Enemy, Friend, or Lover

..I Want You..

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Hermione woke up in sunlight. Her bed was so warm and comfortable. She closed her eyes again, wanting to go back to sleep. She had almost gone back to sleep when there was a knock on the door.

"Hermione. Get up." Hermione heard the door open. "Oh, come on, Hermione! We're gonna miss breakfast." Madison told her.

"Yeah, yeah," Hermione mumbled, turning over, sinking deeper into the mattress.

"Hermione!" she snapped. "Get up," she walked over to the bed and stripped the blankets off, making Hermione squeal.

"I'm up! God!" Hermione swung her legs over the bed, got up and stretch.

"Hurry up, Hermione," Madison told her before left.

"Yes, ma'am." she said sarcastically after Madison shut the door. Hermione threw on her robes and put her hair up and put a little bit of make up on. Grabbing her bag, Hermione headed down the stairs to the great hall.

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"I hate Snape!" Hermione mumbled to herself.

"Same here," Harry said beside her.

"He took twenty points off because we talked. He is so unfair!" Hermione growled. Snape had heard and looked over to her.

"Miss. Granger. I see you are having a little trouble shutting up. Get your things and go sit beside Mr. Malfoy," he told her. Hermione sighed but got up. She got to the table Draco was at and sat as far away from him as she could get.

"I don't bite," he told her quietly.

"You never know."

"Miss. Granger, that will be ten more points." Snape said. Hermione opened her mouth to argue when she though against it. She closed her mouth and glared at him.

"Now, the person at your table will be your partner for the next three potions you make. The next three potions will have to do with your mind. Mind communication, actually. Today we will make the Bowentus potion. It is used on people who don't listen to you. You give them a drop and they will listen to you more, give you more attention. But if you give them three or more drops, you are in control. They will have to listen to you. You can talk to them through your mind and they will have to obey. But if this person is totally against what you say, their mind will backfire and they can send a spell thought their mind. I have already brewed this potion so can I have a volunteer?"

A few people raised their hands, Draco amongst them.

"Mr. Malfoy and Miss. Granger. Come on up."

Hermione glared at Draco but she got up.

"C'mon Granger," he taunted, "don't be scared."

"I'm not scared, I just don't trust you," Hermione snapped at him and made her way over to the front.

Snape handed Hermione a glass with light green liquid inside and Draco one with bright orange.

"Mr. Malfoy will have to drink the whole thing to control Miss. Granger. But Miss, Granger, only has to have a tiny sip. Go on," he told Draco and Hermione.

Hermione looked down into the glass. She lifted it to her lips and took a tiny swallow. It tasted horrible! She gagged but forced it down. Draco did the same and he too, forced it down.

Yuck! came Draco's voice.

Stop complaining. she told him, not wanting Draco to stay in her head.

"Can you two hear each other?"

"Yes," Draco said and Hermione only nodded.

"Good. Now Mr. Malfoy, if you will."

Draco smirked at Hermione. This will be fun! he told her. Lets see if this works. Raise your left hand. Hermione's hand shot up in the air. Now your left foot. and then went up her left foot.

Hermione tried to put her foot down but it would not go. This sucks!

"Mr. Malfoy, try to do something that she would object to."

"Sure." then he turned his attention back to Hermione. Tell me you love me.

No!

Tell me you love me! he said, is voice more demanding.

"I love you." she said out loud. The class howled with laughter.

Come here, Hermione. Without their permission, Hermione's feet started to walk towards Draco. She stopped a few feet from him. Closer. She did. She stopped about half a foot away.

"You can see what he is telling her by the expressions on Miss. Grangers face. The worse it gets for Miss. Granger, the more mad and tempered she'll get."

Now, kiss me.

No!

Hermione, kiss me! he said, his voice rising in her head.

No! I will not kiss you! she told him.

Now!

"No!" Hermione yelled and Draco's body flew across the room and hit the wall.

"See. She had that much anger that the spell was heavier and more powerful. But if it isn't bad enough for her to say no to with that much power then Mr. Malfoy would be in total control." Snape said. He handed a glass with a gold potion in it to Hermione and she drank it. Draco got up from the ground and walked over to the front of the room. Snape also handed him a cup with a gold potion and he drank it.

"This will make the potion die in about ten seconds." Hermione waited those few seconds until she was sure he was gone. She glared at Draco as they both made their way over to the deck to brew the potion.

"I despise you," Hermione scolded him as she sat down.

"You didn't last night."

"Yeah, well. Last night I was out of my mind," she informed him, hotly.

"If you say so," Then with a drawl that made her shiver he said, "Hermione."

