A/N: I just have to say thanks to my reviewers. Honestly, your reviews inspired me to write sooner than I was planning on. And a special shout out to dracoismyprince, I think it's so cool that I inspired you.
Two Opposites Attract
Chapter 5
The Arguments
The sun shone in though the window and caste it's light across the floor. Draco slowly stirred awake while Hermione lay sleeping in Draco's strong arms. When he opened his eyes and saw Hermione he couldn't help but smile. It felt so good to him to be holding a woman again. Slowly he brushed back her hair revealing her soft face. She moaned softly and buried her face in his bare chest. His smile grew wider.
Then a muffled, "What time is it?" came from his chest.
"I'm not really sure. I don't have my watch on."
"We need to get up if we don't want to be late for class." She unburied her face and looked into his. "This is a little weird."
"What's that?" He asked even though he knew the answer.
"Waking up and seeing your smiling face. Actually, seeing you smiling is weird in itself. Why are you smiling anyways?"
"Oh, no reason." The answer wasn't quite what he thought it'd be, but it was close.
"Well, I'm getting up. You should too. Don't want to be late." She rolled out of his arms like it was nothing and went to her dresser and then to the mystery, locked door and opened it with ease. "What do you know? The bathroom."
Draco stretched and slowly got out of bed and walked over to his dresser. He pulled out his uniform and put it on. His robe was hanging on a coat tree so he took it and put it on. He noticed his silver Head badge was already on it next to his gold 'C' meaning he was captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team. Just then Hermione came out of the bathroom.
"It's really nice in there." She said as she closed the door.
"I'll have to check it out later." He replied as he opened the door leading to their common room.
There was food on the table. They both walked over to it and sat down and ate too quickly to talk. Once they were both done, they grabbed their bags and went off in different directions to class. Little did they know of the surprise that awaited them.
Draco made his way down the staircases to the cold damp dungeons. He was, surprisingly enough, glad to be going to class. Actually, he was in a good mood. As he walked down the corridor he had his head held high like he was king. He passed some first years and glared down at them, they cowered away quickly and he chuckled to himself. As he drew near to the entrance of the potions room he was thinking, nothing is going to put me down today. And as he finished his thought and walked into the room he saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione gathered at a table in the back and his hopes dropped instantly.
He dragged his feet to a seat next to Zabini and sat down in a heap. It was like all of the energy was zapped out of him.
"Cheer up man." Blaise said and patted Draco on the back. "I've already had girls asking about when they get to be picked for a wonderful night with one of us."
"I already told you I'm not doing that this year."
"But Draco man, they are so hot! How could you not want to get with them? If I where in your shoes I'd be taking full advantage of this situation. I mean, you're the most popular guy in school these days with the ladies. I'd give anything to be you."
"What's the matter Blaise? Do the girls only notice you because you're around me? Are you worried that if I stop sleeping around that will end your sleeping around days? Will the girls stop noticing you if I'm not around? Are you really that weak of a man that you have to have others leading you around by the hand? Seriously Blaise, get it through that thick ass skull of yours. I'm not going to do that this year."
Blaise looked at him hurt. "That was uncalled for." He whispered.
Just then, Professor Snape walked in and the chatter stopped at once.
"Because of Professor Dumbledore's new theme this year, I will now pare you into random partners. And I don't want to hear any complaining."
Snape tapped the board in front of the room three times and a seating chart appeared. A lot of groans were muttered and Professor Snape glared at them. They quieted up and moved to their new assigned seats and partners. Draco was placed in the back with Hermione as his partner. He looked around and saw that Blaise was partnered up with Harry and Parvarti was matched with Ron. He had to laugh to himself, looks like I got the better part of the deal.
"This is your seventh year in potions, you know what to do." Snape said and taped the board again changing the seating chart into directions.
"Go get the stuff Granger." Malfoy said coldly.
She just glared at him but went and got the stuff. They didn't say much as the class continued. A couple of people kept looking at them because they weren't constantly arguing. They got done early so Draco filled the vile and took it up to Professor Snape's desk. Snape just looked at him so he went back to sit next to Hermione.
By time he got back to Hermione, she had everything cleaned up.
"Thanks for doing that." Draco said.
"It was no problem. I just used a spell to clean everything." Hermione sighed and crossed her arms on the table then rested her head on her arms.
Draco couldn't help himself; he reached out and ran a hand down Hermiones back. She smiled and moved her leg so it was touching his. He put his elbow on the table and rested his head in his hand and looked down at Hermione. He had his other hand on her knee that was touching his. There really must not be anything going on with her and Harry. That thought made him smile.
Just then the bell rang and everyone got up and left the classroom for lunch. Draco and Hermione went to their own friends as they all made their way to the Great Hall. Draco sat at the Slytherin table next to Blaise and he started eating. Everyone was about halfway through eating went Blaise decided to start talking.
"So Draco. Who's this girl you're seeing." He gave Draco an evil smirk.
"I'm not seeing anyone." Draco replied coldly.
"That's not what I saw."
"Oh? And what did you see exactly?"
"I saw you looking at that Mudblood."
"I was looking at her because we were partnered up."
"Likely story. You guys were done with your potion and you were staring at her like she was some kind of Goddess."
"I'd never look at a Mudblood like that."
