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"Hey Draco how's it going?"

He turned to me, "I can't stop smiling! It's absolutely horrible!"

I smiled, "Well that's what you get for not smiling enough."

His eyes widened, "You did this to me?"

I bit my lip grinning, "Maybe."

"Dragon I'm going to kill you when this charm wears off!"

I laughed, "Sure you are Draco, and seriously what's up with this last name business? Is it an english thing?"

He laughed, "I don't know I just call everyone by their last names."

I cringed, "You know happy Draco's starting to creep me out. Want to go back to normal?"

He was laughing uncontrollably now clutching his stomach, "Yes!" He gasped out.

I waved my hand and took the spell back. He stood up, "Dear God my cheeks hurt. Now, Dragon you are going to die."

Just then Pansy decided to show up, "Drakie-poo! Why do you laugh for her and not me? Drakie you hurt my feelings so!"

He rolled his eyes, "Now look what you've done!" He hissed at me as Pansy clutched his arm and practically climbed on top of them.

I bent over and pretended to shove my finger down my throat and puke, Draco saw me out of the corner of my eye and I grinned at him. Pansy sneered at me.

"Such a vulgar, unclean person."

I rolled my eyes, "So says the girl throwing herself at a guy that's obviously not interested."

She snarled, "Drakie is so in love with me, right Drakie?"

"Pansy for the hundredth time I don't love you! I can barely tolerate you!"

"Aw you don't mean that Drakie." She said pouting, still sitting on his lap.

"Pansy are you seriously that stupid? I don't love you, never have never will. Now get. Off. my. Lap."

With the last couple words he pushed her off of him, she landed on her perky little butt with a little 'oof!' She looked up at Draco who was looking down at her with disgust, her eyes filled with tears and she let out an ear splitting shriek. "WAAAHHH!"

Flitwick immediately looked over to see where the noise was coming from. He looked from Draco, to me, to Pansy with her mouth open wide and eyes closed, put his head in his hands and cast a silencing charm on her.

She opened her mouth a couple times, then realizing nothing was coming out she looked wide eyed up at Flitwick.

"Are you going to continue shrieking like a banshee?"

She shook her head.

"Okay then, Miss Parkinson what's wrong?"

"Drakie doesn't love me and he... he... PUSHED ME!"

Flitwick eyed Draco and he shrugged. Flitwick cast another silencing spell on Pansy, she was bawling again.

"Mr. Malfoy please explain."

"She was sitting on my lap and practically stripping herself, I shoved her off before she could do anything revolting and indecent."

Flitwick sighed, "Miss Parkinson you have a detention for disrupting. Everyone go back to work."

Pansy stalked to the other side of the room, where some other random Slytherin's were hanging out.

Once she was out of ear shot I looked over at Draco and gave him a look. He glared at me but I kept looking at him, until eventually he couldn't take it anymore and chuckled.

That one chuckle broke a dam and I was laughing up a storm, he was laughing, but not the full out one I was; it was a dignified 'Draco' laugh.

Luna came over to me and whispered in my ear, "I thought you put him out of his misery."

I laughed even harder, "I did!"

Draco stopped chuckling, "Stop whispering about me. I swear I'll hex you into oblivion."

I laughed again, "I'd like to see you try. You were scared by a little fireball."

"Shush about that!"

Luna giggled, "I've never seen you this happy Malfoy."

He stopped for a minute and the smile fell off his face, "That's because I've never been... DRAGON YOU WILL PAY!"

He lunged up off his chair and whipped out his wand pointing it at me. I held up my hands, "Mercy Mercy!"

He smirked, "That's right."

"Oh no, I was demonstrating what you were going to look like in a couple seconds."

I took Artemis off my arm, she'd been in bangle form since last night but now she became a flame again. Then she grew to the size of a full dragon.

Draco fell on his butt and (along with everyone else in the class) (except Luna.) started screaming. I fell over laughing while Luna just looked at it in curiosity.

She smiled and Artemis calmed down slightly, "Oh she's adorable!"

I smiled, "Thanks. She's my Piksy."

She looked over at me, with a slight dazed look, "A what?"

"Just a spell I came up with. Kind of a physical manifestation of my soul."

"That explains the fire."

I smiled wider, "Thanks. Artemis! Calm down!"

