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Authors note!! ahh, k wiish me luck for my story, i hope you enjoy.
Chapter One
"Granger?! What the hell are you doing in here?!" Draco Malfoy seethed toward the girl sitting at her own desk in HIS office.
"Oh my god, Malfoy? I wasn't told i would be working with you?!" Hermione fearful at first but regaining her composure.
"No, tell me your not my new partner for this job. Tell me they didn't hire some know it all mudblood to be taking Jens place." Draco ran his fingers through his platinum hair, his face remaining expressionless.
"As a matter of fact they did. They finally realized they should stop hiring women who could hardly spell their last names. Margret didn't tell me it was you that i'd have to share this awfully small room they call a frigin office with an arrogant ars!"
"Language Mudblood." Draco leaned on his desk for support.
Hermione got up from her desk and paced behind it, trying awfully hard to think how she got herself into such a position. Of all the things Malfoy would chose as a career, the International Magical Office of Law had to be it! He should be in a grave somewhere like his good for nothing father.
What the hell was a bushy-haired Granger doing, sitting in his office, in Jennifer's seat?! Draco didn't understand, they usually hired gorgeous, beautiful models as his partner. A lot of great memories lay on that desk...now a picture of Potty and the red-haired weasles lay on the desk! He had to get to the bottom of this.
"This is not going to work. I can't work with some ugly, beaver looking girl. The wizards and witches we work with internationally will laugh. No, im finding Margret." Draco attempted to exit the office.
"Excuse me where are you going?" Hermione tapped her foot and crossed her arms.
"To get you fired or removed."
"No your not, i worked really hard to get here Malfoy. I didnt just jump on a superiors wonky to get this job! And you of all people will not get me fired." Hermione's eyes flashed from anger to frustration to fear.
"Really? You stupid girl, I cant get you fired in a matter of seconds." A flare in his eyes.
"Malfoy. We can make this work. I wont bother you." Hermione said through a clenched jaw.
"Oh, poor Granger needs this job. Oh, i should really pity her and let her breath the same air as me in MY office. Granger there is no way in hell i will work with you." He left the room to find Margret their boss.
Hermione exhaled and sat at her desk. Worried that Malfoy being so high in authority could actually get her fired.
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"Margret! I mean beautiful, sweet Margie. You must understand...my new coworker and i dont exactly see eye to eye on anything. Surely you understand what i mean, if you could just take care of that little problem. It will be greatly appreciated, and greatly rewarded." Draco stroked her cheek and grinned.
Margret, the woman who ran the Department of International Magical Cooperations Department, smiled faintly.
"Mr. Malfoy-"
"Draco, please." He smiled.
"Draco, im sorry but there are no others that are even close to her intelligence for this job. I mean she knows the other countries and wizards from around the world. She knows their backrounds and even their children. She's obviously wanted this job for years. She much too qualified for this job. You two will just have to work something out."
"But Margie...how bout we work something out? You know i never forgot that day in my office, when we-"
"Draco! Im sorry." She turned scarlett.
"Margret. Im begging you."
"No. Now i suggest you get back to work and figure out what your going to do, Draco."
"Mr. Malfoy please, Mrs. Louis, let's try to keep things proffessional." Draco hissed in anger and stalked out of the room.
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Slamming the door behind him he turned on the petite girl in front of him.
"Okay Granger, you do not talk to me, look at me or even breath in my direction. got it? Good." He slumped into the chair behind his desk.
"Funny Malfoy that you would even think that i would willingly look into your direction or dream of talking to you. Im just as aggrivated as you are."
"Honestly. How did you end up here. Of all the places and jobs on earth you had to choose this one?!"Draco seethed to his parchment and grabbed a quill.
"That's exactly what i was wondering. Malfoy, if were going to work together we need to make a truce." Hermione straightened her blouse and looked up at Malfoy.
"Ha. Funny, I would never stoop so low as to befriend a dumb mudblood." He sneered.
"Malfoy your what? twenty two years old now? Could you please grow up and find something worth while to say? Really, that's so grade school." She reported back to her empty drawer.
"Im twenty-three and no. Mudblood still fits you perfectly. Or dirty mudblood, filthy mudblood. All around your still nothing more than a mudblood." Pure joy danced through his eyes as he saw Hermione go red.
"The war is over Malfoy! So stop being such an ars. What have i done to you?"
"The war is over but that has nothing to do with you non-magic persons. You dont belong here and its a disgrace they even allow you in here." Draco replied.
"Well deal with it Mr. Malfoy. I am your equal partner. And there is nothing you can do but work along side me." Hermione breathed, waiting for a better reaction than the one she'd been recieving. A boiling Draco Malfoy.
"You will never be my equal, it doesn't matter what anyone else says. You are lower than the mud that graces the bottom of my shoes. Just stay out of my way mudblood." And with that he grabbed his wand.
Hermione took hers out just as quick. But all Draco did was perform a silencing charm to keep her from continuing a conversation with him.
For the rest of the day they worked in silence, answering owls from Bulgaria and France and working seprately.
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The next day:
"Hermione!" Ginny Weasley pranced into her office. "I hope you dont mind, i brought you lunch! Although its not much just a saa--oh my god, is that Draco Malfoy?" She hushed her voice.
