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Draco walked out of the common room with a huge grin on his face. He finally got her! Hell, she deserved it for playing him twice yesterday. Now, he was headed out to put the plan intact.
The blue haired noticed Draco's somewhat amused expression and gazed at him confusingly.
Draco looked up at the portrait and smirked. Serena gratefully blushed and looked away shyly at first and finally turned her head back around to notice that he was still standing right in front of her still.
He grinned and blew an air kiss at the blushing mermaid. Satisfied, he turned and left to go find Professor Snape about the locking charm. How could he have been so stupid? Of course there is going to be a reactive spell to the unlocking one. Duh!
He had been too caught up in raiding Granger's room that he really didn't think entirely through. He smirked at the three different materials he felt as he stuffed his hand into his pockets, two of Hermione's pairs of lacy panties and a satin one. Finally, the piece of parchment that was going to be the downfall of goody-goody Granger and dumb ass Zabini.
Still he frowned remembering the contents of the letter Blaise had written to Hermione.
Did Zabini love Granger? Or was he just in denial? It really sounded it was a bit of both in a way. But wait? Was he getting jealous over that way Zabini felt for her?
Nah. Draco shrugged aimlessly and made his way towards the Potions Master's classroom.
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Hermione continued to stand in Draco's room in a complete daze. He played her. He fucking played her pretty good and almost left her hanging for more. This was his fault entirely.
" Pure blood bastard." She muttered glancing around his room curiously. Draco really did have a typical boys room. His displayed his house colors rather decoratively and he did have a quite large four-poster bed laid out in green satin sheets and comforter.
' No telling how many girls have been in that bed so far.' Hermione thought shaking her head silently and frowning. Instantly she smacked herself in the forehead in mere annoyance. Was she jealous? No! Absolutely not! She needed to get out of her and away from anything that reminded her of him at this very moment.
She ran out of Draco's room and made her way towards the portrait hole. She stopped suddenly before exiting.
' What was I in here for again?' she thought to herself and mentally slapped herself. Oh yeah, Malfoy. Hermione frowned disappointedly and left her dorm bidding Serena goodbye again the second time that day. Halfway down the corridor she looked at her watch. Damn, she was almost late for Charms and she ran the rest of the way there.
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" Ah, good morning Mr. Malfoy. What could I do for you? I don't have until another hour." Professor Snape said walking towards the young blond boy leaning against the door way casually.
" As a matter of fact, I do need your help over a certain spell that has a definite opposite reaction." Draco said walking inside the empty classroom.
" By all means, what certain spell is it?" Snape asked grabbing an unknown vial filled with a sultry purple substance and raised it so that it was in his level of perception. The sunlight struck the vial as smoke began to rise from within and changed the purple color into a nice rich ruby red color.
Draco watched in amazement as Snape set down the vial back into its place.
" Well. Draco could you please tell me the spell, I might as well just die in suspense." Snape said with dripping sarcasm.
Draco's daze was interrupted and he smirked at his comment.
" Well, you see professor, this is a certain unlocking spell. My mother wrote me a letter yesterday and gave this spell for me learn and apprehend. I couldn't really make out the reactive spell, but she said that " Vincire" would unlock all doors." He said.
Snape raised his eyebrows in amusement.
" Now Draco, that simply is very easy to comprehend. You see, you're mother has sent you the power of three times three. For every action there will always be an opposite and affirmative reaction. Your mother is very intelligent to have passed on this spell. Not that many wizards or witches use this now a days." Snape said folding his arms across his chest.
" I see professor, could you just tell me the locking spell?" Draco said losing his patience yet he did not show it.
" Oh, forgive me, but I do believe that the saying goes like this. "Vincintemere will close off the light forever, but Vincire could be the key to all those hidden." He said turning his back to Draco and sat down on his desk.
Draco breathed in a sigh of relief.
" Thank you professor, I'll see you later on during the day." Draco said forcing a wiry smile.
Snape smirked. " Glad to be of your assistance."
Draco turned to leave but remembered one thing.
" Is there another problem Mr. Malfoy?"
" Yes professor, could you write an excuse note to Professor Binns explaining why I'm almost ten minutes late." Draco asked sheepishly.
Professor Snape sighed and pulled a piece of parchment from within his robes pocket.
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For the first time in her life, Hermione was not paying attention to a word from the lesson. She walked into Charms right on time only to remember that she left her book bag in the Great Hall. She silently whined in frustration, but smiled in relief to find her bag on the desk that she shared with Ron and Harry. She quietly took her seat and gave a warm smile to the boys sitting next to her.
" Did you get your book Mione?" Ron asked taking out his quill and pieces of parchment.
Hermione nodded and turned to face Professor Flitwick entered the room to begin his class shared with the Gryfinndors and Ravenclaws.
" Today class we will carry on from yesterday, learning how charm your goblets of water into any form of element in nature."
The class groaned especially Neville who almost set the classroom on fire by transforming his water into fire.
Well, that was only twenty minutes ago, and Hermione stared at her clear glass goblet watching a small cyclone spin around and dance within. She looked up to hear random charms bounce off the walls and echo in her ears.
She glanced at Ron who seemed to be pleased with himself and his spell as he watched the small flickers of flames dance across the surface of the water. Harry's charm was similar to hers except his was a hurricane and the eye could be seen swirling around on the surface.
Her mind thought about the kiss she shared with Draco this morning. God, it was beautiful. The way his lips easily grazed her own and the heated passion that mounted with every swift movement they made together as one. Then boom, it was gone and Draco's laugh echoed in her ear like a bell gone haywire.
She sighed and continued to stare at her goblet as everyone else was occupied on getting his or her spells to work.
