Hermione left the classroom with Harry and Ron. Both of the boys were complaining. They had just spent the last 10 minutes trying to convince Professor Snape to let her change partners. But the man wouldn't budge when she tried to give suggestions for changing partners. Harry and Ron both agreed and even volunteered to be her partner. Professor Snape's response was that if they didn't get out of his classroom he would just fail them then they wouldn't need to worry about partners. Now she didn't know what to do. There was no way to change this she was stuck with Malfoy as a partner for the next month.

"Hermione." she looked up to see Harry and Ron looking at her. " what?" she hadn't been listening.

" I was saying we can be with you whenever you have to meet with Malfoy," Harry told her Hermione shook her head at them as much as she kind of wanted to take them up on the offer she didn't want them to have to waste their time just because she was stuck with a prick for a partner.

" no. it's fine I'm sure I will be able to handle it. Besides it is not like we have to spend a lot of time together. I'm sure he will just make me do most of the work on my own." Hermione gave them both a smile. They didn't look all that happy but they did seem to accept it as being better than her actually having to spend any time with the blond.

A whole week passed and she hadn't even talked with Malfoy. During their class time together he would just sit spinning his wand not even cracking open a book. She had hoped Professor Snape would say something but he never did so she started the research on her own. And had started writing down everything she would need for the potion she would be able to get just about everything in Hogsmead or mail order. She was also sure she would be able to get a few things from Professor Sprout.

this all was the easy part the hard part was researching the instructions on how to brew it. Uselully there were very clear instructions and steps on how to brew it. But this was a rather hard one because it had more than one way to brew it. Depending on the climate you were in. If you were in a humid climate it was best to use ingredients that had been dried but you would also need to use double the amount. In a cold climate, you needed to substitute certain items to keep the potion naturally warm when it wasn't over the fire. She took a great deal to cross-reference the necessary requirements for the climate of slightly damp and chilly not to mention no natural light.

Hermione sat surrounded by books and parchment paper, a wall that hid her from the rest of the library. This had been how most of her afternoons had been since the start of the project. There was just so much prep work that needed to be done before the actual brewing and she needed to start that soon otherwise she wouldn't have enough time to brew it before its due date.

Hermonie let out a sigh as she rubbed her tired eyes. She would have to cancel with Blaise tonight. What with how much she still needed to do. She let out a frustrated groan. She really could have used that relase but she couldn't take the time away from her work. It really would be easier if she had help from her partner. She shook her head at that thought Merlin would crawl out of his grave before Malfoy would be of help. The next day she was again reachering and taking down all the notes that she could, when someone reached around her picking up one of her stacks of notes. She whipped her head around and found Malfoy flipping through them making faces as he went.

" what do you think you're doing?" Malfoy ignored her as he continued.

"seriously Granger this is all you have, and how the hell are you expecting to make this step work when we only have an hour of class time did you even add in the time you would need to set up and clean up, you know Snape won't tolerate you holding up his next class just because you don't know how to time manage." Malfoy continued to flip through the pages and criticized just about everything in there.

Hermione couldn't handle it he had not helped at all left all the work to her and was now criticizing it. She jumped up ripping it from his hand and started defending her work. His response to this was to again steal her note and cross out her hard work. And list all the things he found wrong with it. They argued till Madame Prince kicked them out. After another minute of verbal taunts at each other they stomped off going their own way. the next day he appeared again and they started to argue and discuss her note and the note that he had also brought. Notes that she didn't know he had.

During class, they would work on the project pretty well but still argued quietly with each other criticizing the way each other was doing things. They would meet in the evening during open lab time to keep on track and meet daily in the library to discuss and go over their next steps for the potion and also write and edit their journals of their progress. All this in between arguing the end of their time was always with them yelling at each other and storming off in huffs.

Hermione was stomping up to her next class fuming from her latest encounter with Malfoy That infuriating prat anytime he didn't have a proper argument to her suggestions and ideas he would make some sexually indendo or comments that she clearly needed to get shagged. The thing that really bothered her about that comment was that she really could use a shag since this project started she hadn't had time to meet with Blaise at all she barely had enough time to get any real sleep she was down too four hours a night and that was on the nights she didn't have patrol.

Hermione reached her class not feeling any less angry slamming her books on her table. A few heads turned in her direction but didn't say anything. She did the best she could in class but she was really too riled up. The rest of her day didn't improve much she really wished that she could meet with Blaise but she knew he was busy with his own things. Like her, he had a busy school life. He had also been roped into managing his house quidditch team since most of his friends were on the team. Unlike her who only took the job to have something in common with her friends as well as make sure none of them got too badly hurt. Not to mention it was always a good idea to have an extra activity to write in your resumes, people like to know that the people they hire can handle a lot.

