A/N: as I type this I am watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire... excellent movie I must say, and as I start this we are at the part where Beauxbaton and Durmstrang are introduced.

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Hermione woke up warm and content in Draco's arms around 9 the next morning. She smiled when Draco instinctively curled up closer to her and mumbled something when she tried to get up and get dressed. Sighing she turned over to face Draco who was just innocently laying there. " Draco, you've got to let me go!" she complained and tried to squirm away weakly.

"No, don't go anywhere, good dream... interuptin..." he finished weakly before falling back into a light doze.

Hermione laughed. "Draco... I've got to be at work in an hour."

"Don't go, stay here." he said pulling himself up over her chest and resting there.

"No, I can't miss work!" she exclaimed

He tilted his head up and looked at her through bleary eyes. " And why, Miss Granger, not?"

"Because I need the money before I go off to Nuadas'."

Draco reached across her, picked up his wand and waved it and muttered something. Something heavy dropped over them bouncing off their heads. " There, galleons. Go back to sleep." he said dropping his wand and laying across Hermione so his head rested on her shoulder.

Hermione picked one up and examined it and with a sigh she dropped it again. " Leprechaun gold, Draco?" he smiled. " Really now, let me up."

Draco groaned. " If you insist..."

"Which I really do." she added.

Her rolled off her and planted his face down in the pillow. She giggled and patted his head affectionately. "I'll be back by dinner. Don't worry."

"Do you know that's 8 hours without you?" he mumbled into his pillow.

"I know, but it will go by faster then you know it." she said before kissing his head and rolling out of bed. In the next 20 minutes Hermione showered, dried her hair, applied light make up and got dressed into a plaid skirt, a white button up shirt, stockings and black shoes (standard uniform) and began eating breakfast while reading the morning's Daily Prophet. Draco on the other hand just stalked down the stairs 3 minutes until her departure still in his PJ's.

"Sleep in a bit did you?" she joked as she grabbed a light jacket.

"Yeah, a bit." he laughed walking into the kitchen and stealing the bit of toast left on her plate.

"Well, I think I'm off to work." she said grabbing her purse and then her wand off of the table. She walked up to him and gave him a light kiss, turned and walked straight to the fireplace in the middle of the parlor. she pointed her wand at it and flames suddenly erupted from it. She took a pinch of Floo power from the gleaming silver tin on the mantle and threw it in. She stepped into it, winked a good-bye at Draco and shouted, " Flourish and Blotts!" and vanished. Draco sighed and rubbed his eyes and went to prepare his own badly made breakfast.

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Hermione shut her eyes against the whirling pictures all around her. She hated to floo. Normally she would have caught the Knight Bus but as she was running so late today after her night with Draco. At that same exact moment as the thought of Draco she felt herself begin to slow down, instinctively she threw out her arms and just in time too. She landed on the hardwood floors of Flourish and Blotts on all fours. She heard a cough from above her and looked up to see her oh so wonderful coworker, Lindsay, standing over her trying to hold in her laughs. She then let a giggle escape her lips when Hermione tried to stand up on her own and wobbled. "Oh shut up you." Hermione directed at Lindsay. "I hate Flooing." she mumbled. And at this Lindsay slumped back against the fireplace overcome with laughter.

Luckily for Hermione's dignity, no one else was in the shop as it had just been opened moments before Hermione's arrival. Hermione stumbled, a bit green faced, back behind the counter and punched in. She came back out and sat down on the stool behind the checkout desk and put her head down on the counter waiting for the dizziness to pass.

Lindsay on the other hand spun around the shop placing a misplaced book back on it's shelf. "So, 'Mione, Why were you late?" she said innocently.

"What! I wasn't late." Said Hermione picking her head up.

"For Hermione Jane Granger standards you are. I beat you here!"

"So?"

"So? That never happens! So either you were actually just running late or your running late because of last night."

"Lindz, why does it have to be about last night?" Hermione asked, getting up no longer feeling sick to her stomach.

Lindsay, being herself, of course took that as her cue to guess that it was about last night. " Merlin, you have to talk!"

