I Think I Kinda Like you

By Taki-Sama

Disclaimer: I Do not own the Characters or some recognizable bits of story line. J.K. Rowling does.

A/N: Okay so I decided that following the storyline (in a way) is getting kinda boring, I mean we all knows what happens in the Movies (Ew movie 4) and the book, and your looking for some spice so I decided that I will start changing a few things up because hey its a fan fiction people wont get pissed if it doesn't follow the book (like the movie -.-) so yeah lets stray from the cheesy and not as much action as I wanted and lets take a dive shall we =D. (and also lets add a little more Romantic confusion shall we?)

Read and Review Please!

Chapter 7: The Yule Ball.

"Potter! Weasley! Will you kindly pay attention!" Professor McGonagall barked across the class room at Harry and Ron who were having a fake sword fight in the back of the class with a pair of Fred and Georges Fake wands.

Kathleen turned her head to look at the two boys and had to stifle a laugh as she looked at both of them. While she was still sour about Ron's little pity party earlier, he had apologized for acting like a git so their relationship was almost back to normal, though Kathleen still held a grudge against him for it, if he had been a true friend he would have never accused Harry of entering himself in, and even if Kathleen had been allowed to enter, she still didn't force the Goblet to choose her. She held a small inkling that Ron was only Harry friend for the fame, but she supposed if Harry liked him around that was fine, she wasn't going to say anything about it.

"Now that Potter and Weasley have decided to act their age, I would like to continue with what I was saying." The deputy Headmistress snapped turning her attention back to the rest of the class. "The yule Ball is fast approaching- it is a traditional dance accompanied with the Tournament and an opportunity to get to know our foreign guests. It will be open only to forth years and above, but they will be allowed to invite a younger guest."

Kathleen had to cover her ears as Lavender Brown squealed a few feet away from her. She rolled her eyes as the girl and her friend, Parvati Patil, turned to stare longingly at Harry. Professor McGonagall continued to give information about the ball and its formalities and added that even with this exciting event coming up she still expected to see her house and the other students working hard on their studies.

Soon the bell rang and Kathleen picked up her back and turned to leave when Professor McGonagall called her and Harry.

"A Word you two if you please?" she asked and Kathleen made her way to the Professor's desk and looked at Harry who came to stand beside her.

"Potter, Miss Grey, The Champions and their Partners-"

"What Partners?" Harry interrupted and Kathleen had to smack her forehead and sigh hopelessly. McGonagall did not look amused, possibly thinking Harry was trying to be funny and not being a genuine idiot.

"Your Partners for the ball Potter, Your Dance Partners." She said slowly her eyes flicking to Kathleen hoping she wouldn't have to explain it to her too, thankfully the girl gave her a understanding look so she continued. "You and the others-"

"Oh...I Don't dance..." Harry interrupted again and Kathleen ended up picking up a book off of Mcgonagall's desk and smacked Harry in the head with it. She looked apologetic to the Professor and set the book back down.

"ow..." harry whispered rubbing the back of his head.

"Though I don't tolerate violence miss Grey I'll let it slide this time." McGonagall sighed and stared sternly at Harry. "May I continue or do I have to transfigure your mouth into something a little more silent?" she threatened and nodded when harry shook his head.

"You will dance, that is what I'm trying to say, as Champions it is your job to open the Dance, its traditional, so I suggest you find yourselves Dance partners before its to late." and with that McGonagall shooed them from the room.

Kathleen sighed as She, Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way to the Great Hall a Week later.

"Had I known this sooner I would have thought finding a Date to the Yule Ball would have been easier then fighting the Hortail...now it think I'll have another go at the Dragon..." Harry mumbled. "And do Girls always have to travel in packs? How are we supposed to get one alone to ask them?"

"We could use a lasso?" Ron suggested. "Any idea who your going to ask?"

Kathleen rolled her eyes and turned to Hermione, the Two of them we lagging back slightly while Harry and Ron talked.

"So going with anyone?" She asked Hermione who blushed and Nodded. Kathleen Grinned. "Oh, who is it?"

"Promise not to tell Ron...or Harry cause he'll tell Ron anyway."

"Sure okay."

"Victor Krum."

Kathleen had to stifle a gasp. "Wow he asked you?" she beamed when Hermione nodded. "Thats really great."

"Thanks, but I'm so nervous, I don't know what to wear...and I didn't even think about it logically before I said yes...later on Neville asked me if I wanted to go, and I felt so bad turning him down."

"I'm sure Neville will find someone else, besides if he goes to the dance you can ask him to dance with you later."

"Yeah I guess your right." Hermione smiled at Kathleen but that smile vanished as she Stopped and stared behind Kathleen a small blush on her face, Kathleen gave her a confused look until she heard her name and turned to Face Cedric Diggory.