"Oh you definitely were."
"I was not! I think I would know how I look at people Blaise!" Draco now had his full attention on Blaise.
"I saw you with my own eyes!" They were both yelling at this point and everyone was looking.
"I don't give a fuck what you think you saw! Can't you live your own life? Or do you have to live your life through me?"
"I live my own life thank you very much!"
"Yeah? Then how many girls asked about hooking up with you and not me?"
Blaise didn't answer.
"That's what I thought! Can't even get a girl on your own! Come to think of it, how many girls did you actually hook up with last year because all the ones I asked said you never showed up! Why is that?"
Still, Blaise didn't answer but instead turned a very deep shade of red.
"Don't tell me you're…" He said quietly and trailed off.
Draco couldn't take it. He got up and left and heard Blaise following him. Once they were both out of the Great Hall and up the first flight of stairs Blaise grabbed Draco's arm to stop him.
"Can I please explain?" Blaise asked.
Draco didn't say anything so he continued. "I did realize it last year. I didn't want to tell anyone so I thought that if I acted like I use to then people wouldn't be suspicious about me. Now I guess everyone knows." He let go of Draco's arm and started heading down the stairs.
"Sorry about yelling all of that back there." Draco said and watched Blaise give him a wave without looking back and continued down the stairs.
Draco's next class with Ravenclaw came and went. He returned to the Headroom and took a long, hot shower. When he came out of the bathroom, in his towel and hair not slicked back and a few pieces just above his right eye again, Hermione was sitting on the bed in her white shirt with the top three buttons unbuttoned and school skirt still on with one leg crossed and the other hanging off the end of the bed. She was looking very good but she looked like she wanted to talk to him and he had a feeling he knew what she wanted to discuss.
He went to his dresser that was by the bathroom door and took out a pair of dark blue silk boxers.
"So, do you want to talk about what happened during lunch?" He asked.
"That'd be a good place to start."
"So, what do you want to know?" He looked at her.
"What was Blaise talking about? What did he see exactly? And what did you say to him that made you leave? You said it too quietly for anyone to hear and it looked like he didn't even say anything to you."
"I guess he saw me looking at you after you touched me with you leg. And yeah, he didn't say anything to me and that's why I had to leave because what he said in his silence just shocked the hell out of me." He paused.
"What?" She asked.
"He followed me up the stairs and he came out to me."
"What did you do?"
"I apologized for yelling at him and he just waved and left. I didn't know what else to do. He said he didn't want anyone to know and he's been like that since last year."
"Wow." She said with a slight smile on her face.
"This isn't a laughing matter Granger." Draco said annoyed and sat on the same side of the bed as her while still in his towel.
"I know. I'm sorry. It's just, well, never mind."
"Don't tell me you had a thing for Blaise?"
"No! Definitely not. But I know someone who will be happy to hear about him."
"Who?"
"I'm not telling you."
"Why not? I've told you plenty about me and now my friend, which by the way you better not go spreading around."
"I'd never do that. Do you mind changing the subject now?"
"Not at all. How about we talk about you and Potter?"
"I think we better pick another subject."
"Why? I think this one will do. What is going on between you two? And I don't want any lies."
She sat there looking at him. Finally she spoke. "Why do you care so much?"
"Because I want to know if things like what happened in Potions can happen again."
"Well it can't."
"Why not?"
"Because Harry and I are pretending to be going out and if I start doing things with you in public people will know that Harry and I aren't going out."
"Why are you pretending to be going out with him?"
"Because that's what he wants."
"That sounds pretty stupid if you ask me. Why does he need to pretend to be going out with someone?" He stopped and thought about it. "Unless he's gay."
"I'm done talking about this." She said, walked over to her dresser that is across form the foot of the bed, and started taking her shirt off then threw it to the ground. Next she pulled out a black tank top and put it on then took off her skirt and put on black shorts. She did all that fully knowing that Draco was watching her.
She walked back to Draco and got in the bed and had her legs touching his backside from under the sheets. "Can you start a fire?" She asked in a small voice.
"Sure." Draco got up and took his wand to start a fire in the fireplace at the other side of the room.
After it was going he put a spell on it to dim the light but keep the same amount of heat then he put his boxers on and got in the other side of the bed. This time he fell asleep facing her. Did I just ruin what little friendship we had? This isn't going to do. I have to fix this.
"Hermione?" He whispered.
"Yeah?"
"I'm sorry for the position you're in. It must be hard."
"It is."
"I'll do whatever I can to help you."
"What do you mean by that? What could you do to help?"
"I can talk to Blaise and have him talk to Harry."
"Okay. That'd be good. Hey Draco?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you know how much time we have before He Who Must Not Be Named will attack us?"
"No. I've never actually seen him. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, no reason." She sounded sad. In the faint light from the fireplace he could see a tear fall down Hermiones face.
A/N: Sorry, I ran into some writer's block on this chapter. What could Hermione be so worried about that would make her cry? When is Voldemort going to attack? Will Blaise agree to talk to Harry? A/N2: Sorry about the gay thing, I know not everyone is into it but I was thinking about a friend of mine that's out and I really miss him because he moved away (but not because he came out, he's going to a university down there), so I thought I'd throw that in there for him. The story won't be focused on that so don't worry.
