Friends with Odd Benefits
Disclaimer:I don't own anything but my soul, my heart and my corrupted mind... Don't pity me.
A/N:SORRY! SORRY! SORRY! BUT IT'S FINALLY HERE! PARTY!
They finished practice around seven and the after they flooed Draco to the Slytherin dorms and Josh left to his school, Blaise, Bryan, Rose and Hermione flooed back to Hermione and Blaise's set of rooms which Rose promptly left. "I'm off to bed." Blaise said, snatching a book and heading towards his door.
"A book? Your as bad as halfling!" Bryan said. "I'm out. See you two tomorrow, unless you're still READING!" he complained, leaving his step sister alone in the common room area. She smiled sadly and sat on the window seat, watching the gray clouds roll into view and over her head before falling asleep, head against the glass.
CRACK! BAM! ROAR! THUD!
The lightening exploded, Hermione slammed the back of her head against the wall, the thunder roared, and Hermione fell onto the floor, rubbing her head. "Owww..." she moaned.
"I can't wait to see you, dance you're so graceful." she heard as a hand appeared in front of her. She looked up to see someone she would have never expected. Tears flooded her eyes. "Aw." he complained as she took his hand and he pulled her up. "Don't cry, I hate it when you cry." he said before she smothered him with a tight coughstranglingcough hug.
"Oh Merlin Austin!" she cried, tears soaking into his shirt. "I love you so much! Where have you been?" He laughed.
"I love you too shortie but if you didn't like my shirt you could have taken it off, you didn't have to soak it." he said, causing her to crack a smile. "Anyway, to answer your ridiculous question, I've been... around." he answered with a shrug. She rolled her eyes before giving him a peck on the lips at the exact second Blaise's door slammed open, causing both Austin and Hermione to whip their wands out and aim them at Blaise.
"Oh, Blaise, you scared me." Hermione said, lowering her wand. The two males looked the other over as the lightening lit up the room.
"Who's this?" Austin asked, hesitantly lowering his wand,but not putting it away like Hermione had.
"I'm Blaise Zabini, who might you be?" Blaise growled, glaring at him and his arm around Hermione's waist possessively. Austin glanced at where Blaise was looking and smirked, tightening his grip slightly to bring Hermione closer to him.
"I'm Austin." he stated simply. "Why are you here?"
"It's his rooms too." Hermione stated, escaping Austin's arm and starting to her room.
"Where you going shortie?" Austin asked as he watched her shiver.
"I'm getting something to put on. I'm cold." she stated but before she took another step her robes were off, revealing her tank top and Austin had slipped his top shirt off and over her head, revealing his tight white shirt that showed off his six pack. Blaise rolled his eyes.
"I'm going back to my room. I think I'll spare myself these mental images." he said harshly.
"Good night Blaise." Hermione said a little uncomfortably as Austin wrapped his arms around her, pulling her back to him and kissing her on the lips as Blaise's door shut. Hermione pulled away.
"What?" Austin asked, sensing something wrong.
"I'm just tired. I'm going to-" Hermione tried but Austin kissed her.
"Like anyone who knew you'd buy that excuse." he said, chuckling. That's when she snapped.
"Just leave!" she snapped. He gave her a confused look. She shoved his shirt at him. "Go! We had a weird connection when we were friends but you left. You screwed me over so now I'm going to finally stand up for myself."
"We weren't friends shortie. We were friends with benefits I guess you could call it." he stated.
"Those were pretty odd benefits Austin." she said, giving him a knowing look. "Go back to your life. I know why your here and hell, I even know the whole timing thing too. I'm not some naive little girl. Leave!"
"But you were, and you were more fun when you let your hair down." he said, looking at her hair which was down yet tamed by a spell. "That spell never did hold very long."
"Get out!" she boomed, tears beginning to fall down her cheeks. Austin's face snapped into anger and she knew he was being serious now, knowing he had lost what he came for.
"Fine, you little mudblood whore!" he yelled before disappearing, leaving Hermione to break down crying. She wished for Bryan but knew he couldn't get in the room so she wished for the next person who she could think of, the one who had her in his arms in an instant. She wished for Blaise.
