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Category: Hermione and Draco Title: Guard Your Heart but Never Back Down
Chapter 1: Meet the new Hermione Granger
"Wow." Was all they could say.
"Um, Hermione, wow, uh, wow why the sudden change? You looked great before, and now, well, wow." Ron spoke up after a few moments silence. "I needed a change and I wasn't happy. It's that simple." Hermione said defiantly to her two best friends, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived.
It was true, Hermione, Bookworm-Know-It-All Granger was no more. She had been unhappy with herself as being the know-it-all little Gryffindor who everyone assumed had no life but her studies, and they were right. She wanted to be free, she wanted to be independent, she wanted be unique, she wanted to be herself. And so she was. The summer before her seventh year at Hogwarts she re-created herself the way she wanted to be. There was no more living up to everyone else's expectations of her and doing and being what everyone else wanted her to do and be. She did what she wanted, when she wanted, and how she wanted. Not only a new look did Hermione Granger create, but a new attitude and personality as well. She decided to keep being intelligent, well because intelligence is definitely good to have and she did not want to be like the Slytherin Ho, Pansy Parkinson. Sure Pansy was pretty, and had power, but she was dumb as a stump and everyone knew it, including Pansy. Now, Hermione's look had changed a lot from the slightly baggy brightly colored clothes, no make up, bushy hair and 6 books attached at her hip to the still a little baggy, but tight at the same time dark colored clothes, tame beautiful curly but sometimes straight hair dyed dark brown, a little dark makeup and no books which suited her just fine and made her look even better than she had before. The dark clothes and makeup and hair suited her fine slightly tan skin and she had an attitude to put on the top. Yes, Hermione Granger had changed a great deal and it was for the better. She was her own person now, and she felt great.
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"Well, I like the new you Hermione." Harry said stoutly after Ron had spoken. "Yeah, me too, Mione, it suits you great." Ron tried to say as stoutly as Harry but couldn't, as he was busy checking her out. "Well thanks guys, I was a little afraid you wouldn't like it, but I would have dealt with it either way. Hey where's Ginny?" Hermione said. "I don't know, haven't seen her since we left London." Ron said and as he did so, Harry got a slightly pale look on his face that was full of concern. Noticing this, Hermione spoke, "Oh, ok, well don't worry guys, I'll go find her." And with that she turned around and walked out of the compartment into the hallway of the Hogwart's Express looking for her old friend. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Malfoy, you've been strangely quiet, what's up with you?" Blaise Zabini questioned his friend. "What? Oh nothing, just thinking." Malfoy replied. "Well whatever man." Blaise responded slightly concerned for his friend's odd behavior. And Draco Malfoy turned back to the window he was staring at. "Hey, Crabbe, Goyle, you what's up with you two? What have ya'll been doing this summer?" Zabini asked the other two occupants of their compartment. Crabbe and Goyle began talking or grunting rather, in their loud raspy voices to Blaise answering his question and deeply disturbing Draco's thoughts. Just then he decided to get up and leave, he needed quiet, he needed to think about the girl he saw getting on the train with her two "bodyguards" by her side. He needed to think and figure out why he kept thinking about Hermione Granger. "Hey, I'm gonna look for an empty compartment, I need some time to think." Draco got up and said to his friends as he left the compartment and strode into the hallway, utterly perplexed.
Just then he bumped right into someone and they both fell over on the ground him on top of his impediment to solace. "Wha...whoa!!" Hermione shrieked as she fell to the ground and someone fell on top of her. She noticed the scent of the boy who had run into her and it smelled delicious. "Sorry, I guess I wasn't paying attention." Draco said as he started looking down at the person he was crushing beneath him. "Malfoy." Hermione began, but before she could think of a rude comment to throw at him, he was standing up and had a hand out waiting for to take, helping her to her feet. And she graciously took his hand. "Well, I never would have expected an apology from you, but it's ok, you didn't mean to knock me over." She said a little more friendly than she intended too. "Ya, well, you're not the only one who's changed over the summer." He replied in an icy tone and then turned around looking for an empty compartment. Confused, Hermione couldn't help but stare at her arch enemy walk away and at his perfect body. 'Not the only one who's changed. What's that supposed to mean? Why was he so nice? Why didn't he call me mudblood or filthy or something like that? What's going on with him? Maybe I should go talk to him and find out, he was so nice and so, so mysterious and he smelled good too! Oh just look at his body. What?!!? Stop thinking like that! He's your enemy, you shouldn't be thinking like that about him. But he was so mysterious, I want to find out more, I have to find out more about him.' She couldn't help think to herself. As the little battle in her head went on Ginny came up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder. "Hey Hermione!" The redhead squealed at her best friend. "Wow! I love the new look. I bet Ron couldn't stop staring at you! That top it's great. You have to take me shopping in Hogsmeade since you get that special pass and all for being Head Girl." "What? Oh thanks Gin, I didn't really notice Ron staring at me. Sure we could go shopping I guess, but how do you know I'm Head Girl? I don't even know if I am." Hermione answered Ginny's questions. "Well, it's kind of obvious you'll be Head Girl, I mean come on, who else would it be? Parvati or Lavender?" Ginny laughed as she spoke. "Oh, I guess you're right, but I still don't know. I wonder who the Head Boy is going to be." "I don't know Herm, but I'm gonna go find Harry ok? I'll talk to you later." Ginny said as she winked and gave her friend a quick a hug and walked into a compartment hoping Harry was in it.
