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So as this story progresses we will see Severus start to get confused with his feelings and he might seem out of character but Hermione will do that for him and make him a better person. The Severus we see in the books is an asshole but has the hugest capacity for love.

We will slowly start to see that as time goes on him opening up a big more and growing closer to certain people. As always Rated M and I do not own anything.

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Chapter Five

Hermione

I always loved the library, from my first year it had quickly became my happy place. Needless to say that hadn'tchangedin anyway shape or form. It still provided me with so much comfort.

I could lose myself for hours in this place with book after book. It really was probably the most impressive place in the entire castle. Centuries of ancient texts all gathered together and only a small handful actually used it.

I was so engrossed in a tome on Runic protections I was going to place around my parents home I didn't even see him approach. He must have been sitting for a good few minutes before his throat clearing interrupted me.

"Malfoy. What do you want?" He looked around the library in apprehension before I realised we were utterly alone. It was getting later to be fair and it was toward the end of the school year.

"Granger, I need to talk to you?" I closed the book and folded my hands in my lap. I hadn't really thought too much about the boy in front of me. He had made the right decision in the end and help apprehend his father for the Aurors to take him into custody.

" What could we possibly have to talk about Malfoy?" He smiked at me and it was rather making me nervous.

"I know you time traveled from the future. I know you'rechangingthings and I want to help." I instantly cast a Muffilato around us to ensure our privacy and then I levelled my wand at his bollocks.

"Speak now or I will ensure the Malfoy Line ends with you." He gulped for a second before shaking his eyes in amusement just as quickly.

"I woke up not long after you and that crew of yours, flew away on fucking Thestrals. It took me a second to realise what was going on, last thing I remembered was fighting in the Battle and pushing you to the ground. Waking up her I nearly hexed Zabini when he touched my shoulder in the common room." I nodded for him to continue and internally I was screaming at how convenient it was.

"You have been different since then, so have I incase you haven't noticed. I want to help Granger, I don't want to make the same choices as before and I sure as hell don't want that fucking mark plastered on my arm." Could I trust him? It would make life so much easier if he was genuine, he could convince his mother and she could just walk into her sisters vault and get the bloody Horcrux.

"No offense Malfoy but why should I trust you?" He just took out his wand and I tightened my own grip before he did something entirely unexpected.

"I Draco Malfoy do solemnly swear not to harm Hermione Granger and to be truthful as much as I can, so mote it be." A small white light erupted from his wand and I could feel the element of his magic licking across my own as the vow took hold.

"I don't want the same future, if I can spare my mother what she went through in that house I am willing. I can tell you everything and anything you need to know." It intrigued me knowing that both Malfoys were not as evil as I had originally thought. Narcissa Malfoy was a shell of herself that day in Malfoy Manor and I could tell she was as much of a prisoner in that house than I was.

"There are many things I regret in my past life Granger, let me make it up to you at least." Realising that I was stuck my head for so long I realisticslly took a gamble by asking for help.

"Meet me at the Room of Requirement." I stood up, packed my bags and slowly made my way to the Seventh Floor he waited for a few minutes before following me out. I cast a silent dissollutionment on my body and began the traipse up the staircase.

Would he have any more of an idea as to why we had been sent back in time? Does he know how it happened? I was in the dark but wasn't looking a gift horse in the mouth, without even hesitating would I be able to divulge my secrets?

As I paced back and forth between the tapestry a door appeared and I walked on in with him not far behind me. There was a warm study with a roaring fire, bookshelves and a Pensieve waiting on me.

I sat my bookbag down beside one of the chairs and sat down across from him, neither one of us spoke for a few moments and surprisingly it was him who spoke first. He looked nervous and it was unnerving to see the usually cocky boy a nervous young man.

