How To Correctly Break Rules
By: NefariousImp
AN: Thanks for all the reviews, It's very encouraging. Makes me want to hurry up the chapters.
Chapter Three: The Plan
Two Months later:
Hermione and Draco had spent every second they could in the common room together. Telling everyone it was Head buisness. He was going crazy. It had been two months and they had only kissed. He hadn't even been allowed to grope her. He'd never gone so long without sex. But he wasn't about to cheat on her. But he didn't even know what they were. She barely admitted that she liked him.
Once again Hermione came down the stairs from her room to see Draco in his familiar spot on the couch playing with his wand again.
"What do you want to say to me, Draco?" She sighed sitting across from him. He looked up at her.
"What are we?" He asked softly. She smiled.
"What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean. It's been two months and I don't feel like I'm any closer to getting you than the first day."
"We are though. I see you now."
"Yeah, but what are we? Are you my girlfriend? Do you even like me or do you just have a hard time telling me no when I'm close to you. I don't want this to be just about hormones. I'm tired of hiding how I feel about you from everyone. Especially you." She grinned.
"You call that hiding it?" He rolled his eyes. "I do like you. It isn't just the hormones and if you want I would love to be your girlfriend." His eyes lit up and he jumped over the coffee table and pulled her into a furious kiss. He moaned as she pulled away from his lips.
"Took you long enough. Never met anyone who could resist me for this long." He smirked at her. "So, wanna shag?" She laughed.
"You aren't as irresistible as you may think, Mister. Tell you what. Let's start out slow. I'm still not ready, but when I am you'll be the very first to know." He groaned but looked up at her and got a mischievious smirk on his face.
"So, what am I allowed to do?" He raised his hand to her breast and brushed his thumb over her nipple. Her knees almost buckled on her. "Maybe this? Or this?" He ran his finger down her stomach to the apex of her thighs and brushed lightly against the material of her jeans. She resisted the strong urge to grind herself on his finger. Her sex was tingling and felt like she was clenching trying to pull the finger through the material of her jeans to be inside her.
"Ohhh, that's..." she panted but struggled to clear the fog that had rolled across her mind. "We have class, Potions,...Snape. Can't be..." She surrendered and pulled his head to hers and kissed him fervently. The finger that was still on her jean covered sex rubbed harder and she lost the battle to grind against him.
"Ahem!" A cough was heard from the door. The seperated so fast that Draco flew back catching the back of his knees on the coffee table and flipping over it to land face first with his head in the floor and his legs on the couch. Hermione, who had just fallen in the chair stared at the intruders.
Harry, Ron, and Ginny were standing there. Staring at them. They took in Draco's graceful fall and all three started laughing. Hermione looked back over only to see Draco's ass and legs up on the couch and his head hidden under the coffee table. She started to laugh as well.
"Bloody Hell, that was brilliant! Seeing you guys kiss was definitly worth getting to see Malfoy going ass-over-tea kettle." Ron said between laughs. Draco pulled himself up and glared at the interrupting trio.
"I was having the best bloody snog of my life with my girlfriend and I wish to continue! So, sod off, will you!" They stopped laughing. Each of them had different looks on their faces. Hermione's was a sweet look at the way he had declared her his girlfriend. It being his best snog didn't hurt either.
Ginny had an 'aww how cute' face on, while Harry looked resigned with a hint of understanding.
But Ron's face turned red and he started to protest.
"You're his girlfriend? He's our enemy...well, maybe, not so much but still. Did you even stop and think before you said yes, or just go straight to the snogging?"
"Actually, Ronald, not that's it's any of your business, but I asked him. And we've been snogging since the day after our truce. So, as Draco put it, sod off. I don't have to defend myself to anyone. And if our lives weren't on the line the whold damn school would know it too." Rons face got redder.
"Well, why don't you just have Malfoy tell everyone he's pretending to go out with you to shag you then dump you! Two birds with one stone. You guys get to shag all you want and everybody gets to think you're a whore!" Hermione gasped.
Ginny screeched and punched his arm but Draco crossed the space between them and punched him in the jaw. Ron fell on his as with a busted lip.
"Harry? Are just going to stand there and let him hit me?" Ron asked. Harry glared at him.
"Yeah, I am. And if you weren't my best friend I'd pop you one. That was totally uncalled for." Draco was breathing deeply and stood over him with clenched fists and eyes that were almost white with fury.
"You ever talk to her like that again and I'll rip your arms off. You had no right to say something like that to her. All we've done is kissed. Nothing more. She doesn't deserve to be treated like that. Now, get out of my Common Room." Ron looked at Hermione. She was standing there with her lower lip in her teeth trying not to cry.
"Mione, I'm..." she put up her hand.
"Just go. I'll see you at breakfast." She said and walked up the stairs to her room, slamming the door.
Ron stood up looked at the other three before sighing and leaving.
Draco relaxed and went to sit down. Harry and Ginny sat on the couch facing him.