Hermione looked up suddenly and eyed Ron and Harry still looking at their goblets triumphantly. She wonder what exactly what was going on their minds right this second. Hermione smirked in fascination and raised her hand.
" Yes, Miss Granger?" Professor Flitwick replied helping Neville put out another fire just before it spread.
" Could I go around and help the other students who can't get there charms right?" Hermione asked politely.
Professor Flitwick smiled. " Of course, I could use the assistance."
Hermione smirked and got up from her seat.
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It was official; Draco was now fifteen minutes late for his History of Magic class, but that was the least thing on his mind at the moment. He ran from the dungeons all the way back to his dormitory not even bothering to acknowledge the surprised mermaid.
" Mer de Noms." He said and sprinted inside as the portrait door hole opened. Passing the common room he ran all the way to Hermione's room and opened the door. He sighed and looked around quickly to see if he left behind any unknown evidence. He practically choked on air as he saw the picture of himself on the floor next to Hermione's bed.
" Shit!" he muttered and picked it up, stuffing it into his pocket. After a few more minutes of glancing around the room, he was satisfied with his cleaning and organizing charm he placed right before he left the room at first. He left her room and carefully closed her door.
" Vincintemere." He said pointing his wand at the door. Just making sure, he double checked both of the spells and left satisfied as the door was once again locked. He glanced at his watch and groaned. Twenty minutes late for class. He muttered on his way out of the dorm and made his way to class.
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Hermione looked around the room precisely and inspecting every student that was within her level of perception. Mostly all of them seemed too easy to begin with, but she was just going to have fun.
Her eyes landed on Ron and Harry.
' Probably talking about Quidditch.' She thought and she took a couple of steps towards them.
Sure enough, they were.
" Now Ron, all we need to do is make sure that Troy and Malfoy are aligned…" Harry said as he looked up at Hermione who was now in front of them.
" Oh, hey Mione!" Ron said looking up at her as well.
" Hey, what are you two talking about? The upcoming game?" Hermione replied tracing her finger lazily over Harry's goblet.
" Yeah, how did you know?" Harry replied with a smile.
Hermione fought and forced herself to smile. Those two could be so dense at times, but it was hard to stay mad at them.
" Oh, you just mentioned Troy and Malfoy, so I figured it was about the game against Slytherin next week."
" Yeah, we're just coming up with some more strategies." Ron said.
Hermione continued to smile as she eyed Ron's free hand near his flaming goblet.
" Ron! You need to be careful! Don't you know that it's not good to play with fire!" she scolded grabbing his hand.
" What?" he questioned.
' What's gotten into Mione lately? It seems that she doesn't even want to be around me anymore.'
Hermione's face faltered into one of sympathetic.
" I'm sorry, Ron, you know that I just care for your well being." She said giving him an assuring smile.
Ron gave her a full-fledged smile back and squeezed her hand.
" T-thanks Mione, I think?" he said.
Hermione didn't know how it happened in the first place. It was the end of her fifth year and it was all she heard about in the first place. Sex. Lavender and Parvati talked about it all the time and they even made a list about the possible first candidates. She felt so out of place when they touched on this subject. Then it happened that fateful night. Ron somehow escaped from the Gryfinndor end of the year party and found in the girls dorm all by herself. He was looking for Lavender in the first place, but comforted her instead. Hermione explained everything to him by saying that she didn't feel attractive around all the other girls and that it seemed that their main objective in life was to get laid. Ron told her that the same thing was happening to the boys and he felt out of place as well. He cupped Hermione's face in his hands and told her that she was beautiful and that any guys would be lucky to deserve her for just being herself. She looked up at him with her eyes glazed over with tears and kissed him. They both pulled away suddenly, shocked about what had just happened. Ron looked back up at her and pulled her in for another kiss. That night, Hermione and Ron had just given each other their virginity and there was no going back. The whole thing with the other guys, she couldn't quite figure out what the fuck happened, except for one. Blaise. He was a different story, but he was the forbidden one. She wasn't even supposed to associate with him in the first place. Still, he still sticks out in her mind. As for Ron and her now, it was different. They still were friends, but they had promised each other not to get attached and not to tell Harry, in fear that it might ruin their friendship and he would look down on them. Ron seemed to just use her for certain priorities as she did the same to him. Did she love him? Not like that, but yes, very much. He was still a valuable asset in her life just like Harry was too.
" Hey Mione? Are you okay?" Ron questioned tugging at her sleeve.
" Yeah." She said shaking off her daze of confusion and grabbed Ron's free hand again.
' Hermione really does seem different lately, but still she looks good enough to ravish right now.'
" Ron!" Hermione gasped letting go off his hand and causing the whole class to quiet down and look at them.
" W-what!" Ron sputtered jerking his hand back and almost knocking down his goblet.
Hermione blushed and looked around the classroom, all eyes where on her.
" Nothing. Sorry." She muttered and gave a sheepish grin to Harry, who was looking at her strangely.
Then the class resumed back to work.
" Harry, umm, did your charm work out okay, no setbacks or cracking of your goblet?" she asked.
" Uh, no Mione, it came out just fine." He said recovering and looking back at his work. Hermione reached out and attentively touched Harry's hand.
' God, I hope that Cho dumps Seamus and leaves him into nothing but a blubbering heap of tears.'
Hermione frowned and noticed that he was staring directly at her.
" Oh for God's sake Harry! Get over it and move on!" she harshly whispered and Harry jumped in surprise.
" Huh?" Harry said pretending to inspect his goblet for any errors.
She slapped his hand and Harry yelped in shock.
" Oh, you know what I mean! Quit gawking at her and move on! She's a slut and you know it!" she said in a scolding whisper.