"Alright Gin, see you later." Hermione called after the redhead. 'She really should do something about that crush she has. It's getting worse. I can't believe they aren't together yet. He loves her so much, I can see it in his eyes. Well, I need some time to sort out my thoughts, where's an empty compartment?' Hermione thought to herself and she roamed up and down the hall of the train looking for an empty compartment and at the end of the train, she finally found one, or so she thought.
"At last, some peace and quiet." She said softly out loud to herself.
"Ya, that's what I thought too." Draco quietly said in his icy voice looking up to see Hermione walking into his empty compartment.
"Oh, I'm sorry Dra-Malfoy, I didn't realize you were here, I'll go find another compartment." She said and started to turn around and open the door but he spoke again,
"You don't have to you. I'm quiet if that's what you were looking for, and besides this is the only open compartment, I've looked." He said staring right into her cinnamon eyes.
"Well, in that case, I'll stay. Would it bother you if I wanted to talk?"
"Not at all, please do." He responded with his infamous smirk.
"Not yet." She said smirking back. And he nodded as he looked back out the window.
'Damn, when did she get that sexy smirk. Man she looks good just sitting there thinking. She's so smart, a hell of a lot smarter than Pansy; prettier too. She's not being so cold to me either. Well, she doesn't really have a reason too, I haven't exactly been my usual asshole self around her. What am I thinking? I can't start to fall for her, Father would absolutely kill me. Well, not really, first he'd torture me senseless, then he'd kill me. Ya, that's what he'd do. Well fuck it. To hell with him, I'm through with him controlling me. It's my life, not his. Fuck him, I want her.' Draco got lost in his thoughts but was brought back abruptly as Hermione moved to sit directly across from him, staring at him, staring into his soul. Then he decided to speak.
"So Granger, what possessed you to be you? What triggered it all of a sudden?" He asked.
"How do you something triggered it?"
"I can read it in your eyes. You're trying to figure me out, and I you, but I beat you to it. So what caused it? Potty and Weasel?"
"Oh." She answered blushing a bit that she was caught but not for long she regained her emotions and locked them up filling her eyes with nothing so that he couldn't read into her soul anymore.
"Well?"
"Well, if you must know, and it's none over your business anyway, it was my bloody parents and everyone else in the world. I was just tired of being someone I'm not. Tired of living up to everyone else's expectations of me and being who they wanted me to be. I was sick and tired of it all. And my parents were just the last straw. So I flipped. And I left."
"You left? Where'd you go?"
"A friend's place." Her face grew sad and her eyes were full of hate and sadness as she answered his questions remembering her previous summer.
"That's it! I've had enough! I can't take anymore of this imprisonment! It's bloody hell living here under your roof!" She screamed at both of her parents.
"Well if you're so unhappy here, why don't you just move out! Get out of this house! And go do whatever the hell you want! Ruin your life! See what we care!" Her father shouted back at her. And with that sentence, she flipped him off and then her mother, and slammed her door in both their faces then locked it. She packed all of her things together and headed downstairs and walked out of the front door and called a cab to come get her.
"The apartments on Third." She said to the cab driver and they drove off to her best friend's apartment. He was 18 and working for Gringotts. After about five minutes they arrived at his apartment and she paid the cabby and got out and walked up to his apartment on the fifth floor and knocked at the door praying he was home. Sure enough he was and he gladly excepted her in.
