CHAPTER 13: PANSY'S REVENGE
Hermione awoke slowly to find herself in the hospital wing.
"Hermione!"
She looked over to see the worried faces of Harry, Ron, Fred and George.
"Hello" she said, a little croakily due to the face that she just woke up.
"How're you feeling?" Harry asked sitting on the bed.
"Tired" she replied.
"Yeah, well, you've been asleep for 2 days"
"WHAT?"
"Madam Pomfrey gave you some potion so you wouldn't wake up, said you needed some rest"
"2 days worth of rest?"
Harry shrugged and smiled.
"What if I missed something important in class?" she shrieked.
"You didn't, it's all revision"
"Oh…"
"Ah, Hermione you're awake" said Madam Pomfrey, coming out of her office.
"'Morning Poppy" Hermione greeted.
"Poppy?" Ron questioned, raising an eyebrow at Hermione.
"What? With the amount of times Harry has been here I think anyone would have made friends with her" Hermione said, earning a small chuckle from Madam Pomfrey.
"Fair enough" Ron laughed.
"Now Hermione, I want you to take this potion" Madam Pomfrey said, handing Hermione a small vial full of green liquid.
Hermione downed it and nearly gagged.
"God that's disgusting" she whined.
"You get that" Harry said, remembering the potion he had to take to re-grow his bones in second year.
Madam Pomfrey rolled her eyes, and then turned to leave.
"Wait!" Hermione called.
Madam Pomfrey turned, "Mmm?"
"Where are my things?"
"They are safely in my office, and they will stay their until you are ready to leave tomorrow"
"TOMORROW!"
"Yes, tomorrow"
"It's taking 3 days to heal a bump on the head, whereas it only took a night to regrow the bones in Harry's arm?"
"Yes, regrowing bones isn't complicated, just painful. You had a mild concussion, and believe me, the potion for that isn't anything to be proud of, in order to spare you from the side effects I had to give you the sleeping draught, and now that you are awake I can just monitor you for a day and make sure you haven't any side effects"
"Bloody hell" Ron murmured.
"Well…what are the side affects? And why couldn't you just use your wand to heal me?"
"I try to use my wand as little as possible when healing head injuries, but if absolutely necessary then of course my wand would be out" Madam Pomfrey said, tucking the sheets in around Hermione's bed.
"And the side affects…?" Ron asked.
"They are something I think you'd all be better of not knowing" Madam Pomfrey said before walking into her office so no more questions could be asked.
"Argh! Stuck here for another day!" Hermione cried.
"Don't worry Hermione" Harry said, patting her shoulder, "Only a day."
Hermione glared at him, and then turned to look at the others.
"What's wrong?" she asked Fred and George, who she hadn't heard speak once.
"Nothing" Fred murmured quietly.
"What's this? The only students at Hogwarts that the teachers fear being quiet!" she laughed.
Fred and George didn't say anything.
"Come on" Hermione said patting her bed for them to sit on, "Tell me, what's wrong?"
Fred and George sat on the bed hesitantly.
"It's our fault that you're here" Fred murmured quietly, not daring to look her in the eyes.
"Did you intentionally hit me with that spell?" Hermione reasoned.
"NO!" George exclaimed, "I saw you walk in between us but I thought I could get the spell around you."
"Then it's not your fault exactly, is it?" Hermione said, in a miserable attempt to cheer them up.
They just murmured slightly.
She smiled at them and hugged them both, kissing Fred lightly at the same time.
"Now, I know that you saw Malfoy kiss me, but why the sudden change of heart? You were getting mad at Malfoy for kissing me, now it's the other way? And you Fred, I've known you two since my first year and you've always believed everything George says, why not this time?"
"Well, it's just difficult to hear that my girlfriend kissed someone she doesn't even like" Fred said.
"So you caused a fight about it?" Hermione asked, not believing what he had just said.
"Alright, alright, no. Malfoy came to me earlier and told me that George was going to tell me something about you kissing Malfoy, and that it wasn't true" Fred said.
"AND YOU BELIEVED HIM?" Hermione shouted.
"I felt drawn to believe him, I felt like he was telling the ultimate truth…" Fred said, frowning.
"Same here" George said. "When he came to me and told me that you had kissed him…I felt like I had to believe him"
Hermione frowned, then her eyes widened in realization and anger.
"Belief potion…" she murmured angrily.
"What?" Ron asked.
"Remember, Malfoy and I had to make a belief potion in potions, I wondered why he had offered to clear up" Hermione said through gritted teeth with the same thought running through her head as the others That boy is going to pay!
Unfortunately for Hermione visiting hours went by quickly, and soon enough she was sitting propped up against the pillow staring blankly out the window near her bed.
"I think what Draco did with the belief potion was a brilliant idea"
Hermione looked over to the other end of the hospital wing.
"I didn't know you could think" Hermione growled as she saw the sneering pug faced form of Pansy.
"Oh ha-ha, really witty" Pansy sneered.
"Do actually know what the word 'witty' means?" Hermione asked, smiling innocently.
Pansy looked at Hermione with cold eyes, as if daring her to say anything else.
"What is it with you Slytherins and your eyes?" Hermione asked.
"What? What's wrong with my eyes?" Pansy shrieked, moving her hands up to feel around her eyes.
Hermione rolled her eyes, "The way you lot use them to give death glares, you can't actually see a shred of happiness in them"
Pansy shrugged at this comment, sneering at them same time of course.
