Title: Frankly My Dear
Author: sensestwisted l Twisted
Rating: PG-13 (for now but eventually will be NC-17 or something of that sort)
Disclaimer: Harry Potter is not mine and it is 100% Ms. Rowling's. (As much as I wish it were to be otherwise). No profit is being made in borrowing the material.
Paring: Draco/Hermione, Blaise/Hermione, Harry/Pansy, Balise/Ginny etc.
Synopsis: AU. Takes place during regency. Draco Malfoy is a sexy Marquess and Hermione is still the bookwoorm. The war against Voldemort is still raging on and Harry Potter is still the Boy-Who-Lived. Ron is a nice guy *gasp*. Oh and a marriage law thing.
Genre: Romance, fluff, marriage law, mystrey
Wordcount: ~466

A/N: I have a plot in my mind. Actually I know my endgames and all that jazz. It is a slow building romance (if it can be called that). They will not declare their love for each other in Chapter 3 and then have babies in Chapter 5. Just a little FYI :D because I am experimenting.

Prologue: A Major Case of Brooding

The dying embers in the hearth put up a last futile fight. The struggle lasted little more than five minutes.

Marquess Draco Socrpius Malfoy watched the dying embers dispassionately from his position behind the imposing desk. The dying flame cast his face into a sinister shadow. The shadow highlighted his high cheekbones in a rather austere manner. Maybe it seemed rather austere because the blond hadn't moved from his chair for a while.

Fuck,
he thought. Brooding rather sucks.

He smiled at the thought. He was aware that the smile did not reach what one of his mistresses had referred to as a molten silver. Even in his depressed mood he had to snort at that description. Women! He was aware that his gray eyes were rather unusual but combined with his pale blond hair it was not much to remark on.

This was not to imply that Lord Malfoy was a humble man. Oh, no! Draco Malfoy was one good looking fellow and he knew it. How could he not? He was a Malfoy for heaven's sake! The Malfoys may not be the bravest, smartest, or the most honorable wizards but by Merlin, they were good looking."Damn you Malfoys! What the fuck was it about you fuckers that made women swoon," Zabini had once confided to Draco. Of course, one had to take into account that the comment had followed after a witch Zabini had fancied had swooned after seeing Draco.

Yet..here he sat in his study and brooded. Brooding for god's sake! What the fuck was wrong with him? Malfoy did not brood. He sauntered, taunted, stalked (in a rather sexy term of course), wenched, drank but he definitely did not brood. It was almost nauseating. Brooding was for wankers like Potter who thought that if he did not try to save the world he would pay for it. Or his mentor Snape or that man (?) Lupin, his cousin had in what he could surmise a moment of weakness deemed to be a suitable partner.

Hmm I am getting a pattern here, he smirked. The idiots who brooded were not good looking. Not to say that they were horrifyingly ugly but when compared to me they were lacking in the looks department.

But try as he might to shake off his depressed mood he could not. It was like a stink that followed that no-good Weasel freak. There was nothing he could do to help it. It was like a constant stomach ache.

He could still see her the fuck would have thought that face would haunt him? His reason for this brooding. The eyes widening with hurt and shock. Her walking away. His words echoing and bouncing against the walls of the cathedral.

"Frankly my dear..."