After a few weeks of staying with him, the night before she had to go back to Hogwarts, she had just finished getting ready for bed and had her pajamas on and walked into the living room where she was sleeping on his couch bed, when he called her into his room. Without thinking, well it was her best friend and everything had been fine, she went to his room and as soon as she got in, he locked the door behind her and grabbed her, forcing her onto his bed.
"What's going on Nick?" She asked confused and terrified.
"Nothing, love, I'm just gonna have a little fun and you're gonna like it." He answered.
"Wha-" She started to ask again but couldn't as he had his mouth on hers in a painful kiss, he forced her lips open and thrust his tongue into her mouth and then kissed her neck, and cheek and above her chest that wasn't covered by her tank top.
"No, Nick. Stop! Please Stop!" She screamed as she tried to push him off her but he was too strong. And she didn't have her wand. He had her and there's was nothing she could do, so she prepared for the worst.
He ripped her shirt off and kissed her breasts and tugged them and sucked on them while tears slowly ran down her face but he didn't care. He wanted to be inside her. He pulled down her pants and underwear and undid his belt and pulled his pants and boxers down and thrust into her as hard as he could. She let out a scream of pain as he took away from her, her wholeness and innocence. He continued to rape her until he'd gotten all he wanted and he pulled himself out of her and pulled his boxers back up and got into his bed and pulled the covers over the both of them.
"What are you doing now?" She asked very tired and pained with a tear streaked face.
"Going to sleep. You didn't think I'd let you sleep all alone after that did you? You might get lonely, or I might get another urge. And I don't want you to leave until you absolutely have to tomorrow." He said as if nothing was wrong and then he wrapped his arms around her and fell asleep. Eventually she did too. Scarred and very pissed off.
"Uh, Granger?" Draco said tentatively pulling her out of her memories. "You ok? Do you need something?"
"What? Oh, no sorry, I was just thinking, about what happened over the summer." She said not sad anymore, but full of hate.
"Oh, well you wanna talk about it?"
"No."
"Ok."
And they sat like that the rest of the ride to Hogwarts, in silence lost in their own thoughts.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Alright what'd ya think? Good? Bad? Let me know review!!! More will come with reviews. Flames and ideas welcome.
Category: Hermione and Draco Title: Guard Your Heart but Never Back Down
Chapter 1: Meet the new Hermione Granger
"Wow." Was all they could say.
"Um, Hermione, wow, uh, wow why the sudden change? You looked great before, and now, well, wow." Ron spoke up after a few moments silence. "I needed a change and I wasn't happy. It's that simple." Hermione said defiantly to her two best friends, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived.
It was true, Hermione, Bookworm-Know-It-All Granger was no more. She had been unhappy with herself as being the know-it-all little Gryffindor who everyone assumed had no life but her studies, and they were right. She wanted to be free, she wanted to be independent, she wanted be unique, she wanted to be herself. And so she was. The summer before her seventh year at Hogwarts she re-created herself the way she wanted to be. There was no more living up to everyone else's expectations of her and doing and being what everyone else wanted her to do and be. She did what she wanted, when she wanted, and how she wanted. Not only a new look did Hermione Granger create, but a new attitude and personality as well. She decided to keep being intelligent, well because intelligence is definitely good to have and she did not want to be like the Slytherin Ho, Pansy Parkinson. Sure Pansy was pretty, and had power, but she was dumb as a stump and everyone knew it, including Pansy. Now, Hermione's look had changed a lot from the slightly baggy brightly colored clothes, no make up, bushy hair and 6 books attached at her hip to the still a little baggy, but tight at the same time dark colored clothes, tame beautiful curly but sometimes straight hair dyed dark brown, a little dark makeup and no books which suited her just fine and made her look even better than she had before. The dark clothes and makeup and hair suited her fine slightly tan skin and she had an attitude to put on the top. Yes, Hermione Granger had changed a great deal and it was for the better. She was her own person now, and she felt great.
