Title: Leave
Rating: PG-13 (for now)
Genre: Romance/ Humor
Pairing: Hermione/ Draco
Summary: Our characters get into a bit of trouble and have to suffer the consequences.
A/N: Hey guys, I don't have a beta for this, so please bear with the grammar and spelling mistakes. Also, I know this story will have smut in it, and it will get very detailed, so when that happens, I'll either stop posting on ff.net completely or, if I can be bothered ill make 'R' version, but, I will always post on my Harry Potter fan fiction site (http://) feedthesoul.hyperboards.com so my work will always be updated there if anyone is interested, join.
I'm pissed off because this story got removed from my other account and I have no idea why, ff.net failed to provide a reason, and I made absolutely sure I followed all the rules before I posted it. So now, that account is barred, and I was forced to make a new one because I am happy with my story for I have done nothing wrong.
Enjoy the story.
"What?" came Hermione's voice, shrill and incredulous, her wand poised in her right hand ready to attack.
"You heard me Ms Granger," McGonagall said calmly, "You both need to be punished. I am absolutely sick of this inter house rivalry and hate!" she turned to look at Draco, and then back at Hermione, giving them both piercing looks, before she continued, "You will both be taught a lesson, you will get along, I will not have the potential head boy and head girl behaving this way!"
Malfoy, poised in an extremely similar position to Hermione, opened his mouth, he too seemingly about to protest. But McGonagall cut him off.
"No arguments Mr. Malfoy, you will both be punished for this despicable display of behavior," she looked around at the students who had been drawn to the corridor to witness the dual, "Everybody will please clear off, there is absolutely nothing to see here."
She began shooing the students away, frustrated, still keeping an eye on both 6th year students.
When she had managed to clear everyone off, she turned to her two culprits, gave them a stern look, and instructed them to follow her. They didn't know where they were going, but they had a pretty good idea.
It wasn't long before they reached the stone gargoyle which guarded Dumbledore's office, and by now, Hermione was so terrified at the prospect of getting into trouble that she was trembling slightly, and Draco, walking silently behind her sniggered at her fear.
She turned her head slightly to give him a filthy look, which only served to make the smirk on his ace grow wider.
"Cockroach Cluster," They heard McGonagall say and the gargoyle began to turn slowly, and reveal a spiral stone staircase.
They all stepped onto the bottom step and waited for the staircase to take them up to Dumbledore's office. When they emerged a few seconds later it seemed as though Dumbledore was waiting for them, sitting at his desk, his bright eyes sparkling like a child's.
"Professor Dumbledore," McGonagall greeted the headmaster, then, gesturing towards Draco and Hermione, she continued, "I found these two on the second floor corridor, in quite a compromising situation. Albus, these two were on the verge of a dual before I found them, they may have done some serious harm to each other. I have positively well and truly had enough of the bickering and fighting between these two. Albus, something must be done."
"Why, I do believe you are quite correct Minerva, and I think I have the perfect idea for these two," he gave a small smile, his eyes still twinkling with delight.
"Yes?" McGonagall pressed, a slight edge of delight to her voice.
Hermione looked positively terrified, her face was read, and her heartbeat was going a mile an hour.
Draco, on the other hand looked quite unperturbed, uninterested, and quite bored.
Dumbledore looked at the pair, knowing exactly what was going on in their minds, and gestured for them to take a seat, "Take a seat, and I will explain your punishment"
Between bouts of her fear and unjust, Hermione found it quite beyond ordinary that Dumbledore himself was getting involved in their punishment. Surely they weren't that bad. Perhaps Dumbledore had other intentions up his sleeve.
Both students took a seat across from Dumbledore, Hermione, still quite scared, but looking quite eagerly at the headmaster, awaiting his words, whilst Draco had sheer boredom etched on his face, his gray eyes boring into Dumbledore's sparkling ones.
"Professor McGonagall, may you please inform Professor Snape about this, and tell him to come up here as soon as he can. Oh, and tell him to bring a bottle of his finest connectindium concoction. I'm sure he has a nice bottle stored somewhere in him office."
McGonagall nodded curtly and made her way out of Dumbledore's office.
Hermione's POV
"He did WHAT?" Ron was asking her incredulously, half an hour later, when she was back in the vicinity of their common room.
"I already told you Ron," Hermione sighed, "He made us drink the potion, he said it would take five or so hours to come into effect, but Its our punishment, and now I'll never get rid of Malfoy."
"Hermione, why didn't you just refuse to drink the potion?" came Harry's more reasonable voice from her other side.
"Because," Hermione faltered, "because we both did something wrong, and we have to be punished. I can't refuse punishment Harry."
"I'm surprised Malfoy didn't refuse," Ron interjected, "I mean, the dirty Slytherin bastard wouldn't have any of that would he? I mean, wouldn't he get his father down here or something?"
"Ron, you're forgetting, Lucious is in Azkaban, they caught him that night, remember?" Harry gave Ron a light smack across the head.
"That's right," Ron mumbled, "still, I don't see Malfoy just taking it without argument."
