A/N - Okay this is a bit longer than the last chapter and in my opinion much better , I wasn't planning on posting this today but I figured with the massive gap between the last chapter and the one before that , you deserve a special treat. Bit of a warning though , I wrote this at one o'clock in the morning , on a sugar high from drinking too much Iced Tea , with a broken little toe in the middle of a heat wave. It was 45C , I don't know what that is in the other temp gauge but it's pretty damn hot. Please RnR , I need the feedback to make me feel better.

House Elf Relations Chapter Nine.

Leaving Hermione and Ginny to continue their conversation , Melissa quietly exited the room and made her way up to the 5th year girls' dorms. Not stopping to knock she barged into the room with no regard for common courtesy.

" What the hell do you think you're doing in here ?" Lavender demanded coming out of the bathroom to confront the intruder.

" I think that I'm about to make you one very happy girl." Melissa informed her with evil smile making it way across her face.

That night at dinner Ginny and Hermione sat anxiously waiting for Draco to come and take his usual seat in between them.

" When are you going to tell him ?" Ginny asked in a low tone , making sure not to alert Lavender to the nature of the conversation.

" After dinner , I'm going to ask him to come to the library with me." Hermione said rather dejectedly , picking at her mashed potatoes.

" Look if you're this sad before you break up with him , what are you going to be like afterwards. Are you sure you want to go through with this ?" Ginny asked concerned that her friend was going to make a big mistake.

" Yes…No , Yes. I don't know." Hermione answered.

" See it's that kind of articulacy and commitment to your decisions that make you top of your year." Ginny joked hoping to get Hermione to at least crack a smile , unfortunately it didn't work. Nudging Hermione in the ribs with her elbow Ginny offered her some advice. " Look at you , your miserable and nothing's even happened yet. Please reconsider , if Draco's going to react to this half as badly as I think he is , and with you like this , I just might go insane."

" You all ready are insane , Gin." Hermione said sarcastically , looking at Ginny out of the corner of her eye.

" Of course I'd always have Jaime to talk to and ….hey did you just call me crazy ?" Ginny asked playfully.

" No , I called you insane. There's a differ…." Hermione trailed off as she spotted Draco entering the Great Hall looking rather yummy.

" Hermione ?" Ginny asked , poking her in the shoulder. " Are you okay ?" Then she spotted Draco making his way towards them. " Ohhhh."

" Hello Ladies , how are we this evening ?" Draco asked cheerfully sliding into his seat and kissing Hermione on the cheek before putting his arm around her shoulders.

" We're …okay." Ginny said thoughtfully , with a meaningful look at Hermione.

Draco seemed to get it when Hermione squirmed uncomfortably under his arm. Removing his arm from around her shoulders , but moving closer to her, Draco asked. " What's wrong ?"

While Ginny looked on with interest , Hermione didn't take her eyes off her plate as she answered him. "Nothing , nothings wrong. Why would you think there was ?"

" You just looked a bit down is all , are you sure your okay ?" Draco asked moving his head around in front of her in an attempt to get her to look him in the eye.

" I'm fine , okay , can we talk about this after dinner ? I don't particularly want to talk about this in front of the whole school." Hermione snapped at him.

" Talk about what ?" Draco asked , confused at the attitude his girlfriend had newly acquired.

" Draco." Ginny called his name and shook her head when he looked at her , indicating that he should let it drop.

" Fine." Draco sighed and looked down at his own plate , it was filled with roast chicken with gravy , mashed potatoes , corn on the cob and beans , this would usually be his favorite meal but after that brief yet strained conversation with Hermione he couldn't muster up his appetite.

" You done ?" He asked , the brown haired girl beside him , who was currently occupying herself with glaring at a blonde haired tart who was draping herself over the great red headed prat otherwise known as Ronald Weasley.

" Yes. Why ?" Hermione asked distantly not even turning to look at him. But poking Ginny in the ribs are gesturing to the couple she was glaring at not a second before.

" Because I'm done as well and I was wondering if you wanted to have that talk now" Draco informed her , finally getting her attention. Judging from the way she was looking at the Weasel just before , Draco thought he had a pretty good idea of what this talk was going to be about. He just couldn't believe he was going to be dumped for a Weasley.

Hermione finally turned to look at him , while Ginny still stared in disgust at the tramp who was currently giving her brothers ear what looked like a tongue bath. Noticing that Draco's plate was full and untouched , Hermione couldn't help but feel concern for him well up inside her.

" Draco how can you be finished ? You haven't even touched your food." Hermione stated , placing a hand on his cheek.

Draco saw the concern radiating from her eyes and felt silly for ever thinking that she would dump him for a Weasley. " I'm not hungry." He said simply , hoping that would satisfy her so they could go and talk about whatever was bothering her.

" Draco , you haven't had anything to eat since lunch , how could you not be hungry ?" Hermione inquired trying to encourage her boyfriend to eat.

" The same way that you could be." Draco answered simply , gesturing to her plate on which was still almost full of food that was all just mashed together.

