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Chapter 4 :: Dirty Deeds

"Of all the foul things…" Draco being to say.

Filtch had assigned them to cleaning all the bathrooms - the muggle way.

"Wait until my dad hears about this" Draco muttered under his breath for what must have been the 30th time since they started. It's not like he had been doing anything anyways. He just stood there watching Hermione doing all the work.

As long as he left her alone, Hermione didn't mind. She rather enjoyed having the time to think without being interrupted, even if she were in the middle of a bathroom…scrubbing the floor. Just as Hermione had finished the floor, after about an hour of hard work Draco piped up. "You missed a spot." Hermione just glared at him, refusing to get into another row with Malfoy.

"What? I thought you'd be used to this sort of thing by now…being a filthy muggle and all." he smirked as he saw her go rigid with anger. He loved getting a rise out of her, she was just so easy to taunt, so he decided to continue. "You better start washing to toilets, they wont clean themselves, you know."

He watched her for any sign of reaction but there was none. Frowning he realized this had been happening a lot lately. She was less fun to tease, she barely even fought back now. He pouted and tried to think of something that would make her break out of her thoughts.

"What would your parents say now, would they be proud of their little girl sitting and cleaning up peoples shit? I can just see it now, I bet they'd be simply delighted…in fact, I bet it's more than they ever imagined you would become."

Draco was stunned by her fast movements after he spoke those words. She got up, ran straight into him and rammed him into a wall. She had tears in her eyes and she looked on the verge of a nervous breakdown. "Jesus Granger, you look like shit."

"Don't you EVER talk about my parents again." her eyes were filled with more malice than Draco had ever seen. She pushed him harder into the wall and walked back over to her cleaning supplies and started working again. Draco couldn't be certain but he could have sworn he heard muffled sobs a few times.

'Serves the little wretch right, how DARE she touch, let alone shove a Malfoy?' he scoffed and glared at the brick for the reminder of their detention.

Finally their detention was over and Filtch came into the bathroom and gave a disapproving snarl. "You two were working all night and this is all you got done? Well, we'll just have to extend your detention if you two don't work harder next time. There's plenty more bathrooms that need cleaning." he smirked at this thought and was off.

Draco couldn't have been more glad to be out of there, staring at filthy bathroom walls and Granger all night wasn't exactly his idea of a good time. But still, if he didn't start helping, he would have to spend MORE time looking at more dirty walls and…her. He grunted loudly and decided he would have to help Hermione out next time. Imagine, him, a Malfoy doing dirty work. Ugh, he couldn't wait to tell his father of the indignity of it all.

Hermione cleaned up the supplies and finally headed out of the dreadful bathroom. She couldn't wait to get out of her filthy clothes and take a nice, long, hot bath…and after that she'd have to do her homework. 'Another night without much sleep, it seems' she thought bitterly.

When she finally reached her room and realized that she hadn't even had a chance to look around it yet. She decided that after her bath she would explore a little.

She emerged from the bathroom refreshed and feeling better than she had in a week. She looked around at her surroundings. The bed was about the only thing she had noticed before. It was a four poster bed like her other one she had in her old dormitory, but this one was much bigger. Instead of being a twin it was a king and it had silk sheets and the most comfortable mattress she had ever felt in her life. She scanned her eyes around and focused on her dresser. She had briefly glanced at it before when she got some of her clothes out, but she's never really observed it. It was tall and wide and was big enough to fit even Parvati and Lavender's wardrobes. It was antique looking and matched the rest of the furniture.

After looking around a bit more Hermione spotted a door she hadn't really paid attention to before. She assumed it led to a closet so when she opened the door and found a huge room she was really shocked. The room was a lot like the Gryffindor common room, but it was a bit smaller and more comfortable looking. Four huge bookshelves lined the back wall and was overflowing with books.

There was also a fireplace and a big couch and two comfortable looking armchairs. There were also two large desks with comfortable chairs on the opposite side of the door. The décor of the room was different than her room, it was bright and cheerful and made Hermione almost happy just looking at it. She walked over to the bookshelf and pulled out the first book her hand came to. She flipped through the pages and decided that she wasn't really all that tired anymore and reading would take her mind off of things. She sat next in the armchair nearest to the fire and began to read.

It wasn't but ten minutes later when she was interrupted by the sound of a door opening. She looked at her door and saw that it was how she left it.

"My, my, imagine this, Hermione Granger sitting in my lounge and reading my books.

'I knew this was too good to be true' she thought.

"Malfoy, this obviously isn't your lounge, if it were there would be no books in here. Instead there would be chains and whips, and any other torture device you could think of." she retorted in a monotone voice.

"Hmm, I suppose you're somewhat right there, it does like a certain amount of…Malfoy charm…"

"Oh please." she snorted loudly.

"So I guess this means this is both of our lounge? Great, just great…" Draco continued mumbling.

"Yes, well, it's not like I like it much either."

"Well, I found this place first, so get out!" he practically yelled this at Hermione.

"Excuse me, but I don't think so. It's as much mine as it is yours you stupid egocentric prick." she said rising to her feet.

"Well, you can't expect me to stay in the same room as you!!"

"I really don't care what you do, just stay out of my way." and with that she sat back down and continued her reading. She was really getting into it when Draco interrupted her for the seonc time.

"Let's make a deal then."

She raised her eyebrow at this. 'Malfoy wants to make a deal?' out of curiosity she replied. "What kind of deal?"

"How about we divide the times up?" he suggested

"I'm listening."

"Okay. You'd get it from 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, I get it from 5:00 PM to the rest of the night."

"No way, that's not fair at all! I don't even have time until 5:00!!" she glared at him for suggested that she get not only less time, but the worst time.

"Fine. I guess we'll just have to put up with each other."

"Fine." she agreed and settled back down and started reading where she left off.

Draco stood there pouting for a few minutes before storming out and slamming his door loudly. Hermione smirked in satisfaction.

And hour later she decided that she's better get some sleep, it was already 11:00 PM and she had a rough day. She felt rather uneasy that Malfoy was so close and could probably break any locking charm she put on the door so she put a chair under the knob to prevent him from entering her room.

Se climbed into her bed and let out a loud sigh. Today had been rough on her, she prayed tomorrow would be better.