"That's what got me wondering too," said Hermione, who had been quiet and thinking for some time.
"So anyway," Ron began teasingly, "What happened? What Snape say? Go on, tell us properly, you've hardly told us anything at all."
Hermione sighed, "Well, Malfoy was getting on my nerves, he was talking about you Harry, and it really got to me, I mean, I don't even know why, I usually just ignore him, but lately, its just so hard, I've been snapping a lot more. McGonagall has already caught us like 3 times, today was just the final straw for her I suppose, and I quite understand, I mean, we were breaking school rules."
Harry and Ron rolled their eyes, "Go on then."
"So, anyway…"
Flashback
"Hey mudblood!" she heard that cold drawling voice ringing her ears.
But she ignored it.
*Don't give in to his taunts. Just ignore him. He wants a rise out of you, ignore him.*
Suddenly she felt a hand grasping her arm. Hard. She spun around and glared daggers and the blonde devil that was standing in front of her, smirk firmly in place.
"What the hell do you want Malfoy?" Hermione snapped.
"I don't like to be ignored, mudblood," he said somewhat maliciously.
"Well, I don't necessarily pay any attention to stupid ferrets," Hermione snapped back, just as wickedly.
"Oh, what's wrong Granger? Your not at all up to your usual standard of snap backs today, Potter got your tongue?" we winked at her.
"Oh Malfoy, what's wrong? Don't you have a life of your own to worry about? And you have to delve into other peoples? Oh yeah, I forgot, you don't." she said bitterly.
"No," he replied calmly, "No I mustn't, after all, I haven't got an ugly scar on my head, and I haven't got the world's most know-it-all lusting after me, God how I wish I had that life."
Hermione was seething with rage. Usually these words would mean nothing to Hermione and she would be able to ignore him and walk on. But for some reason, she was really angry, and everything he would say to her lately really got on her nerves.
She felt inside her robes, and grabbed her wand, Malfoy, opposite her, seemed to realize what she was about to do, and did the same, flipping out his wand and ready to strike at the first sign that she would.
"Go on Mudblood, just try it, jinx me, curse me, lets see what you've got," he provoked.
"Give me a reason Malfoy, give me one little reason, and I swear I will. I swear it Malfoy!"
"Oh really? Hmm let me think then. How does it make you feel, that Potter wants that little Weasley slut?" he asked her, " not that she's very little anymore, nice set of legs on her that one, nice ass too, yeah, I do see why Potter likes her so much – "
"Shut up Malfoy!" He had struck a nerve.
"Make me mudblood"
Hermione raised her wand, ready to strike, Malfoy did the same, but at that moment, Professor McGonagall interrupted them with her shrill voice.
End Flashback
"Yeah, we know that part Hermione," Ron complained," tell us what Snape said!"
"Ok, Ok, said Hermione, "Well, like I had said earlier, Dumbledore got professor McGonagall to go and fetch Snape, with some potion called 'Connectindium' – "
"What's that?" asked Harry, his dark messy hair falling in strands over his soft gentle green eyes.
"It's a mind linking potion," Hermione replied simply, "Completely the worst thing to happen for me right now, me and Malfoy had to drink it, mine with an eyelash of Malfoy's, which might I add was completely disgusting to drink, and he had an eyelash of mine in his."
"So, I'm guessing your minds are linked right about now? How does it work?" asked Harry, interested now.
"Well, all the teachers would tell us was that our minds would be linked, and we would be able to invade each others thoughts. They refused to tell us anything else and Dumbledore said that we should find out for ourselves very soon."
"Wow Hermione, that's terrible," said Ron, " SO what are you going to do?"
"Well, there's nothing much I can do right about now is there? Its my punishment and I have to take it."
"Did they tell you how long for?" Ron asked.
"No, all they said was that they would not get rid of it until they thought we had learnt our lesson," Hermione replied, then turned to Harry, "Can I borrow your invisibility cloak Harry?"
"Umm, yeah, sure, why?"
"I wanted to go to the library and do a bit of research on this," she replied, "I'm hoping that there may be a way for me to block it somehow, or to some extent. I don't want Malfoy divulging into my thoughts and finding out about things I don't want him to know!"
"There has to be some way around that, I mean, the teachers wouldn't let it go that far would they?"
"I'm afraid so Ron." Hermione looked a bit angry.
"Well, looking on the bright side," Ron looked at his watch, "In about four hours, you can look into the mind of Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret, and find out his own deepest darkest secrets, maybe you can find something for us to taunt him about eh?"
This put a smile on Hermione's face for the first time that evening, "yeah, just as long as I figure out how to do it before he does."
A/N: Hey guys, sorry, not a long first chapter, and not much happening between Draco and Hermione yet but I plan on it, so watch out. Also, this story might get a bit smutty, so when it gets to that part I'm going to stop posting on ff.net and continue posting on my site (http://) feedthesoul.hyperboards.com is a Harry Potter fiction board.
I don't know how long it will take for it to become Nc-17 but don't worry, plenty of Draco/Hermione on the way. I'm just trying to establish the plot here.