The next morning was horrible for Hermione. Not only did Austin's appearance make her sad, but he had put a spell on her, a silent one which she knew all too well. "What's wrong with Hermione?" Bryan asked the next morning, looking exhausted.
"Some freak named Austin obviously." Blaise stated as he took a bite of breakfast. Bryan was two inches from Blaise's face in an instant.
"You will not go near her for 48 hours. Are we clear?" he hissed, glaring at Hermione who was shifting uncomfortably in her seat.
"We have to teach together." Blaise stated, raising an eyebrow. "Why?"
"Austin puts a spell on her that makes her want him. Because she made him angry it changes to any male. So right now she wants to do really odd things with any guy in sight, and you are probably one of the top ones so don't go near her. Got it?"
"Odd things?" Blaise asked, confused.
"It's mostly making out but she'll want to hold your hand constantly and she'll suggest doing things like swimming where both of you are scarcely clad. Basically, dating crap, but to an extreme. And at the 48 hour mark she starts having these loud and painful-"
"I get the picture!" Draco snapped from beside Blaise. "That's disgusting."
"Oh, that spell." Blaise said, realizing which one he was referring to. "I guess I'm sleeping in the Slytherin dorms for the next two nights."
"No." Bryan stated. "You have to pretend you don't know what's going on. If you know the spell you know how to break it."
"True love. But then-" Blaise said, confused until Bryan gave him a meaningful look.
The PE classes that day once again swam, and during lunch Hermione acted oddly, but not how Bryan had said. "Blaise, can you help me with this?" she called right as he was about to leave their rooms. He turned to see her trying to reach a book on the top shelf, just out of her reach. He meandered over and plucked it up, trying to act indifferently before walking back toward the door but she caught him again. "What were you and Bryan talking about so intently this morning?" He flinched before turning around and shrugging.
"Nothing important." he said, taking a step back. Her expression showed she didn't believe what he said one bit. She walked over and backed him up into a wall.
"Well if it isn't important you can tell me." she said, her eyes daring him to say no.
"I was told not to say." he said, slightly cringing at his own stupidity.
"What is so important yet not important that Bryan doesn't want me knowing?" she asked him and herself at the same time. "Well?"
"We were talking about you." he stated, trying to get around her.
"Yes, I know, but what about me is so interesting that Draco Malfoy would say something?" she asked, her eyes already shinning in victory, knowing he had no way out.
"Look," Blaise said, looking around to make sure he was stuck, "Bryan thinks you have a spell on you, one that Austin cast." Hermione looked shocked before smirking.
"Bryan is stupid. Don't listen to him. I don't have a spell on me. Trust me, I checked. How did he convince you though?" she asked, truly curiously.
"You were showing symptoms. Moving back and forth, eyes darting every where." he stated. "What was I suppose to think?"
"You're suppose to think he isn't as smart as he thinks he is." she stated. "Besides, I was looking around trying to find Rose and I had to go to the bathroom." Blaise made on 'o' shape with his mouth.
"Can I go now?" he asked, uncomfortable with how close she was.
"If I get a kiss." she said with a smirk, mocking him.
"Ha ha. No, really." he said, rolling his eyes.
"I'm being completely-" she kissed him, "serious." With that she walked into her room with her book.
"I wonder what Bryan is up to because I'm officially caught in the middle." Blaise said with a heavy sigh.
Hermione on the other hand wasn't looking for anyone any more, she was reading a book she was lucky Blaise didn't catch the title of. 'Dangerous Angels' was five books crammed into one, the whole series. If he could bare to read through the sappy literature he would discover that if turned into a movie, it would defiantly be R-rated, at least. That's not why Hermione liked it, but she couldn't change the fact it was there.
There was a knock on her door and when she opened it Josh was there, looking extremely nervous. "What's wrong Josh?" Hermione asked, letting him inside.
"I just got a letter from Blaise that said you were under a curse." he stated. "Are you okay?"
