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Repeat After Me	By : Luckycharms Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 8881 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 2- Déjà vu
Friday October 29^th, 1999 07:20am
Covering his head with his pillow, Draco clenched his eyes closed as the headache from Hermione’s punch grew. He had no idea how he got back into his bedroom, but at that moment, he didn’t really care. He glanced up at the clock on his nightstand and let out a loud whining groan when he realized he slept all night.
“Draco!” Theo bellowed from the other side of the wooded entryway “Draco, are you up yet? Pansy wants us all to walk down to breakfast together!”
“Go away” he grumbled.
“I would but I can’t until I know you’re up. Plus I’m tired of hearing her nag about you being so slow! So hurry up!”
“Why the hell do I need to get up early on a Saturday?”
“Saturday? Draco it’s Friday… The Ball is tonight and Pansy wants to finish getting the last minutes details prepped for our costumes.
‘Friday? He’s joking…right?’
Grabbing his wand off his nightstand he looked back at the date on the clock and crinkled his brows in confusion.
‘What the fuck? But the Ball was yesterday…’
“Just get down stairs quickly…Please?” Theo finished.
Unwillingly he stood up, grabbed his school robes from his closet and got dressed before catching his appearance in the mirror. He looked tired and beaten but he didn’t have time to dwell on it. Waving his wand like he did every morning, he freshened himself up before moving to open his door. As he stepped out in frustration that he had to get up early again Hermione crashed right into him; dropping her books all over the floor.
“Again Granger, geez; wanna have another go and yell at me some more? Punch me again?”
Hermione raised a brow as she looked up at him from her crouched position on the floor.
“What are you talking about? That was third year,” she stood up and scrunched her nose while adjusting the books in her hands “You honestly still can’t let that go? I already told you I was sorry about that on the train.”
Draco tilted his head in confusion as Hermione frowned and brushed passed him.
“Draco!” Pansy called out in glee as she stood up from the couch “Took you long enough; we were beginning to think you died up there.”
His eyes darted around the hall as he thought about what just happened. It was like she didn’t remember hitting him last night or the fight they had. His mind began to race but he quickly shook the thoughts from his brain and headed downstairs. Plopping himself on the couch he sat on yesterday, Draco kicked up his feet and let out a sigh.
“Oh enough with the self-loathing” Pansy stated as she cuddled up next to Blaise “It’s two days until Halloween and tonight is the Ball. Would it kill you to at least act happier?”
“It just might” Ron chimed in as he, Lavender, and Harry took seats in the corner away from the Slytherin’s.
Draco sat up quickly causing everyone to stare at him like he had grown a second head.
“Draco, you okay mate?” Blaise asked in concern.
He ignored his friend as he shook his head to rid the idea that he was reliving the dream he had last night.
“See,” Ron continued “we have been here almost two months trying to ‘get along’ and he has been nothing but a sourpuss the whole time.”
“It’s true” Harry added quietly “he doesn’t really speak to anyone.”
‘This isn’t happening…this can’t be happening. What the fuck happened last night?’
“That’s because he has been through a lot” claimed Pansy in a huff.
“We have all been through a lot” Ron stated as he leaned back and crossed his arms.
Draco promptly stood up in a panic as everyone in the room gawked at him.
“I…I uh…” he gulped slightly before quickly walking away from the group.
As he rushed to the portrait he heard the rest of the conversation before hearing the male Hufflepuff begin to say the same thing he said yesterday.
Panicking he ran out through the portrait trying to get away from the situation as fast as possible. Stopping a few feet from the door he breathed heavily as he ran his fingers through his hair. A minute later Hermione stormed out of the door with Harry following not long after and Draco instantly knew it was because of the virgin joke Lavender said.
Doubling over with his hands resting on his knees; he sucked in breath after breath before Theo emerged in front of him.
“Hey!...Hey, hey, hey, what’s wrong? What happened?”
Draco stood up and ran his fingers through his hair again. Letting out a deep sigh he leaned back against the wall and looked up at the ceiling.
“Draco…What happened?”
“I…I don’t know”
“What do you mean you don’t know?”
He lowered his head and gazed at his friend in frustration.
“I-DON’T-KNOW!” he shouted.