"I don't want to take the mark this time around Granger, I don't want my mother threatened with being raped and beaten to try and corral me into it. I don't want Potter and Weasley to bethrown into my cellar and I don't want my aunt to torture you. I couldn't witness that again so please whatever you need me to do just say it. Tell me my role in this because I know you havechangedthings already, Sirius Black and his trial? So please give me a job and I will do it. " He was genuine, sincere and honest in that moment, a boy who spent five years tormenting me was now a shell of himself and it was there and then I could see that same man from the Battle who fought against his Death eater peers and father.

"I need a meeting with your mother, I need something your Aunt has and without the Black Family blood I cannot get it. It issomething that will help me defeat Voldemort..." I could see him flinch and hold his arm in a reaction, even though I know his skin would be unblemished and milky white underneath his jumper it seemed like a reflex.

" I am also going to sneak into the Chamber of Secrets and need an accomplice. You have just nominated yourself." I had been putting it off because I had been trying to perfect Harrys Parseltongue. I had been conjuring a snake and trying to talk to it, Harry noticed me the other day and had been trying to teach me certain phrases.

He thought it was amusing to see me trying to be an overachiever and learn a language which could hardly be learned. He indulged me and I had managed to command the snake to an extent.

"My mother? She will not be easily convinced, what do you plan to tell her?" I honestly didn't know, up until this point I had only got as far as thinking about the meeting and then feeling her out.

"How much will she believe, if you and I were united in this would she help us? Would she believe our memories if we showed them to her?" It took him a few moments but he nodded his head, albeit reluctantly.

"If it was you on your own she, would hex you first and ask questions later, let me speak to her and get back to you to organise a time. I need her safe Granger, she cannot be put at risk. If there is anyway for the Order to get her out of that house can you help me?" Narcissa Malfoy would be an asset once the war was over, she was well respected in the Wizarding World and would be a good resource to have.

" I am not working with the Order Malfoy, no one else can know about the future knowledge we have in our heads. You know how things went last time with Albus Dumbledore at the helm. Everyone in his order is too blinded by him to dotheright thing. We are on our own." He seemed so, defeated in that moment and it was entirely uncharacteristic of him to let him guard down that much.

"At this time before when I came home the Summer after fifth year, my father had been arrested. My Crazy Aunt Bellatrix had ushered his minions into my family home. Everything felt darker, corrupted and fearsome." I guess I never really put much thought into how he and his mother were treated during the war, why would I?

"I was home a week when I was woken up from my bed and trailed to a Death Eater meeting, I was asked to take the mark as punishment for my father's failures. My mother begged him to not do it, to leave me be. They trailed her from her bed, held her down and threatened to beat and rape her before giving her to Fenrir Greyback to eat if I didn't agree with it. " I could see him pick at his cuticles with nerves.

" Malfoy, you don't have to tell me all of this. I already had a plan concocted in my head to try and bring you mother onto my side. I might have a safe house for you both to go to but that is all depending on whether she agrees to my plan and helps me. Considering my upbringing she might not be too keen on me helping her." He shook his head at me and ran his hand through his hair in a way that I had never seen.

" My mother does not believe in the Pure Blood rhetoric Granger. She has been the one throughout my childhood that had always scolded me for my idiocy, she always repremanded my father when he speaks like that in front of me also. If we are united in this Granger she will listen and she will help." I nodded my head to him and we spent a few minutes just in comfortable silence.

"Did you say the Chamber of Secrets?" I nodded my head to him and he smirked like a little boy whom was about to enter Nirvana.

"I get to see Salazar Slytherins Chamber of Secrets?" I nodded at him and he grinned at me before shaking his head and I honestly thought he was going to spontaneously combust. It was a side of Draco I had only ever seen when he was teasing people.

"Do you wanna go now?" I shook my head in amusement at his childlike innocence, it was nice to see considering everything he had been through, will go through, bloody hell my head hurts already.

"Thursday 6pm. Moaning Myrtles bathroom. Don't be late." I stood up and slung my bag over my shoulder and made tracks to leave. He just nodded his head at me and as I, went to walk away he grabbed me gently by the wrist.