Harry frowned. " Yes, I know I should, but I can't help and she is a pretty slut, right?"
Hermione sighed exasperatedly and accidentally brushed Ron's hand.
' Quite looking at Hermione's breast, quite looking at Hermione's breast, oh bugger it!'
Hermione gasped and gave Ron a disgusted look.
" God Ron! Is that all you ever think about!" she yelled and Ron looked at her bewilderedly.
She groaned and threw her hands up in the air in an annoyed fashion and stormed off towards Dean's table.
" Hey Dean, did you get your spell right?" Hermione asked inspecting Dean's goblet.
" I think so, but of course I could always get the opinion of the class genius." He replied teasingly.
Hermione blushed and looked at Dean's goblet. From within she could see air in a foggy manner spinning round and round. She looked up and smiled approvingly at Dean who smiled back. Pretending that she reaching out to touch the goblet, she " accidentally" touched Dean's hand.
' God, Hermione sure is pretty and she looks nice today. I just love the way her hair frames her face.'
Hermione smiled and used her free hand to tuck a stray layer of honeyed colored hair behind her ear and gave a furtive glance at Dean.
' She's smart and she has a great body and god, I just want to slam her up against that wall and…'
Hermione's eye widened and hurriedly rushes past to the next table. Lavender and Parvati were too caught up in their conversation to notice Hermione standing right in front of their table.
" Oh, hey, Hermione! Did I do this right?" Lavender asked pushing her goblet forward.
" I'm pretty sure, it looks okay." She said shakily and brushed her hand against Lavender's purposely.
" And when you're done, can you check mine please?" Parvati cut in.
Hermione nodded and focused her attention on the goblet.
' I hope she doesn't get mad at for what I told Draco.'
Hermione's head snapped up in attention.
Malfoy? What the hell did she tell him?
' I know she's going to get mad, but damn, why did he have to be so fucking hot?'
Hermione frowned.
" Oh no! I didn't do it right did I?" Lavender asked with concern ringing in her voice.
' Draco is just going to use this to get Hermione into bed with him. He'll make her feel like a slut for all the guys she slept with and she'll fall into his trap. I have to warn her before she goes back to her dorm.'
" What!?" Hermione screeched causing the whole class to look at her again in confusion.
" Miss Granger, are you feeling all right?" Professor Flitwick asked concernedly.
" Yes, professor, I-I'm fine." Hermione said reaching a nearby desk for support to regain her balance.
Malfoy knows and he's going to fuck her up with this information.
' Well, not till I get to him first.' Hermione thought gripping the desk tightly.
Suddenly, she froze. She felt paralyzed as the sudden vibration feeling ran up and down her body like a downpour of water being dumped over her head. Her head then suddenly became dizzy and she felt faint as the voices in her head swarmed inside of her and they wouldn't go away.
' Why is Hermione freaking out?'
' I think she's still sleeping with Ron.'
' I wonder if I did this spell right.'
' There's a party tomorrow, what I am I going to wear.'
' He's so hot!'
' I hate my body.'
' No one is ever going to love me.'
' I can't believe that the test is today.'
' God, he's such a loser.'
' Oh, I hate her.'
The cacophony of thoughts continued until it just stopped.
" Miss Granger! Oh my! Miss Granger! Are you all right?" Professor Flitwick asked and rushed to her side.
Hermione let go of the desk and sighed. " Yes, professor, I'm fine, I just felt a bit faint."
" It might be best if you saw Madam Pomfrey straight away." He replied.
Hermione nodded and made her way towards her seat.
" Oh dear, well, class is dismissed and don't forget to bring your books tomorrow." Professor Flitwick said dismissing the class with a wave of his hand.
On the way out, people continued to share at Hermione in confusion and bewilderment.
Hermione looked away and made towards the class she dreaded worse.
~*~
Hermione didn't even bother to wait up for Harry and Ron. She clutched her book bag tightly and entered the Potions classroom. Malfoy was already there, sitting smugly in his seat. He stared at her in amusement as she dropped her book bag on the floor in a crash.
" My, my, Granger, having a bad day are we?" he asked.
Hermione didn't even look at him, but she could feel his smirk boring into the side of her face.
" You going to be like that Granger? That's okay, maybe I can, umm, help work off some of that tension tonight." He said smugly and placed a hand on her shoulder.
" Don't touch me." She said with her teeth clenched.
Malfoy removed his hand and sighed watching Harry and Ron enter just before Professor Snape walked in.
" Now everyone settle down and be quiet as I check roll." He said sitting on top of his desk with a piece of parchment clutched in his hand.
After that was done, the class set to work on today's assignment.
" Now class, due to yesterday's brief accident," Snape said looking at Hermione and glanced away, " we will start on a new assignment and make Mr. Longbottom go up and gather his things before we have another little accident."
The class sniggered as Neville squirmed in his seat nervously.
" Now today, we will begin on making the beginning portion of a lie detection potion. This potion takes at least a day to simmer and tomorrow will finish the results and take them. The potion will make the person who takes it completely at ease. Nothing will happen, but yet once asked a question and the answer results falsely, a big red blotch will appear on top of the person's forehead. As continuing to deny the truth, the person's skin will turn red as well. I'll be, quite pleased to see the results tomorrow." Professor Snape said with a smirk.
Hermione quickly took down the notes and froze when she felt a hand on her thigh.
She looked over to see Malfoy smirking and he glanced at her. Hermione frowned and pushed his hand away, but again he put it back.
She growled softly and gasped as his hand traveled up farter reaching the bottom hemline of her skirt. He fingered it and lightly traced it with ease. Slowly he looked at her and inched his fingers up under the hem. Hermione smirked and looked back at Draco. She reached down to where his hand was and with a smile; she pinched the skin between his knuckles with her long fingernails.
