its all about blood - angelrider93

Chapter 22 - Return to Hogwarts

Blaise sat in the compartment on the Hogwarts Express, rolling his eyes and scowling at the lovebirds sitting across from him.

"Would you two please tone down the affection! its getting too disturbing, we haven't even left the bloody station yet!" he finally burst out in exasperation. Draco and Hermione pulled apart and glared at him for interrupting them.

"Like you wouldn't be doing the same thing if you had a certain red head with you!" Draco smirked.

"Ooh low blow Malfoy!" Blaise hissed with a glare.

"It may well have been, but it was still a true statement" Draco retorted. Blaise growled at him before shaking his head in defeat.

"Yeah true" he finally sighed.

"You really like Ginny that much huh?" Hermione asked impishly.

"Shh! Jeez woman, don't advertise it to the rest of the train!" Blaise cried in panic.

"Would you relax Blaise! Nobody heard anything!" Hermione chided with humor.

"Nobody heard what?" a new voice asked. The three occupants glanced up at the door and froze at the sight of the three Gryffindors standing in the doorway.

"Harry! Ron! Ginny! Oh its so good to see the three of you! How was your Christmas?" Hermione exclaimed as she hopped off Draco's lap and hugged her three friends.

"It was great Mione, how about yours?" Harry replied as he returned her hug then sat down next to Blaise. "Blaise, Malfoy" he greeted the two Slytherins.

"Harry" Blaise greeted in return. Draco nodded with a small smile, though his eyes were on his girlfriend. Ron and Ginny also entered the compartment and sat on the seats.

"It was fantastic! I had so much fun!" Hermione replied as she promptly reseated herself comfortably in Draco's lap. Draco immediately slid his arms around his girlfriends waist and anchored her to his body so that any sudden movement from the train wouldn't unseat her and send her sprawling to the floor. The three Gryffindors noticed this immediately with knowing looks, though Ron did have a slight grimace, he wisely kept his mouth shut.

"When did this happen?" Ginny asked indicating Hermione sitting in Draco's lap.

"Christmas day, and they have been horribly nauseatingly mushy ever since, its enough to make a single guy want to scratch his eyes out!" Blaise groaned.

"Oh hush up Blaise before I do or say something that you'll regret!" Hermione threatened with a meaningful tilt of her eyes in Ginny's direction. Draco burst out laughing as Blaise's face showed terrified horror.

"You wouldn't dare Granger!" he whispered harshly.

"Try me!" Hermione smirked smugly as she leaned back into Draco's arms. Blaise gulped then assumed a sickly smile.

"I'll be good" he promised hastily. Hermione grinned then turned back to her silent friends.

"What?" she asked when she saw the looks on their faces.

"Mione you have been hanging around Slytherins too long! You even smirk like them! Its revolting" Ron exclaimed in a disgusted tone.

"Hey!" both Slytherin's protested.

"Well Ronald I did spend the entire Christmas break with four Slytherins and a Ravenclaw!" Hermione stated, then she grinned triumphantly. "Though it was Cissa and I that whipped their Slytherin butts in the snowball fight!"

"That was because you and mum cheated!" Draco protested. Hermione glanced up at her boyfriend with an innocent look.

"How do you figure that?" she asked.