A/N: Well it's been a very long time since I've written let alone post anything on FF! Here's the latest story! Chapter title is from Fall Out Boy's song.
Word to the wise; I don't own Harry Potter J.K. Rowling has that pleasure. I'm just merely playing in her world:) and I don't own anything from Fall Out Boy and no infringement intended.
Chapter 1: Sugar We're Going Down
The cold dark stares of the man sitting across from her, was enough for anyone to cringe. Adjusting her shirt Hermione Granger looked anywhere but in front of her. The only sound was the ticking of the old clock that say upon the dusty table in the corner. Looking down at her hands she fiddled with a loose string that was causing her skirt to fray. The man across from her cleared his throat making her jump.
"Oh calm down, Granger. I don't wish to be here anymore then you do." Draco Malfoy's icy voice sounded through the small room like an echo. "I'm perfectly alright thank you. You didn't frighten me, Malfoy." She sat up straighter and held her chin high, trying to act like she was powerful. "Nice try," scoffing Draco rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Oh why don't you go jump off the Astronomy tower, Malfoy."
"Why don't you just fall off the edge of the world, Granger? Save us all the trouble of having to scrape your body off of the ground?" He slammed his hand on the table causing her to jump again. Narrowing her eyes at him she tried to say something smart back to him when the door to the small room burst open. Strolling into the room was a woman wearing a bright green set of dress robes.
"Well what have we here? What a lovely couple of fresh bodies! The ones they've brought in so far have been just dull. Acting so boring and well...dull!" Rosemary Bolever said clapping her hands together. Smiling she set a large armful of scrolls and papers on the table. "Now I hope you both know why you're here? No...well you two were the last on my list and very hard to track down!" Laughing she sighed and waved her wand to make a chair appear.
"There's a reason it was hard to find us. We did not particularly want to be found Miss..."
"Bolever. Rosemary Bolever. Well Miss Granger and Mr. Malfoy, let me fill you in on why the Ministry of Magic has so desired you to grace us with you presence. There's a new law they just passed and I quote: To help the population of the magical community re-establish it's self as a more sturdy and manageable enviroment.' End quote. Now here's the really fun part! In order to re-establish its self the law in a way is pretty much making young witches and wizards, like yourselves, marry!" Giggling she looked between the two of them and watched as the emotions went across their faces. Shock, surprise and her most favorite of all, anger. Lots of glorious anger. Everyone just went compliant. Now she'd have a challenge on her hands.
"What did you just say?" Draco was the first to speak. "Are you serious when you say the ministry is making us get married?!" He stood up scooting his chair back so fast it toppled over, clashing loud against the floor. "Yes Mr. Malfoy. I am serious. Now!", clapping her hands together again she pulled out the largest scroll of parchment in the stack and un-rolled it onto the table. "It states here that any Wizard or Witch, from the age of 17-35, that is not married or is in a already binding contract with another Wizard or Witch, must be imediately assigned to a NMLA. And since you two were so very difficult to find and took so long, you got me!"
"Excuse me, so sorry to interrupt, but what exactly is a NMLA?" Always curious, Hermione leaned forward to look closer to the scroll. "A NMLA is short for, New Marriage Law Advisor. I've studied the documents and the proceedings thoroughly and will be walking you and Mr. Malfoy through your process."
"What do you mean our process?"
"Why you two were pre determined to marry, didn't either of you read the five owls we sent out?"
"After only getting owls for ceremonies and banquets in honor of fighting in the war, I stopped opening anything that came from the M.o.M. I saw no reason to come to them. The first 3 were quite ridiculos as it was." Crossing her arms over her chest, Hermione leaned back in her chair eyeing the woman sitting to her left.
"I was away on a permant vacation. Had to get away from all of this. Was hoping to not ever to come back to England," Draco said with a smirk on his face. "You just didn't want anyone to question you or come after you for what you tried to do to Dumbledore," Hermione spat at him.
"Keep your mouth shut you filthy little mudblood! No one asked you what you thought and no one was even on that tower but Pothead so how do you know what happened! He would've told you I was in a fucking pink dress and you'd believe him!"
"Now you sit down young man!" Standing Rosemary waved her hand and caused his chair to up right its self and Draco to be forcefully slammed down into it. "I will not tolerate, and I stress this very much, hearing you say that word or using it in any belittling way to this young woman. If you can not refrain from using it I have no problem casting a silencing spell on you. Do we understand each other Mr. Malfoy?"
"Crystal." Mumbling under his breath he looked across the table at Hermione. She was hiding her smile behind her hand looking anywhere but him. "Ha ha ha laugh it up Granger."
"Now. If you two had shown up sooner, we wouldn't have to make this the last resort."
"Last resort to what?" Hermione asked looking away from the frayed hem of her skirt. "Since you hid away for so long, I'm afraid to say, that you two are the last two candidates for marriage."