Draco yelped and his hand hit the bottom of the desk.
" Mr. Malfoy, do you have any problem with today's assignment?"
Draco gave a death glare at Hermione who was biting her lip to keep from laughing out load and looked back up at Professor Snape who was waiting for his reply.
Draco grinned sheepishly. " No, thought I saw a bug or something."
The class started sniggering and Snape silenced them with the brush of a hand.
" Well, Mr. Malfoy, please do this class a favor and get over it."
Hermione looked down at the floor and bite her lip harder. This really was too much.
Draco's cheeks showed the slightest bit of pink and he looked away.
" Now, we can get started, Mr. Longbottom, you can go first." Snape said smirking at the nervous boy.
Hermione grinned. Maybe today wasn't going to be that bad after all.
~*~
It wasn't until lunch that Draco made his way toward the Slytherin common room. He hadn't been there since the beginning of school. Muttering the password, he strode in only to be stopped by Pansy.
" Hey sweetie! I heard what Snape said to you today." She said running her hands up and down his clothed chest.
" Yeah, no shit, you were there." He said pushing her out of the way and keeping walking forward.
Pansy whimpered and frowned. " I guess you're just in a bad mood huh? I'll be by later!"
Draco grimaced and shuddered. Right, like there was any way in hell! Finally the person he was looking for stepped out in front of him. Blaise.
Blaise glanced quickly at him and turned to move when Draco stepped in to get in his way.
Blaise sighed. " What can I do for you Malfoy?"
Draco smirked. " Oh, I think you know exactly why I'm here."
Blaise snorted. " Right, that's why I asked you in the first place smart ass. Care to fill me in?"
" Oh, watch that tongue Zabini. I really don't know where it's been or maybe I know more than you think!" he said in mocked surprise.
" Look Malfoy, as you can see, I have a limited patience. Can you just tell me what the fuck you want and get the fuck out of my way?" Blaise said moving closer to Draco's face.
Draco chuckled. " Again with the tongue Zabini. Maybe I do know where it's been. Now lets see, oh my! Maybe a certain Gryfinndor!"
Blaise froze and his eyes widened. " Alright, Malfoy, what do you really want."
" Oh I don't know love?" he said mockingly and laughed.
" I'm serious."
" Oh, but I am too! Or maybe I'm more on the lines of payback." Draco said reaching down into his pocket and tracing the edge of the parchment hidden within.
" Great, now I'm starting to realize the errors of my ways and remembering now why the fuck I never liked you in the first place." Blaise said with seething anger.
Draco gripped him by the collar and pinned him against a nearby way. All the Slytherin's that were in the common room at that time, stopped their activities and focused their attention on them.
" Now, now, I warned you, but no, you didn't listen. Well, whose fucking fault is that? I got your little love letter that you sent to Granger and can read for everyone to hear."
" Go ahead."
Draco blinked in surprise and loosened his grip. " What?"
" You fucking heard me. Go ahead! I don't care! I meant every word! Hell, I even loved her!" Blaise said shoving Draco back and straightened out his robes.
" It's just sad that a pathetic excuse for a Slytherin like you fell in love with a mudblood." Draco said looking away.
" Yeah, well it's just sad for you that you'll never feel that kind of emotion. Let's just face it Malfoy, you're doomed to be alone forever. No, self-respecting girl will ever fall in love with the likes of you! Maybe just the sluts and whores who are just after the estate and your oh so good looks. So what? Your daddy can't help you now, cause look where it left him now! In the fucking ground!" Blaise yelled.
Draco stood there silently just letting Blaise talk.
" And she's not a Mudblood. She's a witch just like you are a wizard. If you ever touch her or harm her in anyway, Malfoy, I will kill you. So help me, I will kill you. Who gives a flying fuck about blood other than a conceited prat like you? Fuck off Malfoy and get over it." Blaise said shoving past him and exiting the common room.
Draco stood there in a paralyzed motion. What the fuck just happened? Things had not been going exactly the way he planned at all.
" Fuck it." He muttered and exited out as well, leaving a bewildered Slytherin audience figuring out what the fuck just happened here.
A/N: Okay, first all sorry! I know I missed my deadline and this chapter took longer than I expected. Plus Easter and all, I had a family get together thing and things just got hectic wild. But here it is and what do you guys think? Good or bad? Tell me your opinion! Plus I was flattered at the many responses I got for chapter 4. Wow! You guys are just great and I just love hearing your responses! How I jumped from 70 something to 114, I really don't have a clue but WOW! This was really all you guys and I keep writing and planning for you guys! I'm just completely in awe and thank you! Thank you's to MistressDeDraco, HarryPotterWanter, Jade, Raven, Sierra, Jules, Darian, Anna, Pottersgirl, Lita89, a big congrat's to Dreaming One, you were my 100th reviewer! * Breaks out the streamers and all the big hoopla! * Also to Dragon's girl, Darth Berry, Draco's Grrrl, Draco's Secret Lover, skyleia, squorpionlady, Gryfinndor Goddess, Kerdes Vernell, Snapesgirl, TomFeltonsDancer, a reader, KC, LEM, and all to the many more for your positive responses! I love writing this story and I'm glad you guys are loving it too * tear * Well, I'm signing out and I do have big plans more to come. The next chapter will come out FRIDAY night. I promise! Kudos ~Always~
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Next Chapter Spoiler titled " Ten Things I Hate About You" : Hermione and Blaise have a confrontation and Hermione and Draco go at it as well leading Hermione to counter Draco with a shocking discovery about him.
