Dear Readers,

I know that it's been a long time since I have updated but I recently got a review from a reader and it inspired me to write more. So here is my very first update in a long time. I would also like to say that I am very sorry for not updating sooner.

Chapter 5: The Explosion

The Great Hall, which had been full of noise and laughter, became dead silent as the two arch rivals entered together. There was only one person who wasn't surprised and that was Dumbledore.

"I guess this won't be as easy as we had hoped." Draco whispered to Hermione as they made their way to the Gryffindor table and sat down across from Harry and Ron. Slowly the Great Hall went back to normal except for the Gryffindor's who wanted to know what a dirty death eater Slytherin snake was doing at their table with the Gryffindor Princess.

"Hermione?" Harry said quietly, hoping that he was imagining the Ice Prince sitting next to his best friend.

"Yes, Harry?" Hermione asked as she began to put food on her plate.

"Why is Draco Malfoy sitting at our table? But more importantly why are you with him?" Harry asked, hoping there was some reasonably good explanation as to why she was sitting with him at their table. Harry could tell that Ron was this close to blowing up and blowing Malfoy up so he need to get an explanation fast.

"He is my partner for the ice skating Olympics. He auditioned for my parents and they like him." Hermione said. She looked over at Draco who was staring at his plate eating and trying not to make eye contact with anyone less one of the younger year students thinks he's hexing them.

"I guess if you need a partner that's fine, but why he is sitting here with us? He's not exactly the person you would want to spend a lot of time with." Harry said, trying to keep his temper. He knew that if Hermione's parents had picked Malfoy that he was good but that didn't explain why in the freaking hell he was sitting here and Hermione kept avoiding his question.

"My parents told Dumbledore that we weren't exactly getting along so Dumbledore put a spell on us and we have to be within 2 feet of each other or we get pulled back together. It's really not that big of a deal." Hermione said trying to get Harry to understand that this wasn't the time or place for this discussion. Harry nodded, obviously getting that they would talk about it tomorrow.

Draco looked over at Hermione through the corner of his eye. 'I thought we had been getting along a lot better. I guess not since she didn't say anything about my company not being that bad or the fact that I am not a death eater and have never been a death eater.' Draco though sadly. Hermione didn't notice the change in Draco.

By now Ron was so mad that his face was almost a purple color and he could hardly breath.

"What do you mean 2 feet? Do you get off on the weekends? What about sleeping? And using the bathroom?....Please tell me he doesn't go in there with you." Ron said, his voice laced with venom. He was so close to shouting but surprisingly kept his cool and didn't announce to the entire school what was going on.

"Ron, can we please talk about this after dinner?" Hermione said. She hoped Ron could wait about five minutes. Dinner was almost over and if he could wait she was less likely to be really embarrassed.

"You didn't answer my question. Does he go in there with you?" Ron asked his question again. His eyes had turned to ice and he clenched his fork so hard that Hermione was sure when he let go there would be indents from his fingers.

"Yes Ron he does but" Hermione wasn't able to finish her sentence because as soon as the word 'yes' had come out of her mouth Ron was standing with his wand drawn and pointed at Draco who just smirked.

"I'll kill you." Ron said, trying to put as much hatred and anger in his voice as he could hoping to scare Malfoy a little.

"Jealous?" Draco asked standing up and looking Ron in the eyes. 'Oh shit.' He thought. 'I can't believe I just said that. I know that it's going to cause a big scene and Hermione's going to be so mad at me and I'm never going to get her to go out with me.' But it was too late. The word was out and the problem had been caused.

Ron jumped over the table and tackled Malfoy to the ground. They began fighting. It was a good thing that Draco was still near Hermione or she would've been pulled into the fight to.

"FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!" The students shouted as a crowd formed around Ron and Draco.

"Stop it. Stop it. Ron, Draco stop fighting right now. Your being stupid." Hermione yelled at them.

