looks up to Hermione. They smile at each other as the baby continues to kick.'

He wakes with a start. He does not need to be having dreams like that. It doesn't help when this affair was supposed to be a bit of fun. He never imagined that he would actually start to like her. He would never act on it though. He didn't want to ruin what they had. He hadn't realised that he had even drifted off, so when he looked at the clock he surprised to see that it was 6am. He walked to the shower room and stripped down his clothes. After turning on the water, he stepped in and let the water wash away all the thoughts of Hermione.

When he got to work, he had the worst luck. After trying to keep his thoughts away from thinking about Hermione, he got into his office to find a memo from St Mungos saying that they needed both the Head of Potions for a very important project. He rubbed his temples again, something he had inherited from his father. At that moment there was a knock at the door.

"Come in."

Hermione walked into his office with a file, and placed it on his desk.

"This is all the research that I have for the St Mungos project. How do you want to go about doing this?" she asked.

"We should just work together; it will be easier and will get done quicker."

"Okay that sounds best. Just remember, no more of what was happening before."

"Okay, Wizards honour." He replied, whilst holding his hand up. "We should probably go to the testing room. It looks like you've got enough research here; I don't think I could add anything else."

They walk down to the elevator in silence. As the doors are closing George Weasley stops them and steps in. As they go down a few levels in complete silence, George decided to break the ice.

"You could cut the sexual tension in here with a knife! Does my brother know?" He smirked.

Hermione looked at Draco with a look of complete horror, and a sickening feeling in her stomach as the doors to the elevator opened and George stepped out.

"Relax Hermione; I know you wouldn't sleep with the ferret. I was kidding."

They both let out a sigh of relief as the doors closed again.

"I thought we'd been caught then. That was horrible." She whispered.

"Don't worry Bookworm. He was being sarcastic."

Hermione:

She half smiled as the elevator came to a halt again and the door re-opened. They both got out and headed towards the testing room.

Once inside Hermione started getting flashbacks again.

'The testing room was empty except for Hermione and Draco, and he moves closer to her. They both go to grab the Wolfsbane and their hands meet. She gets butterflies in her stomach and it reminds her of all the late nights they used to secretly spend together studying in the library during 6th year. He kissed her lips softly, and looked into her eyes as if he was asking if it was okay. She nodded and he lent in and kissed her again. This time she kissed him back and the kiss became more forceful and passionate. '

They start by laying all the research out on the table, and getting all the ingredients needed out of the cupboards. They then began to test all the ingredients together. After a couple of hours they find the mix they need send to St Mungos. Draco sent an owl to St Mungos telling them that the potion mix was ready. They take 50 vials of the potion and place them into a crate ready to be collected and taken to St Mungos.

Draco:

He looks at her and notices her hair and gone to the wild and frizzy stage again. He smiled; this is the Hermione he used to see in the library in 6th year, before everything got crazy. He'd always remember the day they started talking.

'He had noticed her in the library a lot of nights studying, but never said anything to start with. Then one day he decided to walk in and sit beside her as if they had never hated each other. She looked at him confused.

"What are you doing Malfoy?"

"Just studying Granger and you have the last copy of the book I need."

"Oh okay, um here."

She placed the book in the middle of the pair. It took her a few nights of this before she seemed comfortable around him. Eventually they started having conversations. Never outside of the library though. They kept it their little secret. It was the only thing that kept him sane when his father and the Dark Lord were pressuring him. Then the library visits stopped all of a sudden. He didn't want her in harm's way, so he just stopped going. It was bad enough that he had been ordered to kill Dumbledore."

He shuddered at the thought and carried on to his office alongside Hermione. He didn't want to think about any of that. It was all in the past. They awkwardly started to say their goodbyes when they reached Hermione's office.

"Do you want to get a drink or something?" He asked.

"Urm, no that's okay Draco, I think I'm going to head home anyway. But thanks anyway. Maybe another time?" She replied.

"Okay, sounds good." He smiled.

She smiled back and then went into her office as he walked off.

Hermione:

Hermione grabbed her coat and bag and left her office. As she got to the elevator she saw Draco standing there. She looked at him and he smiled. He followed her into the elevator and pressed the ground floor button.

"Are you sure Hermione?"

"Sorry, what?"

"Are you sure you want to stop our affair?" He whispered.

"Yes, Draco. I have to for my children. If we got caught and Ron found out, we would end up getting a divorce. I don't want my children to have to go through that. I want them to get through Hogwarts and have an easy life. Hogwarts is hard enough without the worry of a broken home as well."

"Okay. Just one more thing."

She looked at him with her eyebrows raised in suspicion.

"What?" she asked.

"One last kiss?"

She moved forwards and lent in to kiss him. It was a long passionate kiss, and if definitely felt like a goodbye kiss. They jumped apart when the door pinged open and Oliver Wood walked in. They both got out looking very flustered. Oliver looked up as if he was trying not to look at them. They both walked away hurriedly.

"And that's why I stopped it!" Hermione almost shouted.

"Don't worry, I'll talk to Wood. I'll fix this."

"You better not hurt him Draco! It's not like he meant to walk in, and we shouldn't of been kissing anyway. Goodbye." She said as she walked out of the Ministry doors. He tried to follow after her, but she apparated the second she got out the door.