"Thank You Granger, for trusting me." I nodded, my head at him and squeezed his hand gently in the first Physical contact with Draco Malfoy. I slowly made my way out of the Room of Requirement and up toward the Gryffindor tower. It came to no surprise that Harry was waiting on the couch.

Upon seeing me he smiled and waved me over, it was ten minutes to curfew and so I realised some people were probably still outside or in their dorms by now.

"You alright Hermione?" I nodded my head at him and realised I would have to continue to lie to him from now until all the rest of the horcruxes were gone. I still don't know what I am going to do about the one inside of him, I couldn't trust his mind to be protected at this moment but if I left it to the last possible moment and explained it to him, would he do the same thing? Would he sacrifice himself for the greater good?

"Just tired I guess." He nodded his head at me and it was then I had seen two books sitting in front of him, they were Law books. He must have noticed my confusion and smiled at me before lifting them up and holding one open for me to read.

"I was trying to find something to help Sirius, his trial is soon and I want to try and beef up his defense with some surprise or even obscure law that will keep him out of Azkaban." I couldn't help but beam with pride at the man Harry was becoming , hopefully with Sirius and Remus to influence him it will allow him to have something more to live for.

"I think that's a great idea? I can help?" He thanked me and hugged me before handing me one book to read through as he took the other. When Ron appeared with one minute to curfew he was horrified that Harry was reading and even through a jibe that I had corrupted Harry. Once the bespeckled boy explained it was for Sirius it soon shut Ron up he just went up to the dorm and left us to it.

Looking at Harrys determination made me even more determined, he would have a bright future, I would make sure of it.

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Today was the last detention of the year for Miss Granger, I still had no idea how to approach her and get closer to her, the largest part of me did not want to do this. It took every ounce of self control not to tell both Albus Dumbledore and The Dark Lord to go and fuck themselves, but this is the life I have chosen.

I always get extra tetchy at the end of the school year and I was truly not looking forward to it, the Dark Lord was becoming more paranoid and unpredictable. His revels were getting out of control and now it was official that he was alive he spent so much time reclusive in one of his followers homes.

He was never a very patient man at the best of times but now its like something has unhinged him. He is quick to punish for such small things everyone was terrified to breathe or speak. How I wish I could just take off and live on a beach somewhere and just brew potions and live out my life.

A soft knock interrupted me out of my thoughts and as she walked in I could see a very different girl come into the room. She seemed lighter almost as if she hadn't the weight of the world on her shoulders anymore.

"Professor." She removed her outer robes and hung them on the hook at the door on top of her bag and it left her in a pair of blue jeans, black converse all stars and a blue shirt. She looked different, I couldn't put my finger on it but she appeared older or hardened by life.

"Thankfully this is the last detention Miss Granger, maybe it will make you think twice before running headfirst into danger beside Potter." She smirked slightly and got out a cauldron and went to finish her last Potion when I reached across the table and took away the sheets from in front of her.

"Why don't we both stop pretending you actually need these, it is a bit strange how you can brew so well all of a sudden. Perhaps you need a challenge, surely a simple Bruise Paste is beneath you." She, didnt say anything to me and instead I gave her a copy of a Sixth Year Potions text and told her to pick a potion.

"I am afraid I don't understand." I nodded but indicated for her to look through the book, slowly she flicked through page after

Page of potions looking at each of them she finally settled on Veritiserum.

"Why this one?" She shrugged and scanned her eyes across the four pages of instructions before setting the book down on the desk in front of her cauldron.

"It was something I noticed you are low on Sir, the least I can do is try and help you restock whilst you're proving a point." The cheek of the chit made me want to either hex her or fuck her. I just smirked and reached across the desk to pull the book away from her and closed it in front of her.

" Time to put that memory to the test. If you aren't lying about it that is. " She didn't appear too put out and just nodded her head and as I sat at the desk to watch her I realised I had been watching her legs walk away when I snapped out of it.

