The shade of light

Title: The Shade of Light

Summary: Voldemort takes over Hogwarts and makes Draco his heir, but Draco spies for the light... Things get even worse when Hermione becomes his slave. He loves her but Voldemort can\'t find out about it...

*Special thanks to my lovely and New beta-reader: Sanji(She\'s the best, believe me!)*

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Chapter 7: Foolish games

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The noise of an owl tapping on the window woke Draco up. He ran towards the window and saw the owl waiting there. As soon as he opened the window, he grabbed his wand to place a silencing spell on the owl. After doing that successfully, he grd thd the letter. To his relief there wa red red seal on the back; which meant that the letter was from Dumbledore.

All the post, incoming and outgoing, was checked by Death Eaters. Of course they didn\'t dare to open letters with the Malfoy seal on the back or the ones addressed to him. They simply checked the letter for spells, poisons, and other harmful things. He knew he had to find another way to contact Dumbledore. If Voldemort were suspecting him, he would read his letters. He had to get Voldemort\'s trust back somehow. He knew how... The only thin had had to do was bring Harry Potter to him, but he didn\'t want to. Especially not now, that Harry and he had a chance to become friends after all. He realised by thinking this that he was no longer a Slytherin. He didn\'t want to save himself before saving others. \'I hope I haven\'t become a Gryffindor,\' he thought, wrinkling nos nose.

He opened the letter and saw it was a very short one. The only words written on the parchment were:

\'Meet me at the end of Hogwarts as soon as you get this letter. I will approach you.

D\'

Draco read the letter twice before it burned to ashes in his hands. As quickly as he could, he dressed himself grabgrabbed his cloak. He glanced at Hermione and saw that she was still sleeping. He felt a big urge to go back into his bed and hold her, but resisted and left the room. He ran through the corridors heading towards the big doors. Four Death Eaters were standing guard before the entry of Hogwarts.

\"Tell our Dark Lord that I received some important information about the location of Harry Potter. I have to check this out,\" he said to one of the guards.

The guard took off his hood and smiled at him. Draco recognised him immediately and smirked back. \"Blaise, how are you doing?\"

\"Great, but not as great as you! You really made it mate, and now you\'re going after Potter. Voldemort gave you a very cool job. I wish I had your job, but I shouldn\'t be complaining I have a fun job too. I get to order Gryffindor\'s around and cast curses on them if they\'re not working hard enough,\" Blaise said, still smiling.

\"I really would like to stay and talk, but I\'m in a hurry. I want to catch that Potter this time!\" he faked a smirk. He really didn\'t feel like talking to Blaise, especially not about how he cursed people. It made him feel slightly sick in his stomach.

\"Do you think it\'s safe to go by yourself? I don\'t think so, maybe I should go with you,\" Blaise said, putting his hand on Draco\'s shoulder.

\"No,\" Draco exclaimed. \"I need to do this by myself. If things go wrong, I\'ll sign for help. I still need to prove myself to our Dark Lord,\" he corrected himself.

\" you yourself... but be careful mate. It might be a trap,\" Blaise said, with a rather worried expression on his face.

Draco smiled one more time before walking away, his cloak billowing behind him.

It was a cold and clear night. The stars and the moon were shining brightly. He walked as fast as he could, his wand firmly in his hand and his hood hiding his identity. He sighed in relief when he saw the first lights of Hogsmeade. He hadn\'t used Lumos to light his way. In these dark times, it was far too dangerto wto walk alone in the middle of the night. You didn\'t know if the wizards you saw were enemies or friends and many wizards attacked Death Eaters. For his own safety, he had only used the moonlight to guide him to Hogsmeade.

The streets of Hogsmeade were deserted. The normal crowd of shopping, chatting and laughing wizards was non-existent. Draco wondered if it was like this during the day too. He saw some Death Eaters walking through the streets. There were two women walking qly tly to their houses. He saw the look in their eyes when they noticed him. They despised him and feared him. They kept looking behind themselves, and were avoiding the Death Eaters. His eyes searched the streets for any sign of Dumbledore, but there was none. He kept walking, his eyes on the ground.