“Okay, alright…Can you just…start at the beginning? Did someone say something to you? What’s going on?”
He took in a deep breath through his nose as he crossed his arms before opening his mouth to speak.
“Yesterday…was Friday.”
“Uh, I’m pretty sure it was Thursday.”
‘I’m not crazy’
“No- it…” Draco uncrossed his arms and placed both hands on top of his head “this day already happened. That whole conversation in there,” he pointed to the door “I’ve heard it already.”
“Sooo…you’re experiencing, what, déjà vu?”
“I-I guess you could say that, but…”
Before he could reply any further everyone remaining in the common room came out with Ron rushing at the forefront to get to breakfast and meet up with his friends.
‘He’s going to fall’
Just as Draco predicted, halfway down the hall Ron tripped over his feet and fell to the ground.
“Oof, that’s embarrassing…Okay well I’m hungry, so let’s walk and talk.”
Theo grabbed his arm to get him to follow and they began to walk down to breakfast together.
“So…déjà vu?”
“Forget it, Theo. It’s nothing important.”
“No, no I want to know what’s going on. This is the first time in a long while that we have actually gotten to talk,” he shrugged “so let’s talk.”
“There isn’t anything to talk about. I’m just…I don’t know maybe I dreamt it all and it’s just a big coincidence?”
‘But it felt so real’
“It’s possible-oh maybe you’re a seer! Did you use your inner eye?” Theo chuckled.
“What? No I-”
“Ooo, did you see that?” he cut in when the Ravenclaw girl smacked her boyfriend across the face.
“I did…Yesterday.” Draco mumbled under his breath.
Theo chuckled as he looked at him weirdly before continuing onwards.
As they turned the corner, Draco watched as the same things kept happening. He tried to pass it off but he slowly started to believe he was losing his mind. Sitting down at breakfast, he ignored the same speech McGonagall gave before and played with the snake emblem embedded into the table. After the breakfast buffet was served, he played around with the eggs on his plate as he thought about what Theo said.
“Aren’t you going to eat?” Pansy asked him worryingly.
“Let him be, Pans” Blaise interfered “He seems extra moody today.”
“I’m not moody!” Draco defended sharply, but paused when he remembered the conversation.
“See” Blaise held out his hand “moody.”
“Give it a rest Blaise; he’s having a bad day.” Theo chimed in when Draco refused to speak up.
“By waking up?” he retorted. “All you ever do is stay in your room and keep to yourself, Draco. What could possibly have happened that would put you in such a bad mood?”
“She’s going to scream at Brown” he whispered aloud as he looked up to the Gryffindor table.
“What?” Blaise questioned as he leaned forward.
“ENOUGH LAVENDER!”
Everyone in the hall went quiet as they looked over at Hermione staring angrily down at Lavender.
“Ugh! Just leave me alone!”
Pansy pointed a finger as she turned back around and looked at Draco with an open mouth.
“H-how did you know she was going to do that?” she asked while bending her upper body closer to the table.
“Lucky guess” Blaise answered as he stabbed at his eggs. “Granger is always yelling at someone and Brown of all people has a special way of getting under her skin.”
“I’m beginning to think she has ulterior motives for why she singles Granger out” Pansy claimed as she bit into a slice of bacon.
“You know Pans, I think you may be right” Blaise replied calmly. “Granger’s lecture this morning was strange though. I can see why Brown picks on her.”
“Strange? What do you mean strange?” Draco asked as he looked to his friend.
“Why do you care?”
“Just tell me!”
“Uh, okay--well she defended you for starters, and then tried to cover it up by telling us to study for the exam. Wait are you-”
Draco quickly stood up and left the Great Hall in a hurry, not even realizing that Theo never once took his eyes off him.
“Draco! Wait-where are you going?” Theo shouted as he ran down the hall to catch up to him.
“I need to talk to Granger” he replied while refusing to stop the brisk pace down the empty corridor. Though Theo caught up to him relatively quickly and pulled at his arm, but Draco shoved him off and kept going.
“Draco, are you sleeping with her?” he blurted out.
Stopping in his tracks, Draco turned on his heel with his mouth gaped open.
“Are you serious right now? Merlin’s beard-No! Why the hell would you think I was sleeping with her?”
