Twelve days Of Christmas

By: Chibikai02 Yoshima Imani Dean

Chapter Five: The Fifth Day of Christmas

Disclaimer: I don't own anything but 'Rowan Charlie Aphradoo' and Yoshima and Evan everyone and thing else belongs to J.K Rowling.

Hermione sat at her office desk tapping her quill on the desk staring at the proposal that she had in front of her. She had sevens days to finish it. She had been working on it since she had gotten to work at eight o clock this morning and it was now going on eleven at night. Rolling her shoulder she spun in her chair to face her computer. It was a new addition to the wizarding world thanks to her partly. Hermione worked in the Muggle to Wizard department of the Ministry of Magic. They took things that were useful in the muggle world and converted it into wizard friendly. The department had been started less than five years ago by Hermione herself.

Booting up the computer she tapped her fingers on the desk waiting. When the computer was finally on she signed onto the Wiznet, the wizarding world's version of the internet. Going to her mail she found the file that she needed for the proposal. She had been waiting for it all day and cursed the sender for taking so damn long to send it. While she printed it out she noticed an email that had just gotten sent less than five minutes ago. She didn't recognize the sender but opened it none the less. She scanned the letter and couldn't hold in the growl of annoyance. The email read,

Granger

If your still in the office stick around of a minute I need to see you, and if you read this and leave anyway it'll be you're lost not mine.

DM

P.S You still have no life eleven o'clock the week before Christmas and you're still working. Pathetic Granger.

DM a.k.a one Draco Malfoy. Hermione glared at the screen before she wiped around and began gathering her stuff to leave, there was no way that she was going to stick around for Malfoy to show up and taunt her. Though in the last two years of Hogwarts they had made nice in order to get the Head Boy and Girl spot and became sort of friends, she still didn't want to be alone with him unless it was mandatory and this meeting wasn't.

Grabbing her bag she made her way out her door. Just as she went to turn off the light and hand grabbed her around the waste spinning her and pushing her backwards into the office.

"Hey let me go," Hermione said turning to the intruder, whacking whoever it was once good in the head causing them to cry out. She raised her hands to hit them again when the intruders other hand caught her wrist.

"Damnit Granger you hit me twice and got away with it doesn't think you can do it a third time." Hermione instantly knew who it was.

"Let me go Malfoy," she growled her angry was almost a tangible thing.

"Good to see you to Granger," Draco let her go giving her a small push towards her desk.

"I tell you I'm coming to see you and you run off faster than I can say quidditch," he smirked at her.

"I have things to do now get out of my way," she said glaring at him from blocking her way out of her office.

"Not so fast Granger," Malfoy said tying to hold her still.

"What do you want?" Hermione snapped trying to wiggle her way free.

"Is this how you greet and old friend?" Draco said teasingly.

"Old friend my foot I saw you last week" Hermione snapped, remembering their last unpleasant meeting having literally run into each other during their mutual lunch. Needless to say neither one had, had a very good lunch seeing as their food was all over the floor.

"Would you stop struggling" Draco snapped trying to keep her still.

"I would if you'd let me go" Hermione said trying to kick Draco in his shin but missing.

"I'd let you go but you'd bold and we'd never get to talk," Draco said lifting his foot to avoid it being stomped on. Who knew that the bookworm was so feisty?

"Well I don't want to talk to you," she snapped annoyed that she couldn't get out of his hold.

"Don't talk just listen and nod your head yes," Draco said finally letting her go with a shove towards her desk.

"Let me think about that...now about NO," Hermione said, the only thing from keeping her from taking a swing at him again was her professionalism, and at the moment that didn't even seem like that good a reason not too.

"You don't even know what I want," Draco said with a sigh.

"Doesn't matter, no," Hermione said stubbornly.

"Not even if it was to invite you to my Yule party at the manor?" Draco said with a cocky smile

"Oh did Charlie put you up to this? I'm so going to hex her to next year," Hermione said in a patronizing tone. As nice as it was that Charlie wanted her at the party with her, it just wasn't something that she was going to do.

