Short Change Hero

Chapter 18: The Dangerous State of Seduction

Chapter Eighteen

Dangerous

"You take me down,
Spin me around,
You got me running all the lights,
Don't make a sound,
Talk to me now,
Let me inside your mind,

I don't know where the lights are taking us,
Something in the night is dangerous,
And nothing's holding back the two of us..."

Dangerous by David Guetta

Monday October 14th, 1996

Just outside the hallway of Potions class

"Did you hear?" a soft feminine whisper tickled the air from Draco's right while he paused outside of Slughorn's classroom waiting for class to start. Raising an eyebrow, he waited for the Ravenclaw girl to continue talking to her friends while he looked around for a certain bushy haired Granger. "Apparently, Pansy Parkinson had been found late last night passed out in the edge of the Forbidden forest with no recollection of the past month and a half, or so I heard."

With an eye roll, Draco scoffed making sure to send an annoyed sneer towards the girls just before he decided to make his way inside the classroom, Ganger would have to come to class after all. Once inside, he shuffled his way towards his assigned spot thinking about yesterday when he had been called down to the Hospital wing. Remembering the second he saw Pansy, who could not seem to recall anything that had to do with her missing day, or anything since the time she attacked him and Granger.

Then there was the thing with his mother, answering his owls to let him know that she was, in fact, all right, just somewhat'preoccupied' with her other pureblooded elitist friends, or that's what Draco called them. Even though her letter eased his worry, he was still worried about what he was going to do for his task wanting to make sure that she was safe, but still unsure of what he was going to do.

Scoffing as he reached upwards to give the back of his neck a deep rub, huffing the moment Granger entered his thoughts right on cue as he sat there still confused by what happened in the library. About how he had told her that he wanted to kiss her, how he would again if he had the chance, while the words that he spoke to her replayed in his mind right alongside the memory of her facial expression. Moving his hand from his neck he let it slide to his neck then moved it so he could rest it upon the tabletop in front of him.

Turning to look behind him towards the door as the last few students in the classroom, Draco looked upwards at the time noting there was only thirty seconds until the clocks chimed and yet Granger was still not here. Either she was waiting until the last second before class started so they would not have to talk about what happened, or she was just running late today, which was not like her. Then just as the first chime she walked through the door with her lips pursed obviously attempting to ignore him completely which made his lips curl slightly in the start of a smirk mixed with a small smile.

Once she sat down Slughorn started talking, while out of the corner of his eye he watched her pull out her potions book along with some blank parchment and a bottle of ink. Noting that she had her hair tied on top of her head in a loose bun that seemed to tame her hair somewhat which Draco rather liked if he were being honest.

Recalling his somewhat hasty thought about making her his 'Malfoy' prey seemed rather silly after he initially thought about it, but the thought of bothering Granger, getting under her skin in a whole different kind of way, seem rather exciting if he said so himself. Clearing his throat subtly, Draco scooted his seat closer towards her noticing her stiffing at the motion, which he could tell she was trying rather hard to remain unfazed by his action, but he could read her like a children's book.