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Draco walked out of the common room with a huge grin on his face. He finally got her! Hell, she deserved it for playing him twice yesterday. Now, he was headed out to put the plan intact.
The blue haired noticed Draco's somewhat amused expression and gazed at him confusingly.
Draco looked up at the portrait and smirked. Serena gratefully blushed and looked away shyly at first and finally turned her head back around to notice that he was still standing right in front of her still.
He grinned and blew an air kiss at the blushing mermaid. Satisfied, he turned and left to go find Professor Snape about the locking charm. How could he have been so stupid? Of course there is going to be a reactive spell to the unlocking one. Duh!
He had been too caught up in raiding Granger's room that he really didn't think entirely through. He smirked at the three different materials he felt as he stuffed his hand into his pockets, two of Hermione's pairs of lacy panties and a satin one. Finally, the piece of parchment that was going to be the downfall of goody-goody Granger and dumb ass Zabini.
Still he frowned remembering the contents of the letter Blaise had written to Hermione.
Did Zabini love Granger? Or was he just in denial? It really sounded it was a bit of both in a way. But wait? Was he getting jealous over that way Zabini felt for her?
Nah. Draco shrugged aimlessly and made his way towards the Potions Master's classroom.
~*~
Hermione continued to stand in Draco's room in a complete daze. He played her. He fucking played her pretty good and almost left her hanging for more. This was his fault entirely.
" Pure blood bastard." She muttered glancing around his room curiously. Draco really did have a typical boys room. His displayed his house colors rather decoratively and he did have a quite large four-poster bed laid out in green satin sheets and comforter.
' No telling how many girls have been in that bed so far.' Hermione thought shaking her head silently and frowning. Instantly she smacked herself in the forehead in mere annoyance. Was she jealous? No! Absolutely not! She needed to get out of her and away from anything that reminded her of him at this very moment.
She ran out of Draco's room and made her way towards the portrait hole. She stopped suddenly before exiting.
' What was I in here for again?' she thought to herself and mentally slapped herself. Oh yeah, Malfoy. Hermione frowned disappointedly and left her dorm bidding Serena goodbye again the second time that day. Halfway down the corridor she looked at her watch. Damn, she was almost late for Charms and she ran the rest of the way there.
~*~
" Ah, good morning Mr. Malfoy. What could I do for you? I don't have until another hour." Professor Snape said walking towards the young blond boy leaning against the door way casually.
" As a matter of fact, I do need your help over a certain spell that has a definite opposite reaction." Draco said walking inside the empty classroom.
" By all means, what certain spell is it?" Snape asked grabbing an unknown vial filled with a sultry purple substance and raised it so that it was in his level of perception. The sunlight struck the vial as smoke began to rise from within and changed the purple color into a nice rich ruby red color.
Draco watched in amazement as Snape set down the vial back into its place.
" Well. Draco could you please tell me the spell, I might as well just die in suspense." Snape said with dripping sarcasm.
Draco's daze was interrupted and he smirked at his comment.
" Well, you see professor, this is a certain unlocking spell. My mother wrote me a letter yesterday and gave this spell for me learn and apprehend. I couldn't really make out the reactive spell, but she said that " Vincire" would unlock all doors." He said.
Snape raised his eyebrows in amusement.
" Now Draco, that simply is very easy to comprehend. You see, you're mother has sent you the power of three times three. For every action there will always be an opposite and affirmative reaction. Your mother is very intelligent to have passed on this spell. Not that many wizards or witches use this now a days." Snape said folding his arms across his chest.
" I see professor, could you just tell me the locking spell?" Draco said losing his patience yet he did not show it.
" Oh, forgive me, but I do believe that the saying goes like this. "Vincintemere will close off the light forever, but Vincire could be the key to all those hidden." He said turning his back to Draco and sat down on his desk.
Draco breathed in a sigh of relief.
" Thank you professor, I'll see you later on during the day." Draco said forcing a wiry smile.
Snape smirked. " Glad to be of your assistance."
Draco turned to leave but remembered one thing.
" Is there another problem Mr. Malfoy?"
" Yes professor, could you write an excuse note to Professor Binns explaining why I'm almost ten minutes late." Draco asked sheepishly.
Professor Snape sighed and pulled a piece of parchment from within his robes pocket.
~*~
For the first time in her life, Hermione was not paying attention to a word from the lesson. She walked into Charms right on time only to remember that she left her book bag in the Great Hall. She silently whined in frustration, but smiled in relief to find her bag on the desk that she shared with Ron and Harry. She quietly took her seat and gave a warm smile to the boys sitting next to her.
" Did you get your book Mione?" Ron asked taking out his quill and pieces of parchment.
Hermione nodded and turned to face Professor Flitwick entered the room to begin his class shared with the Gryfinndors and Ravenclaws.
" Today class we will carry on from yesterday, learning how charm your goblets of water into any form of element in nature."
The class groaned especially Neville who almost set the classroom on fire by transforming his water into fire.
Well, that was only twenty minutes ago, and Hermione stared at her clear glass goblet watching a small cyclone spin around and dance within. She looked up to hear random charms bounce off the walls and echo in her ears.
She glanced at Ron who seemed to be pleased with himself and his spell as he watched the small flickers of flames dance across the surface of the water. Harry's charm was similar to hers except his was a hurricane and the eye could be seen swirling around on the surface.
Her mind thought about the kiss she shared with Draco this morning. God, it was beautiful. The way his lips easily grazed her own and the heated passion that mounted with every swift movement they made together as one. Then boom, it was gone and Draco's laugh echoed in her ear like a bell gone haywire.
She sighed and continued to stare at her goblet as everyone else was occupied on getting his or her spells to work.
