Hermione woke early that morning. She sat up in bed and looked around her room. It was a warm lavender pastel-type color. It had a vaulted type ceiling as well. In her room was a Cherry Wood vanity, and a long dresser and two bedside tables. On the bedside table was a candle holder. On the two outside ones were navy blue candles and in the middle was black candle. Her bed was a Queen sized four poster bed. It had a black and purple hangings. The black was a flowy material that shimmered. The purple was a silk that made the hangings look creamy and pastleish. On her bed was a black comforter with several different shades of purple that made a intricate and elaborate design. The comforter reminded her a lot of her East Indian comforter back home. There were two silk sheets one was black and the other was dark purple. There was a purple pillow and Black pillow with satin coverings. There were several pillows decorative East Indian black and purple pillows that went on the bed after it was made.
Hermione finally got up. She muttered a spell that made her bed for her and rearranged the pillows. She was wearing baggy purple pyjama bottoms and a tight purple belly shirt. She pulled her long hair up into a Fish Tail and went over to the French doors that lead to balcony. She looked out across the lake. The Sun was just rising and it sparkled across the lake. Hermione smiled and went back into her room and closed the doors and rearranged the silky purple curtains that hung from them. She went behind her East Indian changing screen she brought from her house, after her aunt shrunk it so she could pack it. She took of what she was wearing and put on a black belly shirt the said 'O.C. Cutie'. and black jogger pants. She loved this shirt. She got it in California when she went with her parents to some dental convention.
Hermione put on some black eyeliner and light lavender eye shadow that could be seen when it shimmered. She headed down the stairs. There were a couple of mugs filled with some coffee out on the counter. Hermione made her way over. The Common Room was semi dark and if anyone was on the couch they would not be visible. "Good Morning." said a silky voice, This caused Hermione to jump and fall back onto something on the couch. "Incidnio." Muttered the same silky voice. The fire started to burn. Hermione noticed she fell onto Malfoy's lap. She stood up quickly and pulled down her shirt that had gone up in the front when had fallen. "Malfoy." she hissed. "That's my name don't wear it out." he said with a smirk. Hermione shook her head and again attempted to go over to the counter. She picked up one of the black mugs that had her name in silver curly font. She took a sip and sat down on the couch. The furthest cushion from Malfoy.
"I am surprised you would even sit on the same couch as me." Hermione shot him a glare when he said this. "But then again, you were whimpering in my arms on the train." Hermione gripped the pillow on her lap tightly. "Awww is some one embarrassed?" Hermione stood up quickly. She stood in front of him. She gave him a smirk and poured her coffee in his lap. "Awww is someone burned?" She said as she calmly walked out of the Common Room leaving a very hot and uncomfortable Malfoy.
Hermione walked down the corridors. She tried to stay calm. 'Fuck, he is so annoying!' she thought. Hermione walked out onto the grounds and sat down by the lake. She wished she would have brought her jacket. She looked across the lake and fiddled with the laces on her Adio-Hamiltons.
"You deserved it, you know." said a light airy Irish voice from the library. Andi got up, her black hair flowing in a black wave down her back. "You shut up." Draco said as he wiped his pants. "Ow that hurt." Andi said sarcastically. Andi pointed her finger at Draco. Then down to his lap where Hermione had poured her coffee. "I fucking dare you." Draco said with venom. "If you wish." Andi gave a smirk as ice came from her finger into Draco's now frozen lap. Draco glare. He tried to get up but he couldn't. Andi shook her head and again pointed at Draco. This time water spilling from her finger into his lap melting the ice. "Thanks," he grumbled hating to admit she had made it hurt less. "Your welcome." Andi again sat down and put down her mug of coffee and snorted as Draco eyed it suspiciously. "Afraid its going to get all jumped up and pour itself on you? Honestly, you have gone daft over Hermione." Andi said immediately regretting it. Draco reached out and grabbed her arm. He pulled Andi to her. "Ow Draco... Please. I'm sorry. Your hurting me." She said trying to make him let go. Draco had pulled Andi on top of him and she was trying to get away. "Don't you ever say anything like that again." Draco let go and Andi hurried away from him. Andi had became angry. "What happened to your respect for women?" She said glaring and rubbing her wrist where here caramel skin was turning a strawberry color. "I have respect for women, not whores." Draco said glaring. "Whore? Why are you trying to hurt me?" Andi said. It wasn't her fault she wasn't virgin. She didn't ask to be raped. "Because that's what you trying to do to me." Draco said. "Okay Dr. Phil! Its not my fault I was raped. You think I wanted it. And besides, I'm not trying to hurt you. I'm trying to help you, you pompous asshole." Andi rubbed her wrist and headed to the door with the white seal cub painted on it. It closed with a slam and a small click of a lock. Draco kicked Andi's mug off onto the floor. It broke into pieces and Draco headed out of the common room.
