This chapter was rough. Because of the way I edited the last part, this portion looked like it was from another book completely. Ugh. Oh well I think I got it to where it will fit nicely into the story. Let me know how you like it. Remember to comment, favorite and follow.

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"Alrighteveryone, as I said yesterday I'm going to put you in pairs for the semester's project. You are all to do a five foot paper on Amortentia, it's properties, ingredients, and theory behind it. I have put half of the classes names into this chalice and the other half will draw from it to choose your partners."

Slug moved around the room allowing people to draw from the cup. Padma picked her sister Pavarti, of course. Ron picked Lavender. Harry picked Neville then Crabbe chose Goyle. Finally Slug came around to me and held out the cup.

'Please be her, please be her,' I thought to myself. I swirled the last few names around in the cup before I picked one at the bottom.

I slowly retrieved the piece of parchment out of the chalice and brought it to myself so I could unfold it. Fold by fold, I opened the paper to reveal the name.

Hermione.

Yes!

I glanced in her direction and smiled as I caught her eye. I could have sworn that she smiled back at me before she looked away.

"Well speak up lad, what name did you draw?" Slug stood over me with that strange crooked grin on his face and crazy stare.

"Hermione," I said to him.

"Splendid! Splendid!" he praised and moved onto the next group.

Hermione. It was so nice to say her first name. It felt almost natural. Like it was meant to be. I looked over to her again and we locked eyes.

There was something within those beautiful chocolate pools that made my mind go blank. I couldn't think. I just sat there – like an idiot mind you – and stared.

To my surprise everyone started standing up and moving about the classroom to different desks. I was so caught up in my thoughts about Hermione that I did not hear the instructions from Slughorn after everyone was paired off. Hermione gathered up her belongings and came over to the desk I was sitting at and sat down next to me.

"Hey," she said gleefully as a smile formed on her features. She started rummaging through her things and pulled out a planner that seemed to be loaded with information and class schedules.

"Hey," I said back to her. She looked at me again and gave me a questionable look.

"Are you ok? You seem to be a little lost."

Damn it, snap out of it, Draco.

"Oh, yeah I am fine, I just didn't hear what the Slug said. I was not paying attention to him."

She must have thought that was funny because she giggled, I like her cute giggle, then clarified the situation for me.

"He gave us the remainder of the class to work on the project and to figure out what days we can meet up to continue it. He also told us that we were only going to have a select few days to work on the project in class."

I nodded at her in understanding and turned to my bag. I pulled out my planner and opened it to find a date suitable for working on the project.

"What days do you have quiddich practice? I am very flexible with my time."

"Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, I practice, and Games are every Saturday until the next semester, then it may change."

"Oh, so you have practice later? Maybe I'll swing by to watch."

Wait, did she really just say that?

"Um yea, that would be cool. Maybe after practice we could start on our project."

"Of course, we could meet in the room of requirement if you would like. I was actually thinking about brewing the potion if you would like to help me. It would definitely assist us with the information, rather than just finding everything out of books."

She is a genius I swear.

"That would be great. Then we would have the potion right in front of us to view for ourselves. I will talk to Snape and see if we can get the ingredients from him that we need."

I heard her mumble something after that, something that sounded like stealing.

"Wait what?" I asked.

She quickly turned her head to me. "oh, nothing."

We smiled at each other.

Slug cut in, "Oh, and by the way everyone, I just wanted to let you know, the paper will be due at the end of term. It will need to be turned in by the last day of class before the holiday break. All of the information you need can be found in the library. If you need a pass to the restricted section, let me know and I will write one for you. Now, off you go."

We waited to be the last people out of the room, then headed towards the door. I held it open for her. She looked at me with a smile of thanks as she walked through. I followed her out and she stopped in the hallway.

"So I'll see you in a little bit. Go ahead and get the ingredients from Snape so we can start right away."

"Ok, yea, um, no problem." I'm stumbling over my words now. I'm an idiot. However, she nodded and went off towards her common room.

I turned on my heel and started walking towards Snape's office.

As I got to the door, he was finishing up with his class. I let all of the kids file out then headed in.

"And want can I do for you Draco? Finally come to your senses?"

"Nope, I actually need some potions ingredients."

"Really? Are you brewing a draught of living death too?"

"What?"

"Oh, nothing someone stole ingredients from my stores again and what I am missing is compatible with the draught of living death ingredients."

Ah. That's what she meant by the whole stealing thing. I had to laugh. She must be really clever to break into the professors private store room.

"What are you going to need? I don't have all day you know."

"I need the ingredients for Amortentia. We will have a paper due on it and it will better help us if we could brew it."

Snape swiveled around to look at me. He held a hard stare in his eyes that I thought was going to burn a hole through me.

"That is the most powerful love potion in the world. I can't have you running off to brew it with some other idiot."

"I'm not paired with an idiot, I'm paired with Granger."

He looked at me, eyes squinted, like he was trying to read me. Then he closed his eyes in defeat and said, "Give me a moment."

He went to the store room and I heard a few bottles clinking around. He emerged but a moment later with a small bag.

"Here is everything you will need to fill five vials full of Amortentia. The vials I am talking about are in that bag. When you are finished brewing the potion, I expect the vials to be filled and given to me immediately. I don't need anyone falling under the influence of a love potion around here."

"Thank you, sir."

I started to make my way out of the classroom but not before Snape stopped me again.

"Do be careful around Miss Granger. Who knows how he will react if he finds out you are working with the 'enemy'."

