Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter

The year was 1993 and the entire wizarding world was in an uproar. One of the most famous oracles had just announced a prophecy; a prophecy that could save or destroy them forever.

"A day will come when the power to decide between good and evil once and for all will be put into the hands of two ordinary teens, a boy and a girl. Their road won't be easy, for both sides will try to sway them. Unfortunately only once the two can learn to set aside their differences and work together will anything at all be possible."

There was more to it than that...but no one payed much attention to that. They were too preoccupied with the thought that good (or evil) could someday reign for all eternity.

One brave witch decided to travel to the muggle world as a principal to find these two teens. However, so did a wizard, disguised as a janitor. Both went to find the children of the prophecy, but only one went for the good of the world. Little did they know it would take 15 years to find them.

***************

"Draco Malfoy! You get back here right now!" Heads turned as two students went running through the halls. Just minutes ago, Hermione Granger had been sitting in the library in her usual spot, when a shadow had appeared next to her. She had payed it no attention, though now she wished she had. Not two minutes later, she was stuck chasing this blockhead down the hallways trying to get her journal back.

"Come on Granger, you'll have to run faster than that if you want to catch up with me!" He looked back at her and stuck his tongue out, but those few seconds were all he needed to run straight into a wall of lockers. She was standing right in front of him now, glaring.

"Alright Malfoy, you've got nowhere else to go, so just hand it over and nobody has to get hurt."

This made him smirk, "Oh really?" Then he went and opened the book to one of the latest pages. Everyone was inching closer, trying not to look like they were paying attention. He opened his mouth to start reading, but never got the chance. A fist connected with his nose, and he could feel something warm and wet dripping down his face. He dropped the book and grabbed his nose, trying not to let tears roll out of his eyes. He was about to start yelling at the witch, but realized she was already turning a corner, her journal firmly in her hands.

Everyone around him was trying to stifle their laughter, they all knew the kind of temper he had, but one really couldn't help but laugh at the sight. Draco stormed down the hallway to the nurse's office, trying to come up with a reason for his bloody nose. He wanted better revenge than just a trip to the principal's office.

When he got to where he was going, he knocked on the door, and a kind looking lady opened up, took one look at his face and gasped. Did he really look that bad? The nurse pulled him inside and pushed him onto one of the cots. "What on earth happened to your face Mr. Malfoy?" She was rummaging through some cupboards, and walked back over with some gauze.

"I wasn't looking where I was going and I slammed into a locker." There, that was true at least. He took the gauze and held it up to his nose, and tilted his head back.

She didn't look totally convinced by this, but didn't ask any more questions. "Well, I'll send a note to your teachers. I want to take a look at that after it stops bleeding." Haha, at least something good came out of this; he got to skip AP EURO.

***************

Hermione walked back to the library and started packing up her stuff, lunch would be over in 5 minutes, and she had to walk to the other side of the school to get to her AP Euro class. She felt quite pleased with herself, she'd never had the nerve to do that before, but sometimes he just made her so mad. At lease her mom had been right about one thing, punching noses didn't really hurt too badly. It did feel a little bruised though. Maybe she should go to the nurse and ask for some ice.

When she walked into the classroom she looked around and found her friend Jenna sitting near the back, so she went over and sat down. Jenna looked up, and the look on her face said she was dying to talk. "You'll never believe what I just heard! Apparently some girl punched Draco Malfoy in the face during lunch! Isn't that awesome?" She was smiling as she said this.

"Yeah, awesome, does anyone know who did it?" She really hoped no one would rat her out the Principle, she'd seen enough of her, to last a life time, and it was only the first tri of her sophomore year.

"Not that I know of, I just know she had brown curly hair, and a pink shirt….kinda like you." She had her thinking look on now. "Hermione, let me see your hand." Crap, her friend really was too smart for her own good. She handed Jenna her left hand. "No, your right hand."

"Fine, it was me. Happy now?" Jenna was hysterical.

"I can't believe you finally did it! I mean, we've talked about getting even before, but I never thought you'd actually do it!"

"Hush up! I don't want anyone to know. If Principle Annie hears even a whisper about this I'll be stuck with kitchen duty for a month!" Jenna only had time for a quick, "fine," before the bell rang, and Mr. Burke started class.

Hermione looked around and realized that Malfoy was missing. She was starting to feel a little guilty, what if she had broken his nose? Oh well, she thought, he definitely deserved what he got.

