Draco x Reader Oneshots

Lab Partners (Part 1)

Request from @RikkuNeko thank you for motivating me 🤍 I'm planning to make this a 3 or 4 parter.

"Hey, look, the Bee came out of her flower." Draco points at you as you walk across the courtyard. You keep your head down and pluck a stray leaf out of your hair.

"I hope those plants make for good conversation!"
"They probably talk to her more than real people do," Jeered the group of Slytherins. A passing gryffindor snickered as he walked past.

You quickened your pace. As much as you loved spending time in the greenhouses, the long walk back to class in front of your taunting classmates was humiliating. You stumbled your way down the dungeon stairs into the potions classroom, early for once, which allowed you to take a few minutes to talk to Professor Snape.

"I wanted to let you know that the mandrakes are growing nicely, and that you will be able to use them to train your fifth years before their OWL exams."

"Perfect... and how's the wolfsbane coming along?"

Just as you opened your mouth to answer, a certain blond beat you to it.

"Bee, you really talk to teachers? Teachers? I underestimated how much of a loser you were!"

"That's quite enough, Mr Malfoy" Snape drawled, gesturing Draco to head to his seat. He did as he was told, but was followed by his pack of friends thumping him on the back and leering at you before going to sit themselves.

You took your usual place at the back of the classroom, near the wall, and kept an eye out for your partner, Hannah Abbott. You wouldn't call her a friend, exactly, but she was nice enough and told you when you had a vine in your hair.

Oddly enough, when the bell rang and class started, Hannah hadn't arrived yet. You looked around the classroom worriedly to see if you had maybe missed her and she sat with a different Hufflepuff, like Ernie Macmillan. You noticed an empty seat next to Draco.

"Quiet down, you insufferable teenagers. Today we shall be brewing a draught of living death. Due to the difficult nature of this potion, you shall brew this in partners. Please turn to the person sitting next you and open your books to page 276." Snape turned to the dusty chalkboard and started drawing diagrams, demonstrating how to properly stir such a potion and how to correctly add eye of newt.

You sighed quietly to yourself and started to pull out ingredients from your backpack, spreading your supplies over both tables.

"Professor, can I just join Blaise and Crabbe? I'm not gonna do this alone, you said so yourself." Asked Draco. He started to move his things over to the neighboring desks, eager to be with his friends.

"Where is your partner, Mr Malfoy?" Draco shrugged and lugged his backpack over to an empty stool next to Blaise.

"Pansy got in a fight with Hannah Abbott in the hallway over lunch, sir. They're both in the hospital wing." Explained a quiet slytherin that you didn't know that well.

"Ms Abbott is also in this class, is she not? Who's her partner?" Knowing what was coming, you timidly raised your left hand and used your right to clear the stool beside you.

"Perfect. Mr Malfoy, go sit with Ms (y/l/n)." Draco turned his head in your direction and you seemed to shrink under his piercing glare. His eyes seemed to burn holes into your head and he reluctantly gathered his materials and violently dropped them on your desk.

He angrily chopped up a bean to extract its juices and began to add them to the small amount of water that you had begun to boil.

"You shouldn't do it like that," you explained, "crushing them with the side of your knife is much more effective." Draco brandished the knife in your direction.
"You do it then, if you're so smart, Bee."
You snatched the knife from his hand and his eyes widened as a simple bean that had yielded only a few drops when he cut it overfilled the small tube you had prepared to collect the juice.

"Lucky you, Bee! I'm going to sit here, and you're going to do all the work. Cover for me if Professor Snape comes." You rolled your eyes as he took a seat behind you, against the wall.

You diligently added the bean juice then stirred the cauldron seven times anticlockwise. Everything was going surprisingly well. Of course, as soon as you thought that, Professor Snape had to come along and announce some bad news.

"You should be getting to the stage where your potion is a deep lavender colour," he said. You noted that your potion was a touch pale and realized that you may have put too much bean juice. "If that's correct, you now need to collect a fresh tailpo claw. I have a cage full of them here. Your partner will need to hold it down while you cut its claw." You cleaned you work station in preparation for the little creature. You would rather if knives weren't in grabbing distance of the devil-like creature.

"Malfoy, do you want to hold it down or cut the claw?" You asked.
"Ew, im not touching that vile thing with a ten-foot pole." He replied, disgusted.
"Oh, no problem. I'll just let you deal with Professor Snape alone, shall I?"

"Malfoy! Y/L/N! That's enough bickering." Professor Snape snapped. You and Draco both huffed and rock paper scissored to hold the tailpo.

The rest of the class was fairly uneventful and you got to escape to the Hufflepuff common room to check on your plants. You managed to stay unnoticed until your next potions class, when woe befell you.

"Unfortunately, Ms Abbott and Ms Parkinson are both gravely sick and are to stay in the hospital wing until the end of the year, which means that you to will be partners until your end of year exams." Explained Snape. You just sighed and looked at Draco, who seemed to be turning an alarming shade of purple.

"You just wait! My father shall hear about this!"
"Your father is already aware. But I am assigning you both an assignment that you must complete together, or you will both fail this class."

I hope you enjoyed! Part 2 coming in two weeks hopefully!