Hi guys! How are you all? I'm back with a new chapter! Yay! Merry Christmas! What did you all get? Anything exciting? WELL! I got quite a few random things but the BEST thing was….drum roll…Trixie (my gorgeous border collie dog!) had 5 puppies 3 days before Christmas! I was up all night because she started giving birth at 4 in the morning! yawns it was awesome though! I hope we can keep one but who knows! AND! There's this little runt of the litter called Pew…and she's just sooo adorable! Did I mention that all the puppies are female! My dad was joking with my mum saying, 'Now there's 4 males in the family-budgie (Nibbles), Fish (Bucks), my bro, and dad, and 9 females! (my sis), me, mum, Trixie and an extra bunch of 5 puppies! (Nancy, Pew, Blossom, Daisy, and Jess!)
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Lesson to Learn Underwater
Hermione quickly ate her dinner while talking to Pansy and Ginny.
"So are you going to go and get it by yourself?" Ginny asked, concern filling her voice.
Hermione nodded and scowled at Draco's back, who was sitting on the other side of the campfire with Blaise, while Harry and Ron were sitting nearby, away from the girls.
"I always knew Draco was a git, but I never thought he'd be so stupid!" Pansy remarked.
Hermione turned to her, giving her a curious look. "Why aren't you sticking up for Malfoy?"
Pansy gave her a look like, 'are you stupid or something?' "Come ON, Granger. He took your diary for god's sakes! If he ever did that to me I'd kill him! A girl's diary is her best friend!" she explained.
"Exactly! All our secrets about what we're feeling-" Ginny said.
"Who we like-" Pansy butted in, smirking at Ginny who blushed.
"Who we think is hot-" Hermione smiled, closing her eyes for a few seconds, thinking of Tom Felton (who she suddenly realised had a close resemblance to Draco Malfoy. She'd have to check that one out when she had the time.)
"Who we don't think is hot-" Pansy shuddered, picking up a squashed bean on her fork and cringing at it before flicking it behind her head.
"Everything!" Hermione finished, letting out a big sigh before staring off into the distance.
"So, go and get it back ok? Do you want us to come with you down there?" Ginny asked, patting Hermione on the knee.
Hermione shook her head. "I packed a few pairs of stick-on gills which will work for an hour underwater, so I'll leave them nearby in case I need your help ok? But I don't want you guys getting in any danger and it won't take me long to dive down and get it, so don't worry!" She smiled.
Pansy and Ginny looked at each other and knew that they would have to stay up and make sure Hermione got back in one piece. But that's when something occurred to Pansy.
"We're not the only ones who are going to be waiting for you…" she purred, before jumping up and grabbing Draco by the shirt, dragging him over to the shocked Hermione.
"Hey! Watch the shirt!" Draco shouted, but stopped his complaining as he saw the angry look that all three girls were sending in his direction. 'I swear…if I wasn't a sex god I would be dead with the power of those glares by now,' he thought to himself.
"Wha…No way!" Hermione said quickly, realising what the girls wanted.
"Yes way!" Ginny retorted, pushing a flustered Draco towards Hermione. "HE chucked it in the lake, so HE can wait for you to come back as well! Or better yet! Go with you to get it!" And with that, Ginny smirked at the shocked look on Draco and Hermione's face.
"Never knew you could be so evil Weaslette," Draco noted, wiping the nervous look off his face to maintain his shrinking ego.
"No way! I'm not going under there with him!" Hermione yelled, standing up and ignoring the strange look Draco was giving her, like he was trying to read her, she stood up right close to him and poked him several times in the chest, hard.
"I'm doing it by myself! You'll get us both killed!" she added, and walked stiffly away from him, trying to cover the bright red blush that was covering her cheeks. And, as Pansy and Harry (who had just arrived with Ron and were silently watching the scene, Harry holding Ron back) watched Hermione walk away, they both looked over at each other and grinned, one thought passing between them, 'She blushed when she touched him. OBVIOUS CHEMISTRY!'
