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Chapter 7: Malfoy's Don't Have Fun

Draco woke up with the weirdest feeling. He had just had a dream that Hermione hugged him before going to bed. After shaking off the thought, he went into the bathroom to shower, brush his hair and teeth, and get ready for the day. By the time he was completely dressed, the sun had barely rose over the lake. Draco looked at the time next to his bed; it read 6:45am. Blimey he thought, what the hell am I suppose to do before breakfast?

Looking once more in the mirror, Draco made his way downstairs into the common room. Might as well make some coffee he thought. When he made his way to the kitchen he found most unexpected sight: Hermione Granger wearing [[short black pajama shorts with a pink clingy tank top.

She hadn't seemed to notice him, so he took it upon himself to observe her. He looked at Hermione up and down just as surprised as when he first walked in. Draco, more than anyone else, knew that it was possible for people to change. He indeed had to agree that Hermione wasn't the bookworm with absolutely no life anymore and that she had actually taken the time to focus on something other than her studies; more specifically, herself. No one, not even Draco Malfoy, could deny that Hermione Granger was stunningly beautiful.

Interrupting his train of thought, Hermione turned around and noticed that he was there. As she did so, Draco noticed that she had a full coffee pot in her hand. The memories from his dream he had the previous night flooded back to him and he came to the realization that he wasn't dreaming.

"G'morning" said Hermione smiling. "I know I said I would make you coffee, but I wasn't expecting you to be up so early, especially fully dressed," she added looking at him in his school uniform.

Draco couldn't help but wonder why she wasn't embarrassed about being in front of him with what she was wearing. It wasn't that her attire was revealing or inappropriate, no not at all; it was just that he could clearly remember how self conscious she was about this sort of stuff. This was the most skin Draco had ever seen of her.

"Well, I guess you could say I forgot you were gonna be making coffee. But no matter, even if I did remember I still would have woken up at the same time" Draco replied.

Hermione looked slightly crestfallen. "Oh…you forgot…" She slightly lowered the hand that had the pot of coffee and looked down at the floor. She was chewing on her bottom lip and had her brow furrowed. Seeing this, Draco felt like slapping himself in the face. Here he was thinking about how people could change, and he couldn't even bring himself to appreciate what she had done for him so early in the morning.

Wanting to make things right as soon as possible, Draco walked around the counter and in front of Hermione. He took the coffee pot from her hand and lifted her chin. "I was just joking Granger, I remembered. I wanted to get up early to make us breakfast."

"Breakfast! Really? What are we having?" she said excitedly, clearly no longer sad.

"You'll see, go pour us a cup of coffee and I'll get started."

Hermione nodded with a simple "ok" and took the mugs into the common room. As soon as she left, Draco did something he rarely did: he panicked. He had no idea what to make. He didn't even know what the kitchen had in stock. Searching the cabinets, he decided on the simplest things he could find which were…waffles!

He took some waffles and toasted them with his wands. He then quickly got plates and found raspberry syrup. The waffles were then topped off with whipped cream and actual raspberries. I can't believe I'm doing this Draco thought while working, I don't even do this for myself, why am I doing it now? I must really feel bloody guilty to be serving breakfast to a mud-…a mud-…a mudbl-…DAMN! I CAN'T EVEN SAY IT!

Frustrated, Draco didn't notice that he was standing at the table where Hermione was sitting and she was staring at him as he was deep in thought. She raised her eyebrow at him as he continued to stay there motionless holding the two plates of waffles. She decided to speak, hoping to get his attention back, she was hungry.

"Um, Malfoy? Are you ok?" she asked.

Shaking his head, Draco finally looked at her, "Huh? Wha?"

"What did you make for breakfast?" Hermione asked curiously trying to lift her head to see what was on the plates.

Seeing what she was trying to do, Draco raised the plates higher away from her and smirked. "Aw, is Granger hungry? What are the magic words?" he said as if he was talking to a three year old.

"The magic words are: Give me my breakfast now Malfoy or I'll pour this coffee down your pants" she said laughing.