She looked at me and shrunk down to her average size and curled around my neck.

Draco stood, "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT!" He practically exploded. I got the vibe that normally Draco wasn't this emotional, so I took off the spell I'd put on him.

He calmed down, "Dragon what was that?"

"I already explained this to Luna, it's a Piksy. Physical manifestation of my soul."

"Oh. Does it bite."

Artemis growled and blew a smoke ring and Draco, "Not often, but she does breathe fire. Ooh and she makes WICKED s'mores."

"Outstanding!"

That last exclamation was professor Flitwick.

"That was one of the most clever charms I've seen in my life!" Just then the bell interrupted him.

"I shall see you all tomorrow!"

With that we all left and went for lunch. I was walking down to the great hall when Draco caught up to me, "Hey! Don't you have to get the ingredients for that love potion thing?"

"Shit! Yeah! Come on!"

I started running off towards the dungeons dragging him by his tie. "Come on!"

He tried to catch up behind me to prevent himself from being strangled, eventually we ended up in the store room. I scanned the shelves looking for the things I need, then I turned to Draco.

"Do you have a pen and paper?"

"Yeah why?"

"I need you to copy down everything I tell you to."

Then I speed dialled Jenna, it went straight to voicemail as usual.

"This is Jenna, your first stop matchmaker and cookie baker. I can't talk right now, you know what to do after the beep!"

"Jenna this is Caramel, I swear if you don't pick up RIGHT NOW-"

"CARAMEL!"

Jenna squealed right into my ear, I held it away from my head as she screeched. Eventually when she stopped I put the phone to my ear again.

"Are you done now?"

"Yes."

I laughed, "Good. Now. I need to bring up a sore spot."

"I can handle it, I'm not some coward."

"It's about Dune last year."

"Oh. What about it? The ministry still hasn't decided my punishment OR wether or not to reveal the potion."

"See that's the thing. I left my potions book at your house this summer, my tracker says you have it."

"Seriously? You have a tracker on that thing! AND I have it!"

"Yeah. I think you probably packed it by accident."

"Okay, going through it now... Ahh.. Oh hey I do! Well how about that?"

"Yeah yeah, you have it. Now. I need you to read me the potion instructions, I'm pretty sure I remember it all but I have to make sure."

"Understandable. Okay, the instructions are..."

I motioned to Draco to start taking notes. After Jenna was done I smiled, "Thanks babe, I'll call you tonight."

"Kay Caramel, Oh and Tom's been asking about where you are, do you want me to...?"

"Don't tell him anything. The last thing I need is getting into that here."

"Okay, love you sweetheart."

"Love you to babe."

I hung up and bit my lip, then composed myself and turned to Draco. "You got all that?"

"Yep. Now I don't know about you but Dragon fire is kind of hard to get access to. I don't even know how you got it the first time."

I rolled my eyes and motioned to Artemis who was sleeping curled around my neck, "Ah yes."

I grinned and started getting different ingredients off the wall, Draco pitched in and then after about twenty minutes we had all the things we needed.

"So what do we do now?"

"Well now we start the potion, we have half an hour. I can get part of it done in that time."

"Which part?"

My cheeks reddened slightly and I ducked my head, looking over the directions again, "The easy part..."

He chuckled, "Well then let's get started."

I smiled and grabbed a cauldron off the wall, "Alright, first we need... Oh shiz."

"What does that mean? Is that bad?"

"Yes. That means something wrong... I need some DNA of whoever this potion is going to make fall in love, and whoever that person is going to fall in love with."

"But Amortentia doesn't need the first one..."

"Yeah, see that's one of the parts I messed up."

"Ah. Well, you add that last right?"

"Yeah..."

"Then just tell Snap and I'm sure he'll be fine with it."

I rolled my eyes, he actually had faith in this man.

"Well then first we need boiled unicorn tears."

He pulled the bottle out of the mass of containers we'd accumulated, "You know I've always wondered how they actually got these things."

"Well I'm assuming they made a Unicorn cry and then... Wait yeah! How would they get those?"

"I don't know but I'd hate to see the state of the guy who made a Unicorn cry... He must have a conscience that's eating him alive."

I laughed, "Possibly." I added the entire contents of the bottle, "Now hand me the mermaid scale."

"Ugh. Now I really feel sorry for whoever had to get that."

