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Thursday morning came a little too quickly for Draco's liking. There was a feeling in his stomach he only associated with riding a broomstick for the first time. Pansy met him for breakfast and led him to the Great Hall, her fingers entwined with his.
They sat down at the Slytherin table and Pansy began chatting about that she and her 'girls' had planned for this weekend. Draco zoned out and was brought back to reality by her kissing him. Draco looked down at her and smiled, then pulled her closer.
"What do you say; you and I go into Hogsmeade this weekend instead?" Draco whispered in to her ear seductively.
Pansy looked at him and felt his forehead. Draco laughed and pulled her wrist down.
"What was that for?" He kissed her hand softly before releasing it.
"I'm making sure you aren't sick. We never do stuff like that." Pansy smiled, overjoyed. "I'll clear my schedule, Hogsmeade it is." Draco leaned in to kiss her once more before breakfast arrived on their plates.
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That night was there before Draco knew it. Again they were in the prefect common room studying. Hermione was once again explaining a concept of transfiguration to Draco. Slower this time, also with visual aids. Hermione finished explaining it and then had Draco repeat it back to her.
"That's much better. So this is kind of a dumb question, but have you been studying this?" Hermione felt a little hopeful when she asked this.
"No, not really I didn't really have the time. I was preoccupied with Pansy. You know." Draco was not sure what had possessed him to say that but he had said it.
"Oh," Hermione's voice fell a bit. "Right, I should have assumed that." She nodded. "All right I want to see how you're doing with the spell part of this." She smiled at him and motioned for him to stand.
"What do you want me to do?" Draco asked his wand at the ready.
"Change your right eyebrow purple please." Hermione conjured up a mirror so he could see what he was doing.
Draco stood there and concentrated on his right eyebrow. For a few moments nothing happened and then a large beard sprouted up on him. It was long and covered his mouth. He reached up to his mouth and pulled red hair away from it.
"It's not funny." He said in reply to Hermione who had at first kept her hand in front of her mouth, but now was rolling around on the couch. Draco dismissed the mirror and went over to her. He took her hand that held her wand and said, "Fix me."
Hermione sat up breathing heavily. "Only if you agree to work on this with me on Saturday." She help her wand up waiting for his reply.
"What about tomorrow? I promised Pansy I'd go to Hogsmeade with her on Saturday." Draco's icy gray eyes looked slightly resentful.
"No, tomorrow is a studying day for me. I already gave up my Tuesday's and Thursday's. I'm not giving up my Friday too. I'm sorry." Hermione pushed books off the couch and motioned for him to sit with her. "You can hang out with her afterwards okay? No matter how much I don't like you, I still don't want to be responsible for you two breaking up."
"You don't?" Draco made a face.
"I don't. I'm not like you Malfoy." She pursed her lips.
"Right, I forgot I was that spiteful." Draco glowered.
"Maybe not to your friends, but to people you hate, like me and my friends, then yes you're spiteful." Hermione returned his glare with a knowing look.
"Harry had a chance to be my friend in first year, but he turned me down. So anyone he's associated with I don't like. You, I was brought up to hate. Well, not you personally, but your kind."
"Well, I find that sad, Draco. The one reason I am glad to be muggle born is that I wasn't taught to hate anyone in the wizarding world. I can choose who I want to dislike. But you know what, you don't have to hate me, or at least the people I represent. No matter how much you blame it on your parents it is completely up to you."
"I would be an outcast from my family, a blood traitor. I'm not sure I could do that." He turned his eyes towards the ground and ran his fingers through his hair.
"I understand." She smiled at him and stood up. "Okay, enough lessons for tonight. I'll see you on Saturday."
Draco stood up, "All right see you on Saturday. Ten o' clock sound okay?" Draco asked, Hermione nodded in reply, handed him his books and raised her wand to remove his beard. "Bye," He walked out of the room.
Hermione quickly cleaned up and made sure the room looked like no one had been in it. She stuffed her books back in to her bag and walked back to the common room slowly not excited for more questioning as to why she had taken up studying in the prefect common room. When she reached the Fat Lady she said the password, 'Fizzing Whizbees' and climbed in to the common room. It was empty because she and Draco had worked late that night. Hermione let out a sigh of relief and sunk down in to one of the squashy chairs by the fireplace. Now it was time for her to finish her own homework.
A few hours later Hermione was done with her homework and dragged herself up into her common room for the few short hours of sleep that she would get before another long day of school was upon her.