Punishable Heritage
Prologue.
August 1st , 2002
The tears in her eyes were becoming unbearable and she was barley managing to contain to the urge to vomit. Her throat tightened even further as the procession proceeded and Hermione was forced to wonder why in the world she put herself through this torture? Then she remembered and boy did she remember.
Remembered his touch, hot on her skin.
Remembered his kiss, fiery and yet delicate.
Remembered his smell, a combination of expensive cologne and peppermint sweets.
Remember his shout of love for her as they shook and quivered.
Hermione Granger remembered it all with a pinch of salt to cleanse the wound of her broken heart. She needed some form of closure and now watching him looking so suave in those traditional wedding robes all she could do was remember.
He stood at the front of the grand room, bonding himself to a woman his father approved of, a pureblooded woman. A proper wife to provide him with companionship and children. Hermione's hand found her stomach rounded by life.
Just like she could, she thought bitterly.
Her head shook unconsciously, and she berated herself silly for having such thoughts. No, she would never be fit to bear his children in his family's eyes. The child she carried was an abomination not fit to draw breath.
The war heroine sighed heavily. All she wanted was to be able to freely love him as his new wife could. Hermione was no naive schoolgirl though. Men like him were only to keep woman with blood like hers as mistresses. That was of course his first solution when faced with a betrothal made by his parents. Marry socialite beauty Astoria Greengrass and keep Hermione Granger as his paramour. Never would she have been good enough to be his wife. Hermione was foolish by attending today.
What was he to do when I interrupted his wedding? Have a spontaneous realisation that his love for her overruled his rule of being disowned. And what of her baby when he rejected her?
Her mind was made up anyway. She would disappear out of the Wizardering World, perhaps even out if Britain.
As the guests followed the newly married couple out of the room, Hermione decided that it would be best for everyone involved if no one in the world would know that Hermione Granger was pregnant with Draco Malfoy's son.