"Draco?" Ginny said quietly. He looked up at her. "If it makes you feel better, I'm really happy for you." He smiled at her and nodded.
"Thanks, She-Weasel, I mean, Ginny. It does make me feel better. Would you go check on her?" She smiled and went up the stairs, disappearing into Hermione's room.
"You really love her, don't you." Harry said staring at Draco.
"Just now catching on? Even with the Veritaserum you still didn't believe me?"
"I did, but it was like I had to see it to believe it. Oh, thanks for punching Ron for me. I really did want to hit him." Draco laughed.
"Yeah, but that idea he threw out there does have some merit. You know, other than the whole make Hermione look like a slut thing."
"Yeah, but maybe..." Harry stopped. "Maybe there's a way. I mean you act all coupley in public and stuff like real girlfriend and boyfriend and tell everyone you're trying to get her in bed but that she hasn't given it up yet. Like she's a real challenge."
"Well it would be true." Draco laughed again. Harry smiled.
"Don't rush her, Malfoy. We both know she's worth the wait."
"Yeah, now if I can just convince my dick of that. It's starting to rebel."
"Well, it better not cheat on her or I'll take it out on you." Harry glared at him.
"There's only one flaw to that plan. If I'm Hermione's boyfriend her bodyguards won't be too happy about it."
"Well, that's obvious, well, with Ron anyway. But if we are really her friends we'd let her make her own choices. I know I'd eventually get over it, still hate you but I'd get over it. Hey, can I ask you a question?"
"Sure, we are friends now." Harry grinned.
"Never thought I'd hear that from you. It's still weird." Draco nodded. "But I was wondering, what do you think of Ginny? I can't really talk about her with Ron. He'd have a coronary thinking I was trying to get in his sisters knickers."
"And are you?" Draco smirked.
"Well, I'm not adverse to the idea by any means but not at this point in time. I think I like her and I think she likes me. I know second year she had a crush on me, but I was still too young to look at girls like that I think. And she was my best friends little sister."
"Ah, in that case, I think you should go for it. And don't worry about Weasely, like you said, if he's really your friend..." Draco trailed off with a smile.
Meanwhile:
"Hermione?" Ginny said coming into her bedroom. The brunette was curled up on her bed crying. Ginny sat down beside her and stroked her hair.
"You know my brother is a dumb-ass, right?" Hermione nodded. "You know he used to like you right?" Hermione nodded again. "Well, you know that Draco was his biggest enemy like two months ago. This is a big thing for him. And all of those things combined will make it to where he has a harder time to adjust to this. But give him time, he'll come around." Hermione sniffed and nodded again.
"Hermione? Would you let me play with your hair a little? I'd love to see if I can tame it." Hermione sat up and looked at her.
"I guess, my conditioner only does so much." she said smoothing the bushy hair out of her face.
"I'm disappointed in you. You are the Head girl and yet you still think like a muggle. You are a witch. Use a straightening or a curling charm on it. Here, see?" She pointed her wand at Hermione's hair and whispered a spell.
Hermione's hair went strait as a board but was still soft and silky. The ends were slightly uneven, but gave it some flare. Her hair was kinda thick, and went down to her mid back. The carmel and mahogany colors of her hair made it even more beautiful.
"God, Hermione! I didn't realize your hair was so pretty! Oh! Make up and clothes! You are gonna knock Draco off of his broom this afternoon!"
"Broom?"
"Yeah, there's a Quidditch match in about two hours, Slytherin and Gryffindor. So, what do you have in the way of clothes?" She said going to her closet and pulling open the doors. "Oh, look at this! Hermione Granger has a pair of leather pants!"
"My Aunt Marie has a leather pants fetish and she bought those for me for my birthday."
"Well, you are wearing them today. And this shirt!" She pulled out a tight, white buttonup dress shirt. She put on the clothes. The shirt was short enough that it barely skimmed the top of the leather pants and if she moved at all it showed her midriff. She buttoned it up but Ginny stopped her and unbuttoned the top three buttons so that she had a hint of cleavage.
"Always, leave something to the imagination. All they want to do is get in them faster." Ginny said with a grin. "Makeup!"
Ginny pulled Hermione's rarely used makeup bag out of the closet. She put on some light foundation to give her a smoother complextion, a light dusting of charchol eye-shadow and Mascara.
Ginny didn't put any eyeliner on her. She was going for the whole fresh and innocent but sultry look and eyeliner seemed to take away from the innocent look.
She pulled out some berry colored lipstick and smoothed it on her lips before covering it with a shiny clear gloss.
Hermione picked out her own shoes. She picked out a pair of black chuncky-heeled dressboots.
After she had everything on she looked in the mirror. The girl staring back at her with wide eyes and a look of shock on her face couldn't have been her.
Hermione Granger could never be the gorgeous girl staring back at her. She slowly smiled.
"Yep, I do believe we should put an extra cushioning charm on the Quiditch field." Hermione smiled at herself in the mirror.
Ginny left, Hermione was going to hide in her room until the Quidditch game.
