Wow guys, I am already to chapter 10. This is the longest thing I think I have ever written. Thank you so much for all the positive feedback that I have received. It makes me very happy that I am able to share this with you all and you enjoy it.

Again, I do not own anything from the world of HP. Just the story. The characters come from the great mind of J.K. Rowling.

DPOV:

He did love her, with all of his heart. He wanted to tell her when she wasn't in a sex induced coma, but he was still gaining her trust. It was only the second time they had slept together and it was intense. He was afraid that all he had done to her in the past was going to keep driving a wedge between them. She had, after all, ran away after the first time they had sex. What if everytime they get in an argument, she runs away? Does she still see him as the prat he was in school, or can she see past that facade?

He sure hoped so, because he wasn't going to let her go after last night. It had to be the best sex he had ever had and that is something he would never give up. She was like his own personal cocaine. She gave him a high that he had never felt before, not even when flying. Just her scent gives him a buzz.

" What are you grinning about mate?" Blaise asked walking into Draco's office. " Thinking about a particular curly hair brunette?"

" No," he said sarcastically. " I am so excited to work on all of this paperwork… Of course I'm thinking about her!"

" Did you guys see each other again last night?"

" Oh yeah," Draco chuckled, " we saw each other."

" Oh really?" Asked Blaise, catching on to what he was saying. " She didn't run away again because you are horrible in bed?"
" Yeah, I'm horrible in bed. That's why every girl in our year in school, was after me."

" Minoe wasn't."

" Yeah, don't remind me of that. But that doesn't matter anymore, I have her now."

" Well, I am glad that you finally seem to be happy. I was tired of all your brooding."

" I don't brood," he said with a scoff.

" Whatever you say mate," Blaise said with a laugh. Not wanting to point out that he was doing it then.

HPOV:

" It was amazing, Gin! I didn't know sex could be like that! It was like we fit perfectly together."

" Sex is like that when you are with the right person," she said with a little blush.

" Oh my gosh," Hermione giggled, " Is Blaise the right one for you?" Ginny smacked her on the arm playfully.

" I don't know yet. We haven't been seeing each other long enough to know. But the sex is AMAZING!"

" He does seem like he is a great match for you. You really needed someone like him, especially after things with Harry." Her friends face fell. " I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring that up when you are so clearly happy now."

" It's fine," the redhead said with a sigh. " I always pictured myself with him. By now we would be getting married and starting our own family. He thinks I blame him for my brothers death and I don't. But I have waited too long for him to come back to me, I have to move on."

" I don't think that he would want you to wait around for him for the rest of your life. He loves you, no matter if you guys are not together. Maybe one day he will come back to us and be the man we all know he is."

" I hope so. But I'm not going to keep pining for him, waiting for him to be the man I fell in love with when I was a kid."

" No one expects that from you. I want you happy and if Blaise Zabini is the man to do that, so be it." She could tell that her friend still had feelings for the man she, Hermione, considered a brother. But she was right, she couldn't keep waiting for him to come back to her. He might never be the same and it wouldn't be fair for her to do that. She needed to move on with her life. And if Blaise is going to help her with that, even if they don't end up together in the end, she was all for it.

" I can't talk about this anymore. It is too depressing," Hermione could tell that there was a need for a subject change.

" Okay," she agreed. " When are you and Blaise going out again?"

" Were supposed to be going to a restaurant this weekend. I'm not sure what we are doing after that."

" Oh, which place are you going?"

" I'm not sure yet. He says that it is going to be a surprise," her friend beamed at her. Blaise was such a great person. He truly was the only Slytherin that she liked in school. If you would have asked her 16 year old self, if she thought that she would be dating the Prince of Slytherin, she would have laughed in her face. " Are you guys doing anything this weekend?"

" We haven't really talked about it yet. I would like to take him to a cinema. I doubt he has ever been." Ginny laughed at that picture, Draco Malfoy, sitting in a theater with a bunch of Muggles.

There was a knock on Ginny's door. The two witches looked at each other. Ginny wasn't expecting anyone, it was pretty late at person outside the door started to get impatient and pounded even harder. Ginny ran to the door, wand in hand and peeked through the hole in the door. Ginny opened the door and whispered to who ever was on the other side.

