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Chapter 8: Detention Night
Snape looked around at the seven seventh years who looked less then thrilled to be there, some even looked like they were plotting to kill him, especially Draco. Snape merely put on half a smirk.
"Since there are seven of you I'll split you up," he began as you heard mumbles from the seven teens, "Goyle, Crabbe and Weasley, you three will go with Mr. Filch to the trophy room and help him clean for the night."
Ron could not believe his luck, this was the second time this happens to him. He looked over at Harry with a look of disbelief; Harry merely shrugged and put on a semi supportive look.
"Alright, you three worthless lumps of flesh, follow me, we're in for a fun night of torturous servitude." Filch muttered with an evil grin, as he lead Ron, Crabbe and Goyle up the stairs and they looked much less than thrilled.
"Alright, Malfoy and Potter," Snape began as Harry and Draco's eyes widened in horror, Snape merely smirked, "You two will go with Hagrid into the Dark Forest, you will help him settle some business."
"Are you serious?" Draco asked in disbelief.
"Quite serious Mr. Malfoy, is there a problem?" Snape asked crisply.
Draco clenched his fists at his sides, "Possibly."
"Well for your sake Mr. Malfoy, I certainly hope not." Snape replied dryly.
Draco rolled his eyes up to the ceiling and walked away from Snape towards Hagrid, Harry glared at Snape before following Hagrid and Draco out the door completely upset that the one thing he didn't want happened, he got paired with Malfoy.
The only two left were Blaise and Hermione.
"As for you two, I will lead you down to the dungeons, there you will clean and set up a new Potions class for tomorrow. So follow me." Snape said as he glided past the two, they then followed him down to the cold dungeons.
Snape opened the wooden door that creaked as it opened, magically a few torches on the walls of the room lit up and a few candles on the shelves lit up for them as well. There were boxes and cobwebs everywhere, tables overturned and chairs overturned and buckets of water and mops to clean the floor and rags to wipe off the accumulating dust on all the furniture.
Hermione looked at it all in horror, "Professor, you can't possibly expect us to finish all this by tonight can you?"
Snape glanced down at her, "I certainly do, and if you can't finish it tonight, there's always tomorrow night."
Blaise hardly seemed to notice the mess; his mind seemed to have been focused on something else all together. Snape glanced at him and didn't show his curiosity towards Blaise's distant expression as if his chore for the night didn't bother him.
"I'll leave you two to work, I'll be back at dawn."
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Harry, Draco and Hagrid had just passed into the Dark Forest, Hagrid carried one lantern and Draco the other, neither of them had their wands. Draco felt the fear from his first year coming right back to him, the last time he was here during his first year he was scared away by a Unicorn Blood Drinking Evil Shadow Creature as he has always described it. At the slightest sound of something he would move the lantern in that direction. Harry looked at Draco with a tinge of humor, due to his obvious attempt at trying not to laugh.
"So Hagrid, where exactly are we going?" Harry asked, trying to keep himself from laughing at Draco.
"Well, Harry, we're goin' to visit Firenze." Hagrid said not looking back at Harry but continuing to walk forward.
"Who's that?" Draco asked absently as he checked for a noise behind him with the lantern.
"A friend of Headmaster Dumbledore and all of us at Hogwarts." Hagrid replied with a slightly harsh tone, for obviously Draco was never one of his favorite students, especially since third year.
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Hermione and Blaise were left alone by Snape, and Hermione immediately proceeded towards the rags, "Shall we get rid of dust first, or turn the tables and chairs back upright?"
Blaise seemed to be thinking of something totally different, due to his distant look.
"Blaise?" Hermione said.
Blaise looked over at her, seeming to now be paying attention.
"Did you hear what I had said?" She asked.
Blaise shook his head lightly, "No what was it?"
Hermione rolled her eyes, "Do you want to dust first, or turn the tables and chairs back upright?"
"Which ever." He said nonchalantly.
Hermione sighed, 'This is going to be a long night.'
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Harry, Draco and Hagrid had been walking for about an hour.
"I can hardly see anything anymore, this bloody lamp isn't doing a damn good thing anymore!" Draco said in a rather loud tone, as they just stopped walking and stood in smoky blue darkness.
Hagrid sighed and rolled his eyes, "Jus' shut ap! We're here."
Suddenly the sound of breaking twigs was heard and through the smoky air, the figure of an animal half man and half horse came towards them, with hair the color of Draco's and crystal blue eyes.
"'Allo Firenze." Hagrid said as he shook hands with the centaur.
"Hello Hagrid, I see you have company." Firenze said glancing at Harry and Draco who looked at him in slight awe, Draco tried to look uninterested, but he couldn't deny how fascinating it was to see such a creature.
'Well despite all that, the human female is still my favorite creature.' Draco thought with a devious smirk.
"Hello Harry Potter," Firenze began as Harry merely grinned, "Your name is often mentioned in the forest now, your time approaches."
"What do you mean?" Harry asked.
Firenze shook his head, "Some things not all ears are meant to hear."
Harry then noticed Firenze look over at Draco and he then understood.
