Becoming Mrs. Malfoy
26
The wonderful feeling of victory after she read the article Skeeter had written Hermione happily finished with her rooms and moved the rest of her stuff from Malfoy´s. It would be the first night she would spend not sleeping with him in the same bed. The biggest room was divided into different parts. On the left there was a table with chairs to have tea on the right she had two walls covered by her book shelves with a comfortable couch in front of it. The second room was a mirror room where she could practice ballet. The last rooms were her bedroom and bath room. Just like Malfoy´s the bath room was mostly white marble.
She was about to look at what she had accomplish when she heard someone clear his throat behind her. Spinning around she found Malfoy leaning in the door.
"Uh, hello.", she said not knowing what else to say after all it was still his house. He pushed himself off the door frame and walked around the room his façade in place. Close to the tea table he came to an halt.
"Here it´s a little empty." Now that he had said it she realized it as well but nothing came into her mind what she could put there so she just shrugged.
"May I?", he asked and pointed at the door that would lead him through the second room into her bedroom.
"Sure." Following him inside she saw him raise a platinum eyebrow while he looked at himself in the mirror.
"Do you love yourself so much that you need a whole room of mirrors?", he asked jokingly and combed his hair back with his fingers.
"No, I don´t but it seems like you do.", she countered which a smirk on her face. They continued to the next room. It was very similar to her Hogwarts room with the red sheets and the desk. The bed was a four-poster. On her was a picture of her with Harry and Ron. Malfoy only took a short look into her bath room before he turned towards her.
"You did a good job. It´s nothing like it was before." His praise made her smile broadly. "Mother is waiting in the dining room for us to eat together." Silently they walked with their arms occasionally brushing against each other. Each time Hermione would look up at Malfoy to see if his face was still emotionless and it was so she did not think he felt a rush of electricity like she did. The food was delicious like always and not much was spoken.
It was when both Malfoys´heads snapped upwards and they listened for something Hermione could not hear that she felt something was different. She had not heard Mrs. Malfoy call a house elf but the next moment her plate disappeared as well as her glass of wine. About to ask what was going on she looked at Malfoy who put a finger over his lips to show her not to talk. Valy popped up next to her.
"Take her into my room and don´t come out until I tell you to.", Malfoy hissed and Valy grabbed her hand and in the blink of an eye she was in Malfoy´s bedroom. Something bad was happening but she could not say what exactly. For which seemed like an eternity to her she just sat there on his bed and waited. It wore her out to wait without knowing what was going on.
When she had decided that she had waited long enough and risk to peak down she heard a woman´s voice from somewhere down the corridor. The next thing she heard was Malfoy´s angry and agitated voice. They were quickly approaching the room.
"Mudblood? Where are you?", the woman sang in a high tone. Bellatrix Lestrange. Spinning around Hermione searched for a place to hide because if this woman found her she would be dead. Under the bed? No. In the bath room? She would find her in no time. In vain of a better place to hide she opened the wardrobe and sat in there. She had just sat down and closed the door silently when she heard the door being thrown open.
"Where is she?", Bellatrix hissed and stomped into the room.
"I already told you that she is not here.", Malfoy commented sternly.
"Come out, come out, wherever you are." Another door was pushed open and she could hear things being thrown down and a rustling which had to be the bed sheets. The footsteps came closer and just then Hermione realized how stupid she had been. Valy could have easily brought her out of the room and now she was sitting in the wardrobe without her wand waiting for her doom to come over her. Afraid that the maniac could hear her breathing she covered her mouth with her hands and tried not to move although she could barely fell her feet anymore. The scraping of fingernail against the wood of the wardrobe made her become completely still.
"Bellatrix, you will stop this madness at once. First you come here unannounced then you wreak havoc in every room. I cannot stand back.", Malfoy said in a no-nonsense voice.
"Oh, Dracy-Pooh has grown up, huh?", it was a mixture of sweetness and venom. The steps went away from her hiding spot.
"But remember, Draco, that I still only see you as some insolent child." Had Hermione not known that Bellatrix was no parselmouth she would have sworn that she had just then by how she had hissed every word. The situation had turned for the worse. Bellatrix was now not only threatening Hermione´s life but Draco´s as well as she poked the tip of his wand into his throat.
