Chapter 2
"Morning Granger" Draco said as she walked into the common room on Sunday morning, Draco was sitting at the kitchen bench again sipping a cup of tea.
"You should come for a walk with me this morning, get the rumour mill running" She said as she poured herself a cup of tea.
"I think I know a place we can walk where most of the third year girls gossip," Draco said finishing his cup of tea. "I'll be back down here in fifteen do hurry with that cup off tea"
Just as he said he was back down in fifteen minutes with an extra coat, Hermione had to do a double take. She raised an eyebrow at the coat, he only handed it over to her and told her to put it on.
"Get the rumour mill running Granger, keep up" Draco said with a laugh as he walked out the door. "Chop, Chop Granger"
The two walked the halls in silence surprisingly not coming across anyone, it was quiet. To be fair it was a chilly Sunday morning.
"Where are we going?" Hermione asked Draco they had to have been walking for at least fifteen minutes.
"You see Granger, just around the corner is a group of third years. Biggest gossipers I've ever met, here now pass me the coat again and follow my lead" Draco said taking her coat and throwing the it down in a small out-cove.
She looked over to him confused, but he only rolled his eyes at her and pushed her along lightly.
As the two walked past a large group of third year girls they could hear them whispering and gasping about Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger. Whilst still in view of the girls he whispered something incoherently in her ears, then proceeded to take off his coat and wrap it around Hermione.
The girls all tried to obtain their excitement and ran off most likely to fill in their other house members about what they saw, Hermione had a pleased smile on her face and Draco a large smirk on his.
The two walked back to the other coat and walked around for a little while longer until Draco had to run off to go find his friends.
"Malfoy your coat" Hermione yelled after him as he ran down the hall.
"Keep it on, drives me wild when you're in my clothes" He retorted as he ran around the corner.
Hermione couldn't help but smile as a warm blush spread across her pale skin, what the hell was going on.
She couldn't help but replay that conversation in her head as she made her way to the library, as she walked the halls she ran into Ginny.
"Hermione!" Ginny yelped, pulling her into a tight hug, extremely happy to see Hermione. "I've been looking for you everywhere!"
"I'm fine Ginny, just as long as I don't have to look at your brother or Lavender" Hermione added, rolling her eyes just wanting to make her way to the Library.
"Trust me I can't either, I have a week's detention for being violent. I'm so sorry" Ginny still had not let Hermione go and hugged her tighter.
"Don't worry Ginny he'll get what he had coming trust me" Hermione said with an evil smirk on her face, trying to keep herself from telling Ginny everyone.
"You scare the shit out of me sometimes" Ginny said letting her go and eyeing her suspiciously. "Harry's worried about you"
"I know, I'm heading to the Library tell Harry if he wants to find me there he can. But for the love of god don't tell Ronald" Hermione said taking a deep breath.
"Sure thing" Ginny said with a smile walking off "Hey wait were did you get that coat? It looks very expensive and way too big for you"
"Oh don't worry about that" Hermione said making a hasty escape into the library.
Meanwhile in the Head's Common room Draco was chatting with Theodore Nott and Blaise Zabani, the group of boys were talking about quidditch for a while until the subject of girls were bought up.
"Blaise you won't believe what I heard a group of third years gossiping about in the common room today!" Theo said with an excited but cocky tone.
"I do not Theo! How about you tell me." Blaise said with a smirk plastered on his face.
"Someone said they saw Mister Malfoy over here taking a walk with the one and only Hermione Granger" Theo said trying to hold in his laughter.
"You have no proof of anything boys, don't listen to childish gossip." Draco said, he knew he was slick. That was until Hermione walked into the common room still wearing his coat.
"Nice coat Granger" Blaise said with a shit-eating grin on his face. Hermione couldn't help the blush that spread across her face as she placed the coat down.
"Thank you Zabini '' She said as she made her way to the kitchen to pour herself another cup of tea, she took a seat in one of the loveseats and started to read her book.
"So what have you been up to this morning Granger?" Theo asked her still trying to keep himself from bursting out laughing.
"Ah not much went on a small walk this morning and just got back from the Library, what about you Theodore?" Hermione asked, trying not to smile at the outcome of this morning's show.
"Ah not much either, I think Blaise and I will be heading off" He said, Draco couldn't help but smile as the two whispered to each other as they walked out of the common room.
"This is going very well." Draco said, spreading out on the couch. Looking over to Hermione on the couch with a genuine smile on his face.
"Wait till the word get's to Ronald" She said with a smirk on her face, slightly shocked at the fact that Draco smiles.
"Granger, maybe you are Slytherin material" Draco said, sounding surprised.
The two spent the rest of the evening lounging around the common room until it was time for dinner, Hermione decided she would just cook something here whilst Draco made his way down to the great hall.
That night Hermione found it hard to fall asleep; she couldn't decide if it was because she was so excited for tomorrow's plans, or because she was so nervous about tomorrow. She certainly didn't want to be pitted by everyone.
The war was over now and people from other houses became friends, but there was always some tension between Slytherin and Gryffindor.
Monday morning Hermione woke up very early, it was at least four in the morning. She still couldn't decide if it was because she was excited or scared, but one thing she did know was that she was parched.
She'd be fine. Malfoy was a deep sleeper, on multiple occasions she had awoken in the night and gone down to the common room. Once she had cooked a full meal in the middle of the night after studying late, so she made her way down to the kitchen to fetch herself a glass of water.
She snuck downstairs into the kitchen, the common room was absolutely freezing. She was only in her shirt and underwear, as she reached for a cup she fell backwards making a loud noise as she hit the floor.
"Merlin" She said out-loud to herself still laying on the floor, she didn't really feel like getting up.
Draco couldn't sleep either he was thinking about tomorrow, he also could get the image of Hermione in his coat out of his mind. Something about her small frame in his coat made him tick, the coat now smelled like her that drove him insane.
As he sat up in his bed when he heard a large bang come from downstairs, at first he thought Peeves was messing around again or Theo got drunk and needed help. Until he heard Hermione, fuck he thought as he bolted out of bed and down the stairs, he was almost concerned until he heard her laugh.
"Granger, if you're dead Potter And Weasel are going to kill me and you're going to have to put up with my ghost for eternity" Draco said bending down next to her.
"I'm alive don't worry about me dying" Hermione laughed "I was just trying to get a glass of water then I slipped"
"Nice one Granger" He said sitting up and grabbing her a glass of water "Here you go clumsy"
"Thank you Draco" She said taking a sip of her water "I'm going to go to bed Goodnight"
"Night Granger" Draco said as she made her way up the stairs "Hey Granger, one more thing"
"Yes?" She asked
"Nice Panties" He chuckled whilst still standing in the kitchen watching her run up the stairs almost falling over again in the process.
Hermione had totally forgotten she was basically half naked, she went red in the face and tried to pull her shirt over her arse. She fell asleep quite quickly after that trying to avoid embarrassment.