"I imagine Firenze tha' you know why Dumbledore has sent me here?" Hagrid said sounding the way he always sounded when he was on 'Official Hogwarts Business'.
Firenze nodded, "I do," he began as he then handed Hagrid a piece of parchment, "everything he needs to know is there. Though one thing Hagrid you need to come with me for, if it's alright to leave the other two here for a moment."
Hagrid nodded, "Course it is Firenze, lead me to it."
Draco looked at Hagrid with a disbelieving brow raised, "Your leaving us in the middle of this black forest, alone!?"
Hagrid nodded, "Your with Harry and Fang, you'll be fine."
"But you said Fang is a bloody coward!" Draco spat in protest.
"I'll be back shortly, watch him Harry make him feel calm. I'll be back shortly." Hagrid said as he then followed Firenze through a curtain of misty smoke and shortly vanished.
"Stuck in this bloody forest with you Potter, my year just keeps getting better and better!" Draco shouted in sarcastic protest.
"Oh save it Malfoy! Your not the only one with bloody problems!" Harry shouted back.
"Just do me a favor Potter and don't talk for the rest of the night." Draco mumbled as he lifted his lantern back up in attempt to gaze into the darkness.
'Stuck with Malfoy, I feel real bad for Hermione. She has to sleep with him every night…wait that didn't sound right.' Harry thought as he petted Fang on the head.
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Hermione and Blaise had turned all the tables and chairs upright again, and they were a quarter of the way done with the dusting.
"So, how's life with Malfoy?" Blaise asked from across the room.
Hermione looked over at him, "As unpleasant as this detention maybe even a little more unpleasant."
Blaise smirked, "So I've been told."
Hermione's brows contracted together in confusion, "What do you mean? You've spoken to Malfoy on the matter?"
Blaise shrugged, "Somewhat."
Blaise started walking over to her, "Somewhat? What was said?" she asked.
"How much he hates sharing a room with you and all." He replied tossing his rag on a desk.
Hermione rolled her eyes, "I should've known."
"Though to be perfectly honest, if I was him, I wouldn't feel that way." Blaise said with a smirk, as he gazed at Hermione.
Hermione looked at him slightly puzzled, "You can't be serious?"
"I'm very serious. If I was him I'd enjoy the fact that I'd have someone like you to share a room with." He replied walking a bit closer to her.
Hermione started to feel a bit uneasy, "Why's that?"
Blaise was now right in front of her, "You have what I like…and what I want."
Hermione took a step back, "I'm flattered really, but Slytherins…are just not my type."
Blaise shrugged coolly, "Can't have little things like that matter now can we?"
Hermione didn't know what to do; Blaise was coming on extremely strong. She didn't like the look he was giving her, as if he was ravaging her in her mind.
"I think we should get back to work." Hermione replied hesitantly.
"I don't think so."
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Harry was sitting on a nearby rock with Fang while Draco was pacing, getting more and more restless with being out there as the candle in the lantern was running out.
"Malfoy, I think the dirt you've been pacing on has sunk three inches." Harry said amused.
Draco stopped and glared at him, "Your lucky I don't have my wand on me Potter."
"Or what? You going to do Avada Kedavra on me?" Harry replied.
Draco narrowed his eyes at him, "I'll do you one better Potter, I'd place the Imperius Curse on Granger and then have her do Avada Kedavra on you, that way you can die thinking your little mudblood killed you in cold blood."
Harry got a sudden chill at the thought.
He never had the idea enter his mind before; Hermione killing him in cold blood? That was just something too horrible for even nightmares.
Draco saw the effect he had on Harry and he smirked.
"Hermione would never do that Malfoy." Harry finally managed to say.
Draco raised a brow of interest at the comment, "Oh really? I can make anyone do whatever I want if I use the right curse or spell."
"Hermione would never let you get close enough to her to do anything." Harry replied coldly.
Draco smirked, "I'd bet anything your right, but don't forget Potter, I'm Draco Malfoy and I have many ways with which to handle women."
Harry narrowed his eyes at the tall handsome blonde, "I bet you do, and I pity them all but you'll never have anything over Hermione. She'd die first."
Draco narrowed his eyes at Harry, as Hagrid suddenly appeared with a small brown sack he casually placed in his pocket.
"Alright, ready to go?" Hagrid said as he walked towards them.
"Yes." Harry replied.
"It was about bloody time, it's nearly three in the morning." Draco said in his usual manner.
Hagrid rolled his eyes and ignored the Slytherin as they began walking back towards Hogwarts.
Harry was curious as to what Firenze had given Hagrid, but he decided it would be wise to not ask in front of Draco, for there was no telling what he would say to his father.
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Hermione awoke to find herself on the floor, 'How'd I end up on the floor?' she thought. As she looked around her bringing her vision into focus, she was still in the same room, and Blaise was looking over her.
She somehow found her voice, "What happened to me? Did I faint?"
Blaise shook his head; "You fell from that stool over there as you were cleaning a shelf."
Hermione nodded with a frown, "I did? I don't remember?"
