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Hermione woke up to the sunshine beaming through the window on the opposite side of the bed. The drapes that covered the four-poster bed were drawn back to allow the morning sun to come in. Hermione slowly sat up in her bed rubbing her eyes trying to wipe the sleepiness away.
She kicked the blanket aside to get some fresh air on her sweat covered legs. She stood up from her bed to stretch but didn’t feel like getting ready for the day, which very uncommon for Hermione. She was always the first out of the common room and down to breakfast to either, finish homework or read a book.
small sound came from behind her. A large lean muscular body laid on the other side of the bed. Hermione could never get use to his form. Quidditch though boring did have it’s perks she had to admit.
His blonde hair stood out on the dark shades of the sheets that were coloured with red and orange. She loved to play around with his hair in the morning. She leaned over and softly ruffled it up, it was soft and silky at the touch. She smiled to herself as she made his bed hair even more crazy. He despised it when his hair was out of place but Hermione did have to say she loved it when it was unkept.
Draco grabbed her wrist and turned toward her we’re he was greeted by the sight of Granger leaning over him playing with his hair. He smirked as her face turned a deep shade of crimson.
“You do know you should ask to touch someone’s hair, Granger” he said in his low voice that was relatively seductive. He leaned into kiss her, but she grabbed hold of a pillow and slammed it into his face. It made a ‘thud’ sound as it contacted with his face. She hoped off the bed to get changed for the day when strong arms grabbed her around her waist and pulled her back to the bed.
Malfoy placed small kiss down her neck, she reluctantly let his. Letting out a small gasp as his teeth sank into her leaving a small red mark on her shoulder.
“We have to go” she stammered out.
He flipped her so she was under him on the bed.
“Ah they can wait” he whispered into her ear. His breath on her made her arch her back in response.
BANG
“Hey Hermione, the boys are waiti-“ Ginny stopped in her steps to take in the view. She blushed furiously as she staggered backwards. “SORRY” she screamed as she slammed the door shut behind her.
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Ginny raced down the stairs. What had she just seen? That was Malfoy right? And they had obviously…
“Ahh” she screamed to her self. She made her way to the main common room to find Harry and Ron both looking at her expecting Hermione to follow. Both had a confused face look on their faces as they had indeed heard the commotion from the stairs.
“What was all that about?” Ron asked.
Shit she couldn’t let them see what she just did. They would loose their shit even more than she did.
“S-she’s fine. L-let’s just go down for breakfast,”
She tried she really did but, she just couldn’t get the urgency out of her voice. The boys obviously heard it and they both rushed past her flying up the stairs to the girls dorm.
“Hermione?” Harry shouted threw the door. “You, ok in there?”
When they didn’t get an answer the both nodded to each other and opened the door. Ginny was just behind them trying to hold them back but it was to late.
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Harry had never in a million years ever thought that what he was seeing was even possible. I mean it was Draco Malfoy. What was happening? All he could do was gape at the sight.
Both Hermione and Malfoy were both trying to put their cloths on. Malfoy stood there in his underwear trying and failing to pull his pants up. Hermione had at least tried to hide herself with her arms covered across her chest. She had her jeans and bra on but the one thing that disturbed him was all the hickeys she had lining down her shoulder and neck. All Harry could do was look at the scene. They had all freeze when the door opened and they all stood there as if time had stopped. Ginny was the first to move to try to close the door but before she could Hermione pushed Malfoy to the ground behind the bed. As Ginny shut the door the muffled sound of Malfoy came through the door.
“What the hell Granger!?!”
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Draco walked down the fleeting amount of stairs down the common room in which the rest of the trio and she-weasel were waiting for them. Hermione tried to hide behind him as they walked into the main common room.
Draco did have to say that it was a nice tower the only problem was that you had to trudge up thousands of stairs if you wanted to go anywhere. He usually just flew to Grangers room so he didn’t have to take them but he must be lucky because his girlfriend had a very tight arse and legs from all the climbing.
When they walked into the room the three of the Gryffindors were sitting on a crimson couch that sank deep into the ground. They all took a look at the both of them at the same time and in sync averted their eyes.
Hermione took a step from behind Draco getting ready to face them but that retreated back behind him. He just rolled his eyes and took a seat in a chair opposite to the three. Hermione followed suit, she tried she really did but she just couldn’t look at her friends. He knew that her friends didn’t like him, well that was putting it lightly they despised him with a purpose.
Not being able to stand the uncomfortable silence anymore Draco tried to start the conversation that they all dreaded.