" Is she here?" The voice practically yelled from the hall. Ron pushed past Ginny and swayed slightly as he stood in the entryway. His eyes looked unfocused as he searched the small space for Hermione. He was drunk and she could smell him from across the room, firewhiskey. She hated it when he drank, he wasn't a nice person.

" Ron!" Ginny yelled, standing in front of him with her arms folded across her chest. " You need to leave!" He shoved her aside and to the floor. She tried to scramble for her wand that was thrown from her hand, but was too late, Ron had put a body binding curse on her.

" How dare you toss me aside, Hermione!" he bellowed, face turning red. " I was the best thing that had ever happened to you and you choose that Slytherin over me?"

Hermione was livid. "You are the best thing that ever happened to me? That's a laugh." She held her wand behind her leg. He hadn't noticed, he was too drunk. " You cheated on me and you say you are the best thing that happened to me? I think it is the other way around, but you tossed me aside for the flousy Lavender."

" That was a mistake!" He screamed, " She didn't mean anything to me."

" It was a mistake that lasted months?" She let out a shocked laugh. That was the wrong thing to do though. His hand closed in on her throat and he pushed her up against the wall. He still hadn't noticed her wand. As soon as her back was against the wall, she sent a curse into his side. He fell backwards in pain. She could feel a bruise forming on the back of her head from where she hit it on the wall.

She walked over to Ron and put her foot on his chest and aimed her wand between his eyes. " Now listen to me Ronald," she said in an eerily calm voice. " You are going to leave, now, and I don't ever want to see you again. I will file a report if I ever do. And if you ever lay a hand on Ginny or I ever again, you will never live to see another day. Got it?" He shook his head frantically. " Now get the hell out of this apartment!" He got up, straightened his clothes, and stalked out of the apartment.

" What the hell?" Ginny screeched as the spell was undone. " He's gone off the deep end!" She looked to her best friend. " Are you okay?"

" I'm fine," she said, rubbing the back of her head. " Just a bump on the head, I'll be fine."

" Well you do have some marks on your neck. I hope that they don't leave a bruise there…. Ugh, I am going to have to call mom about this. Someone needs to smack some sense into his thick skull."

" Thats probably a good idea. He needs help, that is for sure. Hermione sighed, " I better go, Draco is supposed to be coming over." She walked over to Ginny's fireplace and grabbed some floo powder and in seconds she was in her own apartment, far away from the disaster that just occurred. She saw something move out of the corner of her eye and she jumped, thinking it was Ron.

" Whoa, why are you so jumpy?" Draco asked.

" Oh my gosh, Draco! You scared the living daylights out of me!"

He suddenly got a dark look in his eyes and they landed on her neck. He hurried over to her, his hand feather light on the marks that marred her beautiful skin. " What happened?" He demanded.

" Ummm…" She stammered. She didn't want to tell him what happened. He would go off the deep end when he finds out.

" GRANGER!" He snapped, his old ways rearing his ugly head. It made her jump. In school she would have never let him see that he scared her. Then he would have reveled in it, but now, his tone and face softened. " What happened Hermione?" The tears that she was fighting, over flowed.

" Ron showed up to Ginny's place. He attacked us."

" WHAT?!" He yelled. " That blood traitor is going to pay for this. Laying his hands on what is mine!"

Hermione cut him off before he made things worse. " First of all," she said hotly, " I am not a thing you can possess. Second of all, I took care of it. I told him if he ever tried to contact me again, he would be getting a visit from the authorities."

He softened again, " I'm sorry, Mione. I know you are not a possession. I just can't imagine what could happen if he did this again. I care about you too much to lose you."

She took his head in her hands and lifted his gaze to see her's. " I care about you also, but I am a big girl and can handle Ron. I did it all through school and afterwards. Trust me."

He let out a resigned sigh and conceded. " I just don't like the idea of him having his hands on you. I want to be the only one to be able to touch you."

" Well I don't think that we will have a problem with that anymore."

" Why's that?"
" I told him he wouldn't see the next day if he laid a hand on either Ginny or me again." He pulled Hermione into his arms and kissed her.

" Now that is the Gryffindor that I knew in school." He said with a laugh. " I was wondering when she would rear her beautiful head."

This was such a fun chapter to write. I knew I would have to write Ron into it again. Do you think Draco will not poke his head into the issue, or do you think he is going to do something dumb? Stay tuned for the next chapter to find out!

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