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Author's note: Here comes the next chapter. Hands out cookies to eager reviewers. I love all of you and you seem to love me so this seems to be working out well. I plan to try and update more now that I am on winter break! So if I don't…email me and give me a kick in the butt I prolly need!
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Hermoine sat with the prefects at the head table that night to keep planning the Halloween Ball. This was taking longer than they thought. No one could really settle on a theme. Finally they settled on "Once and Always" and decided to allow the students to wear Muggle formal wear. Hermoine felt a hand on her thigh and jumped a tad…the only one who noticed was the hand's owner…Mr. Draco Malfoy.
Draco grinned at her and winked. He squeezed her thigh and went back to talking about finger food for the dance with Justin. She tossed her head to mouth a message to Ron or Harry and he caught a whiff of her perfume mixed with her shampoo. What a lethal combination! Feminine and sexy, but at the same time simple and sweet…it drove him nuts. When had Granger become this WOMAN and not a mudblood? When did her smell matter so much to him? These questions swirled in his mind and he breathed in more of her smell. Then he felt a hand under his robes making him jerk slightly. Slim delicate fingers tickled his spine and ran up and down that same spine in slow nd seductive manner. Draco looked at Moine …only to see her rise an eyebrow and stick her tongue out at him. Then she turned to the rest of the table and announced she had to go help Ginny with her Transfiguration homework. After all, Moine had excelled in the fifth year class whereas Ginny was struggling with it. She waggled her fingers and went to the Gryffindor table to talk to Ginny.
"Moine, why is he watching you tonight? Nd why after that conference in the hall do you suddenly need to sit with him and the other Prefects?" Muttered Ron s Hermoine sat back down.
"To start with Ron, you KNOW technically I am supposed to eat with the prefects and not you all. Secondly, like I said he was reminding me of a secret prefect affair that had slipped my mind, and thirdly who cares why Malfoy is watching me?" replied Hermoine in her most logical tone of voice.
Ron and Harry exchanged looks and shrugged. All her counter arguments made sense but something just wasn't working out in their minds. Now if only they could put their fingers on it…unfortunately the finger-putting was Hermoine's department. They defeated things and ended up in the hospital wing. So they decided to put it on hold and watched as Hermoine ducked out of the Great Hall with Ginny heading back to the Gryffindor common room. Neither of them noticed Draco's eyes following her as well. The sliver eyes were troubled and yet they seemed to twinkle.
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"See Ginny? Just keep it to a simple swish and flick and you got it covered!" announced a triumphant Hermoine a few hours later as Ginny transfigured Harry and Ron's brooms into a lovely brush set and back again. Unfortunately the boys got a glimpse of their prize possessions as a brush set and went a little flippy on the two girls. Ginny and Hermoine shared a look of female communication before rolling their eyes at the boys.
"Well, thanks Hermoine. Glad to know that I can do it. I wish this class were as easy as Potions or Divination." Sighed Ginny as she watched Hermoine pack up to return to her own common room.
"You are an odd Gryffindor to like Potions so much Ginny Weasley!" teased Hermoine as she gathered her books she sent Ginny a teasing smile.
"You are a typical Gryffindor Hermoine Granger! Well, as normal as YOU could ever be!" teased Ginny as she tossed a pillow at Hermoine.
Hermoine tickled Ginny and the two were involved in a pillow fight to the death when Draco poked his head in from the Prefect common room. He watched Hermoine's eyes light up with laughter as she played. Draco couldn't remember ever playing like this. He smiled as she finally triumphed over Ginny.
"Let that be a lesson to you Weasley. Never attack someone a year older than you! Especailly, someone who has had to fight off several of your brothers in similar battles." Hermoine announced triumphantly. Then she caught sight of Draco and gasped…startled, "Draco! Where did you come from?"
Ginny looked up and smiled, "You can come in Draco. You are a Prefect after all."
"I know Ms. Weasley. But I was sent on a retrieval mission to reclaim Ms. Granger for a Prefect meeting." Draco said with a smirk Ginny's way.
Hermoine sighed and got up wishing Ginny good night. She hollered good night up to Ron and Harry and returned the holler. She rolled her eyes at them and wandered through the portrait to an empty common room. She turned and looked at Draco with raised eyebrows. He grinned and pulled her up to her dorm room and motioned for her to open her door. With a deep sigh and a cautious look at Draco she slowly opened the door…
To nothing. Except a roaring fire and hot coco with cookies. She turned curious eyes back to Draco. He looked at her in total innocence. The only sign of his deceit was the twinkle in his eyes. She crossed her arms over her chest and looked at him expectantly.
