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I actually had to start this chapter over because i lost my file over Christmas! grrr... Anyways. I was on a roll and i made this chapter extra long for you all!
Warning: juicy fluffy lime XD
Dragon's den
Chapter 10
Silver's love
Snape entered the leaky cauldron and headed over to see Tom, because it was a Saturday he could use some of the time and go outside of Hogwarts. The barkeep smiled warmly to the professor and handed him his favorite Drink.
"She's in the private room Mr. Snape" he said with a kind smile.
The potions professor returned it politely and, drink in hand, headed toward the back of the bar. The room itself was small and cozy, meant for gatherings. The Weasley family often used this room and Snape could still grasp their smell, even if it was being overpowered with the smell of incense.
"Right on time Severus" The woman said smiling as she waved her hand at the seat across from her, it dragged on the floor away from the table and Snape sat facing his companion.
"To what do I owe this… pleasure Angela?"
The girl just smiled, her topaz colored eyes dancing as she swept her golden hair over her shoulders
"After more then 3 thousand years this is the hello I get?"
"Skip to the point woman"
"Fine you self centered grouch, I had another sight. Bahamut will be acting soon after he claims the girl. We have to go and tell her everything before it's too late."
"We will do no such thing, our job was to stick her on the right path, you told her about the prophecy after doing that ridiculous reading, whether she believed it or not is out of your control and mine."
"But she'll die!"
"Angela you know the rules better then anyone. We meddled with humans over 4 thousand years ago and changed the courses of history by creating magically inclined humans. Rowena and Kestrel where born from you as well as Salazar from me. Our god was very displeased. Further more, your gift of sight has often come out false. The slightest decision can turn the outcome arround."
Angela crossed her arms over her chest and glared at the green dragon. She didn't need to be reminded that the birth of her twins and their half blood had been the cause of her 3 thousand year slumber. They're punishment for going against the laws and creating beings that where never meant to exist. While others faded they stayed trapped in sleep. Bahamut was kind to his children though, allowing to outlive their respective mates before forcing their body's to rest.
Those laws where in fact placed in the protection of the humans. Dragons could not eat them, could not kill them unless it was as self defense and even then it had to be a last resort. Dragon's could not meddle in human affairs, with their advanced knowledge it would be far to easy to govern over the primitive race. Unfortunately, not meddling in human affairs also meant you could not fall in love with them and in the same instance, procreate.
"If Wudelfin where here then he'd be agreeing with me" she growled out glaring at the floor.
"But he's not here, so deal with it" he sneered.
"Then I request permission to step on your territory, to go to Hogwarts as an assistant professor or something."
" No"
"What!"
"I barely tolerate the half breeds, what makes you think I'll let you on my lands?"
"You won't have a choice in the mater and you know that"
"True, but right now I do have a choice. Set one foot on my lands before the due date and I'll kill you"
"You can't measure up to me and you know it! you don't have her to back you up and protect you anymore." she growled out teeth bared threateningly as her eyes glowed gold.
"Do you care to test me? I have half a thousand years or so more experience and power over you and i never needed my mates assistance." Snape replied tone like ice as his own eyes flared green.
"Fine, I'll be there when the time comes and not a moment later" she replied in a biting tone.
Snape got up from his seat.
"Pleasure as always Goldie locks" he smirked taking his leave.
"Don't hit your head on the way out you jack ass" she grumbled sulking.
Snape's smirk only grew wider as he closed the door. It was always fun to meet up with your own kin on neutral ground.
Hermione moaned as she shifted to try and get more comfortable. She was slowly coming to, the first thing she felt was soft sheets and warmth. She shifted and snuggled into the warmth as her body slowly came back to awareness and slowly opened her eyes to let them travel around the room.
It seemed to have been carved in solid rock, there where 2 entrances that had no doors and the sound of running water was coming from one of the rooms, there was basic room furniture as well as a fireplace. Carpets where laid on the ground in varying shades of colors, most of it green. The fire from the hearth as well as candles mounted on the walls where the only source of light in the room.
