Help Me!

She gently stirred before her eyes flew open and she sat straight up and turned red, she couldn’t believe she had spent the night in Draco’s arms, As she composed herself she turned and looked at him “What time is it?”

“Its 7am, I thought you might want to go back and get changed before breakfast”

She smiled softly at him “Thank you”

They both stood up and he put a hand on her waist almost unsure of what he was doing “No thank you Hermione, you have helped me more than you realize, now you had better go before your late” he leaned down and brushed his lips on her cheek causing her to blush.

“I’ll see you at breakfast Draco” she said as she left and headed to her room, the events of last night flying through her head, she only hoped that Harry and Ron had come to their senses and would put everything to one side. As she neared the common room her stomach was doing twists “Amicus” she said to the portrait as it swung open, looking around there was no-one around, she ran upstairs and quickly undressed before grabbing a pair of jeans and fitted t-shirt and slinging her robes on. Quickly running a brush through her hair she ran downstairs again to find people heading to breakfast, scanning the room for her friends, she saw the familiar red hair of Ron heading out of the portrait, a pang of hurt ran through her body. She pushed away and shouldered her bag before walking out into the corridor, making her way into the great hall she saw Harry and Ron sitting together deep in conversation, she took a seat next to them and spoke softly “Hi” to her surprise Ron turned his back to her and began to chat to Lavender Brown next to him.

“Hi” Harry replied, he looked at her with sympathy in his eyes, she lifted her hand as if to tap Ron’s shoulder when Harry shook his head at her, tears rushed to her eyes, she had known he was mad but not this much, it was as if she didn’t exist.

She pushed her plate to one side and whispered “I’m sorry, I need to go” she jumped from her seat and ran from the great hall, unaware of two people getting up to follow her.

Draco had made his way into the great hall feeling nervous, he would have to sit with his house, would they all know about his defection? Was it obvious, he saw the only person he could call a friend Blaise Zabini. “Morning Draco” he smiled

“Morning Blaise” he muttered taking a seat next to him. Picking up a piece of toast he ignored the rest of his house instead focusing on the Gryffindor table where Hermione had just sat down. He felt Blaise nudge him and turned to the boy “sorry did you say something?”

Blaise looked at him carefully and whispered “I just said that not all of us are supportive of the Dark Lord you know, so if you need to talk at any time, I’m always here all right, I get the feeling you might need a friend at the moment” Draco stared at him in amazement, Zabini was basically declaring that he was against the dark lord, why would he be doing this unless he knew? He looked at Dumbledore in confusion who had been watching the two boys and nodded subtly.

Draco laid his hand on Blaise’s shoulder and whispered back “I may take you up on that chat sometime”

“Just so you know, your not alone Draco. Don’t you wonder why I’m not in the Slytherin dorms any longer? It wasn’t until then that he had realized that Blaise hadn’t been there for a very long time, just as he was about to say something, he saw Hermione run from her table holding back tears.

Jumping to his feet “Can we talk tonight? I’ll catch you in potions, I need to do something”

Blaise nodded as he raced from the great hall glancing around for Hermione, as he walked towards the dungeons, he came across her, she was sitting on the stairs, her shoulders shaking violently. He dropped his bag and ran to her, kneeling in front of her he pulled her into his arms and rubbed her back “Shh Hermione, its ok”

“He turned his back on me Draco, as if I was nothing” she sobbed

“Who?” he asked silently cursing himself that he hadn’t paid more attention when someone spoke from behind him.

“Ron” they both looked up to see Harry Potter watching them before dropping his bag and walking towards them and sitting next to Hermione and putting his arm around her shoulder “I’m sorry Hermione, he is being a stubborn arse but that was to much this morning, can you forgive me?”

Hermione looked up at him with watery eyes “There is nothing to forgive Harry, it wasn’t you that done this, it was Ron”

Harry turned to Draco and studied him quietly for a few minutes, he seemed so concerned about Hermione, there was no malice in this Malfoy just what seemed like shame. “Malfoy, I want to apologize to you as well, last night when Hermione told me what happened I was shocked to say the least but I believe her and I believe you. The order will offer you as much protection as possible and maybe at some point we could talk about the death eaters, only if you want to”

Draco smiled at Harry “That would be good, I can talk about it, I will even offer you names, I want those bastards taken down for good, but can I ask is Blaise Zabini in the order?”

Hermione and Harry shared a look before nodding “Yes he is, you weren’t supposed to know, well no-one was. How did you know?” Harry asked

“He approached me at breakfast, its nice to know I’m not alone in my house now” Hermione leaned over and squeezed his hand softly as he said “Actually its nice to just not feel alone”

Harry nodded “I understand that Draco, more than you realize” Draco and Hermione looked at each other in shock as Harry laughed “Yes I’m capable of using his name, now we had better get to class before Snape has a fit” .

As they stood Draco turned to Harry “Can you find out about helping my mum please? I know she doesn’t want to be stuck with the death eaters. I just want to know she is safe”

“Of course, I will go and see Dumbledore this afternoon and speak to him. Is it ok if I come to your common room tonight and have a chat”

“Sure. The password is Angel”

Hermione gave him a sheepish look before saying “May I come again?”

Draco smirked at her and nodded before leaning into her ear and whispering “Who knows I may even kiss you again” she went deep red causing Draco to give them a quizzical look, he just shrugged looking innocent before sticking his hand out “Friends?”

Harry grinned and took it “Friends”

“What the fuck is going here?” they heard from behind them, they spun around to see a furious Ron staring at them, his wand out.