Hermione walked into the library. It was completely deserted. She hadn't expected anyone to be in there, it was the first week and teachers hardly ever gave homework on the first week. She sighed and sat at a table near the back of the room. She pulled the Invisibility Potion ingredients and instructions out of her bag. "Trust Snape to set us a potion this complex and make it worth basically our entire grade." she thought to herself. There were ingredients that needed to be picked and cut on the 5th day of a new moon, and stewed for exactly 7 and ¾ hours, when the sun was at 90 degrees from the earth. She shook her head. She couldn't see any way out of working with Malfoy. Most of the directions needed two people present for them to work to full effect. She looked at her watch. 6:45. Trust Malfoy to be late. She rolled her eyes; he was obviously trying to make a point. He wanted to make sure Hermione know no one was going to boss him around and he was doing his own thing.
"Boys" Muttered Hermione, shaking her head. She looked up and she saw Malfoy walking into the library.

"Draco, I'm over here" She called out to him; he couldn't see her for looking! He saw her, and walked over. He had that usual smug smirk she detested fixed on his face.

"Lets get this sorted shall we, Granger? I'm a busy man." Said Draco with a bored tone.

"I don't like being here anymore than you do, Malfoy, and I wouldn't want to spend anymore time in your presence than absolutely necessary." Hermione shot back. Draco opened his mouth a few times, thinking of something to quip back, but apparently nothing came to mind, because he sat down on the opposite side of the table silently.

"Right… This is a terribly complex potion and both of us will need to put a lot into it…" Said Hermione, glancing over the instructions again.

"What's this? The amazing Granger DOESN'T know how to do something? Alert the press people." Said Draco sarcastically. Hermione shot him a look of pure venom.

"Look, this is as bad for me as it is for you. You are the LAST person I would choose to work with, but lets try to get along or at least bite our tongues so this whole thing isn't so painful"

"You think this is as bad for you as it is for me? Hah. You're not the one who has to work with a..." Said Draco, but Hermione cut him off and continued.
"IF we work together and do everything the instructions say I don't see why we shouldn't be able to do this. I've drawn us both up a list of what we can do separately, but the rest needs two people working in unison." And Hermione handed him the little piece of paper she had drawn his instructions up on. He took it and looked at it.
"What's this bollocks, Granger? What does your list say?" He said, and he snatched hers. He quickly read it. "You gave me all the hard stuff! This is crap, I'm not doing it!"

"Fine, we'll swap list then, shall we?"

"I don't want to swap; I don't want you telling me what to do." He said, and he dropped both lists on the table.

"Draco, do you have any better ideas? No! I don't want to fail this project, and I don't want you holding me back. Unless you have anything to bring to the table, this is the only plan we've got. So do you have any better ideas?" Said Hermione, taking a deep breath afterwards. Hermione took it from his silence he didn't. "Good. So take a list, read it, and we'll meet tomorrow to begin our preparations?"

"Can't tomorrow, Quidditch training" Said Draco casually.

"Well you can't be training all day, what about afterwards?"

"Afterwards… I'll see how I go shall I? And for the records, I don't take orders from mudbloods." And he picked up his things and left a very furious Hermione behind.

When she got back to the common room, she walked over to Ron and Harry, threw her bag on the floor and screamed.

"I simply CANNOT work with that boy! He is the most hateful, vulgar and abhorrent person I have EVER had the displeasure of knowing." Said Hermione as she collapsed next to Harry.

"So I'm guessing you don't like him?" Inquired Ron. Hermione simply shot him a look that shut him up.

"I don't see how this arrangement will ever work. He goes out of his way to torture me. I can see he's going to make this hell." Hermione sighed.

"Just ignore him… He'll stop if he thinks he isn't getting to you" Said Harry.

"Harry you know that's not true. He's like a cockroach, not even nuclear warfare could stop him."

"I just can't see you being able to get out of it… You'll just have to make the best of a bad situation." Said Harry, though he said it in a defeatist way.

"I just can't see any good coming of this"