Forbidden Paths

Chapter 9

When Draco woke up it took him a while to remember where he was. He turned over and he was slightly alarmed to see Hermione sleeping next to him. He put his hand on her shoulder and gently started to shake her awa
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She turned over and wiped the sleep from her eyes. As she slowly opened them, her eyes began to focus on Draco. She was startled at first but then she quickly jumped out of bed and said we better get back to our common rooms. She slipped her shoes on grabbed her stuff and as she looked back in the room she saw Draco turning the bed back into a couch and she turned around and left.

She was thinking about what Ron and Harry would say when she turned up in the common room. She knew that they would pummel her with questions. She turned around and saw Draco give her a slight smile, which she returned and he disappeared into the Dungeons.

As she reached the portrait of the Fat Lady she gave the password, ‘Sunny Day’ and as the portrait swung open Hermione saw the last two people she wanted to see her sneaking in. Harry and Ron were standing there and the looks on their faces were not happy looks.

“Hello Hermione,” Ron said eyeing her clothes there ere slightly twisted up and the button on her skirt wasn’t fastened.

“Why don’t you come in and join us for a chat,” Harry said his voice was shaking a little and Hermione figured that it wasn’t because he was sad.

Hermoine silently stepped through the portrait hole and sat down on the rug by the fire. Ron was still looking at her but his surprised facial expression had turned into disgust. Harry walkialking toward Hermione and he threw himself down on his chair and he said, “Well?”

Hermione looked him straight in the eye and repeated, “Well, what?”

“You know what,” Harry said. She could tell he was trying to keep his voice calm so he didn’t wake the whole house up.

Ron finally got the courage to speak and he said, “So, did you…” he cleared his throat and made a hand gesture that Hermione immediately understood.

She gave a huge snort and said, “No way! Are you kidding me?”

“Then why are you just walking in now at 10 o clock in the morning?” Harry spat he apparently didn’t think that this was a laughing manner.

“We, as in me andco gco got locked in the Library so we had to spend the night there,” when she saw the look on their faces she quickly said, “Nothing happened between us I swear. After what happened last night you all should know that.” She rose from her chair and walked up her dormitory steps ready to take a long hot bath.

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As Draco made his way back to the Slytherin Common Room where he ran into Pansy Parkinson. She was wearing a smirk that could match Draco’s own.

“Hey Draco,” Pansy said in her simpering voice. She walked up to Draco and put her hand on the middle of his stomach.

Draco knew exactly what Pansy wanted. She was what the Slytherin boys called an easy fuck. Draco was kind of in the mood but then as he looked in tosy’ssy’s startling blue eyes he knew someone he wanted even more that had the cutest chocolate brown eyes.

“Not today Pansy,” he said looking into her disappointed face. He patted her on the shoulder and walked into his Dormitory and grabbed his swimming trunks. He was in the mood to take a bath in the Prefects bathroom.

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With her bikini on underneath under her robes she made her way to the Prefects bathroom by Boris the Bewildered statue that was a man putting his gloves on the wrong hands. She muttered the password, “Bubble Bath,” and the door swung open.

As she walked in the portrait of the Mermaid she rolled her eyes because the mermaid was flipping her hair as she always did. What a ditz, Hermione thought, she wouldn’t last a day in the lake with those real mermaids. But she ignored her and started turning her favorite taps on.

Since no one was in there. Especially no boys Hermione decided to take a true bath and removed her bottoms and her top and put them on the side of the pool sized tub. She slowly stepped in and swam a couple of lengths before she settled herself on the side of the tub where the underwater bench was. She had just taken out her Advanced Astronomy notes when the door swung open and Draco walked in.
Hermione let out a high- pitched scream that caused Draco to drop whatever he was carrying so he could cover his ears. The mermaid dove off her rock and splashed into the water of her painting. The scream reverberated of the bathroom walls for a minute or two and then died away. Hermione’s hands snapped over her chest and her other parts.

Draco looked at her and his eyes widened. The foam in the tub wasn’t thick enough to cover everything so Draco of course, saw everything. He quickly turned around and shut his eyes but he could l vil vividly see Hermione’s naked body. “I’m so sorry Hermione,” I should have knocked.” He heard scrabbling around and he imagined that she was getting her bathing suit on.

“It’s okay you can turn around Draco,” She had gotten her bathing suit back on. It was the smallest suit that he had ever seen. It was a hot pink tie bikini that had palm trees on it. The years had really been good to Granger he thought. He came back to earth and he took his sweater vest off, his shirt off and his pants. He had trunks on that his nanny Christy had picked up for him in a muggle shop. They were blue Hawaiian print.

Hermione stared at him. Quidditch training had done wonders for Draco. He was no longer the rat faced, scrawny little kid that had insulted Hermione on her first day of school he was, a man. He had sculpted abs that Hermione was longing to run her hands over. His pecs were impeccable. She could tell that he was watching her look at him. She directed her gaze towards the pool.

Draco took off towards the tub and dove right in. As he came up to the top he started treading the water. He looked at Hermione’s creamy white frame. She was petite but not too petite. Her she had all the right curves in all the right places. Draco could feel himself becoming ‘pleased.’