***************

After class was over, Hermione headed to the nurses office. About halfway through class, her hand was throbbing and she wanted nothing more than a nice ice pack. Unfortunately when she knocked on the door and it opened, she saw Malfoy laying on one of the cots. "What can I help you with dear?"

"Hi, I need some ice for my hand. My locker was jammed and I punched it. Locker opened, hand bruised." She really hoped the nurse would buy her story. After all, she did punch her locker a lot. And who knows, it might have been more believable if her punching bad wasn't sitting 3 feet away with a broken nose.

"You punched your locker huh? Why don't you have a sit on that bed over there and I'll be with you in a minute." Ok, so she wasn't totally convinced, but things could be worse.

***************

Principle Annie DeBoard was sitting in her office drinking a nice hot cup of coffee, and thinking about her mission. It had been 15 years since she'd entered the muggle world in search of those kids. She'd seen millions, but none who fit the prophecy, and she was starting to lose hope of ever finding them.

Then she heard her phone ring. "Principle DeBoard speaking, how can I help you?"

"Uh, hello Miss Deboard, this is Nurse Jackie. I think you might want to come down to my office ASAP." Great, someone probably had lice or something, and she'd be stuck fixing things. Sometimes she really missed using magic.

"Alright, I'll be there in a few minutes." She hung up and walked out of her office. On her way, she kept thinking of all the possible reasons she would need to see the nurse: food poisoning, chicken pox, another STD outbreak. She never expected what she found.

The door opened and Hermione and Draco both looked up to see a stunned principle staring at them. It only took her a few seconds to piece together the puzzle, a boy with a bloody nose and a girl with a bag of ice on her fist. "Jackie, can I have a few minutes with them please?" The students both cringed, they knew perfectly well how pissed their principle could get.

As soon as the door closed she exploded. "What were you thinking?! What could he have possibly done to deserve a punch in the face?" Hermione opened her mouth to explain, but Annie DeBoard wasn't finished. "I don't want to know. Why can't you two go more than a day without trying to kill each other? Is getting along really so hard? If it's not violence it's dumping beans on each other!"

Draco smirked at this. That had been one hell of a day, and quite a lot of clean up duty. "So you think that's funny huh? Just wait till you hear what I've got planned for you this time." She glimpsed Hermione laugh and stick her tongue out at him. "And don't look so smug Miss Granger, you're gonna wish you were back scrubbing the floors when I'm done with you two. Report to my office today right after school and we'll get started."

She walked out of the room, and sent the nurse back in to patch them up. On the way back to her office she started to think about the last year she'd spent with Draco and Hermione. All the fights and trouble they'd gotten into. How rich his family was, and smart they both were. She rushed back to her office and grabbed a copy of the prophecy. They fit it perfectly.

***************

As 3:00 rolled around, Principal Annie was sitting behind her desk making a plan. The prophecy was very specific when it said the two had to get along, and Annie was no fool. She knew that that task alone would be difficult. If only she could make them see just how important it was. Of course that wasn't an option, it was against the rules to tell muggles about magic.

There was a knock on the door, followed by a muffled shout of, "Get out of my way moron!" Oh joy, she thought, they're here.

"Come in." The door opened and Draco and Hermione entered the office and took their seats. "As I'm sure you guys know, this school has a zero tolerance for violence. However, I'm willing to overlook that for now. Instead, you two are gonna spend the next week cleaning the school, before and after school. Today you'll start with the Home EC classroom. Everything you need is already there, and Joe will escort you there, to make sure you get the job done." As she said this an almost giant like man entered the room.

Draco and Hermione stood up, and barely came up to the man's chest. They couldn't do anything but stare at him. "Well, are you going to get to work or just stand there gaping like a fish?" The principal's voice got them moving. She was amazed they had made it so long without fighting. Maybe this wouldn't be so hard after all.

"Get out of my way freak, ladies first."

"I don't see any ladies."

"Oh real nice Malfoy, just move over already." They were shoving each other, trying to get through the doorway. Apparently it was too much to hope for.

***************

Great, how was she going to explain this to George and Marie. Hermione knew very well how sick her foster parents were of all the trouble she kept getting into. Before she had moved to Sherwood to live with them she had been the perfect student: straight A's, honor roll, no trouble ever. But as soon as she had met Draco Malfoy all the changed. She still loved school, and learning, but she was in trouble all the time, and she was always losing her focus in class. Why did Malfoy have to be such a pain in the ass? It had been bad enough moving to a new town just in time for high school, wearing hand me downs, and a bush for hair. Draco Malfoy practically ruled the school. He was smart when he wanted to be, rich, always had everything, girls always all over him. And as soon as he found out she was just a poor little orphan girl, he'd been her tormentor.

