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CHAPTER 11-
The daylight that Christmas Eve offered didn't last that long, and I didn't get to enjoy much of it. My parents convinced Lucius and Narcissa to decorate the ballroom by hand, so the house elves ran around our feet, climbing up the large Christmas tree at the head of the room putting the lights and ornaments on it whilst the six of us set out tables and chairs for the guests to sit on, garnishing them with holly leaves and sprinkling glitter on the floor. After three hours of rigorous work, we all collapsed in a heap in the centre of the floor, the house elves grinning at our exhausted forms.
'Come on, we don't have time for sleeping. We need to sort out the food.' Narcissa pulled us each of the ballroom floor and we all went to the kitchens and began cooking with the elves, Draco finding excuses to throw flour at me from the mince pies we were making together.
'I swear to Merlin that if you do that one more time that I will go to the ball on my own tonight.' He pouted and I laughed loudly, kissing him on the cheek before returning to the dough mixture. After we had put them in the oven, my mother and Narcissa whisked me off to the room I was staying in to get ready.
'No one is to come up unless someone has died or Voldemort has rose from the dead.' Everyone laughed at my mother's comment as she and Draco's mum dragged me up the stairs. I sat for what seemed like hours letting them do my hair and makeup, which seemed unfair to the ten minutes I gave them to get ready. Just as they helping me put my dress on, the sounds of laughing guests filled the hallway below us and Narcissa kissed my hand and left the room in a green dress to greet people, and my mum assisted me with my small golden heels.
When we were done, I stood up to my full height and smiled at my mum, who was wearing a black dress she had bought in Hogsmeade. There was a knock on the door, and my dad shouted to me. 'Can I come in?'
'Of course, Dad.' He opened the bedroom door and smiled at me as he took my mother's hand.
'You look wonderful, Hermione.'
'Thank you. Do you know where Draco is?'
'He's just getting changed now. Lucius said you were to wait in here and Draco would come and collect you.' I nodded and my parents left, closing the door behind them. After five minutes of sitting on my bed, I walked over to the window, being able to see myself in the inky black reflection it cast. Narcissa had cast a spell on my hair to accentuate my curls, and they fell around my face and shoulders perfectly. Mum had done my makeup, adding red lipstick to go with my dress. My red dress clung to me like it was a second skin, and for the first time in my life, I thought I actually looked pretty.
I heard the door open behind me, then Draco's voice. 'Hermione, I can't believe you're making me wear re…' He trailed off as I turned around, his mouth hanging open slightly.
'Problem, Draco?' He shook his head slowly, and his face reminded me of someone who had been put under the Imperius curse. 'You look lovely in your robes.' He was wearing simple dress robes in white, black and red, and his hair was slicked back away from his face like the way he used to wear it.
'You look… I don't even…' I blushed and looked down at the floor. 'Are you ready to go down?' I nodded and he held out his hand for me, but retracted it slightly after he had taken a good look at me. 'Where's your bracelet?'
'Excuse me?'
'Your charm bracelet. The one you got eleven days ago.'
'It's over th- how do you know about that?' My heart beat increased, and my eyes were wide with terror. Draco smirked.
'Because that first day, I slipped it into the pocket of your cardigan when we kissed by the lake. In transfiguration, I got Ginny to levitate a charm towards you from the opposite desk after I got McGonagall to teach us that kind of transfiguration, then I convinced Flitwick to teach us that eyesight charm, then Harry cast a spell to make it appear as if Ginny's eyesight had been damaged.'
'But I checked his wand.'
'Yes. Ginny cast a spell on it to make it appear that way. Madame Pomfrey was in on it too, giving Ginny that potion to make her throw up. Don't worry, she fully consented to it. Harry levitated the charm to you through the open door, then I got Dumbledore's permission to get Errol in the Great Hall at dinner for the fourth day and Blaise sorted out the charm that day. When we were in alchemy, Professor Halton let us make gold rings, and he made a small one especially for me and you which he charmed to keep on moving around the other charms, and he levitated that one on for me.'
'So, you got Hagrid to teach us about geese in care of magical creatures?' Draco nodded, smiling wildly.
'Of course. He just wants to see you happy, so he agreed straight away. Pansy levitated it to you that time, then my mother did when we were all in Hogsmeade. The eighth day didn't go as planned, so Kate quickly scribbled sorry on the end of the note before she ran after us under Harry's invisibility cloak.'
'What about at the Winter Ball?'
'Snape wasn't dancing with anyone, so he used his legilimency to send you the message and levitated the charm to your ankle. Why on earth was it there anyway?'
'If it was on my wrist you would have seen it, and I was scared of what you would do if you found out about it.' He laughed.