Smirking, Draco made a buzzard sound and followed saying "Sorry Granger, I believe the magic words were: Oh Slytherin Prince, please allow me the honor of eating your leftovers, your greatness" laughing as well.

Hermione looked at him with fake anger on her face. "Actually Malfoy, I believe the real magic words are: Accio Breakfast!" she said was she quickly whipped out her wand and point to one of the plates. The plate flew out of Draco's hand and into Hermione's. Pleased with herself, she put her wand away and began to devour the waffles as Draco stood there defeated.

"Touché Granger, touché" he said to her as she smirked up at him over her waffles. He sat down across from her [[which wasn't far because their table only seated two and began to eat his waffles as well.

After eating their breakfast, Hermione offered to wash and put away the dishes. When she was done, she walked back to see Draco snickering.

"And what may I ask is so funny Malfoy?"

"You Granger" he said simply.

"What about me!" Hermione demanded.

"In all honesty Granger, I'm trying to say this is the most polite way I can think of…I know you're a m-" Draco looked at her and she rose her eye brow waiting to hear what he was about to say. He started again, "I know you're a muggle born, and you've grown up doing things the muggle way, but don't you think you would have gotten use to doing things magically by now? For example, washing the dishes?"

Hermione looked at the clean sink along with the clean dishes. She didn't even realize how awkward it looked that she was doing them by hand. She was so use to doing it the muggle way that it never occurred to her to use magic.

"…I never thought of that" she said. Draco had a hard time trying to figure out the emotion behind the tone of her voice.

Deciding to drop the subject, Draco spoke. "It's ok Granger, forget I said anything" he said getting up from the table.

Hermione looked at her watch. "It's 7:30, classes don't start for another hour and there should be at least a few people in the Great Hall. I'm going to get dressed" she said while passing her [[pet lion and walking up her stairs.

"Oh please do Granger, because I wouldn't go another second seeing you dressed like that" Draco said rolling his eyes and his voice dripping with sarcasm, not meaning any word of it.

Hermione stopped. Did Draco Malfoy just somewhat compliment me? Even perhaps…flirt with me a little bit? She turned around to look at him. She decided not to make things too awkward and jokingly said "Why Malfoy, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you were checking me out"

"Not at all Granger, not at all" he said and then pretended looked around the room while whistling.

Hermione laughed. "If you say so Malfoy" and continued to walk up the stairs. "Oh, and by the way, I knew you didn't wake up to make breakfast, I just played along to see how well you would do under the pressure" she added looking back at him.

"WHAT?!" he yelled.

Hermione let out a burst of giggles and ran up the remaining of the stairs. Draco quickly shot up after her, but the lion popped up and roared with all its might, stopping Draco. "I'm gonna get you Granger!" he yelled up laughing.

As a response, he heard more fits of giggles coming from her room. He got his bag and left the tower smiling, thinking of how good the start of his day was.

Draco took his time walking to the Great Hall. By the time he got there, it was almost completely filled. He took his seat at the Slytherin table and looked at all the food. He was full from the breakfast that he had eaten not long ago and decided to just drink coffee. A certain brown haired couple walked through the doors holding hands. Draco looked over at Hermione and Skyler. They kissed each other goodbye and Hermione went to Harry and Ron giving them each a good morning kiss on the cheek.

As soon as Hermione sat down, she as well looked at all the food. Draco saw Hermione put her hand on her stomach and smile, signaling that she was full. He didn't know why, but this act made him feel something he had never felt before and he couldn't identify the feeling.

At the other side of the Great Hall, Hermione put her hand on her stomach on smiled. After a while she looked up and saw Draco. For some reason he was smiling at his coffee. She thought nothing of it and looked at Skyler. They've been dating for a while now and he's been great to her. Much like before, he looked very interested in his conversation with his friends. Usually, Hermione wouldn't care, everyone does that. However, something was suspicious about Skyler.

"Why aren't you eating 'Mione?" asked Ginny from next to Harry.

Ron looked over at her empty plate. "Ish nawt gud too shtarve yurshelff 'Mionee" said Ron with a mouth full.

"Honestly Ronald, close your mouth" said Hermione looking slightly disgusted.