"One thing you should know about Malfoy's is that we are never stupid." Draco yelled at Hermione as he punched Ron in the stomach.

"Enough!" Professor Snape yelled as he stood over them. The boys stopped fighting and stood up.

"I don't know what is going on here and I don't want to know. You will stop this juvenile behavior at once and go to the Hospital wing. Granger, Potter. Go with them and make sure they don't get into another fight." Snape said.

Harry and Hermione nodded and each grabbed one of the boys. Once out of the Great Hall Hermione let them have it.

"What the hell were you thinking. First of all that was totally stupid and immature. Second, you didn't even let me finish telling you Ron that the spell is specifically designed to let us go into the bathroom without the other and for us to be farther away from each other in our dorm. Lastly you two idiot could've hurt each other not to mention me." Hermione finished by hitting them both on the arm.

"Oh, I'm so sorry Hermione I didn't even think that you could've gotten hurt. Please forgive me?" Ron asked trying to sound pathetic. Hermione glared at him for a moment but she resolve melted.

"Fine. But if you ever do something stupid like that again I will kick you into next week." Hermione said giving him a death glare but had a smile on her face. Ron opened his arms and gave Hermione a hug. She hugged back, she could never be mad at Ron, he was like a brother to her.

"Ugh can we please stop with the love fest. I think I might be sick." Draco said not really trying to be mean just wanting their hug to end. Hermione turned and glared at Draco.

"If you hadn't said what you did none of this would've happened so you can shut it. Now come on." Hermione said grabbing Draco's hand and pulling him to the Infirmary to get fixed up. Ron and Harry trailed after them glad that Hermione's wrath wasn't on either of them anymore.

"Would you let go of me?" Draco asked trying to sound like he was sorry but it came out annoyed.

"No." Hermione said, clearly irritated.

Once at the Infirmary Hermione and Harry watched as Ron and Draco's wounds were treated. Ron had more wounds on him but Draco's were deeper. It was apparent that the fight was almost evenly matched.

"Can we leave?" Draco asked as politely as he could. All he wanted to do was go back to his dorm and apologize for what he had done. He didn't want Hermione to hate him and it wasn't fair because Weasley had attacked him and he was getting the blame. He had provoked him but normally Weasley would just try to hurt him but never actually succeed. Draco hadn't expected to start a fight.

"Yes Mr. Malfoy you both can leave but the next time you get in a fight don't expect me to be as sympathetic." Madame Pomfrey said.

Draco stood up and began to leave when he was pulled back by Hermione.

"What?" he asked.

"Were are you going?" Hermione asked hand on hips.

"Back to our dorm." He said. It was kind of obvious. Where else could he go? The Slytherin dorm? They would kill Hermione before he could even say a word.

"Fine, but Harry and Ron are coming too. I need to talk to them about everything." Hermione said as if it were final and there was no arguing.

'What?' Draco thought, 'If they come then I have to wait forever until I can apologies to you. Wait, why am I even apologizing? The only thing I did was make a comment.....but I should apologise because it kind of was my fault. Ugh! I don't want to spend like 3 hours with the entire Golden Trio. Hermione is wonderful but the other two...ugh.'

"Fine." Draco grumbled and headed out the door of the Hospital Wing and not feeling the pull.

The Golden Trio followed behind him as Draco brooded about being stuck with the Golden trio and feeling bad because he couldn't apologies to Hermione and make her understand that she had hurt his feelings.

I know that this is kind of cutting it off but I can't go any further until I get an answer to my two questions.

1. What should Hermione and Draco's password be?

A- Ice Skate

B- Love

C- Childhood

D- *Send a suggestion if you don't like the options*

Ok question 2

2. Would you like this story to be more about Hermione and Draco bonding through ice skating or about the spell going wrong and something mysterious happening? (If you pick the 2nd option there will still be ice skating but the story will probably end up being a lot longer)

I hope that everyone reviews and that you all will help me with my story. And again I am so sorry for not updating for so long.