More Surprises

Hermione had slept well, and now she was wake and alert. She was looking forward to seeing Draco, she brushed her hair until it shined and tried to look her very best. Excitement swelled in her chest, she had to restrain herself from running to the Great Hall.

Draco, on the other hand, slept like crap. He was laying with his head on his arm, Pansy had yelled at him in the Slytherin common room almost all night and then even threatened to go into his dormitory if he didn't talk to her. He sat, dozing off, while Pansy screamed. She called Hermione so many dirty names that Draco couldn't remember them all. She had screamed that he was supposed to date her because she was a Slytherin not Hermione because she was a Gryffindor. But it hadn't convinced him, it just pissed him off. He had yelled back that it didn't matter what house they were in, just if they atleast liked each other. Which they did very much. Then he stormed off, Pansy pretended like she was going to walk in but he locked the door with a spell. She spent the night camped out infront of the door, yelling things every now and then.

Hermione walked up to him quietly, she laid her hands gently on Draco's shoulders and kissed his cheek. He hadn't expected it to be Hermione, so he snapped around already yelling. "Pansy I told you last night that I... Oh, hi Hermione." He pulled her towards him and kissed her affectionately.

"Pansy?" She asked, she had a faint smile on her lips but she was willing to hear what he had to say.

"Yea, she's being... difficult." Draco didn't want to unload on Hermione incase she thought that their relationship was too much for him or something stupid like that. He didn't want to ruin this. "But whatever, if worst comes to worst I'll just spell her." He laughed, she laughed too.

"That wouldn't be very nice," Hermione smiled, she didn't really care if he was mean to Pansy.

"Well I'm not a very nice person now am I?" Draco smiled evily, he leaned in and kissed her.

"That remains to be seen." Hermione whispered in his mouth. He pulled back with a mischievious grin.

"You want to see how not nice I can be?" Draco smirked, it was his trade mark smirk.

Hermione leaned back on the table as if she didn't care. "I don't think you can do it." She fought not to smile, she enjoyed the teasing that probably would lead to other things.

"Oh, you really think so?" He said, he grabbed the back on her head and pulled her into a deep kiss. He kissed so forcefully that it stole her breath away. She tried to match his enthusiasm but she couldn't find the intensity that he had. When he pulled back she was dazed and disoriented. "How was that?"

"Weak," She said, although her words were slightly slurred from the high that came as an aftermath.

Draco sat stunned, "Weak? Well I'm at the wrong angle. Yup, can't do anything from here." He moved so that he was straddling the bench, she moved so that she mirrored him. "Now I can work my magic." They both laughed at the play on words.

Draco grabbed head again and kissed her shockingly more forcefully then before. She was drowning in pleasure of the kiss, he nibbled on her bottom lip and it sent a shiver of pleasure through her spine. His tongue thoroughly explored her mouth, he tasted like speariment. She liked speariment. Draco's hands moved to her sides, and messaged her hips. Hermione gave herself over to the kiss. It seemed like an eternity but it was only a few moments when Draco pulled back. He had a smug knowing smile.

Hermione slumped down, she was basking in the glow. She sat for a few second unable to speak and then she said, "Better, but not good enough." She laughed, standing, pecked him on the lips, and then went to her house table. Hermione looked over her shoulder shooting him a look that chilled him down to his toes, 'God, she's perfect.' He thought. Draco was rejuvinated from his encounter with Hermione, he was all smiles and quick remarks again.

Pansy and Ron walked in, they were whispering excitedly together. They broke apart, it had been a show for both Hermione and Draco but they had missed it being so absorbed in the other one's eyes. Ron sat down next to Hermione and smiled.

"Hi Hermione. How are you this morning?" He gave her a smile but she could see the faint twitch like it had been forced. Across the hall she heard Pansy doing something similar. 'They're working together, well this will be interesting.' She thought, she decided to play along. Draco shot her a look that said I'm not fooled, are you? Hermione shook her head and Draco nodded.

"Fine thanks. And yourself?" Hermione asked, she was just as cheerful. Ron smiled thinking that his plan to get on her good side again was working.

"Oh, I'm terrific. You know Pansy, from Slytherin. Well it turns out that she's like me for quite sometime, she asked me out yesterday evening. Isn't that wonderful?" Ron said, again Hermione could see his forced cheerfulness. He hated Pansy, and even if she liked him, which was highly doubtful, he would ever say yes just to save her feelings. Hermione smiled a knowing smile, but Ron was too distracted by his goal to see that she had peiced it together already.

