hello there. This is a random plot bunny that attacked me while at work. I promise that I am still working on This Christmas, and I am sorry for the delay. I have actually written and am posting the four chapters that I wrote today while I should have been working. XD
Disclaimer: The world of Harry Potter belongs to one J. K. Rowling. I just own the ideas in this story as well as the characters that you do not recognize.
Summary: Hermione's secret was out, everyone knows that she belongs to the Hellions. They are supposed to be a myth, a half human race with a wide variety and skill that are hell bent on protecting the world from evil. Now Dumbledore calls upon them to protect the Order as well as help them defeat Voldemort for good. They know many ancient spells and have many ways of getting what they want. Dumbledore anounces that the Malfoy's are spies for him.
It may be kind of confusing at first, but I will do my best to clear up any questions you all may have. It moves kind of fast in the beginning, and for that I apologize. I have no beta... which makes my job a bit harder.
Anyways, I hope you all like it and READ ON: =]
Hermione looked at the room full of order members and could feel her curiosity rise, what did Dumbledore want, and why did she have to be there. She knew that she was unwelcome, that much was obvious, but the headmaster requested that the whole order was there, Hellions included. Hermione knew that at least Harry, Ginny, Tonks, Shacklebolt, Albus, Minerva, and maybe Snape wanted her there. Hermione refused to actually think about the last name, lest she let the abyss open up and swallow her in dark pain. She could feel the beginnings of it, and knew that it wouldn't get any better if she even glanced at him. She knew she was losing her grip on reality when she realized that she was actually gasping for air. She wrapped her arms around her chest and squeezed tightly, trying to keep it together. She felt someone kick her in the shin and looked up into the eyes of her working partner, and the eyes of the team that stood behind her. They all gave her a questioning look and then their eyes hardened. Hermione nodded almost unnoticeably and tried to pull herself together. Her partner gave her shoulder a reassuring squeeze.
'Are you going to be okay, or should I pull you out of this meeting?' Dominic's voice echoed in her head.
"Yeah, I'm sorry. My thoughts just got the better of me. It won't happen again.' She thought, hoping that she could reassure herself as well as him. She could tell that she was no longer gasping for breath, she had to preoccupy herself or else it would happen again.
'You wanna leave while the boys and I stand in for you? If it is too hard to be here, then we can handle it without you. No one would think of you as a coward.' She heard the young voice of Kraven say. She loved her team; they always looked out for each other and were like family.
'No, but thank you boys, I appreciate it. I got away with my mind. It won't happen again.' Her team was connected by their thoughts, it was more… pronounced when they were in their animal forms. There were ten members to her team: herself, her brother and partner Dominic, their other brother Damien and his partner Carlisle, Kraven and his partner Seth, Kraven's brother Draven and his partner Jasper, and Jackson and his partner Tristen. They were the best team that the Hellions had, which is why they were the representation of the Hellions for the Order of the Phoenix. They were also training another team, but they wouldn't be introduced unless they absolutely needed to be introduced. They knew that there welcome would not be a warm one, as most of them were part of the Order as well.
The exchange between the group did not go unnoticed by Severus Snape and Harry Potter. They both watched Hermione wrap her hands around her chest and begin to gasp for air, though they were unsure as to why. They noticed that her teammate putting their hand on her shoulder brought her back from wherever her mind had been. She shook her head and began to pull herself together again.
Severus Snape sighed, she looked different then she had when he had last seen her. God, he felt his chest throb in the emptiness that was there. It was his fault really, pushing his happiness away in his own stupidity. Hermione sat there beside her teammate and brother Dominic with the rest of her team behind them. Her honey colored curls were pulled behind her neck down to pool in the chair in a super tight French braid with her bangs hanging in her face, hiding her amber eyes from everyone. She wore a black corset, a black button down left open over it, tight blue jeans, and her steel toed boots. She wore a studded dog collar and a spiked bracelet. It hurt looking at her, but when they were in the same room, he couldn't look away. The whole situation was stupid and depressing really. The other eight teenagers were dressed similarly, all wearing dark pants and a black top of some type, with the same belt with the Hellion insignia on the giant buckle.