“Well it’s either that or you are both harboring secret feelings for each other… Oh come on,” he continued as he waved off Draco’s sour expression “you both act strange around each other, she tries to talk to you in public but you brush her off because you have an image you no longer need to maintain, and in case you haven’t noticed she actually looks to be upset when you push her away…and now you’re running off to see her after that outburst.”
“I am not harboring any sort of feelings for her! Ugh okay, someone is going to sabotage her potion today and I am going to get blamed for it; resulting to me locking myself in my room until McGonagall shows up, breaks down my silencing charm, and gives me detention; all before Granger argues with me in the common room during the ball, just to end up punching me in the face! So before this day gets any worse, I need to warn Granger about Brown.”
“Wow…I-uh…that’s…strangely specific. Probably would have been easier to just say you were secretly dating her.”
“How the hell would that be easier? A-and I’m not dating her o-or sleeping with her! Salazar!” he claimed as he threw his hands in the air.
“You have to admit though, she is hot, and smart--so are you. It’s not like it would be a huge shock if you two hooked up. I mean you guys would look good together and you both balance each other’s intelligence out. Also ever since the war we’ve all sort of matured in a sense…look, all I’m saying is I’m sure we could all handle a secret love affair between you and Granger, but seeing the ‘future’…that’s a little beyond my expertise.”
Draco tilted his head and scrunched his face in disgusted confusion.
“Did you just call me hot?”
“What? No, not-I’m not-I didn’t mean it like that. Gross! Geez you give a guy a simple compliment and he turns it around like everyone wants him.”
Draco threw his head back in annoyance before turning around to continue down the hall.
“Wait!” Theo shouted after him making him stop for a second “Is that really all you got out of that?”
“Bloody hell, Theo, seriously? Now is not the time.”
“I’m just saying, mate, maybe having Granger be more than just a friend wouldn’t be such a bad thing.”
“Never gonna happen. She and I are not friends, nor will we ever be friends. I am done talking about this.”
“Okay fine, but you can’t just go barging in there telling her everything you just told me.”
Draco clapped his palms against the sides of his thighs before rolling his eyes and continued to march towards the common room door.
“Draco, stop!” Theo demanded.
“What, Theo, what the hell do you want? I am on a time limit here!” he yelled as he torqued his body around.
“Do you honestly think anyone is going to believe you? I mean, I hardly believe you. Think about it mate; you go in there and start rambling about seeing the future, she is going to think you’ve gone mental. Don’t you remember when she walked out of Trelawney class? She hates Divinations.”
“I…I never thought about that.”
“Yeah well, if you really think someone is going to ruin her potion and blame you for it, then my only suggestion would be for you to either try telling a Professor, without sounding crazy, or…”
“Or what?”
“Or skip class”
“I’ll fail the exam if I skip”
“It’s only a monthly exam Draco, I am sure the hit you’ll take on your grade won’t be a bad as getting expelled. That shite will follow you through any career you try to pursue…Just think about it, alright? We have an hour before class so you have some time to weigh your options. If it comes down to it, I’ll make up some excuse for you. It’s possible you can retake the exam tomorrow or something.”
“Yeah…Okay--I’ll think about it.”
“Good! In the meantime, I’m going to go talk Blaise and Pansy off the ‘you sleeping with Granger’ cliff.”
“They think I’m sleeping with her too? What the fuck?”
“Almost everyone does. No one says it aloud but we all thought it. You guys went from hating each other for so long to being nice all of a sudden, it’s a little strange.”
“I’m not nice to her” Draco claimed as he shook his head in disbelief.
“Well you sure as hell aren’t mean to her anymore- Draco you catch yourself whenever the word mudblood tries to come out of your mouth, you actively go out of your way to not hurt her anymore, and if we are being completely honest here, she’s the only one besides me that you have actually sort have talked to since school started back up”
‘Have I really been nice to her?’
“Anyway…I’m going to go do some damage control so…”
“Yeah, I’ll just--stay in my room for now.”
Theo pressed his lips together as his gaze fell to worry; but he quickly nodded his head before he turned around and walked back to the Great Hall. Draco dropped his shoulders as he put his hands in his pockets and watched as his friend turned the corner and disappear. He stood alone in the empty hall contemplating whether the Intel he just received was accurate or not. Minute after minute passed by, but it wasn’t until people started to fill the halls that he finally move.