When he finally reached the end of Hogsmeade he stopped walking to take a look around. Suddenly, he feomeoomeone push something into his hand. He couldn\'t see what it was nor who pushed it into his hands, but realised it was a portkey when he felt the familiar pulling behind his navel. After, he was transported elsewhere. He felt the person, who had pushed the portkey into his hand, was still holding his hand as he arrived in a room without furniture. He looked to his hand trying to figure out who brought him here. His question was answered when the person spoke.

\"It\'s quite handy, this invisibility cloak,\" Harry said, as he threw the cloak off.

Draco gaped at Harry. Harry Potter had helped him, Draco Malfoy the snake of Slytherin. Harry smiled and offered him his hand. \"Welcome to the Order of the Phoenix.\"

Draco, who was a bit startled at first, smiled back and grabbed Harry\'s hand. \"Thanks,\" he said.

A door opened and Dumbledore stepped into the room. \"Hello Draco,\" Dumbledore said.

\"H Pro Professor,\" Draco smiled. It felt great to see Dumbledore again. All the headmaster\'s wounds were healed, making him look like the powerful wizard he was.

\"Welcome my boy. This house is the Order of the Phoenix\'s headquarters. It belonged to Sirius Black. We, here in the Order, thought it was time for you to be introduced to this house. Unfortunately, we don\'t have much time and there are things we need to discuss. Like the problems you are facing. I was very pleased to receive the letter you sent me. It confirmed the trust you have in me. Let us go downstairs,\" Dumbledore said, guiding him to the door. \"Harry was so kind to bring you here. He has a lot of questions for you about his friends,\"

Draco gulped. \'If Potter knew that I slept with his best friend he wouldn\'t be so kind to me,\' he thought.

They went down the stairs into a cozy looking kitchen. There was no one in the kitchen; much to Draco\'s relief. He didn\'t feel liketingting everyone in the Order right now.

He and Harry sat down, while Dumbledore made some tea. Draco shifted a bit uncomfortable when Harry took a seat opposite of him.

\"How are they doing?\" Harry asked quietly, biting his lip.

\"I don\'t know about Weasley, but Lavender, Ginny, Cho and Hermione are doing fine. I spoke to Blaise before and he said they were cursing the Gryffindor\'s. I will try to find out,\" he smiled, but mentally slapped himself for calling Hermione by her first name instead of her last name, and hoped Harry didn\'t notice.

\"What is Voldemort doing to them?\" Harry asked.

\"Well the boys have to work. I don\'t know what they have to do exactly. It\'s not my section,\" he answered.

\"Section?\" Harry asked, raising his eyebrows.

\"Yes, you see, Voldemort\'s plan is divided into sections. Invading Hogwarts wasn\'t my section either. That\'s why I didn\'t know when it was going to take place. Voldemort does thisauseause he doesn\'t want his followers to know everything. Only the bits they\'re needed for,\" he explained.

\"So... What\'s your section?\" Harry asked

\"Well as you may already know, I\'m Voldemort\'s heir. If he dies, he wants me to continue his work,\" Draco said. \"For now, I don\'t have to do anything. My training starts in one week. He has assigned me to do something... catch you. Don\'t worry, he never mad tod to catch you so it wont look bad if I don\'t catch you either,\" Draco explained and laughed, seeing Harry\'s eyes widen.

\"When did you find out you didn\'t want to be on Voldemort\'s side?\" Harry asked and then smiled.

\"When I found out my whole life has been a lie. That my father and mother never wanted a child. Well, my father did, but my mother didn\'t want one. My father wanted a Malfoy heir and he made my mother pregnant several times, but she always removed the babies. Anyway, they conceived me only because Voldemort said so. I never understood why Voldemort needed me so much until my father told me recently I was going to be emoremort\'s heir, because Voldie\'s infertile,\" he answered bitterly.

