12. This Dance We Do

A/N I am hearing your comments on me taking forever...and I hate it too! If I had time, I'd try and write a chapter a day but life just isn't that kind! But I'm trying! Bring on more fluff.....

Diclaimer: Well, it's not mine but if JK feels like giving me all the rights to her books then I'm not gunna say no! :D

Hermione gasped involuntarily as she looked down at the corridor leading to the dungeon. Malfoy had Claire up against the wall and was kissing her heavily making the odd moan escape Claire's lips. When they heard Hermione's books hit the ground they both sprung apart quickly and adjusted their appearance.

Hermione went a deep red and looked at the floor as she crouched down to pick up her books. 'Sorry' She mumbled under her breath as she walked by a smirking Draco and an embarrassed Claire.

'Granger!' She stopped in her tracks and turned round to see Malfoy walking up to her.

'What dya want?' Hermione said blinking back tears that she didn't realise were there.

'Are you ok?' He asked as he heard her sniffle.

'I have a cold' She muttered as she walked past him quickly and into the dungeon where Snape was waiting.

The lesson went by slowly for Hermione. It was one of the first times in her life that she didn't take any notes during class. She just stared forward with a blank face.

Why, why why why. Hermione thought. Why am I feeling like this? Oh I'm so stupid, this isn't right. It's only Malfoy, I'm sure I'll get that image of him and Claire out my head after some therapy. Why am I feeling so dissapointed? Oh damn, Snape's looking at me. Pay attention Hermione.

'Miss Granger, am I boring you?' Snape sneered when he saw her face staring into thin air.

Yes. 'No Professor' She said lazily picking her head up a bit and smiling.

Malfoy is a prat, Malfoy is a prat, Malfoy is a prat, and Malfoy is being nice to me. Oh now he's looking at me. Hermione attempted a strained smile. He smirked. I hate that smirk, it's infuriating. One day I'm going to smack that smirk of his face and sell it on ebay.

After lesson Hermione attached herself to Ron and Harry's side for the entire day, which made Malfoy all the more pleased with himself. His plan was working out beautifully.

'Where's mummy, Ella?' Malfoy said sweetly to his baby who was wriggling around on the carpet in front of the fire. She kept letting out giggles, which always provoked a smile from Malfoy.

The door creaked open and Hermione walked in with 5 books in her hands and her eyes wary.

'Granger'

'Hi' She replied quietly as she sat gently on the floor next to Malfoy.

'You ok?' He said hoping for a negative answer.

'Fine' She said leaning back against the couch and crossing her legs.

After an awkward pause, Hermione's emotions got the better of her.

'What were you doing with Claire?' She asked in a not so casual voice.

'I think you know what I was doing with Claire. You saw didn't you?' Malfoy smirked as her eyes dropped and looked at Ella.

'Well, you have every right to do what you want. Anyway, I thought I'd tell you, I'm going out with Ron' She said brightly looking at Ella. She completely missed the look that flashed by Malfoy's eyes of complete anger.

She's going out with Weasley? Oh well done Draco, your plan worked brilliantly.He thought sarcastically. Oh well, I always get what I want in the end but Weasley? Eugh. He mused.

'Why Weasley?' he said as calmly as possibly but Hermione didn't miss the note of anger in his voice.

'Because he's everything your not' She said smiling sweetly, which made him want to hurt her.

'You're right, he's poor, ugly, bad at quidditch...want me to continue?'

'I'm sorry I wasn't listening to your smart ass comments' Hermione said her voice turning more cold.

He studied her for a second and then a smirk slowly appeared at his lips. 'You're lying' He stated. Hermione looked briefly at him in shock and then shook her head.

'I'm not' Hermione said gently as she picked up Ella who was smiling.

'You are'

'No, I'm not. You're with Claire I'm with...Ron' Hermione said cringing as she said it.

'So this is about Claire then' He said noting her discomfort. 'Thing is, I don't see you using a friend to piss me off. You're too loyal, so you must lying about going out with Weasel tom piss me off'

'I'm not using Ron' She snapped.

'You're trying to make me jealous, but I'm afraid, to be jealous of Weasel, I'd have to actually like you'

Hermione's head whipped up to look into his eyes that were staring at her intently.

'Fine, I'm not going out with Ron' She said sulkily.

'I know, and I'm not going out with Claire' He said with a smile.

'Oh' Malfoy took a certain joy in seeing Hermione shift uncomfortably.

'Face it Granger, I've managed to charm you into thinking that I'm worth you trying to make jealous'

'I don't like you ya know' Hermione said shyly smiling at him.

