Author's Note: Okay this is a quick one. I Have Nothing To Say. Okay now enjoy.
Hermione headed back up to the Gryffindor common room as fast as she could. When she arrived in the safety of the common room she flung herself onto a couch next to the fire, closed her eyes and tried to forget what had just happened. Her heart was pounding and it was not from the eight flights of stairs. Malfoy had just kissed her! She was freaking out, and to make matters worse. The fact that she had raced into the dormitory looking like she had just seen He Who Must Not Be Named in the hallway drew some attention to her. Especially the attention of Harry and Ron.
"What has you so scared Hermione?" Harry asked as they sat down on either side of her.
"N-nothing, just forget it." She said, her voice was a little shaky.
"No. Tell us Hermione. Ron told me about what happened by the lake. I'm almost certain that this has to do with him."
"Harry it's none of your business! Just please leave me alone for now!" She got up and ran off to her room, the sting of tears in her eyes.
Draco woke up to the sounds of owls and bats outside his window. His eyes were tired and sore, his face was blotchy. What happened? He felt like he had been hit in the head with a boulder. Then it all came back to him. Merlin's Beard! What have I done? I kissed...a mudblood... He felt sick to his stomach as the sudden realization came to him. He looked out his window, it was still dark. He got up and left his room, nobody was in the common room. It must be late. At least I slept through the Halloween Ball. He left the common room and went up to the Entrance Hall. Nobody there as well, he headed outside before he got caught by one of those stuck up prefects. Now that he thought about it wasn't that Longbottom one? He made a mental note not to push Potter and his friends too far. He went to the lakeside sitting down on the blanket that he neglected to pick up earlier. He stretched himself out and starred up at the stars. The sky was clear, not a single cloud in the sky, it was so beautiful that way. He hummed a little song to himself as he counted the stars. All was peaceful and quiet. All of the sudden there was the sound of a twig snapping behind him. Draco sat up quickly and turned around. He couldn't see anything, but that didn't mean there wasn't anything there. He pulled out his wand. "Potter...Is that you?" He mumbled so if there was anyone near they could hear him.
"Damn twig." Harry said as he pulled off the cloak. He had his wand raised and looked furious. "What did you do to her? Don't you say you didn't because I know you Malfoy. Fess up."
"Heh, You really want to know?" Draco said as he stood up and pointed his wand at Harry. "What happens in my bedroom between a Master and his Slave has nothing to do with you Potter."
"What? How Dare You! Sectum-"
"Petrificus Totalus!" Malfoy yelled, a flash of light and Harry was on the ground frozen. Draco walked over to him. "Like I said Potter, it's my business, not yours and certainly not Weasley's. So Bugger off. Next time I wont be so nice, and um..Tell me if this is familiar at all." He stomped on Harry's face breaking his nose...Again. "Sweet dreams Potty." He said as he walked off leaving Harry to bleed all over his face.
The little encounter with Harry seemed to be just what he needed. He took a slow walk back to his room, tossed himself on his bed and fell into a peaceful sleep.
The next morning was a dreary day, cold, wet and grey, and of course Draco had Care of Magical Creatures. He spent extra time in bed instead of going down for breakfast and then pulled on his cloak and headed outside. By the time he had reached Hagrid's Hut he was soaked with rain his robes were sticking to his body and his hair was plastered to his forehead. He arrived just in time for the class to start.
"Ar'right then class. We're gonna be learning 'bout tha Winged Horses. Can anyone name a type of winged horse?"
"Well there's the Abraxan Hagrid." Hermione piped up, of course.
"Right ya are Hermione, and can ya tell me somethin about it?"
"Well they bassically look like giant Palominos and they're immensely powerful and well they're winnged."
Draco rolled his eyes. Of course they're winged.
"Good job Hermione, twenty house points to Gryffindor. Anyone else?" To everybody's supprise Draco raised his hand. "Erm...Malfoy? Do you know anything about winged horses."
"Yes acctually, I was thinking about Threstals. They're seen as a death omen most often because you can only see them if you've seen death. They're concidered unlucky and they possess the power of invisibility."
"Correct! Twenty house points to Slytherin." The Gryffindors moaned in displeasure. Even though it was pouring rain outside, Draco's mood seemed to lighten a bit.
After class Draco had nothing on his mind except getting back to his room and changing into some dry clothes before his next class. He was only a few steps into the Enterance Hall when a voice called out behind him.
"Oi! Malfoy! Wait Up!" There were footsteps following him. He froze. I knew that voice. Oh Bullock.
"What do you want Granger?" Draco said coolly without turning around.
