Broken But Beautiful~Dramione

Chapter nine

"I think I found it!" Draco said, excited for perhaps the first time in his life. The two had been inspecting each picture in the last hallway of the floor that they had narrowed the dorm to. Hermione ran over and they both stared intently at the painting.

"Yes?" The man raised an eyebrow.

"Is this our dorm?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know. Is it?" Under Draco's withering gaze, the man seemed to try to step backwards. "Yes it is. What do you want your password to be?"

"I don't care. You can choose." Draco said coolly.

"Did I ask?" Hermione snapped. "Overcome the odds."

"Overcome the odds?"

"Well I mean look at what we've done. Just barely adults, we changed and shaped the future of our world. When everything seemed like it was going bad for us, we triumphed in the end. No matter who doubted us, we're entirely capable of doing things no matter how unlikely it is. Also..." she trailed off and he looked at her expectantly. "If we're going to have a successful year without biting each others heads off, we're going to have to overcome some pretty serious odds."

"Fine. Our password will be that then." Draco told the painting. It nodded, and swung open to reveal a small hallway to a larger room. Draco leaned forward but caught himself just before he was about to go through first, and let Hermione go before him.

Hermione wordlessly led the way, and they stepped into a room almost as big as a regular common room. The most noticeable thing was two staircases on either side of the room, leading up to be conjoined by a fenced indoor balcony from which you could look down into the common room.

In the main room, there were couches to recline on in front of a fireplace, two large tables to study at, a piano, and a small library of books.

"This is amazing." Hermione breathed, forgetting Draco's existence. She went up the left set of stairs while Draco went up the right, and reached one of the two doors. A name was engraved to the right of the door. It was Draco's room.

"This is your room." They said at the same time. Hermione rolled her eyes and they crossed over the balcony to enter the other door. The room had a red theme, presumably because her house was Gryffindor.

Inside Hermione's room was a queen sized bed, large desk, walk-in closet, dresser, and a door leading to what must be the bathroom. She opened the door and Draco was already unpacking his things.

"We're sharing a bathroom?" Hermione looked around hesitantly.

"You get the right side of the bathroom. It's closer to your room." Draco said as he put things away.

Hermione sighed and went to grab her own toiletries and went back in the bathroom to unpack them. It was a double vanity meaning two sinks, mirrors, and symmetrical drawers. Behind the vanity was one large shower, and a bathtub the size of the one she had used in the prefects bathroom.

"After we unpack and everything, let's go see Humfrey to talk about which classes we aren't going to be able to take and see our schedules." Draco decided, but faltered under Hermione's stony gaze. "I mean uh - do you want to do that?" 

"That's fine. We can inform the prefects of everything tomorrow night too. We will also discuss how we're going to split up time in the bathroom in the mornings, and have that talk about how we're going to treat each other." said Hermione.

"Let me know when you're done. I'm going to go unpack the rest of my trunk." Draco left to go back to his own room, trying to hide the pit of dread he was feeling. When it came to how he treated Hermione over the years, he had a lot of regrets.