..:: Goodbye Isn't Forever

..:: Author: Lil' Bode

..:: Chapter VI: Life's Not Always Smooth Sailing

..::Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN THE HARRY POTTER FRANCHISE, THAT IS PROPERTY OF J.K. ROWLING, AND, OR WARNER BROTHERS

A/N: sry for the long wait i was gone camping and was having to much fun to write or even think of this chapter, so here it finally is.

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Over the next week and a half I spent my time between my piles of homework, patrolling the halls, and visiting Harry. He was getting better at a steady rate, his head injures weren't as bad as Madam Pomfrey had first concluded. He would be out in just a few days

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Winter was starting to set in there was a hint of snow in the air, something of which everyone was ready for sense it had been and abnormally hot summer. I walked the corridor up by the Owlrey, I had found that this was a place for people to hang around scheme evil plots. I had caught a total of three groups in the last 5 days.

I had been on my feet for 2 hours now, because before this I had foraged through the library for an hour and a half, to find the right book to complete my potions essay. Leave it to Snape to make us look that hard for a book to complete a 12 inch essay. My feet were sore so I decided to sit against the wall, not the most lady-like or professional thing, but I was tired. 5 minutes later I was asleep.

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"Wake up damn-it," I heard someone say, while shaking me.

I opened my eyes slowly; it took awhile for my eyes to get adjusted so that I could see who was doing all the shaking. When I could finally see, I realized it was Malfoy, "Bugger off!" I said, as I propped myself up.

"Okay then I will. You can continue to sleep for another 3 hours," he said and started to walk off.

I stood up slowly, the blood rushing away from my head, causing me black out for a moment. When my vision came back I started to walk down the hallway. Then I started running. I wanted to catch up with Malfoy and ask him something.

I couldn't find him; I ran for awhile then stopped and looked around.

That's when I heard him say, "Okay now she's hallucinating, this is great," I spun around surprised, my heart beating fast.

"Don't do that. Where did you come from? And for your information I was hallucinating, I was wondering where you went."

"Oh that's even worse, you were looking for me," he said as he started walking again.

"Okay why do you just stop and wait for me and then start walking off again?" I asked as I stalked after him. "What is with you?"

"Better question what is with you? Sleeping in the hallways, and stopping to have hallucinations . . ."

"I wasn't . . ."

"Okay, stopping to look for your enemy, and I presume this time it wasn't to slap me," he sneered.

"Well actually I was considering that, sense you are dancing on my last nerve," I said for he truly was but, I wasn't going to slap him just yet, for I still wanted to now why he came and found me to wake me up. It did occur to me that he might have just been sending a letter, but after living with him for a little over 3 month I came to know that he rarely ever sent a letter unless it was Sunday.

"Oh, you are scaring me," he said sarcastically.

"I try," I commented dryly. We walked for awhile before I said anything. "So why did you come find me, and better yet why did you wake me up?"

It took a second for him to answer, "Do you remember when Dumbledore talked to us at the beginning of the year, and when he told us that we were supposed to look after each other. Well I was just following directions, wouldn't want to shame myself by getting my head position taken away because I didn't follow a simple rule like that. And as for waking you up, tell me why exactly I would let you sleep peacefully when I had the choice to wake you up?" he sneered.

"Oh," I mouthed, he must have seen me for he came back with another one of his wise comments.

"Why the bloody hell else do you think I would come after a mudblood such as yourself?"

That was it, my last nerve snapped, "Oh come on shove it already, you have been telling me that I was a mudblood sense we were in the second year, get something new, you slimy git," and with that I slapped him. I red hand print immediately formed on the side of his face.

"Oh now you've done it. You don't think I'm a little 13 year old now, do you? I'm not just going to leg it," he reached for his pocket but I was faster.

I whipped out my wand and yelled, "Expelliarmus!" His wand shot out of his and flew down to the other end of the corridor, and with that I ran for it.

I didn't think to perform another spell that would make him stay there, I was book smart, but not so street smart, and I knew it.

I ran as fast I could; trying to think fast, I turned and slipped into an empty class room. I shut the door and sat down on one of the empty desk, trying to catch my breath. But I couldn't help but wonder why I hadn't considered using a binding spell on him. Also I couldn't help to hit myself for loosing all the work we had done to come the tiniest bit nicer to each other. With that split second I had slapped him all that had gone out the window.

During all my thinking I hadn't noticed to door open the tiniest bit, and by the time I hear, "Expelliarmus!" I was done for; my wand flew out of my pocket and into the hand of Malfoy.

"You know you should really consider locking the door, always prevent people you don't want to get in from coming in," I could have punched him for his sarcasm, but I knew that would do me no good. I had already but myself between a rock and a hard place, I wasn't going to make the situation any better by punching him.

