A/N: Ok. Here's the thing: I need your help. Should Draco and Hermione stay together in Hogwarts in Christmas? I mean, I think it's kinda obvious, don't you think? But if I won't make them stay there together, people will start claiming about it. But I could do it, like, they spend the whole Christmas at home, and like skip the whole Christmas (not really write a chapter of it). What do you think? LET ME KNOW!!!
Oh, and as you've probably already seen, this chapter is chapter seven. Why seventh? Shouldn't it be sixth? Answer: yes. It should be sixth but because I made A/N last time, it was like the sixth chapter. I don't want things get mixed so… :P
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CHAPTER VII – Rolling
Next day Hermione and Draco had their detention. Filch had told them to clean the greenhouse three.
Hermione and Draco walked with Filch to where the greenhouse was. They all were very quiet. Except Filch, of course, who muttered something about how the detentions used to be. Hermione glared at Draco. She felt like it all was Draco's fault.
"I'm going to leave you two clean this… this… stinking room", Filch said holding his nose between his thumb and index finger. "what a mess", He muttered under his breath.
'it's more like he needs a good clean', Hermione though and almost giggled to this.
"ugh! This is disgusting!" Draco exclaimed looking the room.
Though Draco had exaggerated about the smell, the greenhouse was dirty. There were earth and dead plants everywhere. And the worst part of this all was that she and Draco had to clean this mess!
"well if you don't like it, I can always ask Dumbledore if we could have a little whipping session {nothing dirty though!!} instead of this." Filch said smiling weirdly at Draco.
That shut Draco up. Actually Draco was now very willing to stay and clean the greenhouse.
Filch left the two of them to get rid of the dirt.
Hermione and Draco looked down for a while pondering where to start.
"come on. We better clean this mess so we don't have to be here all day", Hermione said somewhat coldly to Draco.
They started dusting the tables and sweeping the floor. It seemed like it was a never-ending detention.
"you know. We shouldn't be doing this." Hermione said suddenly.
"wow! The first time I actually agree with you Granger." Draco said sarcastically.
"I mean we are Heads!" Hermione continued ignoring what Draco had said. "We really aren't good examples to the other students."
"what ever Granger. Let's just get this over with" he said giving her an icy look and they continued removing plants and dusting the tables.
"it's all your fault", Hermione said quietly.
"what?"
"if you weren't that lazy then –"
"I'm not lazy!" Draco exclaimed.
"then why are we here?!" Hermione snapped.
"because of you! You were the one who started yelling at the corridor so loud that McGonagall heard us!"
"I wouldn't have started yelling if you had helped me with our Heads' works!" Hermione shouted.
"I have helped!"
"no you haven't! Otherwise I wouldn't be here yelling at you, now would I?!"
"why are you making this such a big deal?!" Draco snarled.
"it's embarrassing to find yourself in a situation like this!" Hermione explained somehow unsatisfied to her answer.
"oh yeah, I forgot: Ms goody-two-shoes model student never gets detention! You are just a teachers' pet!" Draco shouted.
"at least I'm not so unpopular as you are! Or lazy for that matter!" Hermione defended.
"stop yapping mudblood!" Draco shouted back.
"stop calling me mudblood!"
"mudblood!"
"shut up!"
"mudblood! Mudblood! Mudblood!" Draco yelled.
All the hatred towards Draco that she had kept inside all these years was now rumbling dangerously inside her. She had thought that slapping Draco across the face on their third year would've been enough. Apparently, it wasn't.
"you asked for this!" Hermione said dangerously and jumped on Draco.
They fell on the floor and started rolling around.
"ow! That hurts!" Draco yelled as Hermione bit his hand.
"it… is… suppose… to hurt!" Hermione shouted.
"bitch!"
Draco pulled her hair and Hermione let out a cry. She tried to hurt Draco but failed. He was too strong. They rolled around on the greenhouse's floor. Once in a while you could hear Hermione screech or Draco swearing.
"stop! Stop! Stop!" Hermione shouted behind her giggles when Draco started tickling her.
After five minutes of rolling they stopped. Hermione was laying on the floor Draco sitting on her stomach. He tried to grab her hands so she wouldn't pinch him anymore.
"get off me Malfoy!"
"not until I'm sure you wont attack me again!" he said and grabbed her hands.
Hermione wriggled and got her hands free. She pinched Draco.
"ow! Stop pinching me!"
"let me go!"
He looked her a while and then stood up. Hermione sat up and then also stood up. She dusted her robes.
"do me a favour" she said suddenly. "don't call me a mudblood ever again. It's not civilized"
"and attacking to people is civilized?" Draco asked with a mocking tone.
Hermione glared at him. She wasn't sure should she say she's sorry or just drop it. She decided to drop it. After all it was Draco Malfoy, the one who had called her names and bullied her for God knows how long! He didn't deserve it.
'He's not worth it' she thought
"just stop calling me names! My name is Hermione if you didn't happen to know." she said.
He didn't say anything. He just took a mop off the floor and started to sweep.
Soon they finished cleaning the room. The greenhouse didn't exactly look like a new one, but at least it was much cleaner. Hermione felt kind of tired after cleaning the greenhouse for three hours non-stop.
"phew!", Hermione sighed finding a place to sit down.