"Let's go help her get ready," Pansy said to Ginny, breaking eye contact with Harry, before both girls went up to Hermione and Pansy's tent to help Hermione get ready.
"Bloody hell," Ron muttered, giving Blaise a glare. "Don't tell me you two were idiots AGAIN! What the hell are you up to?" Ron asked Blaise and Draco suspiciously.
"Who, us?" Draco answered innocently, placing his hand on his chest before looking at Blaise.
"He thinks we're up to something! Should we get him?" Blaise asked Draco, punching his hands together before both boys turned to the now quivering Ron who was hiding behind Harry.
"Ok…we get the point but we're keeping an eye on you two," Harry said suspiciously, before he sighed at the shaking Ron behind him.
Harry then turned away with his arm around Ron, mumbling to him, "You really have to toughen up mate. They're just a measly bunch of Slytherins."
But Ron only mumbled a reply which had some of the following words that Harry could understand, "Idiot…poof…god damn mummy's boy…twisting my sister's mind…payback coming…"
Behind them, Blaise and Draco began to plan their next dares for both of them.
"Ok! So you know what you have to do down there right? There aren't going to be any monsters or anything so you'll just have to get down there and do your bit, ok?" Blaise asked Draco.
"Yeah…not that I really want to be down there and wet and everything, but I guess it'll impress the Mudblood. And you, you're going to have the whole 'romantic' scene with little Weasel and that bloody animal right?" Draco cringed.
Blaise grinned. "Of course! Let the next dare begin! Evil to the end!" Blaise cheered.
"Are you ready?" Pansy asked, handing Hermione her pair of stick-on gills.
Hermione smiled at Pansy and gave her a quick hug. "Thanks. I'll only be gone for a little while. I never knew you could be so nice!" She grinned.
Pansy smirked. "He took your diary for god's sake!"
"I'll miss you!" Ginny shouted, tears pouring down her cheeks as she grabbed Hermione's hands in her own.
Hermione rolled her eyes and peeled her hands away from Ginny before giving her a hug. "I'll only be gone for a little while! Sheesh people! I'm just going to get my diary, it's ok! And if anything happens, well, you guys can blow the whistle ok?" Hermione soothed, patting the girls on the back.
Harry and Ron quickly ran up to Hermione and gave her a giant hug.
"You sure you don't want us to-" Harry started.
"I'll be fine! A girl needs to face her fears and get back the one treasure that belonged to her!" Hermione smiled and patted them on the back before sticking the gills on both sides of her neck. She waited until she could feel a tingling feeling where the gills were placed, and then she dived in the water, in only her light blue bikini.
Ron, Harry, Pansy and Ginny watched as Hermione's figure faded away under the water as she swam deeper and further towards the middle of the water.
"Where the hell are Blaise and Draco?" Ginny asked suddenly.
"Who knows…" Harry replied vaguely, his eyes glued to where he hoped and prayed that Hermione would appear again. 'Why the hell did I let her go in by herself?' he thought. 'Oh yeah…women and their egos…'
"Ok! I'm ready!" Draco whispered excitingly, making sure his silky green boxers were in place, his gills in check, before smoothing back his hair to make sure it looked sexy enough.
"Good! Go get em buddy!" Blaise patted him quickly on the back and the two shared a last trademark smirk before Draco saluted Blaise and with one last wink, dived into the water to follow Hermione.
A few seconds later, Blaise ran over to Pansy and the others and they all gave him a suspicious look.
"Let me guess. Draco's gone after Hermione?" Pansy asked.
"Are they going to sort out some of their problems now?" Harry asked gravely.
"Let's hope so!" Blaise replied then quickly looked at Harry.
"ARGH! We're agreeing on something!" They shouted at each other, and both quickly fled in the opposite direction. Where they were heading, only the random birds in the trees nearby will know.
Hermione opened her eyes and took her first breath through her gills underwater. What lay ahead, she didn't know, but surely in this massive lake there wouldn't be any monsters right?
