Disclaimer: I own nothing

AN: this story was inspired by my friend's poem about Draco.

What if everyone had evil in them

And I sent of good to disguise?

What if evil accepted the good,

Or the two melted in one?

What if good consumed all danger?

What if Draco Malfoy was an angel?

By Shanna

AN: yeah, umm. I really have nothing to say besides that I am so sorry for not updating.

Chapter 15.

I am so nervous! What if she doesn't like my present? Will she be angry? Will I ruin her mood? I just want her to be happy.

We agreed to meet in the greenhouse. There's this lovely bench there. We're met there countless tiems before.

I have never packed a present in my life. As they say, there's a first time for everything. It took me an hour to pack it. Which was considerably less that I thought. Did I mention that I'm nervous? I have never given anyone a present. I have never cared about anyone enough.

When I got to the greenhouse she wa already there. I was glad to see that she was quite nervous too. I greeted her with a kiss on the cheek and sat down.

'Well, here's my present.' I said as I took it out of my pocket. It was packed in green. Typical slytherin. She took out hers too. It was packed in red. Suddenly we both started to laugh.

'We are both so obvious aren't we?' she asked chuckling.

'I guess you're right. Well, open it!'

She slowly untied the ribbon, removed the tape (there was quite a lot of it) and took off the wrapper. Inside there was a black box. She looked confused.

'Before you open it let me just say something. This is something that belonged to me since the day I was born. You are the reason I have given it up. That is how important you are to me. And there is one more thing. The object is connected to this ring on my hand, so I'll know when it's used. So when the stone glows I'll know to get you. Now open it.'

Her hands shook a bit as she opened the box. Inside was my knife. The one with DM engraved on it. Hermione looked at it amazed and her eyes stared to tear up. As I was trying to determine is they were sad on happy tears she hugged me and sobbed a muffled 'Thank you' into my shoulder. I was glad she liked it. And honestly, quite relieved too!

'But Hermione, please, think before you use this. Try to find me before you do and I'll try to help you no matter what the problem is. I don't want to lose you.'

She let go of me and looked into my eyes. Our eyes locked and she gave me the sweetest and softest kiss and whispered 'I promise' and I knew that she'd keep it too. We sat in silence for a while before she remembered that I hadn't opened her present yet.

'Hey! Before we got all emotional here I remember handing you my gift. Of course, compared to yours it isn't much really…'

'Nonsense, I'll probably love it.'

I was less patient opening my present. I tore off the ribbon and ripped the paper.

'Impatient, aren't we?' she asked with a twinkle in her eye.

I put my tongue out at her and she started to laugh even more muttering something about spoiled brats.

Inside was a book. But not just any book.

'I haven't read it by the way. I just got it this morning. I was actually quite afraid it wouldn't arrive on time.'

The book was titled "The secret heroes: Helina Granus and Dante Maleius" My jaw literally dropped.

'I… how… what… where did you get this?' I asked completely amazed. I had been looking for some info on them for months with no luck and she managed to get a whole book about them?

'I have a pretty good reputation at the bookstore as it turns out. I convinced the owner to order a copy and I have spent the last month waiting for it. Some person who knew them wrote it and it was only printed in a small quantity. There are less than a thousand copies of it, and even fewer are left. As it turns out I practically got the last one on sale. Like it?'

'Like it? I love it!' I was still amazed and was leafing through the rather massive volume.

'We have to read it tonight. Meet me in the room of requirement tonight 9pm. We can read through the night.'

She seemed to consider and nodded.

'But for now we can enjoy this winter and go out for a walk.'

After our walk, which lasted quite long because sometimes we stopped for playing snowballs or a kiss or to build a snowman. After some work two snowmen were now guarding the grounds. Later, we ate a bit and split up. I came to my dorms to read for a bit and then took a nap so I could manage to stay away for the night. When I woke up, I stopped by the kitchen to get some food and then headed for the room of requirement. I was the first there, the room had a comfortable couch in it and a table to put it the food on. I was just putting it down when she arrived.

'Should have known you'd go to the kitchen.' She said putting down a plate of pies and two cups of coffee.

We both sat down and I grabbed the book and we started to read. We became so absorbed that the first break we made was after 6 hours of reading, about 3am. She made some coffee and we had quite a decent meal.

We didn't discuss the book, having decided to talk about it after reading the whole thing. So we continued reading after stretching a bit having become surprisingly stiff in the hours of sitting in the same position. I had felt a bit sleepy, but the coffee had seemed to done its work. We continued reading but at a bit slower pace.

By dawn we had finished. Closing the book I looked up. After a bit of a silence we both said 'You have got to be kidding me.'

But we were both far from laughing.

AN. I'm alive. Kind of .