A/N: Ah, stupid legal stuff! Anyways, I do not own Harry Potter!!
All Harry Potter and related stuff is property of their repective owners.
So please, don't sue me......

Anyways, I wrote this on request from one of my online friends. Katsie, this
is for you! Even if I totally disagree on this.... after much annoyance and
pleading from you, I finally caved in. Hope you like it. This is a SLASH story,
so you have been warned.... but that's not till later.


Ch. 1
* { Foggy Nights and Misty Mornings } *

Detention sucked. No, more correctly the people he had to spend detention with
sucked. Draco was stuck in detention with the mudblood Weasly, that Granger girl,
and the one he hated the most, Harry James Potter. The one who had denied the friendship
of Draco Malfoy. NO ONE denied a Malfoy, or at least, they never lived to. But this....
Boy Who Lived..... had. Yes, detention sucked... and he would make sure it sucked for
everyone else as well.
As usual, whenever Malfoy happened to get in trouble, it was always the same.
Potter and his friends were always stuck with him, it was like they did it on purpose
just to spite him. And as usual, they were going into the Forbidden Forest for some
unknown reason. Usually it was to collect ingredients for Snape or to help Hagrid with
tracking down some new creature for him to keep and look after. The most recent one they
had found was a small baby unicorn. It had probably been the foal of the unicorn slain by
...... Draco shived at the name...... Voldermort.
True, Draco was a death eater. But that didn't mean that Draco liked or wanted to
be one. It was more to please his father and make sure he wasn't going to be disowned due
to some..... issues..... Draco had been having. Issues which Draco was hoping were only
temporary.... if not there were sure to be problems tonight.
Draco sighed and made his was with his lantern to Hagrid's hut where he saw Potter
had already beaten him there. 'Where's his little band of lap dogs?' Draco thought bitterly
to himself. Yes, he wanted to be friends with those two annoying little pest who cowered and
ran behind him to protect themselves. At least Draco could stand up for himself, he wasn't
weak like the others. So why did Potter prefer them over him? 'Best not to waste your time
worrying about Potter's problems and worry about your own!' Draco mentally cursed himself
and made his way over to where Harry was waiting.

~*~

Harry jumped when he saw a light coming twards him. At first he had thought it was
Filch coming to give him a list of almost impossible things to find in the woods like he
had last week. Like Harry knew where to find "eye of three-toed snake" and tail of leprechaun.
But that was the least of his worries when he saw who was really coming twards him. 'Malfoy.'
Harry's heart sank. 'Great, just what I need. Today of all days I'm stuck with Draco Malfoy,
mister "Lets-make-life-hell-for-Potter".' Harry cursed to himself. He really didn't need
Malfoy's company tonight.
"Good night Potter. Where's your little band of worshippers tonight?" Draco sneered.
He very much enjoyed watching Potter give him that look when he got annoyed. It made him
look..... no, he wasn't going to go there. He needed to make it out alive tonight... and
something told him Potter wasn't in the mood to be tormented tonight.
"Nice to see you Malfoy," Harry said in a sarcastic tone. "And if you're asking about
Ron and Hermione, they were assigned to the storage rooms to sort out the ingredients for our
Potions final this week. It's tomorrow in case you forgot." Harry loved to tease Malfoy about
his Potions grade. Even though he was Snape's favourite student, it was obvious that Draco had
been distracted and never finished his work anymore. If Draco didn't pass this final, he would
fail Potions class.
"Ha ha. Funny now aren't you Potter? Yes, I did remember our final. I've been studying
for it all week." Draco retorted.
"Sure doesn't reflect in your grades....."
"Shut up Potter! Anyways, what are we supposed to be doing tonight?"
Harry took the folded piece of paper from a pocket in his robes and handed it off to
Malfoy. Draco took it and read it.

Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Potter,
We are running low on some of the main ingredients for Prof. Snape's finals
potion. You two are assigned to collect the proper amount of each ingriedent needed.
Failure to do this will result in automatic failure of your Potions final and cause
you to retake the class again next year with all the first-years. The required items are:
4 mandrake roots
4 fire seeds
5 stalks of nightshade
10 pieces of wolf's bane
1 vial of unicorn's blood
Prof. McGonagall
P.S. Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Potter, please try not to kill or hex each other. This may be
the perfect chance for the both of you to finally get along.

Draco folded the paper and handed it back to Harry. Disapointment was obvious on his
face. Harry knew how much Draco hated going into the Forbidden Forest, let alone at night with
Harry.
"Very well Potter. I suppose we should get going then if we have all this to collect.
But may I ask one teeny, tiny little question? How in Dumbledore's name are we gonna get some
unicorn blood?"
Harry looked at him, a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. He loved how Malfoy
got that total look of annoyance on his face. It gave Harry such satisfaction.
"Well, we'll have to improvise as we go along now won't we?" Harry took out his wand
and pointed it at the lantern. "Lumos!" The lantern began to glow. Harry picked it up and
pointed the way to the woods.
"Shall we?"
Malfoy shuddered and reluctantly followed Harry into the woods.