'Hermione! Snap out of it! Just find the diary for goodness sake and get out of here!' she thought to herself, and looked around her and realised she was surrounded by underwater wildlife. The surface was long gone by now, and she was alone, it was dark and she didn't even bring a light! How the hell was she going to see? She knew for sure that she should have brought a light when she whacked her head against a large rock.
'OW!' she silently cried, rubbing her head before continuing to swim downwards. 'Note to self. Try not to smash head against large rocks. Not good for head.'
She saw large fish swim around her, small fish, all different types of colours, and she couldn't believe the amount of fish that lived down here!
She continued swimming for a few minutes, wondering how long she had been down here, but the bottom looked soo far away, bottomless even, that she felt that she should just give the whole thing up.
That's when it hit her like when you suddenly find a split hair and you realise what you must do. Take it out!
She was not alone.
Her hairs tingled on the back of her neck and she turned her head slowly around…only to be faced with endless amounts of empty water, getting steadily darker, and as she noticed, no more fish.
Something wasn't right and she knew it.
She felt cold, even colder then she felt in the water, and she knew that something was breathing on her leg.
'ARGH! GET AWAY!' she thought frantically.
She started to swim a little faster, gaining speed, but knew that whatever the thing was, it was gaining speed as well, and quickly catching up to her.
That's when she saw it. Her diary! For some reason it was glowing a light green colour, way, way…down at the bottom of the lake, but for some reason, it didn't look all that far away.
She made a swim for it, swimming quickly towards her diary and knew that she only had about 15 minutes until the gill time ran out and then she'd have to hold her breath, so she'd have to be fast.
That's when it grabbed her leg. You see…it had been following her for a while now, watching her swim deeper and deeper into the lake, and it had waited to strike. It was hungry and this would be the first big meal that it would have for a while.
Hermione screamed as the two large pairs of teeth dug into her leg, but her scream came out as a few measly gurgling sounds.
She turned around and stared in horror at what was holding her.
It was huge! It had three eyes, a large body, fins as back legs, large arms and claws for the front legs, and a long tail. And frankly, she could tell by the EVIL look in it's eye. It wanted to EAT HER!
Hermione scrambled away, ripping the claw along her leg in the process, but at least she was free for now.
She clenched her eyes and swallowed, ignoring the fainting feeling that was washing over her. Her body was tired and all she wanted to do was get her darn diary and get the hell out of there.
She ignored her diary that was so close to her by now, and swam on, with the angry monster following her, rather slowly because it didn't want to eat her so quickly. Why not have a little fun with the food first, before eating?
Hermione saw a large hole in a rocky wall up ahead, and thought that hey! What bigger monster could be worse then this? So she swam on, quickly entering the dark cave, and came up for air, finding that the cave was like an air pocket in the lake. She was lucky this time!
She took a deep lung full of air before splashing through the water up onto a sandy shore into the cave. She ran out of the water then, water dripping off her shivering body, and her legs shaking uncontrollably because they had become very weak in the time that she had taken to swim down to the bottom of the lake.
'Who thought that a lake could ever be this deep?' she thought dryly. 'How am I going to survive this? And how am I going to get help? I don't even have the whistle on me! And even then, they wouldn't be able to hear me down here,' she thought miserably, and scrambled behind a nearby rock, when she heard a loud roar coming from the entrance of the cave.
The monster had found her, and it wasn't happy.
She peered over the cave, shivering from fright and the cold, and watched as the monster swam out of the water and began to walk up the shore.
And…it was holding something in it's HUGE mouth! Hermione's eyes widened as the diary glowed as it was being held lightly by the monster. 'It's got my diary! The evil pig!' she screamed to herself. And with that, she jumped out behind the rock and stood straight in front of it, and pulled out her wand from, well…use your imagination people! But she pulled it out so let's just leave it at that!
"Jentanando!" she shouted, and a fire beam shot out of the end of her wand and landed in the centre of the monsters chest.
Hermione's eyes widened. 'It's not having an effect on it!'
"Expelarntando!" A bright purple light shot and hit the monster that was walking closer to her, and she froze in fright, realising that her spells wouldn't work on this creature. It was too strong!
