A/N: This is chap 2 obviously, and it's a little bit longer than the first one and hopefully more entertaining. If you guys have any ideas on what I should do next please let me know....oh yeah and the disclaimer from chap. 1 goes for the whole story...

Battle of the Bands

Chapter two: An Announcement and an Interesting Detention

The next day after the "incident" the Great Hall was booming with rumors. "Hermione, did you kick Malfoy in the nuts?", "Draco did that Mudblood attack you!?!", "Hermione, did Malfoy try to rape you?", "Draco did Granger..." and that's how it went for the entire day. It was hard for the four Gryffindors to even enjoy their dinner. "Whoa, I didn't know that ferret boy's and my fight would cause so much commotion. I mean we've been fighting since Day One." Hermione speculated to Ron, Harry, and Ginny. "Well come on 'Mione this the first time you full out attacked the ferret and got caught, of course it's gonna be news." Ron said right before drinking his pumpkin juice, Harry was about to add something, but was interrupted by McGonagall's tapping glass.

"Your attention please." She said in calm yet demanding voice, as Professor Dumbledore stood to speak. "As a school treat the Professors and I have agreed to put on a talent show for all who are talented in areas that are purely entertaining and/or unusual. The sign up lists will be in your common rooms. That is all." The students immediately went back to talking, but now about the talent show. Ginny looked at Hermione, Harry, and Ron, "We should enter our band. I mean we're really good, what do you guys think?" Harry and Ron smiled at one another and said in unison, "definitely." They all looked at Hermione anxiously waiting for her response, "what song do you guys want to sing?" she asked cheerfully. They were all ecstatic, "all right Hermione!"

At the Slytherin Table...

"Hey Draco what would you think if we entered the show?" Blaise asked. "I think that we're going to wipe the floor with everyone's arses." Draco answered with the same smirk as always. The four Slytherins began talking, but then Draco remembered the detention. "Oh you guys, I've got detention so I've gotta go, bye!" "Bye Drake!" they called out as he ran out the Great Hall. Draco picked up the pace trying to get to the transfiguration classroom in time that he wasn't where he was going, oof "Owww! Watch where you're going Malfoy!" Malfoy stood up to see an angry Hermione Granger grabbing her ankle. "Sorry, umm, are you ok?" she looked at him with fire in her eyes, "Does it look it!" She slowly stood up. "Jeez, sorry I asked." He said putting his hands up defensively. She bent back over to rub her ankle, "Are you sure you're ok?" Draco asked while thinking, 'why the hell am I asking her how she is? When did I care all of a sudden?' "Yeah, it's just an old hockey injury flaring up that's all." She replied. He nodded as she was thinking, 'why in the world is he trying to be polite? I mean we were just trying to kill one another yesterday? What the hell happened?' They walked the rest of the way together in a deafening silence. . .

"Ok, Mr. Malfoy, you will wash the floors with this and this," she handed him a bucket with soap water and a brush, "And Ms. Granger, you will polish all 272 medallions, and I want to be able to see myself in it. I will retrieve you both when I feel you have served enough time." McGonagall then turned and left. "This is all your fault you stupid Mudblood!" was the first thing that came out of Draco's mouth after McGonagall had left. "Well, if you would stop your bloody instigating then maybe we wouldn't be in this situation!" Hermione spat back. Draco walked so close up to her that she had lean back to not fall over. "Maybe if you didn't get your damn feathers riled so easily then maybe we wouldn't be here." 'Everything I said earlier about him trying to be polite, let's scratch that out.' She thought as she was about to reply. "Well maybe if you stopped suffering from 'I'm-a-wannabe-bad-arse-sorry-excuse-for-a-wizard then maybe we wouldn't have started fighting EVER!"

Then that's when it happened, Draco raised his hand as to slap her, but it never came down. "Come on Draco, hit me I know you want to." She said not really meaning it. 'Come on Draco, hit her, you can do it. She insulted your wizardry. No one can do that let alone a worthless Mudblood. Come on just hit her.' Although his thoughts told him it was ok to hit her, he just couldn't do it. Maybe it was because of the fear he saw in her eyes when she saw his hand raise, or maybe it was because he knew it was wrong, or maybe it was because right as he was going to hit her the look on her face was just to beautiful to bruise, either way he couldn't do it. Instead, he grabbed her by the collar and lifted her off the ground, "Don't ever insult me like that again or you'll regret it." She raised her fist as if to hit him but he grabbed her wrist very roughly and sat her back down. Before he left her to do go do his punishment he did something neither of them expected him to, he kissed her wrist as he did hurt it.

He then turned to start on the floors, then it hit him what he just did, 'What in the bloody hell did I just do, I kissed Granger! Well not on the lips but it was still a kiss! What's gotten into me?' He shook his head and began on the floors. Hermione was still shocked by what just happened. 'Okay, first he's yelling at me, about to beat the crap out me, then kisses me on the wrist? I'm so confused, I can't read him, I don't know what to make of him, I mean I despise him, but at the same time I can't help but feel an attraction to him...WAIT what! I can't be attracted to Malfoy, Ferret Boy, Boy who makes my life a living hell!' Hermione shook her head and turned her attention to the many medallions that needed polishing. After three hours of this really, really, really awkward silence, McGonagall dismissed them and they both went to the Head dormitories without saying a word to each other...

A/N: so I know Draco and Hermione are OOC but you know, I think it creates for more comedy possibly if they're OOC even though they weren't really funny in the chap. Ok you know the drill, the button to the left of your screen is anxiously waiting to used,

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