DRACO'S POV
I woke up on the couch, still in my clothes from yesterday, with Hermione sitting on my lap. She was still sleeping. I sighed. She looked so peacful. She looked like in that moment of rest, she couldn't have been happier. I wished I could keep her there forever, without having to think about all the horribe things going on in her life.
I hadn't noticed it, but I was absentmindedly twirling a peice of her hair in my fingers. She had woken up and tilted her head back against my chest, "Is my hair fasinating?" She smirked.
"Very." I chuckled. I started running my hands through her hair. She leaned back more and closed her eyes.
"What are we going to do?" She mumbled. It was a valid question. We had no idea what Ron would do next, if he would try to hurt Hermione, or if he had finnaly got it through his head.
"Lets just forget for a day." I said.
"What do you mean?" Hermione asked.
"Forget about them. Just go do something fun." I said. I was looking straight ahead, but I could feel Hermiones eyes looking at me.
"Like what?" Hermione asked sitting up.
"I don't know." I replied, "Go out to breakfast or something."
"We have muffins to last us a life time." She yawned.
"Come on." I wrapped my arms around her, "I don't want to just stay inside."
She took my arms off her, " Look where going places got us yesterday. " She got up and started walking upstaits.
"Come on." I sighed, "Where is your Gryffendor bravery?"
"On vacation." She said going up the stairs.
Just before she got to the top of the stairs I said, "Fine. I'm going with or without you. I don't think you want to be left in an unfamiliar house all alone."
She turned around to be greeted by one of my famous smirks, "Fine." She sighed.
I smiled to myself and headed up to my room. I went into my closes and put on a pair of jeans, a grey T-shirt, and a black jacket. Then I slipped on some black shoes and made my way back to the living room.
Hermione was still up in the spare bedroom, or shoud I say, her room now.
After what felt like forever waiting I went up to see what Hermione was doing. I knocked on her door and heard a "Come in!"
I walked through the door and saw her sitting on the bed using a hand mirror, fixing her hair. She was wearing a gret knit shirt, jeans, and tan ugs. She had on a light coat of makeup and had her hair in a ponytail.
"What is taking you so long?" I asked.
"I was about to go down." She said, setting her hand mirror down.
"Then let's go." I said. We walked out of her room and started down the stairs. Hermione missed the third step down. She went tumbling down. I caught her right before she fell off and picked her back up. I picked her up bridal style and carried her down.
"You can put me down." Hermione grumbled.
"Nah." I laughed.
She rolled her eyes and sighed. At the botom of the stairs, jumping out of my arms. She smacked my arm. "What was that for." I asked.
"You didn't need to carry me down the stairs." She said.
"You and your pride." I mumbled under my breath. She laughed.
I went over to her and picked her up and apperated us to a quaint little cafe.
"Again with picking me up!" She laughed. I laughed with her. Laughing for the past couple of days had been kind of hard.
We got a table and sat down at a table. "So, 'Mione." I asked, "What were you doing before the incident?"
She replied, not looking up from her cup of tea she was stirring with a spoon. "I'm going to school to be a healer right now. With Ron being an arourer he had the money to pay for the school, but I don't have a job right now so I don't know if I can keep paying for the school."
"I could help pay for your schooling." I said.
She looked up at me, "I'm not going to let you do that." She sighed, "So what have you been doing?"
"I've just been hanging out around the manor. I have such a fortune I haven't really felt like finding a job just yet." I said, "and being an ex-deatheater kinda makes it harder to get a job."
"Yah." She sighed taking a long sip of her tea.
After a minute of us just sitting there a waitress came up to us and asked us what we wanted. Hermione ordered a muffin, and I ordered an omlete.
When the waiter left I looked at Hermione again, "I'm going to pay for your schooling. I don't care how much it costs."
"No." She shook her head.
"Why did you let Weasley pay for it, but your not letting me." I asked.
Hermione looked down, "He refused to NOT pay for it."
"Thats what I'm doing." I said.
She smiled, "Fine."
After we finished our meal I led Hermione out of the cafe and picked her up again. "Really?" She laughed.
"Yep." I said, then apperated us to a hill. Clouds covered the sky, but the sun poured through. A large tree was near us. I set Hermione down and she looked at me.
"Where are we?" She asked.
"A nice little place I used to come to when I needed to relax." I said. It was. When Voldemort was at his hight and I was stressted with everything I needed to do I would climb the tree and look out over the small muggle city. At night the lights were beautiful. It was a very small comunity.
"It's so nice up here." Hermione said. She was looking onto the little town. There were a few kids playing at the edge of the town, just within eyesight.
"Come on." I motioned for Hermione as I started climbing the tree. She sighed and followed me. I was up alot before Hermione. I had climbed that tree to many times. I knew every groove of where to put your feet. I was sitting on one of the highest branches where there wasn't a bunch of other leaves and branches so you could see the city better.
Hermione finnaly got up to the branch with me. She had some leaves in her hair which I picked out.
Hermione tried to scoot closer to me, but lost her balance and almost fell. I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her closer to me. She put her head on my shoulder and held my hand. She closed her eyes and just sat there. We sat up in the tree like that for at least an hour. Sometimes talking, other times not.
I gave her a small kiss. She opened her eyes and smiled, "I might get used to this."
"You better." I smirked, "cause I'm not letting you go ever again."
She smiled up at me and kissed me. I had never felt anything so great. Her lips were like silk, and we moved in sync. I could feel the electrisity run between us. It was like magic, but better.
I felt raindrops hit the top of my head. It wasn't untill we were being attacked by rain did Hermione pull back. "Uhg." She sighed, "Let's go."
I sighed to and followed her down. She was going very slow. I felt like I had sat in one place for over a minute. I sighed and apperated to the ground.
When I looked over at the tree Hermione was jumping off the tree. She landed on her feet, but fell on her knees. She sat up and walked over to me, "Should we go back to the manor?"
"We don't have to." I smirked.
"What are you up to?" She sighed.
I reached out my hand, "May I have this dance?" I asked.
She smiled and took my hand. We did the waltz we had learned in fourth year. Hermione gigled almost the entire time. We danced untill we couldn't. We stopped. We were both soaked and laughing. I leaned in and kissed Hermione. And that was the happiest I had ever been.
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