"Oh that's wonderful Ron! So I'm guessing that you'll want to spend loads of time together and always want to be with her, right? I mean you two are dating, and it would be the proper thing to do." Hermione said, she watched Ron's face fall.

"What? Spend loads of time with Pansy? I mean... Yes, yes of course. Loads of time..." He mumbled the last part realizing that he'd have to actually spend time with her to make their plan work.

"I'm so glad! I mean you guys make the perfect couple, absolutely wonderful!" Hermione clapped her hands together. She grabbed a peice of bacon and put it in her mouth. "Well I have to go to the library, I really have to study for transfiguration." She smiled and left, Draco followed her example just less smoothly. He simply told Pansy that something had come up and he needed to leave. Both Ron and Pansy thought that they had left because they were bothered by the fact of Ron and Pansy's 'relationship'.

Hermione waited outside of the Great Hall, once Draco came out she slipped her hand into his and they went off to the owlery together. "Well I never thought that Ron would take it this far." Hermione said as they walked. Draco nodded.

"I always knew that Pansy was... determined, but I didn't know that she'd date Weasly just to try to get back at me." Draco said, he was going to say something mean about Ron but then stopped himself. Hermione and Ron were still friends, and it was against the rules to bash your girlfriend's best friend. Unless he did something wrong, then you could bash them all you wanted to.

Hermione groaned, "God, they are so immature." They entered the owlery, Draco hugged Hermione around the waist. Their lips met for a second and then she pulled away. "So, would you like to redeem yourself for your earlier lacking qualities?" Hermione smiled a wicked smile.

"Yes, and I will prove that I am a badass." Draco said, their lips met. They seemed to want to pass through the other one how close they were, anyone looking in wouldn't know where one started and the other one stopped. But they didn't care, right now they were the world to each other.

In the Great Hall Pansy walked up to the Gryffindor table, Ron had an annoyed look. "About this whole, 'Let's make Hermione and Draco jealous' thing. What exactly do we have to do?" He didn't want to have any intimate contact with Pansy, she disgusted him.

Pansy gave him a determined look, "Whatever it takes. I want Draco eating out the palm of my hand, begging me to stop dating you and take him back." Ron was slightly frightened by the look Pansy gave him.

"I was afraid of that." Ron gulped loudly. Pansy glared at him.

"I don't want to do this anymore then you do, Weasly." Her voice had started to raise, but she stopped and smiled. "But, hunny bun, we have to." Ron was now very frightened.

"Fine, but we'll only kiss when Hermione and Malfoy are around." He said, he wanted as little contact as humanily possible. Maybe a continent would be good, two just to be safe.

"No, other people have to believe it too. We can't have people telling either Draco or Granger that we hate each other when they aren't around. If we're going to do this, we have to do this right." Pansy gave him another look, that said he better agree or he wouldn't be having many children in the future.

Ron saw Harry walking in, he wanted Pansy to leave but then thought better. "Here comes Harry, kiss me." Ron said quickly. Pansy hesitated but then kissed him.

Ron expected Pansy's lips to be rough and revolting but he was pleasently surprised. Her lips were soft like flower pelts. Ron forgot himself for a second and kissed Pansy for real. She jerked away with a look of disgust but then covered it quickly with a smile. "Bye Ron." She said quietly and then nearly ran into Harry. "Oh, excuse me Harry." She giggled and left. Harry stared at her as if he'd never seen her before.

"What was that about?" Harry asked sitting down. He was very confused, Hermione dating Malfoy, Ron now kissing Pansy. The world was turning upside down.

"Oh haven't you heard? I'm dating Pansy now, she's really sweet." Ron said taking a bite out of an egg. He knew that he should be revolted by calling Pansy sweet but strangely he wasn't.

"Oh... okay, that's cool." Harry said slowly, he was still totally lost.

Ron looked over the Great Hall at Pansy, she was laughing with a friend. 'She's really pretty when she laughs... wait! What? Where did that come from?' Ron had to get away from Pansy, he excused himself mumbling something about bad egg and left. Pansy watched him leave in confusion, she had a distraught look on her face.