A/N: This is the real start of this particular 'ship. Come aboard! It's the HMS A/D! HAHAHAHAH! I can't wait 'till book Five comes out. AARGH! I will SHOVE my way through the crowd if I have to, DAMN IT! GRRRRR! Don't ANYONE get in my way!

Wish me luck on that manga contest deally, by the by. I think I'm starting to get a handle on my story. I'm doing the MillenniuM Detective. *tee hee*


Chapter Eleven


"Awright!"

Harry was startled slightly from Astra's announcement. He glanced over in her direction to see what she was doing. They were all in the Library, trying to do homework.

"This time 'round, we're gonna come up with something just as good as last time!"

Harry shook his head and sighed. Nevaeh sighed alongside him. "She's at it again."

"I wonder who the next victim is." Harry said.

"Knowing Astra.... Draco or Pansy."

Astra picked up her wand smiled down at it. This was her own personal hell. She had so much trouble handling her wand, it was pathetic. It wasn't the wand's fault, it had a strong core and wood combination. She just never could fully master using it. Potions was her strong point.

"WOW! I just found this great book of unusual charms!" Hermione exclaimed from down the table.

Astra gave her wand a swish and watched it sputter. Then, she dropped it. "Damn it..." she growled. "Herm! I wanna look at that book!" She bent over to pick up her wand. "Being Ambidextrous doesn't help when using a wand." Her main problem.

Her wand was supposed to be used by a right-handed person, but she had a tendency to just put it in whichever hand was closest to it.

"Nice panties. I figured you for type for wearing bikinis."

Astra dropped to the floor in shock. "Owie...that smarts!" She rubbed her rear and glanced up to where the voice came from. "Oh... it's you."

Draco smirked down at her. "And I bet that they're cotton, as well. You're not the type to wear something as scandalous as wearing satin."

Astra got to her feet in a flurry of saddle shoes and black skirt. "And just WHY are you GUESSING what my panties are!?"

Suddenly, Astra felt like electricity was going through her body. She knew she didn't have that power anymore, but she didn't know where it was coming from. She turned to see Hermione holding her wand, shock was evident on her face as with a little bit of fear.

"Uh...er....S-sorry about that...." she trailed off.

"Hermione... I thought you handled a wand better than that! Watch where you point that thing!" Astra sighed. She figured that Hermione had just found a lightning spell. That was unusual enough.

"I'm getting out of here..." Draco said as he walked away from Astra. "Before anything worse happens."

Hermione sounded a bit like she was hyperventilating. Ron patted her back in sympathy. Harry was curious which spell she had used. "I can't believe I did that! I could lose my badge for this, Ron!" She started crying into Ron's shoulder.

"What spell did you use, Mione?" Harry said.

Suddenly, there was a loud BOING. Harry looked up just in time to see Astra get hit in the back by something pale and bigger than her. She hit the ground and the pale body rolled away from her.

"Draco...." she growled at him. She got to her feet and stalked over to him. He was getting up himself. Then, she grabbed his ears and pulled. "What was the deal with hittin' me like that!"

"OW! OW! Don't pull! OW!"

"I'm gonna keep pullin' until you have MONKEY EARS if ya don't tell me what just happened!"

"I was just walking away! I didn't get more than five feet and then I felt as though I were in a sling shot! I swear! Just LET GO OF MY EARS!" Astra let his ears go and Draco fell backward.

She stepped away about five feet ad watched Draco stand up. She felt something pull her, like a force all around her. He stepped away another foot and she knew what was going to happen if he stepped further away. "Don't move another step away." she said in a hurried voice.

"Why?" Draco moved. Astra heard a loud BOING and felt herself being launched. She collided with Draco and they fell to the floor together.

"Get off of me, Draco." Astra growled as she shoved the pale boy off of her.

"I accidentally used the rubberband curse." sobbed Hermione into Ron's shoulder.

Harry stared at her in disbelief. "Did I hear that correctly? Did you say, rubberband curse?"

"YES!" She sobbed harder into Ron's shoulder.

"If that's the truth, then we had better book it to Madame Pomfrey and see if she can reverse it!" Astra said as she grabbed a hold of Draco and dragged him out of the library.

They all went to the infirmary and walked in. Madame Pomfrey came out of her office and glared at them all. "What has happened now." she sighed.

"Hermione here accidentally used something called a 'rubberband' curse." Astra said as she kept Draco in his spot.

"Miss Granger! I would have expected better from you, but...", Madame Pomfrey started separating Draco and Astra, "Mistakes happen..." Suddenly, Draco gravitated slowly towards Astra until they were about five feet from each other.

"I see....Well... There is no reversing this particular curse. You have to wait it out until it wears off." She said to Astra and Draco. Draco turned pale and shot a malicious glance at Hermione, who was still sobbing into Ron's shoulder.

"I'm not staying any longer with that THING!" Draco spat at Astra.