"Okay so I thought we needed to talk and made up something." Draco said after a long pause in which Moine's eyes never left his.
"All's you had to was ask. So what do you need help in?" Hermoine asked, automatically thinking he needed tutoring somewhere.
"Uh, actually Hermoine I just wanted to get to know you better. Remember? In about a month we have that test on out Prefect partners and we are winning in points but this could really screw us over if we fail it." Draco said with a hopeful look on his face.
Hermoine considered this for a moment before nodding, "Good point! But let's do it up in our – I mean – MY room. Wouldn't want people to get the wrong idea would we?" and with that comment she dragged him upstairs and closed the door.
Once inside they both got comfy and settled in at opposite sides of Moine's bed, "Okay where do we start?" asked Draco after conjuring some pumpkin juice for both of them.
"Well, we do it the time honored Muggle way…with a friendly little game of Truth or Dare…" Hermoine said with a wink.
"Truth or Dare? Huh?" Draco asked very confused by this game.
"It is very simple Draco. If you select truth you must answer whatever question you are asked truthfully and totally. If you select dare you must perform a task. The nuttier the better. You think you can handle it?" Hermoine replied, ending it with a challenge in her tone.
Draco met her eyes and smirked, "If a Muggle can handle this game then I can without question. You can even ask the first question."
"Truth or Dare?" Hermoine asked.
"Truth." Replied Draco boldly.
"Are you a natural blonde?" Hermoine asked the question that had plagued her since their first year.
"Yes I am. Truth or dare?" Draco said with a roll of his eyes.
"Truth." Hermoine said snuggling into her pillows.
"Why does making Head Girl mean so much to you?" asked Draco in total seriousness.
"It would be an accomplishment I made with having either of my two best friends end up in the hospital wing or the world almost end. It would be nice to have one totally unmarred memory." Replied Hermoine, "Truth or dare."
"Dare."
Hermoine plopped on his lap with an innocent smile, then placed his arms around her, "Hold me for ten minutes with no wandering hands or overly 'happy' parts."
Draco groaned to himself, shifted slightly and nodded quickly. Thankfully missing the twinkle in her eyes, "Okay Moine. Truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"Why did you choose this dare?"
"Because I wanted to sit here…with you. Truth or dare?" Hermoine replied quickly, as she blushed.
"Truth."
"Favorite meal?"
"Anything I do not have to cook. Because I can't cook to save my own life. Although I do despise liver or anything gray for that matter." Draco said, snuggling her closer, "You know you never said what happens if we refuse or fail a dare."
"If you fail or turn down a dare you must do something for that person…whatever they ask of you." Hermoine said with a smile at Draco's raised eyebrows, "And dare me Mr. Malfoy…"
"Kiss me…like I kissed you in the hall earlier." To Draco's amazement, Moine turned and kissed him and continued to kiss him until he had to pull back to catch his breathe.
"Truth or dare?" she whispered in his ear.
"Truth." He managed after a moment.
"Your attitude. Is it real or a ploy to keep your dad off your back?"
"Both. Truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"Favorite colors…other than the Gryffindor colors?"
"Blues, yellows, silver, and purples. And I know that is more than one!" Hermoine said before Draco could point that out, "Truth or dare?"
"Truth." Draco replied and nuzzled her neck for a moment then pulled back to gauge her reaction. She moved back to her side of the bed with a nervous look in her eyes.
"Um, your favorite relaxing hobby?" She asked, trying to cover her reaction to his lips.
"Reading or playing sports. You?" he replied forgetting to ask her which she wanted.
The same just add shopping." Hermoine replied with a sassy grin.
Draco's eyebrows shot up at shopping nd faked a heart attack, "A girl who like shopping! OHMIGOD...my heart can't take the shock!"
Hermoine threw a pillow t him that started her second pillow fight of the night. The pillows and insults flew. Then bout half an hour later then ended up on the ground with Draco on top of Hermoine and straddling her hips looking into her eyes. The silence was charged with something neither of them could put a finger on.
Draco hopped up quickly and was followed by Moine. They each quickly went to their separate sleeping areas and turned off the lights after whispering good night.
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Much later that night Hermoine was wakened by the sound of moaning. It was coming from Draco. She went to shake him awake. He grabbed her hand and pulled her closer to him. She tried to pull her hand free.
"Moine baby don' go. Stay here and snuggle. You feel so good here. Besides I want you again…" he mumbled deep in his dream world.
"DRACO MALFOY~! What are you talking about?" she said loudly trying to wake him.
He jumped up startled and looked around trying to figure out what was going on. Then his eyes landed on Moine and they grew wide as he began to remember his dream… Oh shit!
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