Hermione felt her legs weaken and she sank down onto her knees, tears falling down her cheeks as she looked up in pain at her diary still hanging in the monster's clutches.
"Please…someone help me…" she mumbled.
"Looking for some help chicky babe?" a cocky voice came from behind her and Hermione looked up weakly.
"I don't need your help Dra..." But her words were cut off as she saw what was actually speaking to her.
It was a young man, but it wasn't as well. To top half of it's body was a man, with dark olive coloured skin, dark brown-wet hair, chocolate coloured eyes and a cheeky smile, while the bottom half was well…a tail…scales and all! So you could only call him a-
"Never seen a merman in your life?" he asked, smirking down at her weak face, and a blonde haired boy's face flashed through Hermione's mind, making her feel funny inside.
"Help…please…" she mumbled and pointed at the monster behind her that was now looking even angrier at the pair.
The merman smirked. "Well, I'm Carlos. Nice to meet you, 'Help…please…'." He smiled and without looking at Hermione who had now slide onto the ground.
"Hermione…" she whispered before fading into unconsciousness.
Carlos placed his hands on his bottom half and mumbled words under his breath before a light engulfed him. A few seconds later a young man was standing there in his place, same merman…but with a pair of feet and wearing a tunic and breeches.
"Fine! Leave all the work to beaver!" He smirked and raised his hands at the angry monster, before shouting the words, "Selianta!"
A dark blue light shot out of his hands and hit the monster right where it was holding the diary, making it let the diary go and letting it drop into the water beneath it. The monster roared and gave the young merman-turned-man a death glare.
"What are you doing? Dumbledore didn't plan it like this!" it complained and ran forward and grabbed Hermione's small figure in its large claws.
Carlos growled. "He never said I couldn't finish this! Who said that bloody blonde haired git had to finish this? I want to!" he whined.
The monster growled and Carlos swore that he could see the darn bloody monstrosity of a thing rolling its eyes.
Carlos looked alarmed as Hermione remained unconscious in the monster's arms, and even worse, as the monster began to crush her with its massive claws.
"Give her back! No fair! I'm supposed to be the hero! And I'M supposed to have the damsel in distress by MY side!" Carlos complained, jumping up onto the monster's back, kicking it HARD in the shoulder blade before the monster dropped Hermione and she landed with a splash in the water.
"Don't drop her so hard either! Imagine what could have happened if there'd been a rock there! You would have given her permanent brain damage!" Carlos complained, jumping down to grab Hermione around the waist, and like some kind of kung fu martial artist, darted back to a safe position and dropped her carefully behind a rock.
The monster roared and rolled its eyes again. "Shut up! I'm not going to fight you!" it said stubbornly, crossing it's large claws over its chest. "I came to kill the girl and FIGHT a strong blonde haired MAN, not some brown haired idiot who uses stupid powers to change from being a merman to a man!" it roared.
Carlos sighed and looked up to the roof of the cave, as if praying for help in this desperate situation. "All I've ever wanted to do is beat a big monster like you, fall in love with the girl I save and live happily ever after with little mer-children till the end of time! Why are you ruining it for me? What'd I ever do to you?" Carlos whined.
"Are you going to keep whining like petty children or let macho men like me come in and save the day?" a certain blonde haired young man said cockily, coughing loudly before standing between the two angry creatures.
Carlos sniffed. "Petty human can't even turn up to a fight on time," he noted critically.
"Exactly! And here I was, wasting my energy on a stupid merman like this!" the monster retorted, sniffing as well.
Draco rolled his eyes. "Just fight me." He smirked and took his wand out in front of him, aiming it at the monster.
The monster grinned, if monsters can grin, and finally stopped rolling his eyes. "Exactly what Dumbledore planned," he snarled.
"What?" Draco asked, caught off guard at the mention of Dumbledore's name. "What's Dumbledore planning?"
The monster snarled and you could see that if there had been a big rock nearby, it would have knocked it's head against it for saying that out loud. Wait…there was. And the monster did just that, shaking the cave dangerously in the process.
