A/N: Hey all… sorry it's been awhile… life sorta gets you caught in its grip, and the next thing you know, it's a new year and it's been forever since you

Chapter 11: Ghosts, Goblins and Ghouls… oh my!

After Falin's departure, life went back to the way it usually went; school, studying, and running around attempting to plan this year's Halloween Party. Hermione spent hours upon hours planning the ball with Draco by her side, and while at times they wanted to tear each other into tiny scraps of their previous selves, little by little the ball came into its maturity. It was set for the eve of October 31st, in the Great Hall, where there would not only be live entertainment, but dancing, games and above all treats both magical and muggle alike. Now all the two heads of Hogwarts needed to do was plan their costumes, and with only one day left before the big ball, they were practically scrambling to do so.

Hermione sat in the common room, with parchment and quill, making a list of costume possibilities:

Princess

Ghost

Lady Macbeth

Lady Godiva

Marilyn Monroe

The list went on and on. Finally, she came to the perfect conclusion; she knew exactly what she would go as for Halloween. Throwing the parchment to the floor, she flew up the stairs and into her room. She threw open her closet and pulled what she needed from its depths. She spent the next hour transfiguring her own clothing into the perfect costume. Finally, she stood, and smiled at the costume she had sitting on her bed.

"Perfect" she muttered to herself.

Meanwhile, in his room Draco was attempting the impossible; trying to figure what the hell his roommate was doing in the other room. While he had decided on his costume more than an hour ago, he now sat at his desk wondering why there were curses and yells of frustration coming from Hermione's room. After an hour of attempting to study, he had finally given up when the strange sounds stopped. He stood, and walked through their joined bathroom, and stuck his head into her room.

"What in Merlin's name are you doing in here?" he asked.

She swiveled and covered her costume by doing so.

"Oh nothing really, just putting together my costume for tomorrow" she said. "What about you?"

Draco replied, " Oh I was trying to study, but someone was making entirely too much noise"

"Sorry"

Draco nodded, and slipped back out into the bathroom and then through his bedroom and out through the common room. On the floor he noticed the parchment Hermione had been writing on earlier that day. Picking it up he scanned it, and evilly he smirked. He may not be the asshole he'd been in his earlier years, but he could still pull a joke at someone else expense. Taking his wand from his pocket, he read over the list one more time and smirking again circled one of the characters. Folding the paper, he put it in his pocket, and made his way to the one place he knew his joke would be appreciated; the Slytherin common room.

He spent the next few hours joking around with his fellow classmates, and finally, he made his move to leave, he sneakily took Hermione's parchment from his pocket and 'dropped' it on the floor. Saying goodbye to his friends, he left the dungeons and made his way back up to the Heads quarters.

The next morning Hermione was making her way to the Great Hall for breakfast when several students appeared from the dungeons. They stopped when the reached the entrance hall and stared at Hermione. They then turned to one another and began to giggle, while looking her up and down. As she looked over her shoulder at them, she shook her head, they must be up to some Halloween fun. When she walked through the arch and into the Great Hall, the entire school stopped and turned towards her. She looked down at herself, no- she wasn't naked, this wasn't a bad dream; but what could be wrong with the entire school. It wasn't like she's grown another head through the night, she would have seen it in the mirror this morning. She moved as quickly as she could towards the Gryffindor table, and sat between Harry and Ron, who were trying their hardest not to laugh.

"What the hell is going on in this school?" she snarled at her friends.

"Well, everyone was fine until Pansy Parkinson came into breakfast with some interesting news about you. It's spread like wild fire" Ron explained.

"News about me?" Hermione sounded confused.

"Yes," Harry said, "about your Halloween costume- or lack there of"

"My Halloween costume?" Hermione turned to Ron and scowled at him.

"Yes" he said nervously.

"What about it Ronald?"

"Well, you see… umm…" he stuttered

"You're going as Lady Godiva, the entire school can't wait" Ginny jumped in from across the table.

