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Hermione and I had our desired reconciliation between the sheets of my bed. She hugged me in a way that none of my previous conquests had ever done-with passion, love and absolute trust. She trusts me completely. When I bit her neck and her blood filled my mouth, I felt an incredible pleasure. I had returned to where I belonged.

"What did I miss?" I asked as I scattered delicate kisses all over her shoulder, our reconciliation had lasted hours and now she was leaning back against my chest panting and gasping for breath. "You said Lucian came to talk with you, what did he say?"

"Well...he explained to me some things that I haven't been able to understand. The most important thing is that he told me that vampires are addictive," she sighed, "I wouldn't have believed what he told me if I hadn't been feeling so bad these past days without you," she shuddered.

"Has it been so bad?" I hugged her tighter.

"Horrible. The worst part were the nights I almost asked Isabel to bite me. I needed that so badly," she admitted as she snuggled close in my arms.

"But you didn't… You didn't ask her that, right?" Deep down I knew that Isa wouldn't have agreed to bite her, but still I was mentally calculating the best way to kill the Assamita in case Hermione had asked Isabel to bite her.

"No, I didn't," she kissed my shoulder sweetly. "What did you do these past few weeks? Lucian said that he didn't know where you were, but I think he didn't want to tell me," she frowned, annoyed with my sire.

"I was with Tony and Julia," I said, not about to tell her the whole truth. "Tony came up with hundreds of ideas so that I could stop thinking too much about the beautiful witch that makes me crazy," I started kissing her shoulder again, "but, unfortunately for Tony, I couldn't properly appreciate all his efforts because I couldn't stop thinking about you." I smiled, remembering his handsome face concentrated on finding something that could make me forget about my witch. "Julia, on the other hand, recognized all the symptoms and she didn't get angry with me even though I was freaking her husband out. She was the one that helped me understand what I'm experiencing and what I'm feeling."

She turned around to look at me.

"I'm afraid you're doomed to have a vampire at your feet for the rest of eternity." I said smiling, "does that bother you?"

"I don't mind if it's you." She craned her neck to kiss my lips, a gesture that made me forget everything I wanted to ask her and concentrate on the sweet taste of her mouth while I stroked her neck, in which I could feel my teeth marks. "I love you," she whispered when we parted for air.

"I love you too, gorgeous," I told her, and it was the first time that I really meant it.

"It is the first time I believe you when you tell me that," she looked at me. "Before, whenever you said those words, it seemed that you said them just because you thought that you had to say them just because I did. You took care of me and you were the perfect boyfriend, however, it felt as if I was in the middle of a perfect dream and I didn't want to wake up."

"That, dear, is because these past days without you have helped me see many things clearly. Until now, I didn't know that I really don't want to be with someone other than you." I smiled to myself. It turned out that actually the only one who had been deceived during our relationship was me-she always knew that I was pretending. "Now tell me if anything interesting happened while I wasn't here," I sighed with resignation.

"Well, Ginny broke up with Harry. It was very difficult for Harry. He didn't understand what was happening, or why Ginny decided to break up with him. I had to tell him something similar to what you told me, that she loved him but that she couldn't stay with him any longer because they wanted different things and because she felt like a caged bird that wanted to be free." She gave me a reproachful look, "And, obviously, I didn't even mention your dear sire. I have to admit that I know that he has being visiting Ginny regularly at nights. I guess that's why Ginny hasn't been seen with any other guy, and since nobody apart from us and Isabel knows that they are sleeping together, Harry doesn't have to see her with another guy.

"I'm happy for the redhead, though I'm sorry for Potter. I guess he will eventually get over her, but he should accept that soon he will start seeing her with other guys because, if I remember correctly, she was a very active little girl when we were in fifth year." I smiled, remembering that even Blaise and I had thought of asking her out, but we didn't for political reasons; it wouldn't look right to go out with a Gryffindor, or even worse, a blood traitor.

"Well, now she is quite controlled thanks to Luc's visits. Zabini has also begun to control himself," she said. "Now he doesn't chase Isabel everywhere and he has regained some of his composure."

"Seriously?" I would have to ask Isa what she did to Blaise, although it was likely that I would discover what she had done as soon as I saw him.

"Ron has started dating Cho Chang," she said. "I nearly killed him when I found him making out with her in a hallway."

"Why?" I asked in surprise.

"Well, he reproached me for being with you when we started dating, and now he goes out with Harry's ex-girlfriend," she looked at me, confused. "Besides, I hated to see happy couples everywhere while you weren't here. I had the stupid idea that they were making fun of me."

"Well, I'm here now, and now we will be the ones giving them envy," I said before kissing her pursed lips affectionately. "It seems that you have been busy in my absence," I chuckled.

"You have also missed a few very interesting classes and two exams," she replied, smiling.

We spent the remainder of afternoon together. I didn't want to leave her for even one minute, but she was human, so we had to leave the chamber so that she could eat something. As we stepped into the hall we met Isabel, who smiled at us. She shook her head a few times as if to say that we had no remedy, but she said nothing; she just joined us on the way to the dining room. Once there, the reactions to my return were immediate.

Hi everybody!

I'm here again with a new chapter. I just hope you will forgive me for updating a chapter as short as this, but sadly I don't have time to translate a longer chapter right now. I have my EXAMS in less than a month and before that I have some other exams that are also quite important. I'm not sure if I will be able to UPDATE another chapter before MARCH, but if I do it will be a chapter as short as this one or maybe even shorter. I hope you understand.

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Twilight684: Well glad to see that Draco and Hermione are together and happy again :3 Though I still want to beat the crap out of Hermione for being an idiot about everything in the first place . Seriously, she had no reason to go off over such stupid things in the previous chapters, but whatever… Maybe I just hate it for the fact that I can't stand stupid drama like that ^w^; pisses me off at people way too much lol.

Sapphire Leo: I'm so happy that he FINALLY meant it when he said, "I love you," to Hermione. She deserves someone who really does love her. Although I think that Draco should be honest with her. He needs to be able to trust her, and be honest with her. If he's not honest, then there's no trust. If you don't have trust, there's no relationship...and he needs to tell her things. He loves her, he's got nothing that he needs to hide from her. Anyway, I'm super excited to see where this is going to go. ~Sapphire Leo

Hodgeheg: I knew that Malfoy loved Hermione. ^^ And Ron's dating Cho now? Oh dear... wonder how Harry's taking it.