I'm not that Bad

Chapter 9

A Few Friendly Words

Sunlight broke through the clouds on this early Saturday morning, hitting the window of the boys dorm in the Slytherin common room. Draco felt the suns rays hit his back as he raised his head sleepily from his pillow. He looked to his left to see Blaise sound asleep with books and parchment everywhere. Draco smiled to himself.

He got up out of bed quietly, trying not to make any noise; it was a death wish if he did. The last person who 'accidentally woke sleeping Slytherin boys early on a Saturday, didn't turn out very well.'

He grabbed a fresh towel, his tooth brush and made his way to the Prefects bathroom. No one would be up this early on a weekend, so he should be fine walking back to the Slytherin common room not fully clothed. He remembered his encounter with Granger yesterday morning and chuckled to himself. The look on her face was priceless. His smile turned into a frown when he heard his name called be the person he least wanted to see.

"Malfoy!" Why is he up this early? Draco turned around to see Potter glaring at him. "Yes Potter? What do you want…as you can see I'm really not in the mood." He said dully. "I want my cloak back."

"Like I sai—"

"You're gonna give it back." Harry whispered to him with his wand pushing against his neck. Draco smirked. "Potter, where not gonna do this again are we?"

"Put the wand down this instant Potter." A voice drawled behind Harry. Draco knew exactly who it was.

Harry turned around to see Snape glaring down at him. "But Professor! He has something that belongs to me!"

"All…I can see Potter, is a tooth brush in Mr. Malfoy's hand." Draco smirked behind Harry. "Be on you're way Potter…oh and 10 points from Gryffindor, for false accusations." Snape smirked.

Harry put his wand away and left without saying a word, they both watched him leave. Snape turned back to Draco. "Draco…Borgin left this letter to my care. It concerns a cabinet of some sorts; do you know what this is about?" Draco hesitated to tell him about the transporting cabinet. "No…umm it's probably something to do with my father." He lied, looking away from his eyes.

He knows I'm lying! "…Anything else Professor?"

Snape was silent trying to get eye contact with Draco, but he did not look up from his feet. "No…nothing." He walked off. Draco sighed in relief. "Oh and Draco?" Draco stiffened up again showing his exposing upper-body tense. "Yes?" He said clearly still not looking at Snape. "If you need anything…any help what soever…you know where my office is." He turned back around and headed off.


Draco sat in the large marble bathtub, bubbles floating throughout the water. He closed his eyes and slowly sank into the water. He surfaced from the water, wiping the water from his face and slicking back his hair. He looked to the floor where the towel and letter lay.

Draco took the letter and opened it. The empty envelope dropped into the water.

Dear Mr. Malfoy

I have attempted repairs on the cabinet, but with no success.

I have however replaced the broken mirror and the rusting handle.

If you leave it in my position for another…month I can have it looking as good as new. I will do everything in my power to fix the cabinet…but it's not cheap Mr. Malfoy.

Borgin.

Draco finished readying the letter and sighed. This is getting harder and harder…can I do this?

Draco finished and left the bathtub. He dried himself off and headed for the sink. He brushed his teeth whilst looking at his figure in the mirror. Draco smiled. Blaise is right. I should really do this more often. He thought smiling to himself.

Draco finished and headed back to the common room; with only a towel draped around his waist. I better not make this a habit, what would father think, seeing me strut around the castle wearing barley nothing…BAH! Who cares, well let's just say I better not get used to it. Draco chuckled and headed for the Slytherin common room.


"Wake up my black knight!" Blaise tiredly opened his eyes to see a semi-nude Draco Malfoy in front of him. "Dude…NO!" Blaise said as he buried his head into his pillow. "Hey I know it's intimidating to some guys but HEY! That's how Malfoys are." Draco said with a grin.

"Oh ha-ha, steal my material." Blaise said getting out of bed and trying not to look at Draco. "I think I'm blind."

