Disclaimer: Yep even though I wish I still don't own Harry Potter. Although I do wish I did.

Chapter Four: Complications

"If you like me why didn't you say anything? You knew I liked you" She said still mad but feeling much better.

"I didn't know you liked me you silly girl I thought hated me. Plus you are nine years younger then me." He said Hermione counted in her head.

"Are you 24?" She asked making sure she was right. Barty placed his hands to his face and looked between his fingers.

"Yea why?" He asked

"I thought you were 26." Hermione said with no hint of an apology in her voice. Barty looked at her and took his hands off his face.

"Excuse me." He said laughing slightly Hermione smiled innocently and Barty kissed her again. "That's not nice I don't look 26.. Do I?" Hermione shook her head and giggled. She grabbed his hand and took him to the middle of the room.

"I don't want to waste this night because or Ron and Viktor. Can we dance more?" She asked and stood with her hands behind her back.

"So Viktor Krum and Ronald Weasley made you cry." He said

"And Barty Crouch Jr." Hermione said smirking at him. Barty shook his head.

"Good thing you added junior." He laughed. "So seeing as I am a teacher I could make those two go through hell for a while." He said Hermione's eyes widen and she shook her head.

"No please don't" She pleaded.

"But they made you cry." He said logically brushing hair out of Hermione's eyes. Hermione shook her head.

"I don't care, Just because we now have a thing going on doesn't mean anything. Besides I like you not Moody." She said and Barty realized what he had gotten himself into.

"You realize at times I will have to be Moody?" He said and put his hands on her hips swaying a bit to the music. Hermione thought for a moment and then giggled.

"Of course I know. But I am not kissing Moody. These lips are for the real Barty only." She pointed to her lips and Barty looked down at her. He moved close and just touched her lips then whispered.

"They better be" Before kissing her properly. Hermione wrapped her arms around him and they kissed and swayed to the music. "so Hermione why me?" Barty asked as he swung her out and back into him.

"What do you mean?" she asked, what an odd question? she said to herself.

"When you were sad why did you come to me if you thought I hated you?" He asked moving just a bid faster and swinging her out again.

"Oh.. I don't know. I started crying on the stairs and then I thought I wanted to see you." She shrugged. Barty was happy with her honesty but thought it was for other reasons.

"So why did you fall in love with me?" Hermione asked smirking Barty poked her nose and smirked back.

"I don't know. You just always seemed happy to be here with me and when I was moody you looked heart broken and I couldn't stand that and I realized what was going on." He said and they continued dancing in silence. After an hour Barty spoke again. "The reason I asked you up here was because I needed help then I just loved your company and I made up things for you to do now that you know how I feel you should keep coming but you wont be helping me you will just be here cause you can be. If that's ok?" He said to Hermione, Hermione was exhausted and sat down on the desk and nodded

"Sounds good to me." She was swinging her legs on the table and Barty smiled at her. Hermione smiled back. Barty took off his jacket and placed it on the chair. He leaned against the table next to Hermione. Hermione sat up straight then flopped back down. "You are still taller then me" She crossed her arms and sat up. Barty laughed and came around the table. He stood in front of her and measured. His mouth was at Hermione's nose.

"Not by much. But what do you expect I am me after all." He laughed and Hermione kicked him playfully.

"Anyway I am off to bed." Hermione said and stood up she kissed his cheek and left for her room. Leaving a confused and hurt Barty standing watching her leave. Hermione walked slowly to her room. She had to go she had realized something. When he took off his jacket he leaned on the table on right side. So when she looked down she saw his mark. She had never seen one properly but knew what it looked like and that it was black. Barty's looked painful it was red and black and Hermione couldn't look at it. She had even thought about him being a death eater. She didn't even think about the consequences in this relationship.

"Hermione!" Ginny yelled and came up almost bowling Hermione over with a hug. "Where were you?" She asked Hermione shrugged

"Just went walking." She lied. Ginny hugged her tighter

"You should have come and got me." She said

"No I really preferred to be alone." Hermione said and Ginny nodded

"Fair enough. So common room?" Hermione nodded and they took off. When they got to the common room Hermione went up to her room and Ginny went to hers. Hermione took off her make up quickly and removed her dress putting on the pants she desperately wanted on and went downstairs too meet Ginny. Ginny was on the couch with Neville and they were kissing Hermione frowned and went to bed. She woke up in the morning and wanted nothing more then to be with Barty. She sighed and rolled over to look at her ceiling. She then rolled over again and looked outside. It was snowing and all Hermione wanted to do was sleep till she could see him. That's what she did. She slept until 3 that afternoon then finally got out of bed and dawdled downstairs to the third floor. She knew that Barty would have to change into Moody but she could talk to him for a while and explain why she left last night. She walked into his office and saw Barty with his feet on the desk looking out the window. Hermione leaned against the door and smiled.

"So how much work is getting done?" She asked and Barty fell out of his chair. When he stood up he brushed himself off and looked at her. She was smiling brightly trying to hold back a laugh and failing. Barty approached her and closed the door.

"You better hold back that laugh." he said and shook a warning finger at Hermione. Hermione took this as a challenge and laughed out loud. Barty eyed her and Hermione stood her ground. Barty walked over and grabbed her waist then pulled her up and spun her around. Hermione grabbed his shoulders and laughed at him. When he stopped she leaned her forehead against his and smile. Barty held her close and then kissed her. When the kiss was broken he held her close still then sat her on the desk and stood next to her. "So why did you leave in a hurry last night?" He asked and Hermione looked down at his arm.