"We need to talk...Now!" There was a note of imaitence in her voice.
"If this is about the homework that Slughorn assigned us I don't need help on this one thanks." He walked away, she ran after him.
"No Malfoy we need to talk," She grabbed him by his arm and turned him around.
"Get your hands off of me! You flithy mudblood!" The words hung in the air, stinging like salt in the wound. He looked her in the eyes, there were tears. He felt bad suddenly, he'd be damned if he let her know that.
"You are such an arse Malfoy!" She punched him, there was a deffinate cracking sound as her fist connected with the side of his face. "By the way...Does that feel familiar, you foul loatsome evil little cockroach." She turned away to leave Draco with a bleeding nose and a swolen lip. That stupid bitch. He put his hand up to his nose, feeling blood. I swear I will make her pay for that. He licked his lips tasting blood and smirked. She Will Pay...
November was here, the grounds of Hogwarts were covered with a layer of fresh, white, soft snow. Draco was asleep in his bed, the curtans on his four-poster bed drawn to keep out the blinding morning light from the enchanted windows.
"Hey you lazy git, wake up before I pull your sorry rear out of this bed. God I hope you're wearing clothes." A cold voice sliced through the peacefullness of Draco's sleep. This better be good. He kept his eyes shut hoping that Theo would get the message and leave him alone. "Draco get up. I know you can here me. It's three in the afternoon! You missed your classes, Snape is furious I had to tell him you were sick. What's your problem?" Draco had enough and he climbed out of his bed and rubbed his eyes, he was annoyed with Theo but he was too tired to care.
"How angry was he?"
"He took points off, thanks by the way."
"For what the points? Like I was the first Slytherin to lose points...I mean-"
"No." Theo cut in. "Longbottom was sick...acctually sick. Guess who had to work with your precious Mudblood." Theo glared at Draco maliciously.
"This is the big deal? You had to work with Hermione and now you wake me up from the greatest sleep that I have had in weeks?" He yawned. "What?" Theo was looking at him with a quizzical look.
"Draco, are you feeling okay?"
"Why?" Theo put his hand on Draco's forehead to see if he was warm. "Don't touch me!"
"You just look sick. You're eyes are sunken in...and you're a bit more pale than normal...and you just called...That mudblood...by her first name." Draco's eyes widened.
"N-no I didn't"
"Yes you did. What's going on? You were with her a lot and she stopped coming around. Was she acctually tutoring you...or was there something more going on?"
"Fuck off. You know I wouldn't touch a mudblood."
"Yes, your morals wouldn't but...You're a guy...Who recently had a break up. It's been what..three months? Since you and Pansy broke it off. So you've either been getting it on the side from Granger, or you've been wanking it every day of every week." Theo laughed.
"Shut Up! Is this what you've woken me for? So you can accuse me of sleeping with a dirty muggle born girl? I don't need this."
"I'm just trying to help you mate!"
"Help? You're a Prefect aren't you?"
"Yeah...but I don't-"
"Shut up. Let me talk. You're a Prefect, go give Potter and Weasley detention, something dificult to get them out in the open. I want to really get them back." He was more talking to himself than Theo.
"What the bloody hell are you going on about?"
"N-nothing...Never mind that." Theo looked as if he was not about to let this go. "Don't Theo, just drop it okay? Get out I'll meet you upstairs." Theo turned around and left the room, when he reached the door he stopped.
"You love her don't you?" And he was gone. Love? Ha! As if I could love her. Draco sat on the edge of his bed, his head in his hands. God damn that Theo, he thinks he knows everything. He pulled on a loos fitting grey buttondown and a pair of black jeans. Muggle clothes his mother would call them, he called it comfortable. He went upstairs to the common room and looked for Theo. He wasn't there but there was a note on the table with his name on it.
'Draco, I'm down by the Greenhouses. Meet Me There.'
Why couldn't Theo just wait for me the stupid git. He decided it best to acctually go, Theo would just lecture him more if he didn't go.
Inside the Gryffindor common room Hermione was playing a game of Wizard's Chess with Ginny.
"So, ou're done tutoring Malfoy then?"
"Yes. We had a little bit of a dissagreement and I told him I wouldn not tolorate it. He stormed off and I havn't heard from him in two weeks/ Come to think of it, he wasn't even in class today."
"Well maybe he's off doing Death Eater stuff?"
"Who cares? As long as he leaves Ron and Harry alone then- What?" Hermione looked up and Ginny was starring behind her. She turned around. "Nott? What are you doing here? How'd you get in?"
"Head Boy remmeber? You need to come with me, now."
