To Feel Safe Again
Disclaimer:
The majority of the Characters belong to JK Rowling. The plots goes along with certain events that happen in the series, however, some additional Characters and my plot points are constructed out of my imagination.
Chapter 1 Looking for a way out
From an outsider's perspective, Hermione Granger's life seemed well set. Voldemort was conquered during the summer before her seventh year of Hogwarts, Harry and Ginny finally got back together, Ron got together with Susan (thank god for that!) and She graduated with the highest NEWTS in her year (not surprising really).
After graduating from Hogwarts, Hermione entered straight into second year of Merlin University. She was able to skip first year because of the exceptional grades that she got in NEWTS. There she meet a tall blond (not to mention attractive) third year and dated him for six months before marring him at the end of the school term. Hermione then gave birth to a beautiful girl just shortly nine months after the wedding. Many can say that they were jealous of all her luck.
However, life never seemed so perfect to Hemione. After Voldemort's fall, Hemoine suffered countless nightmares from the events that took place prior and during the war. The death of her parents didn't sit quiet well with her and it seemed that life would never be the same without them encouraging her on. She wanted to revenge their death, and kill Lucius herself, but Snape beat her to it. With Dumbledore gone, Hogwarts will never be the same. Snape had been redeemed by time the war began, owning that he killed Dumbledore only on his command. At first no one believed him until they found Dumbledore's memory of him forcing Severus into a wizard's vow to kill Dumbledore to ensure that they don't lose his cover. In the end Snape provided a lot of help during the war killing many Death Eaters and keeping everyone safe. He was even the one to keep Voldemort down long enough for Harry to kill him. After the war Snape was in a coma for six moths. Upon waking, Minerva Mcgonagall shocked him when she told him that along with his regular job teaching potions, he was the new Deputy Headmaster. (It was extremely amusing to see Severus Snape looking shock) Yet, even though he was there for the last six months that Hermione was in school she still can't contemplate how Snape ended up Deputy Headmaster. Depressed from life, only wanting to go on and get away, Hermione quietly finished her final year at Hogwarts trying to attract as little attention as possible inside and outside the classroom. Professor Mcgonagall, tried on various occasions to get Hermione out of the shell that she had placed herself in, but was unsuccessful.
Everyone was glad that Hermione was going to University; they felt that a change of place would help her open up again. When she met Daren, they were thrilled that she was getting a hold of things. However, no one seemed to realize how unhappy she was. Although he did get her pregnant a week after they got married, Hermione got second thoughts about having his child. Daren was very rough in bed and often left her badly bused and bleeding for days after. During the second month of pregnancy the Mediwitch told her that since he was so rough in bed he can't sleep with her until after she gives birth or else it would hurt or even kill the baby. Daren, of course, was absolutely fuming for being accused as rough. During the rest of the pregnancy he made Hermione sleep in the spare bedroom and brought home a different woman every night to satisfy his "manly needs" since she could not provide it herself. Often at night she would cry herself to sleep as she tried to tune out the noise from the adjacent room.
Things only went downhill from there. When she finally gave birth, she hoped that he would stop bringing women home to sleep with but she was wrong. For the first six moths he shut her in the spare bedroom with her daughter allowing a house elf tending for their needs. After that he would only let her into their bed when he felt like sleeping with her, and if she would refuse him he would beat her until she gave in. Hermione did her best not to think about her situation at home. She worked part time, and took care of her daughter, Rose the rest of the time.
Hermione tried to keep Daren away from Rose as much as possible. She saw that he was short tempered and rough when he handled her. At times he would lose his temper and yell at her over the littlest of things and started to beat her for things that she could not control. When he would beat her hard enough for her to bleed he would the go and suck her blood. Hermoine was appalled by this and would ask him why he would do such a thing. He would only reply "the kid's blood was different from anyone else's it is unique and tastes bloody amazing."
Hemione know that she had to get out, not only for her sake but for her daugther's as well. She tried to convince Daren to sign a divorce saying that he would be happier without having her or Rose getting in his way all the time and of course he would be much happier a bachelor then being tied down to a woman. His only reply to that is that he could always bring home different women when ever he wanted to and if she dared to get in his way in doing so he swore to make her regret it.
Hermione then realized that there was only one thing that she could do. She had to go back to where she felt safe. Her family gone, so going home was out of the question, but she had always felt safe at Hogwarts. Thinking about it she was sure that even the ground of Hogwarts was strong enough to protect her and her daughter. She decided that it was time to contact Professor Mcgonagall to see if there were any openings at Hogwarts.