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Chapter 9 : Oh Honey, I Whooped Your Butt!

...the next day

Hermione Granger was quickly making her way up to the Gryffindor tower, early one Saturday morning. She wanted to catch her best friend before she went to quidditch practice. There was a lot to talk about...

#Start Flashback

"Morning, Malfoy." Hermione Granger said warily. "You're up early."

"Yeah, I have quidditch practice."

"Oh right."

The tension was so thick Hermione thought she could cut it with a knife. Right. Time to clear the air... she thought.

"Listen, about last night."

Draco stopped whatever it was he was doing and gave her his full attention. "Do you regret telling me?"

"Not for a second." Draco visibly relaxed. "It's just I wanted to make sure that you weren't going to tell anyone." Hermione was nervous. Can I trust him?

Draco walked over to her. "That goes without saying Granger but I promise I won't tell anyone," He looked her dead in the eye. "But you should."

She nodded. "Thanks Malfoy." and gave him a small smile.

Lightening the mood a bit he said, "Don't forget, you just about beat me at poker. If I do ever tell anyone, which I won't, I'm sure you'll find a suitable punishment." he smiled knowingly.

"Oh, just? I just about beat you, did I? Honey," she said in a sympathetic tone and tilted her head as if she was talking to a child. Draco knew what was coming. "I whooped your butt!" She grinned and so did he. He liked it when she called him honey. The both laughed. "See you later, Malfoy."

"Bye Granger."

Somehow the two unlikely students had formed what seemed to be a friendly truce and neither seemed to mind.

#End Flashback

Hermione arrived at the Gryffindor common room to find Ginny Weasley sitting on the couch, in front of the fire reading the latest issue of Witch Weekly. Hermione thanked the heavens that the boys didn't get out of bed until 5 minutes before they were required to leave the common room. Ginny being the only girl, presently on the Gryffindor quidditch team, was the only one awake.

"Ugh thank god! Ginny..."

"Hermione?" Ginny stated as her friend plonked herself down on the sofa, next to her. "It's Saturday morning." Ginny was confused but not unpleasant.

"I'm aware Ginny. But what other time am I going to get to speak to you between head duties or any nosey little shit listening in."

"Ha. That's very true. We do have a Lavender Brown in our house after all." Ginny mused, Hermione couldn't agree more. "So what was up yesterday?" She asked, putting the magazine down.

Hermione couldn't help but notice that she didn't ask how she was in general, but she wasn't surprised, it would be odd now and totally wrong to start acting bitter after months of ignoring it. They had been back at school for nearly 2 months.

"Malfoy nearly saw my tattoo." She outed.

"WHAT?!" Ginny's expression couldn't be more shocked and then she started laughing. Hermione had a pained expression on her face and decide to cast a silencing charm around the room for good measure.

"Giiiinn!" Hermione whined. "This is so not funny." Ginny was wiping the tears out of her eyes, still laughing.

"Yes. Yes it is." Ginny said profusely, "Could you imagine if he saw it?!"

"Exactly, Ginerva. He almost did, what would I have done if he'd succeeded?! How the fuck would I have explained that one to him..."

"How?" Ginny asked all of a sudden.

"Yeah that's what I said. How would I have..."

"No Hermione that's not what I meant, I mean how did he almost see it?" Ginny Weasley didn't often see her best friend lost for words.

"Ah. Umm, well, he...he...I...we were...Umm," Hermione was making no sense and getting flustered.

"Mione!" That stopped her and she looked at Ginny in defeat.

"Exactly." Hermione almost yelled. Ginny just looked more confused than ever.

"Tell me." Ginny asked seriously.

"I may have unleashed some 'Mione'." Ginny looked sceptical but was praying she was telling the truth.

"Hermione, umm, I hope you mean what I think you mean," she said with a slight curl to her freckled lips, "but, err, could you elaborate a bit so I don't make any catastrophic assumptions."

