AN: This is my first Harry Potter story,I have always loved it but the idea of writing fanfic of it seemed daunting. Heh,I hope y'all like this.

Hermione Granger stood in the field looking at the Burrow,a place that used to be home to her. She once felt safe and loved there but things turned sour after the war,and why wouldn't they? She sighed and realised she could never come back here,it had been a month since they had cast her out. She apparated away and appeared in Diagon Alley,unsure of where to proceed she went to the Leaky Cauldron on a whim.

"Granger? What the hell are you doing here on Christmas Eve?" A familiar and slurred voice called out behind her. She whirled around to see a table with a few slytherins from school sitting there. The one who called to her was none other than Pansy Parkinson,she never really knew the slytherins and if she was honest judged them on their house and families. With nobody else to talk to she walked over to answer Pansy when Blaise answered for her.

"She doesn't have anyone Pansy...just like us." Hermione was taken aback and wondered how he knew this. He gestured to an empty seat. "Join us Little Lioness,get drunk off your arse and spill your problems." He chuckled and she took the seat between Blaise and Theo. Draco hadn't even looked up from his drink since she walked over.

"How do you know I have nobody else to be with Blaise?" Hermione demanded, Theo snickered and shook his head. Hermione was of course annoyed by now. "You snakes are so condescending!" she grabbed a beer that Pansy offered her and took a deep swig.

"Because Granger," Draco sneered,"If you had anywhere else to be you wouldn't be here in a bar with a table of shitfaced snakes. Smartest witch of our age my arse." He muttered as an afterthought,Hermione glared at him but conceded he had a point.

"So Little Lion,tell us why you aren't with the ginger brood tonight? They decided they were done with you? Are they secretly blood purists in the comfort of their own home?" Theo pressed her for details. She glared at him and threatened to kill him if he didn't shut his mouth. they all laughed at her fiery temper and downed a few more shots. Hermione sighed and resigned herself to a drunken christmas eve in a snakes den. Better that then alone and on the street.

As the night drug on so did the conversations. Hermione learned in the last 2 years that most of their parents had been killed or thrown in Azkaban. Only Blaise and Draco still had their mothers,Blaises mother in italy and Narcissa who never left the manor anymore. Pansys parents disowned her when she fell in love with the half blooded Susan Bones. Theos father had died during the war. Hermione broke down and told them how even though she obliviated her parents they had been tracked down and killed in Austrailia. Draco had looked so upset when he had heard that. By the end of the night they had all warmed up to each other. A lion who could hold her own in the snakes den.

"Hermione,where are you going tonight?" Theo asked,not unkindly. Hermione explained she had nowhere to go and that she had been sleeping wherever she could. "Would you like a couch to crash on milady?" He chuckled,ignoring the outrage showing on the others faces. Hermione nodded shyly,alcohol influencing her more than she'd care to admit. He side along apparated her to a large well decorated apartment and before she could take in her surroundings the others appeared with a loud crack next to them.

"Do you all live here?" She slurred a little. Blaise nodded as Pansy went rooting around for sheets and a pillow for her to sleep on.

"We decided we would be better to have each other than be alone,we were in dark places after everything that happened." Draco explained as Hermione set up the couch. "What happened with the Weasleys 'Mione?" Draco asked,much gentler to her since she first arrived. "It must be bad for you to be here with us."

"Leave her alone guys,she can tell us in the morning if she wants. Come on we have a christmas to rest for." Susan had appeared out of one of the rooms that Hermione thought must be hers and Pansys. The others conceded and left to their rooms. Hermione noted Draco shared a room with Theo. She wondered if they were a couple or if they couldn't find a bigger apartment. She cried,her situation was so bad that even the Slytherins felt bad for her,that she would be spending christmas with them. Eventually exhaustion took over and she could no longer hold her eyes open,drifting into the first good sleep she had had in monthes.