Ron swallowed his food with a big gulp and looked at her apologetically. "Sorry 'Mione, just really hungry you know?"

"Like always" Harry said under his breath.

"Hey!" Ron exclaimed, reaching behind Hermione and whacking Harry on the back of the head.

Everyone laughed and Hermione gave Ron a big hug from the side. It was times like these where she was so glad to have two boys, who were practically brothers, in her life. She didn't know how she would survive Hogwarts without them.

It was late afternoon and the Golden Trio was walking along the corridor. They've realized that they haven't spent too much time together since they arrived at Hogwarts. Hermione was either doing Head's business or with Skyler. As for the boys, Harry and Ron were either at the Quidditch Pitch practicing or Harry would be with Ginny while Ron was playing chess.

The three were currently joking around and acting silly. They all made an agreement to try to get into the least amount of drama possible. After all, Voldemort was no where to be found. Hermione was in the middle with Ron on her right and Harry on her left. Both of her boys had their arm around her shoulders and she had each of her arms around one of their waists. Harry and Ron were purposely walking crookedly, trying to make Hermione stumble over herself. She was able to keep herself up since she was holding on to their waists.

They were having so much fun together. No matter how much the three would fight [[especially Ron and Hermione they would always love each other like family. In fact, before Skyler asked Hermione out, he actually went to Harry and Ron for permission. The two never really liked Skyler. They never knew if it was because they had a strange "feeling" about him, because he liked Hermione, or because they knew Hermione liked him. Luckily for Skyler, it was the mere fact of them knowing Hermione liked him that persuaded them to say yes in the first place. Never the less, with the agreement came threats as well. Everyone knew that if one of the Golden Trio were messed with [[especially their girl, the other two would always be there for protection.

FLASHBACK

"What?!" said Ron and Harry as a union

"I said I want to ask Hermione to be my girlfriend" repeated Skyler with an emotionless face.

"No" said Ron and Harry together again.

"Look, I know how protective you guys are of her, and I respect that, otherwise I would have just asked her out without coming to you." Skyler explained.

Harry and Ron had serious faces on. The two are brothers in every way possible except by blood. They had their arms folded across their chest giving Skyler death glares.

"How serious are you about her?" asked Ron

"How do we know we can trust you?" asked Harry

"What are your intentions with her?" asked Ron

"How long have you liked her?" asked Harry

"What was your longest relationship?" asked Ron

"How many ex-girlfriends have you had?" asked Harry

They both made sure not to let him off easy. Skyler looked at them with raised eye brows. He then answered all the questions in order.

"1. I'm very serious about Hermione, otherwise I wouldn't have asked your permission first.

2. I can't tell you anything that will have me gain your trust, so I'm not even gonna try.

3. I want to look after her and pleasure her needs

4. 3 long hard months

5. I've never been in a relationship

6. Therefore I have no ex-girlfriends

Harry and Ron looked at him in silence, long and hard. He could tell that they didn't believe anything he was saying. Then, something happened that Skyler definitely wasn't expecting. As quick as lightning, Ron launched at Skyler and gripped his collar, slamming him against the stone wall and Harry whipped out his wand and pointed it right at his Skyler's face.

"Let's get some things straight-" said Ron

"We don't like you-" said Harry

"And probably never will" said Ron

"We don't trust you-" said Harry

"And we're never going to-" said Ron

"And if you hurt Hermione-" said Harry

"In any way at all-" said Ron

"Physically-" said Harry

"Mentally-" said Ron

"Emotionally-" said Harry

"We. Will. Kill. You." they both said together slowly so that he understood.

"Understand" said Ron which was more a command than a question.

"Ok, ok" said Skyler with his eyes wide.

Ron looked at him up and down then pushed him away. Harry put away his wand and started to head towards the door to leave the room. Ron stayed there just a little while longer to death glare at him and then left the room as well.

Skyler stayed there with a smirk on his face. Little did Harry and Ron know that everything he had told them was true…in a twisted, loop hole kind of way. Yes he was serious about her, about getting her into bed; he didn't say whether or not they should trust him; he did want to pleasure her needs, with sex; he had been thinking of getting her in bed for three months; he has never been in a relationship because he only stayed with girls for sex; therefore, no ex-girlfriends, only ex-sex toys.