"I got scared." Barty wasn't looking at her eyes but instead looked up in confusion.

"Did I do something wrong?" He asked worried Hermione shook her head and looked him directly in the eye.

"I saw your tattoo and to be honest I never really made the connection." She looked down in shyness and Barty nodded then Hermione looked up. "But I figured if we liked each other then it didn't matter." She was still looking away but looked proud of her connection Barty laughed quietly at her and took her hand. Hermione smiled at him and Barty kissed her again.

"Ok next question. Why are you here early?" Barty asked and Hermione shrugged.

"I don't know. I woke up and didn't want to get out of bed so I slept then I thought that I wanted to see you today." She shrugged and Barty leaned against her and kissed her. Then he placed his hands on her cheeks and looked at her closely.

"I am sorry I have work to do today." He said and made a quick glance to the paperwork covering his desk. Hermione felt heart broken but hid it well. She jumped off the desk and walked towards the door.

"I guess I will see you at Seven then." Barty nodded and Hermione left the room. Barty kicked his desk hard and sat down in his chair. He was frustrated with himself but sighed and got to work.

Hermione walked out in a huff to the lake. It was still a bit before dinner and she wanted to be alone. She walked down and sat on her favorite rock where she knew she could be alone. She felt her eyes fill up with tears and then hugged her knees. For an hour she cried against her knees before she finally got up and walked away.

Barty couldn't work. He saw the look on Hermione's face and hated that he did that to her. He slowly walked over to his window and looked over the lake. Something knew was there something that was out of place. He looked down and saw his beautiful girlfriend sitting on a rock and by the looks of it crying. Barty felt his insides twist and he collapsed in his chair. He couldn't believe what he did to his girlfriend.

The rest of the day Hermione listened to all sorts of stories about the ball. By the end she was sick of it. Mainly because her and Ron were still not talking. It didn't bother her as much as she thought it would but she was still angry at the way he treated her. She sighed her way through dinner without eating very much and she watched as Moody left the room. She smiled to herself and looked at the time. She had figured out that it was a good twenty minutes before the potion wore off. She sat through more stories and when it had been twenty minutes she hoped up and left. No one asked where she was going so she walked fast to his office. She knocked silently on the door and Barty's voice told her to come in. She smiled and walked in Barty looked up from his notes and Hermione walked over and hugged him. At first Barty was confused by her act but then quickly wrapped his arm around her and held her close.

"Hello to you too." He said laughing. Hermione stood back and looked at what he was doing.

"So what is this?" She asked holding up some drawings Barty quickly took them from her and Hermione looked confused.

"You really don't want to know." He said and Hermione nodded at him. "Actually can you do me a favor?" He looked closely at her and she smiled and nodded. "That boy you know the one I supposably tortured." He said Hermione frowned.

"Neville Longbottom." She said. Barty nodded.

"Yes him. Could you give him this?" He asked handing her a book. Hermione looked at it but didn't take it from him.

"Why cant you?" She asked and Barty didn't want to answer that.

"Well you see you can give it to him for Christmas. I cant. You see Harry needs some information out of it and it cant wait till after the holidays." He said and could tell he said to much. Hermione sighed and bit her lip then spoke.

"I told you I want no part in this." She said and pushed past Barty.

"Please Hermione" He said Hermione was cross and snatched the book from his grip. Without saying anything she walked out of the office and went to her common room. Barty watched her go and sighed then kicked his desk again. Then he fell to floor clutching his stomach. The pain was horrifying and it got worse when his master spoke in his head.

"Will he be delivered?" The cold voice of his master spoke in a serpent tone. Barty could barely speak through the pain and was thrashing on the floor. This was not to his masters liking and he spoke again. "I asked you a question." he said and suddenly a shot of pain surged through Barty's body so fierce that Barty had to grip into his jacket and bite his lip to stop from yelling out in pain.

"Yes master he will." Barty mustered then the pain stopped and Barty fell to the floor in a heap clutching his sides. He felt cold sweat run down his back. He lay on the floor till morning afraid to stand up in case something else happened and to scared to move.

Over the next few days Hermione didn't go and see Barty. Instead She occupied herself by reading almost all the books in the library. She did what Barty said and gave Neville the book for Christmas. On the last day of the holidays a cold Sunday morning Hermione was walking down to breakfast ready for her usual morning cup of coffee when she was stopped by Moody. She looked up and smirked.

"Yes?" She said in a hateful tone. Not only was she angry at Barty but she hated moody so her anger was strong.

"I want you to see me tonight." He said and walked away Hermione laughed.

"Will the same stuff happen as last time?" She asked and Moody stopped and turned around.

"I cant promise it wont." He said and Hermione shook her head and laughed.

"Then I cant promise I will come." She said and pushed past him to breakfast. Moody sighed and limped slowly to breakfast. At seven that night Hermione dawdled to Moody's office. She didn't knock but walked in and leaned against the doorway. "What did you want Barty?" She said in a sly tone. Barty sighed and walked towards her.

"I missed you. So much I hate you not being around." Hermione stopped frowning and her eyes became softer as she looked at Barty. She looked down at the ground and apologized Barty Smiled and hugged her tightly. "You forgive me right?" He said Hermione thought it was a funny way to apologize.

"Of course." She smiled and they hugged for a bit longer. When the hug was broken Hermione and Barty stood still and smiled at each other. Then awkwardly Hermione left.