Chapter 12

Detention Substitutes

It had been a few weeks since the incident on the couch. Hermione hadn't really spoken to or really even seen Draco besides in meetings, class, the library or the occasional passing in the common room. He spent most of his time in his room or in the library. He still came in to use the bathroom when she was in the shower. He would come in, use the toilet, wash his hands, and stand there for a bit and leave. She always wore her chocolate bathing suit (a halter top with hipster bottoms) when she showered because of what almost happened the first time she took one there, just in case. That way if he planned on sneaking a peak, or barging in on her, she would be covered.

One Friday before leaving advanced potions Prof. Snape had asked Hermione and Draco to stay after class. They waited until most of the class had left, before they made their way up to the front of the room. They both walked up to Snape's desk.

"Yes Professor, you wanted to see us?" Draco asked curiously.

"Yes, Mr. Malfoy. The teachers are holding a very important meeting tonight and since Filch is no longer able to supervise students for detention we will need your services. There are a few students that have received detention for this evening and will need to be looked after. Mr. Malfoy I understand that you have Quidditch practice this evening but no worries, they will be long over by the time you will be needed here, which is at eight o'clock. Filch will drop off the supplies and will pick them up again at eleven o'clock. As Heads I trust everything will run smoothly. Now you may return to your usual activities. Good afternoon." Professor Snape said, and with that he left the room.

"That barely gives me enough time to get to the common room for a shower and a change of clothes." Draco complained as he walked towards the door.

Hermione also had things planned for that evening. She had promised Ginny that she would go with her to watch Harry and Ron practice quidditch, plus she had a report to do for Muggle Studies, which she would just have to do it the next day.

They made their way out of the room and headed down the corridors that lead them upstairs. She walked a few paces in front of him trying to stay in front. She decided to head to the Great Hall and wait for dinner which would begin shortly.

"Of course." Draco mumbled but Hermione heard him and turned around.

"Excuse me?" She asked confused.

"Nothing!" He replied as he continued to walk to their common room.

She stood there for a minute then turned to continue onto the Great Hall. "What is his problem?" She thought to herself.

She arrived in the Great Hall and there were already some students in there, doing various things. She sat down where she normally sits down and was about to pull out her stuff that she needed to do her report with, but decided to write her cousin Victoria.

She noticed Ron, Ginny and Harry come into the Hall, Ron and Harry already dressed for practice. She put the finished letter and her quill in her bag. Harry and Ginny sat next one another and Ron sat next to Hermione.

"What did Snape want?" Harry asked.

"The teacher's have this important meeting tonight and he needs us to supervise a couple of students, in detention in his place." Hermione answered.

"What like detention substitutes?" Ginny asked.

"Yes, something like that." Hermione replied.

"Poor buggers, having to deal with that bloody ferret, bossing them around and what not." Ron added shaking his head.

"Well, I won't let him, and if he does I'll just tell him he can leave and I'll just do it alone."

"You should just say that when you get there, so they don't have to deal with him at all. Nobody deserves to have that guy in complete charge of them. I know that you'll be there but face it Hermione, the guy is a pompous ass." Ron said. Hermione and the othersnodded their heads in agreement.

"So are you still going to watch us practice tonight?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, but as soon as practice is over I have to head straight to the potions class room. I can't even change out of my robes and stuff." Hermione answered.

"Great! I really want you to go, and you're going to be very warm since it's rather hot out today." Ginny said. It had been getting cooler out but it was warm out that day.

"Well I guess that we are still stuck sharing the field with the Slytherins again today mate." Ron said to Harry.

"Well they pretty much stay on their side and practice. They'll need it though, after we humiliated them in the first game of the year they will surely need to keep up their other games to have a shot at the cup!" Harry said beaming.

"Right you are mate, here's to another grand year of quidditch!" Ron exclaimed as they all lifted their cups, even the surrounding Gryffindor's that heard Ron lifted theirs.

"Cheers!" They all exclaimed and downed their drinks, making many of the other people in the hall turn to see what was going on.

After dinner they headed down to the quidditch field. Hermione had immediately felt the warmth outside. They got to the quidditch field and Hermione and Ginny sat on the ground next to the walls and looked up as they saw the team in the air doing the drills that Harry was telling them to do. Hermione looked on the other side of the field to see the Slytherin team flying about and practicing, doing what Draco was telling them to do. She had put her robe under her so she could sit on it and had her legs arched in front of her as she leaned up against the wall, no one else was on the ground so she didn't worry about anyone looking up her skirt.