Hermione looked up suddenly and eyed Ron and Harry still looking at their goblets triumphantly. She wonder what exactly what was going on their minds right this second. Hermione smirked in fascination and raised her hand.
" Yes, Miss Granger?" Professor Flitwick replied helping Neville put out another fire just before it spread.
" Could I go around and help the other students who can't get there charms right?" Hermione asked politely.
Professor Flitwick smiled. " Of course, I could use the assistance."
Hermione smirked and got up from her seat.
~*~
It was official; Draco was now fifteen minutes late for his History of Magic class, but that was the least thing on his mind at the moment. He ran from the dungeons all the way back to his dormitory not even bothering to acknowledge the surprised mermaid.
" Mer de Noms." He said and sprinted inside as the portrait door hole opened. Passing the common room he ran all the way to Hermione's room and opened the door. He sighed and looked around quickly to see if he left behind any unknown evidence. He practically choked on air as he saw the picture of himself on the floor next to Hermione's bed.
" Shit!" he muttered and picked it up, stuffing it into his pocket. After a few more minutes of glancing around the room, he was satisfied with his cleaning and organizing charm he placed right before he left the room at first. He left her room and carefully closed her door.
" Vincintemere." He said pointing his wand at the door. Just making sure, he double checked both of the spells and left satisfied as the door was once again locked. He glanced at his watch and groaned. Twenty minutes late for class. He muttered on his way out of the dorm and made his way to class.
~*~
Hermione looked around the room precisely and inspecting every student that was within her level of perception. Mostly all of them seemed too easy to begin with, but she was just going to have fun.
Her eyes landed on Ron and Harry.
' Probably talking about Quidditch.' She thought and she took a couple of steps towards them.
Sure enough, they were.
" Now Ron, all we need to do is make sure that Troy and Malfoy are aligned…" Harry said as he looked up at Hermione who was now in front of them.
" Oh, hey Mione!" Ron said looking up at her as well.
" Hey, what are you two talking about? The upcoming game?" Hermione replied tracing her finger lazily over Harry's goblet.
" Yeah, how did you know?" Harry replied with a smile.
Hermione fought and forced herself to smile. Those two could be so dense at times, but it was hard to stay mad at them.
" Oh, you just mentioned Troy and Malfoy, so I figured it was about the game against Slytherin next week."
" Yeah, we're just coming up with some more strategies." Ron said.
Hermione continued to smile as she eyed Ron's free hand near his flaming goblet.
" Ron! You need to be careful! Don't you know that it's not good to play with fire!" she scolded grabbing his hand.
" What?" he questioned.
' What's gotten into Mione lately? It seems that she doesn't even want to be around me anymore.'
Hermione's face faltered into one of sympathetic.
" I'm sorry, Ron, you know that I just care for your well being." She said giving him an assuring smile.
Ron gave her a full-fledged smile back and squeezed her hand.
" T-thanks Mione, I think?" he said.
Hermione didn't know how it happened in the first place. It was the end of her fifth year and it was all she heard about in the first place. Sex. Lavender and Parvati talked about it all the time and they even made a list about the possible first candidates. She felt so out of place when they touched on this subject. Then it happened that fateful night. Ron somehow escaped from the Gryfinndor end of the year party and found in the girls dorm all by herself. He was looking for Lavender in the first place, but comforted her instead. Hermione explained everything to him by saying that she didn't feel attractive around all the other girls and that it seemed that their main objective in life was to get laid. Ron told her that the same thing was happening to the boys and he felt out of place as well. He cupped Hermione's face in his hands and told her that she was beautiful and that any guys would be lucky to deserve her for just being herself. She looked up at him with her eyes glazed over with tears and kissed him. They both pulled away suddenly, shocked about what had just happened. Ron looked back up at her and pulled her in for another kiss. That night, Hermione and Ron had just given each other their virginity and there was no going back. The whole thing with the other guys, she couldn't quite figure out what the fuck happened, except for one. Blaise. He was a different story, but he was the forbidden one. She wasn't even supposed to associate with him in the first place. Still, he still sticks out in her mind. As for Ron and her now, it was different. They still were friends, but they had promised each other not to get attached and not to tell Harry, in fear that it might ruin their friendship and he would look down on them. Ron seemed to just use her for certain priorities as she did the same to him. Did she love him? Not like that, but yes, very much. He was still a valuable asset in her life just like Harry was too.
" Hey Mione? Are you okay?" Ron questioned tugging at her sleeve.
" Yeah." She said shaking off her daze of confusion and grabbed Ron's free hand again.
' Hermione really does seem different lately, but still she looks good enough to ravish right now.'
" Ron!" Hermione gasped letting go off his hand and causing the whole class to quiet down and look at them.
" W-what!" Ron sputtered jerking his hand back and almost knocking down his goblet.
Hermione blushed and looked around the classroom, all eyes where on her.
" Nothing. Sorry." She muttered and gave a sheepish grin to Harry, who was looking at her strangely.
Then the class resumed back to work.
" Harry, umm, did your charm work out okay, no setbacks or cracking of your goblet?" she asked.
" Uh, no Mione, it came out just fine." He said recovering and looking back at his work. Hermione reached out and attentively touched Harry's hand.
' God, I hope that Cho dumps Seamus and leaves him into nothing but a blubbering heap of tears.'
Hermione frowned and noticed that he was staring directly at her.
" Oh for God's sake Harry! Get over it and move on!" she harshly whispered and Harry jumped in surprise.
" Huh?" Harry said pretending to inspect his goblet for any errors.
She slapped his hand and Harry yelped in shock.
" Oh, you know what I mean! Quit gawking at her and move on! She's a slut and you know it!" she said in a scolding whisper.
