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Bloody Toga

You can do this Hermione! She said to herself while dragging the surprisingly heavy surfboard towards the water. How hard can it be? You'll just stand up on the board and keep your balance. Piece of cake, really. She groaned. She couldn't even convince herself, how was she going to convince Malfoy?

She swallowed loudly when she had come close enough to feel the mist from the waves when they beat up the shore.

She was a fast learner, this couldn't be much worse than when she attempted to levitate herself (an almost impossible task) in order to get Chrookshaks down from a tree. That had started catastrophically but eventually turned out okay. This, on the other hand, she severely doubted would turn out okay. She wasn't such a fast learner.

Not good, not good, not good.

She turned back to look at Malfoy, who grinned like the Cheshire Cat and gave her a thumbs up. How reassuring. She growled back at him before stepping out in the water.

At least the water is warm, she thought bitterly. Yeay! Now my doom will be warm as to prepare me for Hell because that's where I'm heading. This is what I get for making a deal with the devil. At least she won't be lonely because her sarcasm will follow her all the way…

But Hermione Granger was not a girl who backed down from a bet. No sir, she was not. Determinately she waded out till the water reached her mid-thighs. Then she lay down on the board and started paddle out like she had seen real surfers do on television.

She was really grateful that they were almost alone on the beach because she wasn't sure she could stand much more humiliation. At least the waves weren't all too high this day. She looked back to the shore, she was probably far out enough so she crawled up to sitting position on the board. Her toga was completely drenched and made her feel like she weighed 100 kg, oh great. Like it wasn't enough for her already.

She cast a glance back at Malfoy, only to see him with his back turned talking briefly to someone. She recognized that back. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. That was the back from yesterday which she had tried to put a face to. Too bad that face belonged to Malfoy. The biggest git on the planet and who currently forced her to do this. He had now turned back to her and she clenched her jaw and started looking for a good wave. Not that she knew how a good wave would look, but Malfoy didn't know that.

She saw a big wave coming up behind her. It was now or never.

She lay flat on her stomach again and started paddling to get some speed. The wave was now directly behind her and she felt how the back of the board started to rise with the water. Was this the time she should stand up? She wasn't sure but what the heck.

Holding a firm grip on her toga so it wouldn't drag her down she tried to stand on her shaky legs. She could feel the sheer force of the water under the board and she remembered her father always telling her to have respect for the water. She sure understood what he meant by that now.

Halfway up, just a little bit more. That's it. Good Hermione. Great. She was standing up. She was actually standing up!

She cast smug look at Malfoy. That was her mistake. When she had lifted her eyes from the board her feet she lost its balance.

First there were only a tiny wobble. Then it escalated. The board started rocking back and forth and she tried to use her arms to regain her balance, but it was all for nothing.

She fell.

ooooo

Merlin be damned. She could actually surf. To say that Draco was impressed was an understatement. She had looked so nervous when she had first got here and then the way she had paddled indicated nervousness as well. But now she was standing up and surfing. She wasn't a perfect surfer by any means, but she was surfing nonetheless.

He put down the towel he had asked the staff for after he noticed that she'd forgotten to bring one. She was going to surf in a toga, bringing her a towel was the least he could do for her. He was after all raised like a gentleman.

Who's idea was it that they would surf in a toga? It was absolutely ridiculous! Probably Grangers'. He couldn't understand why they called her the smartest witch of their age. Look at her! She's… falling? Yep. Definitely falling.

He went closer to the waterline so that he could mock her when she got up again. Only she didn't. By Merlin's pink toenails why wasn't she coming up! It had been almost a minute since she had crossed the water surface and not come up again.

He grabbed his wand from the back pocket of his swimming trunks and started running out in the water. When the water reached his hips he dived. Well below the water he conjured an air bubble around his nose and mouth with his wand which allowed him to breath and then used the wand to produce a jet that transported him forward.

He found her rather quickly and decided that the toga had been a really, really bad idea. He saw how she tried to undo the knot that hold the toga together and he saw her movements slowed down. She was surrounded of a halo in brown and gold made by her hair and toga. It was quite a beautiful sight, too bad she was drowning and it was Granger he talked about.

He swam the last bit until he reached her and helped her with the knot. As the sheet fell towards the seabed her head shot up with the last of her strength. They locked eyes and he could have sworn he saw recognition and gratefulness in them before they slowly closed.

SHIT, SHIT, SHIT! He quickly made another air bubble around her mouth and nose before grabbing her arm and performing his first underwater-apparation.

ooooo

They landed with a thud on the beach. He removed the air bubbles and started with CPR on the unconscious woman next to him. Granger was so going to pay for this, mark his words.