Author's Note: Hmm...well...uh...hehehe, I can't think of what to write here so just read on...please?
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Summary: Draco & Hermione were suppose to start their 7th year at Hogwarts as a couple, but due to a misunderstanding the previous year that dream soon crumbled and now they are to start their 7th year picking up the pieces of their tattered lives...
Setting: 7th Year
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V. Confrontation
Draco had been keeping his cool for the past week and a half now. He still sees Harry and Hermione going around school like your picture perfect happy couple, and this wasn't doing much to his ego. He knew that she and Potter were friends, good friends, but he also knew that there was no way, no how, that they could be a couple. But then again there was that little incident he witnessed in History of Magic the year before when Harry placed his hand on Hermione's kneecap and caressed it; that was something no guy friend would do.
He was doing his best to avoid going to the Great Hall early because he knew if he arrived before Hermione and her crew did, he'd be witnessing her and cozy Potter together. But sometimes even if he was already late to arrive Potter and Hermione managed to arrived even later.
Quidditch season was starting again when Draco found himself in the stands while the Gryffindor team were practicing. He needed to have a word with Potter without Hermione around, and today seemed like a good day to do that since no sign of Hermione or that blasted Weasley girl was around.
It didn't take long before Harry noticed his presence in the stands. He quickly called a time out from his teammates and directed his broom towards where he sat watching.
"What are you doing here, Malfoy? We're practicing." he reminded him sternly.
"I know you are. But I need to have a word with you." he replied levelly, "Meet me here after your practice is over." he said coldly and pushed himself up.
It was a cryptic message he left, but the bottom line was he wanted to talk to Potter and straighten some things out. He wanted to know what Hermione meant to him and vice-versa. He couldn't go on guessing for the rest of the damn school year!
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"Alright, Malfoy. What is it you wanted to talk to me about?" Harry asked soon after her practice with the Gryffindor team was over and he met Draco at the stands.
"Are you and Hermione together?" he asked bluntly. Hey, no sense beating around the bush when he could just be upfront with him.
"What?" Harry looked appalled. "She's my friend. I treat her like a sister."
"That's not what I'm seeing from the way you two act together." he snarled, his gray eyes glaring at Potter.
"Don't believe everything you see, Malfoy."
"I don't usually do, Potter, but then again there was an old adage saying action speaks louder than words."
Harry raised an eyebrow, "So you'd rather believe what you see than take my word for it, huh?" he mocked.
"You're damn right I will."
Harry shook his messy dark brown hair and rolled his green eyes skyward, "You know something Malfoy? Sometimes you're so thick in the head that you don't see what's obviously there!" he spat irately, "How could Hermione and I be together when she's still in love with you?"
Draco was rendered speechless at what Harry just said.
"W-what?"
"You heard me right. Poor Hermione's still hurting after finding out that you just used her for sex after all that you've been through together! After everything you told her about you and your blasted past, about how much you hated your father and that you'll never be Lucius' puppet, but turns out you were doing exactly what your father told you when you took her to bed!" he accused, his fists clenched tightly as he tried to control his temper. He was still fuming mad after all these months since Hermione explained to him what really happened Christmas Eve between her and Draco.
"I did not use her just for sex!" Draco denied heatedly, "And I wasn't acting on my father's orders either."
"Yeah, tell it to the judge, buddy. She saw it on black and white."
"What she saw, what she read was nothing but a piece of junk that I should've burned before I went to dinner that night!"
"Whatever, Malfoy. You hurt Hermione and that was the first and last time you'll ever do that to her!" Harry warned, his temper rising as he glared down the Slytherin prince.
"Who are you to her anyway? You're nothing but a poor, pathetic excuse for a friend!" Draco flung back at him.
"I may be a pathetic excuse for a friend, but at least I am one!"
"Which one, being pathetic or being a friend?"