Draco headed out onto the grounds. "The nerve of her. That fucking whore." Draco muttered to himself. He had definitely had a temper his father would have had right about now, but he didn't care. Hermione who was down by the lake heard someone coming and ducked down immediately. Hermione hid between two large boulders on the side of the lake. (A/N: I am going by the way I imagined the grounds of Hogwarts .! I will put a big A/N at the end to explain the way I imagine the grounds .! If you don't like then... Well... Sucks to be you! . Hehe...) "Fucking woman... Irritates the hell out of me." Draco continued to mutter angrily as hoping, it would calm his temper. FAT CHANCE! Okay ANYWAYS; Hermione rolled her eyes. "That's why you have been friends forever." she muttered without thinking. Hermione clapped a hand to her mouth. 'Oh shit.' she thought. Hermione made an attempt to hid under a overhang of the rock Draco was sitting on. "Whose there." said Draco's voice. Hermione froze at the sound of his voice and the thud of feet that followed. Hermione turned around and tried to look innocent. "Uh... Uhm.. Er." She tried to think of something to say. She shifted her weight from her left foot to her right. "Spying on me are you/Mudblood./" he said with an evil hiss. "No.. I was out here... You know after the whole... Yeah..." Hermione said hoping not to remind him. Hermione wasn't at all scared of Malfoy but, the way he was acting now was kind of... Scary. He was acting like his father but, worse. "Oh yes nice cover-up... Blame it on what /I/ did." Draco said taking a step closer to Hermione. His voice low and evil. Hermione kept walking backwards as Draco walk towards her. Hermione cursed silently to herself as she felt her hand hit rock as did her back. "I wasn't... I was just... Malfoy yo-" Hermione couldn't finish Draco came at her. He grabbed her wrist's and held them above your head. "I have a name." He said angrily. "D-D-Draco stop... You scaring me." Hermione whimpered. Hermione was surprised that he had A) Done it and B) was actually being very gentle with her wrists. Hermione knew he could have been griping her hard and with much pain... Draco let go and stepped book. A hurt and surprised look on his face. "Ar-Are you okay?" Hermione asked cautiously. Draco looked as if her had just been slapped. "I... I uh gotta... Gotta go." Draco said as he turned around and climbed back up the top of the rock. Hermione heard another thud and fast footsteps. Hermione looked down at her wrists. They weren't red or anything. Hermione checked her watch and decided to go to breakfast. But, she really didn't fell like talking to Ron or Harry. At least not while she was all shaken up.
Hermione headed up to the quarters. "Hello Mistress Hermione." said Julie. "Hi Julie. How are you this morning?" Julie smiled, "Quite good thanks. Did you and Master Draco have a row? Because he was fuming when he came back. Muttering something about love... He also said your name a couple times." Julie said frowning. "Yes, quite a row it was... Wait love? I'm confused." she said as it had just dawned on her the whole of what Julie said. "Don't worry. You guys will get it patched up in a jiffy. True love never dies." Julie said her smile returning. "We /don't/ love each other we can barely stand each other. Are you suggesting me and Malfoy are a couple." Hermione said watching the painting with a quirked brow. "Oh... Oh sorry. My mistake. He said something about loving you so I assumed. But, I guess I shouldn't have. Well I should let you in. You have breakfast and classes you know." Julie gave a big smile and opened up. "Yes... Bye.." Hermione said in a small voice.
