Title:

Chardonnay and Scotch

Description:

She tasted like honeysuckle and wild violet. He tasted like sizzling champagne on a summer's day. Two lovers. One was chardonnay. And one was scotch. HDr.

Disclaimer:

I own nothing.

Author's Note:

I'm late, I know. My RL has been intense up to this point.

I would inform you as of why, but I'm too lazy to comply. Let me just say; it involves two boys, one of which is shallow and hot and the other of which is decent but only mildly attractive. I like neither. They have both indicated their crushes in various ways, although neither of them have enough of a backbone to formally declare them to me without using their friends. Problemo, much?

I've been mainly sticking to reading various fictions on this site and ignoring my own. But I missed Draco's sexy arse. And I'm starting to forget what true love and lust feels like.

I didn't reply to most of you but know that you have my everlasting gratitude.

The last bit of the story was Draco sexily carrying Mione's books.

I love you all.

We are here and it is now.

Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

- H.L. Mencken

Draco continued to walk in front of Hermione, to her everlasting chagrin.

Damn her small, skinny stature and short legs. Damn her genes. Damn her frizzy hair. Damn her slightly rounded stomach. Damn her (now fixed) slightly crooked teeth.

And while she's at it, Damn Draco Malfoy.

After all, the boy lived to damn her.

Draco continued to stroll down the hallway, his back straight and strong, looking like he owned the school.

You know what I'm talking about. He had that perfect Boy Walk. Perfectly saggy jeans, broad shoulders, that type.

Lethargically adjusting the strap of his backpack, he re-slung it over his shoulder and turned around, waiting for Granger to catch up.

"Dear bookworm," Draco commented, smirking slightly as he saw her huffing and puffing her way behind him, "I know I possess amazingly long legs and an amazing body. But could you hurry up a bit?"

Hermione stopped, leaning against a nearby suit of armor and panting for breath.

"Malfoy …"

"Yes, bookworm?"

"Urrrgh, GAHRHGH!" Hermione groaned, thrusting her head backward and inadvertently banging it against the suit of armor's headpiece, sliding down the wall to land on her ass, papers going everywhere.

She closed her eyes, and Draco grinned as he sauntered up closer to her. Teehee. Another way to tease her.

He leaned down, still holding her books, and whispered into her ear.

"Now now, bookworm, I know I'm fantastic, but I would prefer it if you weren't quite so unsubtle in bowing down to me."

"Your insults are so scathing, Malfoy, I'm burning in hot water." Hermione retorted, her eyes clearly rolling despite the fact that they weren't open.

Draco smiled back at her, although she didn't see it.

"I really, really am hungry," Hermione commented, cracking open one of her eyes and staring deeply into Draco's unsettling silver ones, "And dinner's going to be over in" She checked her watch "fifteen minutes. We're not going to make it there in time if we walk."

Draco's eyes widened with glee, and started to twinkle.

Hermione instinctively edged closer to her suit of armor.

"Malfoy …"

"Dear bookworm, I do believe I have found the answer to your dilemma," Draco replied mischeviously, his thick platinum blond hair swaying into his eyes. He shook the strands away, and took out his wand.

Hermione's eyes began to narrow, and her lips pursed, "Draco Malfoy, I will not have you doing anything stupid no--"

"ACCIO BROOM!" Draco roared, stepping away from Hermione and catching his newest up-to-date broom as it flew towards him.

Looking down, he grinned crookedly at Hermione, and her heart began to inadvertently pound when he extended a pale hand to her.

"Shall we dance?"

"AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!" Hermione screamed, clutching onto Draco's body for all her might as they swooped through the hallways of Hogwarts.

"THIS IS INSANITY!!!" Hermione yelled at Draco, her body tightly pressed against his as he bent down close to his broom, his platinum hair flying backwards in the wind.

"Then why did you agree to do it?" Draco replied, his voice strong as they suddenly veered to the right to avoid a crowd of Hufflepuff first years.

"I REALLY LIKE YORKSHIRE PUDDING!"

"Hold on tight," Draco raised his voice and sat up a bit straighter so Hermione could hear him clearly, "We're on a straight course for the Great Hall."

"DISEMBARK! DISEMBARK!" Hermione shrieked at the top of her lungs.

Draco slowed down for a couple seconds, looking at Hermione over his shoulder where she lay nestled against him.

"Did you just say disembark, bookworm?"

Hermione pressed her burning face into Draco's hard back.

"No," She replied unconvincingly, mentally slapping herself.

With a throaty laugh that made Hermione look up at Draco in awe, Draco began to speed up the broom again, avoiding a group of Gryffindors as they pointed and stared at the duo.

He shot up a staircase just to explode out of the Observatory tower, Hermione screaming bloody murder on his back, pausing for a second before going in a perfectly vertical dive before swooping up and before nearly hitting the ground.

"ARE YOU BLOODY MENTAL?" Hermione gripped onto Draco with an iron clamp, swearing under her breath as she realized that she was still alive, "You nearly killed us!"

"Yeah," Draco loudly replied, his voice raised over the wind as they swept across the Quidditch field, headed straight for the glass windows of the Great Hall, "But even you have to admit that it was fun."

"Mmm," Hermione made a so-so gesture that made Draco emit another sexy, throaty laugh.

She looked around his body, making sure that she didn't look down or let go of him.

Hermione stared straight at the glass windows of the Great Hall, and then up at Draco's determined face.

"No. No. No, Malfoy, don't, no … DRACO!!!!" Hermione screamed as the glass panels came closer and closer to their speeding broom.

"Dear, dear, bookworm," Draco grinned crookedly, "It's time for you to have some fun. Now hold on tight."

Hermione screamed, hiding her face behind Draco's back.

CRASHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.