CHAPTER 4

disclaimer: Harry Potter© J K Rowling, NO characters, spellbooks, potions, places, whatever, belong to me. *Blaaaaah, wish I owned Draco though...the little cutey...*

AVADA KEDEVRA ! NATALIE, YOU'RE DEAD! Ahhh, that was a pleasure...Natz, serves you right for reading mi fic :P Oh man, the curse wasn't strong enough! I only burnt her! Argh, I woz gonna change mi name to Hurricanrana, but decided not to...too many peeps know mi as Hardyz Angel. Whoa, am I bad, though...poor Draco...muahahahaha, vonder vhot's gonna happen to him now...and yes, I'm still as insane as ever, but I don't think it has anything to do with the RockmanX4 and Zero obsessions...or the pokemon midi files...or even the Kit Kat bar I ate...hold on, someone could have hexed it!

Written by: Hardyz Angel
Rating: PG-13 (SLASH)
Timing: 5th year
Spoilers: Spoilers confirmed! Esp. Bk 1,bk 4...
Summary: a mid-term potions project assigned by Snape forces Harry and Malfoy to work together, or perhaps discover that there's more than being forced...

right, I use this too much.. ' ' = thoughts

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Draco Malfoy lay awake in bed. What had he done? 'What to you mean by what have I done? It's obvious. You kissed Harry Potter. The boy who made the dark lord disappear,well, even if he's back now...' It made no difference. Famous or not, Harry Potter had always driven Draco crazy. The Slytherin sighed deeply. Sleeping wouldn't help, if he went to sleep now, he would still wake up the same. A wave of shock washed over him as he forced himself to think, would Harry tell
anyone?

A month to complete a project. With your worst enemy. Snape was a monster. Snape was a terrifying three-headed dog, and compared to that, Harry was a flobberworm. To make things worse, the enemy was not an enemy anymore. He was an enemy who had first slapped you, then kissed you to make you feel extremely confused and angry. Harry looked at the parchment regarding the project. He had used a copying spell to make a copy of Hermione's, not wanting to go to Malfoy. He had a potion and its reversal to make. By himself. Well, fine then, he would make it in the hidden room, alone. He definately wouldn't get any marks for cooperaton, but a few marks were better than nothing. Harry was never going to touch Draco again. But would Draco would actually keep his hands off Harry?

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Yet another morning had come, and went. Another afternoon and evening passed, then it was night. Harry had skipped Quidditch practice just to complete his project, but the potion was only one part of it, there were still many other things to finish... He made his way to the hidden staircase, ingredients bundled under his cloak. The ingredients were all commonly used ones, nothing special Harry didn't recognize, and they could all be found in his potions set. However, after looking through the instructions a few more times, he realized that he had never mixed any of those ingredients in such ways before. It was more complex than expected.

Harry put the ingredients on the small table. The potion was easy, only two ingredients were needed, it was the reversal that was difficult to make. The last instructions on the parchment said, test the potion on one partner, identify it, then use the revessal potion to cure him. Harry frowned, he didn't have a partner. He would just have to test it on himself. Those were the last instructions anyway, they had no reason to make him worried. Concentrate on the first task. Powdered root of asphodel and infusion of wormwood. It sounded very familiar. Hadn't he heard of those somewhere? He couldn't quite place his finger on where, or when. It was too familiar to remember what it was exactly. It didn't matter. He had asphodel roots to grind to a powder.

2 hours later, Harry had made a potion and the reversal. Now to test it. He stared at the acid green solution. 'As long as it doesn't blow me up or something...I hope the reversal thing works...' He took a small sip and put the glass back on the table. It wasn't doing anything, not even his ears were falling off. 'I must have mixed something wrongly, this whole experiment is a failure!' Then a dreadful feeling hit. Before he even realized that he felt like sleeping, he had fallen to the cold stone floor. "What would I get if I added Powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" It was the very first question Professor Snape had ever asked him. And he had forgotten the answer.

Powdered root of asphodel and infusion of wormwood makes a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as Draught of Living Death.

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Draco Malfoy was feeling relieved. No one had stared at him throughout the day, everyone was behaving normally, even the Griffindors. Harry hadn't told anyone. Draco walked towards the hidden room because he left his instructions for the project there. He pushed open the door and saw his angel lying on the floor, seemingly unconscious.

Then Draco caught sight of Harry's copy of instructions. So Harry had tried to do the project alone, and ended up putting himself to sleep. And here was Draco to wake him up. But would he wake him up? Or are there better things to do to a sleeping person?

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TO BE CONTINUED...OR NOT?

Bah! A good piece of advice for all who play RockmanX4, never ever eat a tomato, try to write a slash fic, and defeat Sigma at the same time. Results are messy, and also add the fact that the tomato reminds you of blood and anyway it squashes before you're done eating it. Now I've got tomato seeds and goo all over the floor...yucks. At least I defeated Sigma ^.^V

Wait wait wait wait wait! what's gonna happen in the next chapter?! Review if you want to know! You just read 1 and a half hours of my work, so please review!!! Erm, and don't worry, this fic is PG-13 all the way through, so don't expect anything weird to happen...