“So… you guys have any questions or anything?”
They all looked at him as if he was crazy Hermione put her palm to her face but he could see the smile escape her lips. Those lips he could look at them all day and never get sick of them. Oh he had so many things he wanted to do to those beautiful lips.
His thoughts were interrupted when Ron started his rampage.
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN QUESTIONS? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS, HERMIONE HOW COULD YOU SLEEP WITH MALFOY?”
Hermione just glared at him but it didn’t even phase him as he continued. Potter and girl Weasley just stayed quite but obviously agreeing.
“Ok, enough” Hermione had to yell over Weasley.
“Yes, ok I’m dating Malfoy…” at this Draco could only look smug as he saw the discussed in their eyes. “And I know you don’t like him very much-“
“Like him very much?” Harry interrupted her. “He’s a Malfoy and pure blood prick a fucking ferret I mean come on Hermione does he have black mail on you or something I mean how could you forget everything he’s done to us-to you for the last past five years!?!”
“He has already apologized for what he did back then. Plus he was just a kid, we all were”
“He apologized?” Ron looked stunned at this. “He called you a mudblood! How could you just forget that?!?”
Draco stiffened in his chair at this. He had apologized a thousand times but it was never enough how could he even be with her after what he did.
“I have not forgotten but I have forgiven…” she looked over at Draco and the doubts disappeared he loved her and she loved him. The past was still there but a new future was possible.
“I know that you guys won’t be able to do the same, but after you spend some more time together maybe you can come to an understanding.”
Weasley and Potter looked disgusted it was pure joy to Draco and it took all of him to keep a straight face. The boys could tell he was being amused by this and just scowled at him.
Oh maybe I can take this a bite further?
At the thought he wrapped his arms around Hermione and pulled her into his lap and he placed kiss along his neck. Her face was become a tomato and she tried to stop him by squeezing her and pulling her further into him. He could feel her heating up and he had almost forgotten why he was doing this until Ron shot up from his chair to grab their attention. This made Granger really embarrassed and she made the cutest expression. He smiled into her big bushy hair smelling her lavender shampoo.
“Okokokokokok” Harry said quickly trying to break the lover’s embrace. “So how did this happen” as he jested to them.
“Oh well that’s an interesting story.” Hermione said cheerfully.
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Prefect duty’s were the worst. All they did was walk up and down the halls looking for students out of bed and worst of all she had to be paired with Malfoy of all people. This day just kept get worse.
“Ugh I can’t believe I was pared with stuck up Granger,” Malfoy groaned behind her.
“Could you just shut up Malfoy,”
“But I’m bored,” he whined.
“That’s not my problem,”
“Ugh if only you weren’t you,”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“Well… if it was someone who was less stuck up and not a mudblood we could hook up,”
“Your so gross you know that right?”
“Oh come on Granger I mean have you never done anything?”
Her cheeks heated up as she turned toward him.
“I’ll take that as a no then,” he said amused.
“My private life has nothing to do with you,” she said matter of factly. All he could do was sneer.
“Is that all you do on prefect duties?”
“Um sometimes… but that’s only if I’m really board,”
“Well lucky for me I’m a filthy mudblood”
“Ouch Granger that hurt me”
She had expected his to go on about how she finally admitted to being a mudblood but nothing.
“What ever let’s just finish,” she said trying to end the conversation.
“Are you always this boring Granger?”
“Well if you mean doing my job and following the rules than yes,”
“Ugh can’t we do something?”
“If you can come up with something that won’t get me expelled by all means,”
He grabbed her wrist and pulled her down a hallway that wasn’t on their route.
“What the hell Malfoy”
“Shh” was all she got in response.
She followed him not that she had much of a choice to a painting of fruit. Hermione knew were they where going and was unimpressed. He tickled the peach and the door to the kitchen appeared. He let go of her wrist and walked into the kitchen. She heard him inside asking the house Elf’s to make to Sunday’s. She just followed him in after her stomach rumbled.
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“-yea then we just started hanging out in the kitchen after prefect duties, which than lead to the casual hookups but then we started to get to know each other and ta-da” Draco chimed in on Hermione’s explanation.
Harry, Ron and Ginny looked dumbfounded at the story and it took all of Hermione to not punch him in the arm and yell at him for that terrible ending.
It was true though. They did have casual hookups here and there but he didn’t have to tell them that. She could feel her face starting to heat up as she saw the wheels turning in their heads.
“HERMIONE how could you. After that,” he gestured to Draco “how are you with this ferret?!?”