"Oh now we are speechless, oh one-who-never-shuts-her-trap," he said as he slowly advanced towards me, I had gotten off the desk by now and taken my first step back.

I had gathered some of my nerves while sitting there, but he was now snapping them one by one.

"You know I did you a favor by coming after you and you repay me by slapping me, well trust me I will repay you," he said, he was getting all to close so I took another step back.

"A favor? You really call that a favor? Well for you it must be, getting you lazy arse up of your toadstool to come find me," I said in a cool voice, even though that wasn't how I felt inside.

I knew I had made him even angrier by saying that, one side of me was rooting me on; the other was cursing my sense of humor.

"Oh now you've done it . . ."

"Get a new line, you already said that once," I spat at him.

"Oh, I would just shut your trap, I think you would find that in your best regards," he stepped closer yet, I took two steps back, but I knew I has running out of space.

He grabbed my shoulders, with a death grip and pinned me against the wall. My head hit the wall with a thud.

"I'll let you off easy this time, but if you ever try to pull a fast one again, I could care less if I still had my head position, just as long as you wouldn't be there to see me get it taken away," he said starring into my eyes. He let go of my shoulders so I moved forward slightly, and he slammed me back against the wall, my head hitting harder this time.

He stormed out of the room; I watched as his cloaked swirled around the corner.

I stood there awhile taking turns rubbing the back of my head and shoulders. I then walked out of the room still thinking about the incident. I walked towards the Gryffindor common room. Harry was due to get out of the hospital wing tonight so Ron and I were going to meet him up there.

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"HE WHAT?" Ron bellowed.

"Be quiet, Ron" I said looking around at the common room, most people were looking our way.

"I won't be quiet," he yelled.

"Ron fine, I won't tell you anymore then if you don't be quiet," I said but realized that was probably the worst thing I could do.

Ron got up and headed for the portrait, it took all Harry and I could muster to get him to sit back down.

"Oh great now your on her side," Ron said to Harry.

"She is just as mad at him as you are, so there really are no sides between the three of us. And besides don't you think that if you go tell a teacher that both Malfoy and Hermione are going to get in trouble?" Harry said still holding onto Ron.

"Well yes, but that wasn't what I was going to do," his face and ears beat red.

"Yeah you were going to go beat the crap out of him," I said, "And you don't think he going to turn you in, or take a lot of points away from Gryffindor, and that looks to be something we can't handle at the moment."

"This is total crap," he said looking quite frustrated.

"You're telling me," I said, "I have to go back and live in the same common room as him."

For the next 2 hours we sat talking about whatever came to mind and told Harry everything that had gone on over the past week and a half. When Ginny came down, we decided they probably wanted some alone time. Even though they weren't going out, they might as well have been as much time as they spent together, I always kind of figured they were made for each other. Now the only problem was making Ron let go of his only sister. That was my job, sense it would seem just a little weird if Harry talked to him about it.

I walked to the portrait, half thinking of how I was going to convince Ron that he really wasn't "giving up" his sister, he was just going to share her with his best friends. The other half was thinking about what was going to happen when I walked into the common room.

I stepped through the portrait whole, and looked around. Malfoy was sitting on the couch writing something, presumably an essay. I quietly walked past drawing as little attention to me as possible, but I was never good at that. I looked back over to Malfoy to make sure he wasn't watching me, but then I ran into a table knocking the lantern that was sitting on it to the ground, it shattered into thousands of pieces. I cursed to myself looking for my wand.

"There's a table there," Malfoy said without looking up from his paper.

"Yes I'm well aware of that now. Can I please have my wand back so I can fix this mess?" I ordered.

"I'll think about it," he said, as he put his book and papers on the coffee table. He stood up and pulled out a wand, my wand to be exact. I smirked at him. "Reparo," he said pointing at the mess nothing happened, "REPARO," he said louder and with more enthusiasm this time. Still nothing happened.

"Ha," I said and grabbed my wand out of his hand, "Reparo," the lantern was fixed in a blink of an eye.

"What . . ." he said stunned.

"My wand has a charm on so nobody but me can use it," I said in my know-it-all voice. Then walked off towards my bed room, to go to bed, it was 12:17, a little later than normal, but it was no biggy, tomorrow was Friday and my classes got over at 3.

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After that we walked around like nothing had happened, we just put it to the back of our minds, which surprised me greatly but if he didn't bring it up why should I. It would just cause more problems that I didn't really have time to deal with.

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what do you think, long i no but i just had this idea, so i had to write it, this wasn't even my original plan for this chapter, but i thought things were moving too fast so i decided to slow it down some and i made my self a better plot wit this chapter.

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