A/N: As you all know, everything that has happened in "The Bet" started off with Draco being challenged to a bet. Even though, in this chapter, things happen a little differently……

Just by looking at the chapter title, I think it is very obvious that the bet is going to happen again.

Which, in other words, means that it has already begun.
Enjoy:

Chapter Five
The Bet is Made

"How would one get these visions, Professor?" Hermione asked Trelawney with great interest.

"Well it is also rare for someone even of your age to have this gift," Trelawney answered. She bit on her fingernails, trying to think. "I'm guessing that you were reborn, Hermione."

"What?" Hermione said in a very shocked voice. "Reborn?"

"Yes. Reborn but reborn into the same body in the same lifetime. Like…given a second chance. That is really the only explanation why someone, like yourself, would get visions." Trelawney responded.

"Perhaps someone did something to you in your passed life. Something that wasn't meant to happen and now, here you are, reborn into the same body, given a second chance to live as Hermione Granger---or whoever you were---once more."

"Interesting," Hermione muttered to herself under her breath.

She still wasn't sure what to make of all this though. Professor Trelawney was known to be…well…fake.

So was this another one of Professor Trelawney's fake moments?

Or was she really telling the truth? Was she really right about everything she had said?

MEANWHILE.
AT THE SLYTHERIN COMMON ROOM

Draco lay on the Slytherin couch and gave a sigh of boredom.

"I'm going to make her pay for what she did to me in the Great Hall. I'm going to make her pay for making me look like a dumb-ass in front of everyone," Malfoy told his two best friends, Crabbe and Goyle.

"I don't think you need any help for her to make you look like a dumb-ass, Draco." Crabbe and Goyle snickered.

Seeing that Draco wasn't laughing, they added quickly, "What are you going to do with her, Draco?"

Draco thought for a second.

"I'm going to make her feel like she could never love again. I'm going to brake her heart into millions of tiny pieces."

He took a small pause and gave a very deep and scornful sneer.

"I'm going to make that filthy mudblood fall in love with me, make her think that I really feel the same way about her. Then I'm going to dump her in front of everyone."

"And I'm going to do it all out of pure bliss and pleasure with no ill regrets. When I do, she is the one who is going to be the fool."

"Okay, Draco." Crabbe said. "Me and Goyle think that you can't do all this in……" he thought for a second.

"In three months, the latest." Goyle finished.

Draco didn't reply.

"We should make this a little more interesting." Blaise Zabini said horning in on Draco's, Crabbe's, and Goyle's conversation as he walked over to them from across the room.

"If you fail your mission, Draco." Blaise gave a laugh. "Which I'm sure you will because why on earth would the mudblood ever believe you enough to fall in love with you. So in other words, when you fail, there should be a little dare or consequence that you shall take." He finished.

"Like what, Blaise?" Draco asked him as he got up.

Blaise thought for a second, rubbing his chin as he did.

"I got it!" He replied as he stuck up his pointer finger. "If you don't make Granger fall in love with you, you have to run around the school in nothing but your underwear."

Crabbe and Goyle gave another snicker.

Draco quickly sneered at them.

"Do we have a deal or not, Draco?" Blaise asked. He stuck out his left hand for Malfoy to take.
Draco hesitated for a second.

"Deal?" Blaise asked again.

"Deal." Draco replied, shaking Blaise's hand.

"You better be careful, Draco." Goyle warned.

"And why is that?" Draco asked Goyle as he released Blaise's hand. "Do you honestly think for one second that Pothead and the Weasel could actually lay a finger on me if I harm their little girlfriend?

"Ummmm…no." Goyle answered. "Actually I was talking about Granger."

"Yeah!" Crabbe cut in." She may try to kick you in your---"

"SHUT UP!" Draco screamed before Crabbe could finish his sentence.

Just then, Pansy came rushing over.

"Draco!" she ran up to him and gave him a big hug but he never returned it.

"As much as I don't like the fact that you're doing this, Draco and as much pain and suffering you're putting yourself through, I am truly happy that you are going to make that piece of shit pay." Pansy told him.

She gave a smirk.

She then took Draco's hand. Surprisingly, he didn't pull away.

"This is going to be the ultimate prank yet." Pansy continued, giving him a smile.

"Too right you are." Draco replied, returning the smile.

"Together, you and I, we will bring that slut down." Pansy said. She then pressed her tender lips on his before he had a chance to reply.

Still surprisingly, he didn't turn away.

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A/N: Well there it is, you guys. Chapter five. I know it's short but what did you think? Did you like it?

Incase any of you are confused with that whole thing with Trelawney (in chapter four and this one), I'm going to try and explain it a little.

What Trelawney is trying to say is…basically…Hermione is given this rare gift (these visions) She wants her to pay very close attention to them because they are telling her what will happen in the future. It is up to Hermione (with the help of her powers) to change what happened in the past from happening all over again in the future.

The reborn thing. I'm going to leave that up to you guys, whether you believe it is true or not. I can't really tell you just yet.

But basically what Trelawney is trying to say here is that…Hermione died in the past when she wasn't suppose to. It wasn't her time yet but she died anyway. Because it wasn't her time, Hermione was then reborn as Hermione Granger, given a second chance to live as things were suppose to be…..

But since Draco came up with the idea to get Hermione back for what she did, everything is happening all over again when it shouldn't be.

Draco was the cause of Hermione's death in the past because he had the opportunity to not take the bet but obviously he did. He is the cause of her death, even more so now because it is his idea to seek revenge on her.

Hope I didn't confuse you guy's. Let me know what you think of this chapter.