Hermione moaned again as she turned on her back to stare at the ceiling. Her mind was lazily trying to remember how she had gotten here and she blushed when she remembered Draco kissing her... why hadn't she pushed him away? Se mentally kicked herself for letting that happen but froze when she felt someone beside her shift. She slowly turned her head and almost jumped out of bed at the sight of Draco's sleeping face, she would have had his arms not been holding onto her.
Hermione blushed and tried to shift to get away from him, his arms closed in on her and when she got closer his grip loosened. She sighed and resigned herself to stay put for now.
Draco wasn't sleeping, merely resting. He had been afraid of going to sleep and dreaming of her only to wake up and do the irreversible while she was still unconscious. He didn't mind playing the charade and letting her think he was vulnerable and oblivious to her, in fact he found he quite enjoyed it. When she tried to get up he forced her to stay and now he had to stop himself from snickering at the resigned sigh. He kept is breathing even and his face as unguarded and peaceful as could be.
Hermione was half heartedly glaring at Draco before she sighed again, it was no use. The man wasn't even conscious to cringe away. She looked at his sleeping face and coulnd't help but wonder if this was the same boy that use to make her life hell.
he looks so... harmless...
Yet she knew that was far from the truth. She raised a hand and brushed his hair away before letting her fingers ghost against his pale face. His angular features and smooth pale soft skin. She vaguely wondered if his warm body temperature was a side effect of being half dragon.
"Mine mrrrrrrr" he pulled himself closer to her, berrying his head against her chest.
Had he just... Oh god he purred! well it was more a growling purr then a purr. Hermione blushed crimson as her heart stuttered and started working overtime. Draco had to bite his tongue to keep from snickering as he snuggled in closer to her, nuzzling his face against her breasts. He now understood what the saying 'play with fire and you'll get burned' meant, and boy was he burning up.
"Um..Ah...shit" she hissed.
Draco almost came undone and he had to bite the inside of cheeks. Poor girl! This had to be bad for his health, to take so much pleasure in driving his mate to be insane. He could hear and feel her heart beat working overtime as the sweet smell of her embarrassment clouded his mind. He felt her shift and then heard her gasp as her hand brushed his side. Oh yeah, he remembered stripping her down to nothing but her blouse and panties for sleep and he was still quite naked under the sheets. He felt her heart stutter again before going in head long rush and he buried his head against her chest to hide his smile.
Hermione was blushing like mad, oh god! This was not happening! She was in bed with a naked Draco Malfoy and she was barely decent herself.
"Mmmmrrrr"
Hermione froze as Draco stirred, why was she acting this way? it was only Draco for Merlin's sake! Why did it feel like a million butterflies where waging war in her stomach? She looked down as he stirred and slowly woke up.
Draco slowly opened his eyes after groaning. Looking up he actually found the decency to blush and he pulled away from his more then comfortable place by her side.
"S'ry" He rumbled pulling away only to misjudge the distance between him and the edge of the bed.
Draco yelped as he crashed against the hard stone floor. 'Smooth , real smooth,' Draco thought mentally kicking himself as Hermione leaned over to see if he was alright only to blush like mad as her eyes widened. The blanket had not followed him and she now had a more than perfect view of his assets. She tore her eyes from his naked form before she would be caught ogling the man. Draco smelled her flustered state, it was a new smell to him, kind of like ice cream dipped in chocolaty sweetness. He inwardly smirked, perhaps his blunder could serve a useful purpose after all and he felt like teasing her, coulnd't hurt could it?
He rose to his feet as he rubbed his head keeping his mirth in check as Hermione blushed even more at his lack of decency.
"Are you all right?" Draco asked looking down at a flustered Hermione.
"N-no i mean yes" Merlin she just wanted to grab a pillow and throw it at him, tell him to put on a pair of boxers at least!