"As the Master of this house I have to ask you to leave, Bellatrix." Malfoy´s voice sounded different from what she was used to – more rough and deathly.
"Right. Now.", he bit out.
"You will regret treating me like this, boy." Angrily Bellatrix walked off and Malfoy sighed in relief. Hermione heard him walk past the wardrobe and towards the bed.
"This should not have happened.", he spoke more to himself. Certain that Bellatrix was gone Hermione slowly opened the door and crawled out. Seeing Malfoy sitting on his bed, his elbows on his knees and his face buried in his hands she tried her best not to startle him.
"Draco.", she said carefully and flinched at how fast he spun his head towards her and pointed his wand at her. Recognizing her he relaxed and put his wand down.
"Everything is fine now." Although the words left her mouth she did not mean one of them. Somehow she had the feeling that this incident would only be the start of something much worse. Frowning deeply at her words he stood up and locked eyes with her.
"I knew my plan was not flawless but this was never supposed to happen." She wanted to touch his arm and tell him that it will not happen again but he pulled his arm from her reach.
"I´ve been illusionary.", he said and laughed humorlessly. "You stay here, I´ll be back in some minutes. If you need something let Valy fetch it for you.", his tone suggested that there were no buts expected from her and soon he was gone.
Again alone in the big room she paced around and thought about what could have happened, what other consequences the marriage brought with it and much more. Soon she found herself so worried and worked up, her thoughts going in circles that she decided that she had to distract herself. From where she stood at the window she saw Malfoy and his mother walking around the house, casting several spells.
The fact that they put up more barriers and defense spells made her feel scared and safe at the same time. For once it was good to know that after what happened there were more spells to protect her but at the other hand she also knew that the Malfoys thought that something like that could happen again which made the spells necessary. One short moment Malfoy looked up and as soon as their eyes met he looked away and sped up his pace so he was soon out of sight.
It did not take much longer and he was back in his room.
"You will stay with me.", he simply stated and turned his back on her waiting. Without saying a word she followed him to his office. For hours she stayed there watching him work on his paper stacks. On his desk he had a bowl filled with various sweets from which he took some every once in a while. Under other circumstances she would have commented about him having a sweet tooth but at that moment she did not feel like doing so. The fire in his fire place had become small and the candles had burned down when Malfoy awoke her since she had fallen asleep some time earlier.
"You will have to sleep in my room one more night. I need to get someone to fix the damage done in your rooms tomorrow." Nodding she followed him. She could only imagine how chaotic her room looked like after Bellatrix had been in there. No word was exchanged while they got ready for bed. Both lied in the bed wide awake thinking.
"You should not have married me.", Malfoy sighed and from what she could make out in the darkness she saw that again he hid his face behind his hands.
"Well, I can´t change that now, can I?", she replied with little enthusiasm. A long silence spread between them.
"I was scared as well, you know." Never before had Malfoy admitted weakness to her. Slowly she felt hot tears flow down her cheeks.
"Your aunt sure is one scary woman."
"Yes, she really is." His voice held some bitterness that made Hermione flinch. She heard him shift next to her and almost screamed when she felt his warm hand on her belly.
"I will do everything possible to protect you." Hermione was caught between putting her hand above his and putting his away from her but in the end she decided that she would do none of that. Although it made her a little uneasy to have his hand on her belly she still felt safe.
"We should go to sleep. Tomorrow will be a hard day." It did not take long and Hermione drifted off into sleep.
Only once did she awake that night and was glad to find that Malfoy was still there. The absence of his hand had awakened her while he was undoing two buttons of her pajama top so he could place his hand directly on her stomach.
"Wake up.", Malfoy whispered and shook her roughly. "Wha- What´s going on?" From the look on his face something was terribly wrong. "We have to flee. Quick get up and run." In no time she was out of bed and ran for her life. The adrenalin which ran through her body made all her feelings heighten.
/ dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuun. So how did you like Bellatrix´s first appearance? Excited to find out what will happen in the next chapter? The outcome will definitely surprise you. Muhahahahahahahaha. What Harry and Ron think will have to wait some more chapters.
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