Draco walked into the eighth year common room and noticed that Hermione and Ginny were not sitting on the couch like he remembered. Realizing he was outside longer than the first time, he figured the pair went to one of their rooms, so he let out a sigh and walked up stairs.
He sat on his bed for the next half hour as thought after thought bombarded his mind. A slight knock at his door drew him out of his hypnotic state and he looked to the wooden barrier with a fallen face knowing exactly who was on the other side.
“Malfoy?” her calm soft voice spoke “It’s-”
“What do you need Granger?” he quickly cut in.
“I-I just wanted to let you know that Potions is starting shortly, in-in case you were still sleeping.”
“I wasn’t sleeping”
‘Why do I keep telling her that?’
“Oh, o-okay…Well…I guess I’ll see you in class then.”
“Granger, wait”
Draco stood up and opened the door to find Hermione standing in front of him with her lips slightly parted. Her eyes showed a small amount fear as she looked up at him and he half knew she was preparing for him to snap on her at any moment. He wanted to soften his features to show her he wasn’t going to call her names or make fun of her hair, the hair that now fell off her shoulders in soft warm curls, but he had to get his point across and he didn’t want her to think that what she was doing, was okay.
“People think we are sleeping together” he stated firmly.
Hermione’s eyes widened in bewilderment as her jaw dropped in surprise.
“I-I…What? That’s absu-”
“Everyone is thinking we are secretly dating because you keep trying to talk to me. And no matter how many times I tell you to go away, or ignore you, you keep pushing to get me to talk to you”
“Malfoy I-”
“Leave-me-alone! I’m not your boyfriend, I’m not your friend, and I am not some charity case you can try to fix!”
Hermione took a step back as her brown eyes began to water making Draco instantly feel terrible; but he had to make her understand.
“I don’t know why you have this obsessive need to try and get me to talk to you and honestly I really don’t care, but it needs to stop. You need to stop and just leave me the hell alone. I have enough problems wallowing in my own misery; I don’t need rumors of us sleeping together on top of it, alright?”
“I…I-I’m sorry, I-”
Draco let out a huff through his nose before taking a step back and shutting the door in her shocked frozen face. He felt horrible for hurting her feelings when it seemed like all she wanted to do was help him. As a matter of fact, she was the only one who actually seemed to care that he was going through a lot. But it didn’t excuse her actions which caused his classmates to gossip, and it was the only way he could think to get her off his case. He just wanted to be left alone.
He decided to take Theo’s advice and skip Potions class. He knew for a fact that it would cause a whole cascade of issues for him in the long run, but he wasn’t about to test fate by showing up just to get blamed for something he would never do. Even as a bratty child, he never stooped as low as to ruin an exam for someone; that was something Crabbe would have done and he was no longer around.
‘Should I have warned her about Brown?’ he thought to himself as he lay on his bed and stared up at the ceiling with his hands folded on his stomach. ‘Would it have made things worse? Would she even believe me? Of course she wouldn’t believe you Draco; she would think you’re crazy, just like everyone else does. No, it’s better that you skipped. No one can blame you if you’re not even there.’
02:30pm
“Draco! Draco open up!” Theo begged in a panic as he pounded on the door.
‘I can never get just one moment to my damn self!’
Letting out a deep exhale he slowly stood up placed his hand on the doorknob before gradually beginning to open it; but he only managed to get the door partially cracked before Theo shoved passed him in a hurry and began pacing back and forth in front of his bed as he ran his fingers through his hair.
“Sure Theo, come on in” Draco claimed in sarcasm while shutting the door.
“Draco, what the bloody hell did you do?”
“What? I didn’t do anything. I’ve been in my room since breakfast.”
“Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure you were here the whole time?” Theo asked as he stopped pacing and turned to face Draco.
“Theo-”
“Are you sure?” he firmly interrupted with a finger pointed up.
“Yes…What the fuck is going on?”
Theo took a seat on the bottom of the bed and ran both hands through his disheveled hair.
“I told Slughorn you were sick but…Granger’s potion got tampered with anyway, just like you said it would.”
