Spying

The day slowly passed. Hermoine was getting tired of Blaise and Pansy being around her and Draco. She didn't mind Blaise, but with what had happened in Care of Magical Creatures, she wasn't exactly that comfortable around him anymore. The nerve of Snape and Dumbledore coming up with the plan of the magnetic potion. This was sure to ruin her first week of her sixth year at Hogwarts.

Hermoine wondered what was going to happen with Pansy. Surely she wouldn't be staying at the Gryffindor tower. And she couldn't have Draco going back with the Slytherins. What if they convinced him to go back to the dark side? They could possibly bribe him back, and then Hermoine would never feel like this again.

"So what are you doing for sleeping arrangements?" Hermoine asked the two of them.

"Why do you care mudblood? Scared I'll take your precious Malfoy away from you? Oh boo hoo" Pansy said with a sneer.

"You couldn't take me away from Hermoine. It's not possible. You're terrible, Pansy. I l-love her" Malfoy choked.

Hermoine stared at Draco in shock. Did he actually mean it? Or was it a show? She couldn't tell. It was almost impossible to read him sometimes.

Draco couldn't believe he had just said the three magical words. And they weren't even together! He watched her argue with herself in her mind. He thought it was the cutest thing he had seen since they had started "dating" or so everyone else thought.

He turned to see a pure horrified look on Pansy's face. It amused him to see it there. She looked as if she could be sick just by hearing those words addressed to Hermoine and coming from him.

Draco turned back to Hermoine. She looked confused and like she was either going to pass out or be sick, on or the other. She then turned to Blaise.

"We have to go somewhere, anywhere. Preferably outside. I need air. You two stay here and eat" Hermoine said to Pansy and Draco.

Pansy continued to shove more food down her throat carelessly, but Draco looked up at Hermoine with a disapproving look. She seemed to be off in her own little world. Blaise stood up and put an arm around her waist which she seemed to ignore.

Hermoine and Blaise walked out of the Great Hall with Draco staring after them.

"Alone at last" Pansy said with a seductive look on her eyes, her mouth still full of food. Draco rolled his eyes.

Hermoine and Blaise walked outside. Hermoine stayed as far away from Blaise as she possibly could, but the potion wasn't helping.

"So you can't handle the three little words, can you?" Blaise said, moving closer to her.

Draco watched the scene with Pansy following.

"Drakie, what are you doing?" Pansy drawled.

"Would you be quiet? I'm trying to hear what's going on!" Draco snarled, avoiding contact with Pansy.

Pansy came up behind Draco and wrapped her arms around him. "You can do better than that mudblood. Come back to Slytherin. It's where you truly belong" Pansy whispered in his ear, sending disgusted chills through Draco's spine.

Draco pushed her off. "Stay away from me Pansy. I've changed, ok, so let it go and leave it alone because I'll never go back with you" Draco snarled.

Pansy looked shocked that he would say such a thing to her. This couldn't be happening to her. It just couldn't! It wasn't fair! All she had ever wanted had just flown out the window, and she didn't even get a good-bye kiss.

Pansy sat down on the ground grumbling as Draco watched the two of them sitting on the front steps. Draco clenched his fists as he watched Blaise put an arm around Hermoine.

"Blaise, what are you doing?" Hermoine's voice shook. She looked at his with a fearful expression.

"Draco doesn't deserve you. You can do much better than him" Blaise said as if in a trance.

He pushed her back on the stone steps. She screamed for help, but he muffled the sound by placing his lips on hers harshly. She tried to push him off, but he was too strong for her. She screamed through the kiss and tried to turn her head, but he held it still.

Draco tried to move forward but found that it wasn't working because Pansy was watching the whole scene with a satisfied smile on her face, and she had planted her bottom without intention of moving.

Draco watched and became more and more frustrated, until he finally took hold of Pansy's arm and pulled her as hard as he could over to them.

Blaise and Hermoine didn't see them coming, but Blaise became tense when he heard someone clear their throat above them.

A/N> Hope you liked it. More to come soon...hopefully!