Note 1: I can't believe I actually wrote what follows at…2:05 am. I really should have been in bed, or studying for the SAT, but I mean really I became obsessed with Dramiones at the time and I couldn't ignore my itching to write this one. It seems dark or something. I think I'll call it…Ink. Yes Ink seems the proper title. So here it goes…Ink written at 2:08 am on June 1st, 2008.
Note 2: Yes I know the note above is ridiculous...feel free to laugh. Anyway, not a completely new idea, but it was just something that came up at 2 am last summer before my SAT...how I didn't fall asleep during it I'll never know. And just so you know I was watching something about tattoos at the time. R&R! Hope you enjoy this first part!
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Chapter One: Branded Secret
It had been a few years since they had been married and now for the first time had he noticed the tattoo on the small of her back. It was early morning and she had just fallen asleep. They had been out on the town and then, as any young married couple, to bed. Now she lay resting, with her face gently planted on the pillow and eyes serenely closed. Her hair was draped over her back and barely touched the small of her back…that's when he noticed it. It was strange for him to learn that there was something about his wife that he did not know. He thought it must be new, because he had never seen it before, but maybe he was just imagining it.
The tattoo was rather on the small side, but still visibly comprehensible. Tattooed on Hermione's back was a black dragon. It wasn't completely black, but merely outlined in the color. It rather looked like the dragons one would see in Asian fabrics used for kimonos and such, but inside the dragons belly there were words written in, which he couldn't understand. Its intricate patterns, aside from that of the words, formed what looked like scales on the inside and Ronald came to admire the beauty of the tattoo. He didn't like his wife keeping secrets from him, but he could admit that this lovely piece of artwork, one that was carved into his wife's body, was a sight to be seen.
Ron woke Hermione up with a gentle nudge on her side. She turned around and looked at him. She then realized that she wasn't wearing any clothing and put on her pajamas, she then asked with her voice thick from sleep. "What is it, Ron?" He once noticed that she never called him sweetie, darling or love, but got over it and thought it was nothing.
"Where did you get that tattoo that's on the small of your back?"
Hermione had been brushing her hair and when she heard him, she dropped the brush, without care, and looked back at him. "What are you talking about Ron? I don't have a tattoo."
"Yes that's what you want me to think. Tell me the truth 'Mione."
He wanted the truth, but she didn't want to give it. She had had the dragon tattoo for several years and she knew very well where, when and how she got it, as well knowing the person that branded themselves on her. Yes -branded themselves; just as she had branded herself on that person. It had been an act of love and the truth that he so craved to hear, told her that she still loved the person that drew the dragon on the small of her back. Just as he had drawn the dragon on the small of her back with his name on it, she had drawn an otter on his shoulder with her name on it…however the names were in Latin and the letters were scrambled and enchanted so that whenever they met the letters would place themselves to form the names. Something else these tattoos could do when they met was move around in any direction they felt like it. She remembered the time when her tattoo was still new and still roamed around her body dragging around the name of its maker…Draco.
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What will Hermione tell Ron? And how did she come to have that dragon tattoo on the small of her back? I don't know...okay maybe I do, but I'd have to update to show that. And to update I'd need to know that someone actually read this thing. And to know that I'd need at least a couple of reviews...so let me know.
Thanks for reading anyway, yours GinHermi