“Yea, sorry ‘mione I just can’t really get why you're doing this?”
“Yea,” Ron cut in “this relationship cannot happen!”
Hermione just raised her head to look at Ron in the eyes. She could see that his eyes tried to move away from her piercing gaze. How could they just decide who she can and cannot date. That wasn’t their choice, she was allowed to make her own decisions. She was a strong and powerful witch. How could these men think that they had some power over that-
“Ron Weasley!” Ginnys voice rang from the other side of the couch. “Hermione is allowed to date who ever she seems fit and neither,” she looked at both Harry and Ron, “of you can make that decision for her.”
Hermione sent a ‘thank you’ glance over to Ginny.
“Your right Ginny,” Harry replied “Sorry ‘mione we were just worried that’s all,” he muttered.
“Yea I mean he’s Malfoy. And I don’t trust that little ferret the tiniest bit, but if you,” Ron shuttered “what to shag him well I guess that’s up to you.”
Ron’s face had turned a deep shade of red as he said the last part making Hermione’s whole face turned a bright shade of red. She could hear Draco snickering beside. She just hit him in the shoulder as he over reacted at the contact.
“Ok,” Hermione said while trying to keep her face under control “so now that you know of this I wanted to talk to you about something,”
They all focused in as Hermione talked.
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And that was how Draco Malfoy of all people stood in front of the burrow hand in hand with Granger.
He had of course heard about the burrow from his father and he had made jokes but he didn’t expect it to well be exactly what he said it was. It was a small farm-house stacked on more farm houses.
He really wanted to make a snide comment but Hermione squeezed his hand knowing what he was thinking with a piercing gaze. He changed his view, the house being to tempting and faced the rest of the pack.
Potter stood in line with the weasel and she-weasel. Weasley was looking at him just waiting for him for him to say something snide, but all he did was show a fake huge smile and wrapped his arm around Grangers shoulder. He smirked at Weasley as he turned red with fury.
Mrs Weasley came running out from the house. She gave both Ron and Ginny bone crushing hugs and placed to kiss on either side of Harry’s cheek. When she approached Hermione she gave her a hug and finally looked at him. She gave him a look that sent daggers straight into his face. Merlin was this women scary.
“You know Draco don’t you,” Hermione chirped in breaking the stand-off. “I told you in the letters that he was coming,” Hermione said looking more cheerful than ever.
“Why of course,” she replied. Draco went to shake her hand but she pulled him into a hug.
“If you ever do something to hurt Hermione I will personally come and hunt you down.” She whispered into his ear. Dame this women was definitely a Weasley. “I will keep that in mind,” he responded.
She broke away and looked at him with a smile.
“Well come in now, before you freeze to death,”
They all took their luggage and walked into the house.
Draco had never seen a house much like this one before. Magic did all the chores and house work. At the manor all that stuff was done by house elf’s and was hidden from view.
The burrow had a charm to it. It felt like a warm house unlike the manor.
The main floor was a combination of living, dinning and kitchen all thrown together tightly cramped into a small space. Everything was worn out and coloured red. Dame these Gryffindors.
“Well now hurry and putt your stuff away, supper will be done in minutes,” Mrs Weasley chimed.
Ginny lead them up the stair. Draco being the last to follow was able to take in the last view of the house. Hermione grabbed his hand and lead him up the stairs. They made it to the top floor which was split into two bedrooms one Ron’s and the other Ginnys.
Draco had been prepared for this. Never would he ever thought he would he sharing a room with the golden boy and weasslette. The two both seamed to have the same look as they glanced at him.
He really didn’t want to come. He knew that this week would be too much and it was going to be terrible but Hermione had pleaded and with her doughy eyes he couldn’t say no. This woman was going to be the death of him.
Ginny opened the door to her room. The walls were a light shade of pink and covered in quitich posters. A matters laid beside her bed most likely where Hermione was going to sleep. He pulled his bag on to his shoulder but before he could take a step something grabbed his tunic. He looked over to see a red face Hermione.
“Hey Ginny I was wondering if D-Draco could sleep in our room?”
Well whatever he thought she was going to say it was definitely not that. Ginny just raised her eyebrows and smirked at them.
“Sure… but no snogging or shagging,”
Hermione’s face if possible turned a darker shade of red but she was able to stammer out a yes.
Draco followed Hermione into Ginny’s room, she dropped her bag onto Ginny’s bed and fell face first on the matters that was laid on the ground.
“ugh, that was so embarrassing” she screamed into the pillow. Draco just snickered at her as he retorted.