Harry frowned. " Yes, I know I should, but I can't help and she is a pretty slut, right?"
Hermione sighed exasperatedly and accidentally brushed Ron's hand.
' Quite looking at Hermione's breast, quite looking at Hermione's breast, oh bugger it!'
Hermione gasped and gave Ron a disgusted look.
" God Ron! Is that all you ever think about!" she yelled and Ron looked at her bewilderedly.
She groaned and threw her hands up in the air in an annoyed fashion and stormed off towards Dean's table.
" Hey Dean, did you get your spell right?" Hermione asked inspecting Dean's goblet.
" I think so, but of course I could always get the opinion of the class genius." He replied teasingly.
Hermione blushed and looked at Dean's goblet. From within she could see air in a foggy manner spinning round and round. She looked up and smiled approvingly at Dean who smiled back. Pretending that she reaching out to touch the goblet, she " accidentally" touched Dean's hand.
' God, Hermione sure is pretty and she looks nice today. I just love the way her hair frames her face.'
Hermione smiled and used her free hand to tuck a stray layer of honeyed colored hair behind her ear and gave a furtive glance at Dean.
' She's smart and she has a great body and god, I just want to slam her up against that wall and…'
Hermione's eye widened and hurriedly rushes past to the next table. Lavender and Parvati were too caught up in their conversation to notice Hermione standing right in front of their table.
" Oh, hey, Hermione! Did I do this right?" Lavender asked pushing her goblet forward.
" I'm pretty sure, it looks okay." She said shakily and brushed her hand against Lavender's purposely.
" And when you're done, can you check mine please?" Parvati cut in.
Hermione nodded and focused her attention on the goblet.
' I hope she doesn't get mad at for what I told Draco.'
Hermione's head snapped up in attention.
Malfoy? What the hell did she tell him?
' I know she's going to get mad, but damn, why did he have to be so fucking hot?'
Hermione frowned.
" Oh no! I didn't do it right did I?" Lavender asked with concern ringing in her voice.
' Draco is just going to use this to get Hermione into bed with him. He'll make her feel like a slut for all the guys she slept with and she'll fall into his trap. I have to warn her before she goes back to her dorm.'
" What!?" Hermione screeched causing the whole class to look at her again in confusion.
" Miss Granger, are you feeling all right?" Professor Flitwick asked concernedly.
" Yes, professor, I-I'm fine." Hermione said reaching a nearby desk for support to regain her balance.
Malfoy knows and he's going to fuck her up with this information.
' Well, not till I get to him first.' Hermione thought gripping the desk tightly.
Suddenly, she froze. She felt paralyzed as the sudden vibration feeling ran up and down her body like a downpour of water being dumped over her head. Her head then suddenly became dizzy and she felt faint as the voices in her head swarmed inside of her and they wouldn't go away.
' Why is Hermione freaking out?'
' I think she's still sleeping with Ron.'
' I wonder if I did this spell right.'
' There's a party tomorrow, what I am I going to wear.'
' He's so hot!'
' I hate my body.'
' No one is ever going to love me.'
' I can't believe that the test is today.'
' God, he's such a loser.'
' Oh, I hate her.'
The cacophony of thoughts continued until it just stopped.
" Miss Granger! Oh my! Miss Granger! Are you all right?" Professor Flitwick asked and rushed to her side.
Hermione let go of the desk and sighed. " Yes, professor, I'm fine, I just felt a bit faint."
" It might be best if you saw Madam Pomfrey straight away." He replied.
Hermione nodded and made her way towards her seat.
" Oh dear, well, class is dismissed and don't forget to bring your books tomorrow." Professor Flitwick said dismissing the class with a wave of his hand.
On the way out, people continued to share at Hermione in confusion and bewilderment.
Hermione looked away and made towards the class she dreaded worse.
~*~
Hermione didn't even bother to wait up for Harry and Ron. She clutched her book bag tightly and entered the Potions classroom. Malfoy was already there, sitting smugly in his seat. He stared at her in amusement as she dropped her book bag on the floor in a crash.
" My, my, Granger, having a bad day are we?" he asked.
Hermione didn't even look at him, but she could feel his smirk boring into the side of her face.
" You going to be like that Granger? That's okay, maybe I can, umm, help work off some of that tension tonight." He said smugly and placed a hand on her shoulder.
" Don't touch me." She said with her teeth clenched.
Malfoy removed his hand and sighed watching Harry and Ron enter just before Professor Snape walked in.
" Now everyone settle down and be quiet as I check roll." He said sitting on top of his desk with a piece of parchment clutched in his hand.
After that was done, the class set to work on today's assignment.
" Now class, due to yesterday's brief accident," Snape said looking at Hermione and glanced away, " we will start on a new assignment and make Mr. Longbottom go up and gather his things before we have another little accident."
The class sniggered as Neville squirmed in his seat nervously.
" Now today, we will begin on making the beginning portion of a lie detection potion. This potion takes at least a day to simmer and tomorrow will finish the results and take them. The potion will make the person who takes it completely at ease. Nothing will happen, but yet once asked a question and the answer results falsely, a big red blotch will appear on top of the person's forehead. As continuing to deny the truth, the person's skin will turn red as well. I'll be, quite pleased to see the results tomorrow." Professor Snape said with a smirk.
Hermione quickly took down the notes and froze when she felt a hand on her thigh.
She looked over to see Malfoy smirking and he glanced at her. Hermione frowned and pushed his hand away, but again he put it back.
She growled softly and gasped as his hand traveled up farter reaching the bottom hemline of her skirt. He fingered it and lightly traced it with ease. Slowly he looked at her and inched his fingers up under the hem. Hermione smirked and looked back at Draco. She reached down to where his hand was and with a smile; she pinched the skin between his knuckles with her long fingernails.