"But why?" Hermione was not about to trust one of Malfoy's cronies, Head Boy or not.
"Professor Sprout wants to see you. Something about your last asignment." She didn't belive him.
"I don't trust you Nott. Now leave. This is a Gryffendor common room."
"Granger, don't make me force you." He took a few stepps closer, she drew her wand.
"Ginny, go upstairs. Now." Ginny left hurriedly. Hermione looked back at Theo. "Why are you still here?"
"I'm not leaving without you. Don't make me...Force you." He repeated himself. She didn't budge.
"I already said I'm not going anywhere with you." He moved swiftly forward and grabbed her hand.
"Come. With. Me." He said through gritted teeth as he tightend his grip.
"Ow! Let Me Go!" He pulled on her arm forcing her to move, he was stronger than she was and even though she resisted he still won. They got to the stairs and Theo stopped.
"Either walk, or I'll force you by other means, and belive me Granger, I don't want to do it this way." She looked as if she was going to spit in his face."Okay, fine. Have it your way." He looked angry as he drew his wand. "Imperio!" He shouted, Hermione went ridged her eyes seemed to roll back in her head. "Now follow me." Theo said as he headed down the stairs to the grounds.
Draco arrived at the Herbology Greenhouses and Theo was nowhere to be found. That bastard let me on a wild goose chase. But then heard voices.
"Oi! You know the Imperius Curse is unforgiveable!"
"Merlin I should have just left you under the curse, you were so much quieter that way."
"You ARSE!" There was a dull thud.
"Ow! You're so annoying. I have absolutely no idea what he sees in you. Just go in there will you!"
"No! Get your hands off of me!" Draco rounded the corner and saw Theo dragging Hermione towards him.
"THEO!" Draco rushed over and pulled him off of her. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING? GET OFF OF HER!"
"Draco calm down mate. I brought her here because the two of you need to- Would you get OFF?" He yelled at Hermione as she tried to atack him again. "The both of you, come with me now." There was a loud sound as both Draco and Hermione objected. "Okay how about this, do it or I curse your mouths off eh? How's that sound?" Niether of them said anything. "Right. This way." He led them to one of the smaller greenhouses. "In." He said as he opened the door. They both went in, then he shut it and locked it. "Don't even bother to try and unlock it. You wont be able to use alohamorah on this one. Now the two of you talk it out I'll come back in a few hours. Have Fun." Inside the greenhouse Hermione sat on an overturned giant clay pot, Draco stood at the door banging on it.
"THEO YOU BASTARD! LET US OUT!" He turned around to look at Hermione. "What do you want to do? Obviously we'll be here for quite some time."
"I don't want to do anything with you." She said coolly.
"I have an idea. We could play a game?"
"What kind of game?" She was suspusious of his sudden friendlieness.
"Wizard's Chess, Cards, Gobstones?"
"How on earth do you plan on playing one of those games?"
"It's a secret, so what do you want to play?"
"Cards sounds like fun, if you don't mind getting your arse beat." Draco laughd loudly.
"Oh? Do you want to make it interesting then?" He winked.
"How so?"
"How about we play strip-poker. For every game you win, I will take a piece of clothing off, and vise versa. Deal?"
"I hope you wore a lot of clothes Draco..." She purred. He blushed slightly but pulled out his wand and flicked it. A deck of cards that were stained with a questionable red substance, he dealt out the cards.
After a few games Draco's button down shirt, cloak and shoes were sitting in the corner. Hermione's cloak, shoes and socks were in the corner as well.
"Okay what have you got then?" Hermione showed her cards, she had two pairs, 9's and 6's. Draco laughed.
"What's so funny, what've you got?" Draco showed her his cards, he had a full house. Hermione glaired as she removed her shirt, revealing her breasts snugly fit into a tight black lacy bra. Draco couldn't look away, he blushed slightly. "What are you staring at?"
"N-nothing Granger. Next game?"
They played again and Draco won again. Now Hermione was just in her underwear and her socks. Draco was supprised that he still was winning, here a beautiful girl was sitting in front of him in just her underwear. He had never noticed before how amazing her body was.
"Play again? Draco?" Hermione cooed. She winked at him, hoping if she distracted him enough he'd eventually lose.
"Um...Hermione...I have a better idea."
Author's Note: I still have really nothing to say, except I BET YOU CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER HUH? Lol I'm sorry I have to do a cliffhanger at least once. Here's a preview.
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"You ARSE! I told you that I loved you! How could you do this to me!"
"I never loved you. Get over it. Leave me be." He stormed off to his room.