“well I think that Weasley was more embarrassed when you asked if I could sleep with you.” She just dead pan stared at him and then threw a pillow at his face.
“hey what was that for?” he asked
“for being a prick,”
“ouch Granger you're hurting my feelings,”
“oh shut up Malfoy,”
“make me,” he said with a smirk growing on his face. She just raised her eyebrows and stood up from the bed, walked over to him and their lips smashed into each other. She opened up her mouth allowing him to enter. He bit her bottom lip slightly as she moaned in response.
The door slammed open and the she-weasel entered.
“Ew, what was the first rule?”
Granger jumped away from him and slowly tried to make a distance between the two.
“sorry Gin,” she was able to stammer out, as she left the room hiding her face in her hands. Malfoy just snickered and turned his gaze to Ginny. She just looked at him not able to hide her grin that was stretching across her face. He followed after Hermione as she made her way down for supper.
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They slept soundly that night, Hermione could feel Draco’s hot breath on her neck as he softly snored next to her.
There was a charm on Ginny’s window to not let the morning light into the bedroom, so the room was almost pitch dark.
Hermione knew that the Weasleys were not morning people, unlike her they had a slow morning waking up gradually have breakfast and start the day at noon. She liked to get up at the crack of dawn and get her work done or get prepared for the day. That was something her and Draco didn’t have in common, he like to relax in the mornings were she was go, go, go, well to be honest she couldn’t blame him, she being the only one that liked the mornings.
She softly took Draco’s arm that was wrapped around her and picked it up off her body. She got up and off the bed trying not to wake the two sleeping people in the room as she headed to the door and quietly opening it. Wincing as it creaked and stepping out of the room heading down stairs to the kitchen to have an early breakfast.
To her surprise she saw a red-head sitting on the worn out couch in the living room. She could identify the red-head by his height and because she knew him for the last six years.
“Morn’n Ron,” she yawned. Ron turned around to face her, she knew the face that he was wearing.
“what is it Ron?” she asked impatiently. He just stared at her with an unimpressed look.
“I still can’t believe that you brought Draco Malfoy to my house,” here it went again. They had already had this conversation and it was getting tiring.
“I mean he terrorized me and my family of the past six years how could you bring him?”
“Ron we’ve already talked about this, he‘s apologized and said he wouldn’t make any comments. He’s been civil and your family though uncomfortable seems to like him. I know that you aren’t going to like him but I just ask that you get to know him.”
“I just can’t see how I’m suppose to get to know him when I have to look at him twenty-four seven to make sure he doesn’t say anything insulting to my family,”
A small creek on the stair boards brought both of their attention to the stairs. Malfoy walked down the stairs yawning and looking at the conversation.
“why hello weasel-bee,”
“you see what I mean ‘Mione this prick keeps doing shit like this how can I not worry,”
Before Hermione could respond Draco cut in.
“lucky for you Weasley Granger has already thought of that,”
“what?!?”
“well she said that if I was a dick and made any comment she wouldn’t have sex with me so my options are kind of limited here,”
Hermione stopped him from saying anything else by slapping him in the shoulder. She looked up at him, she could feel the heat rising in her cheeks as Malfoy just gave her his signature smirk.
She could feel Ron’s dumbfounders from here as he stared at them with a face as red as his hair. She could only glare at Malfoy from here. She did remember that conversation and she was dead serious though she didn’t know if she could do it, she was dead set on the idea.
She just put her palm to her face as she walked out of the room to the kitchen. She could feel that stand-off between the two from all the way in the kitchen.
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Hermione had woken him up by shaking him drastically until he finally rolled over and glared at her. He couldn’t help but smirk at her as he saw her huge eyes open in determination.
“Get up!”
Malfoy just groaned and turned away from her.
“Get up! Get up! Get up!” She repeatedly screamed in his ear.
“Fine!” He responded desperately. He sat up and stretched his arms above his head.
“Happy Christmas to you too,” he said smugly. Hermione just scrunched up her noise and pulled him out of bed and down the stairs.
Draco knew that the Weasleys where not morning people but they sure were today. All of them sat on the worn out furniture with wrapping paper covering the floors.
Draco was bewildered at how busy the Burrow was at Christmas. At the Malfoy Manor it would always just be a nice classy Christmas dinner and then open presents, but here it was just chaos.
People just woke up whenever and rushed down stairs to rip open there presents and they just did whatever they wanted till breakfast.
Draco was appalled. At the manor they waited for every one and then would open each present at a time and it would take at least two hours, but here it was just a free for all.