Ron and Harry stopped to to stare suspiciously at him, and something clicked in the back of Harry head and his stare turned into a glare.

"Hey, I have been look everywhere for you." Cedric said as he caught up to the group. He stopped in front of Kathleen and gave her a small crooked smile a small tint of a blush on his face.

Kathleen's heart started to race at the older boys smile and all she could do was grin back, not noticing that Cedric's eyes shifted mischievously to Harry as if daring him to do something. "O-oh? And why were you looking for me?" She asked her cheeks felt hot and she knew she was blushing herself.

"I was just wondering, if you would like to come to the Dance with me."

Kathleen's brain seized and her heart stopped beating. Cedric Diggory, Hogwarts most handsome and charming student wanted to take her to the dance. She beamed happily and despite getting the feeling she was about to do something stupid she opened her mouth.

"I would love to Cedric."

The Hufflepuff champion grinned and winked at her. "Great, I'll see you then." and walked off.

Thats when Kathleen suddenly realized what she had done and covered her mouth looking shocked. She turned to Harry who was looking at her like she was Crazy and Hermione had her eyebrows raised, Ron just look impressed, he really didn't pay attention to anything.

"Oh shit, what did I just say?"

"I Believe it was somewhere along the lines of 'I would love to Cedric'." Harry said controlling the bitterness in his voice, it wasn't towards Kathleen, it was towards Cedric, he was getting up the courage to ask her himself, possibly in a few days, but that git had shown up first and he knew that Harry liked her.

"Oh dear, I am so dead. I can't believe I just said that, I wasn't thinking at all...it just came out."

"Whats the big deal?" Ron asked.

Kathleen shifted uncomfortably and looked at Hermione who already knew about Draco asking her several months back.

"Because I was supposed to go with...someone else." She didn't say anything else and the group sighed in unison.

"Your hopeless..." Hermione said shaking her head.

"Who were you supposed to go with?" Harry asked a little curious.

Kathleen looked at him guiltily and it took a few more seconds before he figured it out.

"Malfoy right?" he snapped and felt bad for the tone when Kathleen flinched.

"Well he did ask first...Besides at the time he just told me it was a simple Dance, not a large Formal Ball, I didn't know it was that important at the time!" Kathleen cried in her defense.

"Why would you go with the sniveling Ferret anyway?" Ron growled glaring at Kathleen.

"Because he's my friend even if you don't like him, and as I said He asked first."

"So if one of his goons asked first would you go?" Ron continued not knowing when to stop.

"No you jerk, Draco is my friend and just because you have a problem with him doesn't mean I do, besides at least he didn't bite my head off when my name was pulled from the Goblet, which make him a better friend then yourself!" she hissed and turned to stomp off leaving Ron looking shocked, his face turning red from anger and embarrassment.

Harry watched Kathleen stalk off, while he was upset about the whole situation, Ron had pushed her a little to much and she was still trying to forgive him for being a git during the first part to the tournament.

"Well good job you two, she was under enough stress already." Hermione snapped and turned and went after Kathleen leaving Harry and Ron alone in an uncomfortable silence.

"lets go..." Ron finally said. "I'm hungry.." and continued down the corridor to the Great hall, after a few more seconds Harry followed after him.

- One Week Later -

Kathleen and Hermione sat together in the Gryffindor common room, with the permission of McGonagall and Dumbledore, Kathleen was allowed to visit the tower during the Holidays despite being a Slytherin. Kathleen held a large package in her lap and a letter in her hands, it was addressed to her and Hermione from her Father.

Dear Kathleen,

I got these for you and your friend after you told me about the ball and your small problem. I hope both of you like them, I had help from your grandmother since I have no idea what I was doing at the time. There is also a small package within the larger one that your Grandmother sent...she says if you lose them she'll kill you since she paid good money for them and had to order them from London so they would get there faster. I just hope everything is in order and that you have a great time.

P.S. Just tell this Draco boy the truth, I'm not saying he will be happy but at least he wont have to see you walk down with another boy while waiting for you. Hopefully this reached you before Christmas so if it did you have a few days to tell him...do it now.

P.S.S. I love you and Bring your Friends for a visit sometime, they might be wizards but no one is a above a visit to the Big Apple.

Give 'em Hell - grandma

Love- Dad.

Kathleen beamed at the letter and gave it to Hermione to read as she unwrapped the box and gasped at the contents.

Hermione finished the letter and follow Kathleen's Gaze, she saw two different colored expensive looking fabrics and she knew they were ball gowns each on had a tag with their names on it.

As quick as both of them could they pulled out each dress and held them up to look at in the fire light.