'I could never be angry at you. You'd have to do something absolutely awful for me to be angry with you. 'Yesterday, I levitated it to you when you were distracted.'
'And how on earth did you ever get permission from all ten of them to get them to take that spell you placed on their drinks when they knew they were going to start leaping around the drawing room?'
'Oh, I didn't. Blaise and I genuinely do that every year, we just changed the spell a little to make them leap a little more.'
'Do you know how paranoid I was?!' I hit his chest softly several times and Draco hugged me.
'I know. It was really funny. Face facts, Hermione. You were well and truly Derren-Browned by all of your friends and several of your professors.'
'How the hell do you who Derren Brown is?'
'Your dad told me. Now just put your bracelet on.'
'Can't you just give me today's charm?'
'No. We haven't have eleven pipers piping yet.' I laughed and he took my hand, leading me to the ballroom, where my parents, Narcissa and Lucius were waiting outside the closed doors for us.
'No rush, you two.' I smiled at Lucius, and Draco linked his arm with mine, and we stood in a line, the masters of the house first, my parents, then their children at the back. Draco pecked me on the cheek and whispered to me, his lips brushing against my ear.
'You do know that your wedding dress is going to have to be impeccable to outdo what you're wearing tonight.' I blushed furiously at the implications of what he just said, but didn't have time to question him as the doors opened in front of us and the six of us entered the ballroom, walking to the table we had set up in front of the big Christmas tree, my parents sitting on Narcissa's side, me and Draco sitting on Lucius', reporters from the Daily Prophet and Witch Weekly taking pictures of us all together, as well as the rest of our friends who were sat at the various other tables around the room. Entering through the doors were eleven men with bagpipes and they stood in a line in front of us and began playing.
I took Draco's hand and he turned to me. 'Why aren't people wondering why there are bagpipe players at your family ball?'
'The first ever Malfoy, Armand, was Scottish. We usually just have ten, but for the purpose of the muggle song, we hired an extra player.' I saw a charm being levitated towards me, smiling at Lucius as it clasped around the silver chain, and he handed me the piece of parchment.
'Happy Christmas, Hermione.'
'Thank you.' I kissed Draco on the cheek and unravelled the strip of parchment:
On the eleventh day of Christmas, I give to my true love eleven pipers piping.
The charm was of a small bagpipe and I grinned, finally happy that this was all down to Draco. The pipers left and Lucius made a speech about the Dark Lord finally being gone, then motioned to me, Harry and Ron, and people clapped for us. He talked about his love for his wife, son and dead daughter. Draco gripped my hand, and I remembered how much he still loved Astrid even though he was only young when it happened. The six of us all stood and we went into the centre of the ballroom to have the first dance of the evening, my friends and professors joining us all.
'Hermione, my father told me before that he wishes to dance with you.' I smiled at Draco's nervous face halfway through the song.
'I can do that. Don't look so worried.' I kissed him, looking deep into his eyes. The silver colour swirled around, the white specks glinting off the candles in the ballroom from the three chandeliers. I fell deeper for him as his eyes shone in his happiness, his arms tight around my waist, his fingers tracing imaginary patterns on my lower back making me tingle with happiness. The song ended and Lucius came over, asking to dance. 'Of course.' I kissed Draco on the cheek and began dancing with his father to a Christmas song that I thought I recognised.
'You look lovely, Hermione.'
'Thank you. You know Draco was really nervous about you talking to me, right?'
He nodded. 'Cissa told me. If I was still under the Imperius curse, I could understand, but… well, I suppose he would have forgotten what sort of person I really was.'
'Could you not break free from the curse at all?'
'I tried to, but it was very strong. Most of the death eaters were like me. The same can't be said for the likes of Bellatrix.' I nodded, remembering how Draco saved me from her scaring my arm. We carried on dancing, and it sounded like a drunk Irish man was singing.
'What song is this?'
'Fairy tale of New York. Draco said muggles like it. It's quite catchy when it gets going, actually.'
'You know it?' He nodded.
'I couldn't stop listening to it after he told me to add it to tonight's song list.' The upbeat part started and we both sang the lyrics and danced slightly faster, people looking at us strangely.
The cameras flashed fairly quickly when I called Lucius a cheap lousy faggot.
After being questioned by a few people about the singing outburst, dancing with my dad and a few other people I went to stand outside the ballroom, getting some fresh air and cooling down. I paced around in the area that they had cleared of snow, smiling to myself, all of my worries finally gone. I felt someone wrap their arms around my waist from behind me and they kissed the back of my head.
'Aren't you cold?'
