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Blood Ties	By : christineyoung Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 62592 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 12
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A/N: Again, I'd like to thank all of you lovely readers. It is very gratifying to see how well received my writing is. I find more and more as time passes that I write more for the public than I do for myself. So, I give a hearty thanks for your continued support.

Chapter 32

Hermione sat quietly next to Draco watching the scenery pass by. She was glad to be leaving school for awhile. In no reality did she ever believe that she would be glad to leave school. But her education was almost unimportant to her now. It was tedious. She wouldn't be able to have the ministry job that she'd wanted. She was a vampire and she was sure that work could be hard to come by with her condition.

Not only that, it just wasn't challenging to her any more. Her brain remembered things more vividly and in any case, she could just pick the answers out of the professor's head if she wanted to.

Not that she would of course, but the thought was there.

She had worked on her ability and she could now wield her weapon like a finely honed razor, cutting through their consciousness effortlessly to get what she needed to know. She could also block their thoughts easily as well. It was second nature. Which was good since she'd been treated to enough nasty thoughts to last her for the rest of her un-life. Cormac had been a particularly large thorn in her side for the first few months. She'd finally resorted to glamouring him to find her repulsive just so that he would stay away from her. She felt a little bad about it but she'd gotten desperate. She could only deal with so much.

She wished that they could have just apparated over to Grimmauld Place. The train ride just wasn't the same without Harry and Ron. She knew that it was important for her and Draco to be seen as normal students and that entailed riding the train with everyone else, but it just wasn't the same. In her mind, she knew that things would never be the same. She knew that Ron probably would never come around. His hatred of Malfoy was too deeply ingrained, the rivalry too great. She wondered what had happened originally to start the feud between the Malfoy's and the Weasley's. She might take the opportunity over the summer to look it up. She really was curious about wizarding world culture. She often felt that Hogwart's should offer a class for muggleborns to acclimate to the wizarding world and their beliefs. They had a muggle studies class, why not have one all about wizarding culture? She decided that she would talk to Dumbledore about it. It could go a long way to bridging the gap between purebloods and muggleborns. She herself had often felt lost even though she had emerged herself in research about the world that she was joining.

She sighed and shifted in her seat.

"Something wrong, love?" Draco asked quietly.

Hermione turned and gazed at him for a moment. She had to concede that he was a lot different that she would have ever imagined him to be. Ever since the night in the forest, he was different. Maybe it was because he felt more comfortable around her, that he knew that she wasn't out to get him, and he knew that he could trust her. She felt like she truly got to see the real Malfoy, the person that had been there all along but too afraid for one reason or another to show himself.

"There's nothing wrong, per say," she quipped quietly. "Just different."

His eyes softened as he regarded her. "I know," he answered as he smoothed his fingers over her knuckles. "It's different with them not here, isn't it?"

She nodded her head.

"Potter will come around, you'll see," he said confidently.

"It's not even that," she sighed dejectedly. "Harry still loves me and he's not so much mad as he is hurt. I hid something from him. Of all people, I should have trusted him. I would feel the same way if I was in his position. No, I'm just tired of hiding. This is who I am now, Draco. Who we are. Why should we hide?"

"You know why," he answered back softly. "Parents would be up in arms if they knew that Dumbledore knew what we are and allowed us to stay."

"What if I don't want to stay?" she asked hesitantly.

"What are you saying?" he asked, his eyes laced with concern.

"I'm saying that I don't want to return to Hogwart's," she explained, as she squeezed his hand gently. "Whatever happens this summer, whether we fight and win or lose, I don't want to go back in the fall. I want to sit for my NEWTS and then I'm not sure what. Maybe we could travel. Maybe we could do just nothing at all. I'm just tired of the tedium. We aren't like them any longer and I'm tired of hiding."

Draco let out the breath that he'd been holding. Apparently her words had held a different meaning until she explained herself. Surely he wouldn't think that she would end herself knowing that her doing so would end his life as well. She couldn't do that to him.

"We'll do whatever you want," he said. "We can travel. We can do like we've been doing on the weekend only make each trip more an extended stay. You know that I will follow you anywhere."

She smiled softly and kissed the corner of his lips just as the train began to slow down and pull into the station.

"I know."

End Note: Soft, mushy chapter with no cliffy. I know, I'm surprised a little myself. Up next, a little more Sirius action. Pun totally intended. I wonder what he will think of Hermione's new look? ; ) Review!
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