Albus entered the room and the meeting began. He glanced at the man to his right in shame and pity. Severus was like a son to him, and he couldn't believe the boy would be so stupid as to let the best thing in his life get away from him. Severus his behind his obsidian hair that fell to his chin, and his equally dark eyes glittered in sadness that was hard to detect. He wore his usual teaching attire, black trousers, black dragon hide boots, his big Slytherin belt, his white button up tucked into his trousers, his black vest, and black robes. He looked as dark and depressed as ever. Albus cleared his throat, and all conversation in the room stopped.
"Thank you everyone for coming, we are all glad that you are here." He said, and he heard a noise of disagreement coming from the Weasley tribe, either Molly or Ron was the culprit, but no one paid them any mind. "Tonight," he continued, knowing that pretty much no one would respond well to his next statement. "Tonight, I would like to introduce you to three new Order members who are working as spies for me. When outside the walls of headquarters, you are to act like you hate them. For some of you, this will not be difficult at all. May I present to you, Lucius, Narcissus, and Draco Malfoy." The headmaster said, and the room was dead silent for about five minutes, before Ronald Weasley burst out in anger, which pissed everyone else off.
"No way, there is no way on the face of this planet, that we can accept them! They are spies for the Dark Lord!" he yelled out and the whole Hellion group actually rolled their eyes in unison. They appeared to be having a conversation amongst themselves that Hermione and Damien were finding amusing. This seemed to anger Ron even more.
"What the hell are you so smug for, Traitor? This is probably all your idea." He said some other choice words and everyone was silent in shock. There was about a split section between him finishing his sentence and when he realized that he was being shoved against the wall painfully but a girl half his size, and she was seething.
"You know nothing of which you speak Ronald Weasley! Nothing! Do not presume to be all high and mighty, because you are not! You are a disgusting creature who really has no right being here. You bring nothing to the table other then your half-wit thoughts." Her body was shaking in barely controlled rage. Dominic placed his arm on her shoulder, trying to catch her attention, but she was too focused on the red head dangling two feet off the wall.
"Be very careful on whom you cross Ronald, not all Hellion's have as much self control as I do. Not all of them can ignore your insults so easily." She said before she unceremoniously dropped him on the floor. She turned her glare back to the new family, who was watching the scene in confusion. The three platinum blonde's had only heard of the Hellion's in the legends.
"The Hellion's are real?" Draco asked cautiously, and Jackson turned a mischievous smirk to the youngest blonde.
"Yes we are real, most people just think that we are myth's, but history's imagination isn't that awesome. We are so deep in your society, that you wouldn't believe it." He said truthfully, and they could only gape. Hermione turned to face them.
"If Dumbledore trusts you, then the Hellions will as well. You will have our protection as well as assistance whenever you need us." She told them, and they nodded in shock. Kingsley Shacklebolt, Tonks, Ginny, Harry Potter, and Minerva all agreed with her and most of the other Order Members followed suit including Remus Lupin, Fred, George, Charlie, and Bill Weasley, Severus Snape, Mad-eye Moody, and a silent Arthur Weasley. This came as a shock to the three Malfoy's; they were being accepted by the very people that they used to be against. Life was weird that way. Everyone began to talk quietly, which naturally made the room kind of loud. Draco looked around nervously, his parents were conversing with Lupin, McGonagall, Dumbledore, and his godfather Snape, and so he looked around. He could hear the outrage from the group that did not approve of him and his family, but they wouldn't come near him, which may have something to do with the Hellions, whom sat near him. Hermione flashed him a half smile as she began to talk to Ginny and Harry. Harry motioned him over to join them and he did so cautiously.
"Don't worry, they won't try anything. With the statement that Hermione made, they will leave you alone. They are terrified of the Hellions." Harry said once Draco joined them.
"Something about Hermione and Dominic here threatening to hang them from the ceiling by their toes, and actually demonstrating it the first time Ron pissed them off." One of the guys standing behind Hermione piped in. Hermione smirked evilly at the memory, and Draco actually had the urge to back away in fear.