Draco smirked as the smell increased, he liked this game! He sat down on the bed and easily pulled the girl over his lap.
"Where?"
"Um..." Hermione stiffened and blushed even more as the butterflies seemed to increase in her stomach.
" 'Um' is not a body part Granger"
Merlin kill me now! Hermione mentally screamed. She jumped when his fingers lightly skimmed across her thigh.
"Where does it hurt?" he asked again trailing his fingers over her flesh, he felt her shiver when his feather light touch ran across her stomach.
"Stop that" She whimpered weakly.
"Stop what?" he asked innocently as he buried his face in her hair taking a deep breath and his fingers slid over her stomach again.
"That!" Was this really her voice? That weak breathless squeak?
"This?" he whispered at her ear, while his fingers skimmed over her again, he was having so much fun. He had been left frustrated for more then a week, It was time he took his revenge on her.
Draco dipped his head again, fully intending to kiss her like he had the night before. Hermione's eyes widened and she violently shoved herself away from him. Draco just sat there looking more then startled, he hadn't expected her to resist him. Draco frowned at a breathless Hermione, what was wrong now?
"What is wrong with you?" she panted out trying to gather herself.
"Nothing is wrong with me"
"Bullshit" she hissed.
Draco looked at her, smirking at her use of language.
"Then would you care to be specific" he asked casually.
"How could you act this way with me? i'm the Mudblood, the bookworm! You don't even love me!"
Draco had frowned at her casual use of the insult but grit his teeth at her last statement.
"Don't assume to know what i feel Ganger" He managed to stay calm but the steel glint in his eyes was warning enough, he was more then tired of her stubbornness.
"Then perhaps you should be the one enlightening me!"
Draco got up in one fluid movement and Hermione turned bright red, turning away from his naked form. Draco growled and reached her in a few fluid steps. Grabbing her wrists and forcing her to face him. Hermione glared stubbornly at his chest, not wanting to look him in the face yet not wanting to look down as well.
" I had everything before i got to hHogwarts, I knew what i was to become and i was proud of it. The son of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, the Blue and silver heirs, I got everything i wanted. The best marks, the respect, the attention... Everything! I was the best and i was proud of that! Then in one year it was all stripped away as i was surpassed by the likes of you! No longer first in everything, and even in things you didn't excel at i was being beaten by boy-wonder! Even Weaselbee and his hand-me-down rags with his brothers and sister, not knowing what it was like to be alone at night wishing for a play-mate! You have no idea how loathed i was, how much i hated you all! So much in fact that i went out of my way to make you suffer as well, i couldn't stand the fact that someone like you who had no magical backround beside the possible ancester could beat me. When your used to having everything go your way it's a biter pill to swallow when your left taking the back seat!"
Hermione's eyes where stinging with unshed tears, so much hate dripped from his words and his grip on her wrists where firm as he pinned her with his hard gaze, he really did hate her.
"And when i smelled you for the first time" Draco continued his gaze hardening slightly " i didn't know it was you yet, but i wanted... needed and it nearly drove me to tear down Diagon alley just to find her... to find you. when i found out it was you, i actually thought it was the cruelest joke ever made. Me destined to be mated to you? it was laughable!"
The tears in Hermione's eyes started to fall, he wasn't being gentle with his words, but then again she had pushed him to this. Draco's voice softened as his grip relaxed.
"It took me 4 days and a lot of headaches to figure out that you really where meant for me. Your intelligence, the battle of wits. The fact that i always looked forward to seeing you just to piss you off" He said chuckling at his own childishness. "I knew i never wanted a woman that wasn't smart, i had Pansy for a time but she, like so many others, where too docile. They had no fire, not like you at least. The very reasons that brought me to hate you so much, where the very reasons that made you so perfect for me"
Hermione was looking up at him with wide eyes, he was telling the truth, she could see it in his eyes, the way they danced with humorless realization and slight shame. But they abruptly shifted to mischief.
