Sweet Seduction

Chapter 2: Farther Than Before

Draco woke up with an actual smile on his smile. A smile that had been dead for three months. He couldn't wait to get back to school, to safety. Anywhere was better then this damned place. Even if it meant being around Granger 24/7.

"Get up!" his father snapped sticking his head into Draco's room. "You and the others are leaving in fifteen minutes!"

"Fine," Draco responded. He was surprised at how calm his voice was. He quickly got dressed and looked at himself in the mirror. He was wearing tight black pants and a black shirt. Though he had been malnourished during the summer, he was still fit from Quiditch. It was amazing what one day cut short of torture could do for his appearance. He looked a lot better than he did yesterday.

"Let's go," Zabini said coming up next to him. Draco followed him, Crabbe, and Goyle to a Ministry car compliments of McNair.

They all piled into the car and Draco found himself sitting next to Crabbe. He sat there in silence the entire car ride. He feared that he might kill Crabbe if he talked. He didn't even bother going to a compartment with the traitors. He just went straight to the Head's compartment and began to read a muggle book he had brought. It was called "Pride and Prejudice" and it seemed to capture his interest. Voldemort had it lying around from one of his muggle victims and Draco had just happened to pick it up one day and began to read. He heard voices outside the compartment not too long after he had become settled.

"Are you sure you don't want to protect you?" Harry Potter asked.

"Harry, I'm a big girl now," Hermione Granger responded. "I can handle Malfoy if I need to."

"If he touches you I'll sock him," Ron Weasley growled.

"I'm sure he's terrified," Hermione said. Though Draco couldn't see her, he knew that she had just rolled her eyes.

"He better be," Ron said apparently unaware of the sarcasm.

"So I supposed that ten year old over the summer was just as terrified as Malfoy when he socked you in the stomach," Harry joked. Hermione burst out laughing.

"I'll talk to you guys later," she told them opening the door and entering. Draco took a good look at her. She had changed since the last time he had seen her. Draco was glad Voldemort wanted him to seduce her as opposed to some of the other girls in their year. He would gladly seduce Hermione with the improvement he saw in her. Her chest had to be at least a C now and she had defiantly gotten curvy over the summer, but she still had her flat stomach. Her frizzy curls were no more; instead, her hair had straightened and now had highlights. Draco stared at her as if he had never seen a girl before.

"Take a picture, it will last longer," Hermione said seeing how he was staring. Draco gave her his infamous smirk.

"Sorry, Granger. I was thinking about how much you've changed over this summer," Draco sneered.

"Funny," Hermione responded, "I was going to say the same about you. Did you get hit with a bad hex or something?"

"Ha, ha Granger, why don't you go f…" Draco started, but Dumbledore entered the compartment (a/n Dumbledore comes back in my story!)

"Good afternoon Head Boy and Head Girl," he said bowing to them both. "As you know, you two will share a dorm, the password is amant (for all those who aren't trying to major in Latin as I am, that means they love) and I think that that's it." He clapped his hands together. "Have a good day."

"Now, Malfoy if…" Hermione started, but she found herself all of a sudden pinned to the seat. Draco pinned her wrists to the seat and glared down at her.

"Now, we have to set some ground rules, mudblood. First of all, you will not disrespect me as you did before Dumbledork came in here. Second, you will listen to me now, I do not want Potter or Weasel coming after me. And finally, I need you to stop being mean to me," he told her. He finally let her up.

"Fine!" Hermione snapped fixing her slightly disheveled shirt. "Truce," she said extending a hand.

"Truce," Draco said shaking her hand.

As the train slowed to a stop, Draco pushed by Hermione to go get a good carriage.

"We have to get into the Head's carriage dumbass," she said catching up to him. They both slid into their personal carriage and drove away to the castle.

"Why did you want to call a truce?" Hermione asked.

"I don't want to have to deal with you all year as a bitch," he responded.

"Well, maybe I didn't want to deal with you being a bastard," she retorted. Wow this is off to a good start, she thought.

She didn't realize that they had reached the castle. She was about to exit, when Draco turned her around and smashed his lips to hers. She kept eyes opened in confusion, but slowly closed them and kissed him back. He then pushed her off and exited the carriage and left her sitting there in mystery.