'I don't like you either' He said raising the corners of his lips into a smile that he rarely showed.

Do be do be dooo, dun dun duun bom bom bom, Malfoy hummed to himself bored senseless as he felt the wind blow in his face. He was at a quidditch practice and was in the air looking for the tiny golden snitch. It had been nearly 2 and a half hours and he was still sitting there humming.

He looked around with a thread of hope that he would see the snitch, he was getting so bored he was considering flying around the pitch as fast as possible just for something to do. He looked down to the empty stands...that weren't empty. In fact most of the Slytherins seemed to be finding school as boring as he and so had decided to watch the team practice.

He flew closer to the stands to see Pansy with the god forsaken child of hers and then next to her was Blaise who was chatting to Pansy about something that seemed to be boring her to death.

He smirked and then looked at the other stands and his breath caught in his throat. Hermione was sitting there with Ella in her arms and she seemed to be trying to point out Malfoy to Ella but failing. Then beside her was Claire who was sitting back and sending glances at Hermione. She didn't seem to have her baby with her but was smiling happily at him.

He cringed. If only I wasn't so good looking, fewer women would want me. Oh well, I'll have to go break her heart. What a loss...or not. He thought maliciously as he flew to the stands and landed at a point where he could jump into the stands.

'Hey Draco' Claire said smilingly. He shot her one look before sitting next to Hermione.

'Shouldn't you be...flying or something?'

'Well 'flying or something' gets boring after a few hours' he said running his hand through his windswept hair.

'Why aren't you over with the Slytherins?'

'Pansy's over there' He said matter of factly. 'I don't want to be near her'

'And there was me thinking you were marrying her'

'I will one day, I have to but for now, I want to spend as little time in her company as possible.'

'Rather spend your time with a mudblood?' She said cringing as she said it.

'I don't really have a choice now do I Granger?'

'Get a room' Claire shouted from behind Hermione. Malfoy leaned forward to look past Hermione to see Claire smiling. Strange, she doesn't seem mad.

'And how are you today Trender?' He said with a smirk.

'Heart broken, you?' She said laughing.

'Can't complain' He said with a wink.

Hermione looked from Malfoy to Claire suspiciously. She knew something was going on but couldn't put her finger on what. Claire didn't seem to care about Malfoy all that much and Malfoy certainly didn't give a damn about her.

'Draco!' A shrill voice said from behind them. They all swivelled round to see Pansy appear in the stands with her baby in her arms.

'What are you doing over in the Gryffindor stands? All this red and gold is making me wanna on' Pansy said making a movement with her free hand.

Both Claire and Hermione looked at Malfoy with a slightly amused expression.

'I was with my daughter Parkinson, I'm coming now' he snapped as he got up and walked to Pansy with slouched shoulders.

'Good boy' Pansy said.

Both Hermione and Claire let out a laugh once they had gone, Hermione abruptly stopped when she saw Claire laughing at her.

'What?'

'Look at you'

She suddenly became extremely self-conscious and looked down at Ella and her robes. 'What?'

'You're all...giggly' Claire said smirking slightly.

'I am not giggly' She said looking at the still flying boys zoom around the pitch.

'No you're right, you are when he's around'

'He being...?'

'Ron' Claire said sarcastically. Hermione shot her a withering glance.

'Malfoy you idiot'

'Nothing is going on...shame you can't say the same for yourself' Hermione said smiling at Claire.

'I like him, he's not the asshole everyone says he was...was Hermione...something has happened, he's nice to you. I saw what happened when he found out he had you as a partner! I really thought he was going to avada you right then and there' Claire said looking up at the sky where she saw a gold snitch fluttering. She smiled. 'But for some unknown reason, he is being nice to you now. So I'm only going to ask you this once...have u slept with him?'

Hermione's eyes widened and then she shook her head violently. 'I would never sleep with Malfoy, that's disgusting actually. Ewwww'

'Ok, so you wouldn't mind if I went for it with him then?'

'Haven't you already gone for it with him?'

She laughed and then her eyes lost some of her spark. 'The day that he was kissing me, he wasn't really kissing me at all'

'Huh?' She said as she watched a bludger knock someone of their broom.

'Well, he said your name as I kissed him'

'He what?' Hermione looked fairly confused and blinked stupidly.

'It annoyed me loads, but I decided to ignore it' She said looking down at her hands.

' I'm surprised you didn't hit him' Hermione laughed feeling a lot happier all of a sudden.