“Okay well I wasn’t there so-”
“Everyone saw you…”
Draco protruded his jaw forward as he furrowed his brows in confusion.
“I’m sorry, what?”
“Everyone saw you snap on Granger before class. Half the class thinks you did something to ‘send a message’ to get her to back off!”
“Are you fucking kidding me? You’re serious right now, I didn’t do anything! I wasn’t even there!”
“Yeah well, everyone is coming up with odd ways as to how you did it. Weasley even claimed that you stole Potter’s invisibility cloak just so you could sneak around; but Potter denied that quickly because he didn’t want his shite to be taken.”
“That is fucking insane!” Draco stated, throwing his hands into the air as he began to pace back and forth in front of the door.
“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t” Theo mumbled “And there is no way to prove you’re innocence. Not unless they either take your memories or give you Veritaserum; both of which are illegal to use on students.”
“Bloody fucking hell! What the fuck am I supposed to do?”
“I have no idea. But you can’t go out there right now. They all want your head on a platter.”
“Fuck!” Draco ran his fingers threw his blonde hair as he moved to sit next to his Slytherin friend “I thought not going would prevent this from happening. Why else would I be experiencing this kind of déjà vu?”
“Draco, are you sure it’s just déjà vu? Maybe you should talk to Professor Trelawney or Firenze.”
“I am not talking to some old bat about this, and a centaur won’t be able to help me as it takes years for them to read the stars.”
“Okay well, your choices are limited so take it or leave it. I don’t really know how else to help you. Everyone in that class is getting questioned right now and it is only a matter of time before the headmistress wants to speak to you…But if what you told me earlier is correct, then she is just going to give you detention, right? Your main problem, besides the riot that is about to happen outside your door, seems to be getting around Granger punching you later tonight.”
“I just need to avoid the common room after McGonagall takes me to her office. Simple.”
‘How did this get so out of hand?’
“If you say so” Theo shrugged before standing up “Do you want me to stay? I can grab Blaise and Pansy too if you like. We can form like a group or something.”
“I don’t need or want a group to protect me from the Gryffindor Bookworm. I am sure I can handle her myself. I’ll be able to see it coming this time.”
“Alright…but if you change your mind…”
“I don’t need bodyguards, Theo!”
Theo held up his hands in defense as he took a few steps back but he lowered his hands quickly and turned around to leave when he heard pounding on the door behind him.
“Malfoy! Open this door you slimy git!” Ron shouted in anger.
Draco rolled his eyes before throwing himself backwards in a huff. Theo threw up a silencing charm followed by a locking charm to keep the pissed off Gryffindor out and Draco would have thanked him, but he knew in a few hours McGonagall was just going to remove both spells anyway.
07:00pm
As the boys waited, Theo suggested playing a game of Exploding Snap; but the idea of playing a game where the cards spontaneously explode in his room, was not something Draco thought would be good for his state of mind, so instead for the next few hours they played a couple games of Wizard’s Chess. Four and half hours later, Professor McGonagall took down the spells and asked Draco to open his door, causing Theo to stare up at him in shock as Draco let out a sigh of defeat.
“Mr. Malfoy,” she began, but stopped when she saw Theo standing next to Draco’s bed “Mr. Nott, may I ask what you are doing here?”
“Hello Professor,” he waved with a weary smile as he rubbed a hand on the back of his neck “I was just coming to see you.”
“I am sure you were…” she claimed while dipping her chin into her chest as she gazed at him in disappointment “Very well, seeing as I am needed shortly to chaperone the Ball and you delayed questioning to warn Mr. Malfoy here, you leave me no choice but to bring you both to my office…If you would follow me, please.”
Draco and Theo stepped out the door and into the hallway but stopped as they saw everyone standing around the couches below with fury on their features. Blaise and Pansy looked more disappointed than anything but Hermione…
‘Wait a second’
Draco looked around the crowd of outraged faces and noticed Hermione was not in the group.
‘Where is she…Wait why do you even care? You don’t care…So then why did you actively seek her out? Because she is the reason for all this shite! Is she though… You know what, just…Shut up!’
“I suspect you all have better things to attend to then standing around eavesdropping on a matter that does not concern you.” McGonagall stated strongly.