She was really confused and deep in thought. 'Why would Draco love me? Well, You know those paintings. They don't here very well. But there is...' Hermione continued on so deep in thought she didn't notice someone coming. She walked into something warm and hard, she fell back. "Ouch." She said rubbing her head. "Sorry..." She looked up. "...Draco." she finished. He looked surprised. "Just pay attention." he said as he lifted her up by her elbow as he walked out of the portrait with his bag. Hermione looked over on the table. Their post came to the Common Room now. Hermione looked through the mail finding two for herself. She didn't pay attention until she felt that one was rough and the other smooth. She looked down at the letter that was smooth. It was in creamy white envelope. It had her name on it in a neat tiny scrawl. She recognized it immediately. She brought the envelope up to her face and spelt the so familiar spiced cologne. Hermione stuffed it into her pocket and went over to on of the plates that had two slices of toast , a egg, a piece of ham, and some bacon. She ate quickly and picked up the schedule that had her name written on it. "Double Potions?" she groaned. "This early/And/ with the Slytherins!" Hermione took a swig of some coffee from her labeled mug and ran down to the dungeons hoping not to be late.
"Hermione!" She looked up. "Harry." she replied. "How's you arm?" She said seeing as it wasn't in the sling anymore. "Fine Ron's out of the Hospital Wing. He's talking with Neville. Where have you been?" Hermione explained to him they had gotten new quarters and that she had decided to eat breakfast in. She left out the part about Draco. "Hey Hermione, Harry." said Ron as he came up. "Hey Ron." said Hermione as she gave him a hug. Ron asked she had been and again explained about quarters. "Class is in session. Everyone in!" Barked Snape. The class glumly filed in. "Today..." said Snape with his usual drawl. "We will be studying the Polyjuice Potion." Many students muttered and some just looked through there Apothecary Book. "But that's not in our book." Andi said from the back of the room. "Miss Parker please try and contain yourself..." Andi stuck her tongue out at Snape and began to doodle on her paper again. "I have made copies for you all out of a book that is not meant for students." He said looking over at Ron, Harry, and Hermione. Hermione shifted uncomfortably in her seat and closed her book and put it in her bag to avoid Snape's piercing glare. Snape continued on about the potion. "You will have partners for this assignment." Students turned to each other and smiled. "My choice." Snape added in a tone as close as you could get to happy for him. "Now lets see. Mister Malfoy with... Miss Granger." Hermione's heart sunk to her toes. 'Why Malfoy' she thought as she got up and waited for Goyle to move. She sat down and picked up the sheet Snape gave then and began working. " Mister Crabbe and Mister Potter. Mister Weasly with Miss Parkinson. Miss Parker with Mister west. Mister Goyle with Mister Longbottom." Snape drawled on. Hermione was prodding the fire with her wand making it to the exact heat. "How do you know what to do without looking at the sheet." Malfoy questioned her. "I uh.. I read about how to do it over break." Hermione said as she poured some of the blah blah.( A/N: I'll edit when I read the Second Book again...) "Liar... You've made it before... The year there were the attacks. Before you were petrified... Don't think I didn't notice Crabbe and Goyle acting weird and there hair changing... I'm not a fool..." Draco said as he read through the ingredients and preparation. "Your not a fool? That's news to me." Hermione said with a smirk. Hermione did as much as she could with the potion until class was finally over. 'Finally... Arithmancy... No Malfoy...' she thought. 'Nooooo.. He transferred in last year.' Hermione trudged off to Arithmancy Malfoy a couple steps behind.
"Hello students!" Said Professor Vector with a smile. "Hello Professor Vector." they chorused... "Ooooh... Quite good. I could get used to this." she said jokingly. A couple students laughed. "How was your break." The class came back with several 'Good''s and a few Okays... "Good. Now I have a partner project for you. We will be decoding these old journals I found. Now I have partnered you by your skill. You shall be partnered with someone the same, a little higher, or a little lower then you. Of course are two best students will be getting the hardest and longest book. And are also partnered together. Okay, so your names will appear on one of the stacks of books over there." She said as she pointed her wand at a table that filled with books. There were 5 stacks one with only one book the next, with three, the next with four, then next with four and the third had six thick tattered books. Hermione got up and looked at who got the big books. Written in Professors Vectors calligraphy. 'Hermione and Draco. Good Luck:)' Hermione watched Draco come over and pick up three of the books and go sit down where Hermione was. He opened it up and began to decode immediately not saying a word. Hermione continued to work and by the end of the period had the first 20 pages of about 500. She had gathered that it was test results from potions and mixed spells.
