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She stepped into the Gryffindor common room only to see that no one was there but Neville Longbottom brushing up on his potion homework. Professor Snape never liked Neville… not since first year when Neville was told to mix in slugs to the mixture they were making. His hand didn't even touch the slugs… once his eyes met the sight of the slugs he fainted! Ever since then Snape, being the evil prat he was, has called on Neville to answer the hardest questions.
"Hey Neville." She said kindly Neville looked up and smiled at Hermione but the smile quickly faded as he looked back down at his book. "Well goodnight" She sweetly said but got no response. She walked up her stairs into her dorm room and lay in her bed looking up at the ceiling. Malfoy's voice rolling over and over in her head... 'I might as well make sure you get back safely…' she smiled to her self and with the image of Malfoy's elusive genuine smile she slowly fell asleep.
The next morning she sprang out of bed. When she entered the hall for Monday morning breakfast she saw Harry and Ron, they waved at her and motioned her to sit down next to them. She walked over and sat down and piled her plate full of food. She was between Ron and Neville, Harry directly across from her and Ginny across from Ron. Neville was still reading his potion book and muttered various things, the sight made Hermione smile. Harry read Reeter Skeeter's latest article on his relationship with Cho Chan. Ron was talking to Ginny about Lavender, his girlfriend, obviously boring her to tears.
Suddenly Hermione felt someone's eyes watch her as she ate her porridge. She tried to subtly look up but she knew that if any one was looking at her they would know she was looking for them. First she tried to look behind her at Ravenclaw… She saw Cho Chan looking over at their table but she knew she was looking at Harry. On the other side were Hufflepuff and Slytherin… just before she was to inspect the Hufflepuff table she caught the eyes of her observer.
His grey eyes looked at her with not the normal malice or taunt but with kindness. Even when she caught his eyes, he did not move his eyes off her. Draco Malfoy just watched her and she watched Draco Malfoy. Even though there were many people in between them she felt as if he was the only one there.
Harry noticed Hermione was looking at something; he turned around and saw Malfoy's eyes fixed upon his best friend and they were showing something resembling compassion!
"So Hermione" He spoke loudly so Hermione could hear him. He desperately wanted to break their eye contact. "We have potions today huh?" Her eyes broke the contact and met Harry's eyes.
"What did you say?" Hermione hadn't been listening. Harry got frustrated and stormed off. "Harry?! Where are you going!"
Draco was surprised when Hermione cut their eye contact. She seemed to have said something to upset Potter because before Draco knew Potter was storming off. Every one could hear Hermione yell after him. She put her head in her hands even when she looked confused she still looked gorgeous. He caught himself saying it. Gorgeous? She's not gorgeous she's beautiful, the most beautiful thing he could ever have the privilege to see.
Hermione looked up and met Draco's eyes and suddenly he saw the sadness that were in them and before he knew it his eyes swelled with empathy that she automatically recognized and smiled. Draco felt himself want to say something more but he didn't know what to do.
With that he stood up and went to positions he knew if he stayed any longer he would go and speak to Hermione which would be bad with Weasley right next to her.
A few minutes after he entered the dungeon Hermione did too. She sat in her normal seat and got her books out. She looked over at him and smiled at him.
"Hey Malfoy" She said the smile unfading.
"Welcome Granger! Where are Potter and Weasley? They usually are with you." He smirked, typical him to resort to cruelty when he didn't understand what he felt.
"They aren't here…" Hermione replied simply at Draco felt stumped by the blunt reply but he made a quick recovery.
"Poor Granger! Having her friend just leave her like that because they have other girls in their life!" Malfoy taunted.
"Stop being a prat Malfoy!" Hermione said, her cheeks flushed with anger.
"Fine what ever you say. But how dare they just abandon you! After all you've done for them!" Draco said as his mind devised a plan; he could get her to be so angry she wouldn't be talking to them then he would grow on her until she caved in and decided to love him the way he loved her. Before Hermione could answer a lot of Slytherins entered and started talking loudly.