Hermione looked down at her plate and rolled her eyes , picked up her fork and took a mouthful of what looked to be corn , gravy and some sort of green substance most likely beans. " There I'm eating mine , so you eat yours." She told him firmly. Knowing that there was just no arguing with her when she spoke like that , Draco hurriedly shoved a few forkfuls of food into his mouth and swallowed after only chewing a couple of times , effectively almost choking himself. After about a minute of Hermione whacking him on the back and Ginny trying to force a glass of water down his throat which made him choke worse , Draco finally recovered. " I think that's enough eating for tonight." He said , his voice made rough from the food that had been caught in his windpipe. Hermione rather liked the dangerous quality it gave to his already sexy voice. Suddenly she didn't want to have the talk after dinner or any time at all , then she reminded herself about Lavender and her baby and that until that whole mess was taken care of , that it would be selfish of her to keep him away from that. " Yeah , um , could you wait outside for me I got to talk to Ginny about something."

" Sure." Draco answered getting up an placing a soft kiss on the top of her head. " I'll just be outside." He informed her before he left the table , his half full plate disappearing after his departure.

Ginny turned her attention away from the badly clashing couple to Hermione.

" Are you sure you want to go through with this ?" Ginny asked once again trying to get Hermione to change her mind.

" No. But I can't be selfish here. No matter how much I hate Lavender , Draco deserves the right to choose who he wants to be with after he's provided with all the information. If were still together when that happens , I just don't want him to feel like he's obligated to stay with me." Hermione sighed.

" Like Lavender." Ginny stated , nodding her head in understanding.

" Like Lavender what ?" Hermione asked , confused at the twist the young red head put on her words.

" Well , we all know that Lavender is only keeping the baby in the hopes that Draco will be obligated to stay with her. That slutty bitch." Ginny explained , venomously.

" Ginny." Hermione said disapprovingly , although inside she agreed with her. Lavender was a slutty bitch and a lot of other things , but that didn't mean you had to say it out loud.

" What ? I'm just telling the truth. Look at her , she practically having sex with my brother in front of half of the school , I don't understand how he'd be stupid enough to fall for her act."

" You do realize that you're talking about Ron , right ?" Hermione smirked.

" Yes , I know that he isn't the brightest star in the sky , but surely even he's not that stupid." Ginny partly defended her slightly dense brother.

" Ginny , yesterday the boy didn't even know that his robe was inside out until someone told him. I know he's your brother and all , but he's really not all that perceptive , he didn't even realize I was a girl until 4th year." Hermione explained venting a little of her anger at Lavender in a good round of Ron bashing.

" Judging by the sounds he made when he was asleep the summer between 3rd and 4th , he definitely noticed you were a girl." Ginny said and at Hermione perplexed and slightly disgusted reaction , she decided to demonstrate. " Every night it was : 'Oh Hermione , yes , don't stop , suck it harder , oh yeah , use your tits." When she finished her little demo she noticed half of the table starring at her in disbelief. " WHAT ?" She yelled at them , and they all went back to their desserts , all except Ron who was glaring at Ginny , his face going almost purple and his eyes bulging out of their sockets in anger.

" Eeep. He was not meant to hear that." Ginny muttered turning away from her irate brother , feeling his eyes burning into her back. Hermione face was frozen in horror , Ron her former best friend , Ron who used to be like brother to her had wet dreams about her , eewww.

" Hermione ?" Ginny called , waving a hand in front of her friends' unresponsive face. " Herm ?"

Still no change. * Time to try a different tactic,* she thought. " Hermione , look Draco's naked."

Suddenly Hermione's eyes widened and her head swung around rapidly searching the room for her naked boyfriend. " Where , where's my naked Draco ?"

" I only said that to get you to snap out of it , there's no naked Draco here." Ginny explained , trying to calm Hermione down before she said something to embarrass herself.

For a moment Hermione pouted ,slightly depressed at the lack of naked Draco , then she realized that it would not be a good thing for him to be naked in front of about 100 people.

" Okay , well I'd better go and talk to Draco , do you remember the plan ?" Hermione asked Ginny , referring to the plan they had cooked up that afternoon. The plan was that Ginny would hide within hearing distance of their conversation and if something went wrong or if Hermione didn't want to go through with it she would start talking about oranges and that would be the cue for Ginny to come in and rescue her.

" Yes , of course I remember the plan. Although I still think mine was much better." Ginny complained.

" Gin , yours involved handcuffs , whipped cream and the extended edition of the Karma Sutra." Hermione commented dryly.

" I know and I stand by what I said , my plan is much better." Ginny said with a smug smile stretched across her face. Hermione just shook her head and told Ginny to follow out after her about 2 minutes after she left so as not to arouse suspicion. Then she left the heavy oak doors swinging shut behind her. Ginny pulled out her watch after a short time and began counting down the seconds to when she had to leave. 5...4...3...2...1. " What the hell did you think you were doing ?" * Oh Crap.*

A/N- Okay hopefully you found this chapter funnier and more interesting than the last sorry there isn't more D/Hr-ness in it yet , but now that my muses formerly known as Spunky!Draco and SecretlyLustingAfterSpunkyDraco!Hermione have evolved into Naked!Draco and PubliclyLustingAfterNakedDraco!Hermione I may be inspired to write some more intense scenes between them. Sorry for all the Ginny in this as well , I know that a lot of people don't like her that much but I think that she rocks , plus she isn't written about much in the books so I can pretty much make her how ever I want. I hate Ron I just want to make that clear , and I don't really care that much for Harry either so he won't be in here very much because , hey he already has five books written about him , he doesn't need to be the main character here as well. The next chapter will be out soon hopefully , so remember to review and tell me what you think of it so far. Thanks. P.S. Can anyone come up with a name for my Ginny muse she feels left out.