"Oh My God, Grandma out did herself, I mean I know she had the money to...but damn..." Kathleen said holding up her gown. It was deep blood red silk with black lace over the breast area, though leaving the corset tight middle bare, and more wrapped loosely around the skirt. It had no sleeves and flowed all the way down to the floor. Embedded in the lace was small black gems that glittered even in the dim firelight, even the ones facing away from the fire glittered, and Kathleen knew it had to be magic there seemed to be more to her family then meets the eye. She turned the gown around and saw the back was a lace up meaning her back would be bare, only covered by the strings that held the top of the gown up.

"Oh Kathleen, this is beautiful." Hermione breathed looking at her own dress. Kathleen looked over at Hermione's and her eyes went wide, Hermione's dress was made of gold silk and like hers was sleeveless, but instead of the corset type top the dress was designed to cling to Hermione until it reached just below her hips in order to show off Hermione's curves a little more and make her bust look bigger. The skirt was flared to make movement easy and the silk was bundled in a way that it gave more volume to the skirt, but not making it look hideous like some dresses that attempted the style. Each fold was held up by a single diamond stud and the folds turned into ruffles in the back that flowed all he way do in the floor as did the rest of the skirt in smoother movements in the front, and just below the chest area where Hermione's breast would rest was a Diamond broach in the shape of a white rose in bloom. The back of it was also a lace up and that made Hermione blush a little but the girl was beaming happily.

And if that wasn't enough to overwhelm both the girls there was a smaller box inside the one the dress held and when they opened it tow sets of jewelry glared out at them again each piece had the girls names on them.

Kathleen had to give her grandmother credit, she knew how to spoil her. Her necklace was a chocker that was made black silk with more black lace that went over the strip of silk. Clinging to the middle of the fabric was a small cameo made of black stone with a white ivory carving of a serpent on it and was set in pure silver. Despite hating snakes, Kathleen knew that her Grandmother had done this on purpose because she knew about Draco and thought that she should show a little house pride. She didn't mind though, it was beautiful even the snake had its own beauty about it. There was also a pair of earrings that matched the necklace they were black Diamond studs with the same, but smaller, cameos hanging off them, and another pair of teardrop shaped black diamonds hung off the cameos themselves.

Hermione's Jewelry was the same, only instead of black the silk on her chocker was gold and the background of the cameo was blood red and the blooming rose in the center was gold, and was set in pure gold instead of silver. Her earring also matched Kathleen's as well, but again they were different colors instead of black diamond hers were made of rubies. Hermione looked as if she was about to cry.

"I have to get pictures of us in these so I can send them to my family back home, mom was so sad when she couldn't get me my dress, but I think she'll be happy to see this...your grandmother is very generous."

"Well, your like a sister to me, and my Grandmother always wanted another grandchild to spoil and when I wrote to her about you over the year she just had to go all out."

At this Hermione beamed even wider. "I think I'll take up your dads offer and visit sometime."

Kathleen nodded and rummaged through the rest of the larger box to make sure nothing was missed, she ended up pulling out two pairs of elegant silk gloves that were made to pull up to the elbow, one set was black and the other was gold. She held out the gold pair to Hermione and put hers with her dress.

"Now just to tell Draco about my mistake...hopefully he doesn't hate me."

"Good luck."

"Thanks for the support."

-one day later-

"You what?" Draco asked looking confused and hurt at the same time.

"I'm really, really, really sorry Draco! I never meant to say yes, but my brain shut down and I couldn't control what came out of my mouth! Please I know your probably mad at me, but know that I had every intention of going with you." Kathleen explained quickly before Draco could explode at her, she had caught him in the hallway on the way to charms and she had dragged him into an empty classroom and pulled out her wand casting a quick locking and silencing charm on the door before explaining everything to Draco.

Draco sighed and ran a hand through his hair pacing back and forth. He stopped when he saw Kathleen's face, she looked close to tears. So she really did mean what she said...at least she was honest. He took a deep breath and relaxed, he could always steal her away from Cedric at the dance.

"It's alright, I'm not mad, I would have been if you showed up at the dance with him...but thanks for telling me...i know that you have been under a lot of stress lately..." Draco said calmly and was pleased when Kathleen wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug.

"Thank you so much Draco!"

Draco hugged her back just as tightly. "Can I ask a favor though?"

"Anything!"

"Come to Malfoy Manor with me for New Years, my Parents will be hosting their own ball, and my father has requested your presence after I wrote the letter to him about your mother, he seemed a little excited about it, though I could be mistaken, it is my father after all." Draco felt Kathleen pull away a little but her hands still rested in his and she seemed to be thinking. But after a minute she nodded.

"Alright, I guess I owe you that much and if your father requested it I can't refuse I suppose." Kathleen grinned at him and it made his heart flutter.

"Good, cause I was going to drag you there even if you said no."

"I see how it is."

"yep."