Hermione was glad it was lunchtime and decided to eat lunch in again. She wasn't the only one. "Hey Hermione." Said Andi from the couch. "Ouch. Fine. Hi Gr- WOULD YOU STOP THAT! Hi Hermione." said Malfoy from the couch. "Hi Andi..." Hermione said cheerfully. "Malfoy." she said curtly as she picked up her plate and began to look through what she had done in Arithmancy and began to decode more of the book. "So how are you and Draco going on that project?" Asked Andi while she took a bite of an apple. "Honestly is that all you eat? Apples?" Draco said watching Andi. "Which one?" Asked Hermione not looking up from the tattered book in front of her. "There's more then one?" asked Andi. "I mean that's all you ever eat. Is apples... Why?" Draco said still watching Andi who was eating her third apple. "Well we have Potions, Prefects, Arithmancy and that Charms project." "Wait charms?" Andi asked with a worried look on her face. "Yeah when you went to the nurse because you didn't want to go to class you used one of the Weasly Twins Demo Snack boxes. "Your with Ron..."Andi gave a small and unnoticeable blush. Hermione scratched something out and rewrote it. Andi began to eat another apple. "Don't you get tired of apples? I mean there appely and-" "DRACO SHUT THE HELL UP!" Yelled Hermione and Andi at the same time. "Fine." Draco said as if he was pouting. He pulled one of the books he was decoding to him and began to read through what he had done. He muttered something Hermione couldn't understand. Andi hit him in the shoulder which made it seem like she had. Hermione gave a weak smile and shook her head. The rest of the time was quite. Hermione was so impressed in what she was doing she jumped when the bell went off. She groaned. "I had three pages left..." She said slamming the book shut and picking up her bag as she headed off to double History of Magic.
"Hermione," moaned Ron. "Honestly Ron what's the big deal." Hermione said exasperated as she lazily messed with a leaf on the grounds at the end of classes. "You had lunch with him!" Ron said as if she were stupid. "Ron who I spend my time and meals with is completely none of your business. AND I didn't have lunch with HIM per say. I had lunch in the presence of him." Ron crossed his arms and muttered something incoherent Harry gave a small chuckle and began working on a Essay Snape made him to about treating his superiors with respect. "So how is your potion going with Malfoy." asked Harry. "Its fine considering I have already done it. He is just sitting back and letting me do the work basically. No he isn't using me for a grade, Ronald." Hermione said lazily before Ron could say something, "Besides I prefer it that way. No talking. Well until I have to explain to him what I'm doing..." Hermione pushed some hair behind her ear. "Well-" Hermione stopped as she felt someone watching her. She looked up. "Malfoy..." she muttered silently. "What was that?" asked Harry watching Hermione with a worried look. "Uh... Uhm.. Nothing, just nothing." She said tearing her eyes away from Malfoy. "I have to go to a meeting with Andi. About a few things we need to coordinate to go with the Rose Gardens for the ball." she said while she looked back to Mafoy the whole time. Hermione got up and walked away. Harry followed where she was looking and saw Malfoy He got up to and walked the way Hermione did. "Ron, Come on." Hasrry and Ron followed Draco and Hermione. Harry and Ron were behind not by far but enough to tell Hermione had gone into a spare classroom followed by Malfoy. The door closed and Harry and Ron snuck to it and listened at what they could hear.
"What are you playing at?" Hermione's angry voice
"What ever do you mean/Hermione/" "Malfoy... I mean it you dirty, no good, piece of flying sh-" Harry and Ron looked at each other and hid behind a suit of armour when a small thud came to the door. They waited for a few seconds then snuck back. They looked under the door frame and saw two pairs of shoe and Hermione's between Malfoy's.
Hermione was surprised when Draco began to kiss her. Her hands were at her side but, when the kiss became deeper and she couldn't stand the hunger she put her hands on his shoulder and leaned against him. She heard a thud and noticed he was against the door. She put her hands around his neck and played with his blonde hair. Hermione snapped back to reality when she felt Draco's hand ,that was around her waist, pull her a little closer. Hermione pulled away. "No, stop." She said Draco let go of her and watched her back away. "Why are doing this?" Hermione didn't want to stay for an answer she walked to the dorr and opened it... Dun Dun Dun!
I know, I know its short but I wanted there to be a scandally type thing. Catch my drift... Ya'll probably guessed since I haven't made Ron or Harry exit a little sumin sumin gonna happen! . I hope I'm not rushing this or anything but, I wanted a plot simmer to start know. I shall warn you there will be some fluff coming ahead. Not over the top fluff but some fluff between a couple Characters... But, Might I warn you early that there might be some smut... Later on though. So I'll keep it on PG until I get into like Highly Graphic Scenes. Be it sexual or not...-hint hint-
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