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"Well, I like the new you Hermione." Harry said stoutly after Ron had spoken. "Yeah, me too, Mione, it suits you great." Ron tried to say as stoutly as Harry but couldn't, as he was busy checking her out. "Well thanks guys, I was a little afraid you wouldn't like it, but I would have dealt with it either way. Hey where's Ginny?" Hermione said. "I don't know, haven't seen her since we left London." Ron said and as he did so, Harry got a slightly pale look on his face that was full of concern. Noticing this, Hermione spoke, "Oh, ok, well don't worry guys, I'll go find her." And with that she turned around and walked out of the compartment into the hallway of the Hogwart's Express looking for her old friend. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Malfoy, you've been strangely quiet, what's up with you?" Blaise Zabini questioned his friend. "What? Oh nothing, just thinking." Malfoy replied. "Well whatever man." Blaise responded slightly concerned for his friend's odd behavior. And Draco Malfoy turned back to the window he was staring at. "Hey, Crabbe, Goyle, you what's up with you two? What have ya'll been doing this summer?" Zabini asked the other two occupants of their compartment. Crabbe and Goyle began talking or grunting rather, in their loud raspy voices to Blaise answering his question and deeply disturbing Draco's thoughts. Just then he decided to get up and leave, he needed quiet, he needed to think about the girl he saw getting on the train with her two "bodyguards" by her side. He needed to think and figure out why he kept thinking about Hermione Granger. "Hey, I'm gonna look for an empty compartment, I need some time to think." Draco got up and said to his friends as he left the compartment and strode into the hallway, utterly perplexed.
Just then he bumped right into someone and they both fell over on the ground him on top of his impediment to solace. "Wha...whoa!!" Hermione shrieked as she fell to the ground and someone fell on top of her. She noticed the scent of the boy who had run into her and it smelled delicious. "Sorry, I guess I wasn't paying attention." Draco said as he started looking down at the person he was crushing beneath him. "Malfoy." Hermione began, but before she could think of a rude comment to throw at him, he was standing up and had a hand out waiting for to take, helping her to her feet. And she graciously took his hand. "Well, I never would have expected an apology from you, but it's ok, you didn't mean to knock me over." She said a little more friendly than she intended too. "Ya, well, you're not the only one who's changed over the summer." He replied in an icy tone and then turned around looking for an empty compartment. Confused, Hermione couldn't help but stare at her arch enemy walk away and at his perfect body. 'Not the only one who's changed. What's that supposed to mean? Why was he so nice? Why didn't he call me mudblood or filthy or something like that? What's going on with him? Maybe I should go talk to him and find out, he was so nice and so, so mysterious and he smelled good too! Oh just look at his body. What?!!? Stop thinking like that! He's your enemy, you shouldn't be thinking like that about him. But he was so mysterious, I want to find out more, I have to find out more about him.' She couldn't help think to herself. As the little battle in her head went on Ginny came up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder. "Hey Hermione!" The redhead squealed at her best friend. "Wow! I love the new look. I bet Ron couldn't stop staring at you! That top it's great. You have to take me shopping in Hogsmeade since you get that special pass and all for being Head Girl." "What? Oh thanks Gin, I didn't really notice Ron staring at me. Sure we could go shopping I guess, but how do you know I'm Head Girl? I don't even know if I am." Hermione answered Ginny's questions. "Well, it's kind of obvious you'll be Head Girl, I mean come on, who else would it be? Parvati or Lavender?" Ginny laughed as she spoke. "Oh, I guess you're right, but I still don't know. I wonder who the Head Boy is going to be." "I don't know Herm, but I'm gonna go find Harry ok? I'll talk to you later." Ginny said as she winked and gave her friend a quick a hug and walked into a compartment hoping Harry was in it.
"Alright Gin, see you later." Hermione called after the redhead. 'She really should do something about that crush she has. It's getting worse. I can't believe they aren't together yet. He loves her so much, I can see it in his eyes. Well, I need some time to sort out my thoughts, where's an empty compartment?' Hermione thought to herself and she roamed up and down the hall of the train looking for an empty compartment and at the end of the train, she finally found one, or so she thought.
"At last, some peace and quiet." She said softly out loud to herself.
"Ya, that's what I thought too." Draco quietly said in his icy voice looking up to see Hermione walking into his empty compartment.
"Oh, I'm sorry Dra-Malfoy, I didn't realize you were here, I'll go find another compartment." She said and started to turn around and open the door but he spoke again,
"You don't have to you. I'm quiet if that's what you were looking for, and besides this is the only open compartment, I've looked." He said staring right into her cinnamon eyes.
"Well, in that case, I'll stay. Would it bother you if I wanted to talk?"
"Not at all, please do." He responded with his infamous smirk.
"Not yet." She said smirking back. And he nodded as he looked back out the window.