Both he and Kathleen fell into comfortable silence as they exited the room and made their way to Charms class just before the starting bell ran.

-December 25th-

Kathleen sat in a field of lilies warming herself in the sun as butterflies flew around her. Mittens played a distance away trying to catch each butterfly as it flew past him. Suddenly their was a rustle in the bushes that was coming from the nearby forest. Kathleen stood and gasped as a Unicorn stepped out of the trees to graze on the grass surrounding the white flowers. Slowly Kathleen approached the beautiful creature and carefully lifted her right hand. The Unicorn watched Kathleen approach it and gently stretched its neck towards her until it's nose was in the palm of her hand. There was a sudden snapping noise to the left of them and the Unicorn backed up and bolted leaving Kathleen to just stare after It. Her mother used to love unicorns, she didn't know how she remembered that, but she did.

Kathleen's eyes fluttered open and a smile graced her face. She frowned when she felt a heavy weight on her feet and raised her head to see Mittens stretched out at the end of the bed, his front legs dangling off the edge and his back ones doing the same on the opposite end. She pouted, he had gotten so big, so fast...she would have to start investing in a new familiar for next year...possibly something smaller. And perched on top of Mittens was Howl who turned his head all the way around to stare at Kathleen with one eye open.

"good morning to you too." Kathleen said beaming. She then pulled her leg out from under her heavy Tiger and smile when he lifted his head and yawned his large pink tongue sticking out and showing off his new adult canines.

She placed her feet on the floor of the dorm and yawned only to snap her jaw shut as she remembered something and the sound of giggling and tearing wrappers met her ears. It was Christmas!

She sprang out of bed and beamed when she saw a large pile of gifts at the base of her bed, a lot of it was from her father and Grandmother, it seemed that Dumbledore held on to the gifts till Christmas as a surprise to the students.

She tore through her gifts one by one, by the end she had two knitted turtle neck new sweaters, one green the other White, both designed to cling to her figure. She also received a new set of book on Magic, from basic to advanced. There were also a few fun stuff here and there like some new simple jewel studs for her ears all of various colors, and some new reading material that was academic like the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien, since she couldn't watch the movies here her father sent her the books instead, though she didn't mind she had been wanting to read them knowing the movies had left things out. She also got a Journal from her father that Looked like the Journal River Song had in Doctor Who, she grinned as it came with a flowing ink pen that looked like the Doctor's sonic screwdriver when she opened the book it was obviously blank but the pages where a tan color to signify old age. She missed the muggle world sometimes. She shrugged, she would have to catch up during the summer.

She looked at the clock, it was seven thirty, another hour till breakfast, hopefully Draco was out in the Common room by now. After casting a quick cleaning charm to get rid of the excess paper she reached into the chest at the end of the bed and pulled out a small package that had Draco's name on it. Last time she went to Hogsmead she had picked it up for him, it was just to perfect not to get for him. She stood to leave when her foot bumped against something. She looked down to see one more gift that she had missed. She reached down and picked it up shrugging, she would open it in the common room.

"Come on you lazy house cat, let go find Draco."

Mittens yawned and stretched again shacking Howl off him, much to the owls displeasure, and slid off the bed following Kathleen out of the dorm.

As expected Draco was spread out on the couch in front of the fire, taking up the entire thing so no one else could sit there. Kathleen rolled her eyes, she was right to think of him as the snake prince when she first met him, he sure acted like one, spoiled, arrogant, full of himself...should she go on?

When she stepped into his view he grinned at her but didn't move. "Hey, was wondering when you would wake up."

"I was busy enjoying my gifts." She said and tried to push his legs off the couch with no anvil. "You want to move?"

He looked like he was thinking before shaking his head. "No to tired, you'll just have to sit on the floor."

Kathleen glared at him and then turned around and plopped down into his lap. There were a few gasps around the room and quiet whispered but Kathleen ignored them.

"No thanks I'll just sit here." She grinned as he struggled for words and a blush crept up onto his face but he was cut off from saying anything when she held out one of the gifts she had been carrying under his nose. "Merry Christmas." She said softly.

Draco had not been expecting Kathleen to sit in his lap when he refused to move, but he had to say is was a pleasant surprise. He was going to speak when she held out the present. Her took it from her hands and quickly opened it, there was a black velvet box under the wrapping and when he opened it his jaw nearly fell off. Inside was a beautiful and expensive amulet made of a polished Emerald in an oval shape and was the size of a snitch. The Emerald had a simpled silver cast around it to hold it to the silver chain but when he looked closer he saw small runes around it and inside the Emerald itself was a silver dragon head that was turned to the side,with red rubies for eyes.

"where did you get this?" He asked simply astonished.

"I went into the nearby jewelry shop in Hogsmead and had it custom made for you, I thought a snake would be to obvious and impersonal so I decided to get this made."