Hermione looked worried. "Urr, Gin, what exactly do you think I mean?"

"Did you shag him?"

"NO!" Hermione looked shocked. Although, she should have expected that from Ginny.

"Chill Mione. Did you get crazy in front of Malfoy then?" Ginny said, outright with a small grin.

"I may have..." Ginny's whole face lit up with glee.

"Oooo, Hermione this is so good! Shagging him would have been way cooler but...whatever." She yelled, and shuffled forward on the sofa, closer to her friend. Hermione gave her a disapproving look. "How crazy are we talking here, Hermione? Was it like the time you told that bitch from Beauxbatons to stick it where the sun don't shine or was it more at the other end of the spectrum like how when you and I decided to go and get on a plane to Thailand and many, many things happened...including that tattoo." Ginny was buzzing with excitement.

"We were fighting, like usual and I may have mentioned my blood status at wand point while casually, insinuating that I like to be...ugh...dirty." Her head fell, whereas Ginny's jaw dropped and she jumped up screaming or laughing, Hermione wasn't sure which.

"Hahahaaah, oh Merlin, Hermione that's brilliant!"

"It definitely is not Ginerva!" Hermione was annoyed.

"Hey okay okay, Ginerva? Really!" Ginny calmed down a bit, she despised her name.

"It gets worse."

"You mean better!" Ginny was on the edge of her seat. "How?"

"How else do you think he almost saw my tattoo?!" Hermione said nonchalantly.

"Ugh Merlin Hermione, please for the love of Godric tell me you shagged him!" Ginny said seriously.

"Ginny it's Malfoy!"

"Exactly, he is drop dead gorgeous." She said matter-of-factly.

"Gin! It's Malfoy..." Although, although after last night's events, Hermione wasn't entirely sure what she meant by that.

"So, I shagged Zabini..."

"What? When?"

"Last year, Slug club's Christmas party. We were both wasted but he is undeniably gorgeous but more on that later, how did Malfoy almost see the tattoo if he didn't shag you?"

"He got me back for all my talk before about how I loved being a mudblood. I was in the shower trying to get all that purple shit out of my hair from potions, which was his fault too! When I finished my shower Malfoy had stolen all my clothes, the towels and my wand. I was standing there for ages, freezing my nuts off, yelling through the bathroom door having yet another argument with him, when I couldn't take it anymore. So I made a break for the bedroom, only to find he'd locked my door, the conniving little shit..."

"You mean to say he saw..." Ginny gestured to Hermione in general and Hermione nodded.

"Everything..."

"Everything?" Hermione nodded again. "How did he not see the tattoo?"

"Well he saw everything from the front. I did a lot of walking backwards and pushing myself up against doors..." Ginny chuckled at that. "What's funny?"

"You know that just makes me think of you and what's his face from that muggle party you took me to. When he..."

"Gin."

"I'm surprised the door was still on its hinges by the time..."

"GINNY!" Hermione yelled despite the smile on her face.

"Haha. Fine party pooper. Well did he like what he saw?" Ginny asked cheekily.

"I don't know, to be honest he was a gentleman most of the time, I think he got a bit confused about my belly button ring," She laughed. "He did manage to get it out of me that I am hiding something, it was a slip of the tongue but to be fair I was naked in front of Malfoy so..." Ginny nodded. "He's determined to find out what it is though...oh which brings me to another point!"

Ginny was shocked at Hermione's change in demeanour. "What did you do Mione?"

Instead of answering the question, Hermione asked, "What would you do if you beat a Malfoy at poker and were allowed to make him do one thing?!" She said all of this very proudly and with a shit-eating grin.

AN/: Okay, so what did y'all think!? I do really hope you like it, for the next chapter I'm thinking of a discussion between Draco and Blaise! Ooooo, and what does everybody think of a relationship between Blaise and Ginny, I'd like everyone to vote, Harry or Blaise?! X REVIEW! :)