Just then Hermione felt a slight pain in between her legs, 'Why am I hurting down there?'
"You ok Granger? It was a nasty fall. I almost decided to bring you to the hospital wing." Blaise said helping her up.
Hermione's legs felt a bit like jelly, "I don't think I need to go to the hospital wing. I'm sure I'll be fine. I just wish I could remember what happened."
Blaise looked at her, his face was flushed and slightly sweaty, "You mean you can't remember talking to me and then falling off the stool?"
Hermione shook her head, "I don't remember being on a stool."
She then looked at her robes and shirt they were wrinkled and her hair was disheveled, she also felt that her panties weren't up all the way.
"Would you mind turning around a moment." Hermione said.
Blaise nodded and turned around while Hermione lifted her panties up all the way, it was then she saw a few drops of dried up blood on her thigh, 'What happened to me?'
"You done?" Blaise asked nonchalantly.
"Y-Yes, I'm finished." Hermione replied hesitantly.
She then noticed that the room wasn't done. Just then Snape had walked in.
"It looks like you two shall be here another night. Perhaps you'll manage to perform a miracle and finish the room by then?" Snape said dryly.
He then noticed how Hermione looked all flushed and drowsy, her hair was disheveled and her clothes weren't tidy, even Blaise was looking flushed and sweaty and his robes were a bit wrinkled.
'What on earth went on in here?' Snape thought.
"May we leave now Professor?" Blaise asked quickly.
Snape nodded with a frown, "Go, be in here at midnight, to finish."
They both walked out, but Hermione seemed to walk out as if she was in some sort of discomfort.
"Ms. Granger is there a problem with your legs?" Snape asked.
Hermione looked up at him not in the mood for his sarcasm or bitter remarks, "No sir, just tired is all."
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Hermione walked into her room to find Draco sleeping.
For some reason Hermione felt exhausted but didn't wish to sleep. She was too concerned with why she couldn't remember falling off the stool and hitting her head, the way Blaise said had happened.
She couldn't understand why there was dried up blood on her inner thighs, she couldn't understand why her womanhood hurt her slightly and why she was all disheveled looking.
'What happened to me?' She thought, and then decided to for the first time use the Jacuzzi tub and relax in attempts to feel better.
Meanwhile in the Slytherin common room, Blaise walked into his dormitory, to find Crabbe and Goyle had just got in from cleaning the trophy room with Filch.
"How was your night Zabini?" Goyle asked sleepily.
Blaise smirked, "It was quite fun actually."
Goyle and Crabbe looked at Blaise confused, "How was detention fun for you? It was a nightmare for us."
Blaise smirked, "Just between us three, I had accidentally forgotten to leave my wand here last night, so I decided to use that to my advantage when I got paired with the Gryffindor Head Girl," Blaise began as he removed his wand from his robe, "So, I decided to have a little fun with her, and when I was finished I put a Memory Charm on her so she wouldn't remember a thing."
Crabbe and Goyle put on stupid grins, "You learned that trick from Draco didn't you?"
Blaise nodded, "Of course. Tonight I have detention with her again…and it'll be even better then last night I'm sure."
"Did she willingly have 'fun' with you? Cause don't she hate Slytherins?" Goyle asked.
Blaise shrugged, "She hates us naturally so obviously she wasn't willing, she put up quite a fight actually. So I had no choice but to put the Imperius Curse on her, after that she continued willingly and without any memory of it. So she can't accuse me of a thing. I give Malfoy credit for telling me some of his tricks."
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Draco got up at 7:00 to find Hermione putting on her school robe.
He wasn't in such a bad mood simply cause for the first time since he had been back to Hogwarts he got over an hour of sleep.
Hermione turned to face him, and he paused to look at her and raised a suspicious brow at her.
"How was your detention with Harry?" Hermione asked.
Draco shrugged, "Loathsome, and yours with Zabini?"
Hermione shrugged, "Alright I guess, up until I blanked out and only remember waking up on the floor. Apparently Blaise said I had fallen off a stool while cleaning and hit my head."
Draco chuckled, "Wish I could've been there to see that."
Hermione scowled at him, "I hate you."
"I know I know." Draco replied casually.
"Ms. McGonagall came by earlier this morning, she said Dumbledore requires us to meet him in his office after class today, his password is, 'Chocolate Frogs'." Hermione said, as she then grabbed her bags and books and left the room.
Draco fell back on his bed, "Is it just me, or does Granger look a little different?" he said to himself quietly, as he then shrugged not caring too much about her and began getting ready.
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A/N: I'm horrible, a part of me didn't want to do that to Hermione, but it had to be done…it's a very key part of the fic. I hate doing scenes like that, but it REALLY did have to be done. So anyway, what did Firenze give Hagrid? And what does Dumbledore want to see Draco and Hermione for? Oh and now comes the time when there will be more Draco and Hermione interaction ^_^ something even I'm a little impatient for lol cause I want to see them in love too lol. Please read and review and I'll update again same time as always, bye! Draco and Hermione forever!!!!!