"It must have cost a fortune."

"Well, it turns out that my Ancestor had left his decedents with a lot of money, I found out about it when I asked Dumbledore how I could transfer Muggle money into a few galleons for Christmas and he did a little digging for me. I still wonder what happened apparently the vault hadn't been touched for about a hundred years...hopefully your dad has something about my Fathers family too..."

"Maybe, he has a lot of information on a lot of wizard families." Draco answered still staring at the amulet. "This is great, Thank you, I also have something for you, let me go get it." He gently pushed Kathleen off and hurried into the boys dorms.

He rummaged around his stuff in his chest. 'where did I put that damned thing..' he mentally mumbled and finally pulled out a silver and gold ornate jewelry box that had green and red gems on the top. He returned a few minutes later to see Kathleen fiddling with another present in her hands just about to tear open the wrapping when Draco cleared his throat.

Kathleen looked up before she could open the last gift when Draco returned, he held out the most beautiful Jewelry box she had ever seen and she set the other gift aside to take it into her hands and carefully opened it up to reveal an antique Hair piece that looked like a comb, it was supposed to go into your hair once it was done up. Like most of the Jewelry that had been passed back and forth it was silver with white diamonds wrapping around the ornate design making look almost like a small crown, and in the center of it was an emerald just a little bigger then the Diamond surrounding it.

If Draco thought her gift was expensive, this one was priceless.

"I was going to give it to you during the dance...but since your going with Diggory I thought now would be better so you could wear it with your gown or something." Draco mumbled with a small blush.

"Thank you so much Draco..it's beautiful."

-3-

Kathleen ate her breakfast happily, she was able to sit with the Gryffindors so she could give her other presents to everyone, they were nothing like what she gave to Draco, For Harry she gave him a scarf with a pattern of snitches on it and a box of chocolate frogs so harry could enjoy them for once without Ron getting to them first. To Ron, even if he had been a jerk, she gave him a bundle of Cd's by Muggle bands and a Cd player (he father sent it from New York on her request.) . It was outdated but she figured he would get even more confused with an I pod and anything high-tech would possibly glitch in Hogwarts. To say he was excited was an understatement.

"just don't let your dad get a hold of that." she heard Harry say to him, he had told her of Mr. Weasley's fascination with Muggle 'Artifacts'.

For Hermione (though she swore she didn't need anything after the gown), Kathleen got her a trilogy of books she had enjoyed and decided Hermione might like to dive out of real life once and while. It was called the Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and James Malory. It was about magic as usual but it still was a good read and was still a fantasy even to witches and wizards. Hermione leaned over to beam at Kathleen and mouthed a thank you before opening up the first book to start reading since Harry was busy explaining to Ron about some of the Muggle bands, well the ones he knew.

-3-

Kathleen and Hermione, and a few other girls were locked away in the Girls bathroom, it was Six Forty-five in the evening just two hours before the ball started. Kathleen was busy helping Hermione in to her dress, making sure she didn't tie the laces to tight to crush her. The other girls in the bathroom would stop to stare at everyone else's dresses and throw compliments around or help pick up things another girl dropped.

Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister, was helping Kathleen lace up her dress while she helped Hermione. They had meet a while ago and Kathleen could tell that Ginny liked Harry and shook her head whenever Harry failed to notice it.

"Thanks so much Ginny, I needed an extra pair of hands." Kathleen thanked her as she tied off the laces to Hermione's dress.

"Anytime, I'll see you two at the dance, I have to go do something before I get ready." Ginny grinned at both of them before stepping out of the bathroom.

"Now we just have to do something with our hair." Kathleen stated looking at her mess of red, for some reason today had to be one of those bad hair days, she had nearly broke her brush trying to get her tangles out.

"At least yours isn't as bushy as mine...I mean look at this mop, I'm going to have to use a ton of magic to tame it." Hermione stared at herself in the mirror for a moment and sighed shaking her head.

Kathleen laughed and stood behind Hermione again pulling her wand out from between her breasts and summoning a chair for her to sit on. "Here, I'll help."

It took at least an hour to work on Hermione's hair, Surprisingly the locks felt soft and silky, but that was the problem, it was hard to deal with when it was this soft, even Kathleen's hair was a little rougher making it easier to deal with. But a ton of hair spells and some pretty hair accessories later (borrowed from some of the other girls who didn't need them) Kathleen had put Hermione's hair up into a elegant bun that gave of a soft chocolate and gold shine with a few colorful Gem hairpins here and there that added to the effect. Kathleen stared at it for a moment before pulling her want back out and casting a quick spell that would release some of Hermione's hair and let it dangle down in elegant vines here and there.

