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Moonlight Sonata	By : TerraBloodstar Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 24744 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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�Good morning, Hermione~!� Akiko trilled, as she skipped into the bedroom and flung her friend�s thick velvet drapes wide open to let the just-risen morning sun burst into the room. It would have been a death sentence had anyone else done so, but as it was Akiko, Hermione merely grumbled and pulled the covers up over her head. �Now, now, sleepyhead! It�s a wonderful day, time for breakfast, and Draco is pacing a hole in the floor of the library, ranting to his father about being stupid - you must explain.�
�Go. Away.� Hermione growled, only to have someone - someone much stronger than she knew Akiko to be - rip the covers out of her hands and off the bed. She found herself being glared at by Eriko, a sight intimidating enough to have her crawling out of bed and moving on with her morning routine - shower, dress, stretch, and control hair. The normalcy had her in a better mood by the time she had finished, and the fact that the twins had straightened up her bed and were sitting on it waiting for her made her smile. Just like the old days�
�Now, why is Draco an idiot, Hermione?� Eriko questioned as the girl joined them on the huge bed. A look to warn her that an answer was not only expected, but mandatory, left Hermione flopping onto her back with a groan.
�Because he was stupid enough to try to kiss me last night.� Hermione growled. The raised brows had her scowling harder than ever, as she threw her hands over her face to try and block out the memory. ��and succeed.�
�Ooo! Was it good?! Tell us, Hermione~! Was it the kind of kiss that we read about, or was it the kind of kiss that a dog could improve upon?!� The only response Hermione had to that was to shove Akiko off the bed with her leg, and huddling into a ball.
�It was good.� Eriko chuckled slightly. �Otherwise, she�d be ranting right now, and Draco would be dead.�
�Why are you both calling him Draco, anyway?! What�s with that? Are you all buddy-buddy with him now that you see what he has to offer me?�
�I see it was better than we thought - you�re apparently furious at yourself and lashing out at us because of it.� Eriko commented, her arms crossing over her chest as she glared at her friend and shook her head. �There�s nothing wrong with falling in love with the man you�re about to marry.�
�It is when he�s a wretched, foul little prat!� Hermione snapped, sitting up to glare right back. �It is when he was my most hated enemy all through school! It is when everyone I know wants to murder him slowly!�
��you�re already in love with him, aren�t you?� Akiko said softly, her eyes glowing with the sheer romantic nature of it all. Hermione knew that look - Akiko always had it when she was reading some sappy romance novel - and she hated it being given over this situation. So she threw one of the pillows into the girl�s face to hide the look, getting up to pace the room in anger. As if it wasn�t bad enough having to marry him, she had to end up loving him, too! And her best friends thought it was - she shuddered at the thought - adorable!
�Yes, okay! I�m falling in love with him! It makes me sick to think of it, but I�m falling in love with my arch-nemesis!� Hermione stopped pacing and dropped to the floor with a faint wail of despair. �What is wrong with me?! I hated his very name from the day I met him! I wanted to strangle him with his intestines every minute of school! And all of a sudden I want to hold him and take away the pain he suffered That year! Like he didn�t cause even more suffering than he ever received!�
��Hermione�� The disappointed look both twins gave her as they whispered her name had her bursting into tears again, hiding her face from them both.
�And you�re right! I have no right to measure his suffering with someone else�s! To compare and contrast them! But�I keep doing it�� Shaking her head, she sat up again to look to them both, only to find they had joined her on the floor, and now leaned forward to hug her. ��why did I have to fall in love with him, of all things?!�
�Because loving people is what you do best.� Eriko�s answer was simple, and as usual, completely accurate. �Draco is more deserving of your love than any one of us - he went through more than any of us, even Harry, from what we�ve heard. He was put through the worst emotional and mental torture possible, and he still survived, Hermione� He may not be a hero�but he has earned the right to be loved. �and you know it.�
��yes�I suppose�I do.� She blinked, looking from one twin to the other. ��are you brainwashing me with crazy Asian magic?!�
��no. I just know how to read minds.� Eriko grinned, getting to her feet with Akiko and helping Hermione to hers. ��now. Let�s go get something to eat. You�re always so emotionally insane when your blood sugar is low.�
�Oh yes, and confronting me over something highly emotional first thing in the morning helps so very much.�

~*~
�Good morning, Draco.� As his head snapped up in surprise, she realized he had not expected her to seek him out after the fiasco of his kiss the night before. Smiling at having finally startled the ever implacable Draco Malfoy, she dropped to sit down beside him on the bank of the stream. �I am glad I found you - you weren�t at breakfast��
�I thought it would be best to avoid meeting each other in front of everyone, this morning�after what happened last night.� He shifted his gaze away from her, but not quickly enough that she could not see that her reaction had hurt him. ��I apologize.�
��you shouldn�t�� Hermione took a breath, reaching out to take his hand in hers, meeting his eyes when he looked back at her. ��I should. And I do apologize, Draco. �I shouldn�t have run, even if I was�deeply disturbed by my own feelings and thoughts.�
�Apology accepted.� The speed with which he forgave her was astonishing, and it must have been plain on her face that she thought so, for he began to laugh. ��on the condition that you explain to me why you disturbed yourself.�
��I�enjoyed kissing you.�
�And I sense there is something you aren�t telling me, Hermione. What - no. Why is that? Do you not trust me?�
�Honestly? �I don�t know.� She looked and sounded so pathetic as she admitted it, he had to smile, squeezing her hand slightly.
�You not know something? This surely heralds the end.�
�Ha ha, very funny, Draco.� A glower. �I don�t know everything, despite how much you like to flatter me by claiming I do. �and when I do know everything, it�s typically rather useless information.�
�True, very true. You are, indeed, a fount of useless information.� As she lightly flicked his ear, he grinned, catching her hand before she could pull it away, and kissing it. �But the most useless information is also the most interesting and entertaining�I can�t really complain - I have plenty of useless information myself.�
�Oh, really?�
�Indeed. The common wizard would find me to be so. After all, what do they need to know about investments, markets, and running an estate and corporation?�
�Corporation? What corporation?�
��actually�it�s a muggle accounting firm� My father - you will have to just trust me on this - read a book about accounting when he first returned home, something he was pretty much forced to do among other things by way of rehabilitation, and actually became almost obsessed with it. I really don�t blame him - I enjoy it, as well.�
�So he opened an accounting firm?!�
��well�he bought one, anyway.� A grin at the expression on her face, tapping her chin with his fingers. �Close your mouth, or you�ll be catching bugs. �and I believe I see my mother and your friends coming this way, so let�s play nice, shall we?�
�Don�t I always?�
�No. You�ve hexed me many times, Granger, and I�d really rather not have to worry about you hexing me when we�re about to face down what would send an army screaming in fear.�
�Eriko isn�t that bad.�
�I was talking about my mother.�

Author�s Note

Whooo~! Apparently my writer�s block has lifted to some extent! ::Happy dances.:: And this chapter turned out pretty well myself - I rather enjoyed the back-and-forth between Draco and Hermione� I think it rather emphasizes that they could work quite well together�between bouts of wanting to strangle each other fondly. (Yes. You can fondly strangle someone�or at least want to. Well, okay. I can, anyway. ^-^) It�s a bit longer than the previous chapter, which surprises me since it was so easy to write, so I think that will make you guys happy.

Back to school soon (eight days and counting) but�it�s a little depressing, even while I�m excited, since I�ll be away from the boyfriend (�at the same time, this may be a good thing�I feel awful for even thinking it, but we are only just turned 20 and 21, perhaps it�s for the better in the long run�)

ANYWAY! Enough about me. Tell me what you thought of the chapter~! I hope you all enjoyed it.

Til next time, darlings!
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