Body Switch
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot.
Author: Third chapter! Yeah! I don't know how long this is going to be yet, I'm thinking around ten chapters… which will be great, with holidays coming up and all… and If you think there's anything I could improve on in the plot or writing style… review and tell me so I can do better! Thanks to all the people who reviewed the first two chapters!
They'd decided to use Moaning Myrtles bathroom, the stall with the "Out of Order" sign on the door, so that no one would enter… and Hermione, as the clever witch that she was, put a spell similar to the one on the Quidditch World Cup stadium. Anyone who got to close suddenly remembered they'd left something in another Classroom.
"Come on Pansy… It can't be that hard… One clockwise stir to every seven Anti-clockwise! Here, like this." Hermione took the large spoon they were using to stir, from Pansy.
"Like this… One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, now an anti-clockwise stir… got that? Good." Hermione gave the spoon back to Pansy and kept shredding the Boomslang Skin.
A sudden noise startled Hermione and she cut her finger with the knife.
"Pansy? Are you in here?" A male voice said.
Hermione looked down at the slytherin uniform and the long black hair and sighed. She looked over at Pansy, with the Gryffindor uniform and thick Bushy hair. Pansy looked panicked.
"It's Draco!" She mouthed.
Hermione sighed inwardly and stood up. She carefully opened the door of the cubicle and stepped out. She met Draco's eyes with her most flirty look that she'd seen Pansy so often give him.
He smiled and she approached him. He put his hands on her shoulders and said: "You're looking awfully beautiful today… but what are you doing in Moaning Myrtles bathroom? You should be in the common room with me."
"I-I should?" Hermione replied, her knees shaking under his gaze. She found herself thinking how beautiful his eyes were and how they were completely different to Harrys. Draco Malfoys eyes were like a cloudy sky just before it rains. His face was pointed and sharp, all hard planes and his skin was pale and smooth, not a sign of any teenage ailments to be seen. She supposed he used a potion for that though. He wore his school uniform in a way that she would, under any different circumstances, definitely not approve of. His shirt was hanging out from the bottom of his grey school jumper and his tie was nowhere to be seen.
"Yeah, you don't usually hang around this dump after classes end for the day. This isn't normal of you Pansy!" He replied and he almost looked worried.
"Oh, I just needed some time to think."
He leant down and kissed her. Hermione was stunned and found herself kissing him back. She closed her eyes and threw her arms around his neck.
He pulled away.
"Come on; let's go back to the common room." He winked.
"You go, I'll catch up."
Draco left, casting a worried look at Hermione.
She rushed back into the stall and looked down at pansy who sneered back up at her.
"I'm going with Draco!" And she grabbed her cloak and ran to the slytherin common room.
Draco was waiting on the couch by the fire and she sat down next to him. He put his hand on her face and leaned in to kiss her. She closed her eyes as his lips touched hers and she ran her hand through his hair, which was soft like silk, she noted. It was only after he tried to push her down into a laying position that she noted that this was like cheating on Harry and she straightened up her tie, tucked in her shirt and made her way out of the common room to find Pansy.
She found her after a lot of searching mind you, in a small space in between two trees. The leaves and braches formed sort of a Dome that would have been the perfect hiding spot had it not been small enough for only one person.
Hermione lay on her stomach and rested her head on her hands. She stared in on her body and noticed that she was crying. It wasn't like Hermione to intrude on other peoples business… well, maybe it was, but regardless, she said: "Pansy, what's wrong"
The other girl jumped and then relaxed when she saw who it was.
"Never mind." She went to stand up and leave but Hermione pushed her back down.
"They're my eyes you're crying with, now sit, what's wrong?" Hermione said firmly, but not in a mean tone.
"AS IF YOU DON'T KNOW!" She screeched, "You go off into the common room with my boyfriend, then have the nerve to come and find me? And to add to that, at lunch today, he tried to come onto you."
"That's because he thinks I'm you."
"No, Idiot! He tried to come onto me, as in you."
Hermione gasped.
"I'm going to have to have a word with Mr. Malfoy. You don't mind if I slap him a few times do you?"
"Erm… Y-No, Hermione? Where are you going?"
"Draco?" Hermione trilled and she could have sworn she saw Draco's shoulders slump.
"Yes pansy?" He replied, sounding somewhat exasperated.
"I need a word."
"You can have a word… whichever word takes your fancy… another time, right now I have Potions club to get to." He made to walk away.
"That can wait." She snapped.
She stepped up to him so that she was only an inch away from him and slapped him, hard across the cheek.
"Ow! What was that for?" he gasped, shooting death stares at her.
"I saw you trying to come onto that Hermione Granger today!"
"What? That… that… G-Gryffindor?" He spat as if the houses name was mud in his mouth after a fall off his broom.
Hermione didn't show other emotion but very fake anger… but inside, her heart was breaking. She had actually thought that Draco Malfoy had liked her for a day.
"How could I be so stupid?" She muttered to herself.
"If you're going to insult me, do it so I can hear you."
"I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU!"
"Okay… okay. Pansy, I'd never try to cheat on you… I love you… and I think you're beautiful." Hermione knew he was telling the truth, or at least half of it and she was enjoying being able to pretend that he was saying those words to her, Hermione, not her, Pansy."
"I love you too Draco." And she wasn't sure if she was speaking as Hermione or Pansy.