Hermione slowly let herself into the pool and once again took out her notes and Draco swam over to her and looked over her shoulder at what she was reading. She looked up at him her coffee brown eyes looking up questioning. Draco lifted her chin up and planted a sweet and innocent kiss on her lips. As he pulled away she put her notes on the side of the pool and pulled his head back in for a kiss.

Draco was surprised because he thought she was still upset with him. They deepened the kiss and he moved in front of the bench Hermione was sitting on and she wrapped her legs around his waist and pulled him in closer. They broke apart for some air. Draco’s breath was coming in harsh ragged pants. He wanted more. He moved in for another kiss and Hermione opened her mouth obligingly. Draco’s hands were tracing circles on Hermione’s back while she ran her hands through his hair.

She could feel him between her legs. He was moving up and down against her thigh. His hands started to snake up her back and they flawlessly undid the top strap of her suit. For some reason she didn’t stop him. He broke the kiss from her lips and started on her neck. She started rubbing his back. It was a trick she had. She would trace the guys name with her index finger on their back and it drove them crazy. She started tracing the “D” and Draco let out a small grunt. So she continued with the rest of his name.
He brought his lips back to hers and brought his hands to her breasts, “Is this alright?” he panted. She nodded and he went back to her lips. They started a game of lip nibbling and then they were so wrapped up in each other they didn’t notice the door open again.

“HOLY SHIT!” Ron exclaimed. He had become a Prefect too. Draco and Hermione sprang apart like one of them was on fire. Hermione quickly retied her top and Draco tried to suppress and hide his excitement. Ron’s face was beet red. It clashed so horribly with his face it wasn’t even funny.

“Maybe I should go,” Draco said pulling himself out of the pool. His hands in front of him trying to hide his erection. He grabbed his clothes and sidled out of the doorway. Ron slowly shook his head and got undressed.

Hermione said, “Thanks a lot you bastard!” Scramcrambled out of the pool hastily pulling her clothes on and running after Draco but she was too late he was already gone.

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Draco was still panting but he wasn’t sure if it was because of the scare the Weasel gave him or the heavy duty kissing that he had just finished with Hermione. He decided that maybe he shouldn’t go straight back to his common room so he got dressed in the hallway and walked out to the Quidditch Pitch were he ran into Potter. He grabbed his Nimbus 2001 from the broom closet and took off. Flying right next to Potter.

“What’s happening Scarface?” he said with a sneer. He may like Hermione but that didn’t mean that he had to be nice to her friends.

Harry tuned his head and said nothing. He just upped his speed a little. It was nothing that Draco couldn’t handle. So he sped up a little too. “Has that scar addled your hearing Potter?”

“Get stuffed Malfoy!” Harry shouted and sped up a little more.

“Ouch! That hurt Potter,” Malfoy said matching his speed, “I asked you a questioned and you have yet to answer it.”

Harry looked at him raised his middle finger and sped off towards the Gryffindor changing rooms.

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Hermione spent most of the afternoon looking for Draco. But she finally gave up and went to the Great Hall so she could get something to eat. She loved the steak and kidney pie that the house elves made.

Her eyes absentmindedly ran over the Slytherin but she didn’t see a shock of white blond hair anywhere. She sat down on the bench in front of Harry and Ron. They eye eyed her and then looked down at their food. Her eyes narrowed and she served her self some pie and poured herself some pumpkin juice.

She looked up and finally said, “What’s with you guys?” she was stabbing her potato with a lot of force so the boys knew that she wasn’t in the mood for guessing games.

“Ron told me.” Harry said plainly he diverted his eyes from hers and looked at Ron who was quickly stuffed his mouth so he didn’t have to say anything.

Harry realized that was a good idea when Hermione’s eyes narrowed even more making her look like she had run into a wall and was trying to refocus her eyes. “What exactly did Ron say he saw?” she eyed Harry and she knew that he wouldn’t be stupid enough to not answer her.

“He saw you…” he made a hand gesture, “ with Malfoy,” Harry finished. He was blushing slightly.

Hermione rolled her eyes and said, “Well, Ron saw wrong. We weren’t having sex,” both the boys flinched as she said this.

Harry and Ron rose from the table and beckoned for Hermione to follow them. She looked sadly at her half eaten pie and then she reluctantly rose from the table and followed them.

They got into the hallway and they began walking. Harry and Ron were looking like they were taking some serious thought into what they were about to say to Hermione. They stopped walking and Ron and Harry turned around to face Hermione. Ron opened his mouth like he was going to say something but then he changed his mind and closed his mouth. Hermione let out a small snort because Ron had looked like a strange pale-faced fish with red hair.

“Ron, said that he saw you topless and Draco’s hands were on your…” he pointed to her chest. He looked down at the floor.

Hermione screwed up her face. She was halfway worried if Ron had seen anything that he shouldn’t had and the other half she was mad because she could never have a private moment without Harry and Ron worrying about her.

“Look from now on my relationship with Draco is no longer your business,” they opened their mouths in objection but she raised her hands in order to silence and she turned on her heel and walked away.