'I'm trying to cool down, Draco.' I turned around, placing my hands on his chest, a song changing inside, to what I recognised as the song that led to our first kiss. 'I'm glad you remembered.'
'How could I possibly ever forget?' We began dancing as the Beauty and Beast song played for us. 'I'll never forget that night. You were so beautiful. You're even more beautiful now, it that's even possible.' He pulled me tighter to him, and I leant my head on his shoulder as we moved together slower to our song, Draco muttering sweet nothings into my ear. The song began to end, and another one began to play, but not as loud, and I knew Draco had fixed it so I could only hear ours. 'Can I kiss you?' I blushed remembering him asking the very first time.
I nodded and Draco leaned his head down a little and captured his lips in mine, his kiss being as sweet as our first one this time last year. When he pulled away, he ran a thumb over my cheek.
'Tonight?' He asked, and I instantly knew what he was referring to. We had had a couple of botched attempts at it, one on Valentine's Day when I threw him off me because of what Krum tried to do to me, and one during the summer which a house elf walked in on.
'Yes.' We both smiled and Draco took me by the hand, leading me over towards the wall of the house. Taking out a small silver key from his pocket, he moved aside the ivy and put the key into a small hole, unlocking a door which revealed steps lit by candles. 'I should have known you had this planned.'
'Of course I did. I want it to be perfect for you.' I entered the house first, lifting up my dress so I wouldn't trip on the stone steps, Draco behind me, locking the door so no one could get in. The door at the top of the steps was open, and I went through into his bedroom. Blue rose petals were on the floor, being Draco's nod to the blue rose he gave on the night of the Winter Ball last year. Candles were lit everywhere and the fire next to the door, which turned out to be the bookcase, was crackling quietly away. The curtains were drawn and the sheets on the bed were made out of white silk.
I heard Draco close the bookcase behind me, then went to lock his bedroom door before he came over to me, wrapping his arms around my waist. 'I told the house elves not to disturb us unless someone dies or Voldemort has rose from the dead.' I smiled shyly at Draco's repetition of my mother's words. 'Is this okay?'
'Yes. This is perfect and you're perfect.' I stood on my tiptoes and kissed him slowly, putting my hands on his shoulders and slid off the outer layer of his dress robes, leaving him in his shirt, tie, pants, socks and shoes. I undid his bowtie and the first few buttons on his shirt, but before I could go any further, Draco pulled out of my kiss and knelt down in front of me, carefully lifting my dress up at the ankles and removing my shoes, then removed his shoes and socks. He walked behind me, and for a horrible second I thought he was judging how I looked. The thought went as soon as it came when Draco wrapped one arm around my waist, bringing my back against his chest.
He flipped my hair over on shoulder and began to kiss up and down my neck, occasionally sucking my most sensitive spots, knowing how it would make me moan for him. His free hand went to the zip at the back of my dress and undid it at a painfully slow rate. 'Draco.' I felt him smirk into the skin on my neck and he finally unzipped it, and the red silk fell from my body to the floor and I stepped out of it, turning around to face Draco, now wearing nothing but a strapless bra and knickers.
I approached Draco slowly and undid the rest of the buttons on his shirt, but he barely seemed to notice as he was that transfixed with looking at me. I took the shirt from his body and undid his belt and the fly on his pants, letting them drop to the floor. He stepped out of them, now only wearing his boxers, and took both of my hands, leading me over to the bed. He sat down on the end of it, pulling me onto his lap. I wrapped my legs around his hips, grinding into him and he moaned into my mouth as we kissed.
'If you do that, I don't know how much longer I can last.' I blushed at Draco's comment, but smiled regardless. He softly pulled my curls to my back as he reached behind me and undid the clasp of my bra. Butterflies rose up, afraid he would laugh at me, but his eyes still shone as he looked on me, throwing my bra somewhere behind us. Draco pushed me backwards slightly and began kissing down my chest, drawing a nipple into his mouth and sucking on it.
'Draco…' I leant my head on his shoulder, grabbing his hair in fistfuls as he alternated between nipples, his thumb and forefinger, rubbing circles around the other. After a while, he looked up at and kissed me, then carefully stood up, with me still wrapped around his hips and walked to the side of the bed and laid me down in the centre after drawing back some of the silken sheets.