At that remark, Harry saw red and couldn't control his anger anymore. At that exact moment his fist flew and connected with Draco's jaw, sending the smug Slytherin falling flat on his arse. Draco glared up at him and attacked. Harry got thrown back towards the wooden bleachers and smashed the wood in process. He looked up at Draco and glared, just as he was lunging himself at the blond Slytherin, Harry heard Hermione yell.
"Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, what the fuck do you think you're doing?!" she was ascending the bleacher steps when she caught sight of fists flying and the two Quidditch team captains pulverizing each other, "Stop that this instant!"
"Stay out of this one, Herm!" Harry called to her before Draco's fist connected with his cheek.
"The hell I will!" she took out her wand and aimed it at the two Quidditch captain, "Petrificus Totalus!"
The two fighting captains were caught in a body-bind, sending them falling flat on their backs. Hermione walked up to where they fell and stood over them for a while, looking from one pathetic captain to the other, shaking her mop of dark brown hair.
"I won't say I'm sorry for doing this to you, but you're both acting so stupid. Now I will undo the spell, but since you both used each other's faces for punching bags, it's off to the damn infirmary for the both of you!" she told them sternly.
Hermione did the task of undoing the spell. She unfroze Harry first, giving him a good earful of sermon before turning to unfreeze Draco. He too received an earful from Hermione.
"Now off to the damn infirmary for the both of you--and no more fighting!" she warned them as she pushed both boys down the stands and towards the castle. "I swear you two are acting more and more like kids! Good thing I had a good sense of asking Ron where the hell Harry is or else, God knows what will happen to the two of you! You'll probably box each other's face off until both of you are unrecognizable!" she went on and on about her sermon, sniping at Harry and Draco all the way to the hospital wing.
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to be continued...
A/N: Oooh-kay, I think we should leave a really ticked-off Hermione to her scolding our two stubborn princes! *lol* Well, what do you guys think?! BTW, I would like to say a big THANK YOU to Blu Misterie for helping me out with this story. I was stumped writing a few lines and she helped me through it. And for those of you who are into some Fred/George/Hermione fic, check out Blu's fic about Fred & Hermione--it's a really good one too!
Quistis88: *lol* Yep, I think everybody loves to hate Lucius Malfoy! And I gotta agree with you that a jealous Draco is a cute??? err...let's make it a hottie Draco *lol*
kristatwen: gets deeper and deeper, eh? how deep is deep indeed?! *lol* okay, I think I'm losing my mind there...:-/ too much work for me *lol*
Loki: yeah, you had a good idea and look, here's your idea of a confrontation between Harry and Draco now! of course I have to put my own twist to it. and I do listen/read my reviewer's comments/inputs because...well, because it really helps a lot
jeni: that's what I'd like everyone to think, but of course you and I know that Harry and Hermione are just good ol' friends...or aren't they...*wink, wink* hehehehe, gosh, I'm so evil sometimes!!! :p thanks for the review!!!
Brookie: oh, I think Hermione will explain why she hates Draco with a passion...but the problem is...how will I do that?! *lol* hmm...gotta get more creative juices flowing :p
song*breeze: ciza, becki hasn't asked me yet...maybe she forgot...but hey, if you guys want I won't mind helping you out...and as for Mr. Luvva Luvva...make it a Draco/Hermione fic! hehehe, it's a really good fic and I like the concept...oh yeah, make it a D/Hr fic plz?????
Angela: thanks for liking the sequel...and yeah, I think some people missed the "the end" note at the end of the chapter for the first part of this story...hehehehe
KSweet260: thanx for liking this sequel...hope you enjoy the following chapters. and thanks for leaving your mark!
Draco's one and only: hehehe, well that's the whole point. I want to write another chapter that won't have any confrontation between Draco and Hermione--for a while anyway :p
Hermione-Malfoy: what happened last Christmas between Hermione & Draco was explained in the first part of this story. read A Different You, A Different Me and you'll get your answer from there :-)