Harry\'s smile disappeared. \"I\'m sorry,\" he said.

\"Don\'t be, \" Draco said, smiling weakly. \"I think I would have been dead if Professor Dumbledore didn\'t help me. I would have denied my place as a Death Eater without knowing the consequences of my actions or I would have killed myself.\"

\"Oh.. I never knew... If only I would have known I wouldn\'t have been so cruel to you,\" Harry said.

\"Well, I haven\'t been exactly sweet to you either. It\'s good you didn\'t. It would be too obvious if you did know. Nobody in Hogwarts knows except you and the Order.\" Draco said, while Dumbledore poured the tea into three cups.

\"And the girls what must they do?\" Harry asked suddenly, breaking the silence.

It was the one question Draco didn\'t want to answer. He didn\'t want Harry to find out about Hermione. \"They are personal slaves,\" he almost whispered, looking into his cup.

\"As in....?\" Harry asked in disbelief.

Draco only nodded.

\"Who are yours?\" Harry asked, with a cold look in his eyes.

\"Granger, Ginny, Lavender and Cho,\" he answered.

\"You... you... raped them?\" Harry fumed standing up, ready to punch Draco in his face.

\"Harry, calm down,\" Dumbledore interrupted their conversation. \"Draco did not do or or anything of that kind. Did you, Draco?\"

\"No!\" Draco exclaimed. \"That\'s why Voldemort doesn\'t trust me anymore. He thinks I\'m getting weak or something like that,\"

Harry sat back in his chair and muttered, \"Sorry,\"

\"It\'s OK,\" Draco muttered back. His heart was still pounding rapidly.

\"Harry would you be so kind to leave us for a minute?\" Dumbledore asked.

Harry nodded, grabbed his cup of tea and left the kitchen without saying a word.

\"Are you still having problems with miss Granger?\" Dumbledore asked, with a twinkle in his eyes.

\"Well, not really. It\'s just so hard! She tries to convince me that the light side is better. I think because she suspects something. She keeps telling me I\'m different and not what she expected me to be,\" Draco sighed.

\"Miss Granger is a very clever girl. I think that if she knew about your loyalties to trderrder, and me she would be very supportive. Unfortunately, I don\'t think this is the time to tell her. Of course it is your own decision to make,\" Dumbledore smiled.

\"I don\'t want her to know. She would be too different towards me and Pansy will notice. They\'ll torture her to death if they suspect something.\" Draco said firmly.

Dumbledore nodded \"The Order isn\'t ready yet to go into battle, but I want you to tell her before we go into battle. I don\'t want you killed by one of your own people.\"

Draco nodded.

\"Well that brings us to our next subject: The marriage. I think it is best for you to continue pretending you\'re fine with the arrangement. Not only because we need the information you\'re giving me, but also because of your own safety. I think your safety is much more important. Severus Snape has made you a potion that will prevent the problem of unwanted children when you are married,\" Dumbledore smiled, making Draco blush in crimson.

\"Thank you,\" he muttered, still blushing.

Dumbedore pulled a bottle and a piece of parchment out of his pocket and gave them to Draco. \"That is the potion, take a teaspoon every night. The paper is our new way of communication. If you have a question or something you need to tell me, just write it on the parchment and it will appear on mine. I will do the same,\"

\"Thank you,\" Draco smiled, impressed by the paper. Why didn\'t he think about that?

\"Just make sure you check your parchment as often as you can. I will do the same,\" Dumble sai said.

Draco nodded and drank his tea, when he was finished he said, \"I think it is better to go now before they think I\'m captured by the light side,\"

\"I agree with you,\" Dumbledore laughed slightly, standing up. \"Harry will go with you again underneath his Invisibility cloak. Follow me upstairs,\"

Draco followed Dumbledore upstairs towards the empty room again. Before they entered the room, Harry came out of one of the other rooms.