"So there's someone already picked out for us two?" Shaking her head at Hermione she took a deep breath and walked behind her chair, wishing that it had a higher back on it to hide behind. "No not exactly. You two are the last two...there is no one else to pair you with." Squeezing her eyes shut she braced for impact. Silence followed for a while. Slowly opening her eyes she looked at the pair. Suddenly they both started laughing. Her eyes shifted between them.
"Miss Granger...Mr. Malfoy? Wh-what's so funny?"
"I-it's just funny. This ha-has to be a j-o-oke! Did Blaise do this? Or Pansy?" Laughing even harder Draco held onto his sides trying to catch his breath. "No I'm afraid Mr. Malfoy they did not. This is not a joke. I promise you. It's not even a but remotely close to a joke. Seeing as all of your friends, including Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, Mr. Zambini, and Miss Parkinson have already been paired off and married for a few weeks now."
"You mean...Harry and Ron...they're married? And didn't even tell me?" Hearing the boys names Hermione snapped out of her fits of laughter. "You're telling me that almost all of our friends have been married off for weeks now?!" She practically screamed the last few words at the poor Ministry official.
"Look," Sitting down Rosemary rubbed the bridge of her nose, "It's been a long week. You two just have to sign the damn piece of paper and then get married. It's simple. Beyond the consummating the marriage and children part it's really no problem."
"consummating? Children? You want me to fuck the mu- I mean...Granger?" Draco slammed his hand down on the table again. His once icy stare had turned to pure hatred to the lady sitting in front of him. Hermione almost swore she saw a flicker of fire in his eyes.
"See now most of the couples jumped right on the thought of getting to uh, consummate their marriages. Of course they had a much more selective list to choose from. You two on the other hand..."
"Took to bloody long to find," Hermione said angrily. She stood up and smiled at the lady in the bright green robes. "I'm sorry but you've made a very big mistake. I think I'm just going to go and floo someone. And talk this over." She all but ran out of the room hurrying to the nearest floo to call to someone. Anyone at the moment would suffice. Ginny was the first person to come to mind. The last they had talked was around a month ago. She and Harry had just started to openly date each other in public. 'Maybe she'll be at his flat! Merlin knows I hope she is.'
Throwing a pinch in she called into the fire place and was greeted with giggles and whispers. Trying to see what was going on she called out Ginny's name and heard two surprised gasps and hurried footsteps. "Hermione, what are you calling here for?"
"Did you two know anything about the new marriage law?"
"Umm...well...it affected us to Hermione...we kinda got married," Harry's timid said from beside Ginny. Another shocked expression graced Hermione's face. "YOU TWO GOT MARRIED AND DIDN'T TELL ME?!"
"Gee, Hermione you don't have to yell. We thought you knew. I mean it's all over the papers."
"I don't get the news paper anymore. I'm tired of seeing everything being Golden Trio this and that and what-not."
"Well," clearing his throat and correcting his glasses Harry said, "If you paid attention to them now they're filled with news of marriages and births, Hermione. It's different out in the world then it used to be. You've been looked away in your flat and lab to long to notice."
"Granger I swear if you leave me in the blasted room with that harpy for another minute by myself I'll hex you into next week!" Draco's booming voice sounded down the hall way.
"What's the ferret doing there? They're not making you two get married are they?! I won't allow it! I'm coming over there right now!"
"Don't worry about it Potter. I've already signed the damn papers and had my lawyer look it over and there's no way we can weasel out of this. Trust me. I promised my entire fortune. And even tried giving my soul away but they won't take it." Smirking as he bent to face the fire place he grabbed Hermione by the chin he kissed her right there in front of everyone.
"You get your filthy hands off of her, Malfoy, you git! Hermione I forbid you to marry him or be anywhere around him!" Now screaming through the fire place, and causing quite the scene, Harry hurried to get his wand to try and hex them through the fire.
"Harry James Potter! Don't you tell me what to do! You might have defeated Voldemort but you will not control me just because everyone thinks you're a hero! I'll damn well do what I please!" Turning to face Draco she faked a smiled and said, "Well come on. Let's sign the damn papers and get out of here."
Grabbing him by the head she brought her lips to his and kissed him. Soon running out of air she pushed him away and wiped her mouth off on her sleeve. Smirking back down at Harry, Draco lazily slung his arm around Hermione's hips. "Now see Potter, looks like I've gotten lucky. I might have just found the perfect woman. feisty. Bet she's a vixen in the sack." With a flick of his wand he shut off the connection just as Harry was yelling and cursing at him.
Silently she walked back into the small dimly lit room and signed her name on the document stating she agreed and was marrying Draco Lucius Malfoy.
What have I done...Malfoy...Hermione Malfoy...Malfoy...I just agreed to marry Malfoy!
A/N: Well here we go! The first chapter! Not sure when an update will be coming next! Busy work schedule kinda doesn't help with it :/ so sorry loves! Hope you R&R pretty please!
*stay thirsty my friends* ;)