He exited the room still with the smirk on his face and headed down a corridor to find Hermione, his newest project.

END FLASHBLACK

The trio was outside playing with the leaves that were happily lying on the ground. Fall was beautiful on Hogwarts. Right now, Ron was distracting Hermione, talking to her on the side while Harry gathered as much leaves as he could into a big gigantic pile.

Draco was walking across the outside bridge with Blaise talking about the upcoming Quidditch games and his new Quidditch gear. It was then when Draco heard a familiar voice.

"Ronald! Honestly, I don't know why you're talking to me about this all of a sudden. What's going on?"

It was Hermione. Draco stopped Blaise and directed him to look off the bridge. They saw Harry, Ron and Hermione on the grounds. Draco could overhear Hermione and Ron's conversation while he saw Harry…playing with leaves?

"What in the bloody hell are the doing Blaise?" asked Draco looking confused.

"I don't know…they look …odd" replied Blaise.

The two just stood there, interested on what the trio was doing, or what they were going to do. They listened.

"Nothing Hermione, I just wanted to know how strong you were" said Ron smiling widely.

"Ok Ron, fine. I don't know how strong I am and I don't know how I'm supposed to find out. Are we done?" asked Hermione.

"'Mione, what if I told you there was a way for you to test your strength? Would you do it?" asked Ron.

"Umm…I don't see why not I mean…." Hermione continued to talk and Ron looked over her shoulder and saw Harry standing next to a huge pile of leaves, giving him the signal.

Ron interrupted her speech and spoke. "Ok Hermione, you wanna test your strength? Here we go!" Then he wrapped his arms around her hips, picked her up, and threw her over his shoulder.

"AHH! HAHA RON WHAT DO YOU THINK DOING! HARRY! HARRY HELP!" Hermione yelled, laughing at the same time trying to release herself from his grip.

Then Ron ran over to Harry with Hermione over his shoulder and they both tossed her into the big, soft pile of autumn leaves. The leaves flew all over the place and Hermione had at this point burst into a fit of giggles. "Aw! I can't believe you guys! Haha."

"You haven't seen nothing yet 'Mione!" laughed Harry.

"GET HER!" yelled Ron.

Hermione tried to get away from them but they were too fast. They caught up with her and tickled her until she couldn't take it anymore. They knew all her tickle spots and Hermione regretted telling them.

Draco and Blaise watched every single moment of it.

"Aye mate?"

"Yeah Blaise…"

"Can you remember the last time you did something fun like that?..." he asked

Draco knew the answer for the both of them. He also knew that Blaise knew as well. Slytherin's couldn't just go out and have fun like everyone else in the castle. When they were younger, it was because they weren't allowed to. Now that they're older, they still can't…because they don't know how.

Draco was sitting on the sofa in the Head's tower. He decided to skip dinner, he had lost his apatite. He was thinking a lot about the afternoon when seeing the Gryffindor Trio having fun. He couldn't help but envy them. Draco always got everything he ever wanted except the things you weren't able to buy. He didn't know what it was like to have fun and it pissed him off.

Hermione walked in through the portrait hole with a smile too big to measure. She had her arms full of different colored leaves and she was still laughing from earlier in the day. She saw Draco sitting on the couch and walked over to him, still beaming.

He still didn't seem to notice her. Hermione thought of an idea and she quietly walked behind the couch and held her leaves over Draco's head. Counting to three in her head, she dropped the leaves on him shouted "HI MALFOY!" and jumped over the back of the couch, landing next to him. Draco jumped up and almost punched Hermione in the face thinking he was being attacked.

"Oh, it's just you" he said a little relieved.

"Of course it's me! Who else would it be? No one else has our password…right?" Hermione looked at him not knowing for sure if he gave out the password or not.

"I know what you're thinking Granger, and no I didn't give anyone our password"

"Good" she said simply.

