Dramione // I require you

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝟷

Hermione opened her eyes, that day she felt a tumultuous headache and wasn't strong enough to get up and go to class

"Ginny I think I'm not going today... I feel badly"

She confessed to her roommate while this last was getting ready for class

"Oh ok, call me for anything alright?"

That made her think about muggle phones, but then she recalled the name of the spell used to let people know when and if you're in trouble

"Sure"

Today the girl was pretty strange, she didn't have the same "wanting to study mood" as always.

"My gosh my head..."

She was pretty hungry, so despite the headache she got up and prepared herself some milk and chocolate with her wand. Hermione was intentioned in passing with full marks her last year at Hogwarts and after the war she had also accepted McGonagall's offer to help other students with getting good grades.

~ I don't have time to feel sick ~

She thought while getting out of bed. Hermione dressed up and walked down the stairs, but before entering the great hall she fell. Luckily someone caught her before touching the ground.

"Oh my god I'm sorry I didn't mean to..."

She stopped excusing herself when she raised her head and saw the person who got her..
Draco Malfoy standed in the middle of Hogwarts holding Hermione Granger.

None of them seemed to move, they were both paralized and the gryffindor girl didn't know what to say, if thank him or insult him.

~shit I actually fell on him... ~

Draco instead was more surprised than anything else. They stayed in that position looking into each other's eyes and meanwhile a crowd of people gathered around them, whispering things like

"Are those Granger and Malfoy??"

"What the fuck are they doing together?"

"Why is she between Draco's arms?!"

They probably would have stayed in that position much longer if Ron hadn't ran at them yelling against Malfoy.

"What did you do to her?! Now you'll see... CRUCIO"

"Ron no!!"

Yelled desperately Hermione while the spell got Draco in front of everyone.

"Please stop!"

She screamed trying to make Ron be reasonable. She couldn't believe what he had just done.

Unfortunately he didn't seem to want to end the pain he was causing to Draco so Hermione got out her wand and...

"STUPEFY!"

Weasley was immediately flinged against the wall by the curly-haired girl. She wasn't Malfoy's friend obviously, but she couldn't let her boyfriend torture him without a reason.

The boy tried to stand up, helped by Blaise Zabini and Pansy Parkinson, who looked at Granger as if she had shagged her husband, but everyone in the school knew that Draco was just using her.

"What's wrong with you?! It's our last year at Hogwarts and this time that fucking ferret won't get away with it easily, he's a bloody death eater!"

The red haired boy yelled with all the hate a man could possibly have in his eyes.

"I know you did it to protect me Ron, but please be reasonable the next time. Malfoy didn't do anything, it was me who fell on him, not purposely, but it was MY fault not his and you, YOU CURSED HIM"

Hermione didn't like Malfoy.
She hated him, especially after all those years in which he had insulted her continuously just for her blood type.
However when she fell on him something she could clearly see in his eyes had changed. In this last month she heard a lot of students (except for Pansy and Blaise) yelling him things like
"stupid death-eater!"
"assassin"
"traitor"
"go to your daddy Draco"
..she knew it didn't feel well because it was the way she felt when he made fun her.

...

In the Gryffindor common room Ron tried to make Hermione relax, but without any results.

"Ron you are my boyfriend, and I love you, but before acting you have to think about the consequences of your actions, what if Draco died? What would have happened?!"

"I did never think about it in that way I just wanted him to suffer.."

"TO SUFFER?!"

Her eyes began tearing up

You are disgusting Ronald Weasley. How could you ever wish another person's bad!? You are a freaking GRYFFINDOR"

She told him yelling while tears had started to stream down her eyes. Hermione couldn't recognize him

"Hey, now calm down he is a terrible man, if he died everything would have been better and in addition, why were u giving 'show' with Malfoy instead of going to class, maybe you and him are dating and you are betraying me, am I right?!"

He said trying to make himself the victim of the situation.
The girl couldn't believe her own ears. How was it possible that the person she knew from year one, the one she could always count on had turned into a monster?

~ how could he ever think I was with him for that reason... ~

Thought Hermione

"Go away.. NOW, GO AWAY, LEAVE ME ALONE. IF THERE ISN'T TRUST THERE ISN'T ANYTHING MORE"

Screamed Hermione desperately crying, throwing him a pillow

The gryffindor left with tears in his eyes but without any regrets. Harry tried to make the girl calm down, but nothing could have calmed her down in that moment

"Harry please, let me stay a second alone with Ginny ok?"

"Sure"

Ginny went near Hermione and hugged her. The girl found her presence deeply comforting

"Can I ask you something? But you have to answer sincerely"

She asked her after a while. Hermione nodded

"Why did you and Draco stay in that position for so long, I mean, why didn't you just go away and ignore him?!?"

Hermione blinked. Why did she act like that? She didn't actually know

"I-I just felt I had to stay. You know, there was a moment when our eyes matched and his eyes where... cold, without feelings, they were.. empty. He's not been himself lately Ginny, so as I was struggling between thanking or insulting him Ron arrived and well"

She paused and sighed

"You saw what happened next "

Ginny widened her eyes

"Woah, woah wait a second girl, YOU are worried for Draco Malfoy? The same Draco Malfoy who has called you a mudblood and watched as his aunt tortured you!"

"No I'm not..."

Answered the girl in a voice that was everything except convincing

"Sincerely, this is the worst excuse I have ever heard of.."

"Oh look Ginny! We are late for potions class, what a pity!"

She got Ginny's arm

"Let's go"

They both ran through the corridors and finally reached the classroom.
Professor Horace looked at them and said

"I can't believe you are late miss Granger. Have a seat, we have only two left: one next to Luna and one next to Draco"

~ shit ~

The girl started going towards Luna, when Weasel-girl pushed her against Malfoy and sat next to the blonde ravenclaw.

"I hate you"

Whispered silently Hermione to Harry's girlfriend