"Are you saying that I have to be no more than feet away from him at any given moment?" Astra said as calmly as she could. Madame Pomfrey nodded with a small hint of a smile on her face. "Great... well... I guess he'll have t sleep in Gryffindor tower."

"WHAT?! I'm am NOT doing any such thing!" Draco protested.

"Well, I'm not gonna sleep in Slytherin house! Pansy Parkinson alone is enough to drive me insane, let alone YOU!"

"Listen... why don't we just go to dinner and figure this out on our own?" Harry said calmly. He placed a hand on Astra's shoulder and she sighed in a huff.

"We've been here that long?" asked Nevaeh.

In the Great Hall, the ceiling emulated the December night sky. Harry sat over at the Gryffindor table. Astra ended up being dragged over to the Slytherin table with Draco. She sat beside him and ate quietly.

"What is a Gryffindor sitting here for!" exclaimed Keau Cha. Pansy just glared at her.

"Sweet-ums! Why is SHE over here! I swear! She's making my drink turn sour!" Pansy said as she clung onto Draco's arm. "She's SUCH a boor! I don't know why she doesn't just go over to where she belongs! Such a barbarian!"

"I bet she likes to beat her mates senseless before she drags them back to her cave. Just like a Neanderthal. There's no way a girl like that could look like the supermodels!" Keau Cha said.

Astra felt a vein start to throb in her head. She rubbed her forehead for a split second and went back to eating silently. This seemed to aggravate Pansy and Keau.

"She's so fat! I wonder how she get's off of the ground on that broom of hers without managing to break it!" Pansy said in a huff.

"I remember back at Firestrom. She used to be such a barbarian in the Quidditch matches. Blood thirsty creature she is! I wouldn't be surprised if she liked eating raw meat." Keau said trying to keep that smirk on her face.

Astra cut her broiled chicken into small pieces and placed them into her mouth silently. "At least I don't have to make noises to make sure everyone knows I'm still here." Draco seemingly coughed into his hand.

Keau and Pansy seemed to be even more aggravated than before. "Draco! I want you to tell this certifiably psychotic bitch to go back to her table!" Pansy exclaimed.

"Why? Because I told the truth? Gee... you can't get a good deed done without gettin' yer head chewed off around this place!" Astra said in mock frustration.

Pansy slapped Astra. It took her off guard. Normally Astra would have noticed Pansy's hand pulling back for the blow, but this time, she didn't. Astra rubbed her cheek where it still stung from the blow. She smiled maliciously at Pansy. "Sweetheart... ya just gave me a reason."

Harry was startled by a loud KER-THWAK and the commotion from the Slytherin table. He turned around to see Pansy sliding slowly down from the wall beside the Slytherin table and Astra dragging Draco to the Gryffindor table with a somewhat satisfied smile on her face.

"What did you do to her?" asked Ron in astonishment.

Astra tossed Draco to a seat at the Gryffindor table. Then, she sat down and started to make a small plate of food for herself. "I had enough, so I said when."

Harry wasn't sure whether he should feel sorry for Pansy or be glad she got her just desserts. He settled for the latter. Harry could see a little bit of fear in Astra's paler than usual face. "Don't worry... I think McGonagall will understand. I don't think we'll lose too many house points."

The color seemed to come back to Astra's face. "Thanks, Harry." She ate some mashed potatoes and smiled. "I think this settles it. Drakie-kins is sleeping in Gryffindor Tower."

"What?! I never agreed to such a thing!" Draco protested. "Besides, If you haven't noticed, No one likes me at all in Gryffindor as well!"

"Well, after my display of nonaggression and aggression, I do think I'm out of staying in Slytherin." Astra said.

"Draco can stay in the boys dorm." Neville said.

"Problem there, Neville. I can't be more than five feet from him, so I'd have to sleep in there and I already have a bed." Astra said with a smile. "Thanks for the suggestion, Neville."

"I could sleep in the girls dorm with you." said Draco.

"Oh good.. Then you get to sleep on the floor." said Nevaeh.

"I am NOT sleeping on the floor!" Draco growled.

Astra sighed heavily. Harry started thinking. "Maybe we could find room for another bed in the girls dorm."

"We're full as it is. Boys dorm sounded like a good idea." said Hermione.

Astra put two carrot slices in front of her and pointed to them with her knife. "Okay... THIS one is the boys dorm choice and THAT one is the Girls dorm choice."

Then, she proceeded to make the knife bounce back and forth between the carrot slices. "Eenie Meenie Minie Moe... Catch a tiger by it's toe... if he hollers make him pay.. Fifty dollars everyday.... my mama told me to pick the very best one and you are not it."

"Is that the ONLY way you could think to settle this?" asked Harry with a bit of sarcasm in his voice.

"It looks like I get to move a bunch of my stuff over t the boys dorm." Astra sighed. Then, she smiled. "It's no biggie, really... I used to room with my cousins all the time and Rachel is the only other girl cousin I got."