Ginny walked down the steps into the Common Room to see Draco and Harry talking.
"Hey, is she alright?" Draco asked.
"She's fine, she also has a surprise for you. But you can't have it till after the game. She says to go on to the game and you'll see her in the stands. She wants to be alone for a while."
"Well, we think we have a plan." Harry said. "What Ron said was mean but it gave us an idea. Draco's gonna start telling everybody that he's gonna try to seduce Hermione. He's gonna do the whole boyfriend thing, but make it clear to everyone else that she's only a conquest.
"However as time goes by he's gonna find out that Hermione ain't giving it up. He'll tell everyone she's a bigger challenge than he thought but it only makes him more determined. This way, she's not called a whore or made fun of, well as much.
"Pansy might be a problem, but who cares. This way they have their relationship in the open but it keeps them safe. And as if we were really Hermione's friends we would support her in her decision. Still hate him, but support her."
"Harry, that's a great idea! I'll tell Hermione when we go to the game. And I'll tell Ron right now. He better not be a jack-ass about it. I'm gonna go get ready for the game. Good luck, boys." She said and breezed out of the room.
She went to the Gryffindor common room and saw Ron sitting alone by the fire.
"Ron? You okay?" she asked sitting next to him.
"Yeah, they really are together aren't they?" he asked sadly.
"Yup, and if you were really her friend you'd support her, no matter what she decided. Can you do that?"
"Yeah, don't like it much, but he is different."
"Good! Then this plan might get pulled off."
"What plan?" Ron asked suspiciously.
"Your plan of course. You know, the one you screamed at her right before Draco decked you."
"What? You can't be serious!"
"Yep, but it's a little different. They are going to go out in public but Draco's going to spread the rumors that he's just trying to get another conquest. Only thing is, he doesn't realize that Hermione is a bigger challenge than he thought. And he'll tell his friends that she won't give it up, but this just makes him want her more. So, she keeps her pride and nobody can call her a WHORE!" She raised her voice on the last word and putting the accusation in it.
He cringed.
"Is she really sore at me?"
"A little, but I think she knows you just need to calm down and think about it for a while and that you'll come around eventually. So, what do you say? Can we help them get together in public?"
"We hate him. How is this gonna work? Everybody knows that we'd never let her go out with him. And we'd beat him to a bloody pulp."
"Yeah, but this is where that whole 'If we're really her friends we'd support her' thing comes in. We can still act like we hate him but tone it down around her."
"That might work. So, when is this plan going into motion?"
"It's definitly going to begin tonight. Harry and Draco don't know that yet. And Hermione doesn't know about the plan yet, I'm going to tell her at the game. Speaking of which we need to get ready for. Good luck, tonight." She kissed his cheek and ran up the stairs to get ready.
Draco hovered high above the field on his broom, scanning the crowd for his bushy-haired girlfriend. He couldn't see her in the crowd.
He frowned and flew lower so he could see her. But she was nowhere to be found. He gave up the pretense and flew to the stands where she should be sitting beside Ginny.
"Hey, She-Weasel, where's the Mudblood?" he sneered. Ginny grinned and looked at the girl beside her. Draco followed her eyes to the beautiful brunette.
And fell off his broom.
As he shook his head to make the world stop spinning he heard the crowd of Gryffindors laughing at him. He looked up and glared at them.
Getting back on his broom he flew back up two the two girls. Harry was already there on his broom near them.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry practically growled at him. Draco looked over at Hermione. Who pretended to glare at him. He gave her the once over and smirked.
"I was just going to tell Granger that she looked absolutely smashing, is all." With a smirk and a wink, he took off, leaving the Gryffindors around her in shock and the girl herself with a small smile and a dark red blush.
She started to panic.
He was going to give everything away and they wouldn't be safe!
Ginny, who hadn't had time to fill her in yet, leaned over and whispered in her ear, telling her the plan.
Hermione relaxed and smiled widely. She looked at Harry and he shrugged with a smile before flying off.
Throughout the whole game she couldn't take her eyes off of Draco. She was rooting for Harry and Draco. They saw the golden snitch at the same time and took off after it.
Draco had never wanted that snitch more than he did right then. If he caught it he was going to give it to Hermione. He'd been telling the guys in the locker room about his plan to bed Hermione. He also told them that the usual tactics wouldn't work with her. He was actually going to have to woo her.
Plan or not he wanted the snitch for his girl and he was gonna get it.
Hermione had to grip the bench and bite her lips to keep from screaming out in triumph as Draco caught the snitch. Slytherin had won!
Draco was suddenly in front of her hovering on his broom with his fist stretched out to her. She looked at his fist and he opened it. Handing her the snitch.
"I caught it for you." He said.
She took it and smiled up at him.
Stupid, sweet boy, didn't he know she was gonna be hated by the rest of the Gryffindors for being the cause of losing the game?
At that moment, she didn't care.
TBC...
AN: I promise it will start to get steamier in the next chapter, I think two months without even foreplay is enough, Don't you? Hermione might be waiting for him after the game.