"Oh that's not very nice, you're just jealous."

"Pfft…of what? That? Get of town." Blaise said turning around on his bed.

"See you keep denying it, just because I have a better penis." Draco said pulling of his towel and now stood naked in the middle of the boys dorm.

"Oh please son, I am the god of the dicks! I am Dicklasaurus."

"No…your dickless that's what you are mate." Draco said with a grin.

Theodore Nott got up rubbing his eye. "Wuzz gonin ooon?" He asked sleepily. He saw Draco and snapped wide awake. "DUDE! Put on some pants!" He said throwing his pillow at Draco; witch he caught and was now covering his groin area.

"Ugh, Malfoy you can keep that pillow, better yet, burn it in you're spare time." Theo said and headed for the door and left.

"See Drake…your penis scared him away." Both boys laughed loudly, waking Crabbe and Goyle. They didn't seem too pleased. "Oh you're just both upset because your dicks are microscopic." Blaise said and laughed harder. Blaise soon stopped as he saw both Crabbe and Goyle heading towards him. "Eeep." Is all Blaise said before he bolted out of the room leaving Draco in a fit of laughter.


Hermione sat under the big oak tree down by the lake. Reading a book. I'm gonna find out who this Prince person is no matter what! "Watcha reading Granger?" Malfoy? She turned around seeing if anybody was there but she saw nobody. She furrowed her brow and went back to reading. "I asked you a question Granger." Came Draco's voice again.

She turned around and still saw no one. She was getting frustrated. "Where are you Malfoy?" she said annoyed.

"Right beside you." He answered back instantly.

"This isn't funny Malfoy." She said getting up and putting the book back into her bag. She heard him sigh. "Fine Granger." He appeared to her left smirking his smirk. She gaped at him.

"How long have you been there?" she said still gaping

"Oh…about a good…20 minutes. So why you reading old copies of Hogwarts a History?" He said grinning at her.

"Why would you care?" She snapped back.

"Woah! Ok Granger!" Draco said raising his hands up in defence. "Didn't mean to offend."

"Oh there's a first." She snapped back again.

"Ok, I can clearly see you're not in the mood for talking, so I'll ju—"

"Wait? What? You wanna talk." She looked at him curiously. "What are you up to Malfoy?"

Draco put on a hurt face. "Granger, that hurts me deep, why would you suspect me of being up to something?" He grinned.

She sighed. "Fine…what do you want then?" she said impatiently.

He looked at her and leaned back against the big oak tree. "Well…if we're gonna be…partners." He shivered at the thought. "I was thinking we should exchange a few friendly words."

Hermione couldn't hear what she was hearing. He still hadn't insulted her or threatened her throughout the whole time they where talking. "Last night…why did you come?"

He looked at her. "Keeping a promise as all." Oh my god! He did come for me! "Yeah I'm sure, you probably came for Parkinson." She sneered. Draco's faced changed and she knew he was angry.

"You think I was there for Parkinson?" Draco said getting up from the oak tree. She flinched.

"I just came to talk and you give me all this crap! I haven't done anything!"

"Haven't done anything? Malfoy you have bullied and tormented me for the past 5 years!" She snapped. Oooo good point.

"YOU DO NOT DESERVE MY KINDNESS!! YOU FOWL, SELFCENTRED BASTARD!" Tears where now falling from her eyes. Draco couldn't look her in the eye. "THINK BEFORE WHAT YOU SAY!" She screamed and stomped off crying.

Draco stood there for a minute looking down at his feet. She's right…what has she really ever done to me? Nothing…why did I even do or say such things?

I tell you why you dolt. Because of your father.

But I hate him!

Yeah now you do, what about back then? You listened and did everything he said or asked of you. He did the Cruciatus Curse on you and made you think you deserved it! NO ONE deserves that!

Draco stood there for what seemed to be hours to him going over and thinking about what he did to Hermione in the past 5 years. Draco was getting a mental beating.