'Damn, when did she get that sexy smirk. Man she looks good just sitting there thinking. She's so smart, a hell of a lot smarter than Pansy; prettier too. She's not being so cold to me either. Well, she doesn't really have a reason too, I haven't exactly been my usual asshole self around her. What am I thinking? I can't start to fall for her, Father would absolutely kill me. Well, not really, first he'd torture me senseless, then he'd kill me. Ya, that's what he'd do. Well fuck it. To hell with him, I'm through with him controlling me. It's my life, not his. Fuck him, I want her.' Draco got lost in his thoughts but was brought back abruptly as Hermione moved to sit directly across from him, staring at him, staring into his soul. Then he decided to speak.
"So Granger, what possessed you to be you? What triggered it all of a sudden?" He asked.
"How do you something triggered it?"
"I can read it in your eyes. You're trying to figure me out, and I you, but I beat you to it. So what caused it? Potty and Weasel?"
"Oh." She answered blushing a bit that she was caught but not for long she regained her emotions and locked them up filling her eyes with nothing so that he couldn't read into her soul anymore.
"Well?"
"Well, if you must know, and it's none over your business anyway, it was my bloody parents and everyone else in the world. I was just tired of being someone I'm not. Tired of living up to everyone else's expectations of me and being who they wanted me to be. I was sick and tired of it all. And my parents were just the last straw. So I flipped. And I left."
"You left? Where'd you go?"
"A friend's place." Her face grew sad and her eyes were full of hate and sadness as she answered his questions remembering her previous summer.
"That's it! I've had enough! I can't take anymore of this imprisonment! It's bloody hell living here under your roof!" She screamed at both of her parents.
"Well if you're so unhappy here, why don't you just move out! Get out of this house! And go do whatever the hell you want! Ruin your life! See what we care!" Her father shouted back at her. And with that sentence, she flipped him off and then her mother, and slammed her door in both their faces then locked it. She packed all of her things together and headed downstairs and walked out of the front door and called a cab to come get her.
"The apartments on Third." She said to the cab driver and they drove off to her best friend's apartment. He was 18 and working for Gringotts. After about five minutes they arrived at his apartment and she paid the cabby and got out and walked up to his apartment on the fifth floor and knocked at the door praying he was home. Sure enough he was and he gladly excepted her in.
After a few weeks of staying with him, the night before she had to go back to Hogwarts, she had just finished getting ready for bed and had her pajamas on and walked into the living room where she was sleeping on his couch bed, when he called her into his room. Without thinking, well it was her best friend and everything had been fine, she went to his room and as soon as she got in, he locked the door behind her and grabbed her, forcing her onto his bed.
"What's going on Nick?" She asked confused and terrified.
"Nothing, love, I'm just gonna have a little fun and you're gonna like it." He answered.
"Wha-" She started to ask again but couldn't as he had his mouth on hers in a painful kiss, he forced her lips open and thrust his tongue into her mouth and then kissed her neck, and cheek and above her chest that wasn't covered by her tank top.
"No, Nick. Stop! Please Stop!" She screamed as she tried to push him off her but he was too strong. And she didn't have her wand. He had her and there's was nothing she could do, so she prepared for the worst.
He ripped her shirt off and kissed her breasts and tugged them and sucked on them while tears slowly ran down her face but he didn't care. He wanted to be inside her. He pulled down her pants and underwear and undid his belt and pulled his pants and boxers down and thrust into her as hard as he could. She let out a scream of pain as he took away from her, her wholeness and innocence. He continued to rape her until he'd gotten all he wanted and he pulled himself out of her and pulled his boxers back up and got into his bed and pulled the covers over the both of them.
"What are you doing now?" She asked very tired and pained with a tear streaked face.
"Going to sleep. You didn't think I'd let you sleep all alone after that did you? You might get lonely, or I might get another urge. And I don't want you to leave until you absolutely have to tomorrow." He said as if nothing was wrong and then he wrapped his arms around her and fell asleep. Eventually she did too. Scarred and very pissed off.
"Uh, Granger?" Draco said tentatively pulling her out of her memories. "You ok? Do you need something?"
"What? Oh, no sorry, I was just thinking, about what happened over the summer." She said not sad anymore, but full of hate.
"Oh, well you wanna talk about it?"
"No."
"Ok."
And they sat like that the rest of the ride to Hogwarts, in silence lost in their own thoughts.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Alright what'd ya think? Good? Bad? Let me know review!!! More will come with reviews. Flames and ideas welcome.