'I nearly did, well I was close to correcting him...ya know telling him my name was Claire' She said brightly. Hermione let out a happy laugh.

'You should go with it with him when all this stuff is over' Hermione said watching Malfoy get yelled at by the captain of the team for slacking.

'Yeah, and when he's over whatever thing he has for you' Hermione gave Claire a sad smile and then turned her head the other way and let a full out smile grace her face.

'And where have you been?' Ron said from the Gryffindor table as Hermione walked in.

'Oh I was down on the quidditch pitch' She said putting down her books on the table next to Harry's.

'Why?' Harry said, his eyes narrowing slightly.

'Oh Malfoy was practising'

'So you, as the "girlfriend", felt it necessary to watch him play?' Ron snapped as his quill crashed to the table.

'What? No, I was just taking Ella to see what it was like'

'Couldn't you have taken Ella to see me or Harry practice' Ron said folding his arms across his chest and glaring angrily at her.

'Yes but...' She looked at them and shook her head. 'You know what, you two need to grow up a little bit ok?' Her voice quivered a little bit as she said it before getting up and storming out the hall.

She sniffed as she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. They made her so mad and upset sometimes. The way Ron was constantly snapping at her and Harry being so suspicious.

'Why you crying?' Hermione looked up to see Blaise looking at her critically.

'Why should I tell you?' She snapped harshly.

'Oh so you're PMSing, I get it.' He said leaning against the wall casually as he inspected his hands.

'I could so hurt you right now'

'But you won't' He smirked.

'What you two talking about?' Malfoy said coming up to the pair where Hermione was shooting daggers at Blaise who was looking fairly bored.

'Wouldn't you like to know' Blaise sneered at his friend. Malfoy looked completely confused then shot his friend a warning glare before turning to Hermione.

'Granger-' He started before being cut off by Pansy also joining the group.

'You won't guess what!' She shrieked with a smile on her face. 'Wait, firstly why are you all gathered round the mudblood?'

'She's hot' Blaise said shrugging his shoulders. Pansy seemed to accept this and turned to Malfoy.

'You guys just missed an announcement by Dumbledore!'

'Oh know, however will I move on from that' Malfoy drawled sarcastically.

'Well, apparently the teachers have come up with an idea, that somehow can tell us what house our child would be in!' She squealed happily.

'Thrilling' Malfoy said rolling his eyes.

'As long as Ella isn't in Slytherin, then I'll be happy' Hermione said brightening a little.

Malfoy looked fairly offended by her comment before replying. 'Well as long as Ella isn't in Huffelepuff...Gryffindor or Hufflepuff, I'll be happy' He said shooting a glare at Hermione.

Blaise was looking at them rather bizarrely and Pansy was daydreaming about something or other.

'Do you know how they're doing it Pansy?' Malfoy said turning towards her cautiously.

She seemed totally taken aback that Malfoy was addressing her. 'Errr yeah something about a spell the same as the one like the sorting hats or something. I was really too excited to listen.' She said smiling at Malfoy who scrunched up his face.

'When's it going to happen?' Hermione asked politely to Pansy.

Pansy looked her up and down disapprovingly. 'Answer her damn question Parkinson' Blaise snapped rolling his eyes.

'Tomorrow morning, we're missing our first lesson of the day'

'Are the teachers going to give us notes? They're going to have to give us extra homework to keep up with the year schedule. Oh I must talk to my professor' Hermione bit her lip worriedly.

'Yeah whatever mudblood, I'm off' Pansy said casting another look at Hermione and walking off.

'My whole homework planner is going to be put off schedule' Hermione said, still aggravated over missing a lesson.

'For crying out loud, it's only a lesson'

'Only a lesson?' Hermione shouted.

'Well, however much I love watching you too bicker like an old married couple. I'm off too, now what way did Pansy go?'

Hermione pointed down a corridor to the left. 'Ok' he said going in the opposite direction.

'So just you and me' Malfoy said shuffling his feet.

'Yeah' She said looking at him with sparkling eyes. 'How's Claire?'

'Wouldn't know. How's Weasley?'

Hermione let out a laugh. 'Annoyed. I went to see you practice quidditch, which in their book is the crime of the century'

'They're just jealous'

'There's nothing to be jealous of' She said raising an eyebrow.

He walked over to her and kissed her very softly but very quickly on the lips. He pulled away. 'Oh there is' He turned and walked away.

'Draco Lucius Malfoy' Hermione said standing in the door way to their room. He looked up from where he was putting a lamp and a book in the fireplace. 'What on earth do you think you're doing?'