‘This shite is getting too weird’
After the students scattered, Draco and Theo followed the Headmistress to her office in silence. They stood awkwardly in front of her desk as she took her seat and waited for her to speak.
“Have a seat.” she motioned to the two two golden chairs placed directly behind them.
“I-” Draco began but Theo cut in quickly with an ‘okay’ forcing him to have no choice except to sit.
“Now, who would like to begin explaining to me what happened?”
Theo looked to Draco with his mouth hung open ready to speak, but he seemed to be stuck on what to say.
“I-uh well…” Theo began.
“I’m experiencing déjà vu.” Draco interrupted with his arms crossed in front of him.
“I beg your pardon?” McGonagall questioned as she narrowed her eyes to him “What does that have to do with Ms. Granger’s potion being tampered with or you skipping your monthly exam?”
“I already know what happens today” Draco replied reluctantly “I-I don’t know if I dreamt it or-or what, but I knew Granger’s potion was going to have Fluxweed added when the recipe didn’t call for it, and I was going to get blamed for it; so I skipped class. I was going to ask Professor Slughorn if I could make the exam up tomorrow or something and I hoped my non-existent presence would prove I didn’t do it…Apparently I was wrong.”
“So you knew that the added ingredient was Fluxweed and you didn’t tell a Professor? Mr. Malfoy you do know that your story sounds a bit…farce?”
“Seriously?” Draco up righted himself out of the chair in frustration “I didn’t ask for this Professor! Yesterday I kept to myself, took the stupid exam, and ended up being accused for the same thing I am being blamed for now! I woke up and everything around me was the same! I can’t explain it…All I want to do is just forget it happened and move on!”
“Mr. Malfoy,” McGonagall stated firmly as she too stood “Sit-Down…Now.”
Draco threw his hands in the air as he took his seat and crossed his arms once more. Letting off a scoff he angrily stared off to his left refusing to look at anybody.
“Professor,” Theo interceded “I-I really think he’s telling the truth. Draco has no reason to sabotage Granger’s potion. Yes the story seems a little-absurd, but I have seen him predict a few things today before they even happened; and there was no way he could have intervened.”
“That may be Mr. Nott, but that does not excuse the case load I have to deal with to understand what happened in that classroom. Now until the investigation is complete, there is not much else we can do but wait. In the time being, I have a Ball to chaperon…Mr. Nott in all fairness, due to you hiding out while knowing there was an inquiry in progress and lying to a professor about Mr. Malfoy being ill, I am afraid I must suspend you from the dance this evening.”
“What? But-”
“I am sorry but my hands are tired” she interrupted “As for you Mr. Malfoy-”
“I know…three days detention, in your office, six pm, no Ball. You also want to mention that you think I’m depressed. I’m guessing Blaise and Pansy, maybe Theo here too, said something to you regarding my ‘mental health’; you weren’t specific the last time I heard this so I am only assuming it was them who said something. Only person you were specific about was Granger. Also you want to state that if I am found guilty, my education at this school will cease immediately and I will be expelled. My mother fought very hard, as you claimed the last time, to get me back into Hogwarts, and you hope her efforts will not be in vain. Does that about cover it? Can we go now?”
Professor McGonagall’s face fell to shock before she softened her eyes to concern. He could tell she was worried by the strain in the wrinkles surrounding her gaze, but he knew she couldn’t help him…no one could. She thought he was just as crazy as he felt.
“Very well, however due to that outburst, it is now four day’s detention.”
“Yeah, sure fine, whatever”
McGonagall let out a deep sigh and waved a hand motioning for them to leave. He quickly stood up and left in a bitter haste with Theo hot on his trail.
08:02pm
Draco stood in front of the portrait of a prairie woman tapping her foot impatiently with her arms crossed in front of her. She was definitely annoyed and for once he couldn’t blame her. She had asked him three times now for the password but he wouldn’t budge; even when Theo opened his mouth to utter the words, Draco stopped him, causing his best friend to look at him curiously.
“If you are not going to say the password young man, than I suggest you be on your merry way” the woman in the painting stated “It is rude to stare!”
“I wholeheartedly agree ma’am” Theo claimed as he continued to eye Draco wearily “Draco…can we go in please?”