The two stayed there for a few more moments in silence when Draco decided to break the ice and ask a question he already knew the answer to. "So what did you do today Granger?"

Hermione smiled a clever smile. "This!" she said as she grabbed more leaves and threw them in the air, some landing in Draco's hair.

Draco shook all the leaves off of him and looked at Hermione who was giggling. "Care to explain a little bit more?"

"Well, Harry and Ron decided we should go out onto the school grounds and spend some time together since we haven't done that since we arrived at Hogwarts. They ended up throwing me into a pile of leaves and tickling me like there was no tomorrow. What did you do?"

Draco sat there in silence and didn't answer her right away. Suddenly, he got up from the couch and on his way to his stair case he said "Nothing that mattered" over his shoulder to Hermione.

She immediately got up and tried to follow him. "Malfoy what did I do? Did I say something?"

He didn't answer her and continued up his stairs to his room. Hermione was going to follow him until his serpent popped up and hissed at her, refusing to let her through. Hermione felt hurt, she had forgotten to talk to Draco about their little "pets." Dumbledore had told her during dinner about them and said they will only block you if their owner [[in the serpent's case, Draco truly did not want you near them.

Hermione walked back to the couch and gathered all her leaves, taking them upstairs. She put them on a pile next to her desk and took a little square box out of her robes. With her wand, she enlarged the square and put it on her desk. In the box was a beautifully colored autumn leaf. It was undamaged and it looked perfect. Hermione had searched the grounds to find the most beautiful leaves she could. She gave one to Harry, one to Ron, and the last was to be for Draco for being so nice to her after six years of torment. Hermione continued to stare at the box confused as to why Draco was acting the way he was.

Deciding to throw the leaf away, Hermione walked over to the bathroom to dispose of it. As she walked in, she immediately heard noises coming from Draco's room. She heard various objects slamming against the walls and Draco yelling into the air.

Curious, Hermione sat her box on top of the toilet and pressed her ear against the door that led to Draco's room. She could hear what he was saying, and a little too clearly.

Granger and her stupid friends! SMASH! It's not fair! SMASH! Why does she have to be so bloody perfect? Head Girl, decent friends, love, AND she can have bloody fun whenever the hell she wants SMASH! and not have to worry about people judging her SMASH! And then she had the nerve to walk in with all those leaves SMASH!Does she not take into consideration that maybe some people DON'T KNOW what it's like to have fun and have all the things she has! SMASH! IT'S NOT FAIR!

Draco kept on yelling and smashing things as Hermione backed away from the door. Despite everything he said, she wasn't mad, if anything, she felt guilty and ashamed. Everything he said was true, she didn't take into consideration that maybe he DIDN'T know how to have fun and maybe he DIDN'T know what it was like to let lose and fool around with no rules and without caring someone would judge you or look at you a certain way. Hermione tried to picture Draco and all his friends playing in the leaves instead of her, Harry, and Ron. As hard as it was for her to say, she couldn't imagine it at all. For one thing, Draco only had Blaise. Crabbe and Goyle were just his cronies, his followers. For another, she had no memory of Draco doing anything that was improper. She's never even seen him slouch, and now that she thought of it, she's never seen any Slytherin slouch or do anything improper. For the first time in her life, Hermione felt sorry for them.

I can't believe I never saw it before she thought to herself. How could they ever have had fun? Their parents were probably too busy dealing with Death Eater stuff to even pay attention to them. And no wonder why they were spoiled, they were probably given everything they ever wanted as long as it would shut them up. For the smartest witch of my age I sure am stupid…

She took the box and rushed back into her room. She got the nicest looking quill, parchment, and ink she could find from what Dumbledore gave her and wrote a note to Draco. She then attached it to the box and went downstairs. She arrived at the front of his stair case and the serpent popped up yet again, hissing.

"I'm not gonna go up, I'm simply leaving this…present here for Malfoy, ok?"

She put the box down and went back up to her room. After getting ready for bed, she lied down and tried her hardest to go to sleep. When she finally drifted away, the last thought in her head was: I hope he likes it.

(A/N) A little corny, I know haha. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE NOTE SAYS?!

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