Disclaimer: All characters and the whole world of Harry Potter belong solely to J.K. Rowling. I do not earn any money writing this fan fiction.

AN: This is the first chapter, I've written more, but I first want to see what kind of reactions it brings. I hope I can finish it off course.

Nature and Life Change

by xtyj

Chapter 1

Hermoine was standing in her bedroom, wondering what happened to finally end up here. She was twenty-five years old plus one day. She had received some birthday cards from family, friends but what hurt most was that her once so called best friends did not have the time to celebrate her birthday. After all these years, of going to school together, going through horrible events, even surviving a war, was not enough to make some hours free in their busy schedules.

Harry and Ron were now estranged from her. They still met up from time to time, but sometimes there were months apart from said meetings, making her wonder if they still wanted to be friends. Even Ginny, Harry's wife did not have time enough to meet once in a while. She was busy with her own shop and children. So now here she was, wondering where it went wrong.

Lately she has had a lot of these thoughts. Was it her fault, was it she that did not go with the flow as so many people described it? Was she not good enough any more or was she not a good friend? She had no idea. She already had a low self esteem and now that she became a year older just yesterday, that self esteem just went a little lower to the point that she wanted to change things. So she stood there, alone in her bedroom wondering how it went wrong and how she could make her life right again. It was time for a change.

But she did not know, that a major change already happened to her, yesterday when she turned twenty-five.

In another part of England, more specifically Wiltshire and more specifically in the Malfoy Manor: a young man startled awake. Draco Malfoy was breathing hard wondering what the hell is going on. He realized that he just not experienced a normal dream. It was something more than a dream. Breathing hard, trying to remember every detail, he was determined to make the now epic dream in his head reality.

Without sleeping any longer, even if it was only 5 am in the morning, he jumped out of bed and quickly dressed. It was in record time that he strode to the other side of the manor, his fathers wing and knocked on his fathers door. He did not get an immediate response so he continued knocking, when that did not work, he wanted to bang on the door. Only hesitating one second, then realizing that it was too important, so indeed banging on the door it was. He did not have to do that very long. With a yank the door went open and there stood a rumpled Lucius Malfoy in his robe, sending daggers with his eyes to the only family he had left.

"What!" Lucius snarled.

"Sorry for the wakening father, but remember when you told me that dreaming, or more likely visions of my mate was important?" Draco drawled with confidence he did not have.

"Yes, what about it?" His father snapped.

"Well, I have had one and I know who she is and she just turned twenty-five if I have read the journals in our library correctly. Does that not mean I have to marry her and have lots of sex and babies with her?" He snapped back, getting more and more agitated. He knew his father would not like his mate, but he could care less. The time of Lucius Malfoy was over, now it was his turn.

"Yes", replied his father, "but you also have to do that before she turns twenty-six or you both will die?"

Draco nodded, that he knew too. His father did not inherit the veela gene, Draco did. He was not a full blooded veela, but he still had enough veela blood to give him a mate and make him more handsome to women. He was pulled out of his thoughts about his veela inheritance by his father.

"So, boy don't keep me waiting! Who is she?"

"Hermoine Granger", Draco replied with a smirk. The look on his fathers face was priceless. Now it would come Draco thought. His father would scream and yell about her inferior blood, her character, her looks, her whole person that it was not enough. But Draco would not listen to him, no, he was determined. His dream, the paradise he had seen would become reality, even if he had to abandon his father to do so.

He waited on his fathers response that still not came. "Father?"

Lucius snapped back to reality, "Hermoine Granger you say? And you are sure about that?"

"Yes, yes, very sure." Draco replied with some sighing.

"That will be interesting, now, be a good boy and leave, I still want to sleep some hours before I go to the ministry." He started to close the door, but before it closed Lucius snorted a "Good luck with that." to his son.

Draco was thinking, how hard could it be? He had to have sex with her, he had to mark her by biting her and drinking some drops of her blood, she has to do that to him and they have to have a baby in the year after they marked each other. It could not be that hard, could it? He wandered to his study to create a plan of attack.

AN: Can this become a good story? First attempt, so cross those fingers. Constructive reviews are most welcome.
And if anyone wants to Beta, send a message to me! Preferably somebody who's English is her/his native language.
GRTZ