Draco shushed his friend as he threw a hand up to stop him from talking while scrunching his face in concentration. Suddenly his lips fell at the realization of what was about to occur, couldn’t be stopped if he entered.
“Fuck!” he exclaimed as he laced his fingers on top of his head.
“Wait…” Theo began “We just came back from McGonagall’s office… Granger is supposed to hit you isn’t she?”
“Yes”
“You mean to tell me that we have been standing out here for ten minutes for you to just now remember that?”
“I was trying to think of a way to get around it!”
“You were thi-for Salazar sake mate, just hide in your damn room!”
“I can’t just hide in my room smartarse! Granger is Head Girl of our dorm; she has all the privileges of a Professor’s Assistant. As in she has the ability to remove locks and silencing charms; she can still easily get to me if she is as pissed as last time.”
“Then just don’t argue with her! Merlin, I just want to sulk in my room!” Theo declared as he leaned his back up against the wall.
“What the hell do you have to sulk about? You’re not the one who already saw this day happen, knowing full well that you’re about to get punched in the face.”
“Are you serious? You roped me into this mess causing me to get axed from attending the Halloween Ball, which by the way, I really was looking forward to going to! And before you say that I didn’t have to try and help you, let’s just point out that you have been the one acting loonier than Luna Lovegood today, which in itself is saying something, so obviously I am going to want to help my friend!”
“Point taken”
“So let’s figure something out and quickly. I don’t want to stand out here any longer than I have to and I am pretty sure Granger is going to be coming soon as well.”
“Alright…Well we don’t need to be gone long, I don’t think. She most likely just forgot something because when I saw her yesterday-or today-or whatever, she was already in her Pirate costume.”
“Was she hot?” Theo asked as he flicked his eyebrows upwards.
“Grow up!” Draco stated as he rolled his eyes and began walking down the opposite corridor away from the Great Hall toward the Library.
“Well was she?” Theo expelled with a chuckle.
“I’m not answering that” he claimed as he continued to walk.
“I’ll take that as a yes then”
“Don’t take it as anything! I am not stooping to your pathetic antics!”
“Admit it Draco, you like her.”
Draco stopped in his tracks and whipped his body around so quickly that Theo ran directly into him.
“What the-”
“Lay-the fuck-off!” he snapped.
“Well,” Theo scoffed “someone needs to get laid…Wait,” he continued as Draco turned back around “is it because she’s a virgin? You don’t want to have sex with virgins? That’s a little rude; what did they ever do to you?”
“No, Theo! Geez,” he claimed as he stopped in front of the Library and turned back around “I don’t have a problem with virgins!”
“You’re getting a little too irritated by this. I mean…Oh my Basilisk in a Chamber--‘Don’t say it’--you’re a virgin!” Draco’s eyes went wide as his cheeks instantly flushed a crimson red “Holy shite-you are!” Theo smiled widely.
“Keep your damn voice down!” Draco whispered through gritted teeth as he dragged Theo by the arm closer to the Library doors.
“This is-Bouncing Ferrets, I can’t believe this!” he laughed excitingly “You keep passing Granger off because you don’t know how to bone her.”
“Are you for real right now? That…” he quickly stopped to look around to make sure no one was nearby before turning his eyes back to Theo’s “that is not why I keep passing her off! Okay yes, she’s hot and I don’t completely hate her anymore, but pushing her away…it just goes so much deeper than that.”
Theo crossed his arms as he leaned a shoulder against the wall.
“Okay…how much deeper?” he asked in concern.
“Yeah Malfoy, how much deeper” a male voice questioned in a condescending tone making the boys snap their heads up in surprise “Deeper than this morning when Hermione only tried to wake you’re arse up for the class you ruined for her, and instead of just ignoring her you snapped like a bloody tyrant?”
“Ron stop” Harry cut in while he finished shoving his invisibility cloak into his pocket, but Ron shoved him away and took a step forward.
“Or do you mean deeper like you standing in your stupid mansion watching her get abused a-and mutilated and did nothing!”
“Ron, enough” Harry tried again after everyone gasped with wide eyes
“Not even an apology afterwards and yet, she still tries to be your friend…that deep?”
