Chapter 9: Dirty Books
"Hi Harry" Hermione plopped down into a seat next to him at the breakfast table. It was a lovely bright late November day and the sun shone in the enchanted ceiling.
"Oh hi…" Harry replied shiftily, barley glancing up from his cornflakes
"So… um what's new?"
"not much, still got those sessions with Dumbledore and I've been spending a lot of time with Ginny… actually Hermione I gotta go, I'll be late for uh- I'll see you later then" with that Harry hopped up and walked swiftly out of the great hall
Hermione sighed, It had been like this for almost a month now…she avoided Ron, Ron avoided her, Ginny picked Ron's side and Harry picked Ginny's.
So basically, she was all alone.
She stood up, there was no point sitting here all by herself, and felt a little nauseous when she rose. Ugh…she needed more friends
Not paying attention she started walking towards the door when her foot caught on a first year's huge book bag and she toppled over right into some guys arms
"Oh…oh my god I'm so sorry!" she said, looking up and catching her breath as she met those all too familiar ice blue-gray eyes.
"You know Granger; you would be way too easy to attack. Just set up a line of bags and you wouldn't stand a chance."
"Shut up Malfoy" Hermione pulled away from him annoyed, but still glad he had at least caught her
"I will if you wish it my dear" he said mockingly and turned his back on her to walk out of the hall.
"Jerk" Hermione whispered under her breath and bent down to help the kid put his books back in his bag when…
BANG!
She shot up, what was that?
CRASH
Oh god it better not be some stupid 2nd years sending sparks at each other again and knocking over suits of armor
She hurried forward, "excuse me please! I'm head girl, move aside!"
She ran towards the fight and then stopped abruptly when she realized who it was.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" Ron yelled as he shot a curse at Draco
"Even if you weren't a blood traitor Weasley, I think I would still be intellectually capable enough to tell you what to do" Draco blocked his curse and sent another one right at Ron which was blocked by Harry
"Stay out of this Potter! Ricetesempra!"
"Protego!" Yelled Ron
"I won't have you cursing my friends Malfoy- Expelliarmus!"
Draco dodged the curse and sent another back which hit Ron in the face and made him fall to the ground in pain, clutching his boil-filled face.
"Ron!" Harry cried "Furnunculous!" he shot his curse at Draco but once again Draco blocked it
"CRUC-" came a muffled cry from Ron on the floor.
It was if it was in slow motion, Hermione knew what spell Ron was about to fire and her eyes traveled to where that wand was pointing, right a Draco…she couldn't let it happen, she wouldn't.
"NO! Stupefy!" Hermione yelled pointing her wand at Ron and he slumped to the ground unconscious
"How dare you! You… you bitch!" Ginny screamed and pushed through the crowd pointing her wand at Hermione, "my brother – Confundo!"
"Protego! Ginny please! I'm sorry, I didn't mean – he was going to"
Ginny raised her wand again to cast her specialized bat bogie hex but then-
"Impedimenta!"
Ginny froze in her position, unmoving except for her eye which glared at Hermione.
Hermione looked around for her savoir and saw, of course, Draco Malfoy.
"How could you!" She hit him hard on the arm
"OW!...jeeezz Hermione so much for a thank you-"
"You could have gotten in so much trouble for-"
"Well Miss Granger, luckily for you I'm about to prove your point as they are in so much trouble." Professor McGonagall came up from behind her and Hermione jumped.
McGonagall waved her wand and Ron woke up then she pointed it at Ginny who unfroze immediately though still looking quite stiff, "all of you, my office, NOW."
They all looked worriedly at each other but still followed McGonagall up the stairs and down the hall to her office, Harry was the last in and shut the door behind him but then immediately wishing he hadn't because then he would have at least had an escape route when McGonagall rounded on them.
"I am absolutely shocked and appalled by you 5! Fighting in the school corridor, a prefect, head boy and girl and quiddich captain and co captain – unbelievable! 25 points each from all of you and a weeks worth of detentions"
She paused for an intake of breath and looked around, glaring at each and every one of them. "Potter and Weasley you will be helping Mr. Filtch clean the castle every night for a week, without magic"
Harry and Ron groaned
"Don't make noise at me boys, you deserve it…report to him by 7pm each night. Ms Weasley you will report to me and help with the reorganization of teacher's files and you Ms. Granger and Mr. Malfoy you will be helping clean up the library every night starting at 9pm for three hours before you go on your head patrols of the school until 2am. Alright now all of you, out of my office…I don't want to hear about any more trouble or it will be straight to the headmaster with you. Now. Out!"
They hurried out, Hermione couldn't help thinking that being sent to the headmaster wasn't really a threat, and he probably would have been fairer than McGonagall…now she was stuck with Malfoy every night for a whole week.
Ginny, Harry and Ron stalked off without a backwards look at Hermione. She knew she was in real trouble now. Not only had she supposedly 'broken Ron's heart' she had taken sides with Malfoy, a Slytherin…probably a deatheater, in a duel against them.
She sighed and then felt a breath on the back of her neck that made her hair stand on end, as if a volt of electricity was shot through her, "see you tonight then, he whispered in her ear" and right before she was about to melt into him, he was gone.
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Hermione headed towards the library that night with a heavy heart. She couldn't believe what an idiot she was, oh could she have stepped in like that and got herself landed in detention…she was head girl for fuck sake! And now Harry and Ginny hated her…and Ron really hated her.