Hermione looked pleased with the result and some of the girls in the room commented on how jealous they were of her. First she was dancing with Victor Krum and now she would have the most beautiful hair at the dance.

"You really didn't need to do so much, I took up the time you could have used on your hair..."

"Thats alright Hermione mine might look hard to manage because of its thickness and length but it shouldn't take to long. You get started on your accessory and I'll get to work on my own don't worry." Hermione nodded and was done within ten minutes and left Kathleen alone in the bathroom as she and the other girls left to wait in the common room before they went to meet their dates.

Kathleen turned her head form side to side while looking in the mirror trying to figure out what to do with her mess. Her eyes fell the the Jeweled box Draco had given her and she smiled gently. As fast as she could without messing up Kathleen used magic to pull her hair up in a bun much like Hermione's, as she worked her eyes kept flicking to the clock she had half and hour to finish and make her way towards the Great Hall. When she got all her hair up she flicked her wand and muttered a spell that released some of the hair and it began to magically braid itself before wrapping around the bun before 'gluing' itself into place. She then enchanted her hair so when the light hit in in certain areas it would look as if her hair glittered like tiny stars. After getting her hair done she noticed she had only ten minutes left and began to put on the jewelry her Grandmother sent and then magically applied her make up, she didn't need much just some mascara and a little lip gloss, her cheeks were already 'blushed' naturally so she didn't need to do anything more. Last she carefully opened the box and pulled out the comb staring at it as it glittered in the dim light, even though she was wearing red, the piece wouldn't clash with it. Carefully she slipped the comb into the front of the bun where it started at the scalp and turned her head left and right making sure it was center. It looked like a tiara in a way. Something told her if her mother could see her now, she would be proud of her.

Kathleen backed up and stared in the mirror before conjuring a pair of black elegant high heels and slipping them on before making her way out of the bathroom. It was Eight Fifteen now.

-3-

Draco stood at the top of the Stairs leading down to the Great Hall and yawned as he waited for his date, since he couldn't walk in with Kathleen on his arm, he had asked Pansy Parkinson if she would like to attend with him, she was more then happy to and nearly squealed his ear off before dashing off to tell her friends. He was only going with her because he had to show up with someone, it would damage his reputation if he walked in alone. He was dressed in the finest black dress robes and his hair was slicked back like it had been in his first year. He hadn't wanted to have his clothing stand out for him thinking he could do that on his own, but one thing on him did stand out, the Amulet Kathleen had given him stood out proudly on his chest adding to his regal air.

He glanced over at Cedric Diggory who was leaned against the railing and just like himself he yawned, though not from being bored, he really looked tired. Draco didn't feel much resentment towards the older boy, Kathleen had said yes as a mistake, she didn't like him in a serious way and Draco had to admit the guy was charming and handsome and didn't have his own arrogance so It was hard to refuse him Draco supposed. 'though...now that I think about it...who the hell does this guy think he is...damn hufflepuff. Shes mine.' He thought to himself crossing his arms angrily. He heard the rustle of a dress behind him and expected to see Pansy as he turned around making his face emotionless, but instead his eyes became wide and his heart stopped beating.

There she was, his beautiful Kathleen, she glided her way down the stairs the silk of her dress making hardly any sound as she moved, he couldn't help but smile as his eye trailed up to her neck where the cameo was placed, it had the Slytherin symbol on it as did her earrings. His pride only swelled when his eyes locked on the comb she had fixed in her hair. It was the one he gave her and even if it wasn't supposed to match her attire, it seemed to add to it very well. She smiled softly at him before turning her attention to Diggory and letting the older boy wrap his arm around hers before leading her to the Hall. It was only then that Draco's body functions started to return to normal. He was about to follow her inside when a screech of something like a banshee sounded behind him. He closed his eyes and sighed. Right...Pansy..

"Drakey poo! I'm ready!" the pug faced Slytherin made her way quickly down the steps and latched on to his arm. His face went blank and emotionless and he simply nodded leading her down the stairs, God was she ugly and the hot pink cocktail dress she was wearing didn't help her plain features one bit. "Oh Drakey, where did you get that, its so pretty." She exclaimed reaching for the Amulet only to pout when Draco leaned just slightly so it was out of he reach.

"It was a gift." was all he said to her but she just nodded and grinned up at him giggling.

This was going to be a long night.

-3-

Kathleen's heart was pounding as Cedric led her out to the dance floor for the opening dance, she was used to performing in front of a large amount of people so it wasn't the fact she would be watched, no, it was because of Cedric, he made her nervous, she wasn't romantically interested in him, in fact she was still at the stage of confusion between Draco and Harry, she knew they liked her thanks to Hermione's information and sharp eye, but she wasn't sure if she liked them in that way yet so she defiantly didn't like Cedric in that way, it was just the fact he was handsome and very charming that she acted the way she did, she didn't want to feel like a wilted flower next to a strong tree. At that moment something clicked in Kathleen's mind, she had never really thought of the Tournament as a competition, she had been thinking of it as a test of her skill and while it was she had never been all for winning. She had so much fire in the beginning of the year but after the Goblet called her name she was under so much stress that she started to sink into herself and occasionally pick a fight with her friends, well Hermione was the only on she didn't snap at.