Snape entered eventually after everyone else had and the lesson finally began
"Well class. I have an assignment." Everyone groaned. Draco hit his head.
God damn it I don't want to do a bloody assignment I have problems of my own. He said to himself
He looked over at Hermione who wasn't too thrilled either.
"Ah but see you always pair up with the same people!" Snape said and Draco automatically knew this was going to be very bad news. With a swish of Snape's wand everything went black. Despite Draco's sudden lack of sight he could hear Longbottom screaming that he was blind. Draco smirked at the stupid arse.
"No Longbottom. You are not blind. I have put blind folds on your eyes." Snape explained. "You will roam this class room and grab hold of a partner. You are not allowed to speak until I take your blindfolds come off."
Draco could just see the worse happening; when his blindfold came off he would see Potter or his ex girlfriend Pansy Parkinson, to which no one but himself knew the reason to the sudden split. Draco shivered at the thought.
"Ok, walk around," Snape commanded.Everyone walked with arms outstretched. Draco could not be bothered to walk around the room like a stupid zombie; he moved himself to the middle off the class room and just stood there. Within seconds someone bumped into him… He moved his hand and grabbed their hand; It was smooth and feminine. After a few moments the blindfolds flew off and Draco was overcome by joy… For the being standing right in front of him was none other than his Hermione Granger.
As soon as she surfaced from the darkness of the blind fold her eyes met the bewildered eyes of her partner; Draco Malfoy. She didn't know what she was feeling but she knew it wasn't disappointment... no far from it! She looked around for Harry and Ron. Harry got pansy. And Ron got Crabbe.
"Looks like fate Granger!" Draco said as he secretly bent down and kissed her hand. A smirk spread across his handsome features. Fate? Yes… Good or bad? She didn't know yet…
Hermione sat in the great hall looking over the assignment she was doing with Draco and couldn't help but think it sounded rather fun! They had to study relationships and develop a potion that could make it easier for everyone in a similar situation.
"Hermione..." Ron said from beside her and Hermione knew what he was going to ask.
"No Ron, I'm not going to help you! You and Crabbe will have to get through it yourselves!" Hermione said and Ron groaned.
"Why is it that you, smartest girl in the class gets Malfoy, the favored boy in the class," he asked and Hermione just shrugged.
"Luck of the draw…" Hermione offered as she continued to look over her notes from class. Hermione ran her hand over a place at the bottom of the parchment where Draco had signed his name for "Partner." She loved the way the he wrote his 'D'. It showed how strong and sure of himself he was but the way he did the rest of his name in such small letters showed he was also scared and timid.
All of a sudden she saw a shadow cast over the table and by the way her hairs stood on end she knew that it was her favorite Slytherin standing behind her.
"Shove over Weasley," she heard Draco command and she looked over at Ron who was too surprised to be angry so he did what he was told to do. Malfoy slid in next to Hermione and smiled over at her.
"Hey Granger," he said grabbing one of the red apples that were on Hermione's other side so he had to reach across her to get it and at one point their faces were mere inches apart.
"Hi Malfoy," she replied once Draco was at a distance that she felt strong enough to speak without admitting her true feelings. Hermione looked around the table and saw every girl on the table was looking enviously over at Hermione; Draco was after all the hottest boy in Hogwarts.
"For this assignment thing I really think we should cram in some extra studying time," Malfoy began and Hermione just stared at him. "How about we go to the library after my quidditch practice today…"
"You want to study with me," Hermione asked her voice failing her.
"Yeah… so you want to meet me," Draco asked smiling over at her.
"Yeah ok…" Hermione agreed quickly still amazed at what he was saying.
"See you then," Malfoy said and Hermione felt the butterflies swarm in her chest. He stood from the table and slightly bowed at Hermione then strode confidently away.