Chapter three
Hermione woke up to find Draco asleep on her scarlet couch. She was furious. How dare he ever sit on her couch, nevertheless fall asleep on it? She didn't want to embarrass him by waking him up and he finding himself on her couch with her towering over him so she decided to take a shower and see if he was awake by the time she got out. It was Monday and she had potions first, with the Slytherins. It was almost time to leave and what do you know Draco was still asleep. 'Typical boy' Hermione thought to herself 'Always sleeping in, regardless I should wake him.' So she did, she shouted "Malfoy! Get up its almost time for potions!" that didn't work. She yelled louder "MALFOY GET UP" he groggily pulled the covers off of him realized it was Monday and sprinted for the bathroom. Hermione stopped him dead in his tracks and said "you don't have time to take a shower, just get dressed and since we are the heads we are expected to be civil in public, so we must walk to Potions together, I'll wait for you right here on MY couch" she emphasized the word 'My' because he had fallen asleep on it. She wanted to stress that it was hers and if he ever wanted to sleep on a couch, he had one exactly like it on the other side of the room. Draco just grunted as he slammed the door to his room. Five minutes later, out came Draco, dressed in his school robes, one side of robe with a Slytherin patch, the other side with the Head Boy Badge. Hermione sat contently until he was about a foot away from her and she popped up and opened the portrait hole leading Draco out first and she was behind.
They walked silently down the corridors and when they walked into the Potions dungeon Draco sat down and let Hermione keep walking to find a seat. Until Hermione stumbled upon a table named 'For heads only' and frowned. She sat down there, and deciding not to help out Draco anymore she let him stay at the back. When Snape boomed in and slammed the door against the wall while opening it, a couple of students gasped. All Snape said was "We are making a potion today, find a partner, co-ed please. And Draco, Granger, you'll be working together to set an example for the other students" Hermione just sat there and nodded but Draco let out such a loud groan you would have thought he was dying. Snape finished by saying "The potion will make the drinker answer every question his or her partner asks them. Now, all of you come get your ingredients" After all the students except Hermione and Draco had their ingredients, Snape strode over to The heads table and said "You two, I saved the best ingredients for last, I want this potion perfect, no slipping up." And with that Snape left and sat at his desk and waited for everyone to finish.
Draco and Hermione mixed and mixed, added, and smelled. When they were content they split it in half and waited for Snapes word to drink. When Snape yelled that they could drink the only thing Hermione heard was Draco saying "You first, mudblood"
"Oh right like I'm going to let you ask me any question and me just willingly tell you? Me first? Are you crazy Malfoy, you really think I'd let you do that?" whispered Hermione under her breath. "Well I'm not going first"
"Oh yes you are Malfoy"
"Fine, I'll be the bigger one" Draco drank the whole vial down.
"So Draco, what did you do last night?" came Hermiones taunting voice.
"Slept, what do you think?" obviously the potion had no control over his personality
"Just wondering if you slept somewhere special?" said Hermione with a slight grin on her face.
"Uh, I slept on a couch… YOUR couch. EW mudblood germs all over me! I shouldn't have taken your advice on not taking a shower. You little bitch." Malfoy looked disgusted.
"Oh I beg to differ, it was you who fell asleep there, my question is, why were you on the couch in the first place?"
"Just seeing if that Gryffindor piece of crap was as good as my Slytherin couch." The potion obviously hadn't kicked in yet, because Draco still had his trademark smirk spread across his face like butter on bread and spat out his words and announced them as if he were talking to a toddler.
"And it was if you fell asleep so soundly, you'll have to admit huh?" said Hermione proudly knowing that the potion would get to him sooner or later and she'd find out the real reason he was sleeping on HER couch. Draco got a silly grin on his face and he started to giggle. That couldn't be the REAL Malfoy could it? That's what he was covering up? Harry and Ron looked over at Hermione and laughed. Harry and Ron let Lavender and Parvati drink the potion first so they were their normal selves. They saw Malfoy and busted into hysterical laughter.
"So Malfoy, are you going to answer my question?" said Hermione in a bit of a disturbed, perturbed, and angry voice.
"Hum what was it?" said Draco drawling his voice.
"WHY WERE YOU ASLEEP ON MY COUCH LAST NIGHT?"
"Ms. Granger, Mr. Malfoy, I do assure you that if you do not calm down and lower your voices you will both have detention cleaning the corridors with no magic!" blared Snape.
"It was Granger, Professor Snape, I did nothing to raise my voice or get out of control, I guess it's a mudblood thing?" said Draco without any hesitation. Obviously he wasn't hiding any part of his personality, because how he was, was how he was all the time, even under a very powerful truth potion.