Hermione once again rolled her eyes and then continued to stare out of the window.
That night Hermione was completely bored, now that it was dark she couldn't see outside, and she didn't have a book.
Pansy on the other hand had a stupid teenage witch magazine, which she was going through with an interest Hermione never thought possible in a Slytherin…besides Draco (a/n: added the 'besides Draco' part because he has a keening interest in Hermione, if you know what I'm talking about…cuz I'm confusing myself , lol).
Hermione sighed, the only form of entertainment she had now was her mind, and that wasn't exactly working, seeming as it was only re-thinking the same 2 words…I'm bored…I'm bored…I'm bored…
"Ms Parkinson, please finish reading, lights go out in thirty seconds" Madam Pomfrey said from her office door.
Pansy scowled and grudgingly put her beloved magazine down.
Hermione stayed awake for another 30 minutes after the lights had gone out, she was bored and tired, but she just wouldn't go to sleep, especially not until Pansy was fast asleep.
Soon enough Pansy's snoring increased in volume and Hermione turned over to go to sleep, surprisingly not at all bothered by Pansy's snores.
Hermione awoke quickly.
She swore she had heard something.
Maybe just a rat…or a house-elf, or something… Hermione thought trying to settle her racing heart down.
She looked out of the window, pitch black, not even a small sign that the sun was rising.
Uneasily, Hermione laid her head back down and tried to fall asleep, but found herself sitting up again. She had defiantly heard something that time.
"Pansy?" she called uncertainly.
"Guess again"
"D-Malfoy!"
"Was that just a slip of the tongue, or were you about to call me Draco?" Draco asked smugly.
"You shouldn't be here" Hermione spat, completely ignoring his last question.
"Neither should you, but no, you had to step in between lover boy and lover boy look alike" Draco sneered.
Hermione slapped him.
"Bitch" Draco murmured, glaring at Hermione.
"Charming"
"Thank you"
"Sarcasm Draco, sarcasm"
"I gather the part where you called me Draco was sarcasm as well then?"
"What the hell, are you like hanging on to my every word or something?"
"Something like that"
"So creepy…"
"You know you like it when I listen to you"
"Oh yes Malfoy, it makes me weak at the knees"
"See"
"SARCASM!"
"Were you at all bored today?"
"Yes, thanks to you and your bloody belief potion I was stuck here, as bored as shit"
"Yes well, you're transmitting your boredom into me"
"Good, maybe you'll get so bored you'll leave!"
"Maybe, but that's unlikely"
"Argh! Why can't you ever just co-"
Draco cut her off by claiming her lips with his.
Slowly Draco made his way onto the bed, moving his arms to cradle her waist.
She pulled away.
"Wha-" Draco started but stopped when he saw the soft smile on Hermione's lips as she looked up at him.
WHACK
"I hate you" Draco glared, trying hard not to smirk.
Hermione had completely fooled him with her soft smile; she had then moved her hands to his chest and then without warning, pushed him off the bed.
"Believe me, I hate you too, and if you so much as step within a metre of me again, I'll make sure you're the laughing stock of the school!" Hermione hissed at him.
Draco pouted like afour year old just to see her reaction; he smirked when she jumped slightly.
"What's wrong?" he smirked.
"Just get out" Hermione whispered.
"Ok" Draco said.
Hermione looked at him shocked, Draco Malfoy, being co-operative?
"For a kiss" Draco added, making the shocked look on her face disappear.
"No"
"Fine, well, I'll just be here if you need me" Draco said, getting up, making his way over to her bed and placing himself comfortably beside her.
"Get off!" she hissed.
"You know what I want"
"Well, you're not getting it!"
Hermione tried to push him off, but as you can imagine, he learnt from his mistake.
"Please get off…"
"Not gonna work…"
"I'm not kissing you"
"What difference will it make? It's not like we haven't kissed before…like the library…the classroom, although mind you we were rudely interrupted there"
Hermione glared at him, but saw his logic.
"Fine, one little kiss"
"Knew I'd win"
Hermione brought her head down on his and kissed him lightly, just as she was about to pull away he wrapped one arm around her waist, and put the other hand on the back of her head.
He deepened the kiss, just like he'd planned, savouring her smell and taste for a minute or two, before pulling away.
"Bastard" Hermione murmured, but Draco could tell she was trying to suppress a smile.
"I know, and you love it" he said, kissing her temple.
"Whatever now take you and your over-sized ego back to the Slytherin common room" she hissed.
Draco smirked, got up and left, stopping at the door to wink.
Hermione smiled now that he couldn't see. That had felt so right, and when he had kissed her temple…I know, such a little thing, but it had felt so magical to her.
It was then something brought her out of her thoughts.
It wasn't a noise this time…in fact, it was no noise, the snoring had stopped. Now that she thought about Hermione couldn't remember hearing it ever since she had pushed Draco on the floor.
"Shit…" Hermione said, reaching for her wand. She knew just how protective Pansy was of Draco.
Hermione fingers closed around her wand just as she received a heavy blow to the head...
A/n: Cliffy! I love writing them…only cuz I know what's going to happen next…and beyond next :D . Hehe, well I've done my part and written the chapter, now do yours and review! YAY!
ALSO! Anyone notice that Hermione and Draco were getting along? Sorta. Well you know what i mean...i hope! lol.
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