There was only one chair in the corner and Hermione headed towards it. Draco noticed this and ran past Hermione and sat down on it looking very self-satisfied.
"why did you do that for?", Hermione asked angrily, though she was so tired of all cleaning that she didn't sound very angry.
"because I wanted to", he answered simply.
"you know I'm tired. Would you please let me sit?", she begged.
"what are you going to do? Attack on me again?!" He spat.
"Malfoy…", she said lazily closing her eyes.
"why should I? Give me a one good reason?"
"I'm going to faint."
"ha!", was all Draco said.
He crossed his arms and got comfortable on the chair. "You can sit on the floor."
Hermione looked around trying to find another chair and then, when she didn't find any, she looked the floor.
'at least it's clean now …', she thought and sat down.
She was sure that if she haven't sat in any moment, she would've fainted. At least they had cleaned the whole greenhouse.
"yup. That's where you belong", Draco pondered out loud looking down at Hermione. "with the other scum."
Hermione glared at him. No matter how tired she was or how close she was to faint, she stood up and burst out of the greenhouse slamming the door shut violently.
'why does he have to be so mean to me?!' She thought angrily as she ran back to the school.
She passed Ginny, who was sitting with her friends on a bench. Hermione would've wanted to talk to her but she didn't want to intrude her and her friends. Ginny, however, saw Hermione looking very pissed and ran to her.
"Hermione! Hermione?!" She called her.
Hermione turned to see her.
"what is it?" Ginny asked.
Hermione lifted her left eyebrow giving Ginny a what-do-you-think-it-is –expression.
"Malfoy?" Ginny more like said than asked.
Hermione didn't answer, just gave Ginny a sad look.
"hey. Mione… you don't care what he says or does. Those are just words…", Ginny comforted Hermione stroking her shoulder.
"it's really not that… it's just… you know, he acts very rudely towards me", Hermione explained. "sometimes you can't tell if he's seven or seventeen! I mean, God! We are Heads!"
"umm… what did exactly happen, Mione?" Ginny was curious.
"well… we started fighting and then I jumped on him and-" Hermione stopped because Ginny raised her eyebrow and started smirking.
"ugh! You know what I mean Ginny!" Hermione exclaimed. "yeah, so anyway. He called me names and he wouldn't even let me sit on a chair when I got so tired that I was about to faint! He is such a jerk!"
"well, duh! What did you expect? He's a Malfoy. You can't really expect him to be a gentleman. And besides, he still is what he has always been. Old dog can't learn new tricks", Ginny said.
Hermione felt herself very stupid. Ginny was right. She had always known Draco as a prat and hadn't cared about what he had said to her. Why did she now?
"it's just… I can't stand him", Hermione muttered sadly.
"hey, but you could always complain about him to Dumbledore", Ginny suggested as soon as she noticed Hermione's expression.
"no!" Hermione exclaimed. "I want to handle this on my own! I can't always go to Dumbledore when I'm having troubles! Besides it's stupid."
"umm…", Ginny nodded.
She obviously didn't want to continue this conversation.
"so. How's the Neville dilemma?" Hermione changed the topic.
"ahh… why did you bring that up? I don't… really want to talk about it…", Ginny said.
She looked pretty unhappy. Hermione felt sorry for her. Of course going to the dance with Neville wouldn't be fun but it could be worse. Going with Crabbe or Goyle for example.
'their brain, sizes of peanuts', Hermione thought.
She didn't say this to Ginny though.
"umm… I think I have to go", Hermione said and made a move to leave.
"ok."
Hermione walked away from Ginny.
"oh, and don't mind about Malfoy. He's just a stupid git!" Ginny shouted to Hermione.
Hermione laughed and headed to the library. It had been a while when she had been there.
A familiar smell of the old books made her feel much better. Fighting could be so stressful.
'ahh! My heaven!' She thought and snickered to this.
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A/N: so here you go! I hope you liked this one, at least I did.
Now some of you might think that Hermione don't just jump on people like that and that it takes away her character, but imagine yourself in her position: Draco pissed her off. He had bullied and called her names since the day they met. Now Hermione just had had enough and couldn't just drop it. So without thinking clearly, she jumped on him. I think you get the point :)
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Thanks for my reviewers:
Good Charlotte lover – I am so sorry that I forgot to thank you last time!! Sorry. No hard feelings ;) Ok, well thank you for reviewing!
KittyCat – actually, to be honest, I really liked your suggestion! If it's ok I might use it at the next chapter :) Thank you for the idea and thanks for reviewing!
Erriy – hehehe… I will! :)
HorseGurlK – I will. Thank you for reviewing!
Meg – I hope you liked this chapter (and the detention) ;)
FrUiTlOopsX2 – I wouldn't say Hermione's a wuss. Maybe more like semi-wuss ;) oh well, I know what you mean. I think this chapter proved you that she really isn't a wuss… jumping on Draco and everything… I'm trying to fix that, though.
PashaminaFan – I think this chapter was enough for as an answer to your question :) no, it was never my plan to make them fall in love in detention… oh, and the romance is coming. I've made some chapters in advance so it's coming. (and the jealousy I promised in my summary, it's coming too!) You just have to remember what I have been telling you all: Draco and Hermione won't fall to each other just like that. But they will eventually ;)
~Angel Innocent~
