next chappie guys,

sorry i haven't been updating lately, just not really knowing which direction this is going, ANY IDEAS!

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Chapter 6: The Second Incident

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The next day was going too fast, Hermione couldn't really concentrate on her work, though she still aced practically everything. It seemed that they were still only in their first lesson when all of a sudden it was dinner and Hermione was walking with Harry and Ron into the Great Hall.

Does she ever go anywhere alone...Draco was sitting on the Slytherin table, ignoring the obsessed pug-face sitting by him. She was talking in her idiotic voice, and Draco had no idea how it could be that he was ignoring her, her voice was like listening to nails scratching on a board.

Pretty soon dinner was over and as soon as Draco finished his meal he immediately left for the library. Hermione was still eating and for the first time had forgotten that she was supposed to go to the library. She was laughing with Harry and Ron to something funny Ginny had said. Then they made their way to the common room.

"Hey Hermione can you help me with my Transfiguration assignment?" Asked Ginny.

"Sure," Hermione said, then Ginny added, "let's go to the library then, I don't feel like going to the common room." Hermione gasped, she had forgotten that she had to go to the library.

"Oh, Ginny. I'm sorry I forgot that I had to go to the library after dinner to meet with Malfoy, for our Potions assignment."

"Well you better hurry it's been like 20 minutes since dinner was over."

Hermione gathered everything in her bag, and then said, "you can come to you know. I'll try to help you while I work with Malfoy."

Hermione left the common room with Ginny with her. Good thing Harry and Ron weren't there, she didn't even know where they had gone. She just walked to the library fast.

When she got there she looked around for Draco, but he wasn't anywhere she could see. She went towards the back and found him leaning back on the same chair and spot she had been on Saturday. He was sitting and staring straight at her eyes coldly, as she came slightly out of breath.

"You know what, Hermione I'm going to go find a book for my homework, I'll be write back." Hermione looked at Ginny and nodded.

"Do you think that I was going to wait for you all night." He spat at her face with pure venom. How dare she think she was good enough in the least to make him wait!

"Shut up Malfoy, and let's get to work." She said moving closer to a chair. He pulled her from the arm glared at her, but before he could say anything Hermione added, "listen Malfoy, and listen closely because I am only going to say this once. Do not ever touch me, and do not ever insult me again..." She yanked herself away from him, his glare became even more cold, "It's not like I would want to be working on this with you." She equally spat back at him.

"That's right, you'd much rather be working with Potter. You two would probably be right here shagging on the table while pretending to work on the assignment." He whispered dangerously at her as he smirked.

Hermione's nostrils flared a bit, how dare he say something as ludicrous and vulgar as that! She was about to smack him, harder than that time in their third year, but she had to keep her cool, or else the assignment might not ever get done, or she would have to do it all herself, and the idiot would take half the credit. "Ok Malfoy, I think we should try and keep a civil mouth then. We talk as little as possible, and see each other as little as possible. Is that clear." She stated firmly and very clearly.

Draco looked down at her in disgust. He said nothing and went to sit back on the chair he was earlier. Then Hermione did the same, "don't ever be late again." He whispered.

"Fine, and sorry I forgot," which was the truth. Draco already had his things out, and Hermione hastily brought her bag and sat it on the table. She started to bring out the notes she had taken and the list of the ingredients they needed.

"Ok well, we're going to need all these ingredients." She said handing the list to Malfoy, who glanced at it and said, "I already have half the ingredients, the only ones we need are the harder ones to get, like the roots of the poisonous flowers. For that one, we'll have to go in the Forbidden Forest."

"What, we can't do that." Hermione said incredulously.

Draco leaned against the table towards her and whispered a seductive, "why not?"

"Because, because the name says it all, it's forbidden, that's why." Said Hermione. Besides it's not like she wanted to go there, not with the centaurs and perhaps Grawp.