I felt bared in front of him and looked away, but I still saw Draco smiling at me out of the corner of my eye. 'You look like an angel.' I looked at him and smiled. 'I've never seen anyone look so beautiful before.' He kissed me again, his hands trailing down my body to my last covering. He pulled away and met my eye, asking for permission, his hands resting on my abdomen. I nodded and he slid my underwear down my legs, Draco's erection growing more prominent the further he went. He lifted my ankles up and took off my last garment, dropping it on the floor somewhere, and kissed me on the lips before going back down my body. Slowly, he spread my legs apart, still looking me in the eye to make sure what he was about to do was okay. I nodded nervously, no one having ever touched me there before apart from him. He looked away from my eyes, smiling softly at what was in front of him. He buried his head in between my thighs, and I felt his tongue inside of me, and I arched up slightly off the bed, my hands gripping the white silk either side me. I felt Draco smirk as he rested both hands on my hips, waiting until I had settled before he continued.
Draco sucked on my innocence, and after gathering enough strength to hold me down with one hand, he thrust two fingers inside me with the other, and I groaned in pleasure, finding that I was coming to my climax. 'I'm going to…' I couldn't get much more out. Draco nodded, the action making me moan. He twisted his fingers inside me, pressing on my barrier softly so it wouldn't hurt, and sucked harder. I grabbed his hair as I came, and he removed his fingers from me but carried on using his tongue against me, only removing it when I came down.
He got off the bed and removed his boxers then climbed back on, lying down next to me. 'Are you ready?'
'Yes. I love you.'
'I love you too.' He kissed me one last time and moved so he was knelt in between my legs. I gripped the sheets with one hand and held Draco's with the other, his spare hand holding his member. I nodded and he entered me, his eyes fluttering close in pleasure as he properly felt me for the first time. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes again. I smiled at him and held tight to his hand, and he entered me fully, the way Draco was holding his jaw telling me that he liked the feeling and was having a hard time waiting for me. I had felt a sharp pinch as he took me, but not enough for me to tell him to stop. 'Are you okay?' I nodded. 'How does it feel?'
'Uncomfortable, but not unwelcome. You feel soft, but hard at the same time, like you don't want to hurt me.'
'I don't.' I moved my hips a little, Draco biting his lip as he patiently waited.
'How do I feel?' Draco looked at me suddenly and smiled.
'Wonderful. You're very wet.' I blushed and looked away from him. 'It's a good thing, Hermione.' I turned back to him and smiled shyly. 'You're soft too. And tight. It's like someone's put me under a painless petrificus totalus.' I laughed quietly and moved my hips again, earning a moan from Draco.
'Okay. You can move.' Still guiding with his hand, Draco pushed all the way inside me, both of us moaning when he was all the way in. 'That feels good.' My boyfriend nodded in agreement.
'Tell me if you want to stop or go slower and I will.' I smiled at him and he pulled out of me a little before going all the way back in and I let my breath out, looking up at Draco. I thought he was beautiful when he slept and when he danced with me, but he looked even more beautiful positioned above me. I moved my hips in a circular motion as he entered me again, telling him that I wanted more of him. 'Are you sure?'
'Yes, Draco.' He placed his hands on my abdomen and picked up his speed, a few swear words escaping from his lips as he moved in and out of me.
'You feel so good.' He leaned down and kissed me softly, and I knew it was hard for him to hold back. My first time was moving at an achingly slow pace, and I knew he wanted it to be perfect for me.
'Please, Draco.' He obeyed, his hands wrapping themselves around my back and my legs going around his hips, and I moaned at the new contact as I pulled him further inside of me.
'God, Hermione.' I smiled and met his hips as he thrust into me, both of us moaning, and Draco pulled in and out of me quicker. I dug my fingernails into his shoulders, my bracelet sliding up and down my wrist. I smiled at it through the pleasure. It had brought us closer and I was grateful for how thoughtful Draco was. 'Are you…' He trailed off, his eyes half-lidded, telling me that he was close.
'Yes…' Draco brought us both to the edge of the bed, me sat on his lap with him thrusting up into me. 'Nearly…' We became faster and more erratic, kissing each other roughly on the lips. 'Draco!' I screamed his name as I came, holding him tightly between my legs, which brought Draco to his climax, the first one I had ever given him.
'Hermione...' He rested his head on my shoulder as I felt him come inside of me. 'That was amazing.' I smiled and closed my eyes, both of us breathing deeply, trying to get our breath back. Draco recovered quicker than me and picked us both up, his softening member still inside of me. He went to his discarded robes and picked up his wand and pointed it at my abdomen, muttering the contraceptive charm, then dropped it to the floor and carried us back to the bed, removing me from him as he laid me down. I hissed at the loss of contact, but he got in next to me straight away, pulling the stained silken sheets over us both as he pulled me towards his chest. We wrapped our arms around each other and he kissed me fully on the lips. 'I love you.'
'I love you too.' We stayed like that until morning, the candles burning out sometime during the night.