"And then Weasley had to go tell you he was in love with you and i nearly killed him, that was an eye opener all together. But i guess what made me realize just how over my head i was was when i saw you about to get hurt by that spider. I never expected to react so violently."
Hermione's eyes had widened, he had tried to kill Ron because he had put a move on her! Draco looked in her eyes and smirked.
"Lust after you, yes very much so" He smirked wider at her blush "Love you... more then even i care to admit, trying to convince you of that is driving me nuts"
Hermione was digesting everything in her head and heart, there where so many questions left to answer. She looked back at Draco and inwardly groaned, he was still standing before her, gloriously naked.
"Can you put some pants on please" she half begged.
"Why? It's actually funny to see you like this!" he snickered.
she gave him a glare.
"I left them in the astronomy tower when i went to save your pretty little ass" he offered mock cringing at her glare.
"And you can't just magic some?"
"Where's the fun in that?" he countered cheekily.
Hermione's shoulders slumped a bit, why her? she turned and sat on the bed keeping her eyes away from him lest she embarrass herself. He sat down and pulled her in his lap again, Draco really liked having her in his arms. And he found that even if it was still clawing at him to make her his, he found the need to be less persistent when she was beside him.
"What's it like?" she whispered.
"Hmm?"
"Imprinting... what's it like" she clarified.
He pondered it for a while, figures she would ask questions like that. Typical Granger to want to have knowledge. He smiled and tightened his grip on her.
"It's like the world stops spinning, Everything freezes and the only thing left in it is you and that other person. The need to have that person by your side over rules everything else. It's sort of like... like having your first taste at real high quality chocolate and then wondering how you ever managed to live without it. You may hate it at first... resent it. But you just know that no others could compare or make you as happy and satisfyed as that one person. It's that knowledge that drives us to the point of going crazy if we even try to ignore it." Draco stopped for a moment, trying to chose his words, how to simplify something so complex? "She could be the wrong age, species even. She could seem so totally wrong for you but you just can't help it. The need for her overrules it in the end."
Hermione stared up at him, seeming to make up her mind. No it wouldn't be bad, it could be pleasant even. Draco looked at her, at her wide surprised eyes and he felt too vulnerable. He smirked trying to hide his discomfort as he snorted and turned away from her.
"Pretty pathetic isn't it?"
Hermione blinked at his sudden change of attitude "Stupid ferret"
Draco turned to glare at her but was caught off guard when her hand came up to tangle in his hair and pulling his head down, his mouth was claimed by the girl he wanted most. Although her kissing was a bit off Draco found he didn't quite care, He growled and took charge of the kiss, Hermione was thankful she was a fast learner and quickly managed to grasp the art of it. Draco's body was being consumed in lava as his blood burned and sang. He gently coaxed her to open her mouth and he slipped his tongue inside fighting with her as he gently laid her down under him. He was so consumed by his passion he barely registered his body shifting as his eyes burned in a pool of hot silvery blue and he barely felt the sting in his back as his wings spread out. His hand held his weight as his other hand skimmed down her side and found the hem of her blouse, he slipped it under and started to glide up her stomach.
Hermione was a bit overwhelmed, she had never expected him to act so strongly. She found she liked playing tongue war with him but when his hand skimmed down her side and started going back up under her blouse she froze, her mind screamed for the actions to stop, to slow down. This was too fast, too soon. She was afraid and had every right to be.
Draco felt her freeze beneath him, he broke the kiss and looked to see her staring at him with first fear and uncertainty to shocked surprise. He smirked, he had gone too strong and scared her and as for her surprise, it had probably come from his change in apearance. His smirk turned to a smile as he flipped himself over. Hermione yelped in surprise at finding herself on top of Draco, the movement had been so fast and he now held her hands in each of his. She looked down and found herself completely lost in his eyes.
Draco brought first one of her hands to kiss, then the other before laying them down on his chest and releasing them.
"Take your time" He said smirking devilishly.
Hermione blushed a little as the implication of his words sank in.
