Biker

Here is Chapter 2. Hope you like.

jcschaefer: Thanks for the review. This one is longer
then the first but not as long as future ones will be.
I just couldn't wait to get more out. Enjoy.

PixieStick and paigeey07. Thanks for the review.

Citten: Thanks for the review. I hop the structure of
this chapter is more to your liking. I never was any
good in English class in high school. I'm not totally
sure where the story is headed but Hermione and Draco
will end up together. I think they are much better
for each other then her and Ron. Enjoy.

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Chapter 2

The bike steps off the bike and turns around to face her. He takes off his helmet and says, “ It’s the least I can do.” Hermione gasp and steps back. “Draco?!”

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“What? I… I don’t understand. Why did you do that?” Hermione said.

“Well I happen to be driving by when I saw what was happening and to whom so I stepped in. I didn’t curse them. I’m trying to be a good boy. Is that a bad thing? I change that. Bye.” Draco turned around and started to put back on his helmet. Hermoine grabbed his arm.

“No! Please don’t go. I’m sorry I didn’t mean that way. It just startled me. I didn’t expect it to be you. I mean I haven’t seen you in nearly a year since the hogwarts battle. Where have you been?” she asked.

He looked at her. “Well it wouldn’t be hiding if I told you so I been around.” He replied.

“Right. Harry still stands by his offer. If you want to come to the Order you can. We need people more and more everyday. This war needs to end. We have a place you can stay that is safe with hot water and hot meals. Molly Weasley is a marvelous cook.” Hermione looked into Draco’s eyes. “We can help you. And you can help us.”

Draco looked down at his helmet in his hand. He seemed to be thinking really hard. He looked back up at Hermione.

She could see the battle behind his eyes. She really hoped he would come back with her. He looked so tired and worn. She wanted to pull him into his arms and protect him. He had been through so much and it wasn’t his fault. He was born into something he couldn’t control. Now he had to decide whether or not to go against everything he was brought up to believe or become his own person. Hermione truly believed if he would strive to be his own person he would be a great person.

“Ok I will go with to the Order but I don’t want to lose my bike. I’ve become very attached to this stupid muggle machine. It’s my baby.” Draco said. He blushed. It sounded so wimpy. What pureblood gets attached to a muggle machine?

“There is a shed in back of the headquarters where we will be staying. I’m sure Harry wouldn’t mind you keeping it in there.” Hermione replied. “We will have to shrink it for us to apparate.” She pulled out her wand to shrink the motorcycle.

After shrinking Draco’s motorcycle, Draco picked it up and placed into his pants pocket. “ Let’s get out of here. I’m hungry.” He said. Hermione laughed and grabbed his hand. With a pop they apparated into the back yard of Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place.

The Order decided that apparating onto the small front steps wasn’t that good of an idea so the adjusted the wards so they could apparate into back yard. Much more room.

“Here we are. This is the shed you can put your motorcycle into.” Hermione said pointing to a building behind them. Draco pulled out his motorcycle and returned it to normal size. He rolled into the shed and opened up the left saddlebag and pulled out a backpack. He turned around when he heard giggling.

“What?” he said. Hermione covered her mouth trying to stop laughing. “ I’m sorry. It’s just funny to see Draco Malfoy Prince of Slytherin wearing muggle blue jeans and rock band t-shirt with a backpack slung over on shoulder.” She giggled.

Draco looked at her with a smirk. “Yeah it is kind of weird but what can I say a year in the muggle world, some stuff grows on you. This clothing is more comfortable then robes now. I don’t know if I will ever go back.”

“Lets get inside. It about dinner time and you said you were hungry.” Hermione turned and led the way to the backdoor that lead into the kitchen.

She opened the door and peeked in. Molly was bustling back and forth between the sink, counter and stove. Harry was sitting at the table reading of some parchment. He looked up when he heard the door.

“Hey Hermione. How did the search go? Find anything good?” he said. “Actually can you step outside with me for minute and I will show you what I found.” She replied.

“Ok” he said with a confused look on his face. She stepped back as Harry stepped out.

When he saw Draco he slowed and glanced at Hermione. “It’s ok Harry he helped me today. I’m pretty sure if he hadn’t shown up when he did I would have been really hurt or worse.” she said.

