At his request, Hermione is about to become his lover and an ambassador to a werewolf.
At Malfoy's Request
Eleven
Emma sat quietly as she thought of what Draco had said only a moment ago. She reminded herself that what she did for Bastion was also for the good of her pack. She touched her chest and felt her heart beating there. He was her world, her everything, and all that she did was for him. When he was older, she hoped that he would understand that.
"Draco," Emma said. "Would you leave me from a moment. I…just need a moment, I'll call you back when I'm ready."
Draco rubbed his forehead in frustration and he sighed out loud. "What in the hell do you need a moment for? We need to get Hermione in here and we need fill her in on Bastion. Everything, Emma. We need to stop hiding him as if he doesn't exist."
She whipped her head around, eyes an amber glow. Her K-9s were extended fully and her anger threatened to boil over. "Leave me, Malfoy before I chew you into tiny pieces."
In annoyance Draco rolled his eyes. "Fine, Emma." He left her room and slammed the door and strolled down the long stair case that led outside. There he found Hermione playing with children. She chased them around a great oak tree that grew directly in front of the mansion. Her dress and her hair whirled about her as she moved, dodging in and around them. As they caught her, her laughter rang throughout the cool summer air.
Malfoy leaned against the stone steps, arms folded and watched a little longer. He looked above him into the sky and saw that clouds were beginning to darken. Rain, he thought turning his attention back to Hermione. She laughed with the kids a few more minutes before noticing him. She gave a wave and he began to walk towards her, meeting her halfway.
"You looked like you were actually having fun," the wind started to blow and a strand of hair made it into her face. Instinctively, he reached out and removed it, tucking it behind her ear.
"And you seem as if you actually care," she smiled. "Yes, I was having fun. They are fun people."
"The werewolves or the kids?" He asked taking her hand and walking with her. It seemed funny that their relationship allowed them to touch now because two years ago he wouldn't have touched her with a five foot pole.
She looked down at their joins hands and then up into his face. He offered a shrug and waited for a reply. "Is there really any difference between us and werewolves."
"Um…other than the fact that they get bloody hairy when it's a full bloody moon out, I say no. There is no difference."
She looked exasperated with him, released his hand and began to move towards a copse of trees that was located off to the left.
"Granger…wait!" He called out. "Please…Hermione." She didn't stop though. She just kept walking and only slowed down when a stream barred her from going further. "Why didn't you stop?"
"The question is why did you follow me? Why are you always following me?"
"Because…" He had no answer other than the fact that he really loved to annoy her and there was one other reason he wouldn't say out loud even with a loaded wand pointed to his head.
She tapped her foot, annoyed. "Well…out with it Malfoy!"
"Your good in bed" the words flew from his mouth before he could call them back, and he instantly regretted them. A look crossed Hermione's features and he knew that he'd hurt her. That was what he did, he concluded. He hurt people, he was born to that and no matter what he told himself, and he knew that had to be the truth.
"Well…" Hermione paused, trying to not let him see how much it twisted her inside to hear that. "You should get back to Emma. Finish planning whatever it is you feel you need to plan, without including me until the last second."
She moved to pass him but he grabbed her arm and she stopped. "I'm not trying to keep secret from you, if that's what you're implying."
"Yeah, because a Malfoy keeping secrets is just so unheard of." She went to wrench her arm away from him, but he held on even more firmly.
Determined. He was determined not to let her walk away from him. Not now when he felt he should spill his guts to her and tell her everything that had been going on with him, inside of him.
"I want to tell you ev…." he was cut off by a piercing scream that came from beyond the trees. Where Hermione had been playing with the children of the pack earlier. They looked at each other for moment and Hermione sped away from him, a wild panic in her eyes.
He was right behind her, watching as her hair whipped out into the air behind her. She stopped when she was upon the scene before her. The children had all gathered around something or someone. As Hermione worked her way through the small crowd she found herself face to face with a pair of extremely gray eyes. They were an unnerving pair that reminded her of someone. She looked over her shoulder for confirmation. Draco met her eyes but quickly turned away from her and began walking back inside Emma's castle.
More secrets. She smiled down into the small child's face. "What's your name little one?" She asked this in the calmest voice she could muster, slightly miffed at the fact that Draco had the nerve to walk away from her.
"Bastion," the small six year old bit out.
Hermione continued to smile as she helped him. She smiled through two meeting with the press, and she smiled through dinner. She even smiled when Draco made perverted remarks to her at dinner, but when they went into their shared bedroom, the smiling stopped and Draco actually felt afraid for his life.
She didn't yell, and she didn't scream.
"Is he yours?"
That was all she wanted to know. She didn't want the details, and she didn't want an excuse. She just wanted a simple, "Yes," or a simple, "No."
Author's Note: I updated. Amazing. This was such a work in progress and I still don't know where this is going but I'm sort of drawing the Bastion thing out to see exactly where I want this to go. Of course I want you guys to leave me a feedback to help me with the plot and idea. I'll even welcome flames because they help even though I don't always see it at the time.
Things to think about: What's the deal with Bastion/Draco/Emma? Will Hermione's previous lover make an appearance? What about Harry, Ron and even Ginny?