\"Are you going again?\" Harry asked surprised.

\"Yes,\" Draco answered, trying to smile. \"It was very nice talking to you two,\"

He gave Dumbledore a hand before following Harry into the room. He saw that the portkey they used earlier was just an old brick. When they were both standing next to the portkey Harry said, \"Draco, I want you to have this.\"

Draco frowned when he saw that Harry was offering him a very old piece of parchment. \"Thanks, I guess\" Draco said, not wanting to be rude. He grabbed the old piece of parchment and held it into the air as if he was holding someone else\'s dirty underwear.

\"It\'s a map of Hogwarts,\" Harry grinned. \"Now it looks like a old piece of parchment but if you tap the map with your wand and say \'I solemnly swear I\'m up to no good\' a map of Hogwarts will appear with all the secret passages. That way you\'ll be able to get out of there if things get too dangerous. Please try to take my friends with you,\" Haalmoalmost whispered the last sentence.

\"Of course I\'ll try! I won\'t leave without them,\" Draco responded and smiled.

When Harry heard this, he smiled back and put on his invisibility cloak. They both grabbed the portkey and a second later they were standing in Hogse age again.

\"Thanks,\" Draco whispered, before walking away.

It was begig tog to get light, but he still held on to his wand. He had put the map, the potion and the parchment into his et. et. He felt happier now that Harry had been so kind to him. He really wanted a friend right now. A real friend, not like Blaise, who didn\'t like him because he was powerful. Just a friend.

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When he entered Hogwarts again, he decided to check on Ron first. He had absolutely no idea where Ron would be, since after they started working they were all transferred to different parts of the castle. He had to ask a Death Eater who worked there, for the location. He couldn\'t believe his luck when he saw Blaise walking up the stairs.

\"Blaise!\" he shouted. Blaise turned around and waited for him.

\"Draco, how did it go?\" Blaise asked.

For a second Draco couldn\'t remember what he was talking about. \"Oh... it was nothing. There weren\'t even signs that Potter had been there. It was either fake or maybe he was already gone. I don\'t know,\" Draco lied.

\"You don\'t look upset about the whole thing,\" Blaise said, eyeing him oddly. \"Normally you couldn\'t stand the fact that Potter was better than you, and you would curse everybody you saw.\"

Draco laughed, \"I\'m not a small, annoying childish boy anymore. I\'ll get Potter, I\'m sure about that! Where are you going?\"

\"To my rooms,\" Blaise answered, walking next to Draco.

\"Don\'t you have to watch those Gryffindors?\" Draskeasked, he needed the information about their location. If he didn\'t hear it from Blaise he didn\'t know whom else to ask.

\"No, I had to stand guard the whole night!\" Blaise exclaimed, looking as if Draco had gone mad.

\"Oh yes, I forgot,\" Draco lied; he knew it was a stupid thing to ask. \"I\'m just so busy lately.\"

\"Really?\" Blaise asked, \"I heard you didn\'t have to do anything... Weird.\"

Draco bit his lip. They were changing the subject and he still didn\'t have his information. \"Well, officially I don\'t have to do anything. I just want to catch Potter for our Lord, as a gift for letting me be his heir. I could have a little talk with out friend Weasel...\" Draco said smoothly. \"Want to walk with me?\"

Blaise nodded and walked on. \"So I heard you got four girls from our Lord. You\'re so lucky.\"

Draco made sure he was half a pace behind Blaise, so he could see where Blaise was heading, without Blaise noticing that he didn\'t know the way at all. \"Don\'t you have any?\" Draco asked, begging mentally for Blaise to say \'no\'.

\"We have girls,\" Blaise said. Draco bit his lip. What would happen to all those girls after the war? They would go mad. You wouldn\'t see the effects those things had on girls on the outside, but you know it was slowly tearing them apart inside. Draco had wondered about this before, he hoped Dumbledore had a solution for this.