"Lady Godiva? Oh My God!" Hermione stood and looked around the room until she found who she was looking for. Pulling her wand from her wrist holster, and smiled and pointed it the unsuspecting Head Boy.

Swishing her wand, Hermione smiled evilly and cast her spell.

"Avis"

A small flock of birds appeared over her wand,

"Attack Draco Malfoy" she whispered and pointed her wand towards the offensive blond little ferret. Once the birds were on their way, she sat back down and pretended to be very interested in her tea. It was only after she'd taken her first sip that the birds hit their target.

"Merlin's BALLS!" Draco screamed as the first bird pecked at his impeccably placed hair. He stood and began to wave his arms furiously, trying to keep the little birds from pecking at his head. He stood and in only an instant he knew who the culprit was.

"GRANGER" he yelled as she stomped across the Hall and stopped in front of her.

"Yes Draco?" she said sweetly.

"Get your blasted birds off of me!"

"I would Draco, but you see, I have a slight problem. It seems that the entire school is under the impression that I will be attending tonight's festivities NAKED" as she uttered the last word she stood up.

"Oh that" Draco stammered.

"Yes that!"

"Why do you think I had anything to do with it?" he said, attempting a bid at innocence.

"Well considering the only other person who lives in the same quarters as me is you, it means that you found my parchment and thought 'I'll have a laugh, and give it to someone'. THAT'S WHY!"

As they stood there screaming, the entire school looked on in amazement. Never before had the Head Boy and Head Girl gone at each other in public. One of them stood there, eyes blazing and hatred steaming from her, and the other stood waving his arms to ward off tiny little bird, unleashing their mistresses' fury out on his scalp.

"Gabrielle- it was only a laugh" Draco said, batting off another of the birds.

"A laugh- you think walking around the school having people giggle about your naked body is a laugh?"

"Not for me it isn't"

"Well it isn't for me either genius" she screamed, and turning on her heel left the Great Hall.

"Gabrielle- what about the birds" he whined after her. She continued to walk, ignoring his plead.

"Mr. Malfoy, allow me" a strict tight voice came from behind him. Turning he saw the Headmistress.

"Thank you Headmistress" he said as the birds disappeared.

"I would suggest that you apologize profusely to you fellow student Mr. Malfoy"

"I will, thank you again Headmistress" Draco said as he raced out the Great Hall and up the stairways and finally into his common room.

"Gabrielle- wait- I'm sorry" he said reaching out to grab her arm.

"What do you want?" she screamed

"I want to apologize, I'm sorry"

"Yes well SORRY isn't going to stop the entire school from picturing me NAKED, now is it?" she continued to yell. She ranted at him, stalking around the common room.

"It's not a horrible image there darling," he muttered

"Excuse me?" she snarled him.

"It's not like you're a monster, there Gabbi" Draco said

"Just because its not a bad image, doesn't mean I want the entire student body imagining me naked!" she sneered at him, turned and walked away from him.

It was late into the afternoon when Hermione awoke on the couch in the common room. She looked around her, at the fire burning slowly in the hearth, at the lamps surrounding the room. Realizing that the Halloween feast would be starting in only an hour, she rushed to her room, stripped, and ran into the bathroom to shower. Once she was showered she pulled her costume from her closet, and set about fixing her hair, makeup and finally putting on the dress she had transfigured so painstakingly the day before. Finishing up, she headed down into the common room, finally through the doorway, and down into the Great Hall. When she reached the giant doors leading to the dining hall, she could hear her fellow students talking, eating, and in general enjoying the party. She pushed open the door, and slipped into the room. Sitting down between Harry and Ron, she picked up her goblet and took a sip of the pumpkin juice that was so very customary of Hogwarts.

