A/n: Hey! Another chapter. Hope you enjoy.

Chapter 2

The next day after classes, Hermione and Draco met in the library. Hermione automatically grabbed a few books and started to write down notes.

"What do you want to do the report on?" She asked Draco.

"Don't care," was his reply.

"Come on," she pushed. "You must have some idea."

"Nope."

After another 15 minutes, she at least wanted him to do some research.

"Will you at least do research?" she asked.

"No." He said.

After another 5 or 10 minutes of this, Hermione was starting to get fed up. All the other teams were there were working diligently. Even the Slytherin and Hufflepuff team. But not her team. Malfoy refused to do anything. Maybe I should do it by myself, she thought. I'll never get anything done with him as my partner. She decided to try to get him to work with her one more time.

Her efforts failed.

Her anger starting to flare, she asked him in one last attempt to get him cooperate, "Are you going to do anything?"

He looked at her and said, "No. Why should I?"

She grabbed up her books and bag and headed for the door.

"Wait. Where are you going?" Draco asked in wonder.

"To do the report." She answered. "If you don't want to do it, that's fine. I'll do it all by myself!" And she stormed off, leaving Draco standing there in wonder and shock.

"Wait!" He called.

She turned and looked at him. "What?"

"I can't do this project alone." He said.

"Well, you certainly don't want to do it with me, so-" She turned and started to head toward the door of the library again.

"Wait!" Draco called. "Stop!" He reached out and grabbed her arm.

She turned around, looked at his hand on her arm, and then backs up at him. "Get your hand off me." She spat as she yanked her arm out of his grip.

Draco put his hands up as a sign of retreat. "Fine." He said. "Look… I want to win this competition. I like winning. And I can't do this competition without you."

"Are you actually going to work?" Hermione asked, smartly.

"Yes." Draco answered.

"So we're calling a truce?" Hermione asked.

"Yes." Draco said. "I suppose so."

"Okay." She said. "I suppose that if we're going to work together that we should call each other by our first names."

"Okay… Hermione…."

"Alright." Hermione said. "I have an idea about what we could do for our report. We could do it on 'the founders of Hogwarts'."

"Don't you mean 'the founding of Hogwarts'?" Draco asked.

"No." she said. "I mean 'the founders of Hogwarts'. I presume that some other group or groups will have thought of 'the founding of Hogwarts'. It's too common and too easy of a topic. 'The founders of Hogwarts' is not so easy a topic and I don't think that anyone will have thought of it."

Draco looked at her, amazed. She thinks of everything…he thought.

"Now, let's go and research our topic, Malfoy."

"Hey." He said, reaching out and stopping her. She turned to look at him. "If I have to call you by your first name, you have to call me by my first name. I do have one, you know. It's Draco."

She looked at him with an expression that clearly said, "I know that.", but she said, "Very well, Malfoy-I-I mean, Draco…"

They stared at each other for a moment, and then they turned to do the research for their project.

Contrary to what you might think, Draco actually did do research. He and Hermione looked all over for a book on the founders of Hogwarts, but found none.

"How are we going to do our report if there's nothing on it?" Draco asked.

Hermione sighed. "Let's go ask, Madame Pince to help us." She said.

"Why?"

"Because we need help, that's why." She said, walking toward Madame Pince, not giving him a choice.

He followed her as they walked to Madame Pince's desk. "Madame Pince?" Hermione said. "We need help finding books for our report on the founders of Hogwarts."

"Founders of Hogwarts?" Madame Pince said. "I know there are some here. You can't find them?"

"No," said Hermione.

"Very well, then." She said, getting up. Then noticing Draco, said, "A Gryffindor and a Slytherin working together… how interesting…"

"We're doing it for the Head Boy/Head Girl Competition." Draco said, defensively. "We wouldn't be doing it otherwise."

"Ok, ok." Madame Pince said, not really listening to him.

Madame Pince walked over to a section of the library, and walked to the far end of the one of the shelves. "They should be in here somewhere… Ah! Yes! They should be in here." She pointed to three of columns of books in front of them. "I see three already." She then turned and walked back to her desk.

Draco and Hermione looked at each other and shrugged. They then started looking for books.

In a few minutes, Draco had found one. "Hermione! Come here! I found one! Look at this!" He opened the book and held it out for her to read. She glanced at the open pages and read them.

"Perfect!" she exclaimed. "This will do just perfectly." She then took the book and then turned on her heal and walked back to their table. Stopping only to get another book.

Draco shrugged at her, grabbed two books and then followed her back to their table and sat across from her as he had done before.

They both got a lot of information and wrote it down on parchment. They exchanged any information that they found out. And they did so until it was time for the competition.

They were in the library (like they had been for the past week) putting the finishing touches on their report and on the memorization when they heard Professor McGonagall's voice calling, "The first stage of the competition starts in 15 minutes. All competitors please report to the Great Hall immediately."

Draco and Hermione looked at each other and they both took a deep breath and walked out of the library and into the Great Hall and prepared to make their report when their turn came.

A/n: Well… what do you think? Well, I hope you like it. I'm sorry you had to wait so long for this. Wait… what am I doing? No one's reading this… well, I'm posting it anyway, but after this… no more until I hear some replies. And so it will be for the remainder of this story. (If anyone ever reads it.)