Banished

Chapter 3: Raeanne

After the encounter with mystery girl and Alex at the bar, Malfoy found it harder to keep his thoughts away from Hermione. Finally he gave in and allowed himself to reminisce…

The thing that still confused Draco, was how he had fallen in love with Hermione in the first place. She, who had been the most hated mudblood his entire Hogwarts career and beyond.

But after the war, in a new age, everything changed for Draco. He was trying to blend in, be a nice person. He heard news and tidbits about Hermione, like how she had married Ron, they had had kids, mundane things like that.

One day as he had been shopping in Diagon Alley, he ran into her, literally smacked into her on the street.

"Watch i-" Malfoy's growl was cut off as he realized who he had run into.

"Hermione?" he questioned, amazed.

"Draco Malfoy, the biggest git alive, is that you?" she replied, a laugh in her voice.

"I'm working on the whole git thing, trying to rearrange my priorities." Draco said sheepishly.

"It's about time. This is going to sound totally crazy, but do you want to go grab a fire whiskey with me? It's been such a long time since I have seen anyone from Hogwarts besides the usual Gryffindor's."

Draco didn't think that sounded crazy at all. In fact, it sounded quite nice. "Yah, that sounds great, really great. Come on."

One too many fire whiskeys later and Draco and Hermione were locked in a passionate embrace, in a motel room they had somehow arrived at…

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After it was over, both knew it was a bad idea, but they also both knew how good it had felt…

They continued to meet in secret for a couple months before they realized how in love with each other they were.

Hermione told Ron she had found someone else, but she couldn't bear to say who. She said she was sorry, but she just couldn't ignore love.

They moved in together, lived in secret to avoid attention.

But they started fighting, arguing. Hermione kept saying that she had made a mistake, Malfoy said that they were destined to be together. She said Ron wanted her back, and she was going. She was leaving him, leaving what they had without even giving it a second chance…..

Draco was jerked from memory lane by the sound of a motorcycle screeching to halt besides him. He glanced over, and would have kept walking, until he saw who it was.

Mystery Girl.

"Hey pale ass! You were the new one at the bar right? You saw the whole soap opera that took place?" she called out to him.

"Yah, but it's none of my business."

"Smarter than he looks, folks. What are you doing walking home, don't you have a ride? No? Well then what the hell, hop on. I feel bad for making you witness my bad side. By the way my names Raeanne. Where do you live?" Raeanne held out the spare motorcycle helmet to Draco.

He had about a split second of hesitation before he grabbed the helmet and hopped on.

"My names Draco Malfoy, and right now, I live nowhere."

They sped down the street, weaving in and out of traffic. Even though Malfoy much preferred the ease and quickness of floo powder, this was still better than a car. If he closed his eyes, he could almost make himself believe he was on broom. But just almost.

"I could really use a bite to eat, wanna join? I know this great pizza place, it's like straight from Italy, not the disgusting crap everywhere else serves." She asked him, without turning around to look at him.

"Yah that sounds great, really great…."

A couple disgusting muggle beers later, and Raeanne was inviting Malfoy back to her place, now clean of Alex.

He was agreeing without any doubts.

Her lips were sweet, oh so sweet….

He pulled off her shirt and undid her bra, her beautiful breasts spilling out…

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Draco made his way back to his motel, disgusted with himself. He had made love to a muggle, a filthy little muggle. But the mean cruel voice inside of him forced himself to grapple with his deepest thoughts…

You made love to a mudblood before, you loved her, a mudblood. And you are already falling for this Raeanne. Maybe dirty girls are your thing, your vice. You know what you have to do, if you want to have a pain free life, you have to forget her, both of them. Finally and completely forget about Hermione and cut off any contact with Raeanne before things progress. Or she will hurt you, just like Hermione did. She will crush you like you have never been crushed and leave to continue her happy little life.

Whatever Draco did, he made a mess of it. His entire life had been a complete joke, an assortment of humiliating and infuriating moments. He had never been good enough for his father, at school everyone preferred Harry Potter, even the Dark Lord and thought him weak. Hermione Granger had left him, knowing he wasn't worth it.

And Raeanne was similar to Hermione. Hermione wasn't as rough around the edges, but they had the same core. Hard and unyielding, they wouldn't be pushed around. Just look at poor Alex.

Malfoy's kinder inner self voiced the one pitiful shred of hope he had for a future between him and Raeanne.

You have already been thrown out of what you have known your entire life, what else can you lose? Even if she leaves you, you can't get any lower.

Malfoy clung to that hope, because right of the bat, he felt something for Raeanne. But he would take it slow this time, he wouldn't rush things, he would give her space, he would do everything right.

What if she doesn't feel the same way?

He would make her, even without magic, he still had powers of persuasion.

Raeanne would not be another Hermione Granger; Draco would make sure of that.

AUTHORS NOTE: first off I would just like to apologize for all the errors in my last story; I was just so excited I put it up without proof reading. Secondly, I want to give a huge thanks to everyone who has responded to this story they are:

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Readingtilldawn: for my first review! Thanks so much! This chapter is just for you. It explains how Hermione and Malfoy were lovers which I had been thinking about how to explain when I read the review! I really appreciate what you said about banished and the help you gave me!

So I was going to put up a long chapter tonight but after my first review, I put this little chapter up to explain some things and lay more of the stories foundation down. There will be a longer chapter with more action up tonight or tomorrow. And I know I said that his chapter wouldn't be steamy, but I had to explain the love part of the story! Thanks so much and REVIEW!