“Weasley,” Theo asserted as he removed himself from the wall “back off. You don’t know what you’re talking about. What the hell are you supposed to be anyway? It’s hard to take you seriously while you’re wearing green spanx. Didn’t know you ran that way; does Lav-Lav know?” he smirked.
“I-it’s- Peter Pan and yes she knows because she’s Wendy; this was her idea!”
“I’m sure it was” Theo chuckled into his fist. “I wonder…if a Boggart appeared in front of you right now, would it turn into a mirror; cause I too am terrified of the little balls suffocating between your legs. Are you even able to have children after wearing those?”
“Piss off Nott!”
“It was a serious question…And let me guess, Weaselette’s girl zombie, Potter? At least that’s a cool costume.”
“Thanks” Harry grinned but quickly lost the smile when he saw Ron’s face turn to a scowl.
“Let’s not get off topic here, Nott.”
“Nah, Weasley. We’re done here.” Theo smacked Draco’s arm and began to walk away “Let’s go mate.”
“How cute, you have your lackey giving you orders now?” Ron patronized with a laugh.
“Knock it off Weasley,” Draco finally spoke “I can easily defend myself; I am just choosing to try and be the bigger person here by walking away.”
“Oh the bigger person” he mocked while taking a step forward “last I checked you’ve only been acting like Merlin’s saggy left tit since we came back here.”
“And you have been nothing but the bully I once was” Draco said snidely as he took a step closer to the red-head
“You know, I wonder if you actually would have been able to come back here if it wasn’t for your mum being the ‘bigger person’ and lying to Voldemort to help win the war.”
“And I wonder if you will ever gain enough common sense to not start fights you know you won’t win!” Draco sneered as he towered over the Gryffindor.
“Guys stop” Harry interjected as he and Theo watched the two men continue to bicker.
But as they tried to pull their friends away when the argument became more heated, Ron snapped. The only person to really see it coming was Harry, but he wasn’t able to grab his wand quick enough before Ron lifted his arm and slammed his fist directly into Draco’s face, forcing him to stumble backwards. Draco dabbed a finger to his bloody lip, before letting out a small scoff, and venomously glared back at the fear stricken boy in front of him.
“Draco, are you alright?” Theo asked as he ran up to him, but Draco merely shoved him away before standing upright and licked the small amount blood off the corner of his lip.
“Your Golden Girl hits harder than you, you arse! Here, let me show you.”
Without hesitating, Draco lunged at Ron and tackled him painfully to the ground. As soon as he righted himself over the red-head, he torqued his arm back and landed a heavily fisted punch straight into Ron’s nose. He promptly wound his arm back again but the hit never landed. Instead he was struck with a strong stupefy; essentially throwing him off the Gryffindor and into the wall. His head hit the concrete with a sickening thud, knocking him out cold as Theo raced towards him.
Opening his eyes, Draco let out a groan as he gazed up at the bricked ceiling above him. He raised a hand to the back of his head expecting to feel dry blood, but it seemed fine so he raised the upper half of his body off the ground and looked around. Now realizing he was in his bedroom he rubbed the base of his palms across his forehead and turned to look at the clock. Picking it up off the end table he reread the time and realized it was 07:20 am. He let out a low grumble as he set the device down and laid his head back. Placing one of his four pillows over his face, he closed his eyes and tried to forget the fight, he clearly was winning, with Ron. Unfortunately for him though a loud knock hammered at his door, interrupting his blissful Saturday morning.
“Draco!” Theo shouted from the other side of the wooded entryway “Draco, are you up yet? Pansy wants us all to walk down to breakfast together!”
Sitting up as fast as his body would possibly allow him, he reached for the clock again and looked at the date. Throwing the clock across the room, he scrambled out of bed, almost falling backwards into his closet in the process, as his eyes went wide and terror… began to fill his lungs.
AN- Hey guys! I am so glad you are enjoying the story so far. I hope to stay up to date and not fall behind on this one like I did the last story. So in order to do that, I have decided that once a week, on Sunday’s, I will post a new chapter. I apologize now if it gets delayed in anyway, but I am striving to stay up to date. I know, I know, no post on Sunday’s, but I am changing that. Yay! Don’t forget to leave reviews! Love you all!
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