She had just drifted off to sleep when Draco walked into the room trying to be quiet he took a towel and went into the bathroom, he shut the door gently and started to run the hot water, the bath was exactly the same as the one in the prefects bathroom, he ran in some thick dark red bubbles which had a spicy scent which was definitely based on cinnamon, he stripped down and lowered himself into the hot bath. He had just heard Granger spill her heart out to Harry Potter, he sighed he had thought Potter had been all right ever since one night last year where himself and the boy-who-lived had worked on some potions. The only problem was he could never approach Potter because of the stupid weasel, inter-house weren't exactly common but there had been a few since the downfall of the dark lord. (A/N I can feel writers block coming on).

Potter could be really funny, (A/N Writer's block is currently floating out of the window)

*~*FLASHBACK



"Potter, what the hell are you doing here?"

"I'm doing that potions Snape asked for, not that it's any of your business Malfoy" Malfoy's face flickered,

"It's gone twelve and I'm in a library with the boy-who-lived doing Potions homework"

"You're doing it too?" The boy slumped his muscular body into the chair opposite, "Why not do it in the slytherin common room? I mean your Snape's star pupil you could easily do this from your own knowledge"

"Do you know how horny and loud the slytherins are? They are either playing truth or door, shouting, fighting or making out in the corner"

"Really? In the gryffindor common room everyone does homework, play wizard's chess and do all the stuff good little witches and wizards do" Malfoy laughed at this point,

"I don't know when the slytherins do their homework, they seem to spend about ten minutes on it, and I usually come here at night for a bit of peace and quiet, I use my invisibility cloak and then just do some homework or read in here"

"I just came because Hermione's gone to bed" He smiled, "She's the only one who's decent at potions, in fact I have to ask her in nearly every single subject for help excluding defence against the dark arts" At this point Malfoy laughed,

"Imagine telling our fourteen year old selves that we'd be talking civilly in the library after twelve about potions and Hermione Granger and you probably would have got a pile of verbal abuse and maybe even a bloody nose" Harry nodded laughing to himself putting a mental note in his head not to insult Malfoy as much,

"Anyway I better get started or I'll get a detention off Snape" Harry started doing his homework at the same time as Malfoy. After a while Malfoy sat watching the boy cross out sentences over and over again. He eventually got so annoyed at the sound of Harry's sounds of anger and scratching of the quill he took the parchment corrected all the mistakes and then told him what to write.

"Well, thanks Ma... I mean Draco"

"It's fine Pot... I mean Harry" The two laughed and then Harry vanished under his invisibility cloak and the next day they were back to their friends yet occasionally Draco's eye would meet Harry's and they'd exchange a smile.

*~*END OF FLASHBACK



Yet, if Harry and me can exchange a smile why can we not exchange words? I think I might go talk to Hermione about it.

He gave his hair a quick wash getting all the gel out; he still slicked it down after all those years, he then lifted himself out of the bath and dried himself off, he put his hand down into the water and pulled the plug out. He wrapped the towel round his waist then picked up the pile of clothes and sidled out of the bathroom slamming the door with his foot, Hermione awoke but by the time she looked around Draco was in his room. He pulled a pair of black boxers on (A/N I know I keep getting him to wear black boxers but it is because green and silver is stereotypical and red, yellow and blue are other house colours and dark grey sounded slightly... well gross).

He meandered (A/N Woah so many different words for walking) into the room, flicking at his blonde locks lazily he sat down and Hermione opened her left eye.

"Hello" She said to Draco who was sat opposite her, "You couldn't possibly stoke the fire a bit could you?" She pointed to the fire and the dying flames,

"I'm not your servant!"

"I know, I just haven't got my wand handy"

"Where is it?" He demanded

"Down the side of here"

"That's perfectly handy,"

"I can't be bother to move my ass so I can reach down and get it, Please Draco"

He got up and rolled her over slightly he reached down the side of the sofa picked her wand out and lazily flicked it towards the fire,

"Incinerate" He said and then put Hermione's wand down next to her, she was looking at him strangely, "Mine's in my bedroom so I thought I'd use yours" He shrugged and went back to sitting in the black arm chair, he sprawled himself idly on the chair and stared at Hermione,

"You know what, I think it's time I made some new friends"

"It's been high time you made new friends for a long time now, honestly those thugs Crabbe and Goyle" She shook her head,

"They not be ideal but at least they were ideal!"

"I suppose, I think Harry likes you its just Ron"

"Why does Weasley always rule your life?"

"He doesn't he's just over protective" She sighed and looked blank for a moment, "How do you know he 'rules my life' anyway?"

"I analyse. People, places, everything." He exhaled noisily, "Crabbe and Goyle aren't exactly much company"

"I don't know, I have a feeling soon it will just be me and Harry" She got up and grabbed her wand, "I'm tired can I talk to you tomorrow, Harry should be dropping in so if you want to actually stay in the room or say hello this time, you are allowed" She stressed the word allowed, "Night Draco"

"Night Hermione" She went into her bedroom took off her clothes and put them in the basket she put a black night dress on and slid into bed she soon fell asleep.

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Sorry it's short I felt guilty for not updating that much, I know 1,108 words isn't that much but you know hope you enjoyed it. PLEASE REVIEW! I enjoy reading every review I get and they mean a lot to me! Love all ma reviewers out there! And the people who read without reviewing even though I'd love them more for reviewing I'm rambling... REVIEW

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