I nodded in understanding at this and quickly left his room to get ready for practice. I entered the common room just in time for Pansy to stop me on the way there.

"Hey, Draco."

"Oh, um, hey, Pansy."

"Want to come over and sit with us? I got some firewhiskey if you want a drink."

"Not right now, I have to get to practice."

"Oh, ok, we'll no worries. I'll see you soon."

She started leaning in for a kiss. What the hell? I turned away from her and ran up the stairs. Gross. I am never making another mistake like that again.

I got to my room and saw that Blaze was on his bed reading his notes from this afternoon.

"Hey man, how's it going?" I asked.

He looked down from his notes, "Hey, Drake, getting ready for practice, I see."

"Yea, I got to get going though or else I am going to be late. I got side tracked with Pansy."

"Ooh! That sounds interesting. She doing alright?"

I knew what he was thinking. He thought I just had sex with her. Yuck.

"Not what you think, dude. She tried to kiss me in the common room after she offered me a glass of firewhiskey."

"Sounds delicious."

He was teasing me now. Still, yuck!

I quickly finished getting ready and headed out to the pitch. Our first game was tomorrow against the Gryffindor idiots. It's because of pothead we Slytherin are frowned upon. We have always had a large rivalry between our houses and since everyone always cheers for 'The Chosen One,' Slytherin is always left in the dust it seems.

No matter though, we will show them this year. We had an awesome team.

I stepped out onto the pitch and gathered my team to give them a pep talk. Then, we hit the field. Everyone worked beautifully together.

I smiled. Gryffindor was in for a treat tomorrow.

I gave myself a moment then to look around the pitch. I saw her. She was sitting by herself with a book in her hands. She smiled at me and waved when I looked over. I smiled over to her as well, then continued to watch my team.

After practice was finished, I dismissed everyone to go rest for the night. They all left and any other students in the stands followed. All except one. I finished putting all the equipment away, then hopped onto my broom and went up to the stands. I stopped in front of her. She looked pleased.

"So, what's a Gryffindor like you doing at a Slytherin practice?"

"Just scoping out the competition."

"Are you nervous about tomorrow?"

"I'm sure not, but Harry may need to be."

I flew my broom into the stands so I could get off and sit next to her. I sat down and looked over to her.

"I got all of the ingredients from Snape that we will need. However, he was very strict in his instructions. We have to make sure we return every drop to him or else he will throw a fit."

"Not a problem. So are you ready to start this then?" She stood up and started walking towards the exit.

"Yea, I'll meet you there. I want to get changed quickly."

"Ok."

I took off then to the castle flying above the lake and down to the courtyard. I entered the castle and practically sprinted to the common room. Once there, I made my way to the boys lavatory, got showered and changed into jeans and a white t-shirt. I grabbed the potion ingredients and my bag from my room and made my way as quickly as I could up to the seventh floor. As I rounded the final corner, I saw her standing outside the room, waiting for me.

"You didn't have to wait." I said, still making my way toward her.

"It's no big deal, I've only been waiting for a moment. The walk from the pitch is pretty lengthy."

Now I felt like a piece of shit. I left her alone to walk back by herself and I didn't offer her an escort.

"I'm sorry, I should have offered you a ride back to the castle. I wasn't thinking."

"It's alright, I don't mind the walk. Now, we need to figure out the equipment we will need to brew the potion and anything else we may need for the time being."

"I got an idea." I went up to the tapestry and took a moment to think of exactly what I wanted. I walked passed it three times and the door appeared . I opened it and held it for Hermione to walk through. Her eyes lit up when she walked in.

Yes!

That's what I was going for.

On the one wall stood a fireplace that was lit and opposite that was a table full of treats and goodies to eat. Two plush chairs sat at either end of the table too. On the side wall, away from the sitting area was a large brewing station with everything we would need to brew the potion as well as a large bookcase that was filled with all the books on Amortentia in the world.

"This is perfect."

"How about some dinner? We are going to end up missing it if we stay up here too late brewing. Might as well eat now."

She nodded in agreement.

We both headed over to the table and sat down. She quickly grabbed one of the buttery croissants as well as a spoonful of fresh vegetables and parmesan chicken. I did the same and we both dug in. The only sounds in the room was the klinking of utensils until Hermione spoke up.

"I actually found the recipe for Amortentia in an old potions manual. If you want though, we can look at a few other recipes, along with the ingredients Snape gave you and put together a recipe of our own."

Ah! Just like she did with the draught of living death.

Brilliant!

"That would be great. It sounds like a plan."

She smiled at me again.

I love her smiles.

We finished eating and headed over to the work station. I took the ingredients out of the bag as well as the five vials.

"I'm guessing that is what we need to put the finished product in?"

"Yup, should be just enough to fill them."

"Well then, let's get to work."

It took longer than we thought, maybe hours, but we finally figured out a recipe that would work for our project. I looked at my watch after finishing an article on the ingredients and it showed that it was just after midnight.

"Hey! We need to get going to bed!"

It was too late. She was already asleep in her chair.

What should I do?

Wake her up? No. I have another idea. I pointed my wand at the chair she was in and transfigured it into a couch. I then did the same with mine. I took my hankie out of my pocket and transfigured that into a blanket for her. I covered her up with it, satisfied that she would be cozy for the night. I turned to my couch, took off my shirt and made it into a blanket for myself. I snuggled up on my couch and watched her as she slept peacefully.

"Good night, Hermione."

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