Draco you're mother would never want you to be like him…look at what you're becoming!

"NO!" Draco yelled loudly.

I WILL NEVER BECOME HIM!

Prove us wrong become the better person.


It was dinner and Blaise had not seen Draco since this morning. Strange. "Oi Parkinson you seen Drake anytime today?" He asked her interrupting her conversation with Millicent Bulstrode. "No I haven't seen him either. I'm getting a bit worried; I hope nothings happened to him." Yeah.

Blaise left dinner early to look for Draco; he didn't have to look far.

Draco sat at the bottom of the stair case looking at his feet. Blaise rushed over. "Drake, dude were you been at man?" He said sitting down next to his friend. He said nothing but sat there looking at his shoes. "Dude, whats up?...look at me." Draco turned his head facing his friend and smiled. "Come on man, lets go get something to eat." He nodded. They entered the Great Hall and sat near the end of the Slytherin table.

Dinner ended and students started heading off back to there common rooms. "Hey you coming?" Draco shook his head. "I have a prefect meeting." He said faintly.

"Ok…well I'll see you back there then." Blaise left hesitantly; taking looks back at his friend.

Woah man! He is depressed as fuck! I gotta talk to him when he gets back…big time.


"Surprisingly it seems that everyone showed up…even Malfoy!...wow." the Head Boy said commencing the meeting.

"Ok everyone; like I said last night, this isn't really a meeting it's just a time to get to know you're partner better. Ok so everyone find there partner find a corner or whatever and yeah. Start away." The Head Boy said with a smile.

Everyone got up to find there partners everyone but Draco and Hermione. The Head Boy walked over to Hermione. "Look I know it's Malfoy but could you…I don't know…give him a chance or something?" She gave him look of absolute death. He backed away.

She got up slowly and made her way to where Draco was sitting. She summoned a chair and sat in front of him.

"Ok Malfoy here it is! I know you don't lik—"

"Granger…Granger I'm…I'm s-so-sor-s-sorr." Say it you fool! Prove us wrong.

"Granger…I'm sorry." He said faintly.

She sat there bewildered at what he just said. "Wha-what?" she said surprised.

He still didn't take his eyes off of his shoes. "Granger I'm sorry…for everything."

"…"

"…"

They both sat there not saying anything. He looked at his shoes and she looked at him. "Malfoy look at me." He raised his head and looked her in the eyes.

"Granger…I'm sorry." He said again still keeping eye contact with her.

"Malfoy I-I-I-I-I-I umm—"

"Oh jeez! Look at the time! Ok everyone I hope you got to know you're partner better." The Head Boy smiled at them. "Ok so the patrolling rounds will be posted on your notice board in your common rooms by the next fortnight. Ok everyone goodnight." The Head Boy waved them off. Everyone was leaving, except Draco he sat there looking at his shoes once again.

"Malfoy—"

"Hermione come on!" Ron yelled from the hallway outside classroom. She looked at Ron then back to Draco.

"Umm…bye." She said to him and left, leaving him in the classroom by himself.


Blaise waited impatiently by the Portrait hole. He heard it opened and looked up, he saw Pansy walk into the room. "Oi! Where's Draco?" She looked at him and went big-eyed.

"What?! He's not back? I thought he'd be back before me…he usually is." She said sadly. Blaise didn't care.

"No he's not."

"Well I don't know where he is."

"Ok I'm gonna go look for him stay here…oh god stay here!" She gave him a look, but he shrugged it off.

He ran out of the Portrait hole in haste.

A/N: Hey guys I know I'm mean! Hey this is gonna be my last chapter for a long time. I'm going on holidays and I won't be back for the next two weeks! I hope you liked the chapter and the story so far! Please tell me what you think! Oh and I'll fix up my mistakes when I get back from my holidays. BYE ALL!! HAPPY NEW YEARS!

Disclaimer: Don't own any characters but Zonk.