"Don't worry, while we are dangerous and you should fear us, we won't hurt you unless you really piss us off." Damien said, coming to stand beside his sister. The resemblance was uncanny and strange to look at. Same pale shade of skin, same hair color, same eye color that seemed silver sometimes, same hard-ass look on their faces, same build, but he was slightly taller then her, and the same bad attitude toward everyone other then their little group.
"At least he recognizes what his body is trying to tell him." Draven spoke up, and Hermione nodded, laying her head on the table. "You alright there?" he asked her and she nodded, almost banging her head against the table. Damien snickered, knowing exactly what she was thinking.
"Banging your head on the table will do you no good, it won't change anything Little One." one of her brothers told her. Now most of the room was listening for some unknown reason.
"I'm not your Little One, I'm only little in the aspect of my height, so watch it Damien, I can whip your ass." She snarled, surprising most everyone other then the group around her.
"Heh, maybe they will attack each other and kill each other and we won't have to worry about the stupid traitorous Hellions." Ron muttered, and Ginny, and her four brothers reached over and smacked him in the back of the head one after another. "Hey, what was that for?" He yelled out.
"Do not piss off the half demons sitting in the room who can rip your throat out without thinking." Charlie told him.
"It's just by luck that we haven't already." Kraven said with a growl.
The adults, Lupin, Snape, McGonagall, and Dumbledore, watched in interest. The Hellions all intrigued them for different reasons. Dumbledore knew pretty much everything there was to know about them, being allowed in the Hellion's Halls to read what he could. Lupin was intrigued by the different types of Hellions, they were not all half human's, some were full demons. McGonagall was wondering what would happen after this summer. The Death Eaters were unaware of the Hellion's existence, so the kids would have to be watched by teachers, Hermione would not be allowed to return to Helena to keep up the pretenses that she was a normal human witch. Snape was doing everything he could to not focus on Hermione or the gaping hole in his chest, and was losing miserably. She didn't look great, she actually looked miserable, though she usually looked as if nothing was wrong with her. 'She is probably just sick.' He thought to himself. She looked up from the table and looked at him, her face looked haunted. She stared at him for a couple of minutes, and he couldn't take his eyes off of her. She only looked away minutes later when someone hit her to get her attention. Her eyes shifted away from him, and she sunk her elbow into the guys gut so fast, she was almost a blur. No one else had seen it; they just noticed that now the kid was crouching over holding his stomach in pain.
"You are all welcome to leave, this meeting is over." Dumbledore said and Ron and his group of anti-Hellion-and-Malfoy followers followed him out of the meeting hall. All the other Order members slowly drifted away so that all that was left was Snape, the Malfoy's, four of the Hellion's, Harry, Ginny, and Bill. Hermione had put her head back on the table, and was muttering something about killing someone to ease the migraine, no one quite understood it.
"Hey, what the hell did you have to do that for, couldn't you have used less strength?" the boy whined. She picked her had up long enough to shake her head and stick her tongue out at the boy, and then put her head back on the table.
"How long do we have to be here?" she asked, thought it was muffled.
"I don't know sis." One boy said,
'Damien or Dominic' Severus thought to himself. He was surprised that he remembered the twit's name.
"Hermione, are we going back to Helena, or else where?" Damien asked, as soon as he could stand up. Hermione shrugged and looked up to glare at Dumbledore, who stood behind Snape. They looked at each other for a moment before she growled. "Not a chance in Hades." She snarled out, standing up, he group standing behind her. They looked pretty fierce. Hermione and Dumbledore were locked in a mental conversation, and apparently her group could hear it. A couple of them were snickering at whatever they heard. Hermione snarled. "Fuck you old man! Mind your own bloody business." She said as she turned to storm away.
"Hermione, you owe me." Dumbledore said with a hint of victory in his voice. She froze and stayed that way for a couple of minutes, before slowly turning to face Dumbledore, Snape, and McGonagall. Her eyes were violet and silver.