Malfoy leaned back into his chair, "fine, if you're too scared, we can always wait for the next Hogsmeade trip, in three weeks and buy it in some shop...though I'm warning you the potion might not be ready by then. We need the at least a week for it after the roots are added."

Well, well, it seems that Hermione has no choice but to go with the ferret into the Forbidden Forest...but that alone seemed suicidal, like walking into the mouth of a lion...with Malfoy, in the Forbidden Forest...what was Snape thinking, giving them this assignment.

"Fine...When are we going in there?" Hermione had to do this, in fact, she would volunteer to do it alone; being alone in the forest with Malfoy didn't seem like such a good idea.

"In a week." He stated simply, "once we've got the potion brewing, we don't need to add them until it's necessary...we'll go next Monday, probably during late evening, while we have Prefect rounds, since we're both Prefects."

"Fine, whatever...so how is it that you got all the ingredients?" She asked. Half of her could not believe that she was having a civil conversation with the Slytherin Prince, just then...

"Well, mudblood I'm not a Slytherin for nothing and it's none of your business, the point is that I got them..." just when he was starting to be ok, the damn ferret has to ruin it all, like always.

"I already told you Malfoy, if you insult me one more time I will—."

"You will what." He dared her, "...face it Granger you can't do a damn thing about it." AARRGH! He made her so angry, Hermione glared at him and he smirked back at her. "...and I took most of them from Snape's personal cupboard." So he decided to tell her after all. "The rest I asked him for, and he obviously said yes."

Hermione sighed, "ok we need somewhere to brew our potion. We obviously can't do it here, we can't go to each other's common rooms, where are we going to do it?"

"Already taken care of," he said. Hermione looked at him, with raised eyebrows and Malfoy added, "Snape...I asked him if we could use his classroom when ever we needed it. He, rather reluctantly, said yes, but only after lessons, and if he didn't have any idiots in detention."

"Ok I guess we're done now, since you've got everything covered for now." Hermione started to put her things back in her bag.

"Not so fast Granger, we still need to decide who's writing the report, and I'm ordering you to do it." He said simply.

Hermione raised her eyebrows in an 'I-don't-think-so' kind of look "Malfoy, I am not going to do this, and have you take half the credit for it when you don't deserve any of it. And I will not take orders from a nasty little ferret like you." She said harshly. Draco glared at her in a dangerous way, then composed himself again.

"What happened to keeping our mouths civil, Hermione." He smirked.

Hermione, Hermione, somehow her name sounded different coming from his mouth. Hermione ignored it and rolled her eyes. "Yes, do keep it civil, and I'm sorry for the comment, but you did call me a 'mudblood' earlier." She said while again trying to put in all her books and parchments back in her bag.

Draco sneered at her even more but didn't apologize.

She stood up, picked up her bag and put it over her shoulder. "You write half of it, and I will too." She said looking down at him and walked away.

Damn she's perfect...he loved her harsh attitude, she was a complete lioness when dared, yet completely naive and innocent at the worst and best of times. Why did he love her?...It was a complete mystery to Draco.

When Hermione entered the common room, she saw Ginny sitting on the rug with Ron. "Ginny where were you, I thought you needed help with your homework. Why didn't you come back?"

"Well, I left because I didn't think me being there would of been such a good idea." Said Ginny nonchalantly. Hermione rolled her eyes slightly. "Ron's helping me with my homework..." she sighed and looked at Hermione; the sentence was more of a subliminal plead, than a statement.

Hermione sat by Harry on the couch and told Ginny that she would help her. Ginny just simply looked relieved.

"How did it go with Malfoy, anything happened?" Said a concerned Harry.

"Nothing." Hermione answered simply. "We just sort of came to an agreement, when we would get the ingredients, and who will write the report, no big deal, it was nothing." Harry's eyebrows were a bit raised but he didn't question her further. "So where were you and Ron?"

"We went to look for Zabini and Goyle...We just did the same thing you did, only Zabini hardly talks. And Goyle, well he was just too stupid to understand anything..."

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