"I'm... not sure"
Draco just closed his eyes and made himself more comfortable. He wanted her to feel no pressure, to feel she had control over him. Hermione looked at is face before she lightly skimmed her fingers over his warm skin, feeling a shiver from him at her light touch. Biting her lip she trailed her fingers over his shoulders to touch his wings, they had the same texture as snake skin, but instead of being cool to the touch they where pleasantly warm. She continues to explore his body and when she looked back up her eyes widened.
Draco had opened his eyes to see her biting her bottom lip, her fingers where moving over his wing and he had to bite back a moan. She had no idea how good that felt, She raised her head to look at his face again and he saw her eyes widen. His own eyes must have been burning brightly in the dim light of the room. Everything in Draco was screaming to stop playing such games, to take what he yearned for, his clawed hands dug into the sheets and mattress, trying to fight with his control. Hermione could see it was hard on him, hard to play the nice and patient gentlemen. She smirked down at him and Draco raised an eye brow at her sudden change. When the sorting hat was placed on her head it wanted to send her to Ravenclaw, but it finally decided to send her to Gryffindor instead, nobility and courage bordering stupidity as the Slytherins always said.
"Tell me Draco" Hermione asked leaning in toward him "Just how badly do you want me?"
Draco's eyes flashed as his self control crumbled to oblivion, Hermione yelped as she found herself roughly thrown down on the mattress again as he restrained her with one of his hands, his other holding her head. She looked up and gasped. Draco was looking down with such fierce eyes, his lips where curled back revealing his sharp teeth and Hermione whimpered, maybe she shouldn't have pushed her luck.
"Your mine" He growled.
Draco opened his mouth and lounged for her throat, her cry was barely registered to his hazy mind as his system was flushed with the magic of the binding, he could feel her, see her. Her soul looked like fire, warming your body on the coldest nights, hypnotizing you as the flames danced, except they didn't have logs and timber as a stage to dance on, they where emanating from a golden sphere encrypted with bizarre looking hieroglyphs. Knowledge is power, the golden sphere was her mind and her vast knowledge as the flames that shot out of it where her stubbornness, pride and power. Draco bit in more deeply, feeling the magic flowing from his mouth to her throat wound and back again.
Hermione had cried out at the pain of feeling his fangs bite into her. She tried to fight him off her but he kept her pined down with his body and her head was kept steady by the hand in her hair. She gasped when she felt warmth spread from her neck, she stopped resisting and it seemed his grip loosened a bit, she heard his light purring as her own eyes glazed over.
A moon, a beautiful silver moon that seemed to be giving off it's own bright light at every angle. But something was off, there was no planet for him to orbit around and she could only see the same side of this beautiful moon. Hermione gasped as he bit in deeper, feeling the warmth increase and flush her system. There where so many knew sentations, like a sixth sense that had sudenly woken up to her.
'It will be over soon love'
Hermione whimpered at the voice in her head and she saw his soul more clearly, he did have a planet she realized, she was his planet. She felt his fangs release her and she couldn't help the shiver that ran up her spine when he gently licked the wound clean.
Draco felt immensely pleased with himself, he had claimed her after all. He hadn't wanted to be so violent but she was the one to push the wrong button, he could hardly be held responsible. He finished cleaning her wound and rolled over as he kept her firmly at his side. He would let her rest for now, She no doubt had tons more questions for him. He could wait to finish claiming her, as long as she was his he found the wait wouldn't be as painful.
Draco gently trailed his lips over her neck, grazing over his new mark and up to the shell of her ear, he felt her shiver and give out a small moan.
"Rest, you'll need it" he growled out.
hmmm, lemon for next chap maybe? haven't really decided yet. My bro wants to read my fic and it made me kind of nervous lol, his older sister writing smut stories (gasp!)
"I'm frikin 22 years old dude lay off!"
"I don't care! your my sister it's just wrong!"
you guys and girls get the idea right?