"Just fight me! I'll find out from this jerk after," Draco shouted, jumping forward and shouting, "Delantando!"
A strong green flame came out and hit the monster straight in the forehead, knocking it back into the water.
Draco watched as the monster struggled to get up from it's position in the water, and in that few seconds of non-fighting, Draco looked over at the shocked Carlos.
"No one ever said you were that powerful…" Carlos acknowledged. "Maybe Dumbledore was right about you."
Draco raised his eyebrows and gave him a charming sex-god grin. "Thanks. Explain that all to me later. Where's the girl?" Draco asked, concern filling his voice and for some reason, it had suddenly become scared and nervous. This whole time he had been listening to these creatures fighting, he had forgotten about Granger! What sort of a hero was he? He felt guilty and what the hell? She could be dead by now!
Carlos and Draco quickly turned around and bent down beside Hermione's still, pale form. As Draco turned her over from her side position and gently brushed a few wet curls away from her face, he saw that her lips were turning blue, and she wasn't breathing.
"She's not breathing!" He breathed, and looked up at Carlos alarmingly. "What do I do?"
Carlos shoved him out of the way and put his hand under Hermione's head. "You need to revive her. It's time for the ultimate mouth to mouth," he noted gravely.
Draco's eyes widened as he saw Carlos leaning down towards Hermione's lips and before Carlos could touch lips with Hermione, Draco knocked him away.
"Get lost! I saved the girl! Go get your own!" he shouted, not exactly knowing where this sudden feeling of protectiveness was coming from.
"Calm down…sheesh…I was just kidding around," Carlos joked and sat a little distance away from the two.
Draco looked back at Hermione and took a deep breath before pressing his lips against her cold ones. With one hand he pushed on her stomach (narrowly missing the areas that were covered by her bikini cough dirty boy cough) while the other hand supported her head that was now leaning on his lap. Draco opened her mouth with his own and ignored the tingling feeling he felt in his stomach, instead, began to breath into her mouth, helping to bring oxygen back into her lungs.
After the longest minutes in his entire life, Draco let go of Hermione as unknown tears began to form in his eyes.
"She's dead! I blew it! I've failed the dare! Now Blaise is going to beat me!" Draco whined.
Carlos rolled his eyes. "Is that all you care about? Just these stupid dares?" Carlos sighed and rolled his eyes as he noticed that Hermione was moving against Draco's lap and that…from his own view…he could get a good look at Hermione's cleavage. Call him horny but come on! When had he seen such a beautiful human in his life before?
Draco sighed and looked down at Hermione one last time, patting her softly on the cheek, ignoring how her cheeks were noticeably warmer and to someone even one hundred metres away, you could see that little Hermione was very much alive.
"Mmm…strawberry smell…" Hermione mumbled, shifting closer into Draco's lap, stroking Draco's knee lightly with her hand.
Draco looked down quickly with shock, wiping his tears quickly away and stared at Hermione's very much alive face.
"You're alive…?" Draco mumbled, a blush suddenly coming to his cheeks as he realised that he had shed tears for a girl (well…more for the fact that he thought he'd lost the dare and Blaise was going to win, but she didn't need to know that!) who was very much alive!
Hermione sat up weakly and turned around to face Draco, her cheeks a healthy rosy pink as she touched her nose against his. Somehow, her thoughts had left her and she wasn't even thinking about what she was doing at that moment. And she definitely wasn't thinking about how she was mad at Draco and how she REALLY shouldn't have been near him at that moment because he was making her feel weak all over, not to mention that she was weak already.
"Did you save me…?" she asked weakly.
"Yeah…" Draco replied, staring into her eyes.
That's when Carlos jumped into gear! This is when Dumbledore told him he'd REALLY have to enter the scene, but stuff that! He had much more fun coming in earlier!
"He saved you! There's a witness over here!" Carlos said quickly, giving the shocked Draco a smirk before smiling at Hermione.
"Thanks." Hermione smiled.
"No worries…" Draco mumbled in reply, and stood up quickly with Hermione following closely behind. "I am the Hero! Thank you! Thank you!"