Once all champions and their partners were on the floor and music started and Cedric began to lead her around the dance floor, the music was a upbeat waltz, she was so glad her father had taken her dancing a lot when she was younger otherwise she would be a loss. But she kept up with Cedric and soon she saw the other students grabbing their partners and started to dance with the champions. After a few minutes the music changed to something even faster and almost in a form of a tango. During this part of the dance she could tell Cedric was holding back, thinking that she wouldn't be able to keep up but she just grinned up at him and then using her body she urged him to go faster and soon they were going the speed the dance was intended for, in fact it seemed now Cedric was having trouble keeping up.

"I didn't know you could dance so well." He said a little shock on his face.

"Please, I'm a performer, I have to know a lot up on stage back home." Kathleen replied and smiled when Cedric chuckled.

Soon after that section of music ended Cedric seemed to be thinking of asking her for another dance when Draco approached them and tapped Cedric on the shoulder signing that he wanted a turn with her. Cedric frowned at first but then bowed and let Draco take over.

She had seen Draco standing a ways away with some girl earlier, Pansy, she thought her name was, a nasty Slytherin girl that took to glaring at Kathleen all year.

She smiled as Draco took her hand and began to lead her around the dance floor, he seemed a little more skilled then Diggory which was probably expected since he was upper class.

"How are you enjoying the dance?" Draco asked her spinning her quickly and pulling her back towards him.

"I love it, just what I needed to shake the stress away." Kathleen replied trying to hold back a giggle as Draco dipped her and pulled her back up. "your very good at this."

"So are you."

They fell into a comfortable silence as they dance, Kathleen giggling once and a while and Draco letting out a light laugh as they danced around the room, though after a while Kathleen started to feel dizzy when they hit a song that required a lot of spins. They both stopped for a fraction of a second when they heard a small squeak of shock and turned to see Krum helping Hermione up, she had a bright red blush on her face and Krum looked shameful like he had caused her to fall. After Kathleen knew that her friend was okay Draco continued to lead her around the dance floor.

"I have to admit, Granger looks strangely pretty tonight. I wonder how she was able to get that mess of hers tamed" Draco commented, and it didn't even sound as harsh has he might have intended it to.

"Actually I tamed that so called mess...and God was it annoying." Kathleen whined but grinned when Draco spun her again. "though my own hair was a challenge...i have to much of it, I should cut it sometime."

"I would rather you not, I like your long hair."

Kathleen nodded and blinked as she began to see the room spin once more.

"You think we could take a break...the whole room wont stop spinning." Kathleen asked feeling light headed.

"Oh, alright, should have told me earlier." Draco lead her off the dance floor and to the back wall where the punch and snacks were located.

Kathleen beamed at him, he knew he to well, and after the room settled down she grabbed a place and started to grab some snacks to munch on.

Harry had been watching Kathleen almost the entire time she had been dancing with Cedric, he had opened the dance with Parvati Patil, a girl he had asked last second because he ran out of time, but after the first dance was over he lead the girl away from the dance floor and she left him with Ron who was glaring at Krum as he danced with Hermione.

"this sucks..." Ron mumbled.

"yeah really..." Harry agreed.

Both friends sat in silence until Harry let out a small growl of annoyance, He watched as Malfoy took Cedric's place in Kathleen's arms, but instead of going over there himself he followed Cedric and once he was standing near on of the food table he stalked up to the Hufflepuff.

"What is your problem." Harry growled at him.

"What?" Cedric asked as he grabbed a thin piece of meat off the table and popped it into his mouth.

"You know I like Kathleen and you asked her to the Dance right in front of me! I was about to ask her myself!" He exclaimed thought tried to keep his voice down so they didn't attract attention.

"I did that on purpose you Nimrod, I was hoping if I asked her to the dance you would get mad and make your move, you know steal her away from me during the dance or something like that, I must read to many books to think that would have happened." Cedric explained with a frown. "But now your letting Malfoy sweep her across the room, and from the look on her face shes enjoying it...you better step up your game kid or by the time your in seventh year you'll be watch those two from a distance just like now." with that Cedric wandered off to find another girl to dance with.

Harry stood there with a small blush on his face looking sheepish. Make his move right, he was only fourteen. He had time. It wasn't like Voldemort was just going to pop up right now and kill him. He turned his attention back to Kathleen and Malfoy and sighed. Then it clicked, if he won the tournament he could prove to her what a great wizard he was and she would hopefully see how much better he was then that sniveling ferret Malfoy.