Hermione pulled him to an open spot on a couch. Before he could register what was happening. Hermione was shoving a well wrapped gift into his arms. He looked up at her, she was looking directly at him dead set into his eyes. Her cheeks were tinged pink with embarrassment but she didn’t face away from him. He slowly unwrapped the gift which he knew was making Hermione go crazy.
When he pulled out a matching knitted scarf, mitts and hat. They were all coloured in the same green and red pattern. His initials were printed in gold on all of knitted objects.
He loved the gift, he knew she was making him something but this was unexpected. He looked up at her with a general smile that stretched from ear to ear. Hermione smiled back at him.
“I love it,” he said to her. “I’ll wear it every day!”
Hermione just looked away trying to hide the blush that was creeping up her face. Draco threw on the scarf, hat and mitts.
“Where’s my gift!”
Draco just rolled his eyes and signed.
“The only one left under the tree is yours,”
She practically jumped out of her seat and ran over to the tree. She came back with the large gift in her hands. The moment she sat down she started to tear into the wrapping. In seconds she held the big book in her hands. Her face suddenly light up even brighter if possible.
He had gotten her the rare first edition of Advanced spells and potions. Made by Rowena Ravenclaw.
To be honest it wasn’t the hard or expensive mostly because most didn’t care about it but he knew Hermione would love it.
She just looked at him with utter shock.
“I LOVE IT,” she screamed as she brought him in to a kiss. They had gotten the attention of the whole house with her outburst but Draco didn’t care. He opened his lips allowing her younger to slip in. He matched her and followed her rhythm.
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Ron sat on the opposites side of Hermione as she sucked face with Draco Malfoy. Harry on his other side was trying to ignore the couple beside them but it was obvious that he was uncomfortable.
Ron leaned into Harry trying to creat distance between him and the snogging couple. Ron couldn’t take this anymore. Not just the fact that Hermione was dating Malfoy but also that they were together and snogging and doing couply things. It was too much for him.
“Hey,” he whispered into Harry’s ear “are we really going to allow this?” Harry just looked over at the couple and shuttered. “Well what can we do?” Ron didn’t have an idea but he couldn’t stand this. He just got up from his spot on the couch and shuffled over to his right where the couple was. They had broken apart at his movements. He just sat down in between the two making Hermione get out of the way before he sat in her.
She just looked at him with horror. “Ron what are you doing?” She hissed
“Just getting to know my new friend,” he said simply as he moved his arm around Malfoy.
Malfoy just looked at him with disbelief but he could see the amusement behind his eyes.
Wow Malfoy was still bullying him even now. Even now with a more subtle and well mortifying tactic.
Ron couldn’t help the furry that was rising in him settle. But he tried to keep his cool by grinding his tears together.
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Hermione was pissed. What was with Ron and his…. well just what was he doing!?!
“Ron what are you doing?!?” She hissed at him trying not to draw attention but attention had already gathered.
The twins were snickering across from them Harry was just looking at Ron as if he was a swamp monster. Hermione could just sit there looking at the view as if she was in a snow globe.
Mrs Weasley came in to the room with a plate of freshly cooked cookies and biscuits.
“Ronald Weasley!” She yelled making Ron jump up from we’re he sat. “What are you doing? Getting in the middle of a couple on Christmas!?!”
Hermione could see Ron’s face start to change to the colour of his hair. She saw Draco from the corner of her eye snickering. The twins were full-out cackling on the opposite side. They were just able to catch enough breath to say.
“yea Ron we all know that you still have feelings for Hermione but this is kinda sad!” Ron’s whole face became the shade of the darkest red possible as he tried to stammer out something.
Hermione had her suspicions and to be truthful she would have been happy a while ago but now she didn’t feel anything except friendship for him.
The sound of snickering to her right became louder as arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her into a lap.
“Sorry Weasley but I think she taken,” Malfoy said right next to her face. Ron’s face was just looked dead as he took his set next to Harry who just patted his shoulder. The twins were getting high off this and the rest of the Weasleys were trying their best not to laugh.
Draco whispered into her ear “you know I don’t think that the Weasleys are all that bad anymore,” she just rolled her eyes and turned to face him.
His grey eyes were looking up at her, his blonde hair was all over the place. The sun came upon his face and she traced his jaw line with her finger. “Happy Christmas,” he said to her in a low whisper that could only be heard by the two of them.
She moved closer to him and there lips meet she softly pulled apart and said “Happy Christmas!”