I Put On

A/N: I apologize deeply for the wait. I have been very very busy and wasn’t really sure were to take this. Thank you all who are watching this. :) Now hopefully I can get this show on the road, I never thought this would make it past chapter One. Once again, I am not currently looking for a beta due to a horrible experience with a beta reader that I had once. Thank you all for the offers though.
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Several weeks had passed since the incident in the library with Potter. Draco had been avoiding him at all possible means. He could care less if Potter himself swung the same way he did, Draco would wait until after Hogwarts to find a male companion. Besides, there was only sexual tension between the two of them. Lust and love are too very different things.

It was overcast outside, dreadfully freezing and Draco didn’t move from his spot at the desk near the fire as the portrait swung open and then slammed closed. Granger had come in, she looked extremely cold and was shivering but Draco gave her no attention, he had homework to do.

Granger plopped down on the couch and looked in his direction, just watching his arm move as he scribbled on the parachment. Draco could see her out of the corner of his eye and it was starting to bother him. They rarely talked, as far as they were both concerned they only shared this space and needed very little to do with each other.

“What Granger?” He snapped turning around and looking at her.

“Nothing Malfoy, if you haven’t noticed there’s a window behind you that I have been looking out.” She said meeting his stare. Draco rolled his eyes and turned back around to his homework. “Why that everyone’s stare, except for one person’s irritates you?”

“What?” He said, turning back around to glare at her. “There is no one person here who’s stare or glance does not bother me.”

“Harry’s doesn’t irritate you.” Granger said looking down at her fingernails, picking at them. “If anything his stare makes you giddy.”

Draco stopped and just watched her. He didn’t know what to say to her, how to come back at her verbally. The girl was smart he’d give that to her, but how could she have known about this infatuation with Potter? What does she know that he did not know?

“Granger, I do believe that you are off your rocker and have no proof of this. So please, shut the fuck up. Thank you.” Draco said, hoping to end it. He would not take any more of this talk and once again turned back to his home work. Angrily grabbing up his quill and forcing himself to write, teeth gritted together.

“I saw him kiss your ear in the common room a while back. I saw the look on your face when he did that. You were quite far from mad. Confused maybe, but still giddy as a school girl.” Granger said, shifting in her seat, still focused on her nails. Draco stopped dead in his tracks, she saw them together. Had she all so scene things in the library? He prayed she had not.

“You-You must be mistaken. Me and Scar-head have done nothing of the such. I believe that you have a sick school girl fantasy Miss. Granger.” Draco did in his infamous drawl. Daddy may have disowned him, but he still had all the stereotypical Malfoy characteristics.

“Oh such a Slytherin.” She chuckled. “You may deny all you want Malfoy, but I know what I saw and that was Harry kissing you on the ear. If you ask me, returning the favor may not be such a bad idea.” With that she left the common room and went into her own room. Draco sighed.

So, she knew. Would she tell the Weasel? She couldn’t have already or Draco would have been dead by now or at least beaten to a pulp. He could no longer do his homework with this now brought to his attention, he was truly frighten of who that damn mud blood might have told about this all and who she was going to tell next. He ran to Grangers door and pounded his fist into the ancient wood.

“Granger!” Draco yelled. “GRANGER!” he paused, waiting for some sort of signal that he could come in and yell at her some more.

“Open this bloody door right now Granger! I’ll bust it down! If you don’t open up this fucking door I will figure out a cruse that will remove your knickers and blow your skirt up! I’ll do it in front of all the students in the Great Hall!”

“Malfoy?”

Draco stopped all the racket he was making and froze again. Damn Potters voice and the effect it had on him. Before he could stop himself, his brain replayed the library scene. He shook his head trying to get it to go away. Without turning around he said “What Potter?”.

“Are you all right? What did Hermione do?” Potter inquired.

“Stole my favorite quill.” Draco muttered, still facing the door.

“Would you like one of mine? I have a rather fancy one that Siru- my godfather gave me. Has a dragon hide grip on it.”

Draco looked down and closed his eyes tight, Potter was way too generous. He couldn’t accept any gifts from him, nothing. Sex doesn’t count in his mind, sex is just like an object to Draco, a cheap cheap dirty object. “If you ask me, returning the favor may not be such a bad idea.”, Grangers voice replayed in his head. Returning the favor, returning the favor… returning… the… favor.

Draco whirled around and looked Potter dead in the eyes. Without a second thought he lunged himself at Potter, wrapping his thin arms around Potter’s thick, muscular neck and slamming their lips together. Potter didn’t wrap his arms around Draco, he didn’t close his eyes, he did nothing except stand there in shock. With a quick creak Hermione’s door opened.

“Ha, told you so.” She said, dawning her own Malfoy like smirk. Draco quickly removed his lips and arms from Potter and backed off, turning to face Granger, unsure of what to do. Potter still looked like he was in a state of absolute shock.

“Don’t lie to me Malfoy, I’m not stupid in the least.” Granger said leaning up against the doorframe.

“Lie about what?” Potter said looking back and forth between to two of them.

“I saw you kiss Malfoy on the ear a while back and Malfoy denied it all.” She said looking at Potter. He instantly turned bright red.