"I'm not under a curse." she stated. He suddenly let out a breath.
"Good, because I need you to tell them we have a small gig Saturday night so meet me at the room Friday after class. Blaise knows the drill." he said before smiling and leaving.
"Odd." she stated, squinting her eyes a bit. She went to find Blaise who since he wasn't in the classroom or the Great Hall, left the library and Slytherin dorms. She knew he wasn't going to be in the library, he was going to look for Bryan.
"Excuse me?" she asked a first year who glared at her. "Do you know where Blaise Zabini wandered off to? Someone asked me to tell him something."
"That's very vague." a sixth year snapped from beside her. She turned to look at him.
"Well that's because it's doesn't involve you and I doubt he'd want you getting mixed in with his life." she said. "Now, where is he?"
"Slytherin common room." Bryan said, appearing out of no where.
"I'm not talking to you. I fear for my intellect." she said, walking past him to find Blaise. She ran into him on the way, literally. He caught her before she fell, though it put them very close together. "Josh said something about a small gig on Saturday night so practice after class on Friday. Did you send him a letter?" she asked quickly as Blaise took a step back.
"Possibly, why?" he asked.
"Anything about the spell thing?" she asked.
"I'm almost positive I didn't." Blaise said. "Is this important?"
"He first, got in our rooms without a password and second, he seemed a bit, off and nervous." she said.
"Shit." Blaise muttered. "I have to go check something, thanks for the fake update." he said, running off.
"And I am once again left alone as he runs off to find someone." she said with a roll of her eyes.
"Does that bother you?" Bryan asked, appearing once again. She glared at him and walked off towards the library, Bryan following silently. When they reached the doors he slipped in front of them. "Why aren't you talking to me?" Hermione let out a laugh and turned on her heel, not going to let him trick her into talking, and headed for her room. At least he wouldn't be there, but he followed her all the way to the portrait and when she came out for dinner he was there still.
That night for the first time a Slytherin sat at the Gryffindor table, and he begged his step sister to tell him what he did wrong through the whole thing, and she didn't let out a peep.
"I have a headache." Harry said over Bryan's constant question bombardment.
"And you think I don't?" Hermione said. "I wish he'd figure it out on his own. It's not hard. He isn't an idiot all the time, though he constantly acts like one." she said, anger mixing with annoyance in her voice as a small smirk appeared on Bryan's face when he got confirmation she was weakening.
"We're leaving Hermione but we're with you in spirit, but our ears are going to start bleeding. Good luck." Ginny said, standing and Harry and Ron left after sorry and desperate looks. She sighed. Blaise then sat down in front of her.
"So, is it about the whole incident thing?" he whispered, giving her a meaningful look, causing Bryan to shut up and let their voices break the silence of the rest of the hall.
"Yes, but he hasn't seemed to realize it yet." Hermione said, standing up. "Do not let him in or so help me I kill both of you!" She left with gusto, doors parting wide as she shoved them out of the way. She second they closed whispers broke out.
"Mind filling me in?" Bryan asked Blaise as they both headed slowly for the door.
"If you didn't realize, girls expect you to realize obvious things, like not telling you what you screwed up on." Blaise said.
"How do you know this?" Bryan asked with a small smirk.
"You get hit thousands of times for not realizing the obvious and you naturally evolve to realize it. Gives you headaches, thinking about how the female mind works." Blaise said with a sigh.
"And that is why they invented poofs! Homosexuals specialize in this stuff! Now, who do you know that's gay?" Bryan asked.
"No one I know would dare even joke about being gay, so they would never truly come out of the closet. I'm pretty sure that even if we found a gay person, they wouldn't admit it or help you, because this, after all, is your problem. Good night and good luck. You'll need it." Blaise said, disappearing into their rooms, leaving Bryan alone in the hall.
"Even I knew that I needed luck. I think Blaise is getting to me. Wait a second." Bryan said, looking thoughtful. "I think Blaise could be gay."
A/N:Sorry it is so short, I'll add on later. Hope it tides you over!