She entered the library and looked around for Madame Pince only to see Draco lounging on one of the chairs looking at her expectantly.
"Malfoy, I'm shocked. I didn't know that you even knew where the library was?"
He grinned, "Look at you, Ms. Sassy"
"Where's Madame Pince?"
"She left a note, all we have to do is put away the books"
"Easier said than done" replied Hermione who, as someone who had spent a lot of her time in the library, knew how difficult that job could be.
"Whatever, let's just get this over with then…"
It had often been that Hermione was the last one in the library and made to put away tons of books before with Madame Pince watching over her like a hawk. The Hogwarts library had no dewy decimal system that she had learned about in the muggle world when she was younger, no alphabetical order by authors, it was just chaos. Still it was controlled chaos. They were grouped into sections by spells or animals or potions or anything else the books could be on, so basically you had to know your way around the library to know where to put things.
Draco had never been much of a library go-er. He retained all the information he heard in class, and if he ever rarely need extra studying he just made Pansy, Crabb or Goyle go get a book for him. He was totally confused by this, and it didn't help that some books had a mind of their own and either told him off for putting them in the wrong place, or floated away.
"You stupid bastard! I'm about potions! Not magical fungus!" said one particularly annoying book rapping him smartly over the head.
Draco swore and was just about to light the damn thing on fire when Hermione snatched it out of his hand and walked off with it, without saying a word. Draco rolled his eyes and resorted to just meekly following Hermione and handing her books whenever she stuck out her hand.
They worked together in silence for a while, Draco handing Hermione a book and Hermione mutely moving through the shelves to put the away properly.
Finally he couldn't stand it anymore, so Draco broke the silence, "thanks uh…for stepping in today. Not that I needed it or anything, it was just nice to know I had someone on my side"
"I wasn't on your side"
"Well it bloody seemed like it" He chuckled
"I was trying to maintain order and the school rules"
"By breaking them?"
Hermione opened her mouth to retort but then in a fluster dropped the book she was holding and hurriedly bent down to get it. She bent over and looked up only to have Draco's face inches from hers, she let out a little startled breath and neither of them moved for a second. He was so close, why did part of her want him to be even closer…why did she want him to lean in and –
Draco straightened up, a little flushed and looked around. "Alright well, I think we're pretty much done here"
"Yah… I suppose we are"
"Hermione, why are you all red?"
"wh-what? I'm not red"
"How do you know? And yah, you are"
"I'm just hot"
"Its bloody freezing, how on earth could you be hot…well I guess that depends on what sort of hot you're referring to"
She rolled her eyes, "oh please…"
"Oh please what?" asked Draco, a little grin appearing on his face as he took a step closer.
"PLEASE leave me alone"
He was inches from her now, "are you sure Hermione? Do you really want me to leave you alone?"
Her breath caught in her, "y-yes, please leave -"
He ran his hand down her side, and when he touched her she felt like she was melting into him, he leaned forward and whispered in her ear.
"Hermione"
"Yes" she breathed
"Say please one more time"
She laughed and went to hit him but he caught her hand and kissed her palm, ever so gently. Her smile vanished, she closed her eyes and a need filled her, a desperate urge to be closer to him, to rip off his clothes, to have him inside her. She closed her eyes as she felt his breath on her neck, his lips softly brushing along the curve of her jaw.
Her eyes fluttered open and me his eyes. She couldn't look away, not even when he lent forward, and they were close…so close… She didn't think and let her emotions and feelings and urges just take over.
And they kissed, and kissed…deeper…and deeper. Draco backed Hermione up against a wall and moved one hand behind her head; he ran the other down her body. He gently bit her bottom lip and she let her hands travel up his back, behind his neck, in his hair to pull him closer.
Hermione shivered but didn't break the kiss, she wanted him…more than she had ever wanted him before, she wanted Draco Malfoy.
She felt his tongue lightly graze her lips and they automatically opened, giving him access. Their tongues slowly danced with each other.
The moment her back hit the wall, he took his hand off neck and roamed the curves of the body. His hands slid down her waist, back up her abdomen and finally landing on her breast, slightly fondling it.
His lips left hers and kissed a trail down her jaw line and to her neck. Malfoy lightly kissed, licked and nipped at her neck, sucking on it. Hermione couldn't help but let a small moan escape from somewhere in her throat. Malfoy took this as an invitation to bite harder, and that he did.
She felt as though her entire body was on fire. The spot in-between her legs began to moisten as he bit harder. She knew he'd leave marks, but she didn't care. She never wanted this to end.
Without thinking, Hermione wrapped her leg around his back. He pressed into her further and moved his lips back to her mouth. She kissed him like she had never kissed anyone else ever before
THUMP
A book fell, the spell was broken.
Hermione quickly put two feet back on the ground and pushed Draco off of her gently. Taking in big gulps of air, she walked with her head held high to the door.
"Hermione -"
She felt him grab her hand, and turned to look at him. The candle light flickering in his icy gray eyes, his face flushed with excitement, his lips red from her kisses…
She opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say, so she leaned forward and kissed him lightly on the cheek. It startled him and he let go of her hand giving her enough opportunity to run away.
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A/N: Hey guys!
So I hope you liked this chapter, review please! And let me know what you think of this story so far, I hope it's at least mildly entertaining. I'm going to try and update regularly from now on, but it is summer so I can't always promise ….
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