\"Good. Are they good?\" Draco asked, feeling as if he was going to be sick.

\"Oh no, we aren\'t allowed to touch them. The only thing we\'re allowed to do is order them around and let them wash us and stuff like that.\" Blaise smirked.

Draco raised an eyebrow, \"Stuff like that?\"

\"Well, we\'re not allowed to touch them, but they\'re allowed to touch us. If you know what I mean. It\'s not as fun as real sex, but a blowjob once in a while isn\'t that bad,\" Blaise grinned.

Draco suddenly felt sorry for those girls. \"I wouldn\'t mind either,\" he said.

\"I heard you\'re going to marry Pansy next Friday!\" Blaise suddenly exclaimed. \"Congratulations mate!\"

Draco smiled falsely, \"Thanks.\"

\"Are you still allowed to have those girls?\" Blaise asked.

Mentally Draco rolled his eyes. Couldn\'t he talk about something else? Was he sexually frustrated or something like that, and to think that he was once like that... It made him disgusted of himself. \"I don\'t know. Of course I want to keep them,\" Draco answered truthfully, thinking of Hermione. \"I\'ll make sure I get to keep them.\"

Blaise grinned. \"I\'m not sure if I\'m allowed to tell you this, but they\'re arranging a big party after the wedding. Oh... and I heard you get a wonderful honeymoon suite.\"

Now Draco really felt as if he was going to be sick very soon. If there was one thing he didn\'t want to do was have sex with Pansy! Ugh, it was disgusting to think about.

\"Here we are,\" Blaise broke the silence, when they were standing innt ont of a big door with bars on it. \"Do you have the key with you?\"

Draco froze, \"No, left it in my room. Didn\'t think I was going to come here.\"

\"Oh...\" Blaise muttered, knocking on the doors. \"We\'ll just have to let the guards in the room open the door.\"

After about a minute a Death Eater opened the doors, \"Yes?\"

\"I need to speak to one of the Gryffindor\'s,\" Draco spoke.

When the guard recognised him, he opened the door and let Blaise and Draco in.

Draco\'s heart stopped beating when he saw how they looked. Their clothes were dirty and ripped apart. The usual smile on their faces seemed to be gone forever, by the look on their face. What did Voldemort do to them? How could he? Some of them were only kids.

\"Who\'re you looking for?\" The Death Eater asked.

\"Weasley,\" Draco answered, looking around.

\"He\'s working now. That\'s a stubborn one. We need to punish him all the time,\" The Death Eater smirked. Draco had seen this Death Eater before; he was one of his father\'s friends. \"Congratulations with your wedding, Mr Malfoy.\"

\"Thank you,\" Draco faked a smirk again. \'I wish people stopped saying that. It\'s going to be hell Damn it!\' he thought.

Blaise was walking out of the room again and Draco followed. They didn\'t have to walk far, after less than one minute Blaise stood still again. He opened a door, apparently he had a key for this door.

They walked in and Draco couldn\'t believe what he saw. The ground was gone; boys were digging a gigantic big hole in the ground. What the hell were they doing here?

\"Isn\'t it cool what our Lord is doing?\" Draco asked.

\"Yes, I can\'t wait to see all those dangerous animals, especially those giants and those dragons. I hope they build those bars strong enough, don\'t want one walking free in Hogwarts,\" Blaise grinned.

\'So that\'s what Voldemort is planning! How brilliant. With those dangerous animals and giants here, Dumbledore\'s army seems to have no chance,\' Draco thought. \'Of course he\'s going to know what\'s going on here because of me,\' \"Me neither,\" he said, trying to grin as well.

Soon, Draco spotted Ron. He was in worse shape than the other workers were. His clothes were all ravished and he seemed to have lost a lot of weight in such a short time.

Draco walked up to Ron and forced him to stand up. \"Hello Weasel, how are you doing today?\"

Ron only growled at him.