'Well, me and Ella are cold and I have momentarily mislaid my wand and so I have to create a fire the muggle way.'

'With lamps?'

'Well I have to burn something!' He said turning red with embarrassment.

'Take the lamp out of the fireplace Malfoy, I have my wand' She said as she waved her wand and Malfoy put the lamp back on the table.

'And how is my favourite person in the world?' Hermione said walking over to the sofas.

'Oh I'm fine thank you' Malfoy said back.

'I meant Ella'

'Of course you did' Malfoy said rolling his eyes.

'She should be in bed' Hermione said looking pointedly at Malfoy.

'I'm 16 and a father, like I should know everything' He said leaning back on his elbows on the floor.

'We've tried to put her to bed at the same time every night Malfoy, try and catch on'

'Well, I was talking to her about the many broomsticks of the wizarding world'

'Wow, I'm surprised she's not already asleep then'

'You're so funny Granger, how do you do it?' he drawled sarcastically.

'I learnt from the best' She said sweetly over her shoulder as she took Ella into their bedroom and came back out a few minutes later.

'So, seriously, what house do you think she'll be put in?' Hermione said lying down next to Malfoy next to the fire.

'I hope she's in Slytherin' He said looking over at her.

Hermione pursed her lips. 'I hope she isn't'

'It doesn't matter anyway because she's leaving us in just under a week'

'Yeah' Hermione said sadly, her mood decreasing. They both say there staring at the fire dance for a while in silence, but a comfortable silence.

'So how long we going to keep doing this dance we do?' Malfoy said sounding a tad irritated as he stared at Hermione expectantly.

'This dance we do?' Hermione said becoming suddenly aware of Malfoy moving side ways so he was looking down at her.

'You know what I mean'

'No, I really don't' She said noticing the fire in his eyes. She almost felt scared, but not scared of Malfoy, scared of what she might do.

'This, you and me' He said pointing to her and then himself.

Hermione raised an eyebrow at him as his mind strguggled.

Malfoy moved his arm away that was supporting him so he tumbled on top of her. Hermione burst out laughing and started gasping for air.

'Malfoy, you rhino, how much do you weigh?' She said through laughter as he kept his body poised on top of hers. She was shaking with laughter as she watched Malfoy's face change into a scowl.

'I wish you would stop laughing' He said barely managing to keep a smile off his face.

She stopped abruptly at the look at Malfoy's face but then her face scrunched up and she burst into another round of laughing, before she knew it she had tears of laughter running down her face.

'What the hell is so funny?' He said trying to sound angry but not succeeding.

'You' She squeaked through her laughing.

'Granger' He said quietly trying to get her to look at him. 'Granger' he repeated harshly.

She smiled up at him and Malfoy broke into a grin. He leaned down as fast as he could when she stopped laughing and pressed his lips to hers. Hermione sat there shocked, she didn't move. Her conflicting emotions were playing havoc with her. She smiled and then kissed back.

The moment she opened her mouth, he let out a moan of pleasure...and Hermione burst into laughter.

'What now?' He snapped as he saw Hermione with her hands over her eyes as she shook with laughter.

'I'm sorry, I'm in a weird mood. Ignore me'

'That's rather hard when I'm trying to kiss you' He said looking extremely annoyed. 'This is so romantic' Malfoy drawled as he watched Hermione start snorting.

He got off of her and stood up, brushing himself off as he watched Hermione roll over onto her side laughing. He started pacing impatiently.

After a few more hiccups from Hermione she stopped and looked at Malfoy who was fuming silently.

'I'm sorry but it was your face and then you moaned and...' She saw his face contort in anger. '...I'm not helping' She said looking down at her hands awkwardly.

'Get up Granger' He ordered. She looked up at him confused for a second before stumbling to her feet. She looked around blankly and adjusted her robe.

'I'm sorry' She mumbled again as she watched him survey her from afar.

'Are you done laughing?'

'Yes' She said letting out a small smile. He took a few steps closer.

'Are you really sure?'

'Yes' Hermione repeated as he strode over to her, wrapping a hand round the back of her head and pulling her to his awaiting lips. Her arms shot up to slither around his neck. As he deepened the kiss he let out another moan as Hermione pushed him backward to land on top of him on the sofa.

He started kissing her on the neck slowly as she felt his hand rake through her hair and suddenly became all too aware of where his other hand was headed.

'No, no, no' She said defiantly taking his hand from where it was resting on the skin over her belly button. He pouted softly at her as she tilted her head at him and gave him a look.