"What does Rowan have to do with my Yule party?" Draco said confused.

"So Charlie didn't ask you to invite me to this party because I told her I had not plans?" Hermione asked taking his confusion for not knowing Charlie's meddling. Hermione knew he wasn't lying because the thing that Draco hated more than anything in the world was not knowing something that she knew so faking confusion just wasn't something he'd do.

"Damnit I told her not to mention it to you till after I asked you what the hell is her problem," Draco wondered aloud,

"Oh, well she asked me yesterday," Hermione said.

"Why in Merlin's name would she go and ask you when i told her specifically not to tell you," Draco said and seemed to not pay any attention to Hermione.

"Uh I don't know," Hermione answered

With a sigh Draco turned back to Hermione and asked, "Fine whatever you coming or what?"

"Gees if that's how your going to ask then no," Hermione said wrinkling her nose up.

"Fine. Goodnight," Draco shot back and slammed the door on his way out. Blinking for a moment confused, Hermione gathered up her stuff for a second time and left her office for the night.

Later that evening when Hermione got home she was greeted with two owls. One brown eagle owl that was slowly becoming very familiar and a second black owl that she knew belonged to one Draco Malfoy. Hermione was very much tempted to chuck something at the black owl but decided that it wasn't the owls fault its master was an idiot and the bane of her existence. With a sigh she took the letter off the owls leg and unrolled it. Skimming it Hermione let out a bark of laugher, which set Yoshima scurrying from the room and Evan hooting in annoyance from being awakened.

You have been formally invited to the Malfoy Manor for their 1st annual Yule

Party. It is planed for December 25th at 6 pm sharp. Master Malfoy would

greatly appreciate it if you would attended.

Draco Malfoy of Malfoy Manor

PS Formal enough for you?

She had to give him credit, she definitely hadn't thought that he'd send her a formal invitation to the party. Picking up a quill that had been dumped on her coffee table earlier that day. With a quick skilled flourish she wrote a Yes, it was formal enough and she'd be pleased to attend his Yule party under the PS and signed her name. Attaching the note back onto Draco's owls leg she watched it soar out the window that it'd come in.

With a sigh she turned to the other owl that didn't belong to her. Elena sat happily perched on Evan's stool watching Hermione with a intellectual look that somehow bothered Hermione. It was as if the owl was taking everything in so it could report back to her master, someone who Hermione still didn't know. Whistling softly to Elena the owl flew off the perch and onto the table. She had a letter and box in her beak. Knowing that she wouldn't be able to see the letter till after she opened the box she placed the letter down on the table.

The box was not all that big. It seemed to fit in her hand, but knowing that magic could make whatever was in the box bigger she wasn't sure the size of the object inside. Untying the green ribbon and pulling the red wrapping paper off she was left with a plane white box. Slowly she opened the box and placed the lid on the table. Inside box was five unadorned gold or that's what she thought at first glance. When she picked the first one up she saw that craved on the inside was the Hogwarts motto, 'Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus" . Places it down she picked up the other four. In the inside of each was each of the house names and the animal that represented that house, the Gryffindor Griffin, Slytherin Snake, Hufflepuff Badger and Ravenclaw Raven. Putting each ring back into the box she picked up and unrolled the note.

On the fifth day of Christmas,

my true love sent to me

Five golden rings,

Four calling birds,

Three French hens,

Two turtle doves,

And a partridge in a pear tree.

Five Down seven to go

Your True Love

With a tired sigh she re rolled the note and looked at Elena.

"You wouldn't be able to tell me who you master is could you," she asked scratching the owl under its chin. In response the owl nipped at Hermione's fingers before it flapped its wings to get it off the ground and flew back to its perch next to Evan. Taking that as a no Hermione sighed again. As much as she'd love to try and figure out who the mystery sender was she had work that she had to finish so she set to it, doing her best to put the gifts out of her mind.

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