Now that Draco was even more close to Ron, he could see that it wasn\'t going good with the boy. He wasn\'t going to last much longer if he continued being so stubborn. \"We need to talk,\" Draco said. \"Come with me.\"

Blaise put a rope around Ron\'s arms with his wand and gave the end of the rope to Draco.

\"Thanks,\" Draco smirked, taking the rope. \"I\'ll take it from here.\"

Blaise looked at him oddly, but stayed behind when Draco started to walk.

\"You look terrible,\" Draco smirked, acting as if he was very amused.

\"Well that\'s because you bastards don\'t feed us properly,\" Ron fumed, trying to get the rope off his hands.

\"No, it\'s because you\'re such a pain in the arse,\" Draco smirked again. He took Ron into a deserted classroom, although Ron resisted.

Draco spoke a spell making a whole breakfast appear on one of the desks. He saw Ron\'s hungry looks and he knew Ron had to eat. He escorted Ron to one of the desks behind the desk laden with food, where he couldn\'t touch the food if he didn\'t stand up.

\"Tell me Weasel, where\'s Potter?\" Draco asked, pointing his wand towards Ron, while grabbing an apple for breakfast.

\"Do you really think I\'m going to tell you?\" Ron asked.

\"Yes, when I\'m through with you,\" Draco smirked. He aimed his wand and pretended he was going to speak a spell, but stopped. \"What\'s that?\"

\"What?\" Ron asked.

\"That sound,\" Draco lied. He had to act as if he was stupid, but he didn\'t care. He walked to the door and was glad when he heard Ron stand up from his chair, obviously to grab some food. It was safe to leave Ron in the room. He couldn\'t escape, so Draco left the room and stood before the door for a couple of minutes. When he figured Ron would have eaten enough he opened the door.

\"Weasel! Come here!\" Draco shouted, signing him to come. He pretended as if he didn\'t see the empty plates on the tray. \"Or must I make you?\"

Ron stood up; he seemed very proud of himself. Slowly Ron walked up to him. Draco grabbed the rope again and pulled him through the corridor, to the working place again.

\"One word of advise: I would try to keep a low profile. It\'ll be your death if you keep on going like this,\" Draco whispered softly.

Ron\'s eyes widened, but he didn\'t have the chance to reply because Draco turned around and left him there.

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Draco came back to his room and saw that Hermione was already awake. \"Good morning,\" he greeted her happily. He knew he had to tell her about Ron\'s state. Just like he had to tell Harry and Dumbledore, but wouldn\'t it be too obvious if he did? Maybe he should ask Dumbledore about it...

\"Good morning,\" she greeted him back. \"Pansy came here asking for you, she wants you to know that the wedding will be tomorrow instead of Friday and that she arranged it. She said you would be so thrilled.\"

Draco pulled a face, making Hermione laugh. Inside they were both screaming.

\"That\'s not all,\" Hermione continued, she was biting her lip now. \"She\'s collecting her things, she wants to stay here tonight.\"

\"What!\" Draco exclaimed, \"No way I\'m going to have that woman in my room! It\'s already bad enough she got Voldemort to arrange that stupid wedding tomorrow! He\'s always playing these foolish games with me!\"

\"Although you\'re my enemy, I feel sorry for you,\" Hermione laughed.

\"Thanks,\" Draco muttered, not feeling better at all. The happy feeling ad aad a while ago was gone. Suddenly he lost it, \"How can they do this to me?\" he shouted, \"I\'m not a dog you can breed with. I\'m a fucking person!\"

Hermione stopped laughing and her eyes widened. \"Oh, Draco. I\'m sorry,\" she said sincerely. \"I can\'t stand the fact that I\'m going to be her personal arse-licker either,\"

When he turned around and walked towards the window, he heard she was walking up to him.

