The Kindling Fire Between Us

Completely taken off guard by the voice, which coincidentally resembled the noise a dying seagull makes, Hermione fell off the coach, hitting the floor with an ungraceful plop. The voice rang out again from behind the door.

\" Draco, how long does it take to get a damn condom?\"

Hermione looked at Draco, who was fixing his tie and hair, with first a look of comprehension, then with anger. She realized that the thing that was making that god- awful noise was the extremely whorish girl she had seen Draco with earlier. She then realized, upon reflection of the comment made about the condom, that he was going to screw her brains out right then and there, even though his date was waiting right outside. She couldn\'t believe him.

\' Look at him. Sitting there, acting like he god\'s gift to mankind. Well, I mean he is pretty sexy...Dammit! Even when I\'m mad at him I can\'t fight the urge to just bite him. ( a/n: Don\'t lie! I know you know that feeling!) No, no, no! I\'m mad! Mad, mad, mad, mad, MAD!\'

Hermione stood up with renewed confidence. This was turning out to be one hell of a day.

\" I believe your skank is waiting for her daily fuck. Better hurry up before she relieves all that tension out on Peeves,\" Hermione looked him up and down and turned to walk away, but quickly halted when Draco rebutted.

\" Damn, Granger, why are you being so uptight?\"

\" Why am I being so uptight?! You are seriously driving.me.insane! One minute your acting like the supreme king of pricks I\'ve come to know and, for lack of a better word, love, then the next minute you\'re...you\'re...I don\'t even know! Do you see what you\'re doing to me? I\'m speechless, actually speechless...Well, not really speechless, considering that I\'m talking...Now I\'m rambling! Ahhhh! Okay, let\'s just say it\'s like you\'re constantly trying to seduce me. And it\'s reeking havoc on my hormones! You can\'t do that to me! You can\'t just loathe me for 6 years then all of a sudden decide that you\'re going to take some kind of sexual interest in me! It doesn\'t work that way! Once we\'re enemies, we stay enemies! I\'m not your toy! You already have toys, one of which, by the way, is waiting for you. So let\'s just pretend this never happened. I can go back to wishing I could disembowel you and you go back to pretending that you\'re god and humping anything with spread legs. Speaking of spread legs, I believe you\'re date is still waiting. So go, have fun, contract some STDs while you\'re at it,\" Hermione crossed her arms with finality and eyed Draco, waiting for a response. She hoped he would just accept the terms she presented and they would go back to the way life was suppose to be, but instead he cocked his eyebrow and grinned.

\" I\'m reeking havoc on your hormones, eh?\"

She couldn\'t believe him. She really couldn\'t. Had everything she just said gone over his head? Had he really only heard the parts about him?

\" Draco, you\'re probably the biggest, self-centered ass-hole I have ever known,\"

\" Oh stop! You flatter me!\"

\" You\'re exasperating!\"

\" And you\'re just bitter,\"

\" What do you mean I\'m bitter?!\"

Draco took a step forward and, as we all know by now, that always means trouble.

\" What I mean is that you\'re just mad because you had a chance of living out all your le sle school girl fantasies just a few seconds ago, but because the school\'s bicycle ( a/n: everyone gets a ride!) out there interrupted us, you had a moment to think about it. That\'s so typical of you, Granger. Always thinking, never acting out on your instincts. It\'s just going to go into a continuous circle. You\'ll try to ignore me, fantasize about me, get mad at me, almost get it on with me, then yell at me. I\'m giving you an outlet for all that sexual frustration and you\'re not taking it. But oh well, I guess I should be on my way. At least one of is going to get laid today,\" He smirked again and sauntered to the door.

\" I hate you!\" Hermione yelled as he was about to walk out.

He turned around and gave her a fake look of concern.

\" Granger, you should really change you\'re look \'cause self-loathing just isn\'t doing it for you,\" With that he left. Hermione could hear his date asking why he had taken so long. Of course he avoided the question by complimenting her dress.

Hermione stomped up to her room and thought about what he had said. Maybe she did think about her actions too much. Maybe she would be much happier then she was right now if she had just gone with the flow and ignored the fact that he had some girl waiting for him outside.

\' I need to get Malfoy out of my head!!

But you know you\'ll never be able to.

Oh, and why\'s that?

Because you want him!

I do not!

Yes, you do!

I hate him! Why would I want him?

Hey, you\'re the one that said you don\'t necessarily have to like someone to want to have sex with them.

I take that all back. I was wrong. I said that in a momentary lapse of judgment.

No you didn\'t. I know you still want him.

How are you so certain?

Hello, let me introduce myself. I\'m your brain. I\'ll be managing your thoughts for awhile...

Ok, ok. Just shut up.

Admit it, you want him. You need him. You, dare I say it, lust for him.

I think that\'s a little too...

Admit it!

Alright! Yes, I need. Yes, I lust for him. And yes, I think he\'s the damn sexiest piece of man I\'ve seen in a looooong time. But what am I suppose to do about it?

Do what he\'s doing to do.

Which is??

Seduce him!

Umm, I\'ve already tried that, and well, it kinda got me nowhere.

You\'ll just have to take a more direct approach.\'