Once dinner was finished, she and Draco stood up to welcome their fellow students to the Halloween Ball. Standing in front of the crowd of students, Hermione looked amazing. The skin tight jeans in a dark denim looked almost painted onto her body, the vest she wore covered little else other than her breasts; held one with a simple, yet magically enhanced strap around her lower back, and a halter strap around her neck. Other than the very little clothing she was wearing, she had her feet in a pair of gorgeous leather cowboy boots. Her hair was magicked blond, and had large curls hanging down her back, and a top her head was a cowboy hat. Standing beside her, Draco was dressed in black jeans, boots and t-shirt. He was also wearing a leather jacket, beaten and used. He perfectly resembled a muggle biker.

"Sonorous" Hermione said, pointing her wand at her throat.

"Welcome to the Halloween Ball everyone. I hope you all enjoyed your dinners. First through fifth years, we've set up a separate function for you. I hope you enjoy our Halloween treat for you. If will follow the 5th year prefects, you'll find an interesting and exciting night ahead of you"

The 1st through 5th years stood, and exited the Great Hall. Some of them groaning and some of them cheering for the fact that they didn't have to spend the night with the upper years. When they had left, the upper years stood and with wave of the Headmasters' wand, the tables moved and transformed into a stage, and as soon as the stage was in place, a band took their place on it. Hermione moved to the side of the room to join her friends, while Draco moved towards the punch bowl. Since the party was mostly upper years, who were all above the age of majority, he snuck in a bottle of 160 year old Fire Whiskey and while milling around the punch bowl, took the bottle and poured in surreptitiously into the bowl. With a wave of his wand, he was able to mask the taste of the liquor; the upper years would never know. Smiling, he took a cup of the brew and walked away to the beats the band was making on their instruments.

Throughout the night, Hermione made her way to the punch bowl several times, in between dancing with Harry, Ron, Ginny and some of the other Gryffindor students. By the time the night was winding down, Hermione was quite inebriated. She said goodnight to her friends, and began to walk up towards the dorms she shared with the head boy. After slurring her way through the password, and making it into the common room, she fell onto one of the couches. A few minutes later, Draco entered the common room, swaying much like Hermione had been when she had left the party.

"Hey Gabbi-" he slurred,

"Hi Malfoy" Hermione grumbled.

"Did you enjoy my punch?" he laughed.

"Your punch?" she said, standing up.

"I might have put something in the punch" he said

"What the hell Draco, you could have given someone alcohol poisoning" she started to yell at him, walking towards him, and hitting him on the shoulder.

"What the hell" Draco said, "was the necessary?"

"You got everyone DRUNK Draco" she slurred; she went to hit him again. This time he was prepared. He caught her arm, and pulled her towards him. She was pressed against his chest, his hand wrapped around her arm, staring into each other's eyes. Hermione was livid, he could tell, there was fire in her eyes. She began to struggle in his arms, trying to get out of them.

"Draco, let me go" she said, hitting her shoulder against his in an effort to get away from him. He smiled at her, and let his arm fall from around her back. As she continues to scream, the more annoyed Draco became. Finally, in a bid to shut her up, he leaned down, and grabbed her face and laid his lips on hers in a searing kiss.

As soon as Draco's lips touched her own, Hermione stopped yelling. She yanked her face away from his, and stared at him. Looking at him, she began to realize what the entire school had been saying; Draco Malfoy was hot. In her alcohol haze, Hermione leaned back towards him, and pressed her lips against his in a hot searing kiss.

Minutes later, they were making out on the couch in the common room. Hermione was sitting in Draco's lap, her hands running through his hair, his hands grabbing her ass. He pulled the vest off her body, and pulled her head back to reveal her throat. He began to kiss up and down her neck, making her squirm and moan at his ministrations.

Hermione let Draco kiss her neck, while she stripped him of his jacket, and began to unbutton his shirt, and trousers. Soon they were both sitting face to face on the couch, completely naked.

"Draco…" Hermione moaned.

A/N: Hope you liked!