Broken But Beautiful~Dramione

Chapter six

"Hermione! Draco!" Tonks voice woke the pair up as the train went under a dark tunnel.

"Huh?" Hermione rubbed her eyes blearily. She looked down confused as to where the blanket came from but didn't say anything about it. Perhaps she was half asleep when she pulled it over herself.

"I'm up father." Draco jumped up off his couch rather suddenly, and stood so straight it looked like he was about to go to war. "Oh. It's just you."

"Yes, I'm not your father. Anyways, we'll be arriving soon so you should change into your robes and do one last patrol of the train. We'll dismiss from the bottom to the top. Both of the visiting schools want to do a performance for Hogwarts so just lead them up in a bunch to outside the castle." Tonks informed.

"Wouldn't they know that this is for the Tournament if they were asked to come up with a performance?" Hermione pointed out.

"They were told this year is to unify the schools, which is true. Some people may have suspicions, but nobody actually knows." Tonks shrugged.

"Okay. Thanks." Hermione yawned and got up to extract one of her robes from her huge trunk which was packed full with books and rare potion ingredients. Unfortunately she had to do quite some digging, and messed up the stacks she organized by subject.

"I need to change." Draco opened his trunk and took out his robes.

"So do I." Hermione snapped.

"Well you can wait. Or go change in that bathroom." He said pointedly. At Hermione's glare, he changed his mind. "It's fine. I didn't even want to change first anyways." He proceeded to walk outside, and shut the door behind him. She cast a locking charm for good measure and lowered the blinds.

As Hermione watched him disappear, she decided that she would not back down this year. There was no way he truly wanted to change. Hermione didn't even want to know how he manipulated his way to become Head boy, and she certainly didn't need to get entangled with him.

"I'm done," said Hermione shortly.

Without a word Draco walked in, and she left. He made sure there was no way anybody could see him before taking his shirt off, and quickly changed into his robes. He checked his reflection in the mirror to make sure the charm was still working.

"Done." Draco exited the train car. "I'll take Durmstrang so you don't have to deal with that boy that bothered you earlier. Meet me at the bottom once the train begins to stop."

"Yeah I'm good with that." Hermione rolled her eyes as she pretended that he had asked her opinion.

"Ms. Granger?" A boy asked as soon as she entered Beauxbatons level.

"Yes?"

"Can you help me and my friends get our luggage down from the rack?"

"You don't need to. Everything will be in your dorms waiting for you!" Hermione smiled.

"Wow! Great. Thanks!"

"No problem!" Hermione smiled. She ensured all were dressed in their formal school attire, and the train began to slow down. After making one last check that everything was in order, she made her way down to the bottom.

"Hello?" She looked around for Draco.

"Right here." He stepped out from a compartment and walked over.

"We can direct the Hogwarts first years towards Hagrid for the boats. Everyone else towards the carriages. Then we'll let Durmstrang go all at once to get ready, then Beauxbatons after."

"Okay. I'll take the door on the right and you take the one on the left. The middle will open automatically."

"Okay." Hermione nodded. "I can't remember the last time I had a peaceful ride on this train. Last year I didn't even go on but it got stopped by death eaters, the year before Harry tried to eavesdrop on you and got his nose smashed, and fifth year we had to worry about Umbridge-" Hermione reminisced.

"Oh yeah forgot about that." Draco laughed at the memory. After that came out of his mouth, he realized that wouldn't exactly help his case if he wanted more people to like him. He felt a pit of dread forming in his stomach. He didn't have many things that he was proud of doing around her - or ever on that note.

As soon as the train came to a full stop, Hermione opened the train door and held it for the students streaming out. The sea of black moved steadily towards the carriages aside from quite a few tiny first years trying to fight their ways through. All of the small ones gazed in awe at the half-giant standing before them. Hermione had to admit, in the beginning she was slightly frightened by Hagrid. Okay not frightened, terrified. She had never seen such a tall person before.

Once everyone had been cleared out of the train, Hermione and Draco sent all the luggage to the castle. Hermione believed it could fill the bottom of an airplane at least five times over.

"Finally, we're done. Let's go up to the castle." Hermione sighed as she looked over at Draco, still unbelieving that this was going to be her year, and they set off swiftly up the path to the castle