Planning
"Harry Potter! You come out here and take care of the kid you produced or you will no longer have the ability to produce another!" Ginny's voice rang through the house.
"Can't a guy get one hour of sleep?" Harry muttered under his breath. After slipping out from his hideout, the cupboard under the stairs (the irony was not lost on him), he climbed up the stairs and into the twins room where Ginny was trying to feed Lily while James was making a fuss and wailing in his crib.
"I cannot wait for Hermione to get back, she's a whole lot more help than you are!" Ginny shouted at her husband who was standing at the door.
"I love you too" He replied to his lovely wife while picking up James and softly whispering to the young child in his arms.
Soon James was once again sound asleep and holding on to Harry's thumb. Harry shot a triumphant smile to his wife and set the small child back in his crib.
"I still think you're super lazy"
"I still think you're super pretty"
"Oh shut it you"
Harry smiled at his wife and placed a sweet kiss on her forehead.
Where the hell am I? Hermione had gotten herself into a pickle, she went off to explore the main part of the manor on her own and she couldn't find her way back to Draco's wing of the house. After walking through the house for another hour she gave up on trying to get to her room.
"Ella" Hermione whispered into the dark hallway.
"Miss Hermione!" Ella's voice started Hermione when she felt Ella hold on to her leg. "Miss Hermione, you musn't be here!"
Before Hermione could respond Ella had grabbed her hand and aperated them back to Hermione's room.
"Ella, why was I not allowed to be there?" Hermmione asked the shaken house elf.
"Miss Hermione is not allowed to be in Master Malfoy's wing, he has curses set up in every room you could have been hurt!"
"Draco?" Hermione questioned although she was sure the elf was referring to the elder Malfoy.
"No ma'am, Lucius, he didn't like people intruding in his private affairs, he set up curses to stop anyone from entering the rooms"
"Well it's a good thing I didn't try to enter any rooms, huh?" Hermione gave the elf a reasuring smile..
"Hermione!" Draco's voice rang from the open doorway
"In here!" she called out.
"Master has been looking for you miss." Ella said before she disappeared.
"Where have you been?" Draco appeared in the doorway, "no we can talk about that later, for now I have to teach you how to act like pureblooded witch in 24 hours." Draco said this all while he grabbed the chair by the desk and brought it by the bed where Hermione was currently sitting.
"I think I can figure that out on my own" Hermione told Draco
"Well we have to change your appearance and maybe if you talk in a slight Italian accent they won't ask too many questions."
"Death eaters don't care much for Italians?"
"No, purebloods all know one another, we are taught to know all other pureblooded families in our area during our child hood" Draco explained, "If you show up out of nowhere they will get suspicious."
"Alright, so who am I going to be?"
"You my dear friend, are going to be a young witch from Italy." Draco gave her a smile, "You and I met in a club while I was off forgetting my ex-fiance, you were a great shag and so I brought you back to England with me, since all pureblood witches think about settling down with a rich bloke you had no problem coming with me."
"You were engaged?" Hermione asked perplexed, she had no idea Draco was engaged.
"I think a glamour charm can change your skin tone, your going to have to act a bit like, like a, well, like a slut."
"You were engaged?" Hermione asked again completely ignoring Draco's blabbering.
After giving her a pointed look that silenced her he let out a sigh."Before I was forced to return to Hogwarts for our seventh year my parents told me who I was to marry," Draco saw Hermione was about to speak so he continued before she could interupt, "Purebloods have arranged marriages, to keep the blood line pure," Draco said sort of disgustedly.
"Who?" was all that Hermione managed to say, her shock and curiosity evident in her voice.
"Pansy, the union of the families was arranged since our birth, and when things started to get bad my mother wanted to see grandchildren before something happened," Draco swallowed the lump in his throat that reminded him his mother never got her wish and continued. "She decided that they we were to marry soon after our seventh year and to announce our engagement to society that year."
"What happened, obviously you two are not married and well it's been two years since then."
"I was never attracted to Pansy, I mean sure she was a great shag" Hermione made a face at this "but I wasn't attracted to her in a romantic level. When my parents met their end, I was asked if I still wanted to go on with the engagement, at that point I was lost I had just lost my family and I knew that there was a slim chance I will be able to have one if I broke off the engagement. So Pansy and I, we tried to actually make things work, and they did, for a while. sortof. Last summer, we spent some time in France, she found herself a charming french man who won't be called a death eater everywhere he went" Draco paused for a bit but with an encouraging smile from Hermione he continued with his story. "She broke off the engagement, at first I was alright with it we weren't doing so well together, but then I realized that my last chance for ever having my own family was gone with her, if she couldn't stand being with me when people shouted profanities everywhere I went, who could?"
"Draco, I may not have been your biggest fan, but your not hard on the eyes, witch weekly just called you the most eligible bachelor in their last issue, I'm sure you won't have a problem finding a willing witch." Hermione tried to cheer up her new found friend
"Oh there are willing witches, the only thing bad about them is that when they look at the long run, well they run." Draco chuckled at his choice of words.
"Well I'm sure we can find you a witch sometime, right now though we have a mission to do and we haven't planned anything."
"We?" Draco chuckled "I have planned something out but you, Granger, interrupted me."
"Yes we I will help you on your quest to gain a family since you have taken care of me so well and didn't lock me up in a room so I would stay out of your way while you do your mission, like I think the old Malfoy will do." Hermione replied in a teasing tone. "And I was curious you can't mention an ex-fiance and expect me to just let it go."
Chuckling Draco poked her nose. "Fine misses I-need-to-know-everything, lets get working on this mission" Draco said in a teasing tone.
Sticking out her tongue she complied and started talking plans on how exactly they were going to lure information out of the death eaters and capture them with out letting them know of their intentions.
Here is another chapter YAY! I managed to update A LOT sooner than anticipated but it came with the price of a shorter chapter. BTW, Ron and Hermione are not together! He hasn't told her his feelings towards her I'm sorry if I made that part a bit confusing. Reviews will motivate me to write faster..;)
