Five years into to the war, the Order is pulling ahead after ages of drastically losing. Draco Malfoy notices. He wants in. He offers himself as a double agent, but the Order requests more. They've created a new spell that binds two people's magical cores together in order to make a nearly unbeatable pair of duelists...
"Merlin, and they call you brightest witch of our age? We fake date." "Are you mad? That's preposterously unbelievable!" When Hermione was asked by her previous enemy to fake date, she thought he was insane: but maybe it could work? After all, it was a win-win situation for the two of them, and she'd get to experience...
All Hermione wanted to do was to return to Hogwarts and finish her education with a bang as Head Girl. After that, she had her whole life sorted out. She would work things out with Ron, work at the ministry, and become Minister for Magic one day. The universe, as usual, had other plans. Draco certainly wasn't expectin...