After The Songs: Chapter 11: Take a Bow: 8 years later

(2 years after Chapter 10)

"What if she gets cold feet"?

"She isn't going to get cold feet".

"How do you know"?

"This is Granger we are talking about".

"Still. I mean look how long it took to get to this point. What if she decides she still isn't ready"?

Malfoy shakes his head and says, "Marcus, Granger isn't going to change her mind. She loves you. She wants to marry you for some odd reason and I mean she could have had me".

Flint laughs and takes a deep breath and Malfoy says, "Plus she has Parkinson, Alice and Greengrass with her".

Flint goes back to tying his tie repeating to himself that Granger loves me. Malfoy sneaks out and over to Granger's dressing room and knocks. Alice opens the door and says, "I was just about to go looking for you. Hermione is having a malfunction".

"Malfunction? Please tell me she isn't about to leave".

"No! She thinks Marcus is going to because she took so long".

Malfoy slaps his hand to his forehead and says, "Get her ready and blind fold her and have her in the hallway in 10. I am going to do the same to Marcus. He is freaking out as well".

Alice nods and closes the door. Malfoy walks back into Flint's room and says, "You dressed"?

He nods and Malfoy throws a blind fold at him and says, "Put this on. I set it up for you to talk to Granger. She seems to be having this same issue".

He puts the blind fold on and Malfoy leads him outside with him faces his door. Alice leads out Granger and leads her over to Marcus. The couple locks hands and talks. The tenseness they both had in their shoulders eased. When they were done Flint made a hand motion. Malfoy lead him away while Alice to Granger back in her room. Once Granger was out of the hallway Malfoy says, "You can take that off now".

Flint blinks a couple times and says, "Onward".

Malfoy snickers but doesn't say anything just follows Marcus. Potter, Zabini and Weasley join the trek to the front of the pews.

It was 10 minutes before the doors opened and the bridesmaids started down the aisle. Once Alice was standing in her place, the wedding march started. The doors opened and there stood Hermione on the arm of Lucius Malfoy.

Lucius looks down at her and says, "You still have a chance to bail if you want. I am sure Draco will marry you still".

She giggles and says, "I love Marcus. I want to marry him".

"Okay. I had too. I had such high hopes you would be a Malfoy in name".

"Being a Malfoy in everything else is better though".

He kisses the top of her head and says, "We should probably walk".

She laughs again and they start down the aisle. Lucius hands her over with a kiss to her cheek and takes a seat next to Narcissa while the Minister of Magic starts the bonding.

The party lasted way after Marcus and Hermione left. Marcus took Hermione to his families summer villa in the Caribbean. They went swimming in the ocean, parasailing, scuba diving, and even in a submarine. When Hermione wasn't dragging Marcus to the sights he was making love to her anywhere he could. He couldn't have been happier. She finally married him. They were bonded for life. She was his until death and he planned on making sure she never doubted that she was the most important thing to him.