"Dont worry he cant hear you, he's placed a silencing charm so we dont speak." Hermione threw a nasty look toward him.
Draco didn't even realize anyone was in the room, he concentrated on his work never looking up at Hermione. Although she wasn't that bad to look at he decided. Her hair not as bushy and her slender body...
Not that he would ever be checking out a mudblood. He only had eyes for the beautiful, the gorgeous and the not so bright.
He lifted his head for a quick glance and realizes there was a girl with flaming red hair sitting on Granger's desk.
"Ah Weasley, finally back for more?" Draco smirked his awful smirk.
What did he just say? Surly her bestfriend never would have.
"Malfoy your not in every girls dream, so stop pretending that you see them every night." Hermione glanced at Ginny, she was starting to blend in with her hair. "Ginny?"
"Um...right so there's your lunch! Can't have Neville watching the Floo Network by himself...he once let a 2 year old end up in Nigeria. Um...Bye!" Ginny rushed out of the office.
"Oh my god." Hermione swallowed her own vomit. The thought of Ginny and Ferret Boy. Ew.
"Yea, that's what she said too. What can i say? I am God." Daco planted his feet up on his desk and drifted off reminising.
"Please stop it before i regurgitate." Hermione covered her mouth.
"Shut up Mudblood. your annoying voice is ruining my daydream." Draco glared in her direction.
"Malfoy will you just grow up?"
"I am grown, more than you know. More than you'll ever know." Draco chuckled at his own joke.
Granger sat there dumbfounded. She didnt get it.
"Uh-huh?" Hermione stared at Draco.
"Wow, your more dense than i thought Granger. i meant i've grown in places you'll never get to experience..." Draco placed his arms behins his head and leaned back in his chair.
"If your talking about your brain Malfoy, i see no change there." Hermione said dismissivly and returned to her work.
"I was talking about my shaft, woman. Merlin your thick in the head." Draco sighed.
"Oh no, i really didn't need that image in my head. Now im going to have nightmares." Hermione grimanced.
"Strange, most females call them fantasies, but what ever gets you going."
"Malfoy! You sick, egotistical ferret!" Hermione scrunched up her face as if Draco just pulled out some dirty, smelly socks.
"Hello my wonderful International bunnies of love!" Margret strided into their office.
Hermione jumped from her seat and beamed at her new employer.
"Hello Mrs. Louis! How are you today? What brings you here?" Hermione straightened her blouse.
Draco remained in his chair, feet on desk and all.
"Glad to see you to Mr. Malfoy. Well Ms. Granger i have a wonderful assignment for the both of you!" Margret clapped her hands together and Draco removed his feet from the desk.
"Goody." He deadpanned.
Hermione stood listening intently.
"Okay, so here it is. Since you two are the international spokespersons, and you arrange our international gatherings and whatnot... We've decided you are actually going to do a lot more this year. Traditionally we'd keep you here and have you correspond to your clients through owling but this year we've decided we want you traveling and meeting and mingling with our international relatives in person!"
Hermione gave a quizzical look.
"What are you saying?" Draco leaned forward.
"Well, we want you visiting the wizards from all over the world and working things out in person. We want to advertise unity through the wizarding world. Over the past few years things have been very unstable since the war. What were trying to do is, well, the next generation shouldn't be as corrupted as ours. They should prosper in unity and love. By you two taking pictures and befriends other wizards and witches from all over the world, you guys would set a great example! Everyone here at the ministry is taking some part in this but yours will by far be the most affective." Margret explained with a smile plastered to her face.
"Wonderful!" Hermione beamed, a strained smile fixed on hers.
"So you want Granger and i to travel the world together? Why don't we just apparate when needed and meet eachother there?" Draco pondered.
"Well you see, we want you to travel to these places and stay there for a week...or two. To really explore and get the feel of other places. Think of it as a vaction." Margret wrked on Draco seeing Hermione would never disobey her boss.
"How could it possibly be a vacation with her coming along?" Rage flickered off Dracos face.
"Mr. Malfoy, i told you. You to-two need to work on this in your own time. Were trying to create unity, an-and i will not have you ruinging this."She gathered what ever defiance she had in her voice and her employee burned holes through her skull from his deathly stare. "Mr. Malfoy puh-please act proffessionally. You two will travel together, share a room and wo-work with one another in peace. Or i shall have your jobs. Tha-that goes for the both of you." She studdered and left the room only to suddenly come back in and give one more statement.
"You leave on friday. Be here at 7 am sharp." Then she quickly closed the door and ran off.
Draco was furious. Share a room with a mudblood? Granger in fact! This was impossible. If his father were alive to this day she would defintly perish. He became so enraged he grabbed his wand and blew up the vase in the corner.
Hermione gave out a shriek. He is insane. She carefully grabbed her wand just in case he felt the need to destroy something containing flesh. He went along torching the plants hanging from the wall pottery. Finally he sighed and walked over to his desk, slouching in his chair.
Her mione shakily went back to hers as well...a few minutes later her urge to pee didn't go away. She got up and walked out the door, leaving a very frustrated Draco Malfoy.
Authors Note!! Okay so whatdya think?? First chapter okay?? Hmm...yea needs a little work but donw worry! The trips next and they're garunteed a good time in one anothers company! Review my lovelies :)