'Hey! You don't see my hands wandering you pervert' She said smiling lightly.

'Damn shame really' He mumbled as he kissed the skin under her ear slowly.

'Should we be doing this? There are rules. I don't break rules'

'First time for everything' He mumbled again kissing her softly on her lips.

'I'd rather us not take this any further' She said in a small voice as he trailed lips under her jaw.

'It'll be between me and you Granger'

'We should really go to bed' Hermione said untangling herself from him and standing up.

'Well, I'm not gunna say no to that' he smirked as he wrapped his arms around her from behind and kissed her cheek.

'I didn't mean it like that' She said, her hands on her hips.

'Shame' He said pushing her towards their bedroom.

Hermione let out a laugh and rolled her eyes.

That night they went to bed in different beds but talked the whole night away. Malfoy finally noticed Hermione was asleep when he finished talking about quidditch.

'Granger' Hermione's eyes fluttered open to see a smirking Malfoy lying gracefully on her bed looking down at her. Her eyes roamed below the neck and saw he was wearing no shirt and shut her eyes quickly.

'Tell me you're not naked' Hermione said sitting up but keeping her eyes closed.

'Dya want me to take my clothes off?' he sneered. Her eyes slowly crept open and she saw he was wearing his boxers and let out a sigh of relief.

'Did you have to wake me?' She grumbled as she swung her legs over the edge of the bed and walked over to the crib. She peered down at the sleeping face of her daughter and a smile spread across her features. She suddenly felt arms encircle her from behind and gasped.

'What are you doing?' She said spinning around, still in his arms, to see him looking down at her in puzzlement.

'Don't you remember last night?'

'Nothing happened' She quickly snapped. For a slight moment a look of hurt passed his features but was quickly covered over by a look of anger.

'You know I'm getting really pissed off over this, you let me in, push me away, I'm getting bored!' He yelled releasing her. 'I always get what a want' He said in a dangerously low tone.

'I like you ok? When you're not being a jerk to my friends, when you're not calling me mudblood, when you're not being a snob and when you're being a father to Ella.'

'Well, I'm not going to pledge my undying love for you Hermione ok? I don't love you and I never will! I want you, simple as that'

'Wow, how romantic, did you rehearse that?' Hermione smiled sarcastically.

They stared at each other, the tension crackling around them. Malfoy's eyes were shooting daggers at Hermione and Hermione was standing with a look of defiance on her face. Malfoy was still standing there clad in boxers and nothing else...and he was slowly noticing that Hermione was only wearing a short nightgown.

His face softened and his shoulders slumped down. He walked over to her slowly and cupped her face with one his hands. Hermione didn't stop him and just looked up with vulnerable eyes. He kissed her softly and pulled back as he heard a knock on their door.

Malfoy turned around leaving an even more confused Hermione in their bedroom.

'It's Potter...again' Malfoy said grumpily as he walked back into his room and collapsed on his bed. Hermione wrapped a robe around her shoulders and headed into the living room where Harry stood.

'Hey, the sorting is taking place in 30 minutes once the other years have cleared out of the hall' Harry said giving her a strained smile.

'Thanks Harry' She said with a smile as she headed back into the bedroom to get dressed and not think about Malfoy.

Malfoy yawned lazily as he sat at his table and listened to Pansy's sobs.

'Why Hufflepuff!' She shrieked every now and again as she held her baby in her arms. Hermione caught Malfoy's eye and rolled her eyes as she glanced at Pansy.

Alex, Ron and Lavender's baby had been told Gryffindor which had pleased Ron to the point of hugging Harry and jumping up and down.

Josh, Claire and Harry's baby, had been placed in Ravenclaw which caused Claire to beam happily for a long time.

The teacher's were using a very sophisticated spell to sort them and most couple's were extremely happy, except for Pansy, who was still sobbing.

'Mr Malfoy and Miss Granger' McGonagall called. Many of the students that were murmuring stopped, as they seemed extremely interested in where Ella was to be placed.

Hermione held Ella in her arms as the spell was cast on her and they waited for either a letter H, R, G or S to appear above her head....

A/N longer chapter there! I'm happy now! AND, I started this story on the 29th of July and BAM!! Like one month later I get Malfoy/Hermione together-ish! 12 chapters later! Wahey! oh well, I am getting there!! The more reviews I get, the faster I shall type!

Ok I need your help guys...what house shall I put dear ickle Ella in?? Just review with an answer, and give a reason if you can. I kinda know what house i kinda wanna put her in but i dunno! so let me know!