"Why?"

"Mermaids are viscous creatures."

"No they're not."

"Which mermaid's do you know?"

"The one's that used to live in the ocean by St. Margaret's, they were really nice and would always help call really wicked waves for us to surf."

"What?"

"Nothing." I continued grinding up the scale, "Can you start on the poison?"

"Sure."

For a while we worked in silence on different parts of the potion, when the bell to go to our next class rang I started getting my things together, while Draco just continued working.

"Hey, the bell rang. You coming?"

"No. I have a spare next slot, I'll just keep working on this."

"Are you sure? You're not going to sabotage my potion are you?"

He glared at me, "I have a certain aspect of dignity, you have my word that I won't do anything wrong purposefully to this potion."

I looked at him warily, but all I saw in his eyes was sincerity.

"Whatever, it's your head if you mess up."

He looked scared then. I smirked, "Hey it's your choice, you can stop now. It has to sit for 1-24 hours anyway."

I stood up, "I think I'll spend my spare in the library."

I smiled, "You do that Draco."

With that I walked out of the room towards my Care of Magical creatures class.

I walked down out of the castle to a little hut by the lake, where only 3 people were waiting, along with the giant from the giant from the boats last night.

"Al'righ today we're goin' to be workin' with merfolk. Let's head down to the lake."

I walked down, giddy. As I'd told Draco I loved the mermaids at St. Margaret's, hopefully I'd get along with these ones to.

Once we got to the lake I saw a group of very angry looking mermaids waiting by the shore, Professor Dumbledore was there too.

While... Hagrid I think went on about the mermaids I walked closer to the lake. Then I heard him calling to me, "Now yah don't wanna get to close there, they're viscous."

I quirked an eyebrow at him, "You've got to be kidding me."

"Nope, very irritable, they only listen to Professor Dumbledore, right Professor?"

"Right you are Hagrid, although I do think we should give our newest student a chance to get to know them."

Hagrid shuffled but didn't say anything. I set my bag down and walked towards the shore. The mermaids there looked so sad and angry, furious but starving. Something was wrong with them.

I cast a warming spell over my body and dove into the water, the mermaids looked after me curiously. I popped my head above water and cast the spell that allowed me to breathe underwater (another spell I'd discovered) then waved to them, motioning to get them to follow me.

Once we were far under the water they looked at me warily but I simply smiled at them then started speaking, "I come from the warm Ocean on the other side of the world, I am a friend of many of your sisters and brothers. You can trust me."

They all still looked wary but one was inching closer, I sighed and started swimming off towards the centre of the lake where I assumed their village was.

They sped after me but still kept their distance, when I got there I gasped and tears filler my eyes.

A giant squid's corpse was rotting in the middle of their sanctuary. It's toxic blood was seeping out and poisoning the waters around it, sentencing the mermaids to a slow painful death.

I looked to them sadly and they saw my sorrow and started singing a heart wrenching song. I sped towards the surface, when my head broke I gasped "Professor Dumbledore come quick!"

He got into the lake and swam to the centre, the cast the spell I'd taught him last night to breathe underwater, I dove and he followed soon after. When we made it to the small under water village his eyes grew sad, and he looked towards the mourning merfolk.

He motioned to me, then spoke, "I can do nothing under the water. You, however, can."

I nodded, and looked toward the Squid. The mermaid's mournful song filled my soul and I shot towards the surface, once above I cast a levitation spell on myself. Then I screamed the first spell that came to mind.

"ACCIO SQUID CORPSE!"

Of course, that not being one of my better ideas, it totally worked. Which meant that the dead body of a squid the size of the Titanic was speeding towards me. Artemis morphed into her full Dragon size and I jumped on her back and we sped towards the shore. Once there the squid finally came barreling towards us. I tried to stop the spell but it was a tad too late, so instead I put up a shield, and was instantly surrounded by dead squid, only protected by a small bubble. That wouldn't hold forever.

"ARTEMIS BURN IT!"

I yelled as loud as I could knowing she could hear me, then the bubble grew slightly hotter, so I increased the strength, after a couple seconds the dead poisonous body was a flaming hot bonfire. Of deadly fumes. Ah shiz after this I was going to be so tired...