Hermione closed her eyes and sighed. She knew that Lindsay would guess. "Do not."

"Do too!" said Lindsay coming up behind Hermione as she browsed the shelves for a book. "Come on 'Mione! Who was it with?"

"It wasn't with anyone. " Lied Hermione, her cheeks blushing. She tried to hide this from Lindsay by pulling out a book at random. To her horror, as she looked at the title page, she pulled out So you've done it, now you need a contraceptive charm by Anita Nocids. She slammed the book shut and placed it back on the shelf. To her right Lindsay gave her an all knowing look. "Oh bugger off!" said Hermione.

A few second later the bell above the door alerted them to customers. Hermione stuck her tongue out at Lindsay before stepping from behind the shelf to face her visitor. " Hello, welcome to Flourish and Blotts, how can I help you?" she questioned walking up to her visitor.

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Hermione was sitting at one of the comfortable reading chairs during the midday hush. No one was in the shops. They were either getting food from the Leaky Cauldron or at home taking a nap. She was reading with the light from the sun coming through the shop window peacefully until something, more like someone, blocked the light. Startled she looked up, thinking that they had a customer. "Draco!" she said smiling at him as he plopped himself down next to her on the large chair.

"Hermione!" he echoed. "What are you reading?" he asked as he put one arm around her shoulders and one arm out, tilting the book up so he could read the spine. "Apparition made easy? Your going to try for your licence."

"Well, yes. I've been meaning to for ages and I've just never gotten around to it." she said slipping a piece of paper into her place in the book. She would check it out later for more reading.

Draco looked at her with a quizzical look. "Right..." he shook his head. "Anyway I've got a question to ask you?" Why do I have to get nervous now? Dammit.

Hermione smiled. "Well, go on with you."

Why does everything have to be so hard? He questioned himself before taking a gulp of water from his wand. "Well, I..."

"Draco, come on now. Whatever happened to the big bad Slytherin who wasn't afraid of mouthing off?" she asked standing up.

"He met a well mannered Gryffindor who showed him the value of keeping his mouth shut."

Hermione smiled. "Did he now?"

" Oh be quiet you." he said and stood up. He cast a quick glance around and then took her in his arms and she laughed. "Draco! Anyone could see us!"

"So." he said simply before kissing her.

"I can see that you know!" came Lindsay's voice from the back.

"Oh bugger off!" cried Hermione as she melted into Draco's kiss. How she ever survived a month without him she would never know. "So," she started as she pulled away from his lips. "What did you want to ask me?"

Draco took a deep breath. "Hermione, I was wondering...w-will you... you move in w-with me?" he asked looking at her face, studying it trying to guess her answer before she said it.

Hermione looked up at him. Studying his face trying to predict what life would be like spending everyday there. She sighed. "You mean it?" she asked.

Draco's arms shifted slightly. "Hermione, if you don't already know by now, when it comes to you, I always mean it. "

Hermione smiled. "Of course. Yes, of course I will, if it makes you happy."

Draco smiled and pulled her into hug. His life was going great and it was getting better and better each day. He tilted her head up. "When do you want to move in?"

"What's stopping us from starting the packing today?" she said and kissed him again.

"Will you knock that off! What are you trying to do! Make me throw up! Get a room!"

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A/N: Ta-da! (tear tear) It's over... Opposing Teams is over. BUT! I know the exact way to counter that emotion... BY WRITING A SEQUEL! WHOOT! I know that this chapter has been delayed for a while. It's been written for almost a week now... or more... I can't count. But I wanted to post it at the same time as I posted the first chapter of my new story Against All Odds. This story WILL be undergoing some major editing... that is, as soon as I find time. I've gotten more ideas by reading though it, several times, and I really want to edit and ad some more. Thanky for all your kind reviews and all I have to say is... READ THE NEW STORY OR I SHALL SMITE THEE WITH MY SWORD... or the sword I'll get to smite you with... haha

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inugurl25- I posted it, though I didn't post it soon. I'm sorry. I hope you continue to read my seires. As you can probally see, I posted Against All Odds at the same time as this chapter so you'll have more to read. Kudos Brittany

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