She was a fucking student, a fifth year student also, what the fuck was wrong with me? Ever since the meeting with the Dark Lord I have been feeling strange, did one of those bastards slip me something? I am careful with all of my food, drinks etcetera.

Bellatrix was furious that I had to heal the girl so maybe she had hexed me, it couldn't have been a, potion I am too careful. What would her endgame be? Perhaps to get me to let my guard down and reveal I had not been faking all these years or to get me to rape the poor girl.

I would check my body for anything and take a purging potion just incase, I can't be distracted by Hermione Fucking Granger. She set all of her ingredients out in front of her and started, slicing, chopping, dicing and mincing and I couldn't help but be amazed at her.

She was brewing with the skills and capabilities that she didn't have two weeks ago, it was like someone else had inhabited her body and upon watching her hands prepare the cauldron I couldn't help but be impressed. Minerva was right, she had grown into a fine young woman and although I would never admit it to her she was going to take the Wizarding World by storm once this war is over.

She was methodocal, precise and even put me to shame some days with how elegant her brewing was, it both impressed and pissed me off how effortless it was for her. The little witch truly did have a Photographic memory, she didn't open the book once and her brew was perfect.

As she finished the last step I stood and walked over to stand behind her cauldron and peered over her shoulder. Her entire body stiffined and I realised I made her uncomfortable.

"I daresay Miss Granger I envy that brain of yours sometimes. Even though it is a bit like cheating isnt it? Not a lot of effort to put in, just read and you remember." I couldn't see her face but I knew it was enraged, she surprised me though and didn't back down.

She turned her body around to talk to me and she was only two feet from me, her face looked pissed and if I didn't know the girl I would be worries she was gonna slap me.

"It's ok Professor, don't be jealous its just harder sometimes for other people." I couldn't stop the slight smirk that appeared on my face, she was pretending to be brave and gryffindorian but truthfully I could see the blush of anger and discomfort on her face.

"You will not be taking Potions next year, you will instead be Apprenticing for me. Brewing, marking and I will teach you. A skill such as yours needs cultivated and honed. I do not take on Apprentices at all Miss Granger and I will be harder on someone of your calibre and skill than that of a dunderhead in class. You will learn things that no curriculum will be able to teach you." She was still standing two feet from me when I realised how close we were and how inappropriate it would look if someone where to walk in I took three steps away from her.

"I would be honoured to learn from you Sir." I nodded my head and snapped a piece of parchment I hadn't looked at in years. It was a list of books she would need for the following year that I too used for my apprenticeship. I also waved my hand and the door to my Private Quarters opened before a stack of books appeared one by one landing in front of her on top of one another.

"These are my own texts, be careful with them, read them fully and bring them back in September." She nodded her head at me and a large grin erupted onto her face which unnerved me slightly.

"Am I allowed to tell anyone about next year?" I nodded my head because Albus had informed the staff I was taking her on next yesr anyway so it wasn't going to be that much of a shock. Her dunderheaded friends might have something to say though.

"If you wish to that is fine but I daresay they will have an opinion on the matter either way. Perhaps wait until the new, school year to shock them mmm." She nodded her head and opened her book bag and one by one placed the large stacks of books inside her bag.

" Undetectable extension charm?" She blushed and slowly closed the bag and grabbed her vials to bottle up the Vetitiserum. Her technique was flawless and I couldnt help but be in awe of her. I had always scowled when the other teachers praised the young woman in the staff room.

Even now I had to admit hers was a mind that came around once in a Generation and I for one will teach her as much as possible so her and her little friends survive this fucking war.

"Go on back to your common room Miss Granger, I can finish up here." She nodded and thanked me before pulling on her outer robes and threw her bag across her shoulder.

"I will see you over the summer Professor? Thank You again." I nodded my head at her and watched her leave the classroon and close the door behind her when I slumped down onto my desk. What the fuck did I just agree to?

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