After a minute or two the flames crumbled and the body turned to ash, to reveal the outside world full of smoke to me. I cleared the air quickly and then, using the last of my strength, collapsed gracefully.

Yeah, if only. Instead The ashes crumbled around me and immediately I crumpled into a ball of exhaustion, completely unconscious from the amount of power I had to use for that shield.

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Sinking gratefully into a deep oblivion would only be so peaceful, if only everyone would SHUT THE HELL UP!

My eyes opened blearily, only to shut quickly. Too bright. I groaned, "Where am I?"

Professor Dumbledore's chuckle filled my ears, "In the hospital wing child. I do believe you've set a record, not many people can manage to make it to the infirmary on their second day."

"What happened?"

"Well dear, you got your soul to burn a four hundred thousand pound squid's body, while you were under it in a shield, then collapsed from exhaustion."

I shot up, "OH CRAP! What time is it?"

"Close to dinner, I believe only ten minutes are left until it begins."

"CRAP! Sorry professor but I have to go!"

I raced down the stairs of the hospital wing towards the dungeons, I was in so much trouble. There would be no way me and Draco could finish the potion now!

I slid into the common room and didn't see Draco, so I shot out and headed towards the potions room, maybe if I worked through dinner I could finish it without him.

When I entered the room I stopped at a blonde head that was bent over a bubbling lavender potion.

"Hey! What are you doing in here?"

Draco looked up, surprised, "Oh! I thought you were going to be in the hospital wing until tomorrow so I decided to try and do something nice... Wait. Something Nice. You did take the cheering charm off me didn't you?"

"Yeah, during charms."

He looked confused, before the look cleared from his eyes and he looked back to me, "Well I decided to finish the potion."

"Oh! Well, thanks. Where are you?"

"Um... Here?"

I laughed, "No! No! I mean what part of the potion?"

"Just some dragon blood, a bit of stirring, the first DNA, the beetle blood and then the second person's DNA."

"You almost finished it!"

"Um... Yeah."

"Oh! Well thank you. That's very kind." I smiled, then all of a sudden he growled.

"What?"

"If you ever tell anyone that I did something nice I'll... I'll... I'll hex you into next week."

"Yeah, yeah, and if you try I'll set Artemis on you."

He paled slightly, "What is that thing anyway?"

"I told you! It's a manifestation of my soul in physical form."

"Alright. Now in english."

"It's a part of my soul outside my body."

"Ah. How do you get one?"

So he wanted one to defend him from Artemis!

"Well you need to be able to do hand magic for one."

"I'm sure I can mange it."

"Well fine then!" And I showed him how to do the spell.

After about five tries he got frustrated, I continued on the potion, now was just stirring for five minutes.

"Try moving your hands on the first, not the second part."

"This is hard without a wand!"

"Magic is harder WITH a wand."

He cursed and tried more. After the five minutes were up I looked up to Draco who was still standing trying to make a Piksy.

"It's fine if you can't. I won't criticize you."

He grit his teeth, "I can do it."

"Whatever." I held up my hands, "Now who's DNA should I put in here?"

"Might as well put your own, it's your potion. That's what Amortentia would do anyway."

"Fair enough."

I added a couple of my hairs, and while I was adding the five drops of beetle blood I heard a whoosh.

I looked up to Draco, who had a small flickering animal in his hands.

First it was a snake, a lion, a fox, before finally resting on a wolf.

The small wolf in his hands seemed to be made of a dark fog, dark tendrils of the smoke seemed beyond it's shape. Wow. That sounded deep.

He looked over the small animal in his hands. I gave it another once over before looking up at Draco's face, "Decent."

"What?"

"Ah... Cool."

"Oh. What's it's name?"

"It?"

"Huh?"

"Never mind, and I don't know, you name it, not me."

"Well I don't know!"

"It's okay, I've had Artemis for two years and I just named her yesterday."

"Seriously?"

"Dead."

"What?"

"Dead serious."

"I really don't understand all your sayings."

"And I don't understand quantum physics, this just proves that you can't know everything."

"What?"

I was ready to beat this boy. Instead I took the high road and just laughed and said, "Never mind. Now the potions done except for the last bit of DNA, wanna head back to the common room?"

"Actually, I'm starving."

"But dinner's over..."

"Then come with me."

With that he walked out of the room, and started sauntering down the hall.

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