Draco yelped and his hand hit the bottom of the desk.
" Mr. Malfoy, do you have any problem with today's assignment?"
Draco gave a death glare at Hermione who was biting her lip to keep from laughing out load and looked back up at Professor Snape who was waiting for his reply.
Draco grinned sheepishly. " No, thought I saw a bug or something."
The class started sniggering and Snape silenced them with the brush of a hand.
" Well, Mr. Malfoy, please do this class a favor and get over it."
Hermione looked down at the floor and bite her lip harder. This really was too much.
Draco's cheeks showed the slightest bit of pink and he looked away.
" Now, we can get started, Mr. Longbottom, you can go first." Snape said smirking at the nervous boy.
Hermione grinned. Maybe today wasn't going to be that bad after all.
~*~
It wasn't until lunch that Draco made his way toward the Slytherin common room. He hadn't been there since the beginning of school. Muttering the password, he strode in only to be stopped by Pansy.
" Hey sweetie! I heard what Snape said to you today." She said running her hands up and down his clothed chest.
" Yeah, no shit, you were there." He said pushing her out of the way and keeping walking forward.
Pansy whimpered and frowned. " I guess you're just in a bad mood huh? I'll be by later!"
Draco grimaced and shuddered. Right, like there was any way in hell! Finally the person he was looking for stepped out in front of him. Blaise.
Blaise glanced quickly at him and turned to move when Draco stepped in to get in his way.
Blaise sighed. " What can I do for you Malfoy?"
Draco smirked. " Oh, I think you know exactly why I'm here."
Blaise snorted. " Right, that's why I asked you in the first place smart ass. Care to fill me in?"
" Oh, watch that tongue Zabini. I really don't know where it's been or maybe I know more than you think!" he said in mocked surprise.
" Look Malfoy, as you can see, I have a limited patience. Can you just tell me what the fuck you want and get the fuck out of my way?" Blaise said moving closer to Draco's face.
Draco chuckled. " Again with the tongue Zabini. Maybe I do know where it's been. Now lets see, oh my! Maybe a certain Gryfinndor!"
Blaise froze and his eyes widened. " Alright, Malfoy, what do you really want."
" Oh I don't know love?" he said mockingly and laughed.
" I'm serious."
" Oh, but I am too! Or maybe I'm more on the lines of payback." Draco said reaching down into his pocket and tracing the edge of the parchment hidden within.
" Great, now I'm starting to realize the errors of my ways and remembering now why the fuck I never liked you in the first place." Blaise said with seething anger.
Draco gripped him by the collar and pinned him against a nearby way. All the Slytherin's that were in the common room at that time, stopped their activities and focused their attention on them.
" Now, now, I warned you, but no, you didn't listen. Well, whose fucking fault is that? I got your little love letter that you sent to Granger and can read for everyone to hear."
" Go ahead."
Draco blinked in surprise and loosened his grip. " What?"
" You fucking heard me. Go ahead! I don't care! I meant every word! Hell, I even loved her!" Blaise said shoving Draco back and straightened out his robes.
" It's just sad that a pathetic excuse for a Slytherin like you fell in love with a mudblood." Draco said looking away.
" Yeah, well it's just sad for you that you'll never feel that kind of emotion. Let's just face it Malfoy, you're doomed to be alone forever. No, self-respecting girl will ever fall in love with the likes of you! Maybe just the sluts and whores who are just after the estate and your oh so good looks. So what? Your daddy can't help you now, cause look where it left him now! In the fucking ground!" Blaise yelled.
Draco stood there silently just letting Blaise talk.
" And she's not a Mudblood. She's a witch just like you are a wizard. If you ever touch her or harm her in anyway, Malfoy, I will kill you. So help me, I will kill you. Who gives a flying fuck about blood other than a conceited prat like you? Fuck off Malfoy and get over it." Blaise said shoving past him and exiting the common room.
Draco stood there in a paralyzed motion. What the fuck just happened? Things had not been going exactly the way he planned at all.
" Fuck it." He muttered and exited out as well, leaving a bewildered Slytherin audience figuring out what the fuck just happened here.
A/N: Okay, first all sorry! I know I missed my deadline and this chapter took longer than I expected. Plus Easter and all, I had a family get together thing and things just got hectic wild. But here it is and what do you guys think? Good or bad? Tell me your opinion! Plus I was flattered at the many responses I got for chapter 4. Wow! You guys are just great and I just love hearing your responses! How I jumped from 70 something to 114, I really don't have a clue but WOW! This was really all you guys and I keep writing and planning for you guys! I'm just completely in awe and thank you! Thank you's to MistressDeDraco, HarryPotterWanter, Jade, Raven, Sierra, Jules, Darian, Anna, Pottersgirl, Lita89, a big congrat's to Dreaming One, you were my 100th reviewer! * Breaks out the streamers and all the big hoopla! * Also to Dragon's girl, Darth Berry, Draco's Grrrl, Draco's Secret Lover, skyleia, squorpionlady, Gryfinndor Goddess, Kerdes Vernell, Snapesgirl, TomFeltonsDancer, a reader, KC, LEM, and all to the many more for your positive responses! I love writing this story and I'm glad you guys are loving it too * tear * Well, I'm signing out and I do have big plans more to come. The next chapter will come out FRIDAY night. I promise! Kudos ~Always~
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Next Chapter Spoiler titled " Ten Things I Hate About You" : Hermione and Blaise have a confrontation and Hermione and Draco go at it as well leading Hermione to counter Draco with a shocking discovery about him.