He smiled to himself at the thought and decided that he was going to go steal her from said ferret right now, only one problem, when he actually took a moment to pay attention, he noticed Kathleen had vanished off the dance floor. He kicked himself mentally and went back to join Ron in his little pity party again.

Kathleen was happily munching on some chocolate covered strawberries when she noticed a girl talking to Draco. It was Pansy the girl she had seen with Draco with earlier but he didn't look to happy. She decided to find out what was going on, Draco was her date now after all since Cedric had vanished.

"Hey whats up?" Kathleen asked still holding the plate of strawberries.

"Oh...it's you the Grey girl. I was just talking to Drakey, he won't dance with me." She said in an annoyingly high voice and turned her head to pout at Draco.

"Maybe he doesn't want to." Kathleen suggested taking a casual bite off one of the strawberries. She offered one to Draco who took it gratefully and inched towards her trying to escape Pansy.

Pansy seemed to noticed because her face became even uglier.

"He's supposed to dance with me I'm his date! You stole him away after Dancing with Cedric!" she shrieked at became even more annoyed when Kathleen raised a finger to her ear as if to block out some hurtful noise.

"Jeez if your voice gets any higher I think my eardrum is going to rupture." Kathleen whined. "And I didn't steal him away he wanted to dance with me through his own free will not my constant bitching." she added.

"Just drop it Pansy, I only brought you because I needed someone to go with and you wouldn't leave me alone ever since it was announced there was going to be a ball." Draco said looking a little pissed off the with girl.

Hurt flashed across Pansy's face before she turned around and stomped off.

"Sorry you had to see that, she is often like that I'm surprised you two didn't clash before, she think that we are supposed to be a couple since our families are supposed to be 'friendly' with each other." Draco apologized but Kathleen just shook her head and smiled at him to show he didn't need to explain. "So, ready for another dance or two?"

Kathleen grinned and took Draco's arm as he lead her back to the Dance floor and began to spin her around the room again.

The song that played was familiar, she knew it was Celtic but she couldn't place it until it started to pick up pace and she concentrated on the lyrics.

Draco smiled as he saw Kathleen's face as she listened to the music, he face brightened up as she recognized it.

"Oh, Marie's Wedding, My Mother and Father danced to this at their wedding." Kathleen exclaimed as they danced together, this time she didn't mind being spun around quickly and swept around the dance floor, the more upbeat and less dragging Celtic music brightened her mood and gave her more energy, when the song ended it flowed strait into 'Little Beggerman' and at some point Draco slipped away from her as she began to dance her wild dance as she had done in the rain a few months back.

People around her stopped dancing to watch the wild girl, including the teacher, instead they decided to clap along with the song as she twirled. A few other students from Hogwarts joined her in the circle to her glee and did their own jigs together as the song played. Kathleen laughed enjoying herself and sang with the song dancing around the circle with her fellow students. She recognized Seamus Finnegan from Gryffindor as he grinned at her while showing off his skill in river dance and she kicked off her shoes and lifted her skirt just slightly and joined him in the jig keeping time with him perfectly. When the song ended the room sounded with applause for the students who gave their all in the wild show of dance.

Kathleen's chest rose and fell as she grinned around the room her eyes locking with Draco as he grabbed her hand again beaming at her.

"You were great. And not even one hair out of place."

"Yeah well thats because of a ton of magic and skill." she replied taking a deep breath in to calm down her wild heart.

Draco couldn't believe his eyes as he watched Kathleen dance around the room, he felt a little jealous when she danced with Finnegan, if he could he would have danced with her, but his family was so formal that he wasn't used to the wilder form of dancing.

He sighed inwardly at least he got her to bring out her wilder side again, she had seemed uptight and stressed lately with the Tournament and class work on top of it, and she still hadn't figured out how to open the golden egg without it screaming in her ear.

He hope she would figure it out soon time was ticking.

OMG CHAPTER SEVEN! (Insert spazz face here) I finished it finally, so sorry for the long wait, I was having trouble trying to figure out a lot of crap for the future chapters and stories. I was also working on my Inuyahsa Fan fiction that I will only post up once I'm finished with it. Don't worry I should have the next chapter up soon...maybe...if I don't get distracted again...^-^" anyway Enjoy. I might only make a few more chapters to this story so I can get started on fifth year (the one I wanted to start one until I wanted to do this stupid scene but oh well) but I promise the next story should be more exciting since the Forth book was when things finally started to pick up pace and become a little 'darker' and more intense. And I'll name it something better..."I Think I Kinda Like You" was meant for a cuter story but it started to evolve...ANYWAY R&R!