The Secrets Between Us

For Leverage

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Hermione turned to face him, 'Malfoy, I only came for my book, that's all!' She reached out her hand to grab the book from his grasp but his arm quickly moved back, almost making her stumble on top of him.

He smirked and went around her and walked to the common room.

'Malfoy, I'm not playing! Just give it to me and I'll leave.'

He sat down on a couch, propped his feet up and asked, 'and if I don't want you to go?'

she scoffed, 'oh yea? and do what here?' she walked up to him with another attempt to get her book, yet he managed to keep it from her.

'Sit, and I'll show you.'

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'You did what!?' Hermione Granger hasn't laughed this hard in a long time. It has been almost two hours and she and Malfoy had been talking together in the Slytherin common room.

'You never speak of this, you hear?' He told her with a grin on his face. He just told her a story of how, when he was younger, wore his underwear on his head and walked around his manor saying "Look at me, I'm a pretty lady!" Let's just say, not one of Draco Malfoy's finest moments. Especially not when father found out and I went to bed with bruises on my face that night.

'It wasn't... that funny.' He said trying to stay serious, yet his smile said otherwise.

Hermione loved his smile.

'As if! This could be great leverage if I ever want to blackmail you HAHAHA!' Hermione told him but was too busy laughing.

Then he got all serious, 'no, seriously, don't tell anybody. Do you understand?' He looked at her in the eyes, his smile fading.

'lighten up, Malfoy, ill only tell a couple people,' she said, playfully hitting his shoulder.

'haha, very funny granger.' he said sarcastically.

she grinned, 'anyway, its really late right now, I should be heading back.'

She got up and Malfoy followed her to the door. She turned to him.

'So can I get my book back now?'

'As if. This could be great leverage if I ever want to blackmail you.' He said, throwing back her own shade.

She scoffed, 'should have known better'.

'yes, you should have.' he agreed, still with a goofy grin on his face.

She laughed then glanced at him and said: 'Goodnight, Malfoy.'

Draco looked at her. At her smile. At her glow. He saw that a strand of her bushy hair fell down the side of her face.

'Goodnight, Granger,' he whispered, taking the strand and tucking it behind her ear.

She froze.
She put on the invisibility cloak.
And she left.

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The next day
Friday
8:15 am
Great Hall

'I just can't believe he did that,' Ginny told Hermione after she recalled the events of last night. 'I mean, that's just such an intimate move, don't you think?'

'I don't know what to think, Ginny. For all I know, this could just be some "fuckboy Malfoy" move that he uses on every girl.' Hermione could not stop playing the scene in her mind. 'Goodnight, Granger,' he whispered.

Hermione saw that his eyes... looked different, more at peace.

'But Hermione,' Ginny said, interrupting her thoughts, 'just why do you need this book so bad?'

hermione sighed, 'its not just any book, Ginny. This is my journal, where I write my most deepest thoughts, secrets, feelings-'

'Okay, okay! I get it! This book is important, and now it's even worse because Malfoy has it.'

Hermione groaned, 'thanks for the heads up, Ginny. Had no idea.' She put her head on the table with her arms surrounding her.

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'I'm pretty sure that it's her diary or something.' Draco Malfoy told his friend Blaise, 'she was very possessive over it.'

'And you still have it? After all that she went through last night? Heck, I'm a deep sleeper if she managed to get in the dorm without me noticing.'

'Zabini, you could sleep through a twister and not feel a thing.'

'Not the point. Let's go through her diary! see what secrets this witch has been hiding.'

Malfoy was about to comply when he remembered the night he was flown off the astronomy tower, could have died, yet was saved by her. He never wanted to relive that moment. Ever. Yet if they went through her journal, they just might find something that wasn't meant to be found. He remembered her saying:

'Well, when I got back to my dorm, I wrote down what happened so I won't forget. I figured you'd want to obliviate me.'

Oh shit, Malfoy thought to himself, who knows what else she's written about me

'No no! That's much too weird don't you think? Who knows what kind of... stuff she wrote in here. I'll just hold on to it.' Malfoy told Zabini hurridly.

Zabini started at his friend with the classic are-you-for-real look in his face.
'Alright man, whatever,' he surrendered.

'and besides,' Malfoy smiled, 'i got a tutor tonight by the name of Hermione Granger, she just needs a reminder of whose in charge. Especially since I now have her little book for advantage.'

Malfoy took a piece of scrap paper and wrote a note down. 'See you in class, Zabini.' He called out as he got up from his table and walked towards the brunette, talking to the redhead.

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'Okay don't freak out or make it too obvious, but I think Malfoy is coming our way.' Ginny told Hermoine with wide eyes.

As normal instinct goes, Hermione did just the opposite. her head flew towards the Slytherin coming to her direction.

And he was staring right at her.

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