Chapter 8:
When they returned to the Krum estate, Hermione changed into a comfortable pair of pajama's and went to meet Viktor by the stairs. He had also gotten more comfortable and the family and herself had decided to sit in the sitting room for a while before heading off to bed.
Hermione couldn't quite get Alexei's rather rude and sort of creepy comments out of her head.
Viktor noticed her discomfort the rest of the evening and made a note to ask her about it later that night before she went to bed.
The clock was chiming in 11 o clock and Viktor and Hermione had both decided to turn in and get some sleep.
Viktor stayed behind for a moment to talk to his father.
Hermione was going to wait for him but a sudden wave of sleep hit her and she thought it best if she went straight to bed.
A knock sounded in the room and Hermione barely noticing, simply turned in her sleep.
The second knock was louder albeit not too loud and Hermione stirred from her sleep and looked around.
She was trying to figure out what had woken her when the answer was pounded against her door for a third time.
She looked at the clock beside the bed and realized that it was 3:30 in the morning.
'Argh, who would wake me up this early...' She thought and guessed that Viktor must be knocking at her door for some insanely stupid reason and she got up to let him in.
clothed in her shorts and t-shirt she made her way to the front of the room were another knock was heard.
After sighing briefly she opened the cedar door and came face-to-face with...
"Alexei?" Hermione yelped looking at him in shock.
"Shhhh Pepeliashka, you vill vake the others." He said quietly, walking threw the entrance way.
"What are you doing here Alexei, at three thirty in the morning?" She asked walking to the other side of the room. She wanted to avoid him at all costs especially now when he was doing all these strange things to her.
He moved towards her and Hermione had to try not to instinctively back away from him."Vell I vas thinking that perhaps ve should haff a talk."
"What is going on? Why are you bothering me like this?" Hermions said losing her inner battle of wills and backing away from him slowly. There was something about the look in his eye and the way he was walking towards her that made her worried and even a little frightened.
"I am far better than my brother Pepeliashka. I vonder vot you see in him. Hmm?... Vell vatever it is I can do much better...You are pretty girl, haff you and Viktor ever been together?" He asked raising his eyebrows as Hermione's fear turned into rage.
"That is none of your buisness... Leave this room or...I...Will scream the bloody bricks off these walls." She bit off looking at Alexei. She was so disgusted.
"I vill take that as a no. Then you vill be very lucky in haffing me as your first." Alexei whispered,wasting no more time and pouncing on her like a cat.
He quickly covered her body with his own and tried in vain to kiss her.
"ARGH! Get off me you imbecile!" She screeched biting on his lower lip as hard as she could.
Alexei gave a yelp of pain and looked at her, his eyes glazed with anger. "Vhy you...little Kutchka!"
Hermione took her chance and hit him between his legs with all the strength her leg would muster and ran from the room without looking to see if he ws following her.
She went to Viktor's door and slammed her fists onto it quite loudly.
When his face appeared she ran into his room and closed the entrance hoping that Alexei was still in her room on his knee's and not looking for her.
"Hermione, what is going on?" Viktor asked trying to wipe the sleep from his eyes when he took in her trembling form.
"Are you ok?" He tried again putting his hands on her shoulders.
The look of concern in Viktor's eyes mage her melt and she began to recount all of the things that were said and done that had made her uncomfortable and frightened of his older brother.
"Oh Viktor I wasn't going to say anything because I thought he was just messing around but then he did all that stuff at dinner and then just now and I am scared and he wont leave me alone." She said in a breath putting her head in Vikor's chest.
"I'm sorry Hermione but I don't understand. What happened and who are you talking about?"
"Alexei...He came up to me in the shop and started asking me about you and then he said he was watching me and at dinner he started to rub my thigh with his foot and he was in my room just now trying to kiss me and he said all these thing s to me..."
Viktor became more and more angry and Hermione could feel every muscle in his body go tense. He pulled her away slightly and looked at her trying desperatly to keep his anger in check.
"Did he hurt you?" He said simply not thinking he could say much more.
"n-n-no..." Hermione stuttered looking shaken.
Viktor nodded his head and went to the other end of the room. He grabbed the jeans he had been wearing that day and pulled them over his legs. He buttoned them low on his hips and pulled a green t-shirt over his head roughly.
He walked out of his room and went downstairs into the sitting room where he found his older brother.
Viktor said something in Bulgarian and Hermione cursed herself for not learning more of the language when she did not understand what he had said.
Viktor snipped comments that were getting louder and louder while Alexei simply smiled at him and answered with short but sweet replies.
Obviously Viktor had hit a nerve and Alexei and him were now shouting at each other and shooting murderous glares at one another to acompany the yells.
Ekkatrina and Nicolei came down the stairs. Ekkatrina passed Hermione in her nightdress and got into the middle of the raging men.
She shouted and broke up the fight quickly. She turned to her husband and before they knew what was happening Viktor had launched himself at Alexei and they began hitting each other and screaming.
Hermione looked on with confusion etched onto her face as Ekkatrina and Nicolei began to stare at her...
Hermione really wanted to know what was going on...What were they saying...
AN: Ok i hope this chapter turned out good please review and tell me because threw the entire chapter I kept feeling like something was wrong...I hope you like it and I will put the rest up tomoro but just this little chapter made me feel creatively drained and I couldn't keep it up at the time...Review and tell me what you think of Alexei...Does Viktor have a right to be doing what he is doing? Why are Nicolei and Ekkatrina staring at Hermione in the end...Oh and Kutchka I think with a story i read once is supposed to mean whore or something along those lines...