"Do not try that shit with me old man. We came here as a courtesy to you because I respect you, but you do not control me or my kind. We answer to no one but the blasted Queen. I owe you nothing." She walked away from the room and once she was out of hearing range, which took a while, Damien and Dominic burst out laughing.
"Don't worry Headmaster, she'll come around. Let Dom go talk to her, he'll convince her." Damien said. As soon as the headmaster nodded, Dominic and the boys left with the exception of Damien. "Come on Professor Snape, you and I need to have a chat." Damien turned to walk away, without waiting for the Potion's master to join him. He knew he would, he was curious, and a curious Snape, was a compliant Snape.
Damien pulled him into the empty library. "I wonder if you even know what Dumbledore was trying to get Hermione to do just then." He murmured as he stood next to the giant bay window. Severus stood there silently. "I guess not. He wants Hermione and her teammate to move in with you to protect you, he wants the youngest Malfoy to move in here so we Hellions can watch over him as well as Harry. We seem to be nothing but watch dogs." Damien snickered to himself, before looking at the dark man. He could tell that he was trying to keep his mask in place, and he was loosing miserably.
"Don't try to act like it doesn't bother you, don't try to act like you are over it and it doesn't hurt you. Some of us can see through it. We aren't here to tease you about it either. We just want you to get your head out of your ass and make things right. Never in my nineteen years of life have I EVER seen my sister like this, NEVER! I don't like it. There is nothing my brother or I can do nothing my team can do. This team used to be her life, until she became involved with you. You became her life and she was finally happy, she finally had a life and something other then pain and punishment and duty to think about." He paused for a moment to breathe.
"You don't understand how much you meant to her, how much she wanted to tell you her secret just so she wouldn't have to hide it from you anymore. She begged the Queen and council to tell you, because it hurt her to hide it from you, but they refused. She begged so much, do you remember the four days she was gone and you couldn't find her?" he asked, looking at the dark man again, who nodded, remembering that perfectly. "She had begged and pleaded so much with them to tell you our secret, they beat her senseless for two days, and then left her to heal without magic for two days. She wasn't even completely healed when she came back, which is why she avoided you a lot. It tore her up to see the look on your face, the distrust and the anger." Damien seemed to be angry now, and was trying to keep it under control. "Now, Hermione will agree to what Dumbledore wants, because Dom will talk some sense into her. Her sense of duty and protection usually overrides her sense of self preservation and pain. You need to fix this, I am so tired of seeing my sister in so much pain, so tired of watching her try to keep herself together around others only to go to her room and fall apart. I am so tired of healing broken knuckles and wrists and ankles because she just beat the shit out of a person or a bag in the training hall because that is the only way she can deal with the situation. I'm tired of watching you mope around, and so is Dumbledore." Damien's voice had a hard, commanding edge to it and Severus took notice that he wasn't kidding around.
"Dumbledore chose her and her partner to protect you because not only is she the BEST Hellion in the entire city, but she still cares about you and she would do anything to keep you alive, even if she won't admit it to anyone. The Queen has agreed with Dumbledore on this. Her partner is our other brother Dominic; they make a hella powerful team, so nothing will be able to hurt you, not even Voldemort. Don't flinch, grow a pair and stop fearing the name. My partner Carlisle and I will be protecting Lucius and his wife Narcissa, Jackson and Tristan will be protecting Draco, and the other six of our team, known as the Reapers will be protecting the other children that reside here at Grimmauld Place. We have another team in place to watch over most of the Order. You mere mortals do not understand how deep we Hellions are in your society and we wish for you all to stop treating us like we are scum. There are even Hellions among the Death Eaters and within the Ministry of Magic." Damien laughed, but his ears perked up in interest as if he was listening for something. "Come, they are ready and we must go. Think of everything that I have told you and consider what you have learned." With that Damien swept from the library leaving a confused and sad Severus to follow in his wake. 'How was he supposed to fix this?'
There ya go. I hope that it is not too confusing. Let me know what you think??