Later, in the sixth year boys dorm room, Draco and Astra started stowing their clothes away. Harry felt a little uncomfortable with a girl in the room, but he just remembered it was Astra and felt all right with it. She wasn't like the other girls. She could watch Harry or some of the other boys take their shirts off and she would flich or blush in the slightest.

"You really are a veteran at this aren't you." Harry said to her.

She smiled and Harry saw a little bit of pink creep into her cheeks. Maybe she did blush when she thought no one would notice. "I'm going to take a shower."

"WHAT?!"

Draco stared at her like she was crazy. Astra slapped her forehead in frustration. "I take one every night, guy. Yer gonna have to stand outside while I do my thing."

"You take one every night, too?" Draco said.

Now it was Astra's turn to stare at him incredulously. "Let me feel yer hair."

Draco looked pensive, but he stood still while she ran a hand through his hair and examined the very fine strands. "Good lord. Yer hair is about as fine as mine! No wonder! It get's limp really quickly if you don't use volumizing shampoo on it, doesn't it."

"Eh?"

"Never mind..." She picked up her pajamas and started toward the door. "Okay... so we get to do this the weird way. There are separate stalls so we won't have a problem with standing outside the door."

Then, Astra walked out the door with Draco trailing bhind her. They walked down to the nearest girls bathroom and walked in. No one was in there now. "Well... pick one and I'll be in the next one over, Draco."

Draco went into one stall and closed the door. Astra went into the next one over and closed her own door. It was actually more of a room, really. She placed her clothes on the stand near the door and got out her shampoo and conditioner. She turned on the water and stepped into the heated spray.

After she was done, she stepped out of the small room while still buttoning up her shirt. Her pajamas were light blue with little yellow stars all over them. She put on her star locket necklace and went to the mirror. As she put miosterizer on her face, She caught a glimpse of Draco puting on his shirt. He wore blue striped pajamas with an a stylized DM on his chest pocket.

She blushed slightly at the sight of his stomach and quickly slapped her face to snap herself back. She put on her glasses and glared at the mirror. Draco came up to the mirror and used his wand to dry his hair in an instant. He put in his diamond earings and straightened his shirt again.

"You know... you don't look that bad with freckles." Draco said quietly.

"Um... thanks... I think."

Astra didn't know what to say really. It was the first compliment he had given her without insulting her at the same time. She shook her head quickly and walked toward the door. "Ya coming, or do I have to drag you."

They walked up to the boys dorm silently. Astra opened the door and put her dirty clothes where they would be cleaned. Draco did the same as her, but kept a good distance from her as well.

"I wonder how well this is going to turn out." said Harry from his bed. His was right next the extra bed set up by McGonagall and the house elves.

"First off... I'm warning you, Draco... I have a tendency to kick people out of bed, so be careful. Second.... if you decide to try to grope me in the middle of the night, you WILL end up with no hands. Got it?" Astra said.

"Yes... How do you know you kick people out of bed?" He smirked.

"I've ended up having to sleep with my sister or one of my cousins. They always tell me I kicked them out." She thought for a moment, just as her cheeks went decidedly pink. She threw a book at his head. "GET THOSE THOUGHTS OUTTA YER FRICKEN HEAD!"

"This is going to be fun." said Ron sarcasticly.

"Yeah... those two are more likely to kill each other in the middle of the night than actually let us have a night of actual sleep." said Seamus.

As it turned out, Astra managed to keep Draco on his side of the bed. "You so much as touch me, I'll break your hands off at the wrists."

When they actually settled into the bed, Astra decided that it would be a good idea to sleep on her side. It would minimize the amount of room needed for her.

Suddenly, she felt a push at her rear. "Your butt is touching mine." said Draco.

"Deal with it."

"Why should I deal with it, It's your ass. I don't need to move."

"Would you two shut it and go to sleep?" mumbled Ron.

For a while, Harry silently tried to sleep. Then, he heard them going at it again.

"Your ass is touching mine."

"I thought we already ended this conversation."

"I thought I asked you to move your fat ass over."

"I thought Ron told you two to hush up!" growled Seamus, Dean and Neville.

Silence filled the air. Harry felt himself drift off again when he heard a squeal and a WHUMP. He turned over and glanced at the bed next to his.

Astra was standing next to the bed and glaring at Draco. "How dare you tickle me!"

"I didn't know you were ticklish, I thought I was just moving you over slightly."

"You grabbed my waist, you perv!"

"Your ass touched mine, you cow!"

"WOULD YOU HUSH UP AND GO TO SLEEP!"

Everyone in the in the sixth year boys dorm was sitting up in bed and glaring daggers at Draco and Astra. Astra smiled sheepishly and crept back into bed. Harry fell back onto his bed and closed his eyes.

"Your ass is touching mine."