After a while Hermione started to get really hot so she took of her tie, then pulled her sweater off over her head and shook her hair around to shake out the heat. She unbuttoned the top two buttons on her shirt. Then a bug or something went up into her skirt causing her to jump slightly on the ground, then lift her skirt, pulling it up and revealing her upper thigh to look for it.

"Draco, look out!" Someone on the Slytherin team yelled. She immediately looked up to see Draco looking at her right before he came back to reality in time to see the bludger knock him clean off of his broom. He fell straight down to the ground and Hermione got up and ran over to him.

"Malfoy, are you alright?" She asked concerned.

"Don't worry about it Mudblood!" Blaise said. As soon as he said it he had regretted it. His face went straight into a cringe at what might come next.

"I am Head Girl, it is my duty to be concerned, especially when the possibly injured is the Head boy. Now you are lucky that I am not going to take any points from your house with that comment. I hope in the future you will think before you speak. I know that you are better and smarter than that," Hermione said to him then turned her attention to Draco who was sitting up on the ground rubbing his shoulder. "I see that you are fine and are not in the need of Madam Pomfrey. Good day." She said looking at Draco with a raised eyebrow and knew exactly what had him distracted from the game. She then walked away back to her spot next to Ginny.

As she walked away she heard Blaise say, "She's not so bad, you know for a muggle born." She smiled. It was a complement, well mostly, but none-the less still a complement, and from a Slytherin. She could have taken at least fifty points from them for that comment to her, the Head girl.

Hermione picked up her robe and moved it to the other side of Ginny and sat next to her once again. She and the whole Gryffindor team stared at her.

"What?" She asked uncomfortably. The team immediately went on to practicing again. Ginny however, looked at her and said. "Wow I can't believe you let them off like that."

"Well Malfoy hasn't taken any points from us, so I really didn't want start a war, besides I don't think that will happen again." Hermione replied. Ginny nodded

Hermione kept sneaking glances over at the other side of the field at Draco directing his team, while she talked to Ginny. She thought he looked good flying on his broom, with his hair blowing back as he soared through the air… "Stop that!" She mentally scolded herself. She couldn't help noticing that when he realized that she was looking he would start showing off. She shook her head and laughed.

After quidditch practice was over Hermione headed down to the dungeons. She was first to arrive at Snape's classroom. She sat down to wait for the others to show up when Filch arrived to drop off the cleaning supplies. He told her that he would be back at eleven o'clock to pick them up. Filch had not been allowed to supervise students since his allegiance to Delores Umbridge had gotten him into hot water, and almost gotten him out of a job. Although Filch contended that he was only following her orders, it was obvious that he was more than eager to carry out her severe and unusual punishments.

At eight o'clock, the four students serving detention entered the classroom. They were a collection of fifth and sixth year students that were all from different houses. Together they represented all of the houses with the exception of Slytherin. Hermione thought that it was to be expected that Snape wouldn't give one of his own house a trip to detention.

"Well now, here are your supplies. You are to clean these walls and floors starting from the top and front of the classroom and work your way to the back including chairs and tables," Hermione informed them. She waved her wand and filled the buckets with soapy water and the detainees got to work.

All of them heard the footsteps coming down the hall outside of the classroom. He wasn't running, but walking loudly to announce his presence. Draco threw open the doors of the class room and stormed in. He acknowledged no one as he made his way to Professor Snape's desk at the head of the class. All of the students shot nervous glances at him as he propped his feet up on the desk and leaned back in Snape's chair. They doubled their efforts and tried to avoid looking it him. There were obviously fearful of the Head Boy, who now sat arrogantly sneering at them.

"Looks like you missed a spot there tubby," he said to a large, pudgy boy with glasses, who was from Hufflepuff. "You had better pay more attention to what the hell you are doing or I may have to inform Professor Snape of your… uncooperativeness."

Hermione shot him a warning stare.

"Well, you are doing a great job. Sometimes I think that no matter how long and hard you scrub these floors they will always be filthy," Hermione defended him.

After a few minutes of silence, besides the noise of scrubbing, Hermione spoke.

"So, what have you done to deserve detention this evening?" she asked. They looked at each other for a moment.

"Well," the tall thin boy from Ravenclaw began, "we got caught broom racing."