Not that she ever let him win without a fight. And that was part of the problem. She always let herself get sucked in, whether it was dumping chili down his shirt or punching him in the face. This thought made her smile a little bit. As much as she was going to pay when she got home, she couldn't help remembering how good it felt to see the tears in his eyes and the blood on his face.

***************

When they entered the Home EC room, they both gasped. It looked like someone had decided to have a food fight in there. Miss. Johnson, the teacher, walked out of her office when she heard the door close. "Well hello there, sorry about the mess. One of the guys decided to show off his throwing skills, and missed the trash. Needless to say the girl with a banana peel on her head wasn't too happy, and next thing you know 20 kids are flinging food all over the place. I was going to make them clean it up, but then I heard Miss Deboard say she was looking for a punishment."

Hermione looked over towards Malfoy and saw him looking more disgusted by the second. "You mean we're going to clean THIS up? Do we get a magical wand to sweep it away? Cause that's the only way I'm doing this."

The good humored Miss Johnson seemed to disappear. "No Mr. Malfoy, I suggest you get started, cause you're not leaving this room till this room is spotless. And I mean SPOTLESS, or are you just too good to pay for your actions?"

"My actions? All I did was get punched in the face! This witch should have to do this by herself."

Hermione was getting fed up with him. "Witch? Wow how original Malfoy. And you know you totally deserved it. Now stop your stupid whining, pick up a sponge, and start scrubbing the counters." After saying this, she went over to the table with the supplies, grabbed a sponge and flung it at his head, then grabbed a broom and started sweeping up the scattered French fries.

"Miss Johnson! Are you going to let her treat me like that?" If there was one thing Draco hated, it was being beat in an argument, which seemed to be happening a lot lately.

"Mr. Malfoy, I didn't see anything. Now get started, I have errands to run. Joe will be outside, so don't even think about ditching." She gave Hermione a wink, and then she and Joe left the room.

Draco wasn't used to being treated like this. Usually teachers let him get away with anything, knowing what his father could do to this school. And he was stuck in this class, cleaning, with the stupid orphan girl who had just about broken his nose earlier. He looked over at her, sweeping with a smirk on her face, and got even more pissed.

Out of the corner of her eye, Hermione could see that Draco wasn't doing anything but sitting on one of the counters watching her work. She turned around, "Get your lazy ass of that counter and start working." He just looked at her. "Come on already, we've been at this an hour, and you still haven't done anything."

"That's not true. I cleaned off this counter before I sat on it. Wouldn't want to get my new jeans dirty."

She glared at him. "If you don't start working I'm going to call Joe in here. Something tells me he won't be too happy." As much as Joe scared him, Draco wasn't going to admit it, so he decided to just keep sitting there.

Hermione was fed up, and walked over to the door. She opened it and Draco heard some talking, but couldn't understand what they were saying. She walked back in and went back to mopping. Draco smirked, but it was wiped off his face when Joe walked into the room after her and stood right in front of him. "Well Mr. Malfoy, why aren't you helping this nice young lady clean this up?" His voice was low and Draco could sense he wasn't a man to be crossed.

"My nose was getting a little sore, so I decided to take a break. I was just about to get back to work." He could hear Hermione snort across the room, but ignored her. Joe gave him one more look before returning to the hall. Grumbling, Draco jumped down and grabbed the sponge and went back to scrubbing the gunk out of the sink, all the while thinking up a way to get her back.

Meanwhile Hermione had finished with the floors, making them sparkle they were so clean. Then she decided she deserved a short break. She grabbed a class of water then sat down at one of the tables.

Draco was working on his third sink when he realized each one had a hose hooked up to it. He turned on the faucet, and tried it out. It had a lot of pressure behind it. I quietly pulled it out of the hole in the sink, and crept up to Hermione. When he was as far away as the hose would go, he pulled the trigger and blasted Hermione's head with the water. She squealed and jumped out of the chair. Turning around she saw what was going on, then ran over to the nearest sink, turned the water onto boiling hot, and sprayed him right back.

Draco had forgotten there was more than one hose in the room. It turned into a full on water fight. But they had both forgotten that Joe was sitting right outside the room. "What is going on in…." His voice had startled them both, and they turned towards the door. Unfortunately so did their hoses.

********************

A/N: Hey guys! What do ya'll think? If you like the story please review it. Also, I want to find someone to beta my story. If you're interested then send me a message. Thank you for reading!

Ashleyd2011