Harry relaxed at this at looked at Draco. He extended his hand to shake his. “ How have you been?” Harry asked. “Oh you know. Here, there, everywhere.” Draco replied.

“I guess you have decided to accept my offer to come to the Order.” He said. “Yeah. I realize if I ever want a normal life. This war has to end with the good side winning.” the blonde hair man said. “Lets get you inside and get you something hot to eat and you can get cleaned up. Then we will talk.”

Harry walked back through the back door. “Molly we have a guest. Can he get a plate please?” he asked her politely.

Hermione and Draco stepped into the kitchen and sat down at the table. Molly turned around and gasped upon seeing Draco sitting at the table. “Molly it’s alright he is here to help us. In turn we help him. We need him” Hermione said. Molly looked at Hermione and back to Draco. “ Here you go. Eat up.” She said placing the plate in front of him. “ What would you like to drink?”

“Pumpkin juice is fine. Thank you.” Draco replied. He looked down at the plate
not seeing the surprised look on Molly’s face. It quickly changed into a motherly look and she went to get his drink.

“So Draco, Where have you been?” Harry asked. Draco took a bite of his food and looked up into Harry’s eyes. “I have been bouncing around from muggle motels and such. I have almost stopped using all magic. I bought my motorcycle after I had a close call with a deatheater that caught onto my magic trail. My father had my wand being watched at the ministry.” Draco replied.

“I was afraid of that. Voldemort as all but taken over the ministry. We trying to gain some of it back but we are so out numbered. Between the attacks on the muggles and attacks else where its hard to keep up. We are running ourselves very ragged. I’m worried if we keep up like this then we will end up getting ourselves killed instead.” Harry said.

“I hope I can be helpful. I think I can bring in some more help to. There are some buddies of mine from school that would help. They never were really into the war. I’m sure they are ready for all the crap to end.” Draco replied.

“If your finished lets get you up stairs and find you a room. Then you can get a shower.” Hermione said

“So sounds great.” Draco replied. Hermione stood up and pushed her chair in. Draco followed suit and placed his plate and cup into the sink to be washed.

Hermione walked out of the room and started up the stairs. She heard Draco following. Draco looked up the stairs as he followed Hermione and couldn’t help but admire the view. He had never realized how much Hermione had grown up. At Hogwarts she had always worn the robes, which never looked good on any of the girls there. It still to this day makes him laugh that everyone thought he was some sex god. He had only ever been with Pansy and it was her first time too. He was attracted to other females but he never acted on the feelings.

Hermione stopped at a door on the second floor. “Here we are. You can settle in and the bathroom is the room at the end of the hall. Let me know if you need anything. I will be in the study downstairs.” Hermione said.

“Thank you.” Draco replied.

Hermione went back down the stairs to find Harry. She needed to talk to him about the attack. She knew she shouldn’t have gone alone but they couldn’t afford to pull anyone else off their jobs. They didn’t have the people to spare. Now that they had Draco maybe they would be able to go in pairs. Voldemort was picking them off one by one.

On the way back down the stairs she past Ginny. “Hey hun. How did it go?” she asked. Hermione replied “Not good, but I will explain later.”

Hermione continued down the stairs and found Harry in the study. He looked up as she stepped in to the room. “What happened today? Did you find anything? What does Draco have to do with it?” Harry asked.

“I was attacked by two Deatheaters today in a alley in town. I wasn’t able to find anything and Draco saved me from the deatheaters. If he didn’t show up when he did I don’t want to even think about what would have happened. I will put it this way. They were getting a little frisky when Draco saved me. They knew who I was. They asked if I knew where you were and that’s when Draco came around the corner.” Hermione said.

Harry and Hermione looked up when they heard scream from upstairs followed by a thud and cursing. They looked at each other then ran up the stairs. They both busted out laughing when they go to the top of stairs. Ginny was covering her eyes and Draco was trying to stand up and place a towel around himself.

Hermione couldn’t help but admire Draco’s body. All those years of quidditch did that boy good. Draco looked up after he wrapped himself and noticed Hermione staring she blushed and looked down.

“What the bloody hell? No one could warn me before I stepped into the bathroom that Malfoy was here. I think I’m blind. I didn’t need to see that.” Ginny screeched.

Harry finally stopped laughing. “Draco is here to help us.” He said.