A Few Months
A/N: This is a really short chapter, but you guys are amazing so I had to post something else. I'll post the other chapters tomorrow. Including this chapter there are only three chapters left to this story. I'm a little sad to be getting down to the end… Happy Reading…
Months passed by without a word from either side. Hermione spent her days training new recruits and learning as much as she could about the Ancient Dark Arts. Her evenings were spent with the rest of the Inner Circle reporting on the new trainee's progress and making plans for the final battle that they all knew was coming.
Her nights were spent in the arms of her lover. Every night after he had dismissed the rest of the Circle he would take her in his arms and kiss her forehead. They would walk together to his room. Sometimes they would make love, other times they would just lie beside each other and talk until they fell asleep.
Hermione had started calling him Tom when they were alone. He would smile at her only in private. When they were around others she called him My Lord or Voldemort. He would continue to act like the madman he was before her.
Voldemort was slowly starting to change. He refused to change his cause no matter how much she asked him to, saying that the muggles had done too much damage for him to forgive them. She would remind him that she was a muggleborn and he would always respond by saying that she was his muggleborn though, and that it was different.
Slowly Voldemort was reverting back to the old Tom Riddle. He still looked the same but he no longer acted like the madman he had become.
Remus and George had asked her about it one day. When she told them the truth they were disgusted. They couldn't see how she could love someone like him. She just responded by asking Remus how he could ever expect to be loved if he made everyone think like that. After that she wouldn't speak to them unless she had to.
Hermione was officially made the Dark Lady a few days after her confrontation with Remus and George. All of the Death Eaters were summoned and the ceremony began. Many dark rituals took place, most of which made Hermione cringe. After it was over all of the Death Eaters had to swear their loyalty to her. When it was Severus' turn she told him that he had to pick a side. She promised him safe passage from Headquarters if he chose the Order. He refused to side with Voldemort, and was found dead a few days later.
The night after the ceremony she was to be found lying in Tom's arms as usual. Right as she was about to fall asleep she heard him whisper that he loved her. When she responded that she loved him too, he asked if she would marry him after everything was over. She said yes.
While all of this was happening Draco was busy revealing everything he knew about Hermione, Voldemort, and their plans. When he was asked to become a spy he refused, saying that Hermione knew his view point on joining and would immediately suspect that he was a traitor.
Harry was busy mourning the loss of his friend. He had always counted on the plan that Ron had made, had always thought that was the only way for him to defeat Voldemort. Now that Ron was dead he vowed to avenge him and began intense training with the Aurors that stayed at Grimmauld Place.
A few days before the end of summer George returned to Hermione telling her he had urgent news. She sent him to the library and told him she would fetch Voldemort and meet him there. A few hours later plans were being made for the final battle which was to take place a few days later.
A/N: Like I said really short, but it sets the story up for the last chapter and maybe epilogue, I haven't decided yet if there will be one. Let me know what you think!
Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter. I really enjoyed reading some of the reactions to it haha.