Draco went through his hair with his hand and bit his lip. He knew he couldn\'t control himself when she would come too close. His longing to kiss her was too strong. When he felt her hand on his shoulder, he jerked around. He could see the shock in Hermione\'s eyes when he looked into them. \"Oh Merlin,\" he muttered, before cupping her face in his hands and kissed her firmly on her mouth.

He expected a rejection, but instead he felt her arms slid around his neck and her body pressed against his. His hands caressed her hair and back. He was very surprised when he felt her lips part and her tongue brush against his lips. He opened his mouth inviting her tongue into his mouth. The passion of the kiss was incredible. It was as if they were both releasing all the energy from their body\'s into this kiss. Finally he felt the velvet touch of her tongue again, for which he longed for. Her hands travelled downwards and sneaked underneath his shirt. The cold hands upon his stomach and her body pressed to his aroused him.

\"Oh God, this is so wrong,\" Hermione whispered against his lips, but she didn\'t pull back instead she kissed him even more firmly than he had done the first time.

\"This is so wrong!\" Hermione said again, when the kiss had ended. \"But why is it I can\'t stop?\"

Draco smiled and leaned in for another kiss.

It didn\'t seem to bother her tht wat was wrong because she moved her hands towards the edge of his pants and kissed him again. He moved towards her neck, softly biting the soft skin. He was pleased when he heard the results of his work; soft groans and moans escaped her lips. His hands moved towards her waist and underneath her shirt. He hesitated to go further, because he didn\'t want to push too far. Apparently, she noticed that his hands weren\'t moving anymore, because she released the edge of Draco\'s pants f sec second to place her hand upon one of his hands and guided him to one of her breasts. After that, she abandoned his hand and went back to his pants, this time she slid her hands into his pants. Draco got even more aroused by the seeking hands.

Draco lifted her up into the air, while she was wrapping her legs around him and clinging herself against him. He started to kiss her neck again, leaving another trail of red marks. This time he got a kiss on his forehead. He loved it when she did that. Pansy would never do that; she wasn\'t as gentle and caring as Hermione was. She only thought of her own pleasure. He pushed himself from the wall and started to walk towards the bed.

\"Draco!\" Pansy yelled from the other room.

\'Speak of the devil,\' Draco thought, groaning aloud. Hermione looked at him, shocked and very ashamed of herself. She released Draco from her legs and ran into the bathroom. He bolted his fist ready to punch Pansy in her face. Why did she always have to ruin things!?

\"Hello Dear!\" Pansy exclaimed, walking into the room. \"I have something wonderful to tell you!\"

Draco turned away when she wanted to give him a kiss making the kiss end on his cheek instead of his mouth. \"I heard all about it,\" Draco sighed.

\"Oh well,\" Pansy said, as if she hasn\'t heard the cold tone in his voice and hadn\'t noticed his rejection.

Draco sat down on the couch, while Pansy took a seaxt txt to him. She started talking about their wedding and honeymoon suite. Draco didn\'t hear a thing, he could only think about the kiss he shared with Hermione. He knew one thing for sure-well actually two: He hated Pansy and he was not going to give up on Hermione.

\"Draco!\" Pansy said, snapping him out of his thoughts. \"Are you listening to one word I\'m saying?\"

Draco rolled his eyes. \"I don\'t want to hear about our stupid wedding and what I\'m going to wear. Don\'t you understand that I don\'t want to marry you? I\'ve got better things to do than sit here listening to you,\" Draco spat, standing up. \"I\'m going to take a shower.\"

Pansy glared at and and spat back, \"I will marry you Draco Lucius Malfoy. If you want to or not. It\'s not your choice anyway,\"

Draco threw the door shut behind him and saw that Hermione was looking to him amused. \"Taking a shower?\" she whispered.

Draco smiled, \"Well, I felt like taking a warm, relaxing shower. That woman is driving me mad,\" he whispered back.

\"What a coincidence, I thought about taking a shower as well,\" Hermione smirked, turning on the shower.

\"Really?\" he whispered, raising his eyebrows.