Blaise seemed to enjoy it more than her since he was also a quidditch fan. Just didn't have any real interest in playing it. Maybe she could interest him in a quicky in the shared equipment shed. though he was probably not as desperate as she was. They weren't exclusive so he had probably been seeing a witch or two whose schedules matched his better. She sighed feeling down at the thought. Well, she couldn't be too upset she was the one who insisted they keep their friendship a secret.

Hermione did try and help herself later that night to no success. She had to give up when it was getting close to the time her roommates would be getting back. She opted to work on her Ancient Studies. It was the one she had been falling a bit behind in. behind in the sense that she hadn't done any extra credit work in almost two weeks. Through the night she worked till she couldn't keep her eyes open falling asleep the moment she set her work aside.

Hermione sat in her usual spot in the library. Malfoy hadn't shown up yet incersetit prick. If he wasn't going to come he could have said so and she would have started working on some of her other work. She grumbled into her books since there wasn't much she could do about it. " sheesh Granger you actually look like you're ready to snap. Guess you haven't been able to find anyone willing to shag huh." Hermione looked up to see Malfoy's smug face.

" fuck off ferret, if you're not here to work on the project then leave I'm in no mood to deal with you." She went back to her work ignoring the sound of a chair being pulled out from across her. " you know Granger you should really be nicer, especially since I went through so much trouble to get this." Draco held up his hand it was empty except for a glove that only covered part of his hand. Leaving the bottom of his palm bare Herminoe just raised an eyebrow and shrugged. Why the hell should she care about some glove? Draco though did not lose his smirk.

"Well, Malfoy I'm guessing this is some weird pure blood brage to own some weird glove that doesn't even cover your whole hand. But unless it's going to start writing for me I'm really not interested." Hermione looked back down at her work.

" oh trust me you're going to be very interested in this." She chose not to listen and stared harder at her work. Hermione was inputting her note from their last class onto her rough draft. She suddenly felt a warmth between her legs and a light brushing against her inner thigh moving to her core. She took a peek under the table but nothing was there when she glanced over to Malfoy he was doing his work as far as she could tell. He wasn't even holding his wand one hand laid on the table while the other wrote with his quill. Hermione couldn't understand it. It felt like someone was touching her she felt her face heat. Was she imagining it? She held her breath as the invisible fingers continued to stroke her she could even feel the warmth from the fingers. she put her own hand under the table to try and see if she could feel anything but there wasn't anything. instead, all her hand felt was her moistening underwear. She tried not to think of it surely this was all in her head.

She let out a gasp at the feeling of fingers entering her and slowly pumping in and out of her. She squirmed in her chair as she gripped her quill harder. God, she didn't understand what was happening but it felt good so good. The speed increased and she had to cover her mouth to stop a moan from escaping. She looked up to make sure that Malfoy hadn't noticed anything. but instead of working on his own work like he had before he was looking straight at her.

shit she couldn't believe he caught her like this. Not that she really knew what it was herself. she just knew that somehow she was getting off in the library by an invisible hand. Hermione saw that he was smirking like he knew exactly what was going on. And then she noticed his hand was moving the same way that she felt happened to her.

how the fuck was he doing this. She wasn't given much time to think because the fingers pumped harder and faster inside her. She tried squeezing her legs together but that didn't change anything. She had to cover her mouth and keep her head down in hopes of not attracting attention. As she came closer and closer to her release she looked up through her hair. He was still watching her his eyes were dark and she couldn't stop herself she came trying to keep as quiet as possible. As the wave of pleasure washed over her she didn't even notice as he picked up his thing and strolled off leaving her panting and dripping onto her chair.

"the fuck was that Malfoy!" she hissed when she caught Malfoy walking alone. "care to elaborate there." He didn't show that he had any idea of what she was talking about. " you fucking fingered me in the library using some magic. Without my permission you fucker." Draco just tilted his head not seeming to care about her words. " all I did was help you out a little. And without your permission?" Draco let out a little laugh. " I'll have you know this glove doesn't work unless the other party wants it. So you can't really blame me for doing what you wanted." Hermione face heated at his words surly he must be lying. Draco could see that she didn't believe him. " tell you what even if you do want it. The glove has a safe word all you have to say is don't touch me. When I'm wearing it and nothing will happen. But I doubt you will judge on how much you seemed to enjoy yourself last time." He didn't give her any time to respond instead sidestepping her and walking away.