"Shut up!" she hissed at him. He looked at her out of the corner of his eye, a slight smile on his lips.

The two started to make the potion, putting the ingredients.

"I hate making this potion," Hermione mumbled to herself. "It's evil."

"Uh-huh." Hermione looked up at him, glaring. They both went back to putting he ingredients in. Hermione looked in the book. They needed the hellebore that was in the little glass jar. Hermione and Draco both reached for it. Hermione's hand was covered by Draco's when it got to the jar. Hermione quickly pulled her hand away, away from the electricity that shot through her hand when his fingers touched her skin.

He held the jar to her. "You want to put it in?" he asked, innocently.

Hermione shook her head, her hand still clutched to her chest. "No, you go ahead."

And he did. He put a little bit of the hellebore in and then let the potion sit.

"If you are done, you can go early," Snape told the class. "Next class, you will all have a try at the potion. Then will start another potion."

Hermione got up and grabbed her bag. Swinging it over her shoulder, she turned around and walked over to Ron and Harry's table.

"Hey, you guys. I'm going to be in the library. I'll see you guys next class, okay?" they nodded and then turned back to their potion.

"Hey, Hermione, " someone called behind her as she left the potion room. She turned around to see Draco coming up behind her. Crabbe and Goyle weren't to close to him this year so they weren't with him. Another guy, named Cole was thought. He was a pure blood like most Slytherins.

"What?" she asked.

"You forgot your book," he told her, her book in his hand.

"Surprised that you'd even come this close to me in public," she told him, snatching her book from him.

"I'm not that mean."

"Did it leave you during your sleep last night?" she asked.

'Thanks to you I couldn't sleep at all.' he said in his head, not having enough balls to say it out loud.

"Why do you even waste your time on the mudblood?" Cole asked.

"She's not," Draco said.

"Do you fancy her?" Cole asked him. "'Cause I think you do. Always standing up for her now."

"No. She isn't a mudblood. She isn't muggleborn."

"What?" he asked, obviously confused.

"I'm adopted," Hermione informed him. "Thanks," she mumbled to Draco quickly before she turned around and walked away.

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Over the next few days, Hermione stayed as far away from Draco as she could. But each day they bumped into other more, seen each other more.

On Friday, Hermione went to see the headmaster, who wanted to see her and Draco.

"Hey," Draco said from behind her. She turned around at the entrance of Dumbledore's office.

"Hi."

"Are you scared of me?" he asked her.

'Yes,' she said in her head. "No, of course I'm not!" she told him, looking at anything but him.

"Are you sure about that?" he asked, a slight smirk on his lips. He stood in front of her, his body extremely close to hers.

"Yes," she told him, edging back away from him until she hit the wall a few inches behind her.

He stepped right up to her, his body slightly pressing into hers. He heard her intake a quick breath. His face came closer to hers.

"You seem to be freaking out, Hermione," he whispered into her ear.

"Well, with you this close, who wouldn't?" she asked.

"Most girls enjoy me this close." he told her, his eyes bright, as he bit lightly into her ehar lob.

"Yeah, well, I'm not like most girls." Hermione moved her head away from his mouth and pushed him back so she could look into his face.

"I know," he stared down at her. He could feel her breath on his face. She wasn't just scared, she was terrified. Damn. "There's no reason to be afraid of me."

"I can think of a few reason's why I should be," she told him.

"Lets try to change that then."

"Actually, I'm fine with us being apart. Makes me want to stay away from you."

"But what if I don't want to stay away from you? I don't want to be left in the shadows, Hermione. I want to be in the light."

"You can change that but I don't need to be in that."

"I need you in that, Hermione. I need you more than you know."

This was starting to freak Hermione out. "For what, Draco? What exactly do you need me for?"

"Help me and you'll end up finding out."

"Draco, you don't need me help and right now I don't trust you enough to help."

"What have I done that you can't trust me?" he asked. Hermione looked up at him, her eyebrows raised. "Yeah, okay. But this year? I have done nothing to offend you, or hurt you, have I?"

Hermione though for a moment. "No, you haven't."

"Then give me a chance."

"Draco. You don't deserve another chance after all you've done." Hermione said, her words coming out a little harsher than she meant it to be.

"But you'll give me one. Wont you, Hermione?" His body leaned into hers more. "Hermione…?"

"Fine. Prove to me that you've changed, Draco Malfoy." He smirked down at her.

"I will, don't you worry, Hermione, don't you worry."

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Hello! Thanks you my reviewers! I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I have to do a chapter for my other story now so it might take a little while for the next chapter. I'm sorry about that…. Please don't be mad…

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