A Love Between Two Enemies

I walked from the castle as the rain fell hard, soaking my clothes. I began to run. I stopped looking around trying to figure out where I was. I had run to the quidditch pitch. I fell to the ground and cried. I sat with my legs tucked under me and my head in my hands. The rain had started falling harder. Little did I know a person was flying above me. In my fit of tears I didn’t notice someone land in front of me until I heard their voice.

“Are you alright?” His voice was deep and caring. I looked up to see the owner of the voice. I was met by cold gray eyes, it was Draco Malfoy. ‘Wonderful, just wonderful,’ I thought.

“Oh it’s just you,” he spat. “What are you doing out here you filthy little mudblood?”

“Shut up ferret boy and leave me alone!” I stood up and started to walk away from him.

“No one walks away from a Malfoy,” he stated, changing the hand he was holding his broom in.

My tears had somewhat stopped and now I was being filled with anger. “Well then I guess I’ll be the first.”

“Whatever, Granger. Why were you down here in the first place? I thought you hated quidditch, not that I’ve ever cared what you did and didn’t like,” he added quickly.

“If you ever bothered to open your eyes for one moment and stop looking in a mirror at your reflection you’d realize I had been upset!” I screamed at him losing my temper.

He waited for a moment then responded. “Oh! Now I know what Pansy was talking about. You and the Weasley broke up. He broke up with you to go out with Lavender. Ha! The Weasley broke up with the mudblood!” He started laughing. This angered me more.

“Shut up! Shut up! Shut! Up! Ferret boy! You don’t know anything so just shut up! Just because your mother doesn’t love you and your father is dead and you are a pureblood rich little boy doesn’t give you the right to hurt other people!” I screamed at him. I was breathing heavily as the rain mixed with my tears as it fell down my face.

His eyes were filled with rage and anger and it scared me. He stepped towards me and pointed his wand at my heart. “Do I scare you? Well let me clue you in on something mudblood and you better listen close.”

“Whatever Malfoy, you don’t scare me. So just run back home to your stuck up mother and follow in your father’s footsteps.” I lied. He scared me very much and I had only made his anger worse.

“Don’t you dare talk about my parents like that. If you would take your head out of those dusty old books you would realize I don’t follow in my father’s footsteps. And I used to protect my mother from my father’s abuse. My mother was forced to marry him by her father. I hate my father’s ways. The only reason I acted like I hated mud… muggleborns was because it was my father’s wish. Now that Potter, the wonderful boy-who-lived, has defeated Voldemort, I have no reason to insult them.”

I sighed. “Whatever Malfoy. You actually think I believe all that? You are a Malfoy: you don’t love anyone.” He came closer to me, so close I could feel his hot breath on my face.

“You don’t know anything!” He screamed. “My mother is the only one in my family who loves me! Since I was five I made it my job to protect her from my father. He hit her every day. Every day, no matter what she did he hit her. If she did something he didn’t approve of he beat her ever harder. So don’t tell me I don’t have feelings!”

I was crying, ‘he really does have a heart’, I thought. “And stop crying because I hate it when a woman cries, especially the one I love.” I stood there shocked, too shocked to say anything.

“What?” I asked. He put his wand back inside his cloak and let his broom fall to the ground. He pushed a stray hair out of my face. “I love you Hermione and I hate seeing you cry. I hate fighting with you. It’s pointless now that my father is dead. It was pointless before but I had to do it for him… I’ve loved you since the first day that I saw you. I loved you the first day I saw you, books, bushy hair and all. And I’ve watched you grow up into this beautiful young woman with these gorgeous curls even though you still hide behind those books. I love everything about you.” I looked up into his eyes. He brushed my tears away.

“I… I... I love you too Draco.” He slowly bent down and kissed me. Just then the rain stopped. Since first year I had had a crush on Draco, now my dreams were coming true. Draco Malfoy was in love with me.

He took my hand and we walked up to the castle. "I'll see you in the morning, meet me here." he said at the bottom of the stairs. I smiled and walked back up to the Gryffindor tower.

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The next morning I woke up early and walked down and saw Draco standing there. He turned and faced me and he took my hand in his. A group of Slytherins walked by and stopped.

“Malfoy what are you doing holding hands with the mudblood?” A tall boy with dark hair asked.

“I’m holding Hermione’s hand because I love her Blaise.” Draco said.

“But Dracy-poo what about us?” Pansy said.

“There is no us Pansy there never was an us. There never will be an us. I love Hermione and I’m going to marry her.” This caught me off guard but I said nothing.

Pansy ran off crying and Draco wrapped his arm around my waist and we walked into the Great Hall. Not very many people had arrived yet since breakfast had just begun. He led me to the Gryffindor table and we sat down. Ginny looked at me knowingly and Ron ignored me, to busy kissing Lavender. Harry looked up when Ginny elbowed him and choked on his pumpkin juice.

“Malfoy what are you doing here?” Harry said.

“Sitting with my girlfriend Potter.” Draco said.

“Girlfriend? Hermione please tell me he’s joking.” Harry pleaded.

“No Harry Draco and me are dating now. He found me last night and confessed his love for me after we got into a fight and I was crying. I’ve liked Draco for a long time Harry you know that, please accept this and don’t make it any more difficult than it will be with those stupid Slytherins.”

“Hey! I’m a Slytherin.” Draco said.

“You are my one and only exception.” I said and leaned my head on his shoulder.

“I think I’m going to be sick.” Harry said.

Ginny playfully smacked him. “Oh stop you know she liked him and now she can be happy. This is good for her, he’s good for her. They need each other Harry. But if you hurt her,” Ginny turned back to face Draco “I know a very good bat boogey hex and I will not hesitate to use it.”

Draco paled and I laughed. “Please tell me she’s joking.” I laughed harder. “She is joking right.” I shook my head. “I’ll never hurt her. And neither will anyone else as long as I’m around.”

Ginny and me awed and harry made a gagging noise.

“Well I guess I have to accept you don’t I?” Harry said. “Alright look Dra…. Malfoy.” I gave him a stern look. “It’s gotta be Malfoy for now, I’ll work on the whole first name basis. But as long as you swear to protect her and treat her right I guess I can accept this.”

“Yay!” I stood up and ran around the table and hugged Harry. Then sat back down next to Draco.

We ate and talked about classes and Draco talked about his mom and how she wanted to meet me. We tried to ignore the stares people were giving us and finally Ginny stood up on bench and yelled. “They love each other ok get over it and mind your own business and quit staring at us!” We all laughed at her and then continued eating. Before we stood up to leave Ron finally noticed Draco and me.

“Hey what is he doing here?” Ron said angered.

“Sitting with us Ron duh, you honestly aren’t that stupid are you.” Ginny said.

“Hermione what are you doing! He’s a Slytherin!”

Draco stood up and walked over to Ron. He looked at Ron for a moment and then hit him, Ron fell over and Draco looked down at him a spoke. “That was for making the love of my life cry.” He then took my hand and we left the hall but not before I heard harry speak.

“You hurt your best friend Ron, I don’t think she’ll talk to you until you apologize. Let’s go Ginny. Draco Hermione wait up!” Harry called and we turned back around.

We all then walked Ginny to her first class and headed down to the potion’s classroom for our lesson.

Maybe Ron will apologize and maybe he won’t but at least I still have Harry and Ginny and I will always have Draco. I thought as we sat down. Professor Snape walked in and the lesson began.

At dinner Draco said he had arranged for is to go see him mother Tomorrow. I nodded and after dinner Draco walked with me to my common room and kissed me goodnight and goodbye. I was nervous about meeting his mother so I went straight up to my room and went to bed soI could get enough sleep.