The New Law

The Unexpected

       

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The last couple of days had sort of just gone by. Nothing major had really happened. A few arguments here and there between himself and Hermione, but that was to be expected, it was normal. Draco went to work as usual, as did Hermione. He knew that she'd been out with her friends a couple of nights, catching up or whatever it was that they usually did. He had been out a couple of nights himself with Blaise and Theo. It had all been very normal, except for all the ways it wasn't.

All their friends were either engaged or married and it was weird, but it seemed like Blaise and Theo had started to figure things out with their brides to be. Well, it hadn't really been any problems for Theo at all, he'd been in love with Daphne Greengrass for years an apparently she had feelings for him too, so this whole situation was a good thing for them. Blaise had had a bit more of a hard time though, his mum wasn't too happy about him being matched with Luna, but things seemed to have settle down a bit when she realized there was nothing to be done about it.

Draco was walking through the Manor to make sure everything was as it should and to see if all the lights were out where they ought to be. He knew the house elves would gladly do it, but sometimes he liked doing it himself, it gave him time to walk around and think.

He walked into the library in the east wing, it was late and he wasn't expecting Hermione to be up at this hour. When he walked in though, he could see her slight frame bent over one of the desks, her back towards him.

"Granger?" Draco asked quietly.

She didn't answer. He walked up to where she was sat and saw that she had fallen asleep over a book, her head resting on her arms on the table.

"Granger?" he whispered. She stirred a little, but she didn't wake up

It couldn't be very comfortable to sleep sitting in a chair all night, he thought to himself. He almost felt bad for her, she looked exhausted. He didn't know what came over him, this need to take care of the woman in front of him. He carefully lifted Granger up in his arms and started carrying her to her bed.

When they got there he lay her down and put the covers over her and she curled up into a ball under them, a peaceful look spreading across her face. She almost looked beautiful.

Oi, mate, this is Granger your thinking about, he mentally scolded himself before he slipped quietly out of the room and continued on his round through the mansion before he went to bed himself.
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The next morning Hermione woke in her bed with no recollection of how she had gotten there. She figured she had probably fallen asleep in the library and the house elves had probably levitated her back to her room or something and was thankful for it, because sleeping in a chair would not be good for her body. She had done it plenty of times and she always ended up really sore and stiff the next day.

It was the weekend again which meant that she couldn't escape off to work today so she would have to spend all of her day at the manor. The Weasleys were off visiting some family this weekend and Harry was away on some kind of auror mission so she had no one to go to. At least she had a lot of books at her disposal and a huge garden to walk around in, which was nice.

She got dressed and went down stairs to eat some breakfast. When she got there she saw that Draco was sitting there already. He was eating a slice of toast as he read the Daily Prophet. He looked very calm and peaceful where he was sitting.

"Good morning," she heard from behind the paper.

"Did you sleep well?" he Draco asked.

"Yes, I did actually, thanks to your house elves taking such good care of me," she replied.

"Oh, the house elves? What did they do?" Draco asked curiously as he put the paper down to look at her.

"Well, I... last night I could have sworn I fell asleep in the library over a book, as I sometimes do, but this morning I woke up in my bed," Hermione explained.

"Well that's funny, because the house elves weren't here last night. They had the night off actually." Draco told her.

"Then who...?" and then it dawned on her.

Draco had carried her or levitated her or done something to get her into her bed, that had to be it. Either that or she had been sleepwalking and she had never sleepwalked in her life, not even once.
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Draco could see realization crossing Grangers face and he cleared his throat awkwardly.

"Maybe you were just too tired to realize that you walked back to your room." He stated. Granger lifted an eyebrow sceptically at him.

"Right," she said.

"It happens," Draco argued.

"Mhm," Hermione said as she rose from the table.

"I'm gonna go to the bathroom, if you'll excuse me," she continued as she left the room.

"It happens? Really?" Draco said aloud to himself.

He was being stupid. Why couldn't he just admit to her that he was the one who had carried her to bed? She probably knew already, she wasn't a stupid witch. Annoying, yes, but not stupid. He folded the paper, got up and put it on the table by Grangers seat; she might want to read it when she got back from the loo. Draco then walked out into the garden to get some fresh air because he was starting to have thoughts he would rather be without.
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