He walked up to her and kissed her again. This time the kiss deepened almost immediately, both their tongues came out of their mouth seeking each other. She grabbed his shirt and pulled it over his head, breaking their lip-contact for a second. After that, she pushed him with all his clothes on into the shower and stepped underneath the warm water as well.

He quickly kicked off his shoes and threw his wand out of the shower.

\"Don\'t you think you might need that?\" Hermione whispered, while she messed up his hair with her hands.

\"For what?\" Draco asked confused, looking into her eyes. She was looking so beautiful right nohe whe water had flattened her hair and made it darker.

\"A silencing spell,\" she grinned, kissing his lips again. \"But it\'s too late now. I\'m not going to let you go, ever,\"

\"Sounds good to me,\" he grinned back, pushing her against the wall.

She wrapped her legs around him again, while he took off her wet shirt. He started to kiss her shoulders and her breasts. When he moved his hands behind her back to undo her bra, she stopped him.

\"Draco, this is so wrong,\" she whispered again. \"We\'ll get in so much trouble. You, because you care about a mudblood and I, because I care about my enemy, who kills people from my side, who\'s going to get married tomorrow and who\'s, on top of that, Voldemort\'s heir. I can\'t do this, I just can\'t.\"

Draco stopped kissing her too. He knew she was right about the trouble. Couldn\'t he just tell her about his light side? He could tell her a bit, couldn\'t he? Dumbledore wouldn\'t mind... \"I didn\'t choose to be Voldemort\'s heir,\" Draco whispered.

\"What do you mean?\" Hermione asked confused.

\"I mean that I didn\'t have a choice. Voldemort decided I was going to be his heir even before I was born,\" Draco explained, moving a string of hair out of Hermione\'s face.

\"Without telling your parents? That is so cruel of him,\" Hermione whispered, while the water was still falling on their half naked body\'s.

\"He did tell my parents. Let\'s say I wouldn\'t have been here if he didn\'t,\" Draco whispered, looking to the ground. Telling this to Harry was one thing, but telling it to Hermione was different. It was much harder than he thought. It still hurt him when he thought about it. He just decided to make something of his life, even though he was only conceived for some evil cause.

Hermione\'s eyes widened and she clapped her hand over her mouth. \"Oh my God, I\'m so sorry Draco,\" she wanted to say something else, but it was as if she couldn\'t find the words. She was speechless.

\"Yes, well,\" Draco stuttered, not knowing what to say exactly. The whole tension between them was gone.

\"Draco,\" Hermione whispered, grabbing his chin and making him look into her eyes. \"I want you to know that I really care about you,\" She smiled and kissed him again, before she pulled him into a hug. \"I\'m so sorry,\" she whispered again.

It felt so good to feel her hold him, touch him so gentle and caring.

\"Why don\'t you leave this place, you\'re not supposed to be here. I know that for sure now,\" Hermione said, looking to him with her innocent, big eyes.

\"I\'d better go back and work her out of my room,\" Draco whispered, releasing her from the hug. He was getting so sick and tired of lying to her. Now there finafinally some magic betwehem,hem, it made it even more difficult.

She nodded and gave him one more kiss before he stepped out of the shower. He grabbed his wand to cast a drying spell on their clothes.

\"Wish me luck in Hell,\" Draco whispered when he was ready to step into his bedroom again.

\"It will be alright as long as you promise me to stay yourself. Don\'t let them change you Draco,\" Hermione whispered, before he left the room.

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Blinks...

Ok that was a long chapter! I know, the first part was very boring. But I had to it\'s important for the plot. I hope I made it up a little on the end...

Anyway I would like to ask you all a question:

Who do you think Harry should end up with? (No! he\'s not going to die.) I just think he needs someone to fight for. I\'m just not sure who. (I\'m not sure about Draco or Hermione though...)

Please let me know with girl, or boy for that matter, you like to see Harry with.

Hugs,

Cherish