The monster suddenly roared and stood up, running angrily towards Draco. "Hey! Finish this you little brat!"
And Draco did. With a quick spell from his wand, the monster was sent flying back into the water and fortunately didn't return!
Somewhere else in the deep depths of the lake the monster was changing shape, into a small mouse! It swam quickly up to shore and ran onto the bank.
"Done, Dumbledore! He beat me and it didn't hurt a bit! How was my acting?" the mouse asked Dumbledore, who appeared as an image in front of it.
"Perfect. Here's your reward. Just as planned." Dumbledore smiled and handed the mouse a large block of cheese. "Never ending supply of cheese."
The mouse smiled.
"And if you see the young Carlos, tell him I want to speak to him please." Dumbledore added.
The mouse nodded and scurried away.
The image of Dumbledore disappeared and in it's place, a small flower, pink in colour, appeared.
BACK TO THE FLUFF!
Hermione looked over at Draco in shock. "You saved me…again…?" she asked shyly.
Draco grinned. "Of course! They don't call me a Sex God for nothing do they?" he asked cockily.
"What's that got to do with it? THIS is for saving me." Hermione grinned, and walked up to Draco and did the one thing she NEVER thought she would do in all these years at Hogwarts. She put her arms around his neck and gave him a hug. But of course, it took Draco a few seconds to realise what was happening before he put his arms on her waist.
A few moments later, Hermione let go and gave him a very evil look, but Draco was in ego land and didn't notice.
"And THIS is for taking MY diary!" Hermione shouted, and her voice began ringing around the cave, making Draco and Carlos cringe.
Hermione let go of him and poked him several times in the chest. "You arrogant prat!"
"ARGH!" Draco shouted, and looked at the small poke bruises under his ribs. "If that hasn't already left a mark, it will now!"
Then he grinned at Hermione and took a bow, and that was Carlos' cue to cheer for him. "But hey? That's women right? Moody 24/7!"
Hermione's eyes widened and she laughed, and sat down bringing Draco with her. "Shut up!" She grinned and Draco smirked.
Carlos sighed. "Ah…young love…ain't it just a sight for sore eyes?" he said tearfully.
Draco and Hermione looked up suddenly at Carlos. "Hey! We do NOT like each other!" they shouted.
"Sure…keep telling yourself that," Carlos replied smoothly.
Hermione blushed. Yeah, he had done some pretty horrible things to her over the years, but maybe he had changed? Maybe all this attention that he was giving her was true? He wasn't mucking around? Well only time would tell. For now she knew that she had to pay him back for taking her diary. And only one thing was going through her evil mind. 'Read HIS diary!
Hello people! Special dose of fluff for you! Ha ha ha…yes! The flirting has continued, to a certain extent if you call this flirting, but it's fluff none the less right? Hope you all liked it! And PLEASE! Review! I'd really like to make it to 100 so help me get there? As I've said MANY times, and I'm sorry, but there are over 4000 of you reading my story, and it'd be nice if you could read a review, so come on! Get off your butts and give me some ideas okies? Ha ha ha hugs for all
The next chapter you'll be seeing more chemistry between Hermione and Draco. And we will see what Draco has been writing in HIS diary, and why the hell Hermione's diary was glowing. And what the HELL is Dumbledore planning? Is he a loon or something? He could have got them all killed! Ah well! That's Dumbledore for you!
We will find out what Pansy and Harry are planning and why Pansy has actually become so nice all of a sudden. We will also find some more fluff between Blaise and Ginny and find out more about Carlos and why the hell he was in the cave TRYING to save Hermione in the first place! (Will there be some jealousy between Draco and Carlos with who shall win Hermione's heart? Wait and see!)
And I will also be having an animal in the next chapter! So far it's out of a tiger and a wolf but if you have any other ideas please give them to me!
And if you all have any other ideas of romance between any of the couples, let me know and I'll see what I can conjure up! Ha ha ha! Love you all to pieces! And thanks for all the reviews full of love and bubbliness so far!
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