"Broom racing?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah, it's loads of fun. We do it in the halls and corridors at night. It's a race between two people to get through the course and do the most wicked tricks and stunts around the corners along the way. It's also exciting to have to dodge the prefects, Heads, and teachers." Another boy that she knew as Simon Baxter from Gryffindor answered.

"Yeah, we almost got caught by you once Hermione," piped in the only girl in the group, a sixth year from Hufflepuff. "You would have definitely seen us if you would have looked up, but you were looking down and concentrating on something."

"What was I doing? When was this?"

"You were just looking down and you had this look of confusion on your face. I think it was the second day of school." The girl answered.

Hermione thought about what had been going on during that second day and then looked over at Draco catching his eyes and remembered what had been her cause of distraction that night.

"Well, it looks like your little game came to an end didn't it?" Draco asked menacingly. "One of us caught you after all during your silly little night races."

"Well it was Professor Snape that caught us, but he wouldn't have if our lookout the Fat Boy over here would have been paying attention. Ol' fatty was there stuffing his face with candies, deserts and these little cakes he nicked from the house elves. Didn't even see Professor Snape walking up behind him on accounts that he had his face buried in one of his cakes at the time." Simon replied.

"What? I was hungry." The chubby boy said innocently, his voice surprisingly low.

The others rolled their eyes and went back to work. Draco continued his remarks during the remainder of the evening. Hermione did her best to keep him in line. Eventually, when the time reached 10:45 she decided to let them go. The girl form the group stopped at the door on the way out.

"Do you have anybody to play music for the Halloween Ball?" she asked.

"Actually we don't," answered Hermione.

"Well, we are all in a band together with one more from Ravenclaw and one from Slytherin. So, there is at lease one of us from each house. We call ourselves United. If you were looking for someone to play at the dance, we'd love to do it."

"Well, give me your name and I'll run it by the other prefects and we can see as to when we will schedule a time for try-outs."

"I am Vanessa Andrews," she said.

"Pleased to meet you."

"Oh shove off already! I want to get some bloody rest!" Draco yelled.

"We'll be in touch," Hermione said then gave her a warm smile.

After they had left she told Draco, that he could take off and that she would wait for Filch by herself and just catch up some of the homework that she had.

"I am not going to leave you here by yourself," he said. "Who knows what kind of love potions you'd try to whip up to use against me."

She rolled her eyes and said, "No really, I can take care of myself, and you can go now."

He remained seated in Snape's chair and she returned to her homework. She could feel him looking at her and turned back towards him.

"What? She asked annoyed.

"Why do you always avoid me? He asked in return.

"I'm not, you're avoiding me.' She said as she started to put her things in her bag and stood up.

"I am not." He said and got up as well.

"So how is your shoulder by the way?" She asked with a sly smile.

"It's fine," he smiled back, knowing that she knew how it happened.

She walked to the end of the table and leaned against it. He walked down and leaned against the table across from her. They stared at each other for a while. He then walked up to her and she didn't move. He ran his finger along the sleeve of her shirt, then down around her waist and rested his hand on the small of her back. She shuddered and felt a familiar cool tingly sensation run through her body. As he leaned in she could feel him slightly tremble. Their lips were about to meet when they heard a noise and quickly parted. Just then Filch came in to get the supplies. Hermione wasted no time as she hurried out of the room not looking to see if Draco was following her or not. See decided to go on her rounds before heading back to her room. She thought, "I can't believe I almost let it happen again! What is with me? I am letting him get to me… he is, this is so wrong."

A/N: Hey there everyone! Thank you so much I am so happy with the amount of reviews that I got they were all really wonderful, THANKS! Please keep it up!

I had question from southerenbelle asking if Draco stopped because of the dark mark : he stopped in chapter 10 when he was approaching her when she was in the shower because the dark mark was calling him, but in chapter 11 he stopped because he is sort of having an inner battle with himself. More of what is going on in is head and more of what is going on will come out in later chapters. Right now only knowing some of his feeling gives a sort of mystery about it. Keep you guys on your toes, but don't worry things do get explained through out the story. Oh and the chapters have already been written (since I have already written the 33 chapter story) some are longer and some are shorter. I am glad that you like my story enough to want more lol, thanks. Well everyone Keep R/R! Oh and one more thing it won't be able to update until the end of next weekend because I have two graduations/ grad. parties this week, two birthday parties to go to and other things that will be keeping me busy all week. Funny enough they don't conflict with the other, lol.

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