"Why We Fight"
Disclaimer: Not mine, sorry.
A/N: Written for the Valentine's Challenge that Dramione Drabbles is hosting on Live Journal. The prompt came from "The Notebook". Can you recognise it?
A/N 2: The title was taken from the fic of the same title by Zephyr Seraphim.
7:30 p.m. in the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts Library
Silence.
She wouldn't speak to him, he wouldn't look at her.
Just silence.
No insults, no sneers, no name-calling under their breaths.
Only silence.
She hated it.
8:00 p.m. in the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts Library
"No, Malfoy! Madam Pince obviously said to arrange according to the author's first name!"
"Last name, Granger, weren't you listening at all?" He shot her an angry glare.
The air around them crackled with the tension between them.
"Fine. You do it your way; I'll do it my way."
"I'm right, Granger. You know I am."
She sighed and opened her mouth to retort.
9:00 p.m. in the Head Dormitories
"Why do we fight?"
Silence.
Then…
"Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass."
"So… It's something good?"
He nodded.
"Even if it's going to land us into more detentions?"
He nodded.
"Even if we might lose our badges if we continue going on like this?"
He nodded. "It's worth it. You are worth more than that measly badge."
She smiled.