HPPOV

This was getting ridiculous! Hermione was right about how she felt but had she expected to think that Ron didn't want to be with her, but really her storming away was a little too much of one of those muggle soap operas, which have to be one of the worst things in television to date.

After she had stormed off, Ron just stood there, mouth open, and then sank to the floor. I'd never seen him like this in my entire life and man, the site was not pretty.

"Come on Ron," I said gloomily, "get up." But I knew Ron would not move. The distress of him losing Hermione was a horror he could not handle it. Hurrying back with under a light-weight spell F&G gave me, I brought Ron to the common room, all the while searching for Hermione. Where could she have gone?

HGPOV

Enough was enough. I wasn't going to let Ron turning me down put me out of being my own self, even if the only way to be happy is to go to someone I really hated. Walking quickly to my destination, I realised that people weren't going to stop me walking because I was both crying silently and I half looked as though I would kill the next person who talked to me. I was a girl on a mission, and no one was going to get in my way.

Going down and down and down, I felt as thought I was going to be sick. Thankfully, my walk slowed to a ground level before any more motion sickness kicked in. The dampness of the dungeons is never the place that a Gryffindor should take but, I was willing to do whatever to make sure that I felt better about myself.

"Hello?" I called, wishing I would not bump into an unwanted person, "is anyone walking around here?"

Then a drawling voice came to my hearing, and for once in my existence, I really was glad to hear the drawl of, "well, well, well. If it isn't the mudblood Granger."

Malfoy turned the corner, and I saw to my disappointment, he was not alone. Two girls were attached to either side of Malfoy, and looking as though they would never leave his side for a second. One girl was very tall, very thin, black hair, brown eyes, paleish skin and glasses. The other girl had copper shoulder length hair, shorter than the other girl but still tall, and very pale skin. Both were in Slytherin and funnily enough extremely pretty. I just realised that the school had a lot of girls that guys would take in a second.

"Could...could I have a word with you...please?" I sounded so sad I blushed when I said it.

Malfoy took a step forward. So did his girls.

"Ladies," he crooned to them and I realised that both of the girls went out with him and did know about each other, "me and the mudblood have to speak alone. If it's ok with you, Stef, Kathryn?"

"Of course Draco!" they crooned to him. And with that I and Draco walked off into an empty classroom to chat.

"Look I just need to say..." I began but he shushed me by putting a finger to my lips.

"I heard about you and the pureblood slime," Draco said, and I was surprised to hear pity in his voice, "he shouldn't have really done that to you. It's a bit silly of him after making it that far in a relationship and callen' it not true."

"Wait a moment," I interjected, "how did you...?"

"Know?" he said, with a smirk, "I have eyes and ears all over the castle and it's not really surprising that I found out 'bout what was said. Also, the whole school knows 'bout it. They haven't stopped the wizard-wiz-cell you know."

"The what?"

"Never mind. It's not that important anyway. The point is I know and this is a revenge mission isn't it? Including doing something 'naughty' with me right?"

Wow he was good at guessing what I was doing. It must have shown on my face because he just laughed and said, "I thought there was going to be a major comeback scheme from you. You seem like the person to do that sorta thing. And of course I would be delighted to help you out so much. Me and the girls out there are some of the best people to get revenge on other people...at a price of course."

"Price?" I said, thinking about what happened when harry had to 'pay the price'. He was still stunned about it, I could tell, "and what's the catch for the revenge?"

"AH!" he exclaimed, making me jump a little, "if I told you that Granger, I would be a bit worried about my line of work, if you get what I mean."

"So let me guess," I said, smirking a little, "you want me to help get stuff to the Gryffindor's OR you want me to turn a blind eye, am I right?"

"Indeed you are granger, indeed you are."