A/N: Sorry guys! I know I'm updating super late when I said I'd update in more or less a month. Been really busy with school but its summer break now! Well, where I'm from at least… Anyway, I'm going to start using Normal POV again. I find it easier since I really like showing the perspective of all, or at least most, characters, especially the main ones. So, thank you to all readers and reviewers, I'm very happy whenever I read them, even when they're to edit or something…
Well, enough chit-chat, on with the chapter
Normal POV
As Draco looked up the tree and saw Hermione giggling uncontrollably, he climbed the tree trunks, annoyed that she found him silly. Once he was on the same height as her, he leaned on the trunk and looked at her. He noticed an aura surrounding Hermione, which were the color's blue, green, red, and yellow. He shrugged it off but he felt happier, rather than annoyed. As he noticed that she was still giggling, he started to speak, "Liked what you saw?"
"You should've seen your face!" was her reply as another wave of uncontrollable laughter came.
"Why save me?" Draco asked, not knowing why he was saved by her when he did nothing for the past few years but torment and insult her.
"Well, you're my brothers' friend! I can't have you die at my sight! And besides, I've seen enough of that," she replied, hesitating a little.
"Alright, so you would let me die if I wasn't on your sight?"
"No! That's not what I meant,"
Draco hesitated, but asked anyway, "Then what did you mean?"
"Well, you're important to my brother. If it's in my power, I won't allow him to get hurt. He helped me cope with everything else after the war,"
"I suppose we can come to an understanding then?"
Hermione curiously asked, "What kind of understanding?"
"Blaise. He's like a brother to me. I don't want him to get hurt." Draco reaches his hand out towards Hermione, "So what'd you say, truce?"
"Truce." Hermione shakes his hand in reply, "So, are you going back to Hogwarts?"
"Yeah. It's the only way I can redeem myself," he replied, "and you?"
"Yeah. I want to finish my studies, and maybe I can get Head Girl this year," she replies jokingly.
"Oh, that'd be horror for me, Granger," Draco replies, noticing Hermione stammer a bit, but she regained her composure quickly.
"Well, you can't call me that anymore, Malfoy," raising an eyebrow.
"Old habits die hard I guess," laughing a bit.
"Come on say Hermione,"
"Herminniny," Draco laughs as he started mocking Victor Krum's way of calling the girl across him.
"Oi! I have a wand and I'm not afraid to use it,"
"What you gonna do, make me eat slugs?"
"If you have forgotten Malfoy, I am the brightest witch of my age, and one of my best subjects is Transfiguration, so if you don't want to be turned into a ferret again I suggest you say my name properly,"
"Geez Hermione, it's just a name,"
"See, that's better," she said, smiling like an innocent little girl as Draco thought, 'Blimey! This girl will be the death of me!'
"Since I said your name, you have to say mine,"
"Alright, Drakie-poo!" Hermione said laughing, mocking the way Pansy Parkinson called the boy across her.
"Hey! I may not have a wand but I have legs fast enough to catch up with you,"
"Well then, try and catch me," Hermione replied, tauntingly as she jumped from the branch, to the ground.
"Oi! Come back here!"
Soon, Draco and Hermione looked like little boys and girls chasing each other. As Blaise hovered above the ground on his broom, he saw the sight of his best friend chasing his sister and found it rather amusing. He conjured himself some popcorn and looked down at the sight of two of the most important people to him. He thought to himself, 'Draco would be good for Hermione, he's just as smart as her and he cares a great deal when he wants to. Well I guess I'll have to see where all this leads to…'
"Do you think she's alright, mate?" Ron asked.
"I'm not sure but she will be," Harry replied. After the war, Harry stayed with the Weasleys in a newly built Burrow. It has already been a week since the Golden Duo last saw their best friend and the brains of the Golden Trio Hermione Granger. They've been worried sick about her and they haven't received a single letter from their friend. They figured that she was still in pain with the death of her parents so they didn't want to bother her and to give her more time.
Harry and Ron were getting rather worried and thought about writing Hermione a letter, asking her how she was. They asked Ginny for parchment and began to write. After they finished they sent the letter with a new owl which Harry named Hedwig II, since it looked just like Hedwig.
"Alright, 'Draco' you win!" Hermione shouted towards the boy chasing her, emphasizing his name.
"Haha, did you really have to be chased around?" Draco asked panting heavily, sitting down on the moist grass.
"No, just wondered how long till my legs gave out, which is 2 hours," she replied, looking at her watch, and then sitting down across Draco.
"You must've had a lot of practice when you were on the run, huh?" he asked, jokingly, trying to lighten up the mood with the horrible subject that has passed, which was the war.
"Can't help it when you're being chased by Snatchers and Death Eaters everywhere," As Hermione said those words, images of the times she, Harry, and Ron were running away from the servants of Voldemort flashed though her mind. She shook her head, as to shake the thoughts out her mind.
"You alright?" Draco asked, noticing Hermione's sudden reaction.
"Yeah, just had fl… nothing, it's nothing," she replied, smiling a little to mask the fright on her face. Hermione might've been brilliant and a Gryffindor but the past year has been terribly traumatizing that the Gryffindor courage and bravery in you will truly be put to the test. As Hermione grew even more tired, she lied down on the grass and took a whiff of the moistened ground. As she looked up at the sky she noticed that there was a broom stick hovering with her brother as the rider.
"Draco, have you ever heard of a flyer who sleeps on a broom?"
"No, that's impossible," Draco replied, raising an eyebrow.
"Wanna bet? 15 galleons?"
"Right then! If you find a flyer who sleeps on a broom, you win, if you don't, I win, deal?"
"Deal!" shaking Draco's hand.
"Wanna go back inside?"
"Sure, but before we do, look above you…" Hermione replies, smirking.
As Draco saw the sight, he was awestruck. He started gaping at Hermione with a shock expression, while Hermione continues to smirk. Draco playfully pushes her to the ground and snapped his fingers and his broom fell on his hands. He mounted his broom and flew towards the direction of Blaise.
"Oi mate! Wake up!" Draco shouts, trying to wake Blaise from his nap.
Blaise was shocked to have someone shouting at him that he nearly fell off his broom. "Bloody hell mate, you nearly made me fall off my broom! Why are you so angry with me sleeping on my broom?"
"I lost in a bet cause of you!"
"You're mad at me cause you lost a be-, hang on, to whom did you have a bet with?"
"Hermione!"
"So you lot are on first name basis now?" Blaise replies, as he raises an eyebrow.
"Well… Yeah…"
"Then you better be careful next time you have a bet with Hermione, I know how it feels,"
"Why how much did you lose?"
"50 Galleons," Blaise replied, frowning.
"That's too bad mate," Draco replied, patting his friend on the back.
"Do you lot want some privacy? I'm gonna go inside now," Hermione shouts from below pointing towards the manor.
Draco and Blaise flew to the ground. They grabbed Hermione and ran back to the house, with the said lady kicking. As they reached the living room, Hermione was set down and looked quite angry at first, and then started laughing. Draco noticed a blue aura surrounding Hermione but pushed it to the back of his mind because the aura faded.
"I'm gonna go back to my old house to get my things, do you lot wanna come along?" Hermione asked.
"Sure…" the two men replied.
A/N: I'm so sorry, I got writer's block. This chapter is shorter than my other chapters. I won't be able to update for long again and I'm really sorry but I'll still update. I might put this story on hold though. Please leave a review… It motivates to write… I think I'll